The very first Easter was not in a crowded worship space with singing and praising. On the very first Easter the disciples were locked in their house. It was dangerous for them to come out. They were afraid. They wanted to believe the good news they heard from the women, that Jesus had risen. But it seemed too good to be true. They were living in a time of such despair and such fear. If they left their homes their lives and the lives of their loved ones might be at risk. Could a miracle really have happened? Could life really had won out over death? Could this time of terror and fear really be coming to an end?
Alone in their homes they dared to believe that hope was possible, that the long night was over and morning had broken, that God’s love was the most powerful of all, even though it didn’t seem quite real yet. Eventually, they were able to leave their homes, when the fear and danger had subsided, they went around celebrating and spreading the good news that Jesus was risen and was the most powerful force on the earth. This year, we might get to experience a taste of what that first Easter was like, still in our homes daring to believe that hope is on the horizon. Then, after a while, when it is safe for all people, when it is the most loving choice, we will come out, gathering together, singing and shouting the good news that God brings life even out of death, that love always has the final say! This year we might get the closest taste we have had yet to what that first Easter was like. Wishes and prayers for a very Happy Easter. 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UK: Sun 12 April He is Risen ?Easter Celebration Live > Trilingual Broadcast-English Konkani Hindi (MELVYN FERNANDES) > 6. prayers weapon against covid (Nelson Lopes) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 08:43:14 +0530 > From: GOACAN RESOURCE CENTRE <goacanresourcecen...@gmail.com> > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org > Subject: [Goanet] Credit Co-operative Societies in Goa in a tight > corner due to MHA's order: depositors & employees face the brunt. > Message-ID: > <CAGW=e7hKZQSYzr9PqGngAru0gbP3V6Bf-yfhtpmsBMDTUj7-JA@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your > family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. > Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > MHA's order puts the Credit Societies in Goa in a tight corner > > > https://tinyurl.com/sxqs47y > > --------------------------------- > THE GOAN 08/04/2020 > --------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 15:04:46 +0530 > From: V M <vmin...@gmail.com> > To: V M <vmin...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Goanet] The End of Progress (And The Return of Keynes): > Dhaka Tribune, 11/4/2020 > Message-ID: > <CAN1wPW7fQS29L3p1UvyE_bqWaHB6o9_vkhxuX0N6Fjqt4e7OvQ@ > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2020/04/11/the- > end-of-progress-and-the-return-of-keynes > ? > > We are all Wuhan. The world has followed inexorably in the tracks of that > Chinese city since it first reported cases of SARS-CoV-2 (aka COVID-19) at > the end of 2019. Earlier this week, it opened up for the first time after > 76 days of stringent lockdown, and much of what?s happening there now will > similarly play out everywhere else. > > Wuhan reconnected railways and bus lines, and resumed air service to other > cities in China. Some factories started up again. But many residential > complexes remain closed off. All schools and colleges are banned, along > with large gatherings of any kind. Masks are required to be worn in public > at all times, and residents are strongly recommended not to leave the city > or province. > > If that?s the light at the end of the coronavirus tunnel in China?s > exceptionally disciplined and authoritarian society, what can the rest of > us hope for? More specifically, how will the future shape up for the > inherently messy, pluralist societies of South Asia? Here, all evidence > points to an unprecedented disruption, which is already locked in. Things > will never be the same. > > Just over three decades ago, during another global watershed moment (the > fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989) the political scientist Francis Fukuyama > earned instant notoriety with an essay entitled ?The End of History?. He > made the case ?ideological violence? was defunct, and ?is evident in the > total exhaustion of systematic alternatives to Western liberalism.? > > Fukuyama?s wrote it was ?not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing > of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: > that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the > universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human > government.? > > That analysis has taken considerable drubbings, most of which ignore > Fukuyama?s qualification that ?the victory of liberalism has occurred > primarily in the realm of ideas or consciousness.? > > But when you take that into account, it?s clear the Japanese-American?s > predictions actually held up very well, right into 2020. In the intervening > years, most of us have lived in his predicted neoliberal paradigm, governed > by unshakable consensus about privatization, deregulation, *laissez-faire* > economics, and above all, globalization. We have been taught that economic > growth is the ultimate goal, and it?s the only way to gauge progress. > > But all of that is out of the window now, almost certainly never to return. > A few days ago, the IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva laid out the > current scenario in unforgettably stark language, ?Never in history have we > witnessed the world economy come to a standstill. This is humanity?s > darkest hour, a big threat to the whole world and it requires from us to > stand tall, be united and protect the most vulnerable of our citizens. This > is a crisis like no other.? > > Both the IMF and World Health Organization are clear on the way forward > from what is already being compared to the Great Depression (which hammered > the global GDP down 15% between 1929 and 1932). Humanity must battle and > surmount the coronavirus, within the family and house by house, across > neighborhoods, from city to country and regions beyond. > > In his 1963 *Letter from a Birmingham Jail*, Dr. Martin Luther King wrote > that ?Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught > in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of > destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.? That?s the > obvious conclusion of our age of contagion, because our wellbeing now > resides inescapably in the collective. We will have to rearrange our > countries to reflect that reality. > > All this is the opposite of neoliberalism, which espouses individual > freedom as the paramount social, cultural and economic value. Its return to > relevance is an improbable plot twist to the 1930s battle of theories > between the Viennese-born economist Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes > of the UK. At that time, Keynes reigned supreme with his advocacy of > managed market economies, where the government plays an essential > shepherding role. > > Soon afterwards the tide shifted decisively to Hayek, who became powerfully > influential at the University of Chicago in the 1950s. At least 13 Nobel > Prize winners in Economics have come from its faculty, along with > innumerable policy makers in finance ministries across the world (Raghuram > Rajan is one recent example). There?s no coincidence that Fukuyama?s famed > paper was first delivered as a lecture on that same campus. > > Keynes once said, ?The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas > as in escaping from old ones.? But revolutions usually erupt unexpectedly. > Earlier this week, the most recent Nobel Prize winner for Economics, > Abhijit Banerjee recommended, ?Print some money and do not think of > inflation. We need to be quantitative in India and in large sums. This is a > time to go wild. Go Keynesian!? > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 10:10:51 +0100 > From: Gabe Menezes <gabe.mene...@gmail.com> > To: undisclosed-recipients:; > Subject: [Goanet] Arundhati Roy: ?The pandemic is a portal? | Free to > read | Financial Times > Message-ID: > <CAAFX5v7CBXuo2HWW8eXjbvzWfMsUN2feWLYt8jxLNvF0BKqEfQ@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 14:57:51 +0530 > From: Stephen Dias <steve.dia...@gmail.com> > To: Editor in Chief <editor-in-ch...@nizgoenkar.org>, Goanet > <goa...@goanet.org> > Cc: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > <goanet@lists.goanet.org>, Menino de Valpoi > <menino.de.val...@gmail.com>, "fredericknoro...@gmail.com" > <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Goanet] MODI BARE ALL, LEAD BY EXAMPLE > Message-ID: > <CAN1gCe28oUGHMduUUu44ijXnOS1=ejau0YLm_t_KEzhdckXf=A@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > This letter is already published in Goan Observer today 11.4.2020 > Please read you guys > > Stephen > > MODI BARE ALL, > LEAD BY EXAMPLE > > ELVIDIO MIRANDA > > I have been fighting resolutely in order that the Aadhaar card which > contains sensitive personal biometrics like Iris scan and finger prints be > not made mandatory for opening bank account, bank fixed deposit, demat > account for mutual funds and even for mobile connections. I went to the > extent of not linking my Aadhaar card to my bank account in the bank of > India, Panaji but the Manager of the bank told me that my money would not > be available for withdrawal from my saving account. > The Government of India under the NDA led BJP forced the RBI, the mutual > fund company, the share brokers and the mobile companies to make it > mandatories for every one to link not only the Aadhaar card but also the > Pan card. This decision makes me vulnerable to all my investment be > accessible to the Government. > The Supreme Court had ruled that the linking of Aadhaar card is not > mandatory for bank accounts, demat accounts, mutual funds and mobile > number. > The SC also ordered that delinking of Aadhaar card be made. Everyone > followed the coercive rules of government against the will of the Supreme > court. As such, since Narendra Modi the Prime Minister of India is now > trying to behave like a holier than thou individual, why is it that he does > not bare everything about himself to the people of India being a public > figure. His Aadhaar card, his Pan card and his election photo identity card > should all be linked. He is supposed to lead by example and not impose > arbitrary rules on others when he does not follow it himself. Why this > double standard? > Everybody who is learned knows that nuclear weapons may be used for war and > nuclear energy for power supply. > In like manner everything has dual use. Now more than ever the PM has to > shed being protective of himself and behave like a common man. He should > not wait for people to find out what he has hidden by resorting to RTI act. > He should definitely publish all his daily expenses on food, clothes, > traveling, security measures than foreign jaunts and his monetary > possession. > The linking of the Aadhaar card had bad intention if he were not to use > coercive means on the people, I would not have asked him to bare all. > NO double standard please! > XxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxcxxxxxxX > > Sent from my Samsung device > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:48:08 +0100 (BST) > From: MELVYN FERNANDES <melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com> > To: goanet <goanet@lists.goanet.org> > Subject: [Goanet] UK: Sun 12 April He is Risen ?Easter Celebration > Live Trilingual Broadcast-English Konkani Hindi > Message-ID: <2089086553.4229304.1586609288...@mail2.virginmedia.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > UK: Sun 12 April He is Risen ?Easter Celebration Live Trilingual > Broadcast-English Konkani Hindi > > You are invited to tune in and join Presenters Roque and Bihula Vaz > celebrating Easter ?He IS RISEN? on Awaaz Radio 99.8 FM Live from > Southampton Hampshire England on Facebook, Radio, on your Mobile Cell > Phone Laptop computer and other digital devices for a Historic and > memorable Trilingual Easter Sunday Broadcast in English Konkani and Hindi. > http://www.awaazfm.co.uk > > > Time in UK GMT 13.00 TO 14:00 or 1.00pm to 2.00pm > > Time in India 5.30pm to 6.30pm > > Goanet readers around the world please use Greenwich Mean Time converter > on Google(GMT) > > Melvyn Fernandes > > Thornton Heath Surrey England > > 11 April 2020 > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:12:01 -0400 > From: Nelson Lopes <nellope...@gmail.com> > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > <goanet@lists.goanet.org> > Subject: [Goanet] prayers weapon against covid > Message-ID: > <CAJP2+Q2DPCoUd0rJk056iFesQWZ9xxAR-f6js623spjCQiA-KA@mail.gmail. > com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Prayers, a weapon against Covid19. > > > > USA recommends prayer a means to banish covid away, > > Modi also used astrological belief to keep Covid at bay, > > Brazil, faithful kneel in a long chain to pray on street, > > In Italy Blessed Sacrament in car procession, residents greet. > > > > Nations and humans, gone out of their wits, > > Medical fight against virus is almost quits, > > Science and doctors are fighting this ill, > > Virus is defying, vaccine, drug or pill, > > > > Virus spreading rapidly like wild fire, > > Virologist unable to break its attire, > > Corona is challenging, human efforts best, > > Providing no comfort, remains adamant and at rest > > > > Repent and turn to God for relief and aid, > > No religious leader disabled the virus or way laid. > > Price for destroying, environment, air, water and land > > A fervent call to Divine to extend His merciful hand > > > > Powerful humans lost race, corona to kill, > > The tiny, contagious virus strikes at will, > > Pray, for Divine intervention, to inspire vaccine as pill, > > Animals regain space, as frightened world stands still, > > > > Nations understand the power of prayers to heal, > > Massive human efforts so far, unable to deal, > > Listen humbly, in trust and silence do pray, > > God Almighty to command, banish the scourge away. > > > > Humans in search of luxury have put God on hold, > > Belief in own strength and power, nature to uphold, > > The damage to life, economy is greater than wars of past, > > Pray that effects and consequences may not long last, > > > > The world ignores that earth is not a permanent home, > > Animals like humans ,enjoy same freedom to roam, > > God is placed on pedestal up above and far, > > Man has distanced from Divine by wall of mental bar. > > > > The wrath of God for virus to vanish and disappear, > > Pray with humility, love not deadly fear, > > Prayers alone have the power to put to an end > > Death, sufferings that no science can attend. > > > > Man is drunk with absolute power and pride, > > God is watching patiently from the side, > > Humans have failed by teachings to abide, > > Kneel down , sing hHis praises that scourge may subside > > > > Temples, churches, mosques are closed and away, > > >From the confines of homes we need to pray, > > When we sing his glories, thank and praise > > He will provide relief, our belief and hope raise > > Nelson Lopes Chinchinim > > 12-4-2020 > > > End of Goanet Digest, Vol 15, Issue 195 > *************************************** >
