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Don Bosco Provincial House, 21, December 2019: The Salesian Province of Hyderabad (INH) celebrated the Priestly Ordination of four of her sons on 21st December 2019. The Holy Order of Priesthood was conferred on them by Most Rev. Dr Govindu Joji, DD, Bishop of Nalgonda at Our Don Bosco Shrine, Bandlaguda Jagir, Hyderabad.
The four Priests who were ordained are Father Gadesula Naresh, Father Kasu Loudu Reddy, Father Narisetty Anup Kumar and Father Palem Jeevan Kumar. The candidates have completed their four years of theological formation at Kristu Jyothi College, Bengaluru.
The parents and relatives of the deacons and a huge number of Salesians from the province; priests and religious from the native dioceses of 
the deacons participated in the solemn liturgy.
The candidates for the ordination were presented to the Most Rev. Dr Govindu Joji, DD, Bishop of Nalgonda by Fr Thathireddy Vijaya Bhaskar sdb, the Provincial, at the ordination. The Bishop ordained the candidates by imploring God’s graciousness and anointed them as priests to proclaim the gospel, to baptize and to administer the sacraments.
Addressing the newly ordained priests, Bishop Govindu Joji highlighted the significance of the Order of the Priesthood in his homily and reminded them about the primary function of all priests is administering the church’s seven sacraments: baptism, confirmation, confession, holy communion, marriage, holy orders, and anointing of the sick and doing them from the heart. He also told that another important task of the priest is to be a mediatory agent between humans and God.
After the Holy Eucharist, Fr Thathireddy Vijaya Bhaskar, the Provincial, felicitated Bishop Govindu Joji and the parents of the four ordained priests and thanked them. Promptly, the newly ordained priests Fr Naresh and Jeevan proposed vote of thanks. They thanked the Almighty God for their calling to the priesthood in the Salesian congregation. They extended gratitude to the host, Fr B. Rayappa, Parish Priest at Don Bosco Shrine, Bandlaguda. Fr Jeevan thanked the chief organizers of the event viz., Fr Santiagu Thomas, the vice provincial and Fr Sarath Parri, the vocation promoter. Similarly, Fr Naresh thanked Fr Vatti Rayappa and Fr Thalla Wilson for the beautiful way the entire liturgy was organized. Fr Naresh told that the singing during the liturgy was done by Fr Gnanapragasam sdb, a specially trained choir consisting of our novices from Manoharabad, Novices from Sisters of Charity with a professional musicians led by Mr Madhiri Naveen and his team. He thanked them for the grotesque singing. Fr Jeevan thanked Fr Salagala Rajesh and Fr Baly for the sumptuous food. He thanked Fr Ashok, director of DB Pravahini for the photos and videos.
The celebrations of the priestly ordinations concluded with an extravagant food at BIRDY premises.
Congratulations to all the newly ordained priests.
