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Dear Albert
What would you suggest is the best way to make the Christian community be more
aware of what Jesus Christ Preached. I bet you will have some ideas, and it
would be nice to know your views.
I believe that the church reads the whole of the Bible during the entire year,
only thing is that our people go for mass only for 52 Sundays, hence they miss
on the other 313 days of reading. Bibles are freely available, only our people
dont make an attempt to buy or read them, so can we blame the clergy for this
failure? When you say the three readings, you are referring only to Sunday
readings, which makes me wonder why you avoided the two readings on the week
days. Does it mean that you too Visit church only on Sundays? The only problem
that I find is that the reading on sundays mostly done by kids is not done in
professional way. It is no doubt an encouraging way of making the kids read in
public, yet, as the church knows that the reading are important, they should be
given to those who can read professionally. But I did find the solution to this
problem. St Pauls publication, sell for Rs 2 Only, the whole years readings
which one can read at home before going to the church where by, one will know
what the readings are.
AS for the problems you have mentioned, well, you know that Satan is the master
of earth, and many have fallen in his trap. These problems just remind us that
the Second Coming of Christ is near.
Cheers
Jerry Fernandes
From: Albert Desouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear friends
I fully agree with Ann Marie Mario and others regarding Catholic religion. What
Jesus Christ preached and practiced is far different what we get now a days in
catholicism.is nothing. Actually it is true that apart from hearing masses,
receiving sacraments and saying rosaries we have nothing very concrete with us.
Today the world is faced with lots of problems.Divorce, juvenile deliquency,
rapes, murders, poverty etc but the church is indifferent to all these. The
word of God find no prominence in the liturgy of the church except the three
readings at the mass. The lay has lot of potentials to propagate the word of
God but the clergy wants upper hand and will try to stop the lay from spreading
the gospel.Love God and love neighbour is only in words.
Quo Vadis Domino.
albert
