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Vocations 'Sunday dJTbe Vocations: Church ANCHOR Offers Great Hope Visible, Credible Dearly Beloved in Christ, " In the Decree on Priestly Formation of the Second Vatican Council, the whole People of God, families, teachers, clergy and religious, together with the Bishop, are called upon to form an active partnership in the work of encouraging vocations, cooperating in this task with Divine Providence. I am pleased, therefore, to report to you all that here in the Diocese of Fall River we continue to be blessed in the important area of vocations to the priesthood. Earlier this month, I was privileged to confer the Sacrament of Holy Orders 'upon four new priests, who, with a fifth new priest ordained earlier during the year, have increased the ranks of the clergy of the Diocese in a most encouraging way. It gives me even greater satisfaction to announce that we expect a dozen new seminarians to begin studies for the priesthood of the Diocese next autumn. With this expectation, our Diocese will number over fifty young men in seminary studies, a sign of vitality and hope for which we are most grateful to Almighty God., ' The ,expense of educating our young men' for the Turn to Page Two,
This coming Sunday, June 4, the Feast of Corpus Christi, will be observed in all the parishes , of the Diocese as a Diocesan Day of Prayer. This Day of Prayer brings together at one and the same time the Forty Hours pevotion services observed by parishes in former years at various designated times throughout the year. Emphasis will be on Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with particular stress this year on prayer for priestly vocations.
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The 1972 Catholic Charities Appeal of the Diocese of Fall River has attained the highest total in the thirty-one years of the Appeal. The total for this year is $897,505.41. This represents an ,increase of $23,935.63 over the 1971 Appeal total which was the, previous high total. The final number of parishes surpassing the 1971 totals is 87. Last year, 90 parishes were placed on the honor roll. Holy Name parish, Fall River, had the highest total of all the parishes with a total of $27,366.75. St. Turn to Page Two
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All Parishes. To Honor Eucharist
Vol. 16, No. 22, June 1, 1972
VATICAN CITY (NC}-Pope Paul VI urged all Catholics t() work hard to foster Religious vocations among the young as the visible sign of the Church's "credibility" in the world. In a letter addressed to all sectors of the Catholic world, the Pope stressed the immense importance that vocations hold for the Church "as the sign of its visibility, the confirmation of its future." The Pope called for prayers that God's voice "may be heard with generosity by ever more ardent and numerous groups of young people and that they may be persons of solid Eucharistic piety, enlightened Marian devotion." The Pope said that a "vocation is a serious undertaking that requires an openness, an interior attitude and a breaking with every self-interest and with human prudence, both on the part of those who have been called and those who are close to them." "The family is the first seminary," the Pope said, aQd is the irreplaceable reserve from which new vocations to the Church come. "All know the gravity and urgency of priestly vocations Tum tq Page Two '
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At Stonehill Graduation "YO\~ gradua':es have seen more change in your lifetimes than occurred in the whole history of man before you were born," Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President of Notre Dame University, told .graduates and their guests at Stonehill College: commencement ceremonies held Sunday at the North Easton campus. Citing the enormous changes in the Church, transportation, knowledge, energy and higher education as examples, Father Hesburgh cautioned the students, "It is your reaction to these changes and those to come which will determine what kind of a world you live in." "You can have several reactions:" he cont:nued, lOa feeling Tum to Page Eleven
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Borman Asserts Flight to Moo~ Renewed Faith NEW YORK (NC)-Col. Frank Borman, commander of the first manned flight,around the moon, told an American Bible Society meeting that the words of the Bible were "never more applicable" than now. Borman, an Episcopal I,ay reader, read from the Book of Genesis on Christmas Eve, 1968, as Apollo 8 orbited the moon. He said that the broadcast to' millions had elicited reactions from millions. Asked in an interview whether many queries had come from theologians interested in a "theology of space" he said he was "amazed" at the keen concern of Pope Paul VI, whom he met in . 1969. "He wa,s interested in what we thought and felt as we looked back at the earth" and in the meaning of "the concept of man going beyond the ea~th and the solar system." In his prepared remarks Borman, now an airline executive, said that the voyage was the Turn to Page Six
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High schools of the diocese will graduate 1141 students in ceremonies to be held at eight schools, beginn~ng Monday, June 5 and continuing throughout next week. Last June, 12 schools held ,graduations. Four, have since merged with the remaining eight. The total of graduates in"eludes 638 gir:s and 503 boys. Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, will hold ceremonies at 8 Monday night, June 5 with Bishop Cronin presiding and Rev. Patrick O'Neill, diocesan school superintendent, also speaking. NinElty-two boys and 80 girls will receive diplomas at the first graduation for the combined Coyle and Cassidy high schools. Ceremonies are scheduled for Turn to Page Two
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