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11 a.m. Celebrant-Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap. Concelebrant - Rev. Joseph M. Costa Concelebrant - Rev. Gustavo Dominguez, LV.E. Deacon - Hernando Herrera

Monday, April 6, 1998 - Thnebrae • Ecumenical Prayer Service 7 p.m. Presider Homilist -

Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap. Rev. Donald Mier, Pastor, First Baptist Church

Thesday, April 7, 1998 - Chrism Mass 4 p.m.

Celebrant - Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap. Concelebrants - Clergy from the Diocese of Fall River Deacon - Paul C. Fedak Deacon - Edward A. Murphy Deacon - John M. Murray Bearers of the Oil- Deacons of the Sick - John Fitzpatrick of the Sick - John Welch of the Catechumens - David M. Sharland of the Catechumens - Hernando Herrera of the Chrism - James Barrett of the Chrism - Eugene Sasseville

Thursday, April 9, 1998 - Mass of the Lord's Supper 7 p.m.

Celebrant - Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, OfM Cap. Concelebrant - Rev. Joseph M. Costa Concelebrant - Rev. Msgr. George W. Coleman, Y.G. Concelebrant - Rev. Gustavo Dominguez, LY.E. Deacon - Hernando Herrera

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10 a.m. Celebrant - Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap. Concelebrant - Rev. Joseph M. Costa Concelebrant - Rev. Msgr. George W. Coleman, V.G. Deacon - Hernando Herrera

Easter Televisio~ Mass from St. Mary's Cathedral will be televised on Easter Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on WLNE Channel 6.

Master of Ceremonies for the Cathedral Services will be Rev. Stephen J. Avila.

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focus of the five retreat conferences "is spiritual. We talk about Jesus, our relationship with him; spirituality in faith; marriage and holy orders; reconciliation. and vision and ministry."

Rae Pistone, who joins her husband in the presentations, says she reminds the permanent deacons that they "should take time to get away and spend time with the Lord. This is their weekend to focus on that relationship. They can't possibly minister to others unless they refill their cup."

That message is a needed one, the Pistones have found out. During the last three or four years they have given retreats to deacons and their wives in more than 30 dioceses, averaging one or two a month. The past five weekends had found them giving retreats in Tennessee, Connecticut, Michigan, Maryland and Washington, D.C. "We have spoken to either deacons or those who are in formation to become deacons," John said. "We do some retreat work outside the Turn to page J3 - Deacon

PERMANENT DEACON John Pistone and his wife Rae arrive at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, R.I., enroute to Wareham to jointly present an annual retreat for permanent deacons of the Fall River Diocese.

Pope encourages priests to inyoke the Holy Spirit

Saturday, April 11, 1998 - Easter Vigil

Sunday, April 12, 1998 - Easter Sunday

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WAREHAM-A group of permanent deacons in the Fall River Diocese had the unusual opportu, nity to learn what their colleagues nationwide are doing -as well as spend time reviewing their own spirituality at a retreat this past weekend at Sacred Heart Retreat Center here.

John Pistone, a permanent deacon, executive director for the Secretariat fOf the Diaconate, and his wife Rae, arrived on the Cape Friday to speak at the three-day spiritual weekend for 33 deacons.

The Pistones are well-known ,speakers and leaders of retreats.

They are regular contributors to "Deacon Digest," a quarterly magazine dedicated to the ministry of the permanent diaconate in the United States. John Pistone's busy national leadership role puts him in the forefront ofthe diaconate's ministry and amid daily updates on the changing needs of its members.

Having arrived Friday afternoon on a flight from Washington, D.C., the Pistones, who are from Rockville, Md., graciously afforded The Anchor an informal interview in one of the passenger lounges at T. F. Green Airport in Warwick, R.I. John, who has been a deacon for just over 25 years, said the primary

3 p.m. Celebrant - Rev. Joseph M. Costa Deacon - Hernando Herrera

Celebrant - Most Reverend Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap. Concelebrant - Rev. Joseph M. Costa Concelebrant - Rev. Msgr. George W. Coleman, Y.G. Concelebrant - Rev. Gustavo Dominguez, LV.E. Deacon - Hernando Herrera

Well-known husband and wife team are speakers at annual spiritual weekend.

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Friday, April 10, 1998 - Good Friday Service

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His Holy Thursday letter urges seeking continual outpouring of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II encouraged priests throughout the world to invoke the Holy Spirit as they minister to others and grow in their own spiritual lives.

In a letter to priests, Pope John Paul said he joined all of them in "i mploring from the 'Giver of gi Its' the graces necessary to discern the signs of salvation and to respond with full fidelity to the call of God."

The pope's annual letter to Paul said priests should pray for priests marking the Holy Thursday . an outpouring of spiritual gifts commemorations of the institution each day, not simply on the day of of the Eucharist and of the priest- their ordination.

On Holy Thursday, he said, "we hood was released March 31 at the priests are invited to give thanks Vatican.

Focusing on the Holy Spirit in with the whole community of the his letter for 1998 - the year dedi- faithful for the gift of the Euchacated to the Spirit in preparation rist and to renew our sense of the for the year 2000 - Pope John Turn to page 2 - Holy Spirit '

Good Friday Rules . The Church's regulations for Good Friday, April 10, a day of fast and abstinence, follow: -Abstinence from meat for those aged 14 and older.

-A day of fasting for those aged 18 to 59.

Fasting is defined as eating only one full meal and two light meals during the day. Eating between meals is not permitted; however, liquids are permitted.

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"Among the joys and anxieties, the sufferings and hopes of the ministry," he said, "the priest learns to put his trust in the final victory of love, thanks to the unfailing action of the Spirit."

The pope told priest!" "When temptation sets its trap and human strength grows weak, then is'the moment to invoke the Spirit more urgently, that he come to help us in our weakness and grant us the strength and prudence which God wills."

grace of our unique vocation.

"We are also inspired to entrust ourselves to the action of the Spirit with fresh heart and full receptiveness, allowing ourselves to be conformed day-by-day to Christ the priest," the pope wrote.

Pope John Paul said the Spirit'S gifts of wisdom, understanding, counsel, strength, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord are essential in the daily life of priests and in their ministry in the Church.

In Your Prayers Please pray for the following priests during the coming week NECROLOGY April 4

MEMBERS OF the Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women recently held·a meet. ing to begin planning the 45th annual DCCW convention. It will be held on May 2 at St. Mary's Parish Center in South Dartmouth. Helping to plan (seated from left) are: Ann Borges, luncheon. chairman and Mildred Almeida, convention chairman, and (standing) Ella Dutra of the hospitality. committee and Dolores Ferro, chairman of the decoration committel3.

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Bur-everitually people will stop' talk1ng' abou~ the March 24 il1ci-. dent and the 'wave of.schobl ,: shobtings that have prec~ded it - .

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He hopes the isolated school shootings do not make people condemn all youths a$ participsychology at Loyola University p~nts in vi()lent cri~e. "Juyenile in Chicago. : ' crime is d,own since 1996," he "And that's too bad," he told said. "It's tragedies as heinous as Catholic News Service, "because this one [in Arkansas] t.hat color clearly there are things we can people's perceptions."

Although the motives are still qo."

Jose is quick to add his voice unclear in the Arkansas school: to countless others who advocate shooting, the word amon.g the stumore gun control, but he also dents is that a suspected shooter, readily admits that there is more Mitchell Johnson, was mad that t9 the recent shootings than just a girl had broken up wil:h him.

"There's nothing new about access to guns. . He points a finger at adoles- adolescent breakups," said Gray. cent ·immaturity and what goes "Adolescent relationshi:ps come along with' that - a failure to and go." What is new, he added, understand long-term effects of is that today ~'the stak'es have inone's actions. He also says_young creased and people see violence people face more stres's"today as a way to solv~ problems." th~1'! de~ades ago, .qften deali.ng .You[lg p~o'p'-e ,need tq '?e taught with their parents' difficulties, di- how to deal with the hurt that goes along with unrequited love, he vorces' and financial concerns. '~Kids are growing up fast, but added. they also don't function well" ~itJ:i'jhe added responsibilities anddm',tendto deahvith sties's e1th.~{ by: beq:>ttiing; withdraw !1' or.. e'S~!1ihgang~t, he'said. .' , " : TAUNTON-Sacred ':Heart ::,Th,e'trouble 'is,in,.the 'ryeat of.: Parish,' 311'Somerset A~e.~ will ~hemoment,a:ngry ki~s .are pick- cele"fmite.itSI25th anniversary at In¥ upgu.ns:.:wher~~s'30 years a conq,elebrated M~ss AI?riII 9 at ago, he pOInted out, there would I r a.m. The current paswr is Fahave been a fistfight and maybe a ther Jon~PauiGallarit. A story bloody nose" - not something published March 27 carried the with lasting consequences. wrong date and referred to Father He's also convinced that Gallant as a former pa:;tor. The schools should do a better job of Anchor regrets the errors. identifying and getting help for students who are prone to aggressive behavior.

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Pope tells U.S. bishops to preach and teach

By LYNNE WEll CATHOLIC NEWS SEBVICE

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II told bishops from the southern United States that they should emphasize teaching and preaching, but be sure to make time for prayer.

The bishops from Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were on their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican when they met with the pope as a group March 31.

Bishops worldwide make "ad limina" visits every five years to report on conditions in their dioceses. Several other regional groups of U.S. bishops have visited the Vatican this year.

Pope John Paul reminded the group March 31 that they could teach by deed as well as by word..

"In applying the Gospel to new issues while safeguarding the authentic interpretation of the church's teaching, the bishop ensures that the local church abides in the truth, which saves and liberates," the pope said. "All this requires that the bishop be a man of firm supernatural faith and steadfast loyalty to Christ and his church."

The pope recalled what St. Charles Borromeo told priests at

his last synod: "'Is your duty preaching and teachi'ng? Concentrate carefully on what is essential to fulfill that offic.e fittingly.

Make sure in the first place that your life and conduct are sermons in themselves.'''

"The bishop should teach frequently and constantly, preaching

A bishop also needs to take time to pray and to remain familiar with developments in theology, biblical studies and moral thought on social issues, the pontiff said. homilies, writing pastoral letters, giving conferences and making use of the media, in such a way that he is seen to teach the faith and so bear public "witness to the Gospel," Pope John Paul said..

A bishop also needs to take time to pray and to remain familiar with developments in theology, biblical studies and moral thought on social issues, Pope John Paul said.

"I know from my own experience as a diocesan bishop the many demands that are made on a bishop's time," the pope added.

"Yet the experience convinced me that it is essential to make time, intentionally, for study and reflection."

Pope John Paul suggested that a bishop may need to reorganize his administrative work "to attend to what is fundamental in his ministry."

Diocesan administration also needs the bishop's attention, the pope said, so that "the structures necessary today in leading a diocese do not impede the very thing they are meant to facilitate: a bishop's contact with his people and his role as an evangelist." " Referring to a proposed restructuring of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and U.S. Catholic Conference, Pope John Paul said he knew the bishops recognized that national conferences must "better serve the pastoral and evangelical purposes that give the conference its unique "meaning."

The pope warned against letting the bishops' conference weaken the individual bishops' teaching and pastoral authority.

"Special care must be taken to ensure that the conference functions as an ecclesial body and not as an institution reflecting the management models of secular society," he said. "The bishop's duty to teach, sanctify and gov-

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ern is in fact a personal one which cannot be surrendered to others."

Speaking on behalf of the group, Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb of Mobile, Alabama, said the visit helped prepare them to proclaim with renewed vigor "the fullness of the apostolic mes-

sage of God's love for all humankind."

"We pledge ourselves to return to our particular churches with this perennial truth as the heart of an evangelization that is new in method, expression and zeal in keeping with the needs of our times," the archbishop said.

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Lk 4:16-21; Evening Ex 12:1-8,11-14; Ps 116:12-13, 15-18; 1 Cor 11 :23-26; In 13:1-15 April 10 Is 52:13-53:12; Ps 31:2,6,12-13,15-17,25; Heb 4: 14-16;5:7-9; In 18:1-19:42 April 11 (1) Gn 1:1-2:2 or 1:1,26-31 a; Ps 104:1-2.5-6,10, 12-14,24-35 or Ps 33:4-7,12-13,20-22 (2) Gn 22:1-18 or 22: 1-2,9a,'1 0-13,15-18; Ps 16:5,8-11 (3) Ex 14: ,15-15:1; (Ps) Ex 15:1-6,17-18 (4) Is 54:5-14; Ps30:2, 4-6,11-13 (5) Is 55:1-11; (Ps) Is 12:2-6 (6) Bar 3:9-15, 32-4:4; Ps 19:8-11 (7) Ez 36: 16-17a,18-28; Pss 42:3, 5;43:3-4 or, when baptism is celebrated, (Ps) Is 12:2-6 or Ps 51:12-15,18-19 (8) Rom 6:3-11; Ps 118:1-2,16-17, 22-23 (9) Lk 24: 1-12 April 12 Acts 10:34a,37-43; Ps 118:1-2,16-17,22-23; Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor' 5:6b-8; In 20:1-9 or Lk 24:1-12 or, in the evening, Lk 24:13-35

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We do not possess recent statistics concerning young people and firearm injuries,anddeaths. However, wedo'have 1995 facts and figures. In that-year over 5,000 children under age)9 died from firearm injur.ies. That appalling fact should c1eafIy indicate that yO,uth murders are nofso rare as we may'l~ad ourselves to believe, espeCially in the light of the Jonesboro massacre.

The real fact of the matter'is that we have _a true epidemic of violence on our hands ,!11<fthe problem ,is increasing daily becal;lse we as a nation refuse to take steps toward elimination of privately owned weapons in our society. The handgun issue has long been on the desks of-Congress. Yet members have f,!iled to act to ensure the right to life of children in our n,!tion. The gun lobbyists' monopoly apparently means much more to Congress than do the deaths of our innocent children.

The Jonesboro murders surface once more the need for firm and strong control. Dr. Kathy Christoffel, founder of the Handgun Epidemic Lowering Plan, a Chicago conSOI1ium of medical facilities that see handgun violence as a very r~al public heal)th p~ob­ lem, states that "we have to. stop dismissing ev~nts s.uch as Jonesboro by saying that children are crazy and start saying that gun violence is a feature of the modern world that we need to change." , Dr. Christoffel also feels that we must start recognizing that when a child has a gun, somewhere an adult is responsible. We need to make it very, very hard, if not impossible, for kids to get guns, but as a people, by our attitudes, behaviors and Iife~tyles, are simply not doing t h i s . ' ,, ' To be sure we cannot ,simply attribute the Jonesboro disaster to easy accessibility of guns: There are many other factors to be considered with 'regard to its two child perpetrators, such as environment, 'parenting, and psychological predisposition·s.

When children ,murder children, a whole range of possibilities arises. To begin with, why parents permit their c:hildren to play with even'toy,g!:Jns, is incomprehensible~, Kids n~ed ,hugs, not guns.: : In a social order where many children are,IDurdered in the womb or, if born, are habitually rejected, thousandI'~o·unw~nted. Considering the lifestyles of so many parents, both married and single, it is horrifying to consider the number of children who simply have to drag themselv'es up. Coupled with the American craze for violenceand the habit of the media and movies to settle all' problems with guns, one can understand how society has reached its present nadir. ' , We simply have too much accessibility to numerous weapons and that is coupled with the fact that, as children receive less and less of the emotional and social nurturing they need, they become more and more aggressive. Behavior development simply does not exist in many homes. We depend on the schools to do that job for us, but they are not substitutes for good and loving parenting. ' But even where all the neeged psychological and parenting factors are in place, all agree that (he curiosity of children will lead them to experiment with guns when they are accessible. If yet another reason were needed for supporting and enforcing a national gun policy, the Jonesboro tragedy should supply the motivation for firm and decisive legislation in this regard. .

In addition to this, adults should be made to take full legal and ethical responsibility.for their children's behavior. Adult freedom cannot 'be equated with that of children. Responsibility and ac-' countability are lessons that children first learn at home. If parents fail in this, then children will indeed make bad choices. "How many .,' . more Jonesboro choices must we endure?·" The Editor

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This week Roman Catholics will be recalling the passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The four Gospels will serve as a centerpiece for the reflections of our community of faith. In the last third of the first century, when the Evangelists wrote, their emphasis was upon refuting those Jews who rejected the crucified Jesus precisely because they did not think he fulfilled scriptural expectations. The four Gospels are less a biography than a theology of God's plan. This is why the psalms and prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures play such a prominent role in the four Gospels.

Jesus prayed the psalms and was deeply influenced by their theology and spirituality. It is noticeable that the great majority of quotations from the Psalter found in the New Testament are recited by Jesus, most of them during the most critical period of his Ii fe: his death and resurrection.

Identifying himself in those quotations with the poor and the just man who cries out from his suffering, Jesus takes on all the cries for help of suffering humanity, as well as the fight for the triumph of life over death.

To convey his unsophisticated faith, Jesus unconventionally addressed God as "Abba," the intimate term for father in Aramaic. Consequently, this familiar mode of speaking of and to God as Daddy became a distinguishing characteristic of the early Church, as St. Paul relates in the eighth chapter of his letter to the Romans.

That the child in Jesus never died is displayed in his last words: "~bba, into your hands I commit my spirit!"

Scripture scholars believe that these words hearken back to~Psalm31, a boyhood bedtime prayer in every pious Jewish home. Thus, while dying on the cross, Jesus relaxed in God's care as he did nightly over the years, confident that life would be his again when he awakened.

The Our Father does not contain any actual quotations from the Psalms, but every phrase, every word hearkens back to them, with the exception of the word, "Abba" and the precept about forgiving one's debtors.

In Psalm 145 alone we discover a number of elements found in the Our Father: -the sanctification of the name: "I will extol you, my God and King and bless your name forever.

-the coming of the kingdom: "They shall speak ofthe glory of your kingdom. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom."

-the giving of the daily bread: ''The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.

You open your hand, satisfying the desire of every living thing."

-help against temptation: ''The Lord upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down."

Without doubt, the God of the Our Father is the God of the Psalter, a God infinitely great yet infinitely close, holy and kingly, who gives, pardons and delivers from evil. The prayer of praise and a cry for help are part and parcel what the psalms' and the Our Father are all about.

The two poles of human happiness (psalm 1) and the glory of God (Psalm 150) are found in the Lord's prayer.

It opens with God's glorification and ends with what leads to human happiness. Although rever~ing the order ofthe Psalms, Jesus shows that these two poles are not opposites, because everything is to be accomplished "on earth as it is in heaven."

I believe that Jesus gave his disciples the Our Father as an antidote to the lengthy prayers of the scribes

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Weekly General ~Audience, Message Po~J()hnP~uln Dear brothers and sisters, In our catechesis on the Great Jubilee of the Vear 2000, we reflect today on baptism. Jesus himself speol<s of faith and baptism as the only way to solvation. When Peter colis on the people at Pentecost to repent O"ld be baptized, he shows that conversion involves not only an interior attitude of repentooce but also entry into the Christian community through baptism.

We come to a deeper understO"lding of this sacrament by meditating on the baptism of Jesus; When he receives the baptism of John, Jesus shows his solidarity with sinners md his desire for their solvation. The manifestation of the Spirit prefigures the gift of the Holy Spirit which Christians will receive in baptism.

St. Paul presents baptism os a shoring in the fruits of Christ's redemptive work, since it brings about the forgiveness of sins and communicates new life in Christ. As adopted sons and daughters oflGod, baptized Christioos are enabled to lead a spirituol life under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. May oll Christioos use this time of preparation for the jubilee to become more conscious of. the great gift and mystery of baptism. , , I welcome 011 the English-speaking pilgrims O"ld visitors, especially those from Englond, Denmorl<, Joponond the United·States ,of ~merico; Upon- you ood I,jour families I cordialy invoke the blessings of AlmighUJ GoeL

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The simplicity and lack of ostentation are central in understanding the Our Father. Perhaps this is whatJesus had in mind in this prayer: "I thank you, Father. For revealing to little children what you have hidden from the learned and clever."

There are two things that prove that Jesus was not just a conservator of the Psalms but an innovator in the Our Father. "Abba" replaces the old name of "Yahweh." Our elder brothers and sisters, the Jewish people, addressed God at times with absolute confidence but not as a usual way to pray to God. The other new element is the insistence upon our forgiving those who have hurt us. The Psalms often speak of the forgiveness we hope for from God, but never of that forgiveness that we are to show our brethren. On this point, the Our Father introduces something radically new.

Studying the Psalms this Lent has given me a greater appreciation of the insight of the late French liturgical scholar Father Louis Bouyer, who insisted that Christians must first learn to become spiritual Semites and then become followers of Christ.

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The two gray-haired religious sisters will serve sixmonth terms for their peaceful demonstrations.

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PEKIN, Ill. - They were lauded by friends as courageous, inspirational, even "prophets."

But for the next six months, officials at the U.S. federal prison in Pekin will use a different word to describe Sister of St. Joseph Rita Steinhagen, 70, of Minneapolis and Franciscan Sister Mary Kay Flanigan, 65, of Chicago.

The government will call them inmates.

The two gray-haired women religious entered prison gates four hours apart March 23 to begin serving identical sentences stemming from their protest actions last Nov. 16 on the grounds of the U.S. School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga. In all, 600 of the more than . 2,000 participants in that peaceful demonstration were arrested, with 25 drawing prison terms and $3,000 fines. Eighteen members of that group began their sentences at facilities across the country March 23.

Also serving her sentence in Pekin will be Judith Williams, 58, of the Catholic Worker House at Waukesha; Wis. Sisters Steinhagen and Flanigan didn't go into the Pekin lockup quietly.

At separate prayer services outside prison gates, attended by dozens of supporters and several media representatives, the nuns called their sentences "outrageous" and "excessive." But they saved their .strongest words for the School of the Americas, a training program for Latin American military leaders that they and other human rights activists want the U.S. government to shut down.

Turning to the 50 supporters circled in prayer around her, Sister

Lent to Easter love story: How'to find G()d around us. The essence of our very existence.

The book title grabbed me - "How Can I Find When we look at God's creation, we see the wonGod?" (Triumph Books). In this publication, derful work of the almighty hand. I find God in .James Martin has collected answers from 68 the soil I till, the crops I grow, the water I usepeople, some famous, some unknown. . all working together to provide food. I see God Martin said'the book came about after a close in other people through their acts of kind ness and friend' who had lost touch with religion and church asked him the question. After'resp-PIlding : as best he c01,lld how his friend could find God~ Martin, a Jesuit scholastic preparing for ordina-, tion to the priesthood, decided to ask people of many different faiths how they would answer.

Each contribution prodded me to explore how I would answer.

"By'Antoinette ,Bosco I sense that most of the contributors stumbled :' . . a bit before they 'put their thoughts on paper. For the question goes to the heart of everything about . . us, from our origins t,o our destiny. It's never easy caring. And I believe you can find God in the to put something that profound into words. way our universe functions, in the intricate and "First of all, relax; and be assured that God is magnificent way it operates. If you have faith, also seeking you," wrote Kathleen Norris, poet all you have to do is open your eyes and God is and author of "Dakota" and "The Cloister Walk." easy to find."

Dr. Robert Coles, the Harvard child psychiaI could imagine myself saying very similar trist and writer, answered, "We find God, I think, things to those quoted here. But I myself couldn't through others - through the love we learn to think of God without including his son Jesus. I offer them, through the love we learn to receive spent this past Lenten season in the darkness of from them - no small achievement and indeed personal suffering remembered, but not in isolaa lifelong effort. We find God with difficulty tion. For I do not suffer alone. Jesus suffers with the obstacle of pride is afways there." me, even as he promises that from his pain, from The briefest answer came from Holocaust surour pain, will come great joy. vivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel.

It was a grace for me to find this book. I asked myself, "How can I find God?" And the answer . '''How do I find God?' you ask. I do not know how, but I do know where - in my fellow man." shouted back to me: I find God right now, in holdChris Erikson, a 33-year-old Nebraska farmer, ing Jesus' hand and living with him the: Lent to responded: "How can we find God? He is all Easter love story.

Flanigan named that prize: "Close the School of the Americas," she demanded.

The school has trail'led about 50,000 soldiers in its 50-year history. Some of its graduates have been implicated in torture,. executions and false imprisonment after they returned to· their Central and South American countries. In EI Salvador alone, graduates have been linked to the murders of San Salvador Archbishop Oscar Romero; six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter; and more than 900 civilians in a massacre at EI Mozote.

School supporters, including U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen, say SOA fosters cooperation among multinational military forces, exposes trainees to knowledge of American customs and tradition, and is an advocate of human rights as it espouses democratic principles.

Sister Steinhagen disagrees and will back up her belief with the next six months of her life.

"Justice has been turried upside down," said Sister Steinhagen, who works with homeless people in Minneapolis and has also founded a shelter for runaway teens. "Those who peacefully demonstrate to stop the training of assassins are scnt to jail, while the assassins and those who train them go free."

Dear Mary: I read your recent column on She toldJlm Catholic Post, Peotemper tantrums. A few years ago my grand·ria diocesan newspaper, that the motivation for her actions is Arch- daughter and her small child came to visit me. bishop Romero, who often spoke The child began to have a temper tantrum, on behalf of the suffering people of- jumping up and down, throwing himself EI Salvador and who, on the day around. I watched a moment, then I began to before his assassination in 1980, do exactly what the child was doing: jumping ordered the Salvadoran army to up and down, throwing myself around. The "stop the repression." child stopped immediately and looked at me Sister Steinhagen also kept her astonished. That stopped the tantrum for sense of humor as she entered good. I am 87 years old. (Ohio) prison. Recalling that her sentencing came on her 70th birthday, she Dear Mary: You wrote in your "Fam.ily said, "Someone later asked me what I got for my 70th birthday. I said: Talk'~ column about temper ~antrums. I'm a grandmother now. When my children were 'Six months.'''

"Everyone call (President) - younger than 5, I would pay no attention to Clinton" and request that he use ex-.them, just leav~ them. ecutivepower to "close the school I paid no attention to them at all, just left .and pardon the prisoners of con- them and walked away. science,:' she urge~.

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Today's letters indicate an often overlooked resource for parents: grandparents. In today's high-tech, fast-paced wood, are the opinions of grandparents helpful? Yes; for many. reasons.

Precisely because the world moved. more slowly when grandparents were raising children,: they had more time to spend with children, more' time to observe, more time to.reflect. Many had large families and developed a wealth' of experience in raising,them.

Grandparents made mistakes just like the rest of us. But they have now reached an age in which they can humbly admit their mistakes, even 'Iaugh ' about them. They no longer feel competition to be the best parent on the block or to gain their status from the way their children turned out. In raising children they can pass along what doesn't work as well as what works.

FRIENDS OF Sister Rita Steinhagen of Minneapolis place Grandparents know about simple living. When their hands on her before she entered the federal prison in they raised children, computers were housed in Pekin, III., March 23. She will serve a six-month sentence for enormous rooms in a few universities. Television her participation in a mass protest at the School of the Ameri- was small screen and offered a few channels in cas in Fort Benning, Ga., last November. (eNS/Dermody' big cities. Organized athletics started around age 8 for Little League baseball, not until sixth or photo)

seventh grade for other sports. Family wlcations meant a trip to visit-relatives or a week (If camping in the woods. The family had lots of bunk beds, but no air conditioning, only one televi-

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Outfitting a baby was simple. Babies required a crib and a high chair, and perhaps a playpen, which mostly housed toy's. Babies wore handme-downs, ate table. food. mashed by Dad or Mom and added little to the family expense account.

Dad and Mom were saving for the big expense -college -:- which could then cost as much as $5,000 per year at a private school.

Grandparents have been around long enough ' to n,otice the things that do not change in raising children: the need of the infant to be held and held and held some more; the challenge of the second· year, whenbaby discovers she cali have her own opinions; the school-age child who tests out a 'parent by lying or stealing; the teen who chafes at family rules in a desire to be. on his own.

A dear physician friend who taught pediatrics alWays made a point of telling his students: One grandmother is worth five pediatricians.

Ultimately, parents are the final judge:; in caring for their children. They decide what advice to accept, what to reject. But their task is made easier when they have good information to consider. And one source of that good information is grandparents.

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Baptisms at Mass Q. Our new pastor has begun having baptisms at Sunday Mass, if requested. Otherwise they are on Sunday afternoon.

Almost every Sunday we have not only parents, godparents and children around the altar after the homily, but a host of cameras and video recorders in full action at the font.

At the end, the eongregation applauds, and Mass is resumed.

A neighboring priest told me he disagrees.

Noth.ng should disrupt the continuity of the Mass, he says. The Church provides special lit· urgies (funerals, weddings) when interruptions are expected by the congregation. Who is right?

(New York) A. The Church's liturgy provides for, and sometimes highly recoml1lends, the celebration during Mass of all the sacraments except penance.

Confirmation, holy orders, and marriage (at least when both people an~ Catholic) are routinely celebrated during Mass. The ritual for care of the sick include~, a ceremony for anointing of the sick after the homily at Mass.

It is just assumed that baptism of adults will always take place at Mass, either at the Easter Vigil or another time (Christian Initiation of Adults, 209).

Baptism of children may be celebrated during Sunday Mass "so the entire community may be present and the necessary relationship between baptism and the Eucharist may be clearly seen" (Rite of Baptism for Children, 9).

Interestingly, the quote Ijust gave regarding baptism of children ends by saying, "This (baptism at Sunday Mass) should not be done too often."

The concern is, of course, that the practice could become tedious for people, and inappropriately lengthen the Mass.

That does not need to happen. Some parts of the baptism ceremony, (naming and signing of the child with the cross, blessing of the baptismal water if necessary) may be done privately before Mass.

Other· parts may' be omjtted or are already included in the Mass (Scripture reading, profession

of faith, the Lord's Prayer, final blessings)..

In my experience, if well prepared, a baptism need not add more than a few minutes to the Mass..

And the photo extravaganza can easily be controlled.

So, while there's nothing wrong or improper

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By Father John J. Dietzen with what your pastor is doing, much depends on what a parish is accustomed to, how it understands the connection between baptism and Eucharist, and how the ceremony .is c(\rried out.

. Q. Who were the Nicolaitans? In Revelation, Jesus commends one church for hating them and praises another for condemning them (Rv 2:6,15). What was their problem? (Missouri) A. Apparently, the Nicolaitans were one of several s'ects or trends in early Christianity attacked qy the apQstles for their rejection of any moral norm's and their ambiguity in' cooperating with Roman sacrifices to idols.

As a form of gnosticism, it seems the Nicolaitans were among those who claimed a "higher" knowl. edge than other Christians, a knowledge John re" fers to as "the deep secrets of Satan" (Rv 2:24).

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Emil had to put his hand on Bud's shoulder to keep him from standing up. "Bud," he said, "that's Mrs. Murphy's job, for heaven's sake. She was doing that when 1 was 8 years old; my folks would drag us to the front pews when'we were late. And

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Delayed on the way out the door for Mass There is little, if any, truth to the rumor that the next pastoral letter of the U.S. Catholic bishops is going to deal with arriving at Mass on time.

I can say this with confidence - not because of connections at the U.S. Catholic Conference or the Natio'nal Conference of Catholic Bishops or even the water cooler at Catholic News Service.

You see, I know where the rumor started. It started in my very own parish while a couple of friends and I were sucking jelly filling out of our doughnuts after Mass. ' One of them; Bud, suddenly stopped eating. He went ;still. His eyes glazed over. Red-dye-No.-3terminal-jelly-filling hung from his upper lip. '''If Bud has just had a stroke, I have dibs on the rest of his doughnut," whispered our friend, Emil.

Bud raised his hand. "I have had. a vision," he said.

Emil looked disappointed.- ..

"I know what the·U.S. Catholic. bishops should,. address in their next pastoral: letter," Bud continued. I "Well, hurry up and tell us b~fore the kitchen crew puts away the coffee," Emil groused."

Unfazed, Bud went on solemnly, "Getting to Mass on time." .

'That's not going to fly," I said. "We're supposed to know that already. It's the implementation part that's tough."

Bud nodded. "That's just it. These bishops are guys, after all. They understand the importance of being on time. If they can write a pastoral instruction on the extraordinary importance of arriving at church before Mass actually begins, maybe Catholie children in the future won't be scarred for life by having to walk to the empty pews in the front during the first reading while the entire congregation stares at them and a Mrs. Murphy whispers loudly enough for everyone to hear, 'I don't think that family ever gets here on time. Tsk, tsk, tsk.'"

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Bud's vacant look remained •. "I know;'1. he . mumbled.. ."Relax, Bud," I tried. "If God had meanrfor all families to get to, Mass on -time, he wou,ld not have allowed children, ba~hrooms, self-hiding shoes or pet~ that only whelp on Sun,day mornings."

"There could be a section .on,laying o\Jt all the children's clothes in advance,','Bud told us, "and 9ther things, too, like binkies andCheerios in ziplock bags, and donation envelopes.". .

He licked the filling off his lip. "Maybe the bishaI's could declare it a venial sin or something to spend more than two minutes in the bathroom when you're getting ready for church, or maybe...."

"What are you guys doing to the Church now?" asked Emil's wife from the next table.

"Bud wants the bishops to make it a mortal sin to be late for Mass unless your dog has puppies in . the bathroom," Emil mumbled with his mouth full.

See how rumors get started? I'm glad I've cleared this up. But it does make me wonder: Which One of you started the one about the pastoral letter on handholding during the Our Father at Mass?

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Parents sue Mass. over tuition aid fl~ap "Anglo-Saxon Protestant nature and curriculum of the public scho.ols."

The parents are asking the court to declare the Anti-Aid and Anti-Initiative amendments invalid because, they say, the provisions violate their rights under the U.S. Constitution, and to award them the full costs of attorneys' fees stemming from the litigation.

The plaintiffs include: Patricia Boyette and her children, Maya and Monique; Susan Wirzburger and son Michael; and Rita Zubricki and daughter Elizabeth.

Although she is Pentecostal, Boyette says she wants her children to be educated in a school that reinforces the values and morals she teaches at home. She pays $100 a year, through a school tuition subsidy,

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to send Monique to eighth' grade at a private Catholic school. BUit she is unable to afford sending her daughter Maya, a fifth-grader, to Catholic school.

Michael Wirzburger is a fi fthgrader at a Catholic school in a Boston suburb. His parents pay his $3,000 tuition a year, but his mother had to discontinue her pursuit of a college degree in order to pay for her son's education, says the lawsuit.

Elizabeth Zubricki is an eighthgrader at a Catholic school an d is one ofa family of eight children who have attended Catholic schools at the expense of their middle-class parents who feel that Catholic education is important to their children's spiritual development and character.

BOSTON - Parents of students in Catholic schools have filed suit in federal court in Boston alleging that portions of the Massachusetts Constitution that prevent them from seeking tuition aid are unconstitutional.

The suit, filed March 3, specifically challenges two amendments of the Massachusetts Constitution: the Anti-Aid Amendment of Article 18 and the Anti-Initiative Amendment of Article 48.

The Anti-Aid Amendment, passed in 185:4, bars any public funds from going to religious schools. It also prevents the Massachusetts Legislature from enacting legislation regarding scholarships, vouchers or similar reform to enable parents to get state aid to meet the cost of tuition and other expenses at nonpublic schools.

The Anti-Initiative Amendment" explicitly bars initiative petition drives aimed at repealing or altering the Anti-Aid Amendment.

"The tuition aid these parents seek should be open to consideration by the

By JONATHAN LUXMOORE people of Massachusetts through their CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE elected representatives on an equal WARSAW, Poland - Cardinal basis with other controversial issues," said Kevin Hasson, president and gen- Jozef Glemp of Warsaw said he is eral counsel of Becket Fund, a Wash- <;onfident Pope John Paul II will reington-based public interest law firm visit his homeland of Poland in 1999.. that filed the lawsuit.

The. cardinal said that after re. "School choice should be allowed to stand or fall on its merits, not shut turning from the Vatican for his "ad off from debate based on two anti-re- limina" visit in February, "I voiced ligious amendments which are hold- the universal hope thanhe Holy Faovers from a dark period in Massa- ther would come to us.

"I am personally quite convinced chusetts' history," he added..

The suit charges that the Anti-Aid the Holy Father will come," he said Amendmttnt was approved at the in an interview with KAI, Poland's height of the nation's anti-immigrant . church-owned Cath61ic information and anti-Catholic movement and was agency. passed in an attempt to preserve the . ~'We are ~~are the Holy Father is

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Vatican sources said a papal trip to Poland was likely in 1999. Such a visit would be Pope John Paul's eighth pilgrimage to Poland, Cardinal Glemp said occasions for Pope John Paul's ho'mecoming could include the beatification of 107 Polish martyrs frqm World War II, as well as the millennium of the canonization of St. Wojciech, also known as S1. Adalbert in the Czech Repub.lic. '.'

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Across the Midwest, granite markers bear witness to infants who were victims ofabortion.

By LYNETTE THELEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICIE

ORTONVILLE, Minn. - The granite monuments bear no names but carry simple inscriptions, such as "In memory of our unborn." . Some have a prayer: "Dear Lord, please pour the healing power of your love into the hearts of women who have had abortions so that they may seek and accept your forgiveness.

Help all of us always reach out to them in love. Amen."

The monuments are growing in number and stand all over the Midwest and beyond - as far away as Gillette, Wyo. - as symbols against what Pope John Paul II has called "the culture of death."

Together, the Knights of Columbus of Ortonville and the Rausch Brothers Monument Company of nearby Big Stone City, S.D., have pooled their resources to make and distribute the monuments.

The Knights and the Rausch Brothers provide the monuments at reduced prices to anyone interested in erecting one in a parish cemetery or even a public cemetery.

The Rausch brothers began making the pro-life monuments in the early I 980s when they were asked by a woman to help a right-to-lik group in Fargo, N.D., obtain a memorial.

"She approached us to see if there was something they could put up in memory of the unborn," Mike Rausch said in an interview with the St. Cloud ,.

VATICAN CITY - Confession can help individuals reach an inner peace, but it should never be viewed as a form of psychotherapy, Pope John Paul II said.

Likewise, he said, the confessor is not a "healer" of pathological situations, and he should direct penitents with such problems to competent professionals.

The pope made the comments in a letter to U.S. Cardinal William W. Baum, who heads the Apostolic Penitentiary, an office that deals with issues relating to the sacrament of penance. The message was circulated to participants in a course offered by the office.

The pope said Catholics rightly expect and desire acertain psychological peace after confession, but he underlined that this is a "secondary" effect, tied both to the grace of the sacrament and to the abilities of the priest.

He said it was a mistake to try to "transform the sacrament of penance into psychoanalysis or psychotherapy.

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pany had to charge a basic low rate to produce the monuments, he.added. . C......,;._ _ A resident artist and a sculptor at Rausch Brothers wort< together to design the pro-life messages and images and engrave them in the granite. The Rausch's have ready-made designs that customers can choose, but will also accommodate original designs suggested . by the group ordering the monument.

Confessional not place for therapy, says pope

By JOHN THAVIS CATHOLIC 'NEWS SERVICE

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not be an alternative to study by the psychoanalyst or the psychotherapist.

Nor can one expect from the sacrament of penance the healing of situations which are truly pathological," he said.

'The confessor is not a healer or a doctor in the technical sense of the word; in fact, if the condition ofa penitent seems to need medical care, the confessor should not address the subject, but should send the penitent to competent and honest professionals," he said.

The pope emphasized the Church's basic teaching about the sacrament of penance: that it allows penitents to cancel personal sins committed after .baptism; that all mortal sins must be confessed in order for a penitent to gain absolution; and that mortal sins involve the loss of the state of grace, whereas venial sins do not.

The pope also highlighted the Church's teaching that remission of temporal punishment for sins committed may be gained by indulgences. He noted that it was a "truth of faith" that purgatory exists as a place for the expiation of temporal punishment after . death. ..

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7 P.M.: Stations of the Cross led by the parish youth group.

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12 noon: Blessing of food; 2-4 P.M.: Sacrament of,Reconciliation 7 P.M.: Easter Vigil Setvi~e and Mass.

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Ifyo.u love Barney you.'lilove the film

Jesuit- priest·wins'Oscar for war film

black-and-white film about a Japa- lic News Service March 24, Father ne$e diplomat - the late Chiune Donahue said he and Tashima, along "Sempo" Sugihara - who saved East with playwright and "Visas" execuEuropeanJews during the Holocaust. . tive producerTim Toyoma, celebrated ~n 1940; after the Nazi invasion of by attending the official Oscar ball, . Poland, Sugihara, who was Japanese then' getti ng together afterward cOflsul general in Lithuania, <;Iefied his . "mainly with the people who worked " By GERRI PAF!E . and finally aloft among a gathering 'gQvernment's orders and issued more on the film."

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By NANCY HARTNAGEi. . than. 1,500. transit visas to. f1eeirig. , The priest, Tashi.n1a and Toyoma " ;NEW y'ORK - Patience, par-;·· .Along.the ~ay, Barney's prehisCATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE " '. ' Jews.l:I is actions enilbled. between formed Cedar Grove Productions to ents! That. big' purple dino your ··'toric pills, Baby Bop and BJ, also· "' 2,000 and 6~000 refuge~ Polish and, make the film, ad.apted from , preschoolerS.;lov.e onry has arriyed manage,tp get int? the act with a few WASHINGTON - After receiv-· . Lithua'nian Jews to' travel east ;to ' Toyoma's one-act play of the same ; in t~/dorm o.f'.~arneY's Great Ad- . moments offrisky fun. '.' ' . ' name, which ran for 'I~ig~t weeks in ing the Oscar for best live action shoft s~fety.· . .' venture,: The; Movie" (Polygram).

By the end of their mini-adven- ·:fiIm,Je.s!1it Father Chris Donah~e said' . The producer and Chris Tashima, , Los Angeles., It's not exactly cause for rejoicing tures, even Grandma and Grandpa are he and his partners "feel rrq1y'hon-', w.ho wro~e the film and ~irected'h\m- : Regarding any i.mpact the film :. for the over-8 set, but at 75 ininutes, it conviflced of the Rower of the imagi- ored, but the true honor goes toMr" '~elf as Sug}hara, rece,ived·Oscars for might have, Father Donahue said, "I ~ is tolerable· for those toti.ng tots who' . nation to lJIake drea,ms come true, as Sugihara and to other peo'ple who ,their work March 23 at the 70th an- think as filmmakers' wl~just begin the , ~ . c' , nual Academy Awards ceremony in conversation and challenge people to already adore Barney and are unlikely they too are treated to the vision'of ;stand tipo'for their beliefs:~' " , think. Hopefully, Mr. S!Jgihara's courto care about th.e ,stagineSs of the pro- the life-size dinp and:the happily , Father Donahue produced the win- Los Angeles. " ning "Visas and Virtue,"~ 26-miriute," . 'In a phone interview with Catho, age will inspire courage in others duction and the hammy.overacting. hatched egg frolickirig together. 'when our humanity comes up against ,~ Even the movie's production As directed by Steve Gomer, government .or raws tha~ society stresses not ~he quality of the film, Barney's happy im~ulgence in playplaces on us.'~ . but the'marketing';'phenomerion ful fun· and song should appeal to; .

At the televised celemony, Father Barney h~s become,.Clearly this is pint-size viewers and the production· .

"I think the real hero Donahue said, the driving' force behind making never lacks f<jf.coloiful settings.· tonight is Mr. Sugihara: who risked this PBS children's series reach for The pace is none too zippy, howso' much to write visas. He risked his big-scre~n bucks. , ' " . ,j~ e~er, a~~~h,e kid.s: dialogue and fa- ' li~~, future and fami Iy." The priest also The Simple story Involves a mom clal expressIOn both sound and look thanked his family and his "Jesuit alJ.9 dad dropping offtheir three chil- very rehearsed. The movie is supbrothers in East L.A.': dren and ,one'S. pal for a week on the posed to be set primarily in the world Ordained a Jesuit in the New Orfarm with Grandma and Grandpa of a child's imagination, but everyleans province, Father' Donahue is a (Shirley Douglas and George Hearn). thing comes across as highly conmember of the Jesuit community at Nine-year-old Cody (Trevor Mor- trived and staged, missing the essenDolores Mission in the Boyle Heights gan) wants to seem cool and older tial quality of childlike spontaneity. section of Los Angele:;, and looks down on his younger sisThe song-and-dance production .

In his remarks at the Oscar teleter Abby (Diana Rice) and her girl- numbers are adequate without being cast, Tashima said, "I hope we can begin to embrace evelY race. Diverfriend Marcella (Kyla Pratt) for play- noteworthy, although sharp eyes may sity is the ingenue. She's the true ing with a little purple stuffed animal notice that from one moment to the American star, and she's ready for her more suited to his baby brother's age. next the parade dancers encircling the close-up," But Cody is wowed when the tiny egg cast shadows and then do not.

An interesting footnote to "Visas toy magically transforms into a 6All in all, Barney's gentle belief CHRIS TASHIMA and Jesuit Father Chris Donahue hold and Virtue" is that Hanni Vogelweid, foot-tall, walking, talking, singing in caring and sharing and believing .' and dancing dinosaur just dying to in oneselfcomes through, but the al- Up their'Oscars March 23 in Los Angeles. Their movie, "Vi- anelderlyHolocaustsurvivornowliving in Southern CalifDrnia, was an have fun with the kids. ready converted are the most likely sas and Virtue," about a Japanese diplomat who saved Jews extra in the film. But ir.: 1940 she was Obligingly, a shooting star lands to be en!er~ined by this bland, not, from the Holocaust, won for best live-action short film. (eNS/. '~among the Jews who crossed Russia in the barn, leaving a large mysteri- so-greafiid'Venture: . " on a transit visa from Sugihara.

The U.S. Catholic Conference Reuters photo) ous egg in its wake. Soon Barney and the three youngsters are pursuing the classification isA-I - general patrontraveling egg, which takes the four- age, The Motion Picture Association some to the town parade, through a of America rating is G - general snooty French restaurant, to a circus . audiences. would always remember. So when you After Reilly left the service in 1946,

By ELIZABETH WELLS get opportunities to be there, you take he returned to Massachusetts to comCATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE advantage of them." , plete his undergraduate and master's NEW YORK (CNS) - The followNeb, - There are many His friends know him as a humble degrees. In 1950, he took a job at OMAHA, ing are cap§ule reviews of movies recently ~ 1/ parallels between the. 16th-century man, always willing to offer a hand to Creighton University in public relations. reviewed by the U.S. Catholic Conference ..., ft..

Irish folk hero Red.Hugh O'Donnell' someone in need. They also know him After leaving Creighton and opening his Office for Film and Broadcasting. and Robert T. Reil.lx of Omaha, who as a hard worker and a man of his word.' own public relations 'and advertising "Eden" (Legacy) ;'" 1;wrote about him. ; A native o(Lowell, Mass., Reilly said agency, Reilly taught at the University Poignant 'drama in which a' young ~ ft..

According to Irish lore, O'Donnell he loves Nebraskans for their honesty. of Nebraska at,Omaha, where he was mother (Joanna Goinig) afflicted with possessed the spirit arid will to help Reilly first came to Nebraska when made a professor emerilus. unirethe Irish chieftains of the late his father ~as stationed in Omaha in With 13 books and more than 1,000 multiple sclerosis slips into a lingering coma while her patrpnizing , h u s b a n d .

1500s. Togetherthey were. able to re- 1941.' The younger Reilly attended articles to his credit, Reilly is currently (Dylan 'Yals~) and one, of his students. (SeanJr~tric:~,Flanery), who cares sist Elizabethan English military ad- Creighton University and met his wife, working on three more books, and all deeply abou~ her, clash ,over her ,treatment. Although muddled by a subplot vances. . .... ' , . Jean, at Blessed Sacrament Church.· of this after receitt heart surgery. He ,He enlisted in the service' in 1942 said his hospital staymt:rely gave him involving the woman's 'belief in astral projection writer-director Howard .. .Pe~ple familiar with Irish history Goldberg's se~sitive st61'Y emphasizes the personai growth ofthe'tBreich!lr- " k~6wtheN,<?'"Y. ~oneQfdut7 ~d~om- and was called to OVe?eaS dut~·in ,time to think of new ide:as: .acters as they come to terms with life-and-death choices. Fleeting sUb- ,mltment;,andJne~~~s of ReIlly Will at- ,1943. Heand Jean were.eng,age,d J~~t, ''I''Ql pretty lucky," s~id Reilly. "I've stance abuse, occasional profanity and some rough language: The'U.S. . t~st thaUh~r, havealwaysk.nown the • ,before he left an~, later, mamed whIle gotten to dO everythingJ've wanted to do with my life." ~ .

Catholic Conference classification is A-III':- adults. The Motion' P.icture " , 75-year-old.aut~or;~Cathol!,c, to be a he was. on leave In 1945., Association ofAmerica rating is R _ restricted. ' . mankof dudty, a mah~whodls a hard.: .'. wor er an true to IS wor . ,;' .. , .

In' his book ~'Red Hugh, Prince of "The Newton Boys" (20th C~ntury Fox) " !?oneg;ll" _ just re-released by , Fact-based story of lour fun-loving brothers (Matthew McConaugh,ey, '. B.ethlehem f 13ooks,after,bei'1g out of " Ethan 'Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio and Skeet Ulrich), who quit their . print since 1960 ---;.Reilly creates a hardscrabble TexaS'farm in 1919to make a"living robbing banks until they' character who, even in the face of ad- . get greedy and pull a $3 million mail train robbery in 1924 Chicago. Di- ~ersity; forces himsel( to remain p.osi.reeted by Richard Lihklilter, the result has interest in its creaible recreation of tive about the outcome and commit- ' the period but fails to earn the sympathy, if not admiration, for the Newtons .. ted to his word; and their criminal exploits that the movie tries so hard to arouse, Some gory He tells the story - which takes ; violence, sexual innuendo, comic treatment of crime and occasional profan- place between 1587 and 1592, 'just ' ity. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III - - adults, The Mo- before the Nine Years War - against tion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 - parents 'are strongly a backdrop of Ireland and her people during Elizabethan times, cautioned that some material may be inappropriate for children under .13.

One of the parallels between Reilly "The Spanish Prisoner" (Sony Classics) and the hero of his books, that sense ~n invention worth a vast fortune sets in deadly motion an industrial of duty, saw him through his six "espionage tale in which the inventor (Campbell Scott) is caught between months as a prisoner of war during his suspicious boss (Ben Gazzara) and a mysterious acquaintance (Steve World War II. "My father was a military man, and Martin) whose helpful advice may get the inventor framed for murder, AMERICAN AUTHOR .Robert T. Reilly gazes out over Writer-director David Mamet unfolds a devilishly serpentine plot too far- duty is very important to me," he told fetched to be credible but thoroughly engrossing for its unexpected sur- The Catholic Voice, newspaper of the O'Brien's Lookout near the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, prises. Briefviolence and fleeting sexual innuendo. The U.S. Catholic Con- Omaha Archdiocese, "I learned early ,Ireland. His latest book reflects the age-old values of duty ference c1assitication is A-III - adults. The Motion Picture Association of on that if you were there for a member and honor as it traces the life of a 16th century Irish folk hero. of your unit when he needed you, he America rating is PG - parental guidance suggested.

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Letters to the editor are welcome if they are signed with the writer's name and address. Please mail to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA 02722, ATTN: Letters to the Editor.

51. Patrick's Parish, Fall River:

Celebrates its 125th anniversary with

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JOURNEY TO HOILINESS was the theme of the l Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women's Lenten retreat. The annual event attracted over 45 women this year. Retreat chairman Agnes Lyons and Terry Lewis, DCCW president, flank Father James M. Fitzpatrick of St. Patrick's Church in Fall River who was spiritual director for the event, held at the Family Life Center in North Dartmouth.

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THE KNIGHTS of Columbus Council #11690 of S~. Mary's Parish in Norton was awarded the Star Council Award, the top award for the 1996-97 fraternal year, by the intetnational organization. Knights of Columbus State Secretary James R. Sawyer, (center) presented the award to Past Gra'ld Knight Joseph Travers (left) and current Grand Knight Tony Medeiros who declared that the award was quite an honor land the Knights were "extremely proud of the accomplishment." U.S. Knights gave more than 48.9 million hours of volunteer service and donated $105.9 million to charitable and benevo. . lent causes last year.

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.Pope 'mindful of Cubans at Easter 5. Palm Sunday, 10 a.m., the pope blesses palms and olive branches and then celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Square; April 9, Holy Thursday, 9:30 a.m., the pope presides over a Chrism Mass in St. Peter's Basilica

By JOHN THAVIS with cardinals, bishops and priests CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE resident in Rome and at 5:30 p.m .• VATICAN CITY - A special the 'pope celebrates Mass at the collection for health care in Cuba Rome Basilica of St. John Lateran. and the traditional Way of the Cross During the liturgy, he will wash the at the Rome Colosseum will be on feet of 12 priests, recalling the gesPope John Paul II's full schedule of ture o(Christ at the Last Supper; Easter activities this year.

April 10, Good Friday.S p.m.• the As in past years. the 77-year-old pope presides over a liturgy of pontiff will preside over a number Christ's passion in St. Peter's Baof lengthy and late-night ceremonies silica, with veneration of the cross. in Rome and at the Vatican.

Earlier in the day, the pope traditionSeveral events, including' the ally hears confessions for more than pope's "urbi et orbi" blessing on an hour in St. Peter's Basilica. At Easter morning. will be televised 9: 15 p.m.• the pope leads the Way around the world. During the Way~:: of the Cross atth'e Rome Colosseum, of the Cross on Good Friday. Pope "pronouncing a series of meditations John Paul will recite a series of medi- and delivering a talk and a blessing tations written by a French Ortho- at the end; April II, Holy Saturday, dox theologian, Olivier Clement.

9 p.m.• the pope leads an Easter Vigil As to the Holy Thursday Mass liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica, includin the Basilica of St. John Lateran, ing a baptismal rite for adults; April 12, Easter. At 10:30 a.m .• the pope the pope has asked that its annual special collection be used to supply celebrates Mass on the steps in front medicines to the ill in Cuba, where of St. Peter's Basilica. Afterward. he made a pastoral visit in January. from the central balcony of the baHere is the pope's Easter sched- silica, he imparts his blessing "urbi ule as published by the Vatican. et orbi" .:....."to··the city (of Rome) Times listed are local in R9me. April and to the world:.'

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Oh adorable arid Divine Will. behold ine here before the immensity of Your Light. that Your eternal goodness may open to me the doors and make me enter into It to form my life all in You, Divine Will. Therefore. oh adorable Will, prostrate before Your Light. I, the least of all creatures, put myself into the little group of the sons and daughters ofYour Supreme FIAT. Prostrate in my nothingness. I invoke Your Light and beg that it clothe me and eclips~ all that does not pertain to You, Divine Will. It will be my Life. the center of my intelligence, the enrapturer of my heart and of my whole being. I do not want the human will to have life in this heart any longer. I will cast it awayfrom me arid thus form the new Eden of Peace. of happines~ and of love. With It I shall be always happy. I shall have a singul<;lr strength and a holiness that sanctifies all things and conducts them to God. Here prostrate, I invoke the help of the Most Holy Trinity that They permit me to live in the cloister of the Divine Will and thus return in me the first order of creation. just as the creature was created.

Heavenly Mother. Sovereign and Queen of the Divine Fiat. take my hand and introduce me into the Light of the Divine Will. Yo\.! will be my guide. my most tender Mother. and will teach me to live in and to maintain myself in the order and the bounds of the Divine Will. Heavenly Mother. I consecrate my whole being to Your Immaculate Heart. You will teach me the doctrine of the Divine Will and I will listen most attentively to Your lessons. You will cover me with Your mantle so that the infernal serpent dare not penetrate into this sacred Eden to entice me and make me fall into the maze of the human will.

Heart of my greatest Good, Jesus. You will give me Your flames that they may bum me. consume" me. and feed me to form in me the Life of the Divine Will. .Saint Joseph. you will be my protector. the guardian of my heart. and will keep the keys of my will in your hands. You will keep my heart jealously and shall never give it to me again. that I may be sure of never leaving the Will of God. My guardianAngel, guard me; defend me; help me in everything so that my Eden may flourish and be the instrument that draw~ all men into the Kingdom of the Divine WilL Amen.

Philippine's religions as election monitors debat(~d '.

group would appeal the decision.

Jesuit Father Joaquin Bernas. a of the 1986 constitutional. member • Commission may oust convention. said the restrictions are priests and nuns unconstitutional and that the election commission had no authority to defrom poll duties clare that clergy and religious could under new order. not be members of the citizens' movement.

By CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE Citing Article 3. Section.5 of the MANDALUYONG CITY. Philip- Philippine Constitution. the priest pines - If the Commission on Elec- stressed that though the state may not tions'has its way. nuns and priests will establish an official religion, particino longer be allowed to monitor elec- pation of religious in the country's political life is not restricted. tions.

"Let's call a spade a spade.

The Commission on Elections has ordered the Church-backed National COMELEC is against priests, reliCitizens' Movement for Free Elec- gious" and attempts "to ensure a clean tions to remove "officers, trustees, and and honest election," Father Bernas other employees who are members of told a press conference in the clergy or ecclesiastics and reli- Mandaluyong City March 13.

In issuing its March 10 directive. gious of whatever sect."

The commission, known as. the Commission on Elections showed COMELEC, said clergy and religious that it "does not want a fair and honmay serve only as advisers to the citi- est election," the constitutional lawzens' movement, known as yer said. .

NAMFREL. The citizens' St. Paul de Chartres Sister movement's legal adviser said the Rosanne Mallillin of the Philippine

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bishops' Commission on Social Action. Justice and Peace :;aid many of the country's more than 100 bishops are angry about the dire,;tive.

"They are asking if COMELEC will try to take away their vote altogether." the nun said.

Organized in 1983 by a nondenominational. multisectoral group. including clergy and religious. the National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections monitored thl~ 1986 elections and conc'luded that Ferdinand Marcos defeated Corazon Aquino through fraud.

The group's 20-memberexecutive committee currently includes Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila, Archbishop Fernando R. Capalla of Davao. Oblate Father Eliseo Mercado Jr., Msgr.

Francisco Tantoco Jr. ofoCaritas-Philippines. and Bishop 'Efmin Tendero of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches.

In addition, some 50 percent of the citizen group's provincial heads are' priests. religious, Protestant ministers or Muslim clerics.

u.s. bishops call for an end to Chiapas violence prompted by the Dec. 22 massacre in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico," said the SAN FRANCISCO - More than statement. "The 45 victims, mostly 300 religious leaders, including 24 U.S. women and children murdered in the bishops, urged the Mexican and U.S. very act of praying 'for peace, were governments to ac~ to eng violence in members of a "Christian group,Las "Abejas (The.Bees). They had chosen the the Mexican state of Chiapas. '.

"We, the l;Indersigned religious lead- path of nonvioh,nt love in their unceasers, call on the governments of Mexico ing struggle for justice,.a commitment and the United Slates to examine offi- for which they paid the ultimate price," cial policies that have resulted in stalled . it said. peace talks and repeated explosions of . The statement was initiatedby'Inviolence in Chiapas. Resolute action is temational Servicefor Peace, known by urgently needed to demilitarize the con- its Spanish initials SIPAZ, in coordinaflict and achieve a negotiated resolu- tion with Coadjutor Bishop Raul Vera tion," said a statement signed by the re- of San Cristobal de las Casas in ligious leaders - inclu~ing more than Chiapas. .The statement praised the Mexican 120 priests and nuns - and released in government's arrest of paramilitary San Francisco March 24.

It was sent to Mexican President group members and the local ruling Emesto Zedillo and U.S. President Bill party mayor in connection with the December massacre and the replaceClinton that day. ."We cry out'in grief, joining our ment of the Chiapas governor and fedvoices to the worldwide clamor eral interior minister.

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But it added "there is evidence of a pattern of government tolerance - and even support - for such paramilitary groups." The statement li!:ted instances from 1994 and 1997 of Mexican federal and state governmemal support of paramilitary pOwer i'n ·Chiapas. .

The statement noted that, after the massacres. military presence in Chiapas was increased by 5,000 tlOOPS and the military "staged aggressive maneuvers in Zapatista areas."

'The United States must also examine its role in the increasing militarization of the conflict," it said. "Key military officials in Chiapas responsible for counterinsurgency strategy have been trained at the U.S. School lor the Americas. Most ofthe Mexican Army's weapons come from the U.S. " The statement called on the Zedillo administration •'to take immediate steps to disarm completely the paramilitary groups in Chiapas."

Doctors urged not to abandon moral v~llues

. to help in the cure of disease and oth- scious decisions, panelisl.s said.

Pellegrino criticized "a tendency to ers to be innocuous, studies indicate CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE at least some of them are toxic and life- absolutize the patient's autonomy."

NEW YORK - Health care prothreatening, he said.

He said autonomy is mutual befessionals should respect the auPellegrino was the keynote speaker cause he as the physician also has his for a conference by the New York City own views about what is good and tonomy and cultural" background of Long-Term Care Ethics Network. a pro- would serve the patient'1: interest, so patients but also maintain their own fessional association, with sponsorship respect for autonomy dOt:s not elimisense of moral values, according to a by the Jewish Home and Hospital. nate the need for discussing issues. prominent physician and specialist in While respecting the right of patients _ medical ethics.

Following his address, the signifiEdmund D. Pellegrino, a profescanceofa patient's cultural background to make decisions about their care. was di~cussed'by a panel including pro- Pellegrino said he also respected the culsor at Georgetown University and former president ofThe Catholic Unifessionals from the African-American, ture offamily decision-making when that versity ofAmerica, said in a New York West Indies-Caribt;>ean. Hispanic. Hai- appe~ to be accepted by the patient. tian and Asian communities.

He noted that a living will could address that he worked within the A principal consideration discussed not provide for every c1ini,;al situation. context of a patienrs culture as much as possible, but found places where by panelists was the tradition of some He said he did not oppose 'living wi lis, he had to "draw the line." of these cultures to let families make but found they left areas where ethical decisions for patients, rather than to decisions still must be made.

"I can't do assisted suicide," he Following the addres1:, Pellegrino said. On some occasions a profesrespectthe inc!ividual patient's rightto . decide. Sometimes. families will in- told CNS that although he opposed sional in health care must simply tell a patient, "I cannot do what you're . sist that a patient needs to maintain physician-assisted suicide, he thought as~ing me to do," he said. hope and therefore must not' be told there was growing acceplance of it.

The conflict might also arise in an about a diagnosis such as cancer.

He said that when he asked for a People in these cultures. may also show of hands from physician audiarea such as the herbal remedies that decline. to make living wills or give .. ences. he found about .half the physiare traditionally. used in some cultures advance. directives, about their treat- ciansfavored assisted suicide.And the but not medically recognized; ( In Honor ofLuisa Piccarreta; /865-1947 Child ofthe Divine.Will)o'· . Pellegrino:·said.. Although. some;-of· .: -ment wishes for situations when they. ;. percentage was even ·higher among - - - - -....----_~.....- - - - -....------...,jL,.,.Ahose·~·folk:treatments~·may beJouncl :;:".can:no'.longer" make:their..own. con~;, medical. students, he.said:, ,,_.._ ...

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diaconate, but we're primarily involved in that these days. It is a great ministry and Rae and I share it together. It gives us the opportunity to meet the wonderful men and women in the diaconate around the country. And'it also helps me in my job to learn much about what is going on."

John's responsibility is primarily to support the bishops' Committee on the Diaconateof the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and work with national directors and international representatives.

"Knowing firsthand the challenges and successes and joys of the diaconate as well as, sometimes, the pain side of the ministry, helps give me a more realistic picture," he explained.

Today's necessary message to deacons is "that we are in a very volatile time," he reported. "Many of the different ministries in the Church are in transition and we are part of that whole process. It is going to take the maturity and experience of the men in the diaconate and their wives to not only participate, but many times reach out in support of our brothers in the priesthood and those in religious life. We arc in this together. We must en- , courage them to have a vision that is much broader than just the local parish or the local situation."

Rae said that encouragement is the big message, "In his talks John really gives hope and courage and helps the deacons focus on their ministry." She noted that one of the coming talks will key on the role of wives. "It is iinporCant that the wives be able to share their ministries as well as their frustrations with their husbands because the

diaconate is a new entity in the Church. Deacons and their wives need to walk together and uphold one another."

Although wives will not be on the weekend retreat here, they are regul(lr attendees at many of the diaconate retreats, Rae reported.

"There's a whole army of us out there, approximately 10,000 wives of deacons," she said with a laugh.

John added that "Many of the wives are gifted ministers on their own and bring a lot to the Church."

Rae, he said, is a certified hospital chaplain and bereavement counselor. "In a recent story, Catholic News Service column'ist Father Eugene Hemrick noted :that when the Church ordains a deacon it gets two for one."

Deacon Pistone commented on two new documents, "Fundamental Norms forthe Formation of Permanent Deacons" by the Congregation for Catholic Education and the "Directory for the Ministry and

Life of Permanent Deacons," by the Congregation for the Clergy. The documents were issued by the Vatican in mid-March.

"The first do~ument deals with training of deacon candidates and is designed to give norms and guidelines for the bishops of the world. It is very broad, but it sets some very high standards by way of the expectations, classroom hours and how programs are put together. It is a good document, one we are involved with right now to see how it will work out in the United States."

The second document deals with the life, ministry and responsibilities of deacons; and what their relationship is with priests, the laity, the Church, and society. "That document will also be part of the new guidelines we are putting together in the U.S.," he indicated, Reportedly, the Pistones will be returning to Wareham in September to conduct a retreat for another group of the diocese's permanent deacons.

Abortion views, practice seen changing

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WASHINGTON - By a 6-1 margin New Jersey voters think most partial-birth abortions should be illegal, according to a poll released in March.

Substantial majorities of those voters also favor a 24-hour waiting period before a woman seeking an abortion can obtain it and pan:ntal consent before a minor cariobtain an abortion, the poll found. I The poll, conducted in'late February and early Marcp by the

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Quinnipiac College Polling Institute in Hamden, Conn., surveyed 1,184 New Jersey residents who said they were registered voters. The institute, which conducts public service and research polls in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, said the poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percent.

Five out ofsix voters surveyed said they had read or heard about the partial-birth abortion procedure. Last December New Jersey became the 17th ,state to ban the procedure when the Legislature overrode a veto by Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. The law's constitutionality has been challenged in court.

When those who had heard of the procedure were asked if they think it should be banned except to save the life of the mother, 82 percent said yes and only 14 percent said no. The rest did not answer or said they did not know.

Among Catholics, 88 percent supported a ban.

Sixty-seven percent of those surveyed favored a 24-hour waiting period for obtaining an abortion, while 27 percent opposed it. Among Catho- ' lics surveyed, 71 percent favored a waiting periOd, Concerning the overall legality of abortion, 47 percent of the respondents said it should be generally available; 35 percent said it should be available, but under stricter limits than currently; 16 percent said it should not be permitted, Among Catholics, only ,38 percent thought abortion,should be generally available; 37 percent favored stricter limits; and 22 percent said it should -not be permitted.

The Washington Post reported that according to a study it conducted, teenagers 17 and under obtained 700 abortions in Virginia from July through November of 1997, the first five months ofa new state parental notification law, compared \Vith 903 abortions in the same age group during the same five months of the previous year, Going back to 1990-95 for comparable local and national figures, The Florida Catholic found that abortions had decreased nationally by 15 percent in that time, from 1.4 million to 1.2 million; but they increased 25 percent locally in those five years, from 5,140 to 6,438.

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THE CHILDREN of Holy Name School in Fall River celebrated the late Dr. Seuss' birthday recently by participating in the National Education Association's Read Across America program and making hats similar to 'that ofSeuss" character, The Cat in the Hat. The day included a green eggs and ham breakfast, storytellers, mural painting and sharing birthday cake. Birthday cards were also made for The Cat in the Hat. For every card that Random House Publishing Company receives, it will donate a book to the National Center of Literacy.

VERONICA wipes the face of Jesus. Parishione~rs of St. Mary's Church in Mansfield were路 moved when members of the youth group performed living Stations of the Cross as part of the Lenten ,observances.

THIRTEENTH ANNUAL DINNER AUCTION - Forn:-'er Bishop Feehan High School Princrpal Sister Mary Faith Harding is seen here with current Principal George A. Milot at a recent gala dinner and auction' at the Lakeview pavilion in Foxboro.. The event raised over $35,000' for improvemE!nts in science laboratories and financial aid for Feehan and its students. ,OUTSTANDING SCHOLAR Anne Goj of Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton is congratulated by headmaster Dennis R. Poyant on being named as a finalist in the 1998 National Merit Scholarship Program, a distinction that places her in. a group representing less than one percent of U.S. high school graduating seniors.

Selection is made based on Scholastic Aptitude Test scores and half of the 14,000 students picked nationally will win scholarships.

CARING FOR PETS! Steve Kurowski of Steve's Pet Care in Fall River speaks to students at the Espirito Santo School about the joys and responsibilities of living with pBtS on a day-to-day basis. Linda Taylor of the local animal shelter spoke on the importance of bringing animals to vBterinarians to ensure their good health.

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By CHARLIE

Early one morning while you were asleep , I received a letter, but there was no addressee.

So I paid it no mind, in fact I wanted to send it back.

But something that I was feeling said open it.

It said, "Dear Reader, Or once close friend of mine, I hope this letter finds you in time.

'Cause your love is ending, And my life is just beginning, With the woman that I know you hold dear to you."

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ity and double betrayal, it creates a sustained feeling of sadness and loss while raising this question: After being hurt, how do you learn 10 trust again? " In the song the guy asks his '-:girl, "Why did it have to be m bes~riend that you were messin' ~f1t1 with?" He "didn't want to .;)&ice it," and "it wok me a minute to wake up and see wh~t the love of my life was doin' to me."

Given all the pain he now experiences, he can only say to his best friend and his girL "I don't ever want to see you again!" , Seeing trust broken and abused is difficult. There is no easy \vay to put emotional pieces back together after the kind of betrayal the song describes. ' . . ;.

Yet, the ability to trust is essential for loving,relationships and' for a successful· life. ' .

Ho~ can' the person in the song learn to trust again?' '. . . .The first step.is to~ccep~ his current.feelings.Trust begins with trusting oneself. Essential for this is, list~nii1g' to and trusting one's feelings. Tllis is challenging when these emotions are deep hurt, loss and anger. Yet, going through the grief 'oJ loss can bring an individual to a different and better emotional place. ' , ,Next he needs to examine the relationships he chooses. This assessment should be honest and compassionate toward himself. . -Does he overlook character or behavior when he' chooses

Refrain: ,' I don't ever want to see you again But I stuck by you to the end And my conscience is clear And I can move on from here But I wish I could say the same for, you baby.

I don't ever Vl{ant to see yOlJ agai~.

But tell me why did it Have to be my best friend That you were m'essin' round with?

I didn't want to notice it. ' I was true to my ,love for·you~ ',. ,. , It took me a minute to wake up and see What the love of my life was doing to me.

I wanted to lay down and die . ' 'Cause my pride won't let me cry' But somehow I knew I had to get over it.

He said he couldn't understand Until he felt your touch.

And now he can see why I loved you so much.

That's so unfair.

I never thought I'd have to share Your love that I thought Was given to only m,e.

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(Knowing all the pain you caused me) Listen to mer baby.

Gave you everything, my love and my ring And you violated me.

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-Was he ever uneasy. about how these tw~ people treate~,~im' or.oth,ers? ," " " "" Such, sel(-inquiry wjll help him evaluate.'hOwhe cho()~es r1e()ple' to trust: ' . ...., ' ~\.

Third, he should identify what remains in his life that is benefi" cial. Support and friendship with others~ remain, even times o'f loss. Recognizing these resources' does not discountthe current pain.

Rather it enables him to realize that he still, is lov~d. ," Finally he c~m take, all that he has .been through to God. God accepts all of our feelings. God will lead us toward opportunities and people who will help us .to heal.

After betrayal and deep disappointment we need to rediscover that we can trust in ourselves, in love, in friendship and in God.

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By AMY WELBORN CATI1Q~IC'NEWS SERVICE

I think one of the most powerful witnesses against Christianity I've What turn$ kids off when it met was a young man who served comes to the Church? twice a month at Mass in his parBoring services? Sometimes. ish. Perhaps he served because his Preaching that has no relation to parents forced him to, but nonethetheir lives? Once in a while. Being less, there he was, up on the altar forced to go? Almost always. on Sundays and proclaiming a good But you might be surprised to line about the importance of the know that one of the biggest rea- Catholic faith in religion class dursons kids develop negative feelings ing the week. , about church has nothing to do with But this boy drank publicly and the myth of the big, bad, insensi- proudly. He was very open about tive, authorit~rian adult against . his sexual exploits. He was racist, whom they'rduppqsedly rebelling. sexist and prejudiced in numerous It's other kids. ' other ways. He was disrespectful to I recently had a group of stu- teachers and only offered the bardents write essays on their personal est minimum of work. spiritual j04rnlfYs.. They were a varOh; he could be a charmer, to be ied group. But all the kips had pro- sure, but the most memorable imfound questions about God. And age he left behin'd at graduation was they all had h~d somt: experience .a sneer. in the past that had startled them There were other kids',at the into an acki1oWh~dgl*n~that there same time who were <;m the' edge of is more to lire:~han cars, ·mus.ic and giving faith a shot; they had their 'questions, sure, but they were trymovies.' " .

Many ofthe sincere searchers in .ing to be open-minqed. And then this group had indeed attempted to ' .David would open his mouth and find God through church, What was 'come out with one of his, brilliant" fascinating and distressing was ,that . intolerant comments. Ahd no~hing a number of students had tried J could say had more power than church - usually a youth group':--:- the negativity of thei,f churchgoing' 'and been turnJd off hy it... ' .." classmate. . ' '. . : Why? ... 'So think about i t . ' Hypocrisy. . There are'a 'lot. of kids out there One girl wrote of being a part of ..with .ques~ions .. doubts 'and-a hun~ youth group in her church where ger for God. We: kriow that the best the kids would. meet on Wednesday' place to 'have those questions an. night at the church and then migrate. swer~dand that hunger ~~tii;'fied is across the road to a field where" withinoLir church communities. It's they'd light a' bonfire, drink and" "ajobJesus has, entrusted to us: What do those· kids see when mess around. . Another wrote e)oqLlently of try- they look at yoiJ? Do they s~e a rea-' iog out hercnurch's YO'uth group 'son to go'to church or do your and being trdted'cruelly by kids weirds and actions,give them one who, in her o\\ln words, "didn't act more reason to stay' away.? ' , anY,thing'like ~hose WWJD,brace~ lets they wore told them to." '. Montie Plumbing As ii, ~atholi~ ~igh school. ~eacher .& H~ating Co.. " fOf eight years, I've had amjJl~ op~ Over 35 Years,' portul}ity tolis~en to teens talk about of Satisfied Services' '. what draws them to church and what Reg. Master Plumber 7023 drives them a~ay. The:unChristian JOSEPH RAPO~A, JR.' behavior and altitudes (>f other teens who proclaim'thylTiselves deeply 432 JEFFERSON STREET religious is tertifically importantFALL RIVER 675-7496 in the wrong Way. "

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Publicity Chairmenare asked to , 6:3Q-8.p.m. April 6 "Unfinished Busisubm;it news items for this column ness," April 13 "Grieving with Hope" to The Anchor, P.O. ,Box 7, Fall and April 27 "Viewing Loss as a , River, 02722. Name of city or town Teacher." should be included, as well as full Divine Mercy Sunday will be cddates of lill activities. DEADLINE ebrated at the shrine on April 19. FaIS NOON ON -MONDAYS. ther Robert Kaszynski will be the celEvents published must be of in- ebrantand homilist forthe I :30 p.m. terestand open to our general read- Mass and a holy hour with Benedicership. We do not normally carry tion will follow at 3 p.m. Exposition noticl:s of fund raising .activities, , of the Blessed Sacrament and Venerawhiclll 路may be advertised at our tion of a relic from Blessed Faustina regublrrates, obtainable from our will take place from 10 a.m.to 1 p.m. business office at (508) 675-7151. and confessions will be heard from II a.m. to 3 p.m. ' All are welcome.

ATTLEBORO-On Good Friday, April 10, Father Andre "Pat" CENTERVILLE--:-Our Lady of Paten2.ude will 'lead a day of reflec~ Victory and Our Lady of Hope Partion inl song and 路prayer from '9 a.m. ishes announce that they are fO!llling to 5 p.m. at La Salette Shrine. Regis- a Catholic Women's Club.. The first tration is required. Call the shrine at meeting will be on April 6 at 7 p.m. , 222-5410 for more information. in Our Lady of Victory parish center.

Thl~ Counseling Center at the Stephen' Kenney, headmaster of St. shrine continues its Grief Education Francis Xavier Preparatory School-in Programs for anyone dealing with the Iiyannis, will be guest speaker and death of a loved,one. Sessions are as address the topic "The History, Phifollows: Thursdays from 1-2 p.m. losophy and Future of Catholic EduApril 16 "Making Changes" and April cation on Cape Cod." All are wel30 "Reaching Out." Mondays from come. For more information call

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FALL RIVER-A joint Stations of the Cross service and meditation on the Passion ofChrist will beheld on Good Friday, April 10, at several area parishes. Pilgrims will begin making the stations at 2 p.m. at .St. Louis Church, Bradford Avenue, and continue around Kennedy Park with a stop at St. John Episcopal Church, Middle Street, for the twelfth station.

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NORTH DARTMOUTH-A Divorced and Separated Support Group meets on the second Wednesday and fourth Monday of each month ,aUhe Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road, from 7-9 p.m. For more information on this and other similar support groups' meeting times call 9996420.

NORTH DIGHTON-A Mass will be celebrated at St. Joseph's Church at 7 p.m. on April 7 for the intention of the canonization of Frederic Ozanam and in memory of deceased members 6f the St. Vincent .de Paul Society. A meeting of the Taunton chapter of StVincent de Paul will follow in the parish hall.

EAST FREETOWN-The next "Growing as Youth Ministers".night will be held from 7-9:30 p.m. at Cathedral Camp on April 16. It will consistofprayer, sharing and storytelling.

NEW BEDFORD-A conferby local youth ministers and is open ence for Catholic men will be held at to all ministers of youth, catechists the Lowell Memorial Auditorium on and confirmation leaders. To sign路upApriI18. Cardin~1 Law will host the call the Youth Ministry office at 678- event and Bishop Sean P. O'Malley NORTH EASTON-The Taun~828. . _. . (wiUbe .amongbishops participating. ton District Council of Catholic ~ An Emmaus retreat for young .. A bus for local men will be leaving Women will sponsor an evening of ~dultsbetweeri the ages of20andlh~' from Holy Name Parish, New Bedrecollection at 6:30 p.m. April 7 at the early 30s will be held April 24-26 atl ford at 6:30 a;m.ApriI18. Call Msgr. Holy Cross Retreat House: Easton Cathedral Camp. It:provides an op-' ,Harrington at 992-3'184 to reserve a Circle Daughters ofIsabella will host portunity for young adults to experi- spot. .I:'or more information call Bud the evening. For more iriformation call Maureen Papineau at 238-4824. 'ence God's love and to share in a Miller at 678-2828. .

Christian community. For more information call AnneJanerico at 564-, NEW BEDFORD-The Sisters NORTON-St. Mary's Parish 5908. ' of Mercy in the Fall River Diocese will host an evening of song and will celebrate the 125th anniversary prayer led by John Polce on Apri I 19 EASTON-The Chapel of Mary of the arrival of. the nuns here at a at 7 p.m. For more information call at Stonehill College will hold a Mass April 19 in St. Lawrence Abel Rodriques at 285-9871.

Tenebrae service at 8 p.m on April 7. Church, 110 Summer Street. A lunAll are welcome. . cheon will follow ,at St. Julie Billiart SAGAMORE-All area women Church, 494 Slocum Road, North are invited to a morning of recollection on April 17 from J.O a.m. to noon FAIRHAVEN-The Saints and Dartmouth. at St. Theresa's Chapel on route 6A. Singers will ,perform an Easter conNEW BEDFORD-Members of Confessions wi II be heard by a priest certtitled "We Crown You With Praise" at St. Mary's Parish tonight the Calix Group in the Diocese of Fall of Opus Dei. at8p.m. Refreshments will be served River will conduct their annual holy S:EEKONK-St. Mary's Parish in the parish hall following the con- hour at Holy Name Church on Holy Thursday, April 9 at 9:30 p.m. They will hold a food drive the weekend of cert and all are welcome. will proclaim the Scripture readings, April18and 19 to benefit St. Joseph's FAIRIJAVEN"':-St. Joseph's Par- lead the recitation of the rosary and par- Food Pantry and others in need. Colish will hold a Seder meal at St. ticipate in Eucharistic devotion foll<,>w- lection boxes wilfbe available at the Joseph's SchoolAuditorium on April ing a Mass. A brief business meeting parish after all Masses. For more information call 399-8440.

4 at 6 p.m. All are welcome and if will precede the event at 8:30 p.m. you would like to participate contact WAREHAM-A charismatic NORTH ATTLEBORO-The St. Joseph~s rectory at 994-9714.

Daughters ofIsabella, Benedict Circle Mass will be held at St. Patrick's ParFALL RIVER-Catholic Memo- #61, will meet on April 7 at 7:30 p.m. ish at 7 p.m. on April 13. All are welrial Home will offer twofree continu- in the ,rec. room of 'Circle Court on come.. ing education seminars to area doc- High Street.

WEST HARWICH-All are intors and nurses. "Medical, Ethical NORTH DARTMOUTH-The vited to join Holy Trinity Parish in a and Legal Issues in Pain Manage~ ment" will'be presented by Dr. Alfred .Office of Family Ministry announces Solemn Novena to the Divine Mercy Lang McKee Jr., April 16 and the sec~ the next Retrouvaille weekend will be on April 10 at 2:30 p.m., April 11 at3 ond, "Palliative CarelHospice Care" held April 17-19. It offers couples it . p.m. and 7 p.m. the following days. will be presented by Dr. Mark chance to help heal and renew Novena will be concluded on the First Shparber'on May 14. Both programs troubled marriages. For more infor- Sunday after Easter, "Divine Mercy Sunday" April 19, at 2 p.m., with a special devotion and Benediction. For MAILING SERVICES PRINTING more information call Jane Jannell at 432-0014 or Father JosephBlyskosz at 430-4000.

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