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Twelve clergy, religious and lay persons of the diocese will accompany Bishop Daniel A. Cronin to the eighth annual Convocation of the Catholic Bishops of New England, to begin tomorrow night路 at Mont Marie conference center in Holyoke and continue through Sunday.

The theme for this year's meeting is the person of Christ and his impact on the life and ministry of the contemporary church. .Convocation chairpersons said that over 130 delegates from the 11 New England dioceses are expected to meet for presentations and small group discussions.

They will include youth representatives and married couples.

The keynote speaker will be Rev. Howard M. Gray, S.J., rector of Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, a retreat director and consultant for many religious communities.

He will be assisted by Sister Madeline Birmingham, a Religious of the Cenacle who is spiritual director and dlrector of Turn to Page Six

Headed by Father Ronald A. Tosti, director of the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry, nine persons will represent the Fall River diocese at a regional hearing on families to be held in preparation for Massachusetts participation in the Baltimore White House Conference on Families. . The regional gathering will take place Sunday, March 16 at Brockton High School. The meeting, say organizers, is "designed to reflect the broad diversity of the families within our state by encouraging testimony from professionals and non-professionals on what makes a family strong,"

Calls ruling disturbing WASHINGTON (NC) - The Supreme Court's Feb. 19 decision ordering the federal government to pay for all medically necessary abortions until the court determines the constitutionality of federal abortion funding restrictions has been called "objectionable in itself and disturbing in its implications for the future" by the general secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference.

"Although it does not settle the outcome of this litigation," said.

Bishop Thomas Kelly, "it can hardly be taken as an indicator of total open-mindedness on the part of the court - which, after all, is the same body which legalized abortion on demand in the first place."

The court accepted for review the Jan. 15 decision by U.S. District Judge john F. Dooling of Brooklyri, N.Y., striking down restrictions on federal abortion funding such as the Turn to Page Six

For Mary Eli~abeth Peace

By Stephenie Ovennan WASHINGTON (NC)-At the small grave in the children's section of an old Washington cemetery Mass was celebrated Feb. 12 for an unknown victim of abortion. The tomb is a symbol for all babies who die by abortion.

The child was named Mary Elizabeth 'Peace by the pro-life group that baptized her, buried her and commemorated, with tears, prayers and roses, the first anniversary of her death.

"We don't know who her parents were, or the name of the doctor who killed her, or what the situation, the influences and the motivations were that drove her mother to have her destroyed in the 18th week of her life," the Cleveland PEACE (People Expressing a Concern about Everyone) group noted.

The graveside Mass at Mount Olivet Cemetery was attended by about a dozen pro-lifers who placed roses at the small grave marker. The Mass was celebrated

by Father Eugene Ahern of Melbourne, Australia, who is working with the bishops' pro-life office in the United States.

A PEACE group statement said: "We only know for certain that she knew life for a brief period of time and she experienced death at the hands of the most calloused, misguiedd and ruthless movement in the history

of mankind. . . . young, females who are the true "We don't know if her mother victims of that violence of aborwept for the death of her baby. tion." The other victim was not We don't know if her mother is shown to those present by the thinking now about what hap- PEACE group. pened to her and her unborn The Feb. 12 graveside cerechild a year ago today" when mony commemorated both inMary Elizabeth was aborted in a fants, although only one was Cleveland hospital. buried there. The other girl, '~But we remember because called Ruth, was returned to Mary Elizabeth was given to us." Cleveland. She was not shown Three days after the abortion, at the 1979 press conference to Mary Elizabeth was shown to reo protect the identity of the person porters at a press conference in who had given her to the PEACE Washington. group.

At that Feb. 15, 1979, press Some members of the PEACE conference, sponsored by the group wept as they stood by the National Organization for Wom- small grave reading from the en, leaders of 20 pro-abortion Bible and the prayer of St. Frangroups and eight pro-life groups cis. Passages included Psalm 23, met to discuss possible areas in a reading from Lamentations, which both pro-, and anti-abortion from Revelations and from the forces would work. Some wom- Book of Ruth. en present cried, others shouted "Mary, you have taken us to at PEACE members as they field of snow, Mount Olivet, showed the victim.

A PEACE leader, Nancy name of salvation and sorrow," Hackle, said at the time that the Church Donovan, a PEACE action was taken to demonstrate member said. "The white blan路 the falsity of feminist claims to ket of God is your coverlet and speak on behalf of females. The resting place, these last rays of group called the abortion victim sun the warmth of a mother's a sister "brutally and silently arms releasing you to sleep and dream what we forget. . destroyed."

Miss Hackle, who has been "Mary, you have carried us arrested for abortion sit-ins, said beyond our power to carry you, at the 1979 press conference: as briefly路 as holds the flower "In (NOW president) Eleanor bloom and sweetness or man and Smeal's press release, she men- . woman memory of gifts of love tioned that the true victims of stillborn in your last day. Named . . . abortion are poor females, for those who named him, now especially the young. We have pray for us in his name, for his brought with us two young, very peace, our Mary."

Presentations and panel discussions at the day-long meeting will focus on "issues and recommendations in the development of a state and national family policy and the strategies and programs by which public policy can strengthen families," Turn to Page Six

Papal trip to Brazil BRASILIA, Brazil (NC) Church and government authorities in Brazil are completing arrangements' for a ten-day, 9,000mile tour by Pope John Paul II in July.

Tentative plans include papal visits to a eucharistic congress, anniversary celebrations of the major church agency in Latin America and the official opening of a Marian shrine.

Brazil's Foreign Ministry said the pope will be accorded honors as a chief of state, since this country has full diplomatic relations with the Vatican. In February, Archbishop Carmine Roco, apostolic nuncio to Brazil, said Pope john Paul accepted the official invitation of President Joao Baptista Figueiredo.

Brazil is the world's' most populous Catholic country.

About 90 percent of its 110 million people profess Catholicism.

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Election Message The four Catholic bishops of Massachusetts, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston, Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan of Worcester, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin of Fall River and Bishop Joseph F. Maguire of Springfield, have issued an election message, released through the Massachusetts Catholic Conference, to be read in all Catholic churches of the Commonwealth this weekend. It follows: As citizens of this Commonwealth are once more inundated :by preelection campaigning, it is necessary for all voters to keep primary issues and basic facts in focus.

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Because of the resulting confusion of conscience, a certain urgency is now evolving in relation to the presidential primary.

To avoid the problems of misrepresentation, it is necessary to remind Catholics in this Commonwealth that they must be informed politically as well as morally.

Leaving personalities aside, Catholics should nevertheless realize that they have the serious obligation of facing the basic election issues and not leaving them to someone else's determination.

In order to be effective in fulfilling this moral responsibility, it is imperative that Catholics realize the law of God extends to the polling booth as much as to every other area of life.

It is well, then, as we approach the presidential primary to remind Catholics, and indeed all people of good will, that they best exercise the virtue of patriotism by prayerful, intelligent involvement in the democratic process. The right to cast a ballot has been won and defended by the blood, sweat and tears of millions of Americans. It should not be viewed as a mere exercise in politics but as a responsibility requiring an informed decision in order to vote effectiyely. The right to cast a ballot should no longer be viewed simply as a privilege. It now must be seen as a duty.

Approaching the use of their franchise in this way, Catholics can vote with the courage and conviction of faith on such issues as abortion, health care, poverty, human rights and crime, knowing that they are fulfilling the role that God requires of them as responsible ·citizens.

For Catholics, the right to vote is a trust that not only protects the freedoms of our religious heritage but also preserves the very climate in which freedom is allowed to fulfill its destiny. Never should we be misled by the propaganda that would have Catholics leave their faith aside when they vote. .

May God continue -to guide all who seek to foster responsible and lifesupporting government through the electoral process.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Feb. 28, 1980

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WASHINGTON (NC) Thirty-four separate proposals for tuition tax credits currently are pending in Congress, according to a report compiled by the U.S. bishops' new tax credit office.

In addition, over one:fourth of the members of the House of Representatives have endorsed some sort of tax credit legislation, said Perry Edward Anthony, director of the bishops' Office for Educational Assistance.

The statistics are contained in a report complied by Anthony and sent to school superintendents and state Catholic conference directors by the U.S. Catholic Conference.

Anthony's office, whose purpose is to promote the concept of educational tax credits for the parents of children attending private elementary and secondary schools, was established in January in the USCC Department of Education.

While Anthony said it is difficult to tell if there will be much action on the bills, he added that there is the possibility of action on several tax measures this year which might have an effect on tuition tax credits.

"Therefore, now is an important time for us to keep the issue in front of candidates," he said.

Rx for Honduras TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (NC) - If Honduras wants to avoid the "anguishing convulsions" of other Central American nations, its leaders "must reform the unjust structures" that keep most of its people in poverty, said Archbislrop Hector Entique Santos of Tegucigalpa.

Unless political and business leadership promotes social justice for workers and peasants,' "violence will come from escalation by extremist groups that foster hate in society," he said.

Resolution nixed PHOENIX, Ariz. (NC)-Stockholders of Gulf and Western Industries have defeated a proposed resolution by church groups calling for changes in the firm's dealings with the Dominican Republic. The resolution, presented by the National Council of Churches of Christ, the Adrian Dominican Sisters, the Jesuits of Maryland Province and the Sisters of Loretto asked the firm to improve wages for cane cutters in the Dominican Republic and allow union organization. ""IIlIIIIIIIIIllIII"IUl"I""'lllllll'""'UII'llllllllIlUIII"','11lIIIlIlIllI'"IIIII,"unlllllllllp"

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Very Rev. Ernest Corriveau, MS, provincial superior of the Missionaries of La Salette headquartered in Attleboro, was a chairperson of a joint meeting of Region I of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men held at Mont Marie Center, Holyoke.

Representing the women's communities as chairperson was Sister Barbara Petetson, SeN. Over 50 New England religious leaders heard -Sister Miriam Therese MacGiIlis, OP of Global Education Associates discuss "Simple Lifestyles," stressing the necessity for the West to simplify use of food and energy resources, both in order to share with Third World nations and to promote its own well-being.

At separate meetings of the conferences, the LCWR heard Father Robert Nee, SS.CC. describe the workof the New England Coalition for Responsible Investment, which offers assistance to groups wishing to invest in corporations and banks concerned for social justice.

Father Nee, in residence at St. Francis Xavier rectory, Acushnet, directs the Office of Justice and Peace for the Sacred Hearts Community of Fairhaven.

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Father Gagne jubilee A concelebrated Mass earlier this month marked the 25th ordination anniversary of Father Roger L. Gagne, pastor of St. Mark's Church, Attleboro Falls.

Father Gagne, principal celebrant, was joined by eight concelebrants of the liturgy. Msgr. . Gerard Chabot, pastor of St. Theresa's Church, South Attie.boro, was the homilist.

A reception for parishioners, relatives and friends followed the Mass. Among gifts received by the jubilarian was a commemorative' plaque.

A North Attleboro native, Father Gagne graduated from Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, and North Attleboro High School. Following service in the Navy, he entelild Maryknoll Seminary. Completing his preparation for the priesthood at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, he was ordained by Bishop James L. Connolly Feb. 2, 1955.

He served as associate pastor at St. Theresa's Church, South Attleboro, for 17 years, then was administrator of St. Mathieu's Church, Fall River, for three years before his assignment to St. Mark's in 1975.

Father Gagne is chaplain of the North Attleboro police department and of Council 330, Knights of Columbus. While in Fall River, he also served as a K of C chaplain and as Faithful Friar in the Fourth Degree of the organization.

For many years he has served as assistant area director for the Catholic Charities Appeal and since 1976 he has been a member of the board of Diocesan Consultors.

A low-key, affable person, Father Gagne was surprised that word of his celebration had reached The Anchor. He said he had not known of it himself until a few days beforehand, when he was told "so they'd be sure I'd be there."

His reaction to the occasion was characteristic. "I thanked everyone at the reception and told them that they weren't honoring me so much as the priesthood of Jesus Christ."

LCWR members were asked to provide working paper input for an inter-American conference of

religious to be held in Rio de Janeiro in November. The conference will consider local response of religious women to contemporary issues.

Others attending the meeting from the 'Fall River diocese were Father Bernard Baris, MS and Sisters Francis Michael Driscoll, SP, Marilyn Spellman, SUSC, Brigid McCoy, SS.CC., Joanne Bonville, OP and Barbara McCarthy, OP.

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themoorin~ Get Out and Vote!

As March 4, the date of the much-heralded Massachusetts primary, fast approaches, emphasis must once more be placed on the importance of the electorate.

In general, it might be noted that this country has, by percentage, one of the poorest voting rates in the world.

Wb.en it comes to casting ballots in primary contests, the record is even more embarrassing for a nation that supposedly supports the democratic process.

There are many reasons for voter apathy, not all having to do with voter indifference. Corruption on the part of officeholders has certainly contributed to what is really a national disgrace..

As a result, many voters think that their one vote just doesn't count. This is just not true. One vote really can pack quite a punch. Consider some· of the contests that history testifies have been decided by a single vote.

John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960 by just one vote per precinct in Illinois. One voter in each precinct could have changed the state results, giving Nixon 26 electoral votes and electing him president.

In 1845, one vote made Texas part of the United States.

One vote saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment in 1868.

In 1800 one vote kept Aaron Burr from the presidency.

That vote elected Thomas Jefferson.

In 1923, one vote made Adolf Hitler head of the German Nazi party.

Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1916 by carrying one state by less than one vote per precinct.

One :VQte elected Rutherford B. Hayes to' the presidency and the man in the Electoral College who cast that vote was an Indiana congressman elected by one vote.

Thus, the testimony is more than abundant that each citizen able to vote should make every effort to do so, realizing that his or her ballot might be the one to change political careers.

It is depressing, however, to note that the secretary of state of this commonwealth estimates that there are more· than one million Massachusetts citizens of voting age who are not registered to vote. Efforts have been made to close this gap. They must be intensified in the case of minority groups to the end that all may be aware of the contribution they can make at the polls. In this connection, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, while 61 percent of the nation's whites reported voting for president in 1976, only 49 percent of blacks and 32 percent of Spanish origin. said they voted.

Fifty-nine percent of all Americans reported voting for president in 1976. Sixty-nine percent of those aged 45 to 64 voted, but only 38 percent of those aged 18 to 20.

The last statistic is frightening. Young people should be a decisive force in elections, yet by not voting they abdicate their power. This is sad. . May those who truly wish to see government by the people and for the people help all the people to realize that if this ideal. is to be achieved, everyone must participate in the democratic process of voting.

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'Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?' Rom. 7:24

Teachings on th·e draft The modification of the opin- must be fought for a just cause, ion of Pius XII has been justi- it must use means which are President Carter's call for a fied by the fact that war in a . not intrinsically immoral, and it resumption of registration for nuclear age has awesome conse- must be declared with a reasonthe draft has ra'ised renewed in- quences and that Pius based his ·able expectation of success. terest in the church on the ques- views only on popular wars to "While the church does not tions of war, conscientious ob- which few objected. officially declare some'wars just jection and the all-volunteer Where the bishops and the and other wars unjust, the inarmy. dividual Catholic is obliged to .Until recently there had been American legal system do not follow his conscience," Msgr. agree is on the question of some disagreement both inside Bordelon told the House comand outside the church as to whether conscientious objection mittee. can be based merely on a parwhether professing the Catholic "If that conscience impels him faith gave one the right to object ticular war or whether one must not to participate in a particular object to all war to qualify for to personal involvement in war. draft exemption. war, then he sins gravely by taka One need only recall that many ing part in it."

The Supreme Court held in draft boards in the 1950s and But efforts in Congress to 1960s were telling Catholics that 1971 that persons of draft age their faith did not qualify them could not be selective in their amend the law and overturn the for draft exemptions because objection to war; they could Supreme Court by allowing for Catholics were not members of not say that they were opposed selective conscientious objection traditionally pacifist religious to fighting in Vietnam while at have been unsuccessful.

The principles behind the just the same time admitting that they bodies. war theory also have given rise Even Pope Pius XII, as re- might be willing to fight in an- in recent years to the question cently as 1956, said he believed other war which directly threat- of whether any war at this time that conscientious objection ened the well-being of the United" in history can be called just. was morally indefensible. In his States.

With the massive destruction The bishops, on th!! other that could occur as the result opinion, when a democratic government came to the conclu- hand, have maintained that an of war, pacifists now say no war sion that engaging in war was individual who views a particu- could have "a reasonable chance necessary, citizens had the duty lar war as unjust ought to be of success." granted an exemption from to serve their country.

As for the all-volunteer army, fighting in that single war.

But church teaching and, to a the bishops generally favor the "The section of the Selective concept as part of their opposicertain extent, American legal principles have gone through a Service Act which requires that tion to a peacetime draft. But radical transformation on the the registrant be conscientiously both the bishops and others have rights of Catholics to object to opposed to participation in war cited the dangers of the all'in any form' is too restrictive volunteer force as well. going to war.

The courts have held for at and discriminatory," said Msgr.

The bishops' conference, least the past 15 years that the Marvin Bordelon, director of the again in 1971, told the House right to conscientious objection National Conference of Bishops' committee that an all-volunteer is broadly based and does not International Affairs Department military "could become overly even ha\'e-t(J~pring from a be- to the House Armed Services autonomous and isolated from Committee in 1971.

1i€f in a Supreme Being. the mainstream American life."

More recently, Joseph CaliThe bishops' view on selective And the American bishops, relying heavily on the documents . conscientious objection is based fano, Carter's former secretary of Vatican Il, have taught for largely on the church's tradition- of health, education and welfare, more than 10 years that Gospel al "just war" theory, which dates wrote, "The all-volunteer force principles of non-violence and a at least to the days of St. Aug- makes it too easy for a president and political leaders to embark personal belief in the futility of ustine.

Under that theory, a war must upon foreign military advenwar justify exemption from the be declared as a last resort, it tures." draft for many Catholics.

By Jim Lackey

lHE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Feb. 28, 1980

What's wrong It isn't likely that John D.

Hagen's "What's Wrong with America," (Our Sunday Visitor Press, $4.95), a bit of cogent pamphleteering for our time, will be widely reviewed even in the church press. So, every once in awhile, we like to devote some time and attention to a book that really doesn't deserve to get lost in the shuffle.

I don't know who Hagen i s but, frankly, that man is not mine enemy who can still read Coplestone, the popular historian of philosophy (see his Doubleday Image imprints), and also such preconciliar Christian worthies as Gilson, Maritain, Dawson, Chesterton, and C.S. Lewis. Besides, Hagen is a nifty illustrator by way of the deftly drawn comic line.

Also, as suggested by Hagen's reading habits, he has to be a very solid type. There are four main sections to "What's Wrong With America:" in the first, Hagen more or less defines the nature of the American crisis; in the second, he applies to this the philosophy of common sense; then comes a pivotal section of modernism; and, finally, some applications of doctrine. I have to take issue, however, with what practically amounts to an opening statement on page one: "We have no national philosophy," Hagen says, "no fundamental set of guiding beliefs. We only have 'conservative' and

'liberal' positions - two sets of inconsistent ideas, which function mainly as outlets for selfrighteousness and emotional dislikes."

What Hagen says about conservative and liberal positions as two sets of inconsistent ideas, I think, is right on the mark; . but it is a major error to claim we have no national philosophy.

The national philosophy, of course, is that which derives from the thoroughly pervasive rationale of secular humanism.

What's more, this brand of humanism has been officially so defined by the justices of the Supreme Court. Hagen corrects his own lapse. A few pages later he says: "There is nothing more characteristic of our national mood at present than a militant contempt for all sorts of doctrine," defining doctrine as "an objectivist belief' that certain truths and values are true ¡for everyone." He correctly identifies absolute subjectivism as the national philosophy he failed to recognize only pages earlier.

Aside from this, Hagen presents a clearly frightening case against our loss of first principles. It isn't easy to be an American these days. Ours may still be the best country in the world, as they say, and one doesn't mean that inflation and over-taxation have rendered this land unendurable, for I think that what makes Hagen and

Pull Up a family Last week, I talked about the need for the family to examine its spirituality, warts and all, and to talk about how it can grow together during Lent. This week, I'd like you to get together again to scrutinize that which hampers your family's unique prayer effectiveness.

I have a list of what I call the Ten Impediments that I use with families at workshops and retreats.

So pull up a family, light a candle, say a prayer together, and check the Impediments against your family's spirituality.

I. Time Together: Some families report they can't pray together because they rarely see each other. When one is home, another is at basketball practice or working. What times of the week can our family isolate to pray together? Not even a half hour weekly?

2. Family Calendar: This is an adjunct of the first but goes beyond it. The family that is overextended with each member off in his/her sphere of activities doesn't spend enough time together to really know one another, which is a requisite for shared prayer and spirituality in the home. Check your schedule and the reasons behind an overloaded calendar. Is it to keep you away from one another?

3. Spousal indifference: In

some families, one parent is the proponent of family spirituality while the other is the obstacle.

Eventually, the enthusiastic parent becomes a holy nag, a resentful martyr, or another non-participant. Talk about shared enthusiasm and indifference. If just one person wants family spirituality, then the subject needs to be discussed as a family together.

4. Media abdication: Some homes revolve around the television schedule and when families say, "We have no time," they mean TV comes first.

Which is more important to your family's future: a half hour of shared prayer or Mork and Mindy?

5. Absentee parenting: Is dad always at work? Mom always on the phone? Are you about doing the "important" things in life, too busy to spend a few quiet moments with your youngsters? 'Why? 6.. Interfaith marriage: If yours is an interfaith marriage and you are afraid to push prayer because it might infringe upon the rights and feelings of your spouse, ask him or her if together you can work out a family prayer program that is uniquely yours. Otherwise, your marriage prevents rather than generates spirituality.

7. Teen non-communication: Your teenagers may feel that it isn't cool to take part in a family spirituality effort and to

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others so deeply concerned is the realization of our all but unnoticed fall from grace. It is the saddest irony imaginable that the very quality for which this country became the haven of millions of immigrants - freedom - should now be reduced to libertarian privacy rights utterly devoid of all moral and social responsibility.

I can't feel truly at home, in other words, in a country where abortion on demand is the law of the land. I can't feel at home in a country where the vilest public obscenities are permitted in the name of freedom of expression. I can't feel at home where the rankest sexual selfindulgence and exhibitionism are promoted as some kind of feverish civil rights issue. I can't feel at home in a country where euthanasia will sooner or later be ruled acceptable and where biomedical experimentation on fetuses, prisoners, minors, and the mentally incompetent is certain to seek the approbation of the courts.

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avoid the showdown, you avoid prayer and ritual in your home.

Address this and ask them to design something with which they are comfortable (like scripture and music sessions). Or share prayer without them, but don't let it prevent the family from praying together.

8. Lack of faith: Many parents have no faith base from which to start and the reason they want prayer during Lent is. so that the children will continue to practice faith even if the parents have stopped believing.

This is futile but common.

9. Apostolic overkill: Some parents try too hard to instill a sense of spirituality in their homes and as a result, nobody values it very much. Talk about this. Is it an impediment to real prayer and faith sharing in your family?

10. Embarrassment: It's common to find Catholic families that are too uncomfortable and embarrassed to pray together or even to discuss God or religion together. If this is a reality in your home, address the situation openly, asking where did we get this attitude and how can we overcome it?

It being February, you might like a story with a h,appy ending - or even, considering the number of things on hold around the world a story with an ending.

Briefly, I have been converted.

I am speaking in the real estate sense. I have passed over from renting to owning.

When people heard that my residence, Macomb House, was going condo, they said, "What a shame."

Conversion has a bad name.

The picture leaps to mind of old ladies driven out on Connecticut Avenue, with no place to go.

In the background leers the villain-developer. He buys the building, puts in a couple of smoke detectors, applies a lick of paint and offers tenants a "special" price, a fraction below the cost of a Georgetown mansion.

There is only one thing to stay his rapacious hand, the District of Columbia condominium law, which gives tenants the right to buy. If they can organize, incorporate, draw up papers, collect membership dues and keep themselves together, they can, in fact, purchase the roof over their heads.

The news of the sale came last April. What to do, what to do? Form a tenants' association.

How? Who was the purchaser?

What were his intentions?

Luckily for us, one tenant knew about a conversion a block away. The Ordway-Porter Tenants Association was well along the road to purchase. Our tenant-scout invited one of the prime movers to come and talk to us.

She was a young woman with long brown hair, a round face and a breathtaking grasp of her ubject. Mary Margaret Fitzpatrick sat on the floor of the lobby and told us how to foil the takeover.

She talked about "neighborhood" and "community." We at Macomb House had passed each other in the hallway for years without a nod of the head.

The older ladies, who were always to sit together on the couch in the corner, looked apprehensive. We had 30 days to incorporate. We had 90 more to come up with the scratch.

But we learned one thing from that first tentative, nervous meeting. Practically everyone wanted to stay. We weren't a "fun"building, God knows, the resident manager had seen to that. But the house is lovely, set long and low like an ocean liner in the water, and it is a block off Connecticut Avenue and overlooks the park. And the neighborhood is addicting.

Our dry cleaner, Seymour Weinstein, is a philosopher and a wit. Woodley Liquor has the lowest prices and the jolliest help in town. Our Safeway may be, as Washingtonian magazine snooti1y put it, the worst in the city, but the assistant manager, Walter Valentino, is a prince.

So we elected to fight.

That first meeting, in democracy's way, turned up leadership. Christine McElligott, a,. redhaired young woman with a neutral manner, is an official at HUD. She became our president. and although she began many sentences with "Okay" when things were manifestly not, she steered a steady course. Bill Harvey, a tall Virginian, was a banker, not easily intimidated.

We elected a board of directors.

We had only two crises. One came early: Our lawyer was somehow involved in an effort to overturn the law w~ich gave us a sporting chance to' save our homes. But we got al)other lawyer in time to regroup for our deadline.

The sense was that we were going to pull it off. But August brought a bombshell. The new lawyer and the board had met with our rival for the purchase of the building - the dread developers, the Nordheimer Brothers, Scott and Gary, and Meyer Feldman.

There was it war in the lobby that night. We were about to shake hands with the devil?

Hadn't the Nordheimers and Feldman threatened to sue us?

Was that the way to begin a partnership?

Harvey and I led the opposition. But the board and our .lawyer were for it. The developers would rehabilitate the units at a fixed price and secure the loan. It was a wonderful deal.

Luckily, our side lost.

At the end of the exhausting session, Gary Nordheimer was brought in. No senior would be evicted. He would do over the roof and the lobby. Yes, he had threatened to sue us once, and he would do it again if we,.tidn't accept the offer.

We were a test case. We were making _real estate history. A tenants' association and a developer had gone partners, to the stupendous benefit of the tenants.

The developers bought the building. In turn, they sold our units to us at less than half the price that outsiders would pay.

Of the 58 units in the building, 49 were bought by the tenants.

We are currently choking in -the plaster dust of rehabilitation.

But we are pretty sure that when it settles, we will be happy. We have experienced .conversion without tears.

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salvation in the next world, or is it also to involve salvation in this world?"

In both the Old and New Testaments, he said, God was very much concerned about salvation in this world. The 1971 synod of bishops recognized that there were unjust structures in the world preventing people from attaining any kind of dignity and that ministry had to be spelled out in something more than assisting people with mercy and kindness, he said.

"So we can't have gospel ministry today unless ministry for justice is involved," he said.

In his travels in Latin America, Father McCoy said, the scenes he saw and the cries he heard reminded him of the . words of Yahweh who tells the people he doesn't want their sacrifice unless they can go out and do justice.

"You see first hand the suffering, the starvation, the oppression and it isn't just something that is being magnified by rabble rousers," he said.

To some people the only alternative to misery is communism, he said.

"In Nicaragua, for example, it was said there was a choice only between Somoza and Castro. That is the most disastrous thing that could be said because it can immobilize everyone to do nothing about: a terrible situation."

However, Catholic and Pro-

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Noting that "in the effort to reduce the number of national collections, the annual collection for the Indian and Negro missions was given a very low priority." Cardinal Krol said it is the oldest of national collections and is the only one devoted to home missions.

Recent efforts to divert some of the funds from evangelization to social, charitable, economic and ethnic or racial programs "have been resisted vigorously," Cardinal Krol said.

"To divert funds to non-missionary purposes," he .said, "would be a betrayal of the intentions of the donors. Such a betrayal is prohibited by both the civil and canon laws."

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Continued from page one .

The diocesan delegates and the subjects on which they will make presentations follow: - Religion in Family Life, Mrs. Mary Fuller, St. Margaret's parish, Buzzards Bay; - Development of Ethnic and Racial Heritage, Father Charles Soto, OFM, Regina Pacis Hispanic Center, New Bedford; - Diversity and Strength of American Family, Mr. and Mrs. Stan Koss, St. Joseph, North Dighton; - Economic Concerns of American Family, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Racine, St. Joseph, New Bedford; - Professional' Support Systems that Strengthen Families, Mrs. William Burns, St. James, New Bedord; - Government and Business Support of American Family, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tyrrell, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall River.

Father Tosti said that information on participation in the hearing by other members of the diocese is available at all rectories.

Ruling Continued from page one Hyde amendment. But it said that while it is considering the issue, Dooling's ruling that medically necessary abortions must be financed by the federal government must go into effect.

Bishop Kelly said what is at stake in the court's consideration of the Dooling decision is "whether citizens who object to abortion in conscience shall or shall not be forced to subsidize abortions with their taxes."

Convocation Continued from page one retreats for the Center for Religious Development, also in Cambridge. They will be supported by Center associates.

For the New England bishops, say convocation organizers, the Convocation is an opportunity to share with participants a topic of common concern. For participants, the occasion is an opportunity to impart information and viewpoints helpful to the bishops in making pastoral decisions.

It is also described as a "lived-experience of church and an enrichment of' faith-life through input, prayer and communal reflection."

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DES MOINES, Iowa (NC) The Diocese of Des Moines has lowered its projected cost for the visit of Pope John Paul II to $875,000, the diocesan financial director, Michael Walsh, reported. At the time of the pope's visit in October, diocesan offiBishop Robert Whelan of . daIs had projected their ex-' Fairbanks, Alaska, told the di- penses would total ~1.2 million, rectors that his diocese, larger but they have reported that than Texas, contributed just clean-up, shuttle ,bus~s and med. over $1,000, but received- more ical expenses were npt as costly than $90,000 for work among as expected. So far, $800,000 the Eskimos and Indians. has been raised to pay the bills.

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Fantastic series Dear Editor: I just want· to tell you how much I enjoyed reading about the charismatic renewal. Father Lachance was fantastic in his series. I hope you continue to inform us and let us know what is going on in the charismatic renewal.

Alice Brillo Somerset

Low blow Dear Editor: "Enthusiasm" in the young is rewarding if it is nourished and directed in the right channels.

Father Lachance's essay on Prayer Meetings was excellent.

I picture him as amiable and affable, with a discerning eye.

After reading the article I noticed a large white question mark on a blue background with the title "Mystery Cultists Disappear."

Please note the priests' of Bradley and Reddick, III. did not care enough for what was going on around them.

Did they not notice or hear of any parishioners attending those meetings? This seems to me that these parishes have no sense of community or communication.

Young people are always questioning as Jesus did in the Temple when he was 12 years old.

Is it any wonder that people tune in on the "Electronic Church" and join "far out groups?"

I think it was a "low blow" printing that NC news item next to Father Lachance's.

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In reading the article on Prayer meetings (Anchor 2/14/ 80) I was especially interested in the part that says young people prayed there for hours - many of whom were bored by the Sunday Mass.

This has been a source of great sadness to me.

Are young people, and older people, being instructed at these prayer meetings about the sacredness and value of the Holy Mass, for which there is no substitute.

I am amazed at the lack of appreciation for the Mass that many seem to have. Is it lack of instruction, or lack of interest?

More instruction should be given, to remind alI of. wh~t transpires at the Mass.

A proper appreciation of the Mass should instruct that one goes to Mass first to honor God, and then, if worthy, to receive the Lord, Body and Blood, in· Holy Communion - this is the most intimate Gift that Almighty

God could bestow. For a while . we carry the Lord with~n ~ as our Blessed Mother was able to.

If people could reflect on this Great Event how can they be "bored." We do not go to Mass to be "entertained," and feelings should not distract us from what our wills telI us about the great privilege of the Holy Mass. And then it folIows - that with a greater appreciation of the Most Holy Eucharist, we are led to receive more often the Sacrament of Penance or Reconciliation so that our souls are always worthy to receive Holy Communion.

I read of one priest who often shed tears of love while holding the Living Bread from Heaven in his consecrated hands when saying Mass.

Please - as prayer meetings are becoming more and more popular, and they are neo-pentecostal, please teach the people where their prope~ priorities should be and of th,eir Roman Catholic roots.

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The world today. exploits people and exposes them to all kinds of' temptations and deceptions, via mass media, drugs, sex, trancendental. meditation and the like.

The church today needs power to combat these forces of evil and to change and sanctify lives.

The charismatic gifts are one answer to this problem, although the charismatic renewal has gone far beyond a preoccupation with such manifestations. However, that these charisms exist and are empowered by the Holy Spirit is beyond question. If one believes in the Resurrection, then it follows that one cannot deny charismatic gifts f()r they depend on the fact that Jesus died, was resurrected and sent the H()ly~pirit into the world to empower Christians to carry out his work (Acts 2).

Let us look. then at these - gifts in 1 Cor. 12. Rather than try to ignore them or spectacularize them, St. Paul would have us understand them and grow in them: "Now, brothers, I do not want to have you in ignorance about spiritual gifts."

A charismatic gift is a manifestation of God's power and presence given freely .for his honor and glory and for the building up of t.he church. These gifts are found in great evidence after Pentecost in Acts. They have been with us to a greater or lesser degree since the beginning of Christianity.

There are many gifts other than the nine so-called charismatic gifts. However, we shall focus here on those, as listed in 1 Cor. 12:8-10.

1. The Word of Wisdom: Grants a person an insight into God's plan in a given situation and enables him or her to put

this insight into words of advice or direction.

2. The Word of Knowledge: A fact revealed by God to a person about another person or situation.

3. Gift of Faith: Enables a person to 'believe without doubt at a given moment.

4.. Gift of Healing: Enables a person to be God's instrument of healing to another, spiritually, psychologically or physically.

5. Gift of Miracles: Enables a person to be an instrument in either an instant healing or some other manifestation of God's power.

6. Gift of Prophecy: Enables a person to give God's message to another individual or to a community (not to tell the future).

7. Gift of Discernment: Enables a person to know the source of .an inspiration or action; whether it came from the Holy Spirit, his own human spirit, or from an evil spirit.

8. Gift of Tongues: Enables a person to give God's message in an unknown tongue for the community present. Tongues is also given for personal prayer and edification of individual.

9. Gift of Interpretation of Tongues: Enables a person to interpret wpat the person has said or a response to what is said, such as a prayer. Interpretation can also be used privately with . prayer tongues. ·We can easily see that these gifts could contribute greatly to the building up of the Church.

Paul explains that they are given for the common good. (1 Cor. 12:7) by the same Spirit in each instance (1 Cor. 12-11). He then expljli,ns his analogy of the Body of Christ and how each member is indispensable (Vs. 22).

It is important to realize that a person exercising a gift is only an instrument by which the

Holy Spirit manifests His power and His Presence. No person can claim to possess a gift. He or she is only a channel through which the Holy Spirit operates.

"Gifts" in the Greek simply means manifestation. There are those who are used consistently and' frequently in a particular gift. This would be defined as a ministry of a gift; for example, a healing ministry.

An aspect we must consider is that manifestation of a gift need not indicate personal holiness. However, the use of charismatic gifts can be a sign of real concern and love for the Church, and their correct use should lead to the fruits of the Spirit, the true sign of holiness of life.

Regular and powerful use of these gifts usually emerges after a perSon enters into a deep personal relationship with Jesus Christ, has begun to pray in tongues and pray in private, is connected with a source of guidance such as a charismatic community open to the power of the Holy Spirit' and' in communion with the church.

If a person does not freely will to yield to God's activity in charismatic gifts, they will not be manifested in his life. The Lord will never violate anyone's .free will, therefore an individual is always free to accept or reject the inspirations of the Holy Spirit.

Finally, we must say that love is the most important aspect of any community. These gifts are means by which God wishes to bring forth good fruit and build up the church.

Nevertheless, we cannot play down the gifts in order to aim at love, for they are part of God's plan to unify the Body of Christ in love. The appropriate use of the gifts is to manifest them out of one's love for God and his brothers and sisters.

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By James and Mary Kenny Today we hear much about n'ew approaches to marital therapy. Lots of theory and lots of encounter. Yet sometimes we run the risk of forgetting the , simplest approach of all. Families that do things together stay together.

Modern society gives family members different tasks to perform outside the home and in so doing pulls families apart.

Each of us has so' many activities: job, school, athletic events, club meetings, lessons, scouts, etc. We tend to be bound to those people with whom we ,work and play. If those people are primarily other than family, then we will inevitably move away from our .family.

The solution is not to stop outside activities. That would be both unwise and impossible.

Rather, families need, to face this issue in a more positive way and develop some family activities. Where hands are busy together, minds and hearts will follow. If activities are performed together, they will bind.

"The family that prays together stays together," Father ,Patrick Peyton used to say. He

was right. Although he was talking about the rosary; his advice applies on a much broader scale.

Prayer is a good common activity for families, a common task with potential to bind people together. Families should go to church together as a unit, not one member now and one later, simply to fulfill an obligation.

Whatever happened to grace at, meals? The prayer need not be a formal "'Bless us, 0 Lord," but surely one family member can give voice to some grateful sentiments when food is shared.

And bedtime. What a wonderful opportunity for an expression of prayerful unity. Family members can come together for a moment at the end of a day to ask a blessing. The night prayer can be as simple as a family holding hands in silence, or as formal as an Our Father.

The family meal has unfortunately become an anachronism.

Dad has to go to an early meeting. Johnny has late swimming practice. Mom has a sewing class. Rarely is everyone together for anyone meal.

Families would do well to specify one meal each week

when all' members would be there, no matter what the other obligations. At least once a week the family could have top priority as its members meet to eat in common.

Families also need to play together. How about a family party at .least once' a month.

After dinner on one scheduled evening, all the members would assemble for a few hours of cards, charades, Monopoly, home movies, snacks or whatever entertainment appeals to most.

Developing common activities for family members of varied ages and interests sounds formidable. Instead, try to develop a few specific activities. We have suggested three possibilities: pray'together, eat together, play together. Families need not try to do this all the time, but plan a time and an activity together at least once a week or once a month. Time is our most precious commodity. Invest some of yours in family activities.

Questions on family living and child care are invited. Address to The Kennys c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass.

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Watching the garden grow

By Joseph Roderick One of the fun things about a garden is watc:hing things grow.

I came to realize this through necessity. Years ago, with a growing family and the accompanying constant need for ready cash, I had trouble squeezing garden money from the budget.

Consequently I acquired the habit of seeking sources of small plants that I could nur· ture myself rather than spending much more on fully grown specimens. For example, rather than buying large azaleas, I invested in relatively inexpensive one-year-old grafts or seedlings that would take several years of growth in my garden.

They needed extra care their first winter but eventually rewarded me by flourishing in my garden - and half the fun was watching their progress over a five year period.

The same thing can be done with almost any permanent planting. A1m,ost all catalogs have listing of field-grown cutting in flats or small plant offerings at reduced prices. Obviously, the longer a nursery grows a plant, the more you have to pay for it and the shipping involved as it gets larger. By buying plants in small sizes one s~ves money on both the cost of the plant and the shipping costs. .

There is a tendency with Americans to rush things. Gardens must be completed immediately and one sees new homes with ready-made shrubbery in place.

For the true garender, however, time is of little importance, since the garden is an on-going interest, not one that attains perfection overnight.

I have tended my own gar-

den for many years and it is far from completion. Each year I decide on changes, removal of some plants, addition of new ones, transplanting of others to better locations. The garden is an inexhaustible source of activity.

With this attitude, small plants become the perfect way to build the garden. In a normal year I buy four or five dwarf shrubs as well as 10 or so evergreen

azaleas and dwarf rhododendrons and numerous other plants. These are usually wintered over in the greenhouse the first year, although that is not completely necessary.

They are then placed in the garden in good locations, where they are grown for a minimum of two years, then moved to new sites where they are grown until they are placed in a permanent location.

BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN (left) discusses forthcoming Catholic Charities Appeal with Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director. The priests noted that inflationine:reased operating budgets of .diocesan service agencies will necessitate higher appeal goals. A campaign kick-off meeting will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 16 at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

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We are happy to carry notices of spiritual programs, club meetlnRs, youth projects and similar nonprofit activities. ' Fundraising projects may be advertised at our regular rates obtainable from Tha Anchor business Office, telephone 675·7151.

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER, TIVERTON St. Christopher's Church, Tiverton, will host a World Day of Prayer Service at 1- p.m. Friday, March 7. Sponsored by Church Women United of Little Compton and Tiverton, the program will feature an address on Responsible Freedom by Barbara Wright, a member of St. Patrick's Charismatic Community, Providence. Refreshments will follow, with members of the host church's Women's Guild in charge of arrangements.

NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS Sister M. Thomas Mote, St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, chairman of the Massachusetts chapter of Nursing Home Administrators, has announced the chapter's annual meeting, to be held Wednesday, March 19 at Chateau de Ville, Framingham.

Six awards for professional excellence will be' made to persons involved in nursing home administration or senior affairs.

ISLAND-WIDE MISSION, MARTHA'S VINEYARD Martha's Vineyard parishes will sponsor an island-wide mission the week of Monday, March 17. Father J. Thaddeus Murphy, OP will conduct services on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at St. Augustine's parish, Vineyard Haven; on Thursday at Sacred Heart, Oak :Bluffs; and on Friday at St. Elizabeth's, Edgartown.

Services of the elderly and others free during the day will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Augustine's, and at the same time Tuesday and Wednesday at Sacred Heart and Thursday and Friday at St. Elizabeth's.

PARENTAL STRESS LINE, BOSTON Parents anywhere in Massachusetts are invited to use the services of the Parental Stress Line, which offers anonymous statewide telephone counseling to help parents cope with childrelated crises and frustrations.

Trained volunteers offer help around the clock at the toll-free number 1-800-632-8188.

Sarah Belcher, director, reports receiving over 1000 calls since the service began in October under sponsorship of Parents' and Children's Services of Boston.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL, GREATER FALL RIVER Members will meet for Mass at 7 p.m. Tuesday at St. John of· God Church, Somerset. At a following meeting Father Peter N. Gra~iano will speak of his experieqces as chaplain at New Bedford House of Correction.

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ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER The parish school will hold a science fair at 7 tQmorrow night in the cafeteria. Awards will be announced at 8:15 p.m.

A first penance celebration will be held in the school auditorium at 2 p.m. Sunday. .

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FALL RIVER A 7 p.m. Mass in the Lady Chapel will precede the Tuesday meeting of the Women's Guild, to be held in the' parish hall. Mrs. Roger Vezina will be hostess.

ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET A penance service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday for Grade 3 children in the CCD program.

A first penance service will take place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday for first communicants and their parents.

An adult confirmation class is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday in the COD center in preparation for administration of the sacrament Sunday, March 16.

A prayer meeting Thursday, March 6 will begin at 7 p.m. with Mass. A social hour will follow in the parish center.

HOLY NAME, FALL'RlVER The Men's Club will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday in the school hall.

New members will be welcome. . The parish Junior "A" basket~ ball team has taken first place in tournament competition for the second time this season, with Joe Stanton named MVP for the George Washington Tournament which took place in Taunton last week. Jeff Medeiros and Sonny Raposa were coaches.

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To enable the school "to go out in grand style," alum. nae of the former academies and of Bishop Gerrard, as well as present students and their parents are sponsoring a fundraising drive and soliciting support from all associated with any of the schoola-.

The chairperson of the planning committee is Sue (Bernier) Thibault, DA '61, aided by the following: Muriel (Cote) Comtois, DA '61; Jeanne (Morisette) Latessa, JMA '62; Judy (Welsh) Pacheco, Mount '58; Celeste (Morin) Narciszyn, Gerrard '76. ' Also committee members are Karen Cobery, representing present Gerrard students; and Ann Aballo, representing parents.

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Parents of children entering the parish school in September (regardless of grade), will meet at 4 p.m. Sunday with Father Robert Kaszynski, pastor.

A Lenten 'series for teens will begin at 7:45 tonight in the rectory or school, depending on the size of the group.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER The Council of Catholic Women will meet Wednesday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the church hall. District Council representatives and Father Maurice Jeffrey will speak. The unit plans a tour of Vermont maple sugar country on Sunday, March 30. it has been announced that Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will open the program of a Day of 'Praise to be held from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, March 30 in the church.

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By Father Cornelius van der Poel

II Parents' role Angela M. Schreiber It was the end of the day and the end of an era in Nancy's life.

Ed, her husband, assured her that she had fought a valiant battle. Their daughter, Amy, had prepared a lovely dinner and baked a cake in celebration.

Nancy smiled but she could not control her thoughts. Over and •over, she asked herself, "Was I stupid? It would have been so much easier to have found another job and left while I was still ahead. The boss came out smelling like a rose because he was smart. Firing long-time employees to help pay for machinery he had purchased and could have done without. certainly didn't faze him. It saved money for his division.

"But it wasn't enough money, so he began eyeing my department. He was getting me ready for the chopping block. That's when I should have found' another job. But my Christian principles got in the way. So I challenged his business practices and lost my job. All I gained was knowing that he would not be able to resume his pattern for some time to come. Is my clear conscience really worth all I've been through?"

Amy interrupted Nancy's thoughts by suggesting, "Why don't you come when Dad drops me off at OCD? You and he could go someplace while you wait for me."

Nancy agreed and after: Amy had been delivered to class, Ed found a quiet street and parked the car. Nancy's self-control let go. He held her until her sobs subsided. Later they picked up Amy. "CCD was better than usual," she said as she got in the car.

"We talked about Jesus and Gethsemane, how horrible it must have been for him being all alone in the garden. He could easily have ditched the whole thing, !Jut he stood with his principles and finally died for them. ' "Mom, I told the class what you had done, for a principle.

My teacher, said that was your Gethsemane and that all of us face at least one Gethsemane in our lifetime. How we react tells us whether we really are Christians!

"You know, Mom, you did win, after all." "Perhaps it has been a very little Gethsemane, but unlike Jesus, I have never been alone with it," said Nancy.

"You and Dad stayed with me.

And tonight when I cried, he held me, I felt that I had lost.

But you' ,'e just shown me that's wrong. ""'e've all learned something."

know your faith Jesus: the central family figure

By Jerry Bartram The scene: a school playground. One little boy pushes another against a wall and grabs him by the throat.

Seven-year-old Michael Tetreau sees the incident and says to the aggressor, "Don't do that.

Would you do that to Jesus?"

The boy mutters, "Uh, I don't know, I guess not," and waJks away.

Michael never mentioned the incident to his mother, but the mother of the boy he "saved" phoned and described it. Later she said her son began asking her that same question when she did something unloving. And that question was always a moment of conversion for her.

The scene: a grade two classroom. Joseph Tetreau, age eight,

and some other boys are misbehaving. The teacher reprimands them. After class, Joseph says to the teacher, "I'm sorry 1 misbehaved. I want to start again new. I apologize."

The teacher told the parents, "Some boys from whom I'd never expect it also apologized after they heard Joseph."

The scene: a hospital. Michael has been admitted with pneumonia. He's been given needles all day. He does not cry. Toward the end of the day, the nurse explains that he needs intravenous liquids, and another needle. "He sobbed for about five seconds. Then it was over," his father told us. "He smiled, took the nurse's hand, and walked to the room where she gave him the intravenous. She was amazed that he didn't cry

because she had to go in twice before she found the vein. I asked him if he knew why he was doing this," his father said, "and he said; "I'm offering this in unity with Jesus crucified."

For Dick Tetreau, Michael's father, witnessing his son's courage "was a tremendous grace, because I still had to go back to work where I have many problems. But I was cheerful in a way I wouldn't perhaps have been otherwise, because I realized that my son had shown me how to transform everyone of these sufferings into joy."

The spirituality of the Focolare Movement to which they belong has helped the Tetreaus.'

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Building the body of Christ at home

By Father John J. Castelot One of the most lamentable developments in American society is a widespread breakdown of respect for authority on all levels. It seems to be open season on everyone from the president to the cop on the beat, and the logical outcome of this attitude can be only anarchy and social chaos.

Still, when adults look with alarm at the young, asking "Why can't they be like us?" it might come as a salutary shock to realize that perhaps they are.

School and church can try to

instil the right attitudes, but if young people spend most of their waking hours in homes with the wrong attitudes, the school and church are wasting their time.

If parents are vocally critical of everyone from the pope down, if they consistently defy posted speed limits, park illegally, boast of having sllccessfully cheated on their income tax, can children be expected to show respect for anybody, including, ironically, those same parents?

It has always been true that the prime educators of children in matters of religion and ethical conduct are the parents.

They cannot pass off this responsibility to any agency, outside the home.

The Letter to the Ephesians gives some very practical advice on how this teaching is to be done in daily life: "See to it, then, that you put an end to lying; let everyone speak the truth to his neighbor, for we are members of one another. If you are angry, let it be without sin. The sun must not go down on your wrath . . . The man who has been stealing must steal no longer; rather, let him work with his hands at honest Turn to Page Thirteen

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"IF PARENTS try their best tQ be imitators of God, as his dear children, there is a more than even chance' that their sons and daughters will in turn imitate them' as their dear children." .

Life is a fascinating combination of contrasts. The qualities that make for human'greatness can also cause human downfall.

Human strength is also human weakness. To become strong, one must be dependent on others, but while being dependent one may not lose individuality.

The surroundings in which these contrasts exist and are brought into a personal balance is the community. Someone said, "If you want to have good neighbors you must be a good neighbor." There is a mutual influence between individuals and families and others, and this mutual exchange affects our attitudes.

The parish community is meant to be one of our strongest intluences. Values we see in pel sons we know affect us more cleeply than those in strangers.

Where a Christian community is alive, a sense of personal value and dignity is more easily developed. Common worship supports mutual help and respect.

This is only one aspect of community influence.

The school" for another, has an unbelievable variety of influences.

Academic development opens new vistas and creates new desires and wishes. Adaptation to teachers, school regulations and fellow students strengthens our ability to respe<:t the needs of others, or it can increase our defensiveness. Usually it does a little of both. The new horizons that open up through knowledge feed our imagination and also awaken energy and determination and give direction to our lives.

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IFor children II

By Janaan Manternach What was Jesus like as a young boy?

The Gospels tell us little.

They seem to take it for granted that Jesus grew up as a normal boy, apparently not much different from others in his hometown.

He lived in a small town called Nazareth, which still sits on the steep slope of a hill in Galilee, the northern part of Israel. Nazareth was several day's journey from the capital city, Jerusalem. The people of the big city looked down on this small town.

Jesus lived at home with his mother, Mary, and his .foster father, Joseph. Joseph was a carpenter. The family was not rich, but they were not poor either. They led simple lives, rarely traveling far from home.

Once a year they went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover at the great temple. Jesus began going when he was 12.

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A Verdade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego

o Compromisso Pessoal do Cristao o defeito fundamental do cristianismo, a nivel de massas, e a falta de compromisso: nao se toma a serio a propria vida crista, nem em rela9ao a Deus, nem em rela9ao as realidades temporais em que se vive.

Acima de tudo, ha urn motivo fundamental: a separa9ao entre religiao e vida. Para a maior parte, a religiao resume-se nuns actos concretos(as praticas religiosas), mas que nada ter a ver com as realidades temporais, (na familia, no trabalho, justi~a social, veracidade da pessoa ... ). ~ como se a pessoa se dividisse em dois compartimentos-estanques: a alma, para 0 religioso; e 0 corpo, para 0 puramente humane e temporal. Por isso, sao compativeis, em na90es ou regioes de muitas praticas cristas, situa90es de irijusti9a ou de estruturas anti-evangelicas.

A pessoa e absorvida pelas preocupa90es meramente temporais nurn mun-, do cada vez mais aceleradamente. 0 verdadeiro compromisso cristao fica assim limitado a pequenos grupos. As massas, mesmo em paises tradicionalmente catolicos, vao-se tornando cada vez mais indiferentes e ateias, embora continuem a manter, por,imobilismo certas praticas: baptismo, casamento, funeral, primeira comunhao, comunhao solene, missa dominical.

A consequencia logica e: essas praticas religiosas sofrem durn rotineirismo e fariseismo repelentes. Co'me9a-se ppr urna comoda passividade,em que 0 cristao se limita a estar no acto religioso, sem se atrever a romper com a tradi9ao ou com 0 compromisso social que isso supoe. Depois, , mesmo em grandes sectores de praticantes assiduos, chega-se a rotina, ern . que 0 importante e a quantidade (" mu itas" missas, ir a missa "todos" os domingos, cQnfessar-se "todos"os anos) e a realiza9ao do acto como tal .•. Pergunta-se aos filhos se "foram" a missa, s~ "se confessaram" ou "comungaram l o "como", a qualidade, que 0 acto religioso seja urn verdadeiro encontro com Deus, interessa menos. Alinha-se, assim, pelo_fariseismo, pela pratica exterior; tao condenada por Cristo.

Outra das causas basicas desta situa2ao e a !gnorancia, a falta de instru9ao crista. Entre nos, ha mais sacramentaliza9ao, do que evangeliza9ao.

Pratica-se mais do que se sabe, e dessa ignorancia e que procede 0 desinteresse cada vez maior pela pratica, por faltar 0 suporte e fundamento da f§, que e a evangeliza9ao. Uma concep9 ao legalista do cristianismo levou-nos a dar importancia somente a realiza9ao do acto (ir a missa, receber os sacramen t os ) " para nao pecar". 0 verdadeiro conhecimento da pessoa e da obra de Cristo, a partir do qual e possivel urn interesse pelo encontro pessoal, pelo compromisso vital, tinha permanecido quase ausente. . C~isto e 0 grande comprometido com a ~~~sao recebida do Pai, compromisso ate a morte.

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For children Continued from page twelve At home in Nazareth, life was marked by a sense of' respect for tradition and authority. The Gospels mention explicitly that Jesus was obedient to Mary and Joseph. He respected them and learned from them.

Mary and Joseph taught Jesus to read, and probably to write.

He spoke Aramaic, the language of his people. Joseph also taught Jesus to be a carpenter.

Jesus attended the local synagogue school, where he learned Hebrew, the language of the Bible, and synagogue worship.

The Gospel of Luke says Jesus was eager to learn and grew more intelligent with each year.

Jesus enjoyed games and sports. The Gospel says he was , strong and well liked.

Mary, Joseph and Jesus observed traditional Jewish religious practices. They cooked and ate according to the Jewish laws.

They blessed their food before eating. They prayed in the morning, afternoon and evening and celebrated the Jewish holidays.

Each week Jesus celebrated the Sabbath with his family. He watched his mother light the lamps and welcome the Sabbath as the sun set on Friday.

From then until Saturday's sunset, the family did no work of any kind. The Sabbath was a day of rest and prayer.

Jesus had his own place in the synagogue, as did Joseph and Mary. They wore long prayer shawls, with tassels along the edge, to synagogue services. In the synagogue, Jesus grew in

Jesus Continued from Page Twelve stant danger of death beause of bombing. They determined to live the Gospel daily.

Focolare members try to put into practice one sentence from the Gospel, called "the word of life" each month. It is a way to eIre-evangelize ourselves," Dick says. Members "try not just to meditate on it, or talk it, or. think about it, but to make every effort to embody it in everyday life." Each evening they share the ways they have tried to live it during the day.

The sentence of the Gospel "where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there in the midst of them," is extremely important in their lives.

"For me and Dick (the aim) is to create that atmosphere where Jesus is our teacher and the children's," says Shirley.

Discipline in the family becomes an education in unity rather than a cause of division and resentment.

Shirley feels that correcting the children when they are w(ong is "a service of love which we perform as Christian parents."

But when she fails to correct them with love, when she loses her patience, she apologizes and asks their forgiveness.

"And then I say, 'Let's start again to love each other so we can have Jesus in our midst.'

They always say ·Yes.'''

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From the time he was 12, he was considered an adult member of the community.

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After the death of John the Baptist, Christ's enemies grew bolder. First in number and influence were the Pharisees. Not all were evil men but their mistake was that they interpreted the government wholly in their own favor, regarding the masses as lowly and standing for the least jot and tittle of the law.

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Others in power were the Sadducees, rich epicureans who were content with the Roman domination. They were uninterested in a messiah but objected to doctrines that sowed the seeds of social revolution. The Herodians, politicians who wanted to curry favor with Herod, and the scribes and lawyers, professional men with great influence, completed the "estab-

mission is presumptuous in the i~tr~me .- the success of that mission IS a menace to our authority and privileges."

In many ways, this is a contemporary issue. The "untaught" are sneeringly put down as "knowing nothing. If one challenges the powers that be the voice from the mountain echoes through the valley, "How dare you!" We have more in common with our Lord than V\e realize.

As in those days, so today, a corporation of power aligned against Jesus. It would have been contrary to their natures had his contemporaries not indulged in that acrimony of feeling which the authorized practitioner always feels toward the unauthorized. Again, look around you.

Sesquimillennium American Benedictines are joining thousands of their confreres throughout the world in celebrating 1980 as the 1500th anniversary of the births of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica, the twin founders of the Benedictine Order.

In September abbots and abbesses of hundreds of houses will meet in Rome for a symposium on the Benedictine rule, while other observances will take place in nearly every nation in the world.

Born in Nursia, Italy, in 480,

St. Benedict is considered the founder of Western monasticism.

His rule, still followed today, has served as the model for other religious orders established over the centuries in the Catholic church.

His twin sister, St. Scholastica, is honored as the foundress of the Benedictine order of nuns.

The beginning "The smile is the beginning of love." - Mother Teresa

Fall River swim champ

By Larry Lotz

brothers, Mike and Tom, were leading scorers on the Bishop Connolly (Fall River) High hockey team. T~m went on to play for Southeastern Massacliusetts University. Her twin brother Steve was the leading scorer on Connolly's undefeated Southeastern Massachusetts Conference division two soccer team. A younger brother (Paul) is a sophomore at Durfee and a top member of the Hilltoppers' boys' swimming team. Another younger brother, Ray, is a defenseman in the Fall River Youth Hockey association while the youngest member of the family, Nancy, is starting out like her sister on the YMCA swimming team.

City clerk Tom Kitchen and his wife Ginger have always en路 couraged their children to take an active part in sports. Mr,.

Kitchen played with the Sacred Heart CYO baseball team for several years while Mrs. Kitchen was herself an' excellent swim路 mer.

Sue has not yet decided on a college, but has narrowed the field to three solid possibilities.

Harvard, Princeton, and the University of North Carolina. She was very impressed with Harvard after spending some time on campus several weeks ago_ "They need someone in the freestyle sprints and the backstroke, my specialties," she remarked after watching a HarvardPrinceton meet.

No matter where she decides to go, Fall Riverites are betting Sue Kitchen will be heard from.

She likes to sew, can often be found baby-sitting her young nephew, enjoys group outings and studies hard at BMC Durfee High School in Fall River. In summary, all the activities generally associated with a normal The astute, the clever, the high school senior. subtle, how could they underBut there is another side. stand one who spoke plainly, who pleaded a cause they would Durfee's Sue Kitchen is a swimmer. Not just any old swimmer, not stoop to. but the state's best girl swimWe speak of entrapment. No mer, a title she has held for the one was more entrapped than past three years.

By Charlie Martin our Lord. The powerful pestered Sue topped off her high school him with questions, trying to swimming career by being work out his downfall with a named for the third year in a COOL CHANGE stealthy and indefatigable ha- row "Massachusetts High School If there's one thing in my life that's missing tred.

They were blind to the girl swimmer of the year" by It's the time that I spend alone beauty of his character. Bigots the Boston Globe. (A committee Sailing on the cool and bright clear water by nature, spies by choice, they of representatives from the Lots of those friendly people finally contrived his defamation state's swimming leagues does Showing me the way to go and death. the chosing).

That I never want to lose their inspiration Over the last three years she Time for a cool change But in his last days, Christ's, I know that it's time for a cool change. addresses to the people became has set numerous state and a Well I was born in the sign of water full of mystic references to him- couple of nati,onal swimming And it is there I feel my best self. He claimed an intimate and records. Generally known for her The albatross and the whales they are my brothers special mandate from heaven. performances in the 50 and 100 It's kind of a special feeling He felt God moving and breath- free style sprints (her most recent outing at the Mass. High When you are out on the sea alone ing in him.

School state championships reStaring at the full moon like a lover "Strange delusion of an ideal- sulted in a new state and pendTir:te for a cool change ist," exclaims the rationalist. But ing national record in the 100 I know that it is time for cool change it was no delusion. His was the freestyle), Sue is also the best Now that my life is so prearranged true Light that must continue to high school backstroke specialI know that it is time for a cool change shine in us when all others have ist in the state. She barely missI've never been romantic and sometimes I don't care been extinguished. ed setting a new state record in I know that it may sound selfish winning the 100 backstroke at But let me breathe the air the high school championships If there is one thing in my life that is missing back in November.

It is the time that I spend alone MILAN, ltaly(NC) - Marble Sailing on the cool and bright clear water The Kitchens, members of arms of statues and wings of Sacred Heart parish in Fall It's kind of a special feeling gargoyles crashed into the River, are well known for their Out on the sea alone streets of Milan recently, in yet athletic abilities. Sue's older Staring at the full moon like a lover another fragmentation of the Time for a cooi change city's gothic cathedral.

I know it's time for a cool change Now that my life is so prearranged No one was injured when the I know it's time for a cool change pieces of decaying statues fell 100 feet to the cobblestone Written by G. Shorrock, sung by The Little River Band, street. (c) 1979 by Capitol Records, Inc. "The name of the disease is This song asks: "Are we running our lives or is life running smog," said chief church ,archius?" It is from the recent album, "First Under The Wire."

Most of us live at a hectic pace, and if any hours remain empty, tect Carlo Ferrari.

Officials cited pigeon dropwe can always lose ourselves in TV. Consequently, the song's opening line takes us by surprise: "If there is one thing in my life that pings, shifts in the water table is missing, it is the time that I spend alone." The song goes on to under the cathedral and vibradescribe the fulfillment a person receives through the solitary ex- tions from traffic as other causes of the deterioration. perience of sailing.

Other pieces of the cathedral's Often the image of being alone is equated with loneliness. But aloneness and loneliness are not the same. Loneliness reveals our elaborate facade have fallen need to interact with others, but aloneness affirms the value of our through the years. No one has individuality. Loneliness is unavoidable; aloneness must be sought. ever been injured. The massive Yet the two are related, for when we accept our feelings of loneli- edifice has 135 pinnacles and more than 200 white marble ness, they can lead us to understand our need for aloneness.

Space for aloneness can be found ,anywhere. A natural quiet statues on its facade.

Its groundwork was laid in resides within us, but certain situations enhance our finding it. We might find it on the sea, -walking through a forest, or even at home 1386. St. Charles Borromeo consecrated it in 1577, and the calistening to our favorite music.

We need time alone to grow. Unless we take time to'reflect on thedral was completed between our activity, we will lose awareness of where we want it to lead us. 1805 and 1809 on orders from SUE KITCHEN Napoleon.

This could dim our view of our final destiny with God.

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portswQtch Spartanettes New England Champions The chant ,"We're- Number One" did not belong exclusively to the Lake Placid area over the weekend. The same chant echoed through the halls of Bishop Stang High School, whose Spartanettes won the Class A championship in the third annual New England Catholic High School Girls Basketball Tournament.

Paced by Denise Higgins and Shauneen Bourgeois, each with 14 points, the Stang girls defeated Holy Name of Worcester, 52-44, in the tourney final Saturday in Xaverian High School in Westwood. In the semi-finals Friday the Spartanettes defeated St. Peter-Marian, 47-35.

The Stang girls were scheduled to meet Hull at Norwell yesterday in the first round of the Division Two Eas~ern Mass.

South Sectional tourney. A victory would advance them against

Abington or Archbishop Williams in a quarter-finals game at 1 p.m. Saturday at Weymouth North High School.

In the boys' Division Three South Sectionals Coyle~assidy meets Old Colony in Durfee High School of 'Fall River and Cape Cod Tech goes against St. ColumbkiUe's in Plymouth-Carver High in quarter-finals games scheduled for 7 tonight.

When the Eastern Mass. hockey playoffs get underway, Dan Craig, Oliver Ames' senior center is certain to be the focus of much attention, being a younger brother of the now-famous James Craig who did such an outstanding job as goalie for the Olympic champion United States hockey team at Lake Placid. In Hockomock League play Dan scored 18 goals and was credited with 28 assists.

New Bedford CYO Winner John Jablonski made good on a free throw with one second remaining to give New Bedford a 76-75 victory over Fall River in the CYO Senior All-Star Basketball Tournament in eyO Hall, Fall River. The Fall Riverites had eliminated Taunton, 54-45, in the semi-finals. Fall River pinned a 52-48 defeat on Taunton to win the Prep Crown.

Voted the senior tourney's most valuable player, Jablonski was named to the senior alltourney team along with teammates Bill Burns and Fall River hoopstersPaul Turgeon, John Pereira and Paul Chabot. Named to the all-tourney Prep team are Jim Mendes and Peter Cardoza of Taunton, Jim Carvalho, Mike Valerio and John Guidotti of Fall , River.

In another CYO basketball tourney - ' the George Washington Tournament sponsored by the Taunton Area CYO and played in the Taunton Catholic Middle School - Holy Name of Fall River was the winner with a 56-43 victory over St. Mary of New Bedford in the final. Martin Middle of Taunton defeated Our Lady of Mt. Carmel of New Bedford,' 55-53, in the consolation final.

On the scholastic basketball scene, Mike Shea, Bishop Connolly High School's hoop standout, set a new school record of 44 points in a single game in a Southeastern Mass. Conference interdivision game against Holy Family High in New Bedford.

The new record wiped out the previous mark of 42 established last year by Bill Shea, Mike's cousin.

In boxing, Dave Gauvin of the Fall River CYO is the New England Golden Gloves 112-pound champion as a result of his

unanimous decision over Tony Pelletier of Connecticut in Lowell last week. Fall River boasts another New England Golden Gloves titlist in Jerry LaFlamme, of the Fall River Police Athletic League, who won the 178-pound crown.

Semi-finals in the Bristol County CYO Hockey League get underway Sunday night in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River, with 'Taunton against Rochester at 9 and New Bedford taking on Somerset-Freetown at 10:15.

By virtue of finishing first and second, respectively, in the regular season, New Bedford and Taunton ,automatically advanced to the semi-finals. 'Last Sunday night, also in the Driscoll Rink, Rochester and Somerset-Freetown completed sweeps of their quarter-finals series. Rochester routed Fall River North, 9-2, but it took a five-goal third-period blitz for Somerset-Freetown to eliminate Fall River South, 7-4.

The New Bedford team, which won the regular season crown with ease, recently scored an impressive 7-4 victory over the University of Rhode Island Rams.

PD is chaplain TOLEDO, Ohio (oNe) A permanent deacon, William Vest, has been appointed Catholic chaplain at Lima State Hospital in Lima, Ohio, becoming one of the first deacons to fill such a post fuIltime.

Vest was an educational counselor at the hospital when he started studies for the permanent diaconate. The hospital hired him as a chaplain in 1978, and the diocesan appointment confirms his role as both a permanent deacon and chaplain.

tv, mOVIe news Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing: PG-parental guidance suggested: R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents: A3-approved for , adults only: B-objectionable in- part for everyone: A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation): C-condemned.

New Films "Hero at Large" (United Art· ists): John Ritter plays Steve Nichols, a strugglin& young actor, in this disarming romantic comedy about heroism and the perils of survival in New York.

It relates Steve's adventures after taking a job impersonating Captain Avenger to publicize a movie based on the comic strip hero. One night, on the way home from an Avenger stint, he stops at a small grocery store.

When it is held up, he doffs his raincoat and, as Avenger, routs the would be robbers. The story makes the television news and vastly increases' the box office receipts of the Avenger movie.

At this point a cynical public relations man, saddled with the job of promoting an incumbent mayor facing defeat in forthcoming elections, prevails on Steve to participate in a staged robbery. Although Steve's duplicity is revealed, a sentimental and melodramatic finale rights all wrongs.

Good acting and funny dialogue make this warm movie enjoyable for adults and adolescents. Some rough language and the adult implications of the reo, lationship between the two principals make it unsuitable for children.' lPG, A2 "Fatso" (Fox): Dom Deluise is a compulsive eater desperate to lose weight in this slow-paced, mostly unfunny comedy, which veers erratically from low comedy to pathos. The film's rough language makes it adult material.

R, A3 "Guyana: Cult of the Damned" (Universal): This attempt to exploit the Jonestown tragedy of 1978, in which over 900 followers of James Jones died with their deranged leader, has no merit, faIling between uninspired documentary and clumsy dramatization. Two scenes, one involving nudity, the other physical punishment, are gratuitous and offensive. R,B On TV Prison reform is one of those low-priority items on the social agenda that gets talked to death but is seldom acted upon. A program that may galvanize viewers into demanding action from legislators is ..Attica,...... a docu· drama airing Sunday, March 2, at 9-11 p.m. on ABC. It is a careful and restrained reconstruction of what happened within the prison and how authorities failed to resolve the crisis except by force.

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Continued from Page Eleven BREAD OF LIFE COMMUNITY, FALL RIVER Registrations are now being accepted for a series of Life in the Spirit seminars, to follow 7:30 p.m. Mass each Friday at Blessed Sacrament Church, Fall River. Members of prayer groups other than Bread of Life are welcome to join the program.

ST. ROCH, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the par~ ish center. Father Lucien Jusseaume will speak on the clause method of praying the rosary and a living rosary will demonstrate its use.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NEW BEDFORD Volunteers are needed' who can donate an hour or two every two months to visiting parish shut-ins. Those interested may contact Lillian Bono, 996-0978.

HOLY TRINITY, WEST HARWICH Confirmation ceremonies will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, while a retreat preparation for parents of confirmation candidates will take place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

An ultreya committee meeting is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Olde Meeting House.

Ladies' Association workshop meetings are held at 9:30 a.m. each Monday and the mission group meets at the same time each Thursday.

Helen R. Wolf and John Kelly have been named to the parish council.

son" program will be presented BLESSED SACRAMENT . at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 6 in ADORERS, FAIRHAVEN Ex position of the Blessed Sac- the school hall.

A baptismal seminar for. exrament will take place from 9 pectant parents will be held at a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, March 7 at Our Lady of Lourdes Chapel 7 p.m. Thursday, March 20 in in Sacred Hearts Church, Fair- the rectory. haven, with closing Benediction at 9:45 p.m. Exposition is held ST. PATRICK, daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and FALMOUTH A Lenten series on the Year those interested in becoming of the Family is being held from adorers may contact Susan Fitz· 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. each Monday gerald, 993-6610. in the church hall.

High schoolers will meet at ST. GABRIEL, 7 p.m. Sunday for a discussion BRIGHTON Old Testament study sessions on dealing with peer pressure. to which all are invited will be held at 7:30 p.m. each Thursday ST." JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET of Lent in the parish school at Parents of confirmation candi139 Washington St. They will be dates will meet at 7:30 tonight conducted .by Father Paul Zilonka, CP, of the faculty of St. at the parisli (:e~ter. fohn Seminary, Brighton.

ST. JOSEPH, NEW BEDFOIID CATHOLIC NURSES, Programs for the month will CAPE AND ISLANDS Nurses will meet at 7:30 p.m. include recitation of the r' sary Wednesday, March 12 at St. An- at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, 11 larch thony's Church, East Falmouth. 5, followed by a healing service.

Monica Dickens will speak on A day of devotion open to all is the work of the Samaritans in scheduled for Sunday, March 23, the parish. Prospective members· from 2 to 7 p.m., followed by Mass. The theme' will be Family:' are invited to attend.

Mine, Yours and Ours. RegistraST. JOSEPH, tion forms are available at the FAIRHAVEN church doors or by calling 944The parish Human Develop- 3656. ment and Congregational Life An hour of prayer for world commissions will meet at 7:30 peace imd the welfare of the tonight at the rectory. diocese will take place from 1 Part II of a "Values of Per-

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ST. ANmONY, MATTAPOISETT First· Saturday devotions will begin at 7:45 a.m. this Saturday with recitation of the rosary, followed by Mass, offered for world peace. Coffee and muffins will follow in the church hall.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER Weekday Masses in Lent will be celebrated at 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday, Masses will be at 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. Study and discussion of Scripture will follow the 7 p.m.

Mass each Wednesday under di· rection of Msgr. Patrick J. 0' Neill and Father Stephen A. Fernandes.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER A Lenten day of recollection will be held for children of the 7th through 9th grades on Sunday, March 9 from 1 to 5 p.m.

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER A Vine and Branches project is being carried out during Lent both at home and in the church.

Home "vines" will have gospel symbols attached, as with Advent Jesse trees and the parish vine will have leaves attached, each representing study of a selected gospel passage by a member family.

The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed for adoration each Tuesday of Lent following the noon Mass and continuing until 4 p.m.

The Women's Guild will meet

DIOCESAN PRIESTS, TAUNTON DEANERY The sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick will be administered in St. Mary Church, Taunton, at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 9.

Those wishing to participate in the ceremony should contact a parish priest for a pre-registration card. Storm date for the service is Sunday, March 16.

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