The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-03

Bernard T. Kelly, son of MT. and Mrs. Joseph P. Kelly of 70 Stiles street, Hopeville, and Leonard c. Dillon, son of MT. and Mrs. William J. Dillon of Woodvine avenue, Oak" vile, will be ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood next Saturday, June 2, at the Cathedral of the 1m- maculate Conception, Albany, N. Yo by his Grace, Bishop Edmund P. Gibbons, D. D.
 Rev. MT. Kelly will sing his first solemn Mass ct St. Francis Xavier church, Sunday morning, June 15, ct ii o'clock. Rev. MT. Dillon VIII sing his first solemn Mass the same morning at St. Mary Magdalen's church, Oakville. The Hopeville youth graduated from Hopeville grammar school in 1929 and entered LaSalette College, Hartford, the same year. He grad. uated from there six years later and then spent the next year at LaSal- ette Novitiate in Bloomfield. He re- ceived his religious habit July 1, 1885, and made first profession of VOWS, July 2, 1886.
 He then studied philosophy for two years at LaSalette Seminary in Altamont, N. Y. Tn October he went to Rome to take degrees In theology, but at the outbreak of the war, was recalled to the United States and finished his theological studies at the Altamont, N. Y, Seminary.
 Rev. Mir. Kelly made his perpetual profession of VOWS, October II, 1889. in salmata, Italy. He was ordained to the sub. .diaconate, March 8, l94l, In the Franciscan Monastery of St' Anthony on the Hudson and to the tiaeonate in the same place, March 20, i94i,
 Rev. John Brady, M. S., will be tho preacher at his first Mass. Rev David O'Keefe, assistant at St' Francis Xavier church, will be dea- con, and Rev. James Sullivan, sub deacon. There will be a breakfast at the home of his parents imme- diately following the Mass and @ re- ception ct the same address In the afternoon from 3 to s o'clock.
 Rev. MT. Dillon was born Fcbru- ary 27, 1912, in Guernsey, Channel Islands, England. He came to Am erica 6 year later. Ho received his primary school training ct St. Johns Parochial School in Watertown. from where he graduated In June Of 1924. He then studied for three years ct Watertown high school and entered Lasalette College, Hartford, In September of 1881. He graduated from there in 1895. He then went to Bloomfield for a canonical year of novitiate In June and received the Holy Habit of the Congregation. July 1, l936. Ills first profession of the three VOWS took place. July 2, i936, and his perpetual profession Of the same, July 2, i03e.
 March 8, l94i, he took his first major order, the sub-diaconate, and on March 29th the same year, his diaconate. June 7th of this month he will receive the plenitude of the priesthood from the hands of the Most Rev. Edmund r. Gibbons, DID. in Albany, N. Y.
 Rev. Thomas McGary, pastor of St. Mary Magdalen'S church, Oakville, will be arch -priest at Rev. MT. Dil- Ions first solemn Mass. Rev. Corne- Illus P. Teulings, of St. Joseph's Col lege, Hartford; former pastor of St. Johns church, Watertown, will be deacon. Rev. Albert J. Shanley, M. S., will be sub-deacon and will also preach the sermon. Father Dillon's brother and sister will sing ct his first Mass.
 Seminar!ans from St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N. Y, will act as servers for this Mass. A break fast will follow immediately after Mass at the newly -ordained priests home on Woodvine avenue, Oakville.