Bose Joseph said...Bose Joseph said...വരും കാലത്തിനുവേണ്ടി നാം ചില കരുതലുകളോ എതിര്‍പ്പുകളോ ഇപ്പോള്‍ത്തന്നെ സ്വരൂപിക്കുന്നതില്‍ കാര്യമുണ്ടോ? ഭാവിയിലെ കാറ്റും കോളിനും നമ്മുടെ പായ്മരങ്ങള്‍ മതിയാവുകയില്ല. ലോകത്തെ അപ്പാടെ വിഴുങ്ങാന്‍ പോന്ന കൂറ്റന്‍ സ്രാവുകള്‍ വരികയാണെങ്കില്‍ അവയ്ക്കെതിരെ നില്‍ക്കാന്‍ പോകുന്നതും ഭാവിയുടെ പ്രതിരോധരീതികളായിരിക്കും. അവരുടെ കുതിപ്പുകളെക്കുറിച്ചോ സഹനത്തേക്കുറിച്ചോ നാമിപ്പോള്‍ ചര്‍ച്ച ചെയ്യുന്നതില്‍ വലിയ പ്രയോജനമുണ്ടെന്നു തോന്നുന്നില്ല. ഇന്നത്തെ ഉപകരണങ്ങള്‍ കൊണ്ട്‌ അഴിക്കാവുന്നവയാവില്ല കുരുക്കുകള്‍.
- Anonymous said...
What ever happened, happened. The church is already built. Nobody can do anything about it. So I, as a member of this parish, am begging you not to dig up dirt. It is going to hurt everybody. I believe this blog could have done a lot of good if it existed during or before the church construction. Now it is like "chatha kochinte jathakam nokkunna pole". So please stop scandalizing the community. I am not saying the authorities are perfect. I do not agree with the bishop's actions. But you have to realize this is happening in our family. So please stop, in God's name, embarassing the bishop and vicar and whoever were behind the church construction.
- Anonymous said...
I am very disappointed with the vicar’s stand on the Sunday mass schedule. He just ignores the rights of the majority of parishioners to attend the Sunday Malayalam Mass with their children to please a few people around him. These people will do whatever they could do to prevent any opportunity in our church for our kids to learn Malayalam and our culture. Their intention is to separate our children from us, inject American culture and turn them against us. Why they are doing this? Their kids are already Americanized so they hate other kids learning our culture. With the help of some CCD teachers they were forcing the kids to attend English mass only. Finally they made it impossible for the kids to attend Malayalam mass with a tricky schedule. Majority of kids can understand the Malayalam mass rather than this English mass in Malayalam accent. If the kids cannot understand Malayalam, there is something wrong with their parents. I cannot believe why the parish vicar is blindly supporting these people.
The parish council members have no voice or they have no clue what they are doing. Otherwise why don’t they make any effort to change the schedule for the convenience of majority of the parishioners? They pretend that they carry the church on their shoulders and keep their mouth shout in parish council meetings. Their only interest is to show their names and photos in notice boards and bulletins.
For some people this is not an issue affecting them, because either they live not too far from the church or their children are grown up now. They don’t care about others. Some are underneath a veil and they cannot see anything else. Please don’t ignore the real issue. They are going to close the Malayalam school and cultural academy this year. Think about the future of our church if we go forward with main mass only in English. They all know what they are doing. Lord, please don’t forgive them. - Who cares said...
The net results of some “GODS OWN” people’s (people immigrated from ‘God’s own country’) hard work and community service are as follows:
1) A $10 million new church with same seating capacity as the old church and fewer parking spaces (Who cares about the parishioners (coming with babies and elderly people) get parking space or not!)
2) No way to attend the Sunday mass in Malayalam with children at a convenient time. (Who cares about parishioners (coming to the church by driving more than 25- 50 miles and those who are coming to the church after working night shift to) attend Malayalam mass !.)
3) Near closure of Malayalam school and cultural academy. (Who cares about Malayalam and culture!)
4) A sheela that divided the parishioners into two groups. (If sheela is necessary to keep the Syro Malabar tradition whey they teach CCD in Latin tradition to our children. Who cares about what children learn!)
5) Kids can attend only Mangleesh Qurbana. (Look at other people immigrated from different countries to US. They all keep their tradition by attending their religious service in their own language. We are the only ones doing this foolishness. Who cares!)
കാപട്യങ്ങളുടെ മുഖമാണ് നമ്മുടെ ലോകത്തിന്. നന്മയുടെ കിരണങ്ങളെ കൂരിരുട്ട് മറച്ചു തുടങ്ങിയിരിക്കുന്നു.നാം ആ പ്രാകൃത ചിന്തകളിലേക്ക്‌ മടങ്ങുകയാണ്. ഇതു എന്‍റെ മാത്രം തോന്നലാകാം. അല്ലെങ്കില്‍ എന്നിലെ കാപട്യം എന്നെ അങ്ങനെ തോന്നിപ്പിച്ചതുമാകം. പഴകിയ ചിന്തകള്‍ എന്ന് പറഞ്ഞു പരിഹസിക്കാം.വിരോധമില്ല. ഭ്രാന്തന്‍ ചിന്തകള്‍ എന്ന് പുച്ഛിക്കാം. വിദ്വേഷം ഇല്ല. കാരണം എന്തൊക്കെയോ നഷ്ടപ്പെടുന്നവന്‍റെ വേദനയാണ് എനിക്ക്. ...."
December 11, 2008 7:03 PM