Faithful Enter Into Death, Life of Lord
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THE ,LIGHT OF CHRIST
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Fa'il River, Mass., Thurs., March 30, 1972 PRICE 10¢ Vol. 16, No. 12 ,© 1972 The Anchor $4.00 per year
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With the' Feast of the ~esurreciion each year, we are given new cause for great confidence in our Faith~ Jesus, the Lord, is the Son God, and of this fact His Resurrection is eloquent testimony. This testimony, valid as it was for those who first saw the empty tomil, has been through all the centuries and continues to be solid proof of our Faith. In this Faith, we renew our belief in those facts of doctrine and principles of ethics accord~ng to which we live. .
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Seldom have followers of Christ been asked to profess this Faith in action with the intensity that contemporary life demands. For it is apparent that we can no longer trust to custom, convention or law to enshrine the basic principles of moral living. We must therefore learn them and enshrine them in our hearts to such an extent'that we live entirely in accord with our Faith in Jesus Christ and His teachings; When, in fact, this is codified only in our hearts, such moral living is an even greater and more eloquent testimony of our commitment to the Risen Lord.
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May the Season of Easter, bright as it is with hope, be the occasion of a renewed commitment on the part of the clergy, ' religious and faithful of our Diocese to Jesus Christ; the i Son of God, with all that such a commitment implies. ~ This is my Easter wish for you all, together with my prayers i
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Religion-Oriented Families Least Prone to Drugs STANFORD (NC) - Families with strong religious characteristics, such as Mormons and Catholics, are least likely to have drug abuse problems with their children. That is one of the conclusions of "Horatio Alger's Children," a new book by Richard Blum, a research associate at the Institute for Public Policy Analysis here. Blum claims that by examining several aspects of family life -class, religion, drinking habits, and attitudes toward drugs and authority-he can 'predict with 90 per cent accuracy the chances that a youth will turn to drugs. Youths least likely to use drugs, Blum says, come from ,working class families that are strict, religious, politically conservative, and generally happy. "High risk families" - those whose children are most likely to u')e drugs-are described by Blum as permissive, politically
. Nurses and other interested persons are invited to attend a one-<lay seminar on law as it affects professional nursing practice on Thursday, April 6 at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. The program, to be presented in Clemence Hall auditorium at the hospital, will be given by . Dr. Helen Creighton, lawyer and registered nurse, a University of Wisconsin professor specializing in the legal aspects of nursing. Dr. Creighton holds bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics. She earned degrees in law and nursing at George Washington University and a master's degree in nursing at St. Louis University. She is the author of a book, "Law Every Nurse Should Know," and of many ar.ticles in medical and nursing journals. Co-Chairmen Co-chairmen of the committee arranging Dr. Creighton's appearance at St. Anne's are Miss Jacqueline Allard, coordinator of inservice education at the hospital; and Mrs. CarroJ.1 Dean, director of orientation. Those interested in attending ,the seminar are requested to telephone the hospital at 674-5741 by Saturday, April 1.
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liberal or radical and distrustful of authority. These families are religiously liberal or have no religious convictions, consume more alcohol and have more arguments than the low risk group, Blum said. They also use illicit as well ,as prescription drugs. Blum also cites a "trouble variable" rooted in the motherchild relationship as influencing drug use by youths. This variable, he says involves the mother's anxiety or some other disturbance in her relations with her child. A strong family structure, Blum says, shields teenagers from the group pressure that can force youths into using illicit drugs. The high risk youths come from unstable families in which discipline is not developed early, Blum says. They are marked, he says by self-indulgence, disregard for the rights of others and a pursuit of pleasure.
Perhaps nothing brings out .this reality in greater dramatic effect . than the Solemn Easter Vigil. Takinl~ place after nightfall it portrays in a vivid and dynamic way the resurrection of ~e Lord, his passing from death to life, and our accompanying passage from the death of the "old self" to the newness of life that is found through baptism in Christ. It is a passing from darkness to light as is ,seen in the paschal candle, the symbol of the risen Lord. The Church teaches us that Christ did not die and rise alone-His passage becomes our passage too. The Mass is the action that brings about the active presence Turn to Page Two
Fr. Lavoie F'u.neral Mass Monday Morning at 10
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Bishop Cronin's Easter Message'
Thro~out every area of the DiOCese, Catholics are reliving this 'Week the passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Liturgy teaches that in celebrating the mystery of the redemption "the Church opens to' the faithful the riches of her Lord's powers and merits, so that these are in some way made present for aU time, and the faibhful are enabled to lay hold 'upon them and become filled with saving grace." (Art. 102) The passion and death and resurrectionof Christ are made present to the faithful during this week so that the faithful may lay hold upon the salvation that they contain.
Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., will be principal concelebrant at a Funeral Mass'Monday morning at 10 in Notre Dame Church, Fall River, for the repose of the soul of the late Rev. Bernard A. Lavoie, chaplain at the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, who died Tuesday morping. Highly esteemed for his devotion to the sick, Father Lavoie had .been well aware of his rapidly advancing illness but had kept active and working until just several weeks ago when he entered a hospital for treatment. Son of Hermenegilde and the late Delia Ouelette Lavoie, Father Lavoie was born in Fall River on Jan. 17, 1930. He attended St. Mathieu School in Fall River and Assumption Prep in Worcester and received his A.B. degree, summa cum laude, from Assumption College, Worcester. He worked in a Fall River bank and then deciding to study for the priesthood he pursued his theology course in Montreal's Grand Seminary and was ordained for the priesthood in the Fall River Diocese on April 25, 1959, by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D. On ordination Father Lavoie served as assistant in St'. Michael's Church, Ocean Grove, St. Joseph's Church, Attleboro, and Notre Dame Church, Fall River. For almost two years he has been chaplain at the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River. Father Lavoie's body will lie
at the Boule Funeral Home in Fall River on Friday evening, then will lie in state in the chapel of the Catholic Memorial Home throughout Saturday, and will repose on Sunday at the Boule Funeral Home again. The homily at the Funeral Mas~ will be given by Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, pastor of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Fall River. In additon to his father, Father Lavoie is survived by three brothers, Herve, Leonard and Laurent, and by a sister, Mrs. Marcel Dionne.
REV. BERNARD A. LAVOIE
More Catholics but Fewer Priests VATICAN CoITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI got the good mixed with the bad when the latest statistical yearbook "Activity of the Holy See" was given to him in his private apartment March 13. The book, covering the year 1971, showed that the number of Catholics around the world has grown from 526.5 million to 533.6 million since 1969. It also listed the world total of'ptiests as 347,481. Newly ordained
priests dropped from 4,032 in 1969 to 3,500 in 1971. There were 44 fewer major' seminaries and 49 fewer minor seminaries last year than in 1969, according to Activity. The new figures on Catholic populatiem and priesthood mean that the world average is now one priest for every 1,535 Catholics. The book also includes figures 0111 marriage annulments, requested and granted through the
Church's highest appeals tribuna'l, the Sacred Roman Rota. In 1971 there were 249 annulment applications, of which 80 were granted, or one out of three. Activity of the Holy See is a separate jublication from the "Annuario Pontificia," or Pontifical Annual, which is a compendium of the names of all the bishops and dioceses of the world, and Vatican offices.