{"id":98137,"date":"2016-11-20T23:32:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T23:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2016\/11\/20\/catholics-celebrate-feast-of-christ-the-king\/"},"modified":"2016-11-20T23:32:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T23:32:50","slug":"catholics-celebrate-feast-of-christ-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2016\/11\/20\/catholics-celebrate-feast-of-christ-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholics celebrate feast of Christ the King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/SAJEAIWZDZRYASNVTQZV.jpg><\/p>\n<div>Christ King Church (CKC) Kohima celebrated the feast of \u201cChrist the King\u201d on Sunday with Bishop of Kohima, Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil as the main celebrant along with eight priests and a deacon.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>During the Holy Eucharist fifty one received the first communion and twelve received the sacrament of the confirmation. Bishop also blessed the newly elected office bears of Catholic Union of Christ King Church .<\/div>\n<div>In his homily the Bishop said the feast of Christ King was established and proclaimed by the Pope Pious XI to reassert the sovereignty of Christ over all forms of government and to remind Christians of the fidelity and loyalty they owed to Christ.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Parish priest, Rev. Fr. Peter Salew accorded the words of welcome to Bishop and the congregation. Edward, touring catechist translated the bishop\u2019s Homily. The community also honored the two full time catechists of the parish with a song and cash awards. Bishop also blessed and inaugurated the newly constructed lady teachers\u2019 quarter.<\/div>\n<div>SFXCC: St Francis Xavier\u2019s Catholic Church Kidima also observed Christ the King Feast with Reverend Father Raymond D\u2019 Souza SJ, director of Eden &nbsp;Garden Khuzama on Sunday. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Rev. Fr. Raymond D\u2019 Souza SJ explained that worldly kingdom comes and fades away but &nbsp;Jesus Christ lives forever. Father emphasised that a true Christian life is filled with love, holiness and justice with peaceful coexistence. While interacting with the faithful, he also said God listened to the poor people\u2019s prayer and blessed them when they were oppressed.<\/div>\n<div>The church also observed Catechist Day where special prayer was offered for them who sacrificed for the church ministry.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ King Church (CKC) Kohima celebrated the feast of \u201cChrist the King\u201d on Sunday with Bishop of Kohima, Most Rev. Dr. James Thoppil as the main celebrant along with eight priests and a deacon.&nbsp; During the Holy Eucharist fifty one received the first communion and twelve received the sacrament of the confirmation. Bishop also blessed [&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-98137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98137","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=98137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}