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IRO Thanksgiving Service and RFLW launch – Archbishop’s address

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Post date September 27, 2010

Archbishop Gilbert at IRO service and launch of Respect For Life Week

Archbishop Edward Gilbert at the September 26 Inter Religious Organisation of Trinidad & Tobago National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving and the Catholic Church “Respect for Life Week” Event, at Brahma Kumaris Raja Yoga Centre, San Fernando. The theme for the celebration was, “Respect for Life – United We Stand, Divided We Fall.”

“My Sisters and Brothers,

The fact that the celebration of Respect for Life Week and the annual IRO National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving have come together is a positive development. It could be considered a providential development.

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IRO Thanksgiving Service and RFLW launch – Chair’s address

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Post date September 27, 2010

CCSJ Chair Leela Ramdeen at IRO service and launch of Respect For Life Week

CCSJ Chair Leela Ramdeen at the September 26 Inter Religious Organisation of Trinidad & Tobago National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving and the Catholic Church “Respect for Life Week” Event, at Brahma Kumaris Raja Yoga Centre, San Fernando. The theme for the celebration was, “Respect for Life – United We Stand, Divided We Fall.”

Good afternoon brothers and sisters. I could simply turn around and let you read the words on the back of my jacket and then return to my seat as these words say it all. However, I would like to take this opportunity to share with you briefly the origins of Respect For Life Week and some of the activities we plan for the week and to urge you to observe the Week in whatever way you can – from your own faith perspective.

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SEMINAR TO OPEN RESPECT FOR LIFE WEEK

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Post date September 27, 2010

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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Fr Joe’s Gospel Reflection Sept 26 – 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (C)

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Post date September 27, 2010

by Fr Joseph Harris, CSSp

Gospel: Lk 16:19-31

Jesus said to the Pharisees: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen
and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table.

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Respect Life – invite Lazarus to the table

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Post date September 22, 2010

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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