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Hi Albert
Methinks you may be unduly hard on priests in Goa. Do you not think that
most of them do their best for their parishioners? I have kept my response
very brief to you as I was keen to retain below, the whole of your
'grievance' about priests to remind posters about what you actually said.
Cornel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Desouza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 3:16 AM
Subject: [Goanet] clergy and lay persons
> Friends
> God is an invisible force a source of love. He has not put any
> restrictions on human beings and have told us to preach the gospel. God
> had given us one commandment Love your neigbour as we love ourselves. When
> God was not able to communicate fully to us He sent us His only son
> Jesus.The seminary and philosophy and theology has been started now by the
> catholic church. Anyone can study theology if it is freely taught to us.
> There are three books of theology. The first book teaches us all about the
> cathesim we learn like the meaning of God and trinity, I believe etc etc.
> Many writers have expressed that you need theology to preach the word of
> God. In fact I have noticed that many lay people from other denominations
> preach better than priests and it is the priest themselves have spread
> rumours that these preachers are fake etc etc.Let us take a few examples.
> There were lots of street children in Mapuca. They used to sell plastic
> bags in the market and sleep in the open. Lots of clergy, catholics must
> have seen them sleeping in the open in the hot sun and rain. The believers
> started El Shadai in Cotula Saligao and collected all these street
> children and gave the boys shelter over there and another El Shadai in
> Assagao for the girls. These children go to school and are looked after by
> the brothers of El Shadai. Is this not what Christ taught us? Are we not
> supposed to see to our brethrens? I hear Benny Hinn preaching. He is so
> forceful that I love to listen. I have heard priests telling us not to
> switch on the Miracle Net the teachings are false.I have heard priests
> telling stories in the sunday homily and rarely touch the word of God.
> There are volumes to be written. I am a Roman Catholic and have not joined
> any other denomination but I feel what we are learning from the church is
> not in accordance to the teaching of Jesus our founder. The statues in
> churches, money boxes kept before each statue speaks of greed .
> albert
