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Jubilee on Five Lenten Sundays, In accord with the announcement made in his Christ mas sermon, the Bishop has formed the following plans to observe the Jubilee announced by Pope Paul VI to marlcl the close of the Second Vatican Council. The Jubilee-which extends from Jan. 1 until
III course of sermons will be Pentecost Sunday, May 29 given in each church of the Dio is at once a celebration mark cese explaining the teachings of ing the close of the Council the Council as they apply to our
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Pope Paul VI, when he an While its focal point is the nounced the Jubilee at the close Cathedral, the Bishop has desig of the Council, expressed the · nated another church in each hope that it would be the means : area of the Diocese in which of the Church's "deepening her the Jubilee exercises will be own self awareness," and that carried out and the indulgence the faithful would thus be may be gained. moved to "more fervent prac The Bishop will go to each tice of the Christian virtues, to of these churches on the first a firm resolution to follow Christ · five Sundays of Lent, where he crucified, and to preoccupation PRICE lOc will celebrate Holy Mass. Dur with enlarging the kingdom of · ing the Mass a sermon will be God." ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL
$4.00 per Vear ~ 1966 The Anchor given on the significance of the Fall River
As an encouragement in this · Council. The Churches and dates period of Jubilee, the Holy for the Pontifical Mass are as Father granted special faculties follows:. to confessors so that they might First Sunday of Lent, Feb. 27 more readily aid those who · -St. Lawrence, New Bedford. have been away from the sacra Second Sunday of Lent, March ments, and he granted a plen · 6-St. Mary, Taunton. ary indu.lgence to those who re Third Sunday of Lent, March ceive the Sacraments of penance Every Bishop in the world 13-St. John, Attleboro and the Eucharist and pray for Fourth Sunday of Lent, March the intentions of the Pope. Pageantry, splendor and joy will reign at the "Gol~ received an air freight box 2o-St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis. 1. As often as either they be of Milanese. pastries on a.nd Green Ball:" next Wednesday evening. The 1966 edI Passion Sunday, March 27 present on at least three occa tion the 11th of the Bishop's Charity Ball will feature Christmas morning from His St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. sions at explanations of the de Continued from Page Six In addition, during this period, crees of the Second Vatican the 'world ren~wned Vincent Lopez and his orchestra. Ecumenical Council or at ser In carrying out the theme mons preached on the occasion of the Bishop's colors, greens of a mission, or devoutly attend land golds will furnish the the Sacrifice of the Mass cele decorative embellishments. brated with some solemnity by The boxes will have gold divid the Bishop in a Cathedral ers and green covered seats. church. This last indulgence may About the Ball Room floral dec also be obtained by those who Tom 0 r l' 0 w Rachel Langlois, a September graduate of St. Anne's Hospital School are present at the Bishop's orations will be centered about green and gold replicas of the of Nursing, Fall River, will step into a new life. She'll fly from Boston to Baghdad, Mass iii the churches specially JBishop's mitre. where for two years she'll nurse at Clinic St. Raphael, a 44-bed general hospital staffed 'designated for the Jubilee. Fifty-seven young ladies will 2. Once only, if within the by the Dominican Sisters of the Presentation, the same community that operates St. lh>e formally presented to His same prescribed time they visit· Excellency, Bishop Connolly. Anne's. From Fall River, St. Anne~s she has been special- nursing, but at St. Raphael's the Cathedral Church or one of Each presentee will be escorted Rachel will enter a world izing in medical and surgical she'll do "whatever's needed the designated churches and by her father or a close male where Biblical diseases are there renew their profession of most." lI'elative for the introduction. still commonplace where in The daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. faith, either by reciting the The young ladies will be gowned fant mortality is pitifully high, Wilfred Langlois of st. Theresa's Apostles' Creed, or by using any' fin varying shades of green. legitimate formula. where the mercury soars to 110 Turn to Page Seventeen 'Il'heir formal gowns will be acdegrees in the hot season. At Turn to Page Fifteen .
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 6, 1966
Enthusiastic Zeal Augurs Tremendously Successful Bishop's Charity Ban
Pope Paul' Sends Christmas Gift To Ordinary
St. Anne's Hospital School Graduate Flies To Baghdad for .TtVO Years' Nursing
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Perry Consecrated ' In' 'New Orleans Ceremony
Papal JJ~bilee PrOPOSeS Intra-Church Ecumenmsm
NEW ORLEANS (NC)-A bishop here characterized as a "source of wonderment" the consecration of the first Negro to be raised to the U.S. hierarchy in this century. Bishop Robert E. Tracy of Baton Rouge, La., preaching at the consecration today Joseph F. Rummel of Auxiliary Bishop Harold Archbishop of New Orleans, a giant among R. Perry, S.V.D., of New Or champions of racial integration leans, in the Basilica of St. in this race - conscious area,
The chief purpose of the new year's jubilee that lasts from Jan. 1 to Pentecost Sunday is to make the council alive for every Catholic and help him adopt its decrees and decisions in everyday life. A recent research into Protestant thinking led two noted stat tel'S there may well be a kind isticians to claim: "Differ of disunity among Catholics also el1lce between some Oatholics that must be ironed out before &lud Protestants. are trivial Catholics can heal.thily. turn ccmpared with the divisions • ithin the Protestant church it iJelf." Though this is specifically 8INe ill dogmatic and moral ma~
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Louis here, said' the ceremony occasioned "two principal sources of wonderment." Wearing golden vestments Which .once belonged to the late
Bishop Perry was consecrated by Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi• Apostolic Delegate in the United States.
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