JVe 'ruins for DBNVER (NC) - The Jesuit Volunteer Corps, a service pro gram directing mission workers to poor rural a,reas and inner cities, leaves volunteers happily "ruined for life," a corps repre senutative said. T. J. Conley, an office staffer for the corps in Detroit, said in an interview with the Denver Catholic Register, that the corps forces volunteers to rethink their values. "It's an opportunity to step back from our culture, our so ciety, and decide what values we want in our ,lives," he said. "Part of the experience is liv ing a simple lifestyle, and we're fostering the idea our actions af fect others, that idea of 'living simply so others can simply live.' " Conley, in Denver to talk to area college students, joined the Jesuit corps following his 1983 graduation from the University of Notre Dame. He spent a year working in a shelter for the ,homeless near Portland, Ore. "I was attracted by the com munity living and spirituality," he said. "I think one of the most important things I 'learned was what I learned about myself. When you .Jive in community,
life~
A-I Approved for Children and Adults The Never-ending' Story
Phar lap (Rec,)
2010
13
Friday, Jan. 4, 1985
you grow in self-awareness. saw my inadequacies within a community of trust." The corps accepts applicants if they are 21 years old or older or have a college degree. They must also have a mature person ality, Christian motivation, adap tability, a sense of hum)r and be in good physical condition, Conley said. Volunteers live in groups of four to seven in a community house and attend Mass or pray 'together often. "Each house has its own flavor," said Conley. JUC workers fill jobs based on their skills, such as teaching, tutoring or working with senior citizens or .at day centers. "Many of the jobs available are in areas that people just out of college could never get, like in social service," Conley added. Volunteers receive $280 a month, from which room and board are deducted, ,leaving about $75. The corps also pro vides health insurance and pays for workers' return trips home. Jobs run a full year, beginning each August. "The things you experience will stay with you. You'll be changed," promised Conley.
~~FILM RATINGS~§ The Muppets Take Manhattan (Rec,)
THE ANCHOR
-'----------.
Eastern Television
Sales And Service .
Fall River's Largest Display of TV s RCA - ZENITH - SYLVANIA 1196 BEDFORD STREET
673-9721
BUFFINTON 'FLORIST, INC. ~
, •
,
,
490 ROBESON STREET " fALL RIVER, MASS.
Tel. 618-5651 Member F.T.D.A.
SHAWOMET
GARDENS
ORGAN BUILDER A. David Moore with organ he con structed for Stonehill College, North Easton. The instrum ent was dedicated Dec. 16 in the campus Chapel of Mary at ceremonies inCluding an inaugural recital by famed Ameri can organist James David Christie. Its $66,000 cost was contributed by Stonehill benefactors, alumni and Holy Cross priests on the college faculty and staff. (Bauman Photo)
102 Shawomet Avenue Somerset, Mass.
Tel. 674-4881 3V2 room Apartment
4V2 room Apartment
Includes heat, hot water, stove reo
frigerator and maintenance service.
A-2 Approved for Adults and Adolescents Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Amadeus The Bostonians Cloak and Dagger Comfort and Joy Country Falling in love The Family Game The Jigsaw Man
The Karate Kid The Killing Fields last Starfighter Mass Appeal Oh, God! You Devil Paris, Texas A Passage to India The Philadelphia Experiment
Places in the Heart The Prodigal Protocol The Razor's Edge A Soldier's Story (Rec,) Starman Star Trek 3: Search for Spock Supergirl
A-3 Approved for Adults Only Dune All of Me Beverly Hills Cop Electric Dreams Firstborn Body Rock Flashpoint The Brother from Another' Planet Garbo Talks Cannonball Run II Ghostbusters Careful, He Might Hear You Gremlins Indiana Jones & Temple C. H, U. D. of Doom City Heat Irreconcilable Differences Cotton Club A Joke of De,stiny Dreamscape
-The little Drummer Girl Missing in Action The Natural The Pope of Greenwich Village Red Dawn Rhinestone Romancing the Stone
Runaway
Splash
Windy City
A-4 Separate Classification (A Separate Classification is given to certain films which while not morally offensive, require some analysis and explanation as a pro tection against wrong interpretations and false conclusions.) Cal
oAmerican Dreamer Bachelor Party Best Defense Body Double Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers Choose Me Conan the Destroyer Crimes of Passion The Evil that Men Do Finders Keepers The First Turn-On
Morally Offensive
Friday the 13th: Savage Streets
Final Chapter Sheena
Impulse Silent Night, Deadly Night Just the Way You Are .Sixteen Candles A Nightmare on Elm Street Teachers Night of the Comet The Terminator No Small Affair Thief of Hearts Once upon a Time in Tightrope America Until September Oxford Blues The Wild life Purple Rain The Woman in Red Revenge of the Nerds
(Rec.) after a title Indicates that the film Is recommended by the U.S. Catholic Conference reviewer for the category of viewers under which It Is listed. These listings are presented monthly; please clip and save for reference. Further information on recent films Is avail . able from The Anchor office, 675-7151.
Evangelizer of Russians NEW YORK (NC) - Jesuit Father Walter Ciszek, a Penn sylvania-born priest known for his evangelization work in Rus sia, died Dec. 8 at the John XXIII Center in New York, where he :lived the last 20 years. Father Ciszek, 80, had suffered from lung problems, previous heart attacks and 8lthritis. tDespite years in a Soviet pris on and a subsequent period in a Siberian labor camp, Father Cis zek "showed no bitterness" and always refused to speak of the Soviet Union as an "atheistic" country, said, Jesuit Father John Long, director of the John XXIII Center, formerly known as the Russian Center at Fordham Uni versity. Father Ciszek was among a group of young Jesuits who went to Rome in the 1930s to prepare themselves for evan gelization of Russia. Although Father Ciszek had been baptized in the ,Latin Rite, he was ordained in the Byzantine Rite il). 1937 to express his coun mitment to the Russian people, Father Long said. In 1938, he was sent to a Jesuit center in eastern Poland' to 'serve ethnic Russians and Ukrainians. , When that part of Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939, Father Ciszek signed up for work camps. He was placed in the notorious Lubyanka prison in Moscow, accused of acting as
a Vatican spy, after Germany attacked the SO','iet Union in 1941. In 1946, Father Ciszek was' sentenced to 15 years in a Siber ian labor camp. A decade later the remaining years of that sen tence were commuted, but he was hot allowed to leave the Soviet Union and in the West word was out that he had died. When he was released from the labor camp, Father Ciszek worked as a garage mechanic near the Mongolian border, and later was able to write to a sis ter in the United States. His family then sought State Depart merit intervention on his behalf, and when then-Vice President Richard Nixon visited Moscow in 1959, the priest was on a Jist of Americans he sought to aid. Finally, in 1963, Father Cis zek and a Massachusetts busi nessman were released in ex change for Soviet spies held in the United States. Father Ciszek then joined the Fordham Center. In 1964, Father Ciszel;: pub Jished an account of his experi ences, "Wth God in Russia," and in 1973 published another book, "He Leadeth Me," reflect ing on their spiritual meaning. Father Ciszek lectured throughout the United States in the years following his release. More recently he counseled and directed small group and in dividual retreats at the center.
YOU'LL
I.
TICKLEDI
'nle delivery-Cali
IDEAL LAUNDRY :373 New lBoston Road Fall River 678-5677
Brandon Woods f\ Luxury Retirement
Community
567 Darlm(lulh Slreet
0J. Darlmoulh. MA 02748
(617)997-7787