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Portugal Bestows Honor On Fr. Luiz G. Mendonca His Excellency, the President )f the Republic of Portugal, in ,ecognition of outstanding service to the Church and to the Jromotion of Portuguese Culture in the Fall River area, has be· ,towed the "Military Order of 8hrist of Portugal" on Very Rev. l.uiz G. Mendonca, pastor of Our l.ady of Mount Carmel Parish in New Bedford. Dr. Luis Augusto Martins, member of the Portuguese Em)assy in Washington, D. C. will :onfer the insignia on behalf of His Excellency Dr. Joao Hall fhemido, Ambassador of Portu· gal to the United States. The bestowal of Portugal's nalional honor will be in conjunction with a testimonial to be offered to Father Mendonca by the parishioners of St. John of God Parish in Somerset where he was pastor before being assigned to the New Bedford parish. The March 10 ceremony and testimonial will be held at Venus de Milo Restaurant in Swansea. The guest speaker for the event will be the Honorable Milton R. Silva, Presiding Justice of the Second District Court in Fall River. Mr. Carlos M. L. Nunes, Portu·
Diocese, ,Announces Plans For Holy Year Pilgrims The priests of the Fall River Diocese gathered for a clergy conference on Tuesday and were told of diocesan plans for the celebration of the Holy Year. Considerable time was also given to a full pastoral approach to the implementation of the revised ries for the Anointing of the Sick. An in-depth article will be featured in next week's Anchor. The world-wide phase of the Holy Year, to be celebrated in, 1975, will open Rome to the devotion of pilgrims. The Diocese of Fall River will undertake a diocesan pilgrimage to Rome to celebrate the Holy Year on February 14, 1975. The voyage will be an eight-day pil· grimage with side trips possible to other European sites. The trip is scheduled to take' up the 1975 February Washington holidays. The Februar.y pilgrimage will be the diocese's official pilgrimage and will be led by His Excellency, Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River. Diocesan Phase The diocesan phase of the Holy Year will be inaugurate<1
Asks Children Aid Poor FATHER MENDONCA guese Vice Consul from Boston and Mrs. Nunes will also be present to honor the former Somerset pastor. A native of New Bedford, Father Mendonca was born Sept. 26, 1919, the son of the late Luiz G. and the late Maria (Almeida) Mendonca. After attending New Bedford's Turn to Page Two
NEW YORK (NC)-Pope Paul . VI has asked American school children to support the American Catholic Overseas Aid Fund so that it can provide "food, clothing, medicine and other life-saving supplies to those in need around the gloQe every day, all year long." In an Ash Wednesday radio address carried 'by all major radio networks, the Pope noted that many children "have not schools, no doctors; many go to bed hungry every night because there is simply not enough food to go around." Many other children, he added, suffer from natural catastrophies Turn to Page Four
Lenten Series on Penance For New Bedford Parishes Grammar School A Lenten series for Adult Catholics, exploring the sacra· ment of Penance, the effect of sin and the call to contrition, will be sponsored by the parishes of the south end of New Bedford on four Sunday evenings of Lent, from 7:30 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Rev. Thomas Grannell, SS.CC., assistant at St. Joseph's Church, Fairhaven, will initiate the series on Sunday, March 3, 197<1, at St. James Church Hall. Father will explore the question,. "What is sin?"
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Rev. Nicholas, O.F.M., of St. Hedwig Church, New Bedford, will conduct the second session, on contrition, "Am I Really Sorry?" at Mt. Carmel School Auditorium, on March 10. On Sunday, March 17, a panel discussion on some of the problems of confession will be chaired by Rev. Michel- G. Methot, Associate Director for Adult Educa· tion and Assistant at St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford. Lay people and religious will make up the panel among whom will be Rev. William Petrie, SS.CC. of Regina Pacis Center, New Bedford. The Lenten series will conclude with a celebration of the sacrament of Penance at St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford, on Sunday, March 24. The priests who have participated in the series wjll be on hand for individual confessions at this servi<;e.
Regislralion Catholic elementary schools of the Diocese are holding registration this coming weekendMarch 2 and 3- for pupils entering kindergarten and first grade as well as for transfer students into other grades. Registration WIll also take place the weekend of March 9 and 10. For'achild entering school for the first time, parents should bring a birth or baptismal certificate. For transfer students, parents should bring a copy of the student's last report card. Parents should check with the school in which they wish to enroll a child since various schools are holding registration at times convenient for pa~ents and taking into consideration area Mass schedules.
next month with each vicariate undertaking an official pilgrimage to St. Mary's Cathedral of the Assump~ion. The ceremony at the cathedral, presided over by the Bishop, will be specifically designed as a Holy Year Service.
ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL Fall River will make the pilgrimage on Sunday, March 17; Attleboro-Taunton on Sunday, March 24; New Bedford·Cape Cod on Sunday, March 31. The penitential aspect of the Lenten ,Season and the Holy Year theme of reconciliation
should easily combine for fruit· ful devotion. To facilitate such pilgrimages and yet limit them to the 800 seat capacity of the Cathedral, each parish in the designated areas will receive a limited number of tickets for participation in these pilgrimages. Following these vicariate pilgrimages to the <;:athedral, the Most Reverend Bishop will designate certain churches in each vicariate where parishes may go in pilgrimage to gain' the Holy Year indulgences. Other Forms The Holy Year indulgences can also be gained in three other kinds of pilgrimages. The first will group together individuals at one designated church for a designated Holy Year service. The second will be the occasion of group pilgrimages to various designated churches. Official parish pilgrimages, societies, clubs, etc. will-as groups - participate in such pilgrimages and gain the Holy Year indulgences. The third will invite individuals to private pilgrimages to the St. Mary's Cathedral of the Assumption in Fall River on a designated day each week. , Urge Priests ' The priests were urged in their normal teaching and homilies to stress the full meaning of pilgrimages to the faithful, especially showing their penitential aspect in Christian devotion. The meaning of indulgences, especially the Holy Year Indulgence, should also be clearly understood by all, the priests were told. Turn to Page Two
Host World Day of Prayer In Chatham Tomorrow Church bells in Chatham will peal forth a call to "prayers for peace building" tomorrow, March I, the 88th World Day of Prayer now celebrated in 168 countries. Mrs. William F. Kelly, president of the Association of the Sacred Hearts of the Holy Redeemer Church, is Chatham chairman. The worship service for women from all local .churches will be , held at Holy Redeemer Church at one o'clock: followed by a Fellowship Tea in the Catechetical Center on Highland Avenue. From a simple beginning in 1887 with a small group of women dedicated to the belief that the mission work for which they were responsible needed prayer as well as giving, the annual ecumenical event on the first Friday of March is now worldwide with roots deep in numberless local committees. It is under the auspices of an International Committee composed of a liaison officer from each country with a national committee. In the United States, Church Women United is the official sponsor of the World Day .of Prayer. Worship materials developed from the 1974 theme, "Make Us Builders of
World Peace," were prepared by the women of Japan and processed by the International Committee to be used universally. The primary focus of the offering this year is a "contribution to an international fund for rehabilitation and reconciliation to which Christian women in all countries contribute." All Chatham churches are represented in the committee of arrangements and will be participants in the service. Assisting the chairman, Mrs. Kelly, are: Mrs. Henry'P. Hopkins and Mrs. Fairfield Whiting, First Congregational Church; Mrs. George C. Dannenberg and Mrs. Frederic L. Howells, St. Christopher's Episcopal Church; Mrs. Cyrus Baker and Mrs. Cyril F. Cahoon, South Tum to Page Four
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