Re: [goancauses] OUR CHURCH, OUR PRIESTS AND WE.
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In a message dated 10/8/2007 11:56:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, goasuraj@sancharnet.in writes:
Very True indeed.
florianogoasuraj
PS: My contribution to Veronica's excellent thoughts.
Stage is set when I was sailing, a long time ago. Comes a delegation of parish council for donation to build the Church fund. This is when Goa's churches were stripped of their own revenues. I said fine. Why not? But on one condition. You people show me a voucher where our church has given back even 5 or 10 rupees to the needy of the village and come take my contribution. They never came and I never gave.-----
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K R A N T I --No plans in this revolution are written for retreat--October 8, 2007_
OUR CHURCH, OUR PRIESTS AND WE._
(http://goa-kranti.blogspot.com/2007/10/our-church-our-priests-and-we.html)
OUR CHURCH, OUR PRIESTS AND WE.
By: Veronica Fernandes.
October 8, 2007
OUR CHURCH, OUR PRIESTS AND WE.
OUR CHURCH, OUR PRIESTS AND WE.
In my locality in Goa a few years back some Hindu young men, all Goa based joined together and formed a Co-operative Financial Society, a sort of a Co-operative Bank. They have also floated Shares which they issued only to their own people from their own community. Jobs were also given only to their own people from their own community. The initiators of this project were my friends as they were my companions in School and College. Before starting this project they exchanged their views with me on this project and assured me of some Shares in this project and asked me to open my account in their financial institution. I immediately opened my account with some deposit but finally they cheated me by not giving me any Share since they kept everything within their own community. Within a short period they have increased their business which necessitated them to open more branches in many other localities. Currently they are doing good and giving good dividends to their Share holders coming from their own community. Though entire financial power they held in their own hands but deposits are solicited from non-Hindu community members also mainly from Christian community. Even the jobs in their new branches are given only or mainly to the persons from their own religion. This financial organization is run by the Board of Directors and all the Directors are from their own circle of their own community. They are fanatically helping their own community members in giving loans and other financial benefits for the improvement and benefits of their own community members. Incidentally many of the fat account holders in their organization are Christians in general and Catholics in particular.
I admire them for doing something extraordinary and that also for their own community people. Similarly, can’t we Christians do the way they did? We can surely do and if possible we can do still better. With the money power flowing into the hands of Christians we can do so many things financially and other lucrative projects in a much better way. We the Gulfies itself can start so many of such financial projects and help us and our community people so nicely. But to do such projects who will guide and direct us? In Goa there is nobody to guide us because our own people are jealous of us. By being out of Goa we are very much handicapped and for this reason we need somebody as our true and sincere Godfather from Goa itself. And as a matter of fact, Christians are in disunity in Goa only because they are jealous of their own Christian brothers and sisters, Catholics are worst. Our Church and our priests are partly responsible for this because they failed in their mission of educating our people on the ills of jealousy from the Pulpit in their regular sermons. Our Hindu and Muslim brothers and sisters are having better unity amongst their respective community members. For this reason they are more successful.
Secondly to start such financial and commercial ventures we Christians in general and Catholics in particular are not aggressive. We don’t like to be masters but we prefer to be slaves. To overcome these lethargic attitudes surely I except our Church leaders and priests to guide and direct us and help us to do something of our own and for our own selves. But instead of doing this our Church leaders and its priests will use their tact and power to woo us to help the projects of Church namely construction of Schools, Convents, Colleges, Chapels, Printing Press, Old Age Houses and other such projects in the name of charity and in the name of Jesus Christ. These projects are no doubt good but they ultimately do not help us to increase and stabilize our financial strength. If we are not financially stable then we are doomed to disaster. For example, see how much we suffered during the invasion of Kuwait. Inspite of working in Kuwait for so many years many of us faced financial difficulties because many of us in the absemce of proper guidance frittered away our money unscrupulously. Because of financial problems during the invasion of Kuwait some of our females were making money thru illicit means which is against the teachings of our religion. Acquiring money thru illicit means is a sin leading to the Hell. Church duty is to stop people from going into the Hell. Hence, positive role of the Church comes into picture. But, is our Church playing its positive role appropriately?
It is about 60 years now since Goans are coming to Kuwait to work. During this long period we earned lakhs of Dinars and converted into Indian Currency turned into Crores of Rupees. Major portion of these Crores went into the construction of luxurious houses and bungalows for private use, unnecessarily purchasing of expensive Flats in the expensive localities to acquire fake aristocratic social status by discarding poor ancestral localities, so also in unwanted luxuries and in other conspicuous consumption. Very few amongst us invested their hard earned money for productive purposes and for getting good returns. Most of us were satisfied with the interest we got from our fixed deposits in the Banks in Goa. Incidentally by using our deposits in the Banks in Goa our enemies who are all out to finish us and our power in Goa built their business empires and became Crorepotis. By using our deposits from the Banks in Goa our enemies started their own business ventures and there they employed our own sons and daughters like slaves. On the strength of our money our enemies became our masters and regretfully they made us their slaves. Our own money made us employees of somebody. Not only this, the money that we deposited in the Nationalised Banks in Goa were invested by non-Goans in their own States and in other parts of India thereby bringing prosperity in the lands of somebody. It is a pity to know that our financial power is not utilized for our benefits nor to protect our Goa from being purchased by non-Goans.
Since last 40 years priests are coming to Kuwait either on their own as Tiatrists or social workers or teachers or deputed by the Church. Most of them like the late Fr. Freddy J. D’Costa came to Kuwait only to ask from us donations for their own projects like Printing Press of Fr. Freddy J. D’Costa. Many other priests came to Kuwait to ask donations for the construction of Diocesan English Schools in their respective localities, also for Convents and other projects. I was too deeply involved in these donations mainly to Fr. Freddy J. D’Costa and to other priests. But none of these priests at any given time during their trips to Kuwait asked us and impressed upon us to utilize our financial resources for our own development. They never thought anything good for us. They only shown concern for their projects totally owned by them and the Church. They got hefty donations from us but never made any scheme to share their benefits with the donors.
Even during the invasion of Kuwait many of the priests and nuns refused admission for our children in the schools built on our donations. Not only this, during that same invasion period when we organized a movement in Goa in support of Kuwait, none of the priests who feasted in Kuwait at our cost and who got hefty donations like Fr. Freddy J. D’Costa from us for their projects, associated with us. Neither the nuns supported our movement. On the contrary like Fr. Freddy some of the priests who got donations from us were mocking at us, at our movement in Goa in support of the liberation of Kuwait and at our misery. “BEIMAN TE VHODDLE – LUCIFERACHEA KASTACHE“. TANCHE SERMAU FOKOT LOKANK ANI NHOI UNIANK. They are not only unChristian but also antiChristian in their actions. They shared our happiness but never our sorrows. They are interested only in our money and for this they would exploit our innocence to any extent. To acquire our financial benefits they would exploit us not only bodily but even soully and slyly accuse Satan for robbing us of our souls. They have obligation to support, protect, guide and direct us in the right direction the way the Pope or Head Priest of Bohra community is doing so nicely for Bohras. For this reason Bohras are a prosperous community while we are not though we are in much better position to attain better financial prosperity.
See what some of our Pe. Vigars and Pe. Curs in many of our villages in Goa did. They have criminally sold cheaply the properties of Confrarias to non-Christians and non-Goans instead of selling the same to us and to our Christians. These non-Christians and non-Goans in many places in Goa are bossing over us and tomorrow they may even restrict our movements towards our Churches. It looks like “MOJEA HATHANI ANVEM MOJECH FOLE FODDLET”. They have not impressed upon our landlords not to sell our land and properties to non-Goans and to our Goan enemies like those who went to Ayodya to demolish Babri Masjid. Tomorrow they may even demolish our Churches. Our Churches are so beautiful venues for our priests to advise and guide our people in right direction during their regular preachings but they are not using this forum rightly. Many of the priests are preaching like Sankistao turned into Deacons with the knowledge of ignorant buttlers of 18th century. If today non-Catholic denominations are mushrooming and taking firm roots amongst us like the Believers then it is due to the fault of our Church leaders and priests who are not competent enough to guide us in a right direction thru their regular preachings. Can any one believe some of our Church leaders and priests in the last election and earlier too supported anti-Christian Parrikar and his anti-Christian Party BJP? Unbelieveable but factually true. The enemies of Christians and Catholics are within themselves only.
If our Church leaders and priests had any concern for us then they would devise some ways to utilize our financial resources for our own benefits and developments. If they fail to come to our rescue then nobody amongst us will come. They are the last resort for our salvation otherwise we Christians and Catholics in Goa will be diminished from Goa and turn into non entities. To get this result our Christian politicians are making ways. Generally speaking Gulf Goan Christians are not advanced to do what our Hindu brothers are doing though we have a false notion that we are very advanced community as a whole. For this reason Gulf Goan Christians need assistance. This assistance, guidance and know how should come from the Church and its leaders. Overwhelming majority of Gulf Goans are Catholics. To protect our financial interest what our Church and its leaders doing? Nothing. Are they not obligated to do something for our development? They know only to use us and our financial power for donations. They only want our money. Sometime back one visiting priest to Kuwait while saying the Mass, shamelessly from the Alter itself, against the edicts of the Kuwait Church was soliciting donations but not guiding us to do something to make our future safe. Many of us working in the Gulf are living on oxygen and if the valve of Oxygen Cylinder is removed we will be fish out of water. Will it be the pleasure of our religious leaders to see us suffering and do bad things to get money for our survival? As fatherly figure and leader of the community Church is duty bound to help, guide, direct and support us. And if our Church and its leaders fail to come to our rescue then there is nobody on this planet to help and guide us. Then God alone will help us. But we know from past experience that God helps to those who help themselves.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
In my locality in Goa a few years back some Hindu young men, all Goa based joined together and formed a Co-operative Financial Society, a sort of a Co-operative Bank. They have also floated Shares which they issued only to their own people from their own community. Jobs were also given only to their own people from their own community. The initiators of this project were my friends as they were my companions in School and College. Before starting this project they exchanged their views with me on this project and assured me of some Shares in this project and asked me to open my account in their financial institution. I immediately opened my account with some deposit but finally they cheated me by not giving me any Share since they kept everything within their own community. Within a short period they have increased their business which necessitated them to open more branches in many other localities. Currently they are doing good and giving good dividends to their Share holders coming from their own community. Though entire financial power they held in their own hands but deposits are solicited from non-Hindu community members also mainly from Christian community. Even the jobs in their new branches are given only or mainly to the persons from their own religion. This financial organization is run by the Board of Directors and all the Directors are from their own circle of their own community. They are fanatically helping their own community members in giving loans and other financial benefits for the improvement and benefits of their own community members. Incidentally many of the fat account holders in their organization are Christians in general and Catholics in particular.
I admire them for doing something extraordinary and that also for their own community people. Similarly, can’t we Christians do the way they did? We can surely do and if possible we can do still better. With the money power flowing into the hands of Christians we can do so many things financially and other lucrative projects in a much better way. We the Gulfies itself can start so many of such financial projects and help us and our community people so nicely. But to do such projects who will guide and direct us? In Goa there is nobody to guide us because our own people are jealous of us. By being out of Goa we are very much handicapped and for this reason we need somebody as our true and sincere Godfather from Goa itself. And as a matter of fact, Christians are in disunity in Goa only because they are jealous of their own Christian brothers and sisters, Catholics are worst. Our Church and our priests are partly responsible for this because they failed in their mission of educating our people on the ills of jealousy from the Pulpit in their regular sermons. Our Hindu and Muslim brothers and sisters are having better unity amongst their respective community members. For this reason they are more successful.
Secondly to start such financial and commercial ventures we Christians in general and Catholics in particular are not aggressive. We don’t like to be masters but we prefer to be slaves. To overcome these lethargic attitudes surely I except our Church leaders and priests to guide and direct us and help us to do something of our own and for our own selves. But instead of doing this our Church leaders and its priests will use their tact and power to woo us to help the projects of Church namely construction of Schools, Convents, Colleges, Chapels, Printing Press, Old Age Houses and other such projects in the name of charity and in the name of Jesus Christ. These projects are no doubt good but they ultimately do not help us to increase and stabilize our financial strength. If we are not financially stable then we are doomed to disaster. For example, see how much we suffered during the invasion of Kuwait. Inspite of working in Kuwait for so many years many of us faced financial difficulties because many of us in the absemce of proper guidance frittered away our money unscrupulously. Because of financial problems during the invasion of Kuwait some of our females were making money thru illicit means which is against the teachings of our religion. Acquiring money thru illicit means is a sin leading to the Hell. Church duty is to stop people from going into the Hell. Hence, positive role of the Church comes into picture. But, is our Church playing its positive role appropriately?
It is about 60 years now since Goans are coming to Kuwait to work. During this long period we earned lakhs of Dinars and converted into Indian Currency turned into Crores of Rupees. Major portion of these Crores went into the construction of luxurious houses and bungalows for private use, unnecessarily purchasing of expensive Flats in the expensive localities to acquire fake aristocratic social status by discarding poor ancestral localities, so also in unwanted luxuries and in other conspicuous consumption. Very few amongst us invested their hard earned money for productive purposes and for getting good returns. Most of us were satisfied with the interest we got from our fixed deposits in the Banks in Goa. Incidentally by using our deposits in the Banks in Goa our enemies who are all out to finish us and our power in Goa built their business empires and became Crorepotis. By using our deposits from the Banks in Goa our enemies started their own business ventures and there they employed our own sons and daughters like slaves. On the strength of our money our enemies became our masters and regretfully they made us their slaves. Our own money made us employees of somebody. Not only this, the money that we deposited in the Nationalised Banks in Goa were invested by non-Goans in their own States and in other parts of India thereby bringing prosperity in the lands of somebody. It is a pity to know that our financial power is not utilized for our benefits nor to protect our Goa from being purchased by non-Goans.
Since last 40 years priests are coming to Kuwait either on their own as Tiatrists or social workers or teachers or deputed by the Church. Most of them like the late Fr. Freddy J. D’Costa came to Kuwait only to ask from us donations for their own projects like Printing Press of Fr. Freddy J. D’Costa. Many other priests came to Kuwait to ask donations for the construction of Diocesan English Schools in their respective localities, also for Convents and other projects. I was too deeply involved in these donations mainly to Fr. Freddy J. D’Costa and to other priests. But none of these priests at any given time during their trips to Kuwait asked us and impressed upon us to utilize our financial resources for our own development. They never thought anything good for us. They only shown concern for their projects totally owned by them and the Church. They got hefty donations from us but never made any scheme to share their benefits with the donors.
Even during the invasion of Kuwait many of the priests and nuns refused admission for our children in the schools built on our donations. Not only this, during that same invasion period when we organized a movement in Goa in support of Kuwait, none of the priests who feasted in Kuwait at our cost and who got hefty donations like Fr. Freddy J. D’Costa from us for their projects, associated with us. Neither the nuns supported our movement. On the contrary like Fr. Freddy some of the priests who got donations from us were mocking at us, at our movement in Goa in support of the liberation of Kuwait and at our misery. “BEIMAN TE VHODDLE – LUCIFERACHEA KASTACHE“. TANCHE SERMAU FOKOT LOKANK ANI NHOI UNIANK. They are not only unChristian but also antiChristian in their actions. They shared our happiness but never our sorrows. They are interested only in our money and for this they would exploit our innocence to any extent. To acquire our financial benefits they would exploit us not only bodily but even soully and slyly accuse Satan for robbing us of our souls. They have obligation to support, protect, guide and direct us in the right direction the way the Pope or Head Priest of Bohra community is doing so nicely for Bohras. For this reason Bohras are a prosperous community while we are not though we are in much better position to attain better financial prosperity.
See what some of our Pe. Vigars and Pe. Curs in many of our villages in Goa did. They have criminally sold cheaply the properties of Confrarias to non-Christians and non-Goans instead of selling the same to us and to our Christians. These non-Christians and non-Goans in many places in Goa are bossing over us and tomorrow they may even restrict our movements towards our Churches. It looks like “MOJEA HATHANI ANVEM MOJECH FOLE FODDLET”. They have not impressed upon our landlords not to sell our land and properties to non-Goans and to our Goan enemies like those who went to Ayodya to demolish Babri Masjid. Tomorrow they may even demolish our Churches. Our Churches are so beautiful venues for our priests to advise and guide our people in right direction during their regular preachings but they are not using this forum rightly. Many of the priests are preaching like Sankistao turned into Deacons with the knowledge of ignorant buttlers of 18th century. If today non-Catholic denominations are mushrooming and taking firm roots amongst us like the Believers then it is due to the fault of our Church leaders and priests who are not competent enough to guide us in a right direction thru their regular preachings. Can any one believe some of our Church leaders and priests in the last election and earlier too supported anti-Christian Parrikar and his anti-Christian Party BJP? Unbelieveable but factually true. The enemies of Christians and Catholics are within themselves only.
If our Church leaders and priests had any concern for us then they would devise some ways to utilize our financial resources for our own benefits and developments. If they fail to come to our rescue then nobody amongst us will come. They are the last resort for our salvation otherwise we Christians and Catholics in Goa will be diminished from Goa and turn into non entities. To get this result our Christian politicians are making ways. Generally speaking Gulf Goan Christians are not advanced to do what our Hindu brothers are doing though we have a false notion that we are very advanced community as a whole. For this reason Gulf Goan Christians need assistance. This assistance, guidance and know how should come from the Church and its leaders. Overwhelming majority of Gulf Goans are Catholics. To protect our financial interest what our Church and its leaders doing? Nothing. Are they not obligated to do something for our development? They know only to use us and our financial power for donations. They only want our money. Sometime back one visiting priest to Kuwait while saying the Mass, shamelessly from the Alter itself, against the edicts of the Kuwait Church was soliciting donations but not guiding us to do something to make our future safe. Many of us working in the Gulf are living on oxygen and if the valve of Oxygen Cylinder is removed we will be fish out of water. Will it be the pleasure of our religious leaders to see us suffering and do bad things to get money for our survival? As fatherly figure and leader of the community Church is duty bound to help, guide, direct and support us. And if our Church and its leaders fail to come to our rescue then there is nobody on this planet to help and guide us. Then God alone will help us. But we know from past experience that God helps to those who help themselves.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
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