Catholic Commission for Social Justice
Respect For Life Week (RFLW) 2013 will run from October 5-12.
The Archdiocese is preparing to embark on the 3rd Pastoral Priority, Regenerating the Morals and Values of our Society, and this will be the theme for RFLW this year.
The Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) is therefore inviting entries for its RFLW Youth Essay Competition on the topic: What are the core Christian values that guide you on your life’s journey?
Leela Ramdeen, Chair of CCSJ, recently presented prize money to the winners of CCSJ’s Essay Competition entitled: Respect for Life: Be Living Witnesses to Our Faith.
Under 14 – Lysaundra D. Campbell, St Charles High School
14 and over – Gionieva Fraser, St. Joseph’s Convent Port- of Spain.
CCSJ thanks Shirley, Beverly and Sr Roberta O’Flaherty, CCSJ member, who judged the essay competition.
Read their entries on the following pages.
RESPECT LIFE: BE LIVING WITNESSES TO OUR FAITH
“As we move forward into our 51st year of Independence and our 37th year as a Republic, let us strive to foster respect for all life. ” DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE
“There must be respect for our own lives if we are to gift ourselves to God and to our brothers and sisters, and we must help others to respect their own lives so that they too can make the corresponding gift of themselves to God and to others.” – Archbishop Harris
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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.
“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.