CHARITIES APPEAL UNDERWAY Bis/lop Plans Expansion
House-to-House Sunday Doorbells will ring between noon and 3 Sunday afternoon as 14,125·,Catholic Charities Appeal solicitors of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River call on fellow parishioners and friends for donations and pledges to the 31 agencies of the Appeal. These agencies provide social services to thousands of people of every race, color or creed in southeastern Massachusetts. A total of' 95,250 homes representing close to 300,000 persons will hear the ring
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Friends of Catholic Charity: We have had a fine family-relationship, these past twenty seven years. Out of it has come great works of charity, visible to the eye. We have five splendid Homes for the Aged and Chronically Ill. They bring shelter and relief to nine hundred senior citizens. When the new wing at Catholic Memorial is finished, this summer, there will be accommodations for fifty more people, whether active or ailing. These. Homes have been a Godsend to most· of the families of the Diocese. No one of us likes to consign a
The first phase' of the 1969 Catholic Charities Appeal is in full swing as 600 solicitors are calling on 1500 professionl, business, fraternal and industry leaders throughout the Diocese of Fall River in . order to afford them the opportunity of supporting and expanding the 31 agencies that are so essential to the economy of the area and the care of the needy. Atty. James H. Smith of Falmouth, Appeal Lay Chairman said today: "The Dio-
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• NEW COMMISSION • NEW MISSAL • NEW CALENDAR VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI gave the simple yet formal consistory for the anouncement of new cardinals a little more life than usual when, besides naming the new Cardinals, he also announced two new Congregations of the Curia, a long~ The new Cardinals, waiting in awaited Theological Comthree large halls in the city of mission, a new Missal and Rome, received the news of their a new liturgical calendar. Turn to Page Seventeen
It.-Cot Cormier to Speak At Vincentians Conference The Diocese of Fall River will host the Fourth Annual Northeastern Regional Conference of the Society of 5t. Vincent de Paul on May 23, 24 and 25. Vincentians from all parts of New England and New York will be in Fall ., River to attend the various study sessions. H. Frank Maynard, Mass. He took over Reilly, president of the Dio- the direction of OCD Region One '1 in January 1964, and is responcesan Centra I COllnCl and sible for the coordination and his committee have been working diligently to provide the best program possible. One of the outstanding speakers to address the conference is Lt.-Col. Laurie J. Cormier. An attorney and former mayor of Leominster, Mass., Mr. Cormier is director of Region One, Office of the Secretary of the Army, Office of Civil Defense,
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. RE\!. MR. J. A. GOMES New Bedford
REV. MR. O. E. SMIYII Attleboro
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Bishop To Ordain Sev'en Priests On Saturday Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River, will ordain seven deacons to the priesthood in St. Mary's
The Fourteent.h Annual Catholic Teachers' Convention of the Diocese of Fall River will be held on Thursday and Friday, May 8 and 9, 1969 at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro. Over eight hundred religious and lay teachers who staff the seventy schools of the diocese program) in various educational areas will speak to elementary will convene to hear of the and high school teachers on latest developments in the topics varying from the commueducational worlq. A full program of experts (see following
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Saturday.Evening Mass To Fulfill Sunday Duty
Cathedral, Fall River, on SaturIn a letter sent to all pastors and administrators of day morning, May 3 at 10. parishes in the Diocese of Fall River, the Most Reverend Six of the newly ordained Bishop has authorized a Mass on Saturday' afternoon or priests will serve in the Diocese of Fall River, while the seventh evening at which the faithful may fulfill their Sunday will serve' in the Diocese of Mass obligation. The Mass Oakland, _Cal. is to take place between the done at the request of many Those being ordained to the persons whose familiarity with hours of 4 and 8 P.M. This Latin priesthood are: Rev. Mr. Norhas led them to miss its mand J. Boulet, Rev. Mr. Robert goes into effect the last SunTurn to Page Six J. Carter, Rev. Mr. Gerard A. day in May. Charbonneau, Rev. Mr. Richard The Bishop has also indicated R. Gendreau, Rev. Mr. John A. .that some of the faithful have Gomes, Rev. Mr. Owen E. Smith been requesting a Mass in Latin and Rev. Mr. Ronald J. Lagasse. for Sunday, and he asks pastors The last named will serve in the to consult their Parish Councils and base a decision for a single Oakland Diocese. All priests attending the Ordi- Latin Mass on Sunday upon the The Fall River Diocesan nation may concelebrate with the recommendation of this Parish Council of Catholic Women Bishop and the newly-ordained. Board of Advisors. The decision will hold its 16th annual Rev. Mr. Boulet is the son of of the Parish Council, either to have a Latin M~ss or not to is convention on Saturday, Oliva and Lumena Langevin May 3 at Bishop Stang High Boulet of 296 Coffin Ave., New to be communicated to the School, North Dartmouth. The Bedford. A graduate of St. An- Chancery. Last Sunday in the Cathedral theme of the convention will be thony's High, New Bedford, he "Service to God in His Excepattended Our Lady of Providence in Fall River, a High Mass was tional Children" and the host Seminary, Warwick, and St. sung in Latin with the traditionMary's Seminary in Kentucky al Gregorian chants. This was district will be New Bedford. Turn to Page Two Turn to Page Six
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