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Two C"r~t~s.. Transferred
By Bishop' Most Rev. James L. Con nolly, Bishop of Fall River, announced today the trans ,fer of two cur ate s. One assignment 'is permanent;· the other is temporary. The changes al'e effective todf\Y, Thursday" March 3, The changes are: Rev. Pet~r ~. G.raziano, M.A., S.T.L., assistant at 'the Cathedral
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, Rev. Lucien Bouchard, O:MJ.,· a mlssl<?nary in Sam Nella, Laos, near the North Vietnam border, has repOrted . . to Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, Diocesan director of the Society for' the' Propagation of the. Faith, on missionary 'work in his strife-torn "ter the rounds, then I)lave to start ritory. 'The son of Mrs. all over again. ." Blanche Bouchard, formerly "It's like Easter every time I visit them: they' all come to of So. Attleboro, but now re siding in Pawtucket,' Father Mass and receive the sacraments. Ati Analor PAUL, . .'0' fA. ,,""'..... _ I"h-IT. . . Bouchard has been in Laos since It is very comforting to see how 1956.. He writes', in thanking they have rem'ained steadfast in Msgr. Considine for a Christmas their faith in spite of all their fall River, Mass., Thursday, March 3, 1966 gift from the people, of the Dio hardships since the' beginning of 1960. cese, "I will use the- money to the war "Whenever I visit them, I ~lsG help pay for the room and board PRICE lOe of. our 19 young Mao catechists, bring medicine for their sick. rr U.oo per. Year .Vo'. 10, ~o. 9. © 1966 The An<:hor who will be in training for' three am very ha'ppy to be of servioo to them because it gives me the years.. "On account of the war, we chance to help Christ's poores~ . have to train these catechists so among the poor. '''In one: of the' photos I'.rm that th'ey can take: care of a mis sion ·outpost .in' th~ absence of sending, .you see one of my sac o the missionary. For instance, ristans, and two of his sevcm they will have to administer children. We're standing on &l Turn to Page Ten baptism, make marriage in The realization that has ,inervened in history quiries and preside over the in as real.a. manner as the events of the Old Testament marriage ceremony, teach the IIIl1t11l1l1lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltl1l1l1l1l:I;::j) doctrine to young and, old, help and the correspOnding trusting faith in GOd is the fund Jubilee Mass amental disposition of the Post-Concilar Church and each' the sick and dying. ,Bishop Gerrard. will offer the . . "I spend all my time: visiting of her members. This, to .' second Jubilee Mass in commem about 20 different refugee vil gether with a brief descrip the people of the Diocese to gain in, the mountains: These oration of the Second Vaticall tion of the Vatican Council's the special Jubilee indulgences lages C9uncil 'in St. Mary's Church, people have lost· all their pos decrees, was ~he central idea accorded. by Pope Paul from sessioJ;ls on account. of w~r. In Taunton, Sunday afternoon at 3. of a sermon preached by the bom ian.. 1 to May 29, 1966. Rev. Joseph P. Delaney wiD many cases it is really' a struggle Rev. John R. FoIster, assistant at "We think with veneration of for life day after day. It takes be tJ:!.e preacher. St. Anthony's Church, New Bed Turn t~ Page 'Seventeen me about two months to make IIII!'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII_ ford, at the PontifiCal'Low Mass, .tY celebrated by Bishop Connolly at St, Lawrence 'Church, that city, in connection with the Ju bilee commemorating Vatican II. The Most Reverend Bishop, surrounded by the New Bedford area clergy and laity, offered the first of five Lenten Sunday Masses to be offered in various parts of th(~ Diocese to permit \
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ef St. Mary of the Assumption, Fall River, to Holy Name Church, Fall River, as assistant on a permanent basis. Rev. Edmund A. Connors, as sistant at St. William Church,. Fall River, to the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, as assistant on a temporary basis. Father Graziano Father Graziano' was born July 13, 1935 in Boston, the son of William P. and Ruth (O'Neil) Gl'aziano. Tum to Page Seventeen
.Vocation Exhibit TV Feature
FATHER CONNORS
Rev. James F. Buckley, assist ant at Immaculate Conception Church, North Easton, and co ordinator of the Christian Pano rama exhibit slated for March' 25, through 27 at Bishop Cassidy High Schof)l,' Taunton, has an nounced that a 'special program will be shown onWTEV-Chan-' nel 6 at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, March 6. Msgr. John Hayes, Di ocesan Director of Vocations, will introduce the vocation and mission exhibit. This will be fol lowed by a panel discussion with Turn to Page Three
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'. HYANNIS GUILD PROMOTES UNITY: Members of the Matrons' Club of the Fed erated Church and the American Council of Baptist Women from the Baptist Women joined with the Women's Guild of St. Francis Xavier Parish, Hyannis at an evening's event in the Cape Cod town. Left to right: Mrs. Carl Schultz, Federated' Church; Mrs. Leo Gregoire, Guild president; Mrs. Gordan Libby, president of the American Council of Baptist Women; Very Rev. William D. Thomson, pas t 0 rand Guild moderator; Mrs. Frank Fisk, president of the Matrons' Club; Mrs. John Madden, wife of the minister at the Baptist Church, Hyannis.
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