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Silver. Jubilee Monday For 25 years the golden cros,s of the Catholic Memorial Home has been a landmark for travelers approaching Fall River. In that time it has served hundreds of men and women nearing life's close. Marking the silver jubilee, Bish op Connolly will celebrate Mass at 10 Monday morning, June 29 for the Home's residents. The date marks the eve of the blessing of the institution by the late Bishop Cassidy. A jubilee dinner for residents will follow Mass and at 4 Monday afternoon Auxiliary Bishop Gerrard will offer a Pontifical Mass in the Home's chapel, with Bishop Connolly presiding. Employees of the Home will celebrate the jubilee Tuesday night, June 30 at a dance. The orchestra will be led by Ed Margarida, whose musicians have been visiting the Home on a voluntary basis monthly for the past year to play for residents. In charge of jubilee arrangements, as he was of the original fund-raising drive for the Home, is Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, who has been in general charge of the institu-' tion since i·ts beginning. Sullivan Memorial Although the 25th anniversary of the Home will be marked on Monday, its history goes back much further. It was in 1917 tha,t the Misses Ellen and Julia Sullivan made a bequest to the Bishop of Fall River "for the erection of a home for the aged, to be erected in the city of Fall River and to be in the memory of Michael and Julia Sullivan."
As good a measure of any of the changes 27 years have brought to American life and to Catholic life in the Diocese. of F'all River in particular is a comparison of the first fund-raising drive ever held in the Diocese to that which is now a yearly event-the Catholic Charities Appeal. The first drive was held in June, 1937 to raise funds for the Catholic Memorial Home in Fall River, now marking its silver Jubilee. In 10 days $228,751.30 was collected in an effort regarded at the time as "without equal in the history of southern New England." Last month's appeal brought the record-breaking . amQ..unt of $680,111.91. Instead of aiding construction of one institution, it will go to 29 agencies of Catholic Charities and will also assist in building a new home for the aged in North Attleboro and opening of a new school for mentally retarded children. These institutions will be in addition to the four homes for the aged and two schools for the retarded already in operation. Turn to Page Eighteea
The ANCHOR Vol. 8, No. 26 ©
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Ready Thirteen Subjects .For Council's Voting By Rev. John R. Folster st. Anthony Church - New Bedford
The Vatican has disclosed that some thirteen objects of business have been readied for the bishops' return to the council. Of these, one is a simple declaration of the council . fathers' mind on Marriage; six are propositions for' which the Fathers will vote a sim. tion; (2) the Ohurch-with the pIe "yes or no"; six are fun chapter on Our Lady's privileged scale drafts of legislation position; (3) the Bishops-<X>l needing debate. Thedecla lectively and individually; (4) ration is a simple eXDOSition Olf the mind of the Council concern mg the Sacmment of Marriage. The six propositions requiring either a "yes" or "no" vote-but no preliminary debate-will con. eern:, (1) the Eastern Churches; (2) the Missions; (3) Religious; (4) Priests; (5) Seminaries; (6) Catholic Schools. The remaining six pieces on the agenda are full-scale sche mata which-if already debated --will be reviewed, approved, cllanged, or dropped. If these are new schemata they will be treat ed as above but for the first time The schemata already debated but re-arranged according to the eX1>ressed directions of the F'a tlhers are: (1) Divine Revel..
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Pope 'Paul VI 'Promises Birth Control Edict Qtat40Jit .tmn~ial ~nmt Jrall ~ittt~
VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI revealed that the Church is in the process of a major reevaluation of the question of birth control and said that for the present, at least, the pronouncements on the question by Pope Piua XII must be considered valid the ."pill." But he said that the and binding for all Catho Church is being aided by "many lics, Pope Paul spoke out eminent scholars" in an in Tuesday with the apparent tensive study of the questio~ intention of ending the current controversy over the possible legitimacy for using certain re cently discovered hormone pills which can prevent conception. He did not refer explicitly to
Bish'ops .Join InCMH25th Anniversary Eulogist Accentuates Zeal ,Most Reverend James L. Connolly, D.D.; Bishop of the Diocese, and Most Reverend Of Father Killgoar, SS.CC. James J. Gerrard, D.D., Aux iliary Bishop, will join in com memorating the Silver Jubilee of the Oatholic MemorIal Home in Fall River next Monday. Bishop Connolly will offer Mass at 10 Monday morning for residents and preside and preach at a Solemn Pontifical Mass to Turn to Page Fifteen
"He had only twenty-tWo years in the apostolate as a priest of God but hQw can we measure the depth or v'alue of the work of a priest in the terms of time and human judgement?" With these words, Rev. William B. Davis, SS.CC., Professor of Theology and Canon Law at the ~hurch, Mattapoisett, this morn- . ~- F th 'S mg for the late pastor of the S . acre.d H eanll5 a ers em: Church, Rev. Clement Killgoar, mary m Jaffrey, N.H., began SS.CC.,· who died suddenly the eulogy
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Deadline Today Recipients of invitations to Monday's celebration of the Catholic Memorial Home .Ju bilee, who have not already answered, please call 672-7'781 today aod state 70111' iu.tentloa.
and that its findings will be re vealed as soon as possible. Pen ding a further pronouncement, he said, nobody is to "take it upon himself to speak in te~ Turn to Page Twelve
Sunday morning after he had celebrated two Masses for his people. After the Pontifical Requiem Mass sung by the Most Reverend James J. Gerrard, D.D., Auxil iary Bishop of the Diocese, the eulogist cited Father Kill goar for his zeal and dedication as a religious and in several assignments he held in the Con gregation of the Sacred Hearts as a pastor, seminary professor, retreat master and religious su. perior. In every task assigned to him, Father Killgoar lived up to the highest expectations of his suTurn to Page Eighteen
Summer Schedule
AERIAL PHOTO OF FALL RIVER'S CATHOLIC MEMORIAL HOME
The Anchor publishes todaY flhe Summer schedule of Masses and other devotions in churches in the Cape Cod area, Marthyr's Vineyard and Nantucket islands. See page 4.