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Feeding ourselves, others with ‘the bread of life’

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Post date May 28, 2016

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

On Thursday (May 26), our Church celebrated Corpus Christi, proclaiming the truth of our faith that Jesus is present – body, blood, soul and divinity, in the Holy Eucharist – under the appearances of bread and wine.

The Real Presence of Our Lord in the Eucharist is truly a gift for which we should be thankful. It is significant that in T&T and in many other countries, there is a public procession in which the Blessed Sacrament is carried by a priest or Bishop in a monstrance – a clear sign that Jesus came to save everyone. This public profession of our faith should lead us to continue walking with the Lord daily, and to live as Christ wants us to live.

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Children of the Trinity

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Post date May 22, 2016

Today we celebrate the solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit, “who are all equally God, and cannot be divided” (Pope Francis).

Jesus’ words to His disciples in today’s Gospel (Jn 16:12-15) apply to us also: “…when the Spirit of truth comes he will lead you to the complete truth…”

On Trinity Sunday 2014, Pope Francis reminded us that love is at the heart of the Trinity and that “the Eucharist is like the ‘burning bush’ in which the Trinity humbly dwells and communicates itself”. And in 2015 he highlighted the fact that this solemnity renews in us “our own mission to live in communion with God and with each other… We are not called to live without the other, above or against the other, but with the other, for the other and in the other… The Holy Spirit guides us towards full knowledge of Christ’s teachings. Jesus came to the world to acquaint us with the Father…Everything, in Christian life, revolves around the mystery of the Trinity and is fulfilled in this infinite mystery. Let us look, therefore, to keep high the ‘tone’ of our life, reminding ourselves to what end, for what glory we exist, work, struggle, suffer; and to which immense prize we are called [to have].”

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Celebrating International Day of Families

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Post date May 14, 2016

Today is Pentecost Sunday. While we thank God for the gift of the Holy Spirit who was given to us to renew the face of the earth, let us reflect on the words of Fr Tommy Lane: “What would the Church be like if it were vibrant with the Holy Spirit?…I ask you to pray that the Church may receive a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit…so that the Church may fly!” May the Holy Spirit open our hearts so that we will reach out to those who need our love and attention, particularly our families.

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Finding solutions to enhance our democracy

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Post date May 7, 2016

“Any society, any family that cannot share or take seriously the pain of its children, and views that pain as something normal or expected, is a society condemned to remain hostage to itself, prey to the very things which cause that pain.” (Pope Francis)

Pope Francis uttered the words above in his speech to inmates at Curran-Fromhold correctional facility, Philadelphia, USA in September 2015. As Alan Yuhas reported in the UK Guardian, he urged inmates, their families and the correctional officers there “to believe in the possibility of rehabilitation, condemning societies that normalise their suffering”.

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Resist push for T&T abortion law reform

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Post date April 30, 2016

As we engage in our pro-life work, let us resolve never to give up in our efforts to reject the culture of death that threatens to overwhelm us. Be alert! Be vigilant! Anti-life forces are at work constantly trying to impose their agenda on us.

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