Ceremony of Profession

New Zealand Tablet, 19 March 1914, Page 29

Ceremony of Profession

(From our Auckland correspondent.)

On March 7, the Feast of St. Thomas of Aquiu, at St. Mary's Convent, Ponsonby, the ceremony of profession took place during Mass, which was celebrated by his Lordship Dr. Cleary at 7.30 a.m. The young ladies who took the final step by making their vows were:—Miss Margaret Mcßride, Maitland (in Teligion Sister M. Gabriel) ; Miss Ruth Hanson, Rimu, Hokitika (Sister M. Vincent), and Miss Elizabeth Byrne, Courtown Harbor, County Wexford, Ireland (Sister M. Malachy). The convent choir rendered with devotional feeling the different portions of the Mass, and the psalms and chants incidental to the ceremony, terminating with the 'Te Deura' in full choir. Monsignor Brodie, V.G., was present in the sanctuarv, also Rev. Father O'Doherty (master of ceremonies), Rev. Fathers Cahill, Furlong, Ormond, Clark, O'Malley, and Carran, and Chancellor Holbrook. On the conclusion of the religious ceremony, the Sisters, headed by the cross-bearer, filed in procession with lighted tapers through the sanctuary to the convent, where breakfast was served to the visitors. In the afternoon Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was given, and a special hymn in honor of the patronal feast of the Angel of the Schools was intoned.