Month: June 2015

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Tackling elder abuse

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Post date June 12, 2015

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

Tomorrow the world will observe elder abuse awareness day. One of the foundational social justice principles in our Church is the need for us to recognise and promote the dignity of each human person at all stages and in all circumstances – from conception to natural death.

Archbishop Harris has rightly raised a red flag warning us/our nation about the danger of going down the path of destruction. Let us use our free will wisely and strengthen our own spirituality. Let us also pass on Christian values within our families and in our communities so that we will pull back from the brink of destruction. Elder abuse is part of the destructive ‘mix’ in TT/the world.

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Women: playing our part to transform society

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Post date June 6, 2015

Leela Ramdeen (centre) sits with Prof Rima Malek, Faculty of Education, Lebanese University, Lebanon (left) and Sr Constance O'Brien of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, a senior lecturer in the Dept of Social Development, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and other conference participants as they await the start of Mass on Pentecost Sunday. — Leela Ramdeen (centre) sits with Prof Rima Malek, Faculty of Education, Lebanese University, Lebanon (left) and Sr Constance O’Brien of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, a senior lecturer in the Dept of Social Development, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and other conference participants as they await the start of Mass on Pentecost Sunday.

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ (rcsocialjusticett.org) & Director, CREDI

From May 22-24, I attended an International Conference in Rome entitled: “Women and the post-2015 development agenda: the challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).”
Over 100 women participated in the three-day event which was organised by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, in collaboration with the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations, and the World Women’s Alliance for Life and Family.
Although progress has been made in certain areas, the world will not successfully attain the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by September 2015. Currently, the UN is elaborating a new post-2015 development agenda and is consulting on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), 169 targets and more than 400 indicators.

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Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) – June 7

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Post date June 6, 2015

Gospel – Mark 3: 20 – 35

He came home. Again [the] crowd gathered, making it impossible for them even to eat.When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,”and “By the prince of demons he drives out demons.” Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand; that is the end of him. But no one can enter a strong man’s house to plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house. Amen, I say to you, all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be forgiven them.But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin.”