Subject: [Goanet] Nobel Peace Prize Winners I am referring to Message-ID: < [email protected]> from George Pinro. An earler message I posted bounced back ..The George Pinto address was not found
So here goes I am very pleased that there is a Goan involved in his own word : <<<<FIRST I am involved in the peace movement in my role as Interim Chair of the Board of the USA Foundation for 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee (Liberia, Africa) and a supporter of my friend, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, whose Nobel Peace Prize ceremony I attended in Oslo. I have an understanding of how the Nobel Peace Prize process works.>>>>> <<<SECONDLY Noted "Up to 1960, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded almost exclusively to Europeans and Americans." And even goes to explain why Gandhi was not given the Nobel Peace prize, their publication effectively was an apology?? <<<THIRDLY …. racism practiced by the Vatican with respect to the lack of Goan saints. But by and large Goans kept their ostrich heads in the sand.? I also pointed out Goans were to blame for embracing borrowed white Europeans at the expense of promoting their own saints like Saint Joseph Vaz and others. YOU blame Goans throughout the diaspora prefer to be second-class to whites, a slave mentality they will not give up .>>>Wow very strong words but you may be right ….BUT YOUR EXAMPLE OF ST JOSE VAZ TELLS A VERY DIFFERENT STORY <<<<< Frankly I had not heard of Sanit Jose Vaz until about 2009. I had heard about SFX for the last 8 decades and even Padre Agnel. In 2009 I was at Pillar and visited the Museum and fortunately met Fr. Cosma who gave me a signed copy and I read it and purchased some more books and even visited the parish where a church has been built …A couple even mistook me for a priest and asked me for a blessing and a prayer because they wanted a child ! What was remarkable was that ST Vaz himself decided that he did not want to be part of the Foreign Order. What made mw even mre interested in St. Vaz was that there was *DIVINE INTERVENTION* *FIRST *. In Ceylon, the island was reeling from a prolonged drought ..the Buddhist King asks for a prayers ,,St Vaz tells the King that he will only pray after the other including the Moslems prayed. Nothing happened..then St Vaz prays and the skies opened and I believe that the Kings son decided to be a priest *Divine Intervention 2 *was when the they came to the flooded river with waters flowing with a vengeance .the waters calm and the faithful Catholics cross . St. Vaz turns round and the rivers races again ….the Dutch Lutherns and the soldiers are swept away Pinto you use pretty harsh words that Goans are pathetic, miserable mindset, including running after foreign orders like the Jesuits, Salesians, etc. while ignoring domestic, native orders. Yes *with all my due respect to Filomena Giese's monumental 35-year struggle helped Goans get their first saint, Saint Joseph Vaz.* However,I have a different perspective. Some of the Popes and Bishops had a different perspective and were greedy A few Popes had different priorities which led to the Lutherns breaking away But then do not forget it took centuries the Irish to have their Saints and even a longer time to get a woman to be a saint *ST BRIGID * *Out of the 1000 or so Goans …we have celebrated the feast of SFX for over 100 years in DSm and this is followed by celebrations in the DI ,,,the Feast is celebrated by the tailors..discrimination …Yet I know only a handful of Goans who have heard of St Vaz * *Yes I share your concern that the senior Clergy from Old Goa to Quepem are in a give away spree.. Like Christ when he saw the Forex Dealers..he made a whip out of a cord and chased them away… * *So as the Holy Week is upon Us PEACE AND GOOD WILL ..Lets Pray * Grandolfo In Mankongo Juu Tanzania
