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The Anchor's most active supporters as Catholic Press Month opens are 50 young bundles of energy belonging to Our Lady of Angels ~ish, Fall River. They're charter membel'1'l of Our Lady of ~ngels News Corps, organized in December by Rev. Anthony Gomes, administrator. Nine ,~ars old and up, they surge into Father Gomes' RCtory every Thursday afternoon to pick up ~undles of Anchors, pack them into neat aqua-, c:olored shoulder bags and make their rounds of Parishioners. , "One lady told me she could read only Portuguese," recounted an enthusiastic newsboy, "but • saw the daily paper in her house and I told her ftf 'she could read that, she could read The :Anchor." Faced with such logic, the lady agreed ad is now a steady customer. Top salesman is 13 year old John Cabral. Not only are the children's paper bags stendled with "Anchor" and "Our Lady of Angels Church" but each sports a distinctive blue and white armband with the same legend. Altogethei', you can't miss the News Corps as it bursts forth from the rectory after papers bave been picked up. . The children pick up theilf' bundles of The ~chor after school on Thursdays, explained Father Gomes. Saturday is report day, when they give Father sales figures for the week. ;Parishioners like the arrangement, opined
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to ,pay for the paper by the week: than by the year." The children like it, too. For one thing, girls are eligible for the corps, just like their brothers, they enjoy a little extra pocket money. And what has Father Gomes actually accomplished by his drive to further the reading c4 Catholic informatioo. through his promotion ot The Anchor? Father Gomes today is selling more papera every week than any other parish in the entire diocese. That record speaks for itself. Sales are in excess' of 700 every week in the Fall River South End parish. Our Lady of Angels parish circulation was approximately 40 before the energetic Father Gomes decided to prove what he has long claimed-if people are properly aequainted with the multiple purposes of ThCl Anchor they will become avid readers of the diocesan newspaper. "I am impressed by the fact that parishioners who become subscribers look for each week's edition with increasing interest," says Father Gomes. "The reason is simple: The Anchor ~ positively one of the finest diocesan newspapem in the country.'" February is Catholie Press Month. It is the annual date, for· renewal of subscriptioM throughout the diocese; . ,Fathex: Gomes has:given every parish in tM
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Bishop Directs Diocesan-Wide Prayer to Holy Spirit For Guidance on Forthcoming General Council
The ANCHOR Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Feb. 1, 1962
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Methodist Says "More Friendly Spirit Now ST. PAUL (NC) - A trotestant theologian characterized developing CathoIic~Protestant relations ~
l18ying: "We are now in a posiCion where we can talk." The summary was offered br Dr. Franz Hildebrandt, professor of historical theology at Drew 'l'heological Seminary, Madison, N. J., in a statement to the Catholic Bulletin, newspaper of tho St. Paul archdiocese and the New Vlm diocese. Dr. Hildebrandt, summarizing the Methodist section of tho Minnesota Pastors' Conference here, said, however; that Cath:' olic-Protestant differences on the Mass present an "insuperablo barrier" to unity. "'The doctrines of the Mass and those of Protestant communion are mutually eXclusive," he said. The Methodist theologian said efforts toward unity among Catholics and Protestants have been most successful in Bible !Studies and liturgy. He said His Holiness Pope John XXIII's lliatements on social issues and peace also contribute to closer -.lations..
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The Most Reverend Bishop, in a letter to an priests of the Diocese, has directed that a special prayer to, the Holy Spirit be said at the end of the English prayers after Masa for the success of the forthcoming Ecumenical Couneil of the Church. The prayer is No. ,,66 in the Raccolta, the official compilation of indulgenced Church prayers. All studentlil a. ,tl\e two ,colleges, 12 high the third session of the Central ask the priesta to recite for the ,'s c h 0 0 I s, 59 elementary Preparatory Commission for the Council "the Divine Office, the schools and three' special Council He said that be would marvelous poem in which one intertwines the Psalms and Sa.schools in the Diocese are cred Scriptures, to praise the en<;ouraged to say this prayer at . th~ beginning of each school day. Spirit' Prayer Lord continually, and which !Ii
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All other classes of religious instruction, Confrate'rnity and discussion club activities should begin their sessions with the prayer. The clergy and religious recitiI:lg the Breviary-the o#icial prayer book of the Church also called the Divine Office - are reminded that the Holy Father within the week has announced that he would issue it document calling on the world's priests to recite the Office for the succeS!l of the coming Council. The' Pope revealed thia in a 'speech at the final meeting of
Three Assistants Transfer 0 f assistant priests from Taunton, Attleboro and Fall River parishes are announced to<lay'by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese. Effective yesterday, the transfel'll are u follows: Rev. Martia L. Buo_ from
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New A$signments
Immaculate Conception, Taunton, to Immaculate Conceptioa, North Easton. .... ' Rev. Bernard Lavolefi'om st. Joseph's, Attleboro 'to NotR Dame, FaU River. Rev; Roger P. Poirier from Notre Dame, Fall R,iver to St. Joseph's, Attleboro. Father Buote h88 been a8Bist-
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and the edification of the entire Church." He will ask priests to offer other prayers in union wiUl the Pope for divine blessings OD the work of the Council. " At the same time the Holy Father- also stated that he would release a document urging increased use of Latin in seminaries. The veneration of Lath. "must be especially preserved and promoted by the Church's ministers, taking into account, naturally, the diverse requirement. of customs and Rites in other. lan~ages."
Says Catholicism Fulfills Hidden .Hope of Jews
ant' at the Taunton parish since ordination by Bishop Connolly on 9,1960. Son of Mr. and ,Mrs. John,A. Buote, Somerset, he . WASHINGTON, (NC)-A: was graduated from· Somerl!et' priest here' lauded' the riea High School and studied at Mas- heritage of the Jewish pe0sachusetts Institute of Technolple and 'said that a Jews ogy before beginning his studies for the priesthood at St. Philip "hidden hope attains fulfillment'" when he becomes a member of Tum to Pa~ Twelve the Catholic Church. Father Barnabas Ahern, C.P... in a Unity Octave sermon at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, said in referring to the Jewish people: ''No people has ever had so rich a heritagef No people has ever had so trea mendous a destiny!" Father Ahern, editor of tho Scripture section of Worship magazine, also said that the Jewish people "are full of sympathy for the downtrodden and the man in need." "Have they not given their best to 'help our American Negro?" he asked. "They are pledged to progress in education and the arts; they are self-dedi~ cated to advance what is best in human life. Today after so many cerituries of wandering alone over the face of the earth. hounded and persecuted, the good Jew still bears the fruit of Tum to Page NineteeD I'ATHER BUOTB
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