The Bible and Christian tradition taught that alcohol is a gift from God that makes life more joyous but that overindulgence leading to drunkenness is a sin………There are many many many lay catholics in bombay who after attending the Sunday Mass go to the local Country liquor shop and have a quarter or half or full bottle of country liquor - some go to the local whisky-rum-brandy-beer shop and take a quarter or half or full bottle of brandy or whisky or rum - some catholic youth take beer……..unlike the parish priest who drinks a very tiny cup of wine during the Sunday mass eucharistic celebration due to which the priest remains in his senses the same is not the case with some of the lay catholics in bombay……the lay catholics are drinking bottle or bottles of country liquor or rum or whisky or brandy which results in drunkenness and they start behaving erratically or sinfully…………An interesting point to note is during the Sunday Mass only the communion bread is served for the laity and not the wine whereas Jesus Christ had shared the bread & wine with his disciples………In the Early Church both clergy and laity received the consecrated wine by drinking from the chalice, after receiving a portion of the consecrated bread.
Alcohol is a product of fermented fruits, grains and honey. In this process, yeast is used to turn the sugar into alcohol. Alcohol is used in many forms like as a sedative, as a cleaner and as an antiseptic agent. The alcoholic beverages are consumed by humans, from the prehistoric period, for many reasons. Large amount of alcohol consumption leads to intoxication and hangovers. The regular intake of alcohol in high dosages, causes many long and short term effects on the various body parts, like the bone structures, bloodstream, liver, stomach, pancreas, heart, peripheral tissues and mouth. Regular or high consumption of alcohol can cause serious central nervous system disorders……Alcoholism may also lead to depression, antisocial behavior, psychosis, delusions, ataxia, seizures, craving for food and irritability. In the catholic seminaries (college where youth are trained to become priests) in Bombay the Parish Priests were not given any training on what type of sermons they should give that will enlighten the laity to improve their health & wealth………neither the Priests were trained on how they should use church funds for the benefit of the parishioners…….neither the Priests were trained on how they should utilize vacant church properties for the housing needs of the parishioners……neither the Priests were trained on what they should do to ensure that minimum 50% students in parish schools are from the catholic community. The Catholic Clergy in Bombay have programmed the native catholics of bombay to remain non-combative non-aggressive non-ambitious politicallyinactive this explains why catholics in bombay don’t have any vision and mission and courage to agitate for land rights – govt jobs – govt. housing – civic facilities……….the official magazine of the Archdiocese of Bombay also does not have any content in it that will awaken the catholic laity in bombay from their deep slumber………some lay catholics in bombay need to pool in resources and start a weekly lay catholic magazine and put content in it that will awaken the laity from their deep deep deep slumber and make the laity combative aggressive ambitious politicallyactive and make the laity agitate for land rights – govt. jobs – govt. housing – civic facilities and awaken the laity to control the corrupt activities of some of the parish priests who are misusing church funds – illegally selling away vacant church properties and siphoning off the money – refusing admission to children of poor catholics – behaving like dictators. The BMC elections are two weeks away…….and people are being urged to vote…..but why should people waste their time voting when the elected Corporator is only going to serve the interests of the builders lobby……better option should be for citizens to go directly to their local ward office and get things done rather than expect the Corporator to do anything good. The Kolis living in the koliwadas of bombay are preoccupied with catching fish selling fish and drinking alcohol…..neither the kolis agitated to change the name of bombay to mumbai………neither the kolis are bothered whether anyone uses the word bombay or mumbai or slumbai…..but for the trade union of the marathi migrants in bombay i.e. the shiv sena wiping out the Portuguese/British history of bombay was more important than improving civic conditions in koliwadas or providing jobs for the koli youth in BMC..............for the marathi migrants bombay is a hen that lays golden eggs for them…….most of the money they make here they transfer to their native places in other parts of maharashtra for renovating houses or purchase land or for marriage and for various other purposes……..these marathi migrants have no interest in protecting open spaces mangroves ponds wells lakes in bombay from being encroached by builders & slumlords because Bombay is not their native place…….the marathi migrants are dependent on bombay for office/factory jobs because the maratha politicians who have been controlling the politics & administration of maharashtra did not bother to improve infrastructure – industries – jobopportunites in the backward regions & districts of Maharashtra. During Portuguese rule the natives of Bombay were known as Portuguese Christians…..when the British East India Company took over the natives of Bombay came to be known by the name Eastindians……after 1947 and reorganization of states when bombay became part of Maharashtra there was a debate by the Bombay EastIndian Association to adopt the name Maharashtrian but since the marathi people have monopolized the name maharashtrians for themselves due to which the idea of eastindians adopting the new name maharashtrians was abandoned and the name eastindian still remains…………The Bombay EastIndian ( ********** www bombayland.blogspot com ************ ) community is Suffering because all their ancestral agricultural lands surrounding their villages in Bombay was grabbed by the Government, Slumlords, mmrda, BMC, landmafia, mhada, collectorsoffice…AND….Alcoholism–Infighting-Jealousy………AND……Driven by poverty the eastindians ( ********** www east-indians com ************ ) were unable to get the requisite permissions for rebuilding their own dilapidated houses and were forced to barter a floor with the builder in return for one to live in decently, without giving thought to where the next generation will reside and without bothering the bad quality materials the builder will use to construct the new Ground+1 house which will result in monsoonal problems – leakages problems – walls/floor as thin as paper and the resulting cracks…AND…daily consumption of the unhealthy & unhygienic bakery maida pavs…AND…lack of interest in education…AND…lack of interest in agitating for 5% job quota in bmc, police, mmrdaoffices, mhadaoffices, rationoffices, collectorsoffice, citysurveyoffices, town planning dept, urban development dept, building proposal dept, suburbanrailways, metro, monorail, airindia, ongc, hp, indianoil, rbi, nationalized banks, bombay/kalina university, iitpowai, central/state govt. undertakings, public sector undertakings and other government institutions operating in bombay…AND….lack of interest in reading the Word of God i.e. The BIBLE. Jorge Monteiro Bombay. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------