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The Eucharist can transform the world

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Post date June 23, 2011

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

On Saturday, June 18, CCSJ held its annual fundraising dinner. About 200 persons gathered together to support this initiative. The funds will go towards meeting the cost of implementing the Values and Virtues Formation Programme in Catholic Primary Schools and completing the Anthony Pantin Reintegration Centre.

CCSJ would like to thank all those who participated in this event to make it a success. As I looked around the room I remembered Bishop Pat Lynch’s words in his book: Awakening the Giant: Evangelism and the Catholic Church. We need to awaken the Giant of Catholicism in our nation and in our world.

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Let my country awake!

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Post date June 16, 2011

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

Today, Trinity Sunday, we reflect on the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity – “the central mystery of Christian faith and life… Christians are baptised in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: not in their names…for there is only one God, the almighty Father, his only Son and the Holy Spirit: the Most Holy Trinity…The Trinity is a mystery of faith in the strict sense, one of the ‘mysteries that are hidden in God, which can never be known unless they are revealed by God’.”(See Catechism: 232-260).

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Using the gifts of the Spirit

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Post date June 10, 2011

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

Today, Pentecost Sunday is a good time for us to reflect on whether or not we are opening our hearts and minds to allow the Holy Spirit to work through us to renew the face of the earth.

We are the Body of Christ in the world. This fact forms a key aspect of our Catholic Culture and Identity. My experience at the recent Congress in Rome (May 16-18) on Justice and Globalisation, made me even more determined to continue raising my awareness and that of the faithful of what it means to be the Body of Christ in the world; what it means to be a Catholic in T&T.

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Congress in Rome

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Post date June 2, 2011

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ

“Mother and Teacher of all nations—such is the Catholic Church . . . to hold the world in an embrace of love, that men, in every age, should find in her their own completeness in a higher order of living, and their ultimate salvation. She is ‘the pillar and ground of the truth’”. (Mater et Magistra, Pope John XXIII).

I was honoured to be able to participate in a recent Congress in Rome, organised by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (PCJP), to mark the 50^th Anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s encyclical, Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher – on Christianity and social progress). The theme of the Congress was: Justice and Globalisation: From Mater et Magistra to Caritas in Veritate.

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Should Bin Laden have been killed?

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Post date May 26, 2011

by Mike James, member of the CCSJ

mikejames@aecrc.org

The recent killing of Osama bin Laden set off spontaneous celebrations in several places around the world, and especially in the US among the cheering crowds in Times Square, in the city which had suffered the horrendous tragedy of the 9/11 deaths in the Twin Towers.

The Vatican in its statement on the killing noted that bin Laden “bore that most serious responsibility for spreading divisions and hatred among populations, causing the deaths of innumerable people, and manipulating religions for this purpose”.