FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
t eanc 0 VOL. 28, NO. 19
FALL RIVER, MASS., FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1984
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AT GROUND BLESSING ceremony for the new Notre Dame Church, school children and adults watch as Bishop Daniel A. Cronin commends building project to our Lady's protection. Others, from left, Rev. Ernest E. Blais, pastor; Msgr. J~hn J. Oliveira; Rev. Roland Boule. (Gaudette Photo)
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• ,site IS, hIes-sed Nostalgia for the past and hope that he was looking forward to the formal groundbreaking for for the future mingled at. Mon day's ground blessing for the the church, set for 3 p.m. Sun new Notre Dame Ohurch, Fall day, May 20, blessed the site. In the area of the new church's River, on which work is now be sanctuary he imparted a bless ginning. On hand under sunny spring ing with Lourdes ~ater ,blessed skies were' Bishop Daniel A. at a Mass earlier in th~ day. Cronin and Msgr. John J. Oliv The water, from the French eira; Father Ernest E. Blais, No shrine of Notre Dame de Lourdes, tre Dame pastor; Rev. Robert ,for whom the FaIl River parish Blais, OP, associate; and Father was named, will also be used Roland Boule, now retired, a at the groundbreaking and the former Notre Dame associate. dedication of ·the new church building. Backing them up were 700 en Following the ceremony the thusiastic children from Notre Dame and Mt. St. Joseph schools, bishop met Miss Aurore Bou chard, 88, whose former residence plus 100 adult parishioners. All joined to sing "Come, fell victim to the 1982 blaze that Let's ~uHd" under direction of consumed the old Notre Dame Sister Claudette Lapointe, RJM, Church, a city landmark, as well and then 'to recite a decade of as many neighboring homes and businesses. the rosary, led by the pastor. Turn to Page Six Bishop Cronin, after noting
SEOUL, South Korea (NC) During the first week in May. Pope John Paul II carried his plea for peace and human rights more than 10,000 miles, from tiny Vatican City across the top of the globe and down into one of the world's high-tension areas, the Korean peninsula. Along the way, he also dis cussed world issues with Presi dent Reagan during a May 2 stop in Fairbanks, Alaska. The pope combined his role as the world's moral leader with that of pastor of South Korea's 1.4 . million Catholics, helping them celebrate the 200th anni versary of Korean Catholicism and making saints of 103 Kor ean martyrs, the first canoniza tion ceremony held outside of Rome'in modern church history. He also pleaded for thereuni fication of Korea. The country was partitioned after World War II by the United States and the Soviet Union and two indepen dent countries were subsequent ly 'created: Communist-ruled North Korea and U.S.-aligned South Korea. In North Korea religion was repressed following. expulsion of priests and nuns, and the pope has no idea as to what has be come of the faith of the 200,000 Catholics there when the border was sea,led. Worse still is the human ang uish of separation. Ten million South Koreans have family mem bers in North Korea and have had no contact with them for a generation. , So it was of'reunification that the pope spoke when first set ting foot in South Korea. At Seoul's airport, he announced May 3 that he had come as "an apostle of peace." ' South Korea also has domestic problems. A military government headed by President Chun Doo hwan is so fearful of mHitary or political invasion by the North that human freedoms frequently are restricted in the' name of na tional security. The church in South Korea has often confronted the government over human rights, and the pope quickly made clear where he stood, declaring his hope that the economic growth of South Korea would "bring about first of all a more human society of true justice and peace." At a May 4 Mass in Kwangju, a city where in 1980 government troops brutally killed hundreds of citizens protesting marital law, the pope pleaded for a spiritua'l rebirth which would bring for giveness.
In a talk to workers in Pusan May 5, the pope called for just wages, a particularly pointed plea in a nation where salaries of industrial workers are among the world's lowest. To diplomats accredited to
South Korea, the pontiff asked "that a new way of thinking may be found" to free humanity from a paralyzing aack of trust and atmosphere of suspicion. 'The joyous high point of the Turn to Page Six
CCA at $596,229
.First returns froOm parishes and Special Gift solicitors show a total of $596,229.91 already collected in the 1984 Catholic Charities Appeal. Special Gift solicitors are re~ quested to make their final re turns by this Saturday. Parishes will continue to make calls on parishioners not contacted ,last Sunday. The par ish phase ends on May ,16. Ap peal books will be open for con tributions ·until May 25 at 1 p.m., the closing date for the Appeal.
Parish HOMr Ron Parishes which surpass their 1983 final Appeal totals in this year's Appeal will be enrolled on the'1984 Parish Honor Roll. Last year, 107 parishes were on the Honor Roll. Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Appeal said: "We are anticipating that every parish - 113 - will be on this year's Honor Roll. We must havesubSitanti8!l :increases in every parish to surpass last Turn to Page Six
A:Mother's Day fantasy
By Hilda Young The perfect mother is 5 feet 2 inches tal'l, wears a size 7 dress, weighs 112 pounds, can screw in burned-out light bulbs , without,a chair :in 8 feet ceilings, hold a 30-pound 2-year-old on her hip while ,loading a 50-pound sack of potatoes onto a ,shopping cart with her free arm and have a lap big enough to hold 2,5' children. " ' 'The· 'perfect mother always prepares balanced meals, feeds· her children all the fast foods they want, never serves leftovers and never forgets dessert. She has a food budget she finances by recycling aluminum and glass, only buys in bulk and during sales and saves enough to redecorate the kitchen. The perfect mother volunteers 20 hours a week at the schooi, .10 hours a week at the parish, holds down a part time job as a librarian and import buyer, ;takes night olasses ,in American history and is home whenever you call because you forgot your lunch or need a ride. .The perfect mother never loses her temper, understands when her 14-year-old wants ':to marry someone 25 and move to Honduras, discipltines without ever saying, "Wait until I tell your father," or "God will get you for ;that" and is never afraid -to show her emotions. The perfect mother is 29 and has 30 years of child-raising experience, never spolIs her child and lets her chHdren do everything that everybody else's mom lets their friends do. The perfect mother knows how to spell "necessary," "ac commodate," "sep~ate" and every other word in the English 'language, never says "Look jot up yourself, turkey" and works well with the teacher in helping build strong study habits. The perfect mother respects a child's privacy, spends severa-l hours of quality time with each child daily and de velops her own personality separate from the f1amily to pre vent emptiness syndrome. The perfeot mother always takes the popped yolk, the bent fork, the chipped 'dish, the seat behind the pHlar, the wobbly chair, the last shower and the eat that has to be parked on a hill to start. The perfect mother' never com plains. The perfect mother doesn't live at our house.