VOL. 49, NO. 25 • Friday, June 24, 2005
FALL RIVER, MASS.
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Bishop Coleman names five new ministry heads
ATTENDING THE 25th anniversary liturgy for the first diocesan diaconate class were, from left: Father Philip N. Hamel, pastor of St. Joseph-St. Therese Parish, New Bedford, Deacons Leo W. Racine, James Meloni Jr., Benjamin Nogueira, Vincent Walsh, Francis Camacho, Maurice Lavallee, and Andre Nasser. (Photo by Anne Cabral)
First diocesan diaconate class celebrates 25th .anniversary NEW BEDFORD - The 25th anniversary liturgy of the Permanent Deacons from the Class of 1980 was celebrated Jurie.19 at St. Joseph-St. Therese C.ht!rch in New Bedford. The class of 13 riien was the first one ordained on June 7th, 1980by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, . then bishop of the Fall River diocese. Father Philip N. Hamel, pastor, and Father Michael Racine, Chaplain at St. Luke's Hospital and
cousin of Deacon Leo Racine, Class of 1980, concelebrated the liturgy. Seven out of the original 13 ordained deacons' served at the liturgy as well: Oeacons' F~ancis Camacho; Maurice Lavallee, James Meloni Jr., Andre Nasser (ordained in the Melkite Rite), Benjamin Nogueira, Leo W. Racine, and Vincent Walsh. Three deacons were unable to attend due to illness: Deacons Oscar
Drinkwater, Paul Metilly, and Frank Mis. Deceased Deacons Manuel Camara, John Cwiekowski, and John Scho.ndek were remembered in prayer during th(f·liturgy. . Bishop George W. Coleman and Msgr. John J. Oliveira, diocesan director of the Permanent Diaconate Office, honored the Class of 1980 earlier at the annual diaconate convocation held at St. Turn to page J3 - Deacons
FALL RIVER - The appointment of five new directors of diocesan offices and a new executive editor for the diocesan newspaper, The Anchor, were announced today by Bishop George W. Coleman. The appointments, all effective July 1, include: Father David M. Andrade as diocesan director of Pastoral Planning; Father Roger 1. Landry as executive editor of The Anchor; Father Gregory A. Mathias as diocesan director of Family Ministry and director of the Family Life Center; Father Marek S. Tuptyp.ski as diocesan director of Pastoral Care of the Sick; Deacon Robert D. Lemay as diocesan director of the Rite of Christian Initiation ofAdults; and Mrs. Marian Desrosiers as diocesan director of the Pro-Life Apostolate. Father Andrade, 45, a Taun-
ton native, was ordained a priest May 31, 1986 by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin in St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. He has served as a parochial vicar at Our Lady of Health in Fall River, St. John of God in Somerset, and St. Theresa's in Attleboro where he became parochial administrator. While serving at St. Jean Baptiste Parish in Fall River, he was named pastor there in 1998, and continued as the new Holy Trinity Parish at St. Jean Baptiste Church emerged in June 2000. He has also served as a chaplain at Saint Anne's Hospital and an advocate and auditor at the Diocesan Tribunal. As director of Pastoral Planning he succeeds Msgr. Ronald A. Tosti. Father Landry, 35, a parochial vicar at St. Francis Xavier Turn to page J3 - Heads
2005 Catholic Charities Appeal in final stages . FALL RIVER - Tuesday, June 21, the last day of the 64th annual Catholic Charities Appeal, was certainly a busy day at Appeal headquarters. All parishes were checking their mail, calling in their final reports, and checking their parish totals as the dioc-
esan-wide process was drawing to a close. "The phones were ringing off the hook, with many parishes calling in two or three times as they were receiving last minute donations from friends and parishioners through the mail and in Turn to page JJ - Appeal
Taunton students go to bat for classmate's brother TAUNTON - In just three days, the students at .St. Mary's Primary School here raised more than $3,100 to benefit the family of one of their own. Four-year-old Jared Faria, brother of Jillian Faria, a kindergartner at the school, has been diagnosed with Krabbe's Disease. The illness is an error in the genes that does not allow for proper nerve development in the brain. The disease is characterized by progressive neurological dysfunctions such as mental retardation, paralysis, blindness, deafness, and paralysis of certain facial muscles. It progresses until the individual can no longer function independently. Jared is currently undergoing treatment at the Fairview Clinic in Minnesota where he will remain for four-five
months. In an effort to help offset the family's medical and travel expenses, St. Mary's students participated in a special "St. Mary's Rox!" event, featuring K-O, mascot of the Boston Rox baseball team, who was on hand to greet students at a special morning assembly. The children brought in a minimum donation of $1 and dressed in their favorite baseball attire. The dress-down day event raised more than $2,200. Additionally, half the proceeds ofa special lottery ticket sales at the school's production of "Honk Jr.," totaling more than $800, was also donated to the family. STUDENTS AT St. Mary's Primary School in Taunton recently gathered with "It's a great opportunity to show the children how easy it is to make a differ- K-O, the mascot of the Brockton Rox baseball team. K-O appeared at a fundraising event for the family of a St. Mary's student, whose brother is seriously ill. Turn to page three - Taunton