Diocesan fraternity Kma celebrates ‘Vianney feast’

Diocesan fraternity of the Diocese of Kohima celebrated the feast of St. John Mary Vianney, the patron saint of the Parish Priests from August 4 to 5 at St. Xavier’s Parish, Jalukie.
 St. John Mary Vianney was a saint from France, who spent most of his life in Ars, a remote town and as a parish priest he spent most of his life by attending to confessions of thousands of people who flocked to him.
The feast included programmes like Holy Eucharist with local community of St. Xavier’s Parish, felicitation programme, DF meeting, basketball match and get-together.
Senior most priest of the diocese, Reverend Fr. Mathew Keemattam, in his homily highlighted the qualities St. John Vianney and exhorted the priests and community to be a lovers like their patron saint and to root their life on prayer.
The feast was attended by more than 60 diocesan priests and the students of the St. Xavier’s Hr. school and college and the catholic community of the town.