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I Or • a1 3 omorrow First Ordination Ceremonies to Ile Held in St. ,Joseph's Cathedral Saturday Morning for Seminarians 'From Riverside, San J>ieg-o Parishes_

::,t. Joseph's Catlledr ,1 Will, tor the· fit·.st Lime, br the scene this Sututclay at 8 :00 :.t. m .. of lhe or- dination lo lhe holy Pl'iesthood of three of San Diego's young aspir- ants. It will be the first Li.me. also. that His Excellency. Bishop Charles F. Buddy, will confer the Sacrament. The young subjects to be ordained are the Rev. Leo Davis. lht Rev. Kenneth Stark, anu the Rev. George M. Rice. Two or the young me11, the Rev. Leo Davis ancl the Rev. Kenneth Stack, will celebrate their first Masses among the members of their families, their relaLives and their former fellow parishioners, in :::;l. Ann's Church, San Diego, this Sunday at 8:00 and 10:00 re- spectively, while the third, the Rev. George Rice, will return to his native town of Riverside to offer his first holy Mass at 10: 30 in St. Francis de Sales Church there. The Rt. Rev. John M. Hegarty, V. G .. and the Very Rev. F. A. Wekenman will be Chaplains to Hi;; Excellency at the ordinations; the Rev. William Clavin and the Rev. Charles Forsyth, O.S.B., Acolythes; the Rev. M. J. O'Con- 1or, Matthew J. Thompson and

Thomas Earley, Mast.ei-s of Cele- monies; Lhe Very Rev. Peter Lynch . V.F., the Rev. Harry Mitchell and the Rev. James P. O'Shea, Chaplains to lhe Ol'di- nands. A former Pastor of St. Ann's parish, the Rev. Nicholas Zabalza, A.R.. now of Elsinore, will act as Assistant Priest to the Rev. Leo Davis at his first Solemn Mass Sunday. Deacon and Subdeacon will be the Rev. Louis Buechne1 of Los Angeles. and the Rev. Ham Mitchell of San Diego. Father Buechner will also preach the sermon on the occasion. The Rev. John Purcell, Pastor of St. Ann's will act as Assistant Priest at the first Solemn Mass celebrated by the Rev. Kenneth Stack; the Rev. Edmund Ford of San Francisco as Deacon; the Rev. Louis Buechner as Subdeacon; and the Rev. David Temple, O.F. M., of San Francisco will preach the se1111on. The Rev. George McDonald Rice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rice of Riverside, was born at St. / Peter, Minn., August 23, 1909. 1 After graduating from St. Peter's parochial school under the Sisters of St. Joseph, he came to Cali- fornia with his parents and grad- uated from st. Francis de Sales High School, Riverside, under the direction of the Dominican Sis- ters. After one year at tlle Jun- ior College there, he entered St. J0!'",''1' Co'lege, ~,.. Junt:.1.in View, California, to pui'sue his studies for the priesthood. His philo- , sophJcal course he followed in St. Patrick's Seminary, Menlo Pa,rk, and the past four yea.rs he has spent at St. Thomas' Seminary, Denver, where he studied Theo!- I ogy. The Rev. George Rice will be I assisted at his first Solemn Mass at St. Frances de Sales Church, Riverside, this Sunday at 10:30 a. m., by t,he Very Rev. Pe- ter Lynch, Pastor; the Rev. O. B. Cook, Los Angeles, will act as Deacon and the Rev. Donald Strange, Los Angeles, as Subdeacon; the Rev. William Van Garsse, Assistant Pastor of St. Frances de Sales Church, as Mas- j ter of Ceremonies. The Very Rev. Msgr. Martin C. Keating of Bur- bank wiU preach the sermon. The Rev. Leo Davis and the Rev. Ke1111eth SLack were educated in the parochial schools here in Cal- ifornia from which they gradu- ated to Catholic high schools and colleges and later went to St. Pat- I rick's Seminary, Menlo Park, where they completed their studies 1 for the priesthood,

Doubly honored in being first ti, be ordained to the Holy Priesthood by His Excellency, Bishop Charlei, F. Buddy and first to be raised to that sl.ate since the Diocese of San Diego was f,1rmed, are '(upper left\ the Rev. Leo Davis, and the Rev. Kenneth Stack (uppex right), both of San Diego, and the Rev. George MacDonald Rice (lower) of Riverside, who form the first class to be ordained in St. .Joseph's Cathedral Saturday morning at 8 o'clock.

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Franciscan Friars To Sing At Blessing Of Mission's New Organ Sunday, April 3, will be the oc - I revive the mem01ies of early days. casion for memories and musipv"rl On Sm1dn.y another link with the on the par(, of m"'ny a lover of c~,, pazt wL.. l i,.,rgcd, for on that I California. At 4 p.m. that day, in day descendants of th'e early In- I the Old Mission of San Luis Rey, dians will mingle with visitors to a new pipe organ will be blessed the Mission. His , Excellency, by the Most Rev. Charles Francis Bishop Buddy, will bless the organ Buddy, and a musical progTam and the student-friars wm render provided for visitors. sacred music. A distinguished It will not be the first occasion composer, Ernest Douglas, F.A. G.O., Qf Los Angeles, will preside a.t

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on which large numbers assembled at San Luis Rey. History records that in the days of its greatness the Old Mission housed no less than three' thousand Indians, and offered hospitality to many a traveler along the Camino Real. Music, too, was not absent in .those olden days, and Mission melodies still linger in the remoter valleys of the neighborhood. Genera- tions, however, have passed since the encircling hills reechoed the weird notes of Indian music. In recent years the Padres of the Mission have done much to

the organ. The pro_gram, which will begin at 4 p.m., is as follows. It will open with an Invocation, the Blessing, and words of greet- ing by the Most Revered Bishop. "Aus der Tiefe rufe Ich" (From the Depths I cam 1 (Chorale-Pre- lue), Bach; "Ave }faria," Witt, (Sung by Mission C!ioristers); Ex- cerpt from Violin Sonata, Bach; "But the Waters H~ve Over- whelmed Their Enemies," Handel, (From "Israel in Egypt"). "Veni Creator," Dobler (Sung by Mission Cho1isters); Sermon, Fr. (Continued! on page 2)