On 14thAugust this year, the renowned Goan Tiatrist and Playwright Irineu Goanslves staged his Tiatro in Candolim at the entrance of the Church. During the interval, Mr. Gonsalves called me at the Stage and felicitated me for the enormous work I did mainly from Kuwait for the cause of Konkani in particular and for Goa in general. As the director of this Tiatro he had all the rights to felicitate me or for that matter anybody for which he need not require anybody’s permission since this felicitation was organized on the stage which was totally under his control.
While the felicitation was in progress on the stage some of the members of the different church groups mainly the females tried to stop this felicitation by trying to push their male leader who was responsible for making arrangement to stage this Tiatro. Then according to my information these opponents of mine went to Pe. Vigar who though played coolly yet supported those irrelevant opponents of mine but ultimately nobody dared to fulfill his/her wish.
Now my question on this whole “tamasha” created by these useless people including the Pe. Vigar and those who are involved in the Church to gain cheap prominence and also to those Donkeys who were asking “why feliticitate him, what was his help for the Church and Church School?” My reply to these stupid people is this: what I have done for Candolim Church and School none of you has done. Only one incident I give: When there was a need of money to construct the upper floor of the School/Hall, I was requested to help the then Principal of the School to get him the Visa to come to Kuwait to collect fund for this cause. Because of my help in getting him the visiting Visa the then Principal landed in Kuwait and collected a huge amount from Kuwait. When this incident happened none of these stupid people were existing in the Church area, they were kids then like the present Pe. Vigar who has to mature himself more if he wants to survive in Candolim which is not Agacaim.
This news none of those useless people knows neither the Pe. Vigar who is just a “kalcho porcho potto” in my ancestral village of which he has to learn a lot before passing a comment on me. My village is the only village in whole of Goa that is known to give birth to the world renown persons such as Abade Faria of whose type world is yet to produce another one and Pintos revolutionary priests who were the first in the whole of subcontinent to create a revolt against their own colonialist government.
My other question here is this: Am I a migrant or non Goan in my village? Was it a crime to felicitate me thus? What was wrong in felicitating me the real son of Candolim whose contribution in the support of Goan causes, Goan language and Catholicism cannot be challenged by any of the expatriate Candoicar nor Goyencar? They should have felt proud that their villager is felicitated for his good work and felt ashamed that this felicitation was done by non-Candoicar instead of by them or Candoicars. As a fatherly figure Pe. Vigar should have been judicious but he failed and even he will fail in the future because I find him now more volatile. He must know that he is surrounded by the useless people involved in the Church affairs. Instead of directing their ire on me and waste their time they should go after those corrupt Catholic locals who are involved in immorality and other corrupt practices and yet they come to the Church and receive Holy Communion. These Church involved people and Pe. Vigar must do something to stop the concubinage Catholics are involved instead.
Because of the idiotic minded Catholics involved in our Church affairs, more and more Catholics are leaving Catholicism and embracing other denominations which are mushrooming everywhere in Goa. If our Church leaders have guts and grace of God then they will arrest the move of non-Catholic groups from taking our Catholics in their fold. This is what my opponent on 14th August 2017 should stop and not me. I am unstoppable and you people are too tiny to stop me.
A.Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Bardez, Goa.