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Bishop to Bless Fleet Sunday Provincetown is preparing for the J Oth annual Blessing of the Fishing Fleet on Sunday, when Most Rev.,Bishop James L ';onnolly, D.D., will bless the boats, their captains and their crews. ' The colorful ceremony, which f uracts thousands to the town on the tip of the Cape, will begin at 10 o'clock when the fishermen will 'as semble at Town Hall and, a" c com pan i e d. by three
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bands, the Provincetown Band, the Portuguese-American Band of New Bedford and the CYO Band of Roslindale, will march Second Class Mail Priveleues AUlhoriztd PRICE,10. Vol. 1, No. 12 at rail River, Mass. $4.00 per Yr. to St. Peter the Apostle Church to assist at the High Mass of , Thanksgiving at 11 o'clock. Bish op Connolly will preside and preach the sermon. Men and bands will assemble again at 2 in the afternoon and march to the rectory where the Bishop. priests and altar boys will join the procession to the end of the Town Wharf. Here against the setting of sea and sky and sand, the Bishop will Im part the Church's ancient bless ing' to the ships and fishermen. Individual Blessing When the general biessing is over the captains will start their boats and form a marine proces - sion around the harbor, each re ceiving the Bishop's blessing as it passes the reviewing stand. The ceremony is a public dis play of faith ~in a town known for Its nanow streets. its old wharves. its Summer theatre anti its artists' colony, when men engaged in a hazardous occupa tion seek God's blessing on their work. The colorful costumes of the fishermen. the freshly painted 'HOLY TI E SABBATH D 't Sh S d boats decorated with fl.ags and K EEP , .. : on op un ay bunting" and with figures of the drive gets underway as Charles J. Malloy displays auto- Saints hand-painted on the sails, mobile sticker (top), and poster in shape of a stop-sign, provide an atmosphere reminls and pamphlet urging halt to buying on Sunday. He is cent of the Old World. chairman of the social action committee of the St. Louis' But primarlly it Is a religious festival, reoolling that many of, Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Men. Similar campaig'ns the Disciples were fishermen who are underway in other par<ts of the country. NC Photo. had faith In the Divine Mastel'.
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Sunday Now
Bargain Day
Historical Resume
Bishop Connolly Receives High Portuguese Honor In a colorful setting and before a capacity assemblage of almost 1000 persons at Lincoln Park last Sunday eve ning, the Most Reverend Bishop received the insignia of a Grand Official of the Order of Christ from Dr. Luis . __' -. Esteves Fernandes, Portu guese Ambassador to the United States. Rt. Rev. Msgr. John A.
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Baptist ChW'ch, New Bedford. WASHINGTON (NC) mother chW'ch of all Portuguese "Sunday has been degrad parishes In New England, served ed to a bargain day," Arch By Rev. John H. Hackett, S.T.L. as toastmaster of the banquet bishop Patrick A. O'Boyle and singled out the new schoola This Spring the Church mark~d a significant anniversary in her legal history. in Portuguese of Washington said in de parishes and many Sunday~ May 27, 1917, Pope Benedict XV promUlgated seminarians of Portuguese des Forty years ago, on Pentecost nouncing the practice of un as a sign of the Bishop's In necessary Sunday shopping. the Code of Canon Law. It became effective as the general law of the Church on the cent terest In the Portuguese people following, Pentecost Sunday, May 19, 1918. In a pastoral letter which church fathers. Since many of of his Diocese. ,Monslgn,or Silvia This was the first such was read in all churches of introduced the Rt. Rev. Msgr. these laws were in apparent con Antonio P. Vieira, pastor of Mt. the archdiocese, the Arch official collection of law to flict with one another, Gratian Carmel Church, New Bedford. bishop urged Catholics to be made in seven hundred added a commentary in which ha and dean of the clergy of thl) "rigidly safeguard the sa years. Its pub Ii cat ion tried to reconcile their differ , Diocese, who extended the felici cred character Of Sunday." brought to completion the gigan ences. His book became a refer tations of the' priests of the "When the Lor.d's day is tic task that had occupied can ence work and a text used by Diocese on this happy occasion. - students and lawyers throughout forg'otten," he said, "the onists continuously since 1904. Governor Attends Europe. Gratlan's Decree, as it the direction of the Sov obedience and respect owed Under Francis J. Carreiro. a Somerset was called, was an unofficial ereign Pontiff these jurists had to Him is doomed. Those 'gathered into a single volume work in the sense that it was not selectman, represented the laity who fail to keep holy the the general laws regulating all of the Diocese and spoke of tha published with ecclesiastical ap probation. Yet It enjoyed such history of Portugal, and its rola Sabbath day, both seller and phases of ecclesiastical life. popularity that it became the In exploration and in the spread The Church received from ,God shopper, may well be con of the faith. His Excellency. best-known book of canon law. the right to make law. He en tributing to the ultimate trusted to her all the means Later collections, made with Governor Foster Furcolo. ex destruction of our beloved necessary to lead the faithful to ecclesiastical approval. used' this tended _the best wishes of the country." Commonwealth on this honor eternal life. She does this by these canons and decrees In an book as a starting point in gath
Mass Tomorrow In New Bedford For Legionnaires Bishop Connolly will preside and preach the sermon at the Memorial Mass fOt· deceased Massachusetts Legionnaires at St. Lawrence Church. New Bed ford. tomorrow morning at 9 o·clock. Celebrant will be Rev. Aurelian L. MOI·cau. pastor of St. Hy acinth's Church and chaplain of New Bedford Post No.1. Amer ican Legion. Delegat('s to the Turn to
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exercising the powers given her ol'derly and useful way. The first ering subsequent papal decrees to teach, to rule, and to sanctify and counciliar legislation as well great scientific collectio~ was as laws which Gratian had her members. made at Bolog'na, Italy, In the 'omitted. From the first century the popes exercised their supreme ,twelfth century. The University Collections Increase jurisdiction by meails of papal of Bologna had become the cen The first of these official col letters to the churches in various ter for the stUdy of civil and lections was made in 1234 by St. parts of the world. They' settled ecclesiastical law. It was here Raymond of Pennafort. Pope disputed points of law and de cided cases of special'importance that Gratian. an Italian monk, Gregory IX approved It and or that had been submitted to their made his famous compilation of dered that It be published. In 1298 Pope Boniface VIII issued , canon law. judgment. another collection of laws that At the general councils the Gratian'!;' Decree were not Included in the Decre bishops of the whole world met Gratian tried to gather and tals of Gregory IX. Then Pope under the leadership of the pope put in order the mass of legisla or his legate to make laws for tion that had accumulated over John XXII, in 1317, promulgated a third official collection. the universal Church. the centuries. He collected papal In 1500 John Chappuis edited First Compilation decrees, canons of general and Grattan's Decree and these three As the centuries passed it be provincial councils. and excerpts came a vast problem to collect from the writings of the early Turn to Pa~e Nine
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coming to one of its Bishops. In his presentation talk. the Portuguese Ambassador praised Bishop Connolly as a "benevo lent father" to the many Portu guese who have come to thla Diocese and to their descendants. He said that the decision of the President of Portugal to pre sent this decoration to the :Bi shop was prompted by the deep interest that the Bishop has shown for the Portuguese people who make up so large a segment of his Diocese. Bishop Speaks The Ambassador then invested tho Bishop with the Insignia ot