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Last weekend's "We Care/We Share" program in Somerset and Swansea coincidentally followed by one day publication of study findings showing that faith decisions are affected most strongly by interpersonal relationships among lay persons. The study, funded by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, showed that fallenaway Catholics do not blame priests for their decision 10 leave the church, nor do they credit them, if they return to practice of their faith. Overwhelmingly, respondents said they were most influenced by their relationships with other lay persons, including family members and co-workers. Turn ,to Page Six
IZMIR, Turkey (NC) - The leaders of world Catholicism and Orthodoxy made a major stride toward reunion last week, highlighting the three-day visit to Turkey of Pope John Paul II. Terming reunion "not an option but a demand placed on the churches," the pope and Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I of Constantinople established a high-powered ecumenical commission to resolve theological and doctrinal issues dividing their sister churches. An eventual reunion would rejoin 750 million Roman Catholics and some 200 million Orthodo~ after more than nine Turn to Page Six '\
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Babies I{ept By Teenagers Thirteen to 17-year-old unwed mothers tend to keep their babies, due to "the unspoken societal belief that only a 'bad person' gives up her baby for adoption." Older mothers "seem able to face reality with a more mature, unselfish decision and tend to place their babies for adoption more often." Those findings were presented by Joan Jackson of New Bedford Catholic Social Services at a Massachusetts state convention of Birthright held recently in Hingham. Among other speakers presented by Susan Anderson of Hyannis, regional Birthright director and founder of its Cape Cod chapter,. was Carol Dinklage, also of Hyannis, a clinical psychologist who warned that abused children are subject to depressions and psychoses and are often suicidal. She stressed, however, that abortion is not a solution for an abusing mother, and that it brings more problems than it solves, for both the mother and existing children. "Listening with love, serving with a smile, modeling with good example and reaching out _to others are very important factors in helping children reach and maintain a happy outlook on life," she said. William Tietjen,' director of a child abuse team at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, told delegates from the 14 Massachusetts Birthright chapter that I0,000 abuse cases were reported last year in the state.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas
-December is a Mary month As much or more than ,May of the miraculous painting es-' and October, December is a pecially blessed by Pope John . month of Mary. Crowned by the Paul U. feast of the Nativity, the month The reproductions are the fo-. opens with the lovely feast of . cus of Marian devotions sponthe immaculate Conception, this sored .by the Knights throughyear falling this Saturday. out tpe nation. Already held in Less noticed by many in this Hyannis, Provincetown, Nantuckpart of the nation but of major et, Falmouth and Bourne, among significance to Hispanic Cath- other diocesan locations, they 'olics is the feast of Our Lady of will continue in Massachusetts Guadalupe, patroness, of the through May. As with the Shroud of Turin, Americas, which falls next Wedscientific interest in the Guadanesday, Dec. 12. A center of veneration in con- . lupe painting has been high and nection with the feast is a 16th Dr. Philip Callahan, a University century painting of Mary, said . of Florida !>iophysicist, recently to have appeared miraculously released results of his study of on the cloak of Juan Diego,.a the Indian cloak. poor Mexican Indian to whom "As far as I am concerned, the Virgin appeared in 1531. To the original painting is miracuthis day the cloak has been pre- lous," he declared. He has preserved in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. , This year is the 225th anniversary of the establishment 'of the Guadalupe feast by Pope Saturday, Dec. 8, the Feast of Benedict XIV and to mark the the Immaculate Conception, Paoccasion the Knights of Colum- troness of the United States, is bus are circulating reproductions a holy day of obligation.
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pared a 60-page report of his findings for submission to Mexican authorities. From infrared radiation photographs, he found that the painting has no preIlminary sketch underneath, a highly unusual artistic procedure. The original pigments have not faded,' although later touch-up work in the Spanish Gothic style shows signs of age. Callahan said the basic' blue and pink pigment of the painting should ,have faded and cracked away' centuries ago. Pol~ lution from votive candles alone should have darkened and damaged the painting in the years before it was placed behind bullet-proof glass. Also, he said, the fibers supporting the painting have not been sized. Without sizing, which prevents rot, the cloak, made from cactus fibers, would normally have rotted 20 years after it was painted. Callahan said he was especi. ally impressed by the use of the Turn to Page Six
Somerset and Swansea volunteers were aided !last weekend by flawless weather as they began visiting some 10,000 homes. They were workers in "We Carel We Share," a pastoral outreach program that is a pilot for the remainder of the diocese. They requested census information from Catholics and invited others to specially planned parish programs, including an "Open Hands, Open Heart, Open House" program to be presented from 4:30 to 6 p.m. this Sunday at St. John of God Church, Somerset. . Father Daniel L. Freitas, pastor of St. John of God and with Albert Couture of Swansea, an area coordinator for We Carel We Share, said that early returns from home visits were encouraging, and that workers will continue call-backs to homes not reached on the weekend. The volunteers were commissioned for their outreach task at a eucharistic prayer service held 1ast Thursday at St. John of God. In a homily, .Bishop Daniel A. Cronin said, "It is our hope that thr.ough this program personal contacts will be established between inactive Catholics and a loving parish community. With the help of God's grace, such contacts will lead those who have wandered from the faith to rediscover the Good News of Jesus Christ as it is preserved in his Holy Catholic church. "To those with, no religious affiliation whatever, We Carel We Share is a simple invitation to sample our faith community, Turn to Page Six
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BISHOP CRONIN has appointed Rev: Raymond Cambra' as chaplain to the Taunton area GuHd for the Blin~; and Rev. James McLellan as Cape Cod area director of vocations.
ORIENTATION SESSIONS for new Special MinisteI"s of the IEucharist will be held at 7:30 tonight at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth and at 7:30 Tuesday night at Bishop Feehan High S-chool, Attleboro. Candidates will be commissioned at a Mass at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 'Dec. 1'3 at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.
AT COMMISSIONING CEREMONY for We Care/We Share volunteersat St. John of God Church, Somerset, from left, Mrs. Aubrey M. Armstrong, Father Timothy Goldrick, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Father DanielFreitas, Albert Forneiro. (Torchia Photo)
BISHOP CRONIN will celebrate 9 a.m. Mass at St. Stanislaus Church, Fall River, this Sunday for the annual meeting of the Greater Fall River area conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. A breakfast will follow at the parish school.
ROME (NC) - Father Pedro Arrupe, Jesuit superior general, has asked all members of the worldwide society to correct "questionable" situations which could lead to confusion among Jesuits or the faithful. He made the request in a circular letter to major Jesuit superiors, asking them to take strong action to cor.rect secularizing tendencies in community life, restore austerity and discipline and maintain or reinstate fidelity to the magisterium and to the priestly character of apostolic works. In connection with the renewal effort, Jesuit 'Father William R Callahan, associated with Pnests for Equality and the Quixote Center in Washington, D.C. has been reassigned from those organizations. VATICAN CITY (NC) - Brazilian A~chbishop Lucas Moreira Neves, 54, secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Bishops,'has been named secretary of the College of Cardinals. 'Should he hold the post during the next conclave to elect a pope,he is virtually assured by tradition of becoming a cardinal
WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope John Paul II has appointed 'Auxiliary Bishop Edward T. O'Meara of St. Louis, for the past 12 years national director of the Society for , the Propagation of the Faith, to be archbishop of Indianapolis. He succeeds the late Archbishop George J. Biskup.
HOLY FAMILY mGH SCHOOL students in New Bedford prepare for Snowsong Christmas concert Dec. 14, 15 and 16. From left, Matthew Souza, Jeanne Bedard, Jeanne Racine, Kevin Gallagher. (Rosa Photo)
'BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (NC) - Argentine bishops have voiced ;reactions ranging from agreement to disbelief concerning recent remarks by Pope John Paul II on "the tragedy of lost or missing persons" in Argentina. Government sources privately expressed disappointment that the pope had raised the controversial issue while arbitrating a border dispute between Argentina and Chile. WASHINGTON (NC) - Father Charles Curran, professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America, said he is "now in -correspondence with the (Vatican) Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith." Father Curran, 45, who has been a center of controversy in the past, said also that the doctrinal congregation is "in touch" with five other U.S. theologians "for one reason or another." NEW YORK, N.Y. (NC) - Alcoholism can be as much of a problem inside a convent as out and Sister Maurice Doody, herself an arrested alcoholic, has a fulltime commitment helping other alcoholic nuns by means of personal counseling and conducting workshops. She works from St. Nicholas of Tolentine Convent in the Bronx, with an annual budget of $10,000, most of which comes frOm her community, the Sparkhill Dominicans. Her only requirement is that the nuns she helps join Alcoholics Anonymous. MIAMI (NC) - Two former Haitian government officials testified that some Haitian refugees deported by U.S. immigration authorities were jailed, tortured and even killed by secret agents on their return to their country. Lawyers for about 4,000 Haitians now living in Miami and seeking permanent asylum in the United States said this testimony shows that the refugees should be considered political exiles and granted asylum. Immigration authorities contend that the Haitians left home because Of economic hardship and are not entitled to asylum.
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FRIENDS GET TOGETHER at reunion of former Christian Family Movement members at St. Mathieu Church, Fall River. From left, with Father Adrien Bernier, former chaplain, Mr. and Mrs. Paul, Dumais, Mr. and Mrs. Armand Dallaire, Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Roussel. (Torchia Photo)
ROME (NC) - The world food situation is becoming precarious and the developed and industrial countries should provide more technical and financial aid to Third World nations, according to representatives of 147 nations. They sfated their position at the close of the 20th World Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.' More than 1,000 delegates attended the conference in Rome. They approved policies and programs for the U.N. agency in 1980-81 and adopted a budget of $278,740,000.
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SISTER GERTRUDE AND HER MAP
A Most Historical Event
Gaudette '8 Law Sister Gertrude Gaudette has had few idle moments for the past year. Normally she is. art department head at Bishop Stang ijigh School, North Dartmouth, a frequent photographer for The Anchor and an ever-willing volunteer for such diverse projects as wallpapering a house for Cambodian refugees, making banners for liturgical celebrations and turning out innumerable signs, posters, programs and sketches. Added to that, during recent months she has spent hundreds of hours on a hand-
carved wooden relief map of the Fall River diocese, including photographs of all parish churches. It was presented to Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as a gift from Sister Gertrude's community, the Dominicans of St. Catherine of Siena, at the Fall River area banquet that climaxed observance of Jubilee 75.
She is modest about the huge project, even demurring at having her photograph taken with it. "I'd rather be on the other
side of the camera," she protested. And she made sure that credit for the map was shared' with Sister Theresa Sparrow, RSM, her frequent navigator and church-finder on picturetaking trips throughout the diocese. From the vantage point of such travels she pondered the almost unanimous reluctance of Catholic churches to identify themselves and formulated Gaudette's Law: "If it doesn't have a' sign, it's a Catholic church."
Christmas Midnight Mass celebrated by HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NC) A one of her homes for the dying. prominently in the public eye. newsman who says his breed There' she cleans out bedpans Wallace, for example, found on "is taught to be skeptical," came . and washes people. I asked her, his arrival in Calcutta, that film away from an interview with 'Is this ever embarrassing?' And. crews from Norway, Sweden Mother Teresa of Calcutta con- she replied: 'It's never embar- and France were also on hand vinced she is everything people rassing, never humiliating to to interview her. "She couldn't say she is and more. That ass- help the poor,' ". have been more cooperative," essment was made by Chris It is such work begun on her he said. "But she was overWallace, a reporter for NBC's own decades ago which has whelmed by us aH. She genuinePrime Time Sunday news pro- blossomed into a global ministry ly doesn't like to talk about gram. to those she calls "the poorest of herself," His interview with Mother Te- the poor," The segment, which he exresa, winner of the 1979 Nobel Her fame has been spreading pects to run 10 to 15 minutes, Peace Prize, will air Dec. 9 at in recent years, but the an- will include her thoughts On 10 p.m. EST. ,Being with Mother nouncement of the Nobel Peace such topics as women's ordina-. Teresa "was unlike anything I Prize placed. her even more tion, birth control and abortion. have ever done," Wallace said from his New York City office where he 'Was in the midst of writing the segment. "I've been VATICAN CITY (NC) - The that the Vatican break relations taught to be skeptical about Catholic Church is currently with Taiwan, Archbishop Lourpeople I interview, to assume training' personnel to work in dusamy said. that when so many wonderful China "so that once the doors things are said obout a person "There is a large. Christian are open we will have the staff they can't be true. But they are. community in Taiwan and we She's the most remarkable per- ready," a top Vatican official cannot leave Taiwan," he said. has told Catholic journalists. son I've ever met. She's caring, . "We have to look after that Archbishop Simon Lourdu- Christian community." generous, loving." samy, secretary of the Vatican NBC's cameras followed Congregation for the EvangelizaChinese Co_mmunist Party Mother Teresa through her daily tion of Peoples, spoke at a Vati- Chairman Hua Guofeng recently routine which includes arising can City meeting of the Inter- made a European tour which inat 4:30 a.m. for prayer, greeting national Catholic Union of the cluded Italy. But he announced visitors in her simple office, Press. before he left Peking that he overseeing th~ work of her orThe Indian prelate said how- would not meet with Pope John der throllghout the world and ever, "we are still not very clear" Paul U, adding that for now performil'lg charitahle acts' for on when China-Vatican relations China "cannot take into conthe needy. will he fully normalized. sideration" the normalization of A major obstacle to normal- relations with'the Holy See be"Every' Sunday," the reporter said, "Mother Teresa goes to ization is the Chinese demand cause of its ties to Taiwan.
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The United States' present involvement in Iran is indeed a bitter pill to swallow. Yet in many ways it is another reflection of America's ineptitude and yes, even ignorance. Drawn by the greed of the oil cartel and the insatiable lust for commercial profit, we have been plunged into a quagmire that is fast making our government the proverbial paper tiger. Much of the present turmoil that finds our embassies burned and our nationals held hostage is fundamentally due to a complete lack of underst"anding of the Eastern mind and in particular the reality of Islam. Ready to blame every turban that comes on the television screen, the American public forgets that for years the Mideast has been used by big businesses of the West without regard or respect for the deep religious and cultural feelings that permeate the very life blood of its people. Now that trouble and turmoil are at our own doorstep, we become indignant and resentful. To be sure, there is no excuse for barbaric defiance of international law. No nation can justify with honesty and honor the invasion of embassies and the outright murder of citizens supposedly protected by diplomatic immuni~y. The violence and hatred that is being encouraged and enkindled against this nation are indeed in many instances the result of, decisions encouraged by various international forces, including the KGB. All of this surely must be condemned and indeed equated with an appropriate response. However, before the young people of this nation once more march to bloody deaths in what we consider strange lands, the truth should be made public. This nation must not become the whipping boy of international blackmail because we at home refuse even to attempt to understand the forces that have been unleashed in. the Islamic world. They cannot and must not be ignored. This is not intended as a pro-Moslem editorial. Rather, it is intended to urge a balanced perspective before we commit our armed forces to another international military confrontation. Once before, in the early part of the 19th century, the United States and the Moslem ,world clashed during the Barbary wars. Then, however, the times were different and the world was larger. The infant American nation, as every school child knows, throttled the pirates of Tripoli. For most Americans, that has been the extent of their knowledge of our involvement in that area of the world except of course for our love-hate relationship to Lawrence of Arabia, the Desert Fox and even the fabled Sheik of Araby. But the mythical land of Sinbad the Sailor .has now become the harsh reality of the Ayatollah Khomeini and most people here at home still cannot or will not attempt to understand why this transformation has taken place. No matter what ultimately does occur in that area of the world, it still remains for Americans a place of mystery and intrigue. May we now pray for the safety of all our fellow Americans who serve their country in our diplomatic missions. May we also hope that in the future a sincere effort will be made not to treat people and their culture as mere servants of the. gods of materialism.
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River 410 Highland Avenue Fall River, Mass. 02722 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O.,
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'Fear not and be not dismayed: for the Lord thy God will be with thee, and , will not leave thee nor forsake thee.' I Par. 28:20
Hunger and Ourselves the world. Her single-minded dedication continues to move The news media bombard us ' the conscience of the world. Her with a now-familiar but cease- fidelity to the simplicity of the lessly disturbing scene - Cam- gospel message has provided us bodian mothers helplessly cling- with the answer to the question: ing to' their starving babies. In "What can one person do to a sense, we find a tragic com- change the world?" bination of the Madonna and Indeed, who would not be the Pieta forever making us un•envious of her position when easy as Christmas approaches. Our Lord asks, "Where were During this crisis the' church you when I was hungry, thirsty, must recognize its call to holi- naked, homeless and sick or in ness and respond to its mission prison?" with the same zeal as Jesus. Mother Teresa is not withThe church needs to recognize out her critics. Some advocates itself in the poor as Jesus recogof social justice have claimed nized the' image of his heavenly that by associating with Indira ~ather in the poor. Gandhi of India and Imelda MarUnfortunately, in the United cos of the Philippines, she serves States, the church is not always to perpetuate the status quo. the church of the poor. The But her only concern for politics church seldom recognizes itself is to convince world leaders to in the poor, and the poor seldom respond more generously to the recognize Christ ,in the church. poor. This paradox puts the church's There is a need for men and mission in serious jeopardy. women to be advocates for soIn times such as these we cial justice, but this was not need to listen to Pope John Mother Teresa's call. And we Paul II: "The poor are our need men and women like her, brothers and sisters. You must people who find in the faces of never be content to leave them the poor the vivid images of the just the crumbs from your feast. suffering Christ.' For Mother You must take of your sub- .Teresa the poor will never bestance and not just of your come a mere abstraction, an abundance in order to help them. ever-present danger among adAnd you must treat them like vocates of social justice. guests at your family table." It is most appropriate for These words echo the call of Mother Teresa to receive the our Lord to serve the·needs of Nobel Peace Prize. She received the poor, the very call which her famous call to serve Christ summoned Mother Teresa to a in the poor on September 10, lifetime of service to the poor, 1946 on a train ride to Darjeelabandoned, orphans and lepers. ing, India. In her youthful idealIn this day of declining voca- ism she asked God why He pertions, she has organized a com- mitted so much suffering among munity of some 1800 sisters to the innocent poor. The answer continue her mission of per- came strong and clear, "You forming the corporal and spirit- need the poor to touch Christ." 'A similar conversion experiual works of mercy throughout By Father Kevin
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ence touched the life of Alfred Nobel. After readiQg his mistaken obituary, he learned to his horror that his life was summed up as that of a munitions maker and merchant of death. The famous inventor of dynamite changed his whole life after, that experience. He also changed his will. His money has been given ever since through the Nobel Prizes to all who benefit mankind. Few of us will have a conversion experience such as Mother Teresa or Alfred Nobel. But all of us share a call to holiness and a share in the mission of the Church. In this age of world hunger we desperately need a change of heart. The words of St. Basil during the great famine of the year 368 challenge us as they did his contemporaries: "Why have you got plenty while another lives -in misery? Couldn't it be perhaps so that you will one day be rewarded for your goodness and faithful stewardship, while he receives his crown for his patience? "But you, who pack all your belongings into the bottomless sack of your miserliness, who think you do no harm to anyone, are nevertheless robbing many of your fel.low men. You commit as many injustices as there are people with whom you avoid sharing what you have." "UllllllllltllltllUIIIUIllIIIIIIlllllIIlIIUIIUllIIllIlIIllIIlIIllllllllUllllllllllllllllllllmm,IUIIIII
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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Dec. 6, 1979
Hispanic gifts
By gious tradition but they are not ing on a moonlit night in selfish with them. Rather, their DOLORES parish rituals and fiestas are December, a worthy back- open to all and it's a rare drop for a strolling parish "gringo" Catholic who has not CURRAN family bearing candles and sing- come away from such a ritual ing carols along a luminaria- enriched both spiritually and lined route behind a youthful communally. Joseph and Mary going from It is particularly right and just home to home seeking shelter. child, for example, is enviable. to recognize that rich gifts of '~No posada aqui," comes the When a Hispanic says, "Meet the Hispanic church at this time response. No shelter here. On to my padrinos,'" it means more because December twelfth is the Two you~g Californians the next home and another questhan when we say, "Here are Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, spent Thanksgiving weektion and rejection until, in failmy godparents." It signifies a a great fiesta in Spanish speakend in Phnom Penh, which ure, the couple must trek back special lifelong relationship that to the church where it event- ing parishes. binds them together in a way g'ives the rest of us someOver one-fourth of our Ameri- no other relationship does. PaM. thing to be thankful for. ually finds room in the parish manger. Such is the posada, a can Catholics have a Spanish drinos merit special honor in the Llewellyn Werner and Richheritage and we are belately family. The godchild makes the Christmas tradition frequently ard Walden decided to do more found in areas with heavy con- recognizing the value of their home of his padrinos one of his than wring their hands or write centrations of Spanish heritage influence. Some years ago when first to visit back home. They checks for the pitiful 路people Catholics. Anyone who has been I talked on the value of family support each other, emotionally who hauI}ted us on this feast of part of a posada will not soon rituals, Bishop Patrick Flores of and physically. plenty. San Antonio listened and later forgetit. The posada, luminarias, mariThey went out and raised It involves the senses - the said to me, "I was so sad hear- achi bands, colorful liturgical money, chartered a' plane, sight of the winding paths light- ing you tell of the need for fami- arts, the popular blessing of pets stocked it with medicine and lies to instill traditions because on Jan. 17th, the feastday of St. ed by candles embedded in sand food, negotiated with everybody inside brown paper sacks (lumin- I know that my people are aban- Anthony, and the many other who had to be negotiated with, arias), the sound of carols,. the doning them in order to become religious traditions of the Span- and took off. ish truly enrich us all. odors of Christmas, the taste of Americanized." "We're just amateurs," said At that time, it was true but I, for one, hope to find a pardisappointment in the search for Werner, as he was tracking today there's an awareness that ish posada for our family to exroom, and the feeling of community - all join to create tells Hispanic people they are perience this Christmas. We down final details for the trip. an experience of Christmas so special and that their traditions Irish may have the wakes but "If we can do it, the administradifferent from watching a parish are one of their richest legacies. the Spanish have the posadas tion can do it. They could start We have much to learn from which they willingly share with ' moving mjissive amounts in. They Nativity play. have no excuse." Our Hispanic relatives in-the-_ them. The beautiful relationship us. For that we say "Gracias." Werner is 30 years old, a ro.between godparents and godpew possess rich legacy of religuish, resourceful soul who used to be press secretary for Governor Jerry Brown of California, and is now a student at the Kennedy Institute of Politics. His partner in' "Operation By California" is Richard Walden, "Land's End" is a bitter, cyni- REV Those interested in the a 33-year-old, politically cons,cal, hopeful, pessimistic, vision-' . Catholic literary tradition cious Los Angeles lawyer. ought not to miss Kevin , ary novel. It is explicitly, avow- ANDREW M. All last spring, they fumed edly, and unabashedly Catholic, GREELEY over U.S. passivity as the boat Starr's new novel "Land's and it very much reflects the people were washing ashore all End," a vast story of San Fran- personality of its author who, over Indochina. They decided cisco in the 19th and 20th cen- like the story, is substantially they had to do something. So turies. larger than life. they leaned all over the monied If you think the meretricious A sometime Harvard pro"Land's End" is _a book for flim-flam of James Carroll is fessorand aide to San Francis- reading on long and cold au- folk of California, got donations great literature, I am afraid you co Mayor Alioto, and now a tumn or winter nights, a vast of jet fuel, medical supplies and won't like "Land's End." But if columnist for the San Francis- moving and profoundly Cath- dried food from big companies. They made two relief flights, you believe there is a .Catholic co Examiner,. Kevin Starr is olic story. Don't miss it. one to Malaysia, one to Thaicultural heritage, if you are fas- witty, outrageous, tough-minded, land. cinated by sprawling, panoramic ' sentimental, compassionate, They discovered something novels with death and birth, gentle, resolutely traditional al'id worse than boat people, the alllove. and hatred, lust and tender- uncompromisingly modern. One but-ignored "land people," the ness, faith and ambition, success might be tempted to compare millions of Cambodians who and failure, you will find "Land's him to Hilarire Belloc but I December 21 were dragging themselves across End" superb entertainment and would say that Starr is far less fascinating literature. defensive and, I think, far more Rev. Henri J. Charest, 1968, their ravaged country, fleeing the warfare between Pol Pot, the The story is almost impossible sophisticated than the latter half Pastor, St. Mathieu, (Fall River mass murderer who replaced Lon to digest. It deals with two of the Chesterbelloc. December 23 Nol, and Heng Samrin, the Comheroes: one, a 19th century But I don't like comparisons munist leader of Vietnamese inCatholic intellectual who attend- of :' contempor~ry Rev. Owen J. Kiernan, 1901, American vaders. ed Harvard and fought against writers and English Catholic Pastor, Immaculate Conception, They went into action again. Garibaldi in the papal Zouaves, writers of an earlier generation Fall River a man fully and brilliantly aware (though I will confess to being " Rev. Charles P. Trainor, SS., They applied to the State Deof the embattled Catholic Chris- pleased as punch when some- 1947, St. Edward Seminary, partment for funds, and were turned down. But they got offitian heritage he is defending; body occasionally compares me Seattle, Wa. the other, a somewhat nondes- to G.K.C.). Rev. Msgr. John A'. Silvia, cial approval. They sought the cript 20th century San FranStarr is. American Irish,' in- 1970, 'Pastor Emeritus, St. John expert advice of the American Friends Service Committee cisco political administrator, a deed San Francisco Irish, and Baptist, New Bedford which still operates rehabilitaman who has inherited the shat- less a product of an old literDecember 24 tion centers in Vietnam, and tered pieces, as it were, of the ary tradition than perhaps the great vision of his predecessor of beginning of a new one. With Rev. James K. Beaven, 1886, with the regime in Hanoi. enormous cultural renaissance his enormous talents and ener- Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taunton The Quakers sent a relief affecting the whole .Pacific basin gies, Starr has a very promisRev. Timothy J. Duff, 1914, team to Cambodia in mid- Deand centered in the city of the ing future ahead of him Assistant, St. Joseph, Woods cember. Their representative, Golden Gate. Ed Snyder, talked with officials though he is likely to be patron- Hole and found them "eager toacThe first hero is a man with ized to death by hacks who reDecember 27 great dreams that don't quite view books for Catholic periodicept aid." He was told that the Rev. Thomas J. Stapleton, prime needs were vitamins, anticome true. The second hero is a cals. With a few breaks, the auman who, much to his surprise, thor of "Land's End" may well 1956, Pastor, Corpus Christi, biotics and, of course, food. He finds out that despite the ab- become one of the most impor- Sandwich gave the list to Werner and sence of dreams in his life, there tant American Catholic writers, Rev. Msgr. Armand Levasseur, Walden. Actress Julie Andrews are nevertheless dreams coming of our time - not that there' is' 1970, Pastor Emeritus, St. Anne, and her husband, Blake Edall that much to compete with. New Bedford true for him. wards, gave $75,000 for the
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charter of a Flying Tiger DC 8. John McAuliffe, who is also with the AFSC. was able to arrange, through Hanoi, a meeting with Keo Prasath, Cambodia's deputy foreign minister, who ,fortuitously came to New York for a special U.N. famin'e session the first week in November. Werner and Walden sat in the Delegate's Lounge for a long parley wi~h Keo Prasath, who spoke in French. Walden's wife did the interpreting. The deputy foreign minister promised to arrange landing rights in Phnom Penh. Cabled messages flew among Moscow, Hanoi and Phnof Penh. "It's a very positive development, something of a breakthrough," says Snyder. One plane, of course, will not make that much difference amid the :vast horrors. But it's a lesson all the same. It .shows that if you are willing to do it their way, you may be able to rescue a dying country. We insist on doing it our way. Waves of Americans the president's wife, three senators, a delegation of congresswomen - have gone on fact-finding trips and have come home with ideas of what can be done in ,spite of the obdurate Cambodians. Mrs. Carter advocates more ,money for the Thai border camps, although only the strong can get to them. The senators fastened on a truck route, which the Heng Samrin. government has flatly vetoed. Various senators and congressmen continue . to importune the Soviets to intervene with their allies in Hanoi, to no avail. Famine politics is petty and poisonous. A representative of Oxfam America, which is running a relief barge on the Mekong River, had the temerity to say at a White House meeting on Cambodia that until the United States deals with the Cambodian authorities, the cosmic ministrations that are needed cannot be undertaken. At a subsequent State Department task force meeting, an official attacked Oxfam for not being "even-handed" in its distribution of food. The Cambodians suspect we want to bring back Pol Pot, for whom we unaccountably voted at the U.N. Jimmy Carter chokes on recognition in an election year. So we give millions and make pious speeches and flinch at pictures of babies who look like aged skeletons. The Werner-Walden mission proves that we can help, if that's what we really want to do. It wouldn't be the first time that young Americans have shown their government the way in Indochina.
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Higgins Gets Award WASHINGTON ,(NC) - Msgr. George G. Higgins, secretary for special concerns of the U.S. Catholic Conference, has received the first interreligious award of Religion in American Life. Msgr. Higgins "is a role model for every clergyman in America," said Rabbi Joseph B. Glaser, RIAL board chairman, in presenting the award. "He reflects honor not only on his own church but on all religion in American' life." .
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WASHINGTON (NC) - Five senators have asked Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance to become personally involved \ in efforts to free a Catholic priest jailed in the Philippines since December 1974. The' priest is Divine Word Father Edicio de la Torre, a 36year old Filipino. He has been in jail for five years and has yet to be tried, said the senators. He is a well known poet, painter, theologian and ecumenist, say his supporters. They believe his involvement in social issues and his work with the underprivileged are the key reasons for his arrest. Signers of the letter are Senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Donald W. Riegle (D-Mich.), John Meinz (R-Pa.), Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo.) and Paul Tsongas (D.-Mass.)
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Continued from Page One centuries of bitterness and separation. The papal visit to Turkey included meetings with Turkish government and diplomatic officials in the capital of Ankara, visits to historical sites in Ankara, Istanbul and Ephesus, and meetings with Catholics and other Christian leaders in addition to Patriarch Dimitrios. In the overwhelmingly Moslem country there were none of the huge crowds that met Pope John Paul on his journeys earlier this year. And because of domestic problems, Turkish authorities were less than happy with the visits timing. Inflation is running at 50 percent. Acts of terrorism take an average death toll of five a day. Major areas of the country are under martial law. And a newly formed minority government hangs in precarious balance. Heavily armed soldiers and plainclothes security forces cordoned off every place the pope visited. Yet desp}te all the diffi-
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Questions Dear Editor: Come now - do you think you could publish that little' GEM about Frank Sinatra receiving the sacraments after his marriages, children and present marriage to a divorced woman without a complete explanation? I don't care what Frank Sinatra does or doesn't do, but it seems to me that for the many Catholics who cannot receive the sacraments, it must be very .demorali:?:ing, disheartening and confusing to say the least, to read something like that. . Please answer our questions. How could his first marriage in
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ST. PIUS X, SOUTH YARMOUTH The Bourne Choral Group, directed by Josephine Fletcher, will entertain the Women's Guild at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11 at the parish hall. Guests are welcome. ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN A baptismal seminar for expectant p!irents will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20 in the rectory. ,Parents should plan to attend such a meeting about five months before an expected birth. DOMINICAN THIRD ORDER, FALL RIVER Third Order members will meet at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14 at Rose Hawthorne, Lathrop Home, 1600 Bay St., Fall River.
All Catholic' high schools In the diocese will accept applicants, and administer a place.ment examination for new students at 8 a.m. Saturday. Students wishing to enter any of these schools next September should report to the school of their choice. The examination and application procedure wi'll last until approximately noon. A $5 fee ($3 at Bishop Con- b nolly, Bishop Stang and Holy Family high schools) will be payable Saturday. Students need bring no records, nor need parents accompany them. Information as to courses, activities and financial aid will be available. Diocesan high schools combine .emphasis on academic excellence and student life in a faith community. Increasing numbers of families indicate interest in such offerings, evidenced by the fact .that the schools have an enrollment of 3,210 students this year, a rise of five percent over last year.. .Tuition fees vary in the dioce~an schools, but all' provide . scholarship or financial aid. Grants from the Bishops' Jubilee Scholarship Fund are made available by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and distributed through the diocesan department of education; and most schools have other means of offering assistance to students desirous of obtaining a Catholic education.
ST. RITA, MARION The parish has "adopted" a 9-year-old Brazilian child through the Christian Children's Fund and will keep in contact with her through correspon'dens:e.
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Moscow Chaplain Rev. Eu~ene V. Laplante, AA, a North Dartmouth native, is in Moscow for three years as chaplain to A'merican Catholics stationed in the Russian' capital. He previously served in the same capacity from 1965 to 1968. The chaplaincy is traditionally held by Assumptionist Fathers, who have worked in Russia since 1903 and since 1933 have served as chaplains to Americans under the Roosevelt-Litvinoff Agreement establishing U.S.-Soviet diplomatic relations. Father Laplante il> settled in an 8th-floor apartment in Moscow, where he has a private chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Hope, in which he can celebrate. daily Mass. It is the same apartment he occupied 14 years ago - familiar down to possessing the same stove and refrigerator, he wryly told relatives. Since Father Laplante is not appointed to the American Embassy in Moscow, but simply as chaplain to American Catholics, he serves persons not attached to the diplomatic corps and, in practice, Catholic diplomats of other nations. His weekly schedule includes a Mass for diplomats and two charismatic prayer meetings, one conducted in French and one in English. He .returned to Moscow last July 4 for his current assignment, after spending six months in Boston brushing up his Russian.
In the period between his Moscow assignments, the Assumptionist served on the marriage tribunal of the Montreal archdiocese. The son of Mrs. Eugene A. Laplante and the late Eugene La· plante, he attended St. Anthony's parochiiil school in New Bedford and Assumption High School, Worcester, before entering the Assumptionist seminary. Ordained in France in 1958,
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Dear Dr.. Kenny: . I am currently going through a divorce, and I feel that you have not treated this subject adequately in your previous columns.. When I married, I certainly never expected to be divorced. There had never been a 'divorce in my extended family. I had always followed all the rules (about sex, and so on) and was certain that God would bless my marriage and make it a good one. , Things didn't work out that way. Only God knows why. I am beginning to have some glimmers of what his plan may 'be, but it would be presumptuous for me to tell you that I have a pipeline to God's will. You say ma.rriage calls for effort and commitment. What effort did I spare? What agony did I not go through? It was years of hell. Begging him to communicate with me, enduring his ever-present excuses to defer talking about problems. It would have been so much easier to give up, but for years I kept at him, trying to build up some communication. His style was to withdraw whenever any conflict came up. I couldn't exist on such a superficial relationship.. I thought maybe my lack of feeling was a whim or a stage. . Next week, next month, if I only
tried Marriage Encounter, if we only took a trip, if I bought a revealing nightgown, it would come back. I waited years for the feeling to return and wondered how many more years I should wait. Until I was 40? 50? 65? I had a horror of ending up in an old folks home, rocking away next to him, with absolutely nothing to say. Since making the decision, I have gone through the hardest six months of my life. Each person I teU is a new trauma - my parents, myoid frierids, my neighbors, then the casual acqUaintanees, who say, ''Well, that~s the trouble, people get divorced too lightly these days." I am so lonely. Money is tight. Divorce is a trauma for al" most everybody 'who goes through it. Contrary to myth, it's seldom done on whim, for whim would not be strong enough, to carry someone througb the hard time. That was certainly true for me. Had it been only whim, narcissism, I would have called him back. I' would have my furniture back, my kids would no longer be "children of a broken home." I would not be selling my dream house, lovingly decorated, and making plans to go to school next year on no money. At the same time, difficult as things have been, I feel that I
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am absolutely in the palm of God's hand. He is so close. I stumble, I falter. I have so many decisions to make, including moral ones, and the course is uncharted by the churcb. Catholics simply cease to exist when they divorce. But I promised God I would not let them get rid of me that easily. I would stay in the church, begging his guidance to show me what he wants me to do within thej church. I've already attended a national conference of Divorced and Separated Catholics. I came away feeling strongly ,that the Spirit is pres~nt in that movement. What of commitment, then? My friends know that a commitment from me might as well be chiseled in stone.. Yet my marriage broke up. I can only say that in the last analysis, my commitment °to God, to the values of the New Testament, even my commitment to my husband and children demanck!d that I make the hardest decision of my life; to divorce. Please understand. The numbers of the divorced are growing. We suffer enough. We need your acceptance and support. (Pa.) Questions on family living and child care are invited. Address to The Kennys c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.
Early Santa Claus By Marilyn Roderick
with the advancing age and distance of our offspring, because Sometimes the wait between Jason has already mentioned a Thanksgiving and Christmas is few items he wouldn't mind rejust too long for children and ceiving for St. Nicholas day. As that's one reason why Joe and far as his sisters are concerned, I enjoy celebrating St. Nicholas they may have to receive their Day, December 6. This feast of gifts via the U.S. mails but St. the Christmas saint, while still Nicholas won't forget them acknowledging gift giving, does either. take the edge off Christmas as Very seldom do I come across nothing more than a day to get a recipe that I absolutely must Presents. have but when Ann Sweeney of We started the custom of giv- , Holy' Name parish, Fall River, ing a, small token gift on the 6th ba~ed these, I found them unand also used this date as the forgettable. They'd be great for one when we would reveal the holiday entertaining. newest addition to our _creche French Breakfast Treats set. YJ cup shortening Mary Reed Newland, who Y2 cup sugar wrote one of the best books on Advent and Christmas celebrations that I have ever come across, "The Year and Our Children" (published by Image VILLAiNOVA, Pa. (NC) Books, a division of Doubleday), was my mentor when we were "If you ever saw a child in the searching for ways to put Christ third stage of malnutrition, I, don't think your life or thought back into Christmas. processes would ever be the Many of her own projects, same again," said Msgr. Robert such as celebrating the saints' ColI at a conference at ViJlanova feasts during the Twelve Days Law School. of Christmas just never took off Msgr. ColI, founder of the naat our house; however, her book has so many great ideas that at tional Rice Bowl Program, spoke least one can spark your own at the parley sponsored by the Philadelphia. archdiocesan Compersonal custom. The saint that we took to mission on World Peace and with great warmth is the above- justice. mentioned Nicholas, who is the He said food, "the ultimate reSanta Claus of the children of source," is unjustly distributed, and "we must reorganize the the Netherlands. I guess this part of our Christ- structures that perpetuate the inmas tradition will continue. even justice."
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Starvation bitter sight The Department of Agricul-' ture employs more people than there are farmers in America, he noted. "If weare to feed the people of the world, I believe it must be done through a more widely discussed, prominently displayed sense of justice," he said. "Why should six percent of the world's population use 25 percent of the world's re;ources?" Msgr. CoIl asked. "Does the right of ownership give us permission to consume and consume until we haoye threatened lifeboat earth? I don't think so."
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uestioncorner By Father John Dietzen Q. You recently discussed the subject of rapture in non'-CathoUc churches. I believe you misinterpreted their meaning of rapture. To most "born again Christians," rapture means only one thing;" and that is the "great snatch" when Christ comes to take us who live, and his church, out of this world "to meet the Lord in the air." The subject of the rapture is discussed at length today because they feel the signs of the Great Tribulation Period (Seventieth Week of Daniel) are close at hand. I am sure this is the rapture to which your writer is referring. (Ohio) A. From all the mail I received, you must be right. My "response dealt with rapture as an experience of contemplative prayer. The word rapture in Christian tradition certainly does include, however, the meaning you indicate, the final coming of Christ to take the world to himself and unite mankind together with him to the heavenly Father. > The reader asked the question: Why do Protestants talk about it so much and the Catholics do not? My impr-ession is that the emphasis is found within some of the pentecostal churches. For an explanation of why they do this, you would have to ask them. The Catholic Church obviously considers the final coming of Christ the climax and completion of all human-history. To be honest, however, it learned centuries ago not to take too seriously dire predictions that the heavens are about ready to drop and that the end of the world is just around the corner. It has lived through hundreds of such predictions.
Whether the end of the world comes one year or a hundred thousand years from now doesn't really make much difference. The more c"ritical concern is whether we are prepared for our own "end" - the close of our own personal pilgrimage on this earth. Our life as Christians must always be guided by faith in the supreme Lordship of Jesus which will come to its perfection when he comes again. How soon that coming will be isn't all that important. Q. A very religious friend recently said to me, "You have lost your soul." How d'~s anyone know this? And how do I respond to such a statement? (Fla.) A. No matter how we have spent our lives, the final bell isn't· rung until the moment of our death. Until then, it is theoretically possible for someone to foul up his or her life very drastically, or, on the other hand, to return to God after some awfully bad falls. While it is possible for us to say in many instances what is right and wrong, no one has an inside view of another person's soul. Only God, 'and possibly the individual himself, knows all the weaknesses, fears, pressures, and even ignorance that might considerably lessen the moral evil of what in itself might be a malice of' enormous proportion. This is why Jesus warns us repeatedly against presuming to judge the state of another person's conscience. Maybe the best answer to someone who speaks this way is simply, "I'm glad God is my final judge and not you."
Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen c/o The Anch«;>r, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. 02722.
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Children as teachers By Steve Landregan
II Ablessing By Father John Castelot
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When the author of Psalm 128 was looking for a way to de-. scribe the blessings that would come to the man who strove to live a good life, the following thoughts came readily to him: Happy shall you be, and favored. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine In the recesses of your home; Your children like olive plants around the table . . . The Lord bless you from Zion . . . May you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel! (Psalm 128: 2b, 3, 5a, 6). His enthusiasm reflects the attitude of all the sacred authors toward children. They were a blessing, a sign of God's favor; their absence was a curse, a reproach. Beginning with the providential birth of Issac to the aged and childless Abraham and Sarah, this theme runs throughout the Bible. Luke used it to good effect in his birth narra-路 tive, wherein he parallels the births of John the Baptist and Jesus. ' He introduces John's parE!nts as follows: "They were childless, for Elizabeth was sterile; moreover, both were advanced in years" (Luke 1,7). But God . intervenes and sends an angelic messenger to tell Zechariah: "Your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizaheth shall bear a son whom. you shall name Turn to Page Thirteen
God's opinion By Rebecca Christian .
Seven weeks ago, I held a baby in my arms for the first time. It was my own. When my husband and I told friends and co-workers we were expecting a child, we were baffled by the responses. Mingled in with heartfelt cries of congratulation were: "But you're so young!" "You've only been married a year!" What was so singular about two happily married 25-year-olds By AI Aspell starting a family, we asked them. "Plenty, they answered. "When "It's a matter of faith and you're used to the designer trust. You can't say to the Lord, clothes, ski weekends, trips to 'Okay God, I trust you in everyEurope and dinners out that go thing but this baby business. along with freedom from responThat's too important and I'm sibility and two solid incomes." going to take care of that my"You won't be alone together self.' You have to trust him all for the next 18 years," warned the way." a frazzled mother of four. Tom Highfill pulls up a chair . Our friends had a point. Soand sits down, close to his wife, to discuss how they feel ciologists note that as couples marry later, women become about having children. Through the open windows, more career minded and childthe laughter of their two sons and ren become ever more expensive . three daughters drifts into the to raise, many people forego pleasant living room. It is a late' parenthood. Some postpone it unAugust afternoon, and t~e fam- til the fourth decade of life, only ily will soon attend evening to be faced by worries about chromosomal defects that more Mass. "From the beginning," Tom often plague babies born to continues, "we felt we would mothers over 35. The statistics speak for thembe willing to have the children selves. In a special study last that God blessed us with. "We went through a period year, researchers learned that to where people were prodding us 900 women who were graduated toward birth control but we al- in the five previous years from ways believed that God is the Ivy League sister schools, only author of life and continue to three chil!iren had been born. believe that he will provide for To make the finding even more us. dramatic, recent surveys show "Lots of people say this, but that twice as many "20 to 30when it comes to living it; some year-olds are childless now as draw the line because it isn't in 1960. Researchers speculate easy." that as many as a quarter of The Highfills are a young these women will never have children. ' Turn to Page Thirteen
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The news makes government economists shudder. The President's Commission on Pension Policy recently leafned that by the year 2035, the number of ,people over 65 may increase as much as 120 percent. But by the same time, the labor force of younger workers - which has traditionally supported the elderly - is expected to grow by only six percent. 'Of course,. we didn't have Katie to buoy up the Social Security Administration in' the 21st century: Nor would we limit our family size to oblige the statistical department of the
U.N. Just like the old saying little girls used to taunt each other with at recess, expressing our love in the form of a third human being was part of a natural progression. "First comes love, then comes. marriage, then comes (blank) in . a baby carriage!" they'd shriek, filling the blank with the name of their victim's heartthrob. True, we eat more tuna casserole and less fresh shrimp. We Turn to Page Thirteen
Of the challenges parents face in rearing children, one of the most" difficult is adjusting their relationship to a child from paternal to fraternal. Yet, as a child matures, parents must he able to accept him or her as a brother or sister, free and responsible in the eyes of God. Our five children range from 20 to 26 years old. One is married, two are in college and two are single and pursuing careers. During the past eight years, my wife and I have learned a lot about living creatively with children from adolescence to adulthood. We tried to instill in our children a sense of values that included the principle that people . are more important than things. Yet, we never really succeeded in detaching ourselves from things. We enjoy nice cars, interesting trips, a comfortable home with a few luxuries. Our own failure to practice what we taught our children was brought home to us when we discovered that our married daughter and her husband had given away many of their wedding gifts. They were living in a mobile home; he was driving a county school bus and working as a youth minister in a small parish while he completed studies for a master of religious education degree. Theirs was not a life of luxuFy, yet they had given many of their wedding gifts to families they felt were in greater need than they. Our eldest daughter has taught \.us what it means to live lovingly with a spirit of detachment. In spite of having a good job, she lives simply and gives deeply of herself. At one period she 'gave up her independence to live with a nearly blind路 friend in order to give the friend greater independence. We have also learned from her that a person can accomplish anything he or she really wants to do. In her young life she has mastered several different artistic media and had several one-woman shows; she has fulfilled a youthful ambition to be an automobile mechanic by succeeding at that difficult job; and she is currently working as a cartographer and illustrator, utilizing her art aegree while pursuing a degree in engineering, her other love. This morning I was talking to another daughter on the phone. As I sounded off about a friend
whose zeal for Christ often makes him overbearing and obnoxious, she counseled me: "Be patient, Dad. Remember he has suffered a lot and has much to give." This is the same daughter who finds time to take' two elderly widows, out for an ocelderly widows out for an octrip. Recently we have learned patience from our youngest as he lived with a compound fracture of his arm that first refused to heal and now has healed improperly. . The Lord has always spoken to us through our children.
II For children II By Janaan
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Zechariah strode through the crowd. It was the most important moment of his life. Today was his day to make the evening offering of incense in Jerusalem's great temple. Zechariah entered the inner temple. He bowed before the aP tar of God. Alone in the holy place, as priest of the Jewish people, he began to offer incense in their name. Suddenly he was overwhelmed by a feeling of God's presence. He seemed to see a messenger from God. He was terrified. "Do not be afraid," the messenger said gently. "The Lord has heard your prayer." Zachariah knew what was meant. For all the years of their marriage, he and his wife Elizabeth had prayed for a child. But they remained childless. Now they were old, beyond the age for children. "Zechariah," the messenger continued, "your wife Elizabeth will have a baby. You are to name him John. God himself will be with him." Zechariah was astonished. "How can this be? Elizabeth and I are already old. How can I believe you?" "Zechariah, God himself sent me to you. But you question my word. Therefore you will be unable to speak until the baby is born." The crowds outside could not understand what was taking Zechariah so long. Finally he came out. He could not speak, so he tried to explain what hapJ3ened by making signs. The Turn to Page Thirteen
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A Verdade E A Vida DirigiCia pelo Rev. Edmond Rego
A Responsabilidade, Hoje A vida moderna esta marcada por profundas. 0 tradideu 0 lugar ao constantemente mutavel, novo, dinamico. Nao existem va~ores morais, sociais,ou, culturais permanentes como outrora. E o homem sente-se cada diamais 0 protagonista e senhor da sua propria historia. Por isso 0 homem.moderno possui uma consciencia tao viva da sua liberdade e responsabilidade. A fe nao possui uma dimensao meramente pr~vada. Por isso a responsabilidade crista nao se pode limitar as rela~oes pessoais, a esfera individual do encontro eu-tu. 0 amor cristao hade penetrar as estruturas ecbnomicas, politicas e culturais e modifica-las, sempre que elas nao estejam a favorecer a paz, a justi~a e a liberdade. ~ por isso que'a Teologia hoje acentua principalmente esta dimensao social da fe, suficientemente alicer~ada na
mudan~as rapidas e cional, 0 estavel,
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De facto, ja na Antiga Lei 0 amor de Deus e do proximo sao duas atitudes inseparaveis do mesmo "sim" a Deus, ja que Ele rejeita todo 0 culto que nao estiver baseado na justi~a e no respeito aos outros. No Novo Testamento, 0 verdadeiro amor de Deus e aquele que se torna visivel num amor eficaz aos outros. 0 homem so podera alcan~ar a Deus, se aceitar a Alian~a que Ele contraiu com 0 Seu povo. A propria Reden~ao, como 0 pecado, alem da dimensao pessoai e individual, tern tambem uma dimensao historico-social e comunitaria. Na Alian~a existe a promessa de uma "nova terra" onda habitara a justi~a." 0 cumprimento desta promessa ha-designificar 0 advento definitivo do Reino de Deus e trar a consigo a total liberta~ao dos filhos de Deus e a sua plena reconci~ lia~ao com Deus, com os outros e con~ sigo mesmo. Sera 0 triunfo decisivo da paz, da justi~a.e da liberdade. Este Reino vai-o construindo responsavelmente ohomem namedida em que, individual e comunitariamente, e fiel a Alian~a e , guiado pela esperan~a crista, se empenha na tranforam~ao da Cria~ao, a qual estaja dando a luz 0 novo mundo na progressiva liberta~ao da presente escravidao. o homem actual sente-se chamado cada vez mais a dominar e transformar responsavelmente 0 mundo e a dirigir a sua historia, liberto de toda a concep~ao magica, mitida, ideologica, falsamente religiosa ou sacral das realidades mundanas. 0 cristao ha-de-o fa~er pensando no dominio soberano de Deus. Utilizando toda a sua capacidad~ coloborara com Cristo em fazer do mundo uma nova cria~ao e esfor~ar-se-a por tornar mais humana a vida dos homens. . o cristao ha-de superar 0 processo dialectico da sua liberta~ao e transforma9ao, na medida em que, unido a Cristo, libertar e transformar 0 mundo. t
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A Blessing answered. How strange it is that Continued from Page Twelve thousands of others look upon John. Joy and gladness will be yours, and many will rejoice at children as a threat to their enhis birth" (1,13-14). And Eliza- joyment of life. It is true that beth's reaction is significant: "In the Bible reflects a culture vasttpese days the Lord is acting on ly different from ours. But it my behalf; he has seen fit to reflects the same human nature, remove my reproach among and it is a paradoxical law Fof that nature that egocentricity is men" (1,25). In such an instance G'od's cre- in fact destructive of self and productive of misery. We grow ative power was seen at work, producing life where there was as authentic persons through no life, nor even hope of life. the unselfish nurturing of new persons. It was the same spirit that was pictured as hovering over dark, watery chaos to call the universe out of nothingness. Luke gave sublime expression to this Continued from Page Twelve idea when he had the angel an- crowd gradually realized that . nounce to Mary: "The Holy . God had spoken to him. Spirit will come upon you and Zechariah then went home. the power of the Most High Soon EHzabeth became pregnant. will overshadow you; hence, the They were both so happy they holy offspring to' be born will could hardly believe it was all be called Son of God. Know that happening. Elizabeth your kinswoman has When the child was born, it conceived a son in her old age; was a time of great celebration. she who was thought to be sterFamily and friends gathered for ile is now in her sixth month, the circumcision of the child. for nothing is impossible with . This was' the day that a Jewish God" (Luke 1,35-37). child received its name. The relaGod could and did reverse the tives expected the boy to be lifelessness of both sterility and named Zechariah after his father. virginity and, by his creative But Elizabeth insisted that power, make them fruitful. And the boy was to be called John. Mary's song could echo the They couldn't understand why. songs of many predecessors: So they asked Zechariah what My being proclaims the great- the boy was to be called. ness of the Lord, Zechariah motioned for someMy spirit finds joy in God my thing to write on. He wrote, savior, "His name is John." /\t that For he has looked _upon his moment Zechariah sensed that. servant in her lowliness; he was again able to talk, just all ages to come shall be as God's messenger had promblessed. ised. God who is mighty has done He picked up the child, stood great things for me, beside Elizabeth, and sang a holy is his name prayer of thanks to God. "All '(Luke 1,4U-49). Thousands of childless couples this is the wor~ of the kindness can identify with such prayers of our God," he sang, as tears and with the joy of having them of joy fell down his wrinkled cheeks onto .his grey beard. , .
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Continued from Page Twelve couple who married 11 years ago. He comes from a family Continued from Page Twelv'e of two children and she is the play more Monopoly games and oldest of 10. see fewer movies. I turn out Mark, their first son, is now fewer articles and more laundry. 7, another daughter, Jennifer. Jeff rides his bike to work and Marie, is 5, and a second son, I clip coupons. Matthew, is almost 2. At the same time, we have The Highfills don't buy over- forged the strongest bond a population rumors. Man's tech- man and woman can have beTHE CONIFER GROUP nology, they feel, can match tween us. Our eyes have met in with assets over $450.000,000 man's needs. "If you think about the ragged breathing of a labor, Hyannis-775-4500 ii, if you believe God is the one room and in the happy chatter South Yarmouth-394-2111 sending the children, that the outside the nursery window. member F.D.I.C. size of your family is up to him, When I fold my baby's tiny you also believe he will pro- T-shirts and the thought of her vide," says Gerri. makes my breasts tingle with Four children are in parochial milk, I marvel at a God who school, and both parents are can wed emotion and metabobusy with parish activities. Tom lism to fulfill a child's needs. is director of spiritual renewal "The challenge of helping our and Gerri is chairman of the Kate to become a strong, useful, music commission and song loving person makes the quest leader. for job promotions and career And that's why Gerri says satisfactions seem piddling in now, "I can't imagine why he comparison. wouldn't send another baby. Still, we wish our childless We get so involved it appears acquaintances well. Sometimes, we couldn't possibly pull out of stained with spit-up and frazzled all the activity, but the Lord from midnight wailing, we will THRIFT STORES works illogically sometimes. probably envY them. 308 COLLETTE STREET "I don't see how I could hanBut deep in the 'place reserved NEW BEDFORD, MASS• . die another little one. I'd back for God and each other, we echo 1150 JEFFERSON BLVD. off of everything, though, and the poet and father, Car~ SandWARWICK, R.I. it would be a peaceful time, a - . burg: "/\ baby is God's opinion (Rt. 95 South· AIrport ExIt) blessing in disguise'." that the world should continue."
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By Cecilia Belanger In the past few weeks many have fasted or skipped meals in order to share the hunger pains of the starving around the world. Suffering is part of what has been made wrong in the world, but some sufferers' have turned this negative into a positive. Christ is our best example of this. Often people ask: "Why does God allow pain?" Pain is sometimes a warning that something is wrong. The pain of a splinter warns us it must be removed. There is Jhe pain ot thirst, the body asking for water. Without such warnings, we would long ago have become extinct. There are degrees of pain in the animal kingdom. The higher one goes, the more the pain. Our Lord who reached the summit of sensitivity, suffered as no other had done. , Often the question: "Why do the innocent suffer?" Because they are part of the human family, where people make mistakes and where there are'victims of those mistakes. The careless driver, the careless match,' the frayed 'wire, tl)e exposed poison, a~1 these things claim their victims. The moment we are born we face risks. When we' enter the human family we take its liabilities with its assets, its joys with its sorrows. It's been said that a world without pain could have no hero and no saint. God expects us to mediate his providence to one another. He awaits our 'awaken- . ed· responsibility to· get rid of the 'slums, effect the cures, protect" the child and come to the aid of the weak.
Bp.Gerrard The chorus of the Fall River girls' school will present its annual Christmas concert in the school auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Varied religious and secular seasonal selections will be offered. Soloists will include Michele Delisle, Diane Cloutier, Michele Tremblay, Bonnie Pacheco ,and Mr. Ron Rathier. ~Iaine Nadeau will direct the concert and the accompanist will be Pauline M. Dufour. Next Wednesday sophomores will continue the school's Advent program by celebrating Mass together.
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Statistics from the 55 graduates of the class of '79 show that 83 percent are continuing their education and 67 percent are in four-year colleges. Cheryl Roza was the Taunton school's Homecoming Queen for 1979. '
Bishop Stang Bishop Stang High in North Dartmouth . has been notified by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges that it has earned full term accreditation of last September. Accreditation team members commented favorably on the "sharing and caring" attitude of students and the fact that they are "recognizably products of a
Christian education." They alsQ noted the willingness of teachers to spend time on extracurricular activities and the satisfaction of parents with the Stang philosophy of education. The Stang guidance depart. ment also announced that for the 17th consecutive year over 80 percent of current graduates ~re continuing their, education at four or two-year colleges.
HolyFa~ily Twenty-nine juniors at Holy Family High, New Bedford, were inducted into the National Hon-' or Society at ceremonies con-' ducted by NHS officers MarK Lavallee" president; Michael Murray, vice-president; Yvonne .Robichaud, secretary; Gordon Goes, treasurer. Music was offered by the glee club.
Twenty-seven students, led by Father David Hare, S.J., form the school action committee, which is soliciting aid from alumni, the Jesuit and Brothers of Christian Instruction communities and the public at large. Two years ago the--Fall River school committee pledged that school cafeterias would honor the boycott and that commitment remains in force, noted the students. . They explain that the boycott is a protest against Nestle infant formular marketing practices in Third World countries. In such countries, they state, mothers are often persuaded to switch from breast milk to .formula without adequate instruction in formula preparation. As a result, babies may receive contaminated or over-diluted feed-
ings and it is claimed that many deaths have resulted thereby. Nestle products boycotted include Quik, Nestle's Crunch, Chocobake, Chocolite, $100,000 Candy Bar and various coo!de mixes. Also distributed by the Nestle company are Taster's Choice and Decaf coffees, Libby's canned goods, Crosse and Blackwell products and a variety of cheeses and soups. The boycott is supported by many dioceses, the Maryknoll Fathers, the National Council of Churches, Bread for the World, Oxfam-America and the National Association of Women Religious.·..
Citadel "All our moralities are but our outworks, our Christianity is our citadel; a man who considers duty but the dignity of his being a man, is not easily beat from his outworks, but from his Christianity never," John Donne
Sophomores celebrated the feast of St. Catherine with a traditional hat show. Winners were Janine Cathcart, Louise Dumas and Margaret Tonetto. ,St. Nicholas will be honored by French Club members and French class students today as they 'lunch at a French restaurant.
Unbearable Truth "I have yet many things to say' to you, but you cannot bear them now.' Not <because they are so unlike your mortal experiences, but because they are so like," Coventry Patmore
God has not rested from his labors but he will not do things that we can do for ourselves. And he wants us to allow others to do things for themselves and not turn them into late helpless human beings. God is ever urging us to grapple. with this large human family problem, assuring us that it is n9t beyond us.
By Charlie Martin
BABE Babe I'm leaving, I must be on my way The time is drawing near A train is going, I see it in your eyes The love beneath your tears And I'll be lonely without you And I'll need your love to see me through Please believe me, my heart is in your .hands And I'II-'be missing you Vou know it's you babe, whenever I get weary, and I've had enough Feel like giving up You know it's you Babe, giving me the courage and strength I need Please believe that it's true Babe, I love you Babe, I'm leaving, I say it again And somehow try to smile I know the feeling we are trying to forget if only for a white Because I'll be lonely without you, and I need your love to see me through Please believe me, my heart is in your hands And I'll be missing you Babe, I love you Babe, I love you Babe Written by Dennis DeYoung, sung by Styx, © 1979 AM Records, Inc. Styx recently hit the top of the pop charts with this song. It tells the story of lovers who face separation,. One tries to reassure the other by stating that the separation does not imply emotional distance, for he will be thinking about and needing her all the more.
Suffering and pain are not wasted. 'those who suffer stimulate inquiry and research into the human condition, and means of prevention and cure are often discovered. Real saints do feel and bear the weight of the sins and pains of the world. It is the soul's greatest privilege to overcome pain and to accept it as redemptive suffering for others. The brave have said, with St. Ignatius of Antioch, on his way to the wild beasts, '\Now I 'begin to be a disciple."
Students at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, are entering their third year of support for a boycott of products marketed by the giant Swissbased Nestle Company.
SURROUNDED BY Thanksgiving baskets, Bishop Cronin speaks at pre-holiday Mass at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. Students. sent 25 baskets, complete with turkeys, to needy of area. (Betsy Rounsville Photo)
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"Babe" reminds us that our lives are filled with comings and goings. We all experience the daily routine of going to 'school or going to work, but at other times we also leave. for longer periods. There may be risk involved, as when we leave for something or some place we know little about. Such leavings take us away from the circle of love that sustains our lives. Yet they can also help us grow. For example, it may be paiilful to leave a girl friend or boy friend and go away to college, but the separation can also enrich the relationship and help us to take others less for granted. All of us are on a journey home to our Father. Life is a preparation for this final leaving. But death does not end relationships. What we build with another today can last forever. Jesus is our best proof of this.
THE ANCHOR-
Thurs., Dec. 6, 1979
By Bill Morrissette
portswQtch Hoop Season Approaches The basketbll!ll season is virtually upon us. Most high schools have non-league games scheduled for next week but Westport High gets the jump on other schools with its boys~ varisity team entertaining Old Colony and the girls' team visiting Old Colony. Among non-league games
next Tuesday are Greater New Bedford Voke-Tech at Dartmouth, Bristol at Westport, Djman Voke at Seekonk, and Middletown at Durfee. Next Friday (Dec. 14) Dartmouth is host to Bishop Stang High, Diman will beat Old Rochester and Durfee wiH entertain Bristol.
Hockomock Grid Stars Senior guard George Nitso, senior quarterback Jack Johnson and senior running back John Simms of North Attleboro High have been named to the 1979 all Hockomock League football team. Champion Canton has also placed three - senior guard Dan 'Botsch, senior tackle Mike Guarino and senior quarterback Mark Uliano. Others on the stellar aggregation are senior center Ed McSweeney, senior running back Steve Craddock, Sharon; senior end Chri~ Healy, Franklin; sen. ior end Pat DePillo, senior
quarterback Kevin Jackson, Mansfield; 'senior tackle Alan Peterson, senior tailback Mark Nichols, Oliver Ames; junior tailback Glenn Morrissette, Foxboro. The Mayflower League's allstar cross country team has Pat Murphy, Scott Harreden, Upper Cape; Joseph Orrico, Brian Grant, Southeastern Regional; Dave Broadbent, Mark Roberts, Apponequet; Craig Devine, Norton; John Corrigan, Blue Hills; Roger Burnham, Mike Rec, Errol Charette, Bristol- Plymouth.
New Bedford 'Rolls Along Pace-setting New Bedford defeated defending champion Fall River South in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River, last Sunday night and maintained its 1Y2-game lead over runnerup Somerset-Freetown' in the Bristol County CYO Hockey League. 'Bernie O'Reilly set the scoring pace with a pair of goals as the Whaletowners posted their ninth straight· win and their fifth consecutive shutout. The shutout was the first experienced by South this season.
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In other games last· Sunday night Somerset-Freetown defeatedFall River North, 5-2, and Rochester upended Taunton by the same score. The victory boosted Rochester into third place, dropping Taunton to fourth. The league opens the second half of its schedule next Sunday with Rochester vs. New Bedford at 9 p.m., Taunton vs. Somerset-'Freetown at 10, ana South vs. North at 11.
THt: HEROIC WORK of Bishop -Samuel Ruiz Garcia, shown with one of the 450,000 Indian members of his mounta1f;lous Mexican diocese, will be depicted on the ABC News show, "Directions," at 1 p.m. Sunday. (NC Photo)
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tv, movie news Symbols following film reviews indicate Viewers who enjoy the writboth general and Catholic Film Office . ings of Mark Twain can discover ratings, which do not always coincide. their complex author, Samuel General ratings: G-suitable for gen· Clemens, by watching "Mark eral viewing; PG--parental guidance sug- Twain: Beneath the Laughter," gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for airing Monday, Dee. 10, at 9-10 children or younger teens. p.m. on PBS. . Catholic ratings: AI-approved for This is one of those small children and adults; A2-approved for gems that make public television adults and adolescents; A3-approved for worth watching. Culled from adults only; B-objectionable in part for Clemens' diary and writings, the everyone: A4-separate classification program intelligently explains the (given to films not morally offensive painful events in his life and the which, however, require some analysis growing depression against and explanation): C-tondemned. which he used the weapon of
On TV Imagine the people and events of the New Testament's account -< of the incarnation and birth of Jesus ~being turned into a TV soap opera and you have some idea of what to expect from "Mary and JOseph," a biblical ~ potboiler airing Sunday, Dec. 9, at 7-10 p.oL on NBC. The sparse Gospel account of the inc~rnation serves as the narrative frame upon which is hung a fictional scenario replete with melodramatic situations, creaky plot devices and two· dimensional characters. What is incomprehensible about this. film is its insensitivity to the reverence in which Christians hold Mar-y and J 0seph. Overall, it is an impoverished dramatization th~t adds little to our Advent meditations on the mys~ery of th: incarnation. It is partlcul~rly mapproRriate for young vlew~rs wh~ ~ave enough ~roblems With religiOUS formatIon ,:"it.hout being exposed to t?e fictional excesses of this film. Sunday, Dee. 9 (ABC) "Direetions," 1-1:30 p.m. - "Samuel Ruiz Garcia, Mexico's Bishop to the Indians" - Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia of San Cristobal de las Casas, a mountainous diocese of some 11,000 square miles on . the Mexican border with' Guatemala, descrihes his mission among the 450,000 Indians of . his diocese as "only doing what . all bishops do." But to those who know him, he is a unique example of that "preferential option to the poor" to which the bishops of Latin America committed themselves in Medellin, Colombia, and again at Puebla, Mexico. This documentary explores the mind, and work of this kindly but outspoken bishop who has a leadership role in the Latin American church. For ijishop Ruiz riches and poverty are casually related. There are the poor because there are the rich. The bishop's thoughts and conversation turn again and again to the Christ of the Gospels who was born and lived among the poor and oppressed. ' The ABC program documents his daily tasks as he presides over· fiestas, visits in the marketplace. and travels endlessly to the remote mud-hut villages of hi§. diocese to bless, catechize anft preach the building of a' kingdom of justice and truth.
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'Pete Hamill's a~tobiographical novel about _hiS Brooklyn Irish family in the early 1950s ~as" be~n sen~:ti,,:e~y dramatized 10 The Gift, alnng Saturday, Dee. 15, at 9-11 p.m. on CBS. Gary 'Frank plays a Korean War enlistee home on Christmas leave who l~ses his girl but returns to the ship with a new understanding of the father from whom he has heen estranged since childhood. Saturday, Dec. 15, 9-11 p.m. (PBS) "A Christmas Carol." This new production of the Charles Dickens classic story was taped at the historic Ford Theatre in Washington. Film on TV Thursday, Dee. 13, 9-11 p.m. (CBS) - "The Last Hard Men" (1976) - An ugly, distasteful Western about an escaped convict (James Coburn) determined to get revenge upon the retired sheriff (Charlton Heston) whO put him in jail. The movie tries to say something about the old West but all it really has on its mind is rape and other brutality. R,B
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. THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Foil River-Thurs., D·ec. 6, 1979 ~
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SUPPORT GROUP, NEW BEDFORD Forthcoming meetings of the Support Group for Separated, Divorced and Remarried Catholics, all at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, ·will be held at Our Lady's Chapel on Pleasant St. They include Coffee and Conversation, Dec. 16, Jan. 13 and Jan. 27; Financial Resources for the Divorced, Dec. 23; a wine and cheese party Dec. 30; Personal Goal Setting, Jan. 6; and Single Parenting, Jan. 20. Group coordinators are Father Marc ·Bergeron and Father Ed Halloran. They note that the organization. stresses peer minis,try and uses a small group format to. facilitate discussion. Members of. all faiths are invited to participate. DOMINICAN LAITY, FALL RIVER Members will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10 at St. Anne's rectory, Fall River. Mass in the priests' chapel will be· followed by a Christmas party in the rectory meeting room.
ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, ATTLEBORO The 'Ladies' Guild will hold a Christmas party at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.' 12 in the school cafeteria. A Yankee Swap will be featur!=ld. ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD The Women's Guild will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in the school hall. A Christmas program will be presented by Denise Despres. New members are welcome. SS.. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER The service commission of the Senior CYO will provide babysitting for 9:30 a.m. Mass each Sunday in Father Coady Center. Three vacancies on the parish council will be filled at an election at all Masses, Dec. 15 and 16. Meetings of activities and spiritual life committees have been postponed to Dec. 18, the former at 7 p.m. and the latter at 8. Vincentians will meet tonight at 7:30. New altar boys will practice in churcli tomorrow at 3:15 p.m. LA SALETTE SHRINE, ATrLEBORO Noting that Christmas is an appropriate time to share the gift of life which is blood, shrine officials will sponsor a Red Cross blood bank from 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday.
SACRED HEART, NORm ATTLEBORO New parish council· officers .ST. ANNE, are Joseph Veilleux, president; FALL RIVER A GIFT weekend for adults Roland J. Dubuc, vice-president; will be held at St. Dominic SaAnn. Alix, secretary. vio Center, Peacedale, RI. the Plans are under way to cele- weekend of Feb. 15. Applications brate the 75th anniversary of are available at the rectory and the parish with the theme "Re- registration deadline is Dec. 15. discover Christ Rediscover Gratitude is expressed to the your parish - 75th jubilee.'" Parish Committee for a recent ALHAMBRA ORDER, donation of $3,500 to the parish general fund. FALL RIVER Region One Council of CaraThe annual school Christmas vans will meet at 8:30 p.m. to- program will be' held in the morrow at St. Anne's Fraternity school auditorium at 6 p.m. Sunhall.. Guild Street, Fall River. day. All are invited. William Stapleton, new regional director, will preside and Henry KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS,. Roy, New Hampshire regional SOUTH ATTLEBORO The council wiil sponsor a director, will be in attendance. Christmas party for mentally and physically handicapped FIVE-HOUR VIGIL, adults of the Attleboro area. A FAIRHAVEN dinner, entertainment and Christ- . The monthly First Friday vigil mas singalong are planned. of reparation' to the Sacred Council educational aid grants Hearts of Jesus and Mary will be held from 7' p.m. to.! a.m. to- will be awarded this month. Inmorrow at St. Joseph Church, formation . is available from !Fairhaven. :The' program, to area high schools and public which all are invited, will open libraries and from the council, and conclude with Mass and P.O. Box 189, South Attleboro. will include a holy hour, recita- ST. STANISLAUS, tion of the rosary and a 10 p.m. FALL RIVER coffee break. . An Advent penance service will be held at 5:30 p.m. SunFIRST flUDAY CLUB, day. Services honoring Ma'ry will FALL RIVER Rev. E~mund J. Fitzgerald, di- be held before the daily Masses rector of the Diocesan Depart- today and tomorrow. The Women's Advent supper ment of Pastoral Care for the. Sick, will speak tomorrow night will. be served at 6:30 p.m. Wed-following 6 p.m. Mass in 'Sacred nesday, followed by entertainment by the senior parish choir. Heart Church.
OUR LADY OF FATIMA, HOLY NAME, ST. JOHN OF GOD, SWANSEA' FALL RIVER SOMERSET The Women's Guild will hold Parishioners who will enterThe Somerset Choral Society tain Lutheran choristers for the will present a Christmas concert its annual Christmas meeting Thursday, Dec. 13. A potluck weekend will meet them at 11 :30 at 2 p.m. Sunday in the church. supper for members and families An "Open Hands, Open Heart, a.m. Saturday at the school. The choristers, with singers from Open House" program will be will be followed by music from Holy Name and St. Mary's Ca- presented from 4:30 to 6 p.m. , the Bishop Gerrard Choristers. In lieu of exchanging gifts, donathedral, will offer "The Messiah" . the same afternoon in contions will be made to the Rose at Sacred Heart Church at 4:30 nection with the We Care/We Hawthorne Lathrop Home. Share program. The supportive p.m. Sunday and will also be heard at 11:15 a.m. Mass that parish prayer day is held every Monday, ending with Mass at day at Holy Name. An Advent penance service 7 p.m. is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday SACRED HEART, Dec. 17. FALL RIVER The parish Advent booklet, ST. JOSEPH, "Come, Lord Jesus" is available NEW BEDFORD The parish Legion of MarY'will at the rectory. The traditional Jesse Tree will host the annual reunion of diocesan legionaries at 2 p.m. Sun- be set up in the church and gifts day, beginning with Benediction for nursing home patients may and continuing with a social in . be left under it, marked for a the school hall. Active members, man or woman. A parish Christmas party for spiritual directors, relatives and children will be held from 1 to 4 friends are invited. p.m.' Saturday, Dec. 15. Parents ST. BERNARD, are also invited. ASSONET Exposition of the Blessed SacA covered dish supper and rament will take place each Yankee Swap will highlight the Tuesday of Advent beginning Women's Guild Christmas party after 12:05 p.m. Mass and conat 7:30 tonight in the parish We're your Mitchell cluding with brief evening devohall. . building dealer. And we'd The building committee will tions at 7 p.m. like to show you how a specially designed meet tonight at 7 at the new OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL Mitchell building can rectory. HELP~NEW BEDFORD make a difference in your The Diocesan Council of Cath.A new' children's choir will operation. No obligationmeet for the first time at 1 p.m. olic Women will sponsor a night just solutions. of recollection at the parish at Saturday at the church. It will THE KEOHANE CORP. be heard at a decorating cere- 6:30 tonight, including,.Mass and 41 WINTHROP ST. mony for the church nativity a buffet supper. Father Ronald scene and at a children's Mass A. Tosti will speak. TAUNTON at 5:30 p.m. Christmas eve. 823·1702 CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, An Authorized Mitchell Dealer NEW BEDFORD OUR LADY'S CHAPEL, Bishop Stang High School NEW BEDFORD _A rosary hour at 3:30 p.m. Glee Club will entertain at .a '. tqmorrow will honor Mary on rrieeting set for. 7:30 p.m. MonMetal Building Systems the vigil of the Immaculate Con- day at the Wamsutta Club. MITCHEU ENGINEERING ception and ask her intercession Donations of food for the CarCOMPANY for brotherhood and world melite Sisters of Sol-e-Mar will Division of The ceca peace. he collected. Corporation
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