Ok Daniel, Kevin, Rico,
Fr. Nasciment' mesg. has been noted & his sentiments respected. No more
will be said from my side anyway.
Guess it is just a misunderstanding & mistakes happen with everyone. Since
Kevin admitted & apologised for the misunderstanding, let us lay this topic
to rest.
Daniel, please tell Fr. Nasciment that I wish him well & am glad to hear
that he is getting better. Hope he enjoyed his day on 8th December in Vasco
& belated wishes for a Happy Feast. Also my best wishes for a Merry
Christmas & a Happy New Year.
And to all SaligaoNetters - Best wishes for this Festive Season
Take care
Annette
From: "Daniel F. de Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Daniel F. de Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SALIGAONET] Fr. Nascimento Mascarenhas - laptop
Date: 10 Dec 2007 18:52:24 -0000
Dears,
I have been specially requested by Fr. Nasciment Mascarenhas presently at
the Clergy Home, to please post the below message addressed to all the
Saligaonetters on the Saligaonet mailing list through my e-mail ID.
Daniel F. de Souza/Vasco.
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<<Dear Saligaonetters,
First and foremost I wish you all well! and a big God Bless.
What was a simple private talk has now been freely discussed in an open
forum on the Saligaonet. I regret it.
This private talk was done in my room at the Clergy Home in August 2007
between Mr. Kevin Saldanha, his sister and yours faithfully. Mrs Dephnie
and Kevin Saldanha came to thank me for visiting their father Mr. Edwin
Saldanha who was interned in the Jesus Mary & Joseph (JMJ) hospital
attached to our clergy home. I was asked to assist Mr. Edwin Saldanha
spiritually and so my frequent visits to enquire about his health,
administration of the last sacraments and eventually attending his funeral
at Saligao Church, I felt, was the main cause to visit, thank and also
enquire about my health. Before leaving, Mr. Kevin asked me why I was not
posting on Saligaonet my writings as I used to do previously. My answer to
him was : I do not have a computer nor any cyber-café here.
Incidentally, I was transported in an emergency here at the advice of Dr.
S.N. Desai, of Vasco, and our ecclesiastical authorities. During those days
in early September-October 2006 my computer at Vasco church began giving
lot of trouble and Mr. Daniel F. de Souza from Vasco/Saligao on my request
was sending my emails through his computer. When I was sent to Clergy
Home I never imagined that I would be here for such a long time (almost
one year past) and the fact is that I still continue at the Clergy Home, am
far better in health and yet uncertain when I will return to Vasco.
After Mr. Kevin Saldanha returned to Canada, suddenly one fine morning in
September 2007 Mr. Cecil Pinto from Panjim, a friend of Mr. Kevin, visited
me here delivering me Good wishes card from Kevin. At the same time he
said Mr. Kevin Saldanha was keen to donate me a computer, and he (Mr. Cecil
Pinto) is asked to find out prices of a computer, laptop etc. In fact he
once again came and said Kevin is going in for a laptop. Now the third
person who knew about this donation of a lap-top by Kevin Saldanha was
Cecil Pinto. Then there was no talk for some time and one day I phoned to
Cecil Pinto and he was emphatic in telling me that he (Cecil) was not in
it, and I felt that was the end.
On 27th Nov 2007, Mr. Frederick Noronha was at Clergy Home to deliver me a
book on Saligao written by Mr. Mel DSouza, a Saligaokar based in Canada.
He was in a big hurry to go as he had an urgent meeting but expressed
something about laptop, donation in cash
etc. I was left clueless as to
how Frederick came to know about our private talk. On 4th December 2007, a
friend of mine a Saligaokar from Mumbai phoned to me late night asking me
what was all this about a laptop, Fr. Nascimento etc being discussed on
the Saligaonet. I merely told him that I was ignorant of the open
discussion he mentioned to me. However, I was a little inquisitive to know
about the discussion taking place on the Saligaonet. The following day I
phoned to Daniel F. de Souza at Vasco and he gave me the news and said he
would pass on the hard copies of the postings on the Saligonet wrt the
laptop. I told him that I was coming to Vasco on 8th Dec 2007, for a
priests Ordination and then to his residence to collect the same. He was
kind enough to give me hard copies of the relevant postings on the
Saligaonet. I was too shocked to read all that was being openly discussed
in the cyberspace as regards donations to purchase a laptop to Fr.
Nascimento, and why my name was being dragged unnecessarily into all this.
In the first instance, I never asked for a computer. Mr. Kevin Saldanha
said he was donating one via Cecil Pinto. I wished Mr. Kevin could send me
a e-mail with Cecil Pinto and asked for my opinion regarding funding of
the laptop by asking for donations from Saligaokars. Nothing like this
happened. On the contrary there was an open discussion, and campaign for
funds, some Saligaonetters already began sending cash donations etc. All
this was uncalled for. If it was not feasible for Mr. Kevin Saldanha to
donate, he could let me know about it and the matter would have been laid
to rest there and then. But, it was surprisingly not done.
Now, I would humbly ask the Saligaonetters to please desist from
sending money to buy a laptop for me and next to immediately return back
the money donated to the respective donors. I hope better sense will
prevail.
I am much better now and continue to pray for you and your families.
Fr. Nascimento J. Mascarenhas.
Saligao /(Clergy Home, Porvorim) >>
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