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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE iSLANDS
Friday, June 12, 1998
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Four to be ordained priests for the diocese
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Bishop O'Malley will impose hands on and anoint four young men in the traditional rites of the sacrament of holy orders.
FALL RIVER - Four transitional deacons will be ordained to the priesthood for service in the diocese by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley in St. Mary Cathedral Saturday at 11 a.m. They are Rev. Mr. Hernando Herrera, Rev. Mr. John M. Murray, Rev. Mr. Paul C. Fedak and Rev. Mr. Edward A. Murphy. All visited The Anchor in the weeks prior to ordination and offered informal interviews. Rev. Mr. Herrera is the son of Hector and Cecilia Herrera of Washington, D.C. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Virginia in 1989 and a master's degree in clinical child psychology from Pennsylvania State University in 1991. He studied theology from 1993 to 1998 at St. John Seminary in Brighton. During his seminary years he served educational assignments at St. Ann Parish, Raynham; at the Office for AIDS Ministry in Fall River; the religious education program at St. Ann's Church, Somerville; Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, New Bedford;
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the Family AIDS Project, Dorchester; and St Mary Cathedral Parish. He was ordained a deacon by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley in St. Mary Cathedral on Jan. 3. His first Mass (bilingual) will be celebrated June 14 at 11 a.m., in St. Mary Cathedral. Rev. Mr. Herrera said he shares the excitement ofbeing ordained with his colleages. "Certainly all the training over the past five years preparing for the priestly ministry has been excellent, but there is much more I have to learn," he said. "I'm looking forward to that and hopefully I will be able to learn and be as open and generous with my time as I can with the people whom I have been asked to serve. Because I also speak Spanish, that will probably be something else I can bring to the parish setting. There have been many well-attended bilingual Masses at the Cathedral and there has also been much collaboration in bilingual educational programs." Rev. Mr. Murray was born in Brockton, the son of Michael E. Murray, a permanent deacon at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church, Taunton, and Carol Murray. A 1990. graduate of Coyle & Cassidy High School, Taunton, he did undergraduate study at St. John Seminary, Brighton, where he also studied theology from 1994 to 1998. His educational assignments included teaching religious education at Immaculate
Conception Parish, Cambridge, and St. Paul Parish, Wellesley; the Office of Evangelization; S1. Michael Parish, Swansea; St. Mary Pl¢sh, Nantucket; Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge; and Notre Dame Parish, Fall River. He was ordained a deacon Jan. 3 by Bishop Sean P. O'Malley in St. Mary Cathedral and has served at St. Patrick Parish in Wareham. He will celebrate
his first Mass on June14 at 3 p.m., in St. Ann Church, Raynham. Rev. Mr. Murray said that the seminary offered "a thorough foundation through training and education in the theology ofthe Church, but also offered us the tools we need to learn further in the priesthood. One doesn't come out of the seminary as a completely finished product. Thank God
Catholic Charities Appeal is on final lap in campaign FALL RIVER - In the final sprint of the 1998 Catholic Charities Appeal, parishes continue to report increased returns according to bright reports from campaign officials. Even as the tallying continues, prospective contributors are invited to participate in this year's Appeal by contacting any of the III parishes of the diocese, by communicating with Diocesan Headquarters at 362 Highland Ave., P.O. Box 1470, Fall River MA 02722 or by calling (508) 676-8943. Returns from the diocese include the following figures from leading parishes in the separate geographic areas: Attleboro Area Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Seekonk SI. Mary, Mansfield SI. John the Evangelist, Attleboro SI. Mary, Seekonk SI. Mark, Attleboro Falls Cape Cod Area SI. Pius X, South Yarmouth Our Lady of Victory, Centerville Tum to page six
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$68,051 $53,944 $47,950 $35,526 $34,436 $135, 252 $77,331
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SOMERSE1:il;.;'iP(ease takeoft'Y()UT shOes," said Ctlristin~Yunrni Kim as my husband andl:ente~d the Somerset house where she~ves }Yith her mOther.. Slippers awaited us in accordance with the Korean custo~ of leaving one's outdoor footwear at the front door. We were then invited to choose a comfortable area for an interview with Christina. Feeling very welcome, we settled in the living room for an hour ofconversation with a remarkab~ college graduate. At age 22, Christina is a'young woman to watch. She is a 1998.cum laude graduate ofThfts Univers~ty in Medford, but that is far from her only accomplishment. An honor student from first grade through high school, she also studied piano in that period, is also adept on the violin, flute and Mccolo and from 1994 until her graduation wasconcertrnaster for the Thfts symphollY orchestra. ''And I'm always looking for new things to try;' she said. Next on her agenda, come suitable weather, will be snowboarding. But she won't be idle until snow flies. Her many abilities have . earned her one of 10 Fulbright grants that went to members. of her graduating class ()n,1 00 students.. The grant will take her ~ South Korea, her paren~' native land, where she will teach English to Jlliddle school pupils. Leaving Somerset on July 6, she will live with.it host family until her ~tum to the United States July 31, 1999. . Christina is one of some 2000 Fulbright grantees from across the nation who will ~ working abroad this year and next in one of the U.S. government's most successful educational exchange programs. In 51 years, the progran1 haS exchanged some 200,000 American and foreign students, as well as other thousands of U.S. and foreign teachers. Christina's lucky students will probably benefit from her athletic abilities as well as her linguistic talents. At Somerset High School, from which she graduated as fourth ranking student academically, her ability made her captainpf the boys' tennis team and at Thftsshe was'~amed most valuable player on the women's squash team from J995 through 1998, was active ~l a Big BrotherslBig Sisters program, played tennis herself and was involved with a tennis team sponsored by a campus outreach group wdrlcing with minority youngsters. She was also it member of the campus[lIlusic; ministry and was a lector at the Thfts ch;qJe1. Also while at'J;l.ifts, where she majored in child development; Chris: tina was a volunteer at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, specializing in pediatric home care. There she was assigned to provide practical and em9tional support and companionship in the course of visits to the home of a chronically ill and developmentally delayed . three-year-old. C()mm~nication with the child calledupon her knowledge of Spanish and also of American Sign Language. She al~ kept the youngster's social worker, nurse practitioner and physician aware HAPPY MOMENT-Ghristina Y. of her progress with the case. Kim and her mother, Mrs. Simon Y. Christina and her mother, Theresa Kim, both sing at St. Patrick's Kim, celebrate Christina's graduation Parish, Somerset, where daily Massgoers enjoy Mrs. Kim's beautiful 1
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with honors from Tufts University.