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t eanc 0 VOL. 32, NO. 22

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Friday, May 27, 1988

FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS

FALL RIVER, MASS.

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Groundbreaking set for Mashpee parish With commingling ofearth from the Holy Land, Rome, its mother parish and missions and the garden of nearly every parish home, ground will be broken at 3:30 p.m. Sunday for Christ the King Church at Mashpee Commons. The commingling, said Father Ronald A. Tosti, pastor of the new Cape Cod parish, will symbolize Christ the King's unity with the land of Christ, with the seat of Catholicism in the Eternal City, with its mother parish of Our Lady of the Assumption in Osterville, with former missions of Our Lady of the Assumption in Cotuit, San-

tuit and Popponesset Beach, and of parishioners with each other and the universal Church. Presiding at the ceremony will be Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Father Tosti. Also present will be James Edwards, architect with the Boston firm of Holmes and Edwards and Charles Altieri, president of Auburn Construction Co. of Whitman. Invit'ed guests will include area clergy and the selectmen of Barnstable and Mashpee. Turn to Page Six

Officer arrests pro-lifers, then resigns as "penance" JACKSON, Miss. (NC) - A Jackson police officer has resigned as "penance" for arresting antiabortion protesters. Joe Daniels, 31, a lO-year veteran of the Jackson Police Department, said he resigned after he helped arrest 64 of about ISO antiabortion protesters for trespassing during an abortion clinic sit-in sponsored by the Jackson Right to Life organization as part of a national "Operation Rescue" abortion protest. "I have never been directly confronted with people attempting to save lives and 1had to draw a line,"

said Daniels, a former detective in the department's child protection unit. He described his resignation as penance for his part in the arrests. He said he was taking several demonstrators to the police station when they began "convicting" him for his part in the arrest. "I told them I was in sympathy with them but I just had a job to do. Then someone in the car started praying aloud for me and at that point I came to the realization that 1had done my duty but had cleared the path for thos~ people at the Turn to Page Six

PRINCIPALS AT DCCW convention, from left, Mrs. Theodore Wojcik Sr., first vicepresident; Mrs. James Almeida, convention chairman; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin; Miss Dorothy A. Curry, DCCW president. (Rosa photo)

"Do whatever he tells you"

35th annual DCCW parley By Pat McGowan

Undaunted by early morning thunder and, lightning, over 400 members of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women converged last Saturday upon St. Mary's parish center, South Dartmouth, for their 35th annual convention, hosted by New Bedford District II of the council. They were challenged "to so love and serve the world that you are an arrow of light shot in the darkness." The challenge came from Father Francis T. McFarland, director of the Boston Catholic Television Center and convention keynote speaker.

Speaking to the day's theme, "Do Whatever He Tells You," the words of Mary to the waiters at the marriage feast of Cana, Father McFarland pointed out that "Mary still says 'Do whatever he tells you.' " What he tells us, said the priest, is that we should feed the hungry, clothe the naked and perform the other works of mercy, remembering that "when you do it to them, you do it to me." These Gospel directives, he said, are the basis for church involvement in social ministry. Very often, he said, people undertake a cause enthusiastically, but commitment wanes. "But

Mary is still saying, 'Do whatever he tells you,' so how do we maintain interest and creativity? "Our ability to continue is in direct proportion to how much we pray," declared Father McFarland, noting, on the vigil of Pentecost, that "we must plug into the Spirit just as we'd plug into electricity -this will help us create a new social order." He added that confidence i-n God plays a large part in the success of one's endeavors: "After Mary told the waiters 'Do whatever he tells you,' she went back to her table and relaxed. She had Turn to Page Five

Retirement, Family Ministry changes set

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Bishop Daniel A. Cronih has announced the retirement for reasons of health of Father Daniel A. Gamache, pastor of St. Joseph's parish, New Bedford. He will retire on June IS. The bishop also announced that he has acceded to the request of Father Ronald A. Tosti, pastor of Christ the King parish, Mashpee, to be relieved ofthe directorship of the Diocesan Office of Family Ministry and the Family Life Center, both in North Dartmouth. Father Horace J. Travassos will succeed Father Tosti in the directorship. The change will be effective July 1.

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Former detective Joe Daniels

Father Gamache Born in Fall River, Father Gamache is the son of the late Adolphe and Clairina (Lanneville) Gamache. After graduation from Blessed Sacrament School, Fall River, he prepared for the priesthood at St. Alexandre's College,

Limbour, Quebec, and St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. He was ordained to the priesthood Feb. 24, 1945, in St. Mary's

FATHER GAMACHE

Cathedral by Bishop James E. Cassidy. For 24 years he was associate pastor at St. Jacques parish, Taunton, for 17 years of that time also being a chaplain at Taunton State Hospital. Following four years as administrator at St. Jean Baptiste parish, Fall River, lle was named to his present pastorate. Father Tosti Father Tosti, a Taunton native, prepared for the priesthood at St. Thomas Seminary, Bloomfield, Conn., and S1. Mary's, Baltimore. Ordained May II, 1962, by Bishop James L. Connolly, he served thereafter as parochial vicar at Our Lady of the Assumption parish, Osterville, and Sacred Heart and SS. Peter and Paul parishes in Fall River. From 1970 to 1973, he was diocesan director of religious eduTurn to Page Six


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