Dear Saligaokaram, Now Nicholas Sequeira cannot get onto Saligaonet to reply to Fr. Dominic Sequeira! Looks like anOTHERgoa has become anOTHER*postoffice*!
No problem really. So in the interests of constructive dialogue and debate, here goes (Nicholas' reply is in *bold italics*) ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* Dominic Sequeira <[email protected]> > *To:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, 17 April 2013 11:26 AM > *Subject:* Heritage Programme In Saligao > > Dear Saligaonkars, > > This is to call to your attention that the Tourism Dept. is organising a > Heritage Festival, using the Mae de Deus Church, Saligao as a backdrop on a > stage and as a backdrop to promote the festival. > > This is a matter of great concern as the tourism minister says he needs no > permission from the parish priest or any church authority to use the church > as a backdrop for the programme. > > The question that I raised in the newspaper was in the light of this > problem (see attachment from Herald). What I am referring to is that, when > the illegal petrol pump was coming up, we were fighting to protect the > church as a Heritage site. The local MLA/minister and the panchayat did > not stop it. > > Secondly, the illumination of the church was not working for the past 6 > months. At Christmas and New Year, the outside of the church was in > darkness. When we made a noise about it in the newspapers, the > MLA/minister got angry. Earlier, he did not repair the lights in spite of > being notified about it. Now that he is having his own programme, he has > started repairs just 2 days ago. He is repairing them for his motives. > > Is this right? > > Spending Rs. 3.5 lakhs, the church has been painted and maintained by its > own committee. When the hotmix project for the church parking-lot was > passed, the MLA/minister was the one who objected to it, but we managed > somehow to get it done. > > When the persons concerned Clive Sequeira and Nicholas Sequeira came to > our parish priest they spoke about using the church as a backdrop for the > Heritage Festival. > * I have no idea at all about the contents of this heritage programme. My role solely consisted of introducing Clive Sequeira to the Parish Priest (PP), Fr. Luciano, because Clive is my cousin's son, who did not personally know the PP. I do not even know in what capacity Clive came to talk to the PP. Because the PP was not there, Clive decided to meet the Asst. PP Fr. Dominic who was present. The discussions took place only between Clive and Fr. Dominic. I did not, repeat, did not do any talking on the subject. I was a silent witness to their conversation. When Fr. Dominic asked Clive to come back and talk to the PP, I told Clive to go alone as I was not involved with this matter. Clive then asked me to get an appointment for him alone, with the PP for this purpose. When I contacted the PP, he told me to tell Clive to come with a letter concerning his proposals. This I did. Till today, I do not know if Clive has met the PP. But one thing is certain, I did not meet the PP with or without Clive to discuss this matter. * > Father requested them to apply in writing for the permission as our > church is a private church. We maintain the church by ourselves, without > any financial assistance from the government. So how can they use our > church as a background for their programme? Till date no permission is > sought, but the work of the festival is in full swing. > > Who is the owner of the church, who is in charge of it? And now, at > whose cost is the minister for tourism using the church to promote this > festival? > > The minister says, "I do not need to ask permission from father to use the > church as a backdrop". Is this not dadagiri to over ride church authority? > > Our brothers Clive Sequeira and Nicholas Sequeira knowing the facts, are > party to this heritage programme. Is this right on their part to deny and > defy their parishioners and the villagers? > * As such, I have never promoted the Heritage programme either with Fr. Dominic or with the PP, nor asked for any permissions concerning our church. I have never "been a party" to it and I have never "defied or denied the parishioners". In fact, if I knew that these were the sentiments of the parish clergy, I would have communicated them to Clive immediately. I have already asked for this correspondence to be forwarded to him. I would like to reaffirm that I love my church as much as anyone else and would not like to see any harm come to it or the parish community. * > As responsible villagers of Saligao and parishioners of Mae de Deus > church are we not to raise this issue? Is there no respect for the > religious sentiments of us catholics? Are we to be taken for granted by > the government, our MLA/tourism minister in our village? > > Fr Dominic Sequeira > Asst. Parish Priest > Mae de Deus Church > Saligao. > * Regards and God-bless. 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