Mogal Manestamno, Asotak tan sottak amcam pavoi -- Balok Jesu zolmola amchya moddem. Hya Natalamchi fou zaun amchya monnak ani kuddik uzvadd and sovostkai anvddeya. ++++
As Barros-Pereira puts it well, it does not matter when Jesus was born. Personally speaking: the facts, and they are good --- is that I was formed in India among many old life traditions; coupled with certain basic Christian concepts. One is still being formed. As Thomas Merton says in, Seeds of Contemplation: Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of "memories". If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not "remember" its true identity, is no memory at all. He who remember nothing but the facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia. venantius j pinto
