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Name New H~ads for Two Parishes
Fr. ALFRED GENDREAU
Promotion of an administrator to pastor and the appOintment of a curate to administrator were announced today by the Most Reverend Bishop. The two new assignments have been occasioned by a vacancy created with the death last month of Rev. Eugene L. Dion, pastor of the Blessed Sacrament Church in Fall River. . Alfred been Fr d' d J une 15·, . • . Rev. . . d J.. Gendreau, . t t ' twho S has p ' ' . Gen dreau was - orame servmg .as .a mmlS ra <)r a, t. ,eter s 1935, in St. Mary's Cathedral by the late Church 1~ DIghton, has b~en named pastor Most Re J E C 'd th'rd B'1 h ' P of Blessed Sacrament parish in Fall River, 'of F· ·11 vR·· ameFs " SasS-It· AY'be 1 193 5S °to . d' th I t F D' . a Iver. roJ'!l ep t::m r,· " succee . mg e a;e r. IOn. Ju ne, 1· 1954, F ath er Gen dreau t aught'm Rev. William H. O'Reilly, curate at St. seminaries 1n Baltimore, Seattle and Plym-' Joseph's Church in Taunton, will succeed outh, Mich. From June, 1943, to April, 1946, , Father Gendreau as adrt:linistrator at St. the new Fall River parish 'head served as Peter's parish in Dighton. an Army chaplain and spent six months in The two assignments are effective' combat with the artillery .forces in the Tuesday, Feb. 21. European theater of operations. Fr. Gendreau, a native of Fall River, ,Fr. Gendreau was appointed an assistant is the son of Mrs. Marguerite (Cote) Genat St. Mary's Cathedral on June 15, 1954. dreau and the late Napoleon A. Gendreau.' He served in that position until 1958 when The new Fall River pastor, was born on he took up his duties as administrator of Jan. 9, 1911. St. Peter's in Dighton; He attended St., Anne's parish school, He received his degree of Dactor of in' Fall River, Montreal College in Canada~ Theology from St. Mary's, Semjnary arid Turn to Page Eighteen and St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore.
Fr. WILLIAM O'REILLY
TQunton School Drive
Holy Rosary Parish Exceeds Campaign Quota by 25 %
The ANCHOR
Holy Rosary Parish, Taunton, accomplis hed another first, in the Taunton Catholie Memorial High School for Girls campaign when it oversubscribed its quota by 25 per cent. Assessed for $40,000 at the inauguration of the 13 parish drive, Father Callistus Sczpara, O.F.M., the pa~tor, announced at the last meeting that the total enabled Holy Rosary to, lead all parishes in the ' , "over-the-top" group. Fol. lowing Holy Rosary in oversubscriptions were: Im-
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Bishop Connolly Officiates At Fr. Sullivan Requiem
1'he Most Reverend ,Bishop celebrated a Pontifical Requiem Mass in St. Mary's Cathedral on Tuesday morning for the late Rev. John J. Sullivan who died on Saturday at the Bishop Cassidy Chronic Wing of the Catholic Memorial Home iil Fall River after a And every priest must do as long illness. The eulogy was Christ did-a descent, an inc;ar~ preached by Rev. Edward J. nation, a renunciation and burial. Father Sullivan had a' special Mitchell, assistant at Sacred Reart Church, Taunton, and like Father Sullivan, a graduate of the North American College ill llome. Father Mitchell pointed out Ilow every priest must radiate Christ whose other self he is.
Fall River eyO Again Presents Lenten Talks Once again the Fall River ~rea C.Y.O., in conjunction With the Family Life Bureau Of the Diocese, will present,
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Youth Forum with talks on Ute Sunday, evenings of Lent. Scene of the sessions is the Catholic Community Center on Franklin Street, Fall River; each talk will begin promptly at 'I' P.M.; and the Forum is open to roung adults, especially those in ~e 16 to 19 year~ of age bracket. General ChaIrman of the Forum is Douglas Mello of Holy Name Parish, and Vice Chairman is Barry Machado of the .athedral Parish. . Speaker this Sunday evening Is Rev. John P. Driscoll of SS. Peter and Paul Parish, Fall River. Conductor of this session Q will be John Sullivan of Holy tfame Parish. Each talk will be Iollowed by a question and anewer period and the evening's program will last approximately ....0 hours. ' Topic of Sunday's Forum talk '&JioII be "You-What 'Are You end What To Do About It." Subsequent talks will be giveD. 'rurn to Page Twelve
devotion to Our Lady of. Humility and this quality was evidenced in each of 'his assignments. In each he was known as a quiet, un-showy man who was Turn to Page Twelve
maculate Conception, 16%, Rev. Thomas H. Taylor, pastor; St. Paul, 10%, Rev. John J.Griffin, pastor; st. Joseph, No. Dighton, 4%, Rev. Francis A. McCarthy, pastor; and Our Lady of Lourdes, Taunton, 2%, Rev. E. S. deMello, pastor. The f I'n aI meetI'ng of th e ca m paign in the parish phase will be held tonight at the CYO Hall on High Street and Rev. James F. Lyons, priest-director, is manifesting complete confidence that the minimJlm goal of $1,125,000, set at the opening of the drive, will be reached. Turn to Page' Twelve
Pope Asks· Ch.-Idren S'acr.- f .-ce f or Needy
NEW YORK (NC)-His Holiness Pope John XXIII has appealed by radio to American Catholic school children to sacrifice for the Catholic Bishops' Relief Fund. "We ask you to remember that those boys and girls who are suffer-. ing in other countries are each "vear on Ash just boys and girls like you campaign Wednesday. More than one miland your classmates. "Make lion dollars were given last year., them alive and close to yOUi' ' The campaign for adults gen-
'hearts, think of them with love erally is held between March S and wish for them all the bless- and,12 with a special collection ings and comforts that God has in most churches on Laetare given you," the,Pope said.' Sunday, March 12. The goal Is The message was Pope John's $5 million. third annual Ash Wednesday apThe Pope's message was read peal to children to support the at the Pope's request by Arch-_ •• - - _. _. - _. - _. - - - drive for funds for Catholic Re- bishop Karl J. Alter of Cin_ lief ServiceS-National Catholic cinnati, chairman of the admin;' Dispensation Welfare Conference. istrative board of the National His remarks .we-'re broadca'st by Catholic Welfare Conference, The Mos~ Reverend BiShop the NBC, CBS, ABC and Mutual Washington: has granted a dispensation radio networks during a 'ten- ", Pope John pointed out th~ from the Lenten laws of fast minute program. " last year 11 million of the 40 and abstinence next 'Wednesday, Washington's Birthday. GRS-NCWC, the overseas ll'0- million persons in 64 countries Feb. 22. lief agency supported by U.S. who were assisted by CRS. ••••• .: ••• _ • _'. ... .: • _ • _. _ _ Catholics,' begins its students' Turn to Page Eighteen
MQre Pastors Reac"", Quotas to The'"Anchor: ~ And' ~ake 'Paper, Instruction Aid . A n~w high ~or weekly hom~"delivered subscriptions to The Anch<lr is in prospect notwithstanding the fact that the initial parish returns are not due for another 'week. Five more parishes have, already announced that their quota~ are already met aljd a substantial increase is expected. Rev. Joseph S. Larue, Pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, No: ,Attle.boro,. is oversub- Sacred Heart Parish and Immac- 1957, the first year of ',The scrlbmg hIS pansh quo4l fpr, ulate Conoeption Parish, both in Anchor, was the initial Parish in the third successive year. Fall River. When Rev; Felix S. the', Diocese under the ,late Rt. Father Larue told the Circu_ Childs, pastor of the Sacred Rev. J. Joseph Sullivan to meet lation 'Department that Rev Edmond L. Dickinson, the parish assistant, 'isconducting a contest among the school children in an all-out effort to f1.ave The Anchor delivered to e~ery home in the No. Attleboro Parish., The necessity for every family in the Diocese to read The Anchor every week is especially manifested by the pastors of
Heart Church, Fall River, was. past?r ~f the Imma~ulate Con~epbon In the same CIty, the parIsh. quota was met.. When Rev. . Edward F. Dowhng, Father : Chi~ds' successor in the East End . ParIsh, was pastor of Our, Lady : of t~e .Isle, Nantucket, .the island 'parishIoners met theIr assessment. The Sacred Heart Parish in
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Rev. Bernard F. Sullivan, assistant 'at St. Mary'~ Church, Norton, and direc-· tor, of the Attleboro Area
C.Y.o." has announced that the parish C.Y.O. in conjunction with the Area group will sponsor a You~h Forum to be held the quota and the parishioners at St. John's School AUditorium, Attleboro, ,every Sunday evening ~enewed their, su?scriptions duro!. Lent at 7 o'clock. mg each succeedmg year. '1'he Forum is open to aD. According to correspondet:tce, from Rev. Lester L. Hull, pas~or , young adults of ,high 'school age, of MOl.lnt Carmel, Seekonk, the and each talk will be directed parish quota will' be met: Rev. specifically to them, and will'be by a question and an.James E. O'Reilly, former pastor, :followed swer period. . also met the quota while serving The opening talk, t1tis CODling the Catholics of Seekonk: Sunday evening, will be ~ivell ' , Turn to, Page Twelve bY' Rev. Robert Kaszynski,assistant at St. Patrick's Church, Fall River. Father KaszY!lski will speak on "Youth Under God's'Law." ' Speakers, OD the remaining Sundays of Lent ,will be !ionorable Edward A. Lee of Attleboro, Rev. John P. Drlsr.oll of Fall River, Carlin LYlcn, Athletic Director of Bishop Stang High Sclwol, Sgt. Raymond McGuire of the MassachusettlJ , State Police, and Rev. George E. Sullivan of Seekonk.
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