JCTR - Homily Notes









	2005 ADVENT 1st Sunday, Year B; 2005 Stay Awake 2nd Sunday, Year B; 2005 "John the Baptist Appeared!" 3rd Sunday, Year B; 2005 "Good Tidings" 4th Sunday, Year B; 2005 "But how can this come about?" 2005 LENT 1st Sunday, Year A; 2005 2nd Sunday, Year A; 2005 3rd Sunday, Year A; 2005 4th Sunday, Year A; 2005 5th Sunday, Year A; 2005	2004 ADVENT 1st Sunday, Year A; 2004 2nd Sunday, Year A; 2004 3rd Sunday, Year A; 2004 4th Sunday, Year A; 2004 2004 LENT 1st Sunday, Year C; 2004 2nd Sunday, Year C; 2004 3rd Sunday, Year C; 2004 4th Sunday, Year C; 2004 5th Sunday, Year C; 2004 2003 ADVENT 1st Sunday, Year B; 2003 2nd Sunday, Year B; 2003 3rd Sunday, Year B; 2003 4th Sunday, Year B; 2003 2003 LENT 1st Sunday, Year B; 2003 2nd Sunday, Year B; 2003 3rd Sunday, Year B; 2003 4th Sunday, Year B; 2003 5th Sunday, Year B; 2003



Debt Homily Notes 24th Sunday, Year A; 2002 : Cancel the Debt! Help the Poor!
YOUTH DAY 2003 But what really happens on Youth Day? A lot of parades and �march-bys.� Plenty of speeches, full of strong challenges and remarkable promises. But does all this really make any difference? Will the many, many youths of Zambia � an estimated 60-65% of Zambians are below the age of 21! � be better off tomorrow because of what is said and done today? Will youth play a more important role in our country�s life, especially in addressing an unacceptable situation where 80% of Zambians are living below the poverty line and suffering greatly?
	LABOUR DAY 2003 What is the image or picture that comes to your mind here in Zambia when you think of workers, of labourers? But out of a potential work force of five million Zambians, less than 500,000 are in the �formal economy.� There are many more thousands of others who are in what is called the �informal economy� -- e.g., street vendors, small artisans, piece workers, farm labourers. They lack the protection of laws and the concern of organised trade unions. And of course the vast majority are simply unemployed, jobless and idle.