Priests and lay people explore avenues
to entice new entrants to the clergy
Text: Farrokh Jijina Photos: Sarosh Daruwalla
Money alone "would not work as an incentive,” noted Dastur (Dr) Firoze Kotwal in a recorded video message to a gathering of around 90 priests, trustees and lay people at the Banaji Atash Behram Hall on October 8, 2023. The meeting had been called by Dastur Khurshed Dastoor, president of the Athornan Mandal, to explore measures to enthuse new entrants to the priestly vocation and to "pinpoint and rectify the lacunae in the system.” While the Jam-e-Jamshed, Parsi Times and Parsiana were not invited to the meet, Mazda Multimedia, one of the prime movers of the event, recorded the proceedings......