Recently our Pe. Vigar
while delivering his homily in the Church indicated his anguish over our
village for not producing any single priest since last 39 years and lamented
asking thus: “is this village a cursed
village?”
First of all, the first
statement was wrong. The last priest
from Candolim was ordained on 21st December 1995, Fr. Lino Lopes, a Salesian.
Regarding the word
curse, I must say here that it is not the village that is cursed but some of the
priests attached to the Candolim Church were cursed, they were not creating atmosphere conducive to produce
priests. These priests were Satanic
priests in the garb of priestly robes.
Candolim Church had the worst distinction of producing the Martin Luther
of Goa in Pe. Alvito Vaz who established the independent Church of Cuncolim to
support the casteists of Cuncolim who were known to dig the graves of the low
caste Cuncolkar and put the dead bodies out of the cemetery.
Candolim Church got another
worst distinction of producing two Judases who sold Candolim Church for a
certain period of time to Amitabh Bachan to film a Hindi Film allegedly with a
vulgar pose inside the Church, these Judases were Fr. Santimano and his the
then assistant Fr. Cipriano. The former is dead I heard but the latter is still
around in my neighbourhood doing the job of Pe. Vigar.
A century and half back
the remains of one non-Bamonn Candoikar who was buried in the Candolim Cemetry, were
installed in the wall at the entrance of the Church, inside right side when entering
the Church thru the main door. When one old feudal lady of Pinto family next to
the present Bosio Hospital, got this news, very philosophically and also
sarcastically she asked all the Bamonn
who were instrumental in preserving the remains of the commoner coming from one
ordinary family known as Kanpinn, “KITEM KELEM RE TUMI, KANPINNICHEA PUTAK
IGROZ VIKLI MURE?”. Listening to this
comment from the old lady of famous Pinto family, the Bamonn from Candolim
realized their folly. To undo this mistake,
they secretly met the Pe. Vigar who was also a Bamonn and told him on one
particular night during the rainy days to keep the main door of the Church
partially open so that they come with Pickaxes, remove the bones and throw the
same out into the field filled with water. As planned they did their job
without anybody’s notice.
Next day there was hue
and cry; Portuguese security personnel came, investigated but found nobody as
culprit. They never doubted the Pe.
Vigar but as a scapegoat, they arrested the Church “Pedo” whom they beat
mercilessly to confess but they found him ultimately innocent. I don’t think there existed any Pe. Vigar as
wicked as this from Candolim Church.
Just because Candolim
village failed to produce a priest during the last so many years that does not
mean the village is a cursed village. On
the other side, Candolim village had unique distinction to produce great and
holy priests like Father and Son (Farias), such a priestly duo – father &
son - never appeared anywhere else on this planet in the history of Catholicism. The other great priest from Candolim were the
makers of Pintos revolution. Still other
great priest of Candolim was Pe. Chico Monteiro who shook India by fighting his
case on the invasion of Goa by India.
Special lawyer came from London deputed by Queen Elizabeth to fight for
him in the court at Panjim in mid sixties.
To fight for justice with Indian government was his pastoral duty and he
fought bravely while others caved in. Besides
there were other priests from Candolim who made Candolim proud, they were Pe.
Estanislaus, Pe. Antonette, Pe. Romanos the founder of St. Theresa High School
who later on doled it to the Candolim Church and some more.
Parents and schools are
also responsible to create priestly vocations in their villages apart from the
priests attached to the local parishes.
But they have no time to devote for this job. Parents are busy in making
money and priests are busy after worldly affairs thereby giving a very bad
image of the priesthood. In such a
situation, how there can be priestly vocations easily? And if you have in your
Church a “Rostad” type of casteist Pe. Vigar who is arrogant, proud and money
grabber, vocations will never come in our villages, let the concerned Pe.
Vigars bark in the Churches as much as they can. These barking Pe. Vigars are responsible to
repel the priestly vocations from our villages.
The Pe. Vigars who are satanising the holy Altars by preaching curseful
sermons will be responsible for bringing curses on our villages.
As per my
informamation, very shortly a new Pe. Vigar will take charge of the Candolim
Church; whoever he may be but for his smooth functioning he must be a very
humble priest and not a proud one and a money conscious worldly priest. He
should work hard to eradicate from Candolim the rampant concubinage going on
where many of our Catholic females are become slaves of non-Christians. There
are clashes among the members of Catholic community which should be sorted out
amicably by the intervention of the “Gaumcho Pe. Vigar” instead of going to the court. The Pe. Vigar who is preaching from the Altar the “Zupattis” to the faithful
is unable to clean this rot.
The second point is to
arrest the spread of Call Girls menace in Candolim which spoils the image of
the local girls. The current local atmosphere is not conducive to produce
priestly vocations easily because the Satan who dubbed Candolim village as the
cursed village himself is a cursed one whose contribution in the promotion of
priestly vocations is ZERO. He is fit only to give from the holy Altar Zupattis
like a Tiatrist to the locals who are eagerly waiting for his exit.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel. 7507394349.Candolim, Goa.
