The ,ANCHOR An Anchor of the Soul, Sure andJi'irm-ST. PAUL
Fdtl River, Mass.
-Y:oI. 3, No. 2
Thursday, Jan. 8, 1959 Seeond Chua Mail Privilea:e8 Authorized at Fall River. Ma••.
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Families .to Receive Comml.inion Sunday ~
The Most Reverend· Bishop, in a letter to all pastors the Diocese, urges that the faithful receive the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist in family groups next Sunday, the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The Most Reverend Bishop children of the Diocese who atso requests that families attend Catholic schools. eo~secrate themselves' as . More and more families are family units to the venera- observing the Feast of the Holy tion and imitation of the Holy Family as Family Day, with family attendance at Mass and Family of Nazareth. ' ~he appeal is being made , family group Communion as the through the sponsorship of the (lay's highlights. The benefits Family Life Bureau under the that come from this togetherness direction of Rev. Raymond' W. in the Eucharistic Christ are McCarthy of Sacred Heart immeasurably irp.portant. The purpose of family ComC:::~urch, Fall River, Diocesan munion is to bring Christ ,into director of the bureau. Also participating in the ap- the home and thereby develop peal for Family Unity Through an, atmosphere of harmony and Family Communion are the peace in the family and exemplification of the Church's teachParent~Family Education Com'mittee of the Diocesan Council ings on the sanctity of the home fill. Catholic Women and the Turn to Page, Eighteen
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Ohio Court Voids Parental Pre-Marriage Agreements
THREE NEW PRIESTS: Shown with the Most Reverend Bishop after their OrdinatiOtl to ~he Priesthood at St. Mary's Cathedral, Tuesday, 'are, left to right, Rev. Bernard F. su&:. }ivan, Rev. James F. Buckley and Rev'. Robert F. Kirby.
Clergy at' Ordination Mass Show Congregation's Role
Participation in the Sacrifice of the Mass by. the congregation was highlighted iR • forceful )'Vay at the Ordination Mass in St. Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday morning. At the direction of the Most·Reverend Bishop, the priests in attendance at the Masa and the seminarians o~ the Diocese from St. John's· Seminary in Brighton made all the COLUMBUS (NC)-The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled responses in the Mass and in effect that agreements made by parties to a mixed mar- r ec i ted alon'g with the riage for the Catholic rearing of their children are "void Bishop the Gloria, .Creed, ~ tHlenforceable." The State's .highest ·tribunal· refused Sanctus, Agnus Dei and Pater Noster. They also sang the to 'review a lower court case which'involved a ,Toledo . ' couple. of the Saints which is Diocesan obser.vance of the Chair of Unity Octave. ill which the ruling was There was a civil court divorce Litany proper to' the Ordination 'Mass. Jan~ 18-25, will center at St. Mary's Cathedral, 'Fall River. made. The action of the in June 1956" but before the This participation in the Mass Supreme 'Court is 'binta- separation the mother, a ProOpening services will be held at 4 Sunday afternoon, mount to approval of the lower testant, signed an agreement in was in accordance with the re- Jan. 18. Services Monday through Saturday are scheduled cent Instruction of the Holy See eourt's decision. ' which she pledged· to fulfill her pre-marriage promise and raise calling upon the congregation to for 8 nightly.'. The Octave to the authority of the Vicar 01. The case originated in 1957, in their daughter in the Catholic .take a more active role in the will termInate at ,4 Sunday Christ is the intention for Jan. • suit filed in the Court of Com- Faith. Mass in offering the Sacrifice afternoon, Jan. 25. 20, while Jan. 21 is'devoted to mon. Pleas of. Lucas County along with, the celebrant. Turn to Page Twelve The purpose of the Octave, prayer that Lutherans and other The other music was provided originated in 1908, is the reunion Protestants of 'continental Euby' a group of the seminarians of of Christendom' and the conver- rope may return to Holy Church. the Diocese studying at St. sion of unbelievers through Christians in. America are John's. ' prayer and sacrifice. prayed for on Jan. 22. The intenSpecific intentions are assigned tion is that they may become This participation in the DeThe night was cold but the hearts of thousands of people dination Mass showed in a dra- to each day of the· Octave. The one in cOqlmunion with the from all sections of the Diocese were warm for the under- matic and impressive way the first, Jan. 18, is, devl?ted to Chair of St. Peter. The return of privileged children of the Diocese. The weather last night role of the congregation in the prayer for the return of the lapsed Catholics to the sacracould have deterred many from attending planned social sacrifice. The almost one hundred "other sheep" to the fold of ments is petitioned, Jan. 23, and the conversion of the Jews OQ priests and seminarians taking Peter. events, but the Bishop's The intention for Jan. 19 is Jan. 24. this active role in the Mass gave presidents of the Diocesan CounAnnual Charity Ball has beJan. 25, the feast of the concil of Catholic Women and the encouragement to the several the return of Oriental 'dissidents eome the "must" event of St. Vincent de Paul Society. hundred persons present in the to communion with the apostolic version of St. Paul, and the closing day of the Octave, is devoted the social season and hence The music of· Lester Lanin Cathedral· to join in the re:' se~he submissiQn of Anglicans ,to the intention that the· world Lincoln Park's Million Dollar Turn to Page Eighteen Turn to Page Eighteen may be conquered for Christ. , . Ballroom was filled from bandstand to checkroom and box seat aection to lounge. The Most Reverend Bishop A Sister of Mercy from Fall River is one of two nuns departing to'morr:ow from New beaded a long list ·of, distinguished guests that included York for·La Ceiba, Honduras. ' Mayor and Mrs. Francis J. LawShe is Sister Mary Jamesine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Ready, 17B Maple let' of New Bedford, Mayor and Gardens, Fall River, and a graduate of Mt. St. Mary-Academy, also Fall River.. WASHINGTON' eN-C) " . . . Mrs. .Tohn M. Aruuda of Fall The territory. of Alaska, RiveI' and Lt. Gov.' and Mrs. Together with Sis t e r which was proclaimed as the Robert F. Murphy. Mary Ellenice of Lakewood, 49th state ina ceremony The Grand March was led by R. 1., she will 'supervise here on Jan. 3, has about 22,500 Mr: and Mrs. Emmett P. Almond' training of nurses in the Catholics in the Vicariate Aposof So. Dartmouth, Mr. and Mrs. tolic of Ala3ka and the Juneau Hospital Vincente D'Antoni, La H. Frank Reilly and leaders in diocese. Ceiba. municipal and state governHead of the Vicariate Apostolie· ments, followed by the area The Sisters hold B.S. in Nursof Alaska is Bishop Francis Glee- . ing degrees from Salve Regina son, S.J., a native of Corrollton, College. For the past six months Mo. His vicariate comprises they have 'studied Spanish and 515,600 square miles and has worked with Latin American 10,50'1 Catholics in.a total popupatients at St. Vincent's Hospilation ,of. some 60,000. Thirty: tal; New York, where they have, priests, 8 Brothers lmd 37 Sisters become familiar with tropical work in the Vicariate. diseases and Latin American Bishop Dermot O'Flanagan, customs. Irish-born American citizen, Formal Opening heads the Juneau diocese, which, Hospital Vincent D'Antoni is includes all the southern coastal . a ,project of Standard Fruit and region of Alaska. The diocese , ,Steamship Company, which iii comprises 70,800 square miles, supplying a convent for the Sishas a total population of 92,200 " tel's in La· Ceiba. To be named and a Catholic population of Maria Regin.a. Conv.ent, it will 12,000. Nineteen priests and .. S~ters worll: iIl-the··diocese.,· .... '·SISTER M. JAMESIN& , , :TurD &0 Page Eighteea SlSTE& ¥. E~LENICIil .'
Cathedral Parish to Mark Chair of Unity O.ctave
Enthusiastic Thousands Enjoy, Bishop's Annual Charity Ball
Fall River' Nun' to Train Honduras Nurses
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22,500 Catholics In New State Of ·Alaska'
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