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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
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From: "Albert Desouza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<<> Dear Fr.Ivo
I do not remember having met you before. I cannot understand how you can
know me personally. Your introduction would be welcomed.
***You have been mentioning in your postings your participation in the drama
of late Fr.Freddy Jeremias da Costa. If it is the same Alberto, then I know
you. I met you and you can "understand that I know you personally". This is
not an important point. Let it not divert us into another controversy.
Regarding the cardinal's speech about God .... I think no one has
understood it including the cardinal himself.
*** Surely the Cardinal knows what he is talking about. Going along his
language, I do understand it. Many, if not most, will understand him.
God is found in huts and hearts too. Poor Jesus was born in the stable
which was not his, lived in the house which was not his ( I suppose so)
died on the cross the wood was not his and was burried in the grave which
also was not his.
***Let us not start another controversy about the biblical data regarding
his house, stable/"manger", cross and grave. With all the data, we believe
that Jesus of Nazareth is God made Man. God revealed himself in and through
Jesus. He is the Son of God, God-Man.
Yet his words and his deeds were magnificient. Simple living and high
thinking. In today's world please do not feel offended, the clergy has
taken the advantage of the innocence of the laiety.
***We have to take note of the modern life and all its components before we
pass a judgment on anybody. This is not the Forum. Jesus is the Way, Truth
and Life (cf.Jn 14:6). Yet it is not so simple and easy to follow him. With
his Grace, yes (cf.Mt 11:30).
<<<Can you tell me one think which really I cannot understand is that why
is the church giving so much importance to Mary that she is shown as a diety
? from January till December we are celebrating so many feasts of Mary in
different names.
***Mary is the Mother of Jesus, not a deity. She tells us: "Do whatever he
(Jesus) tells you" (cf.Jn 2:5). We celebrate feasts in her honour so as to
remind ourselves of her message.
<<<The bible clearly says that if we have to reach out to the Father we have
to enroute through Jesus where as the church has been preaching a different
story. The church has to follow Christ and not make its own do.
***The Church is not telling us otherwise. We reach the Father through
Jesus, the Way to God. Mary shows us the way...
Regards.
Fr.Ivo
