{"id":93801,"date":"2026-02-13T13:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/ordinazione-sacerdotale-e-prima-santa-messa-celebrate-in-odisha\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:26:16","slug":"ordinazione-sacerdotale-e-prima-santa-messa-celebrate-in-odisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/ordinazione-sacerdotale-e-prima-santa-messa-celebrate-in-odisha\/","title":{"rendered":"Priestly Ordination and First Holy Mass Celebrated in Odisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On January 28, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., the Conventual Franciscan Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in India joyfully celebrated the priestly ordination of Friars Saroj NAYAK and Madan BALIARSINGH. The event took place at St. Joseph\u2019s Church, in Godapur, Odisha State, India.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sacred rite of ordination was presided over by the Most Reverend John BARWA, S.V.D., Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India. Others attending included friars, clergy, religious, family members, and many faithful.<br \/>\nOn January 29, at 10:30 a.m., the newly ordained priests celebrated their first Holy Mass (Thanksgiving Mass) at Fatima Jononi Catholic Church in Pokari, India. They offered heartfelt thanks to God for the gift of their priestly vocation.<br \/>\nThese ordinations mark a significant event for the Conventual Franciscan community and the local Church, as Friars Saroj NAYAK and Madan BALIARSINGH begin their priestly ministry in service to God\u2019s people, guided by the Franciscan spirit of prayer, fraternity, and mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Patrick VARGHESE (KANNADAN)<br \/>\nProvincial Secretary<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 28, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., the Conventual Franciscan Province of St. Maximilian M. Kolbe in India joyfully celebrated the priestly ordination of Friars Saroj NAYAK and Madan BALIARSINGH. The event took place at St. Joseph\u2019s Church, in Godapur, Odisha State, India. The sacred rite of ordination was presided over by the Most Reverend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,132,148],"tags":[947,1147],"class_list":["post-93801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-famc-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-india-en","tag-priestly-ordination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93804,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93801\/revisions\/93804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}