{"id":39113,"date":"2017-01-13T23:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T23:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2017\/01\/13\/acya-cum-ckcym-chungtia-celebrate-25th-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T23:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T23:20:21","slug":"acya-cum-ckcym-chungtia-celebrate-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2017\/01\/13\/acya-cum-ckcym-chungtia-celebrate-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"ACYA cum CKCYM Chungtia celebrate 25th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>Ao Catholic Youth Association (ACYA) cum Christ King Catholic Youth Movement, Chungtia celebrated its \u201csilver anniversary\u201d on January 12 with commissioner &amp; secretary, School Education and SCERT Francis P. Solo, as the chief guest and Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima as the main celebrant for the Eucharistic celebration.<\/div>\n<div>The programme began with unveiling of the silver anniversary monolith by F.P. Solo and blessed by Bishop Dr James Thoppil, followed by solemn thanksgiving Eucharist presided over by the Bishop.<\/div>\n<div>At the Eucharistic celebration, Bishop expressed his happiness over the youth and community of Chungtia and prayed for God\u2019s blessing on them.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>In his homily bishop said that he expects the participants of the anniversary celebration to return to their respective places strengthened and fortified in Catholic Faith. Bishop said, the experience of God is such that one cannot hide the joy of it, but share it with others, the more one shares, greater is the joy.<\/div>\n<div>The Eucharistic celebration was followed by felicitation programme. F.P. Solo, in his speech congratulated ACYA for reaching the 25 year milestone.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>He said being small is not an impediment for growth but rather an advantage because, when the group is small, decisions can be taken easily.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Stating that \u201cwe\u201d are called to practice our faith in our day to day living, he said, in life when we meet with obstacles we have two approaches before us, viz., negative and positive. It does not serve to be negative but rather we have to be positive and proactive and then concentrate on what we want to achieve, he added.<\/div>\n<div>Earlier before the Holy Eucharist, Rev. Fr. James Mlakuzhiyil, parish priest, extended words of welcome.<\/div>\n<div>At the felicitation programme ACYA president Lepden Victor, delivered the welcome address, short speeches were delivered by VP Catholic Association of Nagaland, James Sangtam, director of Nagaland Catholic Movement, Fr. Sojan Xavier, VP Nagaland Catholic Women Association, Kaholi, Johnny Ruangmei, former secretary general of Catholic Association of Nagaland and chairman of Chungtia Council and vote of thanks by Stephen general Secretary ACYA Longchar. &nbsp;Special attractions of the felicitation programme were cultural piece from Catholic Community, Chungtia, special presentation from Ao Catholic Community, Dimapur.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ao Catholic Youth Association (ACYA) cum Christ King Catholic Youth Movement, Chungtia celebrated its \u201csilver anniversary\u201d on January 12 with commissioner &amp; secretary, School Education and SCERT Francis P. Solo, as the chief guest and Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil, Bishop of Kohima as the main celebrant for the Eucharistic celebration. The programme began with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}