Albertwrites:- who is interested in God ! who is really in love with his or her
own religion ? We most of the time behave as fanatics and what we try to
potrait is just a scene and we are all actors. Roman Catholics are the best
actors with their clergy as heroes. When Pope John Paul came to Goa in 1986 the
religious had their chairs reserved and a few priviledged ones whose godfathers
existed with the clergy. The rest had to stand. We ordinary harizans of the
church the lay people were separated from the most highly holy religious by a
baricade and a strong posse of policemen and ushers were kept to see that we do
not cross the border made between the Devil and the Holy. We reached there at
four in the morning .Nice music but ache in the legs. I was young and could
stand but right in front of me were elderly couple the man told me that he was
81 years while his wife was 79 and I was hundred percent sure that they could
not sit down on the ground which the good Lord God had created. I managed to
sit down on the floor. The man was struggling. He had aches in his legs and in
his back. To our bad luck the water bottles too was confiscated from us because
we had taken glass bottles. The mass started at 8.30 am I could not hear the
mass as I was having problem of sitting on the ground and the people were
falling me. I could see empty chairs in front of me. One Hindu police officer
saw the plight of the lay people specially the old and he ordered the ushers to
allow the old people first and the others later. I was a crook. I caught hold
of the old man and led him to the chairs as fast as I could. The man was
thankful to me and I was thankful to him. When we reached the place one of the
nun started to grumble saying this is reserved for the religious. The old man
lost his temper and fired the nun that she had to hide her face. This is our
religion. Neither the organisers ever had concerned for the people like us.
Instead of preaching the word of God our religous heads stand before the mike
in old Goa and condem the believers like Jovoah witness and the entire
proceedings are telecasted on local tv channel . What sorry figure are we
showing to the world ?
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