SERVING .•• SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
t eanc 0 VOL. 24, NO.25
FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY; JUNE 19; 1980
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Family ministers! celebrate The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption was the scene last Friday evening of a concelebrated Mass for those involved in the diocesan Family Ministry Program. Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was the principal celebrant and homilist for this first diocesan gathering of family ministers. He was joined in the concelebration by Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, Diocesan Director of Family Ministry, and Rev. Maurice Jeffrey, Rev. Arnold Medeiros, Rev. Robert Donovan, Rev. Jose dos Santos, and Rev. Marc Bergeron, area directors of the Marriage Preparation Program. Other marriage preparation coordinators concelebrating were Rev. Thomas Grinnell, SS.CC., Rev. Bruce Neylon, Rev. Stephen Fernandes and Rev. Thomas Morrissey. Representative of coordinators of support groups for divorced and separated Catholics were Rev. John Cronin, F&Y. Edward Halloran, OFM, Rev. John Ozug and Rev. Herbert Nichols. Deacon Leo Racine and Deacon John
Schondek were deacons for the liturgy. In his homily Bishop Cronin noted that the new Office of Family Ministry was a milestone in diocesan history but clearly traced family ministry itself as being nothing new in the history of salvation. He stated: "From the very beginnings of salvation history, family has been the prime concern of the Almighty . . . the Holy Family in Nazareth . . . the concern of Mary and Joseph of their child ... Jesus for His parents." He spoke eloquently of the Church's constant care for families to this very day when the bishops of the United States have presented a Pastoral Plan of A'ction for the decade of the eighties as a time of renewed interest and care for all families, not only model families, but hurting families. The bishop said: "We must reach out to all, enriching family life at all levels and especially to hurting families, to those
for whom marriage is a constant joy as well as to those for whom marriage has become a time of discouragement and pain . . . to that end we have established the new Office of Family Ministry with Father Tosti as its first directbr .. . we look forward not only to enriched programs of marriage preparation but to deeper concern and care on the part of our diocese for all families, for the divorced and separated, for the widowed and singles." The bishop thanked all who have worked in the new ministry and asked God's blessing that they might continue to give of themselves to one another. Mr. and Mrs. William Martin, directors of the diocesan Engaged Encounter Program, were lectors for the Mass and representatives of marriage preparation programs and support groups of the divorced and separated were in the offertory procession. After the liturgy, Bishop CroTurn to Page Six
UMBRELLAS APPEAR to hover miraculously over heads of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Rev. Edmond Rego at groundbreaking for new Espirito Santo rectory on Alden Street in Fall River. Not so favored are Father Luiz A. Ca~doso, pastor, left, or Msgr. John J. Oliveira, rear. The new rectory will replace a building over a century old.
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SISTER JANET BARBER, IHM, a writer-producer, and Father John Mulhall, CSP, founder and director of Paulist Communications, work on programming.
Radio apostolate With 100 percent cooperation from radio stations, the Fall River diocese has one of the best records in the nation for utilization of public service air time, according to Paulist Communications, a non-profit radio production organzation that provides religious programming to stations throughout the country. Representatives of the Los Angeles-based project of the Paulist Fathers work with Father John F. Moore, Anchor editor and diocesan director of communications, in supplying all radio stations in the diocese with news, youth programming, spiritual reflections and special seasonal material. The programming began at the invitation of Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and continues to operate under his auspices. Currently, said Marcia Stanley of Paulist Communications, "all 16 stations in the Fall River diocese donate air time for broadcasting Catholic programs and spots. Since 1975 programming has been broadcast in every city and town in the diocese that has a radio station. Both rural and urban stations have been very cooperative. As a result, Fall River has consistently had one of the best records of participation in the nation." "Programming is designed to make God better known and loved by the listening audience," explained. Rev. John Mulhall, CSP, founder and director of the radio service. "We're trying to show that there's a close relationship between our attitudes toward people and our attitudes
toward God. You can't separate them," he said. Paulist liaison staff members regularly visit and telephone diTurn to Page Six
Ordination set Rev. Mr. Marc Tremblay will be ordained a priest for the Fall River diocese at ceremonies set for 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Cathedral. Rev. Mr. Tremblay is a native of St. Anne's parish, Fall River, and the son of Roger and Pauline (Ouellette) Tremblay. One of seven children, he has four brothers and two sisters. After completing studies at St. Anne grammar school and Turn to Page Six
REV. MR. TREMBLAY