ST. JOSEPH'S CATHEDRAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 45, 12 November 1924, Page 31

ST. JOSEPH'S CATHEDRAL

ORDINATION CEREMONY. His Lordship the Bishop officiated at an impressive Ordination ceremony at the 9 o’clock Mass in the Cathedral on Sunday, November 9, in the presence of a very large congregation. The Rev. Francis McMahon and the Rev. Thomas Hally, both of Dunedin diocese, were raised to the Priesthood. His Lordship was assisted by the Very Rev. Father Morkane (Rector) and the Rev. Dr. O’Neill, of Holy Cross -College, where the two young priests completed their studies. ” Rev. Father Andersen, of the college, assisted the young priests. Father McMahon owes his early training to the Dominican Sisters, Oamaru, where his parents still reside. Father Hally, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Hally, Dunedin, is another in the long list of priests who owe so much to the Christian Brothers, Dunedin. On Sunday evening Father McMahon gave Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament in the Cathedral, and Father Hally officiated at St. Patrick’s, South Dunedin. On Monday morning Father McMahon said his first Holy Mass in the chapel of the Dominican Priory, and Father Hally in the chapel of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Anderson’s Bay.