The ANCHOR
Appeal Total Passes
$710,000 and Rising
The 1968 Diocesan, CatihoUc Oharities Appeal today climbed ro $710,344.19. There are still many parishes with inoomplete returns. Tomorrow at 12 noon the official closing of the books 9hould see more parishes exceeding their 1967 final totals. The final! total of the Appeal will be published fum oox't week's Anchor. Lay Chairman Roland' A. Lafrance said, "We' hope lIlll
parishes will be over the top by Blessed Sacrament, Holy Cross, ster; St. John the Baptist, Cen
tomorr<>w evening." Holy Name, Notre Dame, Our tral Village, Holy Redeemer,
Lady of Health, Holy Rosary, St Chatham; St. Anthony, East Fal The 15 leading p21'ishes are: mouth; St. J<>seph, St. Mary, Sa H:<>ly Nallle, Fall River $25,409.00 Anne, st. Anthony of Padua. St. Elizabeth, St. John the ~red Hearts, Fairhaven. Rive;, MOS5., ThursdolV, st. Lawrence, Baptist, St Joseph, St. Mathieu, St: Patrick, Falmouth; Immac
II New Bedford ~,iIH.OO St. Michael, SS. Peter & Paul, ulate C<>nception, North Eas~on;
@ 1968 .l~3 Anchor $4.00P~~EV: StN'~~\;:~dford 15,624.00 St. William, Santo Christo, Fall Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs, SL
River. Mt. Carmel, Michael, Ocean Grove; St. Joan New Bedford 15,476.55 Holy Name, Mt,. Carmel, Our of Are, Orleans; St. Ann, Rayn 15,263.00 Lady of Fatima, Sacred Heart, ham. st.' John, Attleboro I ',- st. Joseph, Fairhavell1 12,567.80 St. Boniface, St. Casimir, St. Mt. Carmel, Seekonk; St. Pius . St. Mary, T~lUnt<>n 101,426.00 James, New Bedford. , I X, Sa. Yarmouth; Our Lady of st. J<>seph, I Our Lady of . Lourdes, St. Fatima, St. Dominic, st. Louis of New Bedford 10,776.50 James, Taunton; Holy Ghost, St. 'France, Swansea; 51. Patrick,
St. Mal'y, Mary, Attleboro. Wareham; Our L.ady of Lourdel3, North Attleboro 10,736.00 Our Lady of the Cape,· Brew- Wellfleet. ' st. Patl'ick, Falm<>uth' 10,732.00
il ., St. Mary, Fall River 10,660.00
St. Pius X,
South Yarmouth 10,339.0,0
I St. Francis Xavier,
Hyannis 10,106.00 St. Mary, South Dartmouth 9,725.50 Holy Name, New Bedford 9,675.00 . In a report of activities of the Senate of Priests of the Diocese of Fall River, Rev. John P. Driscoll, assistant at Sixty-eight parishes have ex ceeded their 1967 final totals SS. Peter and Paul Ohurch in Fall River and President of and are enrolled in the Honor the Senate, revi~wed. the accomplishments of that body Roll of parishes. The new mem since its election and begin bers added since the last publi 1. Expansion of the Senate cation are: St. Mary's Cathedral, ning in September of 1966. 00- include members of the New elections are scheduled younger clergy: Bishop ap " this Fall with the new Senate proved. / membership sitting the· second 2. Full-time chaplains in hos Friday of October. pitals. Bishop did not approve. ,. Father DriscQll p<>inted out 51. Anne's· Hospital in Fall .;' &s~ how this Senate was one of the River-the only Catholic hos " first in the country and the pital in the Diocese-is covered , world. The Decree implement . by full-time chaplains. The ing the Vatican Council direc':' other hospitals in the Diocese tive that such an adV'is<>ry body have priests assigned to them be established' in every Diocese wh<> also work in parishes. was issued on Aug. 6, 1966, and These visit the hospitals on III the Fall River Senate was es regular. basis, s<>me daily. In CHAPEL OF ASCENSION: 1'Jradition has it that here tablished on Sept. 27, 1966. addition, parish priests visit ..the site of the Lord's Ascension on lVJount 00: Olives, a place The following are proposals their hospitalized parishioners. tJMl8d by Moslems, visited by Christians, and now 00 The Bishop felt that pers<>nnel made by the Senate to the Bish lBmeli soil. Feast of the Ascension is today. . .DIOCESAN CENTER op and the Bishop's response to shol'tages would not allow chap them: ' Turn to Page Fiifteen
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WASHINGTON (NC)-Father John J. Considine, M.M., , founding director of the Latin America Bureau (LAB) of t}1e U.S. Catholic Conference, has retired, Bishop Bernardin, ,-ht newly ordained priests. Transferred are: Rev. Edward . 2 to 5 P.M. General Secretary, has anounced here. The resigna io Mitchell, S.T.L.,J.C.D., from Holy Name Church, Fall Birver, to St. Mary's Cathe' tion of Father Considine is effeCtive on Saturday. Fath er Louis M. Colonnese,' ad ~hedral, Fall RIver, to St. /I I ~ f" ministrative director of the Latin America Bureau, has been named the' new director, Bishop Bernardin said. Father Considine is a native :. . . of New Bedf<>rd and has two fiiebor<>. . brothers serving as priests in Since it is the first time in the diocese of Fall River that we will wi,tness an ordina Rev. Thomas C. Lopes, from f5t. Elizabeth Church, Fall River, tion to the diaconate on June 1, we thought it would be fitting to discuss the office of the Fall River Diocese-Rt. Rev. Raym<>nd T. Considine;Diocesan (;0 St. Anthony Church, East the diaconate. With the 'happening' of Vatican II we have seen many a change in our Propagation of the Faith direc l13Imouth. , Rev. Joao C. Martins, from St. Church. The restoration of the office of' the diaconate has been a very significant one. tor and pastor of St. William's Churth in Fall River, and Rev. :tknbhony, East Falmouth, to St. In the past lay people hardly "full of fJhe Spirit and of' wis Actually the offIce of the di ArthurG. Considine, pastor of ever heard of who and what li§li'llabeth Church, Fall River. st. Mary's Church in So. Dart aconate is nothing new in the dom." The disciples were notic Rev. Joaquim F. Fernandes a deaCO)I was (it was sort of Church's life. All we need do is ing that the Word <>f God' and mouth. His three other brothers cia Silva, C.M., from Our Lady kept secret to the seminarian turn to the Acts of the Apostles the service at tables (at the are Pr<>bate C<>urt Justice of Mt. Carmel Church, New and his family). Today, how 6: 1-7 where we read of the Eucharistic table's) were being Walter Considine, George and 1Bedf<>I'd, to St. John the Baptist ever, deacons are ministering to Ap<>stles electing seven men neglected: These seven men, the Frank, all of New Bedford. ChurCh, New Bedford. God's people in many parishes. first deacons, received the 'lay Father Considine has served Bev. Ernest E. Bla1s, from St. Who are they? What can they rH"'N.#~####,,,##,,,,.,,##,,,, •• ,,~ ing on of hands by which they as LAB director since it· W811 ll.ouis de France Church, Swando? Where do they come ftom? Eight semina.rians wiD be· were ordained (ordered) to founded in January, 1960, at oea, to St. Theresa Church, New The deacon is not a 'halfordained to· the 'diacoJll8te make' up for the neglect in the the request· of the Pontifical 'at a public ceremony in st. 1Jedfurd. priest'. He's not just' a regular ministry of the Word and in the Commission for Latin America. Ma.ry's Cathedral. Fall RivRev. Bernard A. Lavoit', from seminarian either, who just distributi<>n of the Eucbarist. In He had been lent to the Latin lWotre Dame de Lourdes Church, happens to be closer to Ordinaell'. on Saturday morning at time the extent of their ministry America Bureau by Maryknoll lFal1ll River, to St. Louis de tion to priesthood. He's not :D.O, June 1, by Most Rev. grew;' besides preaching the at the request of Richard Cal'> llrll:n~e Church, Swansea. "fathel'>' yet; but in a true sense James L. ConnolBy, D.D. Word and distributing the Ell- dinal Cushing of Boston, chair-
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