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dJThe AMCHOR Vol. 20, No. I3-Fall River, Mass., Thurs., March 25, 1976

An Anchor

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"A Call to All to Be ALiving, Loving Community" PAGES 8·9

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Bishop Issues

TV Series

Infancy Gospels

Youth And

Baseball Quiz

CCD Guidelines

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Checks Rules

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of fall River-Thurs. Mar. 25, 1976

What's

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ITEMS FROM NATIONAL CATHOLIIC NEWS SERVICE----when he said his request for confirmation for children attending his church was refused by the Boston archdiocese.

National Should Be Simple LAFAYETTE, La.-The Lafayette Diocesan Pastoral Council has called upon officials of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress to stress simplicity and Gospel orientation in planning the world wide assembly in Philadelphia Aug. 1-3. Father Walter Conway, executive secretary, said the Congress would cost only a "fraction" of what critics estimate.

Vigil For Jews WASHINGTON-Fifty members of Congress have begun a "vigil" on behalf of Soviet Jewish families who remain separated by Soviet immigration policies. One member of Congress will read a one-minute message on behalf of a different family at noon each day the House is in session through July and perhaps beyond that as additional family names become known.

Unauthorized Mass BOSTON-A priest who has been celebrating Mass in Latin according to the ancient Tridentine rite has been doing so without authorization, said Bishop Thomas V. Daily, auxiliary of Boston and archdiocesan chancellor. Father John J. Keane has been celebrating Mass for two years in a West Roxbury building he has named the Church of St. Roger and St. Mary.

Bishop Daily said "Any person attending services at SS. Roger and Mary chapel should be aware that such services are unauthorized."

Father Keane came to newspaper attention

Study Penance On Saturday On Satlirday, March 27, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the ,Institute of Spirituality at La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, will conduct an in-depth workshop on "The Renewed Sacrament of Penance."

'Fr. Donald Paradis, M.S., workshop coordinator, indicated that the program will provide a practical st~p-by路step exploration of ,the new confession rite so that CC'D coordinators, First Communion teachers, and interested Catholics will understand the new rite and be able to teach and transmit its heauty to others.

The day-long program will en: able the Institute to provide useful background material, deal with major implications of the new approach to the Sacrament and answer any questions raised.

Necrology APRIL 2 Rev. Adolph Banach, O.F.M., Conv., 1961, Pastor, O. L. O. Perpetual Help, New Bedford.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind.-Some 30,000 people are expected to attend the 10th Continental Conference on the Charismatic Renewal in the Catholic Church to be held at the University of Notre Dame the weekend of May 28 to 30. Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, will open the conference with a speech on its theme, "Lord: The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory Are Yours." .

World Installed Today LONDON-Benedictine Abbot Basil Hume will be installed as Archbishop of Westminster, England today, the feast of the Annunciation. Also today he will participate in vespers at Wlestminster Abbey, where English monarchs are crowned. It will be the first time in 400 years Latin vespers will have been heard in the Anglican Abbey.

Prayer Day LONDON-Tuesday in Holy Week - April 13 - will be observed as a day of prayer for Northern Ireland by Catholics, Anglicans and Protestants throughout the United Kingdom.

Special services to pray for peace, justice and reconciliation in Northern Ireland are being scheduled in churches of all denominations, including - ' here in London - Westminster Abbey (Anglican) and Westminster Cathedral (Catholic).

Sing in' Chorus VATICAN CITY-Pope Paul VI has criticized traditionalist Catholics for ,"obstinacy" clinging to the old Latin liturgy, as well as progressive Catholics who are celebrating homemade liturgies. "The time has come for the People of God to prove their intelligence and obedience," Pope Paul asserted at a weekly general audience. "We must sing in chorus."

Utterly Opposed BOMBAY-Catholics in India are con.cerned over rapid population growth but "utterly opposed to compulsory sterilization," Cardinal Valerian Gracias of Bombay said in a meeting with Maharashtra state's chief minister, S. B. Chavan. Cardinal Gracias said the Church favors responsible parenthood and is not opposed to India's basic goals of reducing population growth. But compulsory sterilization, which is being considered by the government, "is the denial of a basic human right and an affront to human dignity," he said.

Programs For The Fc.urth Week of Lent FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY March 26, 27, 28 St. Michael, Fall River: Friday: Exposition Mass at 10 a.m., followed by adoration throughout the f II day.d bHoly M Hour, d6 Rto 7 p.m., 'f o owe y ass an e"lOSI Ion of Ble~~ed Sacrament. Saturday: ExpOSItion Mass. at 1 O~.m., fol路 lowed ~y adoratl~~ until 4 p.m.

Mass . ~nd RepOSItion. Sunday: ExpOSItion Mass. at 10 a.m., followed hy adoration. Holy Hour 6 to 7 p.m. Closing Mass and Reposition at 7 p.m.

St. Mary, Mansfield: Sunday: Exposition following noon Mass until Benediction at 5 p.m.

Holy Trinity, West Harwich: Sunday: Exposition following 8 a.m. Mass until Benediction. at 3:30 p.m. Families are requested to sign up for at least half an hour of adoration within this period.

Sacred Heart, New Bedford: Saturday: Mass of Exposition

with procession and devotions at 11 a.m. Private adoration will follow all day except for the times of services. A Holy Hour will take place from 1 to 2 p.m. for New Bedford and parish teenagers, CYO bas ke tba II t eams an d cheerleaders and all friends of the parish. A Holy Hour from . 2 to 3 is planned for parish societies and all men and women of the parish and will include rosary Bible readings, devotions " . and hymns. At 4 p.m. a Blcen-

Sunday: Exposition will follow 10 a.m. Mass and a Eucharistic procession. Mass at 11:30 a.m. "",ill be followed bv rosary and devotions and a Holy Hour from 2 to 3 p.m. will be planned for senl'or cI'tl'zens and Thl'rd and Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus of New Bedford. At 5 p.m. a Bicentennial Mass will have civic and professional lead. ers' and members of the police and fire departments of New Bedf d . 'I B' ,or as specla guests. enediction and Reposition of the tennial Mass and sermon are Blessed Sacrament will close the scheduled and a service from 5 , weekend. to 6:30 p.m. will include a prayer St. Ann, Raynham: Saturday: meeting for Boy and Girl Scouts Stations of the Cross and Beneof parish and other New Bedford diction at 8:15 p.m. Sunday: Extroops. Participants are asked to position and adoration following wear their uniforms. A Mass at the 11:15 a.m. Mass and continu7 p.m. will be followed by Bene- ing throughout the day, concluddiction and Reposition of the' ing with Vespers and BenedicBlessed Sacrament. Music and tioR at 7 p.m. Altar boys and singing will be by the parish delegations from parish societies choir, directed hy Joseph Scam- are sceduled for adoration pemons with Martha Jenkins as riods and families are also asked organist. to sign up for specified times.

Lenten P'rogram ''What's Hap'rening to Confession?"

To be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in all locations Friday, March 26: St. Anthony of Padua parish hall, Nye Street, New Bedford.

Monday, March 29: St. Louis de France Convent, 66 Buffington St., Swansea.

Tuesday, March 30: St. Mark's parish hall, Stanley Street, At路 t1eboro Falls; St. John Baptist parish hall, Wing Street, New Bedford; St. Patrick parish center, East Main St., Falmouth; Holy Name School, Pearce Street, Fall River.

Wednesday, March 31: St. William's Center, Stafford Road, Fall River; Coyle-Cassidy Library, Adams and Hamilton Streets, Taunton.

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Issues Guidelines For CCD Classes DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT Very Rev. John P. Driscoll, pastor of St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford, as Dean of 'the New Bedford Deanery, effective Sunday, March 21, 1976.

Bishop of Fall River

Basic instruction and formation guidelines for young people enrolled in voluntary programs of religious education in the Fall River diocese have heen promulgated by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin in a letter to priests, of which the text follows: "Reverend and dear Father, "One af the grave responsibilities of my office as Ordinary is that of chief teacher, responsi· bility which embraces all aspects of religious education. It is a responsibility in which all the People of God share, but in a very important and significant way, it is one which is communicated directly to you, my brother

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Pro-Life Committee Plans Attendance at Study Day Every member of the Pro·Life Committee of the Fall River dio· cese will be in attendance Saturday at a study day to be sponsored by the Massachusetts Catholic Conference at Maison Francaise, Assumption College, Worcester. The Conference comprises the archdiocese of Boston and the dioceses of Worcester, Springfield and Fall River.

Led by Rev. Peter N. Graziano, diocesan director of the Depart-

ment of Social Services and Special Apostolates, Fall River dele· gates will join in discussion and action aimed at implementing the Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities published last November by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Cardinal Medeiros Speakers on various aspects of pro-life will include Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Edward B. Hanify, Esq., Joseph R. Stanton,

Bishop's Tes,timonial Plans Proceeding Energetically Assemblies of the Knights of Columbus throughout the diocese are energetically tying down last minute details in preparation for the 1976 Patriots Day Dinner sponsored by the Knights in Boston and during which Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of Fall River, will be honored.

The Bishop joins a long list of national and international figures that the Knights of Columbus have singled out for special honor. On April 19, the Knights will present the Lantern Award during the State Council's annual event.

Bishop Cronin has been hon· ored as "an outstanding citizen of the United States who, by his life, exemplifies and magnifies the great virtue of patriotism."

Past recipients have included Richard Cardinal Cushing, Fran-

cis Cardinal Spellman, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, Henry Cabot Lodge, Robert F. Kennedy, George Meany and John A. Volpe.

Arrangements to attend the 20th annual testimonial may be made through any local Knights Turn to Page Four

M.D., and William J. Cox. Also on the program will be interdiocesan and diocesan workshops.

The day will conclude with a liturgy celebrated by Cardinal Medeiros, with Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan as homolist.

Diocesan committee members, in addition to Father Graziano, are Rev. Thomas L. Rita, associate director of the Department of Social Services; Rev. Michel G. Methot, with Father Graziano a coordinator of the diocesan Respect Life Committee; Rev. Jay T. Maddock, Sacred Heart parish, Taunton; Sister Jean Marie, administrator of St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River; Sister Thomas More, superior of Madonna Manor, Taunton; Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, Fall River national chairman of the Organization Service Commisc;ion of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW); Mrs. Richard Paulson, Taunton, director of the Tum to Page Six

priests, who, as ordained minis· ters of the Word of God, engage in the pastoral care of souls.

"One particular aspect of religious education about which we all must have special concern is the very difficult task of providing instruction and formation for the large number of young people who are not enrolled in Catholic schools and who must be served in voluntary programs of religious education. Results of our efforts in this a.,ostolate are not uniformly encouraging, however we simply cannot falter in our obligation to bring the Good New's to the present generation of young people. Recognizing the handicaps involved in attempting to achieve the threefold purpose of Christian educa· tion in part-time. out-of-school programs, the Bishops of the United States, ,in the Pastoral Letter, 'To Teach as Jesus Did,' remind us: Grave Duty . . . we have a grave duty toward the students for whom such programs now represent the only means of formal religious instruction available to them. Parents, educators and pastors must do all in their power to pro·

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EUROPEAN TOUR 23 DAY

Area Catholics Aid Guatemala This Sunday, diocesan Catholics will contribute to the annual American Catholic Overseas Aid Appeal, major funding source for Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the overseas relief agency of the U.S. Catholic Bishops.

As they do so, CRS has reo leased a Disaster Response Report, detailing its activities in meeting the human needs occasioned by last month's earthquake in Guatemala, termed the worst disaster in the history of Central America.

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At Aunt's Funeral Bishop Cronin was principal celebrant Monday at the funeral Mass of an aunt, Miss Ann Joyce, at Our Lady of Mercy Church, Newtonville.

vide these children and young people with programs which correspond as fully as possible with the ideal of Catholic education.

"With this in view, and with the valued collaboration of the Director and staff of our Diocesan Department of Ed1,lcation, I am establishing some very basic guidelines for parochiel religious education programs. These are minimum standards, and I am confident that many parishes will far exceed their scope in practice. I am promulgating these guidelines now, so that you may make adequate preparation for next year's program.

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, NEW CLERICS: Four young men presented themselyes to Bishop Cronin on Saturday afternoon during ·the 5 o'clock Mass and requested "Admission to Candidacy" to the Priesthood. The ceremony, reminiscent of the Tonsure Rite, was witnessed by the young men's parish priests and fellow parishioners. From left to right:' Bruce W. Cwiekowski of Taunton; Edward C. Smith of Norton; Richard T. Machado of Seekonk and Philip E. Bedard of Taunton.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Mar. 25, 1976

Fifth Commandment "Thou shall not kill" has long enough been too strictly interpreted, along with a long line of humanly added exceptions to only forbid that very formally intended act against the life of another. .

This miJ),imal attitude scarcely permits us to joyfully acknowledge and join God in His joy of life. Respect for this great gift of God - life - is stripped of all its dynamism.

Recently, the Cardinal Archbishop of Naples, one of Europe's noisiest, dirtiest and most unhealthy cities, expressed his alarm at 355 cases of viral hepatitis in the last two months by stating "the issue of hygiene is not foreign to our religious feelings."

The fifth commandment, the prelate pointed out, demands that we not expose our own health or that of others to risks which cause, or promote infections. The fifth commandment also says, according to the Cardinal, "clean up the city." , The practical directive of how to implement both love of God and love of neighbor, as found in the Commandments, must be applied here too.

How alarmed doctors are that, following long years of great sacrifice and dedication, ordinary means, easily at our disposal to promote health and fend off serious crises are not being used.

With the coming of our warmer months, how many of our youngsters are inoculated against polio? How many little children looking out into the warm sunshine will instinctively munch on glossy white paint that will do irreparable damage to them?

Must we always be threatened with disasters to act . safely? Will it be only another threatening epidemic that will send our children to receive free and available Salk vaccine? Will it be only when a well-known loved one is condemned to stare helplessly into the future for life that we will check the lead content of our paints?

How much does the fifth commandment fit into our plans for fast summer riding, boating, swimming, babysitting and general supervision of recreation?

With the spring enticement giving birth to all kinds of joyful dreams, let's keep the fifth commandment well within reach and creatively find joyful ways to respect and give opportunity to life.

Grateful Anniversary Today marks the 90th Anniversary of the arrival of the Holy Union Sisters to the Fall River Diocese. Father Debrabant convinced Sister Helena that she should journey to America and all types of educational opportunities were born from that missionary journey.

The feast of the Annunciation' of Mary, today commemorating her humble "Yes" to God's mysterious plan of love, is an apt feast to render thanks to God for the Holy Union's 150th Anniversary of their founding and, in partticular, for their devotion over the past 90 years to us. >I<

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WONDERl[NG A young woman sits ir..side a darkened room ... looking out the window . . . her head resting in her cupped hands ... as she gazes steadily at the world outside . . . wondering.

Wondering perhaps at what is happening in her life . . . or at what the future holds . . . concerned, maybe, about the emerging shape of her experience . . . or just wondering at the marvels . . . and mysteries of life.

It is good to pause at times . . . to look quietly at our inner and outer worlds . . . to take time to . wonder at the mystery of it all ... of birth and death . . of youth and old age . . . of joy arid sorrow . . . courage and fear . . . :success and failure.

We tend to rush about ... skimming the surface of our lives . . . failing to notice . . . to savor . . . to enjoy . . . to appreciate . . . to let our hearts .. to let our hearts and spirits fill with wonder ... at the mysterious depths . . . and heights . . . and breadth of our experience.

Mary ... the Gospels tell us ... pondered in her heart what was happening in her life... Like Mary like this young woman at the window . . . we need to stop . . . -to beeome still . . . to wonder at how extraordinary .' .. t:ie ordinary really is . . . to notice the traces of God's loving presence ... just beneath the surface of our scattered lives.

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By JIM CASTELLI NC News Service

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Letters Welcome Letters to the editor are welcomed. All letters should be brief and the editor reserves the right to condense any letters if deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and contain a home or business address.

@rhe ANCHOR OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

\ Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River 410 Highland Avenue Fall River Mass. 02722 675-7151 PUBLISHER Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., SJ.D. ACTING EDITOR FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR Rev. John R. FoIster, SJ.l.

Rev. Msgr. John Regan ~leary

PhotomE~ditation

Preu路-Fall River

Church Politiical Stance The statement on Political Responsibility: Reflections on an Election Year, recently issued by the American Catholic bishops, may not contain much that is really new,- but it provides an excellent perspective on Church political activity.

The most obvious question raised in many minds is how to relate the new statement to the Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities adopted by the bishops at their general meeting last November. That plan committed the Church to an extensive educational, pastoral and political effort against abortion.

The Pastoral Plan drew two basic criticisms. Some people saw it as signifying an improper involvement in politics by the

Church, possibly leading to the f:>rmation of a Catholic political J=arty. Others saw the Church becoming "single-issue" oriented, with abortion the overriding issue.

The new statement on politkal responsibility met both of those criticisms head on: it contained a concise explanation of Church political involvement, based on papal statements and other Church documents, and made clear that while the Church is concerned with abortion, abortion is only one of a number of vital human rights issues..

The statement said "it is the Church's role to call attention to the moral and religious dimensions of secular issues, to

keep alive the values of the Gospel as a norm for social and political life and to point out the demands of the Christian faith for a just transformation of society."

The statement described the Church's role in the political order as including education, analysis of the moral and ethical dimensions of issues, measuring public policy against Gospel values, participating in open public debate and "speaking out with courage, skill and concern on public issues involving human rights, social justice and the life of the Church in society."

Such activities, the statement argued, are not "a threat to the political process or to genuine pluralism, but an affirmation of their importance." At the same time, the statement emphasized that "the laity has major responsibility for the renewal of the temporal order."

Concerning the one-issue charge, the statement encouraged full participation in the political process and urged citizens to "vote freely according to their conscience."

"We specifically do not seek the formation of a religious voting bloc" the statement said, "nor do we wish to instruct persons on how they should vote by endorsing candidates.

Testimonial Continued from Page Three of Columbus Assembly or Charles C. Cullen, 1295 Locust St., Fall River (678-6688).

The invited guests at the head table for the gala occasion will include: Cardinal Medeiros of Boston, Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan of Worcester and Bishop Christopher J. Weldon of Springfield; the Boston Auxiliary Bishops Joseph F. Maguire, Lawrence J. Riley, John J. Mulcahy, John M. Darcy, Joseph J. Ruocco, Thomas V. Daily.

Dr. John W. McDevitt, Supreme Knight, of New Haven, Conn. will head..- a long list of Knights of Columbus officials which will include Massachusetts state _officers Joseph Arena, Francis A. Sheehan, John J. Donovan, Newman A. Flanagan, Kenneth C. Pearson, Edmond J. Benoit, Rev. Kenneth B. Murphy, Albert E. McCarron, Elmer L. Kerr, Dominic Restaino and Raymond H. Levere.

Other states will be represented by John H. Coleman (Conn.), Charles L. Beaudoin (Me.), Edwin F. Bourassa (N.H.), and F. Roland Hitt (R.I.).

City governments will be represented by Hon. Kevin H. White, Mayor of Boston, and Hon. Wilfred C. Driscoll, Mayor of Fall River.

Members of the media present will include: Robert Bennett, WCVB-TV; Ralph Castonguay, Fall River Herald News; Robert C. Bergenheim, Herald American;.

Truman Taylor, WTEV; Gerald T. Tache, New Bedford StandardTimes; Rev. John R. FoIster, The Anchor.

Members of Bishop Cronin's 'family in attendan<:e wiU be Daniel G. Cronin, his father, and Joseph, Robert P. and Peter J., his brothers, along with a long list of present and past K of C officials from throughout the state.

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Bisf-top Issues Directives For

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CCD Teaching

the approved list, they should commitment to such apostolates Is Life: Benziger Brothers.

Sacramental Preparation Continued from Page Three Reception of the sacraments first consult with the Diocesan as religious education, which de· "Please find enclosed, as well, High School servies a fair share of parish rea questionnaire which will fur- of Eucharist, Penance and Con· Department of Education.

Focus Series: William C. sources. The religious education nish us with essen.tial informa- firmation should be preceded by Facilities budget should include sufficient Brown; Understanding SeIies: tion for future plans and pro· a two year catechesis. Where The best physical facilities grams. Kindly return this form possible parents should be in- available should be provided for allocations for books, instruc- William C. Brown; Challenge; to the Diocesan Department of volved in the preparation of their religious education, even at some tional supplies, audio-visual ma- Jesus Book; The Emerging Education. I am happy to rec- 'children, and should be provided inconvenience or expense to the terials and equipment, and in- Church; Man and Woman; The Religions of Man: William C. ommended to you that increased with special sessions to inform parish. Where the parish has a service education for teachers.

Brown; Center for Learning use be made of that Diocesan them of the program being pre- Catholic school, this should be Approved Texts Packets: Center for Learning; Office, a valuable' resource in sented to their children. placed readily at the disposal of Approved texts for religious These Stones Will Shout - Old pastoral care." the religious education program. education programs in the dio- Testament: Argus CommunicaTextbooks Gives Guidelines cese are listed as follows: Budget Parishes are required to tions; Electric Bible I and II: The guide lines cited by the Elementary School is an effective tool A budget choose textbooks from an apWilliam H. Saidlier, Inc.; HiBishop follow: for planning which enables a Come to the Father Series: Time: Hi-Time Publications; Man proved list published by the DioRole of Parish Priests While parish priests may de- cesan Department of Education. parish to make the best use of Paulist Press; Life, Love, Joy: Meets God: Benziger Brothers; pend on the services of a pro· If in special circumstances par· its available resources. It is also Silver Burdett; New Life: Wile Mine Is the Morning: Twentyfessional coordinator and volun- ishes wish to use a text not on a tangible measure of a parish's liam H. Sadlier, Inc.; The Word Third Publications. teer teachers for religious education, their leadership and supportive role cannot be minimized.

All the priests of the parish should strongly support the religious education program by their preaching, their presence at reli· gion classes and their availability fOr liturgical celebrations.

Role of Coordinator Full time professional coordi· nators can be very effective in the planning and implementation of the parish religious education program. A person applying for such a position must be interviewed and approved by the Diocesan Department of Education before being hired by the pastor.

Desired Qualifications and Rec· ommended Job Description prepared by the Diocesan Department of Education should serve as a basis for the hiring pro· cedure.

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Mr. & Mrs. Edward A. Uxa, Cleveland, Ohio less the minimum 24 hours of Name _ Date ot Birth '... on a recenl trip we had occasion to use the privileges afforded by formal instl"uction has been ful· the Catholic Golden Age when staying at some hotels. motels. etc Spouse __ Address._ Date 01 Birth filled.

The membership saved the pocketbook. Again, thank you.

Rev. Henry J. Hahn, Napa, CA. City _ _ _ _ Stale__ __ Zip Name of Parish For Grades 9 to 12 more flexi· One membership entides both member and bility in schedule and program II I~J With urn:tll'lllhllSiasl1ll wnto thiS loHor. Wo am vory happy to spouse to all benefits and priviktges.

SIGNATURE- OF MEMBER Ill) J1lcmb~ls of Catholic Golden Ago. We enJOY the IItorature we may be necessary. However, a MONEY BACK GUARANTEE - Moil us a Membership Application with your dues. We'll send you a membership card and member· receive and we are looking forward to participating in one of your ship materials. All the benefits and Mrvices will be explained again. If you have a chonge of mind, rell/rn your Membership card within future tours," formal religious education pro10 days and we'll refund-your dues. Make checks payable to CATHOLIC GOLDEN AGE. C Mr. & Mrs. George J. Parker, Deer Park, N. Y. gram should be provided at least L ~L~W~~.:~~S~O~P~O.:.E~I~G ...J (Teshmoruals are on file the office of Catholic Golden Age. Scranton. Pa,) once a month and should total at least 16 hours for the year.

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'Rice Bowl' Menus

If You Ma,ke It you,rs,elf, It's R,eally Uniqu1e One of the few times I regret being so busy is when new issues of pattern books hit the stands. The clothes are always so lovely and there are so many that you would love to have, and yet time is important in sewing. My longing for the shears and pins really gave me pangs last week when I commentated a fashion show that featured creations hy Ms. Jane Neves. Ms. Neves, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Sullivan of Holy Name parish, Fall River,

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has been sewing since she was a teenager and this plus her background in ,art and fashion have enabled her to become a very creative designer and seamstress.

"I love sewing so very much that it really doesn't seem like work, said Ms. Neves. And those

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of us who had the chance to . ..•'.1 view her fashions realized that ' her four years at Massachusetts College of Art and her five years ~.' creating costumes for many ~ multi-media dramatic productions have given her a background perfectly combining art and sewing.

Unique Outfits Wednesday, March 31 One of the nicest things about Spaghetti & Tomato OUTSTANDING ACillEVEMENT: Stonehill College, sewing is that we end up with Sauce unique outfits. Some of Jane's Easton, presents its Outstand::ng Achievement Award to Gelatin Dessert extra touches on her custom de· Robert J. Burke of its board of advisers. Burke was honored signed clothes added UP to a big for accomplishments in retail merchandising and for humaniVVednesday, April. 7 plus for originality. Take for ,in- tarian efforts. A new wing on the Stonehill science building Creamed Peas on Toast stance a plain .iean skirt 'and Rice Pudding embroider it with a striking de· will be named for him. From left, Judge Beatrice Hancock sign. add top-stitching in a con· Mullaney, St. Joseph parish, Fatll River, chairwoman of the VVednesday, April 14 trasting color around a cummer- Stonehill board of trustees; Rev. Ernest Bartell, CSC, college Tomato Soup bund, and you have distinction president; Burke and Mrs. Burke.

Two Crackern that cannot be bought off a rack.

Jane's "very near" future plans include going into husiness for herse'lf and turnin~ out a line of creative designs for women who either don't have her talent or fight the battle of time.

Sister Bartholomew, O.P., Rice Bowl known to generations of patients 7 Perry Here's a recipe for this week's at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, 'Our Heating as Sister Bart, died earlier this Avenue Rice Bowl menu. at age 93. month Marinara Tomato Sauce Oils Make TauntonMass. y:>. cup olive oil Born in Fall River, the former 2 medium cloves garlic, Warm Friends' Rose Anna Vanasse was a music 822-2282 minced teacher and a member of the 3 Y2 cups canned tomatoes, faculty of Blessed Sacrament sieved School hefore entering religious 1 I,4 teaspoons salt life in 1909. She was a member 1 teaspoon oregano of the first graduating class of 1 teaspoon chopped parsley St. Anne's School of Nursing ~ teaspoon pepper and worked for 26 years in the 1) Heat the oilve oil in a large hospital's maternity ward. Pre· INC. saucepan and add and cook until viously she had been St. Anne's well done the cloves of garlic, laboratory technician at a time sliced. when the hospital did not have 2) Add slowly, stirring con- its own facilities and she had to stantly, the mixture of tomatoes, travel daily to the old Fall River salt, oregano, parsley and pepper. city hall to use the municipal Cook rapidly, uncovered, about laboratory.

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In 1955 she entered semiretirement, being assigned to night duty at the hospital switchboard.

'Si,ster Bart' Goes to Glory.

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Asked on one occasion what she thought was "most important for St. Anne's today," she said, "That the people who come to St. Anne's find religious lielp, and that they return to their faith if they have gone astray."

In her retirement at the community's vice provincial house in Dighton, Sister Bart played the piano every morning. A favorite was "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," with its refrain of "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!" It was sung at her funeral and Sister Ascension commented, "The words of St. Augustine came to me: 'We are an Easter people and Alleluia is our song.'

Her funeral Mass was a tribute of gratitude, affection and joy of having known her."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall_River-Thurs. Mar. 25, 1976

Jesus Was Problem Child

"The -Parish Parade

One Friday, many. very many years ago, in the Holy Land, an old woman cleared the table of lunch dishes. The yea~ had been hard on her. She was stooped and frail.

Her vision was failing; her steps unsure. The only vitality left was in her mind. Age .couldn't cripple that. She about ... well. you do know what she does for a living . shuffled back and sat down "I'd like him married but again, to talk with her hus- - not to her. He says she~s given it band as he sipped the Jast bit of his noontime wine. Though a bit older than she, he was more vigorous, and was making plans

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Iy MARY CARSON . . to work in his garden after lu~ch. The soil was warming witll the spring ... time to get . started ..• The sun streaming in the win. dow made their grey hair' sparkle. They both saw the youth they had known in each other, ,and each fondly remembered, heightened by the knowledge -they had gained through the . years.

- . , The conversation over the gardening faded... '!bey' both sat silent for several' minutes, he ,simply watching her. c Finally, pe asked, "Anne .•. ~what's troubling you?" '~Nothing, Joachim."

"Anne .. : I've known you' too long. That's the sixth time you've brushed c111mbs off the table into your. hand ... the crumbs you wiped up when you cleared the dishes away.

"Anne • . • when you start brushirig up imaginary crumbs, something's--on your mind."

Nothing But Travel "I'm worried, Joe ... about our grandson. Why can't he settle down like other boys. He does nothing but travel allover the country and he's been stirring up trouble. He should find a nice girl ••. get married. I aiways dreamed of living to see' my great·grandchildren.

"But I'm getting too old, Joe. I don't believe I'll see it anymore."

"Annie, I know how you feel.

Since he's our only ,grandchild, he's our only hope. But he'd have to get a job first. What kind of a husband would he make? He couldn't support a wife, much less a family."

"Joe. , • I know it's a different world than we were brought up in. I know I should try to look at things from his point of view.

I know I can't run his life. I know ail that ... but I still. don't like his friends.

"I haven't seen him witll a girl I'd want him to marry. That one •.. you knoW the one I'm talking

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"Oh, God forgive me. I shouldn't judge her. But I'm glad she's not the mother of my great-grandchild!"

"Anne, all. we can really do about it is pray. We've got to let him live his l,ife. Don't worry so ••• he's a good. boy .•• he'll straighten out ... I just hope in time for us to see it. , "I guess 1 feel worst about the way he worries his mother. She was never like that as a youngster. Why couldn't he;! have been more like her ... He's making her old before her time ...

"Joe ... the sun's still warm.

If you're going to start the garden, you'd better go ~ead. I'll tidy up a bit, and. be along in a few minutes." .

After a while, Anne went out to sit in the sun and be near Joe. She watched him work, still proud of him ... still in love with him ...

The sunny afternoon seemed to be making up, for a storm.

She returned to the house for a shawl, then came back to the bench in the garden. The sky suddenly darkened, almost like night.

A chill came over her. She started to shiver.

"Joe .•. can you come here a minute?"

"Anne ... what's wrong?"

"I don't know. I'm so cold. I can't stop shaking .. and I can't stop thinking about the boy.

"I'm afraid for Jesus, Joachim.

I'm worried about Him." Joachim wrapped his jacket around her, put his arm around her shOUlder, and took her into the house.

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SR. LUCll..LE GAUVIN, O.P.

Sisters' Senate Sets Prayer Day

Handmade clothing will be featured in a style show at the school hall at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. A Iluncheon and light refreshments will be served and entertainment will feature the magic of Miss Lynne "D." Tickets are available from members of the Women's Guild. " Bingo is pl~yed each Wednesday night in the school hall, 'with early bird games beginning at 7 and regular play at 7:30. Refreshments are available and there is ample well-lit parking space.

A Women's Guild auction is planned for Sunday, April 11.

Donations of furniture, glassware, plants· and clothing are needed and pickup service is available from Helen Mello, telphone 636-2219, or Louise Buckley, telephone 636-8775. . ST. FRANCIS ACUSHNET

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ST. PIUS X, SOUTH YARMOU11l A day of recollection will he held aHhe church on Saturday, March 27, with the Women's Guild as hostesses.

The sacrament of Confirmation will be administered at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 28. . The Way of the Cross is conducted each Friday evening at 7:30 p.m. during Lent, followed

by Benediction.

A program on the Sacraments of Matrimony and Holy Orders cancelled early this month due to weather conditions will be rescheduled and anno~nced at a later date.

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Project Leisure will meet in the school hall at 2 this after- . noon. Rev. John J. Oliveira will present I! slide lecture on the Eucharistic Congress and a social hour, will follow.

Final colIections..for Operation RiCe Bowl will be taken this weekend' and parishioners are asked to make returns either in ttte second collection or in the large "rice bowls" at the church entrance.

New altar boys will meet at 2:45 this afternoon in the £hurch.

Shiiley Martin will be featured Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will ,at a. mini-fasihan show to be be principal celebrant and Sister staged 'by the Ladies Guild at Lucille Gauvin, O.P. of tha 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. April 14 Reconcilers folk group wiU direct in the school hall on Main Str.eet. music at a Eucharistic liturgy to be held.- Saturday. April 3 at the ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, Dighton Provincial House of the ATTLEBORO Dominican Sisters of the Presen.

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The Mass will climax a day of Swansea, will be the settin~ for ATTLEBORO· spiritual enrichment open to all a parish ball planned for Friday, ,The Junior Drop-In Center will religious of the diocese and spon- April 2. A reception at 7 p.m. be open from 7 to 9. tomorrow 'be followed by dinner at 8 will sored by the Sisters' Senate. night. Also tomorrow night the Speakers will include'Rev. Mau- p.m. and music and entertain- CU~ Scouts will hold a sleepover ment will be provided by' the rice Jeffrey and Rev. Thomas in the schOOl building, concludLopes. Their theme will - be Rod Rodriguez combo. boor ing at 9 a.m. Saturday, when prizes will be awarded and the "Death-and Life."

Boy Scouts will leave for an Registration for the day will winner of a parish raffle being overnight cam"'ing ·trip to Camp -in conjunction with .conducted take place at 9:45 a.m. at the Also on Saturday, the ball will be drawn. The pub- Finberg.

Dighton convent. will attend the 6:30 Scouters lic is invited and reservations . . Supreme Value can be made through Sunday, p.m. Mass in the course of participating in a developmen~ pro"Love is the supreme value March 28 by calling 222-4170 or gram from' 1 to 9 p.m., and the 226-0690'. around which all moral values BEE People wiIl depart at 1 p.m. can be integrated into one eth- HOLY REDEEMER, , for a trip to Providence for a ical system valid for the whole CHATHAM performance of the Harlem of humanity."

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-Pitirim A. Sorokin "To Live Christ Each Day" Knights of the Altar superwill be the subject of a dav of visors and leaders will visit Falrecollection scheduled for Tues.mouth Sunday, March 28 to day, April 6 by the Association make arrangements for a Memoof the Sacred Hearts. It will clirial Day weekend trip. max the program of Renewal and Reconciliation" which has HOLY ROSARY, 'been the association's theme for TAUNTON the past two years. Rev. George The Holy Rosary Sodality and L. Drury, S.1., will lead members Mixmilian Kolbe Guild will coCelebrate the Bicentennial with a MWTI to 'old fashioned valuein an all day program, beginning sponsor a dance and buffet at youll have to experience to believe! with Mass at 10 a,m., and Miss Coyle-cassidy High School Hall V_,.3 Da" 2 N~ Inc'ude.Eeerptltlng' Elizabeth 1. Norton is in charge on the corner of Adams and Room, Dlnnerw.

T_e••' n".. of arrangements.

Excellent Accommodations, T.V.• phones 2fuD breakfasts Hamilton Streets at 8 p.m. Sat· . in our Heritage Room *. 2 full course dinners in our new Granada Father 'Drury is superior at urday, April 24.

Restaurant, featuring char broiled lib. SI4!'aks, baked stuffed Campion Residence and Renewal shrimp. Complimentary urate of wine for 2, Unique BYO.B. Center in Weston and was pre~ ST. JOHN BAPTIST, lounge - complimentary set·ups.

Beautiful indc:Jol'pooI. saWlas Ideal ~tion._ sail to Martha's VineY,ard. golf. tennis, . viously in faculty and adminis- NEW BEDFORD shops, all nearby. Per person, per night,dble. occup. (pool tration posts at various colleges The parish committee will hold bldg. higler) Wllil June 19th IEXc. HoI. Periods.) . • and at Pope John XXIII Sem- a meat pie supper from 5:30 to Forbfochure, .-vaIionscoll617·Sf0.3000,orwme T. P. (}ineen, Mg., _inary, Weston.

7:30 p.rn.. Saturday, April 10 in SHOREWAY ACRES MOTEL ' -_ _- . .~ Fa'-tIo.III••. OI54e .Hospltality chairmen for the' the church hall. Tickets,' availday are Mrs. Jerome Higgins and able at the rectory, must be pur· Mrs. John Hasson. chased by Wednesday, April 7.

Also planned by the association isa food sale from 10 a.m.

Golden W~dding to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 3 in The Andtor wishes to_~· the church hall on Highland Avenue. Old time foods such as nize the· Christian WitnesS of fancy breads, pastries and home- dioeesan eouples celebrating 50 made preserves will he featured years of manied life. Accord" and proceeds will underwrite ingly, we. wDI be happy to pubtravel expenses of an Irish child lish the names. and parisheS of coming to the Cape this summer those observing golden wedding under auspices of an interfaith annive~es. We ~ tbat program seeking ta relieve war· space will not pennit publieatime tensions for youngsters tion of photographs, but other from strife-torn sections of Bel- information may be sent to us at P. O. BOx 7, Fall River· 02722. fast.

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It.Was a Great Week. for St. Joseph's All

week they came by hundreds to a Week

with Christ at st. Joseph's parish, New Bedford.

Every night, after the last event of the day, there were calls I to the rectory, people saying how much they were getting out of the program, how they couldn't wait for the next day's activities.

"Exhausted but extremely thrilled" is how the priests of S1. Jo&eph's described themselves after the week came to a rousing close last Sunday night with an all-parish party which included a buffet, entertainment and dancing.

And Msgr. Henri A. Hamel, Rev. Roger -J. Levesque and Rev. Roger D. LeDuc agreed that none of it could have happened- without the cooperation of parish organizations and scores of 'individuals.

"All the groups agreed to give up activities for the week, so that evenings would be free," said Father LeDuc. First to go was S1. Joseph's popular weekly bingo game. Those arriving for it found a sign at th~ entrance to the parish hall: "No Bingo Tonight"";"Come Next Monday!"

Only Part But ev~ning programs were only part of the Week with Christ, which was described in an advance folder distributed to parishioners. With the ~lug<ln uf "Living, LovIng Community," the program was aimed at creating personal, family and parish community.

Personal -community was descFibed as developing an appreciation of one's own abilities; in the family as studying and breaking down barriers of division, discontent and distrust; and in the parish as building. a sense of concern and commitment to parochial needs.

A morning-to-night schedule each day of last week re~ponded to these objectives, beginning at 7 a.m. with Mass and a homily. From 9 to noon each morning the rectory was open for parishioners seeking spiritual guidance, with both traditional confessionals and S1. Joseph's new reconciliation room available for the sacrament of penance. . At 10 a morning prayer and reflection service was conducted in the church with a Mass in French and an ipstruction following at 10:30.

Attendance at this Mass was about 200 every day of the week, said Msgr. Hamel.

At 11 :30 and again after every service held in the chur~h, there was the opportunity for confession. From 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. devotional prayer and meditations took place in the church and from 3 to 5 priests were at the rectory to offer spiritual guidance.

A holy hour took place in the church from 4 to 5 and evening Mass was celebrated at -7, immediately followed by a .special program either in the church or the parish hall. .

Nightly - The~e On Monday, the first night of the program, interest was high as more than 200 parishioners gathered in the hall to hear what the week was all about.

It was about being at peace, organizing oneself internally, sharing with each other, respecting individuality and reflecting on the-mysteries of dying and rising in the Eucharist, explained Father leDuc. He distributed an innocent"appearing questionnaire, asking people to take it home for prayerful consideration. On inspection it proved somewhat dynamite4aden, asking questions which if honestly answered and their implica:, dons carried out could permanenUy change lives.

Samples: What is the driving force in my life: Life? Ambition? Wealth? Power? Glory?

PARISHIONERS PARTiCIPATE

IN A PERSONAL,FAMILY, COMMUNITY RETREAT

Who has the most influence over my life: Family? Friends? Work associates? God? Self?

Who has the best opinion about me: Family?

Friends? Neighbors? Work associates? Self?

How much of my abilities have I developed?

How much do I share with others?

How much of Catholic teaching do you accept: . All? Part? None?

What areas of parish life need to change?

Am I helping to do something about these needs?

Does it matter what路 church or parish you belong to?

A demonstration of liturgical music followed, together with an appeal from George Campeau, St. Joseph's director of music, for people to sing in church. .

"Too many have the idea that a sign of being adult is not to sing in church," he declared, stressing that liturgical celebration is a distinguishing mark of Catholics and that choirs are not "up there to entertain you, but merely to lead musical participation."

Tuesday's evening program emphasized strengthening of family life. A film on "Incompatibility in the Home" was shown, followed by discussions and responses from youth, parents~ and other interested parishioners.

On Wednesday, participants in the Week with Christ met their Eucharistic King through a slide presentation on the forthcoming Eucharistic Congress given by Rev. John J. Oliveira, in charge of diocesan prep~rations for this major spiritual event.

Reconciliation Thursday was given over to a prayerful understanding of the new rite of penance. Concepts stressed were the need for all to reconcile and rebuild community, what a sense. of sin should mean, the cost of redemption and the role of the Eucharist in man's reconciliation with God and his brother.

The evening penance service, said Msgr.

Hamel, saw many parishioners using the new form of face to face confession for the first time and seemingly very satisfied with the experience.

Parish prayer groups keynoted Friday's program which invited all to "a new dimension in prayer and to a personal commitment." The ~vening program offered parishioners the opportunity to choose ,a prayer experience, including a charismatic prayer meeting, an ultreya program used as a follOW-Up to participation in: a Cursillo retreat, a typical Legion of Mary meeting or a tradition~l family prayer session.

There were no scheduled activities on Saturday, but on Sunday the week was summed up at 7 p.m. Mass, concelebrated by the priests of S1. Joseph's and including a cqmmissioning ceremony for the newly elected parish council.

The council chairman spoke on expectations for the parish community and 楼sgr. Hamel's homily expressed his - happiness that "people have broken some of the walls that separated them.

As a result we hope to be _a more supportive and sharing community."

The party followed, a joyous opportunity for a newly aware parish family to experience its unity in Christ.

-_ Msgr. Hamel said he and the assistant pastors are looking forward to assessing the effects of the Week with Christ and making future plans for St. Joseph's. He paid particular tribute to the role of parish Cursillistas in helping with the practicalities of the wee~. "They were outstand_ing in their support," he said. Also Ilot to be forgotten were parish. Girl Scouts, who offered a babysitting service from 6:45 to 9 each evening of the week.

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Boston Church On Television

Wants Question Box Dear Editor, Hope my letter will be one of many favoring a question box in The Anchor suggested by Clement J. Dowling. ' The Anchor is getting better and' better. I enjoy especially Mary Carson's column. My favorite was one on Feedback to the Clergy. She is so right in saying "How can we grow unless we question?" Also loved the one appearing March 11tho Mary Carson is truly a Beautiful Human Being.

Sarah Corey East Falmouth'

So Does She, Dear Editor, I've just subscribed to your Anchor and wish I had done so years ago. 'Enjoy it so very much.

I also would like to see a column on QQestions and, Answers as suggested by another reader.

God Love You All! Mrs. Genevieve Polar New Bedford

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BOSTON - An unprecedent~d four-part series of prime access time specials, "Cont€\mporary Catholics," documenting the renewal of Boston's Catholic community in the wake of American sociological and theological turbulence, will be telecast by WCVB-TV (Channel 5), beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 27. .

The specials are believed, to be the first comprehensive view of Catholicism by a Boston com_ mercial station.

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ANNUAL ACIES: Members of the Legion of Mary of the Fall River diocese rededicate themselves to service of Mary at 24th annual ACIES Ceremony, held at St. Mary's Cathedral Diocesan spiritual director is Msgi-; Thomas J. Harrington, aided by Rev. Kenneth J. Delano. Both spoke at Sunday's service and music was by Cathedral Choristers.

[ Le,tters to the editor a good one. And I very much like the Letters to the Editor.

For Life; Mrs. Rosemary L. Achin, Chairman Mass. Citizens for Life' Wareham Buzzards Bay Chapter East Wareham .

P.S. I would very much like to know the results of the Day of Introduction to the Pastoral Plan for Pl-o-Life· Activities at As-· sumption College in 'Worcester on March 27.

(Editor's Note: It will be fully eovendin lIext' week's issue.)

Likes Nuns' Habits Dear Editor, What a joy it was: to see those pictures of the eight Sisters of St. Dominic who have been commissioned -as extraordinary min.isters of the Eucharist-who will "",umlliillllllllllllllUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUllllllllllllm""lIfl\t1IIl"lttllllllllll"III

Guatemala NEW DEAN: Very Rev. John P. Driscoll, pastor of St. Lawrence parish, New Bedford, has been named Dean of the New Bedford - area. A Fall River native, ordained in 1947, his assignments have included Secretary to the Bishop and Assistant Chancellor from 1954 to 1958, curacies at Our Lady of the Assumption, Osterville; St. Lawrence, New Bedford;SS. Pet~r and Paul, Fall River, and the pastorate of Our Lady of Fatima, Swansea. He was for '18 years assistant general manager of The Anchor, served on the diocesan liturgical committee, and was president Qf the Priests' Senate, chairman of the. Clergy Personnel Board and a trustee of the Fall River Public Library. He is moderator of New Bedford Catholic Woman's Club.

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aid chaplains _in distribution of poll taken among 401 teenagers the Eucharist to the sick and showed 90% answered "Yes" to aged. the question, "Do you believe in Furthermore, how good it was family planning?" to see them in their fine habits.

The question innocent enougb, The majority of us are always the results reasonable, but the happy to see nuns U)OKING inference of Common Sense, the LIKE NUNS in habits-. In fact, Memphis diocesan newspaper, when I see them anywhere, I whlch- is also the poll taker, is a always stop to tell them so disgrace to honest communicaand they smile and say "most tion a~ong us. evetybody tells us that too" The poll itself did not define with an added thank' you and what was meant by family planha'lpy smilel ning but several students said, Just as O,lll' Faith seems to and several men and women have suffered (at least SOME) said, and finally a volunteer from some of the translations in worker said. liturgy and,.. kindergarten-like The exploitation of young hymns, sO' tOQ 'have our nuns and people's private thoughts is one clergy with their "modern" garb! thing but it is altogether another In neither ~ase would they inthing for unskilled and poor spire more devout thought or in- journalists to· twist and turn and creased vocatiOns! grovel for the sake of a news The more we hear, however, article. about the wonderful and inspirThe responsibility for such a ing work done by our religious poor and misleading article must among the aged, ~ick, and poor be borne by ihe Memphis diocese - the wider the respect and and the National Catholic (News admiration becomes for Our Service) as well as our own dioCatholic Faith,. not only from cese. Each has given life to within our own Church - but something not quite the truth also from the "outside world" and young people today' do not who hear so much these days in need this kind of service from us. our secular press, about those Lee Bourgoin who leave our font for purely Falmouth worldly reasons.

EeL-There was no exploita.

We should.stress the words of Pope Paul "We don't have the tion in the news article on teen _numbers we once had" (as to polls. There may be room, howReligious) but, he added "We ever, for much adult examinahave the qual)ty." Many of us tiOn as to how teens have been feel this applies to our lay people able _ to think such thou~,bts, . Judge them adoptable and even as well! ' express them. If that is how Kathryn Ellis Nowak Chairman, The Committee some of OUr teens think, we had for a Return to Christian all better ask "why?" The article did not condone such -things but Values only point a concerned finger for Marion all Involved in Christian education.

Continued from Page Three Beginning immediately upon receiving word of the earthquake, CRS has dispatched or committed over $4Y2 million in cash and supplies to Guatemala. Initial shipments included medical and shelter supplies, with foods trucked in from neighboring Central American countries.

Start Anew Now emphasis is on clearing rUbble from highways and village streets and from the sites of totally destroyed buildings, sOi'that the hundreds of thousands affected by the earthquakes can start life anew. Thus, CRS procurement has shifted to the purchase of iron roofing, :block making machines, tools and road clearing equipment such as bulldozers, front wheeled loaders - Dear Editor, and dump trucks, and stateside You published an article in purchases and ~ommitments are your "basic youth page" of moving swiftly past the $400,000 Match 11, "Teens Discuss Fammark. ilies." Xour- soUrce is NC Stories "As we move irito the recon- and stories they certainly are. A and rehabilitation struction p~ase Of our American Catholic Inner Life aid program," said Bishop Ed"How many men will never ward E. Swanstrom, CRS Execu- have the least idea of what is tive Director; "the size and scope meant by- supernatural heroism~ of it will be determined, as al- without which there can be no ways, by the generosity of all inner life! Yet by that very samethose upon whom we so utterly inner life shall they be judged." depend."

--George Bernanos.

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Continuing for three consecutive Saturday nights through April 17, "Contem~orary Cath· olics" will open with a filmed special on the Cathedral of the Holy Cross parish in Boston's South End. Ensuing specials will deal with "Women, , in the Church," "Social Justice ,and the Church," and "Parish Ufe." cathedral Copes Depi..~ted in the opening program is the development of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross' in 'Boston's South End, which has coped with the demands of a booming immigrant population, establishment of successfullyintegrated schools, and adapta~ tion of new liturgical styles to an urban culture.

"Women in the Church," on Saturday, April 3, focuses on the lives of a laywoman, Alice Du- . mais of Lawrence, and' a nun, Dr. Carol Putnam of the South 'Encl.

Ms. Dumais is an active extra- ' ordinary minister iIi her parish and leader of a charismatic prayer group in her home. Dr. Putnam left her jobs as a college professor to join other sisters at Casa Del Sol in: the' South End to' establish a neighborhood .school for Spanish-speaking women.

However, she feels that her mi~­ istry is denied full expression since, under existing Church law, she cannot be ordained a priest.

"Social Justice and the Church," Saturday, April 10, presents two examples of the' Church's role in creating social justice: the Archdiocese of Boston's housing program to build low and moderate income hous· ing in Lexington, Beverly,. Scituate and North Andover, a...nd par· tichation in Phase II desegregation of the' Charlestown public schools.

"Parish Life,.!' Saturday, April 17, depicts the sense .of community life in a suburban parish in a close-up look at St. Francis Xavier Parish, South Weymouth, and some of its 3,000 active parishioners.

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Criticizes NC Report Of Jerusalem Meeting

Once'\ Again, Everyone's Out of Step But Andrew

The fifth annual meeting of the International CatholicJewish Liaison Committee took place in Jerusalem March 1 - 3, at the Martin ~uber Center of the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus. While the Jerusalem dialogue was closed to the press, local reporters were informed that a sum- the local Catholic community in mary of the proceedings Israel. In a~y event, t.he fact is would be made available at ~hat C~tholIc and JeWish particf U f mee mg. n ort~natelY: however, some of the rep rters Jumped the gun and began to speculate out of thin air

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on what was likely to be said or done at the meeting. Some, I suppose, were simply trying to scoop their competitors. Others, I am afraid, were grinding their own political axes, mainly in opposition to the State of Israel.

As an American participant in the Jerusalem meeting, I regret to say that one of the worst offenders in the latter regard was Desmond Sullivan, who covers Jerusalem for the' National Catholic News Service.

Mr. Sullivan's NC story, dated 3/3176 and obviously written before he knew what had taken plue at the meeting was, in my opinion, an anti-Isra~li editorial camouflaged as a routine news story.

With nothing to go on but a series of vague and obviously loaded "fears" and rumors attributed to anonymous local sources, he criticized both the site and the makeup of the meeting.

First of all, he adroitly planted the unfounded fear that, because the meeting was being held in Jerusalem, it "may" result in political statements "as happened with the Christian-Islamic dialogue in Tripoli, Lybia in February." Secondly, he complained that "church representatives from Jerusalem and elsewhere in the Holy Land have not been included in the talks." He was compelled to add, of course, that "a meeting has been arranged outside the dialogue program between heads of churches here and members of the commission."

I will never understand why Sullivan felt it necessary to indulge in anti-Israeli speculation instead of waiting a day or two to find out what actually happened at the meeting. Ditto for his clumsy attempt to drive a wedge between the Vaticansponsored Jerusalem meeting and

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Ipants 10 the Jerusalem dialogue held a cordial and hopefully fruitful meeting w'ith officiai representatives of all the I I Catholic groups in Israel. oca From the point of view of professional journalistic standards, Sullivan's most offensive blooper was his incredibly bizarre statement to the effect that "Jewish members of the dialogue group are also thought to be under pressure to declare that there should be no guilt imparted to modern Christians for past persecutions. This would match a Vatican Council statement that modern Jews are not to be held guilty for the death of Christ." ,The statement is a figment of somebody's disturbed imagination. There is not a word of truth in it. I am left to wonder why Mr. Sullivan tried to palm it off on his unsuspecting American readers. All I know for a fact is that he never checked it with me or with any of the other ,participants in the dialogue.

My criticism of Mr. Sullivan's trouble-making story on the Jerusalem meeting is not meant to be a criticism of the NC News Service as such. In my opinion, NC has consistently played the Israeli-Arab issue fair and square.

Mr. Sullivan's tendentious handling of this delicate issue is the exception that proves the rule.

My only purpose in citing him here is to set the record straight with regard to the Jerusalem meeting, which' was strictly a religious encounter, and a very successful one in my opinion.

I would like to think, now that the meeting has been concluded, that Sullivan shares my admiration for the Israeli government's statemanship in scrupulously respecting the religious character of the event. Judging, however, from the substance as well as the tone of his NC story on the Jerusalem dialogue, I am afraid that's wishful thinking on my part.

Eternal Part "Religion, occupying herself with personal destinies and keeping thus in contact with the only absolute realities which we know, must necessarily play an eternal part in human history."

-William James, "Varieties of Religious Experience," 1902.

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Do you ever wonder how people know what they know?

I mean, you read someone who is pontificating about, let

us say, to choose an example at random, the Catholic Church. Do you wonder what his evidence is? Do you wonder how come he knows so much? Do you wonder it may seem to the upwardly how many people he has mobil~, ,.the educated elite and talked to? I don't think that the biblIcal puri.sts, is sti~l the FR. TRIPP

Decision-Making Symposium Topic Rev. Kevin F. Tripp, Coordinator of Catholic Ministry at St. Luke's Hospital, New Bedford, made one of three major presentations at a symposium on theological decision-making closing today in San Francisco. His paper, delivered Tuesday, considered the role of the hospital in such decisions. A response was given by Thomas Underriner, administrator of St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, Portland, Ore. Other speakers, discussing the roles of bishops and theologians, were Bishop Maurice Dingman of Des Moines, chairman of the Bishops' Committee on Health Affairs, responded to by Bishop Mark Schmitt, auxiliary of Green Bay and episcopal advisor to the Catholic Hospital Assn.; and Rev. Anthony Kosnick, professor of moral theology at SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary, Orchard Lake, Mich., responded to by Rev. John Boyle, theology professor at the School of Religion of the University of Iowa.

The five-day symposium was co-sponsored by the National Assn. of Catholic Cha"'lains and the Bishops' Committee on Health Affairs. It attracted bishops, theologians, hos,ital admin· istrators and persons in religious' ministry in hospitals.

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ovan, once called me). On the contrary, I suspect it goes the other way: I became a fact grubber because I wondered. I didn't know any of 'the people the "Commonweal" crowd used to talk about in their editorials as the "Catholic layman"; and I wondered whether the people I knew or the people they knew were typical.

Guess who won?

But more recently, a lot of the "trend sniffers" have announced that the worst is over for American Catholicism. "U. S. News a?d World Report," for example, did a long article in which it quoted a number of people to that effect. Martin Marty, one of the most skilled and insightfU~ of the trend sniffers, has said pI'etty much the same thing.

Now, they may be right.

Sometimes you can go out, wet your finger, put it up in the wind and figure what's going to happen next. If you do it often enough, you're bound by the laws of probability to be right some of the time.

But as Father Fichter used to say in his younger days, "I've got a oouple of thousand na· tional probability sample cases which say they're wrong."

Invisible Opposition Or one hears periodically from the national press about the opposition of Catholic conservatives to the English liturgy. It sounds as though there is some sort of mass movement. In fact, such opposition is just about invisible-85 percent of the population like the new liturgy.

But the most outrageous example of finger-in-the-wind social research on American Catholicism in a long time is an article called "The Catholic Crisis?" by Pastor George Lindbeck in-where? You guessed it, fellows and girls, "The Commonweal."

That gang never learns.

Listen to Pastor Lindbeck: "In their search for contemporary relevance or for Christian faithfulness, they have undermined that popular, traditional, cultural Catholicism which, however oppressive and obscurantist

sour~e of meamng and hfe to multitudes."

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and a long-standing 'friend of Catholicism. It bothers my vestigial conscience to disagree with him. But ...

He doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

The Council Fathers did no such ~hing; what's more, he has no eVidence at all to prove that they did-or, for that matter, to prove the other assertions about t?e ::primitive" and "superstitiOUS Catholic ghetto. The whole thing is an exercise in fiction totally unrelated to any empirical evidence. It didn't happen that way at all.

What Did Happen This week Sheed and Ward will publish an account of what did happen in the NORC report, "Catholic Schools in a Declining Church." And while James Andrews and John McNeel will not forgive me if I let down the suspense about the book's precise findings (in addition to their responsibilities for Doonesbury," that genial duo preside over the destinies of S and Wand many other worthy causes), the explanation for the contemporary decline in American Catholicism has nothing to do with the Vatican Council or some legendary erosion of folk Catholicism.

Indeed, given half a chance (which it wasn't), the Second Vatican Council would have unleashed a notable religious revival among American Catholics.

I will avoid false modesty.

We don't just speculate about what happened-we will prove it with more solid evidence about what has happened - we will prove it, and prove it with more solid evidence than is available for almost any historical explanation. Lindbeck and all the others who blame the Council are wrong-and that's all there is to it.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH IjDoing Something About World Hunger The executive committee of our local Council of Christian Churches met at lunch the other day to draw up an agenda for the next general session.

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FR. JOSEPH M. CHAMPLIN As we prepared to place our food orders with the waitress, one member, a Methodist minis· ter, somewhat apologetically asked what would be our atti· tude if he did not eat anything that noon. There were no objections, nor any questions about his rather unusual behavior.

This writer, however, pursued the matter. Was it part of a weight losing campaign? Didn't he feel well that day? Or could there be a unique, higher motive?

I suspected the lat,ter and he confirmed my conjecture.

During Lent of 1975 our ecumenical services took world hunger as their recurrent theme. My colleague decided during that season to forego his future daily lunch in an attempt to identify more closely wi,th those hungry in other places.

Fasting apparently has in the past not been a common practice in Protestant sectors, at least within his denomination. Part of the reason, he feels, may have been an unfortunate reaction to what was formerly a strong Catholic tradition. It is rather ironical that he and others like him are now adopting fasting at a precise moment in Catholi<:ism's history when this type of self-denial or mortification is much less frequent or intense.

My colleague in the Christian ministry can, after one year of abstinence from noonday lunches, list several benefits from the practice. The most significant, however, in his view, is the heightened _ awareness he has gained of what it means to be hungry. A slight rumble in the Turn to Page Thirteen

Infancy of .Jesus

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REV. JOHN J. CA5TELOT, 5.S. As we saw in an earlier column, the Gos~els are not "lives" of Christ, biographies in the modern sense of the term. They -contain a great deal of good historical material. but they go beyond history, just as their subject, the incarnate Son of God, goes beyond history. As he is unique. so are they; they are transhistorical, inspired interpretations of the historical Christevent in the light of post-Ressur· rection, post·Pentecost faith.

They are primarily theological, secondarily historical.

If this is true of the Gospels in general, it is even truer of those chapters which we call the In· fancy Gospels: Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2. These are the wonderful Christmas stories. so dear to all of us. It is precisely because they are so dear to us that we owe it to Matthew and Luke to find out just what they were trying to tell us, and a great deal of serious and reverent research has gone into this endeavor in the past decades.

It has become increasingly clear that the Infancy Gospels are different from the other parts of the Gospels, so different as to ·be in a class by themselves. In the first three Gospels the accounts of Jesus' public ministry, beginning with the preaching of John the Baptist, parallel one another in amazing fashion. It was the public life which formed, little by little, the subject matter of the apostolic proclamation, as we can see from the early ser· mons recorded in the Ads of the

Apostles, like Peter's Pentecost speech (Acts 2:22 ff. See also 3:12 ff.). Mark's Gospel reflects this stage of Christian catechesis and contains no Infancy narrative.

The explanation for this would seem to be relatively simple: The apostles were sent to be witnesses, and they had nersonally witnessed only the public ministry. There had been no apostolic witness to the birth or childhood of Jesus. In fact, for quite a while the early Church seems to have had no interest in this phase of Jesus' life. When Matthew and Luke expressed such an interest in their Go~pels, that interest ·does not seem to have been a historical one.

Gospels Differ As mentioned above. the ac-counts of the public life are sur: prisingly alike, in spite of si~nifi­ cant differences. The Infancy Gospels, on the other hand, are so different from each other as to be, for all praotical purposes, irreconcilable. They agree on only three points: the Virgin Birth, the birth at Bethlehem, and the raising of the child at Nazareth. Apart from these three points of convergence, thev could be describing two different events. Attempts have been made in the past to make them dovetail, but these attempts have been so strained as to be most unconvincing. Compare them for yourself. In Ma,tthew you have the familiar elements of Joseph's doubts, angels, dreams, the erratic star, mysterious strangers from the mysterious East, the Turn to Page Thirteen

Jesus' Infancy and Christian Maturity

BY WILLIAM E, MAY The New Testament gives us two beautiful yet quite different stories about the birth and childhood of Jesus, those by Matthew and Luke. All of us are familiar with the scenes described in each: Matthew's account of the announcement of Jesus' birth to Joseph, the adoration of the Magi, the flight into Egypt and the slaughter of the innocents; Luke's description of the annunciation to Mary, the births of John and Jesus, the homage of the shepherds, the presentation and the finding in the temple.

These simple yet profound sto-ries have much to tell us both about Jesus and about ourselves.

Matthews begins his story with a genealogy that stresses that Jesus is the "son of David, son of Abraham." Its purpose is to tell us that Jesus is, like us, true man, but that this man Jesus whose virginal conception (1 :20-23) is the work of God, not man, is the promised one of Israel, the seed of David the mighty king and also the seed of Abraham and therefore the the one "in whose name all the nations of the earth will be blessed' (Gen 12:3). The one to be born of Mary, Joseph's wife, is therefore the one who would bring to fulfillment the promises made of old to Abraham, the father of all who believe.

The utterly unique character of Jesus is brought out by Matthew in his account by the name that Joseph is instructed to give to Him, for He is to be called' Jesus, which means "Yahwehthe one true God-saves," and Emmanuel which means God

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Frequently, it's because too many members are too busy "doing their own thing." They're not very often together to do things-and, when they are together, the experience is so unusual that they don't know what to do or how to act! Before families can do things together more often - really together, in a tightly knit community of mutual love and common purpose.

Father Patrick Peyton has popularized the motto, "The family that prays together stays together," and the Second Vatican Council called the family "the domestic church." Thus, the family is the fundamental ChrisTurn to Page Thirteen

NEWBORN INFANT reaches our hearts as do the Infancy Gospels of Matthew and Luke. "We are to be the people of this new Moses, whom we are to adore as did the Magi," writes Know Your Faith columnist William May. with us (1:21, 23). That the saving mission of this holy one of God is to embrace all men is stressed by Matthew when he tells us of the adoration of the Magi.

New Moses What is more, we learn from Matthew that this Jesus is to be a new Moses, for like Moses of old He is called by God from Egypt to fashion a new people and be their leader. In fact, one of the major themes running throughout the entire Gospel of Matthew is here foreshadowed, for in his Gospel, Jesus, the definitive Word of God to man, is the new Moses, the new lawgiver, the one who is to bring the people of God the words of divine life.

From Matthew's Gospel of the infancy we learn that we are to be the people of this new Moses, whom we are to adore

as did the Magi, welcoming Him into our hearts. Like Joseph, from whose perspective Matthew tells the story of Jesus' birth and early infancy, we, His people, are to be upright and ready to carry out unquestioningly and readily what the Lord directs us. He, the Mes· siah, is our true king (cf 2:2) and it is His reign that we are to let live in our hearts.

Luke's account is markedly different from that of Matthew, . yet the truth he communicates' to us about Jesus and ourselves converge with those disclosed in the Matthean version. Luke tells his story from the perspective of Mary, Jesus' mother. He parallels the annunciation and birth of Jesus with the annunciation and birth of John, His precursor, and weaves into his account Old Testament citations in a very Turn to Page Thirteen

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Continued from 'Page Twelve slaughter of the innocents, the flight into Egypt, the return to Nazareth. Not a hint of this Luke. For these and other reasons, it is quite generally agreed today that these accounts are, roughly speaking, about 90 per cent ,theology and 10 per cent fact.

What, then, did Matthew and Luke have in mind in composing these stories? It would seem that they wanted to give us, each in

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Maturity Continued from Page Twelve simple and almost unnoticeable way, whereas Matthew introduces them solemnly in keeping with his purpose of showing that Jesus is the long-awaited Messiah and the bearer of the promises of old. Like Matthew, Luke presents Jesus as the annointed of God, the Messiah, yet he stresses that Jesus is to be the holy one of God, the Son of the Most High who will bring to completion the saving work of God (cf 1:32, 2:30). ,In his account Luke stresses the role of Mary, the humhle virgin who found favor with God (1 :30) and the shepherds, who personify the poor and the lowly, the "remnant" that God has kept faithful to Himself. Here we see themes that will come Ul') time and again in Luke's Gospel, for in it he stresses the love that God and Jesus have for the weak and the powerless. for those who are humble of heart.

Luke does not preface his story of Jesus' birth with a genealogical table, althou~h he does provide one later in his Gos"'el (3:23-38). His genealogy differs from Matthew in that he traces Jesus' ancestry back to Adam and not simplv to Abraham, to emphasize the solidarity of Jesus with all mankind.

There is much in Luke's account that bears on Christian maturity. For us to mature as disciples of Jesus, Son of the Most High God, we muct be like Mary and shepherds, like Simeon and Anna. By this Luke means that we can grow up in Christ and take possession of ourselves as He wills us to only if we are humble of heart and poor in spirit, ready to let olirselves be possessed by Jesus and His Spirit. re'\dv to give ourselves away to Him in love so that we' can in truth come into "ossession of ourselve~. Like John the Baptist too, whose birth parallels that of Jesus in Luke's account, we must be willing to prepare His way and serve Him.

his own fashion, a theology of the Incarnation. In addition, each of the narratives serves as an introduction to the body of the Gospel. Each is like the overture to an opera, in which the musical themes which will be developed at some length in the opera itself are stated quite succinctly. The Infancy narratives sum up what the Apostles and the Christians of the first century had learned, over the years, to believe of the Lord: who He was, what He came to do, how He was received by various classes of people.

In Matthew, Jesus is presented as son of David, king of the Jews. He is acknowledged by the Gentiles (symbolized by the Magi), rejected and persecuted

by His own people (Herod). The rest of the Gospel presents Him as the prophet like Moses forming the new people of God. The excitement at His birth, the persecution of the male children by the ruler, the flight to and return from Egypt likewise suggest the career of Moses, especially as that career is described with additional details in extrabiblical stories.

In Luke, everything is ordered to the coming of salvation: its forerunner, John the Baptist, Mary, th~ mother of the Messiah, the joy of Elizabeth and John at the preoence. of Christ, the joy of the shepherds, of Simeon and Anna, and even to some extent of the scribes and doctors. There is also a prediction of Hi~ future reception by others. This abundance of messianic joy runs all throughout the Gospel and has a parallel in Luke's own account of the history of the Infant Church in the Acts of the Apostles: Christians rejoicing in the salvation thev know has come to them through Jesus.

Jerusalem and the Tem"'le occupy a central place in the theolop,y of Luke's Gospel. And so the Infancy Narrative opens in the Tem"'le with the anl'lunciRtion of John the Baptist's birth, climaxes in the Tem"'le with the Pre,entation of the Infant Jesus, and closes in the Temple with the finding of the child Jesus after three days.

This is adm~ttedly just a thumbnail sketch of a very complex subject. For a fuller appreciation of the theological riches contained in these chapters. consult a p,ood modern commentary, like "The Jerome Bihlical Commentary." If this is not available, read these chapters with close attention to the explanatory notes in the "New American Bible."

HUNGER IS IN U.S. TOO, as photograph of "soup line" at 81. Vincent de Paul Charity Dining Room in Phoenix, Ariz. proves. "Our Lord made explicit the Christian's responsibility toward the undernourished," Father Champlin reminds us.

Doing Something About Hunger Continued from Page Twelve stomach during the day (which will be relieved by a full dinner later) helps him realize the plight of those millions who go to bed with hunger pains, a bloated belly and not much hope for a better tomorrow.

Christian Responsibility The poverty and simplicity which surrounded Jesus' birth and early life may provide some comfort to those who are poor or hungry and a bit of inspiration to share for those who are more comfortable or affluent.

But lest we miss the point, our Lord in His adult years made very explicit the Christian's responsibility toward the undernourished, the homeless, the naked.

This minister's fasting is one method of fulfilling that' duty and overcoming the world hunger problem. Observing a meatless Wednesday and Friday routine is another suggested by our Catholic bishops.

Nevertheless, Christian individuals and communities must also look to some of the structures of our society which require change, -if we are to cope in any effective way with the enormous

difficulties posed by today's food shortages.

Organized programs for parish gardens, letters to Congressional representatives and senators supporting bills designed for the aid of impoverished countries, activities celebrating "Food Day, April 8" are illustrations of efforts which combine persons for more powerfUl results and for needed structural modifications in government.

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Continued from Page Twelve tian community-the unit from .which the parish, the diocese and the universal Church are built. The Christian family shares not only a natural life in common but a supernatural life in common-the life of Christ which is at the heart of truly "graceful:' living. To nourish that life, there should be family prayer around the dinner table and family. Communion around the table of the Lord.

But as the sacrifice of Christ was for all persons, the family nourished by His Body and Blood will experience both spiritual satisfaction and spiritual hunger. The satisfaction will come from being guests at the table of the Lord; the hunger, the dissatisfaction, will come from the fact that there are not more guests at the Lord's table and from the fact that many of the guests and potential guests show signs of suffering and pain.

Eucharistic Family The members of a holy and sensitive family blessed by God with both faith and supernat路 ural life will frankly grow uncomfortable with themselves if they do not share their treasure of faith with those who lack it and the necessities of life with those who are without them.

Then the family will want to do things together more often!

The children will be eager to sacrifice with their parents for those around the corner and around the world who are in need; they will be quick to sense injustice and to ask the help of their family that they might combat it. Parents will not be reluctant to ask their children to join them in prayer for others; they will not be reductant to remind their children that others shall know we are Christians by our love.

The family which is truly Eucharistic remembers that Jesus said: "This is My Body which will be given up for you!" Like Jesus, the Christian family becomes self-sacrificing. In other words, they become transformed by the Spirit of God; they become an example to the world.

Such a family is living out the implications of another sacrament, another outward sign of God's love. The sacrament of confirmation, the commissioning ceremony for those committed to the public service of God, confers the strength of Christian maturity to bear the responsibility of bringing faith arid food to a world sorely in need of both.

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By Cecelia Belanger (Part II of a study of the CIA) Discussing his role as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Colby has said, "People ask me if I regret having gone into the intelligence serVice, and my answer is 'No.' I found it a fascinating and challenging life. Over the years we've brought intelligence into the methods. We will consequently permanent structure of the continue to arouse wonderment from some of our foreign assogovemnment and not merely ciates as to our openness, and

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concern among some American citizens that we still must keep

some information secret if we are to conduct an intelligence effort at all.

Deformed Brontosaurus "My task as Director of Central Intelligence was to search for individual facts kept in the utmost secrecy in closed societies, and with these few facts try to construct whole assessments, in somewhat the way one extrapolates a reproduction of the skeleton of a brontosaurus from a thigh bone. Without the con· tributions of clandestinely acquired information, our bronto· Turn to Page Fifteen

Scholarship, Social Life Mingle at Gerrard High

He added: "As a related aspect of American intelligence in this open society, I might say something about our relations with the public and the press. We do

By DEBBIE SMITH not conduct a public relations School Correspondent program; we are not in the pub· Twenty-five girls at Bishop lie information business. But we . Gerrard High School, Fall River, do make as much information as have been inducted into the Napossible available to the news tional Honor Society (NHS). The media and to the public. Groups ceremony, based on a Bicentenof our citizens, including high nial theme, was planned by presschool students, have visited our ent society members, directed by facilities, where we try to re- Sister Rita Marie, RSM. spond to their questions about Richard Silvia, Fall River city the nature of American intelli· councillor, was guest speaker gence. and Regina Forand, Deborah "At the same time, we must Smith, Lorraine Poisson and respect the essential professional Julie Berube showed how the requirement embodied in the Na- NHS staildards of leadership, tional Security Act to protect character, service and scholarour inteIHgence sources and ship were exemplified in Amer-

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I FEEL LIKE A BULLET Like corn in a field I cut you down I threw the last punch too hard After years of going steady Well I thought it was time To throw in my hand for a new set of cards And I can't take you dancing out on the weekend I figured we'd painted too much of this town And I tried not to loo.k as I walked to my wagon And I knew then I had lost what should have been found I knew then I had lost what should have been found And I feel like a bullet ip the gun of Robert Ford I'm low as a paid assassin is You know I'm cold as a hired sword I'm so ashamed, can't we patch it up You know I can't think straight no more You make me feel like a bullet, honey In the gun, in the gun of Robert Ford Like a child when his toys have been stepped on That's how it all seemed to me I burst the bubble that both us lived in And I'm damned if I'll ever get rid of This guilt that I feel And if looks could kill I'd be a dead man Your friends and mine don't call no more Hen, I thought it was best but now I feel branded Breaking up's sometimes like breaking the law Breaking up's sometimes like breaking the law

by Elton John and Bernie Taupin «c) 1975 Big Pig Music, (ASCAP) ) Here is one of the truly fine songs of this past year. Both the music and the lyrics are strong. And when you put a good song together with Elton John's current selling power, how·

ican presidents Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington and Kennedy.

Si!~ter Elizabeth McAuliffe, RSM, Gerrard principal, stressed that leadership, character and scholarship are not complete without service to others. She presented membership cards to the inductee'l. who ioined in reo citing the NBS pledge.

Officers of the Gerrard chap· ter are Marv Santerre, president; MeHs'la Toulan, vice-prenident; Lorraine Poisson, secretary; Julie Berube, tre"surer.

Soclal Side On the social side of Gerrard Turn to Page I"ifteen

STUDENTS' CARDBOARD HOUSE: Three Notre Dame University students and three· alumni are in Guatemala setting up temporary housing made of corrugated cardboard as relief shelter (above) for victims of the killer earthquakes. A waxlike material coats the cardboard enabling it also to be creased and formed into storage bins (right) for grain and water.

Before Testa..ment "The, Church had martyrs throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written."

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The first question about this song is "Who is Robert Ford?" He joined Jesse James' train-robbing gang in 1881, when there was a $10,000 price on the famous outlaw's life.

At that time, seeking to hide, James took up the identity of "Tom Howard," a respectable cattle buyer. Five months later, Ford found James in his home unarmed and shot him in the back of the head. Although James was a wanted criminal, reaction to the cowardly killing was strong and songs branded the "coward who shot Mr. Howard."

Elton John uses this powerful image in telling of a man breaking up with his girl friend because he would like to try out "a new set of cards." Only after totally breaking off, does it occur to him that he has <lone something terrible. "I knew then I had lost what should have been found."

Emotional insights run high in this song. First of all, there is the sense of horror over what one man does to another human being. A person really does hold the fragile life of others in his hands. Relationships can never be seen as games.

The second insight is the sense of fright over the public's judgment. Robert Ford and the man in the song both find that when one chooses to hurt another, the effects are felt by many more people. The reaction can be firm. "Your friends and mine don't call no more . . .·1 thought it was best but now I feel branded," The third insight is the shocking feeling of personal guilt and shame. When a person makes a terrible mistake, there is something that happens which shakes his confidence in who he is and in his other decisions. He becomes as empty as a spent cartridge. "I'm so low . . . I'm cold . . . I'm so ashamed . . .

I can't think straight . . . 'I'm damned if I'll ever get rid of this guilt that I feel," Much more could be said about this song because it offers so rich a reflection on responsibility in relationships. It pinpoints some of the most important elements in moral choices, the other, the self, and the society.

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Scholarship SCHOOLBOY SPORTS IN THE DIOCESE

By PETER 1 BARTEK Norton High Coach

Schoolboy Baseball Campaign Opens· April 19 in Conference The curtain will rise for the Southeastern Massachusetts Conference baseball season April 19, with a full slate of games in all three divisions. Once the championship campaign is underway, the clubs will be competing for circuit honors, and the right to repthe purpose of aligning teams resent their league is the for for the state tournament. Each state championship tourna- league with an average male enment. Divisional titlist and rollment in grades 10-12 which runner-ups qualify for post season tourney action.

Prior to the opener, the 25 Conference teams will stage their version of the "Grapefruit Circuit." During these non-league games, coaches will attempt to finalize their starting lineups while developing a winning spirit. The non-loop contests are counted in the over-all season record but do not enter into the tournament picture, as they do in basketball.

Each league in the Commonwealth is assigned to a division

exceeds 725 is in Division I, those 'between 580-724 are in Division 11. Loops with enrollments between 320-579 are in Division HI and those below 319 are in Division IV. Applying those guidelines to the Southeastern Mass. Conference, the nine teams competing in Division I will be fighting for berths in the state's Division II, the eight clubs in Division II will be vying for bids to the Division III playoffs, and the eip,ht teams in Division III of the Conference will be attempting to qualify for Division IV in the state tourney.

State' and Conference Divisions Differ The discrepancv between state and Conference Division placement is a result of the Conference aligning teams according to competitiveness and not enrollment As a consequence the average Divisional enrollment iigures within the Conference are slightly distorted, but teams do compete with opponents of comparable strength.

There are only three schools within the confines of diocesan territorial limits that have over 725 boys enrolled in grades 10-12.

They are New Bedford (1206).

Durfee High of Fall River (869), and Attleboro (888). The figures are based upon 1975-76 statistics.

The average enrollment of the nine teams in the Conference's Division I is 668. Bishop Stang High of Dartmouth is the smallest school in the bracket with an enrollment of 214.

Dartmouth is the largest school in Division 11 with 484 boys while Msgr. Coyle-Bishop Cassidy High of Taunton is the smallest with only 143. The 'average enrollment of the Division is 310.

The average enrollment in Division III is 270, 'but Diman Regional Technical of Fall River ·and New Bedford Vocational

both exceed that figure by a large margin. Diman· has 687 boys in attendance while Voke has 456.

The divisional and e'1rollment breakdown of Southeastern Mas'). Conference baseball is as follows: Division I New Bedford 1206 Attleboro 888 Durfee , ,........... 869 Taunton ,......... 698 Falmouth 580 Barnstable 540 Somerset _........ 534 Dennis-Yarmouth 486 Stang 214 Division II Dartm·outh 484 Fairhaven 404 Seekonk :..................... 359 Connolly............................................. 333 Case 3'.4 Feehan 231 Dighton-Rehoboth 206 Coyle 143 Division m Diman 687 N.B. Voke 456 Bourne 270 Norton 210 Old Rochester 206 Wareham 204 Holy Family.................................... 103 St. Anthony.................................... 97

Test Your Knowledge of Baseball's .Jf Conference teams were di-

vided according to enrollment equitable playing conditions would be lost. Under the present structure ·a school is required to compete 'against clubs of comparable ability. Predictably the Conference will feature another season of three close pennant races.

Judgment is the key to officiating any sporting event, but judgment is useless unless the of-

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Last year's World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds dramatically illustrated the role of umpires in -baseball.' Who will ever forget the controversial collision between Carlton Fisk and Ed Armbruster?

With the baseball season just around the corner, test your knOWledge of the rules by an-

Continued from Page Fourteen life, members of the Christian Life Community (CLC), directed

by Sister Mary Albertus, RSM, believe that there is room in every girl's life for a touch of tradition and they proved ·it by planning the annual FatherDaughter Dance, held earlier this month.

Sister Albertus noted that "the Father-Daughter dance is one of the things the girls stay with from their freshman to their senior year; if they come as freshmen you usually see them and their fathers every year after that."

Why is the dance such a success? Again Sister Albertus offers some insight. "Perhaps it's because it give·s both the fathers and daughters a healthy, wholesome atmosphere to show each other off. For one s')ecial night of the year, the girls are really their father's princesses; the fathers are that 'special escort.'

You can touch ,the joy in the air!"

Has the format of the dance undergone any modernizing to offer more appeal to the girls?

"That's what's really surprising.

The dance has never been officially desi~nated as formal, yet the majoritv of the girls wear the traditional formal gown. The only 'modernizing' is in the music. We strive for a happy blend of contemporary and tra· ditional dances, such as the waltz. Some of the girls can out.. waltz their dads, but some of the fathers can out-bump their I daughters!"

The CLC sponsors the event to promote a "Christian community of joy"." A CLC member remarked that many people think that the CLC is some sort of "very structured organi~ation where everYbody seeks Christ through folded hands and constant verbal prayer. This isn't so.

Positive action· is one of our ways of prayer, involvement in the Gerrard community is our means of seeking out and sharing Christ."

Guest Program Another means of seeking and sharing was erlained to Gerrardites recently when Sister Janice Farnham, RJM, discussed Quest, a program she heads, sponsored by the American Province of the Religious of Jesus and Mary. Founded in 1971, it seeks to help young women be· tween the ages of 18 and 25 in _"""II11III11I......IIIII1.III......._ "....IIII11II11I&>1nllll...' " ' _ '

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swering the following true or false questions: 1. When the catcher interferes with the batter the hall is dead immediately.

2. A runner is hit on the head bya thrown ball between third hase and home and falls down unconscious'- catcher tags runner out, the umpire calls him . safe due to injury.

3. Batter hits a home run with an illegal bat 43 inches in length - umpire counts the run, ejects player.

4. Can the first baseman 'back up the catcher on an intentional walk?

5. The pitcher may use the set position only when there is a runner on base.

Answers next week.

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YOUNG SPRING SPORTS: As warmer days aprroach, children on playgrounds throughout the country just like these in Newville, Pa., can be seen shedding their coats and jackets and enjoying their recess romp. It's not hard to guess their favorite subject.. their personal quest for meaningful Christian lives.

Junior and Senior Christian Studies classes saw slides of Questers in action in Appalachia, New York, Providence and the rural south and southwest. Projects have included dav care centers for migrant children, Bible schools, and tutorial and recreational programs. Volunteers have also aided in parish ministry, farm workers' clinics and home and hospital visiting programs.

Sister Janice explained that the Quest program runs from four to six weeks each summer.

The only cost to partici-ants is trans-ortation and personal expenses.

"Quest invites and challeMes you to be lovingly concerned," she said, "that burdens be lifted from our brothers and sisters by

focus on youth Continued from Page Fourteen saurus could in some situations be verY deformed indeed."

This, then, is foreign intelligence in and for America today.

It reflects the technical and intellectual talents of America, it reflects our open society, it reflects the courage and integrity of professional -intelligence officerS' who one doesn't hear about.

Most important of all, it provides American policy-makers with critical information and rea· soned assessments about the complex foreign political, economic and military challenges to our national security and welfare. It is designed to help us to achieve and to live in peace, rather than to protect us only in time of war. It has become an important and permanent element of our national foreign policy structure. Those who are a part of it say they are proud of it.

your own caring and sharing in a Christian community of service." Further information is available from her at Quest, 275 W. 230 St., Bronx, N.Y. 10463.

New Group Members of the 1975 graduat· ing class of Gerrard have organized an· alumnae association, with Claudette Beaudoin as president; Florencegail Ryan, vicepresident; Colette Pacheco and Judith Almeida, secretaries; Carol Greene, treasurer.

They will meet in April with Sister Elizabeth to plan for the coming year.

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OUR LADY OF THE ISLE, NANTUCKET The Women's Guild is holding a day of recollection today, with services scheduled from 10 to 11 this morning, from 3 to 4 this afternoon, followed by the stations of the cross, and at 7 tonight in conjunction with the regUlar evening Mass. Babysitters will be available in the church basement during the morning service.

Also planned by the guild is a ham and bean supper at 6:30 p.nt. Monday, April 12. Reservations may be made with Jean Duarte, chairman, through Wednesday, April 7.

ST. ANN, RAYNHAM the public is invited to attend a holy hour at 8:15 p.m. Friday, April 2, organized by the Men of the Sacred Heart of Greater Taunton. Following the service a slide presentation and talk on devotion to the Sacred Heart will be given by Miss Louise Barnett.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER A bus trip to the Chateau de

ST. MARY, NEW BEDFORD A "Spirit of '76" dance will be / sponsored by the Women's Guild from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday, April 3 in the school hall.

Music will be by the Silverliners and refreshments will be served at midnight. Costumes are op~ tiona!. Tickets may be reserved by calling Amy Gamache, telephone 995-1420 or Bernice Greene, 995-3050, and will also be available at the door.

Ville dinner theatre will take place Sunday, May 2 under auspices of the Women's Guild. The dinner will feature roast beef and a performance of "My Fair Lady" will follow. Reservations may be made through Thursday, April 15 with Mrs. Helen Ouel~ lette, telephone 674-4050.

ST. MARY, SOUTH DARTMOUTH Women's Guild members will model styles at a mini-fashion show, petite luncheon and card

party to be held at 11 :30 a.m.

Thursday, April 8 in the Parish Centre club room. Mrs. Anthony Martin will direct the fashion show.

Luncheon will include chicken salad, relishes and dessert and any games may be played at the following card session. Prizes will include clothing store gift certificates, Bicentennial centerpieces and a small attendance gift for all. Reservations close

Friday, April 2 and may be made with Mrs. Richard Parsons or Mrs. Raymond Robichaud, chairwomen.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER' A whist party open to the public will be sponsored at 1:30 p.m.

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