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Dearly beloved in Christ, St. Athanasius, a fourth-century Father ofthe Church, referred to the whole of the Easter season, the period from Easter itselfto the feast ofPentecost, as "the great Sunday." Within that interval, Easter, Ascension andPentecost are three significant liturgical moments that invite us to enter personally into the paschal mystery of Jesus' passion, death and resurrection.

our enduring light. The darkness offutility, fear and death has been overcome.

In the words of the Easter Proclamation (Exultet): Rejoice, 0 Mother church! Exult in glory! The Risen Savior shines upon you! Let this place resound with joy, echoing the night song ofall God's people. This is the night when Jesus Christ broke the chains ofdeath and rose triumphant from the grave. .

We call this season "the great Sunday" because great is our Easter joy. We proclaim joyfully to the world that darkness has been overcome by the light of Christ! Our Lenten observances have been marked by a yearning within us that is quenched and fulfilled by God's Word. Cleansed and refreshed by the waters of our baptism, we reaffirm the greatness and the wonder ofthe new life we share in Christ Jesus. God has given us a new spirit. In confidence, we, too, sbare the Good News of Christ's victory over death.

Great is this day because great is the victory we celebrate...new life in Christ!

May the Alleluia that resounds during this Easter season bear fruit in lives that rejoice in the great things that the Lord has done for us. A blessed and happy Easter to you and to all whom you love!

Devotedly yours in Christ,

In our celebration ofthe Easter Vigil, the light ofthe Paschal Candle pierces the darkness. In that brief moment, we affirm in gratitude and joy that Christ is

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Our troupe was formed from the began lifting up banners, each carFrom Taunton and New Bed- Spanish communities in Taunton, rying a single letter until side by side they formed E-S-P-E-R-A-Nford, from Central Falls and Cum- New Bedford and Attleboro.

Last year we met in the far park- Z-A, the Spanish word for HOPE. berland they come-to the grounds of LaSalette Shrine in Attleboro ing lot at LaSalette and began our The young ladies began marching to join with those who have walked way of the cross under threatening and we, followed in procession, skies, a touch of atmosphere that across the entire length of the from the center of town.

They have been arriving since 10 onl'y nature, under God, could LaSalette grounds, following a.m. and they~ have come to cele- control. It heightened our sense of HOPE to the tomb of the Resurrecbrate Good Friday in dramatic drama. By the time we got to the tion.

12th station, a passerby had gone It was only with that HOPE that prayer, in a reenactment ofthe Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross. to the LaSalette switchboard to we could enter the LaSalette chapel Some 200 strong, they are the call the police. The crucifixion had to celebrate there the official liturgy of the Church and to understand a Spanish-speaking community of been so realistically portrayed!

As we took Jesus down from the little better what St. Paul meant the diocese of Fall River. cross, one could feel the weight of when he quoted HO'sea: "Death, Throughout the Spanish world emotion. No one moved. Then where is your victory? Death, where the events of Good Friday and the slowly, one by one, young ladies is your sting?" (I Cor 15:55) Easter Vigil are still celebrated by ancient custom in drama, procession and national holiday. When .people from South and Central America and Puerto Rico come to the United States they experience "We are perhaps a little sophisJea'n Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of "faith-shock" in the comparatively ticated in our ministry and maybe Ars, a 19th century路 French priest staid liturgy of the average Ameri- are taking our values too much known as a confessor and the can parish. from the world. The Holy Father patron of parish priests. 路Two years ago, as I prepared is calling us to simplicity."

The Cure .of Ars "taught the our program for Lent with Sister That was the message of Bishop :-V0rd o~ God by preaching and Martha Tobon of the Guadalupa- Daniel A. Cronin to priests of the nas Sisters, we discussed trying to diocese, gathered last Tuesday at instructIOn, thus assuring his own bring more of the cultural expe- St. Mary's Cathedral for the sanctification and that of others" said the bishop. He proposed ~s riences of our people into what annual Mass of the Chrism. priestly ideals devotibn to the was already the established pracThe Mass, at which oils of the Eucharist, teaching and the ministice of a Spanish Good Friday at sick and catchumens are blessed try of reconciliation, the celebraLaSalette. tion of Mass in a holy manner and Our suggestion met with enthu- and sacred chrism is consecrated exemplificatidn of chastity and is also the annual occasion fo; siastic acceptance and together we obedience in one's life. compiled a Latin American Way priestly recommitment.

Basing his remarks on Pope Presented at the Mass were of the Cross, relating the historical meditation on Christ's Passion to John Paul II's Holy Thursday priests cel~brating jubilees during the everyday Latino experience. message to priests of the world the 1986. MusIc was by the Fall River Diocesan Choir directed by Glenn Volunteers came from everywhere bishop,. as did the pope, urged to make the costumes, play the priests to take as their model St. Giuttari. parts and march with the banners.

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Funeral rites took place March 22 for Sister Aloysius Fregeau, RJM, 87, who died March 18 in North Providence.

A native of Fall River, the daughter of the late Aime E, and Virginia (Viau) Fregeau, she entered the Religious of Jesus and Mary in 1918. Thereafter she served for the most part as a teacher and principal in the Fall River and Providence dioceses, retiring 'in 1971.

She ha.s no immediate survivors.

The split that wasn't: U.8. bishops and contra aid WASHINGTON (NC) - Some U.S. Catholics thought they'd spied a split in the ranks of the U.S. bishops.

The U.S. Catholic Conference, in a letter from Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, USCC general secretary, urged Congress to reject President Reagan's plea for aid to the "contra" rebels fighting Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government.

Meanwhile, Cardinals Bernard Law of Boston and John O'Connor of New York expressed their solidarity with Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo of Managua, Nicaragua, whose criticism of the Sandinistas has often been cited by

Reagan in his push for supporting the rebels.

There were suggestions that the bishops had divided into two factions - one a USCC-led anticontra camp, the other a proObando Bravo, pro-contra camp.

That interpretation did not match with the facts.

Although Cardinal Obando Bravo has often rebuked the Sandinistas - as he did the government of right-wing dictator Anastasio Somoza before them - and has been invoked by Reagan in contra aid speeches, equating solidarity with the cardinal as support for the rebels is erroneous.

Tabak to speak at NCEA The Fall River diocese will be well represented at the 83rd annual convention, exposition and religious education congress of the National Catholic Educational Association, to be held March 31 to April 3 in Anaheim, Calif.

Heading diocesan delegates to the world's largest meeting of Catholic educators will be Rev. Richard W. Beaulieu, director of education, and Sister Michaelinda Plante, RSM, associate superintendent of schools.

School representatives will include Kathleen A. Burt, principal of SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, who succeeds Dennis R. Poyant, principal of St. Mary's School, New Bedford, as New England regional representative on the executive committee of the NCEA Elementary School Department.

Among' convention' presenters will pe}.1ichael J,..Tabak, director of developnlerii'fo{toyle and Cassidy High School, Taunfon. Speaking to school administrators, superintendents, principals and school board members, his topic will be Producing a Development Plan.

Tabak will draw on his experience in development and fundraising for Coyle and Cassidy to discuss identification, coordination and implementation of development plan components. These include philosophical and theological bases for development, public relations, recruitment of workers, use of alumni and techniques of fundraising.

The general convention theme is "Mission and Ministries: A Celebration" and special sessions will address the interests of elementary, secondar9, religious and special educators, as well as boards of education, parent groups and seminaries.

Numbered among speakers and homilists at general sessions and .

eucharistic liturgIes will be Archbishop Pio Laghi, apostolic pronuncio to the United States; Cardinal Timothy Manning, retired archbishop of Los Angeles; pastoral theologian Father Virgil P. Elizondo; University of Albuquerque president Father Alfred McBride, O. Praem.; U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett; Anchor columnist Dolores Curran and catechist Christiane Brusselmans.

Concurrently with the NCEA, the Catholic Library Association will hold its 65th annual convention. In attendance from the Fall River diocese will be Dr. Owen T.P. McGowan, Bridgewater State College librarian and vice-president of the Acadt;:mic Librarians' section of the CLA.

.While he clearly repudiates policies of the Sandinistas and accuses them of harassing the church in Nicaragua, Cardinal Obando Bravo has not called for support for the contras, who,like the Sandinistas, have been accused of their share of atrocities in the bloody civil war. . Furthermore, when Cardinals Law and O'Connor issued their letter to Cardinal Obando Bravo in mid-March expressing solidarity with him and the Nicaraguan church, they were reiterating sentiments voiced by other U.S prelates as well. Those have included Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago; Bishop James W. Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, president of the U.S. bishops' conference; and Archbishop John Roach of St. Paul-Minneapolis, former bishops' conference president.

A spokesman for Cardinal Law also denied that the letter to Cardinal Obando Bravo was timed to coincide with the March vote in the House on contra aid. The letter had been planned for three weeks, said the spokesman. That would place its genesis before Reagan's . all-out but unsuccessful effort to get congressional approval for $100 million for contra aid.

Also pointing to the lack of a split in the U.S bishops' ranks is USCC testimony to the Congress

by Cardinal O'Connor in April H85 denouncing aid to the contras as illegal and immoral. (The testimony, though 'in Cardinal O'Connor's name, was delivered

by Archbishop James Hickey of Washington when the New York

prelate became ill at the last minute.)

If one thing is clear, it is that both the U.S. bishops and their Nicaraguan counterparts, led by Cardinal Obando Bravo, seek a peaceful, diplomatic resolution to the Nicaraguan conflict.

"Direct military aid to any force attempting to overthrow a government with which we maintain diplomatic relations is illegal, and in our judgment, immoral and therefore cannot merit our support," said the 1985 O'Connor testimony.

That testimony, like Msgr.

Hoye's latest communication and the letter of Cardinals Law and O'Connor, expressed hope for a peaceful end to the conflict. Cardinal Obando Bravo and his Nicaraguan colleagues have said much the same thing.

The Nicaraguan bishops in an Easter 1984 pastoral letter urged . negotiations between the warring parties. Without such talks,' they said, "there will be no chance for an agreement, and our people, especially the poorest among them, will continue suffering and dying."

Cardinal Obando Bravo, in sep¡ arate comments, also endorsed the call for peace.

Black congress BALTIMORE (NC) - Black Catholics will hold a national con-' gress in April 1987 to study methods of evangelizing some 10 million black Americans who have no formal church affiliation.

The congress will be held in Chevy Chase, Md., under sponsorship of the 10 U.S. black bishops, the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, the National Black Sisters Conference, the National Association of Black Catholic administrators, and the Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver.

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Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Mllr. 28, 1986,

路the moorina-, Joy of Man's Desiring Easter: the ultimate of life and light!

All darkness is dispelled; everything is renewed; doubts are resolved and faith made firm; courage replaces weaknesses; anguish is soothed by peace.

The meaning and reality of Easter are eternal: far from a mere moment of truth for the fledgling church, it remains valid for today's pilgrim people.

It is this fact that quickens Catholic hearts this Easter. The risen Christ is the way, the life and the truth. Today, if our Church is to renew herself in the glory of Easter, she must reflect his truth in all her members.

For some this seems to be most difficult. There are those in the family who believe that they can walk in the light while at ' the same time questioning life.

As our faith is affirmed and strengthened by the Resurrection, may we also make this Easter a positive reflection of truth. There are too many who would reduce light and life to mere options. Even in the community of the church there are those who would have us believe that in the question of iife there are alternative positions. Somehow' the ultimates of existence are to become the subject of a referendum; the eternal verities are to be ballot items and so-called responsible dissent is to substitute for divine revelation.

F or the many who continue to believe that if we do not know where we have been, we will fail to know where we are, the lesson of revelation is a confirmation of life.

Easter calls us to a vision o'f life that is far from absurd. The light of Resurrection means that we should not and do not live alone. We move and have our being in union with the Risen Christ.

But to live this relationship, we need each other in the community he established as our spiritual family. Catholics who assent to this also assent to the Lord as the giver of life. To . disclaim the divine and ihsis~:on the human is to deny that God " and God alone is the creat'or\ of all.

The teachings of the church in this regard are compatible and consistent with one another. Therefore, when the church reminds us of the sanctity of life, it is a matter of proclaiming and supporting the fact of what the Lord has given us.

The church's continued support of all human life is an annunciation of truth in the light of divine revelation. ~ As we bask in the glories of Easter, let us not forget the truth this celebration brings to light, that as Catholics we must always keep in mind and heart that human life is most fully revealed in the mystery of Christ and the love of His Father.

Jesus Christ in the glory of resurrection is the ultimate fulfillment of every man and woman's goal. Jesus is the joy of man's ' desiring.

As we join in the rejoicing of the Church family this weekend, let us remember that Jesus came into the world to testify to the truth and that anyone who is sincerely committed to the truth hears his voice. He died .that all might live and walk in light. , ' Amid the tension of dissent, it is more than important that all in union with the church remember that Jesus founded her as a sign and a means of access for all to the truth that gives freedom. ' The truth about Jesus, the truth about the church and the truth about human existence are inseparable; They are the cause of our Easter joy.

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was now around midday and darkness came over the whole land until midafternoon with an eclipse of the sun. The curtain in the sanctuary was torn in two; 'Jesus tittered a loud cry arid said'Fatber, into your hands I commend my spirit.' " Lk. 23:44-46'

School guidelines

WASHINGTON (NC) - Proposed Vatican rules fpr Catholic colleges and universities are a threat to academic freedom and to university funding and should be substantially revised, if not scrapped altogether, the heads of 110 U.S. Catholic colleges and universities have told the Vatican.

Their views are contained in a synthesis of responses from Catholic college presidents to the norms, which were written and distributed last year by the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education.

The synthesis 'was prepared by the association of Catholic Colleges and Universities. The action predated controversy over Vatican action in the case of Father Charles ~turran. of The Catholic University of America.

Most U.S. educators responding to the norms "would find it more advantageous to the work of the church in American higher education if this kind of juridical document were not issued at all," said the ACCU report.

Citing other documents that already discuss and identify the purposes of Catholic higher eduOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River cation, the report said the "majority of our presidents do not under410 Highland Avenue stand why the Holy See considers Fall River Mass. 02722 675-7151 it 'opportune' to issue another PUBLISHER statement on the subject. They Mosl Rnv. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. would say 'non pl~net' (a 'no' EDITOR FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR vote)" to the proposed norms."

Rev. John F. Moore Rev. Msgr. John 1. Regan A major point of contention for . . . . . Leary Press-Fall River, the college presidents are norms

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that set up "external ecclesiastical There is "no way" this could be control" of universities. done under current statutes and, The norms, for example, give moreover, "this could easily lead hierarchical authorities, presuma- to an atmosphere of mistrust and bly bishops, the power to control suspicion, totally alien to the kind the hiring and firing of professors of Christian community desired," on nonacademic grounds. the report said.

Another proposed norm says The report also said the norms bishops must make sure that "the should describe a university more principles of Catholic doctrine are "as a place where the truth is faithfully observed" at universit- sought. ..(and) where the frontiers ies. , of knowledge are expanded" The "real crux" of the proposed rather than as "kind of seminary, norms, the report said, "is per- place for 'formation,' a comfortaceived by many to be the assertion ble home where 'the truth' already of 'a power on the part of the exists... bishop to control theologians...

The educators' synthesis sugand to assure 'orthodoxy' in their gested that implementation of the teaching."

"What is proposed here is con- norms could lead to loss of accredtrary to the American values of itation and subseque'nt loss of both academic freedom and due . funds that "would certainly close process, both of which are written many institutions and jeopardize into most university statutes and the continuance of the reSt." protected by civil and constituThe ACCU board of trustees tionallaw." sent a separate response to the The report said the task of a Vatican norms. theologian "is to explore new Written by Ursuline Sister Alice insights and push beyond present understandings of the faith .. The GaIJin, ACCU executive director, university is the home of the it said that "the very life of our theologian, not the bishop, and colleges and universities ... is one the bishop must respect that fact." of academic freedom and selfMany Catholic college ,presi- regulation by the academic comdents, the report said, fear the munity." norms would "force our best It added that "any attempt to theologians to seek employment in subvert this independence would secular rather than Catholic uni- result in the diminishment of their versities to avoid harassment. influence on the total higher eduThe report also criticized the cation community and, ultimately, norms for stating that a teacher or in their being excluded from the administrator could be fired for community of teachers and not leading an upright life. scholars."

,Everyday resurrections Whenever Easter rolls around and we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, we're tempted to believe that it happened just once and we missed it.

But it goes on everyday in our lives, How do I know? Because you tell me so, Below are some of the ongoing rebirths reported to me by readers and friends, A mother in New Orleans wrote a poignant account of losing a husband and two grown sons to alcoholism, But although her husband died of the disease, she never gave up on her sons. She prayed constantly, supported them and let them know that God loved them, And she witnessed a rebirth in 1985 when both sons, in their forties, found God and gave up alcohol. Sober for a year now, they both conduct spiritual retreats for alcoholics. Surely a resurrection story.

Parents in Pennsylvania wrote that their seemingly incorrigible and drug-addicted son has found God and himself. He is back in school, is engaged to a lovely woman and attends daily Mass.

Theirs was a long Good Friday -five years of police calls, family horrors and misery familiar to parents with chemically dependent adolescents. They, too, never gave up hope. "We knew God

wouldn't create such a beautiful son to allow him to destroy himself," they said. "We loved him and prayed him into goodness."

Mexico City digs itself out of an earthquake. With the help ofthousands of compassionate friends it comes to life again. A woman in the Colombian mudslide is found alive long after everyone gives up hope for life,

THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Mar. 28, 1986 By DOLORES CURRAN

A baby tossed in a Denver dumpster lives and touches the lives of the city. Dozens of families offer to give an unwanted baby new life in a loving home.

An unsuccessful suicide victim' meets caring people in the hospital who let her know she isn't alone in a heartless world, After receiving volunteer treatment for depression she is counseling others. Her long Lent is over. She is helping others find Easter.

A nine-month-pregnant wom'an's family and goods are thrown out in the street in a snowstorm by a disgruntled landlord. In a seedy bar across the street, patrons watch, doing nothing to help.

her family to an apartment he's rented with his own money and then he takes her to the hospital to deliver new life. Resurrection all the way around, A soup kitchen runs out offood.

Just as it is about to turn away a line of street people, a truck from a ~op hotel in town delivers dozens oftrays - not of wilted vegetables - but of dinners prepared for the soup kitchen because' someone ma<ie the right call to the right manager.

What do these stories have in common? Just as Jesus appeared to the women at the tomb and told them to announce his resurrection, everyone of these rebirths came about because there are people who believe in ongoing resurrection and are willing to announce it with caring actions.

We may not have been present at Easter but we are Easter all year long. We wait at the tomb and go forth to announce new life in the name of the Risen Christ in the modern world.

Have a glorious resurrection year, And Happy Easter.

isters? That question is heard frequently these days.

A review of statistics on the permanent diaconate reveals that there are now 7,425 permanent deacons in the United States, with an additional 2,263 candidates.

Even though 82 percent are Caucasian, there has been an increase of Hispanics and blacks over the past few years. The 978 Hispanic permanent deacons make up 13 percent of the diaconal population, and 30 I blacks make up four percent of that same population.

Better than two-thirds of the permanent deacons are between 4 I and 60 years of age. Two-thirds have had some college to postgraduate education. The overwhelming majority are married.

We now have 40 priests who originally started as permanent 'deacons and then decided to become priests.'

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20 are in the armed forces and 29 are serving in armed-forces installations.

These are just a few of the services permanent deacons offer the church. One should remember that these men have wives and families who often extend the deacon's ministry greatly. ,What do all these statistics mean?

Jesus: God and human Q. Recently in a homily 1 heard a priest comment that "according to Scripture scholars Jesus came to the realization that he was God over the course of his life." The priest said this is a good thing since we now know that Jesus was subject to doubt and confusion as we afl are.

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Jesus. We must, however, be just as careful not to say anything that would imply a denial of his genuine human nature.

It is not a matter of "stressing," but admitting that he was truly a human being as well as truly God.

As I said, the union of those two I heard the same idea about a natures in our Lord is a mystery. dozen years ago in a theology class We may try to delve into a mysat a Catholic college. The reaction tery, but we must never attempt to was: "If Jesus didn't know for sure solve it by taking part of it away. that he was God; why should we This we would do if we denied follow his teachings?" something in Jesus that is necesWhat is the official church teach. sary for a true human nature. ing on this matter? Has not the As for the reaction of the stupost-Vatican II church gone overboard in stressing the humanity of dents as you report it in your question, the mystery of the incarnaJesus? (Pennsylvania) , tion always has been a stumbling As you know, your question Up drives a priest followed by a block to discipleship with Jesus. involves one of the two most procouple of pickup trucks. He speaks And I don't imply agreement with found and pivotal mysteries of our to her and enters the bar. "C'mon, everything any priest says about faith. (The other is the Trinity.) you guys. Let's get her stuff in the , Jesus when I say that.

We believe that Jesus is truly God trucks." and truly human. How can one Each of us confronts an enorThey work and return·to the bar person combine in himself all the mous test of faith, however, when feeling somehow redeemed for nurattributes of an infinite God and at we meet the full implications of turing new life. The priest takes the same time all the attributes that mystery. For some today, as (except sin) of a very finite human for the people of his home town nature? when he came back to visit, he is That is mystery. It is the ques- still "altogether too much for tion Christians have wrestled with them."

By since the beginning and which we continually attempt to understand Q. Recently a serious back probFATHER· .Surely there are, many more lay further, always realizing that full lem- forced me to have an expeople fulfilling the same services. explanation is beyond the reach of tr,emely dangerous operation. It With few exceptions (baptizing, our intelligence. could have left me a cripple for the EUGENE preaching or witnessing marriaWhatever we say must respect rest Of my life. I asked the chaplain ges), there seems to be no differboth of those natures. We cannot: in the hospital to give me the sacHEMRICK ence between a permanent deacon deny any facet of Ood as present in rament of the sick. It would have and a,lay person. given me a great deal of comfort Jesus. On the other hand, our faith But there is a big difference. and the New Testament itself affirm because I was very frightened.

Permanent deacons are ordained.

Before the permanent diaconate that Jesus was not just dabbling The chaplain said he would not They are in sacred orders. They itself is drawn into question, its here and there with being human. give it to me because it is given are consecrated and, as canon law He possessed a perfect human na- only in danger of death, and as challengers should be challenged. reminds us, are ordained "to sheture, including a real human mind long as I was in the state of grace I , What is understood by the terms pherd the people of God, each in and a real human will, with all that "sacred orders," "indelible mark," didn't need it. Could you explain accord with his own grade of orders, those things necessarily imply. "character" and "ordination ''1 this? It is not the way I understand by fulfilling in the person of Christ Some people, and some theolo- this sacrament. (Pennsylvania).

Once a man is ordained, is there the head the functions of teaching, a, real difference in him no matter gians in the early centuries espesanctifying and governing." cially, have spoken of Jesus' mind A. The introduction to 'the how well or poorly he serves? in such a way that it nearly deschurch's "Rite of Anointing and For some reason, whether divine Pastoral Care of the Sick" lists the or human - or a combination of troys the humanity of that mind.

They seem to say that, particularly following as among those who the divine and human - the church in a crisis, he possessed a kind of may and should receive the sacrahas expanded its sacred orders to trap door that connected his mind m.ent of the sick: March 29 include permanent deacons. Now Rt. Rev. Edward J. Moriarty, there is a most challenging ques- . to God's, in effect making his mind -those who are dangerously ill Pastor, 1951, St. Patrick, Fall River tion to ask: Why has this happened? ' not human but divine. due to sickness or old age; How far can one go with this Rev. James H. Carr, S:T.L., Does this n;:newed order say -those who have already been without 'ultimately claiming that Assistant, 1923, St. Patrick, Fall something about the church's need anointed but are now suffering Jesus did not really, but only River for a special type of dedication in seemed, to have ahuman,intelli- from a different illness, or if the March 30 our time? '. ,,',':', danger becomesc<more serious in gence, a'human nature? " , Rev. Aime Barre, 1963, On-Sick Even the New Testament seems the same illness; I:.eave, Fall River ',,,', ;' I .. , . ,'1r,' -,-those who ,are' ,to undergo to be clear about th'e distinction.

Rev. BenoitR.Galland, Retired, .. surgery because ora serious illness Luke tells us that as Jesus lived iQ .

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"Russia will spread her errors .throughout the world causing wars and persecution' of the church."

At a recent gathering a concerned layman asked if parish priests attend seminars or schools for updating,like other professionals.

In the Fall River diocese, the answer is yes. A recent example was a Program for New Pastors sponsored by the Continuing Education Directors of New England.

Among those in attendance were Father Thomas C. Lopes,. newly appointed pastor of Holy Ghost parish, Attleboro, and Father William W. Norton, pastor of St. Patrick parish, Fall River.

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Conflicts are bound to arise, he said, and a pastor should be aware of his own reactions in such situations.

The program ended with a day of recollection directed by Hartford Auxiliary Bishop Peter Rosazza, who spoke of the journey of priests from Vatican II to the church of the 80s.

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Each pastor came from his busy parish life to learn more about the mind of the Church in the 80s.

The first speaker was Father Gregory Happough, a professor of liturgy at St. John's Seminary, who spoke on "Models of a Liturgical theology," discussing what constitutes excellent liturgy, how pastors can reflect the liturgy of Vatican II and how they can meaningfully celebrate the sacraments.

Father Happough was followed

by Dolores Leckey, director of the Laity Secretariat of the U.S. bishops. Pointi\lg out that lay' persons are called to adulthood, holiness, ministry and community, she said that today they are educated and spiritually sophisticated and seek a Church that nurtures their spiritual lives and their desire for commitment.

. "A priest is stilI an enormously important figure in the lives of his parishioners," said 'the bishop, and it is important for him to remember that he is the person who forms the eucharistic community, who reconciles and who prays for his .people., "Bishop Rosazza spoke brilliantly about God's presence within us 'and about the necessity oftrusting God as our only rock and refuge as we continue our journey into the 21st century/' said Father Norton.

Both Father Lopes and Father Norton said they left the gathering with new insights into their task of shepherding in the name of Christ and building up his body in their parishes.

"If the priests we met are an indication of the quality of pastors, then the church is in safe hands, both with its priests and with God's holy people seeking to serve in his name," concluded Father Norton. "The journey is one with hope for today and more hope for tomorrow."

Congress in Seoul V ATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II has chosen Seoul, South Korea, as the site ofthe 44th International Eucharistic Congress, to be held in 1989.

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She is a true follower of Jesus.

As a person of color, I may also say she has not one ounce of prejudice. In the long time I have known her because we belong to the same church, she has always been kind and friendly to me. She sure does live. a Christian life.

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Facing choices Dear Editor: If you are a pro-choice Catholic, at least face the choices truthfully: for the woman - murderer or mother; for the unborn child ~ a bloody bucket or a bassinet.

Think of life as a rose, the most beautiful nower of all To be nurtured from a tiny bud till all its petals fall; Respect all life, both young and old, in t.he way that God intended; Love one another a'nd cherish life till God decides it's ended Alice Houst, RN South YarmO\lth

Lay ministry Dear Editor: My letter is in response to Father Eugene Hemrick's commentary on "Work and Ministry" (Anchor, March 14).

As a young woman in ministry it deeply saddens me to read Father Hemrick's description of what today's lay minister needs to be firmly anchored in the work of the Church. According to Father Hemrick, the lay minister must grasp and possess."a vision of work that is different from that generally found in the marketplace."

Many of my colleagues in lay ministry have not so much chosen a career in ministry but have truly' felt called by God to serve and empower God's people in the name of Jesus Christ, much in the same

way that a young woman or young man feels and responds to the call to the religious life.

His a commitment with many religious, personal and social ramifications. We choose ministry, well aware that this decision involves great personal sacrifice, not only of ourselves, but of our families and dependents.

Because we are energized by the success of contributing to the common good and seeing the power of God come alive in people's lives through teaching, healing, counselling, liturgy and other ministerial endeavors, we make these sacrifices willingly and gladly.

Many lay ministers must take a second job to compensate for the low income and few insurance benefits that are inherent in choosing ministry as a career. The metaphysics of work is not something of which we are ignorant.

In my experience it is not lack of salary nor benefits, nor the desire to measure success as the business world does that threatens the lay ministry movement from nourishing. Rather, it is the attitude, somewhat detectable in Father Hemrick's commentary, that what lay ministers are doing and who they are differ fundamentally from the action and identity of those women and men that have chosen to minister within the context of the "religious life."

What' has frustrated' me and what has driven some of my contempo~aries o'f ministry is this lack of recognition and respect, clericalism and sexism which still persist in the minds and hearts of many individuals.

The architect of the lay ministry movement is the Holy Spirit. In order to allow the Holy Spirit to transform us as individuals and as Church, we must be patient with each other in a. climate of love, mutual respect and support. We must recognize that we share the same vision and goals, and as Father Hemrick says, "we must overcome inborn egocentricity by joining (each other) in a common task."

Margaret A. Memmolo Falmouth

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Resettlement stats WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. Catholic conference helped resettle 25,890 refugees last year, according to the 1985 annual review . published by the USCC Office of Migration and Refugee services.

Bishop Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Pittsburgh, chairman of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration and Tourism, said that "over the years the church network has welcomed more than 2 million stateless strangers" to the United States.

He estimated that up to 12 million people, "most of them running from violence, poverty and persecution - wander homeless" in the world today.

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CHRISTINE CAMARA: "God gave his Son to show us he loved us. And we have to give something up that we really love to show God we love him. And we do love him."

STACY RAPOSO: "We celebrate Easter because Jesus went on a big cross and then he died. He prayed. We go to church and see pictures that tell us the story."

JESSICA AGUIAR: "Because it's nice. Everybody loves it when Jesus gets alive! On Easter I get a basket with Easter eggs and I give them ,out to people."

JEFFREY OLIVEIRA: "He died and came alive again and went up to heaven. You say thank you to Jesus on Easter."

CHRISTINA RODRIGUES: "They put him on the cioss and he came alive after he died because he loves us."

MELISSA FITZGERALD: ~'We wake up on Easter day and we start a new life with Jesus. He rose from the dead because he wanted to help us. I think that's nice. I love Jesus."

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Lord brought us togetherfor"this ' , your strength; faith, hope and experience with others who are still reason' and we're so grateful he gave us a new life together." struggling with their grief." _ Other challenges include allowShe said the ~etreats include a ceremony at the closing Mass at ing "sufficient time to let grieving which people "bring their insecuri- take its natural course; and insist ties and loneliness" to the Lord that others allow this time as well"; and leave them with him. Each assisting others, especially one's participant receives a parting gift children, to prepare for possible of a small teddy bear as a symbol widowhood; learning to make one's of reaching out to others. own decisions rather than seeking A list of- challenges to the someone else to make them; widowed given to retreatants spells Those interested in making a out the concept of outreach: "As retreat for the widowed may conone, who has come through the tact Imelda and George Vezina at grief of widowhood," it says, "share 998-3269.

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Open.grief often occurs during a Both widowed, they met at St. hospital-anything to keep busy."

Kilian's parish, New Bedford, She discovered thatth~ widowed retreat weekend, said Mrs. Vezina. where Mrs. Vezina works in the "feel out of place in a couple- "But that's not bad," she said, notrectory and George Vezina, an oil oriented society" and that "people ing that the breakdown occurs in a burner technician, frequently seem to fear being near us." Only therapeutic atmosphere. ' Some retreatants are already picked up the cellar key from her other widowed persons, she said when St. Kilian's furnace needed can truly understand the loss of me~b~rs of support group~, now attention. what is "our biggest relationship." , actlve.1n every area of the diocese, For children, she pointed out, she ~ald, ?ut. for others th~ weekThe pair got better acquainted at a day of recollection for the the loss of a parent, traumatic as end. IS th~lr ~trst ~ontact With otbwidowed atLaSalette Shrine, Attle- that is, is not the same as the loss ers In their SituatIOn. . . . . boro. They agreed that, good as experienced by a surviving spouse.

At each retr.eat a Itst IS dlstnbNoting that "grief has its own uted of those In attendance, prothe day was, an ongoing support group was needed. _ timetable,"she warned against has- viding the possibility of ongoing With the assistance of Father ty decisions on the part of the contact, even if a particular person Paul Guido, OFM, St. Kilian's widowed. "Don't sell your home cannot join a support group. pastor, they announced a planning or move in with your children Some members stay in support groups and help others," said Mrs. meeting for such a group. Held on unless you absolutely have to." a December night, .it coincided ' Vezina, "while others remain only a short while." with a big snowstorm, yet still drew 30 widows and widowers.

She said that she and her husband Obviously there was a need to are "living proof that it gets betbe filled. ter," that the grief of widowhood is .At subsequent group meetings, Followingare meetingtimes and assuaged with time. said Mrs. Vezina, members displaces ofsupport groups for the Of their work with fellow wicussed such topics as responsible widowed. Those wishing to atdowed, she said, "We think the

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Mostly, however, they comforted and upheld each other.

After a few-months there were requests for a retreat and the Vezinas arranged for use of the Diocesan Family Life Center in North Dartmouth, where Father Ronald A. Tosti, center director, recognized the importance of the ministry and arranged for it. to come under the Family Life umbrella.

In the course of all this, the Vezinas, both widowed in 1980, came to know each other better and better, and eventually married.

"To see the smiles come back to your faces is a joy to us," Mrs. Vezina told participants in a weekend retreat earlier this' month at the Family Life Center. It was the eighth retreat she and her husband have organized.

Themed "The Joy of Living," the weekends follow traditional format, except that all talks are given by widowed persons, with priests celebrating Mass and available for individual counseling and confessions. At the most recent retreat, the priests were Fathers Edward E. Correia, John J. Steakern and Philip N. Hamel.

At one of the conferences, Mrs. Vezina spoke on building one's self-image after loss of one's spouse.

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Vincentians praised for aid to fire victims' Reprinted by permission from the Taunton Daily Gazette BERKLEY - As two Berkley families can attest, when disaster strikes, a helping hand is sorely needed.

The families of Ronald and Irene Strickland of Bryant Street and Mariaelena Frost and Daniel Burch of Padelford Street were victims of fires last December that destroyed all their material possessions and disrupted family living.

Berkley police and fire departments, plus other community organizations, tried to be of assistance in locating emergency shelter, and collecting clothing, housewares and funds to get the families going again.

But with little time to organize, their efforts were sometimes duplicated. Too much clothing, mostly . of wrong sizes, was donated. Other necessities, such as food, money and shelter were in short supply.

The efforts of th()se responding to the families' plight were sincere and appreciated but unfortunately were ineffective and unorganized.

To help with such situations, Horace Costa and R()land Ducharme, members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of the Fall River Roman Catholic Diocese can lend some organized assistance.

Costa and Ducharme, accompanied by Mrs. Frost, met with the board of selectmen to discuss emergency aid for disaster victims.

Ducharme said he had attended a seminar at Stonehill College, North Easton, about five years ago, regarding community inv~l­ vement"and organization in aiding victims of fire, flood, hurricane and other disasters.

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involved in aiding victims of a Fall River fire.

He said that so much community aid was available that the excess money was put into a fund.established by Bishop Daniel Cronin to aid victims of five areas of the' diocese.

Since then, a salvage center has been established by members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, in the basement of St. Joseph's Parish Center, Taunton.

Clothing,. dishes, furniture and other household goods, donated by area church members and other charity organizations are stored in the salvage center until they are needed by victims of disasters.

Mrs. Frost praised the efforts of Ducharme and Costa for aiding her family after the fire.

"They have been a tremendous . help to me," she stated. She said she was' not sure who to call upon for help.

Selectman Raymond Flint said disaster victims are not always thinking rationally and realistically when disaster strikes because the shock is so great.

"You'd need the level head that they have at the time," he said, referring to the society.

Selectman Byron Holmes i~di­ cated that the society had contacted the board of selectmen regarding it desire to be of assistance to Berkley.

Letters will be sent to the chiefs of all town departments, asking for representatives to attend a meeting with the St. Vincent de Paul Society.

The purpose of the meeting is to familiarize toWn departments in getting aid, in the form of money and material goods, to disaster victims.

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A planning meeting for an August reunion of alumnae of Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River, will be held at 7 p.m. April 2 at Sacred Hearts Convent, 47 Prospect Place, 'Fall River. It is hoped that representatives from as many classes as possible will assist with arrangements.

The academy closed at the end of 1975; records indicate that its first class graduated in 1904.

The reunion, scheduled for 6 p.m. Aug. I at Venus de Milo restaurant, Swansea,' will coincide with the 100th,anniversary of the arrival of the Holy Union Sisters in Fall River. Community members taught at SHA and other schools throughout the Fall River diocese.

Graduates who have not received a reunion notice should send names and addresses to Sfster John Elizabeth, SUSC, at 47 Prospect Place,Fall "River, 02720.

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The view from the Vatican Pope urges priests to safeguard identity VATICAN CITY (NC) - In his traditional Holy Thursday letter to the 'world's priests, Pope John Paul II has warned against over, emphasizing the "social aspect" of priestly ministry to the neglect of . spiritual discipline.

"Attempts to make the priest more like the laity are damaging to the church," the pope said. He said priests should encourage lay people to work in the temporal sphere, while preserving tpeir own specific identity as savers of souls.

"It is essential to the church that the identity of the priest be safeguarded," he said. Priests, he said, should be models of prayer, obedience and renunciation.

Despite the "questionings ofthe priest's identity" during the last 20 ' years, the pope said, a priest has an "unchangeable" mission. \ "It is not the world which determines his status, as though it depended on changing needs or ideas about social roles. The priest is marked with the seal of the priest~ hood of Christ, in order to share in his function as the one mediator and redeemer," he said.

tion is being reached" about the priest's social role. But he said the spiritual nature of a priest's service is often neglected and, that some pastors today suffer "from a kind of spiritual desert."

The modern age is a time when "evangelization is being contradicted by a growing seculariza~ tion, when spiritual discipline is being neglected, when many are losing sight of the kingdom of God, when often, even in the pastoral ministry, there is a too-exclusive concern for the social aspect, for temporal aims," the pope said.

The letter held out as a "model of priestly zeal" St. John Mary Vianney, known as the Cure of Ars; who became famous as a confessor in the 19th century and who' is the patron saint of all parish priests. In October, the pope will visit Ars during a trip to France to celebrate the bicentennial year of , the priest's birth. ' The saint spent 10 hours a day in the confessional and attracted peni- ' tents from all over Europe, the' pope said. He contrasted that with contemporary times, when "a great number seem to stay away from the confessional completely."

The pope noted that "it seems that today a more balanced posi-

Pope condemns apartheid VATICAN CITY NC) - Pope John Paul II condemned "the inhumanity of apartheid" March 24 and said 'the policy of imposed racial segregation is a "deplorable system" that generates violence.

Africa's racial problems, he,said, must be overcome quickly and nonviolently.

The pope's remarks, a reference to South Africa's imposed system of racial segregation, came in a welcoming talk to Ghana's new ambassador to the Holy See, Therese Striggner Scott.

In her speech, Mrs. Scott called apartheid a threat to world peace.

She asked the pope to pray for

Religion, culture link stressed

"the leaders of the racist regime in South Africa," so that they might "abandon this obnoxious, anachronistic policy."

In answer, the pope said apartheid "continues to suppress certain fundamental human rights in some parts of Africa."

"We strongly condemn the inhumanity of apartheid and express solidarity with the victims of the violence it generates," the pope said.

"It is also imperative for the church and the world to support and encourage the initiatives undertaken by parties involved to bring about a prompt,just and non-violent solution to this vexatious question," he added.

The pope noted that several times he has repeated "the church's total and convinced repudiation of every form of racial discrimina-

tion." During a trip to several African nations last August, the pope criticized apartheid and its "harsh repression."

In his talk to the Ghanaian ambassador, the pope did not name South Africa, where hundreds of people have been killed in racial violence in recent months.

In February, the bishops of South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana and Namibia said they might join non-violent action, such as boycotts and passive resistance, to end apartheid. ' Africa, the pope said in his talk, has an "essentially spiritual view of man" that should not be subordianted to "exclusively material concerns. " Given today's "economic and political turmoil," he said, "it is extremely important that this spiritual outlook which pervades African culture not be lost. "

VATICAN CITY (NC)- Pope John Paul II, criticizing modern societies that "impose silence on man and of his relation to the VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope God," urged Catholic teachers to John Paul II has called on all reliAbsolute or to God." stress the connection between reli- gions to cooperate in cultural endea- ' A cultured person in India, the gion and culture. vors, pope added, "is a disciplined indiTeachers should help their stuIn a message to educators meet- vidual who has brought his natudents begin a dialogue between the ral propensities under control and real world and the critical con- ing in Bangalore, India, the pope has shaped himself in accordance said believers of every religion science, the pope recently told a must work for everyone's right "to with the ideal set before him by his group of Italian middle-school full growth in culture, in harmony moral consciousness. teachers. ' The papal message went to reprewith human dignity, without dis"Unfortunately, there are in the sentatives of Indian universities tinction of race, sex, nation, relicontemporary world cultures that and cultural life at a National impose silence on God or anything gion or social circumstance."

Conference on Culture in India. tied to him, or even refuse any, "Dialogue, understanding and Members ofthe Pontifical Counkind of discussion on the issue," cooperation between all religions cil for Culture, including Cardinal the pope said. Some forms of should be a constant preoccupaPaul Poupard, president, and Jesuit tion of educators and religious secularism, he added, do not Father Herve Carrier, secretary, negate God but "place him in par- ' leaders, for the advancement of participated in the conference. cultural development, justice, peace entheses and.in fact exclude him The Bangalore meeting was the and brotherhood," he said. from the living circuit of human sixth since 1983, promoted by the culture."

Pope John Paul praised the pre- pontifical culture council. Previous Quoting St. Augustine, the pope dominantly Hindu nation fOLits meetings were in the United States, described human reason as the "insistance on spiritual and moral Germany, Argentina 'and Brazil, foundation of religious faith. He values." which hosted meetings in 1984 and criticized fideism, the philosophy "From ancient times onward," 1985. that holds that faith has no basis in he said, "India has tried to build . The Indian meeting's theme was reason but must be accepted on her civilization on the basis of an "Cultural Forces facing India Toauthority. understanding of the nature of day: Education's Response."

Cultural cooperation is urged

Curra,n case raises infallibility questions

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WASHINGTON (NC) - Father When asked to list the church's The 1973 decJaration by the But it is generally agreed among Charles E.. Curran's claim that infallible teachings, Jesuit Father Congregation for the Doctrine of theologians that there is no such public dissent is possible from the" Avery Dulles said, "You can never the Faith to which he referred said 'thing as infallible church teaching Catholic Church's ordinary, author-' spell all that out." that pronouncements of faith deabout "concrete moral behaviitative but non-infallible hierarchi"If there is "a formal definition" pend in part upon!'limits ·of lan- or... with the possible exception of cal teaching raises questions about ,'of church teaching issued by a guage, history, circumstances and the indissolubility of marriage," he ,which church teachings must' be pope or.council"with an anathema the intention involved at the tim,e said. believed and how. , attached,'~ he said, it would be of the pronouncement. "All these Even on that question, said Fath"I have not denied any matter of . considered infallible. For centur- things have to be taken into account er McCormick, Father Curran faith. lam not d'enying any i,nfalli-::" ies a c6mmon formula, attached . in order that these pronouncements questions "the implications of the teachi~g;"said::Fat~er.Curran, ~ by popes arid councils at the end of may be properlyi~terpreted," the "teaching,.ratqer th:anthe teaching Cornwell Memorial .b.le ,descrIbing his general stance.', f&mal definiti6ns settling disputed declaration said. ", . itself." , Chapel, Inc. , ' ,A :in:oraUheology professor at. ,.,poiptsof ,belieC WaS the condem- . Father DUlIes, sayidg hi: lacK~d' .' f'atherMcCornl"ick, reached by The 'Catholit; University of Amer- n!l!i6n,,~if'ariyone; God forbid, c?Cpertise in the moral issues on 5 CENTER STREET phone in Florida, where he was .~ .ic~,; ije, fa(;es ,possi~le loss Mhls . _shqulrlhpld 6.therwis'e·,.1et him be \}'hich Father Curran is in conflict teaching during a sabbatical from WAREHAM, MASS. . teaching postbec'ause the '.yati~ , ariathema.'l",' ,_ "' with the Vatican, declined to say the Kennedy Institute, described DIGNIFIED FUNERAL SERVICE cari:s d'octiinal congregaiionjudges ... "But.'.1obo(ly will confine infal- how the norms of interpreting infa1DIRECTORS Father Curran's dissent on aborCEORGE E. CORNWELL .' that ~e holds'dissehting positlpns'>-libility to these explici-t "declara- I1ble statements might apply to the tion as allowing abortion only in , EYEREn Eo KAHRMlH .•. not compatible-with teacftiog as"a-' tioils," added:Fatter'Dulles, who t~eological positiC]ns I:,;lther. Cur- ~ "extremely rare" circumstances. He 295·1810 ,'Catholictheologia.n. .. ," . teliches systema~iC theology at Cath- ran has adopted regaidingnoniri':" ,c;l1Iedit'''ti"nkeripg at the fringes," -------------. . Infallibility itself'\vas formally:'· olic University. fallible teachiQgs. . , . ' : ' rather than repudiating or chal1F============='tI' 'definedin 1870 by the .first Vari= -As a basic criterion forinfallible Jesuit Father Richard A. M-cCor- le!igini, t~e..substance of the can <;ounciL The' highly technit:~.1 . teaching, Father Dulles sugg~sted mick, senior research'.fellow;at the church'~ teaChl!lg:' : Painti,., & Decorating Co. ' defiititioft has kept theologians' de- ~ that-' it must be a statement "pro- Kennedy Institute for Bioethics in He sharply contrasted Father INTERIOR & EXTERIOR bating the nuances of its meaning , posed by the magisterium (church Washington and co-editor with Curran's dissent on abortion from CHURCH PAINTING for the past century. teaching authority) as a matter of Father Curran' of the "Readings in the kind of dissent exhibited by a • Since tlien, the only church teach- faith or so intrinsically connected Moral Theology" series, said there group of Catholic thinkers and GOLD LEAF ing clearly defined as a matter of with faith that it cannot be denied is a "black-and-white'~ difference activists who signed a statement • necessary faith for Catholics was without doing violence to -faith between a theologian's approach on abortion which appeared as' an STATIONS & STATUES Pope Pius XII's 1950 declaration its'e'l£." to infallible teachings and non- ad in the New York Times in 1984.

RESTORED that Mary was assumed into heaEven with infallible statements, infalli ble ones. .

The ad failed to spell out any W' h' f I r b l ' • ven, body and soul, after her death. there is room for theologians to It m a I e teachmg, a theolmoral limits on abortion and those PEWS REFINISHED, In 1854 Pius IX had infallibly question; debate or disagree on ogian's basic response is "an act of who signed it" walked into a 25 YeanEt~·Buaineu defined the dogma of the Immacu- certain aspects of the"m, in accord faith" and an attempt to deepen straight pro-choice agenda" wheth617 428-6803 late Conception, that Mary was with 1973 Vatican norms, Father one's understanding of that belief, he said. er they intended to or not, he said. conceived without sin.

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Pastoral Musicians set twO· events The Pastoral Musicians of the Fall River diocese will present"An Evening with David Haas" at 7:30 p.m. April 9 at St. Patrick's Church Wareham.

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'Our suffering Saviour Christ's circle narrowed as his life progressed; first, the multitudes With the New Testament before deserted him; then many so-called me, I read. I sense a shadow falling disciples and finally the twelve. across the path of our Lord. It As children, when our parents dogs his footsteps. I see glimpses told us the story of the life of of Gethsemane; I see betrayal.

Christ, these desertions always There is a lonely figure in a garbothered us. But I remember feelden, a figure kneeling in prayer. ing better knowing that he had the , As I read on I find myself look- repentant thief by his side. No lifeing over the shoulders of Jesus and time of teaching could have inhis disciples. I can almost hear his structed him better than the words voice saying how much he desired he uttered: "Lord, remember me to eat the Paschal Feast with his when thou comest into thy kingfriends. I can hear the bread break dom." and see the cup being passed There was a sad 'vigil for somearound. Was Christianity organ- one else that day - the mournful ized at this table? Was this its mother weeping at the foot of the birthday? cross. How often had the sword In his lifetime, Jesus had become pierced her heart, and how many used to unfriendly voices and faces, bitter tears did she shed! She heard' They watched when his life was her son cry out, "I thirst." He who slowly ebbing. The mob could not had dispensed the water of life was understand why Jesus did not save now supplicating his executioners himself. They taunted him with for a draught to mitigate his thirst! what they thought was his inabilThey say that nature mourned ity to do so. He could have done it; when Jesus died. The sea had been it was divine love, not nails that' glad to obey him; the sun happy to fastened him to that piece of wood. pour light into the eyes he had Despite mortal agony conscious- opened. ,ness remained; he is a King of It's written that a mightier power another kind of kingdom. He gave than Rome guardedt~e body of himself to all the outrage and s).lfJesus; hours after the earthquake fering the mob put upon him. of Friday afternoon, there was , Thom;ls A: Kempis wrote that another shock. Easter lilies were "Ma:ny reverenced ,his 'miracles; blooming! Love had survived the few followed the ignominy of his grave! cross." ,

By Cecilia Belanger

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you when and if you choose a marital partner.

You won't be dependent on one person for a social life. To depend on a single person in such a way can be very limiting.

You are likely to have a much fuller life if you have a number of 'friends of the opposite sex. There'll be less chance that you11 end up sitting home alone on a Friday or Saturday night, too.

But be on guard against those complicating factors that can lead you to lie or to practice some other form of deceit. That's really no fun - and it's wrong.

TOM LENNON

Q. Is it possible really to like two people at the same time? Is it wrong? (North Carolina) A. From the questioner's letter, it is clear that he means liking two people of the opposite sex -and liking them in a romantic way.

This happens not only in humorous movies and novels but also in real life. It is decidedly possible to ' like two or even more persons of the opposite'sex at the same time.

And this is not wrong.

It' can, however, lead to all sorts of-complications and perhaps some deeds that are definitely wrong.

For example, if Sue'hears that Brad took Beth to a movie on Saturday night when'he had told Sue he wasstaying home, a confrontation niight follow.' , ,

,A very angry Sue may ask Brad if he did indeed take Beth to a movie. Brad may decide a lie is the only way out and tell Sue that he went bowling with his buddies Send questions to Tom Lennon, Saturday night. That's not only a' PI2 Mass. Ave. N.W., Washingstupid thing to tell Sue, it's also ton, D.C. 20005. wrong.

So how do you keep your life from getting complicated?

Probably a few complications are inevitable. But you can, in a The Bishop Feehan High School general way" tell .your peers that Theatre Company will present its you just don't want to date one spring musical, ,"Fiddler on the person exclusively: Let it ~e known Roof," at 7:30 p.m. Ap'ril3 4 and that you thi'nk there are a number 6 . " ' , of advantages to' dating several persons.

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"Make it a part of your lives."

Students at Bishop Connolly The saint of the day set a good High School,Fall River, welcomed, example for students, the bishop Bishop Daniel A. Cronin March said. .

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"Joseph' was given the extraorDuring his St. Joseph's day visit, dinarily difficult vocation of being highlighted,by a M~ss, the bishop the protector of the infant Jesus made note of the "magnificent and Mary," he said. family spirit" he saw at Connolly.

But through his faith in the He asked his 8'00 student listeners to "think a,b'out what the Church Lord, the bishop continued,Joseph carried out the important job suc-invites us to do" as H'oly Week approached. He also suggested that, ,cessfully. . : "Take him as your role model," during the closing days of Lent' students should "try very, very he recommended. "Live out your strong faith so everybody around hard to enter into reconciliation. you can see it."

"The Church,through the sacBishop Cronin was presented rament of penance, invites us to .with !lowers after Mass and recipenjoy the mercy of the. L'ord," rocated with a gift of his own, a Bishop Cronin said. He asked that precious two days off from school. students to "learn to delight in'dis, He may have been tempted to cussion of religion and your make it three. Signs carried by Church."'" ' many students bore the message "Learn how religion applies in "Bishop Cronin for pope!"

Kyrie Eleison The wind blows hard against this mountainside , Across the sea i,nto my soul It reaches into where I cannot .hide Setting my feet upon the road.

My heart is old it holds my memories My body burns a gemlike flame " Somewhere between the soul and soft machine Is where I fin~ myself again.

Kyrie eleison ' Down the road I inust travel Kyrie eleison Through the darkness of the night , Kyrie eleison .

Whe're I'm going will you follow Kyrie eleison ' On a highway in the light.

When I was young I thought of growing old Of what my life would rilean to me Would I have followed down my chosen road. , 'Or only wished what I could be.

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Mr. Mister, probably ,did not have Easter. in mind when they recorded the new hit, "Kyrie Eleison." However, both, the song's message and the eVfnts surrounding Easter and H'oly Week teach us more about courage and personal conv,iction. ' The song's title is borrowed from the Greek words of a hymn

used in the ,church's Mass. Perhaps the best translation ofthose words for our purposes would be "Lord, help'us.", ,The song describes an individual as he looks down the road of life. He considers the challenges that his time'holds. He wonders if he can stay true to who 'he really, is as a person, and also

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The ~ong helps us understand the challenges that Jesus expe- ' rienced during Holy Week. Great courage'and trust is 'demanded of him. Part of the lyrics seem to echq the meaning of Jesus' prayer in the garden of Gethsemane: "Down the road that I must travel, kyrie eleison, through the dark- . ness of this night, kyrie eleison."

Today we know that the first Easter held a great revelation.

Jesus surrendered to death and in doing so revealed how death is not the end of life. In Easter; we discover that death is the passage to a new life with God. Because Jesus remains true to his chosen road, humanity's greatest fear is transformed. ' Easter 1986 challenges' us to live with courage and trust. At times, it is difficult to 'be true to o'ne's values. Milny temptations confront' u's; for e'xample, we might be tempted to give into peer pressure and do something that'we know is wrong.

Or, in a new romance, we might use'the words "I love you" too 'easily, before we are really ready to be cqmmitted. ' All of us can find examples of what tempts us to be less than true to our values. Easter asks us to re-examine our choices. Easter tells ho'w jesus faced tough decisions and yet stayed true to his chosen path. It shows us that our "Kyrie Eleisons" will not go unanswered. " .

Your comments are welcome always. Address Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evansville, Ind., 47714.

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sidy has been honored with a spot on the Southeastern Massachusetts Divi'sion Two All Star Team, while Bishop Feehan High students Chris Landry and Brian Nelson have: been chosen for the Division One combine.

strongly suggested for children under 13; 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; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require. some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

Father Donovan hockey Final team ro~ters' have Qeen announced for the 13th annual Father Donovan Scholarship All Star hockey gap1e; 7 .p.m. Thurs~ day at the Driscoll Rink, Fall River.

The game matches a squad of high school seniors from the Southeastern Massachusetts area against a squad from the Bristol County CVO Hockey League.

Proceeds from past games,have provided $38,400 in scholarship aid since the fund was established in 1960.

Playing for the New. Bedford area high school seniors will be Luke Gurney, Eric Labonte and Peter Dias. The Fall River area will be represented by Joe Carey, Mike Theriault, Dave Molloy, Scott Mello and Robert DaSilva.

Selected from the Cape were paul Lentini, Dave Ash, Jamie Sullivan, Shawn Bent, Dave Peterson, Louis Masaschi, Brian Ferreira, Todd Snell, Curt Neary, John Morrill and Bill Rugg. Representing the Attleboro area will be Andrew. Jones, Kevin Culhane, Todd Barbato and Don Briggs.

The CVO All Stars will have Bill Camara, John Coleman, Chris Romans, Paul Hebert, Kevin Taylor, Paul Hogan, Dave Nobrega, John Carroll, Bill Lunnie, Ray Kitchen and Todd Prada from Fall River South.

From the New Bedford Whalers will be Steve Monette, Shawn Tavares, Mark Souza, Chris Labonte, Bob Reynolds, Bruce Barboza, Kevin Melancon an,d Dean Snell.

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Representing'the Mansfield Colonials will be George Pedro, Mike Cassidy, Steve Sharpe and Scott Barbato, while Scott Durocher has been chosen from Fall River North.

Coaches for the seniors will be Jack Carey of DU,rfee and Mike ,Relihan, Bishop Connolly mentor..

Coaching the CVO team' will be Glenn Souza and Gu~ Venice of Fall River South, Nick DeMarco of Mansfieid and Paul Labonte of New Bedford.

Tony Abraham is chairman of the event, Jack Kineavy chairs the awards. The latter will be assisted

by Dave Mazzerella, former hockey captain at Southeastern Massachusetts University and John Viveiros, a forward for Merrimack College.

A number of college coaches are expected to attend the contest.

Coyle-Cassidy Five students at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, have been awarded tuition scholarships to attend a physics course at Harvard University's extension division. That is the maximum number of awards available to anyone high school.

N,O'TE Please check dates and times of television and radio programs against local list· ings, which may differ from the New York network schedules supplied to The Anchor.

New Films "Death of An Angel" (Fox) This unconvincing drama contrasts rationalistic vs. charismatic approaches to Christianity. An Episcopal p,riest (Bonnie Bedelia) confronts her doubts about her faith and the integrity of a seemingly dishonest faith healer of a desert religious retreat patronized by destitute Mexican peasants. Angel (Nick Mancuso) is a victimized and tortured holy man whose sacrifices seem to cause miracles. The tends to confuse his ministry with a special kind of Catholicism as it exploits religious iconography.

In addition to harsh language, there are needless brutality and sexual references. 0, PG ,"Kaos" (MGM-UA) - In four fables of Italian peasant life drawn from Luigi Pirandello's short stories, this film offers sensitive characterizations expressing simple but profound social, political and spiritual truths. Brief partial nudity and a gruesome shot of a decapi-

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Religious TV Sunday", March 30,. (CBS) tated head punctuate an otherwise "For Our Times",...- A tour of the biblical city of Epesus in Turkey, pastoral vision. A3, R, important in St.· Paul's writings "Just Between Friends" (Orion) and in early Christian history.

- Like a two-hour version of the Sunday, Mllrch 30, 12:30-1:30 Mary Tyler Moore TV show; this p.m. EST (ABC) - "Holy Week is a seriocomic treatment of the with Pope John Paul 11"'-'- ABC relationship between a naive house- News correspondent David Ensore. wife and an independent' career and Archbishop John P..Foley,. woman. When the man in· their president of the Pontifical Comlives is killed in an accident, the mission for Social Communication, wife (Mary Tyler Moore) discov- present highlights 'of Holy Week ers that he has been having an ceremonies in Rome with· Pope affair with her friend Sandy (Chris- John Paul II. tine Lahti). The women ultimate'ly . "Sun'day; March 30, 10-11 a.m. reconcile after the birth of Sandy's EST (NBC) - "Acts of Faith: baby, who was fathered by the Easter Sunday" - From the'world's deceased. The sitcom format offers little scope for handling 'a sincere great cathedrals, NBC News cor. respondent Robert Abernathy theme. A3, PG 13. hostsan Easter progr~in with Car. "The Boys Next Door" (N~w dinal Joseph Bernardin in ChiWorld) - Two disadvantagep teen- . cago and Cardinal Jaime Sin in age boys about to graduate from Manila among church leaders takhigh school and take on dull fac- ing part. . tory jobs vent their frustrat'ions Religious Radio ' and anxieties in a series of brutal Sunday, March 30 (NBC) "Guideencounters with innocent strangers line" - Jazz composer and pianist who cross their path.

Dave Brubeck is interviewed about This. exploration of tile dark his religious music. side of maladjusted youtq exploits the violent consequences of alienation and lacks compassionate insight. Excessive brutality and foul Religious . language. 0, R "Critters" (New Line) - Small space aliens invade a farm community and terrorize a captive family offour who ultimately vanquish them with the help of two space bounty hunters. The critters might give someone under age 6 the jitters as they growl and bite everything in sight, but the only other detracting element is a subtitled profanity in an otherwise mildly amusing film. A2, PG 13.

Film on TV Saturday, April 5, 9-11 p.m.

EST (eBS) ~ "Caddyshack"(1980) - Buffoonish comedy about a caddy's summer adventures at a loony country club. Relentless vul-

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The recipients are seniors Douglas Ducharme and Mark Handren and juniors Charles Barton III, Roger Roy and Howard Wong.

The course, dealirig with Waves, particles and structure of matter, will be offered by Professors Roy Glauber and Costas PapaJ.iolios.

Diocesari youth praye,r groups are cosponsoring an' eight-week Life in the Spirit seminar for.young 'people. ' .

The We Have Decided To Follow Jesu~ prayer' group of M~.

Carmel parish, New Bedford, and the Building Block prayer group of St. Mary's School, Taunton, have adapted the program for the younger participant. , The seminar is designed to help people find new, fuller and better lives as Christians by laying or strengthening the .foundatio·ri of true Christian life.

The series begins with anexpla~ nation talk' at 7:3p p.m. April l, and will meet at that time on subsequent Thursdays at Mt. Carmel School, Rivet Street, New Bedford. Small group discussion will M~;t. photo follow all presentations.

The May 10 meetiJ,lg will be held MICHELLE Larrivee at Taunton Catholic Middle works on a still life at Fall School. Registration and transpor- River's Creativity Center, tation information' are available from Father Steve Furtado, 993- where she studies under Sister 4704, or Tony Medeiros, 824-8378. ,Gertrude Gaudette, OP.

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.PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE LINE Persons who feel they have been harmed by a psychiatrist or psychiatric treatment may call the Citizens' Commission on Human Rights Psychiatric Abuse Line, (617) 623-1540. . CATHEDRAL CAMPS, EAST FREETOWN Employment applications for summer positions now available for perPUBUC," CHAIRMEN ST. THOMAS MORE, sons 16 and older at Cathedral Camps, are asked to submit news Items for this SOMERSET column to The Anchor. P.O. Box 7. Fall P.O. Box 428, East Freetown, MA River. 02722.. Name of city· or town should.

A spinet piano is needed for the 02717, phone 763-8874. be included as well as full dates of all h'ld 'ch' A k ' f activities. please send news of future rather C I ren s Olr. nyone nowmg 0 . CATHEDRAL CAMP than past events. Note: We do not carry a donor is asked to call Joan Cuttle, CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER news of tundralsln. activities such as 673-3662. blnllos. whists. ·dances. suppers and bazaars.

We are happy to carry notices of spiritual Easter egg hunt and games I to 3 EAST FREETOWN Immaculate Conception Church, \l!Olllram~. CIUb meetl!,~s. youth projects and p.m. tomorrow, parish center. slm lar nonprofIt activIties. Fundralslng pro- .

Taunton, youth day retreat 10 a.m. jects may be advertised at our regular rates. ST MARY NB to 7 p.m. April 2: obtainable from The Anchor business office" , telephone. 675·7151.

• Blessing of Easter food II a.m. . ST. JOHN NEUMANN; On Steerlnll Points Items FR Indicates tomorrow church Fall River. NB indicates New Bedford. ,.

EAST FREETOWN Alyssa Lynch and Susan Casey of Eight-week Life in the Spirit SemiSt. Mary's Girl Scout Troop I repreBL. SACRAMENT, FR nar sessions begin 10 a.m. April I Members of Holy Ghost .parish, sented the Plymouth Bay Council in and 6:45 p.m. April 2. Registration: 763Tiverton, who have been using Bles- welcoming the national president of 2240. sed Sacrament since a fire in their Girl Scouts USA to the area. They CHARISMATIC RENEWAL, NB also met with Governor Michael S. church have made a donation to the Prayer meeting 8 p.m. April 2, Dukakis, to represent the council on parish fuel fund.

Cathedral Camp Christian Life Cenits 25th anniversary.

ST. JAMES, NB ter, East Freetown. ·St. James/ St. John School is ac- NOTRE DAME, FR Pentecost breakfast 9 a.m. May cepting registrations for next year, The folk group will sing at 3 p.m.

17. Speaker: Father Tom DiLorenzo. including an 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. pre- Good Friday services today at Mt.· Information: 763-8874. school program. . St. Joseph. Vigil service at 7 p.m.

SACRED HEART, FR tomorrow will also be at Mt. St. Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.

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April 7, parish center. Officers' slate Stations of the Cross for children Information on Women's Guild for next season will be announced by 2 p.m. today, church. . ·high school.scholarships: 678-2061. nominating committee chairman Martha McVey. A crazy hat contest will follow.

High school students whose mothers are guild members may obtain Rose E. Sullivan Scholarship applications from school guidance counseinc~ lors.

X·RAY QUALITY PIPE FABRICATION ORDER OF THE ALHAMBRA SPRINKLERS. PROCESS PIPING Region One Council of Caravans meeting 2 p.m. April 6, College of PLUMBING ~ GAS FiniNG. HEATING the Holy Cross, Worcester.

32 Mill Street (Route 79) P.O. Box 409 VINCENTIANS, FR Fall River District Council VinAssonet, MA 02702 centians will meet at 7 p.m. April 8 at 644-2221 Holy Name Church, Fall River, for Mass and a following meeting.

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ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET New parish council members: Lorraine LeBrun, Marilyn Timo, Mike Cicoria and George Denmark. Council meeting 7:30 p.m. April.2.

D ofl, ATTLEBORO Daughters of Isabella Alcazaba Cir~le 65 meeting 6 p.m. April 3, Kmghts of Columbus Hall, Hodges Street, Attleboro.

LaSALETTE SHRINE, ATTLEBORO LaSalette prayer group eight-week Life in the Spirit Seminar begins 7 p.m. April 4, People's Chapel. Information: Ed Tousignant, 222-7498.

O.L. GRACE, WESTPORT O.L. Grace Council of Catholic Women meeting 7 p.m. April 2.

Guest Nancy Herrington Elliott will speak on her trip to Westport, County Mayo, Ireland, where she attended the first annual world convention of Westports. Women of all parishes invited.

O.L. ANGELS, FR New Holy Name Society officers: August Gigliardi, president; Alfred' F. Almeida Jr., Joseph M. Theodore, vice presidents; Alfred M. Melo, treasurer, John Moniz, secretary.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Blessing of Easter foods and baskets I and 3 p.m. tomorrow, upper church. ~t. Stan's Boys' BI Basketball team has won the B division championship with a record of 24 wins, no losses.

HOLY NAME, FR Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m.

April I. Nominating committee will bring in a slate of officers for the. coming year.

CHRIST THE KING, COTUIT/MASHPEE Those interested in helping prepare engaged couples for marriage may contact Father Ronald A. Tosti, .pastor,428-0166.

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CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, FR 75th anniversary celebration beins with 11:30 a.m. Mass April 6 at St. ~ary's Cathedral, with Bishop Damel A. Cronin· presiding. Dinner and reception follow at White's Restaurant, Westport.

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96th annual paraliturgical and dramatic Way of the Cross and procession: 7 tonight.

SS. PETER & PA UL, FR .school Mass 1:15 p.m. April 4.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Blessing of Easter foods II :30 a.m. tomorrow~ church.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Living Stations of the Cross will be presented· by St. Joseph School eighth graders at 3 p.m. today. All welcome.

Penance service 2 p.m. tomorrow, church.

O'Haire Award CHICAGO (NC) - Serra International will present its highest honor to Osvaldo Tavares Ferreira, founder ofthe Serra Club of Rio de Janeiro, June 23 at the organization's convention in Milwaukee.

Tavares, who founded the Serra Club in Rio in 1964, will receive the Harry J. O'Haire Award. The award is named for the first executive director of Serra International and is given annually to a member of Serra chosen for outstanding service on the local, national and international level. . Serra International is an organization of Catholic laymen who promote vocations to the priesthood, sisterhood and brotherhood.

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