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Let’s help flood victims

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Post date November 19, 2017

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

“…there is the golden rule that God has inscribed into human nature created in Christ: The rule that only love gives meaning and happiness to life.” These words by Pope Francis (September 3, 2017), reminds us that our vocation is love. Love for God and for our neighbour.

CCSJ is making a special request to show your love by supporting an initiative that our Commission is organising in collaboration with the NGO, Inventions and Creativity Through the Arts (ICTA), and some of the artists who work with this NGO. ICTA’s President, Deborah Hutchinson, is a teacher at a Catholic secondary school in south.

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Finding refuge in the Spoken Word

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Post date November 12, 2017

A key event organised by the CCSJ and the Catholic Youth Commission during Justice, Peace and Community Week (October 21–28) was the 3^rd Annual Spoken Word Competition on the theme: A Catholic perspective on the Development of Peoples aired on TCN on Friday, October 27.

Episcopal Delegate for Youth, Winston Garcia and I thank Kyle de Gannes, Mark Howell-Paul, Fidelis Iwueke, Serapion Jones, Michael Logie, Ngozi Lucas, Paige McCarthy, Naiyla Nakhid, and Leeum Quan Kep for their powerful pieces. Naiyla, Kyle and Leeum won first, second and third prize respectively.

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Time to live right

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Post date November 27, 2016

We share with you Carissa Rudulfo’s contribution to the CCSJ’s and the Youth Commission’s Spoken Word Competition. She won third prize. Her piece reminded me of Pope Francis’s message to an Evangelical Christian gathering in the USA in July 2016. He said young people have a “restlessness” in their hearts, and Jesus is the answer: “Young men and women, I know there is something in your heart that moves you. And that makes you restless… I invite you to find the One who can give you an answer to your restlessness. And I assure you, you will not be frustrated. God does not leave anyone disillusioned. Jesus is waiting for you. He is the One who planted the seeds of restlessness in your heart. Give it a try! You don’t have anything to lose! Try it.”

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The man who could steal your mind

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Post date November 20, 2016

Today we share with you Michael Logie’s contribution to the Spoken Word Competition organised by the CCSJ and the Youth Commission.

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God’s mercy is the ‘wacker’

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Post date November 13, 2016

Pope Francis said in Laudato Si: “Young people demand change.” They themselves can be change agents. CCSJ and the Youth Commission will continue to create opportunities for youth to release their creativity and innovation. Spoken Word poetry is a valid form of communication; a genre that allows young people to express their views on issues that concern them. We thank the 12 youths who entered this year’s competition.

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