Those whom the Gods love, die young; and those whom the Gods need for the benefit of others, live long! Dom Martin [Goanet] OBIT: Demi -- A Liberal, Caring and Justice-Driven Face of Goan Christianity Goanet Obits Mon, 16 May 2016 16:45:50 -0700 A Liberal, Caring and Justice-Driven Face of Goan Christianity
FN Someone reading him online once accused Desmond de Sousa of being an "angry young priest", possibly even a young upstart who was critical of the Church in Goa. But Demi, as he was known to his friends, clarified, without missing the irony: "Let me assure one and all, I'm 73 years old this September [2012], 54 years a Redemptorist and 46 years a priest.... Among my many illustrious students who have become my superiors over the years are bishops, including the present Archbishop of Goa, with whom I enjoy a very cordial relationship." [http://bit.ly/1ZZ8xAg] Demi came from a priviledged background, yet he spoke boldly and without mincing words -- like the prophets of old -- against injustice and for the poor. His family has played a prominent role in village affairs in Saligao (I remember the 'Saligao Bulletin' sold for 15 paise in the 1960s and a book called *Floreata Saligao* authored by his septuagenarian dad C. Hubert de Souza). And yet he was one of the few priests at the frontlines of the ramponkar agitation in the 1970s in Goa. If you saw him cycling along the humid roads between Porvorim and Saligao (as he did till a few years back), you would hardly guess that he had been the globe-trotting Executive Secretary of the Office of Human Development (OHD) of the Federation of Asian Bishops (FABC) for over 10 years during the 1980s and co-ordinated the Asia-Pacific national offices of Caritas Internationalis. Demi passed away suddenly and without any prolongued illness on May 14, 2016, on the operating table, during emergency angioplasty, after suffering a massive heart attack just a few hours earlier. "Those of us who knew him well and met him often are in shock at how suddenly and unexpectedly it all happened," wrote Mario Mascarenhas, activist who had been an associate of Demi decades ago. He was a friendly, concerned, helpful and outspoken man. When he had something to say even about the Church, he said it without mincingi words; you would scarcely guess that the criticism came from a man of the cloth. In a 2012 article he wrote for Goanet Reader [http://bit.ly/1TdilrN], titled 'The Challenge to the Church in Goa: Revivalism or Renewal?' Fr Desmond de Sousa CSsr acknowledged the colonial roots of the Goan church and wrote: ...The clergy generally find it extremely difficult to accept a more participative, co-responsible and socially committed Church with the laity.... The laity however, are deeply divided about the pace and direction of change that renewal demands. A paradigm shift in faith formation is needed. They need a more inductive reflection on the daily realities of life to discover the challenge of God acting within these realities, rather than the traditional deductive process of learning abstract truths of faith by heart. ...Some of the more enlightened laity support and participate in the renewal process as a genuine and necessary expression of the Catholic Church in Goa. But the vast majority are caught up in the revivalist spiritual awakening that is sweeping Goa. ...Will the Church in Goa continue to operate as a decrepit, colonial Church or become transformed into a vibrant, indigenous Church? Renewal of the Church or Revivalism in the Church -- that is the question. The caliber of the Church's leadership will be severely tested by the question of whose perspective will ultimately triumph! He worked at the grassroots and on picket lines, and he understood it. Elsewhere, Demi narrates his experiences in meeting the young Matanhy Saldanha, the activist-turned-politician who ironically played a crucial role in helping the BJP return to power in Goa in 2012. He says: "In the early 1970s during a retreat to college students in Belgaum, I first met this rather shy, aloof, silent 20 plus-year-old, who immediately struck me as different. His friends made fun of him because he had dreams of entering politics when he returned to Goa. Which 20-year-old is so focused in life?" "Immediately I recognized his rather unusual name when reading the news about the leader of the agitation against Zuari Agro Chemicals polluting the land and then the sea around Velsao. In 1975, when I was transferred to Goa, I made it a point to renew our acquaintance. By 1977-78, I was heavily involved with him in the Ramponcar agitation." [http://bit.ly/1WBQnq7] Some time around 1980, Fr Demi motivated a group of about half-a-dozen young nurses, many if not all trained at the prestigious St Martha's of Bangalore known for creating nurses with a commitment. He got them to take their skills to the rural area of Pernem in northernmost Goa. In those times, health care facilities were even more unequally spread out over Goa, and transport was not easy to come by either. Some of these nurses still recall the times they put in there. Their mission was not to push for religious conversions, which Christians often get accused with in today's Indian discourse, but to take succour to the poor. Writes Sr Dorothy pbvm from Patna: "In his later years, being at Porvorim, Goa, he was disturbed with influx of young women as domestic help from a remote district of Odisha, Gajapati. So passionate was he about this phenomenon that he began to explore the reason for it. He personally visited Gajapti and found out that there was utter poverty in the villages which forced the parents to send their daughters for work in other parts of the country and the involvement of agents in trafficking women and girls to the cities. With the help of a religious sister he began to organize the women who were brought to Goa and look into the menace of trafficking. He began to rescue young women and put in place a system at both the entry and destination points to check trafficking." He held a Master's degree in Social Work, and taught Church History, Social Analysis and Catholic Social Teaching. In the 1990s, he became the Executive Secretary of the Ecumenical Coalition on Third World Tourism (ECTWT), now called Ecumenical Coalition on Tourism (ECOT), a coalition of continental Catholic and Protestant churches. During his tenure he participated in the setting up of ECPAT, formerly known as the global network, campaigning to End Children Prostitution in Asian Tourism, now renamed End Child Prostitution and Trafficking. Interestingly, the Goa government and some in the tourism trade saw the protests in Goa of the 1980s as a result of conspiracies seeded by touristic rivals like Sri Lanka or Malaysia. The more likely inspiration, at least in part, came from elsewhere. It was men like Demi whose work helped concerned citizens in Goa to understand what Protestant groups were doing to study and cope with the impact of modern mass tourism (including on the environmental and economic fronts), rather than just see it from a moralistic perspective alone. He was a friend of Goanet too, as a search for his name online would show. Most readily he would come along for our meetings and share his insights, catching our attention with interesting stories and experiences. Some years back, not long ago, he was at the annual Goanetters meet. He offered a perspective to counter the tendency of seeing the Goan past with rose tinted glasses. This is how I reported what he had said then: Redemptorist FR. DESMOND de SOUSA gave another take on "the past was better" logic that one often hears about Goa. Their family lived in Bombay and "we used to hate to come to Goa", he pointed out. "There were two Customs posts to cross, at Castle Rock and Collem. The old carreira took one from Collem right home. Saligao of course had no electricity." He said a rupee coin pressed into the palm of the Customs cleared everything, something he noticed in his childhood days. He came to Goa as a young priest in 1969. "It was still very difficult, because things were very traditional. In society. And in the Church. Everybody wanted to poke their nose and tell you how to run your life in a certain way, because that was how it was done in the past." But after his 1969-71 stint, he returned in 1975, only to see Goa with new eyes. "I saw it as a challenge then. There were youth movements taking place, and protest movements. We really began to hope that people's power would change things in Goa," he said. "I am still hopeful." "The problem with people's power is that it comes up only in fits and starts, when the people are fighting some issue, or have their backs to the wall." After 13 years as the secretary to the Asian Bishops Conference, he visited almost "every country in the world". Giving the example of the Cook Islands, the largely-Maori 15 small islands that comprise the "self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand", he pointed out that their population is below 20,000 (probably more earlier). He says when he asked students there how big they thought India was, they felt it could be 50,000 or maybe 100,000 inhabitants strong. "If you think small, you're going to see everything else as small," he suggested. He said other countries often "seemed to have a better impression of us Indians rather than what we have of ourselves." He wanted to come back home, he said, because he was tired of being termed an outsider everywhere. DeSouza argued the challenges faced here is something many other countries had gone through "till a time comes when (it is no longer acceptable and) things start working out and change for the better takes place". "I've eaten raw fish, snake and what not in different parts of the world I've been to," he said, suggesting that change is the key to surviving and understanding others. "I've eaten everything except balut, in the Philippines," de Souza mentioned. (A balut is a fertilized duck or chicken egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell.) He dramatically narrated how he just couldn't stomach the idea. One day, at a bishop's breakfast table, he was asked how he managed to cope with balut, also commonly sold as streetfood in the Philippines. "I told him I didn't eat it. Till the bishop said I just had!" It was a battle to resist throwing up on the spot! This is a video of Demi which I just noticed today, quite like him, making very deep points packaged in seemingly light comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMVsZEDfcFA You don't feel sad when someone like Demi passes away. You feel privledged for having known the man! ### Rev Fr Desmond de Sousa C.Ss.R (Porvorim/Saligao) b. 27-07-1939 d. 14-05-2016. Beloved son of late Hubert and late Julia (nee Saldanha). Brother/brother-in-law of Neville Joseph (Joey)/Mena; Thelma/late Maurice Britto; Greta/late Raymond Noronha, a great uncle and friend. Passed away suddenly on the 14th of May 2016. Body will be brought to the house of the Redemptorist Fathers in Alto Porvorim at 11 am on Tuesday 17th of May 2016 and will be taken at 3.30 pm to Our Lady of Mae de Deus Church Saligao, for the Eucharist Celebration and last rites at 4.30 pm. Previous message View by thread View by date Next message Reply via email to -----Original Message----- From: goanet-request <goanet-requ...@lists.goanet.org> To: goanet <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Sent: Tue, May 17, 2016 5:32 pm Subject: Goanet Digest, Vol 11, Issue 235 Send Goanet mailing list submissions to goanet@lists.goanet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to goanet-requ...@lists.goanet.org You can reach the person managing the list at goanet-ow...@lists.goanet.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Goanet digest..." Today's Topics: 1. 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She said that the project has ...<a class=" http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNHxnrpGrB6ohVJObCf6wreJqwXFlQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=-lc6V4PGPNDH3QGEgZ14&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-Forward-starts-Green-Goa-campaign/articleshow/52300444.cms Compiled by Goanet News Service http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 14:47:20 +1000 From: "Con Menezes" <cmene...@tpg.com.au> To: <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] The cause of dandruff could be bacteria living on your head. New Scientist. Message-ID: <EFB891FCC3504A8689606C0BE6644321@Menezes> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" https://www.newscientist.com/article/2087955-got-dandruff-the-bacteria-living-on-your-head-might-be-to-blame/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 14:47:54 +1000 From: "Con Menezes" <cmene...@tpg.com.au> To: <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] David Attenborough's Kingdom of Plants. Message-ID: <500F91A52AB84DE7B5B4BDDD0DE78FE6@Menezes> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Fascinating. http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/david-attenboroughs-kingdom-of-plants/ZX9153A001S00#playing --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 14:54:05 +1000 From: "Con Menezes" <cmene...@tpg.com.au> To: <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] I'm going home too!!! Message-ID: <411EC1CEC0BE4E45B8673F89A8635A62@Menezes> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" This says it all? https://ca.news.yahoo.com/video/toronto-too-cold-171017231.html --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 11:38:21 +0000 (UTC) From: goacom newsclips <goacomnewscl...@yahoo.in> To: "goanet@lists.goanet.org" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] Goacom Newsclips on 17 May 2016 Message-ID: <1782668550.2806477.1463485101837.javamail.ya...@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Goacom Newsclips Babush continues to be in police custody. The police custody of St Cruz MLA Atanasio ?Babush? Monserrate Click here to read more...? http://bit.ly/1slCeAA. Dy Collector slams MMC for no updates on pre-monsoon works. Coming down heavily on the Council, Panchwadkar said, ?On several occasions Click here to read more... http://bit.ly/23VNsaW. Govt must identify source of River Sal pollution, says activist. Disturbed with the? continued release of? sewage? into River Sal despite Click here to read more... http://bit.ly/1ThC0Bz. It?s better to manage small districts: Shinde. Dr Sachin Shinde, who was transferred to Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMC) Click here to read more...? http://bit.ly/27uG8YE. Performance drops in GCET exams this year. The performance of students appearing for 2016 Goa Common Entrance Test Click here to read more...? http://bit.ly/1V7dcRp. GEC to be under surveillance. The Goa College of Engineering will place majority of its campus Click here to read more...? http://bit.ly/1qq8Xna. Click below link to read more articles goacom.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 08:28:27 +0100 From: Gabe Menezes <gabe.mene...@gmail.com> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>, goa...@groups.facebook.com Subject: [Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....BRIAN HYLAND GINNY COME LATELY (A SIMON PAYNE PRODUCTION) Message-ID: <caafx5v69uc4--acscwzx8b5hb86-awnwwgerzevlikrax+8...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGb78NEGSog G -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 03:34:59 +0000 From: Robin Viegas <robinvie...@hotmail.com> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: [Goanet] Mumbai: Vacancies Message-ID: <hk2pr0601mb1346269200362cc9e44609dcb8...@hk2pr0601mb1346.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: b sabha <bcsabha.kal...@gmail.com> From: Personnel People <personnelpeo...@gmail.com<mailto:personnelpeo...@gmail.com>> Dear Friend, Please recommend your friends and pass the message around. 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As you can see, some of the best entertainers in Toronto will be performing and the $10 entrance fee makes it easy for people to show up even if it is for a few moments. I salute the GOA for being able to put together this event in such a short time. https://www.facebook.com/goatoronto/photos/gm.957576214340428/10153570951372555/?type=3&theater Mervyn Since I cannot attach flyers, here is a brief description of the fund raiser. ------------------------------------------------ A GREAT & AMAZING LINE UP OF TALENTED MUSICIANS. GRENVILLE PINTO, GOA AMIGOS, MEMORY LANE, VICTOR SOLO N LIVE, RHYTHM SIZZLLERS & DJ CONRAD THANKS TO ALL THE PERFORMERS FOR VOLUNTEERING THEIR TIME TO THE CAUSE On May 3rd, massive wildfires triggered the largest fire-related evacuation in Alberta history with tens of thousands of people forced to leave their homes in more than 12 communities, including Fort McMurray. Urgent emergency services are required to support individuals and families. Your donation can provide relief for those affected in the form of emergency food, clothing, shelter, personal services, and other necessities to help assist with recovery and resiliency. Goan Overseas Association in alliance with Goa Amigos & "The Boyz @ Heart" are supporting the efforts of the Red Cross to help people displaced by the fires in Alberta. In times of need, our community has a strong tradition of coming together and doing everything we can to help other communities. Let's stand together to show our support for Fort McMurray! TO PURCHASE YOUR TIICKETS PLEASE CALL 416 648 5468 __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 10:01:45 +0000 From: Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falc?o <drferdina...@hotmail.com> To: "goanet@lists.goanet.org" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] Fwd: GMC DOCTORS WORK SHOULD BE APPRECIATED Message-ID: <bm1pr01mb0577f144ec2abd9c81022b0acf...@bm1pr01mb0577.indprd01.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Stephen Dias steve.dias60 at gmail.com <mailto:goanet%40lists.goanet.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BGoanet%5D%20Fwd%3A%20GMC%20DOCTORS%20WORK%20SHOULD%20BE%20APPRECIATED&In-Reply-To=%3CCAN1gCe0Xk41r2EGNGqPQ2SSOTz79a%3DLhXfX7JFX%3DvYrV4H2BRQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E> on Mon May 16 11:30:54 PDT 2016 wrote: " .... The ground reality is that some of the best Goa Medical College doctors' (so called professionals) were practicing in their private clinics after their office hours and then manipulating prescriptions so that their customers can claim government benefits. Isn't that cheating the government? I have solid proof that certain professionals issued additional medicines in their prescriptions at the request of patients so that the bill is inflated and reimbursed through their respective office (whether Central or State Government) after putting their own official seal later at Goa Medical College. ... " RESPONSE: A doctor issues a prescription and not a bill for medicines dispensed/purchased. A doctor signs and stamps his own prescription and not a bill issued by a pharmacy/drug store. A bill is issued when a purchase is made. It it is made without a purchase then how is a doctor to be blamed? Ferdinando dos Reis Falc?o. ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 12:53:14 +0000 (UTC) From: JoeGoaUk <joego...@yahoo.co.uk> To: Goanet <goa...@goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] Azil - Old Age Home Message-ID: <1926887404.5970595.1463489594137.javamail.ya...@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Few years ago, when I was regularly visiting Majorda Asilo (Old Age Home) saw a new inmate in a corner of a ward of 8-10 beds who was very quite.. Upon enquiry, I was told she hardly talks and she will not even eat.. I tried to talk or just tried to say ?hi? but she would not respond as if she was in a deep shock. Yes, she was in a state of shock as her only son put her here Two months later when I visited again, I asked about the same lady whose bed was vacant, I was told she died long time ago. Lawry?s song reminded me of Majorda Azil Lawry Travasso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cOZU6tGNoE ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 16:32:40 -0400 From: Roland <roland.fran...@gmail.com> To: "goa...@goanet.org" <goa...@goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] Interview with Radio Mango Message-ID: <a4106d20-2e37-4657-9a6e-322dec896...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Radio Mango is a two hour weekly slot every Sat 7 to 9 pm on Canadian Multicultural Radio. It is North America's only Konkani radio broadcast. I was interviewed last Sat on their 190th program by co-hosts Milena Marques-Zachariah and Manohar Pais. It starts 15 minutes into the airing and continues after short music breaks. http://www.radiomango.ca/Radio-Mango%20190th%20Show%20May%2014%202016.mp3 Roland Francis Toronto. End of Goanet Digest, Vol 11, Issue 235 ***************************************
