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The second annual Anchor subscription campaign will be launched Sunday in all parishes of the diocese.
Every family will be asked to join "the many for whom our diocesan paper is a must." February is traditionally set aside as Catholic Press Month throlJghout the country. During this month an intensive effort will be made to enlist every Catholic family in the diocese as • subscriber to The Anchor. Present subscribers are sched .led to receive a special sub IIICription envelope through the mail during the week. If the envelope is delayed in the mails, IlUch subscribers may use a plain envelope and insert the word Renewal at the top. New subscribers may obtain envelopes in their parish church. All are asked to return their envelopes to their own parishes. Those. outside the diocese are asked to send their subscription ~ The Anchor, 410 Highland Ave., P.O. Box 7, Fall River, Mass. " The importance of the Cath olic Press in the apostolate of the Living Church in our times has grown to great stature. Despite the radio, television and other modern means of com munication, the power of the written word has not diminished but it is constantly increasing. The Anchor was established by Bishop Connolly as a means to help all Catholics of the diocese to gain a broader out look on Catholic life throughout the world and a knowledge of the activities in the diocese..
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Lourdes Living Testimony Of Our Lady's Intercession. By Edward J. Mitchell It happened' at Mass. The pretty little girl who had
been blind since birth ~as kneeling beside our· innkeeper. She had come to Lourdes several· days ago, hoping for a ~ure. How cold the miraculous water felt this morning when she splashed it on her sightThe innkeeper paused in his less eyes. They were such account of the miracle and blew
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a cloud of gray' smoke into the pretty eyes. air of the dimly-lit lobby. He Now, somewhere in front shifted his pipe to the other side of her a thin bell tinkled that of his mouth and continued. "I it was time for the Consecration took her to the doctors at the of the Mass. Suddenly the plump hospital," he said, "and after French innkeeper felt a violent examining her, they confessed shiver, heard a muffled cry. that· this sudden cure had no "What is wrong, 'my little .one? . natural explanation. It was a Are you not well?" The girl's miracle." brown eyes looked into his own. Anniversary Feb. 11 There were tears in them now. This story was told to three "Monsieur, I can see. The VirAmerican seminarians on an gin has granted me a cure." August evening in 1956. It is now a year and a half later, February, 1958: On the eleventh of this month the world will commemorate a Lourdes redTurn to Page Twenty ,
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Plan Holy Hour Tuesday Night In Taunton
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NEWL Y ORDAINED PRIESTS: The Most Reverend Bishop is shown with the tlll;ee priests whom he ordained on February 1.. Left to right, Rev. Vincent F. Diaferio, Bishop Connolly, Rev. Clement E. Dufour, Rev. Norman A. Methe. Fathers Diaferio and Dufour will serve in this Diocese, Father Methe in Bridgeport.
Members of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women in the Greater Taunton area will participate in a Holy Hour at' "St. Joseph's Church, Taunton, at 7:30 next Tuesday night. This date has been chosen be cause it marks the lOoth anni versary of the first apparition of Our Lady to St. BernaCiette at Lourdes on Feb. 11, 1858. Rev. Thomas F. Walsh, pastor of St. Louis Church, Fall River, and Diocesan Director of the DCCW, will preach at the Holy Hour. Notification of this Lourdes Centenary 6bser~ance has been sent to all the affiliates of the DCCW in Taunton, Dighton and North Easton. Fur.ther information may be obtained by contacting Mrs. Mary Bernardino, Taunton Dis trict president, 193 School St., or Rev. Joseph L. Powers, Taun ton District director, 19 Kilmer Ave., Taunton.
WASHINGTON (NC)-Census Bureau figures indicate that about 43,635,000 Americans regard themselves as Catholics-about 9.~: million more than listed by the 1957 Official Catholic Directory. The P. J. Kenedy and Sons The bureau estimated here publishing company, New York that about 30,669,000 Ameri City, which publishes the Of cans over the age of 14 call ficial Catholic Directory, gave themselves Catholics. 34,386,350 as its estimated U. S. The figure of 43 million is based on calculations that give an estimate of the number of Catholics under 14 years of age who are usually counted as Church members, though 'the census survey excluded them. Recent census statisHcs on the percentage of the entire popula tion under 14 were applted to the Catholic population to pro duce the estimate.
Lenten T'.alks on Marriage In Fall River, New Bedford A Lenten Forum for young adults on the subject "Let's Talk About Marriage" will be held at the, Catholic' Com munity Center, Franklin Street, Fall River, and the Kennedy Community Center, New Bedford. The Forum will be held for Church Looks at Marriage juniors and seniors of high . Rev. Reginald M. Barrette. schools in the communities, Sunday, March 9-What"Does and also for those 16 years the Catholic Doctor See 'in",'Mar riage-Dr. Francis J. D'Errico. of age and older who may not . Sunday, March 16-Wh~t Is be attending high school. \ The Forum is sponso'red by This Thing Called Love:....:..:Rev. Anthony M. Gomes. the C.Y.O. in Fall River, and in Sunday, March 23-What to New Bedford by the Youth Look for in a Mate-Rev: Ray COmmittee of the Kennedy Cen mond W. McCarthy. ter. The five talks, held on five The Lenten Forum IS being Sundays of Lent beginning Feb. given by the Family Life Bureau 23, will be informal, and a ques of the Diocese. Letters will be tion and answer period will fol sent to pastors of the two areas low each talk. and also to principals of the The list of topics and speakers various high schools of the area. in Fall River is as follows: The Forums are open to those Sunday, Feb. 23-ls Ma.rriage attending public and private for You-Rev. John :P. Driscoll. high schools and to those of Sunday, March 2 -- How the eligible age who are working.
265 Attc~nd First Session Of Conflraternity Course "Would you please direct us to St. Joseph's School 1" was a question al}swered repeatedly by residents of Taun ton last Satl!.rday afternoon as they walked toward the "Green" from Oakland, Whittenton and the Weir. The almost unanimous conclu Marion to Mansfield, a truly sion to the-directions given representative assembly of the .by the helpful Tauntonians Fall River Diocese converging upon the auditorium of St. to the out-of-towners seek ing the 'West End Parish School was this: "Turn right at the Oak St. Fire Station and' you can't miss it." And so they turned right at the Fire Station; priests from Somerset, New Bedford and Mattapoisett; sisters from Taun ton and Fall River; Catholic laity-men, women, high school young ladies and gentlemen from Fall River to Falmouth, from Sandwich to Seekonk, from
Parish Organizations and Schools Push Dr,;ve
With organizations in e'very parish of the Dioc~se now actively engaged in promoting the campaign for subscriptions to liThe Anchor", there is every indication that, at a not too distant date, our objective to have our Diocesan weekly in every Catholic home will be realized. I
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Renewals, as well as new subscriptions, to "The Anchor" are embraced 'in the current drive which continues throughout the month of February as part'of the national observa,"!ce of Catholic Press Month. It has been extremely gratifying to find that those working in con Rection with this subscription campaign find that in the matter of renewals it is only necessary to remind people t~at .their subscriptions are about to expire. Such' a spirit is indicative of the genuine accept ance of "The Anchor" in the Catholic homes of our Diocese.
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PRESS MONTH AT CENTER: Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Youth Center, New Bedford, Spiritual Committee members decide where to place sign advertising "THE ANCHOR". Left to right are Yvette Gagne, Chair man of the Youth Division, Norman Boulet and Miss Mary E. Foley, .Co-chairman of the Adult DiviBion.
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Joseph's School, Taunton. 'To Restore All Things' Why all this traveling to Taunton on the first day of Feb ruary? The Christmas decora tions on the "Green" were taken down nearly a month ago. It wasn't the season for rides in the country with the family. AI..:. , though the predicted snow did not fall' on the Taunton area, the Turn to Page Three
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