Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ex­tend­ed greet­ings to the Ro­man Catholic com­mu­ni­ty on the Feast of Cor­pus Christi chal­leng­ing the na­tion to use the oc­ca­sion to love each oth­er again.

Dr Row­ley said in a state­ment, “We live in a coun­try, and a world in need of that self­less Love; an era, too, which cries out for the pos­i­tive qual­i­ties of tem­per­ance, pa­tience, re­spect, kind­ness, cour­tesy, and sin­cer­i­ty, to be shared as part of our dai­ly lives.”

He went fur­ther in stat­ing, “The events of our time call up­on us to seek right­eous­ness in our hearts, and beau­ty in our char­ac­ter, which could even­tu­al­ly be felt through­out our homes, spread through the na­tion-state of Trinidad and To­ba­go and added to world peace.”

The Feast of Cor­pus Christi is a Chris­t­ian fes­ti­val that cel­e­brates the re­al pres­ence of the body and blood of Je­sus Christ in the Eu­charist – the sacra­ment com­mem­o­rat­ing the Last Sup­per. It is held on the Thurs­day af­ter Trin­i­ty Sun­day and was first pro­posed by St Thomas Aquinas to cre­ate a feast sole­ly fo­cused on the Eu­charist.

“It is my hope that Chris­tians, ab­sorbed to­day in re­flec­tion, med­i­ta­tion and prayer, may come to the re­al­i­sa­tion of that in­ner peace which they seek,” Dr Row­ley said.