ALTOR BOYS RECEIVE ASHES: Rev. Americo DaS. Martins, assi-stant at Immaculate Conception Church, New &<liord, distributes ashes to the altar boys.
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"REMEMBER MAN": Rev. Donald E. Belanger,' 'administrator of St. Stephen's Church, Dodgeville, recites the century old formula as he gives ashes to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Gousie and their children Lynn, Stephen, David and Mark.
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Procedure for Synod
A,t the first meeting of his Diocesan p.astoral Council-a body of laymen, laywomen and priests organized to advise him-the Most Reverend Bishop announced that he wou1cl. convene a diocesan synod this year, the second such synod since the diocese was formed in. 1904. A synod is a meeting or council held in a diocese to discuss matters relating to Catholic life and worship and
.to pl~omulgate guidelines and the Auxiliary Bishop, a few dioc the Church's directives for this . legislation applying general esan consultors and others, will -Canon Law, and the applica within two weeks to ap tion of this law to a local present Church principles to specific meet point various working commis situation, all couched in the :
diocesan' needs and situations. On a smaller scale, it is analo gous to Vatican Council II which was held to discuss the ChUl'ch thl'Oughout the world. . The Gerieral Synodal Commis sion, comp!ised Qf the Bishop,
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Archbishop Cody of Chicago 'Orders ~ew~rO'Head jDiocesan Newspaper in Every HOQle' F~.r· Cape: Cod
. , '. " . '. BIshop Connolly announced CHICAGO (NC)-The New World, Chicago archdiocesan. ·today the appointment of Jllewspaper, now has a circulatioll of 404,000, largest of any Rev. Philip A. Davignon, 'as diocesan publication in the countr~' and more than double gistant at St. Pius X Church, ~ circulation it· had a veal' ago. So, Yarmouth, as Cape Cod Area Msgr. John M. Keli.v, editor, said the circulation rise Dkect?r?f the Catholic Yl;lUth ti b d th roug h th e .."0' OrgamzatIon. . seen ach'leve. omp1- e t e .'C' overage PI" an He replaces Rev. Thomas J. maugurated by ChIcago's At'chblshop John·P.·Cody. Harrington,former assistant at The individual parish is the key. The archdiocesan St .. Francis Xavier, Hyannis, and ]l)ai)er will go into every Catholic hQJlle of the 'Chkago ·See. Turn to Page Three The Anchor today opens its, 11th annual subscription drive, hoping to achieve the accomplishment of the Chi ©ago Archdiocese, the 55th in the country to send its offi . ~n-al newsp~per into every home.
New Lectionary Available For FfJfFOal Days of Year
fme chief seasonal celebrations -Advent, Christmas, Epiphany. lEaster and Pentecost. The festive qcle relates instead to the cele IItratlons of the feast of Mary and flbe saints. The Epistles· for. ordinary ~kda¥s . after Epiphany' untH
cycle. Selections for the above-men tioned 34 weeks of the liturgical year are taken alternatively fl'om the Old Testament and the Epistles and the Book of Revela tion (Apocalypse)' of the New Testament in such a way that "in Turn to Page Three
Father Theriault 'Vice-Chairman
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.The annual appeal for the Home Missions will be made in all the Parishes of the Diocese on Sunday.
VATICAN CITY (NC)-A new lectionary (Scriptm'e ll'eading-s) for weekday Masses is now available on an ex perimental basis to the biRhops' conferences that request ~t. The basis of these "ferial" selections, is the temporal cycle and it is "almost com the beginning of Lent and after pletely independent of the Pentecost are arranged consecu festive one." tively in a two-year cycle. The The readings center around rest of the year is on a one-year oil the mysteries of Christ's life
sions which will include not only lailguage of the. Gospel and in priests but laymen and lay':' the context of worship of God women. whose experience and and service to God and to the competence will be called upon. people of God.. In discussing the type and for mat of the synod, the Bishop' presented two' choices to ihe ~as~oral Co'}ncil for considera tion. The synod, he. explained, could be either in the traditional mode following the various divI':' sions' as ·found ,in the Church's. Code Qf Canon Law; or it could Rev. Regiilald Theriault, follow the mode of Vatican O;P.;· of St. Anne's Priory, , Council' II, referring to Canon , Fall River, has been named " Law, of course, but w,ithout re stating in detail' whllt is already 'by Bishop Connolly as Dioc general' Church Law', and couch:' , 'ellan ·vice-'chairman for the Com ing legislation in pa8toral terms mission for 'Christian Unity. Father Theriault was born in and language>: The several law yers on the Pastoral Council Salem on March 10, 1920 and was gi'aduated from St: John's Prep, agreed with the . Bishop that Danvers. After receiving a B.A. Canon Law cannot be down degree from the University of graded or neglected.. Montreal in 1942, he entered the Members of the Council de Order of St. Dominic. cided that the synod should fol Having completed his philo low the pastoral approach even though the synod's purpose, of its sophical and theological studies at the StudiuIl) General of the very _nature, is to promulgate Turn to Page Two legislation. The pastoral ap proach usually involves a presen tation of a problem or situation,
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The many thousands who are "Hungry for God" are patiently waiting for help from the Cath olics throughout the Diocese. Some of their needs are being answered by the number of lay extension volunteers who have given a year of their lives for the no-priest sections of the Southern and Western States of our nation. If you can't go, help someone else to go, by being a helper, pro:' Dloter ·or' sponsor.. · ,
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