First Brothers of Mercy are ordained

Owing to the illness of Bishop Craven, who was to have ordained 11 sub-deacons at Si. Edmund's College, Ware, on Saturday, the students travelled to St. Mary's. Chelsea. to join six priests who were ordained by Archbishop Myers.
The priests were six Brothers of Our Lady of Mercy from St. Aloysius's College, Highgate. They are the first priests of their congregation to be ordained in this country.
More than 40 priests attended the ceremony. including the Provincial of the congiegation; the Prior of Blackfriars. Oxford. Fr. Kenneth Wykeham-George. 0.P.; and Fr. Bonaventure. C.F., Rector of St. Joseph's. Highgate.
A choir of students from Campion House. Osterley. went to the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Acton, on Sunday, when Fr. Philip Stephen Cahill sang his first High Mass. He had been ordained in Westminster Cathedral by Cardinal (iriflin the previous day.
In the evening he gave Benediction and was assisted by Fr. P. Lynch, of Old Hall Green, Ware. with a special sermon on the priesthood by the parish priest of Acton. Fr. James Finn.