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VOL. 45, NO. 23 • Friday, June 8, 2001
Southeastern Massachusetts' Largest Weekly • $14 Per Year
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FALL RNER .:..- Tne:request for reiir~fu~ni'bythree pastors has been approved by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFMCap. Father George F. Almeida, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Swansea, will retire effective June 10. Father John P. Driscoll, pastor of St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford, and Father Manuel P. Ferreira, pastor of St. Anthony Parish, Taunton, will retire effective June 20. Father Almeida The son of the late Manuel and the late Anna (Medeiros) Almeida, Father Almeida, 70~ was born in Newport, R.I. ~ 'He 'graduated from A~tlebor6 High School in 1,949 and : attend~d St. Thomas'Sernin'ary in Bloomfield, Conn.; St.
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Mary's Se'minary in Baltimore, Md., and Our Lady of the Angels Seminary in Albany, N. Y. He was ordained a priest on May 1, 1965- by Auxiliary Bishop James J.Gerrard in St. Mary's Cathedral. He has been a parochial vicar at St. Michael, St. Anthony of Padua and Our Lady of the Angels parishes in Fall,River; St. Anthony and Our Lady of Lourdes in Taunton; Our Lady of Mount Carmel in New Bedford and Sacred Heart Parish in Oak Bluffs. He was pastor of St. Elizabeth's Parish, Edgartown, from 1981 until 1988, when he became pastor of Holy Family Parish, East Taunton. Since May 1997, he has been pastor at Our Lady of Fatima"Parish, Swansea. Tum to page 15 - Retirees
PEOPLE LIKE Bill Byrnes are helping to make this year's Catholic Charities Appeal a success. The owner of the Tedeschi Food Shop in Fall River, collected more than $250 from ~. . customers for the annual Appeal by placing a ' ~ container on his counter. Byrnes is a member ~ of St. Mary's Church, Norton. (AnchodGordon ~ photo)
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Charities Appeal, moves by $2.7M • Hopes to surpass last year's mark.
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FALL RIVER - "We're approaching 'crunch time' Il in this year's Catholic Charities Appeal," says Msgr. i Thomas 1. Harrington, director, and Michael J. Donly, diocesan Director of Development agrees. Many of the more than 100 parishes throughout the I diocese have transmitted two or more partial reports to Diocesan Headquarters located at the Chancery Office, and returns stand at just over $2.75M. "We're encouraged, naturally, at this juncture," the coordinators of the campaign confessed, "but we do sense that there is the potential to significantly exceed last year's amount of $3.4 million." To accomplish this, the CCA leaders urged pastors and parish committees to utilize every means to attract new donors to the campaign. They also asked pastors to encourage any former contributors who, to date, have not yet participated in this year's drive to join more than 50,000 other residents of the diocese in responding to the spring-season Appeal. Although the closing date for the Appeal is approaching, Monsignor Harrington and Donly emphasized that there is still time for people to help with donations to maintain, expand and improve the "outreach" of diocesan agencies, institutions and ministries to needy families and individuals in southeastern Massachusetts. ''This year, as is invariably the case every spring, there are many wonderful stories which illustrate the panorama of the Appeal," noted Monsignor Harrington. As the photo indicates, the owner of a Tedeschi store on a busy street in Fall River displayed a container on the store counter for patrons to contribute loose change to ·1'
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