Dedications

The thought that came to my mind when I saw the boring spiel of Oswald Gracias shared on social media. As boring as his sermons.

https://youtu.be/ucgQbsRsfCM

Ashamed address him as Cardinal, His Excellency, Your Holiness or Your Grace, as he is someone who has Police FIRs against him? Allegation of corruption and someone who does not qualify to be a Cardinal but also does not qualify to be a priest? Then he is someone who is imposed as a Cardinal on the Indian Catholic Church by a white man in Rome? Can we the clergy and laity not decide who should be our Church leaders in India? As no where in the near future or even till the second  coming will we see an Indian as a Pope, as it would always be a white man? Then if we end up with an Indian Pope, like Oswald, it is better we have a white man?

What if Jesus was guiding us during this elections in India? Would he lace his talk with spiritual blabbery and the call to pray? He did not do that when he was a kid, debating on the scriptures with the elders in the temple? He did not pray and  then whip the traders out the temple? He did not make a speech. All he did whipped them out saying one statement, "Do not make my Father's house a place a den of thieves".

So too Oswald could have mustered the courage and made one simple statement, "Do not vote for BJP." Salute the brave clergy including Nuns in India who are openly creating awareness of BJP atrocities and educating the laity. Oswald needs to come down his ivory castle of AB house, step down his leather throne, shed off his fancy dress attire and be more modest in his dressing sense and taken a trip to Manipur when it was in flames. A trip to places where Churches are being burnt and vandalized. First reach to those who need you and then preach. Jesus did the same. He was not only preaching in Synagogues or public places. He was reaching out to those that needed to be healed and then preaching. 

# posted by Sunny Fernandes @ 10:27 PM