Month: March 2015

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Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion – March 29

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AT THE PROCESSION WITH PALMS

Gospel Mark 11:1-10

When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately on entering it, you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone should say to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ reply, ‘The Master has need of it and will send it back here at once.’” So they went off and found a colt tethered at a gate outside on the street, and they untied it.

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Death penalty contradicts God’s plan

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Post date March 29, 2015

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

“Today the death penalty is inadmissible, no matter how serious the crime of the condemned. It is an offence against the inviolability of life and the dignity of the human person that contradicts God’s plan for man and society and His merciful justice, and it impedes fulfilling the just end of the punishments. It does not do justice to the victims, but foments vengeance.”

As we enter Holy Week, it is appropriate to reflect on the above words written by Pope Francis in a letter to Federico Mayor, president of the International Commission against the Death Penalty, a letter in which he urged worldwide abolition.

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Fifth Sunday in Lent (B) – March 22

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Post date March 22, 2015

Gospel John 12:20-33

Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.

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Welcoming a Year of Mercy

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Post date March 22, 2015

The CCSJ welcomes Pope Francis’ declaration on March 13 – the second anniversary of his pontificate – of a “Jubilee Year of Mercy”. This “extraordinary Holy Year” will commence with the opening of the Holy Door in St Peter’s on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, and will conclude on November 20, 2016 – the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.

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The Death Penalty in the Greater Caribbean

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Post date March 15, 2015

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Presentation for the Thematic Hearing for 154^th Session of Hearings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights – March 16, 2015

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