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SEMINAR TO OPEN RESPECT FOR LIFE WEEK

CCSJ Chair Leela Ramdeen and former President Sir Ellis Clarke.
CCSJ Chair Leela Ramdeen and former President Sir Ellis Clarke.

Theme: Our people, our land: Journey to becoming a Republic

CCSJ’s Chair, Leela Ramdeen, introduces Sir Ellis Clarke – feature speaker at the Seminar on Friday 24 Sept. 2010 (Republic Day)

Good afternoon brothers and sisters. Welcome to the start of CCSJ’s Respect For Life Week – an initiative that was born during Synod in 2009 when there was a groundswell of opinion that each year the Archdiocese should observe such a week.  RFLW, therefore, is one of the Synod Resolutions that CCSJ is implementing since it falls within our remit.

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Respect Life – invite Lazarus to the table

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

I believe that it is by divine intervention – as we begin Respect For Life Week, that the Gospel reading today (Luke 16:19-31) focuses on Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI reminded us that the rich man in the parable “embodies the unjust spending of wealth by those who use it for unbridled and egotistical luxury, thinking only of satisfying themselves, without taking care of the beggar at their door.

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Ways to observe Respect for Life Week

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

On Friday, September 24, Republic Day, Sir Ellis Clarke TC, GCMG, will share with us from his storehouse of knowledge, the story of our journey to becoming a Republic. Join us on this public holiday at Living Water Community, Frederick St., POS (4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.). It is fitting to ask one of our icons to focus on our people and our land at the start of Respect For Life Week (RFLW).

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Respect for Life Week Sep 24 to Oct 3

Service Format  – pdf 53K

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Prayer

Creator of all we thank you for the gift of life.

We pray for a deeper respect and appreciation of life and all that sustains life.

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You created us for unity and to live in unity with all of creation.

We ask forgiveness for the times we have selfishly exploited the land and other life forms for our own desires;

for our failure to love our brothers and sisters whom we are called to love – regardless of their ethnic background, social status or religious belief.

We pray that we may be a source of unity and life as we journey through life.

Amen.

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Countdown to Respect for Life Week

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

CCSJ will be sending to parishes copies of the September issue of our Parish Link Newsletter which contains articles to assist you as you prepare to observe Respect for Life Week Sept 26 – Oct 3

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