NEW VCD "PALKACHI RANNI" BY SALVADOR SILVEIRA.

 

Salvador Silveira from Calangute, on 24^th June 2014, released his new and third Konkani songs VCD thru the hands of Calangute Pe. Vigar Fr. Cypriano D’Silva. The releasing ceremony was done at the St. John Chapel,  Calangute, Naikavaddo, on the day of the feast of St. Joao.

This Konkani Album “PALKACHI RANNI” (Antonette de Calangute) released in two formats: VCD & Audio CD and both are now available in the market. It is a Music House Production for which Camera Editing was done by Neville Pereira and the musical score too was provided by Neville Pereira only. Recording was done at Acoustic Studio – Arpora, also by Neville Pereira.

Seen above is Fr. Cypriano Dias releasing the VCD/CD. 

 

 

PALKACHI RANNI Album consists of 10 songs, all composed by the Director Salvador Silveira, comprising Solos, Duets and Trios. The Title song PALKACHI RANNI was rendered by Salvador Silveira describing Antonette de Calangute’s characteristics. He was a school mate of the late Antonette de Calangute who participated in his other Albums. When she was sick and fund collection campaign was conducted, according to Salvador Silveira thru his own efforts he collected 4 lakhs of Rupees for this fund.

A Stage artiste besides staging his own Tiatros, Salvador Silveira acted in Tiatros along with Alfred & Rita Rose, Ophelia & Bab Peter, Philomena Braz and others. He also staged his own ZAGORS in his own locality and elsewhere too. His 4^th Album is under process and it will be released shortly.

 

                                          A group photo after the release of the VCD/CD.

Among the songs deserving especial mention are the following:

A solo –Sasnacho Contrad by Bushka.                                                                       

A Duet – Noxiban Fottoulim by Felcy & Anthony.

A Trio – God of Cricket by Pascoal de Calangute-Domnick-Adolf.

Another Trio – Palkache Dive again by Pascoal de Calangute-Domnick & Robert.

A solo – Tisro Mandament by Marcus Vaz.

A Trio – Ojapanchi Bhett by Salvador-Peter & Bushka.

The other songs are rendered by Lawry – a solo; Tony – Rons & Antonette – a Trio; Francis de Tuem – a solo.

This Album is worth seeing.

A.    VeronicaFernandes,
Candolim,
Goa.

 

THE LATE VISITACAO LOBO INTERRED.

 

“LUTTINI LOKH ANI LAKHANI FULAM”, that was the scene in the Parra Church and Cemetry yesterday afternoon for the funeral of one of the greatest footballers of Goa, the late Visitacao Lobo. It was a sea of humanity mainly the seniors and elders with bald heads and gray hair, some with walking sticks and some limping coming from all over Goa,  all attending the funeral to pay their last respect of course deservingly for their yesteryears hero who once entertained them and to others with his magical power of soccer on the football field.

It is very much admiring to see the entire Goa paying its respect to this soccer wizard in this manner.  In his death people of Goa and the media especially the Herald not treated Visitacao Lobo as their forgotten hero but treated him with due respect for his enormous contribution in the field of soccer. It was a rare occasion for me to witness such a mammoth funeral which indicated the greatness of the dead during his soccer playing career.

 

 

A section of the mourners in the Cemetry.

 

 

                                            Grave where the late Visitacao Lobo was buried.

It was a very good scene of reunion for the retired footballers especially for those ex colleagues of Visitacao Lobo and for me it was a God given opportunity to meet some of my ex colleagues along with whom I played my best of football once upon a time.  I needed especial introduction to know them as I met them after ages but luckily for me all remembered me and I remembered them. Some of the former mighty colleagues of Visitacao Lobo who played with him for the then mighty Sesa Goa soccer team from the time of Sesa’s second division present for the funeral were Timothy and his brother Maurice, Albino, Ernesto Braganza, Pandu and others.

In his death, his village Parra lost the greatest footballer, Goa and India lost one of the greatest footballers of whose type we will not easily see again.

May his soul rest in peace.

 

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel:7507394349.

 

MENTALLY ILL PE. VIGARS.

“A man after 40 is a rascal; he is unable to think properly”, said George Bernard Shaw. Though it was a general statement yet I find a lot of truth in it in certain cases, especially in many of our Pe. Vigars.  The job of Pe. Vigars is very sensitive and very responsible and if he does commit a goof anywhere, he is bound to create disturbance in the minds and lives of the faithful especially of those faithful who ignorantly treat Pe. Vigars as Jesus Christ on this planet. For this reason it is necessary that before their new postings are confirmed they are sent for the medical check-up to check the uprightness of their mental faculty. Hence it is my request to the Patriarch of Goa to do the needful otherwise a mentally weak Pe. Vigar exposing his weak tongue recklessly and taking wrong decisions in the Church is bound to create disorder in his locality where he is serving as Pe. Vigar. A mentally weak Pe. Vigar is like a curse on the faithful.  

This mental sickness of Pe. Vigars is visible in many Churches in Goa and in order to avoid confrontation with their mentally sick Pe. Vigars many of the Catholics left Catholicism and embraced non-Catholic denominations, mainly the Believers. While many other soft hearted Catholics stopped coming to the Churches in their own villages and are going to the Churches in their neighbouring villages by avoiding their own curseful Pe. Vigars in their own parishes. Even though the Church Monarch seated at the Throne in Panjim Altinho  is aware of this fact yet he is keeping his silence intentionally because it looks he is not interested in the wellbeing of Catholicism in Goa. Traditionally, Monarchs are interested only in three W’s and nothing else.

The  Pe. Vigar who is openly practicing apartheid in his own Church area is not fit to be the Pe. Vigar because he is mentally sick and precisely it is so he is practicing anti-Christ policy which is against Christian doctrine. A mentally upright Pe. Vigar will not follow discriminatory policy and if he does then he must be mentally sick.

The  Pe. Vigar who is using the holy Altar to  vomit his anger against faithfull in his locality even to the extent of cursing and  criticising them is not mentally sound and precisely because of his mental disorder he preaches Satanic homilies from the holy Altar. The holy Altar is meant to preach holy sermons and to pray for those whom Pe. Vgar feels are bad but surely not to curse them and demand devine punishment. The holy Altar is meant to preach forgiveness for the wrong doers in a true Christian way and not to ask punishment for them in an unchristian manner. 

The mentally ill Pe. Vigar is the one who tries to provoke the dolls in his Parish Pastoral Council against those who disagree with his Satanic policies thereby trying to use the PPC members for Satanic acts. This type of “goondagiri” does not suit for any Pe. Vigar because such acts are meant for “goondas” only and not for a person wearing the robes of Jesus Christ.

The mentally sick Pe. Vigar is the one who preaches in support of the protection of Ecology but himself like a traitor goes for Hill cutting behind his Church and sells the Mud for commercial gains.

The mentally sick Pe. Vigar is the one who is forced out from the Church by the revolt of the faithful against him for acting like a mad Pe. Vigar in his previous parish.

The mentally sick Pe. Vigars are the ones who think the Churches where they are acting as Pe. Vigars are their fathers’ property and the faithful are their servants.

The mentally deranged Pe. Vigars are the ones who instead of condemning the local corrupt politicians for committing corrupt practices are on the contrary supporting them to spread corruption.

The mentally sick Pe. Vigars are those who like drunkards shout, scream and insult the faithful while preaching from the Altar. A holy Pe. Vigar will maintain the sanctity of the Church while preaching from the Altar. He got no right to scold and humiliate the faithful attending his service. He cannot treat the faithful in the Church as KG students. There must be decency and discipline in his preaching. By using his devilish tongue to speak like a rowdy from the holy Altar he spoils the peace of mind of the faithful in the Church leading many to stop coming to the Church. A mentally sound Pe. Vigar will not bark from the Altar. Even in the Cemetry preaching during the funeral means something unimaginable and unnecessarily detaining the faithful in the Cemetry.  The Pe. Vigar who preaches unnecessarily lengthy sermons is a stupid Pe. Vigar who wastes the precious time of the faithful. The sermons should be short and precise otherwise people will leave the Catholicsm and embrace other denominatons.

In the prayer “Our Father ….” given to us by Jesus Christ, in one line we pray for  “THY KINGDOM COME”. How Thy Kingdom will come when we have mentally sick, rowdy and goonda Pe. Vigars who thru their satanic preachings and Hitlerian actions deny us “Thy Kingdom?” I hope Patriarch at Altinho Panjim will investigate and act accordingly before greater damage is done to the Church by the mentally sick Pe. Vigars.

A.    Veronica Fernandes
Candolim, Goa.