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Physician Is Most Enthusiastic .Overr Expandiwg Guatemalan CFM Program
By Patrica M<.;Gowan She's one of three Sister-doctors servinga' remote Indian community in the mountains of Guatemala. She often sees medical problems that aren't in the books. She began a home visit to Fall River with
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hours oi horseback riding because trails from her pueblo are impossible to traverse in any other way. But the~e exploits worthy of a modern St. Paul are .casually dismissed by Sister Maureen Thomas of Mary knoll. What does she really want· to talk about? It's the effect of the Christian Family Movement upon "her" In dians. Brown eyes sparkle and her gestures are an~mated as she describes what CFM has done for family life in mountainous jacaltenango. All the Maryknoll doctors and nurses staffing the 50 bed Jacaltenango hospital have other strings to their bows, she explains. Her special project for the past year has been introduction of the family organization to the Indians. "We have 12 CFM groups going," she said "involving
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75 couples. They've really taught us more than we've taught them." Sister Maureen Thomas said that CFM in Guatemala had been confined to middle-class city dwellers and that her work with rural Indians was the first of its kind. She and the Maryknoll pastors at Jacaltenango developed an adaptation of the city CFM program so successfully that many of their meeting plans have been incorporated into a rural CFM handbook. "We have an advantage in that CFM is one of the few outlets the people have," she noted. "There's no television to compete with our meetings!" A special problem in the pueblo was the traditionally inferior position of Indian women. "At first the women wouldn't speak at all at meetings, and when they did start to talk, you could tell that their husbands were petrified of what they might say. But then you could see how proud the men were when their wives made worthwhile contri~ butions." Tum to Page Three
Di-oc-esan Areas Mark Unity Octave
Martha's Vineyard Rev. Donald A. Couza, pas
Attleboro
The program for -the week A Week of Prayer For Pra.~'er for' Christian Christian Unity will be ob Unity in the Attleboro area served in Dartmouth with will touch, Attleboro" No." two inter-faith services to be
tor of Sacred Heart.Ohurch, . of
Oak Bluffs, is chairman of 'eommittee planning an ex
tended observance of' Church Attleboro and Mahsfield. A held on successive Fridays Bible Vigil will be conducted . January 19th and January 26th. Unity Octave on· Martha's Vine The opening service will' be fOrd. An island-wide program every evening at 7:30 in St. &>egan Monday night with com Jo.hn the Evangelist Church, held Friday evening, Jan. 19 at 7:30' at St. Mary's Church. ".mity gatherings for interfaith Attleboro, however, on Tuesday, _tty services in Edgartown, . Jan. 23 a joint Service of Pniyer Among the clergy to participate Oak Bluffs, Vineyard Haven will constitute the EcumenIcal in the service are: Rev. Nehe Service. miah Boynton III, pastor of the Mld Chilmark. The program is being co South Dartmouth Congregation : Fot· thc next five Monday sponsored . by the Attleboro al Church, who will preach at WlTenings discussion meetings :will be held .for small groups Area Council of Churches and the service; the Rev. John N. McLaughlin, rector of St. lift each of the four towns, using the Roman Catholic parishes in the area. Peter's Episcopal Church; and iii text the well-known "Living Turn to Page Eighteen Turn to Page Eighteen Turn to Page Eighteen
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Is Knight Of Malta . George M; O'Hara Sr. 783 lou t h Dartmouth Street, .uth Dartmouth and Pres ident of George M. O'Hara Chevrolct of New Bedford was &.wested MOnday liS a Magistral Knight of the ~overeign Mili I8l'y Order of Malta in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Yhc investiture was per limned by Archbishop John J. Maguirc, K.M., Administrator If the AI'chdiocese of New York Turn to Page Eighteen
Cape Cod
South Dartmouth
The Commission for Chris An Interfaith Unity Prayel" tian Unity oil the Cape Cod Serv.ice will be held. at 7 :30 Area has planned services' Sund-ay night in St. Mary's for members of all faiths at . Church, Taunton, sponsored a liturgical service scheduled' for 7:30 Sunday evening, Jan. 21 in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, East Dennis. Rev. Joseph A. Nolin, M.S., pastor of Our Lady of the Cape Church, Brewster, and area di rector for the Diocesan Commis sion for Christian Unity will de liver the sermon. Rev. Peter Marshall, minister of the East Dennis Church, will serve as host clergyman.
Bishop .ClQ)nrtlolly to Address Protestant Groups In Their Somerset and Newport Churches . Bishop Comlolly, contin uing his leadership in ecu menical activities, will speak on Ecumenism in connection with the Week of Prayer for' Christian Unity in two Protes'". tant churches. On Sunday, Jan. 21, the Fall River Ordinary will give the sermon at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Newport, RI. and on ThullSday, Jan. 25, he will preach at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, Somerset. . . Also taking part in ecumeni cal activities will be Bishop
Anson Phelps Stokes, Episcopal -Bishop of Massachusetts, who will speak at an ecumenical service at Our Lady of Fatima ehurch, Swansea. :. . . The observance of Christian Unity Week has always been a highlight of January religious activity in the Diocese of Fall River. However, with the lead ership of Bishop Connolly and the spirit of Vatican II, the prayerful observance has taken on real activity in the field of ecumenism. As good often is wrought . from pain or suffering, Chris-
tian Unity in the Diocese took a firm external aspect with the funerals of Pope John XXIII and President Kennedy. Representatives of the' Fall River Ministerial Association and officers of Temple Beth-el were invited by Bishop Con nolly to participate in the rites. Their acceptance of places of honor in the cathedral and fra ternal exchanges with the bish op then permitted the spirit of Vatican II to be a normal part of religious activitiy in the Dio cese as well.
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Taunton
The Catholic press is indispensable to Catholics seeking spiritual matu'rity in today's changing ·.-world says the head· of the Catholic Press Association in a 'statement mark ing February as Cat.holic Press Month. Msgr. Terrence P. McMahon, ex~utive editor of the Hartford Catholic Transcript, emphasizes ~'three consideration~'prove the indispen sability of the Catholic press. in 1968. "Currents . of pessimism "The .Church through .and optimism' are churning out the world is bubbling "The Catholic press does and clashing in the Church. with life and change, and the more than givea' candid 'ac * * . . Both extremes are Church in the United States count of exciting events; it wrong. Calm .confidenc~ is Ja experiencing a crisis all also provides thoughtful in requisite to prevent a 1000 of nerve or a loss of. momen its own • ito • The complete terpretation '" * *0 picture can be found only in tum. This the Catholic press quickens and sustains." the Catholic Press.
by the Greater 'I'aunton Clergy Associatiop, comprised of aU clergymen in the area. Preachers will be Rev. Leo Sullivan of St. Ann's, Raynham, and Rev. Howard Love of Me morial Methodist Church, Taun ton. In announcing the service to Catholic clergy Rev. Edward Oliveira of Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton, appointed by Bishop Connolly .as area co-ordinator for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, stated: "By joining together in prayer with our Christian ~rethren, we are taking a significant step in fulfilling Christ's prayer for unity. This Prayer Service, to gether with the special Prayer of the Faithful to be recited at Masses during .the Octave, caa help us to give real meaning to our sincere desire for oneness in Christ." The service .will include or gan prelude and postlude, choral selections by the Taun ton Civic Chorus, congrega tional singing of hymns, silent meditation and scripture read ings by Robert Ricketson and Francis Guay. . The introduction, antiphon Turn ~ Page Eighteen
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