The
ANCHOR
fall River, Mass., Thursday, Feb. 17, 1966 Vol. 10, No.7
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1966 The Anchor
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Aim For Total Co"erage
The early subscription returns for the individual parishes this year are a little slower than usual coming in to The An chor circulation department a,s it becomes apparent that more parishes are seeking to achieve complete family coverage.
We know of a number of parishes that have surpassed their respective quotas but the pastors are making every effort to increase the number of weekly readers so as to attain the goal set by the Most R~verend Bishop. Four parishes have reached the goal. "The Anchor is the best adult education
pI'Ogram we have to offer in the diocese," said one of the successful pa~tors. "1 am certain it will not be long before all gain the mark we have attained," he opined.
It was considered ·an achievement by some when the individual parishs met their quotas in the early days of this d!ocesa,n· newspaper. That has not been so for many years. . . Parish after parish, among the 110 in the diocese, long ago passed' the quota mark. It is this ambitious group which now aims for total family coverage.
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Fast Days Now 2; ·Abstinence Age 14 WASHINGTON (NC)-P.ope pour VI has . issued new reg ulations on fast and abstinence by making them apply only ~ on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. But thetraditiorial ,low requiring' abstinence' from meat remains in effect for all Fridays of the year. . " The Pope however freed children under' 14, from the ob. figationto abstain. Heretofore the' abstinenGe law has been i:n., 0ffect -from the age of seven on. .The age bracke~ for the law
of fasting
remains the some-beginning at 21 and ending with
the beginning of· the 60th year.
The revisions, which become effective on Ash Wednesd~y, Feb. 23, were set down. by the Pope .in 'an apostolic constitution' entitled Poenitemini~ ·whkh..was .pubrjsh~d in Rome today. It .provides that those 14· years of age and over· must abstain from· meat oli, Ash Wednesday and all Fridays of the year. .Those 21 to 59 mu$t fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Bishop Appoints Fr. McDermott Somerset Pastor Fr. Galvin Successor in Swansea
Fr.
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Named Home
Chap~ain
Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River,
today announced the transfer of a pastor, the appoint
ment of a new administrator and the selection of a new
chaplain for the diocese's largest home for the aged.
They are: Rev. James F. Rev. Anthony Rocha, Fall
McDermott, pastor of Our River, as chaplain at the Cath
Lady of Fatima, Swansea, olic Memorial Home, Fall River,.
as pastor of St. Patrick's and part' time chaplain at the Earl Hussey Hospital, Fall Riv Church, Somerset. Very Rev. William A. Galvin, er, where he will serve on Sun M.A., J.C.D., chaplain at the days, Holydays and First Fri Catholic Memorial Home, Fall days. The appointments have been River, as administrator of OUt· Lady of Fatima Church, Swan necessitated by the death of Turn to Page Twenty
.sea.
Praises Zeal and Humility
Of Fr. Edward L. OIBrien
Rev. Edward L. O'Brien, late pastor of St. Mary's
Church, Mansfield, was eulogized by Rev. Walter J. Buckley, pastor of St. Kilian's Church, New Bedford, as a priest dedicated to loyalty, gratitude, appreciation, unselfishness and humilitv. He will ever be
known as the priest of zeal.
Father Buckley stated,
"Wherever Father O'Brien served, his interest in everyone was reciprocated and he was beloved by all - Catholic and non-Catholic alike co co ¢ Service was his distinction, whether as a curate or as chaplain at St. Mary's Home. New Bedford, the Bristol County Hquse of Correc tion or as director of the Cath olic Welfare of New Bedford and Cathedral Camp, East Freetowil. Varied were his positions but constant was his devotion." "Special attention for the sick and the elderly, assistance for
,, the poor and needy, personal in terest in the worries and prob lems of everyone - these and .. _-1 many more occupied his waking FATHER O'BRIEN TUfll to Page Ten
FATHER GALVIN
FATHER McDERMOTT
FATHER ROCHA'
Announce Jubilee Program for Lent 'I.'he·Most Reverend Bishop will adopt the Papal cus, tom of 'making the stations (visiting the chief churches of his diocese) during Lent. The events will be the Diocese's observance of the Jubilee commemorating the completion of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. . To provide' everyone in the Diocese with the opportunity' to gain the Extraordinary Jubi- . lee Indulgences ,the Bishop shall: go to the' people since many: would find it inconvenient· to _ travel to the Cathedral in Fall, River According to Pope Paul's plan, 'it is the Cathedral of the = Diocese which is the center of jubilee celebration. On five successive Sundays, beginning with the First Sunday' of Lent, Feb. 27, there will be a· Pontifical Mass offerred at o'clock in the afternoon at esignated churches and a priest OK
the Diocese will deliver a ser mon on the significance of the Council. The schedule of the "Stations" is as follows: The First Sunday of Lent, Feb. 27, St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford: Bishop Connolly will celebrate the Mass and Rev. John R. FoIster, St. Anthony, New Bedford will preach. The Second Sunday of Lent, March 6, St. Mary's Church, Taunton: Bishop Gerrard will offer Mass with Rev. Joseph P. Delaney" Sacred Heart Church, Taunton, preaching. The Third Sunday of Lent, March 13, St. John's Church, Attleboro: Mass will be offered by Bishop Connolly and the ser mon delivered by Rev. Donal
Bowell, St. MaJ:l~''r'C\'tm1!li Norton. ~ T~ ourth Sunday 'of Lent, i\!liirch 20, St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis: Bishop Ger
!'2fdl. will celebrate Mass and
3:
Rev. Francis L. Mahoney, st.
Margaret's Church, Buzzards'
Bay, will deliver the sermon. . The diocesan jubilee celebra
tions will come to a climax as
Bishop Connolly will celebrate
a Pontifical Mass at the Cathe dral, Passion Sunday afternoon with Monsignor Humberto S. Medeiros, Diocesan Chancellor and Pastor of St. Michael's Church, Fall River, as preacher. Throughout these five Sundays and in every parish Oli' chapel where Sunday Muss io / offered with the faithful at tending, a specie:: .8:lrieS ~f ser .", mons will be Given "on he nature of the Chu~'n -:J18 light of the ~&Tf." As tlITJ~couragement in this eriod of Jubilee, the Holy Fa ther has granted a Plenary In dulgence to all those who re ceive the Sacraments of Penance and Holy Eucharist and pray for his intentions: Turn to Page Eleven
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