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Q VOL. 46, NO. 11
• Friday, March 15, 2002
FALL RIVER, MASS.
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Boyle to head curriculum for diocesan schools ~
BISHOPS SEAN O'Malley, OFM Cap., left, of the Diocese of Fall River and Robert E. Mulvee of the Diocese of Providence attended a Lenten day of recollection recently at St. John Neumann Church and the adjoining Cathedral Camp in East Freetown.
Diocesan priests attend Lenten day of recollection DAVE JOLIVET EDITOR
EAST FREETOWN - Amid their hectic and pressing Lenten , schedules, nearly 70 priests from the Diocese of Fall River recently joined Bishop Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap., for a Lenten day of recollection at St. John Neumann Parish here. Providing spiritual direction at the church and also at the adjoin-
ing Cathedral Camp was Bishop Thomas J. Harrington, pastor of Robert E. Mulveeof the Diocese Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Providence at the invitation of of Jesus Parish, New Bedford, to Father Mark R. Hession, director express his feelings at the end of of Priestly Life and Ministry in ,the event. "As one of our senior priests, I thought it would be apthe diocese. ''This was an important day for propriate for Msgr. Harrington to us," said Father Hession. "It gave share his reflections with us," said us the opportunity to support one Father Hession. "All present were unanimous another and our bishop in these in expressing their shared joy at trying times." Father Hession asked Msgr. Turn to page 16 - Recollection
She is named an assistant' superintendent under administration's ongoing restructuring.
think we can do," said George Milot, director of education for the diocese. "We have a wonderful ability now to come together as a school system in a way we never had r-----,.~_..",,,,..-........- - - - - . , before," Milot By DEACON added. " I am JAMES N. extremely DUNBAR pleased that Dr. Boyle is the perTAUNTON son coming in. - Donna Boyle, With her curacademic princiriculum experpal at Coyle and tise not only at Cassidy High the high school School here, will level, but at the become assistant elementary superintendent school level too, for curriculum I she is probably for Fall River di-, ! one of the most ocesan schools " respected people gracfes -lCiiloer- in the 'diocese. garten through Everyone knows 12. her energy and The appointDONNA BOYLE enthusiasm, and ment is effective I am fortunate to bring someone July 1. "We are really excited about with her background into this ofthe position that Dr. Boyle will fice. This is a big plus for the diofill, because we've never tied the cese." Turn to page 13 - Boyle schools together in a way we
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home to close its doors - Page two
St. Patrick: 'He looks like our family' By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR NEW YORK - The statue of St. Patrick in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York shows the Celtic saint wearing the miter and vestments of a bishop, with his crosier in one hand and a small, wriggly snake in the other. "He looks like my father's family," my grandmother told me as we stood gazing at the tall statue on a visit to the cathedral in 1940. She said her uncles, Irish immigrants, had sung in the choir there and were members of the famed 69th regiment comprised of New York's finest young men who were literally wiped out at the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. For years after that whenever I saw a picture of , St. Patrick I always wondered whether it was the one my grandmother thought resembled her father's clan. But as a lO-year-old, who the saint looked like
held little interest for me, but the snake did. My grandmother promptly told me that Patrick had driven all the snakes out of Ireland and had used the shamrock to teach the Trinity, and so the stuff of legends was planted in another generation. I later leamed that Patrick's emblems are a serpent, demons, the cross, shamrock, harp and baptismal font. Sifting fact from fancy in the traditions surrounding the patron saint of Ireland and the Irish has been the topic ofseveral decent biographies, and it seems all the authors have settled on Patrick having been born about the year 385. Whether his birthplace, a village called Bannavem Taburniae, was near Dunbarton-on-theClyde (another side of the clan), or in Cumberland, or at the mouth of the Severn, or even in Gaul near Boulogne, has never been determined, and indeed Turn to page 13 - St. Patrick
ST. PATRICK, the fifth-century bishop and apostle to Ireland, is depicted in a window at St. Mary's Church in Michigan City, Ind. He traveled amid many perils to remote places to baptize, confirm and ordain clergy in Ireland. His feast is March 17. (CNS photo from Crosiers)