[Goanet] Convento do Carmo - Ruined Church 1619, Old Goa - Pics and video

[JoeGoaUk]

 
Convento do Carmo - Ruined Church 1619, Old Goa
For us, ruined Church at Old Goa  means St. Augustine (near Santa Monica).
It was only last year (2018) I heard of another ruined Church of Carmelites 
known as Convento de Carmo but had no idea where exactly it is located  in Old 
Goa.  Did make lot of queries, even googled it out but no mention of exact 
location or direction to the site.
This year too (Jan/Feb 2019) we saw or read many news items in the form of 
press notes and press conferences  but none told us the exact location as if 
they wanted to celebrate privately. Reference was made in TOI articles, one 
saying to the east of Basilica and second time saying the east/west of Se 
cathedral.
Even put a query on Facebook but no help.  It was only when I saw a pic posted  
in FB page Memórias da India Portuguesa asked the post to give me direction as 
to how to get there to which Neenad Neo promptly replied saying its behind Old 
Goa Petrol Pump, Road by the side of a housing colony and then climbing 
involved etc.  That's how I managed to get there today..
There is a tarred road now (raw) and one can go up there with car or bike or 
take a motor-cycle pilot from old Goa Gandhi Circle. Or simple ask to take to 
Old Goa Steel yard from there new road to the right taking uphill. Housing 
colony that was talked about earlier is ' House of Bom Jesus'

Check this Video which will give you the direction from Old Goa- Gandhi Circle 
to the site


https://youtu.be/6mvDwKRMCKc


4th Century Celebration of Indian Carmel 
Carmel India 400
In view of this celebration, a facelift has been given to the ruins of the 
Convento do Carmo at Old Goa. Superior General of the Discalced Carmelites and 
other priests, Fr Saverio Cannistra, OCD,  presided over the Eucharistic 
celebrations at the ruins of the Carmelite Monastery (Convento do Carmo) Old 
Goa on Friday, February 8, at 7.30 a.m.  NT

Over 150 pics here

The ruins of Convento do Carmo ( Carmelite Novitiate house) in Old Goa, the 
first Carmelite house in India which marks 400 years of the presence of the 
Carmelites in India since 1619.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46974396882/in/dateposted-public/
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/40061636113/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46974393822/in/photostream/

Mass, priests, brothers
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46112681145/in/photostream/
Superior General of Order of Discalced Carmelites Dr Saveiro Cannistra 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/40061672203/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/40061634643/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/47026196831/in/photostream/

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46974406072/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46302378434/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/40061671393/in/photostream/

Blessed Dionysius and Blessed Redemptus of the Cross
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/40061632803/in/photostream/


Choir
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46302373484/in/photostream/


tombs at the Altar place 
Tombstone the remains of the Five martyrs of Persia
Tombstone of Messieurs Bebber
Tombstone of the Royal scribe
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46302454144/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46974403122/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46974405672/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46302452514/in/photostream/

Road uphill
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46974390282/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/33151080658/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46302389064/in/photostream/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/32084787957/in/photostream/
Near Old Goa Steel yard
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46974389002/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/32084784867/in/photostream/
Take road right at the cross junction
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk33/46302395824/in/photostream/


Visit here
https://goa-joegoauk.blogspot.com/2019/02/convento-do-carmo-ruined-church-1619.html

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Re: [Goanet] Goans of America

[Eddie]

Dear Sharel

It is disappointing and surprising that the activities of your association 
"Goans of America" are limited to picnics & dances (like most Goan 
Associations).

Is that all you do? Nothing more challenging, more cerebral??

Eddie

-Original Message- 
From: Goans ofAmerica

Sent: Friday, February 8, 2019 1:51 AM
To: Goans ofAmerica
Subject: [Goanet] GOA events for 2019

Hello Everyone,

We have several events planned for you and your family this year and more
details will be sent to you before each event.  Please mark your calendars.

Events planned for 2019:

April 7, 2019 – Picnic 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Columbia Park, Torrance
August 30- September 1, 2019– Camp Seely
December 14, 2019, Christmas Dance – Knott's Berry Farm Hotel

The GOA thanks you for all your support and we are looking forward to
having another awesome year.

Sharel Figueredo

President GOA LA 

[Goanet] Fixture: Guirdolim Panchayat Cup

[carol]

Fixture (February 9)
Guirdolim Panchayat Cup (Semi-finals):  Don Bosco Oratory Fatorda vs 
Dicarpale Sports Club, at Chandor Church ground, at 4.30 p.m.

[Goanet] GOA events for 2019

[Goans ofAmerica]

Hello Everyone,

We have several events planned for you and your family this year and more
details will be sent to you before each event.  Please mark your calendars.



Events planned for 2019:



April 7, 2019 – Picnic 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Columbia Park, Torrance

August 30- September 1, 2019– Camp Seely

December 14, 2019, Christmas Dance – Knott's Berry Farm Hotel



Please visit us on our website at www.GoansOfAmerica.org

 for information on our committee, events planned and view pictures from
previous events.

You can also visit us on Facebook - Los Angeles GOA



The GOA thanks you for all your support and we are looking forward to
having another awesome year.



Warm Regards,



Sharel Figueredo

President

GOA LA

[Goanet] Camping Grounds for Goa - Need of the Hour?

[Joao Barros-Pereira]

That we have to go after high paying, up-market tourists is a common
opinion among a lot of our MLAs, and our tourism sector and
stakeholders, too, are gung-ho!

Great. Tell me, however, what are we going to do with a high
percentage of low paying tourists who visit Goa all through the year,
the kind which arrive by bus or car from our neighboring states; and,
although they own a car find the hotel rates and guest houses much too
expensive for their pockets or taste. What do we do with them?

India is one physical and political entity, and even if these tourists
are not popular with most people in the state they are Indian citizens
and have a right to travel anywhere in India. The Tourism Minister
cannot dig his head and bury it deep in the sands of our beaches; he
is in charge, and he has to come up with a solution. It is his job and
responsibility. And, worse, the problem is not going away, anytime
soon.

The recent no drinking and cooking in public places rules intended to
prevent tourists is good news for people who live in Goa. Hefty fines
are sometimes a good way to get a point across! But where do the
tourists sleep? Beggars in Goa, and elsewhere all over India, sleep in
public places - this is our culture - and sometimes they get beaten up
or run over by a car.

And so it is realistic to expect tourists to think they too have a
right to sleep anywhere if they cannot find affordable accommodation.
Even if they own  a car they may not want to spend much money or think
500 rupees is more than enough for a night's sleep for two or more
people. Now, no one should interfere with their right of freedom of
movement and travel, they probably think. Maybe, they even think it is
a fundamental right to sleep in public under the stars even though
they have a choice unlike beggars. As this is our culture, and this is
our country, we need to discuss this issue and find solutions to our
problems; no need to talk of the situation in foreign countries. We
have some problems in India which are quintessentially Indian, and in
need of Indian solutions.

Maybe it is time for campgrounds where people who travel by buses and
other vehicles can park and sleep on the cheap. An example of
eco-friendly tourism? We have to do it since we cannot turn away
penny-pinching Indian tourists from neighboring states without causing
an unnecessary and unwelcome mini-revolution. We don't need any more
social upheavals than are already a part of our lives. We have no
other choice but to organize camping grounds; otherwise Goa will soon
be getting much dirtier.

If we don't, more and more foreign tourists will leave Goa for other
places in India which are as culturally interesting and equally clean
or dirty (Goa isn't the only interesting place) and our tourism
coffers will become even more empty than they are now. Only casinos
and EDMs - desperate measures? - can bring back to life the flow of
money into the state's full-of-air coffers. Do we want this sort of
monetary transfusion every year? While prostitution and illegal drugs
make a lot of money, as neither is legal, there is no benefit to tax
revenue. Goa is now dancing  on the edge of disaster and may fall into
a deep hole which might not be a wonderland.

The tourism sector and stakeholders in Goa have to step up their
performance as time is running out fast for tourism's span of life.
What we are seeing this year - the decline in tourism - might well be
the new standard and pattern of measurement for the next few years or
even decade. We cannot stop the tide of low paying tourists however
much we may fantasize - all we can do at this point in time is get
ready to absorb them into a well organized tourism industry or we
might not have any industry in future.

If the new CRZ and other laws which are environmentally unfriendly are
implemented our beaches and hinterland will soon rival the crowded
beaches and slums of Mumbai. Goa is too small a place to take a
chance. We cannot play matka with the future of Goa. We won't or will
we?

There will be no way to turn back the tide later.

Re: [Goanet] Fwd: Pls share with all press nationwide and Goa press

[Aloysius D'Souza]

Wendell Rodricks 
Thanks Wendell

Why does this chapel have to be shifted?

The mosque on the road from Marine Lines railway station to the Metro
Cinema sits in the middle of the road for years (maybe centuries) and no
one has shifted it for road expansion or anything else.

The chapel on the Calangute Candolim road is also in the middle of the road
and is now being expanded.  The roads around it have been broadened but the
chapel has not been touched.

There must be hundreds of other such examples.

We have to make a BIG NOISE.

Cheers

Aloysius



On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:56 AM Retreat N Style 
wrote:

> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Wendell Rodricks 
> Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 6:08 PM
> Subject: Pls share with all press nationwide and Goa press
> To: Retreat 'N' Style 
>
>
> Four weeks after misleading and telling lies to the media and Colvale
> villagers that the St Anthony Chapel would not be demolished for the new
> highway extensions, a representative of the PWD informs Colvalkars this
> morning that the chapel and many houses will be demolished. How can they do
> this? Against Supreme Court Orders that no religious structures over 100
> years can be demolished? A disgrace, a scam and a public violation. STOP
> THE DESTRUCTION OF GOA
>
> Sent from my iPad Pro
> www.wendellrodricks.com
> Address: Wendell Rodricks, Campal, Panjim, Goa. 403001. INDIA
> Off: +91-832-2420604  Shop:+91-832-2238177
> E-retail: wendellrodricks.com
>

[Goanet] PRESS RELEASE: 77 Goa Schools to Get Kindness Game

[Greg Acuna - PlanetEarthlings.Org]

*PRESS RELEASE *



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



77 Goa Schools to Get Kindness Game



*GOA, January 30, 2019:* Goa based startup Earthlings Infotech in
cooperation with the Goa Directorate of Education and the State Council of
Educational Research and Training (SCERT) will be training teachers from 77
Government Schools to use their printed card game *Acting Kindly @School*.
The game teaches cooperation, collaboration and the joys of being nice to
each other.



The training programme will take place at the *SCERT Building, Porvorim
starting at 9:30 am Monday 11th February *with Secretary (Education) Smt.
Nila Mohanan and Director SCERT Shri. Nagaraj Honnekeri. Also invited to
inaugurate the event are project supporters IT Minister Shri. Rohan Khaunte
and Secretary (IT) Shri. Ameya Abhyankar.



SCERT has instructed heads of each Government English Medium Middle School
(Classes V to VIII) to depute one teacher to attend this positive social
impact training hosted by Earthlings Infotech CEO Greg Acuna to learn about
and play the game so they can go back to their schools to train other
teachers and have students experience it.



Earthlings Infotech is a Goa based game development company who is creating
an educational virtual world called Zarbul and a series of Acting Kindly
games both printed and for mobile. The Acting Kindly @School edition
provides social impact game experiences and helps both students and
teachers improve student grades, tackle exams and tame behavioral problems,
especially bullying.



Acting Kindly @School is played with decks of cards and Earthlings Infotech
and their crowdfunding supporters are gifting each of the 77 schools an
Acting Kindly @School *“Classroom Pack” *which includes 15 decks (for up to
30 players), a 60 page inspirational booklet to integrate the game into
core curriculum and take it out into the community for positive impact. The
whole thing comes in an attractive sliding drawer box. The donation is
valued at over 2.5 lakh rupees.



During the training programme teachers will learn and discuss how Acting
Kindly @School is played and how to effectively implement the game in an
educational, empowering and fun way for maximum impact for students and
schools.



“*Learning to cooperate and collaborate are truly keys to success in the
modern world. I’m really pleased to introduce a fun and empowering way for
young people to learn these life-changing skills,”* says Greg Acuna,
CEO of Earthlings
Infotech.



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