PRIEST ORDAINED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1939, Page 7

PRIEST ORDAINED

CEREMONY AT ST. PATRICK’S COLLEGE. FATHER TUOHY OF CARTERTON. On the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Archbishop of Wellington and Metropolitar. of New Zealand, the Most Rev. Thomas O'Shea, raised to the priesthood the Rev. P. Tuohy, S.M.. Carterton, and t<_ the subdeaconate, the Rev. H. Lister, S.M., Invercargill. The ordination ceremony took place at St. Patrick's College. Silverstream. yesterday morning. The archdeacon was the Very Rev. Dr. V. Geaney. Provincial of the Society of Mary in NewZealand. and the Rev. Father J. J. Kennedy. S.M.. rector of St. Patrick's College. was the assistant priest. The masters of ceremonies were the Verj Rev. Dr. Rasmussen. S.M.. superior of the seminary. Greenmeadows. Hawke's Bay. and the Rev. Father Robinson, S.M.. St. Patrick's College, Wellington, who was the diocesan master of ceremonies.

The Offices of Cross-bearer, acolytes mitre, crozier. book, candle and trainbearers were tilled by the boys of St. Patrick's College. Thirty-one priests and a large number of friends and relatives of the newly-ordained were present at the ceremony and were latei entertained by the rector of the college. The boys of the college were privileged to be present tit the ordination of the first priest from the college to be ordained in New Zealand. Two old boys have been raised to the priesthood in Rome.

Father Tuohy is to leave New Zealand for Rome at the end of this month to take a post-graduate course in philosophy. He celebrated his first Mass in his native town, Carterton, this morning.