Dedications

Was the Church not always like a club, and will continue to be one?

Millions are betting that their prayers will be answered? Microscopic few that get healed or get what they prayed for? Something that could have been got or achieved without prayers? This gets magnified and then more people pray (gamble) with petitions and money thrown to that Saint or Church like Lourdes or The Mount Mary's and Velankanni in India?

Then it is a strip club, where the strip you more of your wealth with passages from the Bible? Like tithe and Jesus telling a rich man sell all your belongings and follow me?

Finally what you get from this club?

Few drops of water sprinkled on your head at baptism?

A wafer as the body of Christ?

A slap to proclaim you as confirmed?

A blessing on your marriage? Does the blessing work as many marriages are not working?

Finally few drops of water when you are lowered in a grave? 

In a night club a women gets picked up decently? There is good amount of security to ensure you are safe?

Can I get an Amen for this

Congregation flocked the early morning mass today 5.30 am at the Bascillica of Mount Mary, to wish her a Happy Birthday. Just wondering why the choir couldn't sing Happy Birthday to her? Then even if it was sung, would she be happy. 

A virgin chosen by God to give birth to his son in human manifestation to save and redeem the world. Would it be a happy Mother, to see the state of the world today? Her only son was crucified for no crime of his. Crucified and died on the cross and saved humanity from its sins. Did we humans or let's say only Christians stop sinning after that? 

Imagine a Mother who saw her only son sacrificed for a hope of a better world. With what face are we facing her today? Infact many face the statue of our Mother with their mobile cameras and take selfies. This is all we have to offer to her for the selflessness of her son and she as a helpless Mother watching her son die on the cross. 

The feast at the Basillica of the Mount has been around for three centuries, and another famous pilgrimage site of our Mother in South India,.Our Lady of Velankanni has been commemorated since the 16th century. What have we as Christians proved over the centuries of worshipping and praying to Mother Mary? 

Our prayers are for her intercession, for various petitions we as human beings have. Ranging from cure of illness, tide over financial crisis, marital discords, to get a job, success at exams and the list is endless. As a Mother she has and will always be there to intercede with her son for us. Like Mothers in today's world, many are abandoned, lonely with kids having migrated, ailing and no one to help. They are now desperately seeking love and attention from their kids who they gave everything? Many don't even want their money,. With technology where one can make a video call free, even a call is rare. 

So to with our Mother Mary, who gave us her only son, is now seeking as to what is that we can give her. She does not want us to get crucified. She does want us to wish each other Happy Feast. She would prefer us to see how we can reach out and make someone happy. As the Church was filled with no place for many to sit, there were not many who would even offer their seat to an an elderly or a lady or even many Nuns. We can't even offer a seat to someone who needs it in Church, what place can we offer Mother Mary in our lives?

You don't bring Lord Ganesh into your home.  It is he who comes every year into HIS home, to collect HIS rent, of our honesty, humanity humbleness and our faith in HIM. 

Let's ensure we keep our honesty, humbleness and faith in him every day, and not just regale it only to the festival of Ganesh Chatturthi 

Ganpathi Bappa Moriya

Recent visit of Modi ensured that an elected and loved MP leader of the masses, Prof. Varsha Gaikwad, was detained from leaving her home. Why is our 56-inch-chested PM scared of a lady? Just because she is a fearless and honest opposition leader?

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https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/pm-modis-visit-police-have-detained-us-claims-varsha-gaikwad/article68584785.ece

If this is the state of justice for an elected leader, what justice can a common man expect? Why was she detained? Why is the police machinery used as goons to suppress a leader's rights? What threat was she to the PM? Does she not have the right to a peaceful protest during the PM's visit?

This is nothing but fear of the upcoming elections, where the BJP will be shown the same result as what happened in Ayodhya. The masses have awoken, and they cannot be pleased with religious propaganda. Propaganda with a temple built that leaks. If you can't make a temple for God, what homes and country can the BJP build?

The temple of democracy, the Parliament, recently built, is leaking. Not to mention exam paper leaks. Detaining Prof. Varsha Gaikwad, whom the masses lovingly call Varsha Tai, was as good as chaining her. The mistake Modi made was taking on Varsha Tai, who is Bombay's Lakshmibai and the queen of citizens' hearts, from where she was elected.

From the land of Shivaji Maharaj, in whose memory even a solid statue could not be built, and it collapsed? A party that cannot build a statue promising infrastructure? Modi, you bowed your head in apology for the statue of India's beloved and fearless leader, Shivaji Maharaj, that fell. Get ready to bow your head in shame this coming election.

You chained our beloved Varsha Tai; now soon your party will have to bid goodbye to Bombay. The citizens will drive the final nail in the coffin of your leadership and your party this election.