Indian civilisation’s values in life vital: Goa Archbishop

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Panaji, Dec 30, 2018: Christmas season and new year,  should help people lead lives with values like ‘samvedana’ (sensitivity) and ‘karuna’ (compassion), which form the ethos of the Indian civilization, Goa’s Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao said in his annual address.

“May HE lead our lives along the paths of ‘samvedana’ and ‘karuna’ and enable us to live according to these profound values enshrined into the ethos of our Indian civilization,” Ferrao said.

The civic function held at the Bishop’s House in Panaji on Dec. 28 evening, was attended by top functionaries of the state including Goa Governor Mridula Sinha, top ministers, bureaucrats, among others.

Ferrao said that the Church, which serves as the religious and spiritual guide to a huge population world wide, had dedicated 2018 as a year for the “poor and underprivileged” and exhorted Catholics to celebrate Christmas by including the poor in the festive celebration.

“If there is one season why we need to intensify our ‘samvedana’ and ‘karuna’ to the poor around us, it is this holy season, when we contemplate the divine child being born in total poverty and being laid in a manger, thus identifying himself with the poorest of the poor and the homeless, and beckoning us to do the same,” the archbishop pointed out.