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Celebrating the Life of Deacon Kevin Bellot o u r CATHOLIC c o m m u n i t y Volume 1 No. 9 JULY 2012 Issue A publication of the Diocese of Roseau, Dominica $2.00 CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF DEACON KEVIN BELLOT Our Lady of La Soie Church Picnic National Catholic Bible Conference Musical Mele on Broadway Inside Editor’s Pen Bishop’s Message 03 OUR CLERGY, RELIGIOUS AND LAY ASSOCIATES Deacon Kevin Bellot C.Ss.R 04 (see pics on page 12) Interview With Fr. Karam 05 Mutal Respect OUR DIOCESE utual Respect is Disciples On Mission - Agatha Timothy & respecting others and Augustus St. Jean 06 Mhaving them respect To Subdue The Earth 07 you. It is difficult to respect Liturgy Update: New Words, New Music 07 others if you do not have respect Our Catholic Heritage - Roseau Cathedral Stained Glass for yourself. Respecting yourself is part of loving and valuing Windows # 5-Saul of Tarsus’ Conversion 09 yourself. If you love yourself, Our Lady Of La Soie Church Picnic 10 then you believe that God made St. Martin De Porres Chapel Father’s Day 10 you in his image and likeness, St. Francis Xavier Celebrates First Holy Communion 11 that you are fundamentally Blessed Be His Most Precious Blood 11 good and that your body is the Celebrating Corpus Christi 11 temple of the Holy Spirit. This then translates into how you (see pics on page 13) treat your body. You feed it with Scripture: A Road Map For Living (National Catholic Bible a balanced diet, you exercise to Conference) 14 keep it fit, you don’t abuse it with Spirit On A Journey 15 excessive drugs and alcohol. You Musical Mele On Broadway 15 don’t defile it with fornication Christian Leadership: Young Christian Leaders - Deacon and adultery. You watch what Kevin Bellot - A Role Model 17 comes out of your mouth by not cursing, lying and gossiping. Events & Notice Board 18 Loving yourself is reflected in OUR CHURCH IN THE CARIBBEAN the way you conduct yourself, Papal Nuncio Visits Grenada 19 they way you dress, the way OUR CATHOLIC WORLD treat others. Respecting others 50th International Eucharistic Congress In Ireland 20 also means that regardless of OUR YOUTH: EDUCATION, RECREATION AND FAITH the status of others, of what neighbourhood or village they CCYG Celebrating Father’s Day 21 come from, rich or poor, young or Mr. Jeffers Paul - CYCC Honouree 21 old, intellectual or not so smart, St. Andrew Parish Youth Sports Day 21 whether of different religion or Catholic Primary Schools Perform Well At Grade Six race or political opinion and National Assessment 22 no matter what job they do we St. Andrew Parish Youth Honour Fathers 23 respect others. We treat them The Wesley Focus Committee Clean-up Campaign 23 with deference, esteem, honour and consideration and avoid Diocese of Roseau degrading, insulting, injuring, Bishop Arnold Boghaert Catholic Centre or interrupting. If we do this, Turkey Lane, P.O. Box 790 very soon we find because of the Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica respect we show to them, that Tel: (767) 448-2837 - (767) 448-8717 others respect us too. Email: [email protected] 02 OUR CATHOLIC COMMUNITY JULY 2012 ISSUE Cover page photo by Kyle Gordon Bishop’s Message The Mystery of Death accomplish for the Lord as an me,” he stated, “it is Christ. ordained minister in his Church, Death, then, will bring more. But especially at a time when that if by continuing to live I can do level of vocational service is at more worthwhile work, then I am such high demand. not sure which I should choose. However, having I am pulled in both directions. I succumbed to one of the chronic want very much to leave this life diseases of the modern age and to be with Christ, which is a proves our vulnerability to the far better thing; but for your sake contingencies of this mortal life. it is much more important that I What was traditionally regarded remain alive.” (Phil 1:21-24). as a consequence of old age, We are here listening to finds a ready abode even among someone who had attained a the very young. Spirituality not certain level of maturity and withstanding, there are lessons had come to a certain degree for all of us on the physiological of accomplishment on the level. Christian journey. But could What, therefore, is there this apply to a young man at the to ponder from the Christian prime of his life? he “untimely” passing perspective? First of all, only The lesson here, to my mind, of the late Deacon Kevin God will know the “why” of is for each of us, regardless of TBellot from this life to Deacon Kevin’s early call into age. It calls us to re-examine the eternity is enough to engender eternity. Our seeming inability quality of our present existence, some reflection on the “mystery” to comprehend or to cope with as we prepare for the next world. of death, especially for the young. this perceived morbid reality In the Christian order of things, I dare say, however, that it is a often comes from the high price therefore, the seeming negatives worthwhile exercise from time we put on this side of eternity. of mortal death, tells more on us to time, for our own good. If we It is unfortunate that sometimes who remain alive than it does on were disciples of St. Benedict, we we put all we’ve got on it, at the deceased. This is so because would have grown accustom to the expense of the other, which moaning the loss of a loved one hear him say: “My sons, day by is Kevin’s present privilege to is well placed and benefits the day remind yourself that you are enjoy. human psyche; but beyond this going to die. Hour by hour, keep St. Paul in his writings, is absolute destiny. Our life on careful watch over all you do, spoke of death as something to earth has always to be lived aware that God’s gaze is upon look forward to. He said to the with minds and hearts set on you, wherever you may be, and Galatians: “I have been put to the next world, so to speak, as you will find yourselves living a death with Christ on the Cross, the scriptures constantly warn better life on earth.” so that it is no longer I who live, us. At every moment on that In the contemporary but it is Christ who lives in me. journey, we are called to live to context, these are not the words This life that I live now, I live the fullest until that ultimate one would say to a young man at by faith in the Son of God, who call, for which we know neither the prime age of twenty-nine and loved me and gave his life for me” the day nor the hour. In the on the verge of being elevated (Gal 2:19-20). Paul even showed mean time we stay firm in the to an all-important ministry. It a preference for death. In his Christian faith. seems more like the time to have Epistle to the Philippian Church, great dreams of what one could he asked: “For what is life? To Photo by Jervez Jno-Baptiste TUNE IN TO DOMINICA CATHOLIC RADIO 96.1 FM 03 Deacon Kevin Bellot C.Ss.R January 7, 1983 - June 10, 2012 By Fr. Rodney J. Olive C.Ss.R ev. Deacon Kevin Bellot, a native of the island nation “The fact that you of Dominica professed vows as a Redemptorist could dedicate your life to RAugust 8, 2007. He received his Bachelor of Arts something without counting (BA) in Philosophy and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in the cost, that was really Psychology from St. John’s University in New York. He what triggered the idea was a member of the Redemptorist community at the of religious life,” Bellot Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Mission Church) said. “When you’re tying in Roxbury, where he was ordained to the transitional the shoelaces of a patient, diaconate October 8 at St. Ignatius Church in Chestnut or helping them fix their Hill. Deacon Bellot finished his graduate studies at Boston clothes or walk down the College’s School of Theology and Ministry in December hall so they can play cards, 2012, graduating with a Masters of Divinity degree and and they just smile at you. Deacon Kevin Bellot C.Ss.R a Masters Degree in Theology. He spent his time as a That smile had so much deacon serving in Redemptorist parishes and ministries wealth in it, whether they could say thank-you verbally in the English-speaking Region of the Caribbean. He was or not. I knew then that’s how I wanted to spend my life.” scheduled to be ordained to the priesthood on 8 August Bellot joined the Redemptorists in 2001 and has 2012. worked in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, in inner- Bellot, 29, the son of Janice Lafleur, the brother city Philadelphia and New York. He completed his degree to one sister- Kisha McCoy, and the grandson of Vania in philosophy and psychology at St. John’s University in LaFleur, was born 7 January 1983 and grew up in the New York, and professed his first vows as a Redemptorist Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies. He is the cousin in 2007 and his final vows in 2010. He is expected to be of Fr.
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