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As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach, food and fund drives draw attention to the needy and brighten their holidays.

But the needs of the poor continue year-round - as does the work of the three-location Fall River Community Soup Kitchen.

Among its volunteers, who are mainly retirees, is Henry Urban, who began as a dishwasher some nine years ago when the kitchen in the Catholic Social Services building on Fall River's Slade Street opened. He now coordinates preparation of meals served there three times a week to between 100 and 200 people.

"It's called a soup kitchen," Urban said, "but it's much morewe give them a beautiful meal."

Urban and eight other volunteers, including his wife Veronica, prepare and serve the meals with as much love and care as for their own families.

Deacon Manuel H. CamaraJr., of St. Anthony of Padua parish, Fall River, noted at a recent area Pax Christi meeting that the volunteers prepare a "nutritionally bal- /

anced meal which is not only filling but appealing to the eye."

The deacon, treasurer of the Community Soup Kitchens, said that guests "appreciate the manner in which meals are served to them, always graciously, 'just like in a restaurant.' The people also appreciate the warm reception they receive, which is so important to these whom God loves so dearly."

Combined, the three soup kitchen locations serve meals seven days a week, at the church of the Ascension on Rock Street on Mondays and Fridays, and the Salvation Army on Bedford Street on Wednesdays and Sundays.

The Catholic Social Services site operates Tuesdays,Thursdays and Saturdays. It opened in 1981 with donated furniture, cooking utensils, silverware and restaurant equipment. The Fall River diocese provides heat, gas and light.

The Saturday morning program was initiated by Father William Norton, who until recently was pastor of neighboring St. Patrick's .,Church. It is run during the school year by.Roger Salpietro and students from Bishop Connolly and Turn to Page 13

Bishops meet, :oppose Iraq war WASHINGTON (CNS) - The U.S. bishops got down to business Nov. 13 at their fall general meet-

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ing with votes on funeral liturgies without priests, a family ministry action plan and liturgical honors for three church heros.

On the second day oftheir Nov. 12-15 meeting in Washington, the bishops also approved their 1991 budget and elected Bishop Anthony M. Pilla of Cleveland as treasurer of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference.

Their first vote at the meeting, however, came on an item that had not been on their already packed agenda. By 249-15 Nov. 12, they made their own a letter to U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker ~ III urgirig the U.S. government to avoid war with Iraq except as a last resort after all possibilities of a peaceful resolution are exhausted. . , About 300 bishops, including Fall River Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, were in Washington for the yearly fall meeting ofthe NCCB and USCe. The letter on Iraq had been sent to Baker by Archbishop Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, chairman of the bishops' Committee on International Policy, on Nov. 7, the day before President Bush announced a second major military

buildup in Saudi Arabia. In addition to adopting the letter as their own statement, the bish9PS discussed the issue further at an executive session, closed to the press, on Nov. 14.

In the first major vote on an item on their original.agenda, the bishops soundly defeated a proposal that would have authorized them to permit lay people to preside at a funeral liturgy if no priest is available.

The vote, after a lively debate, was 113 in favor and 136 against the proposal; a two-thirds majority of active Latin-rite bishops, or 199 votes in favor, was required for passage.

Supporters of the proposal had argued that the measure was' needed, especially in large rural diocese, to adequately meet the needs of Catholics at a time ofloss in the family. Opponents countered that passage ofthe measure would erode the value of the priesthood.

On a less controversial topic the bishops voted unanimously to reaffirm their 1978 "Plan of Pastoral Action for Family Ministry" and to commit themselves to new Turn to Page 14

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Msgr. John J. Oliveira repre"I've prayed all my life for sented Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, God's will," he told Catholic who was attending t-hebishops' News Service. "I don't want it Washington meeting.

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native, the daughter of the late Joseph and Elize (Cote) Cote.

A noted singer, she was heard at many recitals, weddings and other events and for· many years led the S1. Anne Society choir at the former St. Mathieu Church.

She is survived by two sons in addition to Father Dufour: Roger Dufour of Somerset and Paul Dufour of Fall River; by four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

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The 15,Qth anniversary of the pastoral minister at S1. Anne's arrival of the Sisters of Notre Hospital, Fall River, and Sister Dame de Namurin the United Patricia Cocozza, in retreat minisStates will be celebrated at 11:30 try at LaSalette Center for Chrisa.m. Mass on Sunday at St. Julie tian Living, Attleboro.

Sister Trayers said the Sisters of Billiart Church, North Dartmouth.

St. Julie's is the first parish in Notre Dame are celebrating their the world to have been named for 150th anniversary in every parish the saint, who was canonizedApril where they are active. At St. Julie's 8, 1969. St. Julie's parish was they taught CCD Classes in addition to their assignments at Stang. erected Nov. 26 of the same year.

Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Their former convent is now the working in the Fall River diocese Diocesan Family Life Center. and others in the Massachusetts A highlight of Sunday's Mass provinces of the community will will be presentation to the parish join St. Julie parishioners at the of a picture painted by a member Mass, said Sister Teresa Trayers, a of the community, depicting St. guidance counselor at Bishop Siang Julie Billiart surrounded by her High School, adjacent to S1. Julie sisters at work in their various Church. apostolates. Such a picture is being Sister Trayers, a member of the presented to every parish where Ipswich province of her commun- the sisters are active, said Sister ity, who has been at Stang 17 Trayers, but will be especially years, recalled that when the school meaningful at St. Julie's parish. opened in 1959, six Notre Dame - Sister Trayers explained that sisters were on its faculty. "Now although St. Julie founded her I'm the only one," she said. community in France in 1803, it She noted that Sister Anne takes its name from Namur, BelDenise, Stang's first principal, now gium, wHere the sisters moved in retired but ministering as a nurs1809. The first American mission ing home visitor, will be among was founded by eight Belgian sissisters present for Sunday's Mass. ters responding to an invitation Also on hand will be Sister from Bishop John Purcell of CinAnne Monica, a member of the cinnati. origin'll Stang faculty and now 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111I1111111111111111 principal of Notre Dame Academy, THE ANCHOR (USPS-545-o20). Second Hingham. In all, said Sister Tray- Class Postage Paid at Fall River. Mass, ers, from 35 to 40 sisters who have Published weekly except.the week of July 4 taught at Stang at one time or and the week after Christmas at 887 Highanother in its 31 years of existence, land Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02720 by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall will be at St. Julie's.

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Father Daniel L. Freitas, diocesan director of the Bishop's Charity Ball, today named the event's honorary cochairmen.

They are Daniel Couture, St. Ann's parish, Raynham, Taunton district president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, who will represent the diocesan society; and Mrs. Theodore J. Wojcik, St. Joseph parish, Taunton, president of the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women. The two organizations cosponsor the ball.

The midwinter social occasion will take place Friday, Jan. II, at White's of Westport. It benefits exceptional and underprivileged children who attend diocesansponsored summer camps and also helps fund other charitable undertakings of the diocese.

Members of ball committees, Vincentians and councils of Catholic women are accepting names of persons, groups and organizations for listing in the ball's souvenir booklet.

Further information is available at ball headquarters, 410 Highland Ave., Fall River 02722, telephone 676-8943 or'676-3200.

This weekend, for the 20th year, the U.S. bishops' Campaign for Human Development collection will be taken up in diocesan churches. In this diocese the antipoverty program assists the Integration Project of the Cape Cod Organization for Rights of the Disabled.

The project assists integration ofthe mentally retarded into group homes and the larger community, addressing such issues as health, home care and job opportunities.

Across the nation, since 1970 the campaign has awarded grants to more than 2,700 self-help projects, amounting to over $125 million. These grants provide seed money to support self-help projects for -poor and low-income families across the country regardless of their race, creed, or ethnic origins. Through these projects, people work together to improve conditions that affect their lives and contribute to the building of a more just society.

To receive CHD funds, projects must show that they enable organized groups of poor and low-income people to influence decisions that affect their lives. Low-income people must occupy at least half ofthe seats on the project's policymaking/ program-implementation board of directors.

In addition, the projects must also generate cooperation among and within diverse groups of peopie;' directly benefit a relatively large number of people; have a detailed self-sufficiency plan; and directly aim at changing institutions - public policy, social attitudes, economic structures - that perpetuate p o v e r t y . . · Seventy-five percent of money collected this weekend goes to the national CHD office and 25 percent remains within the diocese for local justice-oriented programs.

Good record Let's hear it for Christ the King parish, Mashpee: from January to September, over $9,000 was given in aid to the needy, 260 cases were handled and 282 hospital visits made. 1383 hours of service were given by 54 Vincentians and 301 applications for groceries provided food for 859 persons. "May God continue to bless our parish with this generous living of the Gospel," sums up pastor Rev. Ronald A. Tosti.

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nolly, SJ, president of Cheverus High School, Portland, Maine, was invested by Boston Cardinal Bernard Law as a knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Nov. 3 ceremonies at Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston.

Father Connolly, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Connolly of South Dennis, is a summer assistant at St. Pius X parish, South Yarmouth.

Founded in 1099, the Order of the Holy Sepulchre is the oldest order of knighthood in continuous existence. Membership in the order is considered the highest of papal honors.

Those inducted support the work of the church in the Latin patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Father Connolly was honored for his long service to Catholic education on the .college and se'condary levels.

EI Salvador slayings recalled today Today is the first anniversary of the slaying of six Jesuit priests and two Salvadoran women at the Central American University in San Salvador. It will be remembered in the Fall River diocese at a candlelight vigil to be held from 5:30 to 6 tonight at the Federal Building, corner of Elm and Sixth streets, New Bedford.

Father Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of Catholic Social Services, will be among vigil speakers. Sponsored by Greater New Bedford Jobs with Peace, the program will include in addition to speeches, music by Rev. Ulisses Torres of United Methodist Church, New Bedford, and Umoja, a multicultural a capella singing group, also from New Bedford.

The anniversary will also be commemorated at 4 p.m. Sunday at Our Lady of the Cape Church, Brewster, where Rev. Jack Seery, S.J., will speak. He was among participants in a recent fast at Ft. Benning Ga., protesting training of Salvadoran soldiers there. Baptist, Episcopal and Lutheran representatives will also speak at the service sponsored by the Cape parish's Peace and Justice Ministry and the Interfaith Committee on the Plight of the Churches in El Salvador.

The priests and two women were recalled by Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk, president of the :U.S. Catholic Conference, who said he prayed that their deaths would "bear fruit until the victory of peace, justice and reconciliation" is achieved, Jesuit Father Jon Sobrino of the university community, a famed

liberation theologian who alinost certainly would have been slain with his colleagues had he not been abroad at the time, said that Elba Ramos, 42, and her daughter Celina, 16, the women slain with the Jesuits, are far from forgotten.

"In all of the memorial celebrations we have had in the UCA [the university], we have always_honored alleight of them together," Father Sobrino said.

The Jesuit dead are well known, he said. "Our intention is to not forget the other martyrs, the hUmble people of El Salvador, to thank them equally and to pay them the same homage as is paid to the Jesuits."

In his book on the murders, "Companions of Jesus," Father Sbbrino notes that Elba Ramos had worked for years asa housekeeper, cook and farmworker. Her common-law husband, JUlio" was a farmer and night watcnman. The family was poor and often moved to escape the violence of the Sal-:vadoran civil war. .. . ; , Celina was Elba's third child.

She was in her first year of a high school commercial course and was.. thinki?g pf marrying her boyfriend, of'two years. She also helped her; mother, a cook at the university, where her father' was a guard.

Until four days before the slayings, Elba and Celina had lived with Julio at the university guard- . house; but on Nov. 12 they moved' into the Jesuit residence, considered a safer area. There they were shot repeatedly in the early morning of Nov. 16 as they huddled together in their room.

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the moorin&.-, Peace, Not War Does war solve int.ernational problems? It should be obvious that it does not.

Despite the fact that close to one-half million Americans have died this century on the world's battlefields, we still hear the cry that war can, solve differences among peoples and nations.

The truth is that war has never lastingly furthered political ambitions. It is horrendous that it should be considered by this country as a viable solution to the Iraqi-Kuwaiti situation.

Let's not mince words: in our attempt to safeguard the oil interests we seem ready once more to sacrifice Americans on the altar of big business. ' What else is the present Middle East mess but a longstanding economic battlefield? As in so many other cases in this part ofthe world, it had its source in British greed, be'ginning when Britain secured a League of Nations mandate over Iraq after World War I. A puppet king was set up in 1932; and in 1958 a revolution toppled the corrupt court and paved the way for t<;>day's Bandit of Baghdad. Britain also controlled Kuwait from 1899 until so-called independence was declared in 1961.

Once Iraq and Kuwait began gushing black gold, the West took an interest in them quite unrelated to their culture and needs, Oil became the chief-motivation and incentive for any acti.Q.n taken. The protestations of Western nations that they seek only to protect poor little Kuwait beg the historical facts.

To say that America's interest in the situation is pure and virtuous smacks of hypocrisy and deceit.

It is wrong for our government to tell the public that we have sent hundreds of thousands of Americans to defend the freedom of kingdoms that do not believe in any of our constitutional rights. Our involvement is based on market politics and swayed by oil barons who price gouge and deceive under the pretext of patriotism. .

Iraq is wrong and Hussein is a dictator. So too are the Kuwaiti ruling family and the Saudi kings. Because of the Western dependence on oil, our country and our so-called allies are simply seeking to assure its continued flow.

Administration efforts to paint any other picture are no more than acts of fraudulence and falsehood.

Why should we·continue to call up our reserve forces simply to safeguard the oil revenues of the Middle East sheiks and our own big business? Should American men and women be used as pawns in the battle to keep on banking oil revenues?

In a world that desperately wants peace, should the United States embark on an unwinnable war? These are but a few of the questions that come to mind as we dispatch tanks, ships and missiles to an area that needs cooling down, not agitation and turbulence, Peace is what we must demand of our leaders. In the long run, it is the only just and equitable solution for all the peoples involved in the Gulf crisis, The tedious, often monotonous route of diplomacy must not be abandoned, Our country and our world have too much to lose, Not a single American death is acceptable. Only peace can assure the safe return of our young men and women to their homes and loved ones, That return must become our national goal.

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Why the bishops are in politics , By Father Kevin J. Harrington .

Why are the bishops so deeply involved in politics? This question is often raised by people who would prefer our prelates to limit their moral teachings to areas of private morality. But Catholic morality is corporate as well as personal, requiring of the baptized certain courses of action that touch not only on the acquisition of money and other possessions, but also on their distribution in society.

The teaching of the Church in areas of social morality is loud and clear with respect to the papacy and national bodies of bishops, but the same cannot be said of many Catholic parishes, schools and other institutions. 'roo often our social morality is limited to exhorting Catholics not to be greedy or materialistic. I' wonder how many of our college and university courses reflect the mind of our bishops as expressed in the 1986 "Economic Justice for All: Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy."

The disparity between the rich and the poor addressed by this letter has only intensified during the past four years. It would be a shame if the departments of economics and political science in our educational institutions were to disregard the ethical demands of Catholicism in the name of a socalled "pursuit. of excellence" policy that excludes values.

A harsh reality of our day is that no one can become rich within a few years by honest labor. Only the naive would deny that today riches are not earned by honest labor but are accumulated by means of favorable deals, A chief executive officer ma~

work 60 or 70 hours a week, earning an ulcerated stomach as he or she waits in airports, flies in jets, and drives in cars, all the while connected to the umbilical cord of a phone or fax machine and making agonizing decisions, but is that person worth a thousand times more than the migrant worker laboring to bring low-cost food to our tables or the electronic worker going blind in the Philippines wiring compufers for a wage that precludes the possibility of living with dignity? Our system perpetuates the injustice of compensation far out of proportion to worth.

In our society, the young can easily- be overwhelmed and begin believing that the system is so big it is impossible to change. But those same young are also our only hope if our indifference is to be catalyzed with an idealism demanding that the system can and must change, if not in our lifetime, at least in theirs.

Actually, a failure to change the status quo is usually a failure of

praye~BOX In Thanksgiving Divine Infant Jesus, I thank you for your presence in my life. I place my needs and cares in your hands and hope always to trust in your mercy and love. To you be honor and praise, now and forever. Amen.

imagination: The first step toward halting the oppression ofordinary people by the unscrupulous is for those who profess to follow Christ to refuse to amass goods or property or money beyond that for which they foresee a reasonable need.

This can only be feasible when people define themselves by the good they strive to accomplish rather than by what they own.

Until that conversion of heart occurs, any change in the system will merely be cosmetic.

Conversion usually occurs when we hit the proverbial bottom. Here are some depressing statistics that may have the sobering effect of making it abundantly clear why our bishops are speaking out and why we need some thunder from our pulpits: • More than 100,000 children are sleeping in alleys or hallways, even though one or both parents are employed.

• 37 million' Americans lack medical insurance in a country where infants die faster than in any other country in the Western industrialized world.

• 20 to 30 million functionally illiterate adults are the shameful products of our deficient educational system.

• Drug-fueled crime and murder rates are so high that we are putting a larger proportion of our population in jail than any other country except South Africa and the Soviet Union. ' • Half the poor must spend 70 percent of what they earn on rent.

A kinder and gentler America can only be achieved when we put away cheap rhetoric and use all our God-given abilities to change Our priorities and make real and lasting differences in our nation.

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Reasons to be' thankful We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.

Most of our days are spent in striving for what we need or want.

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By Dr. JAMES & look back at our benefits and be MARY KENNY grateful.

Our planet is endangered. War Watching the recent Public threatens in the Near East. The Broadcasting Service series "The savings and loan scandal is swalCivil War," I learned that Abra- lowing up scarce monetary reham Lincoln proclaimed Thanks- sources. As a nation we have overgiving as a national holiday in the spent· our credit and mortgaged middle of the war. What a paradox! the happiness of our children and When matters looked their worst, grandchildren. he asked our nation to take a At the family level, the facts are moment aside to reflect on its also grim. Over 50 percent of marblessings. __ riages end in divorce. A large perTo be thankful in the midst of centage of pregnancies end in adversity is a critical life skill. abortion.

Being nice comes easily when things Single-parent families are beare going well for us. The mark of coming the norm. Instead of two maturity is the ability to act with parents who can spell and comgrace when we are beset with dark plement one another, children are now often raised by one overexmoods and strong negative feelings.

It means putting aside our obses- tended and overwhelmed parent. sive concern with problems and -Even when parents remain toacting with a will to see the light. gether, both are often employed These are not the best of times. outside the home, leaving children

Questions on priesthood will be answered at Mansfield meeting Has the idea of being a priest ever crossed your mind?

Why should someone today want to be a priest?

Do you sometimes wonder what the seminary might be like? .

What is involved 'with living the life of a priest in today's world? Is it relevant?

Such questions and many others will be answered at the annual information day on the diocesan priesthood, which will take place from 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25, at St. Mary's parish center, 330 Pratt Street, Mansfield.

Involving no obligation, the day is open to young men 16 and over who are high school juniors or seniors or college age or older.

Following a registration period,

the young men will participate in group discussions, view a video on the priestly life, have the opportunity to ask any questions they may have and hear a message from _ Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. . After an evening prayer service, a dinner will be served by members of the Greater Attleboro Serra Club.

Further information on the day is given itt an advertisement on page 2 of this issue of the Anchor or may be obtained from Msgr.

John J. Smith, diocesan director of vocations at St. Pius X rectory, 5 Barbara St., South Yarmouth 02664, telephone 398-2248.

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What's to be thankful about?

The world at large and families today seem in a sorry state. As during the Civil War, all the more reason to stop for a moment and count our gifts.

Thank you, heavenly Father, for the warning about our planet and our environment. We now know about /the increasing destruction of the ozone layer and the pollution of our land and water.

You have given us enough notice to turn things around.

Thank you for the thaw in hostilities between East and West.

Thank you for the progress made toward ending apartheid in South Africa.

Thank you for telephones (even though my son ran up an impossible long-distance phone bill calling his girlfriend) and for television (even though it has initiated an epidemic oftriviality and drivel).

Thank you for allowing the wonder of sending sound and vision across space.

Thank you for calculators and computers and Nintendo, even though I am not much good at any of them. Again, I marvel that clicking circuits can so extend my access to data and my brain power.

Thank you for the new horizons in family care, for the adventure of day care and all the possibilities it opens to us for pooling our parenting and raising' and loving our children in enriched and innovative ways. Give us the wisdom to do it right.

Finally, thank you for my five senses, the ability to take in what is going on around me, to see and hear and taste and smell and feel this marvelous and mysterious universe of which I am a pluto Thank you for allowing me to participate in existence. I celebrate all that is. I am glad to be alive.

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The Anchor Friday, Nov. 16, 1990

By , ANTOINETTE BOSCO

After homeless advocate Mitch Snyder died by suicide a few months ago, I wrote a column on the tragedy of such a death, saying I beli~ved there was, a common denominator in suicide. "I suspect it is despair," I wrote.

By FATHER': EUGENE HEMRICK' Which of' the following statements best represents your feelings about the relationship of Catholi,cism to American culture?

-The Catholic Church'must be fully Catholic, adhering to its traditions, and at the same time must be fully American by embracing thej)rinciples of personal freedom, religious pluralism and democratic culture. '

Untreated depression a major cause of suicide This month I received letters from two mothers. Both had lost a child through suicide and both gently scolded me for not talking about what they have come to learn causes the despair - untreated depression.

To both I apologized for not including this in my previous article, because their criticism is justified.

This weekI interviewed the noted Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Styron. Styron was the victim of clinical depression in 1985 - a "poisonous fog ... a howling tempest in the brain" that brought him to the brink of suicide - and last month his' book describing his

ordeal was published by Random House. "Darkness Visible, A Memoir of Madness" rose immediately to the New York Times best-seller list.

Only 84 pages, it is a profound and powerful unfolding of a vastly misunderstood illness, all too often spoken of as a lac\c of, moral' strength instead of a potentially fatal condition.

In his book, Styron writes: ;'In depression, a kind of bio~hemical meltdown, it is the brain as well as the mind that becomes ill. The sick br/!.in plays evil tricks on its inhabiting spirit., Slowly overwhelmed by the struggle, the intellect blurs into stupjdity. All capacity for plea-

sure disappears, and despair main- sweetness of life. It was a turning tains a merciless, daily drumming." point. The next day, "I was admit"One in 10 or 12 people will ted to the hospitaL" suffer this kind of major depresHe found healing there, he said, sion," Styron said, explaining that without knowing exactly why. "I this is accompanied "by the impos- think that one factor was the sequessibility of believing that this pain is tration of the hospital, the sense ever going to disappear and that, it that I was safe. seems to me, is the crux of depres"Yet, there was a spiritual aspect, sion," often'leading to suicide.

I suppose, that you could call faith , 'At his darkest moment, when in the future. I had a need to reafsuicide seemed the only relief, Sty- firm that by living," he 'said. ron heard "a sudden, soaring pas-, , Styron said hundreds of people sage from the Brahms 'Alto Rhap- have written to tell him what a sody,' " a tune his mother used to help it has been to them that hum. someone has articulated tit'is'terriMiraculously, the sound "pierced ble malady. This mak~s' his permy heart like a dagger" and he was 'sonal disclosure' \'maybe:'worthsomehow able to connect with the while," he said.. ::':

Uneasy m,arriageofCatholicism, i\meric,ancultu~e,' -A Catholic who becomes , totally involved in politics and 'economic concerns is in moral danger because American' culture is too materialistic, individuil1istic and permissive.

-Catholicism should concentrate primarily on the internal need to strengthen its sacramental life, and should look to the culture only for that which will benefitthis goal.

-Personal conversion and personal morality are at the heart of Christian community. The goal is to be as decent and perfect as one can be in an amoral world.

-Catholics best represent Catholicism and influence society when

they divorce themselves from American culture and commit themselves fully to the' Gospel, to a life of perfection and to serving the poor.

After pondering those statements, I'll bet you feel like a character in Kudzu who was told that life is a test and who responded, "But I prepared ,for a true-andfalse test and it turned out to be multiple choice."

Some Catholics want to interrelate the best of Catholic tradition with the best principles uponwhich America was founded. These Catholics believe in strong community commitments that enable them to serve others and to help each other grow morally. They also believe

that as citizens they can contribute something special to building' a civic community based on sound principles. , Other Catholics feel that Catholicism should take advantage of cultural trends and action by the government when this is in its interest, but that in general Catholics should not commit themselves to full involvement in their culture.

In this view Catholics belong solely to the city of God. They don't hold dual citizenship in the city of God and the city of man.

Yet other Catholics feel that the church is not witnessing to the Gospel. Along with the late

Dorothy' Day' and the Catholic Worker movement, thdse.catholics would give up'material'possessions and live a life of perfection within communes situated withion society.

'1 ' To engage in or not to engage in American culture: That would seem to be the question that challenges ' Catholics here.

Should Catholics look upon their culture, promoting its growth through sound principles?

Catholil,:ism, which is enjoying a unique moment of opportunity in American history, might lose the moment if coherent responses to this basic challenge aren't sought now.

On cooking - and other things we equate with love By DOLORES CURRAN

In a fine magazine called Marriage Partnership, published by Christianity- Today, I found an article on the different ways people express loye. It was reprinted from a book, Honest to God. by Bill Hybels (Zondervan Publishers). " His point is that while we have different'ways of expressing love, we assume our partners understand and appreciate our expression but that they may not perceive it as

By FATHER

JOHN J. DIETZEN

Q. I am excited over the direction of my faith journey, but sad because of the hurt it is causing my family.

In 1982, I became an ordained Protestant minister. In 1988, after much soulsearching, I was released from my ordination and at Easter I hope to be confirmed into Roman Catholicism.

I plan to marry. I have always visualized the music, Scripture and liturgy of the wedding service.

Recently my father shared his hurt that he could not lead the marriage vows, though I intend to request that he participate in the

love at all because they have different needs.

As a personal example, the author wrote, "For years we expressed love differently and didn't know it. Lynne decided she needed to speak the language of the Gal'loping Gourmet. She knocked herself out to prepare lovely meals she thought would make me feel loved. But they didn't. A gourmet meal says the same thing to me as a tuna sandwich.

"I finally told her, 'Don't spend' all your time on fancy meals. Just sit down and talk to me. Call me a superhusband. Cheer me on. That will make me feel loved."

I've found this reaction on the part of many husbands who wish their wives would relax, lower their housekeeping standards and spend

more time with them than on the home. But their wives equate love with service. When they labor over a hot meal, they are saying, "I do this to show my love for you."

But it isn't'always perceived as love by those who receive it. They may even feel smothered by service. Many of us had mothers whose feelings were hurt when we didn't like or eat what they cooked.

They saw it as rejection while we saw it as liver.

I recall a man, I interviewed for my book, Stress and the Healthy Family (Harper & Row). In talking about his wife's compulsive housekeeping standards, he said, "I wish she'd let up and relax, enjoy life more. Like we can never go to the mountains on Labor-Day weekend because she has to can

the damnpeaches. [He never said peaches, always damnpeaches.] I'd love to go but she always has to can the damn peaches."

Eventually they negotiated. He made her understand that going to the mountains together was more meaningful to him than eating darnnpeaches in January and he offered to help her can them the following weekend if only she would take a few days off to be with him.

It was a revelation to her. She never saw herself as enjoyable by just being. She invested her value in her service to him. She felt she must contin,!ously earn her love by cooking and caring for him.

It's an occupational hazard for women. I believe. For so many of us, our culture and o~r mothers sent

the message loud and clear: "If you want to keep your man's love, 'serve him.", The problem is, many men don't want service. They want us, relaxed and confident in who we are, not just what we do. When we invest our self-esteem in our cooking, our income, our dean home, we're saying, "I know you can't love me for who I am but f~r what I do."

Men have the same problem, of course. They often express their love with their paycheck. "What do you mean, I don't love you?

Look at how hard I work to support this family." , "Yes," women answer silently, "but, I'd give up some of that income for some quiet and enjoyable time with you. We've lost each other. Just, put your arms around me and tell me you love me."

Handling mixed feelings over, mixed marriages wedding service as much as is allowed.

After my father assisted at one mixed wedding Mass yean ago, he said how hard Catholic-Protestant weddings were on the Protestant family. The issue for him was that Protestants felt separated because of unfamiliarity with the liturgy and exclusion from the Eucharist.

To assist Protestants at our wedding, I hope the priest will allow me to type the liturgy from the missal 'into a bulletin format that could be followed by my family and friends.

Is this possible? Have you any other suggestions? (Kansas) , A. Situations like yours are inevitably extremely sensitive and painful.

Some claim that if we were able to share the Eucharist, it would solve most of the problem. I seriously doubt that; surely it would not be true in light of the long

commitment of your family to belief and service within your Protestant background.

I'm happy you and your friend wish to minimize any hurt and disappointment for your families; it is part of the cross we all carry because of the sad division among the followers of Christ.

I think your suggestion of a worship aid for use at the wedding is excellent. If you include the words of familiar hymns and prayers it may help your family and friends to realize you have not left as much of your heritage as they assume.

Another suggestion: Protestants usually relate quite easily to our Liturgy of the Word. It is the Liturgy of the Eucharist which makes them feel they are involved in something far too "Catholic."

Yet nearly every Protestant denomination, certairily including yours, reverences the Lord's Sup-

per, even when not celebrating it frequently.

How about putting something like this in your leaflet for them?

"At the Last Supper on the night before he died, our Lord Jesus Christ took bread and wine, said 'This is my body; this is my blood,' and told them to eat and drink. He then said, 'Do this to remember me.' ' "Thus, the Lord's Supper (called

by Catholics the Mass, or the celebration of the Eucharist) is sacred to all Christians. Catholics obey this command of Jesus each week, but in a special way at important times in people's lives.

"This Eucharist will be part of today's marriage ceremony as we remember and thank God our Father for what Jesus has done for us."

I have found that some explanation like this does much to help other Christians at least under-

stand what we(and they) are about in a marriage ceremony, even if they cannot fully accept it.

Good ,Rule "One should never deny the body what is due to it, that the body may not hinder what is due to the soul."

- St. Peter of Alcantara

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel â&#x20AC;˘ New Bedford This Sunday has been long anticipated by the 16,000 members of Our Lildy ofMt. Carmel parish, New Bedford. At 3 p~m., as.many of them as can crowd into their 87-year-old church building will be there to see Bishop Daniel A. Cronin bless its beautifully renovated interior.

The $3 million renovation project began officially March 12,1989, although it had been in the planning stage for several years previously" At that

, The renovation campaign video, as Msgr. Mendonca pointed' out, showed "where we are' going." On Sunday, parishioners will see that their church has rea,ehed its magnificent ¡goal.

time, some 400 parishioners gathParish History ered in the parish school audiThe following parish history is torium for a kickoff meeting. They were addressed by Msgr. Luiz G. taken in part from a narrative by Mendonca, Mt. Carmel pastor; Avis C. Roberts that appeared in architect Owen F. Hackett; and Viggo Rambusch ofthe Rambusch Company, a church restoration firm.

Msgr. Mendonca said that the church, long renowned as one of New Bedford's outstanding places of worship, would have its sanctuary restructured to bring it into conformance with post-Vatican II liturgy requirements and would be brought into compliance with handicapped access and safetycodes.

New lighting and carpeting, a new altar, crucifix, baptismal font and 120 new pews were to be installed, as was an elevator for the convenience of the elderly' and. handicapped. Paintings, statues and the stations of the cross were to be restored, while the daily Mass chapel was slated for complete renovation, including installation of a two-sided tabernacle, . accessible from both the chapel and the main church. The chapel was also to have reconciliation ,rooms and shrines to Santo Cristo, Our Lady Of Fatima, St. Joseph and St. Peter.

There were also to be broadcast . and crying rooms and an addition to the back of the church was to accommodate a new sacristy, a conference and office area and the elevator.

A highlight of the kickoff meetIng and later to be viewed in many parish homes was a 12-minute video, available in both English and Portuguese. It told the parish story, "where we've been, where we are and where we are going," . said Msgr. Mendonca at the time.

The months following the kickoff were devoted to gathering pledges and donations towards the renovation project. They culminated on Nov. 12, 1989, with two special Masses and a groundbreaking ceremony. On that date, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin celebrated an English-language Mass for parishioners, followed by a Portugueselanguage Mass which aired on radio and television.

The bishop addressed parishioners at both Masses and officially presented the renovation plans to Msgr. Mendonca. Following'the second Mass, he participated with the architect and building contractor in a groundbreaking ceremony for the new addition.

the Anchor for July 19, 1962. At the time she wrote, the pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, as he had been for 55 years, was Msgr.

Antonio P. Vieira. Then 96, he was to remain a very active past~r until his death on Good Friday, Marc~ 27,1964, at age 98. Arising at 5:30 each morning, and saying Mass at, 8 a.m., he heard confessions daily and led the rosary at 7 every evening in the Mt. Carmel chapel. Among his parochial vicars in 1962, noted Mrs. Roberts, was Mt. Carmel's present pastor, Msgr. Mendonca.

Our Lady ofMt. Carmel parish was founded in 1903 to relieve the

pressure of increasing numbers of parishioners attending St. John the Baptist Church. R'tlv. Joseph Nunes was the first pastor of the church, whose cornerstone was' laid July 4, 1903. Dedication was' July 16, 1904 and the first Mass was celebrated on that day in the completed basement unit of the church.

The interior of Mount Carmel is one of the most beautiful in' the city. At the time the church opened a historian described it as "the old Roman basilica. There is a wide nave and broad aisles but no crossing or transepts. It isa rectangular building, with a simple, rounded

apse capped with a semi-dome.

The orn'!mentation is an adaptation of the Byzantine-Romanesque." .

The lovely interior of the church is highlighted by a blue ceiling over the sanctuary sparked by stars and paintings of angels. Carved angels decorate the ceiling and pillars of other parts of the church.

The beige side walls are interspersed with brightly painted and gilded Stations of the Cross. The statuary is outstanding and stained . glass windows are bright. A smaller chapel in the baptistry is dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary.

Father Nunes was succeeded in December 1907 by Monsignor Vieira, who earlier had been a curate at St. John the Baptist. He came to New Bedford in 1903.

Construction of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in 1940 and 1941 fulfilled a lifelong dream of Monsignor Vieira. It is the first Portuguese parochial school to be established in the United States. It provides children of Portuguese extraction with education in Portuguese and in Catholic doctrine as well as prescribed English courses.

In 1941 the auditorium-gymnasium of the new school was . opened. When, Monsignor -Vieira was honored for 35 years in the Mount. Carmel pastorate in December 1942, he donated all of a personal gift of $3,500 from his parishioners to help pay the debt oil the school which had cost $210,000..

The school was completely paid for less than a year later. But the pastor declined credit for that accomplishment as he did for construction of a beautiful cOllvent for the Sisters of St. Dorothy, who teach in the school - a project completed in 1953.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the parish in 1953 Monsignor Vieira also supervised a number of improvements to the edifice. A new red carpet was placed in the sanctuary. New lantern-type lights were suspended from arches of the nave and new flooring enhanced the gleaming elegance of the interior. A new oak reredos was placed' in the sanctuary. , He said once in an interview, "I am only an instrument here. I have been fortunate to have had good parishioners who have followed my poor efforts. Everything that has been accomplished was done not by me but by them."

About 3,()'QCnamilies and 8,000 parishioners made up Mount Carmel parish in 1962. Now there are4,500 families and, as noted, 16,000 parishioners, many of them recent emigrants from the Azores.

In Recent Years Among cherished traditions at today's Mt. Carmel is the annual Santo Cristo outdoor procession. . Devotion to Christ under this title is nourished year-round at the Turn to Page Eight

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Continued from Page Seven now renovated Santo Cristo shrine in Mt:Carmel's chapel.

A never-to-be-forgotten event for parish youngsters came in 1987when a large contingent traveled to New Orleans for a youth rally and papal Mass that were highlights of Pope John Paul II's U.S. trip that year.

So it goes at a vibrant parish that will add a very special memory to its history on Sunday.

Such' events are important, but more important still is the everflowing day-to-day life of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, which for 87 years has been present for its people in times ofjoy and sorrow, which for them has been the Church, baptizing, blessing, forRiving, rejoicing, and at the end consoling.

Ad multos annos, Mount Carmel!

Week's Schedule Leading up to Sunday's dedication Mass, a triduum began Wednesday and concludes today. Each day's program began with 5 p.m.

Mass, followed by exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, prayers, Scripture readings, a homily and private prayer until 6:45 p.m. At that time there was Benediction, followed by the opportunity to receive the sacrament of reconciliation.

OLDTIME ENGRAVING is an early rendition of the 87-year..;old Mt. Carmel parish complex.

On Sunday, morning Masses will follow the regular schedule and will be celebrated in the the parish auditorium. At 2 p.m. the

doors will open on the renovated church and at 2:30 p.m. the new elevator will be inaugurated.

At 3 p.m. comes the climactic

Mass ofthe Dedication with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as principal celebrant. It is expected that there will be an overflow crowd at the occa-

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sion and for those unable to enter the church there will be televised coverage of the Mass in the auditorium.

After Mass there will be the opportunity to inspect the renovations at leisure.

The celebration will not end on Sunday. Monday, Nov. 19, has been designated Children's Day, with a "Mass of Charity and Concern" for parochial school pupils to be celebrated at 10 a.m. Each child is asked to bring a gift of food to the Mass, later to be distributed to the needy in Thanksgiving bask~ts.

At 7 Monday night, a similar Mass will be offered for public school children and their parents.

Guided 'tours of the church and other renovated areas will be offered during the week on the following schedule: Monday, Nov. 19: 3 to 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 20: 3 to 5 p.m.; 6 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 21: 10 a.m. to noon; 3 to 5 p.m.; 6 to 8 p.m.

Thanksgiving Day: no tours Friday, Nov. 23: 3 to 5 p.m.; 6 to 8 p.m.

Sunday,¡ Nov. 25, the feast of Christ the King, will see Mass at 12: 15 p.m. followed by exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until 4 p.m., Benediction and the singing of the Te Deum, the church's tra-

Our Lady of Mount Carmel • New Bedford ditional hymn of praise and thanksgiving. At 6 p.m., parishioners will gather again to relax and rejoice at a Dedication Banquet at White's of Westport.

Sunday, Dec. 2, has been set aside for the ill and handicapped, for whom 12: 15 p.m. Mass will include the sacrament of the anointing of the sick. Following Mass, the statue of Santo Cristo in its new shrine will be vested in a new cape, symbolizing the love of the parish for its suffering and sick members who identify with Christ in a very special way.

On Sunday, Dec. 9,12:15 p.m.

Mass will include administration of the sacrament of baptism, an occasion for the parish family to welcome its newest members.

ish complex of Christ the King in Mashpee and St. Ann's parish center in Raynham.

Designer and Decorator - The Rambusch Company of New York of which Viggo B. Rambusch is president. The firm has worked in cathedrals, churches, and other buildings throughout the country.

Among their more noteworthy projects were restoration of the interior of the Capitol dome in . Washington, D.C., of Mt. Vernon, the Virginia home of George Washington, and of the cathedral of the Providence diocese.

Scope of Work I. Removal ofall asbestos containing plaster and floor tile from areas to be worked on .

2. Replastering all damaged plaster areas 3. Stripping all woodwork (including painting or staining of all surfaces) 4. Gold leafing and all decorative painting 5. Restructuring sanctuary area: extending floor space and lowering center section of reredos 6. Restoring nonfunctional _ ventilation system 7. Carpeting all floor surfaces and tiling entrances and stairway 8. Installation of preprogrammed lighting system 9. Installation of security and surveillance system Turn to Page 10

Facts, statistics on renovations The $3 million renovation of Mt. Carmel Church, now successfully completed, was in the planning for 10 yeats. The building committee directing the project was headed by Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, pastor of Mt. Carmel, and had as members all priests in service at the parish, Vincent Fernandes, George Mendonca, Manuel Faria, Joseph Ferro and Donald Aspden.

A fundraising committee of approximately 75 persons was headed

by Daniel Fournier.

A LATER AERIAL-view shows growth of parish complex.

Architect - Owen F. Hackett - from local architectural firm of O.F. Hackett Associates. Mr. Hackett has designed and presided over the construction of numerous projects within the diocese of Fall River, including various parish

centers, the most recent being the Corpus Christi parish center in Sandwich and St. Ann's parish center in Raynham. He also designed the renoyation and enlargement of Immaculate Conception Church in New Bedford.

General Contractor - Auburn Construction Co., Whitman, MA; of which Mr. Charles Altieri is owner and president. His firm has constructed several. churches and parish centersin the New England area, including the very large par-

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Our Lady of Mount Carmel â&#x20AC;˘ New Bedford Continued from Page Nine 10. Installation of new sound and broadcast system II. New smoke alarm system 12. Construction of new cry room and broadcast room at rear , of the church ' , 13. Complete restoration of stained glass windows and all lead, ed glass 14. Complete refinishing ofStationsof the Cross , 15. Restoration of four Il:\rge wall paintings , 16. Installation of Calvary grouping above windows in choir loft 17, Relocating of choir area in body of the church 18. New central vacuuming system 19. Building new two-way altar for Blessed Sacrament altar and new tabernacle 20. All new altar furnishings 21. New wooden console radiator covers

22. Complete restructuring of daily Mass chapel: new ceiling, new sanctuary and Mass area, two reconciliation rooms, 4 shrines Santo Cristo, Our Lady of Fatima, St. Joseph, St. Peter, all new furnishirigs, seating, votive light'console-type stands, air conditioning (chapel - sacristy - back hallway and 2 basement workrooms), new smoke and heat exhaust system -:n. Restructuring of former sacristy area with new storage and work-sacristy, new ministry room for eucharistic ministers, lectors, and altar boys 24. Complete new sacristy 25. Waiting room adjoining new sacristy 26. New access way from rectory to church, with rear entrance to rectory 27. New restrooms in basement 28. Two new work-rooms in basement area 29. Rebuilding of Hood & Hastings Organ - to have 80 ranks

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IN THIS 1983 photo, top, a portrait offormer Mt. Carmel pastor Msgr. Antonio Vieira is admired by, from left, Father Manuel P. Ferreira, then and now pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, New Bedford; visiting Bishop Teodoro deFaria of Funchal, Madeira; and Msgr. Luis G. Mendonca. Below, Msgr. Mendonca accepts renovation plans from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin last November.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel â&#x20AC;˘ New Bedford Sister Dorothy: age 87, still on the job

By Pat McGowan It was a routine check-up sort of question. Looking at the Anchor ,file on -Our Lady of Mt, Carmel parish, I spotted a story I wrote in the summer of 1981. It was about Sister Aurora Helena Avelar of the Sisters of St. Dorothy, then 78, now 87 years old.

She's enjoying retirement now,l said to myself, but I'd better make sure. I called Mt. Carmel rectory and inquired about Sister Avelar.

Parochial vicar Father Daniel Oliveira Reischuckled.

"She's still on the job," he said.

"She never stops."

The job still involves the daunting array of activities described in the 1981 article reprinted below.

In other words, Sister Avelar remains hard at work pleasing and praising God.

They still make the old-fashioned type convent parlor, complete with shiny floor, straight-backed chairs and a Sabbatarian hush.

And they still make the oldfashioned type nun, complete with long' black habit and a part-time retirement job dusting altars.

That's part of the truth about Our Lady of Mt. Carmel convent in inner-city New Bedford, and 78year-old Sister Aurora Helena Avelar of the Sisters of St. Dorothy.

The other part is less conventional, you should excuse the expression.

Sister Avelar, when not dusting altars, is a one-woman welfare agency and that staid convent parlor sees a seven-day-a-week pro-

cession of Christ's least brethren, The bedroom phone rings far seeking jobs, housing, clothing, into the night, usually with news of food and motherly, no-nonsense domestic difficulties. "Often there advice. is no peace in the home and if we The tiny nun's approach is prac- give time and interest we can help tical. Presented recently with .a the people," explained Sister side of beef, she roasted and froze Avelar. it, thus providing the makings of .

Her time and interest frequently' dozens of hot roast beef sandtake her to such places as doctors' wiches to serve the hungry.

A teacher for decades, during and dentists' offices, hospitals, the school year she starts her day courtrooms and Social Security teaching Portuguese to primary and welfare headquarters, where tots at Our Lady of Mi. Carmel she is an interpreter and advocate School, then "takes care of the for often bewildered immigrants things ofthe church," meaning her - Cape Verdean, Azorean, Puerto Rican -.,'-' "anyone in need, I help," duties as sacristan. she says.

After that the rest of the day is l-fumble and simple, she sees life hers - or rather, belongs to the clearly through her steel-rimmed poor she serves. glasses. On the controversial KenThey are busy days - and often nedy family her opinion is clearnights. "The priests put me a telecut: "I go often to Boston and phone in the church basement and in my bedroom too, so I don't dis- Senator Kennedy's office is very; very helpful. God will reward the turb the other sisters," she explains.

Kennedy family because they help In the basement, the phohe rings the immigrants very much." in a large room where Sister AveOn weltiue: "We can't abuse the lar stores clothing, furniture, yard kindness of the government, but if goods and anything else she thinks the country gives bread to the her poor might need.

The needs include holy pictures needy, it will not be in need; God will bless it." and statues - Sister Avelar's is On drugs: "Many people use not a tiptoe approach to religion and she unhesitatingly calls a spade them because they have no friends to help them." by its proper name.

On errant men, for instance: "I Sister Avelar doesn't hesitate to have told them many times that enlist volunteers in her cause. VisArchbishop Sheen said 'to correct iting her, this reporter was immea vice, love something more than diately pressed into service to drive it.' "That something, the little nun her to three houses to check on tells them, is their families. people with problems.

Quite a few men have "corrected The multiple nature of some themselves daily," she said. was illustrated by a home where a "I know I make mistakes in Eng- mother with emotional difficulties lish," she continued, "but I make was trying to handle four-year-old myself to be understood." twins and a husband out of work due to an accident with a total lack of the English needed to communicate with those around her. Sister.

Avelar soothed, suggested and was firm, to the effect that the mother, at the end ofthe visit, seemed once more ready to cope with her difficulties.

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The nun said that if no rides materialize when she's on her errands of mercy, she walks or, armed with her senior citizen's pass, hops a bus.

How did her one-woman apostolate begin?

"I always liKe to help people," she said "and after Vatican II; when sisters could do more, I took every moment free to help them.

Anyone that comes to me with need I'm very happy to help because I see Christ in them."

Born in the Azores, Sister Avelar came to the United States at age 19 and entered the Sisters of St. Dorothy at 24. She taught in East Providence before coming to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, where she has been since 1961.

"I occupy my time working,just the same as when I was young," she sums up. "If we want to dedicate ourselves to the good of society, we have a lot to do."

And, climbing out ofthe reporter's car to squeeze in one more visit to the lonely and lost before returning to her convent, she said by way of farewell, "I just- want to please God and praise God."

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Daily Readings Nov. 19: Rv 1:1-4, 2:1-5; Ps 1:1-4,6; Lk 18:35-43 Nov. 20: Rv 3:1-6,14-22; Ps 15:2-5; Lk 19:1-10 Nov. 21: Rv 4:1-11; Ps 150;1-6; Lk 19:11-28 Nov. 22: Rv 5:1-10; Ps 149:1-6,9; Lk 19:41-44 Nov. 23: Rv 10:8-11; Ps 119:14,24,72,103,111,131; Lk 19:45-48 Nov. 24: Rv 11:4-12; Ps 144:1-2,9-10; Lk 20:27-40 Nov. 25: Ez 34:11-12,1517; Ps 23:1-3,5-6; 1 Cor 15:20-26,28; Mt 25:31-46 r

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HENRY URBAN and his wife Veronica prepare a meal at the Fall River Community Soup Kitchen. (Hickey photo)

A Thanksgiving story Continued from Page One Diman Regional Vocational Technical high schools.

The soup kitchen helps people in other ways as well as feeding them. Some came to it through Community Connections, Inc., a non-profit employment service for people with physical and learning disabilities.

Agency employment manager Linda Tammaro said some Connections' clients volunteered in the soup kitchen to acquire working skills they could put on employment applications.

There are presently two Connections volunteers at the Social Services soup kitchen. A third, a young man with limited use of his arms, worked there for six months then got ajob at a local restaurant, a success story of which the kitchen is proud.

Urban relies not 'only on his volunteers but on the generosity of many donors who provide everything from money and food supplies to paper goods.

The kitchen has never had a fund drive, said Deacon Camara, "but God has been faithful to his beloved poor in providing generous hearts who are committed to share their abundance in the form of food and money.

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Continued from Page One ality. It calls for dioceses and relig- port of Catholic education and a ious institutes to "consider imple- set of national guidelines for docVATICAN CITY (CNS)- The has reported. The announcement efforts to implement that plan's menting a process to engage priests trinally sound catechetical texts.

Romanian government has said it said the classes would be optional "comprehensive vision of family in common reflection upon their is introducing religious education but did not specify which religions life and of ministry with families."

Among liturgy-related issues disin public schools, Vatican Radio would be taught. cussed Nov. 12 was a proposal to The bishops also approved pro- spirituality."

One major item originally plan- authorize the bishops' Committee posals to add to the U.S. liturgical ned for their agenda was not on it. on Pastoral Research and Praccalendar three optional memorials A proposed pastoral letter on wo- tices to approve Scripture trans- Blessed Miguel Agustin Pro men's concerns has been delayed lations.

Nov. 23, Blessed Juan Diego Dec. The bishops also debated probecause of a Vatican request that 9 and St. Paul of the Cross Oct. 20.

The memorials require approval the bishops consult with other posed criteria for use of inclusive bishops' conferences before issu- - non-sexist - language in litur.: by the Vatican. ing the document. During the gical texts. ,The guidelines were The bishops voted Nov. 13 on a proposed pastoral message on sub- meeting, Bishop Joseph L. Imesch, aimed at maintaining "fidelity to Friday, Nov. 16 - 7:15 P.M. stance abuse which calls for a chairman of the writing commit- the word of God" and at the same comprehensive program of educa- tee, said the committee would meet time dealing with the problem that PR~YER VIGIL FOR VOCATIONS in January to review comments on many masculine terms once considtion and action at the family, church, community and public the letter and prepare a revised ered generic are "increasingly seen REV. ANDRE PATENAUDE, M.S. &TEAM to exclude women" in contemporpolicy levels to combat chemical draft.

As the meeting opened, more ary American English. dependencies and help those caught Also to come before the bishops up in addictions to free themselves than 200 women gathered in an Saturday, Nov. 17 - 10:00 - 3:00 empty lot near the Washington were nine proposed principles for from their "slavery." hotel where the bishops were meet- the liturgical adaptation of ScripBREAKING OUT OF CO-DEPENDENCE They also voted on another pasing to celebrate the postponement ture texts. In addition to the questoral message, "A Century of Social ,A WORKSHOP WITH DR. BARY FLEET of the document and to urge the tion of inclusive language, the prinTeaching," which summarizes basic bishops to find courage "to push ciples address language concerning social teachings of the church since theology to its limits" and allow people with handicaps and adapPope Leo XIII in 1891 issued the Saturday, Nov. 17 - 7:30 P:M. ' tations of a translation for public first papal social encyclical, "Rerum , the ordination of ,women. [he bishops also began prelimireading.

Novarum," on the social condiVIETNAM VETERANS nary discussion Nov. 12 of several tions and rights of workers.

Those votes, along with the tally action items, including a proposed MEMORIAL SERVICE pastoral letter on the SOOth annion a recommendation to shift oneversary of Christianity in the REV. PHILIP SALOIS, M.S. fourth ofthe yearly Latin America Americas.' collection to U.S. Hispanic needs, Three black bishops raised queswere not announced Nov. 13. A Sunday, Nov. 18 - 2:00 P.M. tions about praise of Bartolome de vote on a new nationa\.collection Las Casas in the letter, saying that for the church in Eastern and CenHEALING SERVICE Las Casas - cited in the proposed tral Europe was to take place Nov. pastoral as a "tireless defender of 14.

REV. ANDRE PATENAUDE, M.S. Indian rights" - is known as a On the meeting's first day; the father of the African slave trade. bishops unanimously approved a The letter, "Heritage and Hope: brief document on priestly spirituEvangelization in America," sets out a new U.S. Catholic effort at evangelization as the centerpiece AMONG those assistmg of the approaching 1992 quincenRev. Daniel L. Freitas, diocetennial of Columbus' arrival in the san chairman of the Bishop's Americas. It was to be voted on Nov. 15.

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Student government Thanksgiving projects include a canned goods drive and a raffle to aid area soup kitchens and the Rocking Horse Pub's Thanksgiving dinner program. The student government will also recycle soda cans and paper used at the school.

Soph~mores may submit applications for the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Seminar to the guidance office by Nov. 28. Applicants should have a 3.0 or higher grade point average and have demonstrated leadership and involvement in extracurricular activities. . Porsha Ingles, Anne Conforti, Bruce Mason and Mike Nasser attended a recent National Honor Society Leadership Conference at Stone hill College. The program included presentations by students who had visited Japan and Russia on summer study programs.

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ST: LOUIS' de FRA:NCE, . . . "'S'f: ANTHONY OF'PADUA;'FR ····O:L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE' SWANSEA The Council of Catholic Women Auditions for Victory Players"preYouth group will sponsor a conwill meet at 7 p.m. Nov. 20 in Father sentation of "Anything Goes" 6 to 8 cert for all ages by Jon PoIce 7:30 Reis Hall to plan its Christmas party. p.m. Nov. 19,20. Five Rivers Branch p.m. Nov. 17 parish hall. Holy hour Mass for deceased members 9:30 Cape Cod Hospital Aid Association 7:30 tonight, church. a.m. Nov. 25. meeting lOa.m. Nov. 19, parishcenHoly Name Society officers are ter; Ruth Goldrosen will present "A ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Stephen Gomes, president; Joseph Sampler of New Reading."

Vincentian troubadours will visit Sardinha, vice president; Arthur ST. JAMES, NB Marian Manor I:45 p.m.' Sunday; Texeira, secretary/treasurer. Items New altar boys begin training II all are welcome to join the troupe. for food drive may be brought to any a.m. tomorrow, church.

Ecumenical Thanksgiving prayer Mass or to rectory. service 4 p.m. Sunday, church. ChilSS PETER AND PAUL, FR dren's M,ass8:30a.m. Sunday. Calix Thanksgiving Masses 7 p.m. Nov. meeting 6:30 p.m. Sunday, parish 21 and 8 a.in. Nov. 22. Thanksgiving center. . foods may be brought to be blessed.

CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS OF Senior citizens' Thanksgiving lunch AMERICA, CAPE COD noon Nov. 20. Pastor Father Peter Monthly. meeting 9:30 a.m. Nov. Graziano will celebrate the-TV Mass 26, Corpus Christi parish, Sandwich. at II a.m. tomorrow at Bishop Stang John Conroy will give a presentaHigh School chapel, N. Dartmouth; tion on Rome. parish folk group will provide music, . parishioners welcome.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Women's Guild 25th anniversary ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA· Mass W:30a.m. Sunday followed by Children's liturgy 10 a.m. Sunday; banquet at Venus de Milo. children asked to bring an item for Thanksgiving baskets. Youth group ST. PATRICK, FR will host a community dinner II :30 Allegro Gle,e Club will perform 3 a.m. to I p.m. Thanksgiving Day. p.m. Sunday; information: 678-9466 Information: you~h office, 676-0547. or rectory.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER INTERFAITH THANKSGIVING Faith and Light Community meetSERVICE, ATTLEBORO ing 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, parish cenGreater Attleboro Area Council ter. OLC youth recently joined youth of Churches will sponsor Thanksgiving Service 7:30 p.m. Nov. 21, Holy REV. PHILIP Salois, MS, of Brewster Baptist and Wellesley Hills Congregational churches in Ghost Church, Linden St., Attle- . will conduct an ecumenical working oil a Habitat for Humanity boro. Scripture readings will be in healing service for Vietnam house.

English, Portuguese, Hebrew and ST. ELIZABETH SETON, Spanish. Participants asked to bring veterans and families at 7:30 N. FALMOUTH food iterps for Food 'n Friends Kitp.m. tomorrow at LaSalette Youth group will participate in 5 chens. Child care available.

Shrine, Attleboro. All wel- p.m. Mass Sunday; meeting and potluck supper will follow; all come. _ _ _ 234 Second Street members asked to bring a covered Father Salois, now a chap- dish. ~ Fall River. MA 02721 lain at Boston VA Hospital, WIDOWED SUPPORT ~WebOffset _ _ Newspapers served in Vietnam and holds Cape are meeting 2 to 4 p. m. Sun~ Printing &Mailing the Silver Star for gallantry. day, Christ the King education cenIIiIIiiIIIiI (508) 679-5262 library, Mashpee. Topic: getting This past June he returned to ter ready for the holidays. Information: Vietnam with a group ofveter- 428-7078, evenings. .

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ST. MARY,.SEEKONK Baskets for canned good drive will be at church doors this weekend and at Thanksgiving Mass 9 a.m. Nov. 22. Families may bring bread from Thanksgiving table to be blessed.

Thanksgiving ecumenical service 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20, church.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Volunteers needed to bake for and serve at community dinner at 12: 15 p.m. Thanksgiving Day, Human Services Building, Quaker Meetinghouse Rd., E. Sandwich. Volunteers needed at Cape Heritage Nursing Home to assist in bringing patients to in-house Mass 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. first and third Mondays. Information: Peter and Virginia ,Fortuna, 888-6033.

SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO Altar boys' commissioning 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. Thanksgiving Mass 7 p.m. Nov. 21. Vincentian meeting to plan food basket distribution 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

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Cape and Islands meeting 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday, St. Pius X parish center, S. Yarmouth. Tom O'Connell will speak on addictions. Informa. tion: 362-9873.

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BREAD OF LIFE PRAYER GROUP, FR Members will hear a witness talk

by Deacon Larry St. Onge at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 23 at Blessed Sacrament Church, Fall River. Mass will follow.

CATHEDRAL' CAMP, E. FREETOWN St. John of God, Somerset, youth retreat Nov. 16 to 18. Servants of Christ retreat with Father Michael McNamara Nov. 16 to 18.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Thanksgiving Mass 7:30 p.m. Nov. 21; food donations will be accepted during the off~rtory.

SACRED HEART, NB Thanksgiving Mass 7 p.m. Nov. 21; officers from parish societies will participate in procession. Bread for Thanksgiving tables will be blessed.

All are asked to bring canned goods for the needy.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN - Youth group meeting 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 18. Ladies of St. Anne communion 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday; no meeting Nov 20 so members may attend ecumenical Thanksgiving service at St. Joseph's.

CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Thanksgiving Mass 7 p.m. Nov. 21. .'

ST. FRANCIS XA.VIER, HYANNIS Children's Mass 10 a.m. Sunday.

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