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Delegate To Preside At Cape Dedication

Making his first official visit c1ude a: parish hall, catechetical years served from St. Joseph's to the Fall River diocese, Arch- facilities and a complete kitchen. parish, Woods Hole. Construe路 The new parish of St. Eliza- tion of the half-miIlion dollar bishop Jean Jadot, the Apostolic Delegate in the United States, abeth Seton will replace the North Falmouth building is behas accepted the invitation of _ present Immaculate Conception ing supervised by Rev. Joseph L. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin to be mission in Megansett, for many Powers, pastor of St. Joseph's. present at the blessing and dedi- ' cation of St. Elizabeth Seton Church, North Falmouth.

Ceremonies for the new Cape Cod church, now under construe路 tic;>n, are scheduled for Sunday, July 17. The air conditioned building wiIl accommodate over 600 worshippers and will inBOSTON (NC) - The Massa- counter-productive to this cruchusetts Catholic Conference, sade."

The conference represents the which includes the Fall River diocese, has opposed restoration four dioceses in the state of the death penalty in the state. Boston, Springfield and Worces"In the past several years," ter as well as Fall River.

ABA Differs Priest directors of the five the conference said in a letter On the other side of the arguareas of the Fall River diocese to the state's Joint Committee have begun preparations for the on the Judiciary, "the major ment, the American Bar Assothirty-sixth annual Catholic thrust of the Church in the ciation (ABA) House of DeleCharities Appeal. Mechanics and world has been to promote res- gates, the group's policy-making procedures were discussed by pect for the sanctity of life as body, has voted 168-69 to defeat Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, dio- a God-given gift a right a resolution asking repeal of cesan director, of the Appeal. which belongs to every human the death penalty.

The resolution was offered by with priest directors of the Fall person, from fetus to the aged.

River, New Bedford, Taunton, "The restoration of capital the ABA's Section on Individual and Responsibilities, Attleboro and Cape Cod and punishment, which, no matter Rights Islands areas. matter how it is inflicted, is a which is regarded as a more The Special Gift Phase will brutal -: some would even des- liberal section of the traditionalbegin Monday, April 18, ending cribe it as barbaric - form of ly conservative organization.

Saturday, April 30. The House- punishment which would be Turn to Page Seven to-House Phase starts Sunday, May 1. Between the hours of noon and 3 p.m. solicitors will call at every home in every par.ish of the diocese. The parish phase will officially end on May 11th.

Turn to Page Seven The Chancery Office has an路 in semantics and liturgy with nounced the transfer of a pas- the Rev. Jean Danielou, S.J. and tor and the assignment of an the Rev. B!llthasar Fischer at the University of Notre Dame. administrator.

Ordained to the priesthood on The Rev. Edward J. Burns, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima May 22, 1954, he has served at Twelve delegates have been Parish, Swansea, will be pastor St. Joseph's, St. Louis' and St. named to accompany Bishop of Immaculate Conception Par- William's parishes in Fall River.

On October 18, 1972, he~was apDaniel A. Cronin to the New ish, Fall River.

The Rev. John P. Cronin, as- pointed administrator of Our England regional convocation of Catholic Bishops, to be held the sistant at St. Joseph's Parish, Turn to Page Seven weekend of March 11 through Taunton, has been named administrator of Our Lady of 13 at Mont Marie, Holyoke.

Portuguese Column The subject of the 5th annual Fatima Parish, Swansea. spring meeting will be religious Father Bums To Begin education of youth. -More than Within the next month The A native of Fall River, the 20 bishops and over 160 clergy, new city Pastor is the son of Anchor will begin a Portuguesereligious and laity from the six the late Edward J. and the late language column combining reNew England states will be on Anna L. (Reilly) Burns. ligious doctrine, parish activities hand for sessions to feature After attending FaIl River and news items of special interBishop Daniel P. Reilly of Nor- public schools, he prepared for est ,to Portuguese Catholics.Anwich, Conn. and Rev. Raymond the priesthood at St. Meinrad's nouncement of the new feature H. Potvin of the Iloys Town Seminary in Indiana and St. was made last Sunday by Rev. Center for the -Study of Youth Peter's College, Western Uni- John F. Moore, editor, at a specDevelopment as keynote speak- versity, London, Canada where ial Channel 6 television Mass ers. he obtained a S.T.L. degree. He marking Anchor Subscription also pursued graduate studies Sunday.

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Bay State Bishops Veto Death Penalty

SEVEN LAST WORDS: Lenten theme at Our Lady of the

Assumption parish, New Bedford, is The Seven Last Words of Jesus. Cross constructed by parishioner Manuel Lopes, left, will be "built" week by week as programs center on each word of Christ. Series coordinator is Sister Marianna Sylvester, RSM, right.

Theme The Seven Last Words of Jesus is the Lenten theme at Our Lady of Assumption Church, New Bedford. A series of six consecutive Wednesday programs began at 7:30 last night in the church with a discussion of "This Day You Shall

Be in Paradise" by Dr. Joseph Ryan, director -of pupil personnel for the Fall River public school system, who related the words of Christ to a mental health theme. A para-liturgy followed his talk, as it will all - Turn to Page Seven

Msgr. Tansey Will Retire From Fall River Parish His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bishop, has accepted the

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resignation of Msgr. Arthur W. Tansey, who will retire from the pastorate of Immaculate Conception parish, Fall River, Tuesday, March 1, 1977. _Since 1961 Dean of the Fall River Deanery and since 1965 pastor of Immaculate Conception, Msgr. Tansey has also served on Cape Cod and 'in Taunton, Attleboro, North DightOn and New 'Bedford. He was for nine years rector of St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

The prelate's diocesan positions have included the chaplaincy of Taunton State Hospital from 1934 to 1941 and service for many years as Director of Social Action. He was named a Domestic Prelate by Pope Paul VI on Jan. 30, 1964.

Born in Fall River on Oct. 12, 1906, Msgr. Tansey is the son of the late James and Margaret Turn to 'Page Seven

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NEW YORK (NC) - Recent declines in Mass attendance among Catholics of Manhattan's East Side stemmed from rejecting of the Church's beliefs rather than its moral teachings, according to a survey by New York archdiocesan officials. The survey showed that those most likely to leave the Church are the young, those who have been divorced, and the highly educated. Previous attempts to' explain the sharp drop-off in Mass attendance and other Catholic religious observances have focused on dissatisfaction with the changes introduced by Vatican Council II and Church teachings on morals.

PHOENIX - A nun who serves in the Arizona House of Representatives has introduced legislation to establish pregnancy support centers for minors. St. Joseph Sister Clare Dunn (D-Tucson) also asked the legislature to request that the U.S. House of Representatives hold hearings on a constitutional amendment to protect human life "at every stage of development."

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A self-described justice-oriented community in this Washington, D.C., suburb has called on the New York province of the Jesuit Fathers to ordain a 36-year-old seminarian who says he was refused ordination because he is a homosexual. The six codirectors of the Quixote Center here have urged Jesuit Father Albert Bartlett "to reconsider the recent decision to bar Mr. Thomas Sweetin from ordination to the priesthood" because Sweetin is an acknowledged homosexual. Sweetin, who has completed the 'order's training requirements for the priesthood, said in an interview with the New York Times in January that Father Bartlett, vice provincial for priestly formation for the Jesuits' New York province, told him last S!!ptember that there was "no way" for him to be ordained. Father Bartlett could not be reached immediately for comment.

Supports Chrome Ban WASHINGTON - U.S. ban on importing Rhodesian chrome would "strengthen the hand of the United States and others who are trying to find a peaceful solution to the Rhodesian problem," Secretary of State Cypus Vance told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's subcommittee on Africa. Vance said the Carter Administration "fully supports" such a ban, which would put pressure on the "illegal, minority government" of Rhodesia to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the black majority there. U.S. Church groups, including the U.S. Catholic Conference, have lobbied for repeal of the Byrd Amendment.

Opposes Deportation SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Griffin Bell has said he is inclined to support laws to "prohibit employers from knowingly hiring illegal aliens." But he said he would not support "massive deportation" of illegal aliens. Bell made these comments in an address before the Mexican-American Legal 'oefense and Education Fund meeting here. It was his first major address since becoming attorney general.

To Study Atheism VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has opened what it calls the West's most important school for the study of atheism with attacks on discrimination against believers in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The new 'Institute for the Study of Atheism is part of the Pontifical Urban University here and will offer degree programs. The institute is being promoted by the Vatican Secretariat for Nonbelievers, the Church body charged with the task of studying atheism and nonbelievers.

Marrying Later WASHINGTON Americans. are marrying late and living together earlier.

That's one conclusion that can be 'drawn from a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, "Marital Status and Living Arrangements." The report covers the period through March, 1976. The report also shows that the divorce rate, the proportion of households headed by women and the proportion of children living with only one parent have increased significantly.

Oppose B-1 Bomber DES MOINES - The social concerns directors of the four Catholic dioceses of Iowa have sent President Jimmy Carter a letter asking him to oppose the development of the B-1 bomber, a controversial

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manned plane. Carter opposed the B-1 Bomber during his election campaign, but has since indicated he has not made a final decision about the ptoject.

Succeeds Bishop Rausch

WASHINGTON - Dominican Father Thomas Kelly, 45, has been named chief administrative officer for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) Bishops May Mediate . and its civil arm, the U.S. Catholic ConWASHINGTON - Two top U. S. ference (USCC). Father Kelley, who has Catholic Conference officials have sent been NCCB associate general secretary a preliminary report on the labor dispute since 1971, succeeds Bishop James involving the J.·P. Stevens company to Rausch, who' will be installed March 25 six Southern bishops, who may offer to as the second bishop of Phoenix, Ariz. act as mediators -between '. the textile Father Kelly will take office on March workers' union and the company. The of18. ficials, Msgr. George Higgins, USCC secretary for research, and Msgr. Francis Lally, secretary of the USCC secretary of Busing Still Needed social development and world peace, WASHINGTON-Metropolitan school made the report after interviewing comdesegregation-desegregation plans that pany officials, union leaders and rankcross city, county and possibly state and-file workers at J.P. Stevens complex lines -are a "must" if students' constitin Roanoke Rapids, N. C., in February. utional rights to' equal opportunity are to be upheld, the U.S. Commission on Fake Sermons Civil Rights has concluded in a major ROME - Bogus copies of Polish report. The report said there is a trend Cardinal Stefan Wysznski's sermons, altoward cities with a heavy concentratered to include pro-Marxist passages, tion of blacks and Hispanics surrounded are circulating in Poland, Church sources by predominantly white suburbs. "In here report. many cities," the report said, "substantial integration of public schools can be Defies 'Suspens'ion accomplished only if the area covered is ECONE, Switzerland - Archbishop larger than the city itself."

Marcel Lefebvre, defying his suspension from exercising priestly functions, has conferred minor orders on 30 students Directors Organize , at his traditionalist seminary here. The NEW ORLEANS - A number of dioarchbishop, who rejects many of the cesan directors of permanent diaconate teachings of the Second Vatican Council programs attending the directors' annual and changes in Church discipline since meeting here have formed the Associathe council, was suspended from all exer· tion of Permanent Diaconate Directors. cise of his priesthood by Pope Paul VI Father Patrick McCaslin, Omaha diaconlast summer after he ordained a group ate program director,who was elected of seminarians to the priesthood without president 'of the association, said it was fulfilling the requirements of Church formed to provide a structure for the exlli'w and in defiance of direct papal orchange of ideas and discussion of probders. By conferring minor orders the lems in directing this program, which is archbishop also defied recent liturgical still fluid and has no tradition to guide reforms. it.

Bishops Condemn MANILA - In a joint pastoral letter, the bishops of the Philippines have issued unprecedented criticisms of human rights violations by the martial-law government of Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos.

The letter, read from all church pulpits in the Philippines recently, condemned government deportation of foreign missionaries without due process, arrest of priests and lay workers, and harassment of newly-formed basic Christian' communities.

Ask Terror End MANAGUA - Nicaragua's bishops have asked the government of Gen. Anastasio Somoza to put an end to the wave of terror, including torture, unleashed by his National Guard against peasant families and political dissidents. The seven bishops at this Central American nation of 2.4 million people entered another year under martial law, which the government says is designed to quell Marxist guerrillas.

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Rev. Arthur P. J. Gagnon, 1958, Pastor, Holy Rosary, New Bedford MARCH 9

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HE'S SITTING PRETTY: Msgr. James E. Gleason, retired pastor of St. Patrick's parish, Falmouth, enjoys easy chair presented to him at a farewell party which also featured a cake made in shape of St. Patrick's Church. To left

and right of prelate are his sisters, Miss Mary and Miss Gertrude .Gleason. Standing, left, Rev. James A. McCarthy, new pastor of St. Patrick's, and Rev. John V. Magnani, associate pastor.

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Legionaries Set Acies, Dinner Marking the 25th anniversary of the Legion of Mary in the Fall River diocese, an Acies ceremony at which all active and auxiliary members will renew their dedication to the Blessed Virgin will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 27 in St. Mary's Cathedral,Fall River.

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OFFICIAL

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will preside at the service and will be a guest of honor at a dinner to follow at White's Restaurant, North Westport.

RETIREMENT

Rev. Msgr. Arthur W. Tansey from the Pastorate of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Parish, Fall River, and from the office of Dean, Fall River Deanery, effective Tuesday, Marc~ 1, 1977.

ASSIGNMENTS

Rev. Edward J. Burns as pastor of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Parish, Fall River.

Rev. John P. Cronin as administrator of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Swansea.

The assignments are effective Wednesday, March 9, 1977.

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Continue Rice Bowl Program Here Although demand for the smaU cardboard "Rice Bowl" found on most diocesan dinner tables last Lent has so outstripped supply that Catholic Relief Services (CRS),路 the official aid agency of U. S. Catholics, has had to print can wrappers as a substitute, the sacrificial program got under way yester~ day as hundreds of families substituted a meager meal of potato soup and a slice of bread for a normal dinner.

The "Rice Bowl" meals will continue throughout Lent and savings will be donated to the annual Bishops' Relief Collection, to be taken up the weekend of March 19 and 20 in all churches of the diocese.

Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, chancellor and diocesan coordinator for the annual appeal, which is earmarked for overseas aid, attended a recent organizational meeting in New

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York. He noted that a presentation by Msgr. Andrew P. Landi, CRS associate director, itemized agency aid projects for the past year.

"Everyone is probably familiar with such extraordinary relief efforts as those conducted in Guatemala after the .earthquake or in SUb-Sahara Africa, afflicted by years of drought," he said.

"I was particularly impressed, however, to learn of less known efforts, such as in Portugal, where settlement of Angola and Mozambique refugees was aided and in Lebanon, where relief work continued in the midst ofcivil war.

"Under the leadership of Bishop Cronin and with the cooperation and interest of parish priests, we in the Fall River diocese have been in the forefront of support for these good works" he said.

Letters to the路 editor

Letters are welcomed, but should be no more than 200 words. The editor reserves the right to condense or edit, If deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and include a home .or business address.

How Ifs Done Dear Editor: Allow me to enlighten the Holy Family freshman who believes that Bishop Stang gets special treatment in the Anchor's Basic Youth Page. But first let me congratulate Ann Dupre for her loyalty to her school and the respect she has for her principal and teachers.

I would like her to know that I, too, love my school, the faculty, and especially the students.

That is why, having been asked by my principal to take charge of publicity, I am so eager to photograph the many good things that happen here at Stang, print the pictures and

take them myself to the Anchor office.

All diocesan schools have the same privilege. The Anchor welcomes school news, But it takes a little effort and some organization to get it there!

Sister Gertrude Gaudette, -Bishop Stang High School

Likes Editorial Dear Editor: I've just now read, in the Feb. 10th issue of THE. ANCHOR, Father Moore's editorial: "The Impatient Church."

It is timely and to the point; and those in my age bracket must learn to be patient with the impatient.

Sincerely yours, Brother Christopher Brother Martin High School New Orleans, La. -

AT ST. JOSEPH'S: Active participation is rule at S1.

Joseph's parish, New Bedford. Rev. Roger D. LeDuc talks to parisbioners who attended last year's popular "Living, Loving Community" program. This- year's Lent-into-May series will emphasize preparation for Pentecost.

Choose Pentecost Theme For Parish Lent Series "A Sacramental People Prepares for Pentecost" will be the theme of a Lenten retreat program and follow-up to be presented at St. Joseph Church, New Bedford, beginning Wednesday, March 2.

Encouraged by the success of last year's program for formation of a "living and loving community," the parish adult education committee is sponsoring this year's program to aid parishioners in becoming aware of the role of the Holy Spirit in building community.

The implications of each sacrament will be studied, emphasizing that their reception is a community experience bringing receipients into a more and more responsible relationship with God's people.

The Pentecostal theme, say organizers, is appropriate for young parishioners now preparing to receive the sacrament of confirmation. These candidates will participate actively in the Lenten program series, as part of their preparation for confirmation ceremonies Saturday, May 7.

Lenten Series The theme for the March 2 beginning of the series will be "Reconciled in the Spirit." During an evening Mass children wiJl receive First Penance, while confirmands will lead an accompanying penance service.

Adult participants will then study the new rite of reconciliation and view a film on the breakdown and rebuilding of community.

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The dinner, for which tickets are limited, is open to all present and former active and auxiliary Legionnaires. Reservations may be made with Miss Beatrice Capeto, Fall River, telep~one, 672-4591; Mrs. Catherine Hart, Fairhaven, 994-7717; and Miss Alice Beaulieu, New Bedford, 995-2354.

Asks Critiques Of Directory As part of a nationwide consultative process for a National Catechetical Directory now in prepartion, 'Bishop Cronin has asked priests of the diocese to study a revised draft of the project and submit any recommendations for change they may have.

The Ordinary noted that in previous consultations, religious coordinators, school personnel, teachers and priests of the diocese contributed 232 recommendations to the national office preparing the directory.

He asked that deaneries make discussion of the document an agenda item for forthcoming meetings and requests that comments and recommendations be sent to the chancery office by Monday, March 7.

Our Lady of The Angels Church Dwelly Street - South End Fall River

FAMILY MISSION For' Parents and路Children February' 27 to March 4 FAMILY MASS AND MISSION SERVICES Monday, February 28 through Friday, March 4, 4 p.m. & 7 p.m.

The Oblate Fathers will conduct the Mission with Rev.. Lawrence Deery, O.M.I. Preacher

Every Family Is Cordially Invited

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Gun Control The recent wave of mass murders that has swept across the land, resulting, as one psychologist claims, from the inordinate publicity given the infamous Gilmore case, has again brought to attention the dire necessity of some form of national gun control.

As it now stands, anyone can tote a gun. They are easily purchased and for the most part present restrictions are all but useless. Seemingly, the only time we as a people and a nation become concerned about this sorry state of affairs is when a President is assassinated, a family murdered or a city terrorized. Then we all scream that something should be done to stop this madness.

Well, can anything be done? Most certainly. We must urgently seek a national policy of gun control. This can be achieved only when those who have been elected decide that the American people have had enough of this uncalled-for. insanity.

For some strange reason there is a feeling in this country that ownership of a gun is basic to the concept of American freedom. It is thought that if the federal government were to restrict the sale and possession of guns, some of the spirit that made this country what it is today would be removed and we would be less American as a result. This of course is the cry of the gun lobby that has exerted inordinate power in our nation's capital.

Well, where are we today? Right on the top of the list as having one of the highest gun-murder death rates in the world. It is estimated that over 21,000 Americans are killed each year by gunfire. Daily we read of the Saturday night special and weekly we read of the shotgun blast. Hardly a hood today who plies his trade of robbery is without some sort of firearm. Hardly a good old solid "red neck" but has a gun to protect and defend himself. Creating a vicious circle, the American mentality has fostered a madness that has become a deadly killer.

Strict gun control laws should be passed by the Congress. Unfortunately our legislators lack backbone really to face this deadly issue. Members of this illustrious body are either caught up in the American concept that a gun is a virility symbol or they have become the tools of special interest groups. It almost seems that any effort to control the sale and use of guns is impossible.

It is strange indeed that the vast majority of the nations of Europe can formulate legislation that strictly controls the use of firearms. Japan too has rigid laws regulating the entire gun scene. Perhaps these nations have reached a stage of civilization that has surpassed us. Whatever the case, if they can control the sale and use of guns, why can't we?

Hopefully the American people will begin once more to see that we must have firm and strong preventive action on the part of our Congress if this insanity is to be controlled.

What more can happen to make us wake up to the reality of . the danger that engulfs us all? How many more people have to be murdered to make us enact a firm and secure national gun control law?

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IN SEARCH OF SELF A note to the world .. , neatly written on a wall by a tourist . . . is touching in its painful honesty . . .

"Me . : . that nobody knows . . . was here . . . alone."

That particular unknown "Me" calls herself Nelly · . . Her words might be those of unnamed thousands · . . who search . . . seemingly alone ... for a sense of identity and worth . . . that comes only from being known . . . by someone who cares enough . . . to discover who they are. .

Our cities are crowded with persons . . . old and young . . . in high places and low . . . who feel very much alone ... who feel no one really knows them ... or cares to know them ... who wonder if they know themselves . . . or if they are even worth knowing.

We all experience that need to be known to be cared about ... to be loved just as we are just because we are who we are ... Our own yearning to be known . . . to know ourselves as loveable . . . is an inner call ... to go. out to others ... to work at helping them discover themselves as loveable . . . by caring enough about them . . . to come to know them . . . as they really are. .

That call is one form of Jesus' call to us ... to love others as he loves us (John 15:12) ... It is read in the note of Nelly ... and in the faces of the lonely · .. all around us. ·Copyright (c) 1977 by NC News Service

A Family Policy

By Jim Castelli Publication of a five-year National Academy of Sciences study of the impact of government programs on families may be an important step in the development of a national family policy.

The NAS study found, basically, that even the best-intentionEid, best-financed "child help" programs will fail unless the well.being of the entire family is attended to.

The report's timing is important because it coincides with the

formation of a new Administration one which President-elect Jimmy Carter has pledged will develop a family policy and be more sensitive to the needs of families.

Both the NAS report and a report on the family prepared for Carter during the campaign

by Joseph Califano, a former Johnson aide and newly appointed HEW secretary, make it clear that no one agency or department can solve the family problem; economic, labor and social program decisions all af-

To be sure, we are all so delighted to hear that our Congress persons are g-ding to receive such a substantial pay raise. It is almost like rubbing salt in the wounds of the poor taxpayers whom they represent and who are facing perhaps the most financially devastating winter of a lifetime. It must give all the voters such wonderful relief to note that their elected officials in Washington will not have to penny pinch, to pay their fuel, food and light bills.

For those who claim they oppose such a personal raise, hopefully they might share their surplus with their needy constituents. With such a high unemployment rate in this area, there are many people who would appreciate such a OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE . OF FALL RIVER noble gesture. Of course, it is also interesting to note that the voices of those members of Congress who opposed such Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River • 410 Highland Avenue a pay rflise were muted by the hurry and scurry of the ConFall River Mass. 02722 675-7151 gressional recess.

PUBLISHER It Will be more than worthy of note to see if this present Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.lD. Congress, when it finally gets down to the public's business, EDITOR FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR will be worthy of the largesse that has been given it by its Rev. John F. Moore, M.A. Rev. Msgr. John Regan constituents. ~ leary Prell-f"all Iliv.,

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fect the family. It is important, then, to have people who understand the family in all areas of government. ·But this is more difficult than it looks.

There is much talk of family life among pOliticans, but most of it is for show. No politican can run for office, it seems, without trying to persuade people that he is part of the AllAmerican family, even though he may be on the verge of a messy divorce. Little is heard of a politician's family life outside of campaigns unless the desire to "spend more time with my family" is given as a reason for leaving government; much of the time this is merely a cover for other, more political reasons.

Anyo~e seriously concerned with family policy should be required to read "The Power Lovers" by Myra McPherson. There is an undeniable .gossipy quality about the book, but it is basically a serious study of the family life of politicians. The book is often depressing because it seems to say that it is impossible for a politician to have a good family life..

But it doesn't have to be this way. Miss McPherson, writing in 1975, said "it seems that a disillusioned public, many of whom scarcely bother to vote, would be more than willing to allow politicians and- their families to be themselves - to be as involved or- uninvolved in the political folderol as they want to be if politicians went about the business of doing what they are supposed to be doing, which is to govern."

They Don't Understand The problem, she writes, is that the politicians themselves don't understand this. "The sobering fact," she says, "is the politician's time away from home and private life is spent, not so much -.in legislating as in all the 'public relations' trappings of getting elected and staying there. And this public relations, ultimately, not only diminishes one's private life but takes away from the actual workings of government. It is, all in all, a pretty silly process."

All this means, she says, that "politics is not the best arena to attract quieter, dedicated people, but draws instead, the ones who are consummate limelight pursuers."

President-elect Carter, seems to have a good family life and an understanding of family. His closeness to his mother, brother, sisters and cousins also shows that he has an understanding of the extended family, an institution which is virtually extinct.

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News from Rome Pope Paul' VI has appealed to Catholics around the world to help the poor, sick and hungry during Lent, both by personal actions and by contributions to the Church for aid to the poor.

Following is the text of his message: Dear sons and daughters, Here we are in Lent! Listen to us for a moment. Lent is a period for receiving God's favor. The liturgy speaks of Lent as the "acceptable time" for us to prepare to celebrate worthily the paschal mystery. It is a period which is of course austere, but it is fruitful and it already brings a renewal like a spiritual springtime. We must awaken our consciences.

We must give fresh vigor to our sense of duty and to our desire to respond, in a practical way, to the demands of a genuine Christian life.

Nearly 10 years ago, our enecyclical Populorum Progressio, On the Development of Peoples, was like a "cry of anguish, in the name of the Lord" addressed to the Christian communities and to all people of good will.

Today, as the liturgical season of Lent begins, we would like to renew that solemn appeal.

Our gaze and our heart as pastor of all continue to the overwhelmed by the immense multitude of those whom all the world's societies leave by the wayside, wounded in body and soul, stripped of their human dignity, without break, without a voice, defenceless, alone in their distress!

Of course we find it hard to share .>ur possessions in order to contribute to the disappearance of the inequalities of a world that has grown unjust.

Yet statements of principles are not enough. That is why it is necessary and salutary for us to remember that we are stewards of God's gifts, and that "during Lent, penance should not be only internal and individual but also external. and social" (Second Vatican Council, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium, 110).

We ask you to go out to meet poor Lazarus, in his hunger and misery. Make yourself his neighbor, so that he can recognize in your eyes the eyes of Christ welcoming him, and in your hands the hands of the Lord sharing his gifts. And respond generously to the appeals that will be made to you in your own local churches, so that you can relieve those who are most disinherited, and share in the progress of the peoples who are most deprived.

St. John's Council St. John's Council 404, Attleboro Knights of Columbus, will hold its annual communion breakfast in the Council home at 2 f{odges Street following 8:45 a.m. Mass at St. John's Church, Sunday, Feb. 27.

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Pope, Portugal Head Meet VATICAN CITY (NC)-In a 50-minute private meeting with Portuguese Prime Minister Mario Soares here Feb. 19, Pope Paul VI told the Socialist leader that Vatican-Portuguese relations are progressing well. ,An official Vatican communique on the visit said that the pope "took note of the good relations existing between the . Holy See and Portugal and of the respect shown to the Church by civil authorities."

Soares is on a good-will tour of European capitals in an efAT BAPTISM: Everyone at St. Anne's School, Fall fort to integrate his country fulRiver, was present for the baptism at St. Anne's Church of ly into the. European Economic Commull'ity, little Jason Joseph, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Diogo. His During his Vatican visit, the mother teaches sixth grade at St. Anne's and her students prime minister briefed the Pope prepared banners and readings for the celebration and one on the progress toward democmade Jason's christening gown. Front, Mr. and Mrs. Diogo; racy being made in Portugal rear, godparents Mr. and Mrs. William Kehoe. Celebrant is since the fall of the nation's right-wing dictatorship.

Rev. Joseph D. Maguire, St. Patrick's parish, Somerset.

The Socialist also stressed that the government considers Portugal's 1940 concordat with the Vatican to be in full force.

In a formal speech during Soares' visit, which was unofficial, the Pope underlined the need for "solidarity and harDear Father Herb: How can abortion be Called murder mony of efforts within the or even serious sin until science determines when life be- framework of legitimate diversity which the democratic sysgins?

Doubt When Life Begins No Excuse for Abortion

Notice that this is not so much a question as a defense of abortion, and a commonly used one. It is a horrifying Bread for World defense because it exposes an ignorance which has cost many babies their lives. It begins at conception. In fact, To Hear Hughes there is even life before conPatrick Hughes of Packard ception. The sperm is alive. way lessens the sacredness of Manse, Stonington, will speak to life from the moment of . the Cape Cod Chapter of Bread The ovum is alive. When human conception. Human life begins for the World Monday evening, they unite, there is concep- from two human beings and tion. That is, there is a new life. God's creative act, and its term Science answers the question is a human being called to eterof when human life begins the , nal life with God. At what point same way it answers the ques- God plays His part is His affair.

We can go further, and observe that the medieval notion that the soul does not originate at conception was based on total ignorance of the genetic strucBy ture already present at conception. As Dr. Mortimer Adler HERBERT F. holds, there is no longer philosophical or theological reason to SMITH, S.J. doubt that "the embryo is a fully potential human being from the moment of conception."

If there remains any question of when the soul originates, it is tion of when animal life begins. a faith question. To use it as a When a dog conceives, new can- pretext for abortion makes the ine life begins; when a cow con- believer worse than the unbelieceives, new bovine life; when a ver. Science teaches believers woman conceives, new human and unbeliever that is human life! "The potential for human life from the moment of concepdevelopment is as great in the tion. Faith tea'thes the believer fertilized egg as in the blasto- that to use his ignorance of the cyst, as in the embryo, as in the moment of the creation of the fetus, as in the premature, as in soul as a pretext for destroying the infant, as in the child" (Re- an unborn baby's living body is port of the First International to use his faith to destroy his Conference on Abortion). faithfulness.

Is the new life human at once?

That is why from the Council This question is not asked of Elivira (circa A.D. 300) to about the human body but about Vatican II the Catholic Church the human soul. It is, then, not a has always condemned abortion scientific question but a philo- of human fetus as the murder of sophical question and a faith the innocent, O'Donnell, Mediquestion. ~t is asked by those cine and Christian Morality). who believe the human soul is Vatican II taught that "God, spiritual and therefore must the Lord of life, has conferred come directly from God by an on men the surpassing ministry act of creation. But when? At of safeguarding life . . . Thereconception? fore, from the moment of conDoes the posing of this ques- ception life must be guarded tion provide a pretext for abor- with the greatest care, while tion? abortion and infanticide are unBy no means. Ignorance in no speakable crimes."

Feb. 28 in the parish hall of Our Lady of Victory Church, Centerville.

His topic will be the influence of multinational corporations on the lives of Third World inhabitants, specifically in terms of oppression and hunger and he will also show film strips on the topic.

Bread for the World, a national organization, is asking interested persons to send letters to President Carter and their congressmen in relation to the World Food Reserve, asking that the U.S. set up a national reserve in cooperation with other nations.

New Transfiguration VATICAN CITY (NC) - Almost 2,000 years after the actual Gospel event left the Apostles with mouths agape, Christ's Transfiguration is. once again dazzling onlookers here. It is the huge painting done in the last months of his life by Raphael, recently "transfigured" from a dully colored, undistinguished painting to路 the radiantly alive chromatic masterpiece its creator intended it to be.

The National Conference of Catholic Bishops declared: "The child in the womb is human.

Abortion is an unjust destruction of a human life, and morally that is murder." , Science and faith, each in its own way, have determined the nature of human life in the murderous termination of new life.

tern permits, and in a certain sense, demands."

The democratic system, said the Pontiff, 'calls for "reciprocal respect and love for the values of religious faith, freedom, justice, national independence and safeguarding for the inalienable rights of the human person."

Church-state relations have impr.,oved greatly in Portugal after resolution of a serious conflict over the Catholic radio station, Renascenza.

In 1974 the station was occupied by leftists. Later army troops destroyed the transmitter.

But the government has since paid compensation to Church authorities for the damages.

During the Vatican visit, Soares wa's accompanied by foreign minister Medeiros Ferreira.

Delegates Continued from Page One According to Bishop Louis E. Gelineau of Providence, chairman of New England Region One of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the youth education topic was chosen because of the bishops' great concern about the large number of children not under formal religious instruction. A recent study showed the figure of such children to be some 6.6 million nationwide.

Bishop Gelineau said the prelates hope to obtain New England statistics on religious education and input as to symptoms, causes and possible solutions of the non-attendance problem. They will look especially for comments from students at the parley.

"We hope to accomplish this as we have done in past convocations," explained Bishop Gelineau. "by participating with delegates in small discussion groups. The bishops have received some splendid, and most candid, recommendations on various aspects of Church life in the past, and we would hope to have the same success this year."

A traditional convocation aspect, a Saturday night "varia" session, which offers delegates the opportunity to bring elements of local concern to the regional community, will concentrate this year on aspects of the central religious education topic.

The program is open to all news media, an "openness" nationally noted as making New England one of the most progressive areas of the American Church in this regard.

Diocesan Delegates Diocesan delegates to the meeting are .Rev. John J. Steakem, chaplain of Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth, who will chair the delegation; Rev. John J. Perry, campus minister at Southeastern Massachusetts University, named to chair small dscussion groups; Sister Rita Pelletier, SSJ, diocesan db'ector of religious education; Sister Rose deLima Clark, RSM. administrator of St. Vincent's Home, Fall River; James' F. David, New Bedford, parish religious education coordinator.

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Says Parishes Not. Listeni ng to Central Church By REV~

ANDREW M. GREELEY

ROME -"There are two churches," a friend of mine said to me before I left for Rome, "and the difference isn't between the church of the left and the right, of the progressives and the conservatives; the difference is between the church from the chancery office on up, on the one hand, and the church in the parishes on the other. Priests and people

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MARY CARSON

The third of my eight kids has turned 20. I'm beginning to think I may survive being the parent of teen-agers. It's been getting easier.

I think part of it is that I'm beginning to understand what they are talking about. I've iearned how to interpret what

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down at the parish level simply don't pay any attention any more to what they say in the chancery office or the National Conference of Bishops or in the Vatican. And it doesn't matter whether what they say is progressive or conservative; no one listens."

Currently there is a meeting here in which the congregation of education is trying to reassert its control over the theological faculties of the world, using all the manipulative, pseudodemocratic tricks that were practiced by the curia during the Second Vatican Council.

One American at the meeting shrugged his shoulders and said to me, "If they're reasonable, we'll go along with them; but

if they try to push us too hard, we'll simply ignore them." .

It is not merely that the grass roots church isn't listening to the sexual teaching of the institution; it is not merely that both "Humanae Vitae" and the recent letter on sexual morality of the American bishops fell on deaf ears. The so=called "leftwing" or "progressive" voices of the institutional church are ignored completely.

'Third World ChIc' Thus the recent Detroit debacle staged by the left-wing "middle management" of the U.S. Catholic Conference created merely a "ho-hum," it seems, among the parish clergy and their congregations. And' the trendy, fashionable, ''Third

World" chic that one can pick up all around Rome - is every .bit as much ignored among the grass roots clergy and laity.

I asked a number of people in Rome why there was so much Third World chic that was so often shallow and infantile. One man said, "They made a mess of the 'first world,' they can't do anything in the 'second world,' so they're pinning all 'their hopes on the 'third. world.' " There are some who would applaud such an institutional deterioration, but I am not one of them. Institutions are essential to the survival of communities, and international communities need international institutions that can speak effectively

to their rank and file membership.

It is a bad thing for Catholicism that the grass roots church is no longer listening to the central church.

Of course, the reason is that the central church - especially, it is to be fea.red; here in Rome - has long since ceased to listen to the grass roots. And in the same fashion the liberal bureaucrats at the USCe;:: and from the Catholic Committee on Ur:ban Ministry have long since ceased to listen to the ordinary Catholic laity - "the Archie Bunkers," they can themwhose only function apparently is to pay the bills for the meetings at which the liberals have such a rip-roaring good time.

they say to know what they mean.

I'm not talking about slang.

I'm talking about everyday words that they understand differently than I do. For example: "I never want to speak to him again." I prepare myself, so that if the phone rings, I will explain that she is busy, and cannot come to the phone. The phone rings. I am nearly tackled in the rush to answer it.

"I'll be off the phone in a minute." There must be something about the conversion to the metric system. A "minute" lasts about a half路hour on my clock.

"I have tons of homework,"

That is, if there is laundry, cleaning, dishes, or any housework to be done. If there's a possibility of a date, "tons" becomes "nothing" that can't be done on the bus in the morning.

"I'm getting up early, to go fishing." "Early" is 3 a.m.

"I'm getting up early, to clean my room." "Early" is noon.

"I'll be home early." '''Early'' is anybody's guess.

"I haven't been out in ages."

Two nights ago.

"My room is clean," An acrobat would have trouble getting through without tripping.

"My room is almost clean."

From the路 ceiling down,... about two feet.

"My room's a mess." The preamble to a list of complaints about the untidy habits of the other kid sharing the room. Followed by a request to "change rooms," Interpreting Inflections Inflection must be interpreted carefully. If you have teen-age daughters you'll have no difficulty with the following.

"Mom?" (Sweet tones . . . melody in voice rising.) -I'm going to get hit for a loan.

"Mom." (Exasperated tone ... melody in voice going down the scale.) I've just said the wrong thing in front of a boy friend.

"Mom!" (Loud ... high pitch-

ed . . . defensive.) Her brother is eating the frosting for the cake she's making to take to a party.

"Mmmmmom!" (Dragged out . .. heavy frustration.) I'm eating the cheese for the pizza she's making for supper.

"Everybody picks on me."

There is some underlying problem. By the time I discover what it is . . .

"Everything's great," He finally said "hello."

"Nobody loves me." Just her family and friends . . . but he is now saying "hello" to someone else.

More Study Needed on the Illegal Alien Problem By

MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS

For several years Congress has been debating what to do about stemming the flow of illegal or undocumented immigrants into the country. So far no laws have been passed on the problem, and since we know so little about its causes and effects, that's just as well.

Congress is not prepared to deal

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MARILYN RODERICK

It seems hardly the time to be thinking about it, but we are approaching the time when we can start thinking about our vegetable gardens. In less than a month after the appearance of this article if conditions are reasonable, we will

with the problem objectively and will not be until 路it has been studied in greater depth by government and private research agencies.

We don't even know, how many illegal aliens are in the United States. Estimates range from four to 12 million, and neither the Congress nor the executive branch has any way of determining which is the more accurate figure. In addition, we know very little about the impact of illegal aliens on the American economy.

The need for further study of the illegal alien problems is a major conclusion of a 257-page preliminary report recently is-

sued by the Domestic Council Committee on Illegal Aliens.

The committee makes a number of specific recommendations, some of which are premature, For example, it says, the executive "branch should "aggressively" work for the enactment of legislation whi~h would include penalties for employers who knowingly hire aliens not authorized to work.

Congress has been debating such legislation for several years, but has not yet taken ac路tion. Again, I think that's just as well, if there is a "dramatic lack of reliable information," Deportation Inhumane In criticizing the Domestic

Council Committee for jumping the gun, I do not suggest that its recent report is totally without merit.

I particularly welcome its emphasis on the fact that enforcement of existing immigration laws is not enough to control the illegal alien problem. ''The illegal alien issue," the committee's report points out, "is ultimately an issue of immigration policy and will not be satisfactorily met until a thorough rethinking of our immigration policy is undertaken." In this connection, the report also calls for widespread discussion and a program of public education on the larger philosophical and policy

questions raised by the illegal alien problem.

I am also encouraged by the committees warning that massive deportation of illegal aliens is "both inhumane and impractical.' But if deportation, 'for these and other reasons, is out of the question, what should tie done about the problem? The committee's tentative response is too complicated to summarize in this' brief column. In any event, I am encouraged by its apparent willingness 'to recommend amnesty for at least some of the illegal aliens now living here either underground or in the open.

But its proposed eligibility date (July 1, 1968) is too restrictive.

.be setting out spinach seed, peas, radish and lettuce seed.

Peas are my favorite early season crop. About mid-March and for a few weeks thereafter we begin sowing peas on consecutive days. This is done as soon as the soil can be worked.

In this case we just make a row about two inches deep and the width of a hoe. The peas are planted diagonally in the trough and covered to about an inch.

the sown seeds will in fact germinate. Since this is an eatly crop, we plant several varieties, since they will be out of the ground and in the compost .heap by 50 to 60 days.

coolness or warmth of the Spring, we mayor may not get the lettuce to head up. In warm weather it will be picked primarily for its leaves, whereas in cold weather we may allow it to re!lch the head stage.

Radishes again are excellent for salads and these should be seeded in successive stages so that a constant crop is available.

By starting seed early directly in tl!e garden, we are able to ensure a fairly constant source of radishes for the evening salad.

planted early enough to allow them to develop prior to the tender vegetables which cannot be set out until after the danger of frost is past. Here in Southeastern Massachusetts we usually figure the last frost date as May 15 This means that vegetables started in the middle of March have two full months to develop before we have to make room for tender vegetables like green beans and tomatoes. By planning wisely we can increase the yield of a small garden considerably by lengthening the growing season.

If the ground js too wet, the early plantings may rot and the s'eeds may not germinate, so we make lluccessive short row plantings in the hope that some of

Salad Vegetables A similar cold weather plant is lettuce. Normally we start seed indoors and plant the seedlings or small lettuce plants into the garden after they have made a start inside. These are grown in flats, kept in coldframes to harden off and then planted in the garden after the bitter cold has passed. Depending on the type of lettuce and the relative

The point to these early vegetables is that they may be

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Msgr. Tansey Continued from Page One (Ormsby) Tansey. He graduated fr:om William S. Greene grammar school and B.M.C. Durfee High School, then entering St. Charles College, Catonsville, Md. and St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. He was ordained June 10, 1933 by the late Bishop James E. Cassidy in St. Mary's Cathedral.

The first assignment of the young priest was to St. Joseph's parish, Woods Hole', followed by service at 51. .Peter the Apostle, Provincetown; 51. Paul, Taunton; Holy Name, Fall' River; St. Mary, Taunton; and St. John, Attleboro.

Other parishes where he servFR. BURNS ed were St. Joseph, North Dighton; Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs; and St. James, New Bedford. He was also a Navy chaplain for two years.

Continued from Page One In 1950 Msgr. Tansey was asLady of Fatima Parish, Swansigned as asseciate pastor at St. sea.

Mary's Cathedral and in 1956 he Father Burns has served as a was named rector, serving there until his appointment to Imma- notary of the diocesan marriage tribunal and as a member of the culate Conception.

Monsignor Tansey is noted Diocesan Liturgical Commisfor his apostolate to bereaved sion. Presently he is Diocesan members of his parish, making Director for Ecumenical Afa particular point of being pre- fairs.

Father. Cronin sent at wakes and celebrating Born in Fall River on April funeral Masses whenever possible. He has also been concerned 7, 1931, the son of John and for the catechetical formation Mary (Moriarty) Cronin, Father of parish children, renovating church facilities to provide suitable instructional areas for religious and laity in attendance. them.

The 1976 Appeal reached, for A rewarding part of his priest- .the first time, the $1 million hood came when he served for mark, totaling $1,008,855.45. two years as a Navy chaplain Plans are underway to surpass during World War II, based at this all-time high.

San Diego, Calif. He retained The area directors, who will his friendships from that period supervise special gift and parish of his life and often in later phases of the Appeal are: New, years visited his form~r associ- Bedford - Rev. Manuel P. Ferates in California. reira, pastor of St. John the The prelate's father, Thomas Baptist Church, assisted by Rev. Tansey, was we'll known in Fall George F. Almeida, assistant River labor circles and the Tan- pastor of Mt. Carmel Church, sey School in the city was nam- Attleboro Rev. Bento R. ed in his honor. Msgr. Tansey, Fraga, pastor of Holy Ghost as diocesan Director of Social Church, assisted by Rev. Roger Action, carried on the family L. Gagne. pastor of St. Mark's tradition, mediating on occasion Church; Taunton - Rev. Walin labor problems and for sev- ter A. Sullivan, pastor of Saceral years organizing Labor Day red Heart Church, assisted by Masses and communion break- Rev. Leonard M. Mullaney, asfasts at St. Mary's Cathedral. sistant pastor, Immaculate Conception Church.

Fall River - Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, pastor of, Our Lady of the Angels Church, diocesan Continued from Page One The Appeal, which dates back and area director, assisted by to 1942, provides funds for the Rev. Francis L. Mahoney, assismany apostc>lates of charity, tant pastor, Immaculate Conmercy, social service and educa- ception Church; Cape Cod and tion in the diocese to all people, the Islands - Rev. John F. Anregardless of race, color or drews, assistant pastor, St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis. creed.

Msgr. Gomes announced that Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be the main speaker at the appeal kick-off meeting scheduled for Very 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 13 at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River with over 900 clergy,

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Cronin attended parochial schools in the city and Msgr.

Coyle High in Taunton.

After attending Providence College, he studied for the priesthood at St. John's Seminary in Brighton. Ordained on February 2, 1957, he was first assigned to St. Patrick's Fall River. In 1962 Father Cronin was appointed Administrator of St. Bernard's, Assonet, as well as Director of St. Vincent's Home and St. Vincent De Paul Camp.

He was also director of Radio Activities for the Diocese and Juvenile Court Chaplain in Fall River.

Since 1975, Father Cronin has been assistant pastor at St. Joseph's, Taunton.

Refuses Fund'in'g LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC)-The city of Louisville has enacted an ordinance to prohibit city funds from being used for a proposed clinic at General Hospital which would perform elective abortions during the second three months of pregnancy.

Continued from Page One The ABA has 218,000 members nationwide.

The House of Representatives pastor of Mt. Carmel Church; debated the issue for a little more than an hour. One supporter of the death penalty, Calivin Behle of Ogden, Utah, said people in Utah "feel a little safer" since the Jan. 17 execution of Gary Gilmore at the Utah state prison. Gilmore was the first person executed in the . United States since 1967.

LeRoy of Jeffers of Texas said the American people have a right to expect the ABA to be more concerned with "old people living in terror locked behind bars" than to have a "peculiar preoccupation" with the suffering of "rapist, murders, robber-murders and murders for money" The ABA president-elect, S. ' Shepherd Tate of Memphis, Tenn., said he opposed the death penalty. Eugene Thomas of Boise, Ida., who prosecuted the last man executed in that state, said if every ABA delegate had had his experience, "the great majority would rise in favor of this resolution" opposing the death penalty.

Testimonia I Parishioners of Sacred Heart Parish, Fall River, will. tender Rev. Ralph D. Tetrault an informal testimonial following the 11:30 Sunday Mass, Feb. 27.

Father Tetrault, recently appointed associate pastor of St. Thomas More Parish, Somerset, served as associate pastor of the Fall River palish for some 28 months.

The parish' reception is being hosted by the Woman's Guild of Sacred Heart Parish, Mrs. Thomas Murphy, president.

Unconunon Fervor "Holiness consists not in doing uncommon things, but in doing all common things with an uncommon fervor." - Cardinal Manning.

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Last Words Continued from Page One others in the series.

Next Wednesday representatives of New Bedford juvenile agencies will discuss "Woman, 'Behold Thy Son; Son, Behold Thy Mother" with reference to child abuse problems and the role of foster parents.

Members of Alcoholic Anonymous and AI-Anon wil1 speak on the third word, "I Thirst," on March 9; and on March 16 representatives of the black, Cape Verdean and Puerto Rican communities will discuss ethnic prejudice with relation to the words "Father, Forgive Them for They Know Not What They Do." "My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me" will be the March 23 topic of Father Robert Nee, 5S.CC., coordinator of the Office of Peace and Justice of the Sacred Hearts Community and of Angie Costa, legal secretary for Onboard Legal Services, who will speak on Third World problems.

Death and dying will be related to "Into Thy Hands I commend My Spirit" by a nurse and doctor on March 30; and "It Is Finished" will be the theme for Good Friday services on April 7.

Throughout the series a cross, made by parishioner Manuel Lopes, will be assembled, with completion coming on Good Friday. And yesterday, together with ashes, the symbol of death, parishioners received seeds, symbolizing the growth and new life climaxed by Easter.

The program has been organized by Sister Marianna Sylvester, RSM.

Vincentian Counc'il Following attendance at 7 p.m. Mass Tuesday, March 1, at Sacred Heart Church, Fall River, members of the 'Greater Fall River Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will meet at' the parish school.

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Sociologists, psychologists, and indeed all persons concerned with the future of our society have noted with alarm the hastening decline of the family as a force for moral good. As signs of its deteriorating role in shaping moral character they have pointed to such facts as the dramatic rise in divorce (currently affecting almost one out of every three marriages), the ml.mber of children in single-parent families (almost 20 percent of schoolage children), and the increasing incidence of illegitimate births (in 1975 about 13 percent of all live births were illegitimate).

My purpose here is not to comment on these and other indications of the decline of the family as a moral force; rather it is to offer some thoughts, grounded on a Christian understanding of human existence, about the indispensable role the family must play in the moral education of a future· generation of human beings.

Our moral life, I believe, can be described in terms of a search for identity. We want to know who we are and what we are to do if we are to be the beings we are meant to be.

When we are born we do not know these things, but we are equipped to learn them inasmuch as we are, as the living images of God, intelligent beings and thus capable of coming to an understanding of our lives and of acting responsibly in accord with our understanding.

But in our search for mean· ing, for identity, we need help.

None of us is able to pull himself or herself up by his or her own bootstraps as it were. We need help, we need a "boot" to which the strap can be attached, and that "boot" i~ the human community, beginning with the community of the family,. The nature, the quality, of the boot can either help us enormously or it can cripple us terribly, leaving the wounded and in need of even greater help.

The Christian b~lieves that each human being is a being of moral worth. Every child born of woman (and II would argue,. every child struggling to be born within the womb of its mother) is such a being. By a being of moral·worth I mean a being who is the bearer of rights that need to be recognized and protected by others and by society; a being that is precious, valuable, and irreplaceable just because it is; a being who cannot and must not be considered simply as a part related to some larger whole. Every person is a being of this kind. A child, a newborn, is certainly this kind of being, as are its parents and all persons within the human commun- . ity.

Not Humanized When we come into the world, we are not aware of ojJrselves as selves. I would like to illustrate this fact, and its signific-

ance, by calling attention to socalled feral or "wolf" children, who have been abandoned or lost at a very early age and "adopted" by such animals a~ wolves or bears. These children are indubitably human beings, members of the human species, beings of moral worth, loved with a surpassing love by the Father of us all.

But when they have been rediscovered by the human community, they have been found totally lacking in self-consciousness. They do not realize they are selves, subjects; they have no consciousness of themselves as enduring subiects of experience, nor are they capable of entering into relations with others. They are not moral agents, for they are incapable of understanding the meaning of their actions and of freely and responsibly acting in accord with this understanding.

Why? They have not been exposed to the process of enculturation or of humanization; they have not encountered in their experience beings who are aware of themselves as "selves." They have accordingly not been able to develop interpersonal, intersubjective relationships and through these to recognize themselves, to understand that they are indeed "selves," "subjects," "beings of moral worth."

What this shows, I believe, is that our ,human personhood is a gift from God, who has made us to be the kind of beings we are precisely so therJ' could be beings to whom He could communicate His own life and with whom He could share His friendship. But it is a gift that we receive proximately and immediately from other human beings, beginning with our parents.

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For a human being to understand that and all other such beings are persons of moral worth, help is needed. If it is not given, the growing child is wounded.

How can a child come to learn that needs friendship, just treatment, self-discipline and an awareness of his obligation to develop his abilities if there is 'no one to help him? Obviously the first such helpers should be his parents and the other members of his own family.

Unending Search The moral life is a matter of growing in an understanding of what it means to be a human being. Our search for this meaning is ongoing, and perhaps its last word will never be uttered.

We have much to learn. It takes a lifetime (I believe even more) , to find out fully what being human means.

But a first word about the meaning of our lives as beings of moral worth must be spoken, and this is the "word" spoken to the growing child by his family, in particular, his par.ents.

Parents teach a child through their spoken words, but the most significant words they utter are those - they address to him through their actions, deeds and the way they treat him and other family members. In our world today there are few places where we can learn that a human being is to· be cherished,· not for what he does, but for who he is. This lesson ought to

be learned in the family first. is not, if the parents' "words" ,to their child are distorted, he may never learn this truth.

Nothing can take the place of the family in giving a child and the future generations of mankind a- good start in life. The parents are, as the Church teaches, the principal educators of their children. This means that they are to awaken their children to the meaning of human life, to the deepest needs within their hearts. Those needs clamor for fulfillment; if unmet, only frustration and unhappiness will result.

But for parents to educate their children they must first make themselves aware of who they are and who they are called to be. In the daily struggle to survive we can frequently forget this; thus the need for taking the care to question ourselves and for finding help. In searching for it, it is good to remember that the best friend we have is the loving God whose images we are. When everyone else fails us, He is there ready to give us the strength we need.

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By Father John Dietzen Q. We recently received word that a close friend who is a priest is planning to marry. This disturbed me greatly because I believed that the priests who did this were not good priests anyway, and I always thought he was a good priest. ..

What is his status in the Church now? What should be our attitude toward him? Can we in good conscience retain his friendship?

A. Many Catholics still do not realize that it is possible for a priest to be released from his promise not to marry. Unlike marriage, whose nature and permanence are established by God Himself, the celibacy of the priesthood is something the Church could change, and has changed in various ways through the centuries.

Jesus established the priesthood to serve His people in various ways, but He never made it His absolute rule that. they could not be married. In fact, married priests have been common in some parts of the world since the beginning of Christianity.

If a priest simply ignores the solemn promise he has inade to remain unmarried, it would be wrong. It is entirely possible for him, however, to ask for and receive a release from that promise; in that case, he could marry and remain in perfectly good standing in' the Church as a layman.

Without his telling you, there's hardly any way you can .know what his status is now, since these matters are naturally handled very privately. If you are a close friend, ask him. I think it is only fair that you should know, as it inevitably affects your feelings toward him.

Whatever the answer is, it doesn't mean he was not a good priest. If he did abandon his promise of celibacy without a dispensation, he possibly cut comers and neglected prayer a lot more than' he should have, but God is the judge of that.

As for continuing your relationship with him, it can never by anything but right to be a friend to anyone - a thoughtful and honest friend. Try to understand, and have the courage to be and say to him what. you believe is best for him, and for the others you must think of.

Q. Our five-year-old daughter doesn't like to receive Communion under both species. She doesn't like the taste when she drinks from the chalice, or even when the Host is dipped into the Wine. Would it be offensive to ask the priest to use another kind of wine?

A. First, good for you for having a five-year-old who goes to Holy Communion. We presume, of course, that she knoVl-~

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what she is doing. Certainly most five- and six-year-olds, especially those in good Catholic homes, have the capacity to understand all the Eucharistic theology the Church requires of them for receiving this Sacrament.

As for the wine, she's not alone. It CM bother adults, too, including some priests. There may, in fact, be medical reasons involved, such as diabetes, which could prompt an individual not to want even the small amount of wine received at Communion.

It's surely all right to mention it to the priest if you wish. Communion under both species is optional, even when 'it is offered at a particular Mass. Your child should know that she may pass up drinking from the chalice and still receive the entire sacrament, the living Body arid Blood of Christ.

Q. When will the world end?

Does the Church teach anything about it?

A. The thousands of false predictions which have excited the world at one time or another ought to convince us, even if nothing else does, that God has not let us in on His plans for the date of the end of the world.

Whether it is 100 or 100,000 years away, we don't know. The Bible, at best, only speaks of situations which will be present before the end of the world.

Even then, it is usually hard to discover what the Scripture writers really mean.

However, those who parade around with signs declaring "The end is near" do have a point. Neither Scripture nor the Church is concerned with satisfying our idle curiosity, but rather with reminding us that the day we leave this earth, not the day it bums up, is the end of the world for us.

Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen in care of The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River 02722.

Copyright (c) 1977 by NC News Service)

Father Michael Nugent, a Columbus diocesan priest who is

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Lenten Series I n Attleboro Father Thomas· Fallon, O.P., associate professor of religious studies at Providence College, will give a series of talks on Jesus in the Gospels on the five Tuesdays of March from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro.

Fattier Fallon's first talk on Tuesday, March 1st will answer the question "What is the Gospel?" On March 8 the speaker will look at Jesus in the Gospel according to St. Mark, followed on successive Tuesdays with a talk on Jesus in the Gospels according to Saint Matthew, St. Luke and St. John.

Father Fallon has been teaching at Providence College since 1949. In 1956-57,while studying fora doctorate' in theology, he taught at the Catholic University and Trinity College. He also taught for four years at Portsmouth Abbey and eight years at Archbishop Cushing School of Theology for the Laity in Boston. He has contributed to various Catholic publications and his memberships include the Catholic Biblical Association of America, the College Theology Society and the American Association of University Professors.

The speaker is presently teaching a course at Providence College on the Development of Western Civilization and one entitled "The Nature of Faith."

The format to be used by Father Fallon will be a lecture of about 45-50 minutes; followed by a break, and a question period. There is no admission fee but those attending are asked to bring copies of the New Testament.

General Absolution Not Focal p'oint MEMPHIS, Tenn. (NC) ...:"General absoluion was not the focal point 'of the reconciliation campaign," said Bishop Carroll T. Dozier after a. news report linked events here last year with a recent statement by the Vatican's Doctrinal Congregation.

The Doctrinal Congregation rejected as "inappropriate" the "convocation of a large crowd for the primary purPose of giving general absolution." Its statement was a commentary on pastoral norms for several sacramental absolution issued in 1972.

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rament of Penance with general absolution as the focal point of a pastoral ministry of evangelization or reconciliation does not accord with the pastoral norms."

Bishop Dozier said an NC News story concluded that the two reconciliation liturgies last December were examples of such abuse of general absolution. "To infer this is to strike at the very heart of what I am trying to accomplish in preaching the word of God and I feel it my duty to correct this mistaken notion," the bishop said in an interview with Common Sense, Memphis diocesan news· paper.

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Poem Attracts National Attention MONTEVIDEO, Minn. (NC) According to Goering, a father When Charles Goering began of seven children, the poem is writing a poem while sitting out addressed specifically 'to the a blizzard here last winter, it baby boy aborted by Dr. Ken· seemed unlikely that anyone neth Edelin in Boston, for whose else would ever read' what he death Dr. Edelin was convicted of manslaughter by a jury. The wrote.

Goering, 43, is a working conviction was overturned in man. He describes himself as December, 1976. "a man who did not complete Although the poem is antihigh school and has worked as ' a railroad laborer and truck abortion, its meaning has eluded driver a good portion of his some. One nationally circulated life." _ paper ran the poem with an acBut the poem, "The Jewel of companying story which exMy Creation," which deals with plained that it was written about Christ's love for an aborted Goering's 11 year old daughter's child, has been read by millions fight for life as an infant. The in newspapers across the coun- girl, Mary, suffered at birth try. from· hyaline membrane disease,

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Goering told NC News that such distortions did not bother him. "The abortion people understand it - the ones with guilty consciences," he said.

Goering, who attends St. Joseph's parish here, said he has received hundreds of letters since the poem began attracting attention. All of the mail has been favorable, he reported.

The poem, he explained, was written on behalf of all the children "being destroyed at birth through non-care and via different methods of abortion." He called it "a statement of God's endless love for each of his children."

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Feb. 24, 1977

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Dearly beloved in Christ, As Christians, we are called to turn from sin so that the word of God might truly dwell in us. As Saint Paul expresses it: I have been crucified with Christ, and the life I live now is not my own; Christ is living in me. I still live my human life, but it is a life of faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

(Galatians 2:20) However, as the bishops of the United States have pointed out in their recent pastoral, To Live in Christ Jesus: ... our final triumph over sin is a lifelong task. Christ's call to conversion is ever timely, for we still live in a sinful world and the power of sin is strong in us.

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Knights of the Altar will meet from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27 in the school. Mrs. Lucille Vose will speak and plans will be made for a raffle and penny sale to be held Saturday, March 26.

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CHATHAM Prayer is the subject chosen for' the annual day of recollec-

This observation of the bishops is realistic indeed.· It only serves to remind us, my dear people, of our continuing need for the holy season of Lent that we are about to begin.

Lent is Christ calling us -once again to repen tance. "Turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel" was the Lord's message to his first disciples. It is the admonition of Christ and His Church to each of us during these sacred days.

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Acts of self-denial and sacrifice can also can also help us deepen our life in Christ during the Lenten season. In a day which has evidenced. a serious breakdown of spiritual values, there is an ever greater need to discipline our wills through penance so that we might better arrange our lives according to the holiness and love of God.

My dear people, Lent means "springtime." This is, in fact, its goal- to bring spiritual growth and renewal, spring time if you will, to the lives of each of us. As your Bishop and Pastor, I pray that this Lent will be a time when we truly draw new life from Christ Jesus. May' we cooperate with God's grace during these blessed days. May this season indeed be a "day of salvation" for all of us.

Miss Ceceilia J. Aide is chairman for the day and Mrs. Jerome Higgins heads the hospitality committee.

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Certainly, the frequent lifting up of our minds and hearts to God in prayer cannot but help us turn our lives more and more toward Him. I therefore urge all to increased personal prayer during Lent. I especially recommend, as the most perfect form of prayer, the revered custom of assisting at Holy Mass on the weekdays of Lent.

These holy days of Lent should also witness our increased sensitivity to the needs of our brothers and sisters. If we are to deepen our life in Christ, we must love one another as He loved us. I commend to one and all, as an important aspect of the Lenten observance, an ever deeper practice of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

tion of the Association of the Sacred Hearts, to be held from 10 a.m. until a closing Mass at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 1. Rev. Andre Patenaude, MS will direct the day, relating the theme to the association's program for the year, "Children: Our Concern for Them, Our Joy in Them."

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As Shepherd of the Diocese of Fall River, I earnestly encourage clergy and faithful alike to spend this season well. The traditional, indeed age-old practices of prayer, penance and works of charity are more needed now than ever before. I commend them as a wholesome spiritual diet for Lent.

I particularly encourage the reception of the sacrament of reconciliation as an indispensable means to the change of heart to which Lent calls us. As you know, the revised Rite of Penance becomes effective throughout the Universal Church on next Sunday, the First Sunday of Lent. The new rite makes ever clearer the forgiveness and healing power of Christ. It also strengthens us so that new direction might come to our lives as the fruit of reception of the sacrament.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH Marriage Makes Noble Demands

By Wendy Somerville Wall

When God had created the world and all the good and beautiful things on it, he created man to till and care for and enjoy the earth and, because "it is not good for the man to be alone," (Gn. 2, 18).

So He created a partner for man - woman.

Since that time, when God gave the first couple His own likeness, He has continued giving a significance to their union beyond any other parallel the Scriptures draw: The Covenant of love between a man and a woman is a sacred sign of the covenant of love between God and His people, between Christ and His church.

One wonders why Christ chose so abused an institution as marriage to signify so perfect a promise as' His. Perhaps because He did not speak of contract but covenant; he did not mean law but love. Perhaps Christ made marriage a sacrament to insure that the covenant He selected to be a sign of His own fidelity would endure. Thus each marrYing couple is given the grace to meet and overcome hardships and sufferings, to remain faith-

ful, and therefore forever be living witnesses of Christ's love.

Christ's promise, however, goes far beyond a mutual commitment of support. He has told , His people that no matter what we do as sinners, He will love us and see~ our return to Him. As long as somewhere one wed-' ded partner, no matter what the other has done, retains an open and nourishing love, the covenant parallel is justified.

Marriage is the only sacrament where the persoll receiving .it is also the administrator, Marriage is not done to us; we do it to ourselves, just as Christ freely sought and freely made a covenant with His church.

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When you think about it, using the marital relationship to express the covenant bond between Yahweh and His people is rather bold but, perhaps for this very reason, quite forceful. It tells us a great deal about that bond as a firm and intimate relationship, rather than just a cold, -legalistic arrangement.

And it tells us something about marriage as viewed by the biblical authors.

Some books do, in fact, make the covenant sound like a lifeless contract and many passages give a similar dmpression of . marriage. One must put all the data together to get a true picture.

Marriage among God's people was a private affair. Con~equ­ ently the Law says little about it directly, except in its regulations about whom a priest may or may not marry (Lv. 21,7, 13).

It tellg us nothing about the legal age for marriage, the wedding ceremony, and other items of obvious interest. It does, howev~r, consider peripheral mat-

ten:, those with strictly legal implications, like divorce and remarriage (Dt. 24, 1-4), being hoodwinked into marrying a· non-vir~n, rape, adultery, and the like (Dt. 22, 13-23,1).

Monogamy was held up as the ideal by the Yahwist author of Genesis 2. After Adam's ecstatic exclamation: "This one, at last, is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: This one shall be called 'woman: for out of 'her man' this one has been taken," the writer comments: "That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body" (Gn. 2,23-24).

Even though this was the ideal and remained so for a long while, polygamy was practiced without question, at least until after the Exile. So generally accepted was it that, while Hosea pictured Yahweh as the 'husband' of Israel, Ezekiel did not hesitate to pictur~ His as married to two sisters, symbols of the two Idngdoms (Ez, 23).

While polygamy may have been a practical arrangement from some points of view, it led to many family problems: envy, squabbles, hatred, even violence. Many Old Testament stories bear this' out. Concubinage, too, seems to have been common and legal complications arising from it were very involved.

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By Father Alfred McBride

Certain moments· in life are so seriQus that they cannot be left to routine behavior. There are some human events too great to consign to a passing glance. Peak moments in everyone's life have so much depth, wonder and meaning that they make the word sacred come almost spontaneously to the lips. Such major moments are the birth of a child, the wedding of two lovers, the death of a human being. Clearly there are other deep moments in life, but few can match the consistency of this trinity of peak and depth experiences so prevalent in life.

The sacraments are closely linked with such peak and depth experiences. Baptism, matrimony and the funeral Mass surround, hallow, celebrate and focus the veritably automatic reverence that accompanies birth, marriage and death. It is the sacrament that aids us to call forth and affirm the presence of Christ in these moments. It is the sacramental event that helps us be aware that Christ is the very depth and meaning of being born, marrying and dying. It is the sacramental rite; that brings to the front of our awareness . the presence of the holy dn tbe midst of such wonders as birth and marriage and the pledge of Easter and eternal life.

Disposable People Barely 20 years ago, a woman's magazine asked the question, "Can this mariiage be saved?"" Its answer was always yes. Today, such magazines ask, "Should this marriage be saved?" Sadly, their answer is all to often no. In a culture that favors the throwaway, the disposable and planned obsolescenece regarding things, there is the growing application of this principle to persons.

A recent news clipping showed a woman sporting her seventh husband. She disposed of six persons and is now consuming the seventh. Such people no . longer take their vows "until death do us part," but rather "until growth, boredom, or the urge to throwaway do us part."

Part of the charm of .wfi!ddings is the public affirmation of enduring love by the spouses.

What they whispered to each other in the romance and joy of their premarital getting to know each other, is now tentatively, nervously, but truly proclaimed before their relatives and friends. The mature and experienced w,itnesses know the troubles that lie ahead, but they are nonetheless touched.'

The youthful, unmarried onlookers see the dream of romance fulfilled, and are affected deeply in their own way.

This brief public exposure of love's affirmations, its durabil-

"PART OF THE CHARM of weddings is the public, affirmation of enduring love by the spouses," Father Alfred McBride writes. A Japanese couple ride in a carriage following their wedding in Rome. (NC Photo) ity and the acceptance of the 'lasting love, His refusal to seek sacrifice implied ds caught by a divorce from His people.

But not only does the Sacrathe sacramental rite of matrimony. The readings and prayers ment speak of the divine model introduce the texts about God's for permanent love, it Pledges Tum to Page Thirteen covenant with people, His ever-

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The Breaking of Bread

By Msgr. Joseph M. Champlin

A dozen women in Holy Family parish belong to a volunteer group of altar bread bakers. Each week one of these ladies 'bakes enough bread to carry us through the Sunday liturgies and the weekdays following.

These loaves are not the customary thin white hosts. Prepared a€cording to a Benedictine recipe, they are brownish and substantial, while still retaining a circular shape and unleavened character.

In addition, we occasionally consecrate and reserve in the tabernacle a quantity of the traditional white wafers to care for any overflow of communicants and to provide for persons who strongly object to the other bread. By waiting until near the end of the Communion procedure, such people normally receive the thin hosts because we have by then exhausted the supply of brown altar breads.

The present practice now meets with fairly broad based approval in the parish. At the beginning five years ago, on the contrary, we encountered significant opposition.

Patient preaching and teaching plus a gentle approach giving objectors the alternative de-

scribed above gradually dissolved most of the hostility. Equally patient experimentation with various recipes and methods led us to the current, generally acceptable product.

Our efforts in this area stemmed from the following directive from the revised Roman Missal: "The nature of the sign demands that the material for the eucharistic celebration appear as actual food. The eucharistic bread, even though unleavened and traditional in form, should therefore be made in such a way that the priest can break ,it and distribute the parts to at least some of the faithful. When the number of communicants is large or other pastoral needs' require it, small host may be used. The gesture of the breaking of the bread, as the eucharist was called in apostolic times, will more cleat:ly show the eucharist as a sign of unity and charity, since the one bread is being distributed among the members of one family" (no.

283).

These new altar breads, then, are not really so much an innovation as a restoration of what was done in the early Christian centuries.

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Two Shall Be Made Into One•.• Continued from Page Twelve couple, or the girl's brothers if her father was dead. A payment known as the 'mohar' was made to the bride's parents. The transaction doesn't seem to have been anything so crude as 'buying' the girl, although it may have been the :vestige of an even more ancient custom which was in fact a purchase.

We are not told how old the bride was, but it seems that ordinarily she would not have been far past puberty. While we know nothing about the ceremony, we know that subsequent festivities lasted a week. .

If this sounds rather cold and businesslike, there are indications that marriage often involved deep love. The girl's wishes were often consulted (Gn. 24,58). and Jacob loved Rachel so much that he agreed to serve her brother for an additional seven years if he could have her

Breaking Bread Continued from Page Twelve 1970 gave some further guidelines: "Though the nature of the sign demands that this bread appear as actual food which can be broken and shared among brothers, it must always be made in the traditional form. . ."

"The necessity for the sign to be genuine applies more to the color, taste and texture of the bread than to its shape. Out of reverence for the sacrament, every care and attention should be used in preparing the altar bread. It should be easy to break and should not be unpleasant for the faithful to eat.

Bread which tastes of uncooked flour, or which becomes dry and inedible too quickly, must never be used" (Third Instruction on the Correct Implementation of the Sacred Liturgy, article 5).

These altar breads do make it clearer that Holy Communion is eating the Lord's Body.

They also better remind us of St. Paul's words to the Corinthians: "Because the loaf of bread is one, we, many though we are, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf." (1 Cor. 10,17).

They also give our b~kers a greater sense of belonging to the parish and to the Eucharist.

Their married and homes lives enter through these loaves into the Mass itself.

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Marriage Continued from Page Twelve the power of Christ's presence and power to assist the couple to fulfill the vows they so daringly take in a culture that will do everything it can to make a mockery of their promises.

Through the sacrament Christ will grace their marriage.

Through the culture the world will erode their marriage.

The couple then must not only pledge their love, but affirm their faith in the depth {)f what t1)ey are doing. The culture net'!d not erode the marriage, if the spouses permit and welcome the Christ of the sacrament to grace it. Then we see the even' greater charm of enduring love and growth.

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- after he had been duped into marrying her ill-favored elder sister (Gn 29, 15-30). Abraham and Sarah, Samuel and Hannah, and many others were deeply in love. And the book known as the Song of Songs is a rapturous celebration of frankly erotic love.

The New Testament adds little to the data of the old. Jesus treats the subject directly only in connection with the question of divorce, and then reaffirms the ideal expressed in Gn 2,2324. Paul seems to take a less than enthusiastic view of marI'igae in 1 Cor. 7, but what he wrote has to be carefully weighed against the whole context of that letter.

A corrective is supplied, if one can call it that, by the later (Pauline) author of Ephesians.

In the tradition of the earlier prophets he compares the union of man and wife to that of Christ a nd His Chl,lrch. This passage set the tone for the Christian attitude to the marriage bond, an indissoluble union of love and mutual giving, a living sign of Christ's unique and unfailing love for His Body, the Church.

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Pentecost Continued from Page Three The commitment required for true initiation into the Spirit will be considered Wednesday, March 16. A baptism ceremony will be followed by a study of life, rebirth, hope and joy.

The program for Wednesday, May 30 will highlight confirmation with the theme "Becoming a Christian Witness."

During Mass the confirmands will be presented to the pastor, accepted by the community and indicate their desire to share full community life. A film presentation on sharing belief will lead into meditation and study on the growth of faith in community.

On April 6, Wednesday of Holy Week, participants will study their role as a healing community and the sick will be anointed during the celebration of Mass. Guest speaker will be Rev. Kevin Tripp, chaplain at St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford.

"A Thankful People" will be the theme for Sunday, May 1, when parish children will receive First Eucharist, escorted by the confirmands. The program will be followed Wednesday, May 4 by a celebration of the parish community as "Al1eluia People." The sacraments of marriage and holy orders will be studied as expressions of celebration.

The program's conclusion will come with the confirmation ceremony Saturday, May 7, to be followed by a parish reception for the newly· initiated "Christian adults."

Concurrently with the evening programs a morning. study program will be offered and special spiritual renewaf programs will take place for students of public and parochial schools.

The entire program is sponsored by the Impact Committee of St. Joseph's Religious Education Board with the cooperation of members of other parish organizations.

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Continued from Page Twelve of the selfishness that leads to other, administered by one an- marriage failure. But in the muother. At the same time, the tual search for potential, there sacrament has a social 'signific- is also greater hope for the imance imparting not only grace to provement of marriage as a valthe recipients but a certain ued and exciting contribution to grace and responsibility to the society. The outcome is worth witnesses. the risk.

W~en a ~houghtful, hardAt a wedding. all are enrich-d by the evidence of Christ's workmg ma.mage. succeeds and love which the couple's willing- perseveres, It glorIOusly reflects ness to accept one another sug- the unself,ish and, enduring love gests. And they are challenged of Christ. . by an obligation to do all in (CopyrIght (c) 19:7 by NC News ServIce) their power to' foster the love the couple have for one another.

When the fact of the couple's marrying themselves is really understood, it would seem to make the sacrament of marriOJAI, Calif. (NC) - Some Caage more at home in our contemporary cultural setting than tholic parishes in California are it has been in any previous age. taking advantage of a priest's Most modem marriages are not invention - along with higher undertaken to satisfy the aims prices for used newspaper - to of state or church or family pr bale themselves out of debt.

It started two years ago in for a woman to have a male protector and the man to have this small city where Augustinsomeone maintain his home. ian Father Richard K. 'Smith, Young couples today most often pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas speak of marrying in terms of Church, faced the gloomy prostheir mutual psychological satis- pect of closing his parish school faction, a fulfillment of their if additional support was not personhood. They seek a part- quickly found. Collecting used ner as a life companion, a com- newspapers wa's one suggestion municative helpmate who will that appealed to the conservaencourage them to be their best tion-minded priest. selves and who, in tum, they So Father Smith, who has a will sustain with effort and sac- master's degree in physics and rifice. They stress the mainten- a love for woodworking, devised ance of an individuality that 'is the Ecolo-Baler, a manual newscompatible w,ith and supports paper baler which uses no elecshared goals in a shared life. tricity or gasoline and is safe Indeed it seems that many enough for children to operate. contemporary couples make Parishioners now drop off their more noble demands on marri- week's papers after Mass on age than the social factors in- Sunday, and the school children fluencing an earlier generation. bale them into neat, compact 80With so much emphasis on per- - pound bundles, easily stacked on sonal needs and self-fulfillment wooden pallets for forklifting however, there is greater danger into trucks.

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By The Dameans THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE Too many broken hearts are falling in the river, Too many lonely souls have drifted out to sea, You lay your bets and then you pay the price, The things we do for love, the things we do for love.

Communication is the problem to be answered, You've got a number and your hand is on the phone.

The weather's turned and aU the lines are down, The things we do for love, the things we do for love.

Like walking in the rain and the snow when there's Nowhere to go and you're feeling like a p~ of you is dying And you're looking for the answer in her eyes.

You think you're going to break up, then she Says she wants to make up, Ah, you made me love you, ah, you've gone away, Ah, you had me crawling on the floor.

Written by Stewart and Gouldman Performed by 10 CeMan-Ken Music BMI The members of the group 10 CC have disbanded to pursue individual careers and their probable farewell offering is, "The Things We Do For Love," a simple yet profound statement on the giving which love entails.

The song gives' another angle on love. This time it's not the glamor, happiness and fulfillment in love we hear about, but the insecurity and risk involved in loving another.

Love is an investment - "You lay your bets and then you pay the price."

Love can take it _on the chin. It doesn't sell out for someone else when communication lines are down and, "your hand is on the phone," to give someone else a try.

Love can give and not count the cost of giving. It doesn't need to insist on its own rights, but can compromise for the strength of the relationship.

The things we do for love, day in and day out, in the c1assroom,at the mall, in the office. on the street! Each of us knows only too well how we treat others and how we, can do better with a little effort.

Giving takes some effort, but we often find it contagious. If we are known by our: giving and not our taking, people will feel comfortable with us. .

They will then :be invited to pass the giving along.

-Little by little our hangups about hoarding to ourselves will disappear and we will find that it is truly in giving that we possess the most important things.

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'Upon entering kindergarten; an American child already has spent more hours viewing TV tha n he or she would to earn a college. degree.'

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Social scientists, teachers, parents, educators and youth counselors are taking an increasing- interest in television's impact on the young.

They are alarmed by televised violence, racial and sexual stereotypes, and commercials that promote sugar-saturated foods.

They are concerned by the role they think TV is playing in declining math and reading scores among youth today.

At the same time, they are pleased that children are learning to count, recite the alphabet, and read from public television programs.

They are happy that youngsters are discovering how to share and cooperate from the networks' more value-centered programs.

Whatever television's impact, it is nothing if not pervasive.

An estimated 11 million children watch it Saturday mornings. Yet 90 percent of the viewing done by the nation's 35 million youngsters is spread out through the rest of the week. As late as midnight on weekdays, for example, one million young people , are watching.

During the 1975-76 TV season, all 10 shows _top-rated by children under 12 were on during evening prime-time hours.

First was "Laverne and Shirley"; second, "Six - Million - Dollar Man." On an average, youngsters watch television four hours a day. The TV set stays on 53 hours a week in homes with preschoolers, compared to 43 hours a week in the average U.S. household. Upon entering kindergarten, an American child already has spent more hour!?

viewing TV than he or she would to earn a college degree.

By his or her 18th birthday, more time has been devoted to television than to anything else except sleep. The high school graduate will have attended school for 11,000 hours, but will have sat for almost twice that many hours in front of the set, exposed to an estimated 350,000 commercials and 18,000 murders.

Television has become more than a -recreational diversion. It has become a powerful teacher whose influence on youth's attitudes and behavior rivals that of parents schools and churches.

Experts point out that television shapes the way children view themselves and their world, from three-year-olds who can recite McDonald's jingle, to the kimiergarteners who jump off slides wearing Batman capes, to the teen-agers who, surfeited with old war movies, think the U.S. is still at war with Japan.

(This actually turned up in one university study!)

Child psychologist Robert M. Liebert of the State University of New York, says, "The medium has changed childhood more than any other social innovation in the history of the world."

David Pearl, head of the behavioral st::iences research branch of the National Institutes of Mental Health, says, ~'For the majority of young people in this country, television is the socializing agency."

Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Anne R. Somers, Boston health specialist, called for "an attack on this new risk factor - pollution of the mind - which has contributed to an epidemic of youthful violence that seriously threatens the health of Ameri-

can youth." She cited statistics showing an alarming increase in violent deaths among persons 15 to 24. _ "Television has become 'the medium for children'," she said, "and it is difficult to overstate its influence on them."

List Activities At Connolly High

By Michael Dwyer The weekend of March 5 and 6 Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, wil1 host the sixth annual Massachusetts High School Drama Guild Festival, sponsored by The -Boston Globe.

Gary D. Buseck, S. J., and Eugene F.. Orteneau, S. J., are coordinators, and David Stafford, and Edward McGuire are student co-chairmen. Connolly will offer two productions, "If Men ,Played Cards as Women Do," directed by Edward Pettine, which will serve as the "curtain-warmer" and will not be part of the actual competition, and the school's entry, "Dark Rider," a poignant drama about a dying boy who hopes to be a cowboy. The public is invited.

Fire and Ice will play for a dance to be sponsored from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. this Saturday at Connolly by the Christian Life Communities (eLC) of Connolly and Gerrard High Schools and open only to students of the two schools. The Connolly CLC is a1so sponsoring a raffle, the first prize of which is a trip to Disneyworld. Tickets are available at the school.

"The Beacon," Connolly newspaper, will publish for the first time this spring a literary magazine devoted to creative writing and art.

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Because of its larger size, the Southeastern Mass. Conference will have a greater number of entries :but other leagues with only one division - contrasted with three in the conference will have an approximately proportionate representation.

The conference's Division One will be represented by Durfee of Fall River and New Bedford, champion and runnerup, respectively, in that division. Durfee, undefeated in 16 conference games and 19 overall, winds up its regular schedule with a nonleague game at Brockton to: morrow night and New Bedford rang down the curtain on its

season last night at Barnstable.

- Fairhaven, which will probably have clinched the Division Two's title, by the time this edition of The Anchor reaches its readers, runnerup Somerset and third-place Wareham have also qualified.

Champion New Bedford Yoke, St. Anthony of New Bedford and Norton are qualifiers from Division Three. Case of Swansea, which finished in a secondplace tie with St. Anthony, needed to win over Somerset last Monday and Holy Family yesterday to qualify.

Old Rochester and Bishop Feehan High meet tomorrow night in the Division Two finale. Non-league games tomorrow night list Dartmouth at· New Bedford Yoke, Fairhaven at Bishop Stang High and DightonRehoboth at Wareham.

Four From Hockomock League Qualify Stoughton, Sharon, Oliver Ames and Franklin will carry the Hockkomock League colors into the Eastern Mass. playoffs.

Entering this week, Sharon was setting the pace in that loop with Stoughton in second place. Oliver Ames and Franklin were in a third-place tie. The league's final card of the season tomorrow night has Can-

ton at Sharon, Oliver Ames at Stoughton, King Philip at Foxboro and Franklin at North AtUeboro.

As of last Friday, Stoughton was ranked 10th in the E. Mass.

Division One ratings and its Deane Jordan was the league's top scorer with a' 23.6 .average.

Sharon was ranked fourth in Division Two of the E. Mass. ratings.

Mayflower League Also Has Qualifiers The Mayflower League, which closed its season with full fourgame cards Monday and yesterday, will be represented in the E. Mass. playoffs by BristolPlymouth, seemingly well on the way to the leagUe championship, Southeastern Regional and Avon.

Avon is host tomorrow night to Sacred Heart of the Catholic Suburban League.

Among other playoff qualifiers from within the Fall River Diocese are Harwich, Nantuket, and Nauset of the Cape and Islands League.

Tomorrow is the cut-off date to qualify for the playoffs. It is therefore possible that more names will be added to the list of qualifiers. First playoff games are scheduled for next Tuesday with pairings and sites of games to be announced Saturday.

Girls' Eastern Mas~. playoffs are also scheduled to start next week but full information is lacking on quaiifiers. It is certain, however, that Durfee and Bishop Stang' High are among them.

Fiola, Doherty and Kaeterle Lead Scorers Ken Fiola of champion Durfee is the leading scorer in Division One of 'the Southe ste a rn Mass. Conference, Brendan Doh-

erty of Bishop Feehan High leads in the individual scoring in Division Two, and, Mark Kaeterle of New Bedford Yoke takes honors in Division Three.

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The three Bert Notch, Florence Daniriger and Mary Senander - want to publicize what they call the "life issues" to the greatest number of peopie at tJte least cost.

"No matter how many times you have meetings in town hans

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Notch, a St. Paul advertising agent, organized CFL after an abortion clinic opened in his neighborhood.

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Mike McCoy, a defensive tackle . The event was not 'one of for the Green Bay Packers said those moving, emotional experiences," McCoy said, but he here.

"If we don't, the kids will stop knew he had changed and began playing," McCoy said. "They to read Scripture on his own.

Niland said his experience ocdon't like those attitudes."

McCoy. spoke to The Florida curred in 1973. It too was not Catholic, newspaper of the, Or- 'an emotional experience," he lando diocese, during a confer- said, but "I became convinced eIl;ce of the Pro-Athlete Out- \of my sinfulness and simply reach (PAO) program which turned myself over to God." Both Niland and McCoy said brought scores of professional they believe competition is imathletes here.

John Niland,. a guard with the portant to growth, but they do Philadelphia Eagles, agreed that not agree with those who pro"winning isn't everything and mote sports for the sake of really not all that important." winning, particularly among Echoing McCoy, he said: "The younger athletes.

If people "play to win, win, important thing is to do your win," they said, "their goal bebest for the glory of Christ."

They explained that "PAO comes their god."

The goal of Christian athletes, wants to help athletes grow, help them share their faith in McCoy said, is "to conform to the image and likeness of Jesus Jesus Christ personally."

McCoy said he had been Christ, to give our maximum abraised a Catholic but had not ility for his glory. discovered Christ until 1971. "I grew up a Catholic and had a Raffle, Clamcakes relationship with God before Attleboro - Taunton Catholic that," he said, "but it was a Scouting Committee will sponfearful one and very guilt-ridden. I'd be in the confessional sor a raffle and clamcake and three times a week. When I got chowder luncheon and supper at out of college and went to the K of C Hall, 2 Hodges St., AttIePackers I met Carol Nelson a ~ boro, on Friday, March 4. To be raffled are a damascene plate, a very Christian man.

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BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER Reservations shquld be made

by Monday, Feb. 28 by those planning to attend a dinnertheatre bus trip to Chateu de Ville on Sunday, March 20 for a performance of "The Unsinkable Molly 'Brown." The trip is sponsored by the Women's Guild and further information is available from Mrs. Rudolph Ouellette, president, telephone 674-4050.

The Guild will hold its regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 9.

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"People: Mini,Midi and Maxi" will be presented by Barbara..

O'Brien at th~ Women's Guild meeting scheduled for 7 p.m.

Wedpesday, MarcH 2 in the church hall with Mrs. John Voller and Mrs. Virgil Grignon as chairmen.

The unit will sponsor a spring family fashion show Thursday, March 10, at the hall. Refreshments will be served. Mrs. Manuel DeMello is in charge of arrangements.

the weekend of March 19 and 20 by the Council of Catholic Women. The unit will also sponsor a bus trip to New York on Saturday, March 26, with the program including shopping, sightseeing and attendance at the Radio City Easter show. Reservations may be made with Mary Furtado, telephone 679-6607.

ST. JAMES, NEW BEDFORD A Lenten series of Masses followed by guest speakers will be held at 7:30 p.m. each evening ,from Monday, Feb. 28 through Thursday, March 3.

The public is invited and thl' speakers are: Monday, Rev. Robert Kaszynski of St. Stanislaus Church, Fall River, whose topic will be Faith; Tuesday, Rev. John A.. Cantwell, St. Michael Church, . Lowell, the Blessed Virgin; Wednesday, Rev. Jeremiah Casey, SS.Ce., Sacred Heart Church, Fairhaven, the Liturgy; Rev. Terrence Keenan, St. James the Sacrament of Peace.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER A whist party, open to the public, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27 in Father Coady Center. Mrs. Norman Hathaway and Mrs. Thomas Reis are chairmen.

SACRED HEART, OAK BLUFFS Rev. Joseph F. D'Amico, Sacred Heart's new pastor, was welcomed by the Women's Guild at a meeting also featuring a "blind pound" auction and centering on fund raising plans, to include a ham and bean supper 'at a date to be announced.

As the result of a recent food and white elephant sale the guild made a generous donation towards parish winter fuel costs.

ST. THOMAS MORE, . SOMERSET First place winners in the arts and crafts show sponsored last weekend by the Women's Guild and judged by Mrs. Louise Doyle, Mrs. Margaret Berube and Mrs. Barbara Chadwick of the Greater Fall River Art Assn.

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OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP, NEW BEDFORD The Women's Guild will hold a dance from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday, April 23 at Recordaoes Ballroom, 253 Coggeshall St. Music will be by the Joe Pasieka orchestra and Mrs. Jennie Tracz is chairlady.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER .

Children of Mary will hold a cake sale this weekend. A penny sale at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 24 at the church hall will benefit the Espirito Santo Feast fund.

The Holy Name Society will sponsor a whist party at 2 p.m.

Sunday, March 13, also at the hall.

A cake sale is scheduled for

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER A family renewal retreat will be preached on the six consecutive Sundays in Lent in Polish at 4 p.m. and in English at 6:30 p.m.

The parish council will meet at 7 tonight in the lower church hall.

Those participating in the parish trip to Greece and Turkey will meet at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, also in the lower church hall.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER At 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 9 there will be a meeting for

parents whose children are in grade 2 of CCD classes and are making their first confession at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 12.

Donations are requested for a rummage sale planned for Saturday, March 26 at the school.

Mrs. James Charette, telephone 678-4637, may be contacted for further information.

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ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Rev. Ralph D. Tetrault will conduct a Lenten series open to all adults in the church hall from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays during Lent. To be presented by means of lectures, filmstrips and discussion will be studies of the American Bishops' pastoral letter on the Blessed Virgin and of the Holy Shroud. There will be' no charge for the series.

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER Topics for an adult education program to begin Tuesday, 'March 1 in the parish school and to continue from 7:30 to' 9:30 p.m. for five Tuesdays through March 29 will be Coping with Stress in Your Life, Building Your Self-Image, Improving Your Understanding of Alcohol Sickness, Community Attitudes on Alcohol and Marriage and the Family. Participants may register at the rectory, the convent, or with members of the organizing committee.

are: Jean Pietraszek, children's entries; Tom Pietraszek, photography; Mrs. Pauline Harrington, commercial ceramics; Mrs. Jean Halpin, knitting; Mrs. Anne Gonsalves, crocheting; NIrs. Demie D'Giammo, machrame; Mrs. Gert Gryncewicz, rag dolls; Mrs. Rita Baker, hooked rugs; Mrs. Lorraine Cabral, oils; Mrs. Flauretta Iadiacola, pottery, Miss Liz Aspden, woodworking; Mrs. Eleanor Buckley, crewel.

Mrs. Cathy Pietraszek was chairperson for the show.

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