Catholic Commission for Social JusticeRespect for Life Week
Leela Ramdeen, Chair of CCSJ, recently presented prize money to the winners of CCSJ’s Essay Competition entitled: Improving Respect for Life in Trinidad and Tobago.
Jon-Raphael and Gerard are 9 and 11 years old respectively. Both attend Malabar RC School. Ottrisha, 17, is from the St Martin de Porres, Coryal parish community.
CCSJ thanks Shirley, Beverly and Sr Roberta O’Flaherty, CCSJ Member, who judged the essay competition.
Read their entries on the following pages.
Marita Auguste and the South Oropouche Youth Group dramatically celebrated Respect For Life after Mass Sunday Nov 27. A memorable skit it was as the youths reminded all how detrimental it is for one to disrespect his life by involvement in alcohol abuse, abortion and physical abuse and risky behaviour resulting in HIV. Thank you Youth Group. View photos – RCPOS Ning >>
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Students, teachers and parents of the Upper Guaico RC School closed the Respect Life: Promote Justice Week as proposed by the Catholic Commission for Justice with a walk through the village of Nestor (in which the school is located) with a rallying cry of: “Big or Small 1, 2, Justice for All 1, 2” on Friday, November 18. Read story – Catholic News
“The Church urges her sons and daughters to enter with prudence and charity into discussion and collaboration with members of other religions. Let Christians, while witnessing to their own faith and way of life, acknowledge, preserve and encourage the spiritual and moral truths among non-Christians, also their social life and culture”. Pope Paul VI, Nostra Aetate (Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions), 1965, n.2
As part of Respect For Life Week, CCSJ organized an Interfaith Service which was held at St Benedict’s RC Church Hall, La Romaine on Sunday November 13 from 3.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. on the Theme: Respect Life: Promote Justice.
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Address given by Archbishop Edward J Gilbert, CSsR in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at the Sir Ellis Clarke Memorial Conference, 12 November 2011
One of the serious pastoral responsibilities of the Catholic Church is to help individuals and groups of individuals form their consciences. The Church fulfils this responsibility in many ways e.g. by teaching during liturgies, through catechetical programmes, through value formation programmes on the primary, secondary and tertiary levels, through diplomatic contacts with representatives of Nations and through the involvement of the Church in the written and electronic media.
Address given by Victor Scheffers in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at the Sir Ellis Clarke Memorial Conference, 12 November 2011
Dear friends of the Catholic Commission for Social Justice.
I am very pleased to be here with you in this conference.
This conference is a significant undertaking that does honour to the first president of your country, Sir Ellis Clarke who died last year. And it is by means of such initiatives that we are able to make manifest the importance of catholic social teaching for our personal life, for our work, for our society.