TO ALL My Goan christains A big thank you for joining us in thanking god for giving Fr Sebastao fernandes to us .So also praying for his oul ,and the bereaved family to over come their missing member . Abrief history of Fr Sebastao fernandes Coming from the same village and neighbourhood of the presnt bishop of goa Aldona as once was very famous in the semenairy calender which gave most of priest and bishops to Goa & Pakistan &missonaries around the world Now Fr sebastao after obtaining ordination .On the same day of ordination ie 22nd april 1949 .He was deputed to colva where even now the people who knew him still talk about him From there he got transferred to duler no much activity as it was only for 2 years Then to cansa tivim wher in he got the chapel to church level and the play grond as he was lover of football.After that he was posted to chiplem where even the mass was said in thatched hut After getting enough funds he built a church there . Today the chiplem people have to be grate full to this legend .Looking at his good work bishop transfered him to Bambolim wher there was a small chapel sought off Somehow in his tenure he completed the church Then got his self transferred to morjim a fisherfolk and toddy tappers village The village was the first in goa to get candel type lights which are now common in every church . So also the village was lacking in community hall .Even he manage to built it even the preist did not have proper residence facilty which he constructed &today any priest going there finds it not difficult to adapt From there he came to Uccassim where the church did not have proper resident facility he got that .Then the cemetary ,and the cross where new paddy is blessed. Now as evvery body knew fr sebastao the parishes whenever their parish priest went overseas they would call him He also worked in Mapusa where he was a like a consular people getting married From there Moira ,Corjuem ,Carona and his native village Aldona , From here he ended his mission and retired but only on bishops request he was deputed to Sant Estevam wherein he was a spritual director to the boaders of St.theresas convent This was his last mission from where he well ill in his old age came back home and breathed his last Now some facts about Fr . Once when a couple was getting married they wanted only Fr Sebaastao even when he had a busy sechdule & they had come from all the way from colva & they promised Fr. to even pick him up .When somebody asked them that there are so many fathers and why would you like a old priest .When you can get young photogenic priest even they will look good in the album But they had only one answer if you have heard Fr.saying the mass and preaching the sermon you would not have sai that.He woul make his mass so lively that every body lkie him .Thats a reason he has kept an identity in every parish.Where he was On the eve of his golden jubilee & 80th birthday on 22nd april 1999 he was among one of the helpers to get the chairs arrange in the hall and helping out in the decoration. As the Bishop was not around during his death He celebrated the months mind in Aldona .This was his introduction to the mass that he lost not only a neigbur but an elder brother who always had a smiling face and so also a spritual inspireor SO THIS A SMALL FAVOUR TO EVERY BODY WHENEVER YOU PRAY WHISPER A SMALL PRAY FOR HIM AND THE BEREAVED FAMILY
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