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OFFICIAL

Today, Sunday, May 20, the Church observes the 46^th World Communications Day. This year’s theme is Silence and Word: Path of Evangelisation. In his message on this occasion Pope Benedict discusses “the relationship between silence and word: two aspects of communication which need to be kept in balance”.

I encourage you all to pray for those who work in the field of communications, especially in our local Church, that they may make the best use of communications technology in proclaiming the Good News.

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is observed during the week between Ascension and Pentecost Sundays. Please join the Christian Council of Trinidad and Tobago in praying for unity and peace.

I remind you also of today’s special Archdiocesan collection for pastoral and administrative services in funding Synod Implementation. I thank you in advance for your usual generosity.

+Joseph Harris
Archbishop of Port of Spain

By Vernon Khelawan

As an altar boy in the St Joseph Parish in my very early days (those Latin days), I was always intrigued by the ceremony and traditional rituals of the Roman Church in those early years. At the end of Vatican II, the introduction of many changes in liturgy impacted heavily on the local Church. Some of our own home-grown cultural traditions became integral to local worship.

After the indefinite closure of the Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (The Cathedral) on Monday 9^th April, 2012, there would be the continued celebration of Masses and services, but at new and different locations.