Bangalore: Twenty Capuchins Ordained Deacons by Archbishop
from Joachim D’Souza
for Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (GA)
Bangalore, Jun 30: Twenty Capuchin Brothers were ordained deacons on Sunday June 29 during the Holy Eucharist celebrated by Archbishop Bernard Moras of Bangalore.
Brothers Claud Mascarenhas, Prashanth Kumar, Cyril Anand Periera, Sunil D’Souza, William Prabhu, Gabriel Fernandes, Fransuinho Gomes, Sebastian Kinny, Ashok Brahmanne, Robert Gonsalves, Thomas Fernandes, Roland Bendoamar, Wilson Pegado, Brian Bandya, Victor Bandya, Paul Mashi, Fulgence Majhi, Mukti Prakash Tete, Anil Kullu and Suresh Kerketta received the ordination to diaconate.
It was a great day for the Capuchins to thank and praise the Creator as so many young men came forward to dedicate themselves to the Lord and to His people by living a simple and humble life in the footsteps of their founder St Francis of Assisi.
Fr Vincent G. Furtado, Provincial of Holy Trinity province Karnataka thanked the Archbishop for his availability to confer on these brothers the grace of Diaconate. Fr Anil Sequiera, Rector of Darshan Institute of Theology, Bangalore praised the parents and relatives for sacrificing their sons for the very cause of the Lord.
Brothers from the Capuchin theologate under the baton of their Scripture professor Fr Salvador Fernandes enhanced the solemnity of the occasion with their melodious choir.
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