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Legion of Mary Opens
Apostolic Year Sunday
The Annual Legion of Mary Acies (Consecration) Ceremony wilJ be held Sunday afternoon at 2 :30 in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall Riv~r. At that time Active and Auxiliary Legion members from the 23 Praesidia throughout the Diocese will meet with their spiritual directors to rededicate themselves to their apostolic work. The Most Reverend Bishop will preside over the ceremony and the preacher will be Very Rev. Roger M. Charest, S.M.M., Provincial of the Montfort Fathers, and a native of Fall' River. Participating in the services will be Rev. Edward A. Oliveira, Fall River Comitium Director and Diocesan Moderator, Rev. Albt!rt F. Shovelton, New Bed ford Curia Director, and Rev.
Joseph Delaney, Taunton Curia Dil·ector. Members of St. Michael's Choir, Fall River, under. the di , Tection of Rev. Gilbert Simoes and with Mrs. Marguerite Ward as organist will sing. The Legion of Mary report Turn to Page Twelve
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, March 14, 1963 Vol. 7, No. 11
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French Prelates Support Striking Coal Miners CAMBRAI (NC) - Three French prelates have ex pregsed their sympathy for France's 200,000 coal miners in their nationwide strike. The strike against the nation alized mines, which began March 1, has been supported by all major French union their demands. The govern organizations, the commu on ment has said it will not nego nist, socialist and the French tiate until the miners return to Confederation of Christian work. Workers. It is regarded as a major test of strength between organized labor and the government of President Charles de Gaulle, which has issued a back-to-work order. Miners are demanding shorter hours and an 11 per cent pay raise. The government has offered a 5.7 per cent increase. Strike leaders have declared they will not order their men back to the mines until the government opens negotiations
Archbishop Emile Guery of Cambrai, whose See is in the mining area, said: "Over and beyond all politi cal, economic and technical con siderations which are not our responsibility, we have the duty to . raise our voice and guard against the worst. "We need to find human solu tions to human problems; these
must be sought in honest conver sation between both sides. It is necessary for representatives of the unions to be received and heard. If the wages of miners are 11 per cent lower than other wages, this poses a question of justice to the nation and govern':' ment." Bishop Gerard Huyghe of Arras, also in the mining region, stated in a pastoral letter: "Many .people are perhaps dismayed by this strike, thinking of the coal which will no longer be delivered to them. Let them also think of the causes which have driven the miners to· this test· of strength: They are dis couraged because they feel they are abandoned and misunder stood." The Bishop continued: "We know well' enough how difficult the work of those people is, how their health is endangered and how uncertain their future is. "How could I avoid thinking of the suffering of the men and women in the coal mining areas? They must know that I sympa thize deeply with their misfor tune, and I want to tell all Christians that one cannot be Turn to Page Four
Announte " Vocations Masses Five Pontifical Masses for Vocations will be offered in the Diocese in the week be ginning Monday, March 25,
TURNS 99: Archbishop Daniel Mannix of Melbourne, Australia, has recently cele brated his 99th birthday. Until just a few years ago, the Archbishop was accus tomed to walking fOlir miles each day from his residence to St. Patrick's Cathedral and back again. A native of Ireland, he has been a bishop over 50 years. NC Photo.
St. Anne's To Cap Student Nurs'es The Most Reverend Bishop will preside over Capping exer cises that will take place Tues day, March 19, in the Chapel of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. Thirty-nine young ladies will receive their caps from Bishop Connolly who will also 'speak at 7 o'clock evening ceremony.
with students in Catholic sec ondary schools in attendance. Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., will' celebrate Mass at 10 Monday morning, in Notre Dame Church, Fall River. The choir will be composed of Sacred Hearts Academy students. On Wednesday morning at 10 o'c!ock Bishop Connolly will of fer Mass for Bishop Stang High School students at their school in .North Dartmouth. On Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock students of St. Anthony High, Holy Family High and . Sacred Hearts Academy, Fair. haven, will attend Mass in St. Anthony Church, New Bedford. Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese, will be celebrnnt..The St. An thony choir will sing. Taunton students will assist at Mass in St. Mary's Church at 10 Thursday morning. Bishop Con nqlly will be celebrant. Coyle High School students will sing. Bishop Connolly will celebrate the final Mas" at 10 Friday morning at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro. A Novena for Vocations will be conducted in all churches and schools of the Diocese start. ing Friday, March 22 and ending Sunday, March 31.
Convert-Nun First American Saint
Pontiff
School Aid Talk Smoke Screen
St. Patrick's Day - The great day for the Irish, takes
on added significance this March 17 when American
BALTIMORE (NC) - An
excited teenage girl has left here for Rome and what she calls "my first real big
born Mot her Elizabeth Ann Seton is beatified. Her biographers have written much about the great influence of the devout Catholic family of Felicchi in Italy, who befriended the young widow when her husband died there in 1803. But little has been said about the Irish in her life who aided and guided her both before and after her conversion to the Catholic Faith. We have, for example, the words of Mother Seton, in a Turn to Page Eighteen
trip." She is Ann Teresa O'Neill who will be not just another tourist, but a central figure at the beati fication of Mother Elizabeth Seton because she is a principal reason that Sister will be the first native U.S. citizen declared Blessed. Eleven years ago, when Ann was four-and-a-half, she was dying of leukemia. Physicians told her parents that her case was hopeless.
that Federal aid to private schools is unconstitutional. "1 am more convinced than ever," the Kansas prelate said, "that depriving religious and private schools of Federal aid has only one purpose behind it- to get rid of these schools. "I do not care that the poll ticians protest that this is not Turn to Page Twelve
Three more parishes have achieved their quota of sub. scriptions to The Anchor
for the coming year. A total of 22 parishes has now reached the quota mark. S eve I' a 1 parishes scattered throughout the diocese are work. ing feverishly to attain their quotas, hence they have not made final returns to the Circulation Department of this diocesan newspaper. The three reporting quota sales today are: St. Joseph's, New Bedford. St. Lawrence's, New Bedford. St. Mary's, Hebronville. A number of' parishes are close to reachmg their quotas. It would not take much to' put them into the coveted bracket which, in turn, will assure Ii sixth straight cirCUlation gain for The Anchor, the largest " weekly newspaper in Southeast ern Massachusetts.
We expect that several par. ishes will join the Q-class with. in .the week. This will establish a new quota class high.
Mother Seton Beatification Sunday
PATRON: This statue of Ireland's St. Patrick is lo cated at Saul, County Down, whet'e the Saint is believed to have died around the year
461 after spreading the Faith in the Island of Saints
and Scholars.
DODGE CITY (N C) Dodge City's Bishop Marion F. Forst characterized as "a smoke screen" the argument
Total of 22 Quota Class Parishes
B L E S SIN G: Cardirial
Spellman of New York will
bless Bishop Cassidy High
School in Taunton on Friday
May 3, at 2 :30. to R~ceive afternoon, Sisters of the Holy Union of
the Sacred Hearts staff this Cure Girl school.
'Great Day for Irish' Gets New Significance Young'
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Role of Layman Is To Mediate WASHINGTON (N C) - A Catholic lay leader said here that the average layman today has no idea of how he is to carry the Church into the world. Donald J. Thorman, director of the Spiritual Life Institute and a former Catholic magazine editor, said the layman is to be a mediator between the Church and the world. Thorman, author of "The Emerging Layman," said that the layman "has to see himself as part of the world and the Turn to Page Four ,
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