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I agree.For Release May it, 1966 las Vegt# ,Nevada The Reverend Patrick J* Tootaay, C.S.V., pastor of St* Viator Parish, celebrates the twenty fifth anniversary of hit ordination m Sunday, May twenty-second at fiva in tha afternoon at a Coneelebrated Mass at it* Viator Guardian Angel Shrine. Bishop Robert j* Dwyer win preside and preach. Thera will follow a recaption and dinner in the Stand Ballroom of tha Sands Hotelaponeored by a cemlttea of Father Too?½ey*s parishioners m4 friends under tha chairmanship of Mr* Mario Marino* Appointed pastor of St* Viator fiva yaara ago. Father Toomey and the parish* loners have Moved from a store church on Charleston Boulevard to a new perish plant# Church, Convent, Rectory and School, at Flamingo Iftwi -and Eastern Avenue* The Religious of the Yirgen tary are staffing the school which will be functioning in Septsaber. baring this mm five year period Father toomey got the owners of tha Strip Hotels to pledge the money to begin building St* Viator Guardian Angel Shrine. Mow structurally complete, this church built for the convenience of Catholic Visitors to las Vsgss is tbs largest Catholic Church In Hevada# The Ecumenical Movement is not something new to Father Toomey, His early sacerdotal experiences as sn Army Air Corps chaplain gave biw the Incentive to he a leader in establishing good relations with the Protestants and dates of Clark County. He is an outspoken advocate and practioner of the "renewed liturgy"* The Good Friday services of 1985 at St* Viator served as the germinal idea for the largest diocesan Catholic assembly to date, the Good Friday Convention Center liturgy of 1966* Father Toemey Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Toomey of Chicago* He was born in Butte Montana, attended St* Gabriel Grammar School and Quigley