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Welcome to the blog experience created by Fr. Donald Chambers. Here you will be invited to reflect on his writings and allow it to transform your life!
REFLECTIONS
Safe Space for Transformation
Creation possesses a divine intentional destiny.Coral reefs provide life-giving food and safety,limestone rocks secure housing,coral sands carpeted…
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Journeying Beyond
Surfaces, Appearances,Covers,Outsides,These are only a start.They areAttractive,Beautiful,Alluring,Enticing, Yet, unsatisfying.We adoreSurfaces,Appearances,Covers,Outsides,Only for brief moments.We are created with a…
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Vulnerability
Vulnerability is a “clothes-less” newborn -helplessfragileat risktransparentfeeblenakedhonestinnocent weak. (Let us pray for the vulnerable unborn and the…
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Shifting Sands
Like shifting sand grains,sometimes violently,other times gently,lifted, swirled and depositedby waves of circumstances,life is restless, reckless, and…
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Donatism Unveiled
Dear Editor, Recently, I read Archbishop Tomash Peter of Kazakhstan’s response to the Vatican’s declaration, On the…
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Breath of God
My feeble body parks motionless, except for the calm contraction and expansion of my lungs, absorbing and…
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Creation and Christmas
Life circumstances. Life choices. Life’s surprises. Life’s twists and turns. Trigger chaos. Trigger darkness, despair, desperation. Trigger…
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My Christmas Gift
Three days before Christmas Day, on her 61st birthday, a domestic helper departed home at 5:30 am…
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Of Church and blessings
THE EDITOR, Madam; Based on the rhetorical response of Bishop Dr Alvin Bailey, reported in the The Daily…
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Virginal Conception doctrine points to Christ’s origin in God
THE EDITOR, Madam: I write in response to an article in The Sunday Gleaner titled ‘The Virgin Birth, neither fact…
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We Hunger
We hunger to cuddle and be cuddled. We hunger to gaze upon and to be gazed upon.…
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Story’s tragedy, a ray of hope
THE EDITOR, Madam: The Sunday Gleaner (November 5, 2023) story, ‘I was only trying to protect my father’,…
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Hospitality In Action – Lessons for the Church
In the ferocious ebb and flow of the waves of Macqueripe Beach, Trinidad, the spirit of hospitality…
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God & Natural Disasters
THE EDITOR, Madame: While the recent 5.6 magnitude earthquake physically and emotionally shocked Jamaicans to the core,…
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White Elephant Economic Model
THE EDITOR, Madame: An article entitled “Multimillion-dollar white elephant,” published in the Sunday Gleaner on August 20,…
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The Brawls
THE EDITOR: Dear Sir/Madame, Within one week, two Facebook videos which were labelled “brawls” went viral -…
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Bling Versus Substance
THE EDITOR, Madam: Notwithstanding the poor state of Jamaica’s education system, I sense a growing consciousness that…
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Real Food
My consciousness awakes slightly before the break of dawn, but my physical body refuses blatantly to rise…
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Accompaniment
A Jamaican saying characterises our Caribbean culture: “mout mek fi sey anyting”, meaning that the mouth can…
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SYNODALITY CORNER
Synodality – Spirituality and Conversion
Having worked in parish ministry, I conclude that the deficiency in human formation, especially regarding relationship building, contributes significantly to the anaemic growth and development of parish life, as well…
Synodal Flight
On October 10, 2021, the air traffic controller of the voice of God gave instructions to pilot Pope Francis for the synodal flight of the Church to take off on…
Synodality – Call for Caution
As I measure the pulse of the synodal journey throughout the Antilles Episcopal Conference’s geographic region, I sense grave anxiety and urgency to shift into implementation gear. Based on the…
Synodality – Listening to Voice of Creation
The theme of the 5th Annual St. Francis Canticle Award Ceremony for children and schools, organized by the Franciscan Institute, was “Listen to the Voice of Creation.” What is meant…
Synodal Preparation
Life is like a marathon race or a mountainous hike. It tests our spiritual, physical, emotional, and social competencies. There are overflowing and overwhelming surprises, creating disruption, dislocation, and disequilibrium,…
Great to meet you!
I am Donald Dean Chambers, son of Mum and Dad, priest for 29 years. I was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Kingston, Jamaica. I currently reside in the Archdiocese of Port of Spain, Trinidad. For the last three years, I have held the position of General Secretary for the Antilles Episcopal Conference. I enjoy reading, writing and challenging persons with thoughts and sharings inspired by faith and scripture! I also encourage others to challenge me and my writing, so feel free to share your thoughts!
Testimonies
“There is a time for everything…under the heavens. (Ecclesiastes 3:1). Thank you Fr. D. The truth of the contrast of the two seasons is beautifully captured here. Reading this gave me hope. In spite of it all, Lent for many of us, still has the “final Word”. And what is this word? It is the Word that still exists in the lives of human beings; beckoning us in all our frailty to return again and again, to the Word made Flesh…Christ himself, during the season of Lent. Thank you Carnival! Your “farewell to the flesh” images, with all its beauty, creativity, magnificence, debauchery, drunkenness et al still makes way for the entrance of the Word to be made flesh once again in frail humanity.”
Jacqui
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