Catholic Commission for Social Justice
The annual Spoken Word Competition organised by the Catholic Commission for Social Justice was held Saturday, November 20 under the theme The Ever Wider We.
Here is ‘The Wider We’ by Jada-Marie Pierre which emerged as first place winner.
By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI
CCSJ shares with you 15-year-old Kerlyssa de Verteuil’s second prize poem at CCSJ’s & the Catholic Youth Commission’s Spoken Word Competition on October 2, on the theme for Justice, Peace, and Community Week: The dignity of work. Inter alia, she urges us to “unite as a nation”, and to “break the chains that strip us of our dignity; that corrupts our society”.
By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI
Did you see and hear our talented youth at CCSJ’s & the Catholic Youth Commission’s 5th annual Spoken Word Competition which was aired live on TCN on the evening of Friday, October 25? It focused on the theme for Justice, Peace, and Community Week: The dignity of work.
CCSJ and the Youth Commission are pleased to share with you the contribution of the 2nd prize winner of our recent Spoken Word Competition. See last week’s issue for Emmanuel Joseph’s winning piece.
We are the World
by Mark Howell-Paul
This may sound a bit unorthodox
but you don’t realise that cats
does use their litter boxes
but humans don’t?
CCSJ would like to thank all those who observed Justice, Peace and Community Week (Saturday, October 20 to Saturday 27) on the theme: Caring for Creation: 8th Work of Mercy.
The week was launched with a live one-hour programme on TCN in which Archbishop Jason Gordon and I shared information on the theme and encouraged the faithful to act (see video-link on CCSJ’s website).