Special Gifts Contributions Are Most Encouraging
Charities Appeal Total Is on the Rise.
Latest. Special and Parish Returns Push Sum to $227,747.66
The
ANCHOR
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, May
Vol. 7, No. 18 ©
1963 The Anchor
In a special interview with "The Anchor, James F. Mooney' Jr. Chairman of the 1963 Catholic Charities Ap
peal, stated "A legion of parish solicitors made over eight-five thousand initial contacts last Sunday. The resultF of their work give great promise. It would be premature to make a ,predicition at this point. The parish returns· made to this time are largely the first returns. There'is a fulI week of cam paigning left." "However," Mr. Mooney con tinued, "the increase noted in' the ten"dollar and up category of these first returns indicates a very generous response to the charitable needs of the Diocese. be a big help if all Spe 9, 1963 Itcialwill Gift and all Parish Solicitors make their returns speedily. We are poised on' the edge of a very PRICE lOe successful Appeal." The full co $4.00 per Year operation of all Solicitors can make it that success. Most of the contributions listed under Special Gifts are in but there are still others to be heard from. Parishes have made their first reports, the amounts raised on. Sunday afternoon Turn to Page Two hand know
Eulogist Stresses Charity Of Monsignor Lariviere
A charitable man does not let his right what his left is doing- he wants his good works known only by God. Such was the life. of Monsignor Lariviere as described in the eulogy Monday morning in St. Jean Baptiste Church, Fall River, by Rev. F. Anatole Des marais, pastor of St. Jacques Pari:;h, Taunton. The late Monsignor's early missionary work in So. Carolina developed • spirit in the young priest that continued for 46 years. Thc eulogist stated that "anx iety to scrve his people perme ated evcry moment of Monsignor Lar'jvicr'e's life." Officers for the Pontifical Requiem Mass were: Assistant Priest: Rt. Rev. Msgr. Humberto S. Medeiros. Deacons of Honor: Rt. Rev. Msgr·. Alfred J. Bonneau, Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Consi dine. Deacon of the Mass: Rev. Maurice H. Lamontagne. Subdeacon of the Mass: Rev. Henri Charest. Acolytes: Rev. James A. Mc earthy, Rev. Donald A. Couza. Thurifer: Rev. Joseph OliveiI·a. Book Bearer: Rev. Rene R. Levesque. Candle Bearer: Rev. John F. AndJ·cws. Gr'emiale Bearer: Rev. Rlch~ ard R. Demers. Mitre Bearer: Rev. Robert F. Kaszynski. Mastcrs of Ceremonies: Rev. John H. Hackett, Rev. Maurice a. Jeffrey.
Prelates to Bless UMass C'enter
MONSIGNOR LARIVIERE Monsignor Lariviere, son of the late Philip E. Lariviere and Hermina Provencal, was born on Turn to Page Seven
PLEDGE FOR CHARITY: Mrs. Catherine Hicks, left, accepts a 1963 Catholic Charities Appeal pledge card from collector Mrs. Joseph H. McNeil, both of St. Pius X Parish. So. Yarmouth.
Diocesan School Convention Opens Today in Attleboro A call for more and better interaction between the theologian and the teacher was one of the telling points made this morning by Brother Bartholomew, C.F.X., Superintendent of Xavarien Brothers Schools, as he ad. dressed 1000 Sisters, Broth Association members of the I! ers, priests and lay teachers high schools and 50 elementary of the Diocesan Catholic schools of the Diocese are meet Teachers Association. The ing today and tomorrow in the
Joins Mission Staff
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Fr. Clark to Aid in Latin America Work On petition of the Latin America Bureau, N.C.W.C., Was h in g ton, Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D.,
of a $750,000 Newman Center at the University of Massachu setts in Amherst Wednesday evenin~, May 15. Bishops of the other two Mas sachusetts dioceses will also take part in the ceremonies begin ning at 6 o'clock. Most Rev. Bernlu'd" J. Flanagan, bishop of. Turn to Page Five
Bishop of the Diocese of Fall River, announced today the ap pointment of Rev. James A. Clark, assistant at St. Mary's Church, New Bedford, as as sistant director of the Latin America Bureau program which includes the Papal Volunteer program. Rev. John M. Consi dine, M.M. a native of New Bed ford, is director of the Bureau, and Rt. Rev. William Quinn of the Archdiocese of Chicago, is "co-director. Father Clark will report to his new assignment during the fir'st week of June. On Aug. 27, he will start special classes at the University of Puerto Rico and take courses in Spanish and Latin American culture.
Adults from all over the Diocese will receive the Sac rament ·of Confirmation at Z on Sunday afternoon in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. Candidates are asked to pre sent themselves at the Cathe dral at 1:30 with the necessary document that they may ob &ain from their parish priest.
WASHINGTON (NC) Diocesan directors of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine have s t ron g 1 y" backed the concept of catecheti cal centers near public schools, built by parishes which have no parochial school and used for religious instruction of Catholic children in public schools and adults. The directors estimated there are about 8,000 U.S. parishes without parochial schools. The 1963 Official Catholic Directory lists a total of 17,298 parishes in the country. In a resotution adopted at their recent Miami Beach con vention and released here by the Turn to Page Two
Bi:;hop Connolly will cele brate a pontifical Mass and Richard Cardinal Cushing will preside at the dedication
Confirmation
Asks Parishes Build Centers
The new assistant director of
REV. JAMES A. CLARK
the Bureau was born Aug. n, 1929, in New Bedford, the son of John J. Clark and Elizabeth M. Cheetham Clark. A graduate of Coyle High School, Taunton he attended Providence College and St. John's Seminary, Brighton. Ordained on Feb. 2, 1955 by Bishop Connolly in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River,' Father Clark was assigned as assistant to St. Mary's Church, New Bed ford, and it has been his only parochial appointment. . In addition, he has served as assistant director of PAVLA and Lay Extension in the Dio cese to the Diocesan director, Rt. Rev. Raymond T, Considine, Diocesan Director of the Propa gation of the Faith. Father Clark also wrote a column on P AVLA Lay Exten sion work in The ANCHOR. Father Clark's address in Washington will be the Latin America Bureau, N.C.W,C., 131:& Massachusetts Avenue, N. W.
perfect convention setting of Bishop Feehan High School ill Attleboro for their Eighth Alt. nual Convention. The Annual High School Sci. ence Fair is also taking place there, and another highlight of the Convention is the display of almost 100 exhibitors. in the spacious gymnasium adjoining the auditorium. These exl1ibits give teachers the opportunity of seeing for themselves the new- . est and latest in evel')" type of school supply. Brother Bartholomew, at the keynote session presided over by the Most Reverend Bishop with Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Super intendent of Diocesan Schools, as chairman, urged the teachers to a deeper commitment to self-improvement, a necessity brought' aaout by the rapid ex pansion of knowledge. And facing realistically the pressing Turn to P"ge Eighteen
Ordination The Most Reverend Bishop will ordain Rev. Mr. Edmund A'. Connors and Rev. Mr. Rob ert J. Laughlin to the priest. hood for service" in the Diocese on Saturday morning at 10 in st. Mar,.'. Cathedral, Fall River.