Reorganize Education Apostolate \ The Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, announced today a plan for the, total reorganization of Diocesan educational efforts. The plan brings together under one Department of Education the many diverse educational apostolates
which now exist in the Diocese, Diocesan clergy last September and institutes new programs' in at the close of retreat that there be "better 'coordination of the areas of special need. The plan, which has been un- teaching office, both in Catholic der study for a year, implements Schools and in catechetical the desire expressed by the classes." It also embodies the Bishop to teachers at the Dioc- desire to bring "a whole new esan Convention last May and to 'thrust" to the educational apostolate in the Diocese, and to provide for sound doctrinal and moral formation. The reorganization calls basically for a single Department of Education with three sub-. sections: Schools, Religious Education of Youth, and Adult Education. Each section will be headed by an Associate Director and assisted by Field Coordinators as needed, all operating under the general supervision of the Director of Education who will be immediately responsible to the Bishop. The Diocesan Board of Education, which, up to now,' has functioned in an advisory capAn Anchor oj the Soul, Sure and Flrm-"-St. Paul acity to the Bishop in matters affecting Catholic' schools, will be reconstituted to include repreRiver, Mass., Thursday, April 5, 1973 sentatives from other educational apostolates and will then broad$4.00 per year en its advisory functions of all 17, No. 14 漏 1973 The Anchor PRICE 10垄 areas of Christian education. Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, D.Ed., has been named Director of Education. Associate Directors will
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Charities Appeal Meeting Next Wednesday' Evening The opening meeting of the thirty-second annual Catholic Charities Appeal of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River wili be held a 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening, April 11 at Bishop Connolly High School auditorium in Fall River. Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D. Bishop of Fall River, will be the keynote speaker. This is Bishop Cronin's third year as Appeal honorary chairman. More than 900 clergy, religious and laity of the diocese will be present. The Special Gifts phase of the Appeal will be conducted from April 23 to May 5. The parish house-to-house campaign is set for May 6 through May 16. Joseph H. Feitelberg of Fall River, this year's diocesan lay chairman, will ~Iso speak. Feitelberg stressed tb,e importance of the kick-off meeting for the campaign in the t~p phases of the
Appe'al. He路 hopes that every priest, every religious and six members of each of the 116 parishes will attend. Feitelberg said: "1973 presents a special challenge. In reordering its priorUies this year, Government has established that social services can best be handled on the local level through "self help" among the area's residents. Therefore, the demand for all diocesan services is greatly expanding. We need the help of every individual." Rev. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Appeal, will explain the theme, techniques and mechanics of the campaign. Groups from Bishop Gerrard High School and the Catholic Memorial Home will entertain the large audience with renditions of music and song. A coffee hour will follow the meeting.
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St. Patrick's Church in Fall River is making plans for the 100th anniversary of the Parish. The festivities will begin with a Solemn Baptism scheduled for April 26, the 100th anniversary of the first Baptism in the Parish. Schedule of celebration events is as follows: April ,29 - Administration of the Sacrament of Confirmation by Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, D.D., V.G., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese and a former assist, ant at St. Patrick's. T'ime will be at 3 P.M. May 13-First Mass of newlyordained Rev. Horace Travoasos at 5 P.M. May 2D-Centennial Mass at 10 A.M. with Most Rev. Daniel
be: Sister Marion C. Geddes, RS.M., for Schools; Sister Rita Pelletier, S.S.J., for Religious Education of Youth, and Rev. Michel G. Methot, M.A., for Adult Education. Sister Barbara McCarthy, O.P., will continue as Coordinator for Schools, and Sister Theresa Sparrow, R.S.M., will 'join the staff as Coordinator for Religous Education of Youth. Emphasis on Unity The apostolate of religious ed-
Pope Releases Instruction Regarding Communion
In an instruction, Immensae Caritatis; approved and sanctioned by his authority, Pope Paul VI has decreed that, effective January 29, 1973, there is to be more leeway for the reception of Holy Communion under difficult or unusual circumstances. While not allowing the reception of Communion in the hand for the United States since the American Bishops have refused to request it, the document allows the appointment of lay or Religious extraordinary ministers of the Sacrament; reduces the time of the Eucharistic Fast for some; allows the reception of Communion more than once a day in certain circumstances. "Present-day conditions," the document states, "demand that, while the utmost reverence owing to such a Sacrament is constantly maintail).ed, greater access, to Holy Communion should A. Cronin, D.D., Bishop of Fall be made possible so that the River. faithful, by sharing more fully in June 10 - Grammar School the fruits of the sacrifice of the Graduation at 5 P. M. Mass, might dedicate themselves June 16 and 17-Anniversary more readily and effectively to Festival. God and to the good of the September' 21 -Concelebrated Church and of mankind. Mass commemorating the 50tl1 "First of all, provision must be anniversary of the Consecration made lest the reception become of the Church. Concelebrants .impossible or difficult owing to will be the priests who have a lack of sufficient number of come from the Parish and those ministers. Provision must also be who have served ,in St. Patrick's. made lest the sick be deprived of October 21-Centennial Dinner such a great spiritual consolation at 7 P.'M. at White's Restaurant. by being impeded from receiving There will also he a Memorial Holy Communion because of the Mass for deceased parishioners law of fast, which they may not at which Most Rev. James L. 'be able to observe, even though Connolly, D.D., former Bishop of it be already very moderate. Fall River, and a native of the "Finally, it seems appropriate Parish, will be principal con- to determine in which circumcelebrant. stances the faithful who ask to
St. Patrick's in Fall River Plans "lOOth Anniversary
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ucation heretofore conducted un路 der the auspices of the Diocesan Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Office will now be assumed by the sub-section concerned with the Religious Education of Youth. Liaison will thus be maintained with CCD programs in every parish. The Reverend Ronald A. Tosti, presently Director of the CCD Office' will return to full-time duties at Saints Peter and Paul Parish, in Fall River. In emphasizing his desire to unify the educational apostolates of the Diocese Bishop Cronin called attention to the guidelines expressed in the recent Pastoral Message of the National Corio ference of Catholic Bishops: The essential unity of the education ministry should be reflected in its programmatic expressions ... Far from competing with one another for money, personnel, students, etc., they must function together harmoniously and efficiently, complementing and supplementing one another in order to achieve jointly the' fullest possible realizaion of the threefold aim of Christian education: teaching doctrine, building community and serving others. (To teach as Jesus Turn to Page Eleven
receive sacramental Communion very number of the sick, espea second time on the same day cially in hospitals and similar inmay be permitted fittingly to do stitutions, requires many minisso." ters. Extraordinary Ministers "Therefore, in order that the A lack of ministers may occur: faithful, who are in the state 01 "-during Mass, because of grace and who with an upright the size of the congregation or a and pious disposition, wish to particular difficulty in which a share tn the Sacred Banquet, may celebrant finds himself; not be deprived of this sacra"-outside of Mass, when it is ' mental help and consolation, it difficult because of distance to has seemed appropriate to the take the Sacred Species, espe- Holy Father to establish extracially the Viaticum, to the sick ordinary ministers, who' may .in danger of death, or when the 'fum to Page Six
Bishop Implements Decree In Diocesan Guidelines The Most Reverend Daniel A~ Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, has announced today the implementation, ,in the Diocese of Fall River of a program of extraordinary Eucharistic ministry by lay people. Under the terms of provisional Diocesan guidelines promulgated by Bishop Cronin, des-
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ignated individuals will he prepared and commissioned to assist parochial clergy by distributing Holy Communion at Sunday and holyday Masses where large numbers of communicants are present. The local Diocesan implementation of the practice of designating lay Catholics to distribute Holy Communion during Mass comes .shortly after the promulgation by the Holy See of an
Instruction on the Eucharist. The "Immensae Cal1itatis," as the document released by the Sacred Congregation for the Sacraments on March 29, 1973, is called, extends to diocesan bishops the faculty to appoint extraordinary lay Eucharistic ministers to meet pressing pastoral needs of the faithful. The Vatican document speaks of utilizing such ministry when the number of communicants approaching the Eucharist is great and when sacred ministers, priests, deacons or acolytes, are -not available in sufficient numbers to distribute Holy Communion conveniently, so that the celebration of Mass is unduly prolonged. PAST HISTORY The designation of lay persons to administer Holy Communion in instances of exceptional necessity is not without precedent in Church discipline. Though the Turn to Page Six