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AIDS Ministry outreach extends well beyond a deadly virus

By DEACON JAMES N.

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FALL RIVER - Ten years ago, when children in a Catholic school were asked how many ofthem knew someone

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SOME OF this year's S1. Pius X Award winners stand with Bishop George W. Coleman following ~ recent ceremony at S1. Mary's Cathedral. Story on page 14. (AnchotiGordon photo)

Hundreds of young Catholics, parents, celebrate first Communion in di.ocese

By MIKE GORDON AND DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR FALL RIVER - For most directors of Religious Education in parishes across the diocese the Easter season becomes the most hectic - and the most fulfilling - time as hundreds of their young charges make their first Communion.

The Anchor caught up with three busy directors

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But today, many hahds are raised when more than 2,200 Catholic school students in the ~all River diocese are posed the s~me question during educational serriinars and presentations conducted dining the year.

"It's because New Bedford and Fall River are among the top 20 cities in Massachusetts ~th the highest rate ofHIV infectiqn diagnosis," reported Dr. Krysten '}'inter-Green, director of I)iocesan 1\IDS Minis-

try, in a candid interview last week.

The wonisome statistics from the State Department of Public Health show that as of May I, there were a total 16,192 people reported infected

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Of those, 45 percent were white, 27.6 percent were black, 24.8 percent were Hispanic, and all others two percent.

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- as well as four first communicants - to talk about how successful the endeavors were, and hear first hand from those who newly encountered Jesus in the sacrament of his love.

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MSGR. RONALD A. Tosti enjoys assisting parishioner Tony Marchillo, who with his wife, has moved into an assisted living facility. (Phot9 courtesy of The Cape Cod Times)

Msgr. Tosti: A shepherd with diverse talents retires in June I,

By DEACON JAMES N. THE FIRST COMMUNION class at Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Osterville cre-

ated this altar frontal.

Several priests named administrators la~t June appointed- pastors

By DEACON JAMES N.

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FALL RIVER - When some well-known pastors involved in new assignments across the diocese in 2005 were given the titleof parochial administrators, it

prompted many questions, especially from the secular news media and baffled parishioners.

But as reported in The Anchor last week, they have all been appointed pastors of their respective

faith communities, effective May 25.

They included Father Brian J. Harrington, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Seekonk; Turn to page seven - Pastors

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MASHPEE - Not many are ready to sum up their priesthood as they open the doonto retirement.

But Msgr. Rona;ld A. Tosti, pastor of Christ the King Parish in Mashpee since July 1984, and who will retire in June, readily did just that in iespons~ to questions put by The Anchor last week.

"Having had the opportunity to be at the center of the founding of Christ the King Parish - not just build a church building but to establish a parish, a community of people - is something I cart especially feel very proud of, the frosting on the cake. But what is more satisfying and important to who I am is my joy in bringing together people with many gifted talents and empowering them to ministry," he said.

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NEWS FROM THE VATICAN Poles praise pope for addressing them in Polish during papal trip WARSAW, Poland (CNS)Polish Catholics have praised Pope Benedict XVI for addressing them in their native tongue at the start of his four-day visit to Poland.

"The pope studied hard before this pilgrimage - besides language lessons, he spent a lot of time privately reading and repeating Polish texts," said Father Tadeusz Cieslak, a Polish Vatican Radio commentator, in a May 25 report in Dziennik, a daily newspaper.

The pope made several remarks in Polish during his arrival speech at the Warsaw airport and in an address to Polish clergy at the Cathedral of St. John. Afterward, his main texts were read in Italian.

Dziennik reported that the pope had hoped to "say as much as possible" in Polish, but had trouble "overcoming the phonetic barrier" with his native German.

However, Jan Miodek, a language professor at Warsaw University, said Pope Benedict had made "fantastic progress."

"Benedict XVI is a polyglot, who already knows many languages," Miodek said. "But we must also forgive him if there are certain Polish sounds which he will never quite say properly."

The pope, who accompanied Pope John Paul II on his 1979 homecoming and has made several previous visits to Poland, regularly addresses Rome's Polish pilgrims in their native language.

In a May 25 interview with Dziennik, the Polish head of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education, Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, said the pope was aware of the expectations surrounding his pilgrimage and had shown "great reverence" for his predecessor by trying to communicate in Polish.

However, he added that Pope Benedict's inability to converse freely would create "a certain distance" in contacts with large crowds.

'The language barrier will, unfortunately, be difficult to

overcome - a text read by someone else isn't the same as a spontaneous remark," the cardinal told the newspaper. "John Paul II had this spontaneity and often departed from his written texts, sometimes branching into Polish affairs - we shouldn't expect this on this occasion."

Cardinal Grocholewski said he believed the pope was "too conscious of his mission" to be nervous while addressing Polish crowds - expected to reach one million during the May 28 openair Mass in Krakow - and already had extensive experience addressing different audiences.

"Of course, it won't be the same - the contact will have a different quality," the cardinal said. "Poles should be very pleased that he has spoken Polish during his first visit - we know how hard it is for a German to say even a few words in a Slavic language."

In a May 25 survey in Poland's Gazeta wyborcza daily, 85 percent of Poles said they hoped the pope would "say a lot" in Polish during the pilgrimage and make "frequent references to John Paul II." A Warsaw University student, Ewa Dryjanska, said Catholics would welcome the pope's "gesture in entering into their experiences."

"Polish is a hard language, so this is really appreciated," Dryjanska told Catholic News Service May 25. "It's important for Poles, after losing their Polish-speaking pope, to know he's made this effort."

Poland's main state TV news reported May 24 that Pope Benedict had also received coaching in Polish hand gestures in preparation for his May 25-28 visit to Poland.

In a separate May 24 Gazeta wyborcza survey, 75 percent of Poles said Pope Benedict had a "good media presence," compared to 96 percent who said the same about Pope John Paul.

Compared to the 98 percent who thought Pope John Paul had a sense of humor, 54 percent believed the new pontiff had a sense of humor.

POPE BENEDICT XVI walks through the entrance of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, May 28. (CNS photo/Giancarlo Giuliani, Catholic Press Photo)

German..born pope visits Nazi death camps as 'duty before God' OSWIECIM, Poland (CNS) German-born Pope Benedict XVI stood in silence on the site of the Nazi's Auschwitz death camp.

He walked alone May 28 under the entrance gate sign, "Work will make you free," and joined three dozen survivors before the wall where firing squads shot thousands.

Moving to the nearby Birkenau camp, he walked past the ruins of gas chambers where hundreds of thousands of people died from the fumes of Zyklon B gas and past the chimneys of the crematoriums where the bodies were reduced to ash.

"To speak in this place of horror, in this place where unprecedented mass crimes were committed against God and man is almost impossible - and it is particularly difficult and troubling for a Christian, for a pope from Germany," he said, standing at the Holocaust memonal at the end of the railroad tracks inside Birkenau.

Pope Benedict told those gathered at the monument, "I come here today as a son of the German people.

"It is a duty before the truth and the just due of all who suffered here, a duty before God for me to come here as the successor of Pope John Paul II and as a son of the German people," Pope Benedict said.

The Nazis came to power when the future Pope Benedict was a boy, School officials enrolled him in the Hitler Youth and, when he was 16, he and his fellow seminarians were conscripted into an anti-aircraft battalion and later into the army.

"I could not fail to come here," the 79-year-old Pope Benedict said.

"I had to come."

The service included the recitation of the Jewish kaddish prayer for the dead.

Holocaust survivors, Jewish representatives, diplomats serving in Poland and Oded Ben-Hur, the Israeli ambassador to the Vatican, participated in the service.

The pope said he came to the camp "to implore the grace of rec-

onciliation - first of all from God, who alone can open and purify our hearts, from the men and women who suffered here, and finally the grace of reconciliation for all those who, at his hour of our history, are suffering in new ways from the power of hatred and the violence which hatred spawns."

Auschwitz, he said, is a place where the human heart still cries out to God, asking where he was, why he was silent, why he did not save his people.

The heart of the Holocaust memorial at Birkenau consists of 22 stone tablets with inscriptions in different languages.

The pope slowly stood before each of the tablets in prayer, shielded by a white umbrella dur-

ing a brief rainstorm.

"All these inscriptions speak of human grief; they give us a glimpse of the cynicism of that regime which treated men and women as material objects and failed to see them as persons embodying the image of God," he said.

While the Nazis targeted Jews first, he said, they wanted "to kill the God who called Abraham, who spoke on Sinai and laid down principles to serve as a guide for路mankind, principles that are eternally valid."

The pope made specific mention of St. Edith Stein, a Jewish convert to Catholicism who had become a Carmelite nun, who, "as a Christian and a Jew, she accepted death with her people and for them."

Pope hopes for Pope John Paul s sainthood WADOWICE, Poland (CNS) On a day dedicated to the memory of Pope John Paul II, the first unscripted words Pope Benedict XVI spoke during his trip to Poland referred to the sainthood cause of the Polish-born pope.

"I, too, hope that divine providence soon grants us the beatification and canonization ofour dear Pope John Paul II," he told a crowd gathered May 27 at the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska shrine.

The pope's day began in Wadowice with a visit to Immaculate Conception Basilica, where Karol Wojtyla - the luture pope - was baptized, received his first Communion and served as an altar boy.

A banner, hanging directly opposite the papal stage in the square, asked Pope Benedict' to declare "John Paul II the Great" a saint soon.

At an afternoon press conference, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said that although Pope Benedict set aside the normal five-year waiting period before a sainthood cause is initiated, "there is a huge amount of material to be read and studied, and it

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"I wish to give thanks to God for the pontificate of John Paul II and, like him, I ask that Our Lady watch over the Church, which by the will of God has been entrusted to me to guide," he said.

Pope Benedict went to the Divine Mercy Shrine on the outskirts of Krakow. Pope John Paul beatified, then canonized, Sister Faustina and designated the Sunday after Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday.

An estimated 600,000 people were in Krakow's Blonie Park for the youth gathering; wide papal smiles greeted their singing, chanting and cheers.

When the young people began singing "Sto Lat," a traditional Polish song of wishes for a long life, Pope Benedict seemed surprised.

He put his hands together and bowed deeply to thank the crowd.

Pope Benedict returned to the park May 28 to celebrate Mass with more than 800,000 people. He told the crowd, "When Karol Wojtyla was elected to the see of Peter in order to serve the universal Church, your land became a place of special witness to faith in Jesus Christ," he said.

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THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH Pope says Spanish Church will continue ~o urge Christian values ,.

VATICAN CITY - l Despite recent government policies, Spain is still a predominantly Catholi9 nation, and the Church will continue to call for policies respecting Christian values, including'the sanctity of life and of marriage, Pope Benedisr XVI said.

The pope met with Francisco Vazquez Vazquez, Spain's new am- . bassador to the Vatican, and told him that Spain's history and1iart are filled with witnesses to the Catholic faith.

Even if modem Spaniards to ignore or silence the faith, the pope said, the works of art Will continue to proclaim Spain's Catholi~ culture.

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Pope Benedict told the ambassador that the Church recognizes the different roles Church and state must play in modem democracies, but that does not mean the Church or its members must be silent. .

He said they have an obligation to promote and defend the good of the human person.

"For this reason, the Church proclaims without reserve the fundamental right to life from conception to its natural end; the right to be born; and the right to form and to live in (a) family" built on the lifelong union of a man and a woman, he said.

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ministry, both through training lay CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE leaders and promoting vocations VATICAN CITY - Canada's to the priesthood, diaconate and declining birthrate is a sign of a religious life.

Pope Benedict encouraged the lack of hope in the future, a pessimism that is fed by growing secu- bishops to take every step possible to support the Christian faith that larism, Pope Benedict XVI said.

Meeting bishops from has been "the cultural soul" of .

Canada's Atlantic region, the pope Canada's people for centuries.

"The attempt to promote a visaid the "plummeting birthrate" in Eastern Canada is a "disturbing sion of humanity apart from God's testimony to uncertainty and fear, transcendent order and indifferent even if not always conscious." . to Christ's beckoning light reThe bishops from New moves from the reach of ordinary Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova men and women the experience Scotia and Prince Edward Island of genuine hope," the pope said.

In the face of confusion sown were making their "ad /imina" visits to the Vatican to report on by secularism, he said, people the status of their dioceses. look to the bishops "to be men of Nova Scotia Bishop Raymond hope, preaching and teaching with J. Lahey of Antigonish, president passion the splendor of the truth of the regional bishops' confer- of Christ."

Pope Benedict said he knows ence, told the pope that lower birthrates and a population shift the bishops face serious chalto large cities have meant most lenges, particularly with an aging dioceses in the region are facing clergy and the faithful spread over a serious need to reorganize or a vast area, but "no effort can be spared in finding effective pastoconsolidate parishes.

But an'even bigger concern, he ral initiatives to make Jesus Christ said, is the disappearance of lo- known."

"Particular care," he said, cal cultures and the traditional life of small towns, which included an "must be taken to ensure that the active participation in Church ijfe. intrinsic relationship between the Bishop Lahey said secularism Church's magisterium, individuhas been fueled by pervasive me- als' faith and testimony in.public dia, which "~nder the guise of life is preserved and promoted."

Only when Catholics live what avoiding the promotion of religion" are entirely devoid of or the Church teaches can the Church be effective in healing the even hostile to Christian values.

In response, he said, the "debilitating split between the region's bishops are giving prior- Gospel and culture." ity to evangelization, religious Pope Benedic! praised the. education and the revitalization of. commitment and work of. Cana-

dian catechists and encouraged. the bishops to recruit more young people to help pass on the faith to their peers.

He also told them that, when looking at ways to carry out the necessary reorganization of their路 dioceses and parishes to meet the needs of a shifting population and lack of priests, the plans must include a strong component of spiritual renewal.

New parish configurations, he said, must not be a response to personnel needs alone, but must result in the formation of communities that are schools of holiness where all the faithful are attentive to the will ofGod.

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THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES Canonization cause opened for chaplain killed in Vietnam WASHINGTON-With the per- chological and spiritual wounds," 路 mission of the Vatican, the U.S. Father Iasiello said, others left "With Archdiocese for the Military Ser- some positive memories, especially vices has begun an inquiry that could the loving memory ofhaving known lead to ~he canonization of a very special chaplain ana priest, Maryknoll Father Vincent R. one who day and night, both in and 路 Capodanno, a U.S. Navy chaplain out ofcombat, reflected the love and who died in 1967 while serving with mercy of God in their midst." . the Marines in Vietnam.

Born Feb. 13, 1929, on Staten Msgr. Roland A. Newland, chan- Island in New York, Vincent Robert cellor of the archdiocese, made the Capodanno studied at Maryknoll . formal declaration ofthe opening of seminaries and, was ordained to the Father Capodanno's cause last week priesthood June 7, 1957. He served during the 12th annual Memorial for the first eight years of his priestDay Mass at the Basilica of the Na- . hood as a Maryknoll missionary in tional Shrine ofthe Immaculate Con- Taiwan and Hong Kong. ception in Washington.

Commissioned as a lieutenant in With the declaration, the New the U.S. Navy Dec. 28, 1965, FaYork-born priest also receives the ther Capodanno asked to serve with title "servantofGod." A tribunal set the Marines in Vietnam and joined up by the Archdiocese for the Mili- the 1st Marine Division' in 1966 as tary Services will gather information battalion' chaplain. about Father Capodanno's life and According to a biography on the v.irtues for eventual presentation to Website ofthe military archdiocese, the Vatican Congregation for Saints' ''Marines affectionately called ChapCauses. . lain Capodanno the i grunt padre' for Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, his ability to relate well with soldiers head ofthe military archdiocese, was and his willingness to risk his life to the main celebrant for the Mass, at- minister to the men." "Grunt" is tended by more than 1,500 people. slang'for a member of the U.S. inIn his homily at the Mass, Father fantry.

Louis V. Iasiello, a rear admiral who He extended his one-year tour of is chief of Navy chaplains, said Fa- duty in Vietnam by six months to ther Capodanno "is more than it per- continue serving with his men. son ofextraordinary military accomFatally wounded by enemy sniper plishment." fire Sept. 4, 1967, he was posthuFather Iasiello said it was fitting mously awarded the nation's highthat the chaplain's canonization cause est military honor, the Medal of be opened around Memorial Day. Honor, "for conspicuous gallantry Although many veterans left and intrepidity at the risk of his life Southeast Asia "with physical, psy- above and beyond the call of duty." .

FIELDWORKERS FROM Mexico harvest watermelons in the early morning recently at a Pasquinelli Produce Co., field about 30 miles east of Yuma, Ariz. Located near the Mexican border, the company knows firsthand some of the problems migrant farmworkers face with the U.S. immigratiqn system. (CNS photo/David Maung)

Deacon farmers say to keep veggies on tables demands more fieldworkers

WASHINGTON (CNS) - It would be hard to find many people with a more com~rehensive ftrsthand perspective on some of the problems of the U.S. immigration system than at Pasquinelli Produce Co., one of the largest employers in Yuma County, Ariz., bordered on one side by Mexico and on another py California.

It takes hundreds of workers to Vermont bishop places each parish plant, thin, weed and harvest the highly perishable produce - such in diocese under a charitable trust as lettuce, broccoli and cauliflower BURLINGTON, Vt. - To pro- had no part in previous sad historic . - grown on the 7,000-acre farm tect Vermont's 128 parishes and mis- situations" from being placed in started by Pete Pasquinelli60 years sions from "unjust attack," jeopilrdy, said William O'Brien, di- ago.

And that brings special chalBurlington Bishop Salvatore R. ocesan attorney. . Quoting canon law, Bishop lenges for the founder's son, DeaMatano haS placed each under a Matano told parishioners in his May con Gary Pasquinelli, and his gen-. charitable trust.

That means the titles to all par- letter that it is his obligation ''to su- eral manager, Deacon Paul ishes, once in the name of the Ro- pervise carefully the administration Muthart. Both men bring to the job man Catholic Diocese ofBurlington ofall goods which belong to the pub- the Catholic Church's perspective Inc., are now in the name of the par- lic juridic persons (e.g.; parishes, on migration as de~cons assigned" schools, parish properties) subject to to St. Francis of Assisi Church in ishes with the bishop as trustee.

Yuma. ''We are doing this to preserve him."

Bishop Matano made the deciAt the farm, a primary concern parish assets as parish assets," said Father John McDermott, chancellor. sion after serious consultation with is caring for fields and plants 'The bishop and the diocese have a and the unanimous support of the within a short, specific period of, guardian role for the assets and must college of consultors, the priests' time, often just a two-day window assure that they are used for the in- council, the diocesan finan~ coun- when soil, weather and crop contentions which were the very source cil and administrative board, the ad ditions are right. With willing hoc committee for trusts and dioc- workers just across the border in of their establishment."

Mexico, hiring crews requires In a letter to all parishioners in esan legal counsel.

Each trust deed is meant to re- knowledge ofimmigration law and the diocese, Bishop Matano said the action was taken "to protect these spect and to observe both the civil keeping up with trends in enforceparish facilities from unjust attack laws of Vermont and the Code of ment policies, as well as other variand to ensure that the parishes have Canon Law as it relates to the hold- ables.

Deacon Muthart is an expert on the freedom to continue their minis- ing of legal and equitable interests tries and that the monies raised to in real estate and is specifically in- the employment demands ofgrowsupport these entities are not diverted tended to ratify and confirm the ing produce on a large scale. He to or transferred for other purposes long-standing vested interests ofthe has watched as changing govern路 inconsistent with the charitable mis- parish. The declaration of trust mentpolicies, localized enforcesion of the parish and the diocese." specifies that. the ass~ts of the trust ment of immigration laws and the . The bishop's action makes it''per- shall remain the sole property ofthe lure ofjobs elsewhere in the counfectly clear he is very concerned trust, and trust property may be used try have squeezed the number of about protecting the well-being of solely to further the religious, chari- available workers to a critical our parishes and parishioners" and table and educational purpose ofthe point. ''The harvest season in Yuma "keepmg ''parishes and.perSons who trust.

runs 路from mid-November to April," he explained in a phone interview with Catholic News Service. "Our goal is to have produce available every day, so we have to plant seeds during certain soil conditions, certain climate conditions, over a period of weeks."

Lacking the necessary workers for even a couple of days to plant seeds or tend to seedlings can throw off that schedule.

"If you don't plant when you 'need to, you're out of the market for that week," Deacon Muthart said. Similarly, a labor shortage during the critical few days when acres of lettuce or spinach are ready to be harvested can mean the crop withers in the field and the company has nothing to sell- and no income - for that chunk of the season. . Pasquinelli Produce contracfs with the Dole Food Co. to handle much of the harvest, packaging and sales of its' products, which adds pressure to have a consistent flow of vegetables through the season.

Deacon Muthart explained that agricultural labor demands in places such as Yuma County and much of Califorma are vastly different from those of farms typical to other parts of the country, where machinery can do much of the work. .A 7,000-acre Midwestern family farm raising wheat, com or soybeans, which can be harvested by machine, might employ perhaps three or four people year-round and another four to six temporary workers for the harvest.

The Pasquinelli'farm, by comparison, employs 30 to 40 tractor drivers alone, some year-round, some temporary. The farm has 150 permanent workers, who get paid

vacations, health insurance, profit sharing and livable wages, Deacon Muthart said. With the temporary employees he hires and those brought in by Dole, he estimated there are at least 1,000 workers on the farm for the harvest.

During the peak of the season, farms in Yuma County need 30,000. temporary workers a day, he said. The entire county's population is about 160,000, according to the 2000 census.

Though most of the area's farm laborers live close enough to go home to Mexico at the end of the workday, they still need pennits to legally work in the United States.

Employers nationwide estimate that about 500,000 immigrant workers are needed for low-skilled and unskilled jobs such as those in agriculture. The federal government issues just 5,000 visas a year for unskilled workers.

Even those who have the proper visas might be stopped by immigration' authorities en route to work on a labor contractor's bus, Deacon Muthart explained.

By the time all those on the bus have their papers inspect~d, the workers have lost several hours of pay for the day and production has been slowed.

"I don't think there's anybody seriously lobbying for immigration refonn who does. not agree these jobs should go to Americans if there are Americans willing to do the job," Deacon Muthart said.

"But people don't understand that Americans will not and often cannot do the' work."

Few Americans are used to the kind of hard work necessary in the fields, he said. ''They don't have the stamina, or the will to do this kind of work"

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the ancho~ news briefs Marriage advocates push for federal marriage amendment WASHINGTON - As the June 6 date neared for a Senate vote on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, legal and religious advocates for traditional marriage tried to turn the heat up in the effort to get it passed. Those who support the Marriage Protection Amendment say it is necessary to prevent state judges from overturning statewide referendums that impose the ban.

A Georgia judge overturned that state's marriage law, passed by referendum, in early May, and Gov. Sonny Perdue threatened to call a special session of the state Legislature solely on the issue.

Eight U.S. cardinals and several bishops and archbishops were among 50 signatories on a statement issued by the Religious Coalition for Marriage May 24 asking the Senate to authorize a federal marriage amendment. The next day, Bishop Joseph A. Kurtz of Knoxville, Tenn., chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Marriage and Family Life, voiced his support for the amendment at a press conference inside the Capitol.

YOUNG PEOPLE have "B 16" painted on their faces during a youth gathering with Pope Benedict XVI in Krakow, Poland. Young people expressed their affection for the pope by singing a traditional Polish song wishing the pope a long life. (eNS photolWolfgang Rattay, Reuters)

Catholic doctors urge substitutes for abortion-linked vaccines WASHINGTON - Catholics should pressure pharmaceutical companies and government authorities to quickly come up with alternatives to vaccines derived from cells taken from aborted fetuses, according to an association of U.S. Catholic physicians. The Catholic Medical Association, based in Needham, Mass., said in a mid-May statement that "physicians and patients are permitted to use the vaccines when no effective alternative is available." But patients may decide not to use vaccines derived from aborted fetuses as long as the refusal does not place children or the general public at significant risk, the statement added. Vaccines derived from cell lines that used tissue taken from voluntarily aborted fetuses include those for rubella (German measles) and hepatitis A, marketed under the names Meruvax, Vaqta and Havrix. When alternative versions of the vaccines are available, "they must be used in place of those produced by immoral means," the Catholic Medical Association said.

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Last weekend Pope Benedict embarked on the first foreign pilgrimage of his own design. As he stated in his inaugural talk at Warsaw's airport, he went to Poland in order to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor's dramatic life. But his deeper purpose was, a" he mentioned in his final homily in Krakow, to inspire Polish Catholics to follow in those same footsteps.

Even before his election, Pope Benedict described that John Paul II's most salient trait was his faith. In his famous homily at the largest funeral ill' the history of the world, then Cardinal Ratzinger said that Pope John Paul II was more than every other attribute a disciple of Jesus Christ. The greatest way for the Polish people to honor the memory of their famous countryman, he said, was to inhale deeply the same air of faith that Karol Wojtyla breathed and then exhale that faith 路to Europe and the world just like Wojtyla did "with extraordinary power and effectiveness."

Benedict stated that just as Wojtyla had a special vocation for the good of the Church and the world, so do the Polish people. He told the two million Poles assembled in Krakow's Blonie Park, "When Karol Wojtyla was elected to the See of Peter in order to serve the universal Church, your land became a place of special 'witness to faith in Jesus Christ. You were called to give this witness before the whole world. This vocation of yours is always needed, and it is perhaps even more utgent than ever, now that the Servant of God has passed from this life. Do not deprive the world of this witness!" Benedict called them repeatedly to "stand fmn in faith," just as John Paul II stood fmn in the midst of repeated attempts to eliminate faith or push it to the boundaries of modem life.

To illustrate the stakes of the vocation and mission to which he was calling them, Benedict visited the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There he described that the deepest motivation behind the Holocaust was not the Nazis' brutal anti-Semitism and antihumanism, as real and destructive as those were. It was rather a desire to kill God - and annihilate faith in him.

"The rulers of the Third Reich," he said in a paragraph that deserves to be read at least a thousand times, "wanted to crusQ, the entire Jewish people, to cancel it from the register of the peoples of the earth. ... Deep down, those vicious criminals, by wiping out this people, wanted to kill the God who called Abraham, who spoke on Sinai and laid down principles to serve as a guide for mankind, principles that are eternally valid. If this people, by its very existence, was a witness to the God who spoke to humanity and took us to himself, then that God finally had to die and power had to belong to man alone - to those men, who thought that by force they had made themselves masters of the world. By destroying Israel, by the Shoah, they ultimately wanted to tear up the taproot of the Christian faith and to replace it with a faith of their own invention: faith in the rule of man, the rule of the powerful."

Benedict wanted the Polish people to be aware that the human tendency to try to kill God and extirpate faith in him in order to supplant it with a ''faith of their own invention" and "in the rule of the powerful" did not die when the concentration camps ceased functioning. In a homily in Warsaw, he alluded to an idea he first articulated in his headlinegrabbing sermon the day before he was elected pope: that there is a new scourge of totalitarianism in the world which needs to be resisted by people standing firm in the faith. It is the "dictatorship of relativism."

This new intellectual despotism, like Nazism, has no room for God or for faith in him, for with God comes moral absolutes ofright and wrong.

These oppose the new tyrants' humanly-invented belief structure that "does not recognize anything as certain and has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires."

One of the principal reasons for the growing anti-Catholicismboth close to home, in Europe and in places like China - is because the Catholic Church is now the most consistently palpable witness to the "God ... who spoke on Sinai and laid down principles to serve as a guide for mankind, principles that are eternally valid." The relativist tyrants who oppose those principles - for example, with regard to the dignity of human life or the truth about human sexuality - now with increasing virulence oppose the Church, which remains "by its very existence ... a witness to the God who spoke to humanity and took us to himself." As many observers noted during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, the Catholic Church has become the moral conscience of the world. Those who deny the voice of conscience not only fmd the Church's meek message deafening, but are going after the messenger.

It is in the face of this new totalitarianism that Benedict is trying to inspire Polish Catholics, who are on the front lines in the cultural battle for the future of Europe, to "stand fmn in faith," just as their celebrated countryman did. His call is equally urgent and important to all of u,s who, without inhaling the same Polish air, viewed Pope John ...拢aul II for a quarter century as our saintly spiritual father.

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A DEPICTION OF PENTECOST APPEARS IN THIS STAINED GLASS WINDOW AT ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH IN NEW BEDFORD. PENTECOST SUNDAY IS JUNE 4 THIS YEAR. (PHOTO BY GEORGE MARTELL)

"WHEN THE ADVOCATE COMES WHOM I WILL SEND YOU FROM THE FATHER, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER, HE WILL TESTIFY TO ME. AND YOU WILL ALSO TESTIFY, BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN WITH ME FROM THE BEGINNING"

(JOHN 16:26-27).

The Class of 2006 I remember the phone call, four years ago, from then-Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM Cap., telling me that part of my first assignment after returning from Rome would include being the chaplain at Bishop Stang High School. As is the case with any transition or change in life, I wondered what this new assignment would include, and I worried about how I would bring the Gospel message to the young members of this flock.

My spiritual director at the time encouraged me to start praying right away for the souls I would meet later that fall, souls who would be looking for Christ and waiting for the priest he would send. It was good advice that I have never forgotten.

One of the greatest challenges for a high school chaplain is finding a way to reach and relate to the students, and this is even more of a challenge for a chaplain who is a newly ordained priest. As I began my assignment, I gave serious thought to how I could get through to the students, so that I could be effective in preaching the Gospel to them.

What I did not count on is what the students themselves

would do to make this happen.

What I did not imagine is how welcoming the students would be to their new, nervous chaplain. What I was so pleasantly surprised by is how open many of the students already were to the message of Christ.

This Sunday, I will watch with pride and a little sadness,

as the class with which I began my chaplaincy graduates from Bishop Stang High School. Four years ago, I entered high school again with them, as a nervous freshman, and now I am sad to see them leave.

In these students I have found friendliness, respectfulness, and cheerfulness. I have admired them for their confidence, their resiliency and their determination. I have been inspired by how well some of them have responded, when they have had to learn hard, unfortunate lessons, too early in life. And I

have been impressed by their sincere curiosity about my vocational discernment and their genuine interest in my life as a priest.

What has been most inspiring, however, has been watching many of these students mature in their faith and their dedication to Christ. Many of them have decided at a young age to accept Christ and his teachings as the rule and guide of their lives, not only to avoid what is sinful, but also to become someone who is holy. They are anxious to bring this mature faith with them, as they put out into the deep of the world, undaunted by the challenges and opposition that may await them. .

As the Class of 2006 graduates, I will thank God for these past four years, and for all the blessings he has given me through these inspiring students.

I will thank him for the privilege of being their chaplain, which has made me even more grateful and happy to be a priest.

Although I have tried to help them, I have seen clearly how God has used them to help me.

To the Class of 2006: Congratulations! Thank you! And God bless you, always!

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Friday, June 2,2006

The answer is blowing ,in the wind It seems pretty ironic that this year's hurricane season begins on the eve of Pentecost. In Scripture, the Holy Spirit is referred to as a mighty rushing wind.

Please don't get the idea that I'm comparing the great Paraclete to a violent wind storm that causes death and destruction in its path.

The Holy Spirit is far from that. This mighty wind blows into our hearts and souls, filling us with courage and strength and wisdom to carry out the task Jesus started more than· 2,000 years ago.

There are a few similarities though. Both the Spirit and a hurricane are beautiful examples of God's power and might, and there is nothing man can do to prevent either.

I know that Pentecost Sunday should be a time of hope and courage. I was a, confirmation teacher for 17 years, and at this , time in the liturgical calendar, I can't help but think of some of those students with whom I've crossed paths who, instead of being absorbed into the mighty wind of the Spirit, have been blown away like those poor souls in the wrong plac.e at the . wrong time during an ill-fated hurricane.

Most of the students I tried to reach and teach in nearly 20 years were inner-city l.dds who seemed to have been born in the wrong place or at the wrong time, Far too many of those teens

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had little or no home life. time thinking, "They belong in Confirmation class .was the last jail, not in confirmation class," place they wanted to be, and it or "just what planet is her or she was the last place their parents from?" or parent wanted to take them.

It's funny though. Some of I often think of some of those the most unique bonds I develwho touched my heart deeply, - oped with some students were and I wonder and worry about those I figured were hopeless.

If there is one thing I learned in those sometimes frustrating classroom setting is that teens can see right. through you. They sometimes didn't like my message, but they did know I believed it , myself.

During my confirmation years I met loads of them. They had so little back great kids, and many of them then, what and where are they knew what it meant when they now? made their confirmation.

I know I've raised a few I also met loads who didn't. eyebrows in my parish through It's those brothers and sisters the years with my long hair, in Christ that I still try to make beard and earring. But as much a special effort to remember of my liking that 60s and 70s their names, say hello and ask style, it was also a way to reach what they're up to now. And I some of my students - those can see it means something to students who didn't have many, them still. if any adults they could trust.

Some still are caught up in They could relate to me in a way. the winds of a hurricane, and Before and after class, and not that of the Spirit. But I sometimes during, we would continue to pray for them. talk sports, music, TV and So~e I don't meet any longer things that touched their wprld. and I wonder about them. And I My message was to bring know the fate of one sad soul Christ to them, but some didn't , he committed suicide. even know who he is, and even This Pentecost, I'm going to doubted he existed. raise an extra prayer for all my I tried desperately to reach kids - all the students that them at their level, which for me shaped me into what I am. I'm was not so difficult a task because going to plead for those who according to my wife and desperately need to feel the daughter, I never gre~ up anyway. winds of change.

I can vividly recall meeting Comments are welcome at some of my students for the first davejolivet@anchornews.org.

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Father George E. Harrison, pas- Lady of Mount Carmel in tor of Holy Name Parish in Fall Seekonk.

River; and Father Thomas L. Rita, ''The difference between a papastor of St. Mark's Parish in rochial adAttleboro Falls. ministrator Also among parochial admin- and a pastor isters from last year now named is basically pastors - but for the first time stability," he - were Father Edward J. Healey, said. While pastor .of Holy Trinity Parish in the responsiWest Har~ich; Father Roger 1. bilities of Landry, pastor of St. Anthony of ,running a Padua Parish parish are ,...------..., in New the same, Bed for d ; "the pastor FATHER GREGORY and Father has canoniGregory A. cal status as A. MATHIAS Mat h i as, compared to pastor of St. an administrator who serves at the Julie Billiart will of the bishop and can be Parish in transferred anytime. That stabilNor t h ity factor is important, and I think Dartmouth. it makes the people feel good and Fat her gives them confidence," Father FATHER EDWARD H a r r is 0 n Harrison said.

J. HEALEY said, "It feels Asked how he'felt to be asvery good to signed there, he said, "Having be a pastor again." He had been a' been here at Holy Name for a year pastor for 23 years, 10 of those at has given me a chance to meet the St. John Neumann Parish in East people ... Holy Name is a wonFreetown, where he was the derful parish with a great history founding pastor, and more re- and well established. And there 'is cently pastor for 13 years at Our a lot of life here, and that is very

good: We have a parish school and certainly I have found a great deal of support from the families who have been here for so many years.

I'm delighted to be pastor here."

One of the new pastors, Father Landry, executive editor of The Anchor, said, "I'm very happy to ,be named a pastor. It will certainly make introductiops easier! Most Christians readily know who a pastor is, while few understand" the title of parochi~ administrator." .

He added, "On a deeper level, the term pastor comes from the Latin word 'shepherd, ' whiCh is a fuller description of the life of a parish priest than the term 'administra- FATHER ROGER tor,' which J. LANDRY focuses more on finances and management than on sharing in the ministry of the 'Good Shepherd guiding people to-

7 moved into the summer chapel for ward Christ's eternall fold."

Asked about the challenges that time. In essence, it inVolved of being a pastor, he said, "I've replacing the floor, refinishing the had my snorkel out most of the pews, installing new lighting and year, because the w~\res of work a new partition to the church exhave been over my"head. Like tension. We also repainted and Peter in the Gospel, though, I've laid new carpet in the sanctuary."

Reminded that in his six years cried out 'Lord, saVe me' sevas rector of St. Mary's Cathedral eral times and he hasn't let me he had rebuilt and refinished it drown yet. The parishioners have been very forgiving of my from top to bottom, Father limitations and genetous in their Healey laughed and said, "I hope this is the last time I have to do support."

Father Landry, 36, iWho was or- this. But I am very happy. I've dained in 1999, had done gradu- been well received here. And ate studies in Rome before serv- while at the Cathedral I had to ing as a parochial vicar at Espirito plan and Set everything up, I was Santo Parish in Fall River, chap- the rector, not the pastor. The lain at Bishop Conholly High bishop is pastor of the cathedral.

School, and p'arochial vicar at St. So this is my first pastorate, and Francis Xavier Parish!iin Hyannis; now after I plan and setup for litprior to the 2005 assignment at St. urgies, I often now get to celebrate them myself." . ,Anthony's.

He added, "I'm thrilled to be Also a pastor for the first time, Father Mathias, 41, ~ho was or- here. I just told the people in my dained in 1991, had '~erved as a parish bulletin that tieing named parochial vicar and hospital chap- pastor means I could unpack my lain before two years j.of graduate boxes and plan to stay a while. studies and the North! Dartmouth Asa matter of fact, I was just unpacking my books when you assignment.

"It's been good. liThe name called." .

Father Rita said, "I'm de'pastor' is theologically imporlighted the bishop has made me tant. But I have been doing the work of a pastor for the past year pastor of St. Mark's, having been without the title," he shid. "I think a pastor prior to this assignment a in this day and age it's not the year ago. The people respond to same as it was for those priests the leadership in their parish and who were much older and spent they expect their full-time leader many more years as patochial vic- to be a pastor. They were confused ars or curates waiting for a pas- when an administrator was named torate. For those of us who are in the first place."

But that said, he added, younger, it's not the same kind of waiting because the whole culture, "There are also implic;ations the term pastor have. This is what has changed."

He explained, "It's pot quite as diocesan priests strive to be and hierarchical as it once!was. Soon, hope to be to their people all their men will be coming out of the , priesthood ... to be pastor of seminary and becoming pastors. souls. It has its canonical impliIt didn't really impact the too hard cations as well that imply respon-' sibilities and privileges. So now to be named a pastor."

Asked what chaUenges he I look forward to exercising my found at St. Julie Billicirt, he said, pastorate at St. Mark's for the "It's the same one find~ anywhere; benefit of the people and for the getting people accustomed to your honor and glory of God: The personality. You have ~o be your- people are wonderful. This is a self ... but convey that you're, great place."

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Live by the Spirit Perhaps you've seen the movie "Entertaining Angels" on one of the cable channels.

It's a video well worth renting.

The film begins in New York's Greenwich Village in 1917 where Dorothy Day, an older teen-ager, has rejected religion, is flirting with Marxism and has embraced a Bohemian lifestyle which includes several affairs, an abortion, rejection and aloneness. From this emptiness she begins her slow process of religious awakening. She becomes impressed by the spiritual discipline of Catholicism as practiced by her roommates.

She observes the Catholic Church as "the Church of immigrants; the Church of the poor." She sees the work of the Church as a parallel to her own activism for the disadvantaged. ,Dorothy decides to raise her child by her common law husband as a Catholic, and

eight months after her daughter our postmodern culture of deep divisions of values and lives is baptized, Dorothy herself is fragmented by ever mounting received into the Catholic Church. As a single mom she temporal demand~. Like her, must integrate her life-long we seek coherence and direction. And like her the love of the poor with her new Catholicism. A lifealtering event occurs when she meets Peter mily of the Maurin, a teacher of ideas who mentors Pentecost Dorothy and helps her -. --路'-,.,Sunday to int~grate her work and Faith. Together "ByFather they found the Catholic James H. Morse Worker Movement, and in the years that follow human experience of a life she commits herself to a lived with integrity, character lifetime of peace, justice and and purpose can help us keep service to the poor. The film is alive a living theology of God a moving story of her struggles incarnate in our own individual and successes. Some people lives. have called her a saint.

Dorothy Day's life is not a Dorothy's response was to say success story by. the standards she did not want to be disof our postmodern culture. missed that easily.

However, like the Pentecost of The time in which Dorothy Christ's early disciples the Day lived was very similar to

Spirit of God becomes a blazing fire within her love and, service of the poor. And while we're not all called to serve the poor in soup kitchens in our inner-city ghettos, we are all called to set on fire the Spirit of God within us: to use daily our talents and gifts in the service of others. In today's Gospel Jesus tells us that the Spirit of truth is witl1in us and will guide us.

Today there is 'much concern about nutrition. We use the phrase, "we are what we eat." In the eucharistic celebration today Christ tells us to eat and drink of his Flesh and Blood.

In the Communion service we respond to his command and "we are what we eat," the Body of Christ. This is followed by the last part of the Mass, the shortest part of

the Mass, lasting no more than 30 seconds, but the' most challenging part of Mass. The priest invites us to, "go in peace to love and serve the Lord." This is what today's feast of Pentecost celebrates.

As the Body of Christ we are challenged to go out on fire with the Spirit of God within us to use our unique talents and gifts in making Christ's Body as real today as he was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be.

Now the questions posed for our reflection are these: What is God thG Father asking of us as the Body of Christ this Pentecost Sunday?

What unique gift or talent will we use today as we go forth, "to love and to serve the Lord?"

Father Morse is the pastor of St. Stephen's Parish, Attleboro.

How to spend $2 million issue of sexual orientation there' teach that all name-calling was no agreement. They could including calling people of faith not even agree on the definition bigots or homophobes - is of "sexual orientation" or e'ven wrong? After all many families if one could talk about sexual w~o hold their faith dear often orientation without bias. They find their public school to be a could not agree as to whether hostile environment. Will their sexual orientation was biologiconcerns be addressed? cal and hard-wired and not The GCCLY uses its funds to educate students about same-sex subject to change or cultural and attraction. They may claim that they only present the facts, but what are the "facts"?

The National Consensus Process on Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior issued its interim report in May.

By Dale O'Leary The Consensus Process brought together represoft-wired and subject to change sentatives from groups on every or if people could be induced to side of these highly controverchange sexual orientation. sial issues in the hopes of Will the $2 million be used to finding some cbmmon ground. present all sides of the issue?

They did reach a consensus on Will the students be told there is some issues. However, on the no scientific consensus or will the students be given only one In honor of Siste~ Lucia dos Santos, ' side and told that it is supported by "science"? seer of Fatima, who died The National Consensus February 13,2005, age 97.

Process did come to agreement Lucia pray for ~s. about "Best Practices for Research on Sexual Health and Behavior." They laid down PRACTICE THE DEVOTION OF THE FIRST SATURDAYS, "criteria for assessing the AS REQUESTED BY OUR LADY OF FATIMA quality of individual studies" .which included reliability, On December 10, 1925, Our Lady appeared to Sister Lucia internal validity, external (seer of Fatima) and spoke these words: "Announce in my validity, replicability and name that I promise to assist at the hour ofdeath with the graces statistical significance. necessary for the salvation oftheir souls, all those who on the first路 Do the studies frequently Saturday of five consecutive months shall: referenced as supporting the gay 1. Go to confession; 2. Receive Holy Communion; 3. Recite the educators' views meet these Rosary (5 decades); and 4. Keep me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries ofthe Rosary, with the intention of criteria? No. making reparation to me."

Of all the studies 'which are In a spirit of reparation, the above conditions are each to be cited as proving that same-sex preceded by the words: "In reparation for the offenses attrac~ion is biologically predecommitted against the Immaculate Heart of Mary." termined not even one makes Confessions may be made during 8 days before or after the the claim of having found "the first Saturday, and Holy Communion may be received at gay gene." And, as limited as either the morning or evening Mass on the first Saturday. their claims are, none of these'

The Massachusetts legislature is preparing to quadruple funding for the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth (GCGLY). The $1,825,000 earmarked for the Commission would go to programs designed to "support the safety of gay lesbian students and the implementation of related suicide-prevention and violence-prevention efforts."

Now everyone is 9Pposed to suicide and violence, but before the citizens of Massachusetts pony up almost $2 million dollars, there are some issues which should be considered.

What exactly is the money going to be used for? Schools should already be tough ,on violence, bullying, and namecalling. All students should feel' safe - including students with strongly held religious beliefs about sexuality. Will the Commission-sponsored programs

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The numerous studies supporting same-sex parenting 'have been analyzed by a number of researchers and found lacking . in internal and external validity.

Even some gay researchers have admitted the flaws.

There are numerous credible. t:eports of people who have changed their sexual attraction pattern. No studies have disproved these claims.

Programs from the Commission often include safe sex instruction, but there is no evidence that these programs work over the long term. There are . numerous studies, including reports from the Centers for Disease Control, which have found that men who have sex with men beginning before 18 are more likely to become HIV positive or infected with other sexually transmitted diseases.

There is no evidence that safesex education is effective for this group. .

Massachusetts students, including those struggli.ng with same-sex attraction, have a right . to hear the evidence.

Some of the $2 million may be spent bringing in speakers who will talk about their experience as gays and lesbians.

In that case an equal amount of money should be appropriated to bring in men and women .who have come out of homosexuality. If students struggling with same-sex attraCtion are suicidal, hearing that their attraction pattern may only be temporary and that help is available should certainly give them hope.

Anyone familiar with the GCGLY knows that the commission presents only one side of

this highly controversial political issue. There is no evidence that their program will prevent negative outcomes or respect all students' rights, You can't buy safety with .lies: If the Massachusetts legislators are so eager to spend money, let them split the funding between the two sides.

The students have the right to hear both sides present their evidence and to hope, Dale O'Leary is an internationally recognized lecturer a1ld author of "The Gender Agenda: Redefining Equality." She regularly lectures in Massachusetts in support of the Church's teachings on the gift of human sexuality.

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Acts 28:1620,30-31; Ps 11 :4-5,7; Jn 21 :20-25 Acts2:1-11; Ps 104:1ab,24ac, 29bc-30,31 ,34; 1 .Cor 12:3b-7,1213 or Gal 5:1625; Jn 20:19-23 or Jn 15:2627;16:12-15 2 Pt 1:2-7; Ps 91 :1-2,14-16; Mk 12:1-12 2 Pt 3:12-15a, 1718; Ps 90:2~4, 10; Mk 12:13-17 2 Tm 1:1-3,6-12; Ps 123:1-2; Mk 12:18-27 2 Tm 2:8-15; Ps 25:4-5,8-10,14; Mk 12:28-34 .

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Friday, June 2, 2006

Holy doodles We have so many secondThursday 1 June 2006 graders we need two ftrst Port-O-Call - The River Liffey Communion Masses, and -National Soul Food Month someday soon, maybe more.

Here I stand at Trinity College, Dublin, admiring the ninthcentury "Book of Kells." I'm awestruck at this meticulously hand-done Book of the Gospels: the color, the calligraphy, and the ornamentation with all "'-...._-,.;;"';.;.,_........;;'.. '' - - - - - - its curlicues, squiggles, ..... and wiggles. The There's no way everyone would ancient manuscript takes my ftt at a regularly scheduled breath away. I mutter to myself parish weekend Mass. First "Holy doodles!" Mistake. The Communion here is of necessity museum guards overhear me a separate liturgy. I would much and roll their eyes. Seems it is rather have the whole parish not politically correct to refer to participating in the joyful grace the "Book of Kells," the naof ftrst Eucharist. I have yet to tional treasure of Ireland, as the ftgure out how to do so. "holy doodles."

Even with two separate ftrst Here in the Village, we Communions, the assembly is celebrate First Communion Day still too large for the worship No.1 on Mother's Day weekend. Looking for a show-and-tell space. People are everywhere, but it's a nice feeling to have a to catch the kids' attention, I church full to overflowing. decide on doodles - Cheez When it comes time for the Doodles, that is.

homily, I call all the ftrst communicants up around the presider's chair for the "story time" homily. My theme is the Eucharist as true spiritual food. My visual is a shopping cart ftlled with all sorts of delectables - Cheeto Puffs, Devil Dogs (they don't make Angel Dogs for church use), Fritos, Oreo cookies ("double stur') Nesquick, CheezIts, and of course, the ever- popular Cheez Doodles.

Little eyes are popping at the very sight of my groceries. I know I have their attention.

"What kind of food is this?" I ask. "JUNK FOOD!" sings the second-grade chorus. Perfect.

School teachers these days are doing a great job instructing the little ones in proper nutrition.

I go on to say that just as there is junk food and healthy food for the body, so there is junk food and real food for the soul. "Soul food" is learning to say your prayers, coming to

Like a mighty wind As we approach the celebration of Pentecost we pause to consider the third person of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit.

The first person of the Trinity is God the Father. Known as the creator of the universe, he is awesome. And then there is Jesus the Son, the second person of the Trinity. Jesus, by his death and resurrection, paid the price for all the sins of all humankind for all time. That makes Jesus pretty awesome, too.

The problem is that sometimes the Father and the Son seem just a little too awesome, a . little too big for me to wrap my arms around. What I' long for is the God who knows me personally, and that is' where God the Holy Spirit . makes his entrance. .

In the New Testament, the Holy Spirit is depicted as a dove, a flame, and as the wind.

I can most easily relate to the Holy Spirit by envisioning him as the wind (Acts 2: 1-2). "On the day of Pentecost all the Lord's followers were together in one place. Suddenly there was a noise from heaven like the sound of a mighty wind! It filled the house where they were meeting." I can relate to the wind because my husband, John, taught me how to windsurf back when we were dating. If there was a mighty wind when we got off work in the evening, we would race to the lake of our northern Wisconsin childhoods and get on our boards. On windless summer evenings we'd rush to the same lake and water ski or

sometimes canoe with the loons through glassy calm waters. On any given evening, it was the wind that told us what to do with our free time together.

Have you ever paused to listen to the wind? If you have a kite, a mighty wind might tell you to head to an open field. A

calmer current of air might tell you to wait for another day. If you have a sailboat, a mighty wind might beckon you to lash everything to the deck and head to the open sea. A gentle breeze might tell you to bring a grill on board and enjoy a tranquil, sunset meal.

While learning how to windsurf, I spent a lot of time doing headlong somersaults into the water. John, who had learned earlier and more quickly, spent a lot of time sailing patient circles around me. Learning to sense and to align ourselves with the movement of the Holy Spirit is a similarly personal journey, but it is one that Scripture invites each of us to take. Each day the same Scripture readings are proclaimed in every Catholic church throughout the world. I envision those readings as a wind emanating from the pulpit and blowing across the congregation. When we are

told by Jesus to forgive 70 times seven, it is like a mighty wind. The strength of that particular Scripture should cause each of us to grab our hats and hang onto our pews, as the Holy Spirit reveals~ specifically, to whom we need to offer forgiveness. At another Mass we may hear the comforting message that Jesus heals the broken hearted.

These words arrive like a gentle breeze easing open the door of personal healing for wounds we've hidden deep within. It is . according to each .person's situation in life '. . that the same wind delivers a different message.

John 3:8 proclaims, "The wind plows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.

So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." To receive God's personal direction for our lives, we must be keep watch for the wind that is the Holy Spirit. If we will but turn our faces toward that spiritfilled wind, we will know whether to raise or lower our sails, to fly our kites or paddle our canoes. We will feel the touch of the Holy Spirit and know that, no matter how awesome or big he is, our triune God knows and loves each of us personally.

Heidi is an author, photographer, and full-time mother.

She and her husband raise their five children and grow their faith in Falmouth.

Comments are welcome at homegrownfaith@yahoo.com.

Religious Education class, and most of all, receiving the Eucharist frequently at Mass.

Welcome to the Table of the Lord! Be spiritually fed. Grow!

Grow! I call the children's name out loud, one by one, and invite them to the altar for the ftrst time.

Friday 2 June 2006Homeport - Birthday (1835) of Giuseppe Melchiore Sarto (Pope Pius X) Founder of the Diocese of Fall River "Even God himself must appear before the starving man in the form of bread," says Hindu holy man, the Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi.

There are so many who are spiritually starving right here in the United States. They try to sate their hunger with junk food.

Some tum to outrageous . consumerism. A recent newspaper article highlighted the trendy "must-haves" of the super rich: $5,000 (starting price) jewel encrusted cell phones; $500 driving moccasins; multi-million dollar condos; $150,000 Jaguar sedans, Bentley coupes and Mercedes SUV's. And they hunger still.

Don't look now, but our own children have bought into this materialism. Designer clothes are all the rage, even in preschool. My personal fashion consultant, a little pre-school child, advises me that I wear unfashionable shoes; She knows. By the time our children reach middle school, they wouldn't be caught dead wearing clothes from K-Mart.

Then there are those who tum to a subculture to meet their hungers: wicca, New Age, or

street tough status. Our children have bought into this, too.

Witness the spiked orange hair, the low-hanging jeans, the bare midriffs, the backward baseball caps and the all-in-black look (Dressed in black? Maybe I am stylish). And they hunger still.

So, here they sit at my feet, these little ones. Yes, there is junk food. There is also the Eucharist - our foretaste of the heavenly banquet, the very Body and Blood of Christ.

It will, of course, be the responsibility of the parents to raise these children in the practice of the faith. Parents solemnly vow to do this when presenting their children for the sacrament of baptism. As these kids grow up, I pray that they will know the difference between junk food and the Bread of Life.

As the ftrst Communion children are returning to their seats, one little boy whispers in my ear, "So, Father Tim, are you ftnished with the snacks here in church? You are? What are you going to do with those, ahhh, holy Doodles?" When dealing with kids, it's sometimes difficult to keep a straight face.

I think the kids got the point.

The Eucharist is real spiritual food. They are still too young to realize it, but there will be tempting Doodles (not all of them holy) calling out to them along the way.

Father Goldrick is pastor of St. Bernard Parish, Assonet.

Comments are welcome at StBernardAssonet@aol.com.

Previous columns are at www.StBernardAssonet.org.

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD MITCHELL Lavoie is baptized at St. Bernard Church during a recent Mass where he was also confirmed, choosing the name Bernard, and received his first Communion.

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by Mazzuchelli and Rich Aucoin, has traded in covert mili- Friars at Our groups of pil- tary duties for a wide open but militant quest of food, Lady's Chapel. grims visiting clothing, medical goods and school supplies for the We also bring goods to the SisMission Hon- needy in Honduras. ters of Mercy." duras in Flores. , "It is a much older mission than the one the Another recipient is the Head Start Program. i Fall River diocese currently has in Guaimaca," After that, "anything we have we bring to he explained. the Catholic Social Services office in New "During my 29-year Army career I was sta- Bedford," he explained. tioned in Honduras in the mid-1980s. I was, While he gets calls from people and families working with the Army's crn - an intelli- locally for food, he says they are advised to call gence branch - and was a chief warrant of- the St. Vincent de Paul "hotline." ficer, and it was there I first met Father Emil "It's a recording, but by that same night the Cook, OFM Cap., at the time the pastor there." callers will receive a response and two repreWhen Father Emil visited this area in 1996 sentatives from St. Vincent de Paul quickly make - as he does yearly on fund-raisers - Twomey arrangements to go and do an interview," said again became involved. "Our pastor, Father Twomey. "When they determine the need leMarcel H. Bouchard also made the trip with me gitimate, whatever it is, we follow up." that first year." .

Currently l\vomey is establishing "St. Mary's l\vomey estimates he has already shipped Pantry" at Corpus Christi Parish. It will collect more than 44 tons of goods to the mission. "Ev- and store food and clothing right at the church ery year the collection grows. And every year for distribution. we have a group from Corpus Christi who visit He admits he loves his new vocation of deMission Honduras for two weeks. Currently we votion to the needy. have to bring the goods in ourselves. So I con''There are so many families, which, because tinually collect suitcases to transport the mate- of the high costs of utilities, as well as the cost rials. A group from Sudbury will be carrying 20 ofgasoline for necessary transportation, cut back suitcases of supplies in August," Twomey re- on eating," l\vomey reported. "So we are on ported. the move every day, happy to supply them with Medical problems prevent Twomey from per- food to make up the shortage. If they have needs, sonally making further trips. But it hasn't cut we'll meet them," he asserted. short his daily adventures as the "go-to-guy" at The Anchor encourages readers to nominate his parish. others for the Person ofthe Week - who and Following daily Mass at Corpus Christi Par- why? Submit nominations at our E-mail adish, where he and his wife Jeanne have been dress: theanchor@anchornews.org, or write to parishioners since 1968, Twomey, who has a The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722.

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By Greta received, and are strengthened by the Holy Spirit in confirmation, a true embrace of the Holy Spirit is one that each person must make. Our journey with God and with Christ means that we are fully open to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, in order to receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the "life according to the Spirit" (Rom 8:4) that will follow. It means that we are open to the still, small voice of this precious person of the Trinity, and very often this authentic journey with Christ and his Holy Spirit means pulling away, to some degree, from the ways of the world.

One of the concerns of many Catholic parents is that their children learn about the Catholic faith and receive religious instruction and the sacraments. These same parents may realize that religion must be taught in the home and lived out in daily life through prayer, receiving the sacraments and by service to others. Others may look to outside sources to teach their children religion, through religious education programs and Catholic schools, but offer little spirituality in the home. There will also always be those children who develop a strong spirituality and commitment to the faith even under these less than optimal circumstances. However, religiousformation in the home with assistance through

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In John 16:12-13, Jesus says, "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." Any true guidance comes from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes as the soft yet powerful teaching voice and presence, one who leads both outwardly and inwardly. For this reason, Pe'ntecost cannot be just another Sunday, but rather a day to reflect upon the great gift that Jesus gave us, to be with us, to guide us and with whom, when we make room, we can become united in love.

Greta MacKoul is the author and illustrator of "The Ocean Flowers, A Parable of Love" and numerous articles. Greta and her husband George, with their children are members of Christ the King Parish in Mashpee.

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TAKING A LOOK at seminary life, these young men from New Bedford Catholic elementary schools started their recent visit in the chapel of St. John's Seminary in Brighton. They learned that the chapel is the center of life for those with a religious vocation as well as for those discerning one.

A vocational adventure Seventh-graders enter seminary - for a day

By FATHER KEVIN A. COOK

At the end of May, the seventh-grade girls from the New NEW BEDFORD - On a re- Bedford Deanery's Catholic cent cool and wet Wednesday, schools are planning to' travel 56 seventh-grade boys from to the Daughters of St. Paul Catholic elementary schools in Convent in Jamaica Plains to the New Bedford Deanery increase the awareness of reliboarded buses to visit St. John's gious life to which some women are called.

Seminary in Brighton.

They did so with a great None of the boys had ever sense of the unknown, as well been to a seminary, and most as a great sense of hesitancy for had never met a seminarian. some. To help put his students When talking to some of the at ease, Principal Ed Borges of youths about their initial attiSt. James-St. John's School, tudes about the trip, it was obtold the boys that by going to vious they had their own misthe seminary they are not being taken perceptions as to what told they have to all become they would see. One said he priests - and apparently there thought it was going to be borwas a great sigh of relief at the ing. Another thought the seminews. narians would be praying in the The idea for the trip came chapel all day. A third thought from the Vocation Awareness he would see a bunch of monks.

Team at Our Lady of Mount Still another commented he Carmel Parish, New Bedford. thought he would see a bunch They were brainstorming for of nuns - I guess no one had some practical ways, in addi- yet helped him understand the tion to spiritual ones, to bring basic difference between a conabout a greater awareness that vent and seminary.

God calls all of us to holiness, St. John's Seminary was and wills a particular path for founded in 1884 and is the maeach one of us, whether it be the jor seminarY for the Archdiopriesthood, religious and con- cese of Boston. Many of our secrated life, marriage, or the . priests in the Diocese of Fall single life, to live that call to River have studied there. The holiness. seminary at one time needed The trip was proposed as a three large buildings to house way for the boys to become all the seminarians. Today all more familiar with the vocation the seminarians live in the main to the priesthood, the process a seminary building, which was man takes in discerning and fol- renovated in the 1990s. For the lowing a priestly vocation, and majority of the men who enter, how seminarians live. their time of formation ranges It was also meant to help the from four to eight years, deboys realize that seminarians pending on their background and priests are ordinary men and what they have studied in seeking to do God's will in an their past.

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10:30 a.m., and were greeted by Matt Marchand, a seminarian from the archdiocese: who was to be our guide for the day.

Matt led us to the seminary's main chapel, where the seminarians participate in the celebration of Mass' every day, along with the Liturgy of the Hours, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and time of personal prayer. The beauty of the chapel immediately captured the boys' attention.

Matt explained the artwork and the reasons why some of the paintings of different saints were depicted in this particular chapel.

Once the boys were seated, they were led in a prayer and then Matt began to discuss his discernment about God's possible call for him. He described some of the experiences God used to lead him to toe seminary. Many of the boys commented afterward how amazed they were at all that l\;1'att had been through and how similar many of his experiences were to their own. What struck many of the kids the most was how ordinary Matt seemed' and yet his joy at wanting to do what God asked. .

After discussing his discernment, Matt spoke brie~y about life in the seminary.' He described their time of on-going formation and discernment, the study and work that they experience, their apostolic assignments, their prayer lives and their friendship. The visitors were given a chance to ask ques~ tions, which they did fot the next 20 minutes. Each visitor was given a prayer card with the image of the Annunciation on one side and a petition for openness to God's will and the grace to say yes to it on the other.

After splitting into smaller groups~ we路 made a tour of the main part of the impressive seminary building. Even after the beautiful talk, chapel, artwork, prayer, the seventh-graders revealed their youthfulness when they expressed their superior amazement at the exercise room; the common room with its pool table and large TV, and the classical dining room that reminded many of them of

the one in the Harry Potter movies.

We departed at 12:45 p.m., - to the disappointment of many of the boys. They acknowledged on the return trip that they enjoyed the day and learned many things about the priesthood and the seminary.

Seventh-grader Patrick Shea, from Holy Family-Holy Name School, said, "I dido't think it was going to be as nice as it was. I learned a lot and I would definitely go back again." Others stated how they learned much about the priesthood and how those seeking to become priests were ordinary guys who enjoy life and friendships and yet make great sacrifices, work, and pray hard to try' to do whatever is God's will for them.

Looking back on the day, seventh-grader Andrew Moujabber of Holy FamilyHoly Name Parish said, "It really taught me that you don't know if you will be called, but you can be."

Another student perhaps put it best: "You have to be open to the call and be ready all the time. He (Christ) does so much for us and we aren't going to abandon him when he needs us."

In the last half-hour of the bus ride home, one group of boys were singing - if you can call it that -modern rock songs.

Another group was trying to sing - even a further stretch - "99 bottles of juice on the wall." A third group of seventh-graders were playing "Pat-a-cake."

It was clear they were not yet ready to enter seminary life. But at least a good seed was planted.

Father Cook is parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in New Bedford.

SEMINARIAN MATT Marchand answers questions from student visitors following a talk on the varied life of the "ordinary" young men en route to ordination, and the daily joys and friendships, work, study, play and prayer that go into the making of today's priests. '

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In sickness and in health

By DANIEL AVILA The Easter Vigil sermon ofPope Benedict XVI, referring to the "mutation" in human development brought about by Christ's death and resurrection, has lodged itself in my sub-consciousness. During quiet moments lately, the taunting fears emerge and re-emerge but do not last. They abate as the sermon's scriptural refrain rises in my thoughts -"It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me."

The reverie is not messianic, as if the power to squelch the turmoil is mine, but instead is humbling and consoling. My fears are not quelled by my urge to dominate and control them, an ultimately futile impulse. Instead, recalling the Holy Father's reflections brings a profound sense of letting go, and allows a calming tide to flow in.

My wife and I have entered a history of 'evolution' and of life in phase of"in sickness and in health" general toward a new future life, in our marriage. Elaine has been in toward a new world which, startthe hospital now for several weeks ing from Christ, already continuand I'm told that she will need hos- ously permeates this world of ours, pital care for some time more. Her diagnosis is r------~-----1=:::::::""!111'" mental illness and her prognosis foretells a long period of tough going.

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This new way of living, this that somebody was once brought back to life, and no more than that, transforming event, reaches us in what way should this concern through "faith and baptism," us?" But the rising of Christ "is Benedict explained.

And, he continued, "baptism something more, something different.... It is a qualitative leap in the means precisely this, that we are not

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dealing with an event in the past, but that a qualitative leap in world history comes to me, seizing hold of me in order to draw me on. Baptism is something quite different from an act of ecclesial socialization, from a slightly old-fashioned and complicated rite for receiving people into the Church. It is also more than a simple washing, more than a kind of purification and beautification of the soul. It is truly death and resurrection, rebirth, transformation to a new life."

And it is that which allows Jesus to live in us. The hospitalization of my wife has forced me to witness the difference-making of Baptism, in myself and in the community of family and friends and even strangers drawn into my life by virtue of Elaine's suffering.

Thus, I hear his voice over the phone from aconcerned callerchecking in, at the back of church as a parishioneroffers encouragement, from family members saying hello at the airport after flying in to help out, in the compassionate words ofthe medical staffas they update me on Elaine's progress, in the question from my 13year-old daughter about "how are you doing, dad?"

His voice echoes, too, in Scripture, as His words "Remain in my love" are proclaimed during one of this year's Sundays ofEaster. Those same words were part of the Gospel at our wedding and were printed on our wedding invitations. They remind and strengthen.

Years ago, I went tubing for the first time on a lake in northern Indiana. Friends tied one end of a ski rope to the back of their boat and the other end to a large inner tube.

They told me to climb aboard the tube and hold tight to the rope. They. warned me not to let go or to drag my feet in the water, especially at the beginning when the waves would surge full force into my face.

They throttled the boat forward, plowing me and the tube through the gush. Resisting the urge to slow things down by dragging my feet, to take control, Tgripped hard and after an agonizingly long moment, the tube popped above the water, and skimmed across the waves.

I have thought often of that experience during the rough times of life, and the Holy Father's Easter Vigil sermon brought the memory back and applied it to current struggles: ''The Resurrection is not a thing of the past, the Resurrection has reached us and seized us. We grasp hold of it, we grasp hold of the risen Lord, and we know that he holds us firmly even when our hands grow weak. We grasp hold of his hand, and thus we also hold on to one another's hands, and we become one single subject, not just one thing. I, but no longer T: This is the formula of Christian life rooted in baptism, the formula of the Resurrection within time."

So during this recent trial, when . the darkness reaches around my heart, often at night or early in the moming, and Tfeel the worries welling, that's when I often recall a conversation, a note or phone message, even just the question "how are you doing?", and that's when I hear again his voice. Christ, living in those around me, speaks to Christ living in me. He offers me His life, a lifeline, and I hold on for dear life.

Daniel Avila is the Associate Directorfor Policy & Research of the Massachusetts Catholic Conference.

Boston Catholic health care head resigns in sexual harassment case BOSTON (CNS) - Dr. Robert Haddad, the president of New England's largest Catholic health care system, was forced to resign after several women employees complained that he had inappropriately hugged and kissed them. . Haddad announced his resignation May 25 after the board of directors of Boston-based Caritas Christi Health Care System voted to fire him if he did not resign.

The board voted on the recommendation of Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley.

Previous to his resignation, Haddad had said that his actions with female employees were not improper.

The cardinal had hired Haddad two years earlier to head the financially troubled health care systern, which historically has its roots in the Boston Archdiocese.

The system consists of six Catholic hospitals and related medical facilities and services in Massachusetts - including Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River as well as in New Hampshire and Rhode Island. The system employs 12,000 people.

Earlier this year, several women complained of sexual ha-

rassment by Haddad prompting the cardinal to order an independent investigation. After the investigation, which reported that Haddad had violated company sexual .liarassment policies and state and federal employment laws, the cardirlal initially rejected firing him and recommended to the board that Haddad be reprimanded.

The board voted for the reprimand May 18 and Haddad was directed to take sexual harassment sensitivity training sessions.

After news reports about the reprimand, 10 more women employees came forward with similar accusations.

A May 25 archdiocesan statement said that Haddad agreed to resign with a compensation package of 10 months salary and benefits.

The cardinal and the board of governors "reiterate their commitment to providing a working environment free from sexual harassment," said the statement.

The statement quoted the cardinal as saying that "all complaints of sexual harassment will be taken seriously and investigated thoroughly."

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"Everyon~ works at it, and that necessarily involves parents, if the program is to be successtion program. We have to have ful, and it is," Henry noted. dren for the sacrament this year.

That said, four first commu"The strength and beauty of two first Communion Masses our children in the program is and this year they were cel- nicants called to talk about rethat we have teachers who have ebrated on April 29 and May 6, ceiving the Body and Blood, soul done so much, one of them for because we can't fit everyone in and divinity of Jesus.

Eight-year old Melissa Hebert 17 years," reported Rausch, in at one time." her 20th year leading the proShe added, "And if you think from Holy Family Parish, East gram. "I love first Communion that's a large class, we also have Taunton', was "very excited," to time. It's my favorite topic."

77 for confirmation and again we make her first Communion re"These four teachers are phe- hilVe to split the class into two cently. "It felt good," she said. In nomenal and so innovative, will- 'confirmation ceremonies so that her class, Hebert said. she. ing to change because we don't families and friends can attend." "learned that Jesus died on the stick with just one format each "Asked if she saw changes' cross for his people because he and every year," she added. "We among the candidates from one loves us," and receiving Comchange textbooks to keep up with year to another, Ormond replied, munion "is a big responsibilIty." the current editions. And in Fa- "All our classes 'are good. I've She's looking forward to receivther Marek Tuptynski, we also never met a bad group of kids. I ing the Eucharist each Sunday.

Her classmate, Andrew have a marv.elous pastor. He find a great deal of interest and trusts us to do what we do for the support too from the young Callahan, is also eight. When asked how he felt about receivchildren." people and their parents."

Each year, some of the older ing Jesus for the first time in holy Because of the size of the class the sacrament was adinin- teens in the programs host and Commu.nion, he stated "I was istered at two "packed" Masses lead a retreat for the candidates very excited," adding "I was on May 6, with many parents and and their families, Ormond re- looking forward to it for a.long families in attendance and giving ported. "We show a video and of- time." In his class he practiced fer.a hands-on, teaching lesson how to receive the host and full devotion to the children."

The following day, by tradi~ on the Mass and about the "learned some stories about tion, a catered Family Commun- Church. It offers a phenomenal Jesus. My favorite was how Jesus made enough bread and fish for ion Breakfast is held. "It involves two-hour experience."

At St. John's Parish' in 5,000 people. That's a lot," he every parish organization;" Rausch reported. "It is a commu- Pocasset, Elizabeth Henry, direc- said.

Jillian Berube received her nity effort and a nice community tor of Religious Education, along witness to the children. It also the with two teachers and two assis- first Communion at St. Patrick's' day we do the May crowning of tants readied 28 children for first Parish in Somerset. "I was lookCommunion on May 6, with pas- ing forward .to it for a long time the Blessed Mother."

Peg Ormond, director of Re- tor Father Robert Donovan, as because niy sister Alyssa received her first Communion last ligious Education at Holy Fam- celebrant of the Mass.

Having led the program for year." Berube used to look forily Parish in East Taunton, reported her staff readied 79 chil- seven years, Henry said the typi- ward to the blessing each week dren for first Communion this cal preparation involves meeting and now "can't wait to get to with the many parents "who are church." She learned that "Jesus year.

"We have 16 or 18 teachers . as supportive as they can be," loves us. He's always in my and aides, and more than 150 vol- over the many months, she re- heart," she said.

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.Teens cele,brate St. Pius X Award, and in turn are celebrated' Bv MIKE GORDON ANCHOR STAFF

FALL RIVER - For 46 diocesan youth, May 23 was a special night as they received the St. Pius X Award at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption.

The fourth annual award service was led by Bishop George W. Coleman. More than 30 priests attended the event.' .

The awards are given to one young person from each parish who has given his or her time and talent to parish or school activities. Those nominated exemplify selflessness and dedication in helping others in the name of Christ.

"Our community is blessed with gifted young people of outstanding Christian virtues," declared Richard L. Rodrigues, coordinator for Youth and Young AdultMinistry in the diocese. 'vrhey are aware of their responsibility to bring the good news, the Gospel of Jesus Christ to others and we seek to identify and honor these young people."

The service was filled with rousing songs and music and attendees lifted their voices to fill the cathedral. As parish priests, family and friends looked on, honorees came forward to receive the award and were thanked by Bishop Coleman.

Later in his reflection, the bishop asked God to "bless these young people. May they be filled with you.

May they love like Jeremiah, have courage like David and serve others with a spirit of love."

He reflected on the important role award winners play in their parishes, schools and neighborhoods, and stated, "My dear young people, you have been'a great service to the Church. You have responded to Jesus and I am thankful for all that he's accomplished through you."

Benjamin D. Levesque from St. Bernard Parish, Assonet, said being named a youth award recipient , "Came as a surprise," and "is a great honor." Levesque volunteers to teach second-grade Religious Education classes and is also involved in puppetry, a talent he shares with others at the parish festivals.

Timothy Vaughan serves as an extraordinary minister ofholy Communion at Immaculate Conception Parish in Taunton. He also teaches sixth-grade Religious Education and serves as a volunteer at a local food pantry. "I'm grateful," said Vaughan.

"It's quite an honor to be nominated for.this prestigious award." .

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"Any work I've done in my 44 years as priest and then as"a pastor them, "the Church needs your dedi- helpful she's been." He went on to - and what I believe is the mission cation and generosity." say that it's important to recognize. of a pastor, is summed up in four Recipients volunteer their time the work of young people because thoughts: empowering them, trustin many areas. Some volunteering "they are as critical to our parish as ing each one of them, affinning in soup kitchens, in the March for anyone else in the Church. They are their work, and thanking them inLife, as catechists, serving the poor the Church." dividually," he added. "It is key to and homeless in shelters, in parish When the service concluded, who I am." education programs, as extraordi- awardees joined the bishop at the Was it something he learned in nary ministers of holy Communion altar for photographs. Mothers and seminary foonation nearly a half and serving the sick. They are also fathers celebrated the accomplish- century ago?

"Not really," he said. "I learned involved as lectors, choir members, ments of their children and famiit when I worked in my father's , cantors, Mass greeters, retreat lead- lies embraced their shining stars.

Jocelyn Trindade shared the grocery store in Taunton at the corers, in Youth Ministry and some volunteer at Birthright. moment with numerous relatives ner of Court Street and WashingAward winner Ashley Ramey who wanted to see her medallion. ton, as a young man," the 70-yearwas nominated by her pastor, F:a- She volunteers as an altar server at old priest recalled.

"We were open seven days a ther Jay T. Maddock, of Holy Fam- St. Anthony of Padua Parish, New ily Parish, East Taunton, who said, Bedford, and when asked why she week from 7 o'clock in the morn"She is a great yo~ng lady and is does so, like many of her peers re- ing until 6 at night, and I learned very active in the parish. She's liv- sponded, "It's just something I re- more there for my future pastorate ing her faith." , • ally enjoy." than I ever did from theology Ramey is an altar server and lecThe evening concluded with a books. My father taught me that the tor and is also in charge of over- reception held in St. Mary's school customer was not an interruption, but the reason I was there," he said. . night retreats. "I enjoy being in- hall.

"People need to,empowered; volved with the Church," said TheAnchortookphotosatthe.

Ramey, adding it's a way she can St. PiusXAwardceremony. Those the laity needs that and tQ be "put her faith into action." images are available online. If trained in the sense that they must Father· Richard R. Gendreau, you would like to see them, send be brought into the inner circle of pastor of St. Louis de France Par~ The Anchor an. E-mail at the Church and to share in the u.niish, Swansea, nominated Vanessa anchorimages@yahoo.com. We versal priesthood as they do by Martins for the annual award be- will sendyou an invitation to view their baptism," he asserted. 'vrhis cause of her "active role in our Re- the pl!otos with the opportunity to is sound theology.

"I've enjoyed every minute of ligious Education program and how purchase prints through Kodak. my ministry, even when it was difficult - especially in the recent St. Pius X Award recipients represented the five deaneries. years when the abuse crisis in the Church has been very painful," he Attleboro Deanery added. "But I have been a very Kevin P. Brawley, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Seekonk; Thomas V. Ducharme, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro; Elizabeth A. Hinton, happy priest."

St. Mary,. Seekonk; Mark Ledbetter, St. Mary, Norton; Thomas Asked how the pri~stly minisMullaney, St. Mary, North Attleboro; Erin E. Murphy, St. Mary, try has changed during his own Mansfield; Christopher Rizzo, St. Theresa, South Attleboro; Garett time, he answered, "Radically. We Schfomm, St. Stephen, Attleboro. were prepared as monks in the Cape Cod Deanery seminary. To come out and live in Anthony R. Adler, Our Lady of the Assumption, Osterville; Denise the real world, especially subseM. Bertrand, St. Patrick, Falmouth; Joseph A. Cartagena, St. Francis quent to Vatican II, made us truly Xavier, Hyannis; Robert E. Deasy, St. Elizabeth Seton, North secular priests: living in the world Falmouth; Danielle E. Gilmore, St. Margaret. Buzzards Bay; Patrick and really being a part of people's King, Corpus Christi, East Sandwich; Jennif~~ Morris, St. Pius X, lives. When I was ordained - on South Yarmouth; Lisa Roberston. Our Lady of Victory. Centerville; May 11, 1962 - it was a big Jarred G. Taylor, Holy Redeemer, Chatham; Owen Zinn, Our Lady change from the days when priests of the Cape, Brewster.., waited in the rectory for people to Fall River Deanery come to them."

Andrew Arruda, Holy Trinity, Pall River; Jason Fazzina, Sacred He added that he finds it "disHeart, Fall River; Bryan M. Ferreira, Santo Christo, Fall River; Kelly concerting" when he sees that atAnn Freeman, Holy Rosary, Fall River; Ryan Lachapelle, Notre Dame titude prevailing in some areas tode Lourdes, Fall River; Derek Laliberte, Immaculate Conception, day. ..

Fall River; Benjamin D. Levesque, St. Bernard, Assonet; Vanessa , His advice for young priests toMartins, St. Louis de Prance, Swansea: Joao L. Oliveira, St. John of day and for those discerning a voGod, Somerset; Britney Souza, St. Michael, Fall River; Mark Sullivan cation to the priesthood? ill, Holy Name, Fall River.

New Bedford Deanery "The world they are entering is Adriano Almedia ill, St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford; Peter T. much, different from the one when Baron, St. Mark, New Bedford; Melanie Borges, St. Francis ofAssisi, I entered the priesthood 44 years New Bedford; Amy L. Brogioli, St. Patrick. Wareham; Brandon E. ago," Msgr. Tosti said. "I think I'd Campeau, St. Joseph-St. Therese; Amanda L. DeCosta, St. Julie tell priests they need to take people Billiart, North Dartmouth; Blayne J. Lopes, Our Lady of the Aswhere they're at and not where sumption. New Bedford; Nathan J. Macedo, Our Lady of Mount they want them to be. Accept them Carmel, New Bedford; Wayne L. McAlister, St. Mary, South and love them first, and then bring Dartmouth; Alex M. Poulin, Our Lady of Fatima, New Bedford; Katie them to full fruition. That requires St. Pierre, St. Francis Xavier, Acushnet; Jocelyn Trindade, St. Anan openness." thony of Padua, New Bedford; Lauren Violette, St. John Neumann, "Msgr. Tosti said many people East Freetown. ' don't have the depth of faith they Taunton Deanery had 50 years ago, although they are Ashley Ramey, Holy Family, East Taunton; Joseph A. Reis, St. more educated than ever before.

Anthony, Taunton; Tunothy Vaughan. Immaculate Conception, North 'They are not to be condemned.

Easton; Daniel Vieira, Annunciation of the Lord, Taunton.

The door should not be closed. An example of that is when mothers bring in their babies to be baptized St. Ann~'s Prayer and they are not married in the "Good St. Anne, Mother of Mary, and Church or married at all. They cannot be turned away because they Grandmother of Jesus, Intercede for me and my haven't fulfilled all the rules yOll petitions. Amen." think they should," he opined.

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'The door must be open; they must be welcomed; we have to find a way ... or else you'll lose them forever."

As a native of Taunton, he attended its schools and is a 1954 graduate of Taunton High School.

The same year he entered St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, Conn. Later theological studies were in St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Md. Following ordination by Bishop James L. COI1nolly in St. Mary's Cathedral in Fall River, Father Tosti's first assignment was to Our Lady of the ,Assumption Parish in Osterville.. At the time he was also assigned as area director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; 1?ecame secretary·of the Diocesan Synod; and was a member of the Divine Worship Committee.

In October 1968, he became curate at Sacred Heart Parish in Fall River, and also served with the Diocesan Tribunal From 1969 until 1970 he studied at Fordham University, where he earned .a master's degree in religious studies. He lived at St. Helena's Parish in the Bronx, N.Y., with Christian Brothers and was chaplain at St. Helena's Boys High School. Later he was in residence at SS. Peter and Paul Parish in Fall River, where he subsequently served as an assistant from 1973 to 1977.

During that time, then Father Tosti directed the diocese's 75th jubilee celebrations.

His first pastorate came in July 1977, when he was named pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in New Bedford.

In the years from 1979 to 1988 he was diocesan director of Family Life Ministry and founder of The Family Life Center in North Dartmouth.

It was in July of 1984 that Father Tosti was named pastor of what was to formally become Christ the King Parish in Mashpee the following November.

While residing in Cotuit, Father Tosti was in essence the cl.erk of the works in the construction of the parish complex, a whopping $7.1 million venture with the house of worship, chapel, educational facility, rectory and offices, all under one roof. He also became the shepherd of a new community of faith, a flock he came to love and guide.

The church was built and dedicated in November 1989.

Father Tosti was named a chaplain to the. Holy Fathe! with a title of reverend monsignor, and was invested on Oct. 17, 1999.

In 2004 he was appointed to lead pastoral planning in the diocese, and held that position through 2005, when he retireq from that office.

Throughout his priesthoo.d, Msgr. Tosti has had a diversified and busy lifestyle with a variety of ministries and assignments, to which he added a personal touch.

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AN INDONESIAN volunteer carries the body of a six-yearold boy who was' dug out from a ruined house in the town of Klaten on the Indonesian island of Java May 28 following an earthquake. More than 5,000 people perished in the recent earthquake and some 200,000 people were left homeless. (eNS photo/Andry Prasetyo, Reuters)

Quake causes churches' collapse; parishioners offer aid from tents BANTUL, Indonesia (CNS) - When the churches collapsed during Indonesia's earthquake, Catholics offered aid from tents.

In Baciro, the parish council met under a tent in the rectory compound after the May 27 quake that left more than 5,000 people dead and destroyed 45,000 buildings - including the Baciro church - in Yogyakarta and Central Java.

Father Sari Jatmiko told UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand, that he told parish council members not to focus on their destroyed church.

"We will discuss and handle it later. Now, the most important thing is how to assist the parishioners and other people who lost their houses. They need logistical help and medicines as soon as possible," he said.

The Indonesian government estimated 200,000 people were homeless after the quake.

The parish priest of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Ganjuran, members of its parish pastoral council and other parishioners were among those channeling aid to people affected by the disaster. Their church was among the buildings destroyed, and four people were killed when it collapsed. Only its tower remained intact, UCA News reported.

The church is located in Bantul district, the worst-hit area, where more than 3,800 people were killed and 80 percent of homes were flattened, according to information available.

Yohanes Agus Prayitno, a Ganjuran parish activist, told UCA News that he was "focusing on how to distribute aid, especially cooked food, to the survivors." He said 30 parishioners had been busy distributing food and erecting emergency tents in

the hospital compound next to the destroyed church. . "What we can do is to distribute aid to the survivors, while the medical workers provide them with medical assistance," he added.

The Ganjuran church is a popular shrine, and Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo of Semiuang visited it several hours after the quake and again the following day with staff of Caritas and the crisis center of the Indonesian bishops' conference. The Semarang Archdiocese, based in Central Java, also covers the city of Yogyakarta, about 55 miles to the south.

In Kalasan, Marganingsih Catholic Church also was destroyed. Stefanus Sunaryo, vice chairman of the parish council, told UCA News, "We erected tents to house the survivors who could not be accommodated in the hospitals, and women (from the church) cooked for them."

Sunaryo said he did not know where the parish women got food such as rice and instant noodles.

"It was as if the food just appeared. We do not have time to register the donors," he said.

Father Antonius Jarot Kusno Priyono, parish priest of the Ganjuran church, said 40 out of the 500 villagers of the predominantly Catholic hamlet of Caben were killed. Ninety percent of the houses here were totally destroyed, he said.

"We do not know how many Catholics from my parish were killed by the quake. Maybe I will have the exact number after a week," he said.

He said the deaths were not reported to the priests for funeral rites, "since all the three priests of the parish were busy attending to the ,destroyed church and coordinating aid for victims."

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little kids, was killed in her bedroom last year. Three houses down the street from there a young man was killed in his car, in the daylight, at 3 in the afteJVoon. Up the road, another young ~an was shot.

It's been unreal herd' Calling the situation "something none of us can seem to fathom," he recounted what he called "one of the worst weeks in I! my life."

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Tuesday, "She was saying before NEW BEDFORD - Sacred all the mess happened with her son she had planned a trip to Aruba.

Hearts Father 8tanley Kolasa spent She asked me, 'should I go?' I told nearly two-and-a-half hours on her, 'Go.' She was excited, or tried May 23 talking with Mrs. to be. She was going to tum 50."

Bernadette DePina about her 23Her son, David "Crunchy" year-old son David's arrest on acDePina was arrested and charged cusations he shot and killed a realong with another suspect with the puted gang rival.

But within two days Father May 21, Sunday morning fatal shooting of 20-year-old Justin M. Kolasa - popularly known as "Father'Stan" - was summoned Barry. Police report he was shot 10 times. DePina was also charged in again, but this time after Mrs. regard to the sheoting ofJohn DePina, nicknamed "Bunny," an active member M. Burgos Jr., 21, who was of his Our Lady of the As"Here, in Our Lady of the Assump- shot twice. Burgos remains in sumption Parish, was found tion Church I am going to take the im- critical condition.

According to Father Stan, murdered in the bedroom of age of Mary, standing Lnder the cross "What Mrs. DePina was her Ash Street home in 'what police are contending was a of Jesus, trying to be strong as she struggling with was the poswatched the death of her son, and use sibility that her young son crime of retaliation. as an image of ~trength for us. could kill in what might be that "Stunned? It has broken Because our parish is a vital, vital faith called gang-related violence. my heart," Father Stan said candidly. "Ordinarily I feel community - not jus til a place where But she was also concerned young, but yesterday and to- people attend - will get us through for the other family. Her heart went out to them. She was day I don't," the 63-yearold this." struggling for the mother of pastor remarked.

Even as police and law enforce- Thursday, and when he returned to the young man who was killed. She ment agencies investigate the 49- the rectory "My custqdian, visibly was a mother struggling across the year-old mother's death following shaking, advised me that she (Mrs. board. It makes all of this so unbethe alleged gang-related crime by DePina) had been shot. I then met lievable."

Mrs. DePina didn't just stand her son, David "Crunchy" DePina with her husband, whose name is II, Father Stan conducted a holy also David, ~d with her 85-year- by, the priest said. "She tried to old mother, whom, as a daughter, intervene in regards to her son's hour last Saturday morning.

He told The Anchor on Friday, she tended and took care of every activities. She tried to reach out to him because she knew his friends "Here, in Our Lady ofthe Assump- day," the pastor said.!: "Bernadette was lector in our ... and she was very concerned," tion Church I am going to take the image of Mary, standing under the parish, worked with our young he stated.

Then he said, "Please pray for cross of Jesus, trying to be strong people as well as the Kujenga reas she watched the death of her treat, a Christian retreat sponsored our people." After a few moments son, and use that as an image of out of Boston for your-g, primarily of silence, he said, "Do you want strength for us. Because our par- Black Catholics," he! added. to hear something? One of our ish is a vital, vital faith commu"She also worked with parish- school children, seven years old, nity - not just a place where sponsored retreats and headed up got sick and was sent to the school people attend - will get us a community fund-raiser to benefit nurse. Asked what was the matter, through this." our young people and missions in she told the nurse, 'I'm afraid As he planned for the service, India, slated in two weeks." It has somebody is going to shoot my mommy.' And it's not the first time Father Stan remarked, "Unfortu- been cancelled.

"And there was so much more," this has happened," Father Stan nately, I have been doing this kind of thing too often. I have been pas- Father Stan asserted. "She (Mrs. noted.

"We can't allow this violence tor here for four years. But right DePina) was a wonderful person, now it feels like I've been here a vital, alive, bubbly, beautiful ... all to go on," he said calmly, but ashundred." those things can be I[!attributed to sertively. , Looking back, he recalled that her."

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COYLE AND CASSIDY High School Senior Keith Rowe recently received a track scholarship from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Family and friends congratulated him at the Taunton school. From left: Lynne Rowe, Charles Rowe, Keith, Athletic Director Bill Ventura and Coach Brian Rasmussen.

WORKSHOP PRESENTERS get ready for Human Awareness Day at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton. They spoke on a variety of topics including teen addiction, dating violence, cyber bullying, stress management and surviving the Holocaust. Robert Lewis Jr., executive director of Youth Services of Boston, was the keynote speaker.

STUDENTS FROM St. Anne's School, Fall River, pitch in to clean the school and church grounds on Earth Day. Below, they plant flowers donated by parents of fourth-graders, in front of the school.

THREE STUDENTS from Holy Trinity School, Fall River, were named top research project winners in its annual science fair. From left: Laurie Leal, science fair coordil1ator; Koby Mitchell; Brent Medeiros; Theresa Silva; and Principal Emma Hipolito.

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Hoobastank hit the pop/rock big can be difficult, challenging and empIF I WERE YOU BOSTON (CNS) Sec- she was greeted by protests from time with their hit disc 'The Reason." tionally painful. Listening compasretary of State Condoleezza Rice about 50 student., and dozens of Just out this May is their new CD sionately is one way to acknowledge You seem to find the dark when said that the protests over her com- faculty membe;-~, according to "Every Man for Himself." Off the hurt. God's healing begins and a new everything is bright mencement appearance at Boston news reports. TL protesters stood new album and receiving consider- start is possible when disappointment, You lookfor all that's wrong College are a sign that democracy with their backs to her and waved regret and/or despair are honestly able ~rplay is "If I Were You." instead ofall that's right is alive on the campus of the Je- signs and, while ,some sat in si- Does it feel good to you to rain on The song addresses something stated. lence, most of the crowd of 25,000 suit-run college.

The song clearly expresses the secimportant to all ofllS, that is, our permy parade?

Being able to protest "is what gave her a standing ovation. spective on life. The song's chara~ter ond step: "If ~ were you ... the first You never say a word unless In the interview, Rice praised democracy is all about," she told says, "You seem to findthe dark when thing I'd do ;" ilianl.c the stars for all it's to complain everything is bright. YOu look for all that I am." Emotjonal hurt has a way tw,o Boston College publications. Catholic schools and said that she It's driving me insane of narrowing one's mental and emoRefrain: What is "anti-democratic" is "to is a product of Catholic education. tional focus. We forget that the curIf I were you holding the world insist on a monopoly of your She specifically praised Boston rent situation, while certainly painful,. . .' right in my hands views," RiC6 said the day before College for being "rigorous in its is just part ofour lives. Consequently, The first thing I'd do is thank the she delivered the commencement education" and also for providing we may miss the "all" we are. We need stars for all that I am speech and was given an honorary opportunities for economically to try to widen our view of our lives.'

If I were you underprivileged students to get a degree by the college.

The song suggests that you ask, Look what surrounds you now, ''That's the bargain ofdemoc- university degree.

"What is going right in my life?" Be more than you ever dreamed ''I'm rather fond of Catholic racy: You get to say what you think sure to take as complete an inventory Have you forgotten just how hard but others, get to say what they education. I think it tends to have . as possible of your life. The parts of it used to be? think too," she said. kind of rigor and discipline that life that are going well h,we a way of So what's it going to take Rice expressed her views in a . is missing in a lot of institutions," sustaining us through a present diffifor you to realize joi!1t interview with the Boston she said. culty. .

That all could go away in one Rice, a non-Catholic, said that . College Chronicle, an official pubFinally, when lost in a negative blink ofan eye? lication for faculty and staff, and she attended a Catholic high school mood, take your hurt to God. Ask God It happens all the time the 'Heights, an independent cam- in Denver, St. Mary's Academy, that's wrong instead ofall that's right. to take this burden in your heart and (Repeat refrain) pus newspaper published by un- run by the Sisters of Loretto, and ... You nellersay a word unless it's to transform it. Often we'll need to make Yeah, if I were you dergraduates. the University of Notre Dame in this act ofsurrender several times, for complain."

If I were you The decision to invite Rice was Indiana, run by the Holy Cross Mostofuscould namesomeonewho our minds have a tendency to turn Yeah, if I were you opposed by about 200 professors Fathers. . . fits this description. We are all like this at back to worries and hurts.

So what's it going to take As secretary of state; Rice said, who said the invitation and honorDeveloping a genuinely positive times. We all need to know how to for you to realize ary degree meant the Catholic col- that she is involved in immigration change ourperspective when everything outlook takes effort. Practice these That all could go away in one attitudes ofcompassion, gratitude and about life seems dade and negative. lege supported the Bush issues because it is her responsi- . blink ofan eye?

A negative outlook grows from surrender. By being both patient and , It happens all the time admini~tration's Iraq War, which bility to de~l with Mexico and unexpressed hurt. ConSequently, the persisterit, you can ~ove through hurt (Repeat refrain) Pope John Paul II and the U.S. bish- Canada on border security. She first step toward constructive change and redi~cover the good that remains Thefirst thing I'd do is thank ops opposed on ethical grounds. said that the U.S. has to protect its starts with practicing compassion. We available to you. the stars above College officials said Rice's borders and enforce its laws while need to ilSk: What is th'e hurt behind Always remember that God's healFor the world I love careerjustifies an honorary degree recognizing that the nation is "a all the negativity?

Ho~ can I respond ing has no limits.

Take a breath and enjoy the vie~ and that the invitation did not au- country of immigrants" and has to with understanding and empathy for Comments are always welcome.

Live the life that I wanted to tomatically mean support for U.S. deal humanely with people who whatever has been endUred?

Please write to me at: If I were you policy in Iraq. have come to this country to work chmartin@swindiana.net or, at Compassion expandS when you Sung by Hoobastank When she appeared on campus, and establish roots. listen compassionately Ito others. Life 7125W 2005, Rockport, IN 47635.

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Christ is forever young We were ending our prayer service with song. Everyone was getting into the theme of the evening. As the song finished, to our surprise, and even more, to our delight, Kyle continued to sing - solo. The spirit of life and of youth was flowing through Kyle that night, as well as the other members and guests of our group who gathered to share an.evening of prayer in our semi-annual "Youth Lock-in."

They came in prayer. They came in fun. And at the conclusion of this prayer the following morning, during Mass, the church simply asked them to come again. That was a memorable evening. We adult leaders witnessed our young church alive.

My pastor, Father Gastao Oliveira and I meet regularly to 'discuss the needs of the youth in our parish. At one of these meetings, years ago, I referred to the youth as the Church of the future. He stopped me cold in my tracks. ''The youth is not the Church of the future", he said, ''The youth is the Church now."

That was one of the greatest lessons I learned in my ministry.

Father Gastao was, and is, completely and unequivocally correct. Today, I can't even imagine being a part of the building of a community of faith that includes youth and still refer to them as the "Church of the future." Yet, so many young people live with that thought and their place at the 'banquet table' remains empty. It's time to make the message perfectly clear: Young people, "You Are The Churcn, Now." Our Church is forever young. This weekend we celebrate Pentecost Sunday, the birth of our church. If you do the math you'll realize that the Church is about 2,000 years old.

"Young?" you may question. .

Yes, young indeed. Ourlate Holy Father, John Paul iI, spoke of this. young Church in his book, "Crossing the Threshold of Hope." He referred to the youth of the Church as a "new evangelization ... linked to generational

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change." In her proclaiming the good news, the Church "is capable of walking alongside the ' younger generation." John Paul goes on to say, "The Church is always looking to the ·future. She constantly goes out to meet new generations. And new generations clearly seem to be accept-

greeted him, as she has all young people. Accept her calling, even with all the mistakes of the past.

The Church looks to the future with hope. When I think of Kyle and the youth of our parish I can clearly see that hope. It is the 'It hope that they will come in prayer, the hope that they will . come in fun, and the - - - . - hope that they will come again.

In faith formation classes it is often asked, "What is the Church?"

The very young respond by describing the "building" where they gather to cel~brate Mass.

I wonder: Would not the ing with enthusiasm what their , Church be better serVed if the elders have rejected. What does question were rephrased, "Who this mean? It means that Christ is is the Church?" There would be forever young. It means that the a greater sense of rdl belonging H,oly Spirit is incessantly at and acceptance with:' the answer work."

"I am." or "We are.";! ' You are the Church, young A dear friend ofnline, Laura and old, weak and strong, good Nobrega was a womJrn gifted and bad. Where would the with the wisdom of t!:te Holy Church be today without the Spirit. She taught m~ that the likes of Kyle, his enthusiasm, his word "church" (in English, only) spirit, his life? The Church has is a simple way to teach "who is ..I • .-

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the Church?" The Church is only a building when you are not in it .

- the "CH" at the beginning and .the end of the word forming the building's walls. When "UR" (you are) in it, there is the real Church, the real living stones: a simple, yet powerful lesson. But we know the Church is all around us, not only when we gather for Mass. In her daily work of compassion, charity and love the Church, by her very nature, is always on mission. You are that Church, 'alive and young, vibrant and energetic. And all of God's people are alive in you.

Got, a birthday wish for the Church this weekend? Try evangelization. In John Paul's words"... a call to the people of today:especially the young, to follow the paths of ~e Gospel in . the direction of a better world" is a wish, and a prayer, that can . become a reality. All you need to· do is hear and accept Christ's challenge: "Follow me" (Mt 8:22).

Ouie Pacheco is Faith Formation director at Santo Christo Parish, Fall River-

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were 1,029 cases, and another 45 virus that causes ~S, or for ~S listed for the Islands off Cape Cod. itself. But there are medications that Sad to say, more than halfofnew while they don't cure, may help a infections are among young people person live with them;" Dr. Winterbetween the ages of 15-25.

Green added.

What is particularly Nrtinent to At the end of 2005 the mode of transmission for 15 percent of those the ~S Ministry is understanding living with the disease in Southeast- that the ~S ministry "has a repuern Massachusetts was heterosexual tation and history of working with sex.For another 46 percent of those the most disenfranchised; typically . with the disease in Fall River alone . called 'dual diagnosed people,'" she said. ''These are people with HIV/ was injection drug use.

An astounding 41 percent of the ~S who also have a mental illness, and are ex-offenders." peopklivingwithrnv/~Sin~all ''They are living with rnv and River alone are women.

"Another reason for the dispro- have a serious mental illness. You portionate rate we're seeing in this have two serious maladiesoccurring area is because of the high male-to- simultaneously. We also See a high male transition rate because of the number of individuals with HIVI predominately high concentration of ~S who have a signifioant forengay men in the Provincetown com- sic and criminal history. Many are munity on Cape Cod," Dr. Wmter- in and out ofjail and prisqn. Lots of other agencies don't want to dea).

Green asserted.

She added, "And when you're with these peopk because they conlooking at the combinations of stitute arisk very difficult to deal with . Provincetown and the areas of Fall at times," she explained. ' River and New Bedford, which have . ''This,'' she said, "de~ands a lot a very high number in terms of in- of understanding of the h\1man contravenous drug use, and transmission dition." , As a result, in the battle for the through those means, then ~ere is a disproportionate number at this end living, the ~S Ministry pffice proof the Commonwealth." vides pastoral-cliniCal psychoSome 5,379 cases of the HIV/ therapy, case managemen~ information and referrals, advocacy, emer~S currently listed in Massachusetts among adults arose from ho- gency financial assistance, emermosexual male sex, amounting to . gency meals, clothing, transporta33.8 percent oftotal cases, she noted. tion, consultation, education, spiri''There were only 58 clients or tual support and counseling, days of individuals who received direct ser- prayer and reflection, epcharistic vices when we opened tliis ministry celebrations and paraliturgies. ''Thanks to the Catholic Charities 12 ye~s ago," Dr. Winter-Green, who has headed the office since then, Appeal we are able to meet many recalled. The small, cramped office needs," Dr. Wmter-Greensaid. "The shared by three people in Clemence numbers are public. We gratefully .Hall at Saint Anne's Hospital has received $194,000 from'the 2005 Appeal, which has been the funding been her bailiwick over the years. . ''We closed last year with 155 on level for us for the past six years."

Besides herself, the staffincludes the books living with HIV/~S, with more than 2,517 contacting us two cases managers, seven part time for assistance, and 728 mdividuals in the educational department, and . actually receiving financial assis- two in office administration, "and . tance," she said. many volunteers. There m:e so many Seemingly the current numbers people and parishes and organizaof direct serviCes don't indiCate tions and agencies whose 'assistance much of an increase, "thanks in part we have been grateful for."

Asked whether she felt the ~S to the availability of anti-retroviral drugs that have come on the mar- Ministry is critically needed, Dr. ket," she noted. "We were seeing Wmter-Green .smiled and retorted: people in a much more sicker state "You are asking someone who is p~judiced." Then she said, "If you when we first opened."

Over the 12 years, Dr. Wmter- realize what's happening in the dimiGreen has seen approximately nution of public sector bQdgets, en30,000 people who sought her per- tire entitlement programs for people sonal care and assistance from the with rnv/~S, then yoU'seeregrettably the ones who have the most ~S Ministry in Fall River.

"I see a lot of these people in needs are being closed out, and you Boston because that is where most can understand how criticaIly needed : of the patients from the Fall River- is this ministry."

One of the case managers is New Bedford area go for treatment," she said. .

Shirley Royster. "I know this minisWhile the uninformed public of- try well because I am living with ten thinks of ~S patients as those HIV," she openly told Thf Anchor.

"I am involved with the homeconfined to a bed, a better understanding is that those suffering from less and we discuss their needs. We the disease are "living in today's so- provide them with food, toiletries, ciety" and that,is essential to under- sometimes a hot meal, telephone stand the ~S ministry and its out- . vouchers, and clothing. They are of reach. . all ages and in all stages Ofthe sickIn order to meet its responsibility ness. We discuss drugs arid alcohol; of "extending a compassionate re- medications and how to talk to their sponse to all persons living with and doctor counseling and testing. We affected by HIV/~S" means ser-. also talk about their spiritual needs.

We give them hope. I am a peer eduvicing a variety of vital needs. ''We have to remember that there cator, and we address the:whole life is no cure or vaccine for ~ the of the person."

A glance at the case histories of AIDS Ministry clients show they range from newborn to age 87.

Twenty seven percent of women living with rnv infection known to have given birth in Massachusetts in recent years had an rnv risk related to injection drug use and sex with an injection drug user combined.

Another 55 percent had no identifiedrisk other than unprotected heterosexual contact..

Clinical histories told painful stories of those infected also suffering from alcoholism and strokes and divorces and handicaps and abuse that put them in harm's way. Others tell ofhomelessness, hunger, mental illness, being unable to hold ajob and becoming prostitutes in order to survive. All severely impacted family life. So much so that globally, every minute, a children under the age of 15 dies as a result of ~S. Finally, the big statistic no one wants to hear: ~S deaths amount to more than 3.1 million across the planet. . What to do better? "Educating people better is critical," Dr. Winter-Green stated. During the 20042005 academic year, 2,270 students received age-appropriate rnv/~S education at Catholic high schools and elementary schools as well as in some palish Religious Education programs.

"What is tragic is that the age of .infection is getting younger and . younger and younger," Dr. WinterGreen lamented. "We're finding the infection among those in the sixth grade, those who are about 14-15 years old. Life expectancy depends on the strain of the virus."

Worldwide, approximately half of all people who become infected . with HIV do so before they are 25, and are killed by ~S before they are 35.

Joan Cuttle, manager ofthe Education Program for the Ministry, has been with that office for 12 years.

"We've visited almost all the Catholic schools in the diocese, but we don't go into public schools," she said, adding that many of the rnv/ ~S programs in public schools have fallen to budget cuts. Besides seminars on personal responsibility and peer presentations there are many resource materials and brochures made available explaining all about the topic. .

Over the 12 years, nearly 300 seminars have beengiven, with an estimated 21,000 students participating.

"Children don't come up to us and admit to having the infection, because no one wants anyone else to know," Cuttle explained. ''There is a stigma attached, and they know they will be shunned. But most of the students tell us they know someone infected." . Because almost five million people - including children were infected by rnv globally in 2005, the highestjump since the first. reported cas~s in 1981, "It is our Christian responsibility to educate all people both young and old, especially the children," Cuttle stated.

Then she added, "For those living with the virus, I pray that God bless them with good health, and the . strength to continue until someday there is a cure." .

Catholic Charities Appeal. at $2M midway in ~rive FALL RIVER ~ The 2006 Catholic Charities Appeal has eclipsed the $2 million mark at its halfway point it was announced this week, hopefully a sign of good things to come for the 65year-old springtime endeavor sponsored by t~e diocese.

"Obviously we are pleased when we reach positive landmarks in any endeavor, but.we immediately reflect on the fact that we have a long way to go to exceed the previous year's total of slightly more than $4 million," said Mike Donly, director of Development for the diocese.

"We are optimistic about our prospects for the success of the Appeal," said Donly, "as we see pastors and committees committing significant time and talent to their parish Appeal process."

The Appeal process has changed significantly over the years as parishes use 'different ways of approaching potential donors. However, the thing that has remained constant is the fact that it is local people, pastors and committee members, soliciting other local people for the well being of those around them. Even though those who are in need of assis.tallce are not always known by those who are soliciting for them, parishioners are very much ~ware that the need is great throughout the entire diocese as well as in their local communities.

The Appeal is actually assisting friends and neighbors right in

their own neighborhoods as well as neighborhoods all across southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, and the Islands.

"When you consider that more than 100,000 men, women and children were assisted by the agencies and apostolates funded by the yearly CatholiC:: Charities Appeal, it stands to reason that some of them are going to be in your local area," Donly noted.

"And when you consider that each and every year there are people asking for assistance who have never asked anyone for help before, it brings home the fact that even people whQ were contributors to the Appeal in the past may actually now need to be ministered to in their own time of need," he said.

"It doesn't matter who you are,?' Donly asserted. "When you are in need of assistance we do our best to help you, and all of this is possible solely through the generosity of the thousands of frien~s and parishioners who donate to the Appeal each year. Thank God for them."

Donations to the Appeal can be sent to the Catholic Charities Appeal Office, p.o. Box 1470, Fall River, MA 02722; dropped off at any parish in the Diocese of Fall River; or made on the Appeal Website: www.frdioccatholiccharities.org. .For information visit the Website or contact the Appeal Office at 508-675-1311.'

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Top Five Parishes by Deanery as of 05/19/06 Attleboro Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Seekonk St. Mary, Mansfield S1. John the Evangelist, Attleboro S1. Mark, Attleboro Falls S1. Mary, Seekonk

$ 67,358.00 39,082.00 32,358.00 30,935.00 25,080.00

Cape Cod S1. Pius Tenth, South Yarmouth .Our Lady of Victory, Centerville Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster Christ the King, Mashpee Corpus Christi, East Sandwich

$ 103,096.73 59,804.00 56,284.50 52,859.00 52,827.50

Fall River Area Holy Name, Fall River St. Joseph, Fall River S1. John the Baptist, Westport S1. Louis de France, Swansea S1. Thomas More, Somerset

$ 38,442.00 23,745.00 22,020.00 21,382.00 20,735.00

New Bedford Area S1. Julie Billiart, North Dartmouth . Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New Bedford St. John Neumann, East Freetown S1. Patrick, Wareham Immaculate Conception, New Bedford

$ 38,702.00 38,397.00 32,963.00 32,647.00 30,213.00

Taunton Area St. Ann, Raynham Immaculate Conception, North Easton Annunciation of the Lord, Taunton S1. Anthony, Taunton Holy Family, East Taunton

$ 28,178.00 22,150.00 21,847.00 21,220.00 20,064.00

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in design and construction at Queen of All Saints Chapel in Mashpee; SS. Peter and Paul School in Fall River, which was remodeled into a house of worship and parish center as well; remodeling and renewal at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in New Bedford; and renovation of Bishop Stang Convent in North Dartmouth into an

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION NEW BEDFORD - Perpetual

eucharistic adoration is held at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street. New adorers are welcome. For more information call Laurie Larsen-Silva at 508-8887751.

HEALING MASSES ATTLEBORO - A Hispanic healing service will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette.

For more information call 508222-5410.

BREWSTER- Mass will be celebrated Sunday at 2 p.m. at Our Lady of the Cape Parish. A healing service, led by La Salette Father Richard Lavoie will follow.

Refreshments and fellowship will follow in the parish center. A healing service will also be held June 7 at 7 p.m. in the parish. For more information call 508-398-2465.

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS BREWSTER - The Lazarus

Ministry Group of Our Lady of the Cape Parish will conduct the bereavement program, "Come Walk With Me," tonight from 78:30 p.m. in the parish center. For more information call Happy Whitman at 508-385-3252.

FALL RIVER - The Fall River Area Men's First Friday Club will meet tonight at 6 p.m. at Good Shepherd Parish, 1598 South Main Street. Mass will be celebrated by Father Freddie Babiczuk and a meal will follow.

Sister Martha Escabarfrom Saint Anne's Hospital will be guest speaker. For more information call 508-672-8174.

MISCELLANEOUS ATTLEBORO - A Mass and procession in honor of the Holy Spirit will be held June 11 at 10 a.m. at Holy Ghost Church, 71 Linden Street. Traditional free sopaswill be served in the church hall following Mass. A procession will begin from 41 Chestnut Street.

FALL RIVER - The Catholic television program "Good News For Life," sponsored by the Communications Department of the diocese, will present Part 35 of the Christian's Ask series "What are the Rights of a Family," June 7 at 9:30 p.m. on the Portuguese channel.

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office complex and retreat house, to name just a few.

While these are landmarks in his priesthood, he has not allowed his own unique talents to lapse.

He studied piano for 10 years, including four years as a private student at Boston University College of Music under Margaret Starr McClaine. He continues to study the harp under the direction of

Cynthia Gordon O'Neill.

Msgr. Tosti composed "A Mass in Honor ofChrist the King" in 1989, which is still being performed. In 1993 he published a cassette of piano and harp music, and he continues as a patron of the Cape SymFALL RIVER - Chorbishop thony of the Desert Parish and phony and The College Light Opera Company. An art lover, he also is a Norman J. Ferris, 78, retired became its pastor in 1975. At member of the Boston Museum of pastor of St. Anthony of the that time Father Ferris was Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Mu- Desert Parish, and a leader in the incardinated into the Diocese of seum of Art in New York.

Maronite Rite of the Catholic St. Maron-USA. In 1998, he was knighted, as a Church, died May 26 in Saint In 1981 he was named a chapmember of the Equestrian Order of Anne's Hospital. lain to His Holiness Pope John the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

Born in Fall River and the Paul II and in 1996 was made a He is also talented in needle- youngest of four brothers and Prelate of Honor, with the rank point, having created a major tap- sisters, he was the son of the late of monsignor estry, two complete chairs and a John and Rose (Kassab) Ferris.

Msgr. Ferris was ordained a large number of pillows and After attending the James M. chorbishop on Nov. 3, 2002, for cial Services seeks Portuguese- framed pieces.

Aldrich Elementary School, the Eparchy of St. Maron of speaking volunteers to work with As an antiques collector, he has Davis Grammar School, B.M.C. Brooklyn. elders in a group setting once a special interest in Rose Medallion During his Durfee High week from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at a Canton China. tenure as pasSchool and the local parish. For more informaAs world traveler, his journeys tor, he also tion call Juraci Capataz at 508- have taken him to China, Egypt, former Msgr.

674-4681. served as spiriGreece and Israel, as well as the Prevost High tual advisor span ofthe United States. He par- School, all in NORTH EASTON - Holy ticularly enjoys leading groups to Fall River, he and seafaring Cross Family Ministries invites all companion to went on to diverse locations. to join in a celebration of the Euthe cadets of In April, he led a pilgrimage of graduate from charist to commemorate the 14th the MassachuSt. Charles Fall River diocesan laity as well anniversary of the death of its as clergy to the consistory in ' setts Maritime High School founder, Father Patrick Peyton, Rome, which witnessed Cardinal Academy in and College in CSC, and the 64th anniversary Buzzard's Bay, of Family Rosary. Gravesite ro- Sean P. O'Malley, OFM, arch- Catonville, and was a consary will be held at 4:30 p.m. June bishop of Boston, installed in the Md. in 1947.

3. Mass will be celebrated at 5:30 College of Cardinals. sultor and He then enThose who accompanied Msgr. tered p.m. at the St. Joseph Chapel. A Protopresbyter St. Tosti on that pilgrimage learned Mary's Major light reception will follow.

Region I to the fIrst hand of his fluency in Italian. Seminary in Diocese of St. SOCIAL EVENTS With flair he led the group on tours, Baltimore and Maron-USA POCASSET' - The St. into trattorias, and had Rome's and the Nareceived a CHORBISHOP John's Women's Guild will hold zany motorists and cyclists quickly bachelor of tional its annual Spring Rummage responding to his colorful deNORMAN J. FERRIS arts degree in Apostolate of Event June 16 from 6-8 p.m. mands.

Maronites Executive Board. philosophy in 1949, a bachelor's and June 17 from 8 a.m. to "Speaking Italian is one of the In 1990 he was named chairnoon at the parish hall, 841 loves of my life and I learned it as a degree in sacred theoiogy in Shore Road. For more informa- small child at my maternal 1951, completed theological man of Our Lady of Lebanon tion call Pat Saniuk at 508-563- grandmother's knee," Father Tosti studies and was ordained a priest Episcopal Chapel Project in 9282. related. "She moved in with us for the Fall River diocese on Brooklyn, N.Y. Chorbishop Ferris was also when I was three years old, and she May 23,1953 by the late Bishop WEST HARWICH - A charJames L. Connolly. spiritual director to the Order of no English.

I learned Italian spoke .ismatic prayer group reunion and His first assignments were as St. Sharbel; a member of the Pentecost celebration will be held even as I learned English, without parochial vicar at St. Joseph's Presbyteral Council and College June 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Holy Trin- knowing it. I thought everybody and St. Mary's parishes in of Consultors with the Eparchy gift." was bilingual.

It's been a great ity Parish. All who have made a Msgr.

Tosti also admits he enTaunton.

He was also chaplain of St. Maron, and was assisting Life in the Spirit Seminar are welcome. Father William Rodrigues joys cooking, gardening, biking, at Morton Hospital, and for the chaplain at Saint Anne's Hospiwill be guest speaker. Refresh- boating and swimming.

Taunton Chapter of Catholic tal.

Above all, he enjoys his home Nurses; was director of St. ments will follow. For more inforHe leaves a brother, Horace mation call Alice Bahnsen at 508- in Cotuit, where he intends to re- Mary's High School and Gram- Ferris of Somerset; and many 398-1139. tire and spend most of his time. mar School, and was counselor nieces and nephews. He was at the fonner Coyle High School also the brother of the late and the fonner Bishop Cassidy Monsour Ferris, Ferris J. Ferris, High School.

Clara Pontes, Sadie Francis and In February 1970, .he was pa- Anna "Vicki" Catalan. rochial vicar at St. Margaret's His funeral Mass was celPlease pray for the following Parish in Buzzard's Bay, and the ebrated Wednesday with Bishop priests during the coming weeks Mission of St. Mary's in Onset. Gregory J. Monsour of the In August of that year, he be- Eparchy of St. Maron of BrookJune 6 came parochial vicar at Immacu- lyn as principal celebrant. Burial 1993, Rev. Comelius 1. Keliher, Retired Pastor, St. Mary, North late Conception Parish in Fall was in St. Patrick's Cemetery. \\.

Attleboro River.

The Silva-Faria Funeral \.June 8 In October 1970 he was Home in Fall River was in 1961, Rev. John S. Czerworik1" Assistant, St. Stanislaus, Fall River named administrator"of St. An- charge of arrangements.

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