------------------------------------------------------------------------ Photos from Goa's 2009 mando festival: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157622843319441/ Event on Wed, Thurs evening from 5 pm onwards, Kala Academy, Panaji-Goa
------------------------------------------------------------------------ During the Christmas time, we have the custom of making/preparing(or whatever) a crib where in we display the new born Jesus with his worldly parents, Mary included. Why? We have to approach God only through Jesus, however, as we consider Mary the mother of Jesus, we pray to her to intercede with her son, Jesus, in the belief that Jesus does not say no to his mother. Remember, at Cana wedding, all Mary said to Jesus was 'they have run out of wine (or something like that)'. The result was the first miracle. Those who are against it (honouring Mary), are free to say their own prayer, God does not require us to pray in a pre-written format. (Hope such people respect their own biological mother on planet earth and look after her well when she is old and frail instead of wearing black the whole year one she has passed away!!) God is there to judge everyone. Feasts are mainly to celebrate and what is wrong if we celebrate? MD. Message: 2 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 17:55:14 +0000 From: Albert Desouza <alizadeso...@hotmail.com> To: <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] God and You Message-ID: <bay119-w23669674adfabcb6f22400c3...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Albert writes:- We have not understood Jesus' first coming what will we understand about his second coming? In the first coming of Jesus, he changed the attitude of Jews then and it is ours now.Jesus taught us that rules are made for man and not the other way about. Where is it written that Roman Catholics have achieved the kingdom of heaven ? on what ground can we say that? We never follow the first commandment of God which says that " I am the Almighty God and there can be no other gods before me ? Roman Catholics have converted Mary into a Person having hundred heads with each head bearing one name. We feel that Mary will take us to Heaven. We are told to replace Prayers with Rosary. Could'nt our religious leaders teach us a better way to bow before the Almighty God, adore Him, ? We have nothing of that sort. What we have is celebration of feasts. Wearing of opmus and going about in processions. The more gondals the better is the feast and the more musicians the feast is grand .We hear mass, roam around the fair go home drink a large dose of Whiskey, eat sorpotel with sanna and go to bed to wake up late at night to find that our head is aching because we had too many pegs. Our lives are the same, our attitude are the same, our behaviour is the same. We are selfish people always thinking about the crown that should come to our head and we think of glory that we have to achieve in this world and that the world should recognise us as great people. We boast of our attire and our power but when we go seven feet down the earth it becomes septre and crown must tumble down and dust be equally made. Your pride, your false glory, your intelligent, your philosophy, and other logy will be burried with you. A placard at your grave will sound better which should read" Here is a fool who boasted of his greatness and now is lying still not knowing that worms are formed of his beautiful and grand body .