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SAINT PIUS X School prekindergarten students hosted a Mothers' and Grandmothers' Tea recently at the South Yarmouth SchooL Realizing the need to keep families strong, the Catholic Charities Appeal consistently funds ministries, such as the Diocesan Family Ministries Office.

NFP education keys on mamniiy, Church values Appeal donations helping keep the faith \By DAVE JOllV~,

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NORTH DARTMOUTH "Many of us can see that the family is under siege in this country," s aid Scottie ~:::::=.;;:t Foley, ~qs -11 director ~•• 'AL of the diocesan Family Ministry Program, along with her husband Jerry. uSometimes, our best efforts can be those of preventive measures," added Jerry. uEspecially

when it comes to our families."

The Family Ministry Program is one of many in the diocese funded in part by the annual Catholic Charities Appeal. The Nat u r a I 1f>0.

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FALL RNER - The appointment offour new pastors, the transfer of eight others; and the retirements of three pastors were annoUn~today

by Bishop GeOrge W. Cole~. .

Named new pastors, effective June 28, are: Father Michael Ciryak, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Swansea. where he has been serving as parochial administrator; Father Leonard Hindsley as pastor ofSt. John the Baptist Parish in Westport; Father Hugh J. McCullough as pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Fall River; Father Robert J. Powell as pastor of St. JOOIll of Arc Parish in Orleans.

The 10 transfers of pastors, also effective lime 28, are: Msgr. Stephen J. Avila. from pastor ofSt. Jolm Neumann Parish, East Freetown, to pastor of StMary's Parish in Mansfield; Father George C. Bellenoit, from pastor ofSt. Mary Parish, Mansfield, to pastor of St. !?ius X Parish, South Yarmouth; Father Richard L. Chretien from l?arochDaJ Administrator of Immaculate Conception Parish, Fall River, to pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, Fall River, while remaining pastor of Notre Dame Parish, Fall River.

Father David A. Costa, to pastor of St. Mary Parish, North Attleboro, while remaining pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, North Attlebom; Father Richard E. Degagne, from pastor of1mmaculate Conception Parish, Taunton, to pastor of St. John Neumann Parish, East FreetoW1ll; Msgr. Edmund J. Fitzgerald, from pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish, Westport. to pastor of St. Thomas More Parish, Somerset.

Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye, from pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish, Attleboro, to pastor of Christ the King Parish, Mashpee; Father John J. Perry, from pastorofSt. Joseph Parish in Fall River, to pastor ofSt. Jacques Parish Taunton, as well as pastor ofImmaculate Con-

cejJtibn Parish in Taunton; Father TlIDOthy P. Reis, from parochial admin~strator of St. Pa.ul Parish, Taunton, to pastor of St. Paul Parish, Taunton, while remaining pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Taunton.

• Father Richard M. Roy, from pastor of St. Joan of Arf Parish in Orleans, to pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish, Attleboro.

The approved requests to retire, effective June 28, ~clude Msgr. John J. Smith, pastor of St. Pius X. Parish, South Yarmouth; Msgr. Ronald A. Tosti, pastor of Christ the King Parish in Mashpee; and Father Edward J. Byington, pastorofirSt. Thomas More Parish in Somerset. They join Father Luis A. Cardoso, whose retirement became effective at the end of May. Father Ciryak will become pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Swansea. He was ordained on May 23, 1998 in Toronto, Canada as a Fr.mciscan. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he was incardinated to the Fall River diocese on Feb. 22, 2006.

"Xl's an honor," said Father Ciryak. "It's exciting fOil" me and a privilege to share in the bishop's ministry of being a shepherd and minister to people. The people here ¥e wonderful."

Father Ciryak will continue to serve as the director of Campus Ministry for the diocese, a position he has held for three years. He has also been a chaplain at Bishop Connolly High School during the past three years. <'One aspect of being a priest that's wonderful is we're invited into the sacred ground of family life. I look forward to getting to know the parishioners and families at St. Francis of Assisi."

Father Hindsley will become the new pastor of St. John the Baptist Church in Westport. This will be Father Hindsley's first pastorate.

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Father Salvador named National Chaplain to Catholic Scouting

By MIKE GORDON ANCHOR STAFF

FALL RNER - Father Stephen B. Salvador was attending the 39th biennial meeting of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting in Chicago, 111., when he received the surprising news: he was named chaplain to the national committee.

"I was shocked, but honored," said the pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Parish, who has been at the forefront of Scouting in the diocese and the region for more than 30 years.

Father Salvador will begin the nine-year appointment in April of 2007 and it will be divided into three leadership terms. He ftrst will serve as associate national chaplain then as national chaplain, and finally as past national chaplain.

Father Salvador will continue to serve

in the diocese while carrying out his responsibilities for the NCCS. .

The NCCS facilitates the inclusion of the Boy Scouts of America program in dioceses and parishes across the country as a form of youth ministry.

When first asked to accept the appointment, Father Salvador wasn't sure if he wanted to. He wondered at, 59 year's old, it was something he was too old to take on.

He prayed about it. After talking with Bishop George W. Coleman, who suggested they pray about it together, Father Salvador accepted the nomination.

'The bishop said I would be a good person for the job because I have a good personality and it would be a great honor for the Diocese of Fall River. He encouraged me to accept it."

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FATHER STEPHEN B. 5alvador. pastor of 88. Peter & Paul Parish, Fall River, has been involved in Catholic Scouting for more than 30 years. He will take on the responsibilities of National Chaplain to the National Catholic Committee on Scouting in April 2007. (AnchotfGordon photo)

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By CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROCCA DI PAPA, Italy Whether they meet for prayer daily or monthly and whether they live together or spread out around a city, members of Catholic lay movements and communities are discovering what they have in common.

"We all want to grow. We want to make a difference. We want to witness," said Lorna Mueni Kilonzo, the international Marianist Lay Community's representative in Africa.

Kilonzo, who lives in Nairobi, Kenya, was one of about 300 participants representing some 100 lay movements and communities at a May 31-June 2 congress sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Laity.

Participants at the congress in Rocca di Papa, south of Rome, heard from founders and early members of the Focolare movement, the Sant'Egidio Community, Communion and Liberation, the Neocatechumenal Way, L' Arche and the Catholic charismatic renewal.

A high percentage of the participating communities are, like the Marianist Lay Community, groups affiliated with Catholic religious orders or, like Trinidad's Living Water Community, small groups that trace their roots to the Catholic charismatic renewal.

Outside the formal presentations, which focused on beauty as the expression of God's love and the experience of knowing Christ, congress members discussed their groups' process of maturity and learned about each other and ways they could cooperate to spread the Gospel.

Kilonzo said: "I am learning about how the gifts of the Spirit are present in the movements. We all have different gifts, which we are using for the same goal.

"We are different, but one community is not better than anotherjust because it is bigger," she said.

Patti Mansfield, who recently moved back to New Orleans - although in a different home because hers was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina - told the congress about the 1967 retreat she attended as a student at Duquesne University in

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Pittsburgh. Some two dozen students experienced a vivid outpouring of the Holy Spirit during the retreat, which is seen as the birth of the Catholic charismfltic renewal movement.

Mansfield said 119 million Catholics around the I world have had some experience Of the charismatic renewal movement, but very few live in charisma* communities.

The Duquesne students are not founders of a movement like some of the other speakers at the congress are, she said, adding, '~We are simply witnesses to wHat God has done." : Mansfield said that despite her enthusiasm, learning how to be an effective witness took: time.

"The answer is humility; it is the foundation of all spihtuality and maturity," she said. "~think of my early days of witnessing and it is no wonder people were turned off."

As for competition among the movements, Mansfield said there is a growing appreciatiqn of the fact that "we each have to be good stewards of the vineyard given to us."

The variety of mowements and communities, she said; is a concrete expression of the diversity of spiritual gifts poured out ori the universal church.

I : Archbishop Stanislaw Rylko, president of the countil for the laity, told the congress that as the movements mature, bishops and parish priests are recognizing their value and counting or. them more and more for assistance.

Church leaders, he said, now "are seeing them as la gift of the Spirit and not as an anhoying intrusion as sometimes happened."

The beauty of a fife lived for Christ and for others,: he said, is a powerful tool for evangelization.

'The world that surrounds us is a world dominated by a cult of the ugly, subjugated by tl}e aggressive strength offalse beauty which fools many, making them slaves and prisoners of lies," he said.

The beauty of a' committed Christian life, the archbishop said, challenges "the indifference, grayness and mediocrity of many people's existence, sp¥king in them a desire for somethirg different, something more beautiful and true."

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POPE BENEDICT XVI offers a blessing at the Lourdes grotto in the Vatican Gardens May 31. "Where Mary is, Jesus is present," he said during the prayer service at the close of the Marian month of May. (eNS photo/Dario Pignatelli, Reuters)

Pope says true Marian devotion never weakens faith, love in Jesus VATICAN CIT)'-- True Marian devotion never overrides or weakens love and faith in Jesus, Pope Benedict XVI said at a ceremony marking the close of the Marian month of May. Whoever opens his or her heart to Mary "meets and welcomes" her Son and is "overcome by his joy," the pope said.

"Where Mary is, Jesus is present," he said at the end of a torch-lit procession and rosary recitation May 31 in the Vatican Gardens. ''True Marian devotion never overshadows or

diminishes the faith and love for Jesus Christ our savior, the one and only mediator between God and humankind," he said.

The pope said he knows that he "can count on the help (of Mary) in every situation" and that, with her "maternal intuition," she intercedes and effectively supports the faithful.

As many of the saints of the Church have shown, he said, putting one's trust in Mary leads to "an even more faithful following of the Lord."

Vatican official: Church in China seeks no privileges, only freedom

By JOHN THAVIS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY The Vatican's top foreign affairs official said the Church seeks no privileges in China, but only wants the freedom to organize its internal affairs.

The comments by Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo came after a month of heightened Church-state tensions in China over the ordination of bishops unapproved by Pope Benedict XVI. The archbishop said interference by Chinese authorities in the bishop selection process ends up exacerbating divisions among Chinese Catholics. He spoke in an interview with a Romanian newspaper, and the Vatican translated and distributed the text to journalists last week, "As in all countries of the world, the Church in China does not seek any privilege but only wants to be free in its internal organization," Archbishop Lajolo said.

He said this was a matter of community. Since then, however, Church law and did not represent many government-approved bishan intrusion in the affairs of the ops reconciled with the Vatican, and, increasingly, new bishops Chinese state.

"Likewise, Chinese political were approved by the Chinese authorities should not interfere in government and the Vatican.

In late April, China began orthe internal ordering of the Church and especially in the ap- daining bishops who had not been pointment of bishops," he said. approved by the Vatican, and The archbishop said noninter- sources· in China indicated some ference by the state in bishops' of those participating in the ordiappointments would bring greater nations were pressured by the social peace among the Chinese government to do so.

In the interview, Archbishop people, who at present are forced to choose between "forced obe- Lajolo als9 spoke hopefully about dience to a so-called patriotic relations with the Russian Orthochurch and belonging to the one dox Church, saying it should not Catholic Church in communion , be too difficult to overcome practical problems that have afflicted with the pope."

From the late 1950s, when the ecumenical relations in recent Chinese government formed the years.

"I am confident that Pope Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, until the mid-1980s, the Benedict XVI and Patriarch Alexy only Catholic bishops in China (of Moscow) will be able to meet recognized as legitimate by the in the not-distant future. It will be Vatican were those chosen and a significant gesture for the ecuordained secretly by other bish- menical journey," the archbishop ops in the underground Catholic said.

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Bv SACRED HEARTS FATHER DAVID P. REID On June 15, the feast of COJ]Jus Christi, Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, SS.Cc., will be beatified in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The event will bring great joy to the hearts of many in Brazil. Father Eustaquio was born Humberto van Lieshout in Holland in 1890 and raised within a strong Catholic family. He was deeply moved by reading the story of Blessed Damien de Veuster, SS.Ce., the priest who died of leprosy in Hawaii in 1889, after contracting the disease from the persons he served on Molokai. He joined Damien's religious family, the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (SS.Cc.) Ordained in 1919, he spent five years serving, with notable determination and compassion, a community of displaced persons from

Wallonia, Belgium, whose lives had been hardened by political exile in . . ·Rotherdam, Holland. By 1925, he was already putting this'experience to work as' a pioneering missionary in Brazil, in a fUta\. area of the SACRED HEARTS state of Minas FA11iER DAVID P. RBO Gerais.

In the 10 years he served at the Marian shrine, Our Lady of Abadia in Romeria, he was involved in bringing not only the Gospel to people but also bringing the people to know a new world that included the printing press and cinema. He supplied for the lack of medical care in'the rural areas. He was a man of vision who brought

Diocese of Fall River

OFFICIAL His Excellency, the Most Reverend George W. Coleman, Bishop of Fall River, has accepted the request to retire of: Rev. Msgr. JohnJ. Smith, Pastor of St. Pius X Parish in South Yannouth. " Rev. Msgr. Ronald A. Tosti, Pastor of Christ the King Parish in Mashpee..

Rev. Edward J. Byington, Pastor of St. Thomas More Parish in Somerset.

Effective June 28, 2006

His Excellency, the Most Reverend George W. Coleman, Bishop of Fall River, has an_nounced the .following appointments: Rev. Msgr. Stephen J. Avila from Pastor. of St. John Neumann Parish, East Freetown, .to Pastor of St. Mary Parish, Mansfield.

Very Rev. George C. Bellenoit, v.F., from Pastor of St. Mary Parish, Mansfield, to Pastor of St. Pius X Parish, South Yannouth.

Rev. Richard L. Chretien from Parochial Administrator of Immaculate Conception Parish, Fall River, to Pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, Fall River, while remaining Pastor of Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish, Fall River.

Rev. Michael Ciryak from Parochial Administrator of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Swansea, to Pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Swansea. .

Rev. David A. Costa to Pa~tor of St. Mary Parish, North Attleboro, while remaining Pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, North Attleboro.

Rev. Richard E. Degagne from Pastor ofImmaculate Conception Parish, Taunton, to Pastor ofSt. John Neumann Parish, East Freetown.

Rev. Msgr. Edmund J. Fitzgerald, v.F., from Pastor of St. John the Baptist Paiish, Westport, to Pastor of St. Thomas More Parish, Somerset.

Rev. Leonard Hindsley from residence at Notre Dame i:le Lourdes Parish, Fall River, to Pastor of St. John the Baptist Parish, Westport.

Rev. Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye from Pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish, Attleboro, to Pastor ofChrist the King Parish, Mashpee.

Rev. Hugh J: McCullough from Parochial Vicar of St. Francis Xavier Parish, Hyannis, to Pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Fall River.

Rev. John J. Perry from Pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Fall River, to Pastor of St. Jacques Parish, Taunton, and Pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, Taunton.

Rev. Robert J. Powell, from Parochial Administrator of St. Mary Parish, North Attleboro, to Pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish, Orleans.

Rev. Timothy P. Reis, from Parochial Administrator of St. Paul Parish, Taunton, to Pastor of St. Paul Parish, Taunton, while remaining Pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Taunton.

Rev. Richard M. Roy from Pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish, Orleans, to Pastor: of St. John the Evangelist Parish, Attleboro.

Effective June 28, 2006

many skillfully implemented innovations for the influx ofpilgrims. So endeared was he to the people that many obstructed his departure when it came time for him to leave for his next assignment.

His six years serving in Poa, a town near Sao Paulo, end~ even more dramatically. The small town could not handle the close to 10,000 people who traveled there daily for his blessing. Both Church and state wanted him moved, and so after six years, he was exiled to a privately owned ranch for safety. ''Hide and go seek" marked the rhythm of his life for at least two years until in 1941, he settled in a parish close to Belo Horizonte.

For all his great gifts of healing, Father Eustaquio was also a practical man who could getchurches built and could address the human needs "ofpeople with wise counsel. He tired himself out responding to the many requests made of him. His pastoral experiences made him the apostle of "health and peace," but his peace was"serving others. He saw thatpersons' lives could be claimed by many different forces. Some, for example, were manipulated by a sorcery-like superstition. The gift that integrated all his other gifts and which burned so zealously within him was to counteract the hold that this "spiritism" had on people's lives. He was acharismatic with pOwers to heal, and he weakened the grip of long held superstitious practices by fostering devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes and, especially, to St. Joseph. To manage the great demand for his confessional, tickets were required. People who did 'npt share his Catholic faith

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admired his abundant gifts and the generosity with which he served all.

From early on, Blessed Eustaquio sensed that he would not live a long life. While he caredfdr everyone else, he trusted a different, care-free attitude for himself. Bitten by a tick in August 1943, he SUCC\uribed rapidly from incurable bloop poisoning and died. A religious !Isister with whom he shared his intuitions that his life would be cut sh~rt, claimed that on the day he died ne appeared to her. In .her apparition, ,she learned that he was bypassing purgatory and going straight to heaven. In 1962, a priest, who is in retiremlfnt today in Brazil, was healed froin a severe throat tumor aftet praying through the intercession ofFathet Eustaquio.

Blessed Eustaquio is {veIl known in Belo Horizonte and throughout Brazii; and many ask, through his intercession, for health abd peace health in body and forpe::J.ce ofmind.

Many priests look to Qim for his combination of gifts: a charismatic presence, yet, with a se9se of what is practical and truly helpful for people. His gifts cost him a lot of misunderstanding which he met. with II

humility and obedience. Painful as were the many restrictions put on him, he acceptetl them as part ofliving with the gifts that God gave him.

Life was not ultimately his call, but God's. His very last hour, even while suffering, was spent awaiting the arrival of his religious superior into whose hands, as into the hands of all he served in God's name, he surrendered his whole life.

Father Reid is the provincial of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary in Fairhaven.

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u'.s. bishQps to meet in Los Angeles' Ju;oe 15-17 WASHINGTON (CNS) - Al- cio to the United States,' his first' though the biggest issue the U.S. opportunity to address the entire bishops will face when they meet U.S. hierarchy. next week is a new English transThe bishops will hear several lation of the Order of Mass, the oral reports: from Catholic Relief agenda includes much more.

Services, their Task Force on They will also be asked to ap- Catholic Bishops and Politicians prove a lO-year extension of the , and their Hurricane Task Force. annual collection for retired reliArchbishop Michael J. Sheehan gious and a plan to write a mes- of Santa Fe, N.M., is to pr:.esent a sage to teen-agel's on stewardship. proposal from the Committee on They will discuss - but not Priorities and Plans that would revote on - plans for a major re- duce the number of standing and structuring of the way the USCCB ad hoc committees of the USCCB operates. The main focus of the from more than 50 currently to 14. discussion in June will be, a A reconfiguration of commitreconfiguring ofUSCCB commi't- tees is to be followed by national tees, with a major reduction in their, staff changes as part of an effort number. by the bishops to curb expenses The bishops are to meet June and limit the number of national 15-17 at the Millennium Biltmore projects and activities they underHotel in Los Angeles. take as a conference. The bishops The meeting will give Arch- want their national offices to be bishop Pietro Sambi, who just ar- more focused on limited projects rived in February as apostolic nun- and priorities mandated by the

POPE BENEDICT XVI poses for a photo with New Orleans A"rchbishop Alfred C. Hughes during their private audience at the Vatican June 1. After the meeting, Archbishop Hughes said that he had thanked the pope for his support in the Hurricane Katrin.a crisis. (CNS photo/Catholic Press Photo)

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Before the bishops vote on the new translation of the Order of Mass, Bishop Arthur ~oche of Leeds, England, president of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, is to address the bishops. The first day of the meeting and a small portion ofthe morning session on the second day will be open to media and observ- ' ers. The remainder of the meeting will be held in executive session, out of public view.

Part of the private meeting will be devoted to discussion of the new evangelization, a term often used

by Pope John Paul II to express the Church's response to new challenges in spreading God's word today, including the need to reevangelize those who have been baptjzed but have not been formed in the faith or have drifted away from the Church.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) However, "we have announced Pope Benedict XVI sent his heart- the opening of 113 of our 142 parfelt blessings and assurances of ishes" and 83 of 170 Catholic his continued prayers to the resi- . schools, although that does' not dents of New Orleans still feel- mean the actual church or school Ing the effects of Hurricane structures have been rebuilt, he WASHINGTON (CNS)- God of hosts." The current ver- Worship and the Sacraments, Katrina, said New Orleans Arch- said. Alternative sites such as The U.S. bishops will be asked sion says, "Holy, holy, holy told the head of the U.S. Con, bishop Alfred C. Hughes. trailers or other buildings have to approve a new translation of Lord, God of power and might." ference of Catholic Bishops that Approving a new text of the if a current text does not conAfter a private audience June been designated for school and the Order of Mass when they 1, the archbishop told Catholic church use, he said. meet in Los Angeles June 15-17. Order of Mass is only the first form to the new translation News Service that he wanted to "We've welcomed public If the new translation is step in a long process of consid- norms it must be changed.

"It is not acceptable to mainpersonally thank the pope for his school students to come to our adopted as proposed and subse- ering and approving a new transsupport in the aftermath of the schools whether they can payor quently approved by the Vatican, lation of the entire book of tain that people have become accrisis, which devastated the Loui- not" so as to encourage people to Catholics will have to learn a prayers said at Mass. In the customed to a certain translation siana seaport. return to their homes and help number of changes in their Mass United States that book has been for the past 30 or 40 years, and called the '~Sacramentary" since therefore that it is pastorally ad: He said he also thanked the families regain "a sense of nor- .prayers and responses.'

Officials of the bis"hops' Sec- 1970, but the VatiCan wishes to visable to make no changes.... pope for having sent funding and maley," he said. a special envoy, Archbishop Paul He said the archdiocese still retariat for the Liturgy told restore the name "Roman Mis- The revised text should make Cordes, head of the Vatican's has the difficult task of identify- Catholic News Service that it is sal," since it is an English trans- the needed changes," he wrote. lation, with minor adapmtions, of He said his congregation is charity arm, the Pontifical Coun- ing what buildings should be re- uncertain whether the open to dialogue about cil Cor Unum. stored and which ones should be bishops will seek to pub"difficulties regarding the ''The Holy Father was wonder- "mothballed" based on how many lish the new Order of Mass ful in his expression of concern people return. Areas that remain for U.S. use as soon as Unlike the previous .vatican rules translation of a particular and support," Archbishop Hughes empty will not need as' many possible or wait until th.ey - which encouraged freer transla- text," but the 2001 instructold CNS, and "he wanted me to schools or churches rebuilt as ar- have the new English tion calling for translations send back his blessings" and tell eas where homeowners are return- translation of the entire tions more adapted to the language more faithful to the Latin people that his prayers for every- ing.

Roman Missal completed. into which one was translating - the text "remains the guiding one there continue.

But the Church in New Orleans Completing the entire Ro- new rules require closer adherence norm."

The Order of Mass, .

The archbishop, who was in is also concerned with offering its man Missal is likely to to the normative Latin text. found at the center of the Rome to attend meetings of the. ' people needed spiritual support take at least two more Roman Missal, consists of Vox Clara coinmission, said the along with helping them rebuild years., private audience also gave him a and recover from the tr~gedy, Among the more obvious the normative Latin "Missale the prayers recited every day at Mass, as distinct from the ScripRomanum." chance to give the pope a detailed Archbishop Hughes said. changes will be: Once the bishops adopt new ture readings and prayers that assessment of the damage to his - Whenever the priest says The archbishop asked the pope archdiocese and what kind of re- to extend the Year of the Eucha- "The Lord be with you," the liturgical texts, they must also be ,are proper to the day's feast.

Thus what the bishops are to covery has been made. rist for the city "since it" was in- people will respond, "And with confirmed by the Vatican before vote on in June are new versions Officials estimate that ,some terrupted by the hurricane." your spirit." The current re- they can be authorized for use.

In general, people will find of the prayers that Massgoers 1,600 people died from the seHe said the pope "was de- sponse is "And also with you." vere flooding and damage lighted to help be part of a spiri- In the first form of the many of the Mass prayers in the are most familiar with because caused by the hurricane, but that tual renewal" of the archdiocese penitential rite, the people will new version slightly longer and they hear or say them so reguthe figure could eventually rise and' that he had blessed a confess that "I have sinned fuller, as the new translation is larly. The text the bishops are to as more than 2,000 people re- monstrance that had been dam- greatly ... through my fault, based on rules for liturgical vote on in June does not include main missing, the archbishop aged in the flooding and restored. through my fault, through my translations issued by the the prefaces, solemn blessings, explained. .

Archbishop Hughes said th~ most grievous fault." In the cur- Vatican in a 2001 instruction. prayers over the people or eleArchbishop Hughes said monstrance will be taken all over rent version, that part of the Unlike the previous Vatican ments found in the appendix that about 40 percent of New Orleans' the archdiocese as part of eucha- prayer is much shorter: "I have rules - which encouraged freer also form part of the Order of translations more adapted to the Mass. population has returned to the ristic adoration and other special sinned through my own fault."

Churchgoers wiJl have to city. Returns have been ham- events and celebrations.

- The Nicene Creed will be- language into which one was pered because more than 200,000 The initiative is a "way of ex- gin "I believe" instead of "We translating - the new rules re- learn a different version of the homes "were devastated," he pressing our desire to have Jesus believe" - a translation of the quire closer adherence to the Gloria when the new texts are put into use because part of the said. Severe winds and major be lord of our lives" and to pro- Latin text instead of the origi- normative Latin text.

In a recent letter Cardinal current prayer in English does flooding damaged a further 1,274 mote a spiritual renewal even "as nal Greek text. buildings in the'archdiocese, he we continue our journey of re- The Sanctus will start, Francis Arinze, prefect of the . not follow the structure of the said. buildi.ng and recovering," he said. "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord Vatican Congregation for Divine Latin version.

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THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH May 28. Maheswaran said the bishop was "playing a background role" in trying to bring the parties together for reconciliation talks.

East Timor's population ofabout 800,000 is more than 90 percent Catholic.

Maheswaran said he and about 50 colleagues were pulled out of the country because of the ~iolence.

"Our local staff members had to take refuge as well; our capacity to do much on the ground was limited," he said.

Until the withdraw'll1, Caritas workers had been distributing food, clothing and blankets to people who had left their homes in late April.

Many of their homes had been destroyed.

Prime Minister Mari, Alkatiri of East Tunor, which gained its independence from Indonesia in 2002, claims the violence is part of a plot i to oust him.

Some 2,000 Australi'an military personnel started arriving in late May; troops from Malaysia arrived May 31 and were to be joined by troops from New Zealartd and Portugal, The Associated Prci;s reported.

Religious orders, particularly the Salesians and Canossians, were spearheading Catholic efforts to house the displaced, Maheswaran said. Thousands were being housed and cared for at a Salesian seminary, which had been turned into a makeshift refugee center.

Once Australian troops had secured the Dili airport, it also become a gathering point for the homeless.

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BenedictXVI appealed for calm and peace in East Tunor, marked by sporadic rioting and violence for more than a month, and an Australian aid worker said at least one bishop was working behind the scenes to help resolve the situation.

At the end ofa recent general audience, the pope said, "My thoughts tum now to the beloved nation of East Timor, gripped in these days by tension and violence."

The pope praised the local church, Catholic agencies and other international organizations that were helping people displaced by the violence and asked the estimated 35,000 people at his audience "to pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary so she

would support with her maternal protection the efforts of those contributing to the pacification of souls and the return to normality."

The violence began in late April after the government dismissed about one-third of its army.

The dismissed soldiers, who come from the western part of the country, claimed they were being discriminated against. The majority of the army is made up of men from the eastern part ofthe country. Gangs claiming to represent the two factions and armed with weapons have been responsible for much of the violence.

Meanwhile, Bishop Alberto da Silva ofDili, East Timor, was working to help find a peaceful resolu-

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One every eight Nonnally editorials are dedicated to commenting on some recent or upcoming news event. This week it is regrettably devoted to the lack of one.

The first or second Saturday in June is traditionally a day ofgreat joy in our diocese, as the customary occasion for new ordinations to the priesthood. Throughout the 50-year history of this newspaper, there has always been at least one story each year on newly ordained diocesan priests, their first assignments and the hope-filled spiritual infusion they bring to the entire local Church. This year there will be no story because there will be no ordination.

The absence ofany new priests is accentuated by the retirement this year of four pastors and the recent death of a fifth. While highly capable priests have been named to fill their big shoes, the inescapable fact is that, come July, there will be five fewer priests laboring in this vineyard.

This reduction is part of an ongoing trend. Within the next 15 years, the number of priests in the Fall River diocese is projected to be halved, as retirements continue to far outpace expected ordinations. By current forecasts, there will be only be about 60 priests in 2020, called to serve the needs of what are presently 350,000 Catholics in 95 parishes.

As discouraging as this course is, there is with God always hope. Jesus foresaw that there would be such shortages and taught us ahead of time how to respond. "The harvest is plentiful," he said, "but the laborers are few. Therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest" (Mt 9:38). The first response of a Christian to any crisis is always prayer. Acting on Jesus' imperative, vocation teams have fonned in a handful of diocesan parishes to beseech the harvest master for these new laborers. These need to become staples of every parish.

But while prayer is the most important response, direct recruitment and encouragement ofvocations at the parish level are also indispensable. There is a helpful general rule promoted by vocations directors that there would never be a shortage ofpriests in any diocese if each parish were to have one young man enter the seminary every eight years. With typical attrition rates in seminaries - some who enter the seminary eventually discem that their vocation is elsewhere - this would mean that every parish would have at least one native son ordained a priest every 12 years. Here in the Diocese of Fall River, if every parish were able to achieve this frequency, there would be, on average, eight priestly ordinations a year. Since most priests, if they remain healthy and faithful, will labor at least 3040 years in the trenches, that would mean there would be about 240-320 priests at any given time divided among the parishes, hospitals, high schools and other ministries of the diocese.

This one-in-eight goal is achievable for parishes. In practical terms it means that in a Catholic elementary school with 200 students, approximately 100 of whom are boys, that at least one boy currently in the school would enter the seminary down the road. One out ofa hundred. For a parish without a school but with a CCD program of 400 kids, the goal would plant the seed of a priestly vocation in all of them in the hope that it would flower later in at least one of the roughly 200 boys. Among all the teen-agers in a parish, the target would be that one of them would be willing to enter the seminary to test whether the Lord is calling him. While there is obviously no way in most circumstances for parishioners to know for certain that a particular young boy has a priestly vocation, there is no way, on the other hand, to know that a young boy does not. It would be hard to imagine that the harvest master would not be calling any of the young boys in a particular parish to the priesthood. If each young boy is treated as one whom the Lord might be calling to be a priest in the future, then the odds will surely increase that those whom the harvest master is calling to follow him in this way will hear that call and respond.

This one-in-eight-year rule is not only a practical goal for parishes to strive for in the future but an excellent tool by which to assess the parish's vocational vitality in the past. For a parish celebrating a lOOth anniversary, if the parishioners and families have done their fair share in fostering priestly vocations, they should be able to look back and see at least eight or nine diocesan priests among their native sons. Some of the parishes in the diocese are well known to have far exceeded this number. Others, when celebrating centennials, were only able to point to a couple. There are some parishes in our diocese that have not a priestly vocation in more than 50 years.

If we lookjust at the last 12 years, the span of time in which every parish would hopefully have produced by this metric at least one priestly ordination, there have been 37 men ordained in the diocese, but only 14 have come from diocesan parishes. The others have come from Poland (six), the Archdiocese of Boston (seven) and other dioceses across the country and globe (10). If we look to the future, presently only nine parishes have seminarians stretched out over eight upcoming classes. These numbers point to an uncomfortable conclusion that cannot be ignored: the vast majority of parishes in the diocese have been, with respect to priestly vocations in re- . cent years, sterile.

That can change and it must. Vocations are everyone's business, as Cardinal O'Malley is accustomed to say, but they are particularly the business of the priests and faithful of a parish. So much of the Church's mission depends on a sufficient number ofpriests. As we mark a year in which none ofthe parishes ofthe diocese produced a priestly ordination, we hope that it .will become a wake-up call to the faithful of every parish to make it their business, through prayer and recruitment, to try to ensure that it will never happen again.

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"WILL NOT GOD THEN SECURE THE RIGHTS OF HIS CHOSEN ONES WHO CALL OUT TO HIM DAY AND NIGHT? WILL HE BE SLOW TO ANSWER THEM? I TELL YOU, HE WILL SEE TO IT THAT JUSTICE IS DONE FOR THEM SPEEDILY" (LUKE 18: 7-8).

Boasting of our weaknesses Sometimes a certain attitude can prevail among many within the Church, as a result of a flawed or imperfect interpretation of Revelation. This can happen in a local community as a result of even one mis(lirected homily or reflection that happens to be well received and accepted as a novel approach to an old problem. One example of this, I would argue, is the notion of boasting of our weaknesses, interpreted as permission from God to avoid improving ourselves. .

St. Paul certainly made no secret of the fact that he was willing to admit his own faults and even boast of them. In his second letter to the Corinthians, he wrote, "I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong" (2Cor 12:

9-10).

And St. Paul encouraged the Corinthians to do the same, as he reminded them of their own shortcomings: ''For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong,

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God" (lCor 1: 26-29). ''For the wisdom of this world is folly with God" (lCor 3: 19).

It is part of divine Revelation, then, that God works through even our flaws and our weaknesses to accomplish his works and his plans. Moreover, God

intentionally chooses as his instruments what is weak, in the eyes of the world, so that there will be no question or doubt about who is really accomplishing his works.

But does all of this mean that we should not try to overcome our weaknesses? Does God's ability to work through our flaws mean that we should nurture and even foster them? For example, if God can work even through a priest who tends to be prideful or lazy, does it follow that that priest should therefore not try to be humble and zealous? Or if a preacher is not particularly good at delivering an inspiring homily, does it mean that he should

therefore not try to improve his homiletic skills? The question is: should we be content with our weaknesses, or should we try to overcome and remove them? And if we do remove them, are we limiting God's preferred way of working through us?

I think if we give enough honest thought to this, we can reach the conclusion that, although God works through our weaknesses, he does so in spite of . them, and not because of them. Boasting in our weaknesses means boasting in the power of God, in his ability to accomplish great things in spite of our failings that would otherwise get in the way. It does not mean taking pride in our failings and flaws.

In other words, God's ability to work through our weaknesses is not a free pass to째rest content with them, unconcerned about improving our lives and growing in virtue or competence. It may be, in fact, that God permits us to retain our weakness, so that we do not become prideful and give to ourselves the credit that belongs to God. But that is God's decision, not ours. It is our part to accept what we cannot change and to change what we can, knowing that God will not allow our weaknesses to obstruct his plans. When we put into the deep, we can boast of our weaknesses, even as we work to overcome them.

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Conundrum with condoms The "popular" wisdom these days insists that because we can't stop our children from engaging in pre-marital sex, and because such sex can be dangerous and have bad effects, we should do everything we can to protect our youngsters by giving them condoms. Condoms, we are assured, help decrease pregnancies' and decrease sexually transmitted diseases in a simple, straightforward way. If.parents love their children, they will surely see to it that they have "protection."

This argument, widely accepted in all strata of our society, relies on ~ seriously flawed understanding of what love really means. We need only consider a related example to see this flaw clearly. If our children decide that they are

of an easier or more permissive path. Condoms, in the guise of a loving solution, involve us in a grave moral compromise, tempt us to yield to a more permissive path, and invariably fail the demands of true love.

Those demands are particularly challenging for a married couple, one of whom has contracted AIDS. In order to, protect the uninfected partner, some argue that it should be permissible for the husband 'to make use of a giving them helmets to place condom during marital relations. over their heads for "protection," or would real love involve Otherwise, unprotected sex might well be the equivalent of pulling them off the roadway a death sentence for the and insisting they learn abstiuninfected partner. The popular nence from freeway hopscotch? .. wisdom here again assures us Which of these actions genuthat condoms are the loving inely manifests a parent's love answer to a difficult situation. for their children? True love But true spousal love, in these often demands a higher and a sad circumstances, beckons us more committed path, in place going to play hopscotch on the asphalt of a busy interstate highway, in the midst of highspeed traffic, would we be manifesting our love for them by

Playing fetch with our funny bone It's the shortest verse in the' Bible, and perhaps the most poignant - "Jesus wept" (John 11 :35), when Lazarus died. I truly wish there was a verse that read, "And Jesus laughed."

B.ecause in my heart I know he did, and often. What a great sight that would have and will be.

We try to keep our sanity in a world where bad news seems to far outweigh the good.

Look at the sports world: Some want Danica Patrick to win an Indy Cup race, others don't; some want M.icl}elle Wie to qualify for a men's major event, some don't; steroids; base brawls; hockey fights; soccer melees in stands. It sounds like a new verse to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

People have to take themselves less seriously - stop and smell the roses.

We need some laughs. For those of you old enough to remember, do you recall the mighty Team Canada hockey squad visiting Russia in 1972?

Phil Esposito was one of the. game's greats back then, and when he was introduced during a pre-game ceremony he tumbled to the ice looking like a . bug on its back. Despite the Cold War, everyone got a good chuckle from that.

Then there' was the day that former Red Sox Steve Lyons slid safely into first base on a close play. Completely oblivious to the 40,000 fans in the stands and thousands more watching on TV, he unbuckled his pants to shake out a clump of dirt.

I once went golfing with a friend and we approached a tee with ':l water hazard directly in front of us. He told the ball, "Well I hope you enjoy your

swim." The ball cleared the lake - the club didn't. He let go of the driver sending it smack dab in the middle of. the hazard. We laughed for the rest of the round.

I once hit an awfQl tee shot that went left, thwacked off a boulder and completely disappeared. I reached into my pocket for a new tee and ball'and as I . was setting the tee, my first tee

and my youngest son bent down for some reason. My wife went head over heals over him. After we knew everyone was OK it took all we couId not to laugh. Once we did, it took all we could to stop.

Another great moment was when Emilie was about sevenyears-old. She came into The Anchor office to pick me up.

She was so proud of the new model of the human skull she got at school. On the way out she tumbled and her school bag rolled down the stairs.

Out emerged the skull in the middle of the Tribunal office. We laughed uQtil we cried on the way home.

A few weeks ago Emilie, Denise and I shot finally came to earth, just visited Disney World. In a " feet away from me. Not only did restaurant one morning, I felt a my playing partners howl, so did tap on my left shoulder. I golfers on other holes near us. looked. No one there. I quickly And one day, my playing looked over my right - there partner Chris stood off to the side was Goofy. I said, "Boy, which as I was teeing off. She was at a one was the goofy one hereT nearly impossible lIllgle from me Goofy quickly. pointed to me, for safety sake. My tee shot much to the delight of my whizzed past her by inches. She family and the strangers around now wears a helmet and should~r us. pads when we play together.

And just this weekend, we The war in Iraq, terrorist were shopping in a wholesale attacks, terrorist threats, saber club. I noticed a scanner ona rattling by Iran and North Korea. pole to help customers find out We need a few laughs in life too. prices. It was about five feet off And there are pl~nty. . the ground'- I called Emilie over, When my two oldest children grabbed her head and scanned it. were my two youngest, my wife I told her it read "worthless." and I sometimes attended After a defiant, "Hey," we separate Sunday Masses. One giggled for several aisles. morning I went to Mass. I spied .

We have to stop and smell the an old friend afterward and we roses, and if we get real close, caught up on things. He gave me sometimes we get tickled. a ride home. Denise left for I think on my gravestone I' d Mass when I arrived arid came like the phrase "David laughed back two minutes later. "Dave, - and was "laughed at." where's the car?" Ooooops. I And that scanner I told left it at church when I took the Emilie said "worthless," ride home. Many laughs there. actually read "priceless."

Then there was the day we Comments are welcome at were heading to Mass as a family davejolivet@anchornews.org.

7 . to a higher and harder ,path - a path of marital abstinepce. A . husband who has AIDS would never want to subject the wife . he loves to a potentially deathdealing act on his partl which is what sexual intercourS'e could become for them, even while using a condom (whic9 has a failure rate). Would it be a loving act to subject h~r to the risk of a possibly fatal encounter, even for something as beautifQl as conjugal i~timacy in marriage? Although it !is an integral part of marrie<i love, sexual activity is, in fact, not absolutely essential fot us as human beings, distinctl from the case of eating or sleeping. We tend to lose sight of that basic fact in a relentlessly sexpermeated -society. " Perpetual marital abstinence is certainly a difficult proposal, and is generally not recommended, but grave cirdumstances like AIDS represent a strong call to this particular kind of sacrificiallove'and sexual self-mastery. It is not cbmpletely different from the situation of a married couple, one of. whom is called to long-term military service overseas, wherbn both are required to practic~ sexual continence when they are separated, even perhaps for years. Many married cduples do live as brother and sister for a host of reasons, and AIDS certainly constitutes a grave . reason to justify such a 'choice.

Learning to love each other in different and non-genital ways is, in fact, an integral component of every successful and en~uring marriage, and an AIDS 'infection merely 1?rings greater urgency. and immediacy to the task.

I' The use of condomsi in marriage, beyond all th~ talk of effectiveness and failure rates, involves us in some very significant moral viola~ons.

Condoms, invariably a 'form of contraception, violate marital love right at its core. By making use of contraception, ~e say to our spouse, in effect, "I love you, except for your fertility and fecundity. I will not embrace that part of you. Rather, I will cordon it off, separate it, and pqt it aside, so I can use my sexuality and the rest of you in a way

that brings satisfaction to me," But marital sexuality, and marriage in general, really involves the complete and unreserved gift of our self to our spouse. Marital love is not meant to be partial.

Marital sexual intercourse is a special personal language that always means surrendering ourselves totally. Such a total self-donation embodies within itself the radical possibility of enge'ndering new life, which can then be protected and raised within the pact of that couple's unreserved and indissoluble love. The use of a condom, on the other hand, may permit a couple to mutually generate certain pleasurable sensations together, but it explicitly militates against that full gift of self that is written right into the inner language of the marital act itself. Couples close off a part of themselves to the other, and deny access to the deepest and most life-giving center of who they are whenever they engage in contraceptive sex. Contraception is a kind of lie that a man and a woman speak to each other through their bodies, feigning the total gift of themselves to each other, but always actually helding back that gift.

Respecting the God-given designs for, our sexuality and struggling towards sexual selfmastery is one of the great challenges of our age, and , probably of every age. Arguments in favor of widespread condom availability are emblematic of a collective loss of nerve in the face of powerful libertine pressures within our culture. Against the backdrop of that troubled culture, God opens up a higher and more authentic path to us. We glimpse that beautiful path every time we allow his grace and mercy to empower us to love others as we genuinely ought to.

Father Pacholczyk, earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did post-doctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest ofthe Diocese of Fall River, and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org

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The Trinity revisited In the classic novel, "Brid.eshead Revisited," there's a deliciously satirical dialogue between a very insightful Jesuit priest of bygone days and one Rex Mottram, who is seeking instruction in the faith. Father Mowbray recounts the following exchange with his charge: ':1 asked him whether Our Lord had more thaI~ one nature. He said, 'Just as many as you say, Father.'"

Well, no offense meant, but I'm afraid some of us "cradle to grave" Catholics adopt that attitude toward the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity. We believe because we've always been told there are three persons in the one God. But if the pope were to say otherwise, we may well fall into step with Rex and declare, "Just as many as you say, Holy Father." .

Very few of us spend much time or effort considering this

perfect creature? Secondly, . revealed truth concerning the wouldn't one yearn to be this inner life of God. If we do, it's perfect creature's child? more often than not a fleeting Finally, wouldn't the final acknowledgment that we can fulfilling interaction be to live with what the theologians possess this perfect creature as tells us. If my hunch is right, one's spouse? And when we we're shortchanging our religion and tacitly admitting that Rex's approach to revealed mily of thewee truth.is quite accept/ Trinity able: "Just as many Persons in the Godhead --'--""'" Sunday as one wants. After all, . ......... it really has no practiBy Father cal value or impact on Paul T. Lamb our lives, does it, Father?" had related to this perfect Well, before we all convert creature as our daughter, to Unitarianism, let's examine mot!1er, and bride, wouldn't what practical impact a threeyou agree that we had conpersoned God had in the life of sumed this being whole and our Blessed Lady. What entire in a complete and allrelationship would one want inclusive triangle of love? with a perfect creature?

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"But wait!," for the Rexes of this world are sure to ask, "That's all very nice for one's mother, daughter, and spouse, Father Mowbray, if you say so. But what's in it for me?"

Here's the wonder of it all.

We too can savor, even in the here-and-now, a taste of the life hereafter. Do we not have

the courage even now to call God "Abba (Father)"? Have we not the assurance that "we are children of God" and thereby "joint heirs with Christ"? And does not the same inerrant Scripture passage we read today from St. Paul assure us that "the Spirit himself joins with our spirit" (Rom 8: 14-17)? ' As Trinitarian Christians, we have ample'evidence that our hope is not in vain: that someday our perfected being, without any diminution of our individuality, will be absorbed, body and soul, into the life and love 'of the Triune God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Whom we shall see face-to-face for all , eternity.

Eat your heart out, Rex! Father Lamb is a priest of the Fall River diocese and is Pastor of St. Rita Parish in , Marion.

Two anniversaries of note路 Robert Seton, grandson of held that office, while his uncle Elizabeth Ann Seton, had an (who had directed U.S. clandestine operations against Hitler expansive sense of his proper position in the scheme of things. from a perch in neutral SwitzerIn 1861, after two years at land) ran the Central Intelligence Rome's North American College, .. Agency. But the Jesuit in he talked Pius IX into letting him question, Avery Cardinal Dulles, enter the Pontifical Acad~my for is the polar opposite of ArchNoble Ecclesiastics 0!1 the bishop Robert Seton in grounds that, although the United self-presentation and States didn't have a Catholic affect. Go to Fordham aristocracy (or any other aristocthese days, and you're racy, for that matter), if it did, he likely to find the son of would surely be its fine flower.

John Foster Dulles, the nephew of Allen Dulles, Later in life, as a titular arch~ and America's first bishop, he was a fanatic stickler for ecclesiastical punctilio, theologian-cardinal refusing to celebrate Mass if the striding 'across campus in ribbons in the Missal weren't a battered blue windproperly ironed. breaker that he probably acquired On Ascension Thursday (not in the Eisenhower Administrato be confused with Ascension tion, wearing shoes that he repairs by inserting路 masking tape Thursday Suniiay), a man with a far greater claim to being it! the inner soles.

Americap aristocracy mark~d his In his remarks at the dinner 60th anniversary as a Jesuit and following his Golden Jubilee' Mass, Cardinal Dulles noted that, his 50th anniversary a.s a priest. in his dozens of books, "you'd Three generations of his family 'had given America a.secretary of 'look haid to find something state; in 1956, when he was onginal." Which shouldn't be a ordained, the Jesuit's father (who surprise, he continued, because was arguably the country's most "everything has a history," prominent Protestant layman) including every theological

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question. Avery Cardinal Dulles has dedicated his life as a theologian to exploring the ancient, medieval, and modem history ,of great questions - and then presenting his discoveries in a luminously clear prose that is a model (no pun intended) of

theological and literary craftsmanship. This summer, Cardinal Dulles will celebrate his 88th birthday; those of us who know and esteem him will happily say, in the language he loves, "ad multos annos, gloriosque annos, vivas" - which, at the risk of offending'certain members of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy, I venture to translate as "May you live many years, and glorious years."

The next day, another distinguished American priest cel-

ebrated his 70th birthday with friends (including Cardinal Dulles). Father Richard John Neuhaus really would be engaging in false modesty if h~e ' claimed that there was nothing original in his voluminous writings. This is, after all,the man who introduced the ~'::""'I.- phrase "the public square" into our national vocabulary; who taught ,the President of the United States to speak of an America in which "every child is welcomed in life and protected in . law;" the most original theologian of the American experiment since John Courtney Murray, SJ.; the man who has done more than anyone else to advance the new ecumenism of "evangelicals and Catholic together." , No, there is genuine originality in Father Neuhaus's work, as there is always insight in his , commentary on events cultural, , political, and ecclesiastical. But the originality and insight are , grounded in Christian orthodoxy, which he first preached as a Lutheran pastor (and the son of a

formidable Lutheran pastor, known to his clerical colleagues in the Ottawa Valley as "Pope Neuhaus"). In helping launch the 1975 "Hartford Appeal for Theological Affirmation," Richard Neuhaus threw down the gauntlet to a kind of theologizing in which the idolatry of the present dominates. And it was no accident that he was joined in that challenge to the tyranny of the new by Father Avery Dulles, SJ., who believed.then, and believes now, that every important question has a history.

That common conviction is one reason why these two great New Yorkers have so many important things to say to today..

George Weigel is a seniorfellow ofthe Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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On December 10, 1925, Our Lady appeared to Sister Lucia (seer of Fatima) and spoke these words: "Announce in my name that I prom,ise to assist at the hour ofdeath with the graces necessary for the salvation oftheir souls, all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months shall: 1. Go to confession; 2. Receive Holy Communion; 3. Recite the Rosary (5 decades); and 4. Keep me companyfor IS minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries ofthe Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to me."

In a spirit of reparation, the above conditions are each to be 'preceded by the words: "In reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary."

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So far, so good.

Mary Fuller, Bobbi Paradise The youth of the area have a Don't need one. People know and Judy Perella stopped in at they are welcome even without monthly dance. They come St. Timothy Church (I like it the doormat. The word gets from miles around. The town already) in "The around. pre-schoolers come here for Village" (I like it even their graduation ceremonies.

But words are not enough. more), at Ladylake, . You need to back up the words When the local school departFlorida. There s~rves with action. This is everybody's ment had no adequate space for Father Gerry their special needs students, J Shovelton, retired priest job, not just that of the parish they attended public school priest. The priest, hpwever, of the Diocese of Fall River (the plot thickens). does set the agenda. Hospitality classes here. When the town's begins and ends at the Sunday Boy Scout troop needed a They saw the welcome Eucharist. "What good is faith facility in which to meet, they, mat, photographed it, if you don't practice it?" asks too, pitched camp. When a and brought the picture scrap-booking group was St. James.

Exactly. home to Father Mark The Parish Council here looking for a place to meet, Hession. He ordered several for they came here. When somewants to have the parish Centerville. body wants to hold a baby facilities used and used often. I Here in the Village, on 9/11, . shower, come on down! wholeheartedly agree. As a as news of the terrorist attacks One word: food. We serve spread, people naturally wanted result, there are the usual parish-based events - worship, so much food we had to get a to pray. One local Protestant restaurant permit from Town pastor, my friend the Reverend classes, meetings, Bible Hall.

I am not making this studies, socials, fairs and Bill Comeau, began receiving up. Come the fall, we are festivals. There are also phone calls from the members planning to have a "Kids community-based events. If we of his congregation asking Who Cook" series, and a have spa<;e available, we say, where they could go to pray.

"Cooking with Carlos" class "Welcome, welcome. Come on Their church was locked. He for adults. These church in!" Call it a ministry of space. lived out of town. The minister facilities are at maximum Sometimes the church advised his people, "Just go use. I love it. parking lot resembles a Tover to St. Bernard Church. It's It, seems I have in fact station with vehicles coming never locked." Here they came. become the pastor of the and going all day long. The We have a welcome sign "Church of the Open Door!" elders arrive in buses for their outside and a welcome stateAs Father Ray Cambra would daily heath care program. The say, "What a hoot!" kids on their way to Cathedral Father Goldrick is pastor of Camp gather here to wait for St. Bernard Parish, Assonet. their bus. The in-coming elders Comments are welcome at use the upper parking lot; the fire engine red," I reassured StBernardAssonet@aol.com. out-going campers use the myself. And the truth was that Previous columns are at lower parking lot. I watch from my child .was fine. I was fi.ne. www.StBernardAssonet.org. my office window.

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The bright red reality of which I was reminded with the Golden Gate Bridge game is that when things don't work out just RAIN OR SHINE ENTIRELY UNDER TENTS right or even if they go terribly JUN! 17, 2.006 ll:ooam TO 8:00pm wrong in our lives, it does not mean that we, personally, are Stm. JUNE 18, 2.006 NOON TO 5:00pm failures. We are created in God's CONTINUOUS LIVE ENTERTAINMENT image; women and men for whom Jesus came to earth, died, 17, 2.006 and rose again. Tomorrow will 1:00 pm 8:00 pm bring new challenges and more emotions trying to color over, minimize, or completely block out our identity and self-worth 18, 2.006 in Christ. But remembering the true, fire engine red color of the 11:ooam Golden Gate Bridge can remind Noon to 5:00pm us that no matter how real or intense they appear, our emotions don't always reflect reality.

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Homeport - The 50th day of While at Our Lady of Easter - Pentecost Victory Church, Centerville It's not easy buying a gift for a priest. What do you give a man who has everything (albeit '5 not in a material ~"hs\of a sense)? My parents c. " /',i!i.t,¡ ...â&#x20AC;˘...,tQ"' . . once came up with a creative birthday present. They gave me ~~~~~~t4nn1ii -Goldrick a church. Not a fullsized building, you understand, but a ceramic model. Turns out it was recently I spied a unique welcome mat. It's double-sided. one of these collectibles. It It can be read in both direceven had a name - "The tions, coming and going. As Church Of the Open Door.~' you approach you are greeted "You are a young curate now, with the words "We enter to but someday you will pastor a church. Don't lock the doors of worship"; as you exit, "We leave to serve". your church and then wonder I phoned Our Lady of Victory where the people went," said office to find out how they had my birthday card.

Years later, I reported here to ever come up with such a terrific the Village as pastor. Oddly, the idea. Cathy answers my question succinctly, "Oh, that's easy. We building looked very much like the "Church of the Open Door." stole it." Church secretaries know everything. She gives me It reminded me of my parents' the scoop, as they say in the advice. I make sure the door is never locked. People are free to newspaper business.

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My bright red worth in Jesus The other day I fell into a pit of despair. Okay, honestly, I didn't fall. I wasn't even pushed. I flung myself in. I had been wrestling for weeks over a decision about co-curricular activities for one of my kids, and before I knew it I had reached the end of my emotional rope. So, I jumped, headlong, into the rocky pit of despair, and had a nice little breakdown. It wasn't so much the circumstances as the feeling they were causing me to have that threw me over the brink; feelings of inadequacy, feelings of having failed my child, and that as amom I was worthless. A total wash up. In the midst of my carrying on, the Holy Spirit visited me with a word picture.

He brought to my mind a game I used to play with the kids when we lived Berkeley, Caljf. During those years, while driving the kids to school, we would drive over the crest of Albany Hill where for a few seconds we could see the Golden Gate Bridge about 10 miles out across San Francisco Bay. As we drove up the hill, the kids and I would guess what color the bridge would be that day. Our game may sound funny to you, because if you know anything about the Golden Gate Bridge, you probably know it is fire engine red. So why would we be guessing its color?

Well, from across San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge very rarely looked red. In

fact, its appearance changed by the hour. Two factors were involved. One was the weather, and the other was the angle of the sun. If there was any fog or clouds between the bridge and us, it could appear to be pinkish or even purple with the sun shining on it in the morning. If the sky was clear blue in the

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morning, we would see the bridge as it truly was and celebrate a rare, "Bright Red Bridge" day. When we drove home in the later part of day, the sun was behind the bridge, and it always appeared as a silhouette in some shade of black, gray, blue, or purple depending; again, on the weather conditions. Some days we couldn't see the bridge at all because of the thick fog.

As I lie there, wallowing in my pit of despair, the Holy Spirit seemed to be saying that my emotions were acting on me just like the weather and the sun acted upon the appearance of the Golden Gale Bridge. My emotions were causing me to experience feelings that did not reflect reality.

I climbed out, and sat on the edge of my pit. "No matter how it appears from a distance, the Golden Gate Bridge is bright,

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NEW BEDFORD - Twice a year. Bob Goldblatt is literally "on the clock." The rest of the year, he's figuratively on it worlring to insure that people in need have food and their basic needs like a bed to sleep in or a table to serve dinnec on are fulfilled. . Twice a year, Goldblattclimbs the l.25-foottower of St. Lawrence Church and adjusts the clock to daylight s a v i n g s '

River CaIholic Social Services building. They are IlInen picked up by clients or delivered.

"There is always a greater need than there is a supply:' said Goldblatt.

According to McNamee last year Goldblatt bclped put furniture mthe homes of450 families.

"He is a one in a million kind ofguy," McNamee co:mcluded. "He's committed to the mission and ceVcrsaySDlO. We oould use more Bob Goldblatts."

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A parishioner ..~\ Goldblatt has of St. Lawrence been married to Parish,.Goldblatt i. !Diane Goldblatt 1l !for 26 years and works five days a week at the they have four Solanus Casey '\ , g r o w n children.

Food Pantry a s : : He smiled as he spoke ofhis chilthe coordinator ofbasic needs for dren, three of Catholic Social which were altar :servers and who Services of New all attended Bedford.

He helps in Catholic school. many ways inOne of his sons earned a two eluding coordinatingvolunteers bachelor's deand driving a grees and is truck each Tuesteaching English day to the Boston overseas.

Food Bank Before joinwhere he picks BOB GOLDBLATT stands near the truck he uses to ing the. ranks .of up 3,000-5,000 carry more than 3 000 pounds of food each week to the Ca~ohc Socml ' .

Services, he was pounds of fresh produce and Solan.us C~y Food P~ In ~ew Bedford. !ie also employed as a food. Once back uses It to pick up and delIVer furniture to those In need. custodian ,at in New Bedford. (Anchor/Gordon photo) Bishop Stang volunteers unHigh School, load items and help put together bags of groceries North Dartmouth and Holy Family-Holy Name School. New Bedfonl. for clients.

"I love my job," declared Goldblatt. "I think. it's Goldblatt spends his weekends as a sexton at a great thing to help others and I really enjoy iL I Holy Name of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, feel honored to have this job and rm grateful for New Bedfmd and helps get the chuoch ready for weekend Masses. the opportunity I was given."

Donations offood also come from five area parMicbael J. DoDIy. director of Development for ishes.Schools,churchesandcommlmitygroupsaiso the diocese. has known of Goldblatt's work for a donate. Each week he travels to Westport to pick 'number of years. "He is a great person and a great up bread donations from a bakery. example of the wmk: being done by Catholic SoBecause of his efforts. 150 families pee week cial Services," said Donly. "He's oot there working receive groceries. Multiply that number times 52 hard forpeople in need and takes that great responweeks a year and it's literally more tban 10.000 sibilily very seriously:' people a year who are being helped.

Goldblattsaidhecouldnotdowhathedoes with ''Bob Goldblatt is an inspiration," said Arlene out his volunteers and praised their efforts. On avMcNamee, directorofCatholic Social Services. "He ernge. 15 volunteers assist when the pantry is open is always willing to assist people and gets excited 00 Tuesday nights. "They are super people. Here at thepantIy I just keepIbings flowing:' said Goldblatt. about helping others. He's a gem" Donations of food and fumiture are always The pantry is open from 10 a.m. to noon eadt Tuesday and Wednesday. As he spoke about his needed. For more infonnati<oo call the New job, clients were picking up groceries and vohm- Bedfordoflit:eofCathoticSocialServicesat508teers were busy getting more bags ready. '"Food CJI»-7'm. stamps last about three weeks so this heIps." said The Anchor em:ourages readers to nomiGoldblatt.

IUl1e othersfor the Person ofthe Week - who When he's not busy at the food panlly. Goldblatt tmd why? Submit nomilUllions at our E-mail uses the Catholic Soci3I Services truck to ozganizetUldress: theont:lwr@anclwmews.org, or write a small furniture program picking up donatio:ns for to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, MA those in need. Tables, cribs, couches, beds and 00- 02722.

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LAUREN FIOLA. an eighth-grader, at Holy Name School, Fall River, crowned the statue of Our Blessed Mother during a school Mass. Standing to the right of the statute of Mary is eighth-grader Ryan Connor, who carried the crown.

Note to Anchor subscribers It has come to the attention of The Anchor that several subscription areas in the diocese are receiving The Anchor very late, or not at all. These areas include sections of Taunton, Swansea, Assonet, East Freetown and Fall River.

We would like our readers to know that The Anchor is working closely with our printing firm to determine the problem and resolve it as quickly as possible.

The papers are all delivered very early on Thursday morning to the same Post Office. Why some arrive and some do not is being investigated.

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Friday, June 9, 2006 Danielle Gauvin, Mackenzie Crumley, CaitliQ Ferreira, Natasha Garcia and Jillian Boyl.

Team MVPs foqthe boys diI visions were: Mali Medeiros, o.

Jay Chicca, Ryan Sousa, Cameron Tavares, Ian Dore, Adam Soares, Matthew Carvalho, Chris Hartnet and Cote Farias.

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MEMBERS OF the Junior "B" Boys basketball team from Notre Dame Parish, Fall River, hold their championship trophy aloft during the annual Cya banquet. They were among several champions crowned during the celebration. (AnchodGordon photo)

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and declared, "I'm happy. This was a good time."

FALL RIVER"':""" The smiling Bill Kay of Somerset came faces of young.men and women with his daughter Meaghan, a carrying off shining trophies and member of the St. Anne's Jun-· 'making their own sundaes were ior Girls "c" Championship proof that the annual Fall River Team. He was glad his daughter Area Cya Basketball League has been involved over the p'ast awards ba'nquet at McGovern's two years because "it's bee~ a Restaurant was a success. terrific experience for her and "This is a great night for us," she's met a lot of great kids. It's said diocesan CYO director Facompetitive, but it's also very ther Jay T. Maddock. fun."

"We've been celebrating For parent Lisa the .season like. this since Kurowski of Notre Dame "You learn teamwork and to never Parish in Fall River, the 1986 and the program has grown tremt(ndously let anything stand in your way. My· CYO basketball program faith has helped me and with God has been a blessing. "It's through those years."

As he spoke, players nothing is too difficult. " been a great experience for and parents revisited the my son Ethan. He's been large buffet which catered playing since he was in to the younger crowd with pizza, He closed by saying that they fifth grade and it's a wonderful make-your-own fajita's, and "must not forget to thank those opportunity. I've had three chilplenty of ice cream. that have helped them along the dren in the program."

"We're so thankful to the par- way," like parents, teachers and Her son Ethan said CYO basents and volunteers, the priests , coaches. ketball is "fun and I'm looking and coaches, and our referees. It's Father Maddock was pleased forward to playing with my nice to gather all together with our to have Gaffney as guest speaker friends next year." players for one last time and think for the evening and called him After trophies were distribabout what they've learned and "an outstanding young man." uted, team MVPs were awarded experienced," he said.

Gina DeMello of Holy Ghost a new basketball donated by Guest speaker for the evening Parish, Tiverton, R.I. enjoyed former CYO player Manny was 21-year-old Tony Gaffney. the guest speaker and was at- Papoula. Extras were awarded to A CYO standout, Gaffney has tending the banquet with her 12- players in a raffle. played basketball for Boston year-old daughter Erica. "She's Winner of the Francis Fitta University and this fall will been in the program for three Award was Bianca DiSilvestro, transfer to UMass-Amherst years and she's learned the im- Our Lady of Grace Parish. Matwhere he will play under new portance of teamwork, having thew Doiron of Holy Name Parcoach Travis Ford. fun and good sportsmanship," ish received the Al Therrien He attended the festivities she declared.

Good Guy Award. The Junior with his father Tony, and his Trophies, were awarded to "A" Boys Sportsmanship Award nine-year-old sister Julia, and championship teams from each went to Theo Santos of St. Anne's said it was good to be back. "I of the girls and boys divisions Parish, while Alyssa Oliveira of definitely miss CYO basket- and among them was Nick Notre Dame received the Junior ball," said Gaffney. "I have a lot Higginbottom. He was a mem- "A" Girls Sportsmanship Award. of fond memories of playing for ber of the Our Lady of Grace Team MVPs in the girls diviEspirito Santo Parish here and Parish Boys "c" team and part sion were: Nikita Soares, Andee Holy Family Parish in East of a back to back championship Manchester, Alyssa Oliveira, Taunton. The friendships last team. When asked how he felt, Alexandrea Sturchio, Sarah forever and it's a great honor to he held his trophy up proudly J albert, Bridget Cormier, . be here tonight."

He told. attendees that just like they are now, he was once sitting in a chair at a CYO hanquet and he learned a lot by playing basketball. "Basketball teaches you a lot ~bout life," said Gaffney. "You learn teamwork and to never tet anything stand in your way. My faith· has helped me and with God nothing is too diffic~lt."

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.Daughte;'rs ofIsabella gather for annuali:Communion breakfast NEW BEDFORD Daughters of Is~bella,' Hyacinth Circle No. ~ I, which includes members of the 2001 merged SomersetiiCirCIe, held its' annual Communion Breakfast May 28 folloiwing a Mass celebrated by chaplain, Father Robert Oliveira\ in Sacred Heart of Jesus Church.

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Fall River in March of this year.

He has been in residence at Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish in Fall River, assisting at that parish and at his new assignment for the past six years.

"I'm looking forward to working with the people at St. John the Baptist ParFATHER MICHAEL ish," FaCIRYAK the r Hindsley told The Anchor. ''I've come to know them and I'm very happy with the new assignment.

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Fitzgerald had been doing wonderful work there for 20 years, and I hope to continue to minister to the good people there."

Father Hindsley teaches at Providence College and will continue to do so along with performing the duties at his new parish. He teaches German,theology and Western Civilization at the Dominican-run college.

"I think one of my biggest challenges will be to balance my teaching duties with the parish duties," he said. "As far as becoming a new pastor, I'm going to look, listen and learn a great deal from those around me."

Father Hindsley will miss the Notre Dame community in Fall River. "It's such a lovely parish, and the people. there are very, very nice," he com men ted.

"Especially the d a i I Y Mas s crowd.

FATHER HUGH I'm going J. MCCULLOUGH to miss them."

Father McCullough was ordained a priest into the order of Salesians of St. John Bosco in Columbus, Ohio On May 26, 1979. He was incardinated into the Diocese of Fall River in 2000.

After a one-year assignment at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis, Bishop Coleman has designated Father McCullough as pastor of St. Joseph's Parish in Fall River. This is Father McCullough's first pastorate. ''I'm going to miss the St. Francis family a great deal," he told The Anchor. "The Hyannis parish has such a family feeling.

It's a small, comfortable parish and everyone knows everyone else. And it's been great work.ing with Fath~r Tom Frechette. It was a great priestly fraternity there."

Father McCullough will take over the Fall River parish from

Father John Perry. "One of the difficult challenges will be is to follow the good works done by Father Perry there. I'm unfamiliar with Fall River, but I'm truly looking forward to getting to know the people and the parish."

Father Powell was ordained a Benedictine father at St. Joseph's Church in Fairhaven 30 years ago, on June 19, 1976. In February of this year, Father Powell was incardinated into the Diocese of Fall River.

Following a brief six-month assignment at St. Mary's Parish in North Attleboro, Father Powell will become a first-time pastor, having been assigned to St. Joan of Arc Parish in Orleans.

"I'm delighted with the opportunity to become a . . . . - - - - - - -...... pastor and to minister at St. Joan of Arc Parish in that capacity," he told The Anchor. FATHER LEONARD " I'm HINDSLEY deeply appreciative of Bishop Coleman's confidence in me."

While at St. Mary's for just one-half year, Father Powell said, ''I'm truly going to miss the people here in North Attleboro.

I'm surprised to be moving so soon after arriving here, but right from the start, the people accepted me, and the staff was right behind me all the way. After some difficult times, the parish has turned a comer and I'm grateful to have been with the parishioners here."

Father Powell said he's heard from many other priests that the Orleans parish is a wonderful place. "It seems to be a very active parish, and Father Roy has done a magnificent job there for the last 10 years.

I'm going into this new assignment very open and curious. It's a challenge to start all FATHER ROBERT o v e r again afPOWELL ter so brief a time, but it's a challenge I'm looking forward to."

Msgr. Avila, pastor of St. John Neumann Parish III East Freetown since June 28, 2000, is a native of New Bedford and its St. John the Baptist Parish. He studied at Our Lady of Providence Seminary and Providence College, and the North American College and the Gregorian University in Rome.

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June 6, 1981 by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin in St. Mary's Cathedral. ''I'm looking forward to going back to St. Mary's in Mansfield, where I had been a parochial vicar in the mid 1980s," he said.

"But St. John Neumann was my first pastorate and one always fondly remembers that one. It is a wonderful community I really bonded with during the past six years."

He added, ''I'm anxious to go back to St. Mary's ... recognizing of course it's an entirely new parish, probably doubled in size, and while I'll have some familiarity, it is a large and growing parish. It will be a challenge."

Any new assignment "helps us to redefine our call, to recognize our service to the Church; and as the Lord needs us in certain moments of our journey. I trust the bishop's confidence he has placed in me. From that perspective, I'm anxious to enter into the new challenge."

The assignment means "probably more than double the number of parishioners. Currently there are 1,400 families here in East Freetown as compared to more than 3,000 families at St. Mary's. The greatest challenge is to be involved with and know the people. With so many people one wonders how that is done. I hope they have a lot of patience with me."

He was also parochial vicar at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in New Bedford, and St. Julie Billiart in North Dartmouth, before becoming secretary to then Bishop Sean P O'Malley, OFM Cap., in June 1994. He assisted at St. Stanislaus in Fall River in 1998, and was parochial administrator at SS. Peter and Paul in Fall River during 1999; and also helped out at Holy Name in Fall River.

Msgr. Avila has been director of the Diocesan Television Mass since. Other diocesan assignments include chairman of the 2000 Eucharistic Congress, and as a member of the Divine Worship Commission.

In August 1999, he was the recipient of papal honors as a chaplain to his Holiness Pope John Paul II, with the rank of monsignor.

On Sunday he will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of ordi-' nation to the priesthood.

Father Benlenoit has been pastor at St. Mary's in Mansfield since June of 1996. Prior to that he was pastor for three years at St. Patrick Parish, Somerset. He attended St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, Conn., and was ordained on May 13, 1972 by Bishop Cronin. He served at St. Mary's in Mansfield, St. Mark, Attleboro Falls and as chaplain at Charlton Memorial Hospital for 10 years.

After 10 years of serving Catholics in Mansfield, Father Bellenoit said he will miss "the wonderful young community," of St. Mary's Parish. "The 路parish is two-thirds young families and

children and there is a terrific spirit here. There is a lot of enthusiasm and I've always felt welcomed, appreciated and supported here."

He said leaving after so many years is hard, but said, "I'm looking forward to the challenges of getting acclimated to a new community."

"The parish has a different make-up and I will have to get to know people, make connections with families and discover what their needs are. I look forward to being immersed in life at St. Pius X Parish." .

Father Bellenoit's other dioc. esan appointments have included chaplain of Bishop Feehan High School, diocesan director of Pastoral Ministry to the Sick, tribunal advocate and the presbyteral council.

Father Chretien, who hails from Fall River, has been pastor at Notre Dame Parish in Fall River since June 28, 1960, and also served as administrator at Immaculate Conception Parish in that city.

Prior to that he had been pastor at Our Lady of Grace in Westport and at St. Theresa's in New Bedford. After ordination on May 20, 1967 by Bishop Connolly, he was a parochial vicar at St. George's in Westport, Sacred Heart in North Attleboro, and St. Joseph's in New Bedford.

He has also served as chaplain to the Nazareth School and directed the Catholic Charities Appeal in the New Bedford and Fall River regions.

Father Costa has been pastor of Sacred Heart inN orth Attleboro since June 28, 2000.

Prior to that he was pastor three years at Sacred Heart in Fall River.

Ordained on June 22, 1985 by Bishop Cronin, he served as a parochial vicar at St. Thomas More in Somerset, St. Mark's in Attleboro Falls, and St. Joseph's in Dighton.

A native of Taunton whose home parish is the former Sacred Heart Parish (now Annunciation of the Lord Parish), he attended its elementary school, Taunton Catholic Middle School, Coyle and Cassidy High School, and St. John's Seminary College in 1981.

He studied theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton.

"The model of pastoral planning decided upon for the North Attleboro area is not one of mergers, but a sharing of resources," said Father Costa, who will become pastor of St. Mary's in Attleboro, while remaining pastor at Sacred Heart. "It's a model being used across the country."

"It means the sharing of resources - including personnel, education, etc., and we're already doing that in the schools," he added. "The parishes are vibrant, they're not dying on the vine. So we start with sharing of leadership."

For Father Costa it means serving another 1,300 families besides the 800 he has at Sacred Heart.

''I'm excited about it and look forward to it," he said. "The people are very positive in both scenarios. We've had wonderful meetings with the planners from each parish," he reported. "We talked about three things: possibility, potential and promises.

The possibility of growth, the potential to work together and as a model, and the promise we don't do it alone, but it is God's work.

Jesus will never leave us."

His other assignments have included being chaplain at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro and Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River; director of the Office of Youth Ministry, and director of the Diocesan Choir.

Father Degagne will become pastor at St. John Neumann Parish in East Freetown, leaving Immaculate Conception Parish in Taunton six years to the day he became pastor there. He grew up in Fall River and was ordained a priest of the Fall River diocese on June 5, 1982 by Bishop Cronin at St. Mary's Cathedral.

Father Degagne has also served at Holy Name Parish in Fall River, his first assignment; St. Anthony of Padua Parish in New Bedford; Notre Dame Parish in Fall River; and his first pastorate was at Sacred Heart Parish in North Attleboro in 1994.

He has also served as Director of Campus Ministry at UMass Dartmouth, and was part of the diocesan Vocations Team. ''I'll miss the spirit of the parishioners at Immaculate Conception," he told The Anchor.

"There has always been a willingness of the parishioners to help out, as you'll find in many parishes across the diocese. It's been a good six years.

When asked what he's looking forward to heading to St. John Neumann Parish, he said, "Any time you move, it's a good chance to tryout new things and meet new people. There will be different programs and ministries. I look forward to working with them."

Father Degagne will be moving from a parish with a Religious Education program of nearly 120 students to one with more than 600. "That will be a challenge for me when I go to St. John Neumann. My emphasis will be on shifting from a smaller class to a much larger one. But it's a challenge I'm very much looking forward to."

Msgr. Fitzgerald, has been pastor at St. John the Baptist Parish in Westport for more than 20 years and said it has been an "excellent experience." He added, "We have a large amount of people who volunteer for the parish programs like Religious Education and it's really a wonderful parish community."

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NEWFOUNDLAND - The St. George's, NewfoundlanddioAnne's Hospital froni 1974In May 1982,hewasnameda 'cese plans to re-purchase more than 100 parish churches and other 1986, when he became pastor of Prelate of Honor to Pope John properties that were listed for sale in 2005 to satisfy a $13-million St. John the Ba.ptist Church, Paul II, and given the rank of settlement in a sex-abuse lawsuit. The Newfoundland diocese was Westport. monsignor. forced to seek bankruptcy protection- the first Canadian diocese "I will miss all aspects of this' Asked. about changes in parto take that step- because of sex-abuse claims. After years of liti- . parish," he said of St. John the ish life, Msgr. Hoye said he has gation, the diocese reached an agreement with the victims of sexual Baptist Parish. "It has been an watched his Attleboro parish area abuse for a $13 million payment that forced Church leaders to sell excellent experience, but I. am "experience considerable growth 134 parish buildings, including all its parish churches. Since taklooking forward to getting to of buildings and new housing as ing that disastrous step, Church leaders have set up a new trust to know a whole new community we really became a suburb of buy back the,properties. With few resources at their own disposal, at St. Thomas More. I have Boston, because we are on the leaders of the little diocese (with fewer than 70,000' faithful) have heard wonderfu: things about train line." issued appeals for help all over Canada, raising $6.5 million to rethem and will enjoy being part He said that with the parish claim the parish churches. of their lives." school and Religious Education, Msgr. Fitzgerald has served as "we have more than 1,000 chilChurches urged to apply for funding for marriage programs the executive director of Dioc- dren from grade one to grade WASHINGTON - Catholic and Protestant leaders praised the esan Health Facilities since 1988. nine. When I was first here, there Bush administration for making $100 million in new funds avail~ He is also dean of the Fall River were three priests. But I have able to programs that strengthen marriage in America. After four deanery and' was named a chap- been by myself for the past seven years of rejecting President George W. Bush's Healthy Marriage lain to his holine!;s in August of or eight years."

Initiative, Congress passed 'the proposal May 16. Five religious He noted that at one time he 1999. He is chairman of the leaders and marriage advocates spoke about the initiative at a presbyteral council. had a deacon assistant. "What recent pt:ess conference in Washington hosted by Marriage SavOther diocesan duties have in- has happened is that the laity has ers, a nonprofit organization that aims to reduce the nation's growcluded diocesan director of the been empowered to step up the ing divorce rate. "Marriage is the community's responsibility," pastoral ministry to the sick, di- plate. They do an awful lot of said Bishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Knoxville, Tenn., chairman of the ocesan liaison to Cursillo, past work."

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Marriage While he knows "a little" moderator for the diocesan counand Family Life. "Good marriages cannot exist in a vacuum. We cil of Catholic nurses and a mar- about his new parish, he said the need to ... take action." Mike McMan&Js, founder and co-chair of riage tribunal advocate and pro numbers would be approximately Marriage Savers, said the purpose of the press event was to ensynodal judge. about the same - some 2,000 courage Protestant and Catholic leaders to apply for feoeral aid When asked if he expected families or 6,000 members. to fund marriage programs and to urge their colleagues to con~ any challenges in his new assignAlthough at Christ the King sider doing the same. ment, Msgr. Fitzgerald re- Parish there are only 500 young sponded, "Every day there are people in Religious Edl:lcation, Holy Childhood Association offers Web-basd mission education challenges and you never know "it has a reputation of being very NEW YORK - The Holy Childhood Association has launched what you're going to face. My active with lots of apostolates . a new mission education module on "The Bread of Life" through faith keeps me going and the be- and ministries, including a great its Web page. In addition to featuring "fun facts" about breads of lief that this is the ministry I'm music program, a St. Vincent de the world, the Website explains to young Catholics the connection Paul Society and store, and a called tQ do." they share with children of the developing world through the celMsgr. Hoye, who has been MOMS ministry like in ebration of the Eucharist. It also encourages them to be missionarpastor at St. John the Evange- Attleboro." ies by sharing news of Jesus' "special meal" and offers'grade-speHe added, "If you look at list Parish in Attleboro for 17 cific mission education/activity sheets for free downloading. ''This years, called it, "An unusually Christ the King's Parish bullemost recent addition to our Website demonstrates our continued long tenure for this day and age. tin, there's something going on commitment to enhancing mission education through the use of Yes, I've grown to know the every day, twice a day, in their new technologies," said Msgr. John E. Kozar, national director of people and they me. So the as- parish center. I look forward to the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States. ''The Bread signment as pastor of Christ the it and meeting the people and of Life" module can be reached from the Holy Childhood AssociaKing is a mixed blessing. I hate being part of that parish famtion Web site, www.worldmissions-catholicchurch.orglhca, by clickto leave this place, but I'm ily." ing on "What's New Now?" looking forward to what I call Father Perry has been pastor 'a new 'adventure,' taking over at St. Joseph's in Fall River since Pope: Catholic journalists must be exemplars of faith, morality Msgr. Ronald A. Tosti's pastor- 1996. He is a native of Holy RoVATICAN CITY - Media professionals who work for the ate." sary Parjsh in Fall River. After Catholic Church must be exemplars of faith and morality as they He noted that "Msgr. Tosti lias seminary studies at St. John's try to bring Christian values to the world, Pope Benedict XVI said. been: the only pastor that parish Seminary in Brighton, he was or. The pope met June 2 with the employees of the newspaper, news has ever known. So it will bringdained,a priest on June 11, 1983 agency, radio network and satellite television station of the Italian some new challenges. I'm sure by Bishop Cronin in St. Mary's bishops' conference. Pope Benedict said it is their job to bring the there will be people who will say,. Cathedral.

Gospel to Italian life. Divorce, abortion and the lack of ethical ref- . 'we wish we had Msgr. Tosti He was a parochial vicar at erences in public debates show the consequences of a culture inbac~,' while others will say, Holy Name Parish in New tent on moving away from its Christian roots, the pope said. To be 'we're glad to have a change.''' Bedford, as well as Our Lady of effective witnesses, he said, those who work in Catholic media He added, "The pastor is the Victory Parish in Centerville, !>emust give "shining testimony ofprofoundly Christian lives" and be leader of the parish, but he's aJso fore being 'named pastor at St. deeply united with Christ in prayer "in order to see the world with a member. That parish has been Joseph's. his eyes." .. there before me路 and it will be As the incoming pastor of the th.ere after I leave. A pastor re- parishes of St. Jacques and ImPope says missionary activity is tied to love for God, service ally is a temporary visitor." maculate Conception' in Taunton, VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI said love for God and Msgr. Hoye brings a wealth "I look forward to the challenge service to the needy are defining elements of the Church's misof knowledge and experience to and meeting new people," he tald sionary activity around the world. The pope made the comments in his new pastorate. Ordained in The Anchor. "I'm expecting and his annual message for World Mission Sunday, which will be cel1972, he immediately came to hoping the people in Taunton will ebrated October 22 this year. The papal text, which focuses on love St. John the Evangelist for his be as warm and receptive and as the heart of missionary work, was published at the Vatican June first assignment. After a year, he welcoming as they have been 2. The pope said all missionary activity is tied to love - the love of was assigned to the graduate here at St. Joseph's.

God for human beings, as demonstrated in the saving sacrifice of school for canon law at The He noted that although he is.

Jesus Christ, and the love Christians are commanded to show oth~ Catholic University in Washing- called to shepherd two parishes, ton, D.C. Currently he is the "the total number of parishioners. ers in their daily lives. In a sense, he said, Christians are asked to make the world "bum" with divine love. "Isn't this the mission of 'president of the Canon Law So-' is substantially less than the ciety of America. the Church in every age?" he said. The pope emphasized that mis1,200 families I have at St. sionary work represents an essential and permanent task for every After graduate studies he Joseph's."

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new parishioners we've witnessed St. Joseph's come back to life in many ways. And we have done many and extensive renovations to the church and the property. This has been home for me in every sense of the term, and I will miss it here."

His other diocesan appointments have included being director of Continuing Formation of Clergy; chaplain to two police departments as, well as to Cape Cod Community College and the Daughters of Isabella' in New Bedford; and auditor of the Marriage Tribunal.

Father Reis has been pastor of St. Joseph's in Taunton since June 24, 1998, and has also served as the parochial administrator at St. Paul's Parish there.

A native of New B~dford, he was ordained a priest on May 31, 1986 by Bishop Cronin. He has served as a parochial vicar at St. Mary's in South Dartmouth, St. AnthoQy's in East Falmouth, St. John of 路God in Somerset, and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel if} Seekonk. .

He has also ministered as chaplain at Falmouth Hospital while in residence at St. Patrick's in Falmouth.

Father Roy has been pastor at St. Joan of Arc in Orleans since 1996. He is a native son of St. Joseph's Parish in New Bedford.

After seminary studies at St. John's Seminary in Brighton he was ordained a priest by Bishop Cronin on May 10, 1975.

He served at St. Theresa in South Attleboro, Sacred Heart in Taunton, St. Mary's in Taunton, Our Lady of Grace in Westport, St. Patrick in Falmouth, and St. Joan of Arc in Orleans, before being named pastorofSt. Stephen's Parish, Attleboro in 1993.

"It's been 10 great years here and as in all parishes I've been assigned, I will miss the people.

We have many successful programs including a wonderful RENEW program."

Father Roy said taking over the reins of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Attleboro is "a responsibility that I'm looking forward to. Msgr. Hoye ha's lovingly cared for that parish for many years. This lwill be my first time at a parish with a school and I welcome the challenge. They have a great principal and excellent faculty and staff."

Through the years, Father Roy has served as chaplain of the south Attleboro and Chatham Knights of Columbus, for the Juvenile Court in Attleboro, and for Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton. He has also been spiritual director for the ECHO program and for Engaged Enc.ounter and the Marriage Preparation Program. He is spiritual director for the Cape Cod divorced and separated support. group.

"It's like going home for me," said Father Roy. "I was pastor in Attleboro previously and I know the area well. St. John the Evan- . gelist is a nice parish."

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a standing committe~ to vocations and encourage children of all religions to work tow~ds their religious awards."

Father Salvador will be meeting with the NCCS executive committee twice a year and attending the October Bishop's Conference. His responsibilities' also include the National Catholic TnPning Conference at Philmont inl Arizona, the regional chaplain as~ignments and several standing corrimittees.

When asked about possible challenges he might encounter, Father Salvador said one of them will be to make others aware of the Scouting program and how it builds moral chara~ter and promotes good citizenship.

"We need more awareness that Scouting is a worldlwide organization and one of the challenges is bringing Christ to young people in the Catholic faith. I will be representing the Church to these Scouts and the Scou~ing program.

It's more than just setting up programs. It's basicaJly what the priesthood is all abollt; being there for others when things are going well and when they are not."

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Born and raised in New Bedford, Father Salvador was a Cub Scout and Boy Scout as a youth in Pack and Troop 17 at his home parish of St. John the Baptist.

He's been active in Scouting as an adult since 1977 when he became chaplain and executive board member of the Moby Dick Boy Scout Council. He went on to establish a unified Catholic Committee on Scouting in the diocese. Through the years he's served as diocesan chaplain to Scouting, NCCS chaplain for the New England Region I. and is currently an advisor to the NCCS Conference Committee.

He will step down in March 2007 as diocesan chaplain and as New England Region I chaplain December I, 2006.

"It's a labor of love for me," declared Father Salvador. "It's a big position, but it's a wonderful opportunity to promote Catholic Scouting."

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Father Salvador explained that the national chaplain works together with the national chairman to provide overall direction of the NCCS and to lead its activities, including maintaining its relationship with the Boy Scouts of.

America, the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry and other youth ministry groups.

The nominated person is actually not the first to know, as the NCCS must first obtaIn the permission of his bishop because of the lengthy commitment.

"It's hard to believe I've been appointed," mused Salvador during an interview in his rectory.

"I've done a lot of advising through the years and this will be . a good challenge. Catholic Scouting is more than just camping out.

There are many religious activities - retreats, emblem programs, service projects - I hope I can increase membership in the NCCS and I'm looking forward to it."

Father Salvador attended the Chicago conference with Father David C. Frederici, chaplain at Cape Cod Hospital. They were among approximately 250 to at.tend the week-long program of training sessions, seminars and presentations focusing on Scouting as Youth Ministry in the Catholic Church.

Keynote speakers were Father Dan Coughlin, chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Chris Bury, ABC news correspondent and an Eagle Scout.

Among his responsibilities, Father Salvador will provide overall spiritual guidance to the NCCS, oversee and advise all clergy working with Scouting under Catholic auspices in the United States, and plan liturgies for nationwide Scouting events like the National Boy Scouts of America Jamboree in Virginia.

That event was scheduled to be held next in 2008, but because of the centennial c~lebration of Scouting, it's been rescheduled for 2010.

"Bishop Coleman told me that any ministry dealing with youth is important," said Father Salvador. "We need good leadership and for more to take full advantage of the Scouting programs in their own parishes."

When asked if it's difficult to be in a position where he works with young people in a school and through Scouting, Father Salvador said, "In this day and age, it's important to reach out to young people. I have more than 50 altar servers who rotate each week for Masses. Because you have one bad leader or priest doesn't make

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Father S~vador has been involved with Scouting for nearly 30 years and has always been a strong supporter of the pr<;>gram.

"It's a way to get young people involved in their Church. We're giving our young people faith formation and values and helping them become strong Christian adults and citizens."

As he looks forward to his appointment, Father Salvador said he would like to eventually have a representative from each diocese in the United States on the NCCS and facilitate better communication with each of them. "I hope we can raise more awareness about Catholic Scouting, dedicate

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Fall River school wins Nickelo.deon grant FALL RIVER - On May 26, forms of active play, enjoying SS. Peter and Paul School cel- sports, playground activities, and ebrated the importance of active school yard games.

Activities took place in the play with an afternoon devoted to games of every kind. The "Let's . schooly~rd. on the grounds ofthe Play Games" celebration was in- rectory at 250 Snell Street, and at spired by a $5,000 grant the school Pulaski Park on Pulaski Street.

As part of its "Let's Just Play recently won from the Nickelodeon television network and its Program," Nickelodeon is award"Let's Just Play Giveaway" to im- ing more than $1.2 million to schools and organizations all over prove community play facilities.

An assembly was held in the the country to help them increase school's Father Coady Center to healthy, physical play in their formally announce the $5,000 communities.

"Let's Just Play" is grant and the upcoming plans for playground improvements. A cer- Nickelodeon1s pro-social committificate of recognition was pre- ment to encourage kids to particisented to fifth-grader Jameson pate in active, healthy, and playful Souza, whose entry in lifestyles, a much-needed antidote Nickelodeon's "Let's Just Play to reports of the rise in childhood Giveaway" was one of 20 across obesity, concerns about reduction the country that was randomly se- of physical education in schools and in after-school programs, and lected as a recipient.

Following the assembly, stu- the over-scheduled and sedentary dents devoted the afternoon to all lifestyles of kids today.

STUDENTS IN the third and fourth grades at St. John the Evangelist School, North Attleboro, display certificates they earned in a recent Battle of the Books project. They were asked to read 10 books and to answer questions about them in teams. Facilitators were Principal Sister Mary Jane Holden and teachers Karen Newman and Shelley Gauthier.

SENIOR FACULTY Awards were presented at Senior Awards Night at Bishop Stang High School, North Dartmouth.

The President's Award of Excellence was presented to Brendan Good, left, for exemplifying the highest ideals of the school and for being a role model for his peers. The Spartan Award was presented to Jonathan McElroy for being the Senior who best displays citizenship and s~rvice beyond school reqLiirements.

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FOUR EIGHTH-GRADERS from St. John the Evangelist School made a mural depicting their memories of their final year at the Attleboro school. The students worked under the direction of the school's art teacher and librarian Mary Frost.

From left, Megan Glasheen, Kelly Ann Loewen, Lianne Smith and Angela DeMarco.

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a relationship Is faltering Bv CHARLIE

Again and Again Listen dear I need you to hear I cannot disappear I've tried again and again and again I know we said That we'd give up You said we had enough Again and again and again But you, you're always on my mind It's like that all the time Say it's because you're mine All mine Refrain: And if you will Try to let it go. . And if you try, I'll try Try to let it show us the way' Because love is here to stay Just look me in the eye This is do or.die .

And I will stay in love Until you say enough There is no giving in There is no giving up in love Walk down the street Stare at lots ofthings The fast and steady streams Again and again and again Do what I should Try to stay busy Your face is all I see Again and again and again (Repem third verse.)

(Repeat refrain.)

Like a movie I once saw the darkness I recall Feeling the beauty-and the pain And when you call my name Say you feel the same 'Cause if you will, I will Try to let it go And if you try, I~ll try Try to let it show (Repeat refrain.)

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LOUISE SCANLON presents the annual Joseph Scanlon Man and Women of the Year Awards to Coyle and Cassidy High School students Amy Wohler and Patrick Souza during the Taunton school's annual honors night.

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. Getting lots of airl>lay is Jewel's latest release "Again and Again." The song is off her just"out new disc "Goodbye Alice in Wohderland."Over the' past few years, Jewel has worked in acting, writing and ,poetry, but it is still her distinctive vocal abilities that many of her fans most appreciate.

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She tells him that "you're always on my mind." If he truly wants to give up on their romance, 'she is willing to· "try to let it go." Yet, in her view, "there is no giving up in love."

Her commitment to make their relationship betterreveals how much their connection means to her. If her boyfriend were open to resuming their relationship, how could they proceed?

The first step would be to listen with care. The guy deeds to express the reasons behind his dissatisfaction.

He may find that they can. take 'new approaches to their problems. But if he says he's not ready for a commitment or he wants to create his life in new ways, then the girl should accept his decision. Love is always to be trea-

sured, but love without commitmenr is not really love. Rather, it is a type of unhealthy emotional dependency.

If they are·both still interested in the relationship, then they need to change their focus. True, there may be problems to address, but first they need to remember the common goals and interests that brought them together. If a couple solely focuses ·on problems, then what will the two have? Only problems! Instead, they need to put clear attention on why they liked each other and the fun that they have shared. What one focuses on in life is what grows, so if you want to strengthen a relationship, put attention on the good within it.

Admittedly, there can be problems' that will sabotage all the good in any relationship, for example, substance abuse or emotional cruelty. However, other relationship difficulties can be addressed if both parties examine their behaviorand determine what they need to work on. I often encourage pooply to pick one or two areas, no more, where they truly want to learn new skills and relate to the other differently.

Sometimes, one person in a relationship needs to hold on to the light oflove while the other works through a discouragement. That light can light the path for the couple to follow to rediscover the good in their relationship. ~ut this imbalance should not last too long.

If you find yourself at a difficult spot in a relationship, ask God to lead both ofyou to whatever is the highest good for you. Then whatever happens you both will be blessed with God's healing presence.

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spiritual life: I thought to myself, 'wow the Church really knows Continued from page one what it's doing with this teaching.' grams across the diocese. wanted to include NFP in Mar- And. Bobby took to it right from , "Natural Family Planning is riage Preparation programs and the start. He felt it enhanced our approved by the Catholic Church have training available.in the dio- marriage and has seen improveto help couples space their chil- cese. ments in his spiritual life as a re"In our training session, Celina suIt. So much so that he advocates dren," Scottie told The Anchor.

"And, it's an effective way to as- and I studied hundreds of charts the program." sist couples with low fertility to before we became certified in July The Bangs have been a witof 2001," said John. . possibly achieve pregnancy." ness couple for NFP for a bit less NFP utilizes an awareness of "Celina and I feel that marriage than' a year, but find it very rethe signs of a woman's fertility, is part of the creative process of . warding. "There are those who and it is 100 percent natural with God," he added. "So we must do don't like it," admitted Joanne. absolutely no health risks for the it right, and teach others, the "But some are very interested same." woman. and see it as a better alternative "At our Marriage Preparation' In addition to teaching couples than to fill one's body with programs, which all couples to be the NFP method in English, the chemicals and such.'" married in the diocese must at- Dellamortes hold Spanish classes The NFP program was first intend, we introduce Natural Fam- as well. troduced to the diocese in 1982, ily Planning," said Scottie.

"Celina was born in Puerto and since then hundreds of "Many are unaware the Rico and is fluent in Spanish and couples have learned about NFP method even exists," added Jerry. English," said John. 'The Couple and went, on to attend the The Foleys indicated that in the -to-Couple League asked if we courses. post-marriage preparation surveys would be willing to offer the NFP Many have praised the method many couples indicate they may classes in Spanish as well, and we and its benefits including: look further into the method. readily agreed. There is just a - the call for mutualrespon"Of course there are some who great need to get the word out. sibility by the husband and wife; simply brush it aside," said Jerry, NFP is the best kept secret in mar~ - a requirement that the "but there are many, many more' riage. . couples communicate; "One of the greatest success that show an interest."

- the method treats each men"Even from some of those stories for us is the couple who strual cycle as unique and teaches couples that didn't want to attend came to learn the method and had a couple to observe their signs of the marriage preparation, I've been trying to conceive for seven fertility on a day-to-day basis; heard the reaction that" 'I dion't years. They were on the verge of - there are no harmful side efthink the Church was so with it,''' researc1)ing in-vitro methods. Af- fects; ter four months of NFP training, said Scottie.

- it is very effective for those Currently, there are three they became pregnant." wanting to achieve or avoid pregcouples that teach the NFP "We're so grateful to our dioc- nancy; method across the diocese. There esan Catholic Charities Appeal for - can be used in special cirare also three witness couples, funding," said Scottie. 'The num- cumstances such as post-partum, that, while not teaching the ber of weddings are down so very ouring breast-feeding, and premethod itself, witness to what it much in recent years because of menopause; cohabitation and couples getting has done for their marriages.

- it is virtually cost free; One teaching couple is Celina married outside the Catholic Colleen and Jeffrey Ladino and John Dellamorte, parishioners Church. learned the NFP method from the of Corpus Christi Parish in East "There is no way we could Dellamortes at a session at Christ Sandwich. keep our Marriage and NFP pro- the Ki!1g Parish in Mashpee.

"When Celina and I got mar- grams afloat without the help of The Ladinos attended' Married, we had our first child right Catholic Charities." riage Preparation in' the summer Joanne and Bobby Bangs of of 2004 and signed up for NFP away," John told The Anchor. "We wanted to do the right thing and Corpus Christi Parish have uti- classes that November, prior to we looked into the Natpral Fam- lized the NFP method for seven their wedding.

"As acouple, we wanted to folily Planning method. years. "I saw it as a leap of faith, "After a while w~ became pro- and a new way of life," said . low what God has planned for moters of the method, and even- Joanne. "Bobby and I were con- us," Colleen told The Anchor. "We . tually we were approached by the vinced the路method was a way we wanted to put our complete trust Couple-to-Couple,League to con- could m~ntain and enhance our in him." sider becoming certified teach- marriage and family life.

She said they were very open ers."

"When I first began the method to having children from the start Then Bishop Sean P. O'Malley I was amazed how it adv,anced my of their marriage.

"I think .it's a wonderful method," said Jeffrey. "On a spiri'tual basis, whatever you offer to POSITION AVAILABLE. the Lord comes back to you in wonderful ways."

IMMEDIATELY "So many people are conas Director of Religious EducationIYouth cerned about having complete control of their lives," said ColMinistry at a vibrant growing parish. It is a fullleen. "God knows what we want time position with commensurate salary and more than we do. And the beauty benefits based on background and experience. ofNFP is that it's all natural. I'm Must direct program for.students Grade 1-9 and not introducing any chemica~s into my body, and as a couple continue an active Youth Ministry for high school , we're both involyed." and college students. We seek a flexible, collabo. Natural Family Planning sesrative, creative person to meet the needs of stusions are held in Spanish and English at various times and lo_cadents and families and work with parish staff. tions across the diocese.

Applications/interviews accepted immediately.

For a full job description call 508-824-5707 Send resume to: " Rev. Jay Maddock, Holy Family Parish P.O. Box 619, E. Taunton, MA 02718 . or FAX: 508-824-5665 '

Married couples interested in learning more about the Natural Family Planning program in the Diocese ofFall River should contact Jerry or Scottie Foley at the Family Ministry Program, 500 Slocum Road, North Dartmouth; or call 508.999-6420, extension

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Catholic Charities successes based on prayer,' meeting needs of others FALL RIVER _ So much of The prayer card, approved by what leads to the success of the an- Bishop James Cassidy as a way of nual Catholic Charities Appeal de- promoting prayer for the success pends upon the momentum that is of the Appeal among the faithful generated within parish communi- of the diocese, had a picture of ties and the diocese as a whole. It is "Our Lady of Fall River" on the t1)is momentum, punctuated by trea- front, and the following prayer to surers' reports, phonathons, second the Blessed Mother on the back: mailings, parish totals, and the like "Hail! Mary, full of Grace! Living that seem to be the benchmarks of witness of your Son's giving to the 65th Annual Appeal. men the divine command: 'Thou However, it is in remembering shalt love thy neighbor as thyself' the past that brings many who have , as we place our Dioc.esan Charibeen involved in the Appeal for lit- ties Appeal under your motherly erally decades to remind us all of protection. We have full' confithe very foundation upon which the dence that your powerful aid and Appeal was founded. intercession will bring abundant As the 2006 Catholic Charities blessings upon our efforts and,that, Appeal entered week four, pastors in our labor's fruits, your Son will who remember the "old days" ofthe be glorified, your name magnified Appeal continued to relate stories and your neighbor loved and aided, of when the Appeal was only 10 through Jesus Christ, our Lord, days in length, was conducted Amen." mainly door to door in neighborWith prayer as the common hoods all across the diocese rather thread that weaves its way through than by mail as is the case today, all of the efforts of our parish comand when friendly competitions munities and our agencies as they between pastors would add some do whatever they can to bring about "levity and excitement" to this the success of the Appeal, and in yearly endeavor: tum the ability of the diocese to As much as ~gs have.changed minister to the needy around us; the . in the length of !he Appeal and its original theme and focus of the process, one extremely important Annual Catholic Charities Appeal aspect has remained a constant: the remains unchanged over the designificance of prayer in the over- cades: 'Thou shalt love they neighall plan to bring about a successful bor as thyself'. conclusion to the yearly efforts of Donations to the Appeal can .the diocese to "respond to the needs be sent to the Catholic Charities of others."

Appeal Office, p.o. Box 1470, This point was brought home in Fall River, MA 02722; dropped a very touching way this past week off at any parish in the Diocese when a letter was sent to the Catho- of Fall River, or made on the lic Charities Appeal Office which Appeal Website: www.frdioc~ contained the prayer card that was catholiccharities.org. . , created specifically for the 1944 For information visit the Catholic Charities Appeal, the third Website or contact the AppearOfin the history of the diocese. fice at 508路675路1311.

Top Five Parishes by Deanery as of 06/02106 Attleboro Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Seekonk $ i7,183.00 60,242.00 St. Mary, Mansfield . St. John the Evangelist, Attleboro 36,378.00 30,935.00 St. Mark, Attleboro Falls 29,715.00 St. Mary, Seekonk Cape Cod $ 142,177.73 St. Pius Tenth, South Yarmouth 69,084.00 Our Lady of Victory, Centerville 63,319.00 Christ the King, Mashpee 59,694.50 Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster .58,162.50 Corpus Christi, East Sandwich Fall River $ 44,752.00 Holy Name, Fall River 26,125.00 St. John the Baptist, Westport 26,090.00 St. Thomas More, Somerset 25,482.00 'St. Stanislaus, Fall River 25,310.00 St. Joseph, Fall River New Bedford St. Julie Billiart, North Dartmouth $ 47,562.00 46,379.00 Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New Bedford 37,960.00 St. Mary, South Dartmouth St. John Neumann, East Freetown 37,583.00 36,087.00 St. Patrick, Wareham Taunton St. Ann, Raynham $ 40,753.00 22,150.00 Immaculate Conception, North Easton 21,847.00 Annunciation of the Lord, Taunton 21,264.00 Holy Family, East Taunton 21,220.00 St. Anthony, Taunton

The names of generous c:Jonors, parishes and agencies contributing to the 2006 Catholic Charities Appeal, will be pUblished In a single supplement of The Anchor on July 21.

lar and confemment ofthe miraculous medal. Attendees should bring a bag lunch. For more information call 508428-4527.

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ATTLEBORO - Perpetual eucharistic adoration is held at St.Joseph's Church, 208 South Main Street. For information call 508-226-1115.

NEW BEDFORD - Perpetual eucharistic adoration is held at Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street.

New adorers are welcome. For more information call Laurie Larsen-Silva at 508-888-7751.

WEST HARWICH - Perpetual eucharistic adoration is held at Our Lady of Life perpetual adoration chapel. New adorers are needed. For more information call 508-430-4716.

HEAliNG MASSES ATTLEBORO - A healing service in Portuguese will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette. La Salette Father Manuel Pereira will lead it. For more information call 508-222-5410.

FALL RIVER - Mass will be celebrated June 15 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Anne's Church, 818 Middle Street.

Rosary will be held at 6 p.m. Healing prayers will follow Mass. For more information call 508-674-5651.

POCASSET - The 13th annual MaSs of the Anointing ofthe Sick will be celebrated June 25 at 2 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, 841 Shore Road. For more information call Betty Kazmier at 508-563-9020.

STURBRIDGE - Father Ralph A. DiOrio will conduct a charismatic

general healing service with a Sunday Eucharist celebration June 25 at 11:30 a.m. at the Sturbridge Host Hotel. For more information call 508-791-0610.

WAREHAM - The Missionary Cenacle Apostolate will host a Mass Sunday at 2 p.m., in St. Patrick's Church Hall during which the sacrament of the sick will be administered.

Refreshments will be served following the Mass. The hall is handicapped accessible. For more information call Maureen Lindquist at 508-295-6884.

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS ATTLEBORO- "Mary: Mirror ofJesus," will be presented by Anna Rae Kelly June 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the National Shrine ofOur Lady ofLa Salette.

For information call 508-222-541 O.

CRAIGVILLE- The Craigville Colloquy Committee and the Commission for Leadership Development of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ presents the 23rd Theological Colloquy July 17-21 at the Craigville Conference Center.

The theme is "Christians Engaging Muslims" Commonalities and Particularies," and all Catholics are encouraged to attend. For information call Ralph Babusci at 508-778-0193.

MISCELLANEOUS ATILEBORO - A Mass and procession in honor of the Holy Spirit will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. at Holy Ghost Church, 71 Linden Street. Tra-

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ditional free sopas will be served in the church hall following Mass. A procession will begin from 41 Chestnut Street.

NEW BEDFORD - A Corpus Christi Procession will begin at 2:30 p.m. from Our Lady's Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street, and participants will proceed to three Benediction stations: St. Lawrence Parish, Our Lady of Purgatory Parish and the Missionaries of Charity. Apot-luck supper will follow at Our Lady's Chapel. For more information call the Franciscan Friars ofthe Immaculate at 508-996-8274.

OSTERVILLE - A Day with Mary will be held June 17 beginning at 8:45 a.m. at 79 Wianno Avenue. This day of devotion includes instruction and intercession based on the Fatima message, procession of Our Lady, crowning ceremony, rosary, the celebration of Mass, eucharistic procession, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, enrollmentofthe brown scapu-

SOCIAL EVENTS POCASSET - The St. John's Women's Guild will hold its annual Spring Rummage Event June 16 from 6-8 p.m. and June 17 from 8 a.m. to noon at the parish hall, 841 Shore Road. For more information call Pat Saniuk at 508-563-9282.

SUPPORT GROUPS NEW BEDFORD - Courage, a support group for those dealing with same-sex attractions while trying to live chaste lives, will meet June 17 at 6 p.m. in the rectory of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 233 County Street.

The group is faithful to the Catholic Church's teaching on human sexuality. For more information call 508-9929408.

NORTH DARTMOUTH - A Diocesan Divorced-Separated Support Group will meet June 12 from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Family Life Center, 500 Slocum Road. For more information call Bob Menard at 508-693-2997.

Sister Louis J. Bellenoit SSJ; served in Fall River diocese HOLYOKE - Sister Louis Joseph Bellenoit (Marcelle), 78, a member of the Sisters of S1. Joseph of Springfield for 63 years, died May 29 in the Mont Marie Health Care Center here.

A native of Fall River, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Marie Louise (Proulx) Bellenoi1.

She entered the Sisters of S1.

Joseph in Fall River from the former S1. Jean Baptiste Parish in Fall River. A graduate of Novitiate High Schobl, she received a bachelor's qegree from Rivier College in New Hampshire, and a certificate in theology from Providente College.

She became a member of the Sisters of S1. Joseph of Springfield when the two c6mmunities merged in 1974. .

Sister Bellenoit taught at Blessed Sacrament, St. Jean Baptiste, and S1. Joseph parochial schools in Fall River; at St.

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Therese in New Bedford and at St. Michael in Swansea; and served her congregation as treasurer, administrator, and coordinator of finances as well as the retired Sisters.

She took up residence at Mont Marie in 1994, where she continued to serve in various capacities.

She leaves three sisters, Mrs. Louise Boutin, Mrs. Rita Spargin and Mrs. Lorraine Levesque, all of Fall River; a brother, Maurice Bellenoit of Warwick, R.I.; nieces and nephews; and a cousin, Sister Joan Bellenoi1. She was predeceased by a sister, Jeannette Weeden, and a brother, John Bellenoi1.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated June I, in Mont Marie Chapel. Burial followed in Mont Marie Cemetery in Holyoke.

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THE FIRST "Our Lady of Purgatory Parish Award" was recently presented to James Kalife, a member of Our Lady of Purgatory Parish in New Bedford. The award recognizes someone who has shown exemplary commitment, dedication, and service to the parish. Nominations were accepted from parishioners and the finalist was selected by the Pastor, Father Charbel Semaan. From left: Father Semaan, John Kalife, James Kalife and Kathleen Kalife.

ST. MARY'S School in Mansfield hosted it's second annual Luminaria Service dedicated to honor family and friends on Memorial Day weekend. The prayer service was hosted by members of the sixth-grade class. More than 200 luminaria candles illuminated the path to the statue of the Blessed Mother where attendees were lead in a decade of the rosary by Principal Joanne N. Riley. Pastor Father George Bellenoit and Fathers Michael Fitzpatrick and Thomas Costa Jr. joined the group to pray for deceased loved ones and to honor those who have faced challenges in their lives. "It's such a moving experience" said coordinator Nancy Andrie. "It's a lovely way to spend a few minutes in quiet reflection before the hustle and bustle of the holiday weekend."

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TAUNTON - St. Mary's Primary School students and families have adopted the mission in Guaimaca, Honduras, as a community outreach project for the remainder of the academic year.

On an average Saturday morning, the typical student is thinking about soccer, Little League, swimming lessons and the many other activities children do on weekends.

Recently, however, many students and parents sorted, packaged and boxed 30 cartons of medical, personal hygiene and school supplies to be sent to this city of about 30,000 people.

'Father Paul Canuel, pastor, and Dominican Sister Lucia Gomez of the Guaimacan Mission captivated the St. Mary's students with stories of mission life. The children listened intently as Sister Lucia talked about the needs of the children and their families.

One of the student's parent commented that it is amazing that a box of Band-Aids would make a difference in someone's life.

Father Canuel and Sister Lucia were overwhelmed by the response of the school community and very

grateful for the donations. The goods will be sent to P;:un Potenza at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Seekonk to be included with their shipment.

St. Mary's is still collecting the following items: children's vitamins, toothbrushes, toothpaste, cloth diapers and pins, hairbrushes, and combs, band aids, Visine, Neosporin and Bacitracin ointments, hand sanitizer, two-inch. gauze pads, Children's Tylenol, Motrin, baby wipes, hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, dental floss, mouthwash, deodorant, Q-tips, powder, Pepto Bismol,lmmodium AD, and Quaker Oatmeal (non-instant).

School supplies that are needed include: chalk, erasers, pencils, rulers, markers (permanent and water colors), backpacks new or used (in good condition), compasses, notebooks, pencils, pencil cases, paper clips, and clipboards Children's clothing sizes 7-14, summer clothing in good condition, sneakers (children and adult), sandals, rain gear and tube socks are also needed.

Anyone interested can drop items off at St. Mary's Primary School 106 Washington St. Taunton, between 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

FATHER PAUL Canuel, pastor of the Diocese of Fall River's parishes in Guaimaca, Honduras, and Dominican Sister Lucia Gomez inspect some of the donations made by students and friends of St. Mary's School in Taunton. Below, students and parents ready some of the donations to be shipped to the diocesan mission.