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Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., presents the Timothy J. Cotter “Friend of Catholic Education” Award to Roger K. Sullivan, Chairman of the Diocese of Fall River’s Central Catholic Schools Board during the recent FACE Fall Dinner.

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Taunton author Robert Roche writes fascinating book about 1917 events in Fatima, Portugal

occasionally dabbles in tuning or America. this assertion restoring organs, he spends much of “They had because the Co-Editor his time now traveling to and from to send her up former pontiff ’s kensouza@anchornews.org the Azores and Portugal. It was to the U.S. for medical reTAUNTON — The first thing during one of these trips that he was a special surcords have been that is readily apparent when first inspired to delve deeper into the gery,” Roche sealed for 50 meeting Taunton author Robert said. “And when Fatima mystery. years.

Roche is that he has a knack for “In the summers when I was on they got there, “About 25 storytelling. And that innate ability vacation, it’s only a two-hour flight the doctor said years have gone to weave a captivating tale is on full by, so I won’t over to the mainland, and I’d stay there’s nothdisplay in his new book, “The Bullet live to see them, with the friars and then I would rent ing we can do. in Mary’s Crown: The Story of Our And she prayed a car and drive up to Fatima and I but you will,” he Lady of Fatima.” started snooping around and asking to the Blessed said. “And you This thought-provoking new questions and taking pictures,” he Mother and mark my words, volume, published by Stillwater said. “So, I wound up accumulatthat night the it will come out River Publications of Rhode Island, that he had a Blessed Mother ing information that I never knew is a treasure trove of information for very unusual before.”

F. Robert Roche, O.P., A.B. woke her up those who, like Roche, have grown When his sister, Joanna Roche and said: ‘Come surgery to keep up hearing about the 1917 appariAlden, learned that he was doing on, get out of him alive. tion of the Blessed Mother to three research on Fatima, she suggested bed.’ And she did!”

When they took him off the life shepherd children in Cova da Iria in support system, his heart did start he put it together in chapters, which A retired organ-builder who Fatima, Portugal. eventually ballooned into 140 pages. founded the Roche Organ Comagain. And he was three months in “The first half of the book is Along the way, Roche was assisted pany, Roche has been a lay brother the hospital and then three months the story of Fatima, and the three of the Order of Preachers (Dominirecuperating and then he suddenly 8 Turn to page five shepherd children,” Roche recently cans) since 1957. Although he still starts tooting all around? All of told The Anchor. “And what the little those things are part of the story.” girl in Portuguese called ‘secrets.’

The title of the book adorned But we would call them prophecies. on a cover that Roche refers to as Taunton author Robert The third secret she did not want to “Blessed Mother blue” refers to Roche’s fascinating new book reveal because the third prophesy the bullet removed from St. John on Our Lady of Fatima, was that a priest in white was going Paul II that was sent to Fatima and to be shot and killed.” melded into the silver crown on the “The Bullet in Mary’s Crown,” That third “secret” of Fatima was state of the Blessed Mother at the is now available in softcover ultimately made public in June 2000 iconic shrine. and it is considered by many to be and hardcover editions.

The second half of the book a prophesy of the May 13, 1981 ascontains a lot of information that sassination attempt on Pope St. John Roche “picked up along the way” The 140-page volume tells the true Paul II — which also happened to while doing research on Our Lady story of the actual 1917 events in be the 64th anniversary of the first of Fatima.

Fatima and offers 20 illustrations, Fatima apparition.

“For example, the Church only In his fascinating book, Roche biographies of the children, and approves of 82 appearances of the purports that the fact that Pope St. Virgin Mary every 100 years,” he a wealth of significant historical John Paul II survived may have been said. “She appears once or twice data not available elsewhere. a miracle in itself. someplace and does something “They kept his body alive for five very important, and the Church SOFTCOVER: $15/each plus $4.50 postage hours on the operating table,” Roche approves of them. But between you HARDCOVER: $24/each plus $4.75 postage said. “Wait a minute ... nobody is on and me and the world, the Blessed Bulk orders of 10 or more copies receive a 30% discount plus $8.50 postage the operating table for five hours!

Mother is here almost every day Send to: F. Robert Roche They had to remove all of his intalking to somebody, getting c/o Roche Fatima Books testines. After that Cardinal Joseph somebody out of trouble. So the 62 Park Street Ratzinger ran everything for the people who see her, and where, is Taunton, MA 02780-2417 next several years because St. John in a chart in the second half of the Paul was running all around the book. So this little book contains Name: ______________________________________________________________ world. But did anybody ever see him 140 pages of material that you can’t Address: ____________________________________________________________ eat a meal? Nobody saw him eat a get in 20 other books.”

City: __________________________________ State: _______ Zip: ____________ meal on those travels — just Holy The book chronicles Marian Communion at Mass — because he apparitions right up to the most ______ SOFTCOVER(S) ______HARDCOVER(S) had no intestines.” recent one in Ocean City, N.J. witTOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED: $____________ Roche said he can’t confirm nessed by a sick woman from South

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Three Portuguese parishes in Fall River to begin partnership FALL RIVER — On October 2, the Feast of the Guardian Angels, Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., Bishop of Fall River, issued letters to parishioners at St. Anthony of Padua, Santo Christo and Espirito Santo parishes in the city advising that the three will begin working toward a partnership model (distinct from the collaborative model, being used in other parts of the diocese), effective October 18. This cooperative group effort is seen to be more beneficial to the three Portuguese-speaking parishes moving forward.

St. Anthony of Padua Parish, which was previously under the umbrella of the Catholic Community of Central Fall River and the leadership of its pastor, Father Thomas Washburn, will now be led by Father Maurice O. Gauvin, pastor of Espirito Santo Parish.

Father Jason Brilhante will serve as parochial vicar of St. Anthony of Padua Church and will be in residence at the rectory. Father Jeff Cabral, pastor of Santo Christo Parish, will be working in partnership with Fathers Gauvin and Brilhante in serving the needs of Portuguese parishioners in that part of Fall River.

Writing to the members of the Catholic Community of Central Fall River and parishioners at Santo Christo

St. Anthony of Padua and Espirito Santo, Bishop da Cunha noted: “The process of strategic planning is one that needs constant evaluation so that we can support and encourage what is working, as well as make adjustments when things are not working as well as we had hoped.”

The bishop said he learned through regular discussions with Father Thomas Washburn, pastor of the Catholic Community of Central Fall River, and his leadership team that “since incorporating St. Anthony of Padua Parish more fully into the life of the collaborative ... a few concerns have arisen.”

Bishop da Cunha noted that four parishes “simply seems to be too many for the pastoral staff to manage,” making it “difficult for the priests assigned in (the) collaborative to be present to each parish as we would like in order to establish strong bonds between clergy and the faithful.”

Santo Christo Espirito Santo

Another key element the bishop addressed was that St. Anthony of Padua Parish “needs leadership that speaks Portuguese and can be pastorally attentive to the Spiritual needs of this community.”

To that end, Bishop da Cunha decided to remove St. Anthony of Padua Parish from the Catholic Community of Central Fall River collaborative and place it under the pastorship of Father Maurice O. Gauvin, who will also remain pastor of Espirito Santo Parish in the city.

Father Jason Brilhante, who previously served as parochial vicar for the four Catholic Community of Central Fall River parishes, will now become the parochial vicar of St. Anthony of Padua Parish.

Moving forward, the bishop has also asked St. Anthony of Padua, Espirito Santo and Santo Christo parishes to “pursue a relationship of greater pastoral cooperation.”

“Additionally, all three

parishes will begin a conversation about the ways in which they can benefit from greater cooperation,” the bishop wrote.

“The process of strategic planning has energized the parishes that have already been involved and I am confident that this will be a fruitful process for your parishes as well,” Bishop da Cunha wrote. “I am grateful to Father Maurice Gauvin, Father Jeff Cabral, and Father

Jason Brilhante for their willingness to be part of this process of ‘Rebuilding in Faith and Hope.’”

The bishop also thanked the leadership team at the Catholic Community of Central Fall River including Father Thomas Washburn, Father Juan Carlos Munoz, and Father Jason Brilhante for “all their hard work over these months to try and make this work.”

“And I’m so grateful to each of you — the devoted members of these parishes — who have worked with patience and prayer to make this a successful endeavor,” Bishop da Cunha wrote. “I know that this re-adjustment will be good for each of the parishes involved. I count on your continued prayerful participation as we work together to strengthen the Diocese of Fall River for the future.”

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A ppointment His Excellency, the Most Reverend Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., D.D., Bishop of Fall River, has made the following appointment: Reverend Maurice O. Gauvin, Pastor of Saint Anthony of Padua Parish in Fall River, while remaining Pastor of Espirito Santo Parish in Fall River; Reverend Jason Brilhante, from Parochial Vicar of Saint Stanislaus Parish, Good Shepherd Parish, Saint Anthony of Padua Parish and the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in Fall River, to Parochial Vicar of Saint Anthony of Padua Parish in Fall River with residence at the Saint Anthony of Padua rectory in Fall River Effective: October 18, 2019 October 18, 2019 †

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Fall River native Father Kenneth R. Sicard, O.P., appointed president of Providence College PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Providence College Corporation and the college’s Board of Trustees announced that Father Kenneth R. Sicard, O.P., ’78, ’82 G, Ph.D., a native of Fall River, has been elected as PC’s next president.

Father Sicard, who has served as PC’s executive vice president/treasurer since 2005, served as acting president for six months from July to December 2018 while President Father Brian J. Shanley, O.P. ’80 was on sabbatical. Father Sicard will succeed Father Shanley effective July 1, 2020.

The Board of Trustees voted to nominate Father Sicard following a

months-long search. at Ohio Dominican The Providence ColCollege in Columbus, lege Corporation Ohio. Father Sicard ratified that nominaserved there for seven tion and voted to elect years, also holding the Father Sicard shortly position of instructor thereafter. in business and theolFollowing his ogy. graduation from In 1997, Father Providence College in Sicard completed his 1978 with a bachelor’s studies for a doctoral degree in accountdegree in educational ing, Father Sicard studies/business at was employed as an Ohio State University audit manager at Fleet and came to PC as F ather K enneth R. S icard , O.P. Financial Group (then the dean of residence Industrial National life. In this role he Order, later earning his Bank) until 1984. Durbachelor’s degree in Sacred administered and supering that time he pursued theology and master of Di- vised PC’s residence life a master of business vinity degree from the Do- program and was responadministration degree sible for overseeing all minican House of Studies from Providence College, on-campus housing. He in Washington, D.C. Folgraduating in 1982. lowing his ordination as a served as dean until his In 1984, Father Sicard priest in 1990, his first as- appointment as executive entered the Dominican signment was as a chaplain vice president in 2005.

From 2002 through 2010, Father Sicard also served as the treasurer of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph. In this role, he oversaw the financial leaven in the world, to bring His light to the dark- and accounting operations ness. Our daily activities take each of us to places only we can go, to people only we will meet. May we allow Christ to renew and strengthen us, that He may work through us in each moment of every day.

‘Christ Our Hope: In Every “Be assured of my Season of Life,’ is particuprayers for you and for our larly suited for our times. common efforts to bring While attacks against huabout a world in which man life seem to grow ever every life is cherished. And more numerous and calso, together, may we hold lous, we know that Christ fast to Christ, our hope.” has conquered sin and New parish resources death. Through our Chris- have been developed tian hope in the Resurrecaround the theme of tion, we are given the grace “Christ our Hope” and are to persevere in faith. now available at “Jesus asks us to be as www.respectlife.org.

U.S. bishops’ Pro-Life Committee celebrates launch of Respect Life Month WASHINGTON, D.C. —Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, of Kansas City in Kansas and chairman of the Committee on ProLife Activities, celebrated the launch of Respect Life Month with a statement.

Archbishop Naumann encouraged Catholics discouraged by attacks on human life to “hold fast to Christ, our Hope.”

Archbishop Naumann’s full statement follows: “Although we must cherish, protect, and defend human life yearround, the Catholic Church in the United States sets aside each October as Respect Life Month.

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of the province. From 2010-2016, he served as a member of the Economic Council of the Dominican Order.

In addition to his duties as executive vice president/treasurer and member of the President’s Cabinet, Father Sicard has served as co-chairman of all three Strategic Planning Committees which have convened at the college since his arrival, including the most recent 10-year plan, PC200. He also serves as chairman of the college’s Shared Governance Committee, and sits on various committees of the College’s Board of Trustees, including the Audit, Board Affairs, Finance and Investment, and Executive Committees. He is also a member of the Providence President’s Council, and is a former trustee of Roger Williams Hospital in Providence (2008-2013).

25th annual FACE Fall Scholarship Dinner raises nearly $300,000 for diocesan students WESTPORT — On Tuesday, October 1, nearly 400 friends, supporters, students, and student-athletes attended a lively evening in support of FACE and Catholic education at White’s of Westport.

Kait Walsh, WPRI News Anchor and Bishop Stang High School alumna, served as the evening’s emcee for the second year in a row.

Walsh, whose husband is also a Stang graduate, remarked from the stage on the importance of the mission of Catholic education. “As (my husband and I) prepare to welcome our second child into the world, it gives us so much hope to know that everyone here shares our commitment to the special, welcoming, and nourishing environment that is found in our Catholic schools,” she said.

Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., presented the Timothy J. Cotter “Friend of Catholic Education” Award to Roger K. Sullivan,

chairman of the Diocese of Fall River’s Central Catholic Schools Board, in recognition of Sullivan’s tremendous leadership and unwavering support of our Catholic schools.

Cassidy Witkus-Gagnon, a junior at Coyle and Cassidy High School, addressed the crowd, sharing her personal experiences as a Catholic school student. In addition to the academic and service experiences her Catholic education has offered, Witkus-Gagnon — who has created a Stocking Stuffer Drive that has to-date provided hundreds of gifts to children in need throughout her community — spoke about some of the more commonplace, everyday values her Catholic education has instilled.

“My Catholic education has shaped me into a person who holds the door for someone else; who stacks the dishes at the end of the table when I go out to eat to help the server; who returns the cart at

the grocery store instead of leaving it in the parking lot; who moves a cart left in a parking space, so an elderly woman doesn’t have to get out of her car; and who is happy that she’s 16 years old, so she can finally donate blood at a blood drive,” she told the audience.

John Feitelberg, president of HUB International, and Janna Lafrance of Lafrance Hospitality served as co-chairs and led the Text-to-Give initiative which raised nearly $20,000 for scholarships at the event. Afterward, attendees were able to hear from Matthew Slater, three-time World Champion and Special Teams Captain for the New England Patriots, who spoke to the crowd about how his strong Christian faith has influenced his personal life, family values, and football career. Guests enjoyed hearing from Slater, who had scored his first career touchdown two days earlier, and had a chance to pose for photos

with the Super Bowl champion.

“For so many young people, your support makes that single, life-changing difference,” Bishop da Cunha told guests. “Tonight was our 25th dinner. I hope that, 25 years from now, our diocese can say that it is stronger than it has ever been, through the blessings you are bestowing today,” he said.

A total of nearly $300,000 was raised through this year’s event, thanks to the tremendous generosity of so many friends of Catholic education. All proceeds from the FACE Fall Scholarship Dinner go directly to student scholarships across the diocese and make a difference for hundreds of students and families in need.

Please visit www.face-dfr.org to learn more.

Color photos of the 25th annual FACE Fall Dinner are included on page 10 of this edition of The Anchor.

sell about 700 or 800 more of them just to recover my costs.” ferently on the page. I wrote all of Roche hopes everyone’s one takethose things down and then I sent away from the book will be learning it back to her. Then she sent me an- the difference between faith and other one that looked more like this knowledge — and it’s something he’s final version.” adamant about sharing.

Roche characterized his book as “In Fatima for example, the kids “great bedtime reading” and said he came home and they had agreed wanted to shape it more like a novel between the three of them that they than a non-fiction account of the would never tell anyone what they apparitions. saw,” Roche said. “But the little girl, “At the end of each chapter, St. Jacinta, just couldn’t wait for her there’s a paragraph that sums up the mama to come home so she could chapter and (teases you to want to) tell her. So her father said, my little read the next chapter,” Roche said. girl is very bright and she has never “My sister got a kick out of that, said a single lie in her whole life. because she knew exactly what I was She never has exaggerated anything. doing. I wanted to hold your attenThey certainly must have seen tion.” something and she said she saw the Although he’s written for and Blessed Mother, so we better go see contributed to technical books what’s going on because there is about organ-building, this is Roche’s always the possibility it could be an first published work as a solo author. evil spirit that they’re seeing.

It took a lot of time to research and “So the following month, about write, but he’s proud of his efforts. a dozen or so people went with the “You have to think about who’s kids. Now they did not see the Virgoing to read this and will they gin Mary, but they saw things. Every understand what I’m trying to say? time a bigger and bigger group went And I wanted kids to be able to and they all saw things — they saw read it, not just grown-ups,” he said. the sun start to get weak and then “When you’re an unknown author, they saw clouds swirling around you have to pay for the typesetting, the small tree and they saw what the design, the layout — you’ve got looked like snow. You would grab it to pay for everything. And I have to and it wasn’t there, but just glowing.

And then on the last appearance on October 13, there were about 30,000 people — but some say it may have been as many as 100,000 — and that’s when they all saw the Miracle of the Sun.” Despite all these witnesses, Roche said some people still don’t believe.

“That’s because faith is a gift, and there’s no way you can prove it,” he said. “Some people never get the gift, and I don’t know why. See, if I prove something to you, then you don’t have to fake it anymore, right?

You have knowledge. That’s the difference between faith and knowledge.

“St. Paul said: when you go to Heaven, you lose your faith. You lose your hope. You don’t have to hope anymore, because you’re there!

You don’t have to believe in God, you’re talking to Him. Love is what lasts forever. There’s faith, hope and love, but it’s the love that lasts forever. So everyone that has a beatific vision, they lose their faith because they don’t have to believe anymore — they know! That’s the difference between faith and knowledge.”

Copies of Robert Roche’s “The Bullet in Mary’s Crown” can be ordered directly from the author, or online at www.stillwaterpress. com.

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and guided by his sister; a former student and friend who was also a self-professed atheist; his godson who has a degree in geography; and his former pastor, Father William Rodrigues, who is now pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish in Orleans.

“So I had four proofreaders,” Roche said. “They all said: it’s good.

Why don’t you get it published? I had to have a priest for one and an agnostic for another, and then two academics looking at the structure.

So you’ll find that the book is much better than it should be. And I get all the credit!”

Roche wasn’t sure the book could be sold to a publisher until he met with a representative from Stillwater River Publications in Pawtucket, R.I. “I had lunch with her and she said, ‘Did you bring it with you?’ I had it on a (thumb drive) and she put it into her computer and gave it back to me and said it was all downloaded,” Roche remembered. “Then she asked: ‘What color do you want the cover to be?’ And I said ‘Blessed Mother blue.’

“About a week later, I got this package in the mail with the initial proof. I found a few things that I wanted her to arrange a little dif-

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Editorial

Let it begin with me

This past Monday, on Columbus Day, the Diocese of Fall River had its annual procession and Mass for Peace. Starting in the 1970s, when the initial intention was that peace would be granted to Portugal (when Communism threatened to take over the country), thousands of Catholics have gathered each second Monday of October to pray, invoking the intercession of Our Lady of Fatima, asking that God grant peace to our world.

Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., was the celebrant of the Mass, but he asked Father Edward Correia, a retired priest of the diocese, to be the preacher.

Father Correia reminded the full Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption of the prayer in the hymn “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.”

Father Correia discussed how Christ comes to us in the Sacrament of His Body and Blood, giving us strength to be peacemakers, by finding our peace in Him. He said that Our Lady of Fatima helps us to find that peace by becoming reconciled to her Son. Bishop da Cunha, at the end of the Mass, thanked Father Correia and echoed his call that all of us be peacemakers. The bishop made specific reference to the war in Syria, but also mentioned that every day one hears about conflicts throughout this world.

In his homily on Sunday, Pope Francis also spoke about our need to change.

“Like those lepers [in Lk 17:11-19], we too need healing, each one of us…. [W]e need to be healed of our fears and the vices that enslave us, of our introversion, our addictions and our attachment to games, money, television, mobile phones, to what other people think. The Lord sets our hearts free and heals them if only we ask Him, only if we say to Him: ‘Lord, I believe you can heal me. Dear Jesus, heal me from being caught up in myself. Free me from evil and fear.’… That is how faith grows, through confident, trusting prayer… And prayer is essential!

Indeed, prayer is the door of faith; prayer is medicine for the heart.”

We all need this medicine from the Divine Physician. It is due to our failure to turn to Him, to follow His prescriptions, that our world is in such terrible shape.

As we pray and offer sacrifices for peace, we recognize our own failures to be people of peace. We approach Jesus in the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession), so that we might leave aside our own sinfulness, our own enslavement, so that we can be more effective in leading people to the freedom that only He can give.

In his Mass in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis canonized five new saints. He spoke about them in his homily. “They walked by faith and now we invoke their intercession. Three of them were religious women [Saints Giuseppina Vannini, Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan and Dulce Lopes Pontes]; they show us OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER Vol. 63, No. 20

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that the consecrated life is a journey of love at the existential peripheries of the world. St. Marguerite Bays, on the other hand, was a seamstress; she speaks to us of the power of simple prayer, enduring patience and silent self-giving. That is how the Lord made the splendor of Easter radiate in her life, in her humbleness. Such is the holiness of daily life, which St. John Henry Newman described in these words: ‘The Christian has a deep, silent, hidden peace, which the world sees not... The Christian is cheerful, easy, kind, gentle, courteous, candid, unassuming; has no pretense... with so little that is unusual or striking in his bearing, that he may easily be taken at first sight for an ordinary man’ (Parochial and Plain Sermons, V, 5).”

St. John Newman (not to be confused with St. John Neumann, who is honored in our diocese with a parish in East Freetown) understood that our Christian peace can be a rather simple thing, and yet it can change the world.

The pope finished his homily, again quoting Newman. “Let us ask to be like that, ‘kindly lights’ amid the encircling gloom. Jesus, ‘stay with me, and then I shall begin to shine as Thou shinest: so to shine as to be a light to others’ (Meditations on Christian Doctrine, VII, 3). Amen.”

In this month in which the Church asks us to focus on the missions, it would be good for us to reflect on what St. John Newman wrote was the mission of his life. “God has created me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught.

I shall do good; I shall do His work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it if I do but keep His Commandments. Therefore, I will trust Him, whatever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me. Still, He knows what He is about.”

St. John Newman understood that we cannot totally understand God’s plans until we are with Him in Heaven. Newman found peace in accepting that there are some “known unknowns” (a term which Donald Rumsfeld used in 2002, but which he did not invent). This is true for all of us. Even the Blessed Mother had to live her life without a “road map” before her. What she did know is that she was called to love God with her entire being and her neighbor as herself.

Thus she became the Queen of Peace. May we be loyal subjects of her by imitating her love, bringing peace to this world.

Daily Readings † October 18 - November 1 Sat. Oct. 19, Rom 4:13,16-18; Ps 105:6-9,42-43; Lk 12:8-12. Sun. Oct. 20, Ex 17:8-13; Ps 121:1-8; 2 Tm 3:14—4:2; Lk 18:1-8. Mon. Oct. 21, Rom 4:20-25; (Ps) Lk 1:69-75; Lk 12:13-21. Tue. Oct. 22, Rom 5:12,15b,1719,20b-21; Ps 40:7-10,17; Lk 12:35-38. Wed. Oct. 23, Rom 6:12-18; Ps 124:1b-8; Lk 12:39-48. Thu. Oct. 24, Rom 6:19-23; Ps 1:1-4,6; Lk 12:4953. Fri. Oct. 25, Rom 7:18-25a; Ps 119:66,68,76-77,93-94; Lk 12:54-59.

Sat. Oct. 26, Rom 8:1-11; Ps 24:1b-4b,5-6; Lk 13:1-9. Sun. Oct. 27, Sir 35:12-14,16-18; Ps 34:2-3,17-19,23; 2 Tm 4:6-8,16-18; Lk 18:9-14. Mon. Oct. 28, Eph 2:19-22; Ps 19:2-5; Lk 6:12-16. Tue. Oct. 29, Rom 8:18-25; Ps 126:1b-6; Lk 13:18-21. Wed. Oct. 30, Rom 8:26-30; Ps 13:4-6; Lk 13:2230. Thu. Oct. 31, Rom 8:31b-39; Ps 109:21-22,26-27, 30-31; Lk 13:31-35.

Fri. Nov. 1, Rv 7:2-4,9-14; Ps 24:14ab,5-6; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12a.

St. Therese of Lisieux and the renewal of missionary zeal

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t the beginning of this month, I had the joy to travel to Detroit to preach solemn Vespers at the historic National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica on the feast day of the Little Flower. In the canticle for Vespers, taken from the Book of Revelation, we prayed how “all nations shall come and worship in [God’s] presence, which gave us an occasion to focus on Jesus’ call for us to “go and teach all nations” (Mk 16:15, Mt 28:18-20) sharing with them the treasure of Christian faith and life.

As we approach World Mission Sunday this weekend, the thoughts of St. Therese, the cloistered nun who became co-patroness of the missions, can give some important direction for the Church today.

The need for a more effective sharing of our faith cannot be denied.

In the U.S., 30 million people define themselves as ex-Catholics, one out of every 11, constituting the second largest religious group behind those identifying as Catholics. There’s the almost viral rise of the nones, those who don’t identify with any religion. There’s the shuttering of churches, schools, convents and seminaries.

There are many U.S. dioceses in which priests ride circuits of several hundred miles every Sunday to try to bring Christ to people.

One of the most troubling worries of many middle-age parents and grandparents concerns family members who have stopped going to Mass and living according to Christian faith and morals.

Most Catholics in Europe, however, would love to

have our problems, because theirs are infinitely worse.

There is a widespread collapse of faith in many countries in which Christian life once flourished. An impressive institutional structure remains, featuring much patrimony and munificent cathedrals, but many are more like museums, drawing far more tourists than communicants.

We have the situation on the Amazon, about which Pope Francis and bishops from the region are now meeting in the Vatican in an extraordinary synod. The Amazon is an enormous tropical forest four times the size of Alaska, embracing 2.8 million indigenous people, 390 indigenous tribes, 240 spoken languages and as yet 137 uncontacted peoples. And many of them are visited only once or twice a year by priests. Just 12 years ago, all the bishops of Latin America met in Aparecida, Brazil and produced an extraordinary document calling for a continent-wide mission, but it seems that many have lost that zeal for and confidence in its summons. Rather than following through on forming missionary disciples, some bishops are now calling for the priestly ordination of elderly married men from the villages as an ecclesiastical last resort to ensure a sacramental life.

And we cannot forget that we have many countries that have yet to receive the Gospel and where the Gospel is forbidden.

The Great Commission didn’t have an expiration date. There’s a need to learn

the missionary dimension of our faith anew. That is one of the reasons why St. Therese was declared a doctor of the Church. I would like to focus on three elements of the missionary Spirituality she teaches us.

First, mission begins with love: love for God and love for others. The essence of her Spirituality was “to

tians. Some don’t lose sleep over multitudes’ not living and dying without knowing Christ, being baptized, hearing the Word of God, receiving the Eucharist, having their sins forgiven in Confession, being properly prepared for death. Some live almost as if they believe that it’s no big deal, that there are no stakes for life in this world or the next, whether people come to believe, know, and follow Christ as the way, truth and life and learn how to love Him in their neighbor.

As Pope Franlove Jesus and make him cis movingly wrote in The loved.” The most important Joy of the Gospel, “What organ for a missionary is kind of love would not feel not the legs but the heart. St. the need to speak of the Therese’s heart was formed Beloved, to point Him out, very young, reading the to make Him known?” We “Annals of the Propagation know, he continued, from of the Faith” with her family. personal experience, just as As a little girl, she replied, St. Therese did, that “it is “I have a passionate desire not the same thing to have to be a missionary!” Later known Jesus as not to have she wrote how she wanted known Him, not the same to “spread the Gospel in all thing to walk with Him as to parts of the earth, even to walk blindly, not the same the farthest isles, … [and] thing to hear His Word as not for a few years only not to know it, and not the {but] … from the world’s same thing to contemplate creation … till the end of Him, to worship Him, to time … so that … we may find our peace in Him, as inflame all poor sinners with not to. …We know well love of you.” that with Jesus life becomes Do we love people richer and that with Him it enough to want to share is easier to find meaning in Christ with them? The Little everything. This is why we Flower was once asked by evangelize.” one of her adopted missionSecond, the Little Flower ary priest brothers what was teaches us that the mission the reason why, more that involves constant prayer.

1,800 years after Christ had Jesus knew that there would come, there were still so always be a “vocations many people who had never crisis,” but He gave us the heard Jesus’ saving name. remedy: to pray to the HarHer response was because vest Master to send laborers of the laziness and lack of for His harvest (Mt 9:37). St. generosity of other ChrisTherese became a Carmelite

precisely to support the missions through her prayer. In 2000, the future Pope Benedict XVI commented about how Jesus used to call His disciples only after praying during the night. “Jesus had to acquire the disciples from God,” he said. “The same is always true. We ourselves cannot gather men. We must acquire them by God for God. All methods are empty without the foundation of prayer.” To be a missionary is to be a contemplative. Often we are tempted to solve problems primarily with worldly means, placing our trust in new programs, advertising campaigns, and slogans. It must begin with prayer. It must begin with God. Do we really pray for people to come to the faith?

Do we pray as if lives depend on it? Do we intercede for those on the front lines of the mission and those with vocations to missionary institutes? Do we beg God that every baptized Christian, beginning with ourselves, will discover and live the Apostolic dimension of the Christian life with tongues of fire given by the Holy Spirit? Do we implore for each of us to realize, as Pope Francis stated in The Joy of the Gospel, that “I am a mission on this earth; that is the reason why I am here in this world”?

Third, St. Therese’s teaches us how to sacrifice for the missions. She told a Sister she aspired to Carmel “to suffer more and by this means to save more souls.”

She confessed, “Our Lord had made me understand that it was through the cross He would give me souls, …

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Palliative sedation while approaching death

ecause suffering almost always imposes itself on us during life, and especially at the end of life, it can be helpful to reflect on the need to accept some personal suffering as we die, even as we recognize the importance of palliative steps and other comfort measures.

In the last week of life, more than 90 percent of patients require medical management of symptoms such as pain, nausea, delirium, spasmodic contractions of muscles, vomiting, hallucinations, or generalized agitation.

Many of these symptoms can be addressed with medication, and serious pain can often be managed with powerful opioids like morphine or fentanyl. These remarkable drugs, however, call for discernment in their use because at higher dosages, they can limit mental clarity and induce an extended semi-dreamland state as death approaches.

The U.S. Catholic bishops offer an important observation about participating in our own dying process in their Ethical and Religious Directives. “Since a person has the right to prepare for his or her death while fully conscious,” it says, “he or she should not be deprived of consciousness without a compelling reason.”

In some cases, the harsh symptoms associated with dying may prove refractory to treatments, prompting physicians to consider, during a patient’s final stretch of days, the possibility of a globalized form of sedation known as “palliative sedation.” This approach, which relies on the monitored use of sedatives, 8

barbiturates, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines or other anesthetic medications, entirely deprives the patient of consciousness as he or she enters into a deep comatose state until death. One concern is that the reception of the sacraments, whether confession, the anointing of the sick or the Eucharist/ Viaticum becomes problematic for an unconscious person.

This purposeful and complete shutting down of consciousness also raises broader ethical and spiritual concerns about categorically precluding participation in one’s death, as well as the last days of life.

While for some dying patients, severe pain can almost entirely preclude their ability to think, once the intensity of their pain has been moderated, the possibility of reflection returns, as the mind no longer focuses on mere survival. Medications can thus be helpful to dying patients by keeping the harmful effects of pain within narrower limits. The decision, however, definitively to shut down, through palliative sedation, that very faculty by which we exercise the conscious “parenting of our actions” surely requires the gravest of motives.

St. John Paul II once remarked that the meaning of suffering has been revealed to man in the cross of Jesus Christ. The Church has indeed ascribed a certain primacy to the way He endured and sanctified the sorrowful and painful events surrounding His crucifixion, even before His preaching and teaching, or His healing and forgiving. Through

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those final sufferings, Jesus brought about the redemption of humanity and the entirety of creation.

Paradoxically, His redemptive activity upon the gibbet of the Cross was pre-eminently an inward, internalized movement of His will. Since He could not so much as budge a limb,

His chief action and motion upon the Cross was the surrender of His innermost being, embracing and assenting fully to God the Father’s designs. His example reminds us how the movement from external activity to the acceptance of God’s will, from outward action in the world to inward activity of the soul, is one the most important movements during our life’s journey.

When Christians speak of “the value of redemptive suffering,” they are hinting at how, even in the midst of great personal suffering, human activity can be reoriented from that corporal, outward-looking glance to an inward, Spirituallydirected transcendence.

The inward movement of our being in our final days and hours can involve a kind of transformation or conversion, sometimes quite dramatic, as in the case of the good thief. It can involve a contemplative internalization of the mysteries of human existence, a stripping away of everything, and a period of “rending naked” the soul.

That’s why it is so important for us not to be entirely deprived of our consciousness except for the most extreme reasons. That’s why it’s so important for us to be prepared to learn how to endure some pain so that

we can more fully cooperate with the redemptive meaning of suffering.

Our concluding time on earth may thus serve an important role in our own eschatological fulfillment.

Our last days and hours can also powerfully affect the course of that fulfillment in others around us, as occurred in the lives of various bystanders on that historic day on Calvary. When we find ourselves nailed to our hospital bed, it can become an important personal moment for us to engage the possibility of a Spiritual transformation opening before us, as we pass through the pains of childbirth to the joy of new life (Jn 16:21).

Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did post-doctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest of the Fall River Diocese and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

See www.ncbcenter.org

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but I have made a covenant with God that they may be for the benefit of poor missionaries.” Three months before she died of tuberculosis at 24, she posed for a photograph, holding a saying of her foundress, St. Teresa of Avila, “To liberate only one [soul] I would gladly die many times over.”

There are, of course, many ways to sacrifice for the missions. If God permits physical sufferings, we can convert them into a bodily self-offering, as she did. We can sacrifice monetarily — truly sacrifice, going without things

we need — in order to help missionaries who often go without many of the basics we take for granted. And we can make the commitment to give our life to spread the faith whether in far distant lands or in our own neighborhoods.

Eleven days before she died, the Little Flower said that she wanted to “even save souls after my death.”

She was excited that her missionary zeal would no longer be constrained by “cloister and grille.” She felt that “my mission is about to begin, … of making God loved as I love Him,”

and that her Heaven would be spent “doing good on earth.” She said, “I cannot be happy rejoicing, I cannot rest, until all souls are saved.”

The Little Flower is spending her Heaven praying for us, that we and the whole Church might receive the fruit of her prayers to the Harvest Master and realize that we are the laborers He is summoning to take in His white and ripe harvest.

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

A flower blooms in autumn as bishop blesses and dedicates a first-of-its-kind early learning center in Attleboro

By Dave Jolivet Co-Editor

davejolivet@anchornews.org

ATTLEBORO — Usually in this neck of the woods, autumn means the changing colors of leaves prior to their exodus from the tree limbs, and flowers and plants hunker down in their own ways for the upcoming winter season. It’s a time of hibernation until spring when life begins anew.

But in Attleboro earlier this fall, a new flower emerged, filled with color and the hope of a bright future — traits of April and May, not October and November. The new blossom was the Little Flower Early Learning Center located a stone’s throw from St. Vincent de Paul Church.

Little Flower, named after St. Therese of Lisieux or St. Therese of the Child Jesus, the first-of-its-kind in the Diocese of Fall River, is a Catholic educational child-care center with a faith-based curriculum based on Gospel values. The center will offer an education

geared to preparing children ages six months to 3.9 years old, for Pre-K and Kindergarten.

Scheduled to open in the near future, the center was blessed and dedicated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 1.

The center is bright, warm and colorful — a perfect balance to introduce young minds to working and playing with others in an environment that isn’t afraid to recognize the God as the Father of all.

In the classrooms are colorful area carpets depicting Biblical scenes, including a precious Noah’s Ark scene. Holy pictures, books, cards and sayings adorn the cheerfully painted walls and shelves.

Superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Fall River, Steve Perla welcomed guests prior to the ribbon-cutting and tour of the facility. “We are real pleased to be here and it’s really taken a lot of work to get to this point,” he said in his opening remarks.

“We are really excited to be able to open this new facility

Another colorful rug in the Little Flower Early Learning Center depicts Noah’s Ark. (Photo by Dave Jolivet)

The Little Flower Early Learning Center, a new Catholic educational child-care center with a faith-based curriculum based on Gospel values is the first-of-its-kind in the Diocese of Fall River’s school system. The center will offer an education geared to preparing children ages six months to 3.9 years old, for Pre-K and Kindergarten. The interior is adorned with bright, colorful holy pictures, sayings, books, and area rugs. Pictured is a rug with a scene from Matthew’s Gospel 19:14, “Jesus said, ‘Let the children come to Me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.’”

(Photo by Dave Jolivet) to really expand the services of our Church through our Catholic schools.”

By serving such a young student base, Perla and those involved with Little Flower Early Learning Center hope, “it will be a feeder system to our Catholic schools in the nearby area. But more importantly,” Perla continued, “I think we’re going to be able to provide very young families and their young children a faith-based educational experience.”

Perla further addressed those who question providing such services to children at such a tender age. “Recent studies have shown that faith development starts at a very young age and I feel it’s very important that we provide to our young children the opportunity to encounter God and to encounter Christ.”

Perla told the gathering that it took the hard work and commitment of many people to make the

Little Flower Early Learning Center a reality, including the center’s inaugural director Christine Barrett and her staff.

“First, I’d like to thank Father Dariusz Kalinowski, pastor of St. John the Evangelist and St. Vincent de Paul parishes. Father and the parishioners have been absolutely terrific,” he said.

“They have been extremely supportive, collaborative and we are most grateful to them for the partnership.

“I would also like to thank Noelle D’Intino, who has been our consultant working on this project and quite frankly, we would not be standing here this morning if it wasn’t for Noelle’s guidance, time and just unbelievable energy and helping us pull all this together.”

Perla also expressed kudos to diocesan assistant superintendent of Schools Sandra Drummey. “Sandy has been working diligently

with Noelle and the team here to make sure that this happened.”

The superintendent acknowledged the great assistance provided by the Diocese of Fall River Central Catholic Schools Board whose “support was necessary to advance some of the projects and they provided some wonderful guidance and great direction.”

School Board director Roger Sullivan told the gathering, “We are thrilled to be able to witness the fulfillment of the board’s mission to provide a faith-based education to any child who wants it from Pre-K, early age, and all the way through high school. Moreover, we’re thrilled to be able to offer an opportunity for the community to have a service. Here is a young, vibrant, new, alive environment for these young children to be, and yes, to 8 Turn to page 17

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FACE Fall Celebration October 1, 2019 The Foundation to Advance Catholic Education (FACE) celebrated 25 years of supporting Catholic education in the Diocese of Fall River on Tuesday, October 1. Nearly 400 supporters and friends came together at White’s of Westport.

Matthew Slater, Special Teams Captain for the New England Patriots, was the guest speaker. A three-time Super Bowl champion, Slater spoke to a room full of champions enrolled in our diocesan Catholic schools.

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Coyle and Cassidy announces enhanced middle school experience TAUNTON — When Coyle and Cassidy added the middle school grades, there was a commitment to ensure these students would enjoy a true middle school experience. Five years later, Coyle and Cassidy President Chris Myron is pleased to announce that this ongoing commitment has resulted in an enhanced middle school experience.

Throughout the summer months, Chris Myron’s vision for Coyle and Cassidy’s Middle School came to life with the addition of a new Maker Space

technology lab, a newly-designed Middle School STEM lab, a newly-created academic learning center, as well as optimized classroom spaces.

All of these enhancements are in addition to the outstanding middle school program which includes personalized learning, a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) curriculum, and support for students who learn differently.

Myron explained: “Middle school is such an exciting time for young students, and therefore, we had an opportunity to enhance our middle school experience by investing in technology, facilities and programs. We are so blessed to offer these enhancements to grades five through eight while striving to preserve a true middle school experience.

The feedback from our parent community has been fantastic and we continue to receive interest from families wanting to take tours and visits.”

“We were so pleased with the interest in the middle school during our recent Family Fun Day at Coyle and Cassidy,” added Kathy St. Laurent, principal of Bishop Connolly and Coyle and Cassidy High and Middle Schools. “Our integrated rigorous curriculum prepares students for the demands of high school in an age appropriate manner. Our focus is on creating a holistic middle school experience for our students that encompasses academics, athletics and extracurricular activities.”

Denise Peixoto, assistant superintendent of schools for the diocese, also said: “There has been significant overall investment in Coyle and Cassidy, and we felt it was important to also focus on the middle school.

Parents still want a safe and nurturing environment for their middle school kids, so we created a ‘school within a school.’

The bright and cheery classrooms give these students a sense of independence as they learn to switch teachers and gradually prepare for a high school environment.”

Coyle and Cassidy has open houses scheduled for Sunday, October 20 from 1 to 3 p.m. and Tuesday, October 29 from 5 to 8 p.m. For more information or to schedule a tour, please call Brook Bigda at 508-823-6164.

Coyle and Cassidy Middle School is a member of the Catholic Schools Alliance, which comprises administrators, teachers, staff, parents and clergy joined in partnership to educate the children of the Diocese of Fall River in Catholic faith and values. The schools have a demanding educational culture that helps students from across the academic spectrum reach their God-given potential. With an emphasis on service and respect for the dignity of every person, they prepare students to meet the challenges of today’s diverse world and become meaningful contributors to society.

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Petition drive to cease taxpayerfunded abortions is this weekend This weekend, volunteers from the Massachusetts Alliance to Stop Taxpayer-Funded Abortion will be collecting signatures on a petition to amend the state constitution so that taxpayersubsidized abortions are no longer a constitutional

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entitlement in Massachusetts.

Please stop and sign this petition to help save the lives of unborn babies. Email tom@ stoptaxpayerabortion. org for more information or visit online at www. stoptaxpayerabortion.org.

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Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on WLNE Channel 6 Sunday, October 20 at 11:00 a.m.

WORLD MISSION SUNDAY Celebrant is Msgr. John J. Oliveira, Diocesan Director of the Propagation of the Faith Office

Sunday, October 27 at 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father Father Matthew G. Gill, Parochial Vicar at Our Lady of Victory Parish in Centerville and Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Osterville

Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on the Portuguese Channel Sunday, October 20 at 7 p.m.

Broadcast from Santo Christo Church in Fall River

Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on the Portuguese Channel Sunday, October 27 at 7 p.m.

Broadcast from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in New Bedford

Sister Tania Santander Atauchi HINGHAM — Sister Tania Santander Atauchi, 47, of Kingston, died on September 26 at age 47. Sister Tania Santander Atauchi was born on Oct. 7, 1971, in Urubamba, Cusco, Peru.

She was the oldest child of Maximo Santander Rojas (deceased) and Nieves Atauchi Peña. Her sister, Nora Sonia, was born three years later and now has two daughters of her own, Danna (13) and Sami (11), who were shining stars in Sister Tania’s life.

Most of Sister Tania’s early education was in schools in Cusco, where she earned a degree in English. In April 1991, she was “Drawn by the love of Jesus Christ,” (from the vow formula that Sister Tania would later profess) and entered the Sisters of Divine Providence in Abancay, Peru.

Once her years of formation were completed, she was engaged in a variety

of ministries, including providing food assistance to needy families; helping mothers who were driven from their homes during the Shining Path conflict; and serving as the director of a home for young women studying at a distance from their families.

Sister Tania sought help for these women in a variety of ways, including speaking directly to the president of Peru when he visited the area and telling him the students needed beds, bedding and typewriters. He asked her to put her request in writing and two months later the items arrived. Along with her ministry, Sister Tania continued her studies and earned a degree in religion

and philosophy.

In 2000, Sister Tania made the decision to join the Sisters in the United States. She arrived in Kingston, in July and quickly moved into programs in the formation house to help her understand the culture and the practices of religious life in her new surroundings.

She soon earned a Master of Arts Degree in Romance Languages, which equipped her for teaching Spanish at Stonehill College in Easton. She later served as the Director of Religious Education at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross Parish in Boston and then at St. Paul’s Parish in Hingham. While engaged in these ministries, she earned a Master in Theological Studies from Boston College.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on October 8, at St. Paul’s Church, Hingham.

Sister M. Francis Clare, O. Carm.

FRAMINGHAM — Sister M. Francis Clare of All Saints, O. Carm. passed away peacefully at St. Patrick’s Manor on October 2, in the 55th year of her religious life.

Rosalina Magano was born in Fall River on Sept.

7, 1940, the younger of two children born to Manual and Mary (nee Sousa Rapoza) Magano of Fall River.

Sister Francis Clare entered the Community on Sept. 12, 1964, professed first vows on April 5, 1967 and made her final profession on Dec. 8, 1972. She had brief assignments at St. Joseph’s Manor, Madonna Residence, Garvey Manor,

Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River, Our Lady’s Haven in Fairhaven, St. Teresa’s Manor, St. Ann Home, and St. Rita’s Home. Her lengthier missions were at Marian Manor in Taunton (2005 - 2012) and St. Patrick’s Manor (2012 - 2019).

A gifted musician, Sister Francis Clare shared her gift for music both in ministry and in community.

Her ministry to the residents was mainly in the area of activities, including

music therapy and planning music and Mass booklets for Liturgies.

Sister is preceded in death by her parents, John and Mary; and her brothers, John and William; and sisters, Pauline, Emma, Angie and Mary; she is survived by many nieces and nephews.

A Funeral Mass was celebrated on December 4 at Queen of Angels Chapel in Frankfort, Ill. In lieu of flowers, a memorial may be made to the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart Retirement Fund, 9201 W. St. Francis Road, Frankfort, Ill. 604238335.

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Just enjoy some Son

heard something on KLove the other day about the distance to the sun. The sun is the closest star that we know about and it is still almost 93 million miles away. Ninetythree million miles away!!

I cannot wrap my mind around that distance. Yet, on a day that is not cloudy, we can feel the warmth of the sun. From 93 million miles away!! The warmth that one star gives is able

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to reach us from such a great distance. This made me think that the Son is so much more powerful and so much more near than the sun and but how often do we allow ourselves to bask in His warmth and light.

I have been trying to be better about focusing on taking care of myself because I know

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that I cannot give what I do not have. I started the Keto diet in the beginning of August to try to make myself physically healthier

and so far so good. We are so much more than just physical beings, however, so I know I needed to work on my relationship with God. As a part of our Freshman Retreat process, we ask the team to sacrifice or add something during the preparation to help us to grow in faith. I decided that I wanted to add an hour of Adoration every week. I found a church near me that has perpetual adoration (Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Seekonk) and started to attend. I noticed that they had some needs for hours to be covered, so I called the person in charge and signed up for an 11 p.m. hour. I know me, if I am signed up for something and expected to be there, I will be there but if I say I am going to do something and I do not have accountability, I do not often stick with it. Eleven p.m. sounded like a great idea during the summer when I had no morning alarm clock. The benefits of spending time with the Son however, still out-weigh the early alarm clock. I have found since I have started spending time each week in Adoration that I am handling stress better and finding myself slightly

more disciplined.

Taking care of ourselves has to be a priority. We get caught up in work, school, family, friends, life, social media, and so much more. I have found myself recently feeling like I am not just burning the candle at both ends but that I have stuck a wick in the middle and started melting it from there as well.

This crazy schedule that I am trying to keep up with would be a built-in excuse to stop going to Adoration at night. I know, though, that now more than ever, I need Christ. I need that time to just spend close to the source of all warmth and light, to be refreshed.

I would be lying if I said that every moment I am there is spent in significant prayer. I would be lying if I said that every moment I am awake. St. Therese used to fall asleep in Adoration; I like that I am in good company. She even wrote “I think how little children please their parents just as much when they are asleep as when they are awake; I think how doctors put patients to sleep in order to

do operations. And finally, I think how ‘the Lord sees our weakness, He remembers that we are but dust.’”

I think I have taken His command to come all who are weary and He will give us rest to a new level. I feel like God knows I need Him but that I also just need to rest in His presence as well.

Self-care must play a significant role in our lives but as Christians, self-care must be rooted in prayer.

An empty lantern does not shine any light so we must plug ourselves into the Creator of light. I read a quote once that said, “Jesus did not die for me so that I could live a defeated life.”

The Son is so much closer than 93 million miles away and I promise, if we get ourselves out there, we too will feel the warmth of Son, and be better able to share that light with others!

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.

The Anchor is always pleased to run news and photos about our diocesan youth.

If schools, parish Religious Education programs or homeschoolers have newsworthy stories and photos they would like to share with our readers, send them to: schools@ anchornews.org

Left, students at Holy Family-Holy Name School in New Bedford were recently greeted

by Bristol County Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson, center, City Councilor Scott Lima, and parents who are members of the New Bedford Police Department as they arrived for the first day of school. Principal Joseph Branco was also on hand to wish them a successful school year.

(Photo courtesy of Margaret McCormick)

Below, teacher Teresa Ronhock and the St. Joseph School Kindergarten class in Fairhaven recently read the book “We Are So Proud” as part of the school’s reading series program. They decided to turn the book into reality as they created their own patriotic float and held an indoor parade to show their pride in the USA. (Photo courtesy of Tracy Travers)

Students at Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth that were named Commended Students in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program included Kathleen C. Downey (Mattapoisett), Cameron T. Garde (Fairhaven), and Quinn J. Sullivan (Westport). Pictured above, from left, are President/Principal Peter Shaughnessy, Cameron T. Garde, Quinn J. Sullivan, Kathleen C. Downey, and Vice Principal of Academics Kathleen Ruginis.

(Photo courtesy of Jennifer Golden)

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ost of my readers will have been familiar with the 1967 movie, “In the Heat of the Night” starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, later to be followed in the ’80s and ’90s by the TV series of the same name, starring Carroll O’Connor and Howard Rollins and dealing with life in the Southern USA. Fewer will be familiar with the 1989 movie “Heat of the Day,” picturing life in London during WWII when bombs exploded all around the city.

Today in our time it feels like we are being bombarded by so called political bombshells fueled by irresponsible news media personnel and laced with inaccurate reporting and blatant lies. It is like the London blitz all over again.

In the heat of the day we need to cool it and I don’t just mean our physical bodies. Today as in most days here in Kalaupapa I spend time on the horizontal accompanied by my longest-serving cat, Babyface Bailey, who, if in the house at that time, lays at my feet or on my feet.

Here I can cool off this old body from the heat of the afternoon sun and at the same time cool my thoughts which also can get overheated at times.

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I would advise you readers to do the same, especially if you have reached my tender age.

Of course I do not advise it if you are still in the workforce, as that might be ref lected in your paycheck at the end of the week.

Much of the talk today by politicians is on global warming and it does seem that this summer has been warmer than in the past, but then some of our winters have been cooler than in the past.

So I personally wonder whether those pushing some wild theories that we hear are spending too much time in the sun or are doing so at the behest of alternate power companies.

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In my own homeland people who have provided their own source of household heat and cooked their meals using peat, as their ancestors have for centuries, will soon no longer be permitted to cut turf peat. What idiot can convince me that solar panels can work as well as peat in the west of Ireland?

I started this script after my daily siesta this afternoon and I hope that it makes sense. Even here in Kalaupapa where we are blessed with cooling trade winds on this the north side of Molokai, the sun can frazzle one’s brain. So it is prudent to stay indoors if possible in the heat of the day.

Aloha.

Anchor columnist Father Patrick Killilea, SS.CC., is pastor of St. Francis Parish in Kalaupapa, Hawaii.

In Your Prayers Please pray for these priests and deacons during the coming weeks:

Oct. 19 Rev. Manuel A. Silvia, Pastor, Santo Christo, Fall River, 1928 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, Philippines, 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. 26 Rev. Henry J. Dauphinais, M.S., La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, 2018 Oct. 27 Rev. Francisco L. Jorge, Assistant, Our Lady of Mt. 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, CSC, Director of Postulancy, Holy Cross Novitiate, North Dartmouth, 2002

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learn a little bit about their faith and a little bit about religion. As one of the instructors was telling me before, it’s wonderful to be able to talk about Christmas and the real meaning of Christmas and that’s a wonderful thing for a child to hear.

“And perhaps most importantly, we’re thrilled to be able to offer an opportunity for parents of young children. The parents themselves are struggling very hard to make ends meet and in order to do that they need multiple incomes in their household. So we’re very pleased to be able to offer an affordable option for them. It provides a safe environment, a holistic education that’s integrated with the rest of our school system.”

Barrett, who has a bachelor’s degree in English and an associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education, has 24 years of experience as a center director and preschool teacher. She is married with twin daughters and is a resident of Cumberland, R.I., where she is active in her parish, St. Basil the Great in Lincoln, R.I. “I have to thank you from the bottom of my heart for choosing me to be the first director of Little Flower,” she told those in attendance. “It’s an honor and a blessing. I am really looking forward to working with all the children and their families and I feel very confident as the days pass by. We’ll be blessed with an abundance of children [14]. I promise to all of you I will carry on the mission of a faith-based religious day care with love and prayers.”

Barrett introduced her teaching staff: Kathleen Harrington, Tamar Ghajanian, Kelly Gordon and Elizabeth Silvia.

Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., told the gathering he was thrilled to be at the opening ceremony “and bless and dedicate this wonderful place for parents and children who come through these doors and will learn and grow. What a beautiful place and it is beautiful that this institution is dedicated to St. Therese, the Little Flower of the Child Jesus, who, in her simple ways of life has touched so many hearts throughout the world. If we have the blessing and protection of St. Therese, we know we’re not going to go wrong.”

Perla shared a story regarding the institution’s namesake. “When I had called the previous pastor of St. Vincent’s (Father Christopher Peschel) about this project, he had asked me, what are you going to name the facility? And I said we’re going to name it Little Flower. And he said, ‘Steve, you’re not going to believe this. When I first came to the parish and I was looking around in the facility, where Little Flower is now in place I found in that facility, relics of St. Therese.’ And I said Father you are really kidding me, right? And he said, ‘No, Steve I’m being very honest.’ So since that day we’ve had great confidence that we have St. Therese prayers and blessings and great confidence that this will be a great success.”

The bishop also said, “I want to congratulate everyone involved in this beautiful project. I am so happy to bless and dedicate this place and congratulate the teachers, administrators, staff and everyone involved. They all did a great, great work and it was really a team effort to put this together. Everyone deserves recognition and the

credit.”

Bishop da Cunha gave a reading from the Gospel of Matthew: “Then children were brought to Him that He might lay His hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked them, but Jesus said, ‘Let the children come to Me and do not prevent them.

For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.’

After, He placed His hands on them, He went away.”

The center is also adorned with a plethora of brand new toys, graciously gifted to Little Flower by Catholic Social Services. Perla told the gathering the opening of Little Flower has been the collaboration of many people and ministries. “It’s really important that we collaborate and work together and that we not work in silos. As you go through the rooms, you’ll notice some terrific toys and those toys were all donated to us via Catholic Social Services. And I need to tell you that of those toys, many of them were gathered by Fred Ramos and the group called Celebrating the Beauty of Every Child.

“I was telling Susan Mazzarella, the CEO of Catholic Social Services about the center. I said we’re about to go shopping for toys. She said, ‘Don’t do that. Come to our place. We have all kinds of toys now.’ When I went there it was like a Toys ’R Us, all brand new, not secondhand toys. So we are very grateful to Fred and his group and CSS for the work they have done to support this whole effort.”

A reception and tour of the facility followed the ribboncutting and blessing ceremony. And on a chilly raw day, a beautiful flower bloomed in autumn in Attleboro.

It only takes a moment I’m sitting here in The Anchor office preparing this edition to be “put to bed,” as we news people like to say. I was still wondering what the topic of this week’s column would be, and then I hear the gut-wrenching sound outside of two vehicles colliding nearby.

I knew just by the sound that it was not a simple fender-bender.

The sound was ferocious and all that without the sound of screeching tires indicating brakes being applied. One car is on its side.

Within minutes the scene that has unfolded next door has more than one-half dozen police cars, four ambulances and one fire truck.

I can’t see the actual vehicles involved because of trees, but there are dozens of bystanders and even more EMTs on the scene.

Truth be told, it has shattered the peace of a beautiful sun-splashed autumn day and has shaken me to the core.

I don’t know the extent of the injuries, nor will I by the time we go to press today. My immediate response was to pray for everyone involved.

I immediately thought of my family, Denise and

the kids. I knew they weren’t involved, but the immediacy of the violent crash made me think of just how fragile life can be. I try to block out the image of my loved ones being in the place of those there now.

All it takes is one instant to change peoples’ lives, and while I know that is the case, it’s events like these that are a frightening reminder of that awful truth.

I have been in that situation a few times and recently had a near miss.

One minute you’re driving home from the market ready to stow away groceries, and the next you’re strapped to a gurney on you way to the hospital.

As I write this, the ambulances and fire apparatus have left and the tow truck drivers are doing their thing.

As I mentioned earlier, I don’t know how serious the injuries are, but I continue to pray for the victims and for my loved ones too, to be protected.

You never know. It only takes an instant.

When you get the chance, give those you love a big hug and let them know what they mean to you.

Life’s too fragile not to. davejolivet@anchornews.org

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Around the Diocese

This weekend, volunteers from the Massachusetts Alliance to Stop Taxpayer-Funded Abortion will be collecting signatures on a petition to amend the state constitution so that taxpayersubsidized abortions are no longer a constitutional entitlement in Massachusetts. Please stop and sign this petition to help save the lives of unborn babies.

Email tom@stoptaxpayerabortion.org for more information or visit online at www.stoptaxpayerabortion.org.

An Autumn Taizé service to encounter Jesus as Teacher (Christ Pantokrator) will be held Sunday, October 20 at 7 p.m. at St. John Neumann Parish, 157 Middleboro Road in East Freetown. All are welcome!

Winter is coming at the shelter at Sister Rose House, 71 Division Street in New Bedford, will soon activate its Extreme Weather Overflow Shelter. The overflow opens when temperatures drop below 28 degrees. Volunteers are needed to help assemble cots with pillows and blankets from 4 to 5 p.m.; serve shelter guests and residents from 5 to 7 p.m.; and to monitor bathrooms and sleeping hall in two- to four-hour shifts from 6 to 10 p.m. Volunteers can sign up alone or sign up as a team of co-workers (all must be over 18). Many hands are needed. Please contact Robin Muise to volunteer at muiserobin@comcast.net or call 774-5535490.

The third annual Celebrate the Beauty of Every Child campaign runs throughout the month of October. This prayer and action campaign is designed to encourage families to pray for the less fortunate within our parishes and to obtain much-needed infant and toddler items for families. Participating parishes are invited to join in prayer, such as Rosaries, Novenas, and Eucharistic Adoration. Mass intentions may also be pledged. Items collected such as diapers, wet wipes, onesies, PJs and gift cards will be forwarded to food pantries and organizations within the parish community in support of needy families. Massachusetts Citizens for Life, the St. Vincent de Paul Society, the Diocese of Fall River Catholic Schools Alliance, the Pro-Life Apostolate, the Knights of Columbus, and Catholic Social Services have formed a collaborative to coordinate this campaign at the parish level. Please see your parish bulletin for additional details. This campaign is in keeping with Bishop da Cunha’s initiative of “Rebuilding in Faith and Hope.”

If you would like to support this campaign, contact the Pro-Life Apostolate office at 508-675-1311 or email irina@plrachel.com.

The Diocesan Marriage Preparation Program is seeking team couples — newly-married and veterans (age is not a consideration) who would like to enrich their Marriage while helping engaged couples prepare for their lifetime together. The Diocesan Marriage Preparation program meets in three locations: Mansfield, Dartmouth and Harwich on Cape Cod. In each location there is a team of volunteers that facilitate three to five sessions per year. If you are interested in serving in this ministry, please contact Claire McManus at cmcmanus@dfrcs.org or call her at 508-678-2828, extension 19.

Anchor ‘Around the Diocese’ Policy

While The Anchor’s “Around the Diocese” listing of parish and diocesan events is a courtesy service, the diocesan newspaper does rely on advertising revenue to sustain its printing and postage costs throughout the year. As such, fund-raising events like parish festivals, holiday fairs and bazaars will be restricted from inclusion. We would greatly appreciate your consideration of a paid advertisement to promote these events.

To submit an event for consideration in The Anchor’s “Around the Diocese” listing, please 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 — The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette holds 6:30 p.m. Mass followed by the Chaplet of Divine Mercy Adoration at 7:15 p.m. every Wednesday evening.

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

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.

DARTMOUTH — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Mary’s Church, 783 Dartmouth Street, every First Monday of the month, following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending with evening prayers and Benediction 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 8:45 a.m. to 6 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 5:30 p.m., with Benediction at 5:30 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 4 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 4 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 until 9 a.m.

Taunton — The Chapel of St. Andrew the Apostle, 19 Kilmer Avenue, Taunton, will host Eucharistic Adoration Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 7 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 † ATTLEBORO — Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, 71 Linden Street in Attleboro.

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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