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Discovering God’s call in our lives

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Post date May 3, 2020

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI

“Every vocation is born of that gaze of love with which the Lord came to meet us…Vocation, more than our own choice, is a response to the Lord’s unmerited call. We will succeed in discovering and embracing our vocation once we open our hearts in gratitude and perceive the passage of God in our lives” (Pope Francis).

Today, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, our Church celebrates Good Shepherd Sunday and the 57th World Day of Prayer for Vocations. Let us celebrate fidelity to priestly and religious vocations. We thank God for their ‘Yes’.

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Pay attention to boardroom ethics

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Post date February 11, 2013

Participants in the Business Leaders’ workshop in San Fernando engage in group discussion. Photo: Raymond Syms

If Carapichaima parish priest Fr Matthew D’Hereaux had both time and money, he’d write a book with the title “Out of the Bedroom, Into the Boardroom.”

Why? In his opinion, the Church has for some time offered spiritual guidance on sexual matters but not enough emphasis has been placed on ethics in the corporate and business world.

With that opening, Fr D’Hereaux had the attention of participants in the second workshop on “Vocation of the Business Leader: A Reflection”, organised by the Catholic Commission for Social Justice, in conjunction with the Pro-Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. It was held January 19 at the Bishop Mendes Auditorium, San Fernando. The workshop is a reflection on a practical handbook for Catholic businessmen and women published by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, led by Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson.

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news2012 The Vocation of the Business Leader

CCSJ holds workshop at Assumption – Catholics in business

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Post date July 18, 2012

Fr Garfield Rochard makes his presentation. At the head table from left, CCSJ chair Leela Ramdeen, Senate President Timothy Hamel-Smith and Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Nicola Girasoli. Photo: Raymond Syms

Catholic business leaders should see their work as a vocation and be guided by Gospel morals, values and principles for the benefit of their company, employees and the wider society.

This was a key point made during the three presentations at a July 7 workshop on Vocation of the Business Leader: A Reflection, a practical handbook for Catholic businessmen and women published by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The council is led by Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson.

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Vocation of the business leader

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Post date June 29, 2012

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

May the Lord hear our prayers as we March for Jesus today, and let’s link our prayers to action.

I invite Catholic business men and women to attend CCSJ’s Workshop on Saturday, July 7, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Assumption Parish Centre to discuss the key issues arising out of Cardinal Peter Turkson’s handbook: Vocation of the Business Leader: A Reflection.

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Discerning our vocation

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Post date September 16, 2011

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

Recently I was a panelist at a symposium organised by CREDI entitled: “The Vocation of Teaching in the 21st Century” (the sacred responsibility of teachers to form children).

Read the informative essay by Prof William E May entitled: “The Vocation of a Catholic Teacher/Scholar (www.christendom-awake.org/pages/may/teachers.htm). He offers his reflections on the various kinds of vocations to which we are called. I will seek to summarise the 19 pages. Firstly, he focusses on the universal call to holiness, which is the vocation that is common to all Christians: our baptismal commitment to holiness as members of Christ’s body.

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