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Fr. Felix Nayak, who served congregations in Chinook, Harlem and Hogeland, will be leaving for India on July 4. He will be doing a new ministry in Brahmapur, a city on the Bay of Bengal on the east side of India. Nayak came to Montana in June, 2012. He's holding a cross with the image of St. Gabriel's Church on the cross. He was honored at a reception after mass in Chinook. This map shows the approximate location of Brahmapur, the city where Fr. Felix Nayak will be serving. The city is known for its silk items, has a population in the core city of 300,000+ and enjoys a temperate climate. Rainfall averages 46 inches a year with most of that coming during the monsoon season, July through October.
The first weekend in July Fr. Felix Nayak celebrated mass with three congregations he served after first arriving in Montana from Orissa, India in June, 2012. He conducted mass at St. Gabriel's in Chinook, St. Thomas the Apostle in Harlem and St. Thomas Aquinas in Hogeland. They were his second good-bye masses as he had said his good-byes last September when he moved to Malta to take on new responsibilities at St. Paul's in Hays, St. Thomas in Lodge Pole and Sacred Heart at the Agency.
In Chinook, after mass, Fr. Felix told the gathering he would be moving to Brahmapur, a city on the east coas...
