[Goanet] Schedule for Monday 25th December 2023
Schedule for Monday 25th December 2023 12:00 AM Christmas Midnight Mass Contd 1:40 AM 4th All Goa Carol Singing 2023 Part 1 2:45 AM Rosary - Joyful Mysteries 3:10 AM Beatitudes 5 and 6 - Kirona Noronha 3:32 AM Fr Rob Galea - 6th Anniversary of CCRTV 3:50 AM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister 4:12 AM 4th All Goa Carol Singing 2023 Part 2 5:14 AM Carols - Candeia Stars of Pomburpa 5:25 AM Hymns with a Difference at Christmas 5:46 AM Timely Medical Response - Dr Jorson Fernandes interviewed by Jovito Lopes 6:27 AM Choir - Divine Harmony - Conducted by Jason Quadros 6:50 AM Consecrated Life - Sr Joeyanna D'Souza DSP 7:00 AM Praise and Worship - Magno Menezes - SJVRC 7:33 AM Devachem Utor - Sirak Avesor 38 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza 7:42 AM Bhajan - Manusya Devachara Bandi - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx 7:50 AM Pope's Intercessions K 7:53 AM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 24 - Noxib - Fr Pratap Naik sj 8:03 AM Prayer - Alone with none but Thee, my God 8:05 AM Cost of Discipleship - Fr. Saturnino Colaco 8:40 AM Fr Rob Galea - 6th Anniversary of CCRTV 8:56 AM Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 8 9:00 AM Aimorechen Magnnem 9:03 AM Couples Prayer - English 9:06 AM Jesus help us to love You - Fr Joseph Silva 9:30 AM Carols - Sanctus - Majorda 9:40 AM Pope's Intercessions E 9:43 AM Angelus - English 9:45 AM Vakhann'ni - Talk by Gaurish Naik 10:16 AM Tell me a story - Christmas 10:42 AM Kuznantlim Zogddim - Eps 1 - Amlet - Meena Goes and Julius Mesquita 10:51 AM Christmas Song - Natal Pai - Milagres Fernandes 10:57 AM Prayer of children for their parents 10:59 AM Hymn - No man can live as an island - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap) 11:01 AM Internet Addiction - Talk by Sr Joeyanna D'Souza fsp 11:30 AM Mass 1:30 PM Daily Flas/Jivitacho Prokas 1:33 PM Timely Medical Response - Dr Jorson Fernandes interviewed by Jovito Lopes 2:12 PM Perpetual Succour Convent H.S., Navelim 2:17 PM Prayer : Benedictus 2:20 PM Song - A Goan Christmas - Alfwold Silveira 2:23 PM Gaddie-Vahonan Vechea Vellar Bhagevont Zuze Vazache Mozotin Magnnem 2:25 PM Prayer while travelling - St Joseph Vaz 2:27 PM Mother Teresa of Kolkota - Quote 2:30 PM Internet Addiction - Talk by Sr Joeyanna D'Souza fsp 3:00 PM Deivik Kaklutichi Magnneam 3:10 PM Why did Jesus become incarnate , crucified and resurrected? - Talk by Dr Sarita Nazareth 3:43 PM Carols - Candeia Stars of Pomburpa 3:54 PM Carol - Peace Child - Don Bosco Choir Panjim 4:00 PM Rosary - Joyful Mysteries 4:23 PM Carlos Acutis - A song by Fr Eusico Pereira 4:30 PM Senior Citizens Exercises - 3 5:00 PM Spirit of Forgiveness - Talk by Fr Seby Mascarenhas sfx 5:34 PM Cribs - Talk by Br Melito 5:39 PM Song - Jezu Tujem Nanv - Ivor D'Cunha 5:45 PM St. Francis of Assisi - Christmas Crib - Fr. Valerian Ferrao OFM 5:56 PM Prayer - You are My Refuge Lord 6:00 PM Mon'xak koslo adav? (Mark 8:38 )- A talk by Cassino D'Costa 6:26 PM Magnnem - Talk by Orlando D'Souza 7:11 PM Rocking Carols- Fabiola Lopes 7:30 PM Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister 7:52 PM Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag 301 - BottalleKansov - Fr Pratap Naik sj 8:00 PM Breaking Barriers Through Dialogue - Road Safety - Hosted by Jovito Lopes 8:46 PM Devachem Utor - Sirak Avesor 39 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza 8:55 PM Catholic Undestandinf of Drean Catcher - Fr Melito D'Costa 9:00 PM Adoration - Fr Oscar Nazareth op 9:20 PM Ratchem Magnem 9:36 PM Christmas Street Play 2022 - Fr Leslie Rego 10:10 PM Youthopia - Ivo Gonsalves interviewed by Sammy Coelho 10:38 PM Commitment to Holiness through Prayer - Fr Fernando da Costa 11:22 PM Divinity of Jesus Christ - Talk by Sheela Alvares 11:44 PM What's Cooking? Season 2 Episode 5
[Goanet] What Child Is This (O Heraldo, 24/12/2023)
https://www.heraldgoa.in/Edit/By-invitation/What-Child-is-This/215628 Today of all days we cannot turn away. This evening at midnight, countless millions of people in every part of the world will celebrate the birth of “whom shepherds guard and angels sing.” That is Palestine, where there will be no Christmas celebrations in the original Manger Square in front of the nearly 2000-year-old Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. “People are grieving and sad about what is happening in Gaza,” the parish priest told *Deutsche Welle *earlier this week. “This is the first time that the place where Jesus was born, I see it empty like this.” Father Issa Taljieh is a Bethlehem native who has served the famous pilgrimage site for 12 years, where he’s responsible for the Greek Orthodox premises (by ancient agreement, the church is shared with the Catholics and Armenian Apostolic Church). Today, it is under the loose administrative control of the Palestinian National Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas, at the heart of an envelope of territory hemmed in by two bypass roads and 37 separate enclaves for the exclusive use of Israeli settlers. Just like every other part of the occupied West Bank, these are tense environs shrouded in an atmosphere of violence, and it has remained that way for a very long time. I had the opportunity to experience this fraught “holy land” way back in 1984, when my family was granted special permissions to visit Israel that came printed on little slips of paper that were meant to be discarded after we left Ben Gurion Airport on the way home. In those years, like all other Indians, our passports carried this prominent proscription: “Not Valid for Travel to Israel, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia”. Since then, it has become relatively common for many of us to make similar trips, and tens of thousands of Goans have undertaken pilgrimage tours to all the iconic Biblical sites: Jerusalem, Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee. But that was not the case 40 years ago, and we had known no one else from our backgrounds who had made it out there for the apex event that is Midnight Mass in Bethlehem, in what is most likely the oldest Christian site of worship in the world. Unbeknownst to us, that very same Christmas Eve turned out to be an important turning point for Palestine and the Palestinians. The territories of the West Bank had been originally seized from Jordan in 1967, after the so-called Six-Day War, when Israel decisively defeated an Arab coalition (and simultaneously occupied the Golan Heights from Syria, and the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt), but were left relatively alone and handled comparatively gingerly until Midnight Mass in 1984, when my family and everyone else was entirely shocked when Shimon Peres suddenly showed up – the first Israeli leader to ever visit the iconic shrine – and popped up onstage in Manger Square to exhort us: “I bring a greeting of peace to all those who seek peace.” It’s an indelible memory: Peres delivering promises that sounded like threats, with an army of snipers standing out against cloudless dark skies on all the surrounding rooftops. The holy night became tinged with menace. What happened since then – the massive expansion of settlements, Intifadas, constant violence and the steady devolution of Israel into an apartheid state – has directly led to the war of extermination being waged against the Palestinians in Gaza, enabled by an increasingly obviously ethnonationalist coalition of the west led by the USA. To the stark horror of yet another generation of young people who expected better from the world, we are seeing exactly how the “rules-based international order” applies only selectively, with some lives valued more than others. Arundhati Roy described this terrible moment in time at an award function in Kerala earlier this month: “Something in our moral selves will be altered forever. Are we going to simply stand by and watch while homes, hospitals, refugee camps, schools, universities, archives are bombed, a million people displaced, and dead children pulled out from under the rubble? The borders of Gaza are sealed. People have nowhere to go. They have no shelter, no food, no water. The United Nations says more than half the population is starving. And still they are being bombed relentlessly. Are we going to once again watch a whole people being dehumanised to the point where their annihilation does not matter?” A couple of days ago on Twitter, the outstanding writer and public intellectual Priyamvada Gopal (she is a professor at Cambridge University in the UK) posted that “I’m dreading the evening we think about a baby born in Bethlehem. Too painful to contemplate.” I agreed at first, but now it seems to me this Christmas Eve is perfectly timed precisely because we are firmly enjoined – via scripture, tradition and historical circumstance too – to think and talk about Palestine. And of course, it’s not only about Palestine but the future tar
[Goanet] Christmas 2023
Christmas 2023 On behalf of 3L, their poor families, and Friends of 3L, I wish you and your family members a peace, joy, and grace filled CHRISTMAS🎄. Jesus the Prince of Peace, may heal the broken and wounded world with his divine peace and joy. Jesus the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity who was with His Father and Holy Spirit, and was sent to redeem us from the bondage of SIN through his suffering and shameful death on the cross, may grant you and your family members His love, peace, grace, and mercy. The Christmas Season begins on the 24th December at the sunset and ends on the Sunday celebrating the Baptism of the Lord. However, for us Friends of 3L (least, last, lost students and their families), Christmas is extended to 24x7 of the entire calendar year. The focus and centre of Christmas is Jesus and not Santa Claus (Christmas Father) or anything else. Without the focus on Jesus, Christmas is a meaningless ritual and commercialized hedonistic festival. The message of Christmas is centred on loving, caring, and sharing. Hence, throughout the year, we Friends of 3L reach out to 3L for their educational and other basic needs to make their life meaningful, joyful, hopeful, and dignified. For us: The hut with asbestos or tin sheets of 3L is the Crib. The youngest 3L represents Baby Jesus. Their parents are the replica of Mother Mary and St. Joseph. The donors are the angels who bring the Good News. The well-wishers who pray for them take the role of the shepherds. The ordinary lamp in their huts is the Christmas Star. The tree in the vicinity of their dwelling place is the natural Christmas Tree. The open sky with the moon, planets, stars, and other terrestrial bodies are the Christmas Decorations. Cattle, dogs, cats, goats, pigs which roam around their huts are members of the Stable. The songs which 3L sing while beating the empty tins become the Christmas Carols. Various sounds produced in the vicinity of 3L, become the Christmas Instrumental Music. 3L dance with joy in their own style the Christmas Ballet. The pictures which they draw in mud are the Christmas Cards. Clapping of hands with joy by 3L are the Jingle Bells. The provisions provided by the generous persons become the Christmas Banquet. The people of good will provide the Christmas Hampers. The extraordinary generous persons come as Magi with gifts. I as a coordinator, take the role of the Christmas Father to coordinate the entire Mission of 3L throughout the year. 3L do not take part in any Christmas competition. They live a life of cooperation, coordination, and solidarity. Where there is loving, caring, sharing, and praying done for 3L, there CHRISTMAS becomes a reality each day. This year we provided New Clothes to 22, 3L students and their mother/father. 2 boys and their mother who were out of Goa will be provided new clothes in the New Year. We distributed to 20 families Christmas Hampers with lovely strong jute bags. 9 families were helped for Christmas meal. We wanted to reach out to many more. But where our vision visualizes, unfortunately our hands do not reach!!! If others wish to join the family of “Friends of 3L”, they are most welcome at any day to contact me. With loving regards, Pratapananda Naik, SJ Coordinator of 3L 24th December 2023 7.00 pm Mobile: 9850658565 Email: pratapnai...@gmail.com
