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IBecause He Cared 1961 Theme Of Catholic Charities Appeal
The ANCHOR An Anokor of the Soul, SUre and Firm-ST. PAUL
Fall River,
Vol. 5, N@.
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Thursday, April 20, 1961
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REV. MIt. KELLY
.' REV; MR. SIMOES
Ordination Ceremony At Cathedral May 1 Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., 'Bishop of the Diocese, will confer the Sacrament of Holy Orders on Rev. Mr. Gilbert Justin Simoes and Rev. Mr. Bernard Richard Kelly at 7 :30 P.M., Monday, May· 1 in St.· Mary's Cathedral for service in the Our Lady of Health, Fall 'River, Diocesan priesthood. Rev. as deacon and subdeacon. The choir will be composed of Mr. Simoes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Justino Simoes, Trot- students at LaSalette Seminary, ting Park Road, Falmouth, was born in that town on Oct. 2, 1933 and received his early education there. Following studies at St. Thomas Minor Seminary, Bloomfield, Conn., he continued his education under the Sulpician Fathers at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore. He will celebrate his First Solemn Mass at 11 A.M. on Sunday, May 7 in St. Anthony's Church, East Falmouth, with Rev. Jose M. Bettencourt e Avila, pastor, as assisting priest and preacher. Other officers will be Rev. A. Castelo Branco, pastor of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, New Bedford, and Rev. Maurice Souza" pastor of
Brewster. Two nephews, Robert A. Mello and John L. Lopes Jr., will serve as altar boys. Rev. Mr. Kelly, of 42 Homestead Ave., West Springfield, is the son of Mr. Bernard G. and the late Mrs. Kelly. Born in March, 1933, he was graduat~d from West Springfield High School and attended the University of Massachusetts and Elm Bank Minor Seminary in Wellesley, completing his studies for the priesthood at St. Mary's, Baltimore. Officers of Mass He will celebrate his First Solemn Mass at 11 A.M. Sunday, May 7 in. St. Thomas Church, Turn to Page Eighteen
Most Rev; James J. Gerrard, D.D., V.G., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese, and this year's Catholic Charities Appeal Chairman, struck the keynote of the opening meeting of the Appeal on Monday when he told the 1000 priests and lay leaders of the drive that "We have a drive to collect money, yes, put, more than that, to live charity." The Appeal this year is being dedicat~d to Bishop Connolly as he marks l on May 17, his tenth anniversary as Ordinary of the Diocese. The Bishop has announced that he will have no testimonial of any kind, so that gifts to the Appeal will be the only testimonial to the zeal he has exercised throughout the Diocese during the last decade. Theme of the'Appeal this year is "Because He Cared," and incentive for giving is in the many new and improved facilities throughout the Diocese that Bishop Connolly has inaugurated. The Appeal in the parishes will take place from May 7 to 17. Even a casual survey of the works of education and charity that Bishop Connolly has inspired during the last ten years shows the progress made in and by the Diocese in this time. Now almost every problem coming to the attention of a priest regarding the sick, the needy, the mentally slow, the old, the' infirm, the chronic ill, the incurably ill can be resolved with an appeal Turn to J!>ag~ Eighteen A special edition of The Anchor will be distributed in the churches to every Catholic family in the Diocese on Sunday, April 30. The edition commemorates Bishop Connolly's 10th anniversary as Ord· inary of the Diocese and shows, through pictures and stories, the many· sided program that he has introduced in the last ten years. . The edition' describes vividly the assistance given the Bishop by the generous contributors to t"e Catholic' Charities Appeals over the last decade. . Subscribers to The Anchor will receive their edition through ·the mail t~e week of April 23.
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OliiJ H Q.1Hl'il1@rJ' Rev. Richard G. Cunningham of the Boston Arch. diocese will speak at the joint Communion Supper of the T·aunton and Attleboro Districts of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, to be held at St. Joseph's Ohurch, Taunton, Wednesday evening, April 26. TurD' to Page Twelve
a. Bedford.
. A gaunt ltedemptorist Schomber, C.SS.R., arrived expelled from the Dominican born missionary related a tale of . the. Church in the Central . AmerIcan country. Behmd him . he I e a v e s Bishop Thomas F. Reilly, another Redemptorist and target of government-inspired mob fury. He is receiving daily reports of conditions in the Dominican Republic via the Redemptorist vice provincialate in Puerto Rico. As of now conditions remain unchanged since his departure last Friday. Bishop Reilly's mother and sister are in Boston and also receiving daily reports of his condition Father' Schomber will be in New Bedford for a few days to visit his uncle, John L. Power, 223 Chancery Street. He will then return to New York to await assignment in Puerto Rico.
missionary, the Rev. John in the Diocese yesterday, Republic. The New Bedford. of .seven months' persecution F..... aUller S c h om b er, rec t o r " 0 ... the Cathedral at San Juan de la Maguana and superior of the Redemptori~t Fa~hers the~e, told of the arrIval In the City on April 8 of Virgilio ~lyarez Pina, head of the DominIcan party and the regime's second in com'mand, who. came to arr.ange a. de~onstrah~n the foll~wlll~ day agalllst the yankee bIShop and his "Capone-g·ang curates." In ~ather's o~·n words, "11: ~as" lIke watchlllg the pe~ple dIe, to hear, on Sunday, AprIl 9, the denunciations of the l?eopl~, some of them the BIShop s friends and Father Shomber's friends, wh~ were forced un.der duress. to gIve speeches agalllst the prIests. "Four hundred soldiers were imported from the capital and Turn. to Page Eighleen
The Most Reverend Bishop announced today he will bless a new Novitiate and a new Convent on Saturday, April 29. At 3 in the afternoon on that date he will bless the· new Novitiate of the Dominican Sisters, Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena, on TucThis Spanish religious comker Road, No. Dartmouth. munity came to the Diocese in The Motherhood of the Con- 'January, 1958, at the invitation gregation is on Park Street of the Bishop and is the 25th
The Chancery Office announced today that Theodore Loranger and Sons, New Bedford contractors, have been awarded the contract. for the new St. Ann's Rectory, New Bedford. The new structure will be in colonial style to match the architecture of the Pastor of St. Ann's is Rev. Church. It will be located on Armand J. Levasseur. . . Also under construchon m Brock Avenue around the New Bedford is a new church corner from the present for St. Hedwig~s Parish. The new
church building, being' constructed by the Paul G. Cleary and Company of New Bedford, is being built on Division Street on the site of the old· Benjamin Public School. Rev. Emil Tokarz, O.F.M. CQnv. is pastor of S1. Hedwig's P4I'isb. . ,
Diocesan Missionary' Tells of Expulsion
Bishop To Bless Novitiate, Convent on April 29 .
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rectory. There will be accommodations for three priests and ~e household help. Sub-contractors are: electrical work, Hawes Electric Co.; plumbing, Jeremiah Coholan; ed heating, Anderson and Olsen Inc. All concerns He located iu
.. EXILED PRIEST: Rev. John L. Schomber, C.SS.R., left, New Bedford missioner expelled last Friday from the Dominican IRepubIic, tells Bishop Connolly of the reign of terror directed against the Church by the Trujillo government.
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in Fall River, and the Sisters conduct Dominican Academy in . that city and other schools in Fall River and Acushnet. The new Convent of the S~s tel'S of the Love of God located in St. Anthony's Parish in Mattapoisettt will be blessed at 5 in the afternoon of the same day. The new home for the Sisters has livingquar~ers for eight Sisterll and also a cha~ ...
community in the Diocese. The Sisters are now living in the Convent of Our Lady of the Assumption in New Bedford, so this new Convent in Mattapoisett will be their second foundation in the Diocese. . Rev. Clement Killgoar, SS.CC.. is pastor of St. Anthony's Church in Mattapoisett and the Sisters will assist in parish work from tbeil' new home On Main Street.
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