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Diocese of Fall River, Mass.

Friday, October 19, 2018

Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., prays during a Holy Hour for Healing and Reparation at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River on October 5.

Similar Holy Hours were simultaneously held in parishes across the diocese.

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Franciscan priest appointed to lead new, centralized Fall River parishes

By Kenneth J. Souza Anchor Staff kensouza@anchornews.org

FALL RIVER — With the announcement last weekend that St. Anne’s Parish in Fall River’s south end would be closed effective November 25 and parishioners would be absorbed into a new, four-parish collective known as the Catholic Community of Central Fall River, Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., established a new paradigm for inner-city pastoral planning in the diocese.

Perhaps even more unique was his selection of Father Thomas Washburn, O.F.M., a Franciscan priest and New Bedford native, to lead this new “cathedral-as-a-

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group-of-parishes” entity as its rector and parochial administrator of two neighboring parishes.

“It’s certainly not typical, but it’s not unheard of,” Father Washburn, current pastor of St. Margaret of Scotland Parish in Buzzards Bay, recently told The Anchor. “For example, the Franciscans ran the cathedral in Santa Fe, N.M. for many, many decades. So it’s not unheard of, but it certainly is not typical.”

Bishop da Cunha made the appointment in collaboration with Father Robert Campagna, provincial minister of the Franciscan Friars, and after having conversations with Father Washburn about his “Rebuilding in Faith and Hope” initiative.

“We initially were just having conversations about youth and young adult ministry and (the bishop) liked the particular set of experiences, education, and skill set that I have and he thought it would be a good match for what they were trying to do in the center of Fall River,” Father Washburn said. “So, he asked, I took a day or two to think and pray about it and I said yes, and I accepted this exciting challenge.”

With the closing of St. Anne’s Parish and the subsequent shuttering of the Holy Cross and Holy Rosary chapels currently under the purview of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption and its current rector, Father Richard Wilson, Father Washburn will essentially be serving as coordinator of four parish campuses — St. Mary’s Cathedral, St. Anthony of Padua Parish, St. Stanislaus Parish,

and Good Shepherd Parish.

Former parishioners of St. Anne’s will also be welcomed into the fold, as will parishioners from St. Bernadette’s Parish that was closed last year.

“Now, the cathedral, together with St. Anthony, Good Shepherd, and St. Stanislaus parishes will jointly plan for the future,” Bishop da Cunha wrote in his October 13 letter. “This will require great leadership — successful planning depends not on process, but on leaders who come forward dedicating and committing themselves to change. The planning has already yielded great lay leadership, and I believe that we will have a great team of clergy to assist these leaders and shepherd the process.”

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Bishop announces collaborative effort to revitalize parish life in central Fall River; address acute challenges facing St. Anne’s

FALL RIVER — After months of study and discussion by laity and clergy in planning sessions, parishioners in one area of Fall River learned at Masses this past weekend of the steps to be taken to renew their parishes.

While these steps will mean change and some sacrifice, taken together they offer a vision for transforming struggling parishes into vibrant and sustainable Catholic communities of faith.

Creating a New Catholic Community Collaboration In a letter to parishioners of Good Shepherd, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Mary’s Cathedral, and St. Stanislaus parishes, Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., explained that the four communities, three of which were already engaged in joint planning since June, would now do so in a more cohesive and coordinated way — with the Cathedral — as a group of parishes to be called the Catholic Community of Central Fall River. This community will also include parishioners from the former parish of St. Bernadette, which closed in August, and St. Anne’s.

The bishop has appointed a Franciscan priest with extensive administrative experience to lead this community and guide parishioners as they plan for the future. Father Thomas Washburn, O.F.M., a New Bedford native who formerly served in national leadership posts for his religious community, will become rector of St. Mary’s Cathedral and administrator of Good Shepherd and St. Stanislaus parishes, effective October 31. He will be assisted in pastoral

ministry to the parish collaborative by Father Juan Carlos Muñoz-Montoya as parochial vicar, and Father Brian Albino, who will remain as pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish.

In his letter to parishioners, Bishop da Cunha wrote, “This I know: we are better positioned as a community of faith to confront our challenges collaboratively, not separately, as individual parishes.”

He pointed to advice given to him frequently in a series of regional listening sessions earlier this year and again expressed in parish planning meetings, “by focusing on strong lay and priestly leadership, consolidating our ministries, building on our combined human and financial resources, and reimagining the efficient use of our churches and facilities, we can plan with renewed vigor and inspiration.”

This move comes as the Fall River Diocese faces many critical challenges from changing demographics, a decline in parish membership and participation, aging facilities and fewer priests. These issues are especially felt in its cities because of the large concentration of churches there. The four parishes of the new central Fall River grouping are all within a two-mile area.

St. Anne’s Parish All of these factors have impacted St. Anne’s Parish, also located in that vicinity.

It has been without use of the main floor of its landmark church since 2015 because of its deteriorating condition. Bishop da Cunha addressed that situation in a separate letter to parishioners of St. Anne’s Parish this past weekend.

An architectural report estimated the cost for repairs to the church ranged from a low of $5 million to simply make the upper church usable, to $13.5 million for a complete renovation and restoration.

Since last March the parish administrator, Father David Deston, and a committee of parishioners have been at work exploring the feasibility of a capital campaign to pay for it with assistance from a professional fundraiser and planner.

After investigating many fund-raising options and reaching out to prospective major donors, the committee reported to Bishop da Cunha that, while most St. Anne’s parishioners were prepared to donate, overall response among donors capable of making the large gifts necessary for a successful multimillion dollar campaign “was tepid at best” and the prospect of raising the money highly unlikely. Offering no formal recommendations, they left the decision on the future of the parish to the bishop.

Bishop da Cunha also sought additional counsel from an ad hoc group of Greater Fall River area business and community leaders concerning the likelihood of raising the funds necessary to restore the church. It was the consen-

sus of that group as well that there were not sufficient resources to restore and maintain the iconic church.

With prayerful consideration of all the information at hand — the work of the St. Anne Parish Planning Team, input from community and business leaders, relevant parish statistics on membership and Mass attendance, and the high cost of even minimal repairs — Bishop da Cunha reached a difficult decision that he shared with parishioners in his letter this past weekend: St. Anne Parish will close.

“I do this with heavy heart, knowing the genuine deep loss you will all feel,” wrote the bishop.

At the same time, Bishop da Cunha expressed his commitment to finding an alternative use for the church building. “It is my intention to form an ad hoc committee whose singular mission will be the adaptive re-use of the St. Anne’s building, “explained the bishop.

“This ‘Committee for the Adaptive Re-Use of St. Anne’s’ will support the diocese in its efforts to explore other uses for the building that will preserve its architectural heritage in line with the needs of the community.”

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Priest assumes new role as guardian of Franciscan Friars

By Kenneth J. Souza Anchor Staff kensouza@anchornews.org

NEW BEDFORD — Until recently, Father Louis Maximilian M. Smith, F.I., has served as the so-called “Father Guardian” of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate at Our Lady’s Chapel in downtown New Bedford and the general manager of the order’s Radio CorMariae FM 88.5 radio station.

Now, Father Maximilian’s longtime vicar, Father Matthias Sasko, F.I., has been appointed to take over the role of what is akin to the order’s superior.

“It’s just a normal thing for different Friars to be assigned the task of superior or guardian as he’s called specifically in the Franciscan life,” Father Sasko recently told The Anchor. “So his three-year term was simply coming to an end and since I had been his vicar for the past three years, I was asked to continue in his place for the next three years. So nothing extraordinary happened, really.”

Father Sasko will now oversee the important apostolic work of the five Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate who currently

live and work within the Fall River Diocese. This includes not only maintaining Radio CorMariae, but also the daily operation of Our Lady’s Chapel, and providing Sacramental and Liturgical support to diocesan parishes and priests as needed.

“Our mission is to be an auxiliary force, a helping force for the diocese and a parish in wherever our community is situated,” Father Sasko said. “We offer help like hearing Confessions daily, which maybe not every parish is able to do. We also celebrate daily Masses — one in the early

Diocese of Fall River

OFFICIAL His Excellency, the Most Reverend Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., D.D., Bishop of Fall River, announces the following appointments and transfers: Reverend Marek Chmurski, Parochial Vicar at Christ the King Parish in Mashpee to Administrator of Saint Margaret of Scotland Parish in Buzzards Bay; Reverend Matthew M. Gill, Minister to the Hispanic Community at Saint Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis, while remaining Parochial Vicar of Our Lady of Victory Parish in Centerville and Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Osterville;

morning, one at noon — and one-on-one ministries when people need to talk, that type of thing. Just having the chapel open all day from 5 a.m. until 8:30 p.m., is what many individual parishes are unable to offer for different reasons.

So we try to supply those ministries in collaboration with perpetual Eucharistic Adoration.”

Founded by two Franciscan Friars — Father Stefano Maria Manelli and Father Gabriel Maria Pellettieri — the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate was established as a diocesan institute by St. John Paul II in 1990 and later erected as a pontifical institute of religious life in 1998. The order, which is comprised of ordained priests, Friars, Sisters and laity, follows the example of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe and maintains a deep devotion to the Blessed Mother as the conduit or “Mediatrix” to Jesus Christ.

“In addition to that we offer apostolic endeavors of evangelization,” Father Sasko said. “For example, we are closely involved

with book publishing. So we are actively spreading the Good News, especially leading people to Our Lord through Our Lady — to Jesus through Mary. That’s kind of our charism.”

Given the shortage of ordained priests and the increasing number who are reaching the age of retirement in the diocese, the support of the Franciscan Friars remains critical.

“When a priest maybe needs help covering his Masses or being on call, we can assist at a parish or sometimes by being on call at the hospital to substitute as a chaplain,” Father Sasko said. “We definitely make ourselves available as much as we can, and we’re privileged to be able to offer that help.”

The presence of Our Lady’s Chapel in downtown New Bedford, located next door to the city’s central police station, is also invaluable to the diocese.

“There are a lot of people who visit us, there is a lot of foot traffic, so we have many visitors to the chapel,” Father Sasko said. “We Turn to page 21

Reverend Andrew Johnson, Pastor of Saint Stanislaus and Good Shepherd Parishes in Fall River to Parochial Vicar of Corpus Christi Parish in East Sandwich; Reverend Juan Carlos Muñoz-Montoya, Parochial Vicar of Corpus Christi Parish in East Sandwich to Parochial Vicar of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Good Shepherd and Saint Stanislaus Parishes in Fall River; Revered Thomas Washburn, OFM., Pastor of Saint Margaret of Scotland Parish to Rector of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in Fall River and Administrator of Good Shepherd and Saint Stanislaus Parishes in Fall River; Reverend Richard D. Wilson, Rector of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, Fall River to Pastor of Holy Family Parish in East Taunton, Minister to the Hispanic Community of Taunton, and Director of Continuing Education and Formation of Clergy Effective: October 31, 2018 Reverend David C. Deston Jr., Administrator of Saint Anne’s Church in Fall River to Chaplain of Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, while remaining Chaplain of Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River in residence at Espirito Santo, Fall River Effective: December 1, 2018 4

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Father Matthias Sasko, F.I., was recently appointed to serve as Father Guardian of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, an order based in New Bedford that operates Our Lady’s Chapel there and ministers throughout the Fall River Diocese. (Photo by Kenneth J. Souza)

Pope Francis’ message for World Mission Sunday 2018 Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all

Dear young people, I would like to reflect with you on the mission that we have received from Christ.

In speaking to you, I also address all Christians who live out in the Church the adventure of their life as children of God. What leads me to speak to everyone through this conversation with you is the certainty that the Christian faith remains ever young when it is open to the mission that Christ entrusts to us. “Mission revitalizes faith” (Redemptoris Missio, 2), in the words of St. John Paul II, a pope who showed such great love and concern for young people.

The synod to be held in Rome this October, the month of the missions, offers us an opportunity to understand more fully, in the light of faith, what the Lord Jesus wants to say to you young people, and, through you, to all Christian communities.

Life is a mission Every man and woman is a mission; that is the reason for our life on this earth. To be attracted and to be sent are two movements that our hearts, especially when we are young, feel as interior forces of love; they hold out promise for our future and they give direction to our lives. More than anyone else, young people feel the power of life breaking in upon us and attracting us. To live out joyfully our responsibility for the world is a great challenge. I am well aware of lights and shadows of youth; when I think back to my youth and my family, I remember the strength of my hope for a better future. The fact that we are not in this world by our own choice makes us sense that there is an initiative that precedes us and makes us exist. Each one of us is called to reflect on this fact: “I am a mission on this earth; that is the reason why I am here in this world” (Evangelii Gaudium, 273).

We proclaim Jesus Christ The Church, by proclaiming what she freely received (cf. Mt 10:8; Acts 3:6), can share with you young people the Way and Truth which give meaning to our life

on this earth. Jesus Christ, Who died and rose for us, appeals to our freedom and challenges us to seek, discover and proclaim this message of truth and fulfilment. Dear young people, do not be afraid of Christ and His Church! For there we find the treasure that fills life with joy.

I can tell you this from my own

the Church’s Sacraments plunges us into that great stream of witnesses who, generation after generation, enable the wisdom and experience of older persons to become testimony and encouragement for those looking to the future. And the freshness and enthusiasm of the young makes them a source of

experience: thanks to faith, I found the sure foundation of my dreams and the strength to realize them.

I have seen great suffering and poverty mar the faces of so many of our brothers and sisters. And yet, for those who stand by Jesus, evil is an incentive to ever greater love. Many men and women, and many young people, have generously sacrificed themselves, even at times to martyrdom, out of love for the Gospel and service to their brothers and sisters. From the cross of Jesus we learn the Divine logic of self-sacrifice (cf. 1 Cor 1:17-25) as a proclamation of the Gospel for the life of the world (cf. Jn 3:16). To be set afire by the love of Christ is to be consumed by that fire, to grow in understanding by its light and to be warmed by its love (cf. 2 Cor 5:14). At the school of the saints, who open us to the vast horizons of God, I invite you never to stop wondering: “What would Christ do if He were in my place?”

Transmitting the faith to the ends of the earth You too, young friends, by your Baptism have become living members of the Church; together we have received the mission to bring the Gospel to everyone. You are at the threshold of life. To grow in the grace of the faith bestowed on us by

support and hope for those nearing the end of their journey. In this blend of different stages in life, the mission of the Church bridges the generations; our faith in God and our love of neighbor are a source of profound unity.

This transmission of the faith, the heart of the Church’s mission, comes about by the infectiousness of love, where joy and enthusiasm become the expression of a newfound meaning and fulfilment in life. The spread of the faith “by attraction” calls for hearts that are open and expanded by love. It is not possible to place limits on love, for love is strong as death (cf. Song 8:6). And that expansion generates encounter, witness, proclamation; it generates sharing in charity with all those far from the faith, indifferent to it and perhaps even hostile and opposed to it. Human, cultural and religious settings still foreign to the Gospel of Jesus and to the Sacramental presence of the Church represent the extreme peripheries, the “ends of the earth,” to which, ever since the first Easter, Jesus’ missionary disciples have been sent, with the certainty that their Lord is always with them (cf. Mt 28:20; Acts 1:8). This is what we call the missio ad gentes. The most desolate periphery of all is where mankind,

in need of Christ, remains indifferent to the faith or shows hatred for the fullness of life in God. All material and Spiritual poverty, every form of discrimination against our brothers and sisters, is always a consequence of the rejection of God and His love.

The ends of the earth, dear young people, nowadays are quite relative and always easily “navigable.” The digital world — the social networks that are so pervasive and readily available — dissolves borders, eliminates distances and reduces differences. Everything appears within reach, so close and immediate. And yet lacking the sincere gift of our lives, we could well have countless contacts but never share in a true communion of life. To share in the mission to the ends of the earth demands the gift of oneself in the vocation that God, Who has placed us on this earth, chooses to give us (cf. Lk 9:23-25). I dare say that, for a young man or woman who wants to follow Christ, what is most essential is to seek, to discover and to persevere in his or her vocation.

Bearing witness to love I am grateful to all those ecclesial groups that make it possible for you to have a personal encounter with Christ living in His Church: parishes, associations, movements, religious communities, and the varied expressions of missionary service. How many young people find in missionary volunteer work a way of serving the “least” of our brothers and sisters (cf. Mt 25:40), promoting human dignity and witnessing to the joy of love and of being Christians! These ecclesial experiences educate and train young people not only for professional success, but also for developing and fostering their God-given gifts in order better to serve others. These praiseworthy forms of temporary missionary service are a fruitful beginning and, through vocational discernment, they can help you to decide to make a complete gift of yourselves as missionaries.

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Saints Oscar Romero and Paul VI

This past Sunday Pope Francis canonized (declared someone is a saint in Heaven) Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, Pope Paul VI and five other Europeans (see page 20)].

The two deceased prelates, Saints Oscar and Paul VI, were the two whom attracted the most attention. Pope Francis conducted the canonization ceremony in the context of Mass and in his homily he linked the Gospel of the day (Mk 10:17-30, the story of the rich young man, who rejects Christ’s invitation to give away everything and follow Him) to the new saints.

“The Lord looks upon him and loves him (cf. v. 21). Jesus changes the perspective: from Commandments observed in order to obtain a reward, to a free and total love — Jesus proposes to him a story of love. He asks him to pass from the observance of laws to the gift of self, from doing for oneself to being with God. Come: do not stand still, because it is not enough not to do evil in order to be with Jesus. Follow me: do not walk behind Jesus only when you want to, but seek Him out every day; do not be content to keep the Commandments, to give a little alms and say a few prayers: find in Him the God Who always loves you; seek in Jesus the God Who is the meaning of your life.”

After mentioning that Jesus “does not discuss theories of poverty and wealth,” with the rich young man, the pope said, “[ Jesus] asks you to leave behind what weighs down your heart, to empty yourself of goods in order to make room for Him, the only good. We cannot truly follow Jesus when we are laden down with things. Because if our hearts are crowded with goods, there will not be room for the Lord, Who will become just one thing among the others.”

The Holy Father then warned, “For this reason, wealth is dangerous and — says Jesus — even makes one’s Salvation difficult. Not because God is stern, no! The problem is on our part: our having too much, our wanting too much suffocates us, suffocates our hearts and makes us incapable of loving. Jesus is radical. He gives all and He asks all: He gives a love that is total and asks for an undivided heart. Even today He gives Himself to us as the Living Bread; can we give Him crumbs in exchange?”

The new saints did not give back crumbs to God, they strove to give their all back to Him who had given His all for them on the cross. Their realization of how much Jesus loved them helped them to have “a heart unburdened by possessions, that freely loves the Lord, always spreads joy, that joy for which there is so much need today. Pope St. Paul VI wrote: ‘It is indeed in the midst of their distress that our fellow men need to know joy, to hear its song” (Gaudete in Domino, I). Today Jesus invites us to return to the source of joy, which is the encounter with Him, the courageous choice to risk everything to follow Him, the satisfaction of leaving something behind in order to embrace His way.”

Commenting more about his predecessor, Pope Francis said, “Even in the midst of tiredness and misunderstanding, Paul VI bore witness in a passionate way to the beauty and the joy of following Christ totally. Today he still urges us, together with the council whose wise helmsman he was, to live our common vocation: the universal call to holiness. Not to half measures, but to holiness.”

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the Church’s teaching that artificial birth control was against God’s law. He began that document by stating, “The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator. It has always been a source of great joy to them, even though it sometimes entails many difficulties and hardships.” Again this saint is pointing out the joy which we receive from God, even when it includes carrying the cross.

In paragraph 18 of the document, St. Paul VI wrote, “Since the Church did not make either of these laws, she cannot be their arbiter — only their guardian and interpreter. It could never be right for her to declare lawful what is in fact unlawful, since that, by its very nature, is always opposed to the true good of man. In preserving intact the whole moral law of Marriage, the Church is convinced that she is contributing to the creation of a truly human civilization.”

Speaking about St. Oscar Romero, Pope Francis said on Sunday, “there is Archbishop Romero, who left the security of the world, even his own safety, in order to give his life according to the Gospel, close to the poor and to his people, with a heart drawn to Jesus and His brothers and sisters.”

The following day (Monday) the pope had a special audience with pilgrims from El Salvador and at it he spoke at length about St. Oscar. He began with a friendly challenge to the bishops present from Romero’s homeland. “St. Óscar Romero knew how to incarnate with perfection the image of the Good Shepherd Who gives His life for His sheep. Therefore, and even more so since his canonization, you can find in him an ‘example and a stimulus’ in the ministry entrusted to you. An example of predilection for those most in need of God’s mercy. Stimulus to witness the love of Christ and the care for the Church, knowing how to coordinate the action of each of her members and collaborating with the other particular Churches (dioceses) with collegial affection.”

Speaking to the Salvadoran laity, Pope Francis said, “He, Oscar Romero, repeated strongly that every Catholic must be a martyr, because martyr means witness, that is, witness of God’s message to men (see Homily on the First Sunday of Advent, Nov. 27, 1977). God wants to be present in our lives, and calls us to announce His message of freedom to all humanity. Only in Him can we be free: free from sin, from evil, free from hatred in our hearts — he was a victim of hatred — totally free to love and welcome the Lord and our brothers and sisters.

A true freedom already on earth, which passes through concern for the concrete man to awaken in each heart the hope of Salvation.”

Pope Francis admitted, “this is not easy, that’s why we need the support of prayer. We need to be united with God and in communion with the Church. St. Óscar tells us that without God, and without the ministry of the Church, this is not possible. On one occasion, he referred to Confirmation as the ‘Sacrament of martyrs’ (Homily, Dec. 5, 1977). And it is that without ‘that force of the Holy Spirit, which the early Christians received from their bishops, from the pope, they would not have stood the test of persecution; they would not have died for Christ’ (ibid.).”

May we read more the works of these great saints, bring it to prayer, and ask God how we can joyfully give our all in love for Him and our neighbor.

Daily Readings Oct. 20 – Nov. 2

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat. Oct. 20, Eph 1:15-23; Ps 8:2-7; Lk 12:8-12.

Sun. Oct. 21, Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Is 53:10-11; Ps 33:45,18-20,22; Heb 4:14-16; Mk 10:35-45 or 10:42-45. Mon. Oct. 22, Eph 2:1-10; Ps 100:2-5; Lk 12:13-21. Tues. Oct. 23, Eph 2:12-22; Ps 85:9-14; Lk 12:35-38.

Wed. Oct. 24, Eph 3:2-12; (Ps) Is 12:2-6; Lk 12:39-48. Thurs. Oct. 25, Eph 3:14-21; Ps 33:1-2,4-5,11-12,18-19; Lk 12:49-53. Fri. Oct. 26, Eph 4:1-6; Ps 24:1-6; Lk 12:54-59.

Sat. Oct. 27, Eph 4:7-16; Ps 122:1-5; Lk 13:1-9. Sun. Oct. 28, Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jer 31:7-9; Ps 126:1-6; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52. Mon. Oct. 29, Eph 4:32—5:8; Ps 1:1-4,6; Lk 13:10-17. Tues. Oct. 30, Eph 5:21-33 or 122: Eph 5:2a,25-32; Ps 128:1-5; Lk 13:18-21. Wed. Oct. 31, Eph 6:1-9; Ps 145:1014; Lk 13:22-30. Thurs. Nov. 1, All Saints Day, Rv 7:2-4,9-14; Ps 24:1-4ab,5-6; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12a. Fri. Nov. 2, All Souls Day, Wis 3:1-9; Ps 23:1-6; Rom 5:5-11 or Rom 6:3-9; Jn 6:37-40.

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World Mission Sunday and the reform of the Church

mong the harmful consequences of the multidimensional clergy sexual abuse crisis is the way that it disfigures the face of the Church and impedes the Church’s mission.

In the best of times, many Catholics are timid in spreading the faith and inviting people to consider becoming Catholic. The shame and disgust that understandably follow the revelation of sexual abuse by a cardinal archbishop and hundreds of priests in the state of Pennsylvania, the lack of horror and adequate action on the part of some leaders in the Church to stop it, the lack of transparency on the part of some to own up to their responsibility, and the open divisions that have formed over what to do about to it today, all make it much more challenging to perceive Christ and His holiness operating in the Church.

They render our message about God, the Church, and faith and morals in general, less credible because of the failure of so many messengers to practice what the Church preaches.

Yet, as St. Paul insists, where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more (Rom 5:20). God always seeks to bring good out of evil. Paradoxically, at times like this, when the Church has suffered a gut punch that has knocked the wind out of the Mystical Body, when she limps into the public square with a self-inflicted black eye, God is still mysteriously at work opening people up to the life of grace.

In 2013, Pope Francis gave a stunning commentary on the Gospel account of Emmaus to the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean assembled with him for World Youth Day in Brazil.

Focusing on why the two disciples were leaving Jerusalem and heading downhill

into darkness crestfallen at night and caught nothing. the crucifixion of the One After borrowing Peter’s boat they hoped was the Mesto preach to the throngs, the siah, only to have their hearts Carpenter from Nazareth inburn when the anonymous structed the expert fisherman Wayfarer explained to them to put out into deep water that Scripture taught that and lower his nets for a catch. such sufferings were a confir- Peter had already cleaned mation rather than a conhis nets and was exhausted, tradiction of the Messianic discouraged and ready for Mission, Pope Francis made bed. Fish, he knew, morea general point: “The reasons over, were caught in shallow why people leave also contain water in darkness not in deep reasons why they can eventu- water in broad daylight. Yet, ally return. But we need to reluctantly, against his huknow how to interpret, with man wisdom, he did as Jesus courage, the larger picture” and warm the hearts of others with Putting Into the fire of our own the Deep faith in spite of shattered expectations.

By Father Applied to the Roger J. Landry sexual abuse crisis, the reason why some leave the Church, and others would said — and caught the largest find it unattractive to join, is catch of his life. because people legitimately World Mission Sunday is expect the Church and her an opportunity for all of us in ministers to be, if not holy, at the Church to put the Barque least honorable; when they of Peter out again into the find filth, they are disgusted deep and troubled waters and repelled. That nausea, and lower our nets. Even if however, contains within it it seems the least propitious the seed of a burning heart, time to catch anything whatonce they meet people who soever, the reality is that grace are sickened by the sludge is superabounding. People are as much as they are and not searching for those who aren’t only still believe but fight to hypocrites, for those who still restore the Church to its true are faithful “despite it all,” and dignity, loving the Church as after perhaps enduring some Christ does. rude jokes, true and false That’s why this year’s accusations, and many quesWorld Mission Sunday cantions, we may just find them not come at a better time. more open now than ever to Held since 1926 on the next- the deepest answer to their to-last Sunday of October, it’s most existential questions. a time in which the Church On Monday I had a not only prays for and supchance to see the Church’s ports missionaries across the mission in action in a way globe, but also remembers that left me so deeply moved that the Church is and doesn’t and inspired. I met Bishop merely have a mission. It’s a George Pallipparambil, time for us to grasp that the Bishop of the Diocese of reform of the Church will Miao, India. He had come involve a “reshaping” to its from the Himalayas to New true apostolic nature, given to York as the guest of Aid to it by Christ. the Church in Need to speak The Church today is a lot about what has been happenlike St. Peter after he and his ing in his region over the last companions had fished all 30 years and to ask for help

so that that growth might continue.

Thirty years ago, there were no Catholics throughout the region, which is inhabited by nearly 100 different tribes who have often been brutally at war with each other. Now there are 90,000 Catholics, with 32 parishes, 156 mission stations, 44 schools, 13 high schools, one college, 28 diocesan priests, 68 religious order priests, 165 women religious, 158 lay catechists, a diocesan seminary with 31 seminarians, and the only hospital in the region of 17,000 square miles — the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined — where among other successes in the two years since it opened, infant mortality rates have declined by 80 percent.

It’s a situation event that reminds us of the Acts of the Apostles and the spread of the early Church. One of Bishop George’s collaborators, a deacon from Ireland, calls him, only half-jokingly, “The St. Patrick of Miao.” We could call him a 21st-century St. Paul of Tarsus.

Everything started in the late 1970s. A few young warriors from the tribes journeyed far from their villages and found some peers who were educated and had jobs because they had been able to go to a Catholic school not too far from the region. The warriors were able to persuade their families to allow them to go away to be educated at the Bosco Bible School. Several months later they and girls from the village returned not only with professional skills — they went to school from 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. each day! — but well fed, having had the chance to have three meals a day instead of a few meals a week. They were also able to read and write and were talking about a new

God and a new Book. Across the tribes, the leaders came together and sent a message to then-Father George, saying, “Please come to us and tell us more about this God Jesus Who has done so much for our children.”

Nine-hundred were baptized in Borduria in 1979. Thirteen years later the first Church was built, with Father George as the founding pastor. He trained lay leaders, catechists, and youth ministers, and recruited the Missionaries of Charity to help him care for the needs of the poor. He traveled extensively throughout the region, preaching and strengthening the faith and setting up mission stations throughout, providing education for the kids and establishing youth groups, women’s groups and mothers’ associations, so that women would no longer be treated as the property of their families.

In 2005, Pope Benedict established the Diocese of Miao and appointed Father George its first bishop. The exponential growth has just continued.

At dinner in New York, Bishop George described a little bit the sufferings of Christians in various parts of India, including his own, and the risks he himself took to try to plant the seeds of the Gospel in a place where doing so was initially against the law and French martyrs once irrigated the soil with their blood.

But he spent most of his time joyfully describing what God has done since he began to put out into the deep.

He also described the appeal of Christianity and his particular missionary priorities.

When people are baptized, he stresses, “You are becoming a member of the biggest family in the world!” Especially for people who are isoTurn to page nine

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n a world of instant gratification, of putting oneself first, and an emphasis on status, we often forget that as Christians, our main purpose is to serve others. This weekend’s Gospel reminds us that with status and recognition, there comes a price, a price that too often is more than we can handle.

For anyone who finds themselves in any type of leadership role, you fully understand the responsibility that comes with the title or status.

In the Gospel, two of the disciples want to be recognized, treated as someone of importance, yet had no idea of what this involved or meant. Not only did Jesus say something about their appeal — simply asking them if they believed they could actually take up and drink from the “cup”

After you!

Jesus had been asked to Him, we are asked to serve drink from — their feleach other, to put others low disciples also chastised first, to take care of one them for their impertinent another, with our ultimate request. goal being the reward of Too often we long to be Heaven. recognized for a job well So many of us start off done, for some acknowlwith grandiose plans for edgment of our talents bringing others closer to or skills, but with recognition, often there is added In the Palm burdens. Suddenly, of His Hands we are called on to do more, there is a

By Rose Mary greater demand on Saraiva our time, and that moment of gratification becomes more of a liability than a Christ and the Church. reward. It does not mean We believe we have all the that our abilities and labor answers and are going to should go unnoticed or make a difference in other’s unrecognized, but that our lives. I know when I first actions and deeds should began teaching catechism, be such that we are willing I believed I could make a to do it over and over again difference and I was going for the benefit of others. to change the way people Jesus reminds us that like viewed their faith and reli-

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Bishop da Cunha will be with the parishioners of St. Anne’s and celebrate the final Mass before the closing of the church on Sunday, November 25, the last day of the Church’s Liturgical year.

Parishioners from St. Anne’s are invited to join any of the neighboring parishes that will now make

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up the Catholic Community of Central Fall River.

Beyond simply joining, they are encouraged to take an active role in the planning for this new community, to bring their vision, aspirations, and abiding faith to the parish collaboration as it evolves.

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With only three priests now to provide ministry at the four remaining Central Fall River parishes, it will also be necessary to close Holy Rosary and Holy Cross chapels. Their final Masses will also be celebrated the weekend of November 25. In recent years, both chapels have had only one weekend Mass.

“There are many details to be worked out, many questions and concerns to be considered; that is indeed the work of strategic planning,” said Bishop da Cunha in closing his letter.

“I am confident,” he continued, “with the talent and commitment of our clergy and laity working together, we will establish a renewed and refreshed Catholic community of Central Fall River, and continue rebuilding our diocese in faith and hope.”

gious beliefs. It did not take long to be humbled and realize that I, too, was and still am a work in progress.

One of the dangers that can occur is that we begin to act in ways that makes us appear better than others rather than living as true Christians. We become judgmental, we notice another’s faults, and we try to push “religious dogma” in a way that slowly begins to belittle others. If we have any say in what is happening around us, we begin to push our own agendas, forgetting that our roles are those of servants — too often driving people away rather than bringing them closer.

Most often it is our actions, not our words that speak volumes. People notice what we do, and if our actions are welcoming, are of service to others, then our words are just a bonus. On the other hand if we are all talk with very little action, people begin to move away, they begin to tire of our haughtiness and look elsewhere for what they need or long for.

It does not take long for others to see through our façade and recognize that we are not living what we are preaching.

Like the disciples, we are reminded that “whoever wishes to be first will be slave to all,” in our haste to be the first in line, we fail to notice the effect it has on others; or worse yet, the effect it has on us and how we are living our lives. If John and James fully understood what they were asking, they would not have broached the subject, let alone toy with the idea of being elevated to be at Jesus’ right and left. This

is true for us as well, too often we want something so desperately, or want the recognition at all costs, yet when it finally occurs, it is not what we expected or anticipated. Or the requirements are beyond our capability or carry a price that we were not willing or ready to pay.

Suffice it to say, that even though it is a good feeling to be recognized for being successful, for achieving our goals, and for going above and beyond, it is also good to just know that we did the right thing, even if no one acknowledges our work or deeds.

I have to admit that the stories of anonymous donations and packages arriving to needy families from unknown sources, carry so much more meaning. Not only does the benefactor remain in the shadows, it also helps the recipient feel cared for without having to feel obligated to thank the person publicly — which brings more attention to their plight.

It is this that Jesus is reminding us of, that we need not be the center of attention, the first in line, or put up on a pedestal to earn the rewards of Heaven, but rather to put ourselves last. We are asked to serve others freely and willingly, not looking for recognition, but because it is what we should be doing as followers of Christ. We need to be willing to put another’s needs before our own, to step into the shadows, allowing others to be seen and recognized, and to wait patiently at the end of the line for our just rewards.

Anchor columnist Rose Mary Saraiva is a parishioner of Holy Trinity Parish in Fall River and works at the diocesan Office of Faith Formation.

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s the long, hot summer melted into fall the Church was in full swing. Parishes were ramping up for a new catechetical year. Thousands of catechists around the country came forward to be commissioned on Catechetical Sunday, embracing this year’s theme to “Enlist Witnesses for Jesus Christ.”

Throughout the Diocese of Fall River the homeless were cared for in shelters, the sick were tended to in our health facilities; and the hungry found food in our soup kitchens and pantries. Around the world Catholic Relief Services was helping refugees to resettle; responding to a tsunami in Indonesia and an earthquake in Haiti; and working for justice and peace in more than 30 countries. While all of this was going on, the Church was shaken to its core by the attorney general’s report out of Pennsylvania detailing decades of alleged sexual abuse of minors by hundreds of Catholic priests, and the cover-up of immoral behavior by one of her respected leaders.

Despite this, the mission handed to our Church from Jesus Christ was safely administered by the faithful who take to heart their baptismal call. Now the faithful have to ask themselves, why weren’t we told?

In the aftermath of these scandalous revelations many of our Church leaders spoke out; some called for greater adherence to the child protection policies put in place since 2002, others called for more transparency. Bishop Robert Barron spoke emphatically about the failure of leadership and the need to regain the trust of the faithful. This is going to be a challenge, for

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as the saying goes, “trust life his mother could never the potential outcome that this news may bring. When takes years to build, seconds find the right time to tell he finally was told the truth to break, and forever to him until he was nearly of his adoption at age 40, repair.” This crisis is going 40 years old and she was to require a reexamination forced to disclose the truth he was indeed traumatized, as it was a blow to his sense of what it means to be a because of a search by his of identity. What really Spiritual leader. birth family. There were so hurt him, however, was that In his book, “Spiritual many reasons or excuses his adopted mother Leadership,” Leondid not trust him ard Doohan outlines enough to love her.

10 core values of Here is kernel of Spiritual leaders.

The Great truth within this One of these values Commission story: trust is not the is that a Spiritual

By Claire McManus prerogative of the leader has a “progreater over the lessfound sense of comer, the leader over munity and human interdependence.” Doohan given for keeping the truth the follower; the mother over the son. Trust is a explains the importance from her son. Adoptions two-way proposition within of this value within a faith weren’t as open as they are a community of persons community. “Leadership today, or the news might who value their relations of emerges from the interplay traumatize her son, or her mutual caring and sharing. between leaders and folworst fear, that he might Trust will be rebuilt if we lowers. This will imply open choose to leave her for his recapture the mutuality that communications and the birth mother. She held all existed when the Church positive belief in others that the cards in the relationwas born, rather than the leads to the creating of a ship, and thus controlled climate of unity and mutual Father Landry’s column trust in which the welfare of others is as important as continued from page seven one’s own.” The positive be- lated, knowing that anywhere to love Christ and others in lief in others is sorely lack- they might travel they would return. He has started perfind the Gospel expands their petual Eucharistic Adoration ing at this juncture in our horizons to the grandeur of at a shrine constantly visited Church’s history, which is around the clock by faithful why the trust between lead- God Himself.

The people, he says, are in two-hour shifts, praying ers and followers has been also attracted to how Catholifor the needs that are sent in severely damaged. Bishop cism makes everyone equal. from all over the diocese. ExRobert Barron was more Members of tribes are even traordinary miracles, he said, blunt in his comments on lower in the caste system happen as a result of prayers the root causes of this crisis than the untouchables. In the there. These bring many more of leadership. “Clericalism Church, however, the dignity to the faith. One boy had is one of the causes — a of everyone is affirmed. his foot severely broken and terrible abuse of privilege The Christ he preaches is turned from front to back and power.”

“Christ with them.”

He seeks because of a soccer injury.

Trust is the firm belief in He was carried to the shrine the reliability, truth, ability, to help them to understand, in contrast to the dualist by family members who or strength of someone or animisms that have pervaded had heard of its reputation. something. In a relationship of two equals, it is easy that territory, that God came They prayed. And they saw into our world, is totally and his foot turn around before to presume the mutuality only good, remains at their them as prayers were being of trust. When the relaside, and in fact loves them. said. The bishop said laconitionship is skewed toward Part of that love is shown cally, “Twenty families were one who holds power over in the love that those who baptized as a result!” another, then trust seems believe in Him have for each There’s much more that like it must somehow be other, which is the motivacould be written about what granted by the lesser. This God is doing in bringing concept was revealed to me tion behind their building so many wells, schools, hospitals, so many to the faith among when a friend wrote his and dispensaries. They can’t the Mongolian indigenous memoir about discovermiss that love. peoples of northeastern India. ing as an adult that he was And he tries to form them But I think we can find in adopted. Throughout his

“us vs. them” mentality that plagues the hierarchical structure.

If there is anything positive to come out of this crisis in the Church it may be greater recognition of the role played by the laity in carrying out the mission of Christ. The laity has kept the fire burning within the Church through its darkest hours. The laity does not need new roles in the Church, but the Church needs to listen to the wisdom of the faithful who have been doing the heavy lifting for two millennia.

Together with our leaders we will rebuild the road to trust, but this time it will be a two-way street.

Anchor columnist Claire McManus is the director of the Diocesan Office of Faith Formation.

what Bishop George is doing perennial lessons that are just as important for the New Evangelization as missionary work proper, lessons that can help us recover the Church’s true missionary form after the scandals.

We are still members of the biggest family in the world, and the Church at its best behaves toward each other with familial love, featuring Spiritual fatherhood and motherhood.

Everyone has equal dignity, and clericalism has no place.

Christ is still with us, loving us, and seeking to help us truly love others, by defending, protecting and caring for them, rather than tolerating any exploitation of them.

And Christ is still blessing us in the Eucharist, desiring to work miracles and to turn His Mystical Body around.

Anchor columnist Father Landry can be contacted at fatherlandry@ catholicpreaching.com.

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The latest editions of the Missal and the Lectionary Editor’s note: This continues a series of columns by Father Buote on Catholic worship. he first document of the Second Vatican Council was the Constitution on the Liturgy, Dec. 4, 1963. Since the close of Vatican II, there has been a rush to put the principles of this document into practice.

This has resulted in various Liturgical books being published in a rather rapid succession of interim editions which have often left clergy and parishioners in a state of confusion. Our concern will be only the latest editions of the Missal and the Lectionary, and a comparison to the Missale Romanum of the Council of Trent.

The books in use today contain what is called the “ordinary form” for Mass.

The Missal of Trent (as revised under Pope Paul VI) is now designated the “extraordinary form.”

With the bishop’s permission, both forms may be used publicly. Here in the Diocese of Fall River, both forms are in regular use,

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or for special occasions in published separately. These various parishes. would include local obserThe Lectionary of Vativances, which are not of a can II is contained in four universal nature. volumes. Volume I contains In the last installment, it the readings for Sundays was noted that the reforms and certain other major cel- of the Council of Trent ebrations of the year. There were not fully accepted in are three readings assigned some places for 300 years. to each Sunday, along with So also, the reforms of a responsorial psalm beVatican II have had their tween the first two. The detractors. One of the most final reading at all Masses vocal objections in the early is taken from one of the four Gospels. The calendar How Catholic is so arranged Worship Came that it takes three to Be years to complete the full compleBy Father ment of Sunday Martin L. Buote readings.

Volumes II and III of the Lectionary years was Cardinal Alfredo contain Scriptural readings Ottaviani. But the most for daily Masses. Beginlasting objections came ning with the first week of from Archbishop Marcel Advent in even-numbered Lefebvre who founded the years, Volume II is read, Priestly Society of Pius X. and Volume III for oddIn the United States, numbered years. one of the more extreme Volume IV contains the traditionalists was Rev. Paul readings for ritual Masses Trinchard (1932–2015).

(Confirmation, funerals, The following is from one etc.). There are also some of his booklets: “The Mass minor collections of Mass Liturgies (for East and formulas and readings West) were finalized by

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Christ during the 40 days between the Resurrection and Ascension.”

All such traditionalists make a common error and forget that the Church is the Mystical Body of Christ and that He continues to act in the world through the Church.

Here are a few excerpts from the Constitution on the Liturgy that show how Christ continues to act in and through the Church: No. 21 — In order that the Christian people may more certainly derive an abundance of graces from the Sacred Liturgy, holy Mother Church desires to undertake with great care a general restoration of the Liturgy itself. For the Liturgy is made up of immutable elements Divinely instituted, and of elements subject to change. These not only may but ought to be changed with the passage of time if they have suffered from the intrusion of anything out of harmony with the inner nature of the Liturgy or have become unsuited to it.

No. 28 — In Liturgical celebrations each person, minister or layman, who has an office to perform, should do all of, but only those parts which pertain to his office by the nature of the rite and the principles of Liturgy.

No. 35 — (1) In Sacred celebrations there is to be more reading from Holy Scripture, and it is to be more carried and suitable.

No. 50 — The rite of the Mass is to be revised in such a way that the intrinsic nature and purpose of its several parts, as also the connection between them, may be more clearly mani-

fested, and that devout and active participation by the faithful may be more easily achieved. For this purpose the rites are to be simplified, due care being taken to preserve their substance; elements which, with the passage of time, came to be duplicated, or were added with but little advantage, are now to be discarded; other elements which have suffered injury through accidents of history are now to be restored to the vigor which they had in the days of the Holy Fathers as may seem useful or necessary.

No. 51. — The treasures of the Bible are to be opened up more lavishly, so that richer fare may be provided for the faithful at the table of God’s Word. In this way a more representative portion of the Holy Scriptures will be read to the people in the course of a prescribed number of years.

One final comment brings us back to the Apostolic Age of the Church.

Two new dismissals from Mass were introduced in the present century by Pope Benedict XVI: “Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord.” And “Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.” These new endings were added to raise our conscious awareness of our membership in a missionary Church, and our responsibility to participate in that apostolic effort.

I hope that this brief study has enriched your knowledge and understanding of our Catholic worship. It is now up to each of us to put that into practice.

(There is one remaining column in this series.)

Father Buote is a retired priest of the Fall River Diocese and a frequent contributor to The Anchor.

19 October 2018 — Homeport: Falmouth Harbor — Mother Teresa beatif ied (2003) priest can be asked some strange questions while standing at the church door after Mass. Some questions make sense; others, I’m not so sure; and occasionally I’ll have absolutely no idea what the person is talking about. Here are some examples: Question: “Father, why did you scratch your nose while the lector was reading? Was it a signal?”

Answer: “Ummm. Because my nose was itchy?

I have allergies.”

Question: “Father, why did you dismiss the Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion before the end of Mass?”

Answer: “Ummm. Because I sent them out carrying the Eucharist to the sick and home-bound?”

Question: “Father, to what religious order do you belong? Jesuits?”

Answer: “Ummm, I’m a diocesan priest.”

Even life-long Catholics get confused by the various roles and categories of priests. I will now, dear readers, enlighten you on the subject.

Firstly, ordained Catholic priests are divided into two types: diocesan and religious. These two categories have distinct charisms. Religious order priests are sometimes called “regulars.” I don’t know what that says about the other category. Diocesan priests are sometimes called “secular.” That, too, seems a bit strange.

A religious order priest always belongs to a religious community but not all members of a religious community are always priests. The Vatican’s offi-

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cial list of religious orders study, immediate response for men is 20 pages long. to medical emergencies, Religious priests norSpiritual direction, daily mally live with their com- recitation of the Liturgy munity members, praying of the Hours, and an anand working together. nual retreat. He also has They are allowed to wear primary responsibility the distinctive religious for parish administration, garb of their order.

They take solemn vows of chastity, The Ship’s Log poverty and obediReflections of a ence. They retain Parish Priest no personal possesBy Father Tim sions. They receive Goldrick no salary. Everything they need is supplied by their religious community. upkeep, and outreach.

A diocesan priest, on A pastor (diocesan or the other hand, is asreligious) is sometimes signed to a particular geo- assisted by another priest, graphical area (parish) to a deacon (either permarepresent the local bishop nent or transitional), a in those neighborhoods. consecrated woman (aka A diocesan priest makes Sister or nun), or qualified promises (not vows) of laypeople (pastoral associchastity and obedience to ates). When two priests the bishop. Generally, the share a pastorate, one is diocesan priest does not called a co-pastor, the live in a group with other other not. Oh, and then priests. A diocesan priest there are priests who are receives a modest salary neither pastors nor pafrom the parish. He also rochial vicars, but parish receives room and board, administrators. health insurance, and a I’m speaking in gensmall pension upon retire- eralities here. There are ment. Everything else a always exceptions to the diocesan priest may need norms. or want he purchases on Now that all the bahis own. sics are understood, dear The typical pastor or readers, we can move to parish priest (not to be subtler matters. confused with just any Say you have your typipriest assigned to a parcal middle-aged diocesan ish) is often a diocesan priest in full-time active priest — but not always. ministry. He is usually a A parish priest’s minpastor. What are the roles istry includes daily and of priests who provide weekend Masses (includ- pastoral assistance to pasing homilies), Baptisms, tors? These can be either Confessions, teaching, diocesan priests or reliweddings, counseling, gious order priests. One Spiritual direction, pascategory was formerly toral care of the sick, and called “curates”; then “asfunerals. This is in adsistant pastors”; but now dition to attending endthey are “parochial vicars.” less rounds of parish and These are generally youngdiocesan meetings, private er priests, but not always. prayer and meditation, Whatever you call them, Spiritual and theological they are scarcer than a

hen’s tooth these days.

Then you have the elder or senior priest (not to be confused with “senior priest”). This is a priest who has reached a certain age (often 70 years). He might continue in regular active ministry — dependent on his age, his wishes, his health and the needs of his diocese. An older priest, for example, might serve in the role of pastor or resume the role of parochial vicar.

A senior priest, on the other hand, has a less demanding ministry. He might live in a rectory, or in a residence for senior priests, or on his own.

There is really no such thing as a retired priest (in the usual sense), al-

though one can cut back on pastoral responsibilities as necessary. Priesthood means an entire lifetime dedicated to prayer and service.

You might also have a diocesan priest not currently assigned to parish duty. He might be away for studies or on medical leave. He might work full time in some diocesan or national office. We also have externs who work in one diocese but are affiliated with another. I have never heard of an “intern” when it comes to priests.

I do hope this clarifies the matter for you, dear readers. No? Well, let’s just say there are many ways to be a priest.

Anchor columnist Father Tim Goldrick is pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Falmouth.

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WESTPORT — The diocesan Foundation to Advance Catholic Education has an evening of food, fellowship and a guest speaker in store for those attending its

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FACE Fall Dinner is October 30 in Westport

annual Fall Scholarship Dinner at White’s Restaurant in Westport on October 30 from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

All proceeds provide need-based scholarships

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for children attending diocesan Catholic schools.

This year’s keynote speaker will be author, speaker and leadership consultant, Chris Lowney.

Also at the dinner, Dr. Jean F. MacCormack will receive the Timothy J. Cotter Friend of Catho-

lic Education Award given to recognize longtime outstanding support of Catholic Education.

MacCormack is the former Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she led from 1999 to 2012.

The annual FACE Fall Scholarship Dinner is

one of the major fundraising events of the foundation to ensure all families have a chance to share in the benefits of a quality Catholic education for their children.

For ticket or scholarship opportunities, contact the FACE Off ice at 508-675-1311 or visit www.face-dfr.org.

Several hundred faithful from the Fall River Diocese joined Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., and other diocesan priests and deacons for the annual Peace March on October 8. Carrying banners and a statue of Our Lady of Fatima, praying, and singing hymns, the processors gathered at St. Anne’s Church on South Main Street in Fall River and walked to St. Mary’s Cathedral, about one mile away, where the bishop celebrated a Mass with those who walked and those already at the cathedral. The annual event is to pray for peace in our world. (Photos by John E. Kearns Jr.)

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World Mission Sunday message continued from page five

were born of young hearts as a means of supporting the preaching of the Gospel to every nation and thus contributing to the human and cultural growth of all those who thirst for knowledge of the truth.

The prayers and the material aid generously given and distributed through the Pontifical Mission Societies enable the Holy See to ensure that those who are helped in their personal needs can in turn bear witness to the Gospel in the circumstances of their daily lives. No one is so poor as to be unable to give what they have, but first and foremost what they are.

Let me repeat the words of encouragement that I addressed to the young people of Chile: “Never think that you have nothing to offer,

or that nobody needs you.

Many people need you.

Think about it! Each of you, think in your heart: many people need me” (“Meeting with Young People,” Maipu Shrine, 17 January 2018).

Dear young people, this October, the month of the missions, we will hold the synod devoted to you. It will prove to be one more occasion to help us become missionary disciples, ever more passionately devoted to Jesus and His mission, to the ends of the earth.

I ask Mary, Queen of the Apostles, St. Francis Xavier, St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and Blessed Paolo Manna to intercede for all of us and to accompany us always.

From the Vatican, 20 May 2018, Solemnity of Pentecost POPE FRANCIS

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Watch the Ordination to Priesthood Online

The 2018 Fall River Diocese Ordination to Priesthood is available for viewing on the video-sharing website YouTube. Visit the diocesan website at www.fallriverdiocese.org and click on the Ordination to Priesthood image on the home page to access the video. The ordination took place on June 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River.

Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on WLNE Channel 6 October 21 at 11:00 a.m.

World Mission Sunday

Celebrant is Msgr. John J. Oliveira, director of the diocesan Office of the Propagation of the Faith, and a retired priest of the Fall River Diocese.

October 28 at 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father Kevin J. Harrington, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in New Bedford.

Providence College announces new director of Providence Alliance for Catholic Teachers

Providence, R.I. — Providence College recently announced that Dr. Michael O’Connor has been appointed director of the Providence Alliance for Catholic Teachers Program at Providence College.

Dr. O’Connor has served as the assistant director of PACT since May 2017. Prior to his arrival at PC, he earned his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Boston College, specializing in language, literacy, and culture. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Notre Dame and a leadership certificate from the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to his doctoral work, Dr. O’Connor served as assistant director of the Alliance for Catholic Education at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and taught in a Catholic elementary school in Birmingham, AL., through Notre Dame’s ACE program.

He also taught at the college level at PC, Boston College, and Boston University.

In addition to be-

ing a skilled teacher, Dr. O’Connor is an accomplished scholar. He has authored or co-authored several journal articles, and his book, “Collaborative Professionalism,” which he co-wrote with Dr. Andy Hargreaves, was recently published by Corwin Press.

Dr. Michael O’Connor

He also is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Educational Research Association, the International Literacy Association, and the National Council of Teachers of English.

Established at PC in 2001, the PACT Program is a unique teacher education program that invites recent college

graduates to contribute two years of service as teachers in Catholic schools in New England while earning a Master’s degree. In return, tuition is waived for the student’s service. PACT is an affiliate program with the University of Notre Dame and several other U.S. Catholic colleges and universities as a member of the University Consortium for Catholic Education. The PACT program provides teachers to a number of schools in the Diocese of Fall River.

Founded in 1917, Providence College is the only college or university in the United States administered by the Dominican Friars.

The Catholic, liberal arts college has an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 4,000 students and offers degrees in 52 academic majors and 38 minors.

Since 1997, Providence College consistently has been ranked among the top five regional universities in the North according to U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges.”

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For and About Our Church Youth

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here is a great new song out by Christian artist Tauren Wells entitled “Known.” If you like the sound of Ed Sheerin, then this is an artist you will probably like. The chorus of his song is: “I’m fully known and loved by You, You won’t let go no matter what I do, And it’s not one or the other, It’s hard truth and ridiculous grace, To be known fully known and loved by You, I’m fully known and loved

by You.” Besides the melody of the song, I really love the reminder the song is bringing to us. Often in our lives we have people who know us but do not necessarily love us. Likewise, we often have people who love us but do not necessarily know who we really are. To be fully known by someone and still be loved by them takes full trust and vulnerability.

I think of the people in my life who love me. At even the basic sense of the word, it is completely within the realm of possibility to love someone we do not really know. It’s actually what God is calling us to do when He tells us to love our neighbor. He does not ask us to go out and get to

Known and loved know every person around us and then decide if they are worthy of our love, He simply tells us to love one another. I think sometimes it is more difficult to have someone love us and not really know us. We have that fear begin to creep in that their love for us might change if they really knew us. What if we show all of who we really are and then they choose to walk away? We know though, that we have a God Who knows us better than we know ourselves and yet chooses to love us despite our shortcomings.

He reminds us through the prophet Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” Long before we were even capable of knowing ourselves, before our parents were able to love us, God knew us and created us through His love.

In his first verse, Tauren Wells perfectly captures this fear. He sings: “It’s so unusual it’s frightening, You see right through the mess inside me, And you call me out to pull me in, You tell me I can start again, And I don’t need to keep on

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hiding.”

It is unusual in this world for someone to truly know who we are and yet still love us that when it happens it can terrify us.

When we let someone in

Be Not Afraid

By Amanda Tarantelli

and they see the flaws or they see us mess up, we want to put a wall up that we can hide behind. God calls us to start over again and gives us the gift of the Sacrament of Reconciliation to be able to do that.

He also gives us people who demonstrate this kind of love to us that reminds us what it like to be loved by a Creator Who knows

and loves us. I am truly blessed to have the same two best friends for more than 20 years. They were my best friends in high school and my maids of honor in my wedding.

There are no secrets between us.

We have seen each other at our bests and we have seen each other when we would never let anyone else see us.

We are fully known to each other and without a doubt, we are fully loved. In the beginning of our friendships, it was of course nerve-racking to let someone know us so well. However, the more we let each other in, the more we became comfortable we became being known and loved. The same is true of our relationship with God. The more time we spend with Him, the more time

we let Him in, the easier it is to be still and know that we are loved.

In the bridge before the final chorus, we are reminded, “How real, how wide, how rich, how high is Your heart.

I cannot find the reasons why You give me so much.”

We may never comprehend the reason why an all-powerful, all knowing God chooses to give us so much. We can, though, through prayer and the way we treat one another, respond to this love in kind.

Allowing ourselves to be loved by God, we tear down the walls of fear and bask in the grace of His unending mercy.

Anchor columnist Amanda Tarantelli has been a campus minister at Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth since 2005. She is married, a die-hard sports fan, and resides in Cranston, R.I. She can be reached at atarantelli@bishopstang.org.

Explorers from Troop MA3712 completed a service project for Abundant Hope pregnancy resource center in Attleboro. The girls made Diaper Babies and packaged them with fleece blankets and board books. They will be donated and delivered by the girls to Abundant Hope this month. Girls will have a tour of the facility and learn the mission of this valuable resource. Outfitted with the latest ultrasound technology, the troop will see a video of an ultrasound put together by the director of the program.

For and About Our Church Youth

Third-grade students from Holy Name School in Fall River recently had a perfect day to visit Four Town Farm in Seekonk.

A group of students took action in paying tribute to Sister Teresa Trayers, SND, who will be inducted to the Bishop Stang High School Hall of Honors at an event on October 21. The school’s National Honor Society is named in honor of Sister Teresa, and members have paid tribute to her by holding their annual Rock-a-thon. Students alternately rocked in rocking chairs and received food donations throughout the day on September 22. By the end of the day, they had collected a total of 6,247 pounds of food for local food pantries. The food was recently distributed to local pantries, including the Shepherds Food Pantry in Acushnet, Solanus Casey in New Bedford through Catholic Social Services, St. Anthony’s Church in New Bedford, and St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry in Wareham. Here Alyssa Witkowski helps load food into the St. Anthony’s Food Pantry truck in front of the school.

Seventh- and eighth-graders from St. James-St. John School in New Bedford discussed and debated issues encountered in their summer reading.

Holy Family-Holy Name School in New Bedford had one of the city’s finest, Officer Anne Marie Lefever, celebrating “High Five Friday” with students, parents, and faculty. Some chose “fist bumps” to say hello and everyone walked into school with enthusiasm and smiling faces.

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Franciscan named to lead centralized Fall River parishes continued from page two

Father Juan Carlos Muñoz-Montoya will serve as parochial vicar for the cathedral, St. Stanislaus and Good Shepherd parishes.

“The first and most important thing is honoring the traditions of each of the parishes and especially those that are closing,” Father Washburn said. “I think St. Anne’s is not only a loss for the parishioners, it’s not only a loss for the City of Fall River, it’s also a loss for the diocese. It has been a very important Spiritual place for a long time. I remember just in my own experience when I was starting to discern my vocation back in the early 1990s, St. Anne’s was a place that I would go because it was well-known as just a beautiful place to go and pray. I’m sure there are countless stories like that.

“With St. Anne’s and the Holy Cross and Holy Rosary chapels, we really have to not just look at this from the perspective of a closure, but respecting the loss that it is for each of those communities and the

grief involved. One of my goals is to find a way to honor and remember them as we move forward. The other piece of that is, of course, to welcome them. We want to make sure that everyone who is losing a church location right now, doesn’t lose the Church.”

Father Washburn admitted the greatest challenge for him will be to respect and honor the past while building for the future.

“The whole idea of giving this a single name of the Catholic Community of Central Fall River is to create a common identity,” Father Washburn said. “It’s a balancing act where we are at the same time creating an identity, but we don’t want to let go of an identity. In other words, it’s not a generic name, but it’s the Catholic Community of Central Fall River at Good Shepherd Parish, at St. Stanislaus, and at the Cathedral of St. Mary. It’s a way of taking these individual places, respecting their unique history and the unique gifts that they

In Your Prayers Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks Oct. 21 Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward J. Carr, P.R., Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall River; Chancellor 1907-21, 1937 Rev. Francis E. Gagne, Pastor, St. Stephen, Attleboro, 1942 Rev. Walter J. Buckley, Retired Pastor, St. Kilian, New Bedford, 1979 Oct. 22 Rev. John E. Connors, Pastor, St. Peter, Dighton, 1940 Rev. Jerome F. O’Donnell, OFM, Our Lady’s Chapel, New Bedford, 1983 Oct. 23 Chorbishop Joseph Eid, Pastor, St. Anthony of the Desert, Fall River, 1970 Oct. 24 Rev. Marc Maurice Dagenais, O.P., Retired Assistant, St. Anne, Fall River, 1982 Most Rev. Joseph W. Regan, M.M, Retired Prelate of Tagum, Phillipines, 1994 Oct. 25 Rev. Reginald Chene, O.P., Dominican Priory, Fall River, 1935 Rev. Raymond B. Bourgoin, Pastor, St. Paul, Taunton, 1950 Rev. James W. Connerton, CSC, Founder, Stonehill College, North Easton, 1988 Rev. Msgr. John J. Steakem, Pastor, St. Thomas More, Somerset, 1999 Oct. 27 Rev. Francisco L. Jorge, Assistant, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New Bedford, 1918 Rev. Edmond L. Dickinson, Assistant, St. Mathieu, Fall River, 1967 Rev. Joseph F. O’Donnell, Retired Pastor, Immaculate Conception, North Easton, 1990 Oct. 28 Rev. Alfred E. Coulombe, Pastor, St. George, Westport, 1923 Rev. Stanislaus Kozikowski, OFM Conv., Pastor, St. Hedwig, New Bedford, 1956 Oct. 30 Msgr. Robert L. Stanton, Retired Pastor, St. Paul, Taunton, 1992 Rev. Denis Sughrue, C.S.C., Director of Postulancy, Holy Cross Novitiate, North Dartmouth, 2002 Nov. 1 Rev. William H. McNamara, Retired Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield, 1924 Rev. Louis N. Blanchet, Assistant, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River, 1927 Rt. Rev. Msgr. John F. Ferraz, Pastor, St. Michael, Fall River, 1944 Rt. Rev. Msgr. George F. Cain, Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River, 1953 Rev. William E. Farland, Pastor, St. Joseph, Taunton, 1987 Rev. William F. Gartland, C.S.C., Stonehill College, North Easton, 1988 Rev. John F. Sullivan, SS.CC., Retired Pastor Holy Trinity, West Harwich, 1994 Rev. Manuel T. Faria, Retired, Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, 1999 Nov. 2 A memento for the repose of the souls of our bishops, priests and permanent deacons not on this list Rev. Joseph S. Fortin, Founder, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River, 1923 Rev. Michael V. McDonough, Chaplain, St. Mary’s Home, New Bedford, 1933

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offered to the city, but also finding a way to have a common identity in the midst of them.”

While the notion of losing a landmark church like St. Anne’s is “never comfortable for anyone,” Father Washburn said the everchanging demographics in the Fall River Diocese and the Church, in general, have made it necessary to adapt with the times.

“I said to the bishop when he asked me to take on this position that I reject the notion that we are on a steady decline into nothing, but rather it’s a matter that the Church is changing as the Church always does over time,” Father Washburn said. “And what we’re finding now is that the model of the inner-city Church, ethnicallybased that worked so well for so long isn’t working now. So we need to create a model that works and I’m sure to the degree that we can find that model, we’re going to grow. So this is not going to be just about what gets closed now, or what gets closed next. But this is going to be a moment of new birth and rebirth for the City of Fall River.”

“We are better positioned as a community of faith to confront our challenges collaboratively, not separately, as individual parishes,” Bishop da Cunha wrote in his letter. “And it is also evident to me that the Fall River parishes currently engaged in the planning process could benefit from the support and affirmation of other neighboring parishes.”

To that end, Father Washburn said he was pleased to learn that St. Anne’s Parish had already begun a collaborative Faith Formation program with the neighboring parishes of Good Shepherd and St. Stanislaus about a year-and-a-half ago.

“So that’s one really good thing at least, because one of my initial thoughts was just feeling for families who have children in Faith Formation, and obviously now wondering where their child would make their First Communion or Confirmation or those kinds of things,” he said. “So it’s good to

know that was already integrated into a more collaborative program.

“But perhaps the most important task of all is to really let all the parishioners from St. Anne’s, from Holy Rosary, and from Holy Cross know how welcome they are in this new collaborative effort — whichever of the four churches they decide to make their new home — and just know how glad we are to welcome them and to welcome their gifts and their talents into this new community.”

Father Washburn stressed that he doesn’t plan to make wholesale changes at the beginning.

“I’m not coming in on November 1 with a new Mass schedule and new plans for this, that and the other,” he said. “As the bishop wrote in his letter to all of the communities, this is a wonderful moment for strong lay leadership, so I’m going to come in with ears ready to listen to parishioners. Yes, we will have a new plan, and yes, I’m sure that there will be changes and new initiatives and new ideas and all that, but they’re going to come from the community. We’re going to do this together in an open, transparent way where laity and clergy are working together to build this new community.”

With his new assignment taking effect October 31 and the final Mass celebration at St. Anne’s Church planned for November 25, Father Washburn will have some time to transition into his new role as rector/parochial administrator. For now, he’s just planning to ease into it and start “meeting the people.”

“I’m looking forward to meeting all of the parishioners and hearing their individual stories and getting to know this community,” he said. “I was thinking one of the honors of being a priest is the ways that people invite you into their lives and they invite you into the most important parts of their lives.

So it’s a joy for me to share their stories, to walk now on this new chapter of the journey with them and just to be part of this — what I think is a new, exciting initiative in the city.”

U.S. bishops hope Wuerl’s resignation is a step toward healing

Washington D.C. (CNA/EWTN News) — Several U.S. bishops responding to the official resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. expressed hope that the decision would bring healing for survivors of clerical abuse.

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Wuerl October 12, while asking the cardinal to continue leading the Archdiocese of Washington on an interim basis until a permanent successor is appointed.

The pope received a personal request from Wuerl to accept his resignation on September 21, and officially accepted it during the Synod of Bishops in Rome.

Cardinal Wuerl has

been the subject of criticism since late June, when revelations about alleged sexual misconduct on the part of his predecessor, Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, raised questions about what Wuerl knew about McCarrick, and how he responded to that knowledge.

Though Wuerl has denied wrongdoing, he said in September that he would ask Pope Francis to accept his resignation “so that this archdiocesan Church we all love can move forward.”

Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh issued a statement expressing hope that the cardinal’s resignation would bring healing to victims of abuse.

“For as long as I have known Cardinal Wuerl, he has advocated for those within the Church and beyond who need the opportunity for a better life,” Bishop Zubik wrote. “I pray that the acceptance of his resignation today by Pope Francis will continue to bring about healing in the hearts and lives of victims of abuse and all those in the Church.”

Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington thanked Wuerl for his nearly 52 years of service as a priest and offered prayers for the Archdiocese of Washington.

“I convey my prayerful support to His Eminence and to all the clergy, consecrated religious and lay faithful in the Archdiocese

of Washington,” Burbidge wrote in a statement.

“At this time in the life of our Church, all bishops are called, as Cardinal Wuerl has done, to acknowledge any failure to protect God’s children, to express deepest apologies to victims of sexual abuse and to renew our commitment to assist them in their healing process in any way possible,” he added.

Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles was asked about Wuerl’s resignation at an October 12 Vatican press conference.

“I know Cardinal Wuerl; I think he discerned something in good conscience.

I’m sure he did what he felt was right for the good of the

Church, and I’m sure that the pope saw it from that perspective too,” Barron said.

“So that is all I can really say at the moment.”

The August 14 release of a grand jury report detailing decades of abuse allegations in six Pennsylvania dioceses put Wuerl’s record as Bishop of Pittsburgh, where he served from 1988 to 2006, under close scrutiny.

Some cases in the report raised concerns that Wuerl had allowed priests accused of abuse to remain in ministry after allegations had been made against them.

Wuerl, 77, originally submitted his resignation on Nov. 12, 2015, when he turned 75 years old, as required by canon law.

Boston (CNA/ EWTN News) — The Archdiocese of Boston recently announced that it is expanding its sex abuse investigation to include all three of its seminaries.

The investigation will now include Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary and Redemptoris Mater Seminary, along with St. John’s Seminary, which has been under investigation since August after two of its seminarians filed abuse claims.

In his announcement of the expansion, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, OFM Cap., said that the decision to include the other two seminaries came about in consultations about the investigation into St. John’s.

“While the initial review was specific to St. John’s, I have concluded that to meet the generally expected levels of transparency and accountability, it is best to expand the review to include all three seminaries,” Cardinal O’Malley said.

“I want to reassure the

seminary communities and the wider public that these are institutions committed to the highest standards of integrity, respect and safety for our seminarians, faculty and staff,” he added.

It is not known if there were additional accusations brought forward involving the additional seminaries.

CNA asked the Archdiocese of Boston whether additional allegations have been made; the archdiocese referred CNA back to its statement issued October 10.

An updated version of the statement includes a Frequently Asked Questions section, which poses the question: “Why include all three seminaries if the initial issue involved only St. John’s Seminary?”

The answer to that question provided by the archdiocese states: “While the issues pertained to St. John’s Seminary, the cardinal wants to reassure the Catholic community and wider public that we owe it to future generations of seminarians that all

three of our seminaries meet the highest level of exceptionalism and holiness for priestly formation.”

On August 10 of this year, Cardinal O’Malley announced a major investigation into St. John’s Seminary in the Archdiocese of Boston, following allegations made by two former seminarians on social media. The cardinal also announced that the rector of the seminary, Msgr. James Moroney, had been placed on immediate leave to allow for a “fully independent inquiry.”

At that time, Cardinal O’Malley said the two men who had brought the accusations forward had “witnessed and experienced activities which are directly contrary to the moral standards and requirements of formation for the Catholic priesthood” and that they would be taken seriously.

Cardinal O’Malley, who also serves as the President of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, also announced in his October 11 statement a change in

the committee that will be conducting the investigation.

He said that the scope of the new investigation would be too broad for the original committee, and added the members of the original committee all had ties to St. John’s which might have compromised their objectivity.

“For these several reasons I have decided to engage (the lawfirm of) Yurko, Salvesen and Remz to conduct the review of the archdiocesan seminaries,” Cardinal O’Malley said.

“The review will be led by former U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern, with the assistance of Doug Salvesen and others at the firm. Yurko, Salvesen and Remz has significant experience with the process of review that we seek and does not have an existing relationship with any of the seminaries or the Archdiocese of Boston.”

Cardinal O’Malley encouraged anyone with relevant information to contact the investigating firm directly.

An independent report

highlighting concerns, and steps to address them, will be issued once the investigation has been completed, Cardinal O’Malley noted.

He added that the investigation will be done in such a way as to allow for “as little disruption as possible to the academic year now underway at the seminaries.”

He said that the archdiocese is “blessed” to have its three seminaries, and that he looked forward to ordaining the largest number of new priests in more than two decades for the archdiocese in the upcoming ordinations for the class of 2019.

He also noted that while he encourages everyone to pray for religious vocations, the role of the laity is also vital in the Church.

“In times such as we are experiencing it is of ever greater importance that we embrace the dedication, commitment and experience of the laity if we are to provide the path for our future priests to serve as witnesses of the love and mercy of Jesus.”

Cardinal O’Malley expands sex abuse investigation to include all Boston seminaries

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The Seven in Heaven: Meet the newly-canonized saints

Vatican City (ACI force for the country’s poor Prensa) — Meet the seven as well as a reliable source of people Pope Francis officially news. In addition to speaking recognized as saints of the out against the government’s Catholic Church on October actions El Salvador, he also 14. criticized the U.S. governSt. Pope Paul VI ment for backing the military Born Giovanni Battista junta that seized El Salvador Montini in 1897 and orin 1979, and even wrote to dained a priest in 1920, he Jimmy Carter in February did graduate studies in litera- 1980 asking him to stop supture, philosophy, aand canon porting the repressive regime. law in Rome before beginIn March 1980, Romero ning to work for the Vatican was assassinated, likely by Secretariat of State. In 1954, a right-wing death squad, he was named Archbishop while celebrating Mass. of Milan, and in 1958 was Pope Francis beatified made a Cardinal by Pope Romero in 2015.

John XXIII. As a Cardinal, St. Vincent Romano he helped to arrange the Born in 1751 and orSecond Vatican Council and dained a priest in 1775, chose to continue the council Romano had studied the after he became Pope. writings of St. Alphonsus Montini was elected as de Liguori and developed Pope Paul VI in 1963 at age a devotion to the Blessed 65, not long after the start of Sacrament. He spent his the second Vatican Counwhole life as a priest in Torre cil. This was a difficult time del Greco and was known for the Church and for the for his simple ways and his world, as the “Sexual Revolu- care for orphans. He worked tion” was in full swing and to rebuild his parish, often the struggle for civil rights in with his bare hands, after the the United States in particu- eruption of Mount Vesuvius lar was at its peak. Paul VI in 1794. He died in Decemis perhaps most noted for ber 1831 of pneumonia and his 1968 encyclical Humawas beatified by Paul VI in nae Vitae, which served as 1963. the Church’s official rebuke St. Francesco Spinelli to artificial contraception, Born in Milan in 1853, prohibiting its use.

Spinelli entered the seminary Paul VI died in 1978 and and was ordained a priest in Pope Francis beatified him in 1875. He began his aposto2014. late educating the poor and St. Oscar Romero also served as a seminary Born in 1917 in El Salprofessor, Spiritual director, vador, Romero was auxiliary and counselor for several bishop of San Salvador for women’s religious communifour years before being ties. In 1882, Father Spinelli elevated to archbishop in met Caterina Comensoli, 1977. He was an outspoken with whom he would found defender of the rights of the the Institute of the Adorers poor in El Salvador, who of the Blessed Sacrament. were being terrorized by The Sisters dedicated themright-wing military death selves to Eucharistic adorasquads mainly because of tion day and night, which protests over the extreme inspired their service to the economic inequality in the poor and suffering. country in the 20th century.

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bia, and Argentina. Their ministries include caring for people with HIV, orphans, drug addicts, and prisoners.

St. John Paul II beatified him in 1992.

St. Nunzio Sulprizio Born in Pescosansonesco, Italy in 1817, Sulprizio lost both of his parents at age six and was brought up by an uncle who exploited him for hard labor. Fatigued and often given dangerous assignments, he developed gangrene and eventually lost his leg. Despite his tremendous suffering, he would reportedly make statements such as: “Jesus suffered a lot for me. Why should I not suffer for Him? I would die in order to convert even one sinner.”

He recovered from the gangrene and dedicated himself to helping other patients before his health deteriorated again. Sulprizio died of bone cancer in 1836, when he was only 19 years old.

Pope Paul VI beatified him in 1963.

St. Nazaria Ignacia March Mesa Born in 1889 in Madrid, Spain, Nazaria was the fourth of 18 children. Growing up, her family was indifferent and sometimes even hostile to her desire to enter religious life, but later she led several family members back to the Church when she entered the Franciscan Third Order. Her family moved to Mexico in 1904, and Nazarie met Sisters of the Institute of Sisters of the Abandoned Elders, who inspired her to join their order. In 1915, she chose to take perpetual vows with the order in Mexico City and was assigned to a hospice in Oruro, Bolivia for 12 years.

Beginning in 1920, she felt a call to found a new order dedicated to missionary work. In June 1925, she founded the Pontifical Cru-

sade, later renamed the Congregation of the Missionary Crusaders of the Church, with the mission to catechize children and adults, support the work of priests, conduct missions, and to print and distribute short religious tracts. Many opposed her work, but Nazaria pressed on.

Her order cared for soldiers on both sides of the 1932-35 war between Paraguay and Bolivia, and she herself survived persecutions in Spain during the Spanish Civil war.

She died in July 1943, and four years later Pope Pius XII finally granted papal approval to the Congregation of the Missionary Crusaders of the Church, which by that time had spread throughout South America and begun work in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Cameroon.

Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1992.

St. Maria Katharina Kasper Born in Dembach, Germany in 1820 as Catherine Kasper, she attended very little school because of poor health. Despite this, she began to help the poor, the abandoned, and the sick at a young age. Her mother taught her household chores,

as well as how to spin and weave fabric. After her father died when she was 21, Catherine worked the land as a farm hand for about 10 cents a day. Her helpfulness toward others attracted other women to her, and she felt a call to the religious life, but knew she needed to stay and support her mother, who was in poor health.

After her mother died, Catherine started, with the approval of the bishop of Limburg, Germany, a small house with several friends who also felt the call. In 1851 she and four other women officially took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and formed the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. Catherine, known in the religious community as Mother Mary, served five consecutive terms as superior of the house and continued to work with novices and to open houses for their order all over the world.

Today there are 690 Sisters in 104 houses in Germany, the Netherlands, the United States, Mexico and India.

She died of a heart attack in February 1898, and Pope Paul VI beatified her in 1978.

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don’t always get to know all of them personally, because maybe they’re here just once, or they just come in for a quick prayer, but it seems to be a place that attracts a lot of the faithful.”

As a member of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate for the past 13 years, Father Sasko was ordained a priest five years ago, and his first assignment after ordination was Our Lady’s Chapel.

“Since almost the beginning of my stay here, I’ve been helping the superior in one capacity or another and as vicar specifically since 2015,” he said.

“Vicar is a term that kind of means vice, like a vice superior, so to speak. So when a superior is absent or unable to get something done, you step in to help; you’re there to be his closest collaborator. That’s kind of the mission of a vicar.”

Now that Father Maximilian’s three-year term as Father Guardian is up, he will remain at the friary in New Bedford and will continue working with various ministries, including providing Sacramental support to the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by St. Teresa of Calcutta that also serves the diocese.

Having just begun his tenure as Father Guardian, Father Sasko was recently honored to speak at the local Coast-to-Coast Rosary Rally held October 7 at Fort Taber in New Bedford, which the Friars helped organize along with St. Anthony of Padua Parish in the city.

“It was an initiative from St. Anthony’s Parish in New Bedford, and a good number of parishioners there are also chapel-goers here as well, so there’s a lot of overlap,” Father

Sasko said. “And the chapel kind of emerged as one of the leaders in this initiative, with the Friars being involved in different ways.

I was involved minimally, except for just being asked to speak when everything was all done.”

Looking ahead, Father Sasko said the Friars will be celebrating the 16th anniversary of Perpetual Adoration at Our Lady’s Chapel with a special Holy Hour on Sunday, November 18 that will this year be offered up to pray for our American bishops and the Universal Church in the wake of the recent sexual abuse crisis.

“Usually we commemorate the anniversary with a holy hour for some specific intention, (and) this year we’re hoping to dedicate the holy hour for that intention,” Father Sasko said.

“We try to do something twice a year. We did one in March for the Holy Father.

Not all parishes can offer perpetual adoration — it’s a precious service and it is very much appreciated.”

Noting that prayer is one of the strongest responses to the crisis, Father Sasko agreed it’s an issue that needs to be discussed openly so that “people can cope with it, deal with it, and kind of persevere through it.”

“Different people have different questions and different struggles with it, so it’s multifaceted and sometimes you might deal with an actual victim, and that, of course, is very oneon-one and very personal,” he said. “But I think now maybe people are struggling with trusting the Church.

You’ve got to find a way to reach out with answers of faith.

“We all have to pray. I

also think a heroic observance of chastity would help because that’s kind of what’s conspicuously missing now. You have to encourage people to just continue living a life virtuously offered up, for that intention of healing the Mystical Body, through prayer and sacrifice. It’s almost always the same — one person makes the mess, and the others have to clean it up. That’s kind of the reparation part of it, the redemptive suffering.

But we shouldn’t be afraid to confront it. We can’t just ignore a problem that the faithful are very keenly feeling. We have to be able to talk about it and guide people through it.”

Father Sasko said the order will continue to help organize the popular A Day With Mary events at various parishes around the diocese, and they recently resumed a similar apostolate known as the Marian Cenacle.

“The Marian Cenacle is a family apostolate that was active years ago,” Father Sasko said. “Because the members involved in the past had their own families, they had to tend to their own kids. But recently we’ve been able to resume it.”

The Marian Cenacle is similar to the Pilgrim Virgin statue apostolate wherein a statue of Our Lady is brought into a family’s home for a week or two stay. The families, in turn, are asked to pray the Rosary daily and consecrate themselves to the Blessed Mother.

“After that, Our Lady does the rest,” Father Sasko said. “We go from family to family, so it’s been a beautiful apostolate. It’s been really touching families and we are primarily conveying

the necessity of prayer and asking Our Lady for those graces that sometimes she wants to grant, but can’t unless we ask for them.

“We usually do it every two weeks, but in October we’re doing it every week as it’s the month of the Holy Rosary, so every week we visit a new family and we’ll be bringing the statue and it will stay there for the whole week at one home.

We’re booked already into 2019, so it’s become very popular.”

The term “cenacle” refers to the Upper Room where Mary gathered with the Apostles after Our Lord’s ascension, and they received the gift of the Holy Spirit so they could go out and proclaim the Gospel to the world.

“So that’s kind of the etymology of it and the reasoning behind it,” he said.

“In the same way, we try to gather families around Our Lady to receive all the gifts of the Holy Spirit necessary to courageously live out their faith.”

Although he’s only a couple of weeks into his tenure, Father Sasko is confident he can handle the role of Father Guardian with the help and support of his fellow Franciscans, especially Father Maximilian.

“It’s been good for me, having been the vicar under him, it’s been a real learning experience,” Father Sasko said. “So you get to learn the job before you’re asked to take it and I am very appreciative of that. I had a relatively good amount of time without any weighty responsibilities, and I’m glad I had someone here in the community to learn from.”

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Around the Diocese Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, 121 Mount Pleasant Street in New Bedford, will hold its Harvest Bazaar on Saturday, October 20 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. featuring a grand raffle, a raffle for two tickets to the Patriots’ December 2 game, baked goods, games, and much more! The kitchen will be open all day, serving homemade French meat pies, chow mein sandwiches, caçoila sandwiches, linguicaonion-pepper sandwiches, chowder and more.

St. John Neumann Parish, 157 Middleboro Road in East Freetown, invites all to its “One Day Only Barn Sale” being held in their parish barn, on Saturday, October 20, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine. The barn sale has a large variety of items available to choose from, and the prices can’t be beat!

St. John Neumann Parish, 157 Middleboro Road in East Freetown, will host a Harvest Taizé Service on Sunday, October 21 beginning at 7 p.m. Come share the bounty of our harvest with immigrants and refugees; all are welcome.

“A Toast to the Season” Wine Tasting hosted by the St. Julie Billiart Parish Ladies Guild will be held at Inner Bay Cafe (second floor), 1339 Cove Road in New Bedford on Friday, November 2 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tickets are $25 per person and include wine tasting and an array of hors d’oeuvres. For tickets or more information, call 508992-5464.

Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Parish will host its Holiday Fair in the church hall, Coyle Drive in Seekonk, on Friday, November 2 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Saturday, November 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. featuring food, raffles, and baskets galore! All are welcome.

St. Mary’s Parish, 106 Illinois Street in New Bedford, is having a Holiday Fair on Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days. All are welcome. For more information, call the rectory at 508995-3593.

The Diocese of Fall River Prison Ministry (REC) is recognizing the 20th anniversary of its formation with a Mass celebration on Sunday, November 4 at 11 a.m. at St. Julie Billiart Church in Dartmouth. All current and former members of this ministry, along with their spouses, are welcome to this joyous event, especially those who were instrumental in its formation, growth and continuing success. Light refreshments and fellowship will immediately follow.

St. Anthony of Padua Church on Bedford Street in Fall River will host a recitation of the Holy Rosary and Litany with the Divine Mercy Chaplet every Monday evening at 6:15 p.m. All are welcome. For more information, call the rectory at 508-673-2402.

To submit an event for consideration in The Anchor’s “Around the Diocese” listing, send the information by email to kensouza@anchornews.org

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Eucharistic Adoration in the Diocese Acushnet — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Francis Xavier Parish on Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Evening prayer and Benediction is held Monday through Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

ASSONET — St. Bernard’s Parish will have Eucharistic Adoration every Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed on the altar at the conclusion of 9 a.m. Mass and the church will be open all day, concluding with evening prayer and Benediction at 6:30 p.m.

ATTLEBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. John the Evangelist Church, North Main Street, Mondays and Wednesdays from 5-6:30 p.m.

ATTLEBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the Adoration Chapel at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, 71 Linden Street, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

ATTLEBORO — The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette holds Eucharistic Adoration in the Shrine Church every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. through November 17.

Brewster — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Our Lady of the Cape Church, 468 Stony Brook Road, on First Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. buzzards Bay — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Margaret Church, 141 Main Street, every First Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending at 5 p.m.

East Freetown — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. John Neumann Church every Monday (excluding legal holidays) 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady, Mother of All Nations Chapel. (The base of the bell tower).

EAST TAUNTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the chapel at Holy Family Parish Center, 438 Middleboro Avenue, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. On First Fridays, Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Holy Family Church, 370 Middleboro Avenue, from 8:30 a.m. until 7:45 p.m.

FAIRHAVEN — St. Mary’s Church, Main St., has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 8:30-11:30 a.m. in the Chapel of Reconciliation, with Benediction at 11:30 a.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Anthony of Padua Church, on the corner of Bedford and Sixteenth streets, has Eucharistic Adoration accompanied by music and prayer every first Wednesday of the month from 6-7 p.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Anthony of the Desert Church, 300 North Eastern Avenue, has Eucharistic Adoration Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Thursdays following the 8 a.m. Mass until Friday at 8 a.m.

FALL RIVER — Holy Name Church, 709 Hanover Street, has Eucharistic Adoration Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady of Grace Chapel.

FALL RIVER — Good Shepherd Parish has Eucharistic Adoration every Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass and concluding with 3 p.m. Benediction in the Daily Mass Chapel. A bilingual holy hour takes place from 2 to 3 p.m. Park behind the church and enter the back door of the connector between the church and the rectory.

FALL RIVER — St. Joseph’s Church has a Holy Hour every Tuesday from 6-7 p.m., with Benediction at 6:45 p.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Michael’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with Benediction at 5:30 p.m.

Falmouth — St. Patrick’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration each First Friday following the 7 a.m. Mass, with Benediction at 4:30 p.m.

HYANNIS — St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis, 347 South Street, Hyannis, has Eucharistic Adoration from noon to 3 p.m., daily Monday through Friday.

MANSFIELD — St. Mary’s Parish, 330 Pratt Street, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Benediction at 5:45 p.m.

MASHPEE — Christ the King Parish, Route 151 and Job’s Fishing Road has 8:30 a.m. Each First Friday Mass ends with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Adoration continues until Benediction at 5 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD — Eucharistic Adoration is held every Thursday, with Confessions, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. James Church. Please use the side entrance.

NEW BEDFORD — There is a daily holy hour from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1359 Acushnet Avenue. It includes Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Liturgy of the Hours, recitation of the Rosary, and the opportunity for Confession.

NEW BEDFORD — St. Lawrence Martyr Parish, 565 County Street, holds Eucharistic Adoration in the side chapel Fridays from 7:30-11:45 a.m. ending with a simple Benediction NORTH DARTMOUTH — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Road, every Tuesday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., ending with Benediction. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available at this time.

NORTH DIGHTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Wednesday following 8:00 a.m. Mass and concludes with Benediction at 5 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration also takes place every First Friday at St. Nicholas of Myra Church, 499 Spring Street following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending with Benediction at 6 p.m. The Rosary is recited Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 8 a.m.

NORTH EASTON — A Holy Hour for Families including Eucharistic Adoration is held every Friday from 3-4 p.m. at The Father Peyton Center, 518 Washington Street.

NORTH EASTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Immaculate Conception Church Chapel on the first Wednesday of the month beginning after the 8:30 a.m. Mass, until 6:40 p.m. Those wishing to make a monthly commitment can sign up on the parish website at www.icceaston.org or call the parish office at 508-238-3232.

ORLEANS — St. Joan of Arc Parish, 61 Canal Road, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday starting after the 8 a.m. Mass and ending with Benediction at 11:45 a.m. The Sacrament of the Sick is also available immediately after the 8 a.m. Mass.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

Taunton — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Tuesday at St. Anthony Church, 126 School Street, following the 8 a.m. Mass with prayers including the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for vocations, concluding at 6 p.m. with Chaplet of St. Anthony and Benediction. Recitation of the Rosary for peace is prayed Monday through Saturday at 7:30 a.m. prior to the 8 a.m. Mass.

Taunton — Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place every First Friday at Annunciation of the Lord, 31 First Street. Exposition begins following the 8 a.m. Mass. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed, and Adoration will continue throughout the day. Confessions are heard from 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. Rosary and Benediction begin at 5 p.m.

Taunton — St. Jude the Apostle Parish in Taunton will host Eucharistic Adoration on Mondays following the 9 a.m.

Mass and the St. Jude Novena, until 11:30, ending with Benediction. It will take place at Holy Rosary Chapel during the summer months.

WAREHAM — Eucharistic Adoration at St. Patrick’s Church takes place 9 a.m. Thursday through 7 p.m. Friday. Adoration is held in our Adoration Chapel in the lower Parish Hall. ~ PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ~

East Sandwich — The Corpus Christi Parish Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 324 Quaker Meeting House Road, East Sandwich. Use the Chapel entrance on the side of the church.

NEW BEDFORD — Our Lady’s Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street, offers Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day. For information call 508-996-8274.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

WEST HARWICH — Our Lady of Life Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Holy Trinity Parish, 246 Main Street (Rte. 28), holds perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. We are a regional chapel serving all of the surrounding parishes.

All are invited to sign up to cover open hours. For open hours, or to sign up call 508-430-4716.

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