WELL DONE FR. CONCEICAO D'SILVA - MY SUPPORT TO YOU.

This is to refer to the noise going all around regarding the controversial sermon preached by as disclosed, Fr. Conceicao. I fully agree with this priest in using the Church area and not a Tinto to educate the Christians as per his pastoral duty to know of the final punishment God allocates for any person who unnecessarily harasses the innocent. It is the sacred duty of the clergy to educate his people of what is good and what is bad as far as the behaviour of the politicians are concerned and who are trying to convert our land into  Soddom and Gomorrah. Since politicians are the main sinners to convert Goa into a sinful place, it becomes the duty of the clergy like Fr. Conceicao D'silva to advise the faithful in the Church to do what.  I admire the wisdom of this priest whose Video of his preaching gone viral.  This is exactly what is required to spread the message of the priest to greater number of peole. 

When there is an all-round persecution for Christians in our land and when God notice the inability of Christians to face the aggression on them then God delivers His judgment as a curative measure to give peace to the innocent victims by getting rid of the persecutor of harassment, in the form of any major sickness to the culprits.  God side not only with the harassed Christians but also with any other harassed individual and community since God is the father of all irrespective of the routes we follow to reach to God. I am sure one day all those who are fighting in this world in the name of God and in the name of their respective religions, the deadly communal battles, wars and worst fights thereby creating an inferno of this world, will be surprised to see in the next world after their deaths again burning in the Inferno of the Hell. This will be their reward for creating communal riots and fights. At that point of time they will feel sorry for their misdeeds which did not help them to reach to the Heavenly bliss.        

Regarding those pundits who are trying to teach us the Christians, the lesson saying priests should not involve in politics, again I disagree here too with this tin-pot semi-intelligents on the ground that when there was heavy campaign in Philippine to overthrow the corrupt President Ferdinand Marcos, the entire Church there openly rallied behind Cardinal Sin of Philippine who openly supported incumbent Corazon Aquino and open revolt against Marcus’ government. When He was unable to find out what was the real reasons for the entire Church to fight against Marcos, the then Pope Himself came to Philippines, saw what wrong was going on there and gave Vatican’s  consent to involve directly in this politics there to defeat Ferdinand Marcus to bring about peace in that country for the good of society. What our priest doing now in Goa is right for the good of the society otherwise our political opponents will devour us not only bodily but if possible soully. I have no faith in BJP for doing anything good for the Christians in Goa. They will gradually convert Christians as second class citizens of Goa just as those days MGP followers did and just because of this harm they did for Christians, I think God brought them to this non-entity level. And still the remnants of the old MGP still fail to realize their pride especially the Davlikars and their wives, then God will totally annihilate MGP from the soil of Goa.  We Christians have suffered enough of MGP persecution and discriminations and It is not necessary to ask punishment of God for our wrong doers because He knows whom to punish by sending what type of desease or accident or sickness.  But we also got right to ask punishment for our enemies when they are unstoppable, however, to give punishment is the decision of God who alone knows the chemistry of those who harass us.

Politics is the most  corrupt activity among us needing total attention especially by the clergy to educate our masses.  Martin Luther King the civil rightist took this burden on his shoulder and to a large extent he succeeded even though he had to be the victim of his enemies bullet. In Nigaragua  Catholic Priests were inducted into the Cabinet of Daniel Ortega.  Many clergy members criticized this induction but they never got frightened on the contrary they thanked Ortega for affording them the opportunity to serve their society well because they realized that it is by joining the political field they could serve their fellow human beings better.    

I heard once a sermon preached by one priest many years ago when I was young boy, saying “Deva tea paddayank to apleache podven ani kuddichea bollan lokanche narl choriam paddta tachi nit tuvenuch korchi, tachea eka tori payank kosli na tor kosli tori khast launchi na tor to amkam sotaitolo moro passun”.  In view of this, I cannot find fault with Fr. Conceicao going against the principle of the Christianity by preaching thus. Fr. Conceicao or for that matter any “Padri” is duty bound even to instruct the faithful in his sermon not only not to vote any disgraceful party but he is duty bound even to tell the faithful to vote for a particular party if that party is good and non-commuunal.  If  “X” party is bad then he must as true to his mission of a Padri tell openly that particular party is bad and if they are elected then there is a fear for our survival because that particular party when formed the next government, that government will take all wrong decisions, in view of this the clergy must advise the faithful in the right direction.

I don’t understand why the Church had to tender an apology on behalf of Fr. Conceisao, I want Fr. Conceisao should be strong enough at this hour of crisis and we on our part are ready to stand by him even if the Church may desert him. Our Church job is this only to desert those dynamic priests who wants to render their services for the betterment of our society. Did not our Church desert Fr. Bismark thereby allowing his enemies to make a mess of his life? Our Church leaders at moment looks like acting as Naziz with stone hearted attitude.  Today we the Catholics are so backwards because our Church leadership at the Altinho failed to guide us in the right direction.  Our Church leadership is in the hands of Ladru-Pedru type of leaders, these leaders normally are associated with Liquour – money & Sex.

Our Church at moments it looks to me is in the hands of unreliabale leaders, some of our prominent Church leaders by flirting with our enemies at night time like “Pamprelam” sell us to our enemies at day time to form their government.  Because of our Church siding with the BJP in the last election as it was disclosed, the faithful has totally lost their confidence in the Church leadership. The faithful have totally lost their trust in our Church leadership because silently like “Kole” our Church leadership without letting us know flirts with BJP when we the faithful keep our distance from BJP because we don’t like such “CEDDIOPONA". Such jobs are better suited to the Prostitutes.

A.Veronica Fernandes.

OH FANATIC HINDUS, STOP SPLITTING INDIA FURTHER.

According to the news reports published on Sunday, 14.04.19, Arwind Kejrival, addressing the public meeting in Goa at Margao,  openly said that if we the voters bring back the BJP to power again, it will be the most disastrous decision of the voters because by grabbing the power back the BJP government will amend the Constitution to suit BJP’s purpose to make India a Hindu Raj just as we have in Gulf and Pakistan the Theocratic States. Though it is not easy to amend the Constitution yet BJP is having in its ranks some of the fanatic Hindus whose only motto is to turn India into a communal. These fanatic communal Hindus are not interested in the development of India nor they want India to be a metropolitan society, they want India to be a closed door society.  These are the Hindu fanatics who like fanatic Muslims devided one undevided India into pieces.  It was not people like us secular minded  who devided India by creating a partition to have two States India and Pakistan but these   BJP type of people.  They have no love for India, its culture,  tradition and history but they have love for Hinduism only in which they believe and for which they will give their life.

Said Ghandiji once displaying  his fear over Hinduism: “If Islam is uprooted from India it will develop and survive elsewhere but if Hinduism is uprooted from India it will disappear from this planet”.  But why so much of fear of Hinduism in India when it is so well protected?  Where are we heading by talking on religious issue only?  By concentrating too much on religion we are slowing down our movement for the development and progress of India.  India is a rich and vast country having enormous amount of resources of different variety and by concentrating on it and how to make use of it for the benefit of India and Indians, we could become the most powerful and richest country in the world. But these Hindu fanatics are still in this century and in this millennium too harping on glorifying Hinduism and thereby closing its doors to the minorities and others such as Christians and Muslims will be the greatest cruelty on the part of Hinduism.  Is Hinduism preaches such ferocious Hinduism like what Hitler promulgated in Nazi Germany where Jews were brought to the sub-human level?  

As for me I know Hinduism is a broad minded religion but it is the narrow minded Hindus who created a bad image India by trying to make India the land of Hindus only and also of Snakes. For this reason, since centuries back, the West looked upon India as the land of Snakes, Snakes charmers and backward Hindus.  Good that in the early stages India had gigantic men of the stature of Gandiji, Nehru, Patel, Subash Chandra Bose, Rabindranath Tagore, Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes and many others who indicated to the West that India is inhabited by great people and not by tin-pots like fanatic Hindus.  

In 1893 when the great sage of India, Swami Vivekananda visited Chicago in the USA, representing India and Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions where Delegates from all around the globe also assembled, he made a comment there in America saying “I come from the land where we build Masjids and Churches along with Hindu Temples”. Listening to this statement the entire West was surprised because  earlier it had very different opinion of India, that is, India means the land of Hindus only where others are not allowed. By converting India as the land of Hindus only, will we be maintaining the legacy of India as stated by Swami Vivekananda?  Are we proud of this legacy as disclosed by Swami Vivekananda?

It is time now for the intellectual Hindus to raise their voices in unison to shut the mouths of communal voices of fanatic Hindus.

A.Veronica Fernandes.

 

NEED OF THE GUIDENCE FROM RELIGIOUS LEADERS FOR ELECTION.

   

Being a member of the  minority community,  my fear of BJP coming back to power again is increased.  According to the latest information gathered from here and there  and of course from unofficial BJP source but from the supporters of the BJP, there may be harassment for the minorities in India in general and in Goa in particular.  Up to now neither clearly nor loudly and not openly BJP has officially denied those rumours. But one thing is certain that writers like me will be harassed and minorities and their previlleges will be curtailed, they will be treated worse than what they are treated in Theocratic country like Pakistan. Under the worst communal leadership of Narendra Modi India was burnt escalating worst killing in Gujarat when Modi was its Chief Minister. These worst killings were perpetrated on Muslims for which Modi was held responsible and because of this, America banned Modi's entry in USA.

When there was any injustice against the minorities in Goa for example against Christians, there was no open opposition from any of our Christian MLA’s from the BJP rank. Our Christian MLA's and Montris were cowards and shellfish. When attempts were made to cancel the Good Friday and 3^rd December holidays, the so powerful Mathanay Saldanha remained as a silent spectator;  when according to one source, Francis D’Souza was made to say something in favour of Hinduism, he totally jumped into Hinduism even by taking his Christianity along by calling himself like a “Pochpochit” a “Hindu Christao”;  to please his Hindu leaders Mawvin Godinho even went a step further and wearing a “Puddvem” performed Hindu Pooja. A man without character, a big BLACK MARK on Catholicism.  

If inspite of  having such powerful persons from the minority Christian community in the BJP rank and even holding important portfolios and yet not raising their voices against the injustice done by their party and government to the interest of Christians, then who will support and protect our interest?

Again elections are coming shortly and before the BJP contestants coming to our feet for begging for our Christian votes, can they assure us that no harm will be done in any way to the interest of Christians? And by the  way, how they will assure us and how we to believe them? Is there anything left in our contestants to show us that they are reliable?

Now what will be the role of our religious Gurus to guide us to vote correctly and not on communal lines and not to bad candidates? What are the lessons from the Islamic and Hindu Religious leaders for the Muslim and Hindu voters? Are they not responsible to tell their own religious people to be upright as far as their oting rights are concerned? They are religious duty bound to keep their respective religious people calm and cool during the election.  Voting right it is said as “Sacred” and as such we must accept the voting duty by casting our vote.

The Christian Church leaders especially the Catholics are fully geared up to educate the voters  as best as they can, they preach from the holy Altar the details of voting except they don’t tell directly the name  of the candidates openly.  But I feel, the Church leaders more or less are aware what is the quality of the contestant and as such they must also name  the candidates to vote.   

All the three major religious leaders must, if possible, have a meeting with them and they must come out with certain points that will give them clear lesson to explain it to all their voters. Up to now our minority community is having good resemblance of theirs that they will not do any rubbish to win the elections.  But they are very cheap and gullible easily attracted to the money.      

A.Veronica Fernandes.