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February 2021 (1.3 MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Lenten message for 2021 entitled: “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem” (Mt 20:18) Lent: a Time for Renewing Faith, Hope and Love”.
The Holy Father reminds us that “Lent is a time for deeper dialogue with God through prayer, for renewed gratitude for God’s mercy and for increased compassion for people whose lives are under attack.” As he focuses on these three theological virtues, he invites the faithful to “renew our faith, draw from the living waters of hope, and receive with open hearts the love of God.”
January 2021 (1 MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message for World Day of Peace, 2021 – dated 8 December 2020.
“A Culture of Care as a Path to Peace” is the theme of the Pope’s message,
addressed to heads of state and government, leaders of international
organizations, spiritual leaders, and followers of the different religions, and to men and women of good will.
NURTURING VALUES AND VIRTUES IN CHILDREN
A PARENT’S PERSPECTIVE (Part 1) (2.4MB pdf)
NURTURING VALUES AND VIRTUES IN CHILDREN
A PARENT’S PERSPECTIVE (Part 2) (1.9MB pdf)
Parents are the first educators of their children. God instilled a moral order in our hearts, but we must nurture this in ourselves and in our children if we are to promote authentic integral human development.
September 2020 (1.60MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message for the 4th World Day of the Poor, to be celebrated throughout the Church on Sunday, November 15, 2020. His Message is entitled: “Stretch forth your hand to the poor” – a quotation from the Old Testament book of Sirach – 7:32.
August 2020 (1.60MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message for the 106th World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2020 which will be observed on 27 September 2020. His Theme this year is: Like Jesus Christ, forced to flee. Welcoming, protecting, promoting and integrating internally displaced persons.
June 2020 (1.41MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message for the 4th World Day of the Poor. His Theme this year is: “Stretch out your hand to the poor”(Sir 7.32).
February 2020 (1.21MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message for Lent 2020 on the theme: “We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God”, a quote from St Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians (2 Cor 5:20). This year lent runs from Wed 26 February 2020 to Thurs 9 April 2020. The Message was published on Feb. 24. It was signed Oct. 7, 2019, the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
January 2020 (1.29MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message for the 53rd World Day of Peace, which is celebrated on January 1, 2020, with the theme: “Peace as a Journey of Hope: Dialogue, Reconciliation and Ecological Conversion.” It was released on Dec.12, 2019, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas.
June 2019 (1.49MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message for the 105th World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2019 which will be commemorated on September 29. His Holiness’ Message, dated April 30, was released at a press conference held at the Vatican on Monday, May 27 on the theme: “It is not just about migrants.”
March 2019 ( 942kb pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message for Lent 2019. This year Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, 6 March, and will conclude on Holy Saturday, 20 April, the day before Easter.
January 2019 ( 1.2 MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message to celebrate the 52nd World Day of Peace – 1 January 2019. The World Day of Peace was instituted by St. Pope Paul VI in 1968. It is celebrated each year on the first day of January.
May 2018 (656 kb pdf)
Members of CCSJ encourage the Faithful and all people of goodwill to embrace the initiative of Archbishop Jason Gordon and members of the Vicars’ Council who agreed at a meeting at the beginning of May that a Ministry for Migrants and Refugees would be established in each Parish and Ecclesial Community in the Archdiocese. His Grace has asked that we entrust this Ministry to Our Lady of the Wayside.
April 2018 ( 1.13 MB pdf)
In this issue of Parish Link, CCSJ shares with you the official summary of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation GAUDETE ET EXSULTATE (‘Rejoice and Be Glad’), with the subtitle “On the call to holiness in the contemporary world.”
February 2018 ( 1.3 MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message for Lent 2018 (14 Feb to 29 Mar).
January 2018 ( 968k pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message to celebrate the 51st World Day of Peace – 1 January 2018. The title is: Migrants and refugees: men and women in search of peace. It is divided into six chapters: Heartfelt good wishes for peace, Why so many refugees and migrants?, With a contemplative gaze, Four mileposts for action, A proposal for two international compacts, and For our common home. The challenge of global migration is a priority for our Church.
June 2017 ( 1.2 MB pdf)
CCSJ is pleased to share with you some key quotations from Blessed Pope Paul VI’s 5th encyclical, Populorum Progressio (The Development of Peoples) which was published on March 26, 1967, less than two years after the end of the Second Vatican Council.
March 2017 ( 1.3 MB pdf)
CCSJ is pleased to share with you Pope Francis’ 2017 Lenten Message on the theme: “The Word is a gift. Other persons are a gift”. The message has three sections: The other person is a gift; Sin blinds us; The Word is a gift.
January 2017 ( 973k pdf)
CCSJ is pleased to share with you Pope Francis’ Message for the 50th World Day of Peace 1 January 2017. This day was instituted by Blessed Pope Paul VI in 1968. Each year it is celebrated on Jan. 1, which is also the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God. His Theme this year is: Nonviolence: a style of politics for peace, which, he says, is a
strategy “based on the primacy of law.”
December 2016 ( 1.34MB pdf)
CCSJ is pleased to share with you Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter, Misericordia et Misera (Mercy and Misery), which was issued on Nov 21 when the Holy Father officially concluded the Extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy which ran from December 8, 2015 to November 20, 2016. The title of his Apostolic Letter refers to the encounter between Jesus and the woman caught in adultery, from the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Saint John.
October 2016 ( 1.33MB pdf)
CCSJ hopes that these reflections will provide a useful resource for individuals and groups. This year Justice, Peace and Community Week (JPCW) falls within the Extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy which was declared by Pope Francis and which commenced with the opening of the Holy Door at St Peter’s on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 2015. It will conclude on November 20, 2016 – the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. The writer, Robert Moynihan, rightly said that “What Pope Francis is doing by calling for this Jubilee Year of Mercy is to offer to all Christians the blessing of obtaining mercy by having and showing mercy to others.”
April 2016 ( 1.23MB pdf)
CCSJ welcomes Pope Francis’ second Apostolic Exhortation: Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love), published on 8 April and addressed to Bishops, Priests and Deacons, Consecrated Persons, Christian Married Couples and all the Lay Faithful.
February 2016 ( 920k pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ message for Lent 2016. The Theme this year is: “I desire mercy and not sacrifice (Matthew 9:13) .The works of mercy on the road of the Jubilee”.
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January 2016 ( 1.6MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Message to celebrate the 49th World Day of Peace – 1 January 2016. The title is: “Overcome indifference and win peace.”
June 2015 ( 1.5MB pdf)
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, In this issue of our Newsletter, CCSJ wishes to raise your awareness of some of the key issues that Pope Francis deals with in his 192-page encyclical on ecology ‘Laudato Si’ – Praised be to You: On the Care for Our Common Home.’ The encyclical was released on Thursday 18 June. The title is taken from St Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Creatures which reminds us that the earth, our common home “is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us.”
May 2015 ( 920k pdf)
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In this issue of CCSJ’s Parish Link, we share with you a summary of Pope Francis’ Papal Bull /bull of indiction or proclamation of the extraordinary Holy/Jubilee Year of Mercy: Misericordiae Vultus (The face of Mercy). The CCSJ welcomes the Holy Father’s declaration, made during a penitential service in St. Peter’s basilica on March 13 – the second anniversary of his pontificate – of a “Jubilee Year of Mercy”.
February 2015 ( 1.10 MB pdf)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, In this issue of Parish Link, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ Lenten Message for 2015, which reflects on the theme: “Make your hearts firm” (James 5:8).
January 2015 ( 917k pdf)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of Parish Link, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ second World Day of Peace Message (Jan 1, 2015) – entitled: No Longer Slaves, But Brothers and Sisters. The Holy Father calls for an end to human trafficking and slavery. He has called human trafficking “a crime against humanity” and “an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ.”
February 2014 ( 565k pdf)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ. In this issue of Parish Link, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ first Lenten Message for 2014, which reflects on the theme: “He became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich” (inspired by St. Paul in his Second Letter to the Corinthians: cf. 2 Cor. 8:9).
January 2014 ( 297k pdf)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ. In this issue of Parish Link, CCSJ shares with you Pope Francis’ first World Day of Peace Message ( Jan. 1, 2014). In the midst of disorder and tragedies around the world, it is significant that he chose the theme: Fraternity, the Foundation and Pathway to Peace.
November 2013 ( 9.48 MB pdf)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ. From Oct 23-25, 2013, I attended the 21st Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family (PCF) on the theme Anthropoligical horizons on the rights of the family. At the centre of the discussion was the Charter of the Rights of the Family which was presented by the Holy See on October 22, 1983 “to all persons, institutions and authorities concerned with the mission of the family in the world today.”
July 2013 ( 1.97MB pdf)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, CCSJ welcomes with great joy Pope Francis’ first encyclical entitled Lumen Fidei (The Light of Faith). In this Newsletter we share with you the Official Summary of the encyclical.
February 2013 ( 2.87 MB pdf)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in this issue of CCSJ’s Newsletter, we share with you Pope Benedict XVI’s Lenten Message for 2013 entitled: “Believing in charity calls forth charity.”
January 2013 (5.55 MB pdf)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, a new year has begun. On behalf of all members of CCSJ, I wish you God’s blessings and peace throughout the year. God is a God of new beginnings. This new year gives us an opportunity to move away from all that is not of Him and to deepen our love for Him, for our neighbour and for all of creation. May we, during this Year of Faith, demonstrate by the way in which we live our lives that we are people of the Beatitudes.
November 2012 (3.05 MB pdf)
We share with you in this issue of Parish Link, Archbishop Joseph Harris’ Pastoral Letter which was issued on Sunday 14 October. Please study it with your family, friends, parishioners and with all people of Goodwill.
September 2012 (2.7 MB pdf)
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, once again CCSJ joins the national Catholic community in observing Respect For Life Week (RFLW) which will run from Saturday October 6 to Saturday October 13.
June 2012 (9 MB pdf)
In this Newsletter, we share some examples of good practice in our Archdiocese and urge you to take action in your home and in your parish community to reach out to those in need.
March 2012 (973k pdf)
We share with you Pope Benedict XVI’s 2012 Lenten Message. It is a powerful message that is most appropriate for us in our Archdiocese as we work to implement our 2nd Pastoral Priority: Revitalizing Catholic Culture and Identity: My Church, My Parish, My Family.
January 2012 (1.6 MB pdf)
CCSJ reflects on the Pope’s World Day of Peace 2012 Message: Educating Young People in Justice and Peace
September 2011 (995k pdf)
CCSJ shares with you extracts from the 12 page Synod of Bishops 1971 Document entitled: Justice in the World.
July 2011 (2.4MB pdf)
We share with you examples of good practice in various parts of our Archdiocese.
January 2011 (811k pdf)
Extracts from Pope Benedict XVI’s World Day of Peace Message: Religious Freedom, The Path to Peace.
September 2010 (2.1 MB pdf)
Focus on Respect for Life Week Sept 24 – Oct 3
April 2010 (3.1 MB pdf)
Information on Respect for Life Week and Values & Virtues Formation Programme
January 2010 (958 k pdf)
Reflections on ‘Charity in Truth’
Respect for persons with disabilities – Beverly Beckles
Adressing Poverty and Social Exclusion – Gary Tagallie
The Environment: our role and some recommendations – Nigel Cassimire
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