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At the stroke of 1200 noon today 4th June, 2006 the
Feast of the Holy Spirit, for Goa and Goans it turned
out to be a red letter day, in the anals of its
history, when the first "POVITR PUSTOK- ADLO ani NOVO
KORAR" -- in our mother tongue KONKANI (written in
Roman script) was released at the hands of His Grace
Archbishop of Goa and Daman Filipe Neri Ferrao in the
presence of Bishop Emeritius Most Rev Raul Gonsalves
and two other Bishops who are presently in Goa, Most
Rev. Stanislaus Fernandes, s.j. Bishop of Gandhinagar
(a native from S. Matias Divar ) and Rev Gerald John
Mathew of Chattisgarh ( a native of Mangalore) at the
St Catherina Church - Se Cathedral following a
Eucharist Mass with the participation of over 45
priests from the Diocese.
Releasing the hard bound "Povitr Pustok" the
Archbishop expressed a fervent desire to the gathering
of over 800 people partaking in the event to ensure
that "this Holy Bible now available in our mother
tongue becomes a valuable possession in our Homes".
But the devotees were deeply saddened to learn after
the Holy Eucharist ended when the announcement was
made that niether would the just released "Povitr
Pustok" copies be made available for sale today --
(ironically the date of "release" )-- nor in the next
couple of days.
The reasons adduced was that a hard bound cover print
orders were difficult to obtain in such large numbers
and a first offer order of 40,000 books needs to be
honoured. Appeals were made for lavish donations for
this enormous project.
At today's meet only a few "complimentary copies"
were distributed at the hands of the Archbishop to
those from the Biblical committee headed by Fr Manuel
Gomes and others. As a symbolic gesture to ensure the
spread of the "Povitr Pustok" to the entire state lay
persons representing the Central, North, and South
Episcopal Centres were given a copy of the "Povitr
Pustok".
According to Fr.Loila Pereira Secretary to the
Archbishop who spoke briefly to this writer it was
made known that the books costing Rs 300/- would be
made available for sale at the Pastoral Institute
Office at Old Goa Tiswadi Ilhas Goa India +91 0832
2285347.
Meanwhile Rev Father Manuel Gomes announced that
donations were still pouring in and that the balance
amount after covering the costs of the Konkani (Roman
script ) would be used for publishing the same in
Devanagari script -- this drew the ire of many of
those present as observed from their body language and
facial expressions.
Earlier on a bright sunny morning spared of the onset
of the monsoon showers that lashed the State three
days ago the St Lourenco, Agacaim , Choral Group led
by Rev Fr Andrew Mascarenhas presented a beautiful
rendition of hymns befitting the solemn ocassion. The
devotees clapped in appreciation of those that
constituted the Biblical committee for the task they
performed when momentos were being handed to them.
The "Povitr Pustok" is a handy book with a cover
depicting symbols of the Pascal candle, the empty
sephulcre, the ten commandments, the Red Sea.
At the end of the function which lasted well over two
and half hours snacks and refreshments were
distributed at the entrance to all the participants.
Several nuns and priests attended the ocassion.
Some of the Konkani writers Mr Jess Fernandes and
others were also presented a copy of the same. Mr
Tomazinho Cardozo, Mr Octavio Rodrigues amongst those
present.
from the Se Cathedral end
GODFREY J I GONSALVES
BORDA MARGAO GOA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
9822158584
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