{"id":1034322,"date":"2026-04-20T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"trans-27756-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/trans-27756-1\/","title":{"rendered":"India \u2013 Quinquennium retreat for priests at Mount Don Bosco, Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(ANS &ndash; Kotagiri) &ndash;<\/strong> Forty young Salesians celebrating their quinquennium of priestly ordination gathered at Mount Don Bosco, in Kotagiri, in the Nilgiri region of Tamil Nadu, India. It was an intensive six-day five-year retreat, held from 13 to 18 April 2026, organised by the Salesian Province of Chennai, India (INM). The retreat offered a special opportunity for spiritual renewal, deeper engagement with Scripture and fraternal sharing at a significant stage of their early ministry. Led by Fr Stephen, director of the Carmel Retreat Centre in Dharmapuri, the retreat centred on the theme: &ldquo;Following Christ totally for the salvation of young people&rdquo;. Through a series of profound reflections, the preacher highlighted three essential dimensions of priestly identity today: prophet, disciple and bearer of hope for young people. Participants were invited to rediscover their vocation as prophets who courageously proclaim God&rsquo;s truth in a fragmented world; as disciples committed to ongoing conversion and intimacy with Christ; and as credible witnesses capable of inspiring hope among today&rsquo;s young people, especially Generation Z and Generation Alpha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ANS &ndash; Kotagiri) &ndash; Forty young Salesians celebrating their quinquennium of priestly ordination gathered at Mount Don Bosco, in Kotagiri, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2027756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}