United as a nation
Kerlyssa de Verteuil 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 […]
Introducing spoken word in the classroom
Malique Wilson 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 […]
Comforting those who mourn
By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come”—Rabindranath Tagore November is the month dedicated to those who have died. November 2, All Souls’ Day, is commemorated the day after All Saints’ Day. One of the Spiritual Works of […]
Building a culture of inclusion
Re-enactment of the story of Divali. CN File Photo By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI One of the joys of being a citizen, is the fact that we have learned over the years to embrace and respect the rich diversity of our people who have come to T&T from many parts of the […]
The facts about the stats
by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI “Good data and statistics are indispensable for informed decision-making by all actors in society“—Ban Ki-Moon, the then UN Secretary-General, 2015. The first World Statistics Day was on October 20, 2015. The eleventh observance of Caribbean Statistics Day in CARICOM last Tuesday, October 15 had as its theme: […]
Protecting the dignity of work
By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI The Dignity of Work is the theme for the 2019 Justice, Peace and Community Week, October 19–26. See the calendar of events and prayer supplement in next week’s Catholic News. In T&T, many have lost their jobs or are underemployed. Many graduates and young people are unable to […]
Children – the unseen victims of the death penalty
By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI On Thursday, October 10 the 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty will be dedicated to children whose parents have been sentenced to death or executed. The theme this year is: Children: unseen victims of the death penalty. The World Coalition against the Death Penalty states that “Today, […]
Living our baptismal call to mission
By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI “The Church is on mission in the world. Faith in Jesus Christ enables us to see all things in their proper perspective, as we view the world with God’s own eyes and heart…This missionary mandate touches us personally …every baptized man and woman is a mission…to the […]
Our responsibilities as citizens of this Republic
By Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ & Director, CREDI On September 24 we celebrate the 43rd anniversary of Trinidad & Tobago becoming a Republic. We gained independence on August 31, 1962 and Republican status on August 1, 1976. The event was celebrated as a public holiday September 24 because this is the date when the first […]
Celebrating diversity
by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI “God does not reveal himself in the abstract, but by using languages, imagery and expressions that are bound to different cultures…The phenomenon of culture is, in its various aspects, an essential datum of human experience.” –Pope Benedict XVI, 2010. Cultural diversity plays an important role in human […]
