You all must be proud and happy that with the
declaration of a joint Pastoral letter from Archbishop Most Rev. Anil Cuoto and Bishop of the Eprachy of
Faridabad,Most Rev. Kuriakose Bharanikulangara, the Capital city of Delhi and
the north of India are blessed with one more autonomous church. According to them, it is the
fulfilment of a long cherished desire from the laity of the church for the
preservation of faith and love for Jesus and strengthening of the unity of the
Catholic Church. At a time when the church is facing persecutions of different
hues, we need to unite.
The more the churches, more bishops and clergy, the
better is the unity and love. We have realistic experience of this unity and
love of Christ from the churches in Kerala.
We need to congratulate all those lay people from the north of India (If
there is really any) who have appealed to the Catholic Hierarchy to strengthen
the faith and the church by bringing one more church to this Capital City. My
appeal now is that every catholic has a duty to strengthen our faith, love for
Jesus and unity of the Catholic Church. So we need to bring in as many autonomous
churches as possible to the capital city. If needed, we must create more autonomous
churches. The rituals of services of the some catholic churches in the central
part of Kerala especially (changanacherry and Palai) are different from the new
Eparchy. Then there is Bethany group.
These two groups are not represented by the presence of Bishops.
More
the bishops, more the faith and more of Jesus. They too must appeal to the
catholic hierarchy to give them also shepherds for them in the capital. I
understand that there is still another group of Catholics in Kottayam the
Kannaya church. The people from that diocese also need a shepherd here. Why any
catholic in this Capital city of Delhi should be left to the mercy of another
church. Unity will be stronger when we
have plenty of shepherds and diversity of chruches. Let us rejoice for the first step taken. Once
more congratulations to everyone who have taken the initiative to bring the
Catholics of Delhi together. Let us pray for more and more shepherds to
strengthen our church. Some new ideas.
Why not we have a Bishop each for tribal Catholics, for the dalit
Catholics, for the Goan Catholics, for Mangolorean Catholics, for Anglo-Indian
Catholics and for North East Catholics.
The more the bishops, the merrier the Catholic Church, more diversity and more
unity and love. We can even build a Bishop’s Enclave in the capital similar to
the Deplomatic Enclave so that they can start loving each other and show the
laity the unity and love in Jesus.
Jose Paul (Delhi)
Dear Jose Paul, your satire will make some of us laugh, but those to whom you have really addressed the letter won't ever grasp the meaning between the words. They are only interested in power play and titles. They won't even notice that you've used Rev. Kuriakos instead of his cherished title of Archbishop. One day he will manage to get the title of Archdiocese for the Eparchy of Faridabad. Nobody is interested in unity and cooperation. Complete non cooperation is the only means to bring home to these guys that the multiplication of bishops is not at alll welcome among the Christians living in the area.
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