Chennai – On Saturday, December 19th at Don Guanella Major Seminary, Fr. Soosai Rathinam SdC, Provincial Superior, celebrated the intercontinental Mass and conferred the rites of ministries; six seminarians were instituted as acolytes, eight seminarians were instituted as lectors and one seminarian was admitted to Initiation Rite. During the Rite, each candidate is handed a symbol of the ministry to which he is being instituted, a Bible and a Ciborium respectively, and Fr. Soosai exhorted the young theologians to fulfill the ministry faithfully.