Dear Mervyn,
A long time ago the Aldona parish priest rang the Church bells in the dead
of the night to frive away the robbing Ranes of Goa, where, in the bargain,
the ring-leader of the Ranes was believed to have been shot dead thro' a
well placed gun-shot fired from the choir.
The second time the Aldona Church bells rang was to stop illegal
construction of a 'gumpti' overnight at the Aldona market cicle where Prof.
Eduardo D'Souza's bust is installed presently, while the Se cathedral bells
remain silent inspite of a hedious gumpti being very much at home on the
cathedral's grounds.
Moira church bells ring because Moidekars are pixe and nobody gives a damn.
However, the Colva Church bells have set a precedent which is going to live
with us for a while. "You (parish priest) don't like any one person in the
village because he is a thorn in your backside, then ring the church bells,
gather the well meaning idiots of the village to chase him out after
burning his house and hurting his family. This, my dear Mervyn, is the
modern day teachings of Jesus Christ. And why not? Don't each one of us want
him to be a rascal he was not???
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
PS: Why don't entire Goa's Chuch Bells peal, Goa march to the Bishop's
Palace to ask him to stand tall?? Looks like his grace is shorter by a few
milimeters :-)).
PPS: Goa's Need of the Hour................What's Zat??? .............
prominent citizens/leaders standing tall to be counted??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mervyn Lobo" <mervynal...@yahoo.ca>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Ref. Archbishop's letter.
floriano wrote:
It looks like speech writers and letter drafters are putting things on
paper for the head of
the Church to read out or to post. And these speech writers and letter
drafters must be
reputable lawyers and politicians. This whole thing stinks to high
heavens.
floriano,
You sort of disappoint me.
If I remember correctly, you bursted onto the Goanet scene, last century,
with a complaint
about the ringing of church bells in your village.
Today, both you and the Archbishop have chosen not to address the issue of
the ringing of the
church bells to call the 'faithful' to order. And the 'order' was to march
to and stone someone
house and property.
We live in interesting times.......
Mervyn1128Lobo
