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AT MASS opening the Holy Year, pastors of jubilee churches receive symbolic crosses. From left, Rev. Paul G. Connolly, St. Mary, Taunton; Rev. Daniel A. Gamache, St. Joseph, New Bedford; Rev. John J. Brennan, SS.CC., Holy Redeemer, Chatham; Very Rev. John J. Smith, St. John Evangelist, Attleboro; Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, St. Mary's Cathedral; Rev. Peter N. Graziano, S t. James, New Bedford; Rev. James F. Lyons, St. Patrick, Wareham; Msgr. John J. Regan~ St. Patrick, Somerset. (Gaudette Photo)

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Dearly beloved in Christ, In the joy of this greatest Feast of the Church's liturgical year, I wish you all a Happy Easter. We unite with Christians throughout the world in singing "Alleluia!" Christ our Savior has risen from the dead and given us hope of our own future resurrection.

What a glorious day! Sin, which caused the ignominious death of Jesus on the Cross, has been conquered. The Savior has risen victorious, never to die again. In the words of the moving Sequence of today's Mass, "Christ indeed from death is risen, our new life obtaining. .. Amen. Alleluia!"

The resurrection of Jesus is the keystone of our faith, of our trust in the Lord. We who have been baptized into Christ have died to sin and have the hope of rising again with Him on the last day. In our Baptism, we have shared in the triumph of Jesus and have been given a whole new life in Christ. We must cultivate, nourish and protect that life.

When we renew our baptismal promises at Easter, we not only make a sublime profession of faith, but we also pledge once again to live and die in union with Christ, who lived and died for us. We renounce Satan and profess our faith in Jesus Christ once again, keenly anticipating the day of our own eternal rewa rd.

The celebration of the Redemption this year takes place within the context of the Ju­ bilee Year decreed by our beloved Holy Father in commemoration of the 1950th anniver­ sary of the salvation of mankind.. Thus Easter takes on a special significance in this Holy Year. 1 pray that everyone will take particular advantage of this period of grace for per­ sonal renewal and reconciliation.

To one and all, ,I say: May the peace of Christ be yours! May your faith in Jesus who was crucified and rose from the dead be rewarded with holiness here on earth and salvation in heaven. Happy Easter! May God love and bless you all.

Faithfully yours in Christ,

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AT HOLY YEAR MASS, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin receives gifts from . members of the Francis McGrail family, St. Mary's parish, Mansfield; p...e~ For the human heart:

'A special opportunity to repent' "Sometimes the human heart needs a special opportunity to repent." That is a major reason for the Holy Year of Redemp­ tion, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin ·old hundreds of priests, religious and laity gathered last Friday light at St. Mary's Cathe~ral.

At Vatican At St. Peter's Basilica, with three symbolic taps of a gold and ivory hammer, Pope, John Paul II opened the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica March 25 and' began the 394-day Holy Year of Redemption.

After the door-opening cere­ They were present for a Mass mony, the pope led 100,000 peo-' uniting the Fall River diocese with Holy Year opening cere-' pIe in' prayer that the year monies conducted earlier in the would "change the direction of day by Pope John Paul II at St. the mounting threats and dis­ Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. asters in the modern world."

The world "seems to be travel­ "To celebrate the jubilee year ing in a· direction perilous for properly, we should enter more all," the pope said. deeply into the sacramental life "Help us to change the direc­ of the church," said the bishop, noting that penance and renewal tion of the mounting threats and are key aspects of the year and disasters in the modern world," that there is "no better way of he added.' "Do not permit the celebrating our redemption than being reconciled with. Jesus Christ" through the ~acrament of penance.

work of dJestruction that threat­ and strong winds which theaten­ ens humanity today." ed to remove the gold miter from The Holy Door was officially 'the pope's head. opened at 5:40 p.m. (11:40 a.m.

The ceremony was broadcast EST), after a penetential process­ live on' television in 20 countries ion from the Church of St. Step­ and on a delayed basis to two hen of the Abyssinians inside others. The possible television the Vatican w~l1s. audience was estimated at a bil­ lion people.

The procession included ~O The formal opening of the young men and women who in al­ ternating teams of six carried a Holy Year varied in format from large wooden cross. The cross .previous years, when the pope's was placed behind the basilica's hammer taps were more than main altar, to remain until the symbolic and gave the final im­ end of the Holy Year on April petus to the crumbling of the brick and concrete casing with 22, 1984, Easter Sunday. which the door had been sealed Thousands gathered ,in St. after the previous Holy Year.

Peter's Square to watch the pro­ cession and hear the subsequent This year, the entire casing Mass over loudspeakers. They was removed earlier, eliminating' came despite intermittent rain the risk that a stray piece of brick or mortar would strike the pope or nearby aides.

Pope John Paul, wearing vest­ ments specifically designed for the occasion by a German artist, pronounced the three traditional

Declaring that a sense of pil­ grimage should be associated with observance of the· year, the bishop called on diocesan pastors to arrange such pilgrimages to area churches designated as sites where a special plenary indul­ gence may be gained.

The pastor of each jubilee church received a large cross de­ signed for the occasion by Sis­ ter Gertrude Gaudette, OP, and including at its base the papal coat of arms. The crosses will be in the churches displayed throughout the year.

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The designated churches are, in addition to the cathedral, St. John the Evangelist, Attleboro; :Holy Redeemer, Chatham; St. James, New Bedford; St. Joseph, New Bedford; St. Thomas More, Somerset; St. Mary, Taunton; and St. Patrick, Wareham.

"As "the Holy Year begins," concluded the bishop, "we place ourselves under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary."

Latin phrases with each tap on the door.

"Open to me the doors of justice," he said. "This is the door of the Lord. I enter into your house, 0 Lord."

Instead of using the silver ham­ mer with which Pope Paul had begun the previous Holy Year, Pope John Paul chose a gold and ivory hammer, encrusted with precious gems and pearls, which Pope Pius XI had used for the 1925 and 1933 Holy Year ceremonies.

Stressing the special nature of the 1983 Holy Year, celebrated simultaneously in Rome and throughout the world.

"The door of the special jubilee is opened," he said, "and through it we enter the Basilica of St. Peter, and at the same time all the diocesan cathedrals, all the parish churches and all the chapels, even in the remotest lands, and especially those of the missions."

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CHICAGO (NC) - Cardinal Father Frank Ciezaldo, said of Joseph L. Bernardin of Chicago the incident," I've been a priest and the pastor 'of St. Pascal for 36 years. Maybe I didn't get Catholic Church expressed their the message of love across." sorrow after Chicago's DemoAccording to a statement re­ cratic mayoral candidate, Har- leased by the Chicago Archdio­ old Washington, and former Vice cese, Cardinal Bernardin "ex­ President Walter F. Mondale pressed a deep sense of sadness were booed at the church March over the disturbance at St. Pas­ 27, when they attended Palm cal on Sunday morning. The Sunday Mass. cardinal, who stresses the fact St. Pascal is located on Chic- that in elections neither he nor ago's predominantly white the church endorses any specific northwest side. if Washington candidate, also insists that the were to win the April 12 elec- church and its liturgy must not "tion, he would be Chicago's first .be· used as a forum for political , campaigning. However, since Mr. bl,a~k mayor.

Washington and Mr. Mondale A crowd 'of more than 150 had been invited by the pastor people surrounded Washington at the request of former State and Mondale and, shouted epi- Rep. Michael, Holewinski, he is thets, forciilg them tOI_cut short , saddened that Christian court­ . esy and civility were not ex­ ,their visit... !

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Breakfast with Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, anyone? The Taunton native and general secretary of the U.S. Catholic 'Conference will co-host a Washington breakfast for Catholic school superintendents and members of Congress during the Easter week convention of the National Cath­ olic Educational Association.

His co-hosts will be the chair­ men of the two congressional committees most concerned with education, Rep. Carl D. Perkins (D-Ky.), chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Sen­ ate Committee on Labor and Re­ sources.

State Catholic conference of­ ficials and state tuition tax credit coordinators will also at­ tend the breakfast, to be held at 8 a.m. on Thursday, April 7, in the banquet rooms of the Ray­ burn House Office Building.

More than 400 persons, includ­ ing U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell, are expected to attend.

The breakfast is to be part of a special program for about 12,000 educators expected to at­ tend the convention of the asso­ ciation, the largest private pro­ fessional educational organiza­ tion in the world.

The program is designed to help Catholic school officials be­ come better acquainted with members of Congress and to pro­ vide a chance for the educators .to discuss their concerns with the politicians.

Shroud of Turin left to pope GENEVA (NC) - Italy's de­ posed King Umberto, who died March 18, left the Shroud of Turin, believed to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, to Pope John Paul II in his will, a fam­ ily spokesman said March 25.

The shroud, a 14-foot-long linen cloth, has belonged to the royal house of Savoy since the Middle Ages. It bears marks many Catholics believe to be the imprint of the face of Christ.

The spokesman said the de­ posed king's son and heir Vit­ torio Emmanuele wanted to an­ nounce the gift at the beginning of the Holy Year.

Umberto, who died after 36 years in exile, was buried at the Abbey of Hautecombe in east­ ern France.

The shroud has not left Turin since it arrived there in 1578 from Chambery, France. It has been on public display only three times this century.

Some 200 Roman and Vatican church leaders recently request­ ed transfer of the shroud to Rome for public display during the last two months of the Holy Year.

The transfer was earlier dis­ missed as unlikely by Turin church and civic leaders and by the head of the Vatican's central committee for the Holy Year.

But as Vatican property, such a move might be more probable for the shroud.

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A CARILLON memorializing the late Bernard F. Sweeney, for 42 years the sexton at Holy Name Church, Fall River, was dedicated Sunday at the church. From left at the con­ sole, Father George E. Harrison, Sweeney's nephew; Laurence Quintal, a grandnephew; Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, Holy Name pastor. (Torchia Photo)

Sr.. Mansour controversy c.ontinues

From NC News reports Sister Agnes Mary Monsour, RSM, director of Michigan's De­ partment of Social Services, said Tuesday after a speech at Michigan State University, that she has been told informally by Sister Theresa Kane, national president of the Sisters of Mercy, that the Vatican wishes her to resign.

She said that the action did not surprise her, that she has not made a decision and is not sure of her options but that she might take a ,leave of absence from the Mercy community and

remain in her state position.

The controversy over her ap­ pointment began when she was appointed last December. It centers around the fact that her responsibilities 'include supervi­ sion of abortion funding for wel­ fare recipients.

On Feb. 23 Archbishop Ed­ mund C. Szoka of Detroit told Sister Mansour to resign because she had not publicly opposed state abortion funding. At that time he said that he had met twice with the nun to discuss the issue and had waited patiently for her to make clear opposition

to abortion funding. She had not done so, he said.

Sister Mansour has said she personally opposes abortion but believes that as long as it is legal it would be unfair to per­ mit it only to women who can afford it. "We can't live in so­ ciety without tolerating some evil," she said at her state Sen­ ate confirmation hearing March 8. "There has to be some toler­ ance toward it as we move to­

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Living will is opposed Speaking on behalf of the Cath­ olic bishops of Massachusetts, Auxiliary Bishop Daniel A. Hart of Boston addressed the Joint Committee on the Judiciary on Monday. He voiced "total opposi· tion" of the bishops to House Bill 3713, calling for "living will" legislation.

The bill would establish pro­ cedures for adults "to make known in writing the desire that: if they are diagnosed to have a terminal illness their physician shall withdraw or withhold arti­ ficial procedures that will serve to prolong the moment of death."

It also provides for revocation of such a desire.

"The living will offers the com­ petent person no right the pa­ tient does not already possess,"

declared the bishop.

He admitted that living will legislation might be -less objec­ tionable in other states but con­ tended that it "is both danger­ ous and absolutely unnecessary in the Commonwealth of Massa­ chusetts," pointing out that the Supreme Judicial Court "has al­ ready fashioned a mechanism for answering the question of whether life sustaining treatment for the terminally ill incompe­ tent patient should be discon­ tinued." ,Bishop Hart said House Bill 3713 could prove "an opening wedge to future legislation on

behalf of active euthanasia," and added that a living will would not protect the rights "of those patients who are already most vulnerable to abuse, i.e., the poor, the institutionalized, the illiterate." He explained that such persons would have least access to the legal resources re­ quired to formulate and use a living will and would thus be exposed to the "abusive pre· sumption that "they desire all possible treatments, liowever useless or disapproportionate."

The bishop said he and his fellow bishops favored a middle position between those who

would unduly prolong the dying process by technological means and those who would actively terminate life whenever it be­ comes "burdensome, expensive, dull or unproductive."

But he declared that the liv· ing will is not the way to achieve such a position and that it would multiply rather than reduce legal, medical and moral difficulties.

"We believe," he concluded, "that an adequate solution to this problem must begin with serious and appropriate efforts to put many of these issues back into the hands of families and physicians."

The diocesan-operated UHF station :is expected to be on the air by fall 1984. Programming will emphasize community af· fairs and informational and edu­ cational material in addition to Catholic and ecumenical issues.

Bishop Moreno and Nordmeyer said that television is a viable way to carry out the church's mandate to serve all people. "We must incorporate the most ad­ vanced technology, and that is television," Nordmeyer said.

FUNERAL RITES were held Wednesday in Mon­ :real for Father Dieudonne Masse, OFM, 87, a native of Notre Dame parish, Fall River, who had been a priest over 60 years.

The last survivor of 21 children of whom three were priests, he was the son of the late Dieudonne and Clara (Frechette) Masse. He join­ ed the Franciscan order at age 16 after graduating from Notre Dame School and pur­ suing further studies in Can­ ada.

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During his priesthood Father Mas/ie was a mis­ sioner among Indians, a prison chaplain, a pastor, college professor and retreat house administrator. During visits to Fall River he habit­ ually celebrated Sunday Masses at Notre Dame par­ ish.

He is survived by many nieces and nephews, includ­ ling Roland J. Masse, sexton at Notre Dame parish and an expert on the church's his­ The practice of making the tory.

Stations of Cross at St. Peter's VATICAN CITY (NC) - For the first time, pilgrims can pray the stations of the cross within St. Peter's Basilica.

Fourteen gilded bronze stations depicting the passion of Jesus were recently placed in the Vati· can Grottoes where the tombs of dead popes are located.

Previously it had been possible to make the stations only in chapels adjacent to the basilica.

The bronze stations are the work of Italian sculptor Tom­ maso Gismondi, who also de· signed the European Chapel in­ augurated last year by Pope John Paul II in the Vatican Grottoes.

ToUCSON, Ariz. '(NC) - The Diocese of Tucson has received Federal Communications Com­ mission permission to operate a full-power TV station, Channel 18, in Tucson, Bishop Manuel D. Moreno announced.

The bishop said March 21 that the station "will be the first commercially licensed television station to be totally owned and operated by a Diocese of the Catholic Church" in the United States. (Otlner dioceses have been involved in instructional TV).

stations of the Cross originated from the devotions of Holy Land pilgrims who visited the actual scenes of incidents in the pas­ sion of Christ.

The devotion gained popular­ ity in the 12th and 13th centuries and was widely promoted by the Fransicans, custodians of the holy places since 1342.

Initially the number and sub­ jects of the stations varied, but in 1731 Pope Clement XII fixed the number at 14 and established which inCidents were to be in­ cluded in the devotion.

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Many Catholics are legitimately upset that Palm Sunday became the kickoff date for Sunday sales in Massachusetts.

Others feel that Catholic sensitivities were completely ig- . nored when ABC television launched "The Thorn Birds" at the start of Holy Week.

It should be evident that in general Catholics have little influence on the direction of events in our social order.

There can be little doubt that greater sensitivity would be shown by the network if its' programming dealt with matters pertaining to, for example, our Jewish brothers and sisters.

Jewish people care,' they are organi~ed and they are vocal. Unfortunately, few American Catholics possess these attributes when it comes .to matters that, concern their church. It seems that Catholics no longer care. If they do care, they are understandably confused.

The ,current issue of TV Guide carries a feature article on The Thorn Birds by' Father Andrew ·Greeley. His effort . to offer honest Catholic response to the film is at best ridiculous and certainly bewildering. The average Catholic lay person· can be excused for wondering how effective his or her voice can be in the world when all traditionally held dear by members of the church is belittled and debased by a priest with tremendous secular prestige.

Or take the case of Sister Mansour of Michig~il who publicly proclaims that we must tolerate evil. In commenting on abortion, she, a nun, stated that "there has to be some tolerance toward evil as we move to correct it." This public answer to her archbishop is in direct opposition to every­ . thing that the church and the Holy Father have taught on the issue of abortion. This sister, in short, is holding a leadership role in the social order in defiance of all that her church holds sacred. Again, is there any wonder that church members feel frustrated and sold out by those who act in opposition to the tiachings of faith while at the same time assuming a particular sign role as one who serves the faith.

The vast majority of CatholIcs are hurt, 'insulted and deeply copfused by the deliberate and determined dis­ crepancies paraded before them by the likes of Greeley and Mansour. Most Catholics want to be loyal to their church.

Yet they have unique difficulties in this regard when the proponents of selfish division are so ready to parade their antagonism before the public media.

Catholics are poorly organized nationally due to their ~ divisions on loc~l and regional levels. Too many people have too many pet projects; they cannot see the forest for the t~ees. -Efforts at unity have' been' made through the various offices supported by the bishops. In large, however, most of thes.e works just do not filtef; down to tIle, parish pew. Catholics need dynamic and fearless nationalJeader­ ship.'

- . , .' finally, CathoHcs should "become 'more vocal. No: longer should we depend upon' those few Catholics I tlie : world has ,chosen to be our spoKespersons in matters of faith and morals. So many such persons, considered national leaders, are act~ally flops, in their personal reflection' of' church. '. , ,' .,.,., .

Our prayer this Holy Week~ the~, is that w~':as Cath- . olics begin' to walk in the light of the Risen Christ and that we take that lightinto the world where aUnlay see it. , We must stop, simply cur~fng the darkness. We must let all see the Lord of Light and his church 'as the true ' Easter h o p e . ' .

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The consulting rooms of psy­ chiatrists are filled with patients afflicted with neurotic guilt. Few forces in a person's life are so destructive; and often it seems . that .religious believers are more vulnerable to it than unbelievers.

Guilt comes in two forms.

Undefined guilt is perhaps the more difficult· to' treat. ;People feel bound to; live up to other people's expectations and when they fail they become frustrated and feel a neurotic' need to blame themselves"'for their short­ comings~" ' , . The, second form of guilt comes from our personal involvement with sin. ManY'people hav~ been told from their earliest years that their sins crucified .our Lord.

Jesus'- sufferirlgs were never sup­ posed' to overwhelm us . with guilt feelings but because of re­ ligious training that all too often emphasized 'a laundry'list exam­ ination of conscience; the sac-' rament of penance has 'been wrongly regarded', by some as simply a' means of relieving a guilty conscience.

The sad fact is that those who feel guilty eventually turn away from the God they feel is making them miserable. It is useful to remember that. in all the resur­ rection narratives Jesus utters not one word of reproach. He asks for faith, not apologies.

Peter provides a splendid ex­ ample of a penitent in dialogue with Christ, his confessor. Jesus

never scolded Peter; rather, he made him aware of the freedom over the power of sin he shared through the gift of Orders. Hav­ ing shared in the joy of being forgiven, Peter was called to pro­ claim God's victory over the powers of evil.

Judas on the other hand, is a tragic example of a man con­ sumd by guilt. Judas lacked true sorrow because he let his' guilt build barrierS. ,l?etween himself, others and God: Judas reacted like Adam and Eve in, the Garden of Eden after they sinned. . Aware of their nakedness, they hid. Judas tu.rn­ ~d a deaf ear to God's invitation to trust his mercy. The same arms ,that were nailed ',on the cross because of Judas' betrayal v.:er~ open to embr~ce in loving pardon all sinners. The sacra­ ment of penance is an open in­ vitation to'surrender tot)le peace of iotai abandonIl)ent i~to the arms of God's forgiveness.

In 'spite of what, our past training -may have been, we should never allow a guilty con­ science' to be the motivating force behind our use of the sac­ ram~nt of penance. Guilt is es­ sentially a self-centered feeling, making me. concerned about evil only in the measure in which that evil makes me feel bad about myself.

If we have' done wrong and are aware of it, there is no point in wishing we had not done so or kicking ourselves mentally for

having done wrong. But there is most certainly a point in look­ ing to the future and see~ing the truth about ourselves which will help us avpid repetition of the same mistake.

Peter's future was open to the presence of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The inner healing of forgiveness happened when he received a glimpse of Jesus' ,lov­ ing acceptance of him. His open­ ness.is a model for ail penitents, while Jesus' unconditional love of sinners provides the model for all confessors.

This Holy Year will include the World Synod of Bishops, which will deal specifically with how to foster increased use of the sacrament of penance. Pope Johp Paul II )las already written two encY$:licals addressing the need for reconciliation..

Hopefully these initiatives will cause· 'Catholics to regard the sacrament of penance in a new light.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri.,' April 1, 1983

Family Night

A weekly at-home program for families

sponsored by the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry

OPENING PRAYER Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Our hearts are rejoicing, filled to overflowing with praise for you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Hear our family's praises along with the alleluias of aU the thronging crowds of heaven.

Jesus Christ is risen, Alleluia, Alleluia! Our family's hearts shout for joy. Alleluia. Amen.

TO THINK ABOUT The greater the appreciation we have for the forgiveness we have received because of Jesus' Death and Resurrection, the more we' will be able to enter into the spirit of Easter. Ex­ periences of sin and forgiveness, sadness and joy are truly Easter experiences all year long.

ACTIVITY IDEAS All Families ALLELUIA LETTERS Materi­ als: paper and pencils. Read the Easter account in Matthew 28:1-16. Pretend that you were with the women at the tomb when they discovered that Jesus had been raised from the dead.

Write a letter to someone de­ scribing the incident and in­ clude your feelings at that time.

Then exchange letters with each other.

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SNACK TIME Enjoy Easter eggs, jelly beans, lamb cake, or whatever your family's Easter tradition may be.

ENTERTAINMENT Have elementary grade child­ ren in the family teach everyone an Easter song or a song about spring that they have learned in school. Sing an "Alleluia" song together.

SHARING Share your' memories about Easter, and what you like best about this great feast.

CLOSING PRAYER Dearest Lord, thank you for this precious gift of new life through our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Thank you, too, for this time to­ gether and what it has meant to our family. Praise you, now and forever. Amen.

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These last words of Jesus fill us with sadness and joy alike, sadness because he "It

died for us, joy because he rose for us.

Easter is often a time of mix­ ed reaction among Christians.

We experience the joy of the resurrection, hope, and eternal life..But first must come death, and we don't want to die. We don't want loved ones to die, even though we profess to be­ lieve the comforting words, "I go to prepare a place for you in my Father's home," and "He who believes in me will never die."

Imagine experiencing death before Jesus. What bleakness people must have endured while awaiting the promised Messiah.

Death without hope, Good Fri­ day without Easter, mourning without comfort. Easter changed all that. If Jesus hadn't risen, he would have been regarded as just another prophet by most.

Voltaire's advice to the young man who wanted to start his own religion is appropriate for Easter, "First you die and then you rise from the dead . . . " As important as are Christmas and Good Friday, it's Easter that gives us faith. We are all born and all die but only Jesus defeat­ ed death to rise again.

A year ago, I wrote that my brother was buried on Holy Thursday. Last Easter was a time of raw grief for me and mine. It was hard to be joyful and Easter Sunday liturgy was bittersweet, at best. As consoled as I was by the belief that Jim was with God and with my par­ ents, the loss was still so new and hard to accept that I could not celebrate.

This Easter is different. God's healing is slow but real. For Christmas, my 17-year-old-son

gave me a large photo of Jim By with an enormous smile, taken the day before he died so sud­ DOLORES denly. He had been at a Mil­ waukee Bucks benefit game for CURRAN St. Coletta's School for the re­ tarded in Wisconsin and was auctioning off the team basket­ ball after the game. Someone snapped his triumphant smile as he broke the record by pushing Easter hope is eternal hope. bids up to $700 to benefit the Anatole France quipped, "The children and adults served in this average person does not know remarkable institution. what to do with his life, yet The picture is on our buffet wants another one which will and I look at it several times last forever." daily. My first' emotion is still He may have seen it as an that of overwhelming sadness, irony but it makes sense to us knowing I won't see that smile Christians, especially those with on earth again. But this is fol­ little satisfaction and hope in lowed by a comfort that comes daily life. We know that we can from the knowledge' that I WILL survive this life because we have meet him again in eternal life . hope in eternal life. It is real. because Jesus promised I would. It's a promise. It's Easter. "It is All this results from Easter; consummated." yet Easter is for the living more than for the dead. It should be a Simple Language time of joy and hope for all of "Great men, like nature, use us, not just the end of Lent. simple language." - Vauvenar­ Hope, along with food and gues shelter, is one of the elements most necessary for survival.

Unfortunately, the kinds of hope we are offered in our so­ ciety can be disappointing and empty. There's artificial hope April 2 which surfaces in comments like, Rev. Adolph Banach, O.F.M. "Don't worry. Things will get Conv., Pastor, 1961, Our Lady of better," and "Keep your spirits Perpetual Help, New Bedford up" - flip remarks that benefit Rev. Donald Belanger, Pastor, the speaker more than the de­ 1976, St. Stephen, Attleboro spairing because they sense the difference between wishes and April 8 hope. There's marketing hope ­ Rev. Msgr. John A. Chippen­ if we buy a certain product, we dale, Retired Pastor, 1977, St. will be happy, although we know Patrick, Wareham there's little relationship be­ Rev. Lorenzo Morais, Retired tween the two. There's political Pastor, 1980, St. George, West­ hope, the kind that candidates port offer freely during campaigns April 7 and trivialize easily after elec­ tion. These result in cynicism Rev. James A. Dury, Chaplain and even more despair. at Madonna Manor, 1976, North Easter hope Is none of these. Attleboro

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explained Mrs. Forsness. "We just didn't want to be down about our own situation."

Sharon Norman, the chairman really enjoyed his first taste of cooked whole wheat at a recent of the grain committee, speak. ing with the candor that was the breakfast.

"No, I guess you'd have to say mark of the group, added, "We're that only half of them did," said not getting any money for grain Jo Ann Forsness of Wolf Point, anyway, only $3.50 a bushel."

They are not easily fazed ­ Mont., who is used to resistance to whole wheat. "Of course they they, after all, cope with dust didn't know how to doctor it, storms, hailstorms, grain em­ you know with honey or butter. bargoes - but they were some­ But that's okay, it's new to what taken aback to find out that nobody wanted their life­ them."

Ms. Forsness, a heavy woman giving and nutritious present.

They explained the wonderful with black hair and a direct blue­ eyed gaze, was one of five pur. properties of whole wheat, which poseful and pleasant Montana is 16 precent protein and has no women who brought the wheat end of vitemins and minerals. with them to Washington and . But a mission organization in cooked it in the Salvation Army New York turned it down. So did General Motors and the United kitchen on First Street.

The story of how they finally Foundation.

"Whole wheat is misunder· managed to give a gift to hun­ stood," says Mrs. Norman sadly. gry people is of interest, since Six months passed before the it tells us something about peo­ ple who ar.e determined to do Salvation Army, once again good and even more about the. living up to its name, came to special character of America's the rescue.

Montans's Democratic senator, farm women, who long before ERA knew they were equal, and John Melcher, called up the who long before Ronald Reagan W~$hington office of the Army, wh,ich takes in everybody. It took started lecturing about volun­ in the wheat, and took in the tarism were helping their neigh­ women, too, when they needed bors. a kitchen. They wanted to spread The women belong to WIFE the gospel of whole grain by (Women Involved in Farm Economy), an organization cooking up a batch of "whole founded in 1976 "over a bridge wheat chili" to be served in the House and Senate dining rooms. table in Nebraska" on the prin­ ciple that "our men are much But Congress wanted to charge too busy in the field, we've got them $3 a plate for the use of to take over the books." WIFE its facilities. So the Salvation has chapters in 17 states and is Army gave them the run of its broken down into groups that kitchen to prepare their edible propagandla. school members on various farm In gratitude, Mrs. Norman, problems to the point where they Mrs. Forsness, Mrs. Ball, with can come to Washington and Ginger De Cock and her sister testify.

Marie Anderson, fell to baking Mrs. Forsness is chairman of for the Army's breakfast. Work­ the farm credit committee, and ing quickly and easily together 'she went before a Senate' com­ - they are used to cooking for mittee to talk about 'farm bank­ firemen's suppers, harvest crews ·ruptcies and foreclosures. She and other large gatherings ­ spoke somberly of the stress they turned out 350 buns, 20 clinics that have sprung up all loaves of bread and several flats over rural America in recent of cinnamon buns, which were years. a smash with the men of the Shirley Ball, a friendly red­ Alcoholic Rehabilitation Pro­ headed grandmother who is presi­ gram. dent of Montana WIFE and an Tuesday night they were back, expert on energy and transpor­ chopping and slicing the ingredi­ tation, accompani~d Rep. Ron ents for the chili, and Mrs. Fors­ Marlene, R-Mont, to a meeting ness happily went off on rounds with Agriculture Secretary John with the Army's mobile feeding Block on the painful matter of program, which takes food to the threatened closing of the the "grate people" around town.

Agriculture Experimental Station.

The women were pleased that Television gave them the idea their dream had come true. They of donating out of their plenty. had made Sl contribution to al­ leviate the general misery and Things are not that bad in Mon­ tana, there not being that many to ease their own in the process. people, but the farmers' wives They say other farm organiza­ were distressed to see on the tions are getting the same idea home screen people in soup about the irony of Americans lines. They decided to donate going hungry while ~lmost 1.5 750 tons of whole (that is, un­ billion bushels of wheat are piled processed) wheat to help out. up in bins and silos. The women, "We wanted to do something as usual, stand ready to help out positive, something creative," in any way they can.

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Friday, April 1, 1983

Special Gifts explained The Speeial Gift Phase of the Catholic Charities Appeal of the Fall River diocese begins Mon­ day, April 18 and ends Saturday, April 30. The Appeal, now in its 42nd annual campaign for funds, . helps support the diocesan works of charity, mercy, education and social services.

The Special Gift campaign reaches fraternal, professional, business and industrial organ­ izations in southeastern Massa­ chusetts. Since Appeal aposto­ lates s~rve all, regardless of color, race or creed, such organ­ izations view Appeal support as a community endeavor.

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, di­ ocesan director of the Appeal, announced today:' "Over 850 special gift solicitors will make 4,500 contacts in this phase of the Appeal in the five areas of the diocese. It is hoped that in­ creased giving will highlight the campaign."

Joseph F. Gromada of, Fall River, this year's diocesan lay chairman of the Appeal, has re­ quested that solicitors complete contacts promptly. The final re­ port date for special gifts is Saturday, April 30......Each volun­ teer is asked to make daily re­ turns to his or her area head­ quarters.

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1974 shift from directing an VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (NC) ­ Dr. Bernard Nathanson, f0rJ1ler abortion clinic and a pro-abor­ tion group to becoming a strong abortionist and now pro-life ad­ vocate, told participants at a pro-life advocate. pro-life conference that a recent He said the medical journal article on fetal development article explored new attitudes could become a "nuclear bomb­ arising from recent strides in shell in the anti-abrtion fight." fetology. the study of the human Speaking before some 400 fetus. The authors of the article, said Nathanson, found that a people at a conference sponsor­ 'type of bonding forms between ed·' by Pennsylvanians for Hu­ man Life,' Nathanson discussed an expectant mother and the an article, "Maternal Bonding," child in her womb, and also be­ recently published in the New tween the mother's doctor and England Journal of Medicine. the unborn child through tech· The article addresses the con· niques of viewing and studying cept of a bonding between hUe the fetus. man fetuses, their mothers and .

What has resulted, he noted, is other people, which could change a new discussion about the be­ attitudes about life in the womb. ginning of life which could lead Nathanson is noted for his to consideration of the time in the womb as "simply another stage of our lives."

Nathanson said he believes that these new "arguments for life" should lead to a "moratori­ um on abortions."

A WASHINGTON {NC) Nathanson directed'the Center Senate subcommittee has ap­ proved a modified version of the for Reproductive and Sexual Hatch amendment on abortion Health in the early 1970's. He is a founder of the National Asso­ that supporters say would re­ ciation for the Repeal of Abor­ "erse the Supreme Court's abor­ tion decisions and return the tion Laws,' now the National Abortion Rights Action Leagl;le. abortion issue to the states.

After only 10 minutes of dis­ cussion March 24 the' subcom­ mittee, chaired by the original EDICTAL CITATION

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sponsor of the Hatch amend­ FALL RIVER. MASSACHUSETTS

ment, Sen. OJ;'rin Hatch (R-Utah), Since the actual place of residence of voted to accept the modifications LORRAINE G. LAMB is unknown. in the amendment proposed by We cite LORRAINE G. LAMB to appear personally before the Tribunal of the Sen. Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo.).

Diocese of Fall River on April 4, 1983.

The new 10-word Hatch-Eagle­ at lO:~O a.m. at 344 Highland Avenue, ton amendment simply reads, "A Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testi­ right to abortion is not secured mony to establish: Whether the nullity of the mar­ by this Constitution." riage exists in the GUSCIORA· The March 24 subcommittee LAMB case?

Ordinaries of the place or other pas· action means that the amend­ ment goes to the full Senate tors having the knowledge of the resi­ of the above person, Lorraine G. Judiciary Committee, which is dence Lamb, must see to it that she is also expected to approve the new properly advised in regard to this edictal citation. . wording. -,

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DON'T FORGET the annual Catholic Charities Appeal, says Father Bento R. Fraga, Attleboro area Appeal director.

The campaign kickoff meeting is set for 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

Then the amendment is ex­ pected to move to debate on the floor of the Senate sometime this spring.

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May the blessings of the Risen Lord be with you always!

She answered her own ques­ tion: "You have been enriched by coming here . . . You have been enriched with something mysterious for which 'there is no explanation. I think that the American people and the Euro­ pean people have much and that you find that muchness suffoca­ ting."

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It was meeting Mother Teresa t...... at the 1976 Eucharistic Congress . in Philadelphia that convinced Ms. Petrie she had to make this ~, . film. But Mother Teresa was re­ luctant and it was Father Petrie \ who finally persuaded her to ~ agree to the project. Even so, it t was hard to pin her down before, during or afte!;' the filming.

MOTHER TERESA AND FATHER PETRIE

Father Petrie responsible for Mother Teresa film Father Bill Petrie, S5.CC., a frequent visitor to the Fall River diocese, was largely responsible for a widely acclaimed documen­ tary, "The World of Mother Te­ resa," produced and directed by his sister, Ann Petrie.

The documentation, shown several times in the diocesan viewing area since its first air­ ing over a year ago, was most recently seen last Sunday night on Channel 38.

Father Petrie, who was last in the diocese in July, 1981, when he spoke at St. Mary's Church, Fairhaven, on his work with Mother Teresa in India, is seen in the program giving a homily and being interviewed by Joyce Susskind, its narrator.

He was ordained at St. Mary's in 1969 and after gaining pastor­ al experience at Regina Pacis Center and Our Lady of the As­ sumption Church, both in New Bedford, was permitted by Sa­ cred Hearts superiors to fulfill his lifelong dream of following in the footsteps of Father Dam­ ien of Molokai, also a Sacred Hearts Father, and caring for abandoned lepers.

Learning that Mother Teresa's' foundations included a leper colony 125 miles from Cal­ cutta, he traveled to India and was accepted by her as its chap­ lain. He has been there since 1975.

Of the documentary his sister said that it shows other aspects to Mother Teresa's work than those usually depicted by the media.

"This tiny and fragile-looking woman," she said, "is an incredi­ bly dynamic leader with enor· mous management ability and a sense of organization extending to her communities in 40 coun­ tries around the globe. That's one of the things about her I wanted to get on film."

• All filmmakers hope their works will find a public but Ms. Perie feels a special commit­ ment toward this one. She ex­

plained, "Mother allowed me to make this film because she had something to tell Americans and lowe it to her to make them aware of that."

The documentary shows the variety of Mother Teresa's work for India's "poorest of the poor" and how much this has inspired her co-workers there and around the world.

But what is central to the film is its vivid portrait of Mother Teresa herself. We see her be­ ing honored with the Nobel Peace Prize and the Star of In­ dia but also at home among her family of nuns, orphans, volun­ teer workers and, everywhere, the poor of India. For Ms. Petrie, getting the scenes of this re­ markable woman in spontaneous action is the film's greatest ac­ complishment.

Ms. Petrie gave some examples of what she meant: "There's a segment of Mother's trip to the housing development financed by her Peace Prize. On the way, we were stopped by a broken bridge but Mother refused to tum back.

She kept talking to the authori· ties until finally they let us pass.

That is so characteristic of her - she is simply deaf to nega· tivity." .

Another example Ms. Petrie cited took place at a ceremony turning over some land donated to Mother Teresa for a leper community. "She accepted it gratefully in the name of the lepers but then, before touring the site, she asked the local bishop if water was available for growing crops. Told that it wasn't, she said simply, 'That won't do,' and one felt confident that the deficiency would soon be remedied."

If anyone scene could be said to sum up what her film is all about, according to Ms. Petrie it would be a moment during an interview with Ms. Susskind when Mother Teresa suddenly asked, "What did you come here for?"

Ms. Petrie explained that "she really dislikes publicity enorm­ , ously. It's her lowest priority and then, too, she lives in con­ stant crisis and in action. When I finally stopped fretting and just did what I could, everything was fine. She lives in a world of miracles and the whole produc­ tion is one of miracles."

Excommunication 'BAGHERIA, Italy (NC) - The 24 Sicilian bishops have reaf­ firmed their 1944 order of ex­ communication against any area Catholic "guilty of kidnapping or unjust voluntary homicide." The bishops criticized "the particular gravi,ty of recurrent episodes of violence which often have as their matrix the Mafia and the ominous mentality that moves and facilitates it."

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Model of the recently completed open resting place for pilgrims at the.start of the Via Delorosa in Jerusalem.

Church of pilgrims can climb up to St. Stephen's Gate. one of the seven entrances into the Old City. and start their walk along the Via Dolorosa.

Carrying the Cross along the Via Dolorosa In Jerusalem, pilgrims stop to pray at one of the 14 stations of the cross.

Eastern Orthodox Church memben proceed through the marketplace along the Via Dolorosa In Old Jerusalem.

Moslem women, who live in the Old City of Jerusalem, pass by the Fifth Station of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa.

During Good Friday, the cross is solemnly borne along the Via Oolorosa amid a throng of Christian pilgrims. (Photo: R. Nowitz)

In the-Garden of Gethsemane (Oil Press), ancient olive trees still stand. Many believe they symbolize the suffering of Jesus in this place.

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By Ellen Davidson

JERUSALEM - For centuries pilgrims to the Holy Land have followed the exhausting route taken by Jesus to Calvary,. climbing the steep road from the thousand-year-old olive trees of Gethsemane to the Old City of Jerusalem and the 14 Stations of the Cross, culminating in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Until recently, upon entering the walled Old City at St. Step­ hen's Gate they had been greeted by a garbage dump. Today, due to a $2 million renewal of the Via Dolorosa undertaken by the Israelis, tired tourists find a serene rest area paced with Jerusalem stone and surrounded

by Biblical trees and shrubs.

Opposite St. Anne's Church, whose priests, together with other Catholic authorities, have overseen the renewal project, visitors can now sit on giant stone benches, listen to their guides, and get a second wind before proceeding to the First Station of the Cross, about 109 yeards distant.

Yitzhak Yaacobi, director of East Jerusalem Development Ltd., a municipal-government company which is carrying out the renovation project, has be­ come an expert on the historical periods touched by the work of his crews, which have totally rebuilt the infrastructure of many parts of the Old City. He loving­ ly points out Roman period pav­ ing stones discovered four to five yards below the present level of the Via Dolorosa, now raised and embedded in the cob­ blestone street for all to see.

At the new rest area, other 2000-year-old paving stones, each weighing two tons, have been arranged in the pattern of a cross.

Scattered around the area are sycamore shade trees and other trees and herbs mentioned in the Bible, such as olive, cedar, myrtle, fragrant rosemary and lavender. At one end is a map in copper to aid guides in their explanations.

"The Via Dolorosa has been completely covered with old cobblestones," notes Yaacobi, "to set it off from the other'streets in the Old City. That way, pil­ grims will know whenever they are walking on the Via Dolorosa."

At each of the 14 stations, the stones are arranged in a semi­ . circular pattern to mark the site; affixed to a nearby wall ,is the Roman numeral of the station.

"We could never begin to write an explanation at each station in the many languages of the pilgrims who' come here," Yaa­ cobi says.

He mentions that the cobble­ stones will get frequent soap-and­ water washings with the aid of a special street-cleaning vehicle recently purchased in Germany.

Renovation of the Via Dolo­ rosa and construction of the rest area evolvect out of the gen­ eral improvements to the area that began when the Old City in­ frastructure started to collapse four years ago.

At that time, Yaacobi and his team began putting in facilities

for "wet services." Less than half the population had runnning water, depending previously, on unsanitary cisterns. Today every home has fresh running water; most also have electricity and TV antenna connections.

"The finishing touch is visual," says Yaacobi. "Mayor Teddy Kollek said 'no wires' and that's what we're trying to do." Thus the previous forest of TV an­ tennae in the city is disappear­ ing into underground cables leading to central antennae. This very expensive project was funded by the Jerusalem Founda­ tion.

Although other dramatir. work has gone on in Jerusalem in re­ cent years to restore the destroy­ ed ancient Jewish Quarter and its synagogues, Yaacobi and his team take particular pride in the Via Dolorosa project, funded by the Interministerial Committee fqr Jerusalem and the Israel Ministry of Tourism.

([J)§~IT' 2d1ce n§lID1l UIlIT'~ ®@ NEW YORK (NC) - Zbignie'1' Brzezinski, former national security adv.iser, March 23 urged ostracizing Bulgaria if more evi­ dence surfaces linking that country to the attempted assass­ ination of Pope John Paul II. In an interview on the CBS Morn­ ing News, he said, "I believe if there is more evidence . . . it will be impossible to maintain normal diplomatic relations with Bulgaria." ,Brzezinski, who was national' security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, dismissed as "very amusing" the reported belief of the KGB, the Soviet secret po­ lice, that he had masterminded the election of the Polish pope in 1978 to foment a Polish re­ volt against the Soviet Union.

He said that while he was an administration official he had seen a similar report saying the KGB believed he had mobi­ lized the support of American and German cardinals to create the groundswell that swung tne papal election to the present pope.

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Dear Mary: I am a white, 19­ Those columns provoked many year-old college student who has hate letters condemning us and been dating a Chinese girl. My our position. However, we also parents say. if this relationship got support mail. Best of all, we leads to marriage, then I would received personal testimony be condemning my children to a from persons living in interracial life of suffering. marriages and interracial fami­ 1 think this is a great sin for lies: my parents and ,their generation.

Dear Kennys: 1 have had an I make this generalization be­ interrracial marriage and a cause the only people who have happy one for the last 27 years given me any problem have been with two wonderful children. people over 30. The general opin­ Like any marriage it has not ion of my uncles, aunts and par. always been easy. There have ents' friends is that any "mixed" marriage is doomed to hard· always been stares and gossip. ships most people could not . Our parents accepted us. Not that they liked it, as 27 years handle. ago race mixing was not as com­ What is the church's position? mon as today. Good friends I am hopeful for the future, but stayed our friends. The ones ,that fearful of the past. - Penn­ didn't we didn't want or need. sylvania .

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I grew up in a home filled with love, tolerance and much . honesty. There were times when people wouldn't talk to me or mocked me because they saw my exterior before getting to know my interior. I learned because of what my parents taught me to always believe in myself, to be tolerant of others and, most important, to love God. No union of two human beings regardless of race or religion is ever per­ fect because human beings are not, but I know a house full of trust, love and respect bears good fruit; consider me one, but hardly the exception. - Ken­ tucky Reader questions on family living and child care to be an· swered in print are invited. Ad· dress The Kennys, Box 872, St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Ind. 47978.

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Once again The'Anchor picli:s Red Sox The Anchor's favorite baseball fan, having just completed his arduous annual spring tour of duty, sends us the following admittedly biased report: DATELINE FLORIDA: Spring finally smiled on .the Grapefruit League. The March vernal equi­ nox seemed to signal the end of a chilly, rainy winter as a lan­ guid atmosphere returned to the 1983 exhibition· baseball season in 'Florida.

Warm sunshine replaced blus­ .tery tropical downpours and managers settled down to the yearly ritual of selecting the final rooters for the upcoming championship season as The Anchor made its annual trek through the citrus circuit. .

Winter Haven's Chain-o-Lakes Park, centerpiece of the Red Sox spring training complex, reo mains a lovely site, the breezes perfumed by nearby orange groves. The crowd on any after­ noon tends to include a major­ ity of senior citizens who know their baseball. As quickly as a good play is rewarded with ap­ plause, so does a miscue, worse if it's a bonehead blunder, meet with appropriate cheers of the Bronx variety, accompanied by derisive and often memorably original comments.

The pace is what makes spring training so enjoyable. Folks meander to the park early. The rituals of batting practice and infield drills evoke genuine in­ terest. Fans wander through

the lower fields where scores of minor leaguers, youthful and gifted, perform for wily veteran coaches.

Over. there, Ted 'Williams jumps 'in~o a batting cage to share some facet of his hitting lore with a bid named Ledbetter who, the fans agree, "has all the tools. " All the physical tools, that is; raw -talent must be re­ fined.

Whack! A line drive 'whistles off the bat, bounces and then tolls to a distant fence. The visitor to spring training, sud­ denly drawn into the inner cir­ cles of baseball, claps his Walter Mitty applause and lends his voice to the cheerful babble of enthusiastic chatter.

There's Rick Miller. "He'll

play today," intones one fan, whose authority, from whatever source derived, captivates a clus­ ter of fellow enthusiasts. "Houk's going to spot several of the kid pitchers," the oracle continues, "Denham, Brown, The Bird, Oil ·Can..." (No one asks; the last­ named two are Mark Fidrych and Dennis Boyd.)

Games 1n the Grapefruit League are usually in daylight, on grass. Sure, there's a surge of traffic through town, but folks are mostly courteous, head­ ing only for an early supper at Christy's Sundown and not worrying about a long ride home in the wee hours of a morning when the alarm clock will all too soon go off signaling the start ofa working day, the 0 usual Fenway aftermath. ~en things go well, like Jim Rice's awesome home run pro­ duction which is brightening the Bosox exhibition schedule, you can ·revel in anticipation of the '83 season.

Where there are negative notes, foremost among them a rather dismal ennui which seems to have infected the entire mound corps, young and old, righthanders and southpaws, ra­ tionalizations . come easy in spring training: "His motion was nice and loose!" or "He had good velocity out there!"

So what ,if opposing batters ground up Bruce Hurst or Dennis Eckersly or whomever ... hey, these are just exhibition games!

The peacemal(.er's sword

By Gerard A. Vanderhaar Pax Christi USA

the help we can get. We go into the struggle aided by what St. Paul called "the armor of God . . . Take the helmet of salva­ tion and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." (Eph. 6:13, 17) The peacemaker's sword is the word of God. Armed with this sword, and no other, we plunge into the struggle.

We face the world of injustice, of violence, of threat of nuclear annihilation realistically, we face­ it head on. We're not happy with what we see, so we try to make it right. We enter into what Mar­ tin Luther King called "the long and bitter - but beautiful ­ struggle for a new world." And we enter this struggle nonvio­ lently - armed only with our peacemaker's sword.

Dr. Gerard Vanderhaar, author of "Christians and Nonviolence in the Nuclear Age," is professot of religion and peace studies at Christian Brothers College, Memphis, Tennessee and a mem­ ber of the executive council of Pax Christi USA.

April 4th is the 15th anniver­ sary of the martyrdom of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., killed by an assassin's bullet as he stood on the balcony of the Lor­ raine Motel in downtown Mem­ phis.

We still have much to learn from King's movement: first for the civil rights of black A'meri­ cans, then for the human rights of all Americans.

During those turbulent times of Martin Luther King's cam­ paigns of nonviolent direct ac­ tion, Americans struggled with each other. It was as though King was again bringing to real­ ity the words of Jesus: "I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies will be those of his own household." (Matt.

10:35-36) But King's goal was not tur­ moil, it was peace. It was the peace not of ease and comfort, but of human dignity and mutual respect. It was the peace of liberty and justice for all.

His vision was grand. His vis­ ion was also realistic.' He saw that peace means not just heal­ ing human wounds, but changing social structures. He looked be­ yond the Good Samaritan to what he called the Jericho Road Improvement Association. "It is not enough to aid a wounded man on the Jericho Road; it is also important to change the conditions which make robbery possible."

Although King is gone, his spirit remains. His work, unfin­ ished, is our responsibility. To carry it on, we need help - all

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

,BROOKLYN, N.Y. (NC) ­ The United Farm Workers' of America remains strong despite difficulties presented by the cur­ rent political and economic climate, according to Cesar Cha­ vez, the organization's founder and president.

A Catholic layman, Chavez re­ cently spoke at Brooklyn's St. James Cathedral.

Interviewed afterward, Cha­ vez said the union, an AFL-CIO affiliate based in California, has

been confronted with increased antagonism because of the elec­ tions of President Reagan and of California's Republican Gov. George Deukmejian last year.

He also said .the economic re­ cession that has put some growers out of business has hampered the union's work, as have mass immigration and un­ employment which leave striking workers vulnerable to quick re­ placement.

But in spite of these obstacles and the high turnover intrinsic to the farm worker situation, he said, the organization has been able to keep its membership around 100,000. Although most of these are in California, Cha­ vez said there are 3,000 workers under contract in Arizona and 1,500 in Florida.

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The union leader reported that the UFW has undergone exten­ sive reorganization and that he is sharing more responsibility with other officials. Activities such as establishment of clinics are now "moving a lot faster," he said.

Chavez began his farm workers organizing efforts in 1962 and brought the movement to AFL­ CIO union status in 1972. As principal support for his organ­ izing effort, Chavez got sym­ pathizers across the nation to boycott targeted products, par­ ticularly grapes. Though current boycotts of such items as Red Coach lettuce and Andy Boy broccoli have not aroused the same interest, Chavez said the union would continue to rely heavily on the boycott weapon.

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The choices WASHINGTON (NC) - Cath­ olic educators have limited time and resources, said Sister Car­ leen Reck, so "the very making of choices is a challenge."

"Catholic Education: The Choices and the Challenges" is the theme of the NCEA conven­ tion in Washington April 4-7.

In a pre-convention interview, Sister Reck, executive director of the National Catholic Educa­ tional Association's elementary education department, spoke about the choices that teachers, parents, students and adminis­ trators must make.

"There's just so much to teach in so few minutes," Sister Reck ,said. "What. are we going to teach, what experiences, should we give our students?"

Catholic educators should dis­ cuss issues such as social justice and the nuclear arms race, she said, and "not ,only talk about the issues, but talk about them from a church perspective. We ,should be able, to deal with is­ , sues in a hopeful way."

"We're. trying to broaden the idea of who the teacher is in a Catholic scho'OI - the teacher is more than just a 'professional ,person," Sister Reck continued.

"It's not enough to teach classes. ,We are a specific Christian group in the cbnuhunity."

The educators must also make choices about how they maintain order. "If you say you are a Christian community, then you have a different system' of order," Sister Reck said. "You' need much more respect. We're trying to lead a person to self­ discipline, to living by princi~ pies."

Each student has a different perspective, Sister Reck said, and Catholic schools must meet the special needs of gifted students, slow learners and members of minority groups.

• Catholic schools also face ad­ ministrative choices. "We do not choose to have several adminis­ trators" in each schQ.ol, Sister

Reck said, which leaves the single administrator with limited time to balance supervi~ing per­ sonnel, planning the instructional program, c;leveloping religious formation" exploring the com­ munity aspects of the school and fostering social ministry. ' To make sure Catholic schools are making the right choices ad­ ministrators, have to reflect, Sister Reck said. An increasing number of elementary schools are evaluating their programs but "we tell them, 'don't just evaluate yourself as a good school - evaluate yourself as a good Catholic school.'''

Schools have to establish priorities and "pull together what is our vision" of Catholic educa­ .tion, she said.

When parents make the choice to send their children to pro­ chial schools, they accept addi­ tional financial burdens. Sister Reck said she believes 'parents are willing' to pay the cost when they know what the options are: "If they :see where' the real money is going, they :are willing to support the schools," she said.

Many parishes traditionally have subsidized all the students at their paros~ial schools, but Sis­ ter Reck said many parents are willing to pay the full course when they know the, facts.

Schools arid parents are now frequently' negotiating the amount of tuition the parents will pay. " Sister, Reck also said she be­ lieves "we missed something by not moving to the suburbs" where many Catholic families have moved. "They don't even have the choice for Catholic edu­ cation," she said, but noted that parents are beginning to ask their parishes to build schools in the suburbs. "They see the need for value support beyond the fam­ ily."

There should be an opportun­ ity to choo~e Catholic, schools "any place a number of people are interested," she said.

The challenges Catholic schools face a variety these that makes Catholic educa­ of tests, financial and academic, tion Catholic, he said. but two National Catholic Edu­ The impact of Catholic edu­ ,cational Association directors cation is not ,always immediate­ feel the most fundamental chal­ ly evident, Brother Manno con­ lenge is for the schools to main­ ,tinued. An observer may not see tain their Catholicity. any difference in the behavior of a seventh grader from a Cath­ In an interview before the convention . Father Robert J. olic school, because 'there is a Yeager, NCEA vice president for "time lag" between when the development, said the challenge student graduates and when the for Catholic schoois is to give difference is noticeable. "a meaningful climate of edu­ "There seems to be some kind cation so students will have an of seed planted. Later, when the impact on society."

Catholic school student becomes an adult, it blossoms," Brother Marianist Brother Bruno V. Manno said.

Manno, NCEA director of re­ search and in-service programs, Brother Manno, citing 1982-83 sees in Catholic schools "an at­ , NCEA data bank ,statistics, noted mosphere that permeates the that the percentage of minority place." It's not just the teachers, students in Catholic schools now the principals or the curriculum, exceeds, one-fifth of the total but the intermingling of all of enrollment. Also, the percentage

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AT CONNOLLY AWARENESS DAY: From left, Matthew Zenni, student coordina­ tor; Auxiliary Bishop Peter Rosazza; Father' Paul Carrier, SJ, faculty director of day; George Bolger, student coordinator. (Torchia Photo)', of non-Catholic students in Cath­ olic schools has inc~,eased to iO.6 percent in 1982-83, compared to 2.7 percent in 1969-70: "The minority statisties ar,e especially interesting since they continue to document the signi­ contribution Ca~olic ficant schools are .making to the edu­ cational needs' of various minor­ ity groups in the United States," according to Brother'Manno. The stereotypes that are often sug­ gested regarding the composi­ tion of Catholic schools must be examined in the light of these data, he added.

Brother Manno said one chal­ lenge the schools must face is "what is the role or mission of the Catholic school when the 1

majority (of' the students) are not Catholic? What do you do with the religious program, how do you avoid proselytizing?Ther~ are all sorts of challenges. Each (school) works ~ out a local an­ swer to a specific kind of ques­ tion." .

Father Yeager is directing a three-year project, funded by the Ford Foundation, to develop a "portrait" of <:;atholic secondary schools, and to 'identify elements positively affecting students from low-income families.

"We're beginning to find an outside interest" in Catholic schools, Father Yeager said. Out­ side groups want to know how Catholic schools are teaching urban lower income students, he

said, because "we're making those kids more self-sufficient.

We're walking them ,out, of the gbetto." ,, The Ford Foundation study is not meant to compare Catholic schools to each other or to com­ pare them' to public schools, Father Yeager emphasized, but is meant to find ideas that work and share them. ' Catholic schools need ,long­ range planning, he added and "if you do long-range planning you are making a public an­ nouncement that you plan to be here for a while. We're going to be here - let's act like it. We have to stress that within the church, education is a vital, viable mission."

The results chemical formulas. at oneself to see who one really The results of Catholic educa­ tion? Two recent happenings in "Father Paul Carrier, SJ and is. That is how one grows"he diocesan high schools may illus­ concluded. the seniors involved in com­ trate them. ' munity service gave us this day "After the keynote address - At Bishop Stang High on which we could all become the students viewed Roses in School, North Dartmouth, the socially aware.

December, a film about the four-year-old son of a faculty The keynote speaker was three nuns and one laywoman , member Il'ecently underwent day­ Auxiliary Bishop Peter Rosazza killed in El Salvador in 1980. It long serious surgery for sus­ of Hartford. was a very pow.erful documen­ pected' brain malignancy. " ~Jesus Christ loves you very tary about four women's cour­ Throughout the day of the much' was the opening sentence age and love for the people of operation, the Stang chapel was of his kickoff speech. He also that country. pever without a large number of stated that we were the first in­ "Seminars included a Jamai­ students praying for its success­ ternational generation. ful outcome. When the good "As an example, he used the ,can summer e"lperience, des­ news came that the growth was fact that he was in South Am­ cribed by two Connolly students 'benign, previously cynical teen­ 'erica and the' kids were dancing who worked there with the poor agers were overwhelmed. to rock music and wearing jeans last summer; and discussions of "Now do you believe in the ,and T-shirts. He said, if th~y the work of student volunteers power of prayer?" a sister-fac­ were placed in the States, they at St. Vincent's Home, St. Anne's ulty member asked one. would be comfortable;, Whether Hospital, the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home, People, Inc., the "Sister, I sure do!" was his it be rock music or love, some­ Family Services Association, heartfelt response. thing does bind' all people.

- At Bishop Connolly High "The bishop said that to know Catholic Social Services and School, Fall River, last Wednes­ Jesus we must go to those who several other agencies. day was Awareness Day. Sopho­ are hungry, thirsty, sick or poor.

"The day'closed wit1t the stu­ more Robyn McGowan tells the We must be sensitive to the dents writing evaluatiqns of the story: "Last Wednesday was not needy. Christ is there.' And the experience, then celebrl\ting Mass a regular school day at Bishop Christian's core of faith is as with patients from the Kimwell Connolly High School. It was simple as 'Love one another as Nursing Home. Music was by the perhaps a much more valuable I have loved you.' He added that Connolly and Notre Dame School learning experience than study­ it is enriching to observe the choirs." ing sentence structures and world, respect others and look

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By Albina AspeU PEORIA, Ill. (NC) - Elinor Pilon, who cannot see, calls her­ self a visual aid.

She is Exhibit A, star of a show she did not plan and lead in a play she did not write.

She would prefer to be the "typical obscure housewife" she used to be, she said, but she's determined to tell the world "what hell my life is" and has been since a drunk driver smash­ ed into her car and forever changed that life.

Mrs. Pilon lost use of her right side and sight in both her eyes. . During an interview with The Catholic Post, Peoria diocesan weekly newspaper, she groped along the wall from her kitchen to her living room and backed against a chair to make sure it was there before she sat down.

Her words came quickl}' as she told her story.

Pried from the crash in which her car was sandwiched between two others, she was unconscious for three weeks as doctors at St. Francis Hospital in Peoria fought to keep her alive, and doctors at the University of Iowa Medical Center at Iowa City worked tq' rebuild her facial bones crushed in a "tripod frac­ ture."

"It took hours, maybe days," she said," "to return to cons­ ciousness. I didn't know what day it was or where I was. I only knew in my mind, in my body and in my subconscious that I had been through something terrible."

Now, after three years of pain, anger and readjustment, Mrs. Pilon is ready to tell the world about her experience. She plans to begin with high school stu­ dents. Her message is: "Do not get behind the wheel of a car if you've been drinking."

"I won't tell them not to drink," she said, "but I am going to tell them that drinking and driving don't mix. If they want proof, they can look at me. I'm the visual aid."

Mrs. Pilon was hospitalized for nine months and two days. She had nine operations. And physical therapy. And encouragement from her husband, her three chil­ dren, family and friends.

And bad moments when, she said, she shook her fist at God. "I've gone through a lot of questioning," she said. "Why me?

Why did God allow this horren­ dous thing to happen? Why didn't he put me a mile ahead of that drunk driver, or a half mile behind?

"I'm told that my heart stop­ ped beating when I was in the emergency room and that noth­ ing was done to resuscitate me.

Somehow my heart started beat­ ing again on its own. God didn't let me die. Why? It could have been all over. But here I was alive, and so badly injured."

Mrs. PHon said she remembers her first words a{ter regaining consciousness. Her husband, Jerry, told her she was going to be all right. "And somehow," she said, "I breathed 'Praise God." Mrs. Pilon said her faith has

been tested. She spoke of grow­ ing up in Peoria, of a Catholic education that told her God was a judgmental God, of dropping away from the practice of her faith, of feeling guilty for stay­ ing away from church, and of "drifting back."

Seven years ago, she and her husband made a Marriage En­ counter. Then came their ex­ perience in the Cursillo (short course in Christianity) move­ ment. From the Cursillo, Mrs. Pilon said, "for the first time in my life, I learned that God is a loving God who is present every moment of my day."

During her hospitalization, a permanent deacon friend brought her holy communion, which she could take as a drop of wine. After the wires were removed from her jaws, she could manage a small portion of the host, dipped in wine.

The Eucharist strengthened and supported her, she said, and in quiet moments she talked with God. "I knew even when there was nobody else in my hospital room that 1 was not alone. That knowledge sustained me."

She added: "I thank God I can still speak and that I can think.

And that's why I'm going to start speaking to the kids in high schools . . . If I can convince even one kid about the risks of drunk driving . . . ",

No Cc;mtlict ''One good way does not con­ flict with another." - Meister Eckhart

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The U.S. bishops' planned pas­

toral letter on war and peace has begun making the news again.

The moral authority of judg­ - On March 24 Cardinal Jo­ ments made in the pastoral was seph Bernardin, saying that his committee had completed the a central conce~, at the January Vatican meeting. Cardinal Agos­ third draft of. the document, cited six major areas in Which tino Casarol.i, papal secretary of the committee revised its earlier state, warned that such judg­ The crucial section on the ments· must deal with. moral work. The U.S" bishops' are to morality of nuclear deterrence, principles- and not take sides in meet in Chicago May 2-3 to de­ bate the pas~oral and vote on it. recognized by the committee as .the strictly technical. or political - The secretary of the Per-' a problem area in 'the second debates. manent Council of .the French Bishops' Conference predicted that the new draft would take a more flexible approach to nu­ clear deterrence and be less iso­ lationist as a result of European concerns manifested during a January meeting. at the Vatican.

- Two days earlier ~nother member of the drafting com­ IQUIPPED TO mittee, Auxiliary Bishop John O'Connor of the U.S. Military SERV'ICE A'NY Ordinariate, said that the tetter ~ SIZE PROP,ERTY "will not opt for unilllltet:al dis­ armament."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River~FrL, April 1, 1983

What's on your mind?

By Tom Lennon

Dear Readers: .A short time back I pro~­ ised to report from time to time on things yourig peo­

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ple are doing to make our. world better. So here goe,s: .. " From Missouri: I kn9w of sev. eral young people who are doing a wonderful 'job each summer at a cerebral palsy camp in Rocky Mount, Mo. They come fom all over the state and volun­ teer at least one week of their summer to care for a person with celebral palsy. ' "This camp is staffed mostly by college students who super­ vise about 50 high school volun­ teers who work one-on-one with the handicapped campers."

From Ohio Father Clarence Heis gives' a glowing report' of teens who organized a SEARCH v.:eekend to help other young people learn more about Jesus and his presence ,in' their lives.

"These four young. persons," says Father Heis, "were thorough, methodical and sharp.

I couldn't tell you 'how, much I

,Bishop Feehan New members were inducted into the Feehan chapter of the National Honor Society by Sis­ ter Mary Faith Harding, RSM, principal, at a recent ceremony.

Tapped were six seniors, five juniors and 39 sophomores.

Also on the recent calendar at the Attleboro school: a major­ ette competition drawing entries from 11 area high schools and giving rise to' a very attractive program ,designeq in the style of a spiral notebook. In Class A Division competition, Elizabeth Latta of Feehan was judged best captain. Tying for first place

were jayvee squads from Dennis­

Yarmouth and Canton; second, Apponequet; third, West Bridge­

water.

In open competition, Lisa Walsh, Canton, was best' cap­ tain; Canton took first place; New Bedford second; Dennis­ Yarmouth third.

Holy, Family

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At the recent - Holy Family science fair the first, place win­ ner was Michael Cloutier, with a study of cancerous cells. Second place went to Ronald Quintin, "The Effects of Color on Mice" and third place to Laurie Gobiel for a study, of urinalysis. The three students will attend the state science fair at the end of this month. For Michael and Lau­ rie it will be a second trip. Both qualified to attend the 1982 state fair.

Laurie recently received an­ other honor, this one shared by, Laura Seguin. ,The two juniors

appreciated the way they car­ ried out their responsibilities and showed their love for others.", In a fleeting minute and a half at McDonald's last week, two college students gave wit­ ness to their belief in God and love for him.

The handsome young man (with Wright State lettered on the back of his jacket) and his attractive girlfriend sat down at a table for two. Then, holding hands, they quietly but audibly said a prayer before meals.

'My young friend George is an expert at home improvements. A - couple of weeks ago, he spent four days painting and plasier­ ing several rooms in my house.

He cha'rg~d me considerably less .than he ~ight reasonably have done. Although I argued with him about the low price, I could -not defeat his friendly spirit and goodness. ' ' .

Fifty-three public school stu~ three, Baptist dents from churches in my home town pre­ sented a youth musical, "As"Our Faith Unfolds." In a way that challenged their adult audience, they told how faith came to them as little children and developed into a sturdier adolescent faith.

If you would like to report on what young people in your area are 'doing to make the world better, we'll try to use ,your news in a later column. Send st,ories, comments or questions to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass; Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

at the New 'Bedford high school have been 'accepted -for the Massachusetts Advanced Stud­ ies Program. They, will attend a six-week summer. program at Milton Academy, specializing in advanced math and, advanced English.

out of work, out of money, out of hope.

The problems include not only getting laid off from work, but the elimination of jobs outdated by mechanization or computer­ ization. As these changes take place, individual lives and fu­ tures are hurt.

By Charlle Martin

ALLENTOWN Well we're living here in Allentown -And they're closing all the factories down Out in Bethlehem they're killing time Filling out forms Standing in line .. Well our fathers fought the Second World War , Spem: their weekends on the Jersey shore Met our mothers in the USO Asked them to dance Danc~ with them: slow And we're liVIng here in Allentown' But the restleSsness was handed down And it's 'getting very bard to stay.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found'

Fo!; the p-romises our teachers gave' If we· worked hard , If we ~aved :.

So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at. all No they never tiuight us what was real Iron an(I' coke and chromium steel And we're waiting here in Allentown Bu.t th~'ve taken aD' the' coal, from the ground ~nd the union people crawled away. '" Written and sung by Billy Joel, @ 1981 by Joel Songs.

AU: rights administered by CBS Songs, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. .

A ~W MONTHS ago Ire- tion for its effect on listeners.

Certainly Billy Joel's' "Allen­ viewed a song by The FiXx as an exaJ!lple o~, what is called town" creates that mood. The "recession rock." I said that de- song depicts the hard life of pression was .a more apt ,descrip- those caught in the recession:

Christians have a special re­

,sponsibility to reach out to those

hurt by the recession. What hap­

pens in Allentown or any town affects all the' human family.

Many people f~el powerless to do anything about today's social problems. But this sense of powerlessness can be a trap that encourages people to accept the type of hopelessness the song mentions.

The truth is we ,are not power­ less. If every person would take . an inventory .of what he or she could do to work toward justice, a tremendous power would be unleashed.

Problems would not disappear

overnight, but gradually govern­

ments and other social systems would get the message: People want and expect a, just life for every ,member of the human family. , The place to begin is with one's' own life. In what ways can you live more justly, more sim­ ply? , That question may lead to per­ sonal sacrifices but also to ,building better -lives for all our brothers and sisters.

Your comments are welcome.

Please address to Charlie Martin, 1218 S. Rotherwood Ave., Evans­ viIle, Incl. 47714.

Also at Holy Family,' chemis­ try instructor Charles W. Mosz­ censki, an' SMU graduate chem­

istry' student, has co-authored an

article in the current' issue of

"Inorganica Chimica Acta," an

international journal of chem­

istry. The article describes orig­

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acid compounds. '

Local winner

Last week's Anchor carried a story about winners in a national essay contest on peace spon­ sored by the Christophers. At the time we did not know that one of the 300 honorable men­ tion winners in the contest that drew 5000 entries was Kathleen Santos, a seventh grader at Mt. S1. Joseph School, Fall River.

Kathleen, declaring that "nothing is impossible,'" asked for an end to weapons produc­ tion and chemical warfare and a strengthened United Nations. As an honorable mention winner she received a copy of the Chris­ topher book, ''Young Ideas."

CoyIe-Cassidy Nominations are being taken for Mother's :Club officers for the coming year, with voting to take place at the club's Wednes­ day meeting..

C~ST YOUR BREAD on the 'waters and it will return to you, says the Bible.

U:pdatmg the prescription a bit, fifth grader Andre Delvaux (left) won an Atari Video system as top salesman in a recent fundraising drive at St. Alphonsus Schoo, Glens Falls, N.Y. But the youngster heard his parents discussing the sc)lool's tight financial situation and de~ided "the school needs the money more'than l need an ~tari." Word of his action got into The Evangelist, his diocesan newspaper, and an Impressed rea~~r ~ent right out and bought him a video system. "Tell him hap­ -py ~aster for me, said the donor, who presented the gift through The Evangelist.

So, If you want to know about bread - 0 r Ataris - on the water just ask Andre and brother Eric (right). (NC Photo) , ,

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THE ANCHOR _.

tv, movie news

By Bill Morrissette

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Southies win hockey o,pener Sparked by Rick Coleman's three-goal performance, Fall River .South defeated defending champion New Bedford, 5-3, in the opener of the best-of-three final in the playoffs of the Bris­ tol County CVO Hockey League in the Driscoll R'ink, ·Fall River, last Sunday evening.

Brilliant performances by goalies Chris Ripley of Fall River South and New Bedford's Tim Bertrand ,resulted in a scoreless first period in which South outshot New 'Bedford 30-20.

At 4:10 of the second period South broke the deadlock on Dave Nobrega's goal with an as­ sist from Coleman. Three min­ utes later New Bedford tie:! the score when Dave Barr<lws scored on a pass from Dennis Sylvia.

In another three minutes Fall

NOTE Please check dates and times of television and radio programs against local list· ings, which may differ from the New York network sched­ ules supplied to The Anchor.

River South regained the lead, 2-1, on the first of Coleman's trio of goals.

New Bedford tied the score at Symbols following film reviews indicate 2-2 when Sylvia scored (from both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

Pete Larrivee and Barrows) at General ratings: G-suitable for gen­ 3:30 of the last period but at eral viewing; PG-parental guidance sug­ 5:05 Coleman netted his second gested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger teens. goal (from Rick Roderick) to Catholic ratings: AI-approved for' give the .lead back to New Bed­ children and adults; A2-approved for ford, 3-2. adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; A4-separate classification The lead went to 4-2 at 8:16 when John Roderiques scored on (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis assists from Dan Heaslip and and explanation}j O-morally offensive.

Hogan. New ·Bedford's Steve New Film Pontes narrowed the gap with "High Road to China" (War. his unassisted goal at 11 :56 for be for the ages, ners) may not New Bedford but Colemanrs third goal less than a minute but it's an adventure film that's later, with an assist from Rory never dull, and it has some nice surprises, ampng them Bess Arm­ Couturier, settled the issue. strong's performance as a spoil­ The teams meet again at 9 ed rich girl, Roaring 20s era, p.m. Sunday in the Driscoll who hires a hard-drinking, dis­ Rink. illusioned World War I ace (Tom Selleck) to fly her from Turkey skaters win Father Donovan game to China to find her long-lost iA capacity crowd in the Oris- goal at 8:15 of the second period. coil Rink witnessed the Bristol After their 3-0 lead after one father. '\High Road" . is a kind of County CVO Hockey League all- period the CVO all-stars scored "Raiders of the Lost Ark" done stars romp to a 14-4 victory eight goals in the second canto over the High School Seniors in to put the game completely out with heart and character. In its conclusion Selleck and Miss Arm­ the Father Donovan Scholarship of ·reach.

Fund all-star hockey game, to Gino Govino, Roderick and strong find her eccentric father even the 10-year series at five Kevin Rodrigues received awards (Wilford Brimley) in the midst if victories each. as the top ,three CVO players, a war, marshalling exploited The CVO skaters raced to a in that order. Ventu.ra, Tom warlord.

"High Road to China" is con­ 3-0 lead in the first period and Aldrich and Coleman were given went on to a 7-0 advantage be- awards as first, second and third sistently entertai~ing, without fore the seniors finally got on the players, respectively, on the the sex and extravagant vio­ lence that too often mar adven­ scoreboard via Mark Ventura's senior team. ture films. Some restrained vio­ Some Hockomock All-stars lence and mild vulgarities. A2, Girls' Basketball - guards nears, Oliver Ames High School PG Linda Nardella and Diann Reyn­ is the leader, with 61 Y2 points, in TV Programs olds of Oliver Ames High the standings for the Hockomock ABC News provides interest­ School; guard Gina DiGiovanni, League All-Sports Trophy for forward Theresa DiGirolamo, 1982-83. Next are Canton 61; ing and unusual coverage of Mansfield; forward Karen Minsk Franklin 49; Sharon 52; North Pope John Paul II in ''The Pope and guard Carol Mandell, Can­ Attleboro 56Y2; Foxboro 48~~; and His Vatican" from 7 to 8 Stoughton 47; Mansfield 28; King p.m. Easter Sunday. ton; guard Lynn Grafton, Sha­ Making use of unprecedented ron; guard Margaret Connolly, Philip 37Y2.

Coach Don Chouinard's Bishop permission to take its cameras North Attleboro; forward Kathie Whildham, Foxboro; center Connolly /High School Cougars Nancy Maduski, King' Philip. will open their season with par­ Nardella is the all-star team ticipation in the Old Colony In­ captain. vitational Baseball ·Tournament Boys' basketball - forward on April 9 and 10.

Tom Folliard an:l guard Tom The Connolly cycling team" Tivnan, Canton; center Michael again under coach Paul Do­ Kaplan and forward Jason Dav­ mingue, will participate in the enport, Sharon; forward Len Vermont Academy road !face Sunday and will be involved in Dieterle, North Attleboro; for­ wards Larry Smith and J'im time trials with Barrington Overstreet, Stoughton; guard High School and Providence Mark Gaffey, -Foxboro.

Country Day School next Wed­ As the spring sports season nesday.

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behind the scenes in the Vatican, ABC covers a single day in the life of the pope, from his 7 a.m. period of prayer in his private chapel until the closing of the gate of the Vatican at night.

Reported by correspondent Bill Blakemore, the documentary provides fascinating glimpses of papal routine and a necessarily sketchy' assessment of John Paul's reign thus far. It explores his philosophy and goals as he guides Christendom's biggest church and also focuses on the intricate nature of the oldest or­ ganized bureaucracy in the world, the Vatican.

Footage will explore the Vati­ can's innermost chambers and describe the functioning if the Roman Curia, the church's ad­ ministrative body, how a saint is chosen and how bishops are selected.

The casual viewer -might get the impression that Vatican II was some sort of catastrophe from which the church is still striving to recover - since the pope is described as having been elected in the wake of "the chaos of Vatican II." Despite failings, however, "The Pope and His Vatican" is well worth seeing. Its greatest virtue is its skillful use of the immedi­ acy that is television's forte and its ability to convey the incredi­ ble demands made upon the time and energies of the vicar of Christ, .not only by paperwork and ceremonial duties, but also by the unending stream of peo­ ple and organizations with whom he must make personal and ef­ fective contact daily.

Religious Broadcasting - TV Sunday, April 3, 10:30 a.m.

Diocesan Television Easter Mass, with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as celebrant.

"Confluence," 8 a.m. each Sunday on Channel 6, is a 'panel program moderated by Truman Taylor and having as permanent participants Father Peter N. Gra­ ziano, diocesan director of social

Friday, April I, 1983

services; Right Rev. George Hunt,

Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island; and Rabbi BllJI'lJch Korff. This week's topic: Resurrection and the Purpose of Man. "The Glory of God," with Father John Bertolucci, 7:30 a.m. each Sunday, Channel 27.

"MarySon," a family puppet show with mOll'al and spiritual perspective 6 p.m. each Thurs­ day, Fall River and New Bed· ford cable channel 13.

"Spirit arid tIlte Bride," a talk show with William . Larkin, 6 p.m. each Monday, cable chan­ nel 35.

Sunday, April 3, (ABC) "DI­ rections" - Pope John Paul II's trip to Central America is reo viewed.

On Radio Charismatic programs are heard from Monday through Fri­ day on station WICE 1210 AM; Father John Randall, 9 to 10 a.m. and II to 12 p.m.; Father Edward McDonough, 8:15 a.m.; Father Real Bourque at 8:41 a.m.

Father McDonough is also on WMYD from I :30 to 2 p.m. each Sunday.

Sunday, April 3, (NBC) Guide­ line" - Madge Harrah's "The Prize," winner of the Catholic Radio Drama contest, a project of the Catholic Communication Campaign, is broadcast.

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eyo hoop playoffs Holy Family of Taunton, Holy Name of Fall River and Espirito Santos, also of Fall River, have·' advanced to the best-of-three finals in the CYo basketball championship competition of the Fall River' 'Diocese: Holy Family, which represent­ ed Taunton ·in all three divisions, swept its best-of-three Senior Division semi-final 'with Fall River's Holy Name, 85-77, and 85-73. Holy Name swept its Junior Division semi-final with

Holy Family, 60-34, and 55-45.

The Prep Division semi-final was won by Espirito Santo with a 71-70 victory over Holy Fam­ ily in 'the third and deciding game of the series. Holy Fam­ ily wOn: the' first game 7£3-13'­ Espiritos the second,' 72-60. '.

All three· winners will meet their New Bedford counterparts in the finals next Monday and Tuesday. Third games, if needed, will be played Thursday.

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, N.EASTON Parishioners ·are asked to bring non-perishable foods to weekend Masses to donate to area families in deperate need of food ..

A parish pilgrimage ·to Rome is being considered for early summer, 1984. Further details will be forthcoming.

We The Parish Association: meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 11, parish hall. Entertainment

by Oliver Ames Show Choir.

Agenda: choice of this year's charities; elections. Meeting to be preceded at 8 p.m. Monday, April 4, by board meeting in rectory. All welcome.

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DIVORCED ISEPARATED SUPPORT GROUP, NB. Meetings: 7:30 p.m. each Sun­ day, Our Lady's Chapel, New Bedford. April 3, wine and cheese party; April 10, liturgy, coffee, conversation; April 17, "Children of Divorce," talk by Roland Brassard; April 24, "Lel!;al Aspects ·of Divorce," talk

by Gerald Franklin. Annulment clinic: each Saturday, 10:30 a.m.

Information: Father Edward, 996-8275.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA "Day of Resurrection": 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday, April 17. Partici­ pants may bring a lunch or order a meat pie supper.

ST. RITA, MARION Confirmation candidates: small group meetings Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.: conferences Saturday, April 9; rehearsal 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 12. '

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, FR Barrington College Chamber Choir: 3 .p.m. Saturday, April 9, Bishop's Chapel.

ST. JOHN OF GOD,' SOMERSET Mass, prayer meeting, and so­ cial hour, 7 p.m. April 7.

DISTRICT I, DCCW Fall River District I, Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, b'i­ ennial communion supper and Mass 6:30 p.m. April 6, St. John of God Church, Somerset. Msgr.

Giles Simard, Boston Province NCCW moderator, supper speak­ er and principal celebr·ant and homilist at Mass, assisted by Msgr. Anthony M. Oomes, dio­ cesan moderator, Father Daniel Freitas, host pastor, and parish council moderators as concele­ brants.

DOMINICAN LAITY, FR St. Rose of Lima chapter: Day of recollection, 10 a..m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, April 9, Dominican Provincial House, 3012 Elm St., ·Dighton.

DIOCESAN. NURSES Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses: Seminar on Midlife Is­ sues for Nurses in the Age of Transition, conducted by Bro­ ther Sean D. Sammon. FMS, Ph.D., clinical director, House of Affirmatic·n, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, April 16, St. Patrick's parish center, Wareham. Appli­ cations: Mrs. Barbara Gauthier, RN, 41 Freemont St., Taunton 02780.

ST. PIUS X, S. YARMOUTH Women's Guild: Meeting and flower arrangement demonstra­ tion, 1:30 -p.m. Tuesday, April 12, parish hall. Guests welcome.

ST. JUUE, N. DARTMOUTH Charismatic· Renewal, New Bedford Deanery: Life in the Spirit seminar, beginning 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 25. Infor­ mation: Angelo Telesmanick, 995-7339.

ST. JOAN OF ARC, ORLEANS Parish discussion clubs: Film presentation, Ingrid Bergman in uSt. Joan of Arc," followed by discussion, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, parish hall. All adults welcome.

Information: Germaine Pa.quette, 432-1256 '(days); 255-4946 (eve­ nings).

SACREID HEARTS SEMINARY, WAREHAM Retreat House: Bible study, prayer and sharing weekend for single Christians, 'ages 19 to 30, May 20 to 22. Information: Father Richard McNally, SS.CC., 295-0100.

FAMILY LIFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH Meetings: Greater New Bed­ ford deanery, 11 a.m. to 1 .p.m.

Monday; Diocesan Seminarians, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, hosted by. Office of Family Ministry.

ST. THOMAS MORE, SOMERSET Because St. Thomas More has been named a Holy Year church, a liturgical committee is being formed to plan observances which area Catholics may attend to gain the Holy Year indul­ gence. Those wishing to serve on the committee may contact one of the priests.

O.L. GRACE, WESTPORT Meetings: Vincentians, 7:45 p.m. Monday; Father Levesque testimonial ·committee, 7:45 p.m.

Tuesday; Council of Catholic Women, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday; Adult Bible StUdy, 8 .p.m.

Tuesday, April 12.

XAVIER SOCIETY, NYC The Xavier Society for the Blind has available a large se­ lection of Catholic magazines in braille and large print and on tape. Information: Xavier So­ ciety, 1M E. 23 St., New York, N.Y. 10010 •

ST. MARY, SEEKONK CCD fall registration: 3:30. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at parish center.

Last class for grades 1 and 2 tomorrow; parents invited for closing celebration at 11 a.m.

Annual Mass of >the Sacra­ ment of the Sick: 2 p.m. Sunday, April 10.'

Prayer group: 7:30 ,p.m. each Monday at church hall.

SSt PETER & PAUL, FR A salaried director of music is sought to coordinate liturgical music and work with the .paro­ chial school ebildren.

CYO members: roller skaUng, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 7, Lin­ coln Park.

Women's Clu'b: 8:30 p.m. MOIl­ d!}y. A film, '''Whale Watching in the Atlantic," will be shown and narrated by ma.rine biologist Robert Rak.

SACRED ·HEART, ··FR Women's Guild:' meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, featuring a pocketbook and luggage demon­ stration.

VINCENTIANS, FR District Council Meeting: 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, St. George Church, Westport.

HOLY NAME, FR Visiting homilists at Holy Week liturgies will be Father Paul Messer, SJ, Holy Thurs­ day; Father John Hanrahan, SJ, Good Friday; Father James Ben­ son, SJ Holy Saturday.

The newly 'installed Bernard Sweeney Memorial Carillon will sound the Angelus at noon and 6 p.m. daily ·and a call to wor­ ship 'before weekend Masses. It will toll before funerals. Hymn programs will be heard fOllow­ ing the Angelus each Sunday and on Easter, Christmas and other special occasions.

FIVE HOUR VIGIL No vigil tonight, due to Good Friday' services. The program will resume Friday, May 6.

O.L. ANGELS, FR Charities Appeal solicitors: meeting 7 p.m. Sunday, April 24, parish hall.

BL. SACRAMENT,FR Women's Guild: 25th anniver­ sary banquet Wednesday, April 13, McGovern's restaurant.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Easter foods will be blessed at nooh, 2 and 4 p.m. tomorrow.

The annual Easter evening prayer w1ll be sung at 6:30 p.m.

Sunday.

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, Fit Oncology nursing lecture se­ ·ries: Four Wednesdays, begin­ ning April 13, 7 to 9 .p.m. In­ formation: 674-5741, ext. 401.

Nursirtg School alumnae: meeting 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, hos­ pital cafeteria.

Cancer Information and "Sup­ port Group mini-series for fam­ ilies and friends of patilints: meetings at 7 p.m. each T·hurs­ day through May 12. Informa­ tion:.674-5741, ext. 261.

ST.JOSE~H,

FAIRHAVEN Today marks the beginning of the second year that St.. Joseph's volunteers have assisted in the New Bedford Market Ministries soup kitchen. .

C0t:lfirmation candidates: gown measurements 7 p.m. Monday.

Parents: meeting at 7 p.m.

Thursday, both at the school.

CCD teachers and aides: meet­ ing 7 pm. Wednesday at the school.

CAMP FIRE COUNCIL Five council members received "I Live My Faith" medals at a . NOTRE DAME, FR recent Mass at Sacred Heart Confirmation gown measure­ Church, Fall River. Represent­ ments will be taken 'between ing Sacred Heart and St. Mathieu all Masses this Sunday. . parishes, Fall River, Our Lady of Grace, Westport,and St. Pat­ IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, rick, Somerset, they are Chris­ TAUNTON tine Bernardino, Nicolette Col­ New altar boy. and lector lard, Nicole Poisson, Karen schedules are avaUable from Pytel ahd Pauline Viveiros.

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EVERY DAY IS GOOD FRIDAY Lent-spiritual death and dying-is hard to live with.

Death and dying are a way of life on the street. Sin is an institution here.

Organized sin is literally the lifestyle of thousands-chosen only by a few, forced on many, Outside our UNDER 21 Centers, every day is Good Fri day. Every day, Our Lord's passion and death is reenacted; every day, Pilates and Herods wash their hands; every.day, crowds jeer and deride goodness and condemn the innocent; every day, children are scandalized and corrupted; and every day, young people by the thousands are bought and sold.

Those young people, in a way most of us will never com­ prehend, share in the pain, the abandonment, the loneliness, the utter desolation, the terror that was Jesus' short life and dying. They, more than any, are the poor to whom He longed to preach His good news; the outcasts and nomads w~h whom He was most at home. They are the very least of His brethren.

A girl said to me: Why do you and your friends run this place? You must be very rich! And I said: "No, I am always broke and we do it because of God and we care about you and love you." And she sai~: "Can I come to Church and pray with you?" .

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A boy (a street kid, ahustler) said to me, "Bruce, give me $10,000, you must be a millionaire to run this place,'" just laughed and said I didn't have any money and he asked me wher.e I got it and I said I asked people for it. He laughed and said unbelievingly: "What do you say?" I said to him, "Well if you had money and I asked you for some of it to help a bunch of really good kids who had no place to stay, Father Bruce RittefJ OFM Con V., is the founder and President of Covenant House/uNDER 21, which operates crisis centers for homeless and runaway boys and girls

wouldn't you give it?" And he said, "Yes" and started to cry. I think because it had.been a long time since someone had called him good.

"Death and dying are a way .of life on the street. " You see the goodness is all around us here, in the b~autiful kids who come to us. It's not always easy to love my kids-to see goodness. Our kids.at Covenant House are beautiful, but sometimes it takes just a bit of rooking' for.

We have to hope a lot and sometimes overlook the marks that pain and cynici~m leave on a child's face.

Our kids are beautiful. They wouldn't like to hear mecall them that. They 'would snort unbelievingly and say I was crazy or weird and why did I think tflat. And that it just wasn't true. It would also mean that I loved them and there is no way they can believe that. No way;.

Like Randy. I'll never forget him. He couldn't believe it.

He was afraid to. "You want me to give up something for Lent, Bruce?" He said that incredulously, almost with a sense of shock and outrage. "I have a lot of getting to do. I ain't never had anything."

because of love and grace. The meaning the death of Jesus imposes on our lives is inescapable: He died for all of us because He loved us though we are not worthy of itand do not deserve it. And ever since that Good Friday, the only allowable reason for us to do good to anyone is outof love for Him. Most especially kids like Randy, still only 16, hurt­ ing and crucified.

We are in great need this month. Some new, urgently needed staff, some unexpected emergencies, shockingly high fuel and food bills-all kinds of expenses that make it so difficult for you and your families to make ends meet. If .you can afford to help us, we would be deeply grateful.

Please pray for us every day. We always pray for you.

Beyond any possible way of saying it, we are grateful to you and for you, for loving our kids. .

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"If He died for us-that was long ago and I don Ybelie ve it. " Good Friday was even less incomprehensible:" If Hed ied for us-as you say-that was long ago and I don't believe it. He never did anything like that for me. Nobody did. . Nobody does anything just to be good. You guys don't. ­ You're getti ng something out of it. All your staff does. It makes you feel good to help me. That's your bag, man.

Don't lay your trip on me. You need me, man! I don't need Him or you." The boy was 16. A street kid.

To us, who are believers, the world is a different place

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