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EI Salvador enigma By NC News service When William A. Wilson, President Reagan's personal envoy to the Vatican, said recently that the Vatican supports U.S. government policy on El Salvador despite the opposition of the U.S. bishops to military aid, he raised questions on both sides of the Atlantic. The Vatican has expressed interest in Wilson's remarks, but so far has made no public comment on the issue. In Washington Bishop Thomas C. Kelly, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops-U.S. Conference, said June 26 the Vatican has never indicated disagreement with the U.S. bishops on EI Salvador or agreement with the U.S. position on military aid. The issue was raised when Wilson said in Rome that the Vatican supports the U.S. government's position on EI Salvador. His comments were made in an interview with NC News Service, which sent out the story June 25. On June 27 the Vatican Press Office, which is supervised by the papal Secretariat of State, indicated interest about Wilson's statement and asked to see the NC News article. The press office declined to comment immediately and indicated that the decision about whether there would be a public response to Wilson's remarks

READY FOR BALTIMORE are, from left, Jane Cook, David Laine, Mike Wilson, Carol Gorman, Maureen Ross, Jim Perry, Sister Peggy Fromm, Tom Gorman, Lisa Garceau.

Tazlnton teens make Bait jim ore Connection One of the liveliest teenage youth programs in the diocese is relocating itself in inner-city Baltimore this summer. Seven young people from Sacred Heart parish, Taunton, left yesterday for a five-week stint of service in St. Peter the Apostle parish, Baltimore. Led by Sister Peggy Fromm, SUSC, for six years Sacred Hearts director of religious education, and Jim Perry, a parish CCD teache'r and Bridgewater State College: facuIty member, the teens will offer tutoring, arts and crafts, games, field trips and religious E:ducation to youngsters. They will also visit the sick of thEl par-

.ish and work with retarded adults. The project, dubbed the Baltimore Connection, got off the ground in March, when Sister Peggy wrote to 29 pastors and others involved in service to the poor, offering them the services of her group to run a summer program. After outlining her background and extensive ministry experience, she noted: "One observation 1 have made over the years is that youth today need more experience of the joy of being for others. 1 see the providing of opportunities for service to others as one of my re-

sponsibilities. I believe that if we expect youth to give a lifetime of Christian service, . . . then it is a must that we help them to get in touch with their call to be our brother's keeper. "I am not concerned whether the community we serve is Catholic or not and 1 am open to other needs besides recreational and educational. My major concern is that there be a real need to fulfill," she wrote. The Holy Union Sister noted that her group would need nothing but a place to live and some donations of food. "Not all of us have to have beds (cots and Turn to Page Ten

would be made at higher levels. Wilson, 66, a Los Angeles businessman who has held unpaid envoy position since February, said he had recently re路 ported to Vatican officials on the current United States role in El Salvador. "They appeared to receive the report well and to approve of the actions taken by the U.S. government," said Wilson. He declined to reveal details of the report or the names of the Vatican off~ial with whom he had spoken. Wilson said he was aware of the U.S. bishops' public opposition to arms shipments to EI Salvador's civilian-military government and that his report had been requested by the Vatican in light of the U.S. bishops' stand. After Wilson made his comments Bishop Kelly of the NCCB said: "It is difficult to know what significance to attach to reactions attributed to unnamed officials responding to a report which has not been made public." Opposition to U.S. military aid to EI Salvador is not confined to Catholic leaders nor to the United States. The National Council of Churches, representing Protestant and Orthodox denominations, launched a cam路 paign against military aid to EI Salvador shortly after Archbishop Romero's death. The Canadian Turn to Page Three

Philippines ~puzzle The cardinal's criticisms were BAGUTO, Philippines fNC) Filipino President Ferdinand contained in a speech prepared Marcos is mounting a "delib- for a meeting of the Filipino ate, finely orchestrated cam- . Catholic bishops in Baguio, 125 paign" to stifle religious free- miles north of the capital of dom, according to Cardinal Manila. The speech was read for Jaime Sin of Manila, Philippines. the cardinal who was recupera路 The cardinal asked Filipino ting from surgery in a Manila bishops to protest against the hospital. Cardinal Sin said a series of campaign and said that government attempts to discredit him newspaper articles attacking were similar to the tactics used him were based mostly on press by the Nazis at they rose to releases from the president's power in Germany. office. The articles accused the "And one of the continuing cardinal of "political agitation" reproaches against the church for issuing a statement prior to was that the German bishops, the presidential election June except for two, chose路 to keep 16 saying it was not immoral silent," Cardinal Sin said. "You to refuse to vote. all know what happened." The statement came after Mar"Considering the frontal at- cos, who was faced with the tacks that have been levelled threat of an election boycott against the church and against campaign by some opposition certain church leaders, consider- groups, said that Pope Pius XII ing the distortions and the false- had said it is immoral not to hoods that are being spread,- can vote. The cardinal's statement we still say there is freedom of said Pope Pius had been quoted religion in our beloved country?" out of context and Filipinos he asked. Turn to Page Seven

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WEST PATERSON, N.J. (NC)-Melkite-Rite Patriarch Maximos U Hakim of Antioch has asked American Christians to "become more aware of the plight of their fellow Christians in the Holy Land and to do something about it." Interviewed during a pastoral visit to West Paterson, the patriarch said that in the past decade about half the Christians of Jerusalem and its surrounding villages in Israel - 10,000 people in all - have gone to other countries. In the United States, three new parishes have had to be formed in Yonkers, N.Y., Chicago and Anaheim, Calif., for them, he said. He attributed the exodus to the "second class status" Arab Christians have in Israel.

BALTIMORE (NC}-1Monday evening has been designated "family night" by Archbishop William 路Borders of Baltimore, who has asked archdiocesan organizations not to hold activities on that night. Citing the example of the Mormon Church, the archbishop urged that Monday be set aside as "a time of family gathering for prayer and for reflection." He cautioned against making it "merely another evening to gather around the television set." Archbishop Borders said he hopes the practice will be implemented by January 1982. The recommendation came in a pastoral on family life. .

OAKLAND, Calif. (NC)-A bishop from Taiwan said he believes pastoral concerns more than political considerations led to Pope John Paul II's recent appointment of a new archbishop in China, the first such appointment since 1955. Bishop Joseph Ti-Kang of Chiayi, Taiwan, told the Catholic Voice, newspaper of the Diocese of Oakland, that the influence of the National Association of Patriotic Catholics in China is "exaggerated beyond proportion" by the media. The bishop was interviewed while visiting the Oakland area. On June 6 the Vatican announced the appointment of Bishop Dominic Tang Yee-Ming as archbishop of Guangzhou (Canton), China.

WASHINGTON (NC)-Stressing the principle that government should treat religion with "benevolent neutrality," the U.S. Catholic Conference has urged the Supreme Court to strike down a University of Missouri regulation prohibiting the use of campus facilities for extracurricular religious activities. The USCC, in a friend-ofthe-court brief, said the university's regulation amounts to a policy of "hostility to religion" in violation of the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. '"Neither the letter nor spirit of the First Amendment requires exclusion of self-directed religious activity by student groups from the campus," argued the usee, public policy arm of the U.S. bishops. The University of Missouri regulation denying campus facilities for religious activities was challenged in court by an evangelical Christian student group which soug.ht space for meetings to attract the "uncommitted" to Jesus Christ.

WASHINGTON (NC)-The Catholic press and other religious and non-profit publishers could be saved from at least part of a crippling postal rate increase by a house Post Office and Civil Service Committee decision. The committee, forced to decide how to divide up the budget forced upon it by the Reagan administration's economic recovery plan, decide to juggle the cuts so that their impact would fall less heavily on non-profit publishers mailing second class material outside the county of origin. But to do that, the committee had to withdraw funds from other programs under its jurisdiction, including forcing non-profit organizations using third class bulk ll"ates to pay even higher postage costs.

THE STONEHILL COLLEGE, North Easton, is a favorite convention site. Top, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin greets delegates to the 16th annual northeast regional conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul; and center, assisted by Msgr. John J. Oliveira, celebrates Mass at the fourth annual conference of the New England Catholic Council on Social Ministry. At right is Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of social services and retiring council president. The meetings were held concurrently last month. Bottom, diocesan welcoming committee members prepare for "Water and Word," a convocation of religious educators to be held Aug. 21 through 23 at Stonehill. From left, Sister Luz Carden, OP, Mrs. Evelyn Boucher, Sister Frances Sidebottom, SSJ, Sister Annette Desmaris, OP. (Baptista Photos)

SEATTLE (NC)-Denouncing the nuclear arms race, Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen of Sea,ttle has called for unilateral disarmament, suggesting that Christians refuse to pay 50 percent of their federal income taxes as non-violent resistance "to nuclear murder and suicide." Archbishop Hunthausen told delegates a Lutheran synod "to render to a nuclear arms Caesar what that Caesar deserves-tax resistance. Archbishop Hunthauseh also intensified his opposition to the Trident nuclear submarine base in Puget Sound, saying that people of the area must take special responsibility for wha't is in their own backyard and speak plainly when crimes are being prepared in their name.

WASHINGTON (NC)-Before Congress votes on President Reagan's proposals for block grants to the states it should fully discuss the "social realities" of the issue, according to the U.S. Catholic Conference. In a letter sent to each member of Congress, the usce did not oppose the block grant concept in principle. But it said lawmakers should review the impact on such programs as health care, emergency aid and social services for people in need before Congress accepts without modification the administration's proposals. "Allowing for the fact that changes may be necessary in the allocation of some government services in the social area, I am urgi.ng . . . time and oppoIitunity for a full discussion of these subjects before a final vote is taken," wrote Msgr. Francis J. Lally, USOC secretary for social developement and world peace. .

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FALL RIVER, MASS. PRIESTS' COUNCIL members meet with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. From left, Fathers Joseph M. Costa, James McLellan, the bishop, Timothy Goldrick, Stephen Fernandes, John J. Oliveira, Edmund Fitzgerald.

Nobel ,rinners issue hunger manifesto By NC News A "manifesto against hunger and underdevelopment" issued by 53 Nobel Prize wir..ners appeals to men and women of good will "to bring bac:k to life the millions who, as victims of the political and economic upheavals of the world today, are suffering from hunger and privation." At the yatican, the manifesto appeared on page one of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily, and was given exten'sive coverage by Vatican Radio. In a single year, "more people suffer (from medica.! and nu-

BISHOP LAWRENCE GRAZIANO, OFM, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., will preside at a 2 p.m. Mass Sunday at La Salette Shrine, Attleboro. The celebration will be part of an annual Italian pilgrimage to the shrine. Prayer, song and fraternal companionship will feature the program and Italian foods will be available. The pilgrimage is. one of a series annually participated in by French, Haitian, Vietnamese, Polish, Portuguese and other national groups.

tritional problems) than all who died in the holocausts of the first half of the century," said the manifesto. It called the situation "beyond tolerance, beyond conscience." This means that in one day, between 50,000 and 80,000 people die, not as victims of war or revolution, but "of sheer physical deprivation and disease," said Bradford Morse, director of the U,N. Development

ROME (NC)-After six days of almost total privacy and rest Pope John Paul :n began receiving visitors again last Saturday at Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic. On Sunday he taped an eight-minute message commenting on his illness and calling for peace in Lebanon. A bulletin on the pope's health and signed by nine Italian physicians described his condition as "satisfactory" and said his body was building up natural defenses to the cytomegalovirus infection which returned him to the hospital. Dr. Emilio Tresalti, chief medical officer at the Gemelli Polyclinic, said the virus generally has a life span of three to six weeks. He did not say when Pope John Paul might leave the hospital.

EI Salvador Continued from page one Catholic bishops also have protested U.S. military ties with El Salvador. This prompted disagreement in Canada regarding whether the Vatican agrees with the Canadian churchmen on El Salvador policy. Earlier this year, Canada's External Affairs Minister Mark MacGuigan said in the Canadian House of Commons that "The Canadian churches tell us one thing. The Vatican specifically repudiates what the Canadian Catholic Church tells us" about El Salvador. The minister's claim was denied by the Canadian bishops.

Program, an agency promoting development projects in the Third World. The Nobel Prize winners said that what is needed is a new political will, a determination to deal with the causes of the situation. People who hold political and economic power bear the greatest responsibility to improve the situation, said the manifesto. but others can act as well. The weak need not resign themselves to helplessness, the Nobel winners said. They "can cooperate with one another in the use of whatever weapons they have in the small but permanent armory of political democracy." the signers said: Among the signers were Norman Borlaug. peace prize winner, 1970; Sean McBride, peace, 1974; Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, peace, 1976; Adolpho Perez Esquivel, peace. 1980; Samuel Beckett, literature, 1969; Patrick White, literature, 1973; Heinrich Boll, literature, 1972; Czweslaw Mislosz, literature, 1980; Gunnar Myrdal, economic science, 1974.

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America, a Renewed Hope If you should ask a casual stroller what the Fourth of July is all about, you could be quite sure that the answer would run the gamut from fireworks to mill holidays. Few would give history's answer, that it commemorates the day on which the nation first celebrated its independence. However, there is a growing realization on this Fourth of July that this nation is once more in the process of declaring to the world that it is indeed independent. .The background of this renewed patriotism cannot be swept aside. During the gray days of post-Vietnam depression, most Americans hung their heads in shame. It was almost un-American to be patriotic. Popular hysteria brought mobs into the street to burn the flag. Heroes were denounced and finks were acclaimed. Amid this national turmoil, the instigators of our drug culture spewed forth the hippies and yippies. Do-gooders sought causes and if they could not find one to their fancy, invented their own. All, of course, in the name of freedom. Those were indeed dark days for this country. O~r self-image needed intensive care. Our international image fell to an alltime low. America began to fall behind in everything. In 1976 a renewed spirit of independence took root amid the bicentennial celebrations. Americans by the million began once more to feel good about themselves and this country. Despite the hurt of the· recent past, a bit of pride began to show through the discord and dismay. People once more realized that this young nation had something going for it. A glimmer of pride could be detected in the eyes of those who celebrated that wonderful Fourth. Since that time, only five years ago, the self-image of America has indeed begun to change. Attitudes, politics and ideals have once more emphasized the worth of America. People are lifting their heads, looking around and seeing that this country is worth helping. Hope springs once more. One of the main reasons for this renewal of promise is to be found precisely in a renewal of independence. For years this country reacted to every threat, intimidation and intervention. Seemingly,. every country in the world was trying to blackmail America by outcries and demonstrations. At that time they knew that, in the spirit of "The Mouse that Roared," this country would only react, not act. (Iran is a perfect example.) • Today this has changed. America is no longer afraid to declare its independence. Russia can no longer bUlly Uncle Sam. Foreign policy is no longer formed from the foundation of a backlash mentality. Leaders are letting the world know ~hat there are Americans who truly care about their nation. To be sure, there are many problems that we as a people must solve. The economy, crime and energy are but a few of the areas in need of immediate attention. The moral pollution that hangs over the land like an insidious mushroom cloud should also be of prime concern to all who care about liberty and deplore license. Yet the spirit of independence should never allow America to forget its dependence on God. Amid the pagans of our time, this indeed could easily be the case. The good life has for most Americans replaced the God life. But if "In God We Trust" is to remain a living motto, then it would be well if on our holiday of independence and hope we also renew our faith.

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Marriage and families By Father Kevin J. Harrington Marriage as a sacrament is poorly understood by many CatholiCS. It is· too often seen as a private decision between a man and a woman, with its sacramental aspect alluded to on the wedding day and soon forgotten. This problem is aggravated by the fact that frequently a young couple is more concerned with getting a convenient date and time for their ceremony than with receiving counsel and instructions from their parish priests. Such. situations can be somewhat alleviated if marriage preparations are made well in advance. Hopefully, diocesan guidelines will be forthcoming that will assure that this will indeed become the rule, not the exception. For better or worse, the family has been the basic school for marriage. But deterioration in the stability of marriage is occurring at a time when our public schools are attempting sex education in a "value-free" atmosphere. The extent of this deterioration can be highlighted by the alltoo-familiar statistics. Almost 40% of marriages in the United States and Canada now end in divorce. The toll this takes upon spouses and children cannot be fully calculated. Emotional scars inflicted may take years to heal. Such situations often make today's family less than the ideal situation in which to learn about marriage.

However, the very basis of our religious faith is in the family. The experiences of belonging, trust, forgiveness, reconciliation, gratitude and comfort are uniquely fostered in the family context. Without positive experiences in these areas, it is very difficult to develop mature spirituality. It is not surprising that a recent study. of married couples conducted by the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago found a positive correlation between a highly satisfying love life and a couple's love of God. The church should educate young people before marriage becomes their primary concern. Unfortunately, however, one of the best times for such preparation is during the high school years,immediately following confirmation, when young people are least likely to be interested. Parents, nevertheless can encourage their parishes to provide programs and can urge their youngsters to participate in them. And perhaps school systems should be asked to release student from thoe value-free sex education classes in order to attend church-sponsored sessions. The reason is that sex education cannot be properly imparted in a value-free atmosphere. Sex is not just another recreational activity but something both sacred and sublime, both symbol and sacrament. Abuse of our sexual powers is an affront

against God because sex is a symbol of divine love, mirroring the love which exists among the persons of the Blessed Trinity. When the recreational side of of sexuality is emphasized to the detriment 0 fits procreational aspect, society suffers an bcalcuable loss. His Holiness Pope John Paul II has stressed that only through a proper understanding of the sacredness of marriage can family life be strengthened. Since so many families are illequipped to train their children for responsible matrimony, the extended parish family must take a more active role in educating youth in this vital area.

{necrology] July 3 Rev. Thomas P. Doherty, 1942, Pastor, S1. Kilian, New Bedford July 4 Rev. James A. Coyle, S.T.L., 1955, Pastor,Holy Name, Fall River July 5 Rev. J. F. LaBonte, 1943, Pastor, Sacred Heart, New Bedford July 6 Rev. Edmund Francis, SS.CC., 1963, Pastor, St. Mary, Fairhaven July 7 Rev. James E. Lynch, 1965, First Pastor, St. Joan of Arc, Orleans July 8 Rev. Edward J. Murphy, 1887, Pastor, St. Mary, Fall River

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Teens and solitude One of the most talkedabout recent TV programs among women was a Phil Donahue show about mothers who got fed up with being Super Moms and did something drastic about it. One got herself a nearby apartment. Another fashioned herself a home-within~ her-home for privacy. As extreme as these solutions appear, a lot of womE!n recognized themselves in thE!Se women's need for both support and solitude. That need can become more pronounced during summer months because M ,a general attitude that mom is responsible for seeing that everyone is busy and happy, or when children grow into teens and the question of time use comes into play. Parents worry when teens spend too much time alone or don't spend any time alone. Should we allow them to loaf or keep busy? How moody is too moody? Where is the balance? A new study may help. Two psychologists at the University of Chicago reported in the Journal of Current Aolesclmt Medicine on a study conducted among 75 student volunteers f:rom Chicago high schools. ThesE! students ..:arried bCcjJers for a full week. Randomly they were buzzed

and asked what they were doing, alone or with others, what mood they were in, and so on. Lengthy individual interviews took place at the end of the week. Researchers found: - that high schoolers averaged 26% of their waking hours in solitude, 75% of this in their homes; - that they preferred friends to family; - that they chose the amount of time they w:ished to spend alone; - that intelligence test scores were slightiy higher among those who spent the most time alone; - that the amount of solitude wasn't affected by a room of one's own, a steady boy or girlfriend, or achievement in sports but it was affected by a job; -:- that during solitude adolescents enjoyed heightened attention spans and powers of concentration; - that they were less selfconscious in solitude and that after being by themselves, they returned to family or friends more alert, stronger, and cheerful. That last point is crucial to family summers. The research indicates that there may be something in the behavorial makeup of adolescents that

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drives them to solitude when they need it. After a period of aloneness, they can face others with more vitality. If this is true, then we should encourage them to take recesses of solitude during the day. Instead of reacting defensively to their mood changes with, "What did I say?" we should consider giving them an excuse to be by themselves for awhile. Keeping teens busy may not be as important in the summer as promoting a balance of personal and public time, using 26% as some sort of average. If they have a full day's job, then they'll need solitude during their off hours, not us. Ultimately, they need what those women needed - time away from us. It doesn't mean they love us less if they want to go out with the gang instead of us or that we love them less if we want time alone. It (does mean, though, that time away from us is important to their mental health .. . and ours.

"Can there be a genuinely would she get the funds to erect democratic society," Bar- a hospital in this impoverished FATHER bara Ward once asked, "un- area? She remembered that her JOHN B. less the rights of the weak, friend, former New York Mayor SHEERIN, CSP the unhappy and the unsuccessful are as cherished as those of the able and the confident," Her answer to her own query was sharp, lucid and forthright: "The need to change, to reform, to expand, to improve western society, is absolute and inescapable." Barbara Ward was one of the greatest Catholic figures of our time. Her death May :n in England was an irreparable loss to Catholic life and to ull literate persons aware of her compassion, intelligence and common sense. She was one of the most influential women in our time. Not only England but America will miss her presence. An unforgettable i:ncident in her life was described in a January, 1950, Catholic w':lrld magazine article by Sighle Kennedy: "Barbara Ward Speaks to One World." On one of her frequent trips to Italy following World War II, Miss Ward heard for the first time of the Francisc:m mystic, Padre Pio. She visited him in Foggia, the poorest province of Italy, admiring his impish sense of humor and also his dedicated work for the poor. Much of Foggia had been destroyed in World War II. Very soon Miss Ward made up her mind to finance a badly needed hospital there. So the extraordinary economist decided to make one hemisphere of her world help another. But where

Fiorello Laguardia, had after the war become director of the U.N. Rehabilitation and Relief Agency. She knew he already had raised $450 million to help the economic recovery of Italy and that some relief money remained. She thought these funds could not be put to better use than in the construction of a hospital in the tiny village of San Giovanni Rotonde. To make a long story short, in a few months $1 million had been allotted for the hospital, which was constructed next to the monastery. Padre Pio's dream came true because of the persuasiveness and hard work of Miss Ward. One observer describing Miss Ward said she was "classically beautiful, outstandingly brilliant, with the charm of well-mannered gaiety." In addition, her personal popularity was very great. As a young woman, before graduating from Oxford University in Britain, she barnstormed the country, lecturing on economics and social problems. Described as one of the world's best speakers, she dedicated herself to the task of "working hard against the current of a world that has lost the sense of the supernatural." She insisted that democracy cannot realize its full potential without Christianity: "The mania of explaining religion away, which is one of the capital man-

ias of the last hundred years, has simply done violence to reality - the reality of men." Time magazine summed up her career in the caption "Whiz Kid." She was far more than that. Her greatest ambition during her college days was to become an opera star but she eventually shone in a different arena. Ultimately Catholicism became a mainspring of her activities.

Correction In last week's Anchor an article on a program for young couples sponsored by the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry stated that group leaders had to be deacon couples. This is incorrect. Any couple active in parish affairs and married at least 15 years is eligible for consideration as a leader couple. Those interested may contact the Family Ministry office at 999-6420. THE ANCHOR (USPS路545路020) Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02722 by the Catholic Press of the Oiocesp of Fall River. Subscription price by mall, postpaid $6.00 per year. Postmasters send address ;hanges to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fill River, MA 02722

France bears watching The most intriguing thing about the French election, apart from the outcome, is the way it is being received. The winner, Francois Mitter-路 rand, did not smile. He never does. He appears almost irritated in victory. He is, it seems, highly irascible, which is, of course, quite all right with the French, and may indeed be one of the reasons they voted for him. A number of them, on reading the returns, stormed the borders, fleeing with unallowably large sums of money from the Socialist tumbrils. The French stock market had a nervous collapse and the franc fell. Presumably, the fugitives included some who marked their ballots for Mitterrand for the perverse pleasure of guillotining general expectations that France would go right. The French Communists are ecstatic. They danced in Place de la Bastille. The Russian Communists, however, were extremely put out. Instead of hailing a brother leftist, Brezhnev had endorsed the haughty Gaullist Valery Giscard d'Estaing, whom he finds infinitely more sympathetique. Across the Channel, England's Tory leader, Margaret Thatche,r, is reported unexpectedly philosophical about the fall of a conservative neighbor. She could not stand Giscard, who, it is said, forced her at international gatherings to speak her execrable schoolgirl French, although he is flawlessly fluent in English. At the Reagan White House, where the president had been poised at his writing table to dash off felicitations to France for holding to a commendable middle course and furthering his contention that all's right with the world, consternation set in as thunder from the left was heard. Reagan, at length composed a message which was, under the circumstances, a miracle of tact. To the man who will start a revolution that is the exact reverse of his, Reagan wrot~ "Only those who have devoted the hard work and years-long dedication to winning the presidency can fully appreciate what today's reaffirmation of the democratic process in France represents." There is one important difference between these two politicians who hung in after repeated defeats: Reagan, once he abandoned the Democratic Party, became the most doctrinaire of conservative Republicans. Mitterrand, on the other hand, is a Jean-come-lately to socialism, having joined the party only 10 years ago, when it was at its

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lowest point in modern history. He is a brooding, introverted intellectual with a mania for government and a talent for cryptic public utterance that is likely to drive the plain-spoken, hard-driving hawks of the Reagan administration up the wall, despite their brave protests that he is more anti-Soviet and proNATO than Giscard. Mitterand is almost totally undecipherable on the subject of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, a question on which we labor to build a consensus. Mitterrand is, he says, "against" their deployment, and would like to have them removed if the Soviets will remove their S8-20 missiles. But if the Soviets do not acquiesce - and there seems little likelihood that they will - Mitterrand does not say what he would do. "If the U.S. stations Pershing 2 missiles in Europe, the world balance of forces will tilt in favor of Washington," he declared opaquely during his campaign.

A State Department spokesman said, "In power, he will have to go to the logic of his position." The nervous people at the White House tell themselves that the election will mean more to France's economy than a Western foreign policy. They are glad that Mitterrrand joins them in demanding Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and that he condemns U.S. aid to "Central American dictatorships," meaning El Salvador. Apparently the notoriously individualistic French are, paradoxically, anxious to have the government on their backs. Mitterrand will oblige. He's going to increase the national budget by creating 410,000 new public jobs. Unlike Reagan, he is going to raise taxes for Ute rich and lower them for the poor. He is also going to increase the minimum wage and nationalize the banks and firms dealing in aircraft, chemicals, oil and computers.. The line in the administration is that it wasn't socialism that won but hauteur that lost. Giscard did not go in for fraternite, except, of course, with the loathsome Emperor Bokassa, from whom he accepted an undetermined number of diamonds: which became a campaign issue, France didn't win one for the Gipper, ideologically speaking, but she did hand us a stinging lesson in civics. Eighty-seven percent of the voters turned out, as against 54 percent here last November. Beyond that, nobody is sure what the new French Revolution means.

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When will they be truly free? By Father Donald' Bowen

The continuing prominence of Latin America in the world news over the past year should raise questions about our own sense of mission in that region of the . world. Some myths must be unspun and some hard facts be bared. But in the way are many mistruths and distortions generated by confusing press reports. These are more to be regretted because they look to legitimate their statements on high government sources who seek only to justify their suspect policies on grounds of our national interests which are alleged to be at stake. What is happening now in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, to mention only a few countries, is hardly new. Ten and 20 years ago similar events were taking shape in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Bolivia, farther south and farther from immediate North American interests. Like a slowly swelling tide the events have now arrived at our own back door, to the increased concern of the United States. So a new reporting strategy comes into fashion. A play is made on obsolete fears which conveniently blame all social unrest on communism. Popular resistance to the status quo that threatens to unglue things in Central or South America is categorized as the work of "terorism" or. "left-wing extremeists." Comfortable people up north are made to feel afraid and to look askance at such happenings. But what are the events, and what are the supposed threats to our national security? One first has to realize that for most of this century Latin America has been victimized by a neo-colonialism that conquered not through annexation of territories, but rather through programs by which control was gained over the economies, and therefore over the peoples in the poorer underdeveloped countries. The real tragedy of this is not always obvious on the surface nor to the eye of the tourist. Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo, Lima and La Paz are beautiful modern

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In Latin America cities in their downtown and suburban areas. One must go beyond those districts to the marginal neighborhoods where thousands, even millions, live in subhuman and inhuman poverty. A trip to the rural sectors reveals peasant farmers who barely survive in the face of malnutrition, with little or no education and often a complete lack of' basic health facilities. It must be asked, why all this? Why cases of wealth surrounded by vast expanses of incredible poverty? Here we find the second link in our story. The response ,traces a sordid history wherein great landlords and emerging business classes, supported by military regimes, have become partners with foreign investors in the neo-colonial process. Backed by large outside capital, these forces have controlled the political, social and economic realities of their countries in such a way that an average 10 percent of the population has 60 percent ownership of goods and wealth in most Latin countries. The other 90 percent of the population is only a subservient labor class keeping the machine functioning. Worse, the levers are carefully and deliberately operated so as to perpetuate that status. The poor are kept ignorant so they have little chance of ending the siege of oppression. Sometimes as high as 50 to 60 percent of the population can neither read nor write. This is the first fact of mission awareness in Latin America today. It speaks of a world so structured that the haves become richer while the have-nots become poorer. Now let us look at a second aspect essential to mission awareness in Latin America: the notions affecting our own understanding of the current unrest in Central and South America. It is common to hear that our

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Father Bowen has been a priest of the Fall River dioeese since 1964. He served in St. Patrick parish, Somerset; St. Mary's Norton and St. John the Evangelist, At,'tleboro, before joining the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle under a "le~d-lease" program of sharing priests from North American dioceses with mission areas of Latin America. 1II111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIilillli1II111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII If we look, we discover our threatened interests to be mainly those of government and corporate multinational investments managed by the Latin American ruling classes. Of course, military assistance must be provided in order to protect this profitable system from any threatening activities on the part of laborers, factory workers, miners and peasants who might begin to clamor for a just share in the country's economy. The equation finally factors out to one of oppression on the part of. U.S. investors in collusion with the Latin American rulers, both seeking to protect their common interests. A facade of security is purchased at the cost of heavyhanded repression together with unjust economic measures exacting a severe toll from the poor. In these conditions unrest becomes not only inevitable, but also just. One conclusion is inescapable.

If a great nation, in the name of freedom and democracy, supports governments and social classes which crush the poor with injustice and repression, what option is left open to those poor other than that of placing their hope in extreme solutions? The shortsightedness of much U.S. policy towards Latin America is tragic. First we misinterpret our own security, then misinterpret the threats against it. In a word, we continue putting our money on the wrong horse. The struggle in Latin America must be recognized for what it truly is - a struggle between oppressors and oppressed with the choice to be made between privilege for the few or freedom and dignity for all. Where Cuban or Soviet inroads have in fact been made, more often than not it has been a result of signs having been misread and wrong choices made. A case in point: loud lamenting was heard two years ago as Nicaragua was slipping into the Cuban orbit. But previously, when the situation there was bottoming out, it was Cuba which sent in doctors, teachers and rural technicians to help the people, while the United States had been instrumental in supplying arms to help the government. Once again bullets proved to be poor diplomacy. And amazingly the lesson seems to have gone unlearned as the same road is being taken in the case of El Salvador. When will the United States and its people learn that by supporting oppressive regimes in Latin America, we are blindly playing directly into the hands of genuine radical movements quick to take advantage of our mistake. We come finally to the deep fear that the same social change that threatens the stability imposed by powerful countries on the underdeveloped nations could endanger our own apparent security.

Liberation can be contagious. This is the real and deeper threat being felt in the United States, a threat of which few dare speak openly. Central and South America in truth are confronting us with a serious crisis of conscience which rightly challenges to the core the validity of our way of life. How long can we continue to justify a life style for ourselves that clearly makes us accomplices to the injustice and oppression affecting Latin America? Not only in headlines does the . challenge surface. It is more forceful yet in the bodies and cries of thousands in these other countries who are willing to die for freedom. Such a willingness can indeed be disturbing to North Americans who perhaps recognize that they themselves can no longer match that same willingness, and who realize that such an opposing force cannot be withstood forever. The tide is coming. These developments bring us face to face with a further and specifically Christian challenge. The Central and South American issues are at bottom neither pri~ marily political nor military. They are moral and their solutions depend on moral considerations. As Christians we cannot avoid in this matter a serious and profound review of our own values and priorities. Have we sided with the Gospel on behalf of social justice, liberation, and dignity for all? Or do we finil ourselves on the side of increased consumerpower, greater comfort and expanded wealth for ourselves ~t the expense of many others ~ho lack even basic necessities, in large part, because we are well off? The Latin American reality is what tells us why priests and nuns among others are being persecuted, jailed, tortured and assassinated in Central and South America. Being with the poor, they are with the Gospel and with Him who also clearly cast his lot with the poor, the oppressed and the outcasts. Let each reader now determine for himself or herself which side he or she will be on.

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Philippines Continued from pa.ge one should follow their ,conscience in deciding whether or not to participate in the boyc:ott. Marcos won the election easily with over 85 percent of the vote. The election committee said the boycott was a failure as 85 percent of the registered voters went to the polls. Another newspapE:r article said the Catholic Women's League had criticized Cardinal Sin. The league issued a denial which newspapers never published, the cardinal told the bishops. "There is only one conclusion I can reach. The state is making a mockery of the constitutional provision regarding freedom of religion," he said. "When I attempted to exercise that freedom, my words were distorted, my integrity assailed and my efforts to rectify a blatant falsehood . . . effectively suppressed," he said.

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Pilot editor ends nine-year tenure BOSTON (NC) - Msgr. John J. Grant, 59, ended his nine-year career as editor of The Pilot, newspaper of the Boston Archdiocese, yesterday. Father A. Paul White, executive editor of The Pilot, was appointed acting editor. "Msgr. Grant will be on academic leave and serve as coordinator of an oral history project for the archdiocesan archives," Cardinal Humberto Medeiros of Boston said in announcing the staff change. A native of Baston, Msgr. Grant has been with The Pilot for 30 years, since being named associate editor in November 1951. He has also been editor of the Boston Catholic Directory, a publication affiliated with The Pilot for 33 years. He is currently doing postgraduate studies at Harvard University. Father White, a native of Milton, Mass., was named associate editor and then executive editor of The Pilot in 1972.

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MARION, St. Rita, 113 Front St. (schedule effective: June 27-28Aug. 29-30): Sat. 5 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:15 a.m.; daily, 8:30 a.m.; confessions, Saturday, 4:305:00 p.m. MATTAPOISETT, St. Anthony, 22 Barstow St.: Sat. 4:30, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:30, 11:00 a.m., daily 8 a.m.; Confessions 3:30-4:20 p.m. NANTUCKET, Our Lady of the Isle, Federal St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m. Sun. 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 a.m., 7 p.m.; daily, 7 a.m. & 12:10 p.m. rosary before daily Masses; confessions, Sat. 4-4:45 p.m. SIASCONSET, Union Chapel: Sun. 8:45 a.m. during July and August. NORTH FALMOUTIl, St. Elizabeth Seton, 481 Quaker Rd.: Sat. 4, 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7:45, 9, 10:15, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:15-3:45, 4:45-5:15 p.m. OAK BLUFFS, Sacred Heart, Circuit Ave.: Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9:15, 10:30 a.m.; daily (Mon.Fri.) 7 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 5:15-5:45 p.m. ORLEANS, St. Joan of Are, Bridge St. (schedule effective June 20-21 through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:50 p.m.; Our Lady of Perpetual Help novena, at 8 a.m. Mass Wed. NORTH EASTHAM, Church of the Visitation (schedule effective June 20-21 through Labor Day): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 a.m.; daily Mass 9 a.m. Mon.-Wed.-Fri during July and Aug.; confessions, Sat. 6:30-6:50 p.m. OSTERVILLE, Our Lady of the Assumption, 76 Wianno Ave. (schedule effective June 27·28 through Aug. 29-30): Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; daily, 7, 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. SANTUIT, St. Jude Chapel, Rte. 28: Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30-4:00 p.m.

SANDWICH, Corpus Christi, 8 Jarves St.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m., 12 noon; daily 9 a.m. SAGAMORE, St. Theresa, Rte. 6: Sat. 6 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a.m. SOUTII YARMOUTIl, St. Pius X, 5 Barbara St.: Sat. 4, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 10:15, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 7, 9 a.m. BASS RWER, Our Lady of the Highway, Rte. 28: Sun. 8, 9:30, 11 a.m.; daily (Mon.-Fri.), 8 a.m. VINEYARD HAVEN, St. Augustine, Church and Franklin Sts.: Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 11 a.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 4-4:30 p.m., 6-6:30 p.m. WAREHAM, St. Patrick, 82 High St.: Sat. 4, 6 p.m.; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 8 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3-3:45, 7-7:30 p.m. WEST WAREHAM, St. Anthony, off Rte. 28 (schedule effective July and August): Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10 a.m.; confessions before each Mass. WELLFLEET, Our Lady of Lourdes, 56-58 Main St.: Sat. 4 and 5 p.m.; Sun. 8, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; daily, 9 a.m., confessions, before all Masses; Tues. 7:30 p.m.; charismatic prayer meeting; Holy day Aug. 14, 4:00 and 5:00 p.m.; Aug. 15,8,9, 10, 11 a.m. TRURO, Sacred Heart, Rte. 6A: Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 9:30 a.m.; confessions before Masses; Holy day, Aug. 14, 7 p.m.; Aug. 15, 9:30 a.m. NORTH TRURO, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pond Road: Sat. 4, 5 p.m.; Sun. 9, 10, 11 a.m.; confessions before Masses; Holy day, Aug. 14,4, 5 p.m.; Aug. 15, 9, 10, 11 a.m.; Air Force BaseMass Sat. and Vigil of Holy Day. 4:00 p.m.

MASHPEE, Queen of All Saints, New Seabury: Sat. 4:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m.; confessions, Sat. 3:30 to 4:00 p.m.

WEST HARWICH, Holy Trinity, Rte. 28 (schedule effective June 27-28): Sat. 5, 7 p.m.; Sun. 7:30, 9, 10:30, 12 noon; daily 9 a.m.; confessions, Sat." 3, 4:30 and 7:45 p.m.; Eve of 1st Friday, 3, 4:30 p.m.; First Friday, additional Mass at 11 a.m. and Benediction at 2 p.m.

POCASSET, St. John the Evangelist, 15 Virginia Road: Sat. 4, 5; Sun. 7:30, "8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11 :30 a.m., 5 p.m.; daily, 7:30 a.m.; except Thursday and Saturday; confessions, Sat. 3-3:45 p.m.

DENNISPORT, Our Lady of the Annunciation, Upper County Rd. (schedule effective Jully 4-5): Sat. 4:30 p.m..; Sun. 7, 8:30, 10, 11:30 a.m. Daily 7:30 (effective July 6) Confessions, Sat. 3-4 p.m.

PROVINCETOWN, St. Peter the Apostle, 11 Prince St.: Sat. 7 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9, 11 a.m., 5:30 p.m.;. daily, 7 a.m., confessions, Sat. 6:30-7:00 p.m. and by appointment.

WOODS HOLE, St. Jroseph: Schedule June 27-28, Sat. 5:30 p.m.; Sun. 7, 9:30, 11 a.m.. ; daily 8 a.m.; Confessions ~ hour before Sunday Masses.

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Baltimore Connection Continued from Page One sleeping bags could supplement), but it is very important that we live together and have a community experience of shared prayer, meals and fellowship," she explained. Of many responses received, Sister Peggy and her group chose St, Peter's, where they will live in a house vacated for the summer by the Marianist Fathers. Their coming has been eagerly awaited, she said, with the parish running several fundraisers to help meet their expenses. Sacred Heart contributed too" she added, donating proceeds of a bake sale and an SRO "Evening at the Pops" presented by a Youth Symphonic Band led by parishioner Bill Contreras. The young participants in the program are David Laine, 19, a student at Bristol Community College; Janet Cooke, 17, Maureen Ross, 16, and Mike Wilson, 16, all Coyle and Cassidy High School students; Lisa Garceau,

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they have, the better they will be when they have to make lifetime decisions and commitments." Sister Peggy What sort of person is willing to take on a project such as the Baltimore Connection;' Sister Peggy, 34, has been a Holy Union Sister for nearly 15 years. A native of Baltimore, although that had nothing to do with selection of the city as the program site, she was a tea:cher and directed various vocation programs before coming to Sacred Heart from the Taunton Catholic Middle School. In the parish she supervises some 40 CCD teachers who during the school year staff a fiveday-a-week program for children in grades one through 10. Additionally she directs a Sunday night program drawing an average 20 to 50 teens to such events as dances, suppers, guest lectures and skiing, mountain climbing and beach trips. Aiding with the teen program are the specially chosen and trained "peer ministers" who will be in Baltimore this summer. "They know the ministry is rugged and lots of work," reports Sister Peggy, "but they find companionship and community with each other and it means a lot to them." Quietly forceful, Sister Peggy has no discipline problc~ms with Sacred Heart youngsters. One of her theories is that "sometimes kids need a year off from regular CCD between grade school and starting our confirmation program." To that end she has also held an optional eighth grade program, meeting every two weeks for games, crafts, speakers and simple comradeship. The peer ministry members help with them, too, she said. Sister Peggy saYli her job takes almost seven days a week. But she adds, "It's my life. I'm very happy in it."

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'This is your parish' By Lenore Kelly

Hugh Michaud has witnessed many changes over the years at 8t. Mary Parish in Lincoln, Maine, a lumber town 65 miles from Canada. The 600-family parish covers 1,200 square miles in three sparsely populated Maine counties. It includes rttain churches 12 miles apart in Lrncoln and Winn, three smaller mission churches and a station where Mass is celebrated in a junior high school. According to Michaud, when Father Andre Houle and Roger Roy came to the parish, they began to say, "This is your parish." "After a while, it really made a dent on people's thinking," he said. Associate pastor Father Houle says the most difficult part was convincing parishioners that they could take much greater responsibility for the parish. Both priests credit the Cursillo movement' with motivating people at St. Mary's, bringing lapsed Catholics and converts into the parish. St. Mary's restructured its parish council in the mid-1970's, following a model recommended by the diocese. Its six com-

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missions deal with church life, worship and spirituality, education, social justice and peace, family life, and fjnance and administration. But when Father Roy arrived as pastor four years ago, the parish council was little more than lists of names. Diane Casey, chairwoman of the education commission, said "When Father Roy asked them to meet monthly, people wondered what they would talk about." Today the agenda is crowded when the 20member council meets. Members have worked to get across a message about taking responsibility for the parish. Recently, when they needed to expand a church bUilding, the council accepted the commission's recommendation to construct a. smaller one than proposed by the priests. "The priests gave us the responsibility and authority," says council chairman Michaud, "and we had to do what we thought was within our means financially. Even when you disagree with the priests, they're just super to work with." The church life commission is responsible for bringing people together socially - no easy task Turn to Page Thirteen

Parish and diocese By Neil Parent

Through his experiences as both a diocesan official and pastor of a parish, Father Ronald Amandolare has learned to appreciate the integral relationship between a diocese and its parishes. As director of religious education for the Paterson, N.J., diocese, Father Amandolare fre-' quentIy gathered representatives of parish priests, directors of religious education and catechists, to assist in formulating policy. He knew that diocesan religious education ministry could only

take root in parish communities. Now as a pastor, Father Amandolare implements some of the policies he helped shape as a member of the bishop's staff. For instance, as diocesan director he strongly encouraged parishes to stress adult enrichment. Now he must do that himself. One of his methods has been implementation of the catechumenate - the recently restored ancient .rite of initiating adults into the church. Unlike the days of private instruction, the catechumenate is public, directed to Turn to Page Thirteen

For children By Janaan Mantemaeh Paul and Silas came to the large city of Thessalonica in Greece. Today it is known as Salonika. They went to the local synagogue on the Sabbath where they held discussions for three weeks. Paul told the people that Jesus was the Messiah promised by God to set the Jews free. Those in the synagogue argued that Jesus could not be the Messiah because he was executed as a criminal. But Paul and Silas showed from the Jewish Bible itself that the Messiah was to die and then rise from death. They claimed that Jesus did rise and was alive. Some members of the synagogue were convinced. They accepted Jesus as their Lord and

savior and formed a Christian community. So did a number of Greeks who were not Jews but were interested in Judaism. Now they decided to become Turn to Page Thirteen

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The pastor of every parish By Father Philip J. Murnion

The bishop is the pastor of every parish. What we call bishops were, in the earliest days of the church, those responsible for a church region. As the church grew, however, bishops found they needed help to serve all the people. So they appointed others to care for parts of the region. The bishop remained pastor of the whole region, but was assisted by those who came to be called pastors In the early centuries a particle of the consecrated eucharis-

tic bread was taken from the bishop's Mass to the churches of his assistants. This particle was dropped into the cup to symbolize the unity of the bishop's Mass with every other Mass in his diocese. Even now at each Mass the priest breaks off a particle of the eucharistic bread to be placed in the chalice. While most Catholic life takes place in the parish context, the parish is not complete without its relationship to the diocese. Every parish shares the ministry of the bishop. This is further symbolized by the fact that the cathedral is the church of every

Catholic in the diocese, a church where baptisms and marriages and funerals can be celebrated, regardless of the parish to which a person belongs. The link of the parish and the diocese is expressed through the pastor in his role and increasingly through parish representation on the diocesan pastoral council. In the New Testament, the letters written to the members of the different local churches show how the church, from its beginning, struggled to respect the differences among churches while building up their unity.

The Gospel of Matthew By Father John Castelot The Gospel of Matthew, like St. Paul's letters, was written for a very real Christian community - you might call it a late first century parish. A community at the crossroads, it was suffering the pangs of transition of many parishes today. One reason to look at this Gospel now is that 1981 is the Year of Matthew, liturgically speaking. This means the gospel readings on most Sundays will be taken from the Gospel of Matthew. Biblical scholars have caused

us to revise, if not abandon, some long-held ideas about this Gospel. In the process, we have learned much and gained very rich, positive insights. To begin with, scholars now quite universally recognize that Matthew was not the first Gospel to be written, contrary to the long-accepted view reflected in the order of the Gospels in most New Testaments: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. There was a shaky basis for the traditional sequence, consisting of just one rather vague statement from the fragmentary writings of Papias, a bishop in

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Asia Minor, about the year 130. Papias tells is that "Matthew collected the 'logia' (presumably the sayings of the Lord) in the Hebrew dialect, which each one translated as best he could." Papias is the only one in all antiquity who seems to have known of this work,. which is rather surprising in itself. At any rate, subsequent writers repeated his testimony and it became the traditional view. If true, it would mean that the first Gospel was written in the first Christian language, Aramaic. The fact that our Gospel of Matthew is not a translation of anything, but a fresh and independent work in very good Greek, containing even wordpll!Ys impossible in Aramaic. However, the reaDy decisive event in the evolution of attitudes about Matthew was the recognition of what is now called the Priority of Mark. Careful study of the first three Gospels made it clear that the first Gospel was that of Mark, not Matthew. In fact, scholars believe the authors of Matthew and Luke depended heavily on Mark. Tum to Page Thirteen

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Dma das dificuldades que pode surgir ao cristao no anuncio do Evangelho que tern por rnissao fazer, ~ a mistura entre 0 plano de Deus e a sua realiza9aO pessoal. Porque a vida de cada um de nos se passa numa rela9ao constante corn as outras pessoas e corn as coisas, acontece que ~ segundo crit~rios dai tirados que procurarnos medir 0 valor da nossa existencia. Dai a dificuldade ern nos orientarmos por valores que nao se apoiam no que os sentidos humanos ou os costumes sociais aceitam. Dai tarnb~m a sensa9ao de inseguran9a e a consequente tenta9ao que nos pose assaltar. o que acontece a nivel individual manifesta-se corn piores consequencias ern plano de Igreja. Tamb~m a Igreja tern de dar urn testemunho de Cristo numa pobreza de meios humanos ou, ao menos, numa simplicidade que nao permita a confusao entre 0 reino de Deus e 0 reino do mundo. Se analisarmos a nossa mane ira de ser Igreja, verificarnos ern muitas coisas que 0 principal cuidado vai para tudo 0 que pode causar born efeito~ dar born resultado. ~ a esse born efeito que se ordenam os grandes edificios, as vestes sum} tuosas, as grandes cerimonias. E ~ tamb~m para se conseguir 0 born resultado que se mobilizam os grandes capitais, que se procuram as grandes influencias,qu€: se espreitam as boas oportunidades ou se evitam as graves questoes. Quantas vezes ern busca duma eficacia meramente humana nao se vaG mendigar as ajudas dos poderes terrenos, sem se dar conta que desse modo se es-· ta a arranjar uma rede mais ou menos fina por onde tera de ser coada a for9a da verdade evang~lica. Depois, ficamos angustiados ao notarmos que a maioria das pessoas abana a cabe9a ao ver a nos sa forma de anunciar 0 Evangelho. ~ normal que, quando Deus aparece de bra90 dado corn os poderes terrenos, a Deus se imput:em todas as injusti9as pratiacadas por esses poderes terrenos. A for9a do Evangelho nao precisa de se apoiar ou de se servir das estruturas humanas, antes pelo contrario, nessas alturas aparecera prostituida frente aos homens a que se destina. E esta mistura perigosa tanto acontece quando olhamos i condi9ao da Eessoa, temendo que a for9a de Deus nao seja suficiente, como quando tratamos os poderes terrenos, ec6nomicos, sociais ou politicos como se fossem as colunas que asseguram a realiza9ao do paIno de Deus. Durante s~culos de vida ern Igreja, muita coisa se foi amontando ern virtude de cedencia a esta tenta9ao de defender Deus e 0 Seu plano de salva9ao corn crit~rios terrenos. Por isso, hoje encontramos bons cr:Lstaos corn crises de f~ quando pressentem que a Igreja procura desligar-se de toda essa roupagem que a impede de ser ela propria.

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Parish and diocese Continued from page twelve the whole parish, with some parishioners taking on roles as welcomers, sponsors and catechists. Father Amandolare has discovered that the catechumenate is an excellent means of pursuing 'renewal in a parish. He has seen the rite help his parish achieve greater awareness and appreciation of itself as a community of faith. As a pastor, Father Amandolare looks to the diocese to provide direction and impetus for ministry. He frequently draws on diocesan resources to train catechists and develop his youth ministry program. At the same time, he feels that the diocese can and frequently does benefit from parIsh insights and experiences. For example, he has made presentations about the catechumenates to other parishes. Father Amandolare is pleased by such opportunities. He considers it an important responsibility of parishes to contribute their experiences to the building up of the diocesan community.. He notes an added reason for using the catechumenate to achieve the diocesan goals of adult enrichment and parish renewal. It brings the bishop" to the parish at the start of each catechumenate class to enroll the candidates. This visit emphasizes the bishops's role as chief pastor of each congrega-

For children Continued from page twelve Christians. Many prominent women also became Christians. Paul and Silas were happy but some Jewish leaders were very upset. They resented what Paul and Silas were doing. The hostile leaders went to the city square where many unemployed men were gathered with nothing to do. The Jewish leaders paid them to start a riot. The mob marched to the house of Jason, a Christian, where Paul and Silas often stayed. But Paul and Silas were not there so the mob attacked Jason and some other Christians. They dragged them to the town square where the magistrates had their court. "Paul and Silas have been creating a disturbance all over the place," they shouted. "Now they have come to our city. This man Jason has taken them into his home. These others are their friends, too. They call themselves Christians. They claim that instead of Caesar a fellow named Jesus is the real king." The town magistrates were at first confused. The whole town seemed to be drawn into the argument. Finally the magistrates felt they had heard the whole story. They released Jason and the others on bail. Paul and Silas had been hiding in the house of another Christian. The Christians in Thessalonica did not want them captured' or hurt. When night came, they led them out of the city.

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Continued from page twelve Further investigation revealed that Mark was not Matthew's only source. Apparently there was another collection of material about Jesus which scholars call the "Q" source, from the German word "quelle" (source). This, too, was utilized by Matthew and Luke. In addition, Matthew used traditional material which came to him through his own community. All these data lead to the conclusion that Matthew's Gospel appeared relatively late in the first century and was written with the help of several already existing sources.

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Your parish Continued from Page Twelve for this widely scattered parish. Occasionally, a St. Mary's prayer group will visit a mission church for a social event. The commission also keeps in touch with people through a newsletter. Each commission reviews its past year's objectives in the spring and develops new objectives and a plan of action for the coming year. In 1980 about 12 members of parish council commissions attended diocesan workshops. Besides gaining practical tips, they discussed problems and shared knowledge with people from other parishes."

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Is there such a thing as By Cecilia Belanger

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People search for real security as the ground continues to move under their feet. Is there such a thing and should we plan on it? We know what the scriptures tell us about the plans for tomorrow that might not find fruition. But what is security? And how do we get it? Is it money in the bank? Is it the loyalty of friends? Is it a wall filled with plaques and degrees? Is it being invited to the "right" places with the "right" people? Let us look at the Old Testament, at Abraham. In his day he might have been called "ilie man who has everything" so "what do we buy him for Christmas?" He had a' good father, a good wife. He had 'herbs and flocks and servants. He had security of sorts. But he answered the call of God to leave it all and take a long chance. God spoke to him one day and said, "Abraham, I have chosen you. Get thee out of thy country, .. rIO frrom thy kindred, and from thy father's ~ouse," So Abraham began alone that procession from the worship of sticks and stones and an empty, feel-good, do-nothing religion to

a covenant relationship with the God who made the world out of nothing. He had no idea that in his train would follow Moses the lawgiver, Isaiah the prophet, John the Baptist and Jesus of Galilee. He was just a pioneer of the faithful, who had only a dim intuition that the God· who made the world and who had cattle strewn on a thousand hills was the same God who numbers the hairs on our heads; who knows every sparrow that falls, who cares more about one lost sheep than about 99 safe in the fold. And Abraham is saying to us in this generation; "These things that we count on for security lP'e frail and dispensable. They are no real security," Inflation wipes,them out. One long illness destroys them. One big divorce settlement makes them look'like trash and litter. One tragic death in the family and their value diminishes. More than that, they don't come near satisfying the deepest hungers of the heart. Real security is deeper and more profound than the tangible. And it may be that those who "have everything" are restless because they have not reached that point of understanding. The alcoholism, the high rate

of hypertension, the aimlessness of so many Jives, the reason may be due to the fact that after people get "security" they are still frightened of the future and distrustful of their ability to cope with the unknown. The knowledge we need for real security lies beyond our own grasp. It is available only to those with the eyes of faith. Remember what Tennyson said: "Our little systems have their day; they have their day and cease to be, But thou, 0 Lord, art more than they. They are but broken likes of thee," Even though we do not know what the future holds, we do know who holds the' future. The first sign of real security in a person is when he or she accepts himself as God's creature and stops wishing to be somebody else, born somewhere else at another time with different parents and so forth, ad infinitum. Real security comes when we are willing to live out all the definitions that God has assigned to our lives, when we do not go around gazing at somebody else wishing to be that persdn. We shoUld say, like Paul, "I am what I am," "Seek ye first the Kingdom of

ROD STEWART'S past 'hits .prove that he knows more about lust than about love. Nonetheless, "Somebody Special" is a song that tries to make some positive points about the search for love. When we feel left out, we may feel lonely. Everyone experiences that feeling sometimes. It may be difficult to imagine that the guy who gets all the dates or the girl By Charlie Martin who seems successful in every endeavor may sometimes feel lonely. But loneliness is part of being human. SOMEBODY SPECIAL Sometimes loneliness may How can you say life's getting you down cause us to do things we really Get yourself out don't want to. Because we want Go along with the crowd to fit into a group, we may comYou're all dressed up got nOWhere to go promise our values and good You feel left out 'cause nobody showed judgment. Peer pressure at any (Listen babe) age can be a powerful pressure. And when you think you're the only one But it can be handled positively. Who can't find love in this world Often it is only after going Tell yourself th,ere's another one along with the group that we Who's waiting for you somewhere. realize how uncomfortable we Somebody special is thinking of you feel about what the group has Somebody special is dreaming of you done. But this can be a point of Somebody special is longing for you growth. Somebody special, ~ecial. We should accept responsibilMagazine dreams are easy stuff ity for our actions. If we blame But heaven knows they ain't good enough pressure, a group or whatever, Picture yourself from reel to reel for our own actions, we're disAnd get your hands on the driving wheel guising the truth. We make the When it's hard to satisfy decisions, no matter where the A simple, simple fantasy presure comes from. Somebody somewhere is on your side How strong is peer pressure Waiting for you crying. in today's world? How do you Maybe your heart's tormenting you react to it? Do you have ideas Why should it have any reason that might help readers of' this To wipe off that negativity column? If so, share them with Put on some positivity me and I'll try to share them And when you think you're the only one with other readers. Who can't find love in this world We can help each other beTell yourself there's another one . come our best selves, reflecting Who's waiting for you somewhere, somewhere. how special each of us truly is. Write to me c/o The Anchor, ung by Rod Stewart, written by Stewart, Harley, Chen, Grainger, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02720. Cregan, Savigar, (c) 1980 by Kiva Music, Inc., WB Musi~ Corp.

security? God and all things will be added unto you." This is the only way to go. There's no use drowning insecurity in alcohol, pot, or cocaine. As a child remembers hearing adults talk about "praying themselves through the depression and making it," Those old folks were right when they said that all they needed to do was hold

on to God's unfailing hand. They made it, with many mouths to feed, shoes and clothing to buy, medicine and all the rest. They are a good example of faith, dignity and hard work. They took jobs no one else wanted. They looked to Jesus and they found in Him their star and their sun. Their help ,came from God.

• Attitude ma}(.es wmners BOISE, Idaho (NC) - A man born without hands or feet, whose mother fled Nazi Germany to save his life at the time Hitler was engineering' a "master race," told students at Bishop Kelly High School in Boise that attitude counts in making a winner or loser. Pete Strudwick has completed more than 40 marathons and hundreds of long-distance races on the stubs of his legs. It's his way of saying, "Mother didn't make a mistake," he says. Almost 50, he will never win a marathon, he said, but he will never lose either with the right attitude. He said both winners and losers in life have imagination, motivation, discipline, projection, self·control and expectancy. The difference is that the winner visualizes vividly what he hopes to attain, while the loser visualizes losing.

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He received the award at the organization's recent convention in Biloxi, Miss. Looney has piloted Apponequet to 136 league victories without a loss and eight consecutive Mayflower League championships. For the third year he has been named coach of the New -Bedford Standard-Times' all-star softball team, which also includes two seniors and three juniors from his Apponequet team.

CYO RCllce Continues Close The race for the Bristol County CYO Baseball League continues close. Entering this week, Maplewood was setting the pace with a 6-2 record. South End and Somerset, each 5-3, were tied for second, followed by Kennedy, 3-5, North, 3-6, and Central 0-3. Results in last week's games were Kennedy 6 Central 1, Somerset 7 North 5, South End 5 Central 4, North 6 Kennedy 2, Somerset 4 Central 0,Map1ewood 5 Kennedy 4, North 2 South End 1. The loop concludes its fourth week at 6 tonight with a twin bill at Thomas Chew Memorial Field, Fall River. The first game pits South End vs. Central, the second has Somerset opposing Maplewood. Sunday night's twin bill lists South End vs. Maple-

wood, and North vs. Central. Two Fall River youths, Jeff Robidoux and Steve Croteau, have qualified for the 18th National Junior and Youth Judo Championships to be held next week at the University of San Francisco. Robidoux is a member of the Fall River Community Development program and Croteau represents the PortugueseAmerican Athletic Club. The deadline is nearing for entering the second annual 4.7 mile Mount Carmel Summer Festival road race to be held later this month from the Mount Carmel Church grounds in Seekonk. Sanctioned by the New England Atijletic Congress the race is open only to members of the Congress. Details are available from Frank Mooney, 60 Cynthia Road, Seekonk, Mass. 02771.

Falcon Athletes Honored At the annual awards banquet of Dighton-Rehoboth· Regional High School Sharon Lamb and Scott Eaton were named a,thletes of the year. Miss Lamb also shared most valuable player award in field hockey with Carolyn Pomfret and Easton was named basketball MVP. Other MVP awards went to Elizabeth Pereira, volleyball and girls' basketball; Cindy <2uintal, gymnastics; Carol Withers, softball; Brian Pierce and Korinne Hess, tennis; Karin Jecoy, Greg Harrison, Mark Moschella and Stan Koss, track; Garrett Sharpe, cross country; Koss and Jay Dennis, football; Ted Richmond, baseball; James Dutra, golf. Most improved awards were presented to Cindy Masdarelli, volleyball; Jean Amaral, gymnastics; Wendy Fletcher, field hockey; Lisa. Snow and Ken Paradis, tennis, Donna Nyzio and Riehl ... rt':. }·ask'·lball: Deborah Martin and Jeff McGlynn, track; Barbara Almeida, softball; Kathy Kelly, track; John Shaw, cross country; Brian Nichols, h!lseball; James Holbrook, golf. Many high school and college athletes will participate in the 5.3 mile Somerset Fourth of July road race set for 9 a.m. Sunday from the Luther Avenue side of Somerset High School.

The race is sponsored by the Somerset Recreation Department, as is the 1981 Hershey Track and Field Meet scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at Hanson Memorial Field, Somerset High School. Certificate holders or members of high school track team varsities are ineligible. The meet is a basic track and field program involving seven points and including one relay and two field events.

New dialog seen NE WYORK (NC) - Jews and Christians in Western Europe stand on the threshold of a new kind of dialogue, a professor from West Germany, Pinchas Lapide, told a meeting of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) in New York. In place of the "forced' disputes" of the medieval era or the "non-controversial exchange of platitudes" of more recent times, he said, Jews and Christians can now hold "talks of faith to faith and hope to .hope." Lapide, a former Israeli diplomat' who now teaches Judaic studies at the University of Gottingen, gave his report at the annual meeting of the ADL's governing body, its national commission.

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tv, mOVIe news Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide. General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PC-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens. Catholic ratings: Al-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only: B-objectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis anrJ explanation!: C-condemned.

"Cannonball Run" (Fox): Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett and Dom Deluise star in' this tired reworking of the "Smoky and the Bandit" formula, which was tired enough to begin with. This time the gimmick is a cross· country auto race featuring various guest stars. Because of many crude double entendres, the film is classified A3, PG. FUm on 'IV Saturday, July 11, 9 p.Ol. (CBS) - "The Four Musketeers (1975) - Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain and \. Faye Dunaway star in this sequel to Richard Lester's first film based

on the Dumas novel. The style is halfway between spoof and in earnest with both pratfalls and bloodshed. The uneasy mix makes for rather uncertain entertainment, the violence makmg it . questionable for younger viewers. A3 Religious Broadrasting Sunday, July 5, WLNE Chan· nel 6, 10:30 a.m., Diocesan Television Mass. "Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday, repeated at 6:30 a.m. each Tuesday on Channel 6, is a panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent partiripants Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of social services; Rev. Dr. Paul Gillespie, of the Rhode Island State Council of Churches; and Rabbi Baruch Korff. Sunday, July 5, 12:30-1:00 p.m. (ABC) "Directions" presents "God in Russia: Is Religion a Human Right?" a discussion with Olin Robison and Dante Fascell on the growth of religious groups and the struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union. Check local listings for time.

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Trappist abbey in Spencer is TV documentary topic By Henry Herx One NEW YORK (NC) doesn't expect to find a documentary about a Trappist monastery listed in the schedule of network prime-time shows. It would be unusual even for public television or cable, but for a network whose fortunes are tied to its prime-time ratings it is a singular occurrence indeed. "ABC News Closeup," however, has a reputation for breaking new ground in subject matter and approach so that it is not a total surprise that it would focus on the contemplative religious order of the Trappists. The program, as yet untitled, is being edited for airing on Friday, July 24, probably in the 10-11 p.m. time period. Given the competitive nature of network scheduling, it is advisable to keep an eye on local listings because even such "firm" air dates are subject to change. "I have wanted to do a program on the Trappists for a long time," said producer Helen Whitney. "Eight years ago, I approached Gethsemane Abbey in Kentucky to make a PBS documentary but was told that under no circumstances would they alIowa woman to do so." Since then, Ms. Whitney has become a successful producer for "ABC News Closup" and last year began preparing a program on the "spiritual journey" of many people in search of something to give meaning to their lives. "People kept urging me to visit this Trappist monastery where Eastern meditation techniques like Yoga and Zen had been incorporated into its own

contemplative traditions," she said. When Ms. Whitney did visit St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Mass., she knew that she had found the microcosm for the entire program. "These monks came from an incredible diversity of backgrounds - West Point graduate, 60s radical, corporation executive - the warp and woof of American society, not much different from the rest of us except for their personal commitment." The question was whether she could get the monastery's permission to make a film. The abbot said the decision was up to the monks and invited her to speak to them. They listened, saw her previous films and' prayed over the matter for some weeks before voting in favor of the project. Mrs. Whitney then spent two months interviewing monks on their vocation to the contemplative life, the work of the abbey and what aspects of the monastic life should be shown in the film. Eventually everyone in the monastery cooperated as it became clear that she not only knew but cared about what she was doing. She described a number of other sequences, including one of a Catholic Worker group from Worcester, Mass., who come each week for food from the abbey garden to be distributed to the poor and "for three hours of quiet and reflection before they go back to the pain of poverty." Ms. Whitney hopes that this segment, one of her favorites, will be in the finished program.

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SWANSEA Parishioners are invited to atRiver. The service will begin and end with Mass and will intend an ecumenical service dedi· clude a holy hour and recitation cating the Swansea Community of the rosary. A coffee break Center at 7 p.m. tomorrow. Par· will be held at 10 p.m. All are ticipants will include St. Michael's liturgical dance group and welcome. the parish Cub Scouts and Knights of the Altar. DOMINICAN THIRD ORDER, FALL RIVER A Fourth of July Mass will be An important meeting which offered at 9 a.m. Saturday with all members are asked to attend 'the American flag carried in prowill take place at 7:30 p.m. Fri- cession and historical flags lent day, July 10, at Rose Hawthorne. by the Taunton Historical SociLathrop Home, 1600 Bay St., ety adorning the church. Knights of the Altar attended Fall River. Mass this morning before parti. cipating in the Cathedral Camp altar boys' day. Women's Club members will send get-well cards to hospitalized parishioners. They are also contributing to a seminarian support fund. OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER

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Altar boys will attend the annual Cathedral Camp altar boys' day. The date for a trip to Lincoln Park has been changed to Monday, Aug. 10. A book has been placed at the church entranc~ for listings of parochial school alumni who will be contacted with regard to the 1982 parish centennial. COD teachers are needed and volunteers may contact Patricia Pasternak, 676-9112. Youth ministry members will make an excursion to Martha's Vineyard· Friday, July 24, and plan a camporeer for Monday through Wednesday, Aug. 17 to 19. ' The parochial school faculty will make a closed retreat and workshop at Sacred Hearts Seminary, Wareham, Sunday through Tuesday, Aug. 9 through 11.

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FAIRHAVEN Baptisms will take place fol· lowing noon Mass Sunday. Academic, good citizenship, attendance and effort awards were presented at a school-closing Mass held recently. A Mass also marked eighth grade graduation, at which academic awards were merited by Matthew Payette and Gina Medeiros. Kindergarteners and nursery school children attended ceremonies featuring songs and participation in the class yell. In other school news, parents recently heard a lecture on discipline by Father Robert J. McIn'tyre of St. Aloysius Home, Greenville, R.I. Fourth graders Robby Forand and Craig Correia were the subject of an ar· ticle in "Scholastic News Explorer," detailing their successful summer-long sale of terrariums after learning how to make them as third graders in a 1980 class project. ST. FRANCIS OF ASSI!SI, NEW BEDFORD

Senior citizens will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the church hall. ST. JOHN OF GOD, SOMERSET

A prayer meeting and social hour will hegin with Mass at 7 tonight. A planning meeting for the parish patronal feast will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the rectory. ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER A program for 35 parish children in grades one through eight will be held the last three days of July. Registrations will close Sunday and applications.' are available at the parish office on.: a first come, first served basis. .. . ST. JOSEPH, NEW BEDFORD

The sick will be anointed at 7 p.m. Mass Wednesday, July 22, Those wishing to participate should contact Father Richard Chretien, 995-5235. Healing Masses followed by prayer meetings will be offered at 7 p.m. each July Wednesday. Senior citizens will hold their annual picnic Thursday, July 16. An all-parish picnic at Cathedral Camp is planned for Sunday, July 26, from noon to 6 p.m., with Mass offered at 1 p.m. The parish council will meet Thursday, Aug. 27. I, LEGION OF MARY, NEW BEDFORD

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