Eugene should definitely see a brain doctor.
> On Feb 26, 2019, at 7:44 AM, Eugene Correia <[email protected]> wrote: > > First question, why was Teo contacted to talk abiut tge Convention? He wssn't > present. I git hin to write a piece fir the souvenjr and ge then suggested I > contact Fr. Claude Saldanha, whi wrote, Gia Then and Now. > If yiu check the souvenjr the name if Teo is missng on the article. He asked > me and Inhad to tell him the story behind, and why I resigned as editor > during the last stages of putting the souvenir. I was to,put hus name on the > photo,mand had the strip of name printed. But things took a different turn. > Such is the way, and I regret having wasted two years on getting the > contributors, and composing the artiicles on typesetting machine and manually > laying the pages. It saved GOA at least $3000. > I know who got Teo convinced to change his mind. > However, the question remains as ti what Teo had to do with tge celebrations. > It was to bem celebrate by GOA members, and oerhaps you as as "nobody" at the > convention. Your brother, Peter, was very much involved. > Anyway, can we, those who didn't attend, have the video conversations in > either video or printed form? As I wrote before., what has been tge gain iof > the Convention? The IGO birn iut of it is dormant if nit "dead." Maybe, you > should revive it provided yiu can snatch its remmants from Zulema. > True, GOA made histoy by having the Convention. That's all, but did it > deserve celebratung it on its 30th anniversary? To me, some just wanted to be > in the spotlight. > > Eugene > > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Feb 25, 2019, at 7:13 PM, John Nazareth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> With respect to Eugene's question, I had written only part of a conversation >> with Teotonio to make a particular point to Teotonio's credit. >> Eugene has a point, so I will expand on it. >> >> When my wife and I were on our way to meet Teotonio in Lisbon in 1999 I >> asked her NOT to ask him why he left the priesthood. >> When we finally met him, it was the first question she asked him. >> His answer was interesting. He said (I paraphrase): “If one talks against >> the Trinity no one says anything. But if one raises issues against the >> Church, you will feel its wrath.” >> And then he added: “I served Jesus for 26 of the best years of my life. >> Jesus will not forget me.” >> Amen >> >> John >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Goanet [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eugene >> Correia >> Sent: February 25, 2019 12:58 PM >> To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Late Dr. Teotónio de Souza >> >> Since John hasn't answered the question as to what he did for the First >> Int"l Goan Convention, he has dodged it well. I am re-posting below how >> Teotonio was persuaded to join the video interview after first declining it. >> I haven't understood when John says, "True, Roland." Did John mean he played >> no role in planning and hosting the Convention? However, he was in command >> of the anniversary celebrations, and that takes the cake. Yes, "ajeeb" hai >> Uganda ke log. >> >> ---- >> >> Teo writes >> >> I am informed that the Goan community in Canada is planning to commemorate >> 30th anniversary of its Toronto Convention of 1988 with an evening of >> celebrations on Nov. 3. Among other items of the programme there is interest >> in listening to Goan historians / academics by video chats. I have an >> invitation to be a part of this item, but I had to decline to be true to my >> sincere feelings. >> >> My reply to the rep of the subcommittee chairing the event was the >> following: >> >> "Dear John Nazareth >> >> But for your sporadic contact, Eugene Correia’s interventions on Goa >> Research Net, and occasional postings of my cousin Archie Braganza on that >> same forum, the Goan community in Canada is non-existent for me! Very sorry >> to say that. >> >> I remember having contributed a piece to the souvenir of your 1988 >> convention, and what I said in it remains valid and was reinforced in my >> Afterword (pp 165-166) to my latest book “Goa outgrowing >> Postcolonialism”(2014). >> >> Against this background please understand that I do not feel at all >> motivated to send you a video chat as you request." >> >> I would add: Where are the new generations of Canadian Goans and what do >> they feel and do for Goa they presumably cherish? >> >> >> Teotonio R. de Souza >> >> >> ----- >> >> Eugene Correia >> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 2:00 AM Eugene Correia <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Why should have Dr. Teo tell him? That's personal and he was right to >>> be evasive. Was John interviewing him on his personal life or in >>> context of the 1st Int'l Goan Convention's 30th anniversary? >>> If John wants to know the answer, let him try the Superior-General of >>> the Jesuits. >>> Let me ask John what he did in the planning and hosting of the Convention? >>> >>> Eugene >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>>> On Feb 24, 2019, at 4:11 PM, Roland Francis >>>> <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> John Nazareth wrote: >>>> When he was asked why he left the Jesuits, he said "I gave 26 of the >>> best years of my life to Jesus and He will not forget me." -- John >>> Nazareth, Toronto, February 2019. >>>> >>>> Something’s missing somewhere. Teotonio’s answer did not address the >>> question. >>>> >>>> Roland. >>>> Toronto. >>>
