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Diocesans In Rally For Anti-Abortion Led by an organizing committee including many members of the F\lll River Diocese, Massachusetts anti-abortion organizatiqns will hold a three-part rally in Boston from 12:30 to 3 Sunday afternoon, May 20. Titled "Witness for the Unborn-An Assembly and March for Life," the event will begin at the State House steps on Beacon Street where at 12:30, following a brief ecumenical prayer service, Dr. Mildred Jefferson will deliver the keynote address. The assembly will then proceed to City Hall Plaza where at approximately 1:30 other speakers will be heard. From there, participants will continue to the Federal Court House at Post Office Square for a final assembly. Featured speakers who will be
Over $300,000 Mark First returns from the 115 parishes and the Special Gift dona- . tions received to date bring the total to $308,216.00, in the 1973 Catholic Charities Appeal. "It is most gratifying to see the initial parish reports." said Joseph H. Feitelberg of Somerset, diocesan lay chairman of this year's Appeal. "It indicates a most favorable response by the people in the parishes to Bishop Cronin's call for support of the works of chairty, mercy, social service and other apostolic endeavors of the diocese," he noted. Every parish which surpasses its 1972 fina'l total in the Appeal ~
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in this year's campaign will be listed on the Honor Roll. Last year, 88 p;lrishes execeeded previous totals and were enrolled on
the Honor Roll. The goal in this year's Appeal is for one hundred percent representation on the
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participating have already borne witness to the dignity of life. They include Mrs. Susan Anderson, Birthright of Cape Cod; Mrs. HOLYOKE (NG)-More than Jean Healey, Birthright of the . 140 clergy, nuns and laity from S'outhshore; Dr. Jefferson, President of Value of Life Commit- 11 New England dioceses in. tee, Inc.; Marianne Rea, Secre- six -states.......met with their 24 bishtary of Mass. Youth FOR Life; ops in an historic Regional ConRoy Scarpato, President of Mass. vention here which produced Citizens for Life, Inc.; and Prof. documents on family life, youth, Gordon Zahn, University of Mas- abortion and nearly a score of suggestions for' consideration by sachusetts. Members of the clergy who American bishops. During the two full days of will conduct the ecumenical sertalk, the bishops l!'istened to and vice include Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman, Newton; Rev. Albert E. learned from highly articulate Bates, Braintree; Rev. James J. laity and clergy in some 20 small Haddad, St. John's Seminary, group sessions. A contingent of Brighton; Rev. Stanley S. Har- 40 youths found, as one put it, akas, Hellenic College, Brookline. that "bishops are human" and This. "Witness for the Unborn" is being sponsored under the . Turn to Page Ten .
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New Englanders Find Meeting Success pressed to meet them on a regular basis. The family spirit which pervaded the discussions communicated the' notion that an era of dialogue has arrived and .polarization is waning in the American Church. The convocation, and. 11 others like it across the United States, had a set purpose: to probe questions of "Fami,ly Life and Marriage" and "Youth and the Church'! and to give special consideration to abortion. The findings will form the input for what the National Conference of
Shows Priest's Victimhood In Rev. Leo C~rry's Life Just as the mother of the apostles James and John did not fully understand "that their foliowing Christ would mean sharing in a new and eternal and perfect priesthood whose offering would no longer be vicarious, but for real ... so Father Leo M. Curry was chosen by Christ to drink deeply of the cup of suffering."
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Honor Roll. .Indications show that every parish will strive to surpass its 1972 contributions. The first parishes to attain honor roll stat liS this year are St. Louis, Fall River with a total of $3,383 up to this date, and St. Rita, Marion with a present total of $2,622.00. Other parishes are close to achieving Honor Roll Status. A new plan, started a few years ago, divides the diocese into five areas, listing the first five leading parishes in each area. There would be 25 parishes listed. The areas are: Cape Cod and the Islands, the Attleboros, Taunton, New Bedford and Fall River.
So spoke Rev. Daniel E. Carey, pastor of St. Dominic Parish in Swansea as he delivered the homily at the concelebrated Pontifical Mass' of Christian' Burial for his classmate, Rev. Leo M. Curry, Co-Chaplain of the Catholic. Memorial Home, who died on May 5. "When Father Curry stood at the altar to offer the Body and Blood of the Lamb of God, he was at the same time offering his own bodily sufferings in union with Jesus. "The cup Father Curry offered was filled with :the sufferings of the High Priest, but inseparably intermingled in that cup was the wealth of his own. It was not unfortunate, it was of divine plan and design, that Father Curry suffered mental anguish and physical pain for so many years of his life. "Pressed to his lips was the same cup of which Jesus drank, tl1e same cup that was offered to James and John, the same partici'j)ation in the Victimhood of the Lamb of God. "In this our own day, we hear much of the participation of the laity in the priesthood of Christ. An earlier generation heard little of this profound truth whereby Turn to Page Three
Catholic Bishops will say on the subjects in their annual meeting next November. Bishop Louis E. Gelineau of Providence,.R. I., spokesman for the New England bishops said a committee of four prelates-Archbishop John F. Whealon of Hartford, Bishop Peter L. Gerety of Portland, Bishop Wa,lter W. Curtis of Bridgeport, Bishop Joseph F. Maguire of Boston-will study all the information and report back to the bishops of the region. After approval by the region's bishops, the recommendations will be sent to the NCCB in Washington for consideration along with the reports of the other 11 regions. The New Englanders did their assignment and went further. They took 10 "consensus" votes on extra things they thought the hierarchy should know their views about. These included Communion in the hand which they indorsed almost unanimously; exploration of "women in the ministry"; education on the subject of unconditional amnesty for draft evaders; appointment of vicars in dioceses for the Spanish-speaking; examination of diocesan investment policies in the light of Turn to Page Six
Invitation Bishop Cronin cordially invites all the clergy, Religious and laity of the Diocese to participate in the priestly ordination of Rev. Mr. Steven R. Furtado, Rev. Mr. Philip J. Higgins and Rev. Mr. Horace Travassos in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, on Saturday morning, May 12, at 11 o'clock.
Priests wishing to concelebrate with Bishop Cronin are alsked to bring amice, alb, cincture and stole.
A MOTHEWS LOVE: Mother's Day, May 14, is an American hoBday, but the love celebrated on that day is a universal experience. In India, Mrs. Jyoti Kankamala lovingly holds her daughter, Renau, as they await help ..t a child care center in the diocese of Nagpur, India.
All priests present are invited to take part in the laying of hands in the ordination rite. They are to be vested in cassock and surplice or Mass vestments.
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