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An address by Sr Juliet Rajah HF, directress of Catechetics for the Archdiocese of Port of Spain, at the launch of Journey to Discovery (Values and Virtues Programme / Religious Education curriculum. Good morning. Your Grace, Sr Columba, principals, teachers, Catholic Education Board Read More →

This year as we focus attention on the second Synod priority Revitalising Catholic Culture and Identity, it is important for us to explore the jewels of our faith and their roots. These are referred to as jewels because they are priceless in helping us reach the heart of God. These ar Read More →

To all our readers, parish priests, catechetical teams and catechists, we wish you a New Year filled with deep peace and a yearning to live out and proclaim God’s reign and goodness by the witness of your lives. We pray that all persons we journey with will come to a deep love for and Read More →

We are now at the end of the Christmas season with the feasts of the Epiphany (January 6 – the twelfth day of Christmas) celebrated on Sunday, January 8 and the feast of the Baptism of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  In the current liturgical year the latter feast is being celebrated on Monda Read More →

This feast is a celebration of Mary’s motherhood of Jesus. The title “Mother of God” is derived from the Greek term Theotokos, the God-bearer. The feast emphasises both the humanity and the divinity of Jesus and it is both Mariological and Christological at the same time. It occurs du Read More →

Our Advent period of waiting and preparation is over and we are now spiritually ready to celebrate the first coming of Jesus. Christmas Day is finally here and it is time to celebrate His Birth! Read More →

A few weeks back my son told me that he had to go to school on Sunday because he had an examination on that day. I was not pleased at all; however I took him. When I returned home my friend called to ask if I was cooking. I said yes, but I was tired after having to take my son to scho Read More →

Advent is a time of waiting in joyful hope and as we wait, we prepare ourselves for the incarnation in our lives by repenting and deepening our life in Christ. The wreath is a visual reminder of the journey we are on during this time. The colours of the candles signify the royal princ Read More →

The privilege-centered Mariology that followed from seeing Mary as mysteriously both virgin and mother culminated in the two great dogmas of the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception, the definitions of which framed one of the periods of most intense Marian devotion in the Church&# Read More →

Advent is the liturgical season that precedes Christmas and ushers in the new Church year. Conventionally, it is understood by many to be a time of preparation for the coming of Jesus at Christmas, to which others reply that Christ has already come and dwells among us. He was born, He Read More →