Keeping
Dreams Alive: Calvary Retreat House, page
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In Jamaica,
Catholic young people are particularly challenged because of their religion,
according to Carlene.
"Some
people in Jamaica society are very skeptical about the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church gets a lot of knocks here, so some young people
don't come to church because they can't take the pressure from people
telling them their religion is wrong. They knock the Pope, Marian devotions;
they say the church is oppressive and the Eucharist is not the presence
of Christ.
"So
we encourage others to come to our group and come on retreat so that
they will know that all they heard is not true. And some of them do."
 At
the end of this year's retreat, Austin McDonald (right), a young
Jamaican teacher, summed up the reactions of his group to their retreat
experience with a song:
I
have a dream, a kingdom dream.
I dream this dream each day.
I can see this dream,
I do feel this dream,
dream is my world.
Jesus
Christ gives me this dream,
A dream turned reality.
I believe in this dream,
This dream shall be
my Kingdom dream.
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