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St. John the Baptist Has Complete Family Coverage
Sets Mark for Every Other Parish Throughout Diocese
Fr. John Carroll Proud of Parishion·ers' Interest in -The Anchor A copy of The Anchor will be delivered by mail each week to every' home in St. John the Baptist parish in Central Village again this year. That was the word received to day from Rev. John G. Carroll, ad ministrator of the Westport parish. Father Carroll, a firm believer And advocate of good Catholic read ing, has consistently urged his par ishioners to subscribe to this dioces 'an newspaper, the largest weekly in Southeastern Massachusetts. "We were there last year and we have
hit our mark again this year," said the Westport administrator as he referred to complete family parish coverage. "It is true, as you said last week, that the best way for my people to learn about the imminent liturgy changes is to follow our own diocesan newspaper," Fr. Carroll asserted. "There will be reasons and ex planations for the changes. It will be most difficult, in the time allotted for a Sunday Mass sermon, to go into these changes in depth so that
The ANCHOR Fall 'River~ Meiss." Thursday, "Feb. 13, 1964
yol. 8, No. 7 ©
1964 The -Anchor
PRICE lOe $4.00 per Year
Breviary Changes Aim At Better Prayer Life .
By Rev. John R. FoIster
st. Anthony Church -
New Bedford
As of Sunday, your parish priest (s) will be praying for you in a different way. The Church does not think you can get along on less prayer in this modern age. Rather, she hopes that the priests' prayer will only be more fruitful since it will be more mean longer fulfilling its role in the ingful and adapted.. Pope prayer-life of the Church. Paul decided this in his re "The present-day office is a marvelous compilation of read ient letter, saying: "Although the Divine Office has not yet been revised and renewed * * * we nevertheless &,rant immediately the fol Jowin!:' permission flo all who are oblil:-ed to recite the Divine Office. From Feb. 16, m recitation of the Office outside of choir, they may emit the hour of prime and choose from amon~ the three other Little Hours one that best suits the time of day, always without prejudice to the dispositions of Articles 95 and 96 of the Constitution." (Article 95 refers to those who must recite office in eommon (as community); Article 96 . refers to the obligation on those in major orders or those solemnly professed of prayioc tbe divine office daily.)
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The Rev. Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., a leading American litur gical scholar and official expert of the Ecumenical Council, des cribed some of the thorough re form d·ue for the breviary in a recent article for the NCWC News Service. The Benedictine scholar points out that the Bishops in council were convinced that in mQny respects the brevia17 walJAO
ings, especially from the Bible, psalms, hymns, and prayers but its form and· arrangement are complicated, repetitious, and formalistic," stated Fr Frederick McManus, another liturgist. This "Office" each priest prays daily for the Church in general, and as a delegate of the Church, in union· with the praises Christ Turn to Page Six
everyone will understand them. This is the job of The Anchor. And, I know The Anchor will diligently try to do a good job in this respect." "It has been said that the dioce san newspaper is the right arm of the parish pulpit," Fr. Carroll com mented. "This is a good illustration of the point." St. John the Baptist parish set the goal for every other parish in the diocese last year. It will be out front again this year. Meeting the parish quota has
never been a problem for Fr. Car roll's Westport parish. St. John the Baptist accomplished that objective years ago. St. 'John the Baptist has also proved that complete family coverage is also an attainable goal. There are a number of other parishes, scattered throughout the diocese,which also have their sights set on complete family coverage and we hope·to be able to announce their names next week. Many parishes, we know,' have already exceeded their relatively small quotas.
Lenten Forums Begin Sunday In Fall River The Sixth Annual Lenten Forums for Young Adults in the Greater Fall River Area will begin this Sunday eve ning at 7 in the Catholic Com munity Center on Franklin Street. Sponsored by the Greater Fall River CYO, the Forums will consist of a series of five talks on the five Sunday eve nings of Lent and will feature Rev. Joseph L. Lennon, O.P., Dean of Providence College and a noted television and radio speaker. Father Lennon's talks will be followed by a question and answer period every Sunday evening. His topics have been chosen with special attention given to the concerns of young adults and are geared to the in terests of high school sopho mores, juniors and seniors and college freshmen. In past years, audiences at the Forums have numbered over 600 on a single night. Brian Carey, a Providence College freshman and Area CYO Presi dent, and Robert Farias, a Dur fee High School senior, will Turn to Page Seventeen
Assignments The Vicar General of the Dio cese, Most Rev. James Gerrard, D.D., approved today the nomi nation of Rev. Henry Kozikow ski, O.F.M. Conv., to replace Rev. Michael Peszko, O.F.M. Conv., an assistant at St.. Hedwig's Church, New Be<jford. Father Peszko has been trans ferred t~ the Archdiocese of Detroit. The assignment is effective at
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LENTEN DEVOTIONS: Stations of the Cross being conducted in Mt. Carmel Church, Seekonk, by Rev. John Murphy, administrator, and altar boys, Thomas McAloon, James Blythe and John Ferreira, will be multiplied more than a hundred times in the Diocese during Lent.
Modifyil19 Attitude Rises On Government Support For Church Schools COLUMBUS (NC) - A national Protestant and Ortho dox study conference on Church and State in this Ohio city has gone on record in support of tax aid to "speCific health and welfare progras" in parochial schools. However, the conference also held that public funds should not be used for "Qverall support" of church-related schools. One
School Aid Crisis Demands Answer
NEW YORK (NC) ' - The· U.S. educational crisis "de mands a solution soon" to questions about Federal aid for e due a t ion in parochial schools, the nationally televised CBS Reports program has said. In concluding a special program on the controversial issue and on the working of Catholk: schools, narrator Harry Reasoner said: "CBS Reports does not ad vocate Federal aid to public or parochial schools as the solution, but we do say that the issue can not be resolved while it lies buried ia silence and cloaked ill fear. .. "We can no ronger afford flo &'Void. the problem' bOOatlH we
are timid a'bout the handful of bigots who may cloud the de bate. Uitimately, it is the consti_ tutional question whic~ must be decided * * *
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Assist World Needy NEW YORK (NC)-Pope Paul VI urged the nation's 5,500,000 students in Catholic schools "to make, in the spirit of Lent, your little sacrifices to bring aid and comfort to those in distress" throughout the world. The exhortation came in the traditional Ash cast by the nation's major radio Wednesday message inaug networks. urating the school children's Pope Paul reminded the phase of the 18th annual U.S. American Catholic elementary Bishops' Relief Fund Appeat The Pope'. message ·wa.broad-
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of the Catholic observers at the conference, Rev. Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Dean of the Bostoll College Law School, praised the atmosphere of receptivity and openness on the part of the dele gates. Father Drinan states that more than a few Protestants seem to be searching for a way to re treat gracefully to the position that tax support may be granted for the teaching of secular sub jects in a church-related school. The conference participant. recommended shared-time pro~ grams - under which student. spend part of their time in pub lic schools and part in church relatedschoo19 - as the "most TIH'Il w' Pale Fourteen .
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