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Dear Fr.Ivo
>From the begining I do not know since when till 1964 the mass was in latin.
>The priest would say mass backing the people. The priest preached the sermon
>in Konkani. So to keep the flock together the church started the Rosary I
>think somewhere in 1914 or may be little earlier. Then started the story of
>apparition of our lady .People were made to belief that the only way to heaven
>is through Mary. So the church invented Mary with different Names and
>different feasts. Today the trend is different. People are educated. There are
> different sources to get information and the believers are increasing in
>number. They hold the bible as the key to salvation while our priests still
>hold Rosary as the weapon of salvation. The sermons preached by priests are
>outdated. So they castigate the believers as false prophets. While Paul in the
>first very chapter to the Romans says that we should not have pictures of God
>carved on anything we still fill our churches with statues. We take statue
s in processions. Today the church has gone into building or construction
business. Every where you go churches are expanded or parish halls built. Lay
people are squeezed so much that they do not have any blood left in them.
Donations donations and donations. We contribute towards mission but there is
no mission organised in Goa. Is there any sense to contribute to the welfare of
african people when we really need the word of God ? Today priests have more
money than we. Bank accounts are over full. Rich cars. The higher you go more
is the luxury. There is far difference btween the pope and christ. While the
former can be compared to the Queen of England or the richest Ambani or Mittal
the latter was really a beggar king. Long live jesus Christ .
Paul
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