Hey Filomena, George. One would gladly sign your petition but I feel the church in Roam is a cr~oked business and has a c*lour biased. JV deserves the honor but they have been giving it to lesser folks. So why bother. They are on the slide anyway and I know for a fact that even the Bishop of amchi Goi is in some sort of distress over the future ( heard he is almost in a state of depression- not the clinical one).
Would say, stop giving any money to the church in Goa (collection) and or stop going to the church altogether (and pray one does not pop-it, or get hitched in a hurry- that would be a dilemma no re?)....they (church) will wake up and take notice. It won't dent their business but if the press pick it up, they would be caught with their cassocks down!!! Now that would work...and the desi press will eat them alive, trust me. It would be a great way to get our voices raised instead of being meek and signing petitions!! JV can be sainted by the time you are on a flight to Dabolim in January!! Don't get me wrong....I am in the ideas and planning business- all slippery and always cro~ked! If you go back to some of what Nostradamus *&^*.....its almost coming true no? The flock has doubts (selling chooris-pau to all the lovelies after Sunday morning service, I know) and even in a nothing-ever-changes-Goa, people have choices these days!!! lomena Giese <filomenagi...@yahoo.com> wrote: > It is an entirely wonderful thing that George found this fabulous site for > this > Petition. > We will be collecting signatures for all of the rest of the year 2010 and > throughout 2011 to honor Blessed Joseph Vaz' 300th death anniversary. > We hope that everyone will succeed in getting at least 10 signatures each. > Please try. > Please also contact Mangalorean and Sri Lankan friends and send them the > Petition site. > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: George Pinto <georgejpi...@yahoo.com> > To: Goanet <goa...@goanet.org> > Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 9:43:26 AM > Subject: Goan saint: Your help is urgently needed > > Extraordinary. In a few hours nearly a hundred signatures! But we need more. > It > would be nice to have 500 signatures to be presented to the Pope. Goans have > to > help themselves, we have to take the lead. Thanks to all who have signed so > far. > > Be a part of history. Don't miss this opportunity to help a Goan saint achieve > his rightful honour after 300 long years. If Blessed Vaz is canonized a saint > it > will be due to people like you who helped his cause. > > > Please sign your First AND Last name to the petition. > > http://www.PetitionOnline.com/JosephV/ > > The 300th anniversary of the death of Blessed Joseph Vaz (born Goa, India) is > fast approaching on January 16, 2011. Our Joseph Naik Vaz Institute has worked > to publicize his life and Cause since 1980, when we incorporated in California > as a 501(c)(3) in the State of California. We ask for your support of our > new > Petition to the Pope, His Holiness Benedict XVI, asking that Blessed Joseph > Vaz > be canonized for the 300th anniversary of his death. > > Canonizations are in part a result of an outpouring of support from ordinary > people. The Pope can grant the exception to the miracle for the case of a > Martyr > if enough people show that we care. Your signature to this Petition will help > to > send the people's support to the Pope for Blessed Vaz' long delayed and just > canonization. Together we can make this canonization happen. > > Please sign your First AND Last name to the petition. > > http://www.PetitionOnline.com/JosephV/ > > 300 years is a long wait for a Catholic Saint and Blessed Vaz could be on the > verge of being canonized with your support. Please sign the petition and > forward > to your family and friends to sign. All welcome to sign (i.e. you do not have > to > be Catholic). > > Please sign your First AND Last name to the petition. > > http://www.PetitionOnline.com/JosephV/ > > Regards, > > Filomena Saraswati Giese and George Pinto > Joseph Naik Vaz Institute > www.josephnaikvaz.org >
