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THE GIU1ITARIS: GLENN, NATHAN, AIDAN, JOANNE

He has: a harmonious life Not only does Glenn Giuttari of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish, Seekonk, produce beautiful music at St. Mary's. Cathedral, Fall River, but he has orchestrated the other components of his active life into a harmonious whole.

Giuttari, cathedral music director, is also in charge of music for Providence's Cabot Street Playhouse. At their 1810 country house in Rehoboth, he and his wife Joanne operate a national harpsichord clearing house, repairing and restoring the instruments and circulating a quarterly buyers' and seners' newsletter.

The Giuttaris also make psalteries, zitherlike instruments much favored in Bible times.

These go for about $150 each and are made "mostly for convents and special friends."

Additionally, Giuttari has been involved in planning many area music festivals and is director of the Fall River diocesan cha.pter of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians.

"This country doesn't support the arts sufficiently to allow

most musicians to have a fulltime job in music," he explained.

"But all my jobs are music-related," he added cheerfully. "My life is always full of possibilities."

He does much of his work from his sunny, plant-filled. house, heated by wood on all but the coldest days, with an enormous south-facing kitchen window taking advantage of passive solar energy.

"I think one builder did most of the construction in this part of Rehoboth," he said. speaking of his rambling home. "I sometimes think I'm in my own house when I'm visiting Jriends, the old buildings around here are so similar."

The Giuttari house, however, has features not easy to duplicate . One is a magnificent 16th century court cupboard that dominates the kitchen; another is a massive table that was a grand piano cabinet in its first incarnation.

Sharing the home are th~ Giuttari sons, Nathan, 9, and Aidan, five months. Not to be forgotten are Sam, an amiable dog res-

cued by the family after he was tossed out of a passing car, and two large and comfortable cats.

Nathan, a victim of cerebral palsy, attends the Meeting Street School in Providence, and his father is vocal in his appreciation of state programs that assist in transporting him to school and in other expenses his care entails. A gifted child, Nathan is active in Cub Scouting and his parish CCD program. He is also looking forward to the ayailability of a promised marvel of the electronic age that will assist him in communicating with friends and famly.

The son of a textile manufacturer, Giuttari ascribes his interest in church music to the fact that when he started piano lessons at age five his teacher was a nun; and that by age 12 he was playing the organ and directing the choir for his native St. Joseph's parish in Ashton, R.I. He briefly managed a mill in Central Falls following his graduation from Brown University, but his bent for music was irresistible, leading him to a teachTurn to Page Six

President Reagan phoned the pope and Polish-American Catholics prayed for their countrymen in the wake of the Polish government's crackdown on the Solidarity trade union.

In the Fall River diocese all Polish parishes were represented at a hastily arranged Monday evening Mass at St. Stanislaus Church, Fall River, where Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was principal celebrant.

Despite snow mixed with freezing rain and hazardous driving conditions, the small church was packed to the doors.

Bishop Cronin asked prayers for a "peaceful future" for Poland, noting that the way to peace would lie in negotiations.

His remarks follow: We gather together tonight in prayerful response to the recent sad events which have occurred in the country of Poland. They are, indeed, a cause of severe anxiety for all uf us. Our fears for our Polish brothers and sisters, however, and our prayers tonight for what is for their peace, extend, as well, to a prayerful concern for the world itself, for the whole human family. We know only too well that

a spark, ignited in Poland, could welt lead to a conflagration of world-wide proportions.

Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, addressing a large gathering of the faithful yesterday in Saint Peter's Square in Rome, urged that "Everything must be done to create a peaceful future for the country" of Poland. These were the Pope's words. This is our prayer tonight.

If "a peaceful future" is to come to Poland, the causes of. the present tense situation must be eliminated. This, however, can only be accomplished through peaceful negotiations.

We pray tonight that such negotiations will be possible and will be forthcoming between the Polish authorities and the people of Poland.

It is only through such concerted effort that the work of the restoration of the Polish economy will be brought about, and conditions, conducive to a peaceful and humane society, will be restored to the country of Poland.

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Ernest Digweed sponsors Second Coming ,LONDON (NC) - Will Jesus need money during the Second Coming? Not Ito worry. Ernest Digweed ofPol"tsmouth, England, has taken care of the matter.

Digweed, a recluse who died four years ago, left 30,000 pounds ($57,000) for Jesus Christ if he returns to earth within the next 21 years. He stipulated that ,the money should be invested at a return of 12.5 percent, which would make the accumulated tota.) after 21 years the equivalent of about $615,000.

As executor Digweed appointed -the Public Trustee, a nonprofit government department.

Digweed's relatives have asked the Public Trustee to declare the will invalid, which would mean the money would be divided among them. The Public Trustee has provisionally agreed, but wants to hedge the bet and take out insurance with Lloyds of London against the Second Coming taking place and the terms of Digweed's will having to be fulfilled. It will ask the courts to approve this arrangement.

Digweed, who had worked out Ithe expected date of the Second Coming from the Book of Revelation, further stipulated in his will that if the Second Coming should be postponed for any reason the capital should stH! be kept for Jesus Christ, Ithough all further interest would go to the state.

Under English law this arrangement would last for 80 years, after which ,the money would be divided among Digweed's relatives: In the meantime, the difficulty is fending off people claiming to be Jesus Christ. A:lready two unsuccessf.ul attempts have been made to claim Digweed's legacy.

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SCENES AT MONDAY night Mass for beleaguered Poland at St. Stanislaus Church, Fall River.

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Four womell rememherecl Vigils, Masses, procession:; and a Senate resolution commemorated the first anniversary of the murder of four American missionaries, three nuns and n lay woman, in El Salvador.

The women, Maryknoll Sisters Ida Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel. and Jean Donovan, were killed Dec. 2, 1980. Their bodies were found Dec. 4, 1980 in shallow grave by a roadside near San Salvador.

All had been shot in the back of the head with a pistol.

Sen. Edward Kennedy (DMass.) praised the women and introduced a resolution expressing concern over the failu:~e of the government of El Salvador to bring to justice those responsible for their murder.

At the Maryknoll Sister's chapel near Ossining, N.Y., a memorial Mass mingled team and celebration.

Sister Melinda Roper, president of the Maryknoll Sisters, said: "Our sisters lived and worked with the poor and the many refugees. As they have become signs of compassion, of truth and justice for many, they also have become a threat t'D the few. We have seen and felt evil during this year. It has shown some of its many faces in lies, slander, hatred, violence and murder.

"In the spirit of Jesus, we have tried to live with forgiving hearts while, at the same time, pursuing truth and justice."

Six hundred people walk,ed in silent candlelight processicn in Los Angeles to the Church of Our Lady Queen of Angels, where six candles burned beside the paschal candle.

"We light these six candles in honor of Sisters Ita Ford, Jean Donovan, Sister Maura Clark, Sister Dorothy Kazel, Archbishop Oscar Romero and the 30,000 Salvadorans who have been killed since October 1979. May they remind us to live out our pledge of solidarity with the POOl' and oppressed of the world," said Sister Louis Bernstein, S.S.I. Bells tolled outside a Boston press conference where Sacred Heart Sister Margherita Cappelli, coordinator of Latin American affairs at the Catholic Connection of Boston, said the tolling "symbolizes our dismay that after a whole year the case is still unresolved."

A special Mass was celebrated at St. John Cathedral in Cleveland. Sister Kazel and Ms. Donovan had been part of the Cleveland mission team.

Archbishop James A. Hickey of Washington also celebrated a Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Resigns WASHINGTON (NC) Notre Dame Sister Rose Ann Fleming, 49, president of Trinity College since 1975, has resigned for reasons of health. During her tenure Trinity's enrollment increased by 30 percent and nontuition income grew by 44 percent.

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Father Yurco has been pastor since August, 1979. Since St. Boniface has no rectory, he lives at St. Joseph rectory, Fairhaven, making daily trips to New Bedford to celebrate Mass and con· duct those efficacious novena services.

AT ST. BONIFACE anniversary Mass, from left, Very Rev. William Davis, SSe CC., Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, Father Roy J. Yurco, SS.CC., Msgr. John J. Oliveira.

In preparation for Sunday's celebration, the interior of St. Boniface was repainted. The church was also recently en· hanced by the addition of furnishings from the chapel of the former Sacred Hearts Academy in Fairhaven.

St. Boniface marl{s 75 years A parish that has weekly novenas to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, St. Anthony, the Little Flower, St. Jude, the Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Fatima could hardly fail to be granted good weather for its 75th anniversary celebration.

So everything came up roses last Sunday for tiny St. Boniface parish, New Bedford. AI.though the German parish has only about 150 members, said Father Roy Yurco, SS.CC., pastor, it's a "church of convenience" for neighborhood residents, many of whom joined present and former parishioners at a banquet following Sunday's Mass of thanksgiving.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was principal concelebrant, with Father Yurco, Very Rev. William

B. Davis, SS. CC., Sacred Hearts

Fathers provincial, and Father William McClenahan, SS.CC., pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Fairhaven, as concelebrants.

Parish History .

The German and Austrian presence in New Bedford began in the late 1800s, when many immigants came to the city to work in its cotton mills. They were initially served by Father William Stang, himself of German origin, who was to become the first bishop of the Fall River diocese.

In 1896 a Boston Jesuit began making monthly visits to the New Bedford German community and later yet a Father von Ascheberg made Sunday afternoon visits to lead a small congregation in rosary and Benediction

services at St. Kilian's Church.

In 1906 the Sacred Hearts Fathers began their long association with St. Boniface when Father Hilarion Eikerling, SS. CC., was asked by Bishop Stang to take a census of German Catholics in the area. Numbers were found sufficient to warrant formation of the parish, which for its first few years used the facilities of Holy Rosary Church.

St. Boniface erected its own church in 1908 and the first Mass was celebrated there on Christmas Day of that year. Father Eikerling was succeeded by Father Nicholas Fett, SS.CC., the longest-serving pastor in parish history, who was at St. Boniface from 1909 to 1938.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs., Dec. 17, 1981

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Can't We Do Better?

Southeastern Massachusetts is an area long misunderstood by or even unknown to many who sit under the golden dome of the state house. In many ways it is one of the last areas in the commonwealth to escape the hands of the developer, as evidenced by the vast wetlands of the Hockomock and the reaches of the Myles Standish and Freetown forests. Yet these irreplaceable resources are now endangered, as indeed are those who live in the areas surrounding them.

Seemingly the only way in which Beacon Hill views Southeastern Massachusetts is as a dumping ground: Four out of five Massachusetts sites currently proposed for a hazardous waste treatment plant just happen to be in the neighborhood of Dartmouth, Freetown and New Bedford.

One could be quite sure that such a treatment plant would never be suggested for Weston, Wayland or Wellsley.

As local officials review plans for this questionable industry, we might all review a little basic English.

From the use of the adjective "hazardous," we can easily surmise that our proposed new neighbor may not be a very good one. Webster's first definition of hazardous has to do with chance or risk. The second involves an exposure to danger. Harmful, dangerous, perilous, risky and unsafe are other synonyms for the word. And its root lies 'He that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed in the Arabic word for dice, used, of course, in games of chance.

Bearing all this in mind, it would be well if the public realized that in the case of hazardous waste, the adjective is advisedly used. Is it therefore any wonder that there are those who do not want a hazardous waste treatment Now I have no great quarrel

By Michael Gallagher plant in their backyards? with any of the choices, except If something is hazardous, the public should be well Last week I talked with a for John Lennon, who seems to aware of that fact. People might well ask why such a movie PR man, an old friend. have done exactly what he felt "Mike, did you see the Times like all his life. And, as a parent plant should be placed in an area where there might arise this morning?" he said. "Accord- myself, I couldn't help but apeven the slightest risk to public health. ing to a Gallup poll, Burt Rey- plaud that last choice. Why did Should not a hazardous waste treatment plant be built nolds is the number one hero of far from human habitation, not next door to an industrial American teen-agers! What kind all this depress me then?

Perhaps it was the timing. The park or a proposed 250-unit condominium development? of shape is our country in when of the paper was Dec. 4. A Who wants to live or work across from a dump, par- somebody like Reynolds is a hero date year previous, almost to the day, to our kids?" Though he was in ticularly one specifically labeled hazardous? on Dec. 2, 1980, four brave and Another area of concern in this matter has to do with the media busi::1ess himself, my dedicated American women sufcouldn't help but deplore our natural resources. In a wetlands area, how can one pre- friend fered martyrdom in EI Salvador its effects on the young.

- Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kavent seepage from any sort of waste facility? And what I sympathized with him, but about the water needed by the facility here envisaged, I couldn't fully share his indig- zel, lay missioner Jean Donovan, Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford estimated at 25,000 gallons daily. In a time of low water nation. Being a smug Catholic, I and and Maura Clarke. reserves, can a community agree to such wholesale con- was accustomed to expect the Yet not one of these Catholic worst of secular America. Why youngsters mentioned them, sumption of one of life's essentials? .

From several points of view, the building of a hazard- else was I send:.ng my daughters these courageous women who Catholic schools? Besides, knew exactly what they were ous waste plant gives rise to many serious questions that to the kids could have done worse risking and nonetheless, urged people must understand, answer and resolve. To welcome than old Burt, J supposed. on, like St. Paul, by the love of such a facility merely because it brings tax dollars to a Soon after, however, I read Christ, kept faith with the poor community is irresponsible. something in a diocesan paper and oppressed.

This is not an issue that can be resolved by a mere that severely jolted my complaSandra O'Connor worked with editorial. It demands public concern and civic involvement. . cency, so much so that it made "ambition and perseverance," It is hoped that the public will be allowed to express me more depressed than indig- and most lucratively, I'm sure. nant. On the youth page of the Donovan gave up a highits feelings in this matter before it becomes a deal sewed paper, under the title "Are Jean paying jo~ and the comfort of up in some political backroom. The chance, the risk and There Any Heroes Left?," were familiar surroundings to work the uncertainty are just too great to allow this issue to printed six shor.t essays by stu- for mere sustenance in strifedents at a Catholic high school torn El Salvador. Did she lack become a routine decision.

Ultimately, the question to be asked and answered in in answer to the question, ambition, I wonder?

"Whom do you most admire and And why John Lennon and not all its dimensions is this: Can't we do better for south-. look up to?"

Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan? eastern Massachusetts?

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Well, Burt Reynolds didn't make it in this select context, you'll be happy to hear. Who did? Anwar Sadat and John Lennon, "who stood for peace, but in different ways." Sandra 0' Connor, "a symbol for me of what a woman with ambition and perseverance can accomplish in a society do:ninated by male authority." Curtis Sliwa and his Guardian Ange:ls. Vietnam veterans and the hostages held by Iran. "My parents."

controversial, why not Dorothy Day? And if Anwar Sadat, Why not Archbishop Oscar Romero?

Sadat died because there was a lapse in his security system.

Archbishop Romero of EI Salvador had no security system. No elaborate plot was necessary to shoot him down as he stood at the altar.

And how was it none of these bright Catholic high school students thought to include Mother

Teresa of Calcutta in their list?

I'm not blaming the youngsters. To paraphrase Paul, how are they to know, unless they have heard, and how are they to hear unless someone tells them? Don't we owe it to our children to let them know that there are some honest-to-God heroes out there, heroes who bear a remarkable resemblance to the saints. And if they don't know anything about saints, it might not do any harm to fill them in there too.

If these four women had been Cuban communists killed in EI Salvador, their pictures would today adorn the walls of every schoolhouse in Cuba. Had they been Chinese women killed in similarly heroic circumstances, every Chinese school child today would know their stories and be able to recite poems and sing ballads about them. Should we let the communists who believe that death brings oblivion honor their heroes with more fervor than we honor ours?

With such splendid means of communication at our disposal these days, I think it might be a good idea if we started communicating something to our children in Catholic schools and CCD programs about Jean Donovan and Sisters Dorothy Kazel, Maura Clark and Ita Ford, as well as Archbishop Romero, Dorothy Day and Mother Teresa. Obviously, we can't wait for the secular media to do the job for us.

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Intermarriages One-third of the marriages that take plac~ in our church today are ecumenical. I:f we add those that take place outside, we can estimate that nearly half our younger couples are living in two-faith marriages and a recent study shows such marriages on the increase. Yet, three years ago, when I did a search of over 18,000 parishes, I didn't find one that was doing anything to support the intelfaith marriage after the wedding. This has changed, but not much.

Last spring I was invited to reflect upon a study of U.S. couples living in Episcopal-Roman Catholic marriages. A significant revelation in this survey underlines what family life practitioners have already discovered among ecumenical couples, Le., that many have found the most effective way of building a faith life together and developing a family relationship with God is to ignore the theologies and church laws which underpin their two faiths.

What does this tell us? That the couples have lost confidence in their churches to help them bear the scars of denominational separation? That they are liacri-

ficing dogma which divides for traditions and rituals that unite?

I found that couples are maturing more rapidly than the official churches in this area of ecumenical marriages.

Although, as the survey points out, there is a residue of anger among many over the way they were treated at the time of their marriage, many have worked their way through this and are able to forgive. However, couples striving to focus on what unites them in faith frequently feel that the church continues to emphasize what divides them. This appears in responses on the longing to receive communion together and to worship together in one another's church.

The most significant finding was the depth of religious identity springing from early childhood and continuing into adult life. If doctrine is not that important, why do adults continue to value a faith not shared by those they love most? To quote a brief section, "Often their judgments did not even reflect accurately the theological positions of their church. They spoke rather out of their deep feelings about faith and religion, out of an image of themselves which

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had been developing since early childhood."

If anything speaks to the foundation of a strong family faith dimension resulting in a personal religious identity, this does. Likewise, it ~peaks to the poginancy of the situation: how do couples pass this legacy on to their children? They are searching for ways. They evidence the pain of the churches' separation. While they share all other intimacies, they are denied a spiritual intimacy which should be the foundation of their union.

In October, the Vatican came out with new hope for ecumenical marriages, by eliminating some of the restrictive language and calling for a welcoming spirit rather than a punitive one.

I hope we pick up on this in our churches and enrich these marriages in every way possible.

They just might be God's way of leading us to union.

Religious access State universities cannot deny student religious groups the use of campus facilities for worship services the Supreme Court ruled Dec.8.

To do so, the court said in an 8-1 decision, would deny the students their right to free speech and would not violate the prohibition in the Constitution against establishment of religion.

"The question is not whether the creation of a religioull forum (by the university) would violate the establishment clause (of the Constitution)," wrote Justice Lewis F. Powell for the court's majority in Widmar vs.

Vincent.

"The university has opened its facilities for use by student groups," Powell continued, "and the question is whether it can now exclude groups because of the content of their speech."

The case involved the University of Missouri at Kansas City, which in 1977 told an org~lDiza颅 tion of evangelical Christian students that it could no kmger meet in university buildings.

The university defended its action on religious groups by the Constitution's separation of church and state.

A federal district court upheld the ban, but on appe~l1 the student group won. The appeals court said the primary ,effect of such a policy would not be the advllncement of religion.

The case drew the interest of a number of religious groups, including the U.S. Catholic Conference, which filed a "friend-ofthe-court" brief urging thle Su-

preme Court to strike down the university restriction.

In its decision, which focused primarily on the narrow free speech issue, the Supreme Court said providing facilities to student groups does not imply endorsement of those groups' activities.

And while there may be "incidental" benefits for religious groups when a government body provides meeting rooms, such benefits have been upheld in the past by the court.

"If the establishment clause barred the extension of general benefits to religious groups,' 'a church could not be protected by the police or fire departments, or have its public sidewalk kept in repair,' " said Powell, quoting from an earlier court decision.

The court said because the university allows a variety of student groups to use campus facilities it must "justify its discriminations and exclusions (of other student groups) under applicable constitutional norms:" Such justification was not shown by the university, the court ruled.

In a footnote Powell also said that denying the student group campus facilities might create an "excessive entanglement" between church and state even greater than the entanglement the university claimed would be present in allowing the religious group to meet.

The only dissent came from Justice Byron R. White, who argued that denying the student group路 the use of campus facilities would only create a minimal burden on free speech and would be justified by the university's "interest in avoiding claims that

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(necrolo9Y] December 20 Rev. Manuel S. Travass(ls, 1953, Pastor, Espirito Santo, Fall River December 21 Rev. Henri J. Charest, 1968, Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River December 23 Rev. Owen J. Kiernan, 1901, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River Rev. Charles P. Trainor, 55., 1947, St. Edward Seminary, Seattle, Wash.

Rev. Msgr. John A. Silvia, 1970, Pastor Emeritus, St. John Baptist, New Bedford December 24 Rev. James K. Beaven, 1886, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taunton Rev. Timothy J. Duff, 1914, Assistant, St. Joseph, Woods Hole

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That ignoble angst Richard Perle, the Defense Department's assistant secretary for internal security affairs, has had the European peace movement on the couch.

He has rendered a diagnosis of its affliction. It is - are you ready? - "Protestant angst."

Angst, defined by Webster as a "gloomy, often neurotic feeling of generalized anxiety and depression," is the German cousin of "malaise," the French word that President Jimmy Carter told us in 1979 was our problem.

Actually, most Americans thought they were suffering from a gas shortage - they were spending much of their time in filling station lines - but the Freud in the White House advised us that we were undergoing "a crisis of confidence."

Charging an adversary with neurosis is considered a perfectly good tactic, but Perle, in explaining Europe's inconvenient resistance to nuclear weaponry, got carried away in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

He compared the whining of northern European Protestants with the positive, pragmatic, upbeat approach of Europe's southern Catholics who, he said, were perfectly calm about accepting nukes in the neighborhood. Just a day later, the Italians wrecked his logic by turning out 200,000 protesters in the lovely squares of Florence.

Of course, history will show that Italy was invaded by the northern Protestant virus at one time. The Waldensians, who began peddling their heresy in 1170, made some Italian converts, and possibly it was their descendants who organized the march. And, oh yes, the communists, of whom Italy has a larger number than any country in the Western alliance.

"I may have spoken too soon," Perle conceded complacently when Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., asked him about the rent in his thesis.

Four leaders of the European peace movement who recently visited Washington said that nu路 clear angst - which can be roughly translated as fear of frying - is not limited to brooding northern sects. They pointed out that the pope of Rome has spoken out against the arms race.

Possibly his Polish origin would explain his want of spirit for the U.S. position of "peace through strength."

Perle, however, is sticking with his main story, which is that the Protestant churches have exploited nuclear worries to recruit new members. Their pews were empty, he says, until they hit upon "moralistic" sermonizing about the threat of being blown to kingdom come.

No one from the administra-

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tion has found it necessary to refute Perle. Basically, the manly fellows running our government consider it absolutely irrational of the Europeans to feel so strongly about being incinerated.

Perle's explanation could offend a lot of Christians both here and abroad. Protestants might not appreciate being told that they are being manipulated by dour Calvinists, and Catholics might object to the suggestion that they are too dumb to care about doomsday.

But putting off religious constituencies is something that does not trouble the present regime. Secretary of State Alexander Haig is engaged in a running battle with American Catholic bishops, who recently declared their opposition to further military aid to El Salvador.

Scant attention was paid to Jewish sensibilities in the AWACS fight.

And creeping Catholic angst has been ignored. The bishops have announced that they will examine the morality of nuclear war early next year, and Archbishop John Quinn of San Francisco has come out in favor of a California referendum for a Soviet-American freeze on all development and deployment of nuclear weapons.

Perle, a hawk who used to work for Sen. Henry Jackson.

D-Wash., had a hand in the composition of the arms reduction proposal currently being negotiated in Geneva. The European peace movement representatives say that the "zero option" is no option at all - in that the Soviets must give up actual weapons while we merely forswear our prospective 572 new missiles in Europe and do nothing about forward-based weaponry.

Some serious disarmers regard Reagan's proposal, coming after nine months of bellicose rhetoric, as a ploy to undercut the European peace movement - and to ensure passage of his mammoth defense budget. AS a matter of fact, the day after he unveiled it, the House voted for the MX missile because, it was said, to do otherwise would be to "undercut the negotiating position."

Maybe Perle thinks that laying a little guilt on the European peace movement will slow it down. Or is he practicing against the evil day when we might have one here? Possibly a person might think twice about going out in the street and facing that heavy "Protestant angst" rap.

The Difference "There's a difference between blarney and boloney. Blarney is the varnished truth; boloney is the unvarnished lie." - Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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White with bright accents has been chosen for the decor of the presentees' box, while the young women to be presented to the bishop in a ball highlight will carry flowers adorned with varicolored ribbons. alinking lights will carry out the carnival atmosphere throughout the ballroom and the traditional Grand March will be climaxed with the release of 1000 brightly colored balloons.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Stepping up his campaign against nuclear arms, Pope John Paul II is presenting a document containing scientific evidence ,on "the disastrous effects" of' nuclear warfare to world leaders.

The announcement came a day after the Vatican had issued a statement on the appointment of papal delegations of scientists to Washington, Moscow, Paris, London and the United Nations headquarters in New York.

Each of the 19 scientists named to the delegations is a member of the pontifical Academy of Sciences or participated in a recent academy sponsored conference on the effects of nuclear warfare.

The Vatican did not release details of the document, which Pope John Paul described as "the fruit of a detailed study -eonducted by the academy with the collaboration of other eminent scientists, on the consequences

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Officials note that names are being accepted for a souvenir booklet to be distributed at the ball. Further information on categories available may be obtained at ball headquarters, 676-8943.

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The pope's 路latest move was seen as u foIlow-up to his personal letters in late November to U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev before the opening of U.S.-Soviet discussions in Geneva, Switzerland, on nuclear arms reduction in Europe.

The Washington and UN delegations are headed by Victor Weisskopf, a member of the academy and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass. Seven of the 19 scientists work in the United States.

Other members of the Washington delegation are David Baltimore, professor at MIT; MarshaIl Nirenberg, professor of genetics and biochemistry at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md.; and Howard Hyatt, director of the Harvard School of Public Health.

Aid for Sahel VATICAN CITY (NC) - The Vatican will build and fund an institute in the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa during 1983 to educate local people in technical development, health care, agricultural methods and formation of cooperatives. Pope John Paul II has also approved projects totaIling $4.7 million for irrigation programs, health assistance and agrarian development, the Vatican said.

Continued from page one throughout the world. The reduction of arms everywhere throughout the world is essential.

A buildup of armaments can only lead to war and conflagration. Peaceful negotiations, honest and sincere dialogue, these are the ingredients necessary to protecting peace not only in Poland biit in every land where peace is threatened.

Peace, however, cannot ultimately be fostered without justice, for peace is the precious fruit of justice. The conditions of justice must be sought after and sincerely fostered if peace and harmony are to be enduring and lasting.

As the saintly Pope Paul VI expressed it, "If you want peace, work for justice." The late Holy Father's words take on special meaning tonight as we gather to pray for a peaceful resolution to the tense situation in Poland.

Through the' intercession of Our Lady of Czestochowa, powerful patroness of the Polish people, may the conditions of justice be restored to the country of Poland so that peace, the fruit of justice, may prevail in that land and so be strengthened throughout the world.

Reagan caIls pope The White House announced Dec. 14 that President Reagan personaIly called Pope John Paul II at the Vatican and said, "Your holiness, I want you to know how deeply we feel about the situation in your homeland."

Reagan told the pope the U.S. government would continue to monitor the situation closely, according to the White House.

On Dec. 13 the pope spoke from his apartment window in St. Peter's Square only hours after Poland's communist rulers had imposed martial law and suspended a wide range of civil liberties, including the right to strike, protest, assemble publicly or leave the country.

Accusing Solidarity of pushing the nation to the brink of civil war, Wojiech Jaruzelski, Polish prime minister and Communist Party chief, announced that power was being passed to a temporary military council in an attempt to calm the situation.

Vatican sources said that the pope rose at 5 a.m. to follow events by radio, as military troops surrounded Solidarity's Warsaw headquarters and arrested hundreds of union leaders.

At his Sunday Angelus message, the pope told fellow Poles in St. Peter's Square thath~ was entrusting their nation to the m~ther of God. He asked them to pray with him for Poland's safety.

"In view of the coming jubi. lee Of the 600th year of Our Lady of Czestochowa," said the pontiff, " I entrust Poland and all my countrymen to her who has been given to us for our defense."

The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa which hangs in the monastery of Jasna Gora in southwestern Polan4 has been revered by Poles for centuries as the country's patroness.

Volunteerism can't do it PROVIDENOE, R.i. (NC)-It is "Iudicrous" for <the Reagan administration to ,believe that charitable organizations and volunteer groups can replace government programs aiding the poor, a "Providence diocesan official told a congressional committee.

The fiscal policies of the Reagan administration are at odds with the scriptura:l mandates for -love, compassion, justice and care for the needy and poor, said Father Francis J. Guidice, diocesan vicar for community affairs.

He was among about 55 persons who testified at a hearing held in Providence by the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, chaired by Rep. Fernand J. St. Germain (DR.I.).

"One of the more deceptive prescriptions of the administration and its friends in C(>ngress is that the private sector, including religious organizations, can and must fiH the chasms created by a 'new federalism' that seeks to abandon the poor, the elderly, mInorities, workers and even entire cities, states and regions," Father Giudice said.

The priest said charitable agencies cannot replace "the thousands of housing units for families and elderly persons that were lost in the budget-cutting frenzy," the ,thousands of gallons of oil that should have been f~rthcoming from the fuel assistance program," or the fOOd purchasing power of families whose fo¢ stamp allotments wiH be shrunken by inflation.

Another witness, Mayor Edward D. DiPrete of Cranston, R.I., a Republ:ican, said he supports ~e Reagan program in principle but further federal budget cuts couid "break the back" of many . loca:l budgets.

Asked by the committee members, all Democrats, how the government could reorder its priorities, DiPrete echoed a theme voiced frequently during the hearing: "Cut the B-1 bomber."

Burundi expels 11 missionaries COLLEVALENZA, Italy (NC) - Pope John Paul II mourned the recent expulsion of 11 Xaverian priests from Burundi' and led prayers for "the entire church in Burundi, which remains deprived of the aid of priests."

The 11 priests arrived in Milan shortly after receiving orders from the government of Burundi to leave the country within 48 hours for alleged "subversive activity."

Burundi, one of the poorest and most densely populated countries in Africa, has about 4 million people in an area the size of Maryland. About half the population is Catholic.

About 100 missionaries were expelled from Burundi two years ago, according to Avvenire. The latest government expulsion 'leaves four missions in two Burundi dioceses without clerical personnel, the newspaper ·said.

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INSTRUCTOR-COUPLE Rita and Bob Danielsen receive certification as teachers of the Billings-Owlation method of natural family planning. Congratulating them are Father Ronald A. Tosti and Sister Lucille Levasseut, SMSM. (Rosa Photo)

Couples, nurses are NFP instructors

By Joyce CesoIIDf

Eight couples and three registered nurses are the first persons in the diocese to be commissioned as instructors in the Billings-Owlation method of natural family planning (NFP).

The ceremony took place at the Diocesan Family Life Center, North Dartmouth, in the context of a Mass celebrated by Father Ronald A. Tosti, center director.

Sister Lucille Levasseur, SM SM, started training the couples last spring when she returned to the diocese after having taught the Billings method extensively in the Fiji Islands.

Classes were initially held at Our Lady of Fatima parish hall, New Bedford, with the- cooperation of Father Arthur Levesque, pastor, and Father. William Babbitt, associate.

When the new Diocesan Family Life Center was completed in September Sister Levasseur became diocesan coordinator for Billings method training and classes and seminars were held at the center under auspices of the Diocesan Office for Family Ministry.

Students received instruction in all elements of the method, including the psychology of handling cases and dealing with special problems. All are volunteers. They work one to one with couples and also are available to -

Father Eagan Funeral servies were held last Thursday at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, for Rev. John J. Eagan, a Fall River native who was for 30 years pastor of St. Andrew's Church, Avenei, N.J. A 1926 graduate of B.M.C. Durfee High School, Fall River, he studied at St. Mary's Seminary, iBaltimore, and was ordained in Newark in 1933.

He i$ survived by a brother, Benedict, of Somerset.

Interment was in St. Patrick's cemetery, Fall River.

give talks to area groups.

Father Tosti charged the newly commissioned instructors to pursue their strong belief in this method and to go out to reach others. "You have been given a powerful tool and with it you will affect positively the lives of many," he said.

Family and friends attended

the ceremonies and a following social hour.

Couples certified were Kathryn and Dan Couet, Joyce and Paul Desmarais, Diane and Randall Pillsbury, Claire and Bernie Roseman, Rita and Bob Danielsen, Joan and Dave Pepin, Betty and Al Rivet, Joyce and Chet Cesolini. Also Janet Mathieu, RN, Pauline Manny, RN, and Diane Larkin, RN.

Fr. Guidice heads social 'ERinistries Rev. Francis J. Guidice, vicar for community affairs of the diocese of Providence, has been named executive director of the Ne~ England Catholic Council on Social Ministries.

The council is ,an association of directors and staff of Catholic Charities, Campaign for Human Development, and other social ministry organizations within the dioceses of New England. Father Peter Graziano is the FaH River diocesan representative to the organization.

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Council of Catholic Women as he retires from moderator post. From left, Mrs. David

with deacons and candidates, !rom left, Deacon Paul Metilly, Candidates Robert Lemay,

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To the very young, whose most important need is to discover that the world is an OK place and who have no better time for that discovery than Christmas time.

May we all support each other, recognizing the unique job which each has to do, the unique contribution which each has to make. May we make room and time for each other in our hearts, in our lives and in our families.

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Dear Readers: You have sent us hundreds of letters, many of them long and carefully thought out, many of them sharing deeply personal problems, convictions or pain. In this and in past years you have shared so much of yourselves with us. It is a great gift, and we are grateful.

As Christmas' and the year's end approach, we send greetings to all of you whatever your position in that great unit called family:- .

To new parents experiencing their first Christmas as parents; who wonder if children ever begin to sleep more than two or three hours at a time (they do) and if they are ever again so helpless and dependent and soft (they aren't).

To the young parents who lead Scouts and coach baseball and attend piano recitals; who serve tirelessly on school boards nnd . parish councils and community organizations because community is not a dry word in sociology books, but the place where families grow.

To the parents in the middle who support their aging parents through surgery and hospital stays and their growing teens through auto wrecks from which thank God, they walked away; who support e.veryone with so little support themselves.

To the grandparents who often find themselves overlooked in a fast-paced, noisy world; who would like to move more slowly and more quietly than the world allows.

To the great-aunts, the bachelor uncles, the honorary grandparents; to all relatives ami honorary relatives who expand us beyond the narrow confines of our own walls.

To the young adults, the grown kids 'spending their first Christmas away from home.

To the college kids comi~g home' for Christmas for the first time who wonder if mom's cooking is as good as they remember (it is)' and if she wlll outdo herself again this year (she will).

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One day, Jesus led his Apostles· to Caesarea Philippi, a place of- quiet and beaij.ty at the foot of Mt. Hermon, 'some 25 miles north of the Sea of Galilee. I had the privilege of being there last March with a group of pilgrims. When we arrived, our guide told us, "This spot marks the origin of the papacy."

This indeed is where Jesus, probably inspired by the massive rock on which Mt. Hermon seems to rest, said to Simon, "You are Peter (that is, Rock), and upon this rock I will build a church and the gates of hell (the powers of eVil) shall not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18).

Jesus was announcing the foundation of a church, his church. It would be a visible organization with human leaders, and a visible head, Peter. This church would endure for all times, never to overcome.

The church today is greatly misundersto9d, even by Catholics. It shares the unpopularity of all institutions. As an institution, it seems to many impersonal and cold, like a big administrative body; which mak~s some say, "I love Jesus and the Bible, but_.the church I can do without."

This sentiment is reinforced as they reflect that it is the churches that divide Christians and they conclude: Let's forget the church and all be one in Christ.

- Sounds appealing? But irs not Jesus' way.

The first thing to be said about the church is that it is a divine institution, founded by Jesus himself: "I will build my church," If we believe in Jesus, we must accept the church with all its human limitations. It's his way of salvation.

The church, secondly, is pre-

cisely a human and visible institution. It is, as Vatican II c8Ils it, "the people of God," All of us, you and I, who have been cfaptized into Christ Jesus are ~the church. All together, clergy and laity, share in the mission of the church, exercising diverse functions and ministries.

Jesus himself first appointed 12 leaders, - the apostles, with Peter as the head; then 72 disciples, whom he sent before him' as heralds, ..evangelists.

After the Ascension, the apostles continued to organize the church so that it could respond to growing pastoral needs. They chose Matthias to replace Judas; they instituted deacons and elders who shared the authority of the apostles but served under them, as priests later would serve under bishops.

Paul ordained Timothy and Titus as bishops who, like the bishops of today, were the successors of the apostles. In a moment of crisis in the infant church, a council was convened in Jerusalem and a controversy was settled by the apostles, using the supreme authority Jesus had conferred upon them (Acts 15). The church was a structured body.

Finally, I would like to say that the church is the body of Christ. The Apostle Paul discovered this profound reality on the road to Damascus. He was persecuting Christians when he waS struck down and heard a voice from heaven saying, "I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting" (Acts 9;5). Later he wrote: "He (Christ) is the head of the body, the church" (Coloss. 1:18).

What does that say to us?

First, the church is both human and divine; human in its body, divine in its head. St.=Cond, you cannot separate Christ fro mthe

church. You cannot have the head without the body. You cannot have Christ without the church. On the basis of Scripture, a churchless Christianity is unthinkable.

Christ is to be found in the church as its head, giving it life and salvation. And the church is Christ continued in time. As the Word of God became flesh in that unique body he received from Mary, so now he lives in that cOlporate body which is the church. The churCh is the Incarnation continued, making Jesus visibly present all over the world till the end of time.

This is not just a big, impersonal bureaucracy! In the church we encounter the loving and compassionate Jesus in the priest who baptizes, forgives sins and visits the sick; he lives too in lay Christians in whom he proclaims the Good News and brings his love to all. It's up to each of us, in our parishes and neighborhoods, to make the universal church a personal and loving community. We are aU the church. .

We ought to love the church as we love Jesus: they are one.

She is the body of Christ and his bride; she is also our mother in the faith. In her we have been "born again of water and the Spirit," How can we not love the church, with all her human faults and failings, when "Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy" (Eph. 5:25-26).

The church is part of our faith.

In the Apostles' Creed, the oldest confesion of faJth, dating from the second centqry. we say: "I believe in God the father •.. , I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son . . . • J believe in the Holy Spirit, I believe in the holy Catholic church."

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Remember him Dear Editor: I am sending you a copy of a poem that the Lord impressed on my heart. It's sad when mere man can rule that we can't have a nativity set for Christmas in public places. . .. This is how I feel and my way of giving and sharing what God has given me.

Keep Christ in Cluistmas Keep Christ in Christmas is my cry, Con~inue to honor the Most High, Born of the virgin, in a stable, Wrapped in swaddling clothes, and not in sable, Remember him on this his birthday.

He is worthy to be praised, He's the Prince of :Peace, the King of Kings, Without him we'll all go astray.

Prayer has already been taken out of school.

Some aren't even teaching the golden rule, If they take Christ out of Christmas; This world will never be the same.

Christians, stand together and make this season One of love, peace, and sincerity.

Most of all, remember him who made it happen; Our Lord Jesus is the reason.

Keep Christ in Chl'istmas is my plea, He lives and loves you and me.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle Keep Christ as the Holy One in Christmas.

Helen Mello Fall River

"Storm not1ena" Dear Editor: A salute to Bishops Drury, Graves, Morkovsky, Watters et al for their concertled effort printed in a recent letter to the editor (Anchor, Nov. 19) concern路 ing a plea to your rleaders to join in a solemn novena concluding on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, imploring "God's mercy to intervEme in our country and save it from selfdestruction." ...

May I go one step further and respectfully submit the notion that the feast of Christmas would likewise be a fitting conclusion for yet another "storm novena" that heaven intercede in the "defeat of the pro-abortion philosophy."

Starting on the 17th of December, it could well form the second portion of a pow,erful trio of novenas, the third to be announced for an appropriate time in January.

In our parish of 51. Augustine. our prayer group initiated the public recitation of the rosary in the chapel at 5 p.m. each day.

We know that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of!

Viola Lopes Vineyard Haven

Frank Sheed Dear Editor: It was with sadness that I read in The Anchor the news of the death of Frank Sheed, well-

known writer and publisher.

I would urge everyone to read some of his books: "Theology and Sanity," "What Does Christ Mean to You?," "To Know Christ Jesus." They were written in a lucid style in which we common "Joes" are able to get more out of theology than from a great many other books on the basics of theology.

Sinctl'I am a sinner and you, the reading public, also, let us beg God to forgive our sins and then say "Alleluia" to Bishop Carberry's request at the conference of bishops to ask the Holy Father to consecrate Russia and her people to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

This was one of the requests of Our Lady at Fatima. More than 60 years have passed and yet it hasn't happened as Our Blessed Lady requested! ,Why? Manuel Maria Santos New Bedford

A simple issue Dear Editor: On Nov. 25 in the Boston Globe, William Shanahan had an article, "Middle Way on Abortion," wherein the Catholic magazine Commonweal compromised on abortion, stating it be made illegal after the fetus is eight weeks old.

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papers advocating abortion?

Will this paper be censured by the bishop? Are they Catholics or not? Are they with Christ or against Him? .

They would' kill the fetus the day before it's eight weeks old, but not the day after: If you make murder legal at eight weeks, why not 10 weeks or eight months or 80 years?

Why are they complicating a simple issue? It's wrong to kill an innocent human whatever his age for whatever reason.

Kay Mack Nantucket

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By Katherine Bird Retired people who are active laity are a "fortunate necessity for me," says Father Cenantius Preske路. The only priest in a three-county area in the diocese of Little Rock, Ark., he turns over to lay people most day-to-day parish administration and many responsibilities for counseling and teaching.

Retirees have time, talents and qualifications and are easy to train, explain.s the b~sy pastor of two parishes in the foothills of the Ozarks. Retirees form 80 percent of St. Michael Parish in Cherokee Village and St. Mary of 路the Mount 路Parish in Horseshoe Bend.

A typical weekend for Father Preske begins with Mass at St. Mary's at 5 p.m. Saturday. Then he travels 25 miles to Cherokee Village for a 7 p.m. Eucharist.

After spendin.g the night there,

By Janaan Manternach

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It was a beautiful warm day.

Birds sailed lightly on the lake winds and sang from the trees as Jesus talked with the crowd sitting on the hillside.

Jesus was moved by the beauty of the flowers around him and the freedom of the birds. He was moved too, by how worried the people seemed to be. They worried about clothes, about money, about their health.

"Look at the birds," said Jesus.

"They do not sow seeds. They do not reap a harVest. They gather nothing into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them."

Jesus paused. Then he asked a challenging question: "Are you not more important than these birds?"

The answer to that seemed obvious. In God's eyes people are much more important than birds. But people tend not to trust God. They keep worrying.

"Which of you by worrying can add a moment to your life?"

Jesus asked next.

Again Jesus paused, enjoying the flowers. Jesus knew that they would soon be gone. The hills then would be a dull brown.

"Why are you concerned about clothes?" Jesus continued. "They do not spin yam or make cloth.

Yet not even King Solomon had clothes as beautiful as these wild flowers. If God clothes them so carefully - even though they bloom such a short time - will he not provide much more for you?"

Jesus hammered home his point.

"Stop worrying then over questions like what are we to eat, or what are we to drink, or what are we to wear. People without faith always are running after these things."

The words of Jesus reached the people's hearts. They knew they were too concerned about their possessions.

Jesus then reasured them of God's care. "Your heavenly Father knows all that you need.

Do his will. All these things you worry about will be given you besides. Let tomorrow take care of itself. Today has troubles enough of its own."

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he says an early morning Mass, returning to Horseshoe Bend for an 11 a.m. liturgy.

Two candidates for the permanent diaconate, Robert Clark and Clifton Rowland, are lay assistants at St. Michael's. Retired military men, they alternate days in the parish, keeping the church open and being available to counsel parishioners along with their other duties.

Clark explains that Arkansas attracts retirees because the climate is mild, "there's no mugging on the street corners," and recreational facilities are excellent.

The 61-year-old Clark and his wife were the 13th family to move in 1965 to Cherokee Village, which now hosts about 4,000 retirees, half the county's population.

A main problem in a retirement community, Clark says, is Tum to page thirteen

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RETIRED ARCHBISHOP Edward Howard of Portland Ore., at 104 the world's oldest bishop, is an inspiration to "senior saints." (NC Photo)

"Senior saints"

By Father Philip J. Mumion

Older people in our society are called senior citizens. Perhaps we in the church should refer to our older members as "senior saints."

A fine New Testament phrase refers to members of the church in a particular geopraphical area as its saints. In the early church, there was such a strong sense of our transformation through baptism that members found it logical to look' on one another as those who had been blessed by the Spirit of God. Our senior saints today are the church members who have been blessed the longest, who have enjoyed more than the rest of us the life of the Spirit, growth in grace. It is with that kind of respect that many parishes look on senior saints. Perhaps the fastest growing ministry is that concerned with older church members.

The parish is often the most stable source of community for older people whose children may

By Richard M. Lawless have moved away and who have I write this three days after seen so many come, and go in the funeral of my mother-in-law. their towns and neighborhoods.

She was 71 and had been handi- It is often the parish that makes capped for several years, years the difference between feeling as largely spent in a Midwest nurs- if one has been passed by, or ing home. She had become quite knowing that one can continue weak and my wife and I sought contributing to life.

Ministry to senior saints is at to move her to the East, closer to us. On the day of her sched- its best when older people are uled flight back, she died quiet- not simply cared for but are given the opportunity to care ly.

I accompanied the casket for thems~lves and others. bearing my mother-in-Iaw's re- Many parishes encourage mains to California. Naturally, seniors to visit shutins or nursage and death and the hardships ing home residents.

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programs or making calls to shutins as part of telephone reassurance programs.

- Many seniors are taking an active role in regard to local, state and national legislation affecting them. Elde::-s are becoming an important political force in society.

- Many parishes commission seniors. as eucharistic ministers serving shutins.

When seniors are supported in their own needs and reaching out to others in greater need, they feel needed and respected.

It has often been said that one can gauge the quality of a society hy its attitude toward its elders. Today many parishes are concerned with the need for adequate housing, health care and nutrition for senbrs. They are providing opportunities for older people to get together and fostering communities whose members care for each other, while protecting each other's privacy and independence.

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St. Paul vehemently counters the Corinthian claim that there is no bodily resurrection for Corinthians. He begins by reminding the people of Corinth of their belief in the resurrection of Jesus; which, he points out, they had accepted and made the basis of their whole Christian existence.

Accordingly, Paul concludes the first part of his counterattack in Chapter 15 of First Corinthians with this incisive summary: "In any case . . . this is what we preach and this is what you believed."

Next he shows them the unreasonableness of their present position. "Tell me," he challenges, "if Christ is preached as raised fro::n the dead, how is it that some of you say there is no resurrection from the dead?" They who pride themselves on their philosophical learning should certainly know the fundamental rules of logic.

How can they make a general statement that there is no such thing as resurrection when they admit the resurrection of Jesus?

He shows them the absurdity of the position by drawing its logical conclusion: "If there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ himself has not been raised."

This conclusion they obviously could not accept.

The reason is simple. If they deny the resurrection of Christ they deny everything, for it is the foundation of their faith and their Christian life. The alternative is to say that Paul had preached nonsense and that they were believing in something non-existent.

This brings Paul to the most telling part of his argument.

The Corinthians had incontrovertible proof of God's action in their lives. As a consequence of their faith in Christ, they were showered with extraordinary gifts of the Spirit. In fact, they gloried in their possession and exercise.

But, Paul continues, striking a vulnerable spot: "If Christ was not raised, your faith is worthless. You are still in your sins, and those who have fallen asleep in Christ are the deadest of the dead."

If they deny their own resurrection, they deny that of Christ; and if they deny his, they deny their whole Christian existence. They fly in the face of the obvious fact that faith is eminently worthwhile and spiritually fruitful. They are still sinners, for their redemption was completed only by the resurrection of Jesus; "who was handed over to death for' our sins, and raised up for our justification" (Romans 4,25). Bittersweet irony, Tum to Page Thirteen

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~rhird Continued from page twelve of life were much on my mind.

But as I traveled, I saw many persons at least as old as my mother-in-law, vacationing, going to family events or on business trips. .

The contrast was dear. Images of older men and women as homebound, sedentary or hospitalized do reflect stages of life that can come for us all.

But they are only one side of what was recently been called the third age. For more and more persons the space between middle age and their final days is a time of activity and vigor.

Let me share a few insta.nces.

- A retired neighbo:r in his late 60s handles Eastern European refugee settlement for the local Jewish Federation. He arranges details· from arrival to housing and employment, including the kinds of follow-up needed to integrate families into their new society.

- A retired couple dose to our family are still working, he as an artist, she as a consultant to child-care centers.

- A former neighbor was a professor emeritus at a Baptist college. Into his late 70s, he was a supply preacher for country congregations who very muc!h valued his services.

- Another neighbor, II retired librarian, yearly heads a group of parish callers for the diocesan charities appeal.

Like others, those individuals contend with occasiona:! illness and other signs of aging. But their life is defined by their living of it, not by their aging.

They continue making II difference in their communities.

The head of the militant senior citizen group, the Gray Panthers, recently wrote of her displeasure over a White House reception featuring a senior citizen play band. The women wore bonnets and long dresses and the men short pants and silly ha:~s. Maggie Kuhn's point was that this kind of thing degraded persons of the third age. TherE~ is too much to be done that's vital, she

Illogic Continued from page twelve their loved ones who died "in Christ," hoping to share his resurrection, "are the de~ldest of the dead."

With a final appeal to their pride and sense of superiority, he concludes: "If our hopes in Christ are limited to this life only, we are the most pitiable of men" - more pitiable than the pagans whom the Corinthians pitied.

Seniors Continued from page twelve Older people often need help with basic matters likEl meals, getting to a doctor, cleaning their homes. But just as basic is the re!lpect shown by paying attention to their spiritu,ill needs, by creating opportunities for them to serve others, and by encouraging their efforts to act on issues affecting their lives.

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contended, including recreation affirmative of persons their age.

At 38, I stand on the brink of my second age. I look forward to that time of life as a gift of God. But beyond that lies the age of having time and hopefully health and energy to live as well as the persons mentioned earlier.

Coming to the end of one's own third age may happen in tranquility or turmoil. However it is given us, death marks our passage into a life rich beyond our imagining, a life with God in resurrection. A foretaste of that life is available to us, as so many persons show, in the late years of our journey toward that great ending and beginning.

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. Continued from page twelve loneliness. Accordingly, when people first arrive, St. Michael's tries to make it easy for them to meet others.

An active welcome group greets all newcomers. After every liturgy, at least half the congregation stays at the church to meet others and build friendships. This way, Clark says, "we build a strong Christian community where people love and belong to one another."

For Father Preske, the hardest part of his ministry to retired persons is to keep from "getting depressed at the sight of so much sickness and suffering." It is not uncommon for him to hear of five persons weekly who have become seriously ill. Furthermore, unlike his parishioners, he is constantly aware of the total number sick in the two parishes.

Both carry on a very active ministry to the sick. Parishioners serve each other in many informal ways, such as cleaning house for the incapacitated, as well as providing sympathetic listening and support to the bereaved and suffering.

Harmonious Continued f~om page one ing position at Salve Regina College before he came to St. Mary's Cathedral.

At Salve, he said, he played a harpsichord for a concert, liked it and forthwith bunt one for himself, laying the foundation for his present involvement with the dnstmment.

Giuttari enjoys his cathedral assignment, paying tribute to the musical expertise of both Msgr. Thomas Harr,ington, rector, and Father Jon-Paul Gallant, associate. In the course of the year the music director offers diocesan Catholics a varied fare of classic; and contemporary music at the see church.

As director of the pastoral musician's chapter Giuttari's influence also extends throughout tlte diocese. With other chapter officers he has organized workshops on liturgy planning, cantor training, folk group organization and parish music polioies; while in the works for next month are wedding liturgy workshops.

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Finding God in rock beat RIVERSIDE, Calif. (NC) Those who have seen the movie "Endless Love" or hints of it in TV commercials may not think its theme music could lead young people to Christ.

But Jesuit Father Don Kimball thinks it can.

"It has been proven that rock 'n' roll music will carry the Christian message if it's guided," said Father Kimball, who founded Catholic Media Ministry in the Diocese of Santa Rosa and also produces a half-hour weekly radio show as a disc jockey for popular San Francisco station WFRC. Through, expressions of God's love from another young person in youth-to-youth ministry, the church can be rebuilt, according to Father Kimball.

He was the homilist for Youth Day 'SI in the Diocese of San Bernardino. The event drew some 600 young people and youth ministers to the campus 'of the University of California.

Father Kimball spoke of "Jesus as the, cornerstone," the theme of the conference.

"God is on your side helping you to find you," he said. "He doesn't want you to see yourself as no good. You've got to have confidence that you are the cornerstone of that love relationship, because below the surface of you is God. The Lord would love. to rebuild the church with you."

In his workshop, "Youth to Youth on the Air," he described his radio-oriented ministry.

He uses radio because it is a personal medium of intimacy. As a disc jockey, he speaks to one person "because most people who listen to the radio, like those who listen to records, listen alone:' Father Kimball encouraged the use of rock music records "to pray by:' When an adult in the audience questioned the use of such records because they contain innuendos, he declared that about SO percent of popular records are usuable and can be "made holy:' "It's not that there is so much evil, but we have to Christianize it," he said. "I can take any of the Top 40 list and can get 10' songs to pray to.

"Jesus never said there had to be one kind of music at the Last Supper," he added. "The bottom line is if you're going to deal with the young, especially those who are not so turned on in their faith, try rock 'n' roll and try praying."

After the conference, some of its participants discussed what they had gotten out of it.

"It was fun and exciting," said Thomas Velasquez, 14, of San Be111ardino. "I want to share it with everyone:' "I learned you don't have to have sexual relations to show you love someone," said 12-yearold Eletrea Wells of Fort Irwin, Calif.

FACULTY AND STUDENTS at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, proudly display a Red Cross commendation for the school's leadership for five consecutive years in support of the area's Red Cross/United Way Youth Drive. From left, Sister Janice Brady, RSM, drive coordinator; Sister Mary Faith Harding, RSM, Feehan principal; student workers Kelley Cocuzzo and Karen Johnson. (Doyle Photo)

A diamond is a diamond

By Cecilia Belanger When we say of someone that he or she "knows where it's at," or that he or she is "with it," it's considered a compliment. To know where it's at is to be urbane and wise, privy to the centers and corridors of power. To be with it is to know the right people and to understand what is really going on.

Yet the manner of Jesus' birth makes me wonder if the with-it people have ever really been on the right track. Stripped of all subsequent art and oratory, what we have at the Nativity are three powerless people outside a second-class inn in an undistinguished province of a remote sector of the Roman Empire.

None of today's reporters of

distinction would have been on the soene that first Christmas night. Had any been in Bethlehem, they would undoubtedly have been talking to the with-it people: possibly about taxes and census taking, internal politics, trends within the Roman senate.

Meanwhile, in the stable, a child unrivalled in magnitude was being born. What irony that the shepherds, who were not with it, got it, while the worldlywise, who knew where it was at, missed it.

The less secure we humans are, the more we rely on such props as rank, publicity, title, degree and wealth.

Jesus made very few demands on life. He made no effort to curry the favor of the power people of his time. It didn't take

By Charlie Martin

THE SENSlTIVE KIND Don't take her for granted she has a hard time Don't misunderstand her or play with her mind Treat her so gently it will pay you in time You got to know she's the sensitive kind Tell her you love her each: and every night And you will discover she will treat you right If you believe I know you will find There ain't nothin' like the sensitive kind.

She gets lonely waitin' for you You are the only thing to help her through Don't take her for granted she had a harcl time You got to kn~w she's the sensitive kind.

Sung by Santana, Written by J.J. Cale (0) 1975 by Audigram Music

tong to dispose of his worldly possessions. The soldiers gambled them away in no time.

He was concerned with quality, not numbers. He refused to do violence to the personality of others. He would not force faith by leaping from a pinnacle or a temple. He would not use his power in the manner of a vaudeville performer. He would not dilute the demands of the gospel.

He even respected the right of the rich young man to value his property above his soul.

A jeweler once said, "If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is n diamond, even if there are no customers."

Jesus is the Christ, whether anyone believes it or not.

THIS SONG offers good advice: Don't take anyone you love for granted!

Sensitivity is not limited to romance. Each person is sensitive, how we treat people makes a difference.

Sensitivity is most needed in families. And it means much more than just keeping down the stereo when someone is trying to sleep or trying to remember not to yell at the younger kids.'

Sensitivity is linked to thoughtfulness.

Telling family members that you love them may be difficult, but it is important. Some families have established blocks to communication, love and affection. Perhaps there are lovestarved individuals in your own house. Take the chance of communicating verbally the love you feel.

Response to this column is welcomed. Please address to Charlie Martin, 3863 Bellemeade Ave., Evansville,路1nd. 477i5.

The Holy Family High School glee club, directed by Bill Lacey, performed before the New Bedford city council last week as part of New Bedford's Christmas program.

Selections included Throw the Yule Log On, Uncle John, Sing a Song of Merry Christmas, Hope in You, and Carol of the Bells.

The 1ast selection was sung with ,the Holy FamHy-Ho1y Name boys' choir.

Highlighting the evening ~as a song composed by HF junior Susan LaFleur, Christmas Eve Is Ours to Share.

The girls' basketball team, coached by Joe Gill, isn't letting Christmas delay dts schedule.

Monday it meets Voke-Tech, Wednesday Westport, Dec. 2S, Fairhaven and Dec. 30 Dighton.

Boys, with Bob Sylvia as mentor, clash with Westport today.

Dighton-Rehoboth on Monday, Dartmouth on Wednesday and Fairhaven on Dec. 2S.

CoyIe-Cassidy For the third consecutive year, John Brady, a senior at the Taunton high school, has won top place in the Voice of Democracy contest. Second and third places went to Ted Figlock and Michael Gorey.

Sally Dusseault, Janet Cooke, Michael Gorey and Jeff Silver recently represented C-C at presentations in area middle schools; while Cheryl' Allen, Paula Taurazas, Mark McMullen and David Diaz were tour guides for eighth grade visitors to the campus.

A concelebrated memorial Mass for Joseph L. Scanlon, late director of athletics will be offered at 7:30 tonight in the C-C auditorium. All are welcome and refreshments will be served in the school cafeteria following the service.

Stonehill College The campus radio station, WSHL-FM, has renovated its facilities and increased its power out put from 10 to 100 watts, giving it a 50 square mile range.

Area non-profit organizations are invited to use its facilities.

Information is available from Bob Davis, 23S-1081, Ext. 35S.

Boys Town plans inner city high OMAHA, Neb. (NC) - Work has begun on a new Boys Town Urban Program high school to be built in Omaha's inner city.

The new school will offer alternative education to 200 to 250 students who may have had problems in other high schools.

Its emphasis will be on keeping students in school and off the streets, said the Urban Program's director, Father James Gilg.

The urban school will be the only one in the area to offer students a full day of classes plus participation in extracurricular activities, varsity athletics and achievement projects. It will also be the only school in Nebraska with a nursery facility on its campus.

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Diocesan Soccer All-Stars Holy Family High School has three players on the :~ew Bedford Standard-Times soccer allstar team. Bishop Stang has two.

Half-back Bob Yergeau, forward Mark Cathcart and reserve Vic Pinheiro are the selectees from Holy Family. Halfback Dan Driscoll and reserve Greg deMelo are the Stang nominees. Yergeau and deMelo were earlier named to the Southeastern Mass. Conference Division Two all-star team.

Other players on t~,e all-star team are goalie Wayne Britton of Old Colony Yoke-Tech; fullbacks Fernando -Soares, Dartmouth, and Fernando Pires, New Bedford High; halfback Fernando Magalhaes, New Bedford; forwards Dave Desroches and Steve Faulkner, Old Colony, Ted deCosta, New Bedford High, John Moniz, Dartmouth.

Soares, Maghalaes and DeCosta are also on the conference's Division One all-star team.

Durfee High's forward Paul Teixeira and Barnstable High's fullback Scott Nickerson have been named to the, Boston Globe's Division One Eastern Mass all-star team. They are al-

so on the conference's Division One all-star combine.

Others on the conference's Division One team are Dan White and Eric Hobbie, Falmouth; Victor Mendes, 'Fernando Pires, New Bedford High; Tom MacNaught and John Swanson, Dennis-Yarmouth; Manuel Pais, Durfee; John Rocha and John deCosta, Somerset, and Victor Rodriques, Taunton.

The Old Colony League's all. star soccer team has forwards Fernando Ferreira and Larry Politano, Bridgewater-Raynham; John Gordon, Marshfield; Steve Ahern, Scituate. Midfielders Shawn Schum, Bridgewater- , Raynham; Andy Blanchard, Scitate; John Brady, Plymouth-, Carver. Fullbacks Jim Christ... ,l1n ::In:! Jeff Mosher, Silver Lake; Sean McRea, PlymouthCarver.

The New Bedford paper has also placed three Stang gridders on its all-star football team. They are senior running back John Machado on offense, senior defensive end Mark Pacheco and senior linebacker Mike Ford on the defensive unit. Additionally Stang's senior Dan Dufresne has been named an alternate on the defensive unit.

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by Somerset's Kevin Wagner. In the companion game Fall River South romped to an 8-1 triumph over Seekonk.

New Bedford and South have 6-2-1 (won, lost, tied) records for the season. Seekonk is 4-5-0, Somerset 3-6-0, Marion 1-5-2.

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A Christmas concert by Father Andre Patenaude, MS, and the Reconcilers, snowed out on Dec. 6, has been rescheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday at Attleboro High School auditorium.

The diocesan Social Services Department wUl hold a Christmas party at the center on Monday. The center staff ,and tenants wtll have a party on Tuesday.

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Council 86, Knights of Columbus, will have a Christmas party from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Council Home on Columbus Drive. Special guests will be residents of Paul A. Dever School and area halfway houses joining chiildren of K of C mem~ bers.

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A Christmas family Mass will be offered at 6 p.m. Saturday.

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bated at 6.30 p.m. Saturday. bater. at 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

Dancmg to the music of Dick Pillar will follow in the church hall.

The Bread of Life chaI'lismatic prayer group meets 'at 7:30 p.m. each Friday for Mass and a prayer meeting, followed at 10 p.m. by a talk. Tomorrow's speaker will be John Gagliardi, speaking on personal relationships. There will be no meetings on Christmas or New Year's day but the speaker for Jan. 8 will be Julie Ferreira. Her topic will be "Applyling Scripture to the Now."

ST. JULIE, NO. DARTMOUTH

A scripture rosary will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday. A social hour will follow in the parish hall.

A parish ski trip ,is planned for the weekend of Feb. 5. Information: Robert Kacor, 994-9147, or Father George Harrison, 9932351.

ST. NUCHAEL, SWANSEA

A program of Christmas music, "Unto Us A Child Is Born " will be presented at 7 p.m. SU~颅 day. All are welcome and admission will be free.

The event continues the spirit of the "We Care/We Share" campaign, say organJizers and 路also marks the parish's 60th anniversary.

The choir will be heard in traditional carols, Father Clement Dufour, pastor, will sing "Noel" and "0 Holy Night" and selections will be offered by the parish folk group and a choral quintet f'nm!>oserl of James. Suz3nne, Karen, Janet and John Silveira.

A Chnistmas pageant directed

by Sister Theresa Sparrow RSM will feature CCD pupils a~d th~ evening will close with a carol sing-along.

Refreshments will follow in the church hall.

Infant Jesus home crib ftgures may be brought to Masses this weekend to be blessed.

Knights of the Altar officers and marshals will meet 'at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Encounter weekends will be held beginning Jan. 15 at LaSalette ShrinE!, Attleboro, and Jan. 29 at the Family Ufe Center, No. Dartmouth. Openings are available and reservations may be made with Norman and Lucy Paul, 678-8694.

A teacher is needed for 3rd grade CCD on Tuesday afternoons. Volunteers may call Father Bruce Neylon at the rectory.

Marriage vows will be renewed at weekend Masses Dec. 26 and 27, in observance of the feast of the Holy Family.

ST. LOUIS, FB,

Secular Franciscans will attend Mass at 6:30 tonight. A meeting will follow.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET

Youth members will hold a hayride Saturday, meeting at the church at 4 p.m.

New al tar boys wdll rehearse at 1:30 p.m. Saturday and all boys will meet at 7 }:.m. Tuesday to prepare for Christmas Masses.

Parishioners participating in the Christmas Ev~ midnight Mass will meet at the church at 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Gifts may be broaght to any Christmas Mass for distribution at the Clefton Geriatric Center.

SACRED HEART, FR

Families are invited to contribute symbols to the Jesse tree in the front of the church.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FR

CYO members will present household items and toiletries as Christmas gifts to U:.e Carmelite Sisters of Sol-E-Mar, South Dartmouth, and residents of a neighborhood center for handicapped 路CiIdults.

A CYO dinner dance is planned for 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 28, in the Coady Center. Reservations close Wednesday.

DEAF APOSTOLATE

The annual Christmas Mass will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Sunday, at St. J'ohn the Baptist Church, New :3edford. A social hour will follow. Parents are asked to bring gifts for their children, rto be distributed by Santa Claus. In case of bad weather, the event will be postponed to Sunday, Jan. 3.

OUR LADY

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ANGELS, FR

The annual parish credit union meeting is set for 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31, in the parish hall.

The choir welcomes new members.

Christmas Eve Masses will be at 4 p.m., 5:15 p.m. and midnight.

Christmas Day Masses will be hourly from 7 a.m. to noon, and at 5 p.m.

ST.ANNE,FR

The annual schoolchildren's Christmas pageant will be held in Ithe upper ,~hurch at 2 p.m.

Sunday.

Fellowship members wdll take a bus trip to LaSalette Shrine tonight.

ST. ANNE's Hospital, FR

Natural family planning classes will be held at Clemence Hall, beginning in January. Further information: Mariette Easton 674-5741, Ext. 326. ' ECHO OF ATTLEBORO

Echo Followup wHl sponsor a palanca and Christmas party at 7:30 tonight at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. P.alanca will be prepared for Jan. 1 through 3 Echo retreat 'at LaSalette Center. Participants should bring refreshments and musical instruments.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR

The Women's Guild will meet at 7 tonlight, weather permitting.

Christmas oplatek (unleavened bread) for home use is available at the convent. The bread will also be shared at Masses the weekend of Dec. 26 and 27.

The fifth annual deacons' festival will take place at a Eucharist -and following social hour at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 26, the feast of St. Stephen, a deacon and maI'ltyr.

Volunteers are asked to assist in decorating the church at 2 p.m. Sunday.

ST. RITA, MARION

'The parish prayer group will hold a Christmas party in the rectory at 7 tomorrow night.

Simplicity "Above all, then, a prayerful spirit is marked by simplicity.

To be simple is not the same as to be silly, any more than to be childlike is to be childish. True simplicity is the unifying of their personality, a vision and a life which can cut through the paraphernalia and complications and 'see into the heart of things.'''

Father Kenneth Leech

WISHING YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND REV. ERNEST E. BLAIS

Pastor

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REV. NORMAND GRENIER

HAPPY AND HOLY NEW YEAR Notre Dame' de Lou.rdes

Assistant

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FAtL MIDNIGHT MASS Concelebrated Over 2000 Lights Will Be Illuminated 35 Voice Choir will be singing French and English Hymns and Carols Doors open at 11 :00 P.M.

REV. ROBERT BLAIS, O.P.