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Diocese of Fall River, Mass.

Friday, July 8, 2016

Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., blesses the fleet in Provincetown, at the event held at the very tip of Cape Cod each year. (Photo courtesy of Peter W. Yaremko) The Anchor - July 8, 2016

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Differing paths led to similar blessings for retired priests

By Dave Jolivet Anchor Editor davejolivet@anchornews.org

MASHPEE — In his homily at a farewell Mass at Christ the King Parish, the pastor, Msgr.

Daniel F. Hoye said, quoting a Boston newspaper columnist, “Retired priests are like retired Marines — there are none.” He continued, saying, “When diocesan priests retire, we don’t stop celebrating the Sacraments,” as long as they’re physically able.

Msgr. Hoye retired as a diocesan priest on June 30, joining his brother priest, Father Michael M. Camara, a parochial vicar at Santo Christo Parish in Fall River, whose retirement was effective the same day.

Both men were born in 1946, Msgr. Hoye on January 18 in Taunton, Father Camara on August 12 in Fall River.

While both are Catholic priests and share a birth year and retirement day, their paths to and since ordination are very different.

Msgr. Hoye attended a Catholic high school and, following his ordination, held various national positions before truly settling into parish life more than 15 years later.

Father Camara was the product of a public high school, spent time in the United States Air Force, was a religious member of the Franciscan community for 27 years, and was ordained to the priesthood at age 42, 27 years after Msgr. Hoye.

And, while their roads to the priesthood and ensuing responsibilities varied, the greatest joy of their priesthood is quite the same.

“I have to admit,” Msgr. Hoye told The Anchor, “that I loved the 27 years I have served as pastor in two different parishes. Highlights of my ministry include watching people grow Spiritually, and it is a blessing to celebrate Mass and the Sacraments for a community that is a parish.”

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Conn., achieving an associate of arts degree there.

He then went to St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, earning a bachelor of arts degrees in Divinity and arts, and a master’s in theology.

Msgr. Hoye was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Fall River on May 13, 1972, at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River

by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin.

His first assignment was as parochial vicar at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Attleboro, and then assumed the same position at St. Mary’s Parish in Norton until 1973.

In 1973 he attended The Mark Agostenelli, Kendell Hoover, members of the Christ the King Parish Catholic University of America youth ministry, and Kathy Laird, parish Faith Formation director, present in Washington, D.C., until 1975, Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye with gifts at a recent retirement reception for him receiving a licentiate in canon at the Mashpee parish. The gifts were a beautiful cast of the hands of law. a priest, and a book with greetings from Faith Formation students and From 1975 through 1997, teachers.

Msgr. Hoye served in various assignments, including: vice ing these 27 years is all the good miss the administrative aspects off icialis at the diocesan Tripeople that I have met in my of being a pastor.” bunal Office; associate general various assignments, but espe“As I now enter into a new secretary for the National Concially my being able to adminisphase in my priestly vocation, ference of Catholic Bishops, ter the Sacraments to them, and and enter into my retirement, I United States Catholic Confermost importantly to be able to have had some time to reflect ence in Washington, D.C. (now celebrate the Liturgy for them. and to even step back and try to Just being present for people has envision what retirement will be the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops); as general been an important part of my like,” said Father Camara. “Yes, secretary of the NCCB/USCC; priesthood.”

I have had some mixed feelings, a tribunal judge and defender With regards to his retirebut feel that it is the time, and of the bond for the Diocese of ment, Msgr. Hoye said, “People with God’s grace, my priestly Fall River; and as episcopal vicar have asked me if I am excited to vocation isn’t going to be going for the Taunton and Attleboro retire. I tell them that ‘excited’ away at all.” deaneries. is not the correct emotion, but Msgr. Hoye is a graduate of On May 3, 1982 he received rather, ‘peaceful.’ It certainly is a Msgr. James Coyle High School the title of Prelate of Honor new phase and I look forward to in Taunton. He went on to St. helping out in parishes, but won’t Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield, from Pope John Paul II, naming him a monsignor.

In June of 1989, Msgr. Hoye was named pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Attleboro until June of 2006, when he became pastor of Christ the King Parish in Mashpee, from where he retired on June 30.

In the diocese, Msgr. Hoye also served on the Priests Council; was chairman of the Priests Council; on the Personnel Board; the College of Consultors; chaplain of the Attleboro area Serra Club; and as moderator for the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women District IV. Father Michael M. Camara Msgr. Daniel F. Hoye Turn to page 20

By Becky Aubut Anchor Staff beckyaubut@anchornews.org

SANDWICH — Did you know a baby has a heartbeat three weeks after conception? Did you know that two months after conception, a baby has all five major areas of the adult brain present and can respond to touch? Did you know that a baby at two months has the lines of their palm print and footprint already engraved in their skin?

Umberto Castiello of the University of Padova in Italy reported unborn babies have the ability to interact as early as 14 weeks into the pregnancy: “We conclude that performance of movements towards the co-twin is not accidental; already starting from the 14th week of gestation twin fetuses execute movements specifically aimed at the cotwin.”

There is a lot of argument about when does life begin, and while some may say that a fetus is just a blob of tissue, parishioners at Corpus Christi Parish in East Sandwich counter that misconcep-

Pro-Life prayer at work in Spiritual Adoption tion the only way they can — through Spiritual Adoption.

“We begin nine months ahead of Christmas so that we have the whole gestation period,” explained Corpus Christi parishioner Patricia Stebbins. “We invite parishioners to Spiritually adopt an unknown child who might be in danger of abortion, and to pray for that child all throughout the nine months.

We put these children in the hands of the Blessed Mother; she knows where they are.”

Initiated in 1991, this simple yet effective program provides an opportunity for children, teens, adults and senior citizens to prayerfully intercede on behalf of moms and unborn babies threatened by abortion. Participants Spiritually adopt a baby known by God to be at risk of abortion by pledging to pray the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen prayer daily for nine months.

The goal of the program is threefold: encourage prayers for babies in danger of abortion and for their parents; educate

They then take a beautiful prayer card with a picture of the Blessed Mother and a baby, to pray that the unknown child will be saved and born into a loving family.

PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL ADOPTION Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I love you very much.

I beg you to spare the life of the preborn child that I have Spiritually adopted who is in danger of abortion.

There is also a set of large, heavy-duty, full color posters placed around the church, said Stebbins. Each month a Image on the Archbishop new set goes up to corFulton J. Sheen prayer card. respond with the developing fetus at each month’s “baby shower” or “birthday gestational stage to allow party” at the conclusion of parishioners to see how their baby is developing. the program.

At eight weeks the “We started several baby has started moving years ago. It was somearound. Nerve cells are thing we had read about and thought it was a good branching out forming primitive neural pathidea,” said Stebbins. ways; breathing tubes now Each participating extend from his or her parishioner can decide what gender their child is, throat to developing lungs.

At 10 weeks, the embryo fill out a little form namhas completed the most ing their child, and put critical portion of develit in a designated basket. adults and children about the development of babies in the womb; and provide material assistance to mothers in need through a

opment. His or her skin is still translucent, but tiny limbs can bend and fine details like nails are starting to form.

At 16 weeks gestation and based on what the scientific community knows today about the development of a baby, the body is fully formed and the fingers and toes have fingerprints and nails; is about five inches long and weighs about three ounces and is about the size of a large avocado.

Also at 16 weeks, the baby is moving about and may grasp for the umbilical cord, suck its thumb, and is capable of making facial expressions and kicking at the amniotic sac. The heart and circulatory system and the urinary tract are fully functioning, and the blood is pumping through its tiny veins. The baby is inhaling and exhaling the amniotic fluid through the lungs. The eyes are in the proper position, and the baby can see straight ahead and blink his or her eyelids. The genitals have Turn to page 20

Diocese of Fall River

OFFICIAL His Excellency, the Most Reverend Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., D.D., Bishop of Fall River, has accepted the nomination of the Very Reverend Johnathan A. Hurrell, ss.cc., Provincial Superior of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts – United States Province, and has made the following appointment: Rev. Stephen Banjare, ss.cc., Parochial Vicar at St. Joseph’s Parish in Fairhaven Effective: July 1, 2016 The Anchor - July 8, 2016

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St. Vincent de Paul Society ‘Getting Ahead’ of poverty struggle

By Becky Aubut Anchor Staff beckyaubut@anchornews.org

ATTLEBORO — The first class of “Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’By World” graduated six members this week. The Getting Ahead program is a 16-week workshop that helps individuals in poverty build up their resources for a more prosperous life for themselves, their families, and their communities, and was brought to the area by the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Attleboro.

“With St. Vincent de Paul, it has been part of their vanguard attempt to bring about systemic change,” said Diana Reeves, a long-time Vincentian and Getting Ahead facilitator.

“For many years I’ve been involved in St. Vincent de Paul’s efforts to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, give the man a fish method — and there’s nothing wrong with that, it still needs to happen.”

Basic necessities need to be addressed before anyone can change their life, said Reeves, but this program helps give those in need a self-designed blueprint to build a better life. Irene Frechette, director of special programs nationally for SVdP, had heard about the Getting Ahead program at a national meeting, and brought it to the attention of Attleboro Vincentians.

Frechette then got a group together to watch the training videos.

“I admit I was initially skeptical on how 16 weeks could actually transform a person’s life. I’ve been a teacher for 45 years, so I know of what I’m speaking,” Reeves said. “The videos are fabulous and 4 The Anchor - July 8, 2016

were extremely convincTelling a funny story is a suffer a horrible medical ing. It made me very much issue that put you into this real skill that’s appreciated. aware of my personal “For the middle class, situation? Do you not have biases and middle class, achievement is where it’s transportation and there stereotypical thinking. The isn’t any in your town? Is at for relationships, and program is extremely well telling your story in an that making it difficult created, and well thought efficient way — almost for you to get a job?” said out.”

Reeves. “There are all sorts bullet points — is being The program is designed of activities where you looked for in the middle to take people through a begin to plot your position class.” series of experiences to Understanding the on that continuum that getting to know the consubtle nuances in holding has caused you to experistructs of what poverty a conversation can help an ence poverty.” is and to understand that individual’s transition from These acts of selfpoverty is a lack of reclasses so “a circuitous, reflection can be diffisources. anecdotal-woven tale of cult for people and even “We think of poverty Reeves admits that she has half-an-hour isn’t going as lack of money, of belearned a lot about herself to do it in an office situing broke; but ation, for example. y looking within, an indithere are many There are all kinds of ways you can be vidual can see where to make hidden rules to learn impoverished,” feel comfortchanges for a better life, to become and explained Reeves. able to fit in,” said “You can lack the more active in their community Reeves. knowledge that The program conand to be a benefit to others. would help you get tinues to break down ahead; you might each investigator’s not have had the educajourney individually and in the process. tion. You might have menhelp them “identify the “This activity doesn’t tal deficiencies that make tyranny of the moment.” apply to those living in it very difficult for you to “If you are forced to poverty, but it’s healthy take care of yourself. You and thoughtful exercise for make decisions in the might have physical prob- anyone because you begin ‘tyranny of the moment,’ lems. You might have a you frequently make to look at to what extent lack of motivation or good are you living your best life very bad decisions,” said role models. Maybe you Reeves. “There are a lot of that you could be living,” don’t have any Spiritual graphic organizers in the she said. resources to strengthen program that are referred By looking within, an you in times of difficulty.” individual can see where to as mental maps or Wording in the proto make changes for a bet- mental constructs. The one gram is also crucial. Those ter life, to become more about the theory of change who participate in the is that every time there active in their community program are called invesand to be a benefit to oth- seems to be a change-netigators while individucessitated, step back from ers. Then there’s a whole als like Reeves are called focus on the “hidden rules the ‘tyranny of the mofacilitators. Through the of social class” that Reeves ment,’ do some research, 16-week, three-hour sessaid she found fascinating. get some information, and sions, investigators move then decide what your “What is talked about through understanding options are. There’s a very quite openly are the hidwhat poverty is, what their den rules that govern systematic approach to role in being impoverished people’s behavior in variformulating an anticipated is, doing exercises to see ous economic classes,” said change, not waiting for the what personal decisions change to bite you in the Reeves. “For example, it have played a role in his or talks about the ways peoback, as it were.” her situation, and underAbout halfway through, ple communicate in varistanding how society may each investigator will ous social classes. People also have played a role. go through 20 pages of in poverty often derive “Is your situation all entertainment and humor individual assessments your own doing? Is your from storytelling, and rela- that will yield a bar graph situation something you tionships among people in to see what’s lacking, help couldn’t prevent? Did you poverty is a primary drive. formulate a goal and rem-

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edy the situation.

“That’s a giant leap,” said Reeves. “It’s not pretty to see what you don’t have, but it is edifying to see what you do have. By this time, most are high in motivation and persistence. By the time they get to that lesson, they’re beginning to feel that they can do this, that we can do this together.”

Pam Munson (not her real name) heard about the Getting Ahead program from her church.

A widow living on social security and experiencing health issues, Munson is struggling to keep her house while living on a limited income. She said she learned a lot about finances “and how to manage your money so it goes further, so you’re not broke at the end of the month,” she said.

Munson added, “I made a lot of new friends and to hear their stories and how they manage,” helped build a support system for her. “I enjoyed it, and I miss it.”

Munson said she met a lot of nice people and that the facilitators “were great.

If you had any questions and weren’t sure, they answered it.”

The Getting Ahead program is already establishing local connections in the community, linking with a mentor group On Common Ground in Attleboro, and forming a partnership with the YMCA in Attleboro to enable all the investigators and their children to become members on a sliding scale, and to participate in the YMCA programs; “I cannot underestimate the importance that has played in just having that physical stimulation Turn to page 21

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Sheltering the homeless

The last of the Corporal Works of Mercy which we will consider is that of sheltering the homeless. The Catholic Church has always been a leader in caring for the homeless, through the work of the Church as an institution and through the works of the individual members of the Mystical Body of Christ.

When Pope Francis visited Washington, D.C. last fall among the places he went was a homeless shelter run by Catholic Charities. One of the guests, Derrick Brooks, told NBC News, that although he did not meet the Holy Father, his visit meant that “you know that you are not alone.”

As Christians, the ways in which we carry out the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy, doing so in a prayerful and loving manner, can be an opportunity for us to continue to manifest the Incarnation — that God the Son became flesh in this world so that we might have the opportunity of encountering Him, and once encountering Him, then responding in love to His love for us.

When we give shelter to the homeless, we are sheltering Christ, Who had no place to lay His head (Lk 9:58, Mt 8:20). Of course, the homeless of today are different than Jesus Himself, but that is true when we are doing any of the acts of mercy. Nonetheless, Jesus said that He will judge us on how we treated these people as if they were He Himself.

Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Fall River has a variety of programs to help shelter the homeless — from emergency shelters to permanent apartment homes. The funds that you donate to the Catholic Charities Appeal help to provide this service. There are many other charities in our area which also help the homeless, but as the folks who work in this field would tell us, there are never enough beds for the people in need.

The bishops of the United States have written on their website, “The Catholic bishops believe decent, safe, and affordable housing is a human right. Catholic teaching supports the right to private property, but recognizes that communities and the government have an obligation to ensure the housing needs of all are met, especially poor and vulnerable people and their families.”

This past spring, in a letter to Senators Susan Collins (RMaine) and Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), Archbishop Thomas Wenski and Sister Donna Markham wrote, “In 2014 Catholic Charities agencies provided housing services to over 500,000 people, including permanent housing for over 33,000 and emerOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER www.anchornews.org

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gency shelter to over 10,000 people every night. Despite these efforts, over 70 Catholic Charities agencies across the country continue to have waiting lists for housing. Indeed, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development only 25 percent of households that qualify for housing assistance actually receive it. In response to such widespread unmet need, HUD programs need more resources, not less.”

The archbishop and the head of Catholic Charities USA added, “The Catholic Church, inclusive of all its ministries, is one of the largest private providers of housing services for the poor and vulnerable in the country. We serve as many as we can, yet still fall short of serving all our brothers and sisters in need. The reality is we cannot do it alone, and in many cases government at every level is an important partner in our work. As you know, the effectiveness of these housing programs has been hampered in recent budget and deficit agreements. While Congress still faces serious challenges in balancing needs and resources, and allocating burdens and sacrifices, these programs that help to satisfy the basic human right to shelter should receive special attention.”

So, as individual Catholics, we can carry out this Corporal Work of Mercy in a variety of ways: (1) We can shelter people we know. Friends and relatives who have fallen on hard times. Many people already do this, lending a bed or a couch to someone they know. Of course, sometimes due to addiction problems, we cannot do this, since we may be just enabling a situation. Prudence is needed — sometimes we need to talk this over with an objective friend or person from Church who can help us see what is the best thing to do. (2) We can support financially or by volunteering our time to help the various programs in our area which help the homeless or which help prevent homelessness (such as Catholic Social Services, the St. Vincent de Paul Societies of our parishes, and the many shelters and agencies). (3) We can advocate on the local, state and national level for programs which respond to this human need.

Jesus said that we would always have the poor with us, but He also constantly reminds us that we need to see Him in the poor and that we need to recognize our own Spiritual poverty. He has given us so many riches — we need to share them, so that they do not become an anchor, tying us to this earth when we die, but instead can be like a balloon helping us to rise up to Him.

Daily Readings July 9 — July 22

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat. July 9, Is 6:1-8; Ps 93:1-2,5; Mt 10:24-33. Sun. July 10, Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Dt 30:10-14; Ps 69:14,17,30-31,3334,36,37 or Ps 19:8-11; Col 1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37. Mon. July 11, Is 1:10-17; Ps 50:8-9,16b-17,21,23; Mt 10:34—11:1. Tues. July 12, Is 7:1-9; Ps 48:2-8; Mt 11:2024. Wed. July 13, Is 10:5-7,13b-16; Ps 94:5-10,14-15; Mt 11:25-27. Thurs. July 14, Is 26:7-9,12,16-19; Ps 102:13-14ab,15-21; Mt 11:28-30. Fri. July 15, Is 38:16,21-22,7-8; Is 38:10-12,16; Mt 12:1-8.

Sat. July 16, Mi 2:1-5; Ps 10:1-4,7-8,14; Mt 12:14-21. Sun. July 17, Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Gn 18:1-10a; Ps 15:2-5; Col 1:24-28; Lk 10:38-42.

Mon. July 18, Mi 6:1-4,6-8; Ps 50:5-6,8-9,16b-17,21,23; Mt 12:38-42. Tues.

July 19, Mi 7:14-15,18-20; Ps 85:2-8; Mt 12:46-50. Wed. July 20, Jer 1:1,4-10; Ps 71:1-4a,5-6b,15,17; Mt 13:1-9. Thurs. July 21, Jer 2:1-3,7-8,12-13; Ps 36:67b,8-11; Mt 13:10-17. Fri. July 22, Jer 3:14-17; (Ps) Jer 31:10-12d,13; Jn 20:12,11-18.

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The merciful mean between merciless extremes

n this extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, it’s important to distinguish the real mercy of God that we’re supposed to receive and emulate from its various counterfeits.

This is something Pope Francis has routinely been trying to do.

Speaking of priests in a September 2013 interview — but with words that can be applied to the way any of us treats others — Pope Francis described how being merciful involves holding to the virtuous mean between the two extremes of inflexible legal exactitude that misses the spirit for the letter and permissive indulgence that misses the letter and the spirit.

The confessor, he said, “is always in danger of being either too much of a rigorist or too lax,” and he stressed, “Neither is merciful, because neither of them really takes responsibility for the person. The rigorist washes his hands so that he leaves it to the Commandment. The loose minister washes his hands by simply saying, ‘This is not a sin’ or something like that.” Both imitate in different ways, he implied, the cowardly hardheartedness of the handwashing Pontius Pilate.

In contrast, “In pastoral ministry,” he said, “we must accompany people, and we must heal their wounds.” The rigorist, he suggested, doesn’t really want to accompany people and the laxist doesn’t really want to heal. The rigorist, while perhaps desiring the person’s conversion, doesn’t want to travel with the person on the occasionally ardu-

Catholic, the more one ous exodus from moral slavery. The laxist, on the sees another’s scarlet letother hand, while perhaps ter rather than a sinner with a face who similarly desiring the other’s happiness, doesn’t really want needs Christ and His mercy. to help the other person The greatest antidote truly get better, just feel to rigorism, Pope Franbetter. cis says, is to recognize It’s important to see that we, too, have “greatly why both are failures in sinned” by our own “most mercy so that we can avoid this merciless Scylla grievous fault,” as we pray and Charybdis.

Let’s begin Putting Into with the absence of mercy in rigid the Deep legalism. For Pope Francis, the icon

By Father of the rigorist is Roger J. Landry the hard-hearted scribes and Phariat Mass, so that we will sees who took offense measure out to others the that Jesus drew near to mercy that we ourselves sinners, ate with them, desperately need and have defended them and even received. When asked befriended them. The by interviewer Andrea Pharisees were literally Tornielli whether he was “the separated ones” who a strict or indulgent contried to distance themfessor in Argentina, Pope selves as far as possible Francis replied, “When from sin out of love for I heard Confessions, I God. In doing so, however, they were distancing always thought about myself, about my own sins, themselves from sinand about my need for ners and forgetting that mercy, and so I tried to they, too, were numbered forgive a great deal.” among them.

The other merciless In his book-length extreme is a negligence interview “The Name that doesn’t rescue sinof God is Mercy,” Pope ners from the “broad road Francis said that rigorist that leads to perdition” ministers often can see only sins to be eliminated (Mt 7:13) but speeds or even “cases” to be dealt their journey. Some can treat mercy as if it were with, whereas the Divine a non-judgmental indulPhysician wants us, like gence giving sinners a Him, to focus not just green light to continue on sinful symptoms but sinning, as something to heal sick and beloved that effectively enables patients. One of the things that the enormous rather than eliminates response to Pope Francis’ the very behavior that July 2013 question “Who mercy, after repentance, is meant to absolve. Such am I to judge?” revealed false mercy, Francis said is that many, including in a homily, allows people those in great need of who need help to become God’s mercy, often think “corrupt” and “solidified that Catholics first judge in sin such that they don’t them rather than love feel the need for God.” them; that the better the

It’s the moral equivalent of lighting the cigarette of someone with emphysema, something that’s perhaps “nice” but lethally uncharitable. Real mercy, on the other hand, treats sin as the Spiritual cancer it is so that the person in need might realize his or her condition, come to the Divine Oncologist, and receive from Him the remedies that will save his or her life.

The true minister of mercy, Pope Francis said, whether the priest in the confessional or the Christian in daily life, doesn’t “wash his hands” of the person in need, but is willing to accompany the person along the journey back to the Father’s merciful embrace.

In his September 2013 interview, Pope Francis, speaking of all those who act in the Church’s name, said, “The Church’s ministers must be merciful, take responsibility for the people and accompany them like the good Samaritan, who washes, cleans and raises up his neighbor.” They must show that “God is greater than sin,” that Divine mercy is greater than human misery, and that God’s compassionate love endures forever (Ps 136).

Like the two main terms in Hebrew for mercy, the masculine hesed, which focuses on God’s fidelity to Who He is and to the covenant of mercy He made with us (Ps 118:1), and the feminine rahamim, which says that God’s mercy for us is greater than a mother’s love for her breast-feeding infants (Is 49:15), Pope Francis is calling us to imitate the

authentically fatherly and motherly characteristics of God’s mercy.

In February, Pope Francis said that those who are “merciful like the Father” (Lk 6:36) need to welcome people with a “fatherly heart,” a heart like that depicted by Jesus in the parable of the Prodigal Son, a heart that doesn’t make a son grovel but celebrates when he returns home because the father is true to his paternal identity and love (Lk 15:11-32).

Last month Pope Francis expressed his hope that confessors would imitate Mary’s merciful care of her children, treasuring each one, giving each person their full attention, recognizing their needs, correcting with the gentle and firm tenderness of a mother, and patiently loving children in need onto the path of healing.

This interplay between hesed and rahamim, between paternal and maternal merciful love, is the way to avoid the stubborn, rule-dominated legalism to which dads can often succumb and the soft, enabling indulgence to which moms are occasionally prone.

That’s the path to genuine mercy for all of us in this Jubilee of Mercy and beyond.

Anchor columnist Father Landry can be contacted at fatherlandry@ catholicpreaching.com.

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ear, O Israel!

The Lord is our God, the Lord alone! Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.” This is the Commandment that Moses imparted to his people before they left him to build their lives in the promised land of Israel. These words are so important that the people were to enshrine them in their homes, write them on the door posts of their houses, drill them into their children, and talk about them day and night. As simple as this command is, the people continued to be confused. In the Scripture readings for this Sunday Moses has to remind his people yet again of this great Commandment. It

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The law of love seems that they didn’t this is paired with the quite grasp it the first second Commandment time and thought it was to “Love your neighbor too simple to be true. as yourself,” we have JeHe basically tells them sus’ blueprint for eternal that this Commandment life. that I’m commanding That second Comyou today isn’t too much mandment seems to be a for you; it’s not out of stumbling block for the your reach. You don’t religious legalists, then need experts to explain it before you can live it.

“The CommandThe Great ment is very near Commission to you, already in your mouths and

By Claire McManus in your hearts; you only have to carry it out.”

As time went by this and now. Jesus used the simple Commandment parable of the Good Sabecame encrusted by maritan to challenge the laws and regulations religious leaders whose that made it nearly imconcern for following a possible to follow. This complex set of regulaset the scene for Jesus tions blinded them from in the Gospel. A scholar the real path to loving of the law wants Jesus God. The characters in to give him a complex the parable all had a sigstrategy for gaining nificance that would not eternal life. Jesus simply be lost on Jesus’ audiwent back to the comence. The priest and the mand given by Moses Levite were no doubt that every Jew hung on traveling on that road the door post of their to Jerusalem to serve homes: “You shall love their duty in the temple. the Lord, your God, Some might find it ironwith all your heart, with ic that men who serve all your being, with all God in the temple were your strength, and with cast as unsympathetic all your mind.” When characters, but the legalminded would admire the fact that they did not defile themselves by coming into contact with the wounds of an injured man. Using a Samaritan to play the role of the hero in the story really threw the lawyer into a knot. Since the Samaritan obviously did the right thing by helping the man, it basically tore apart the legal system that extolled the purity laws. The whole

idea that a Samaritan comes out looking so good in this story cut right to the heart of the lawyer’s misunderstanding of God’s Commandment. He can’t even say the word Samaritan when asked by Jesus which person was neighbor to the man attacked.

Instead he says, “The one who showed mercy.”

The parable of the Good Samaritan is as shocking to us today as it was to Jesus’ audience. Look at the way many in the Church trip over themselves during this Year of Mercy as they channel their inner “scholar of the law” and look for ways to convolute the simple message that God is love and therefore we must give that love back to God directly and through our neighbors. The Year of Mercy is not about slamming the truth over the heads of people who live outside of the

margins of the Church.

The Year of Mercy is about love, which is the way we are to inherit eternal life. The parable of the Good Samaritan does not identify the people whom we should care for; neither does it clarify a point of Jewish law. Jesus takes the law and turns it into Gospel. How do we inherit eternal life? Be merciful.

Love the Samaritans in our lives; the people who could not possibly be our neighbors because their existence is so abhorrent to us.

Show compassion the way the Samaritan did, even though it means tending to a person who might be our arch enemy. Mercy has no political agenda, nor is it an opportunity to show our superiority. Mercy is the Face of the living God. Write that on your heart and place it on your door posts, for this is your ticket to eternal life.

Anchor columnist Claire McManus is the director of the Diocesan Office of Faith Formation.

NEW BEDFORD — Sacred Heart Home recently announced the hiring of Pauline Gates as its new Pastoral Care director.

A resident of Randolph, Gates earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Bridgewater State College.

Her past experience includes teaching, Hospice and hospital chaplaincy. She has also been involved in extensive theological studies

and as an active and associate member of the National Association of Catholic Chaplains.

Sacred Heart Home is part of the Diocesan Health Facilities system of care that includes five skilled nursing and rehabilitative care facilities along with an adult day health care program and a care management program. The Diocesan Health Facilities system is sponsored by the Diocese of Fall River.

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n May I was asked to offer a Spiritual reflection at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. I used my moment in the spotlight to share three pieces of advice that helped carry me through the weeks surrounding our appearance at the U.S. Supreme Court: Dare to be of good cheer; see Christ in each person, whether friend or foe; and believe that nothing is impossible with God. This simple advice seemed to strike a chord with my audience, especially the admonition to be joyful. The crowd actually laughed when I suggested that evangelizers must not be “sourpusses.” Afterward a gentleman who is highly esteemed in Catholic circles told me that it was the first time he’d ever heard the word “sourpuss” used in a speech! It might be the first time it ever made it into a papal document as well — I was quoting Pope Francis!

Joyfulness is a recurring theme of our Holy Father. It is a subject he speaks of in witty and practical terms. For example, in Evangelii Gaudium, he wrote, “An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral! One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, ‘sourpusses.’ Nobody can go off to battle unless he is fully convinced of victory beforehand.”

To consecrated persons the pope once said, “None of us should be dour, discontented and dissatisfied, for ‘a gloomy disciple is a disciple of gloom.’

Never any Sisters with faces like ‘chilis pickled in vinegar!’” And to seminarians, “There is no holiness in sadness! St. Teresa said: ‘A saint who is sad is a sad saint.’”

Although she experienced

Dare to be of good cheer! countless obstacles and humilitimes in life, especially at moations during her long life, our ments of great difficulty. Joy foundress, St. Jeanne Jugan, adapts and changes, but it was joyful. She considered joy a always endures, even as a flicker vocational obligation. “Making of light born of our personal the elderly certainty happy, that that, when is what everything Guest counts,” is said she often and done, Columnist told the we are

By Sister young infinitely Constance Veit, LSP Little Sisloved.” ters. “My This is little ones,” she would repeat, what the elderly have taught “we should always be cheerful, me — they have shown me how for our old people do not like to be of good cheer, no matter long faces!” what, because love always has None of us like long faces, but the last word! all of us encounter sad situaEach month our Holy Fations and bad news daily. We ther gives the Church a special Little Sisters of the Poor face death all the time, and yet our lives are not depressing or morose. I experience indescribable joy in serving the sick and the elderly. This joy comes, in great part, through the gift of self, for as human persons we are made to become a gift to God and to others. It is in transcending ourselves and laying down our lives for the sake of others that we most resemble God Who is love.

The joy I experience has another source as well. It springs from the elderly themselves, who have taught me so much about life. Although wisdom does not come automatically with age, those who have lived in the shadow of God’s love experience their final years as a time of thanksgiving for His faithfulness. It is a time when they look back and realize that their unrepeatable life story has been a matter of God’s love revealing itself in successive chapters. Like fine wine, what results is a deep, abiding, contagious joy.

In Evangelii Gaudium Pope Francis wrote, “Joy is not expressed the same way at all

focus through his worldwide prayer network, the Apostleship of Prayer. June’s intention was “that the aged, marginalized, and those who have no one may find — even within the huge cities of the world — opportunities for encounter and solidarity.” Then during the month of July we celebrate the feast of SS. Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus. How wonderful it would be if we all made it a priority to spend time with our grandparents or older friends this summer, that we might learn from them the secret of lasting joy!

Sister Constance Veit is director of communications for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

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s I watched the firemen enter my building I mused over Jesus’ parable about the rich farmer. You remember the man who had such a bountiful harvest that he redid the barns to store it all? In the parable, the barns survived, but the man did not. Last winter a neighbor accidently set fire to his apartment.

Though that fire was small, well contained, and extinguished rapidly, we were all outside an hour or so in the freezing cold as the firemen cleared the smoke. That night, we all had a scare about the immediacy of loss as well as what it might mean to lose everything.

In some ways I can sympathize with that farmer. Though we aren’t given his full biography, I believe that the person we meet in this tale as the rich farmer had previously experienced cold

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Be rich in what matters to God and hunger. He knew actions. This is seen in the pain and devastation the farmer’s wanting to wrought by lack of mate- build larger barns to hold rial goods. He worked each and every speck of diligently to harvest his the harvest. crops and store them.

I imagine to some As was the farmer, extent he was grateful each of us is touched by as he looked out at sucthe events of our lives. cess beyond his wildest Painful events teach us dreams. However, he did lessons. For example, not choose to express having learned from that winter’s fire experience, Wrestling with God today I grabbed a Holding on for jacket and my car His blessing keys as I evacuated. On the one

By Dr. Helen J. Flavin hand, each of us is called to work on our own behalf to take care of ourselves, this gratitude. Instead, he friends and family. On chose to celebrate, to use the other hand, God has a modern expression, how asked us to trust in His he had it made. Present Providence. Somewhere in the farmer’s words is between the two is a the arrogance that often healthy balance point. comes with material sucPainful life events can cess. The farmer immedisometimes push someone ately jumped to the “I am past a healthy balance or in control of the world” even produce irrational level.

In the tale, God says to the farmer, “You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong? Thus will it be for all who store up treasure for themselves but are not rich in what

matters to God” (Lk 12: 21). Though the imagery is stark, nowhere does it say that the goods will be taken away as a punishment. Jesus’ stern warning to that farmer and each of us is that happiness cannot be found by choosing such a path.

With this story Jesus reminds us to consider carefully which of the world’s many offerings are rich in the eyes of God. Those are the ones we should pursue. How can we identify things rich in the eyes of God? Quite simply anything that allows each of us to appropriately love our neighbor as our self will be on that list. What the rich farmer missed was sharing with others the treasures and gifts God had given him.

One time, while on vacation, I stopped to visit an abandoned mine.

I brought with me my powerful roadside emergency light. An 11-yearold boy holding a rock pick hammer and wearing his dad’s construction hat ran up to me.

He asked me to be his

mining partner. My share of the rock specimens we collected adorned my desk through graduate school. They had no monetary value. To me, they were a reminder of the adventure he and I shared that day. So much so that many years later, that one afternoon is the only part of that vacation week that I even remember!

Had he not shared his hammer, or had I not shared my light, there would have been no stones or exciting memories. In choosing not to share his treasures, the farmer chose not to participate in one of life’s greatest experiences — shared joy at living within God’s peace and love.

Listen to or read the lyrics to the Bette Midler song “From a Distance.”

Think about the line: “From a distance we all have enough, and no one is in need.” For the farmer in the parable that was true. However, he chose not to share. There were others around him who remained in need.

Jesus’ message is clear.

That answer is not good enough. Let us benefit from understanding that farmer’s mistake. Let us make a better decision.

As a start, today — right now even — find one person and one situation where, with sharing, the two of you can make true that line about no one in need.

Anchor columnist Helen Flavin is a Catholic scientist, educator and writer and a member of St. Bernadette’s Parish in Fall River. biochemwz@ hotmail.com.

I like to rise when the sun she rises Monday 4 July 2016 — anchored on the back porch — Independence Day ou know how it is when a haunting tune gets stuck in your head? Well, I have one buzzing around in there.

It’s “Country Life,” the old chanty celebrating the pleasantries of rural England. It was collected in the Yorkshire Dales by that famous guitarist and sheepdog trainer Mick Taylor (formerly of the Rolling Stones but not to be confused with Mick Jagger). I favor the Waterson Family’s arrangement. I’ll sing a few lines.

Surely you’ll know it.

“I like to rise when the sun she rises Earl-eye in the morning.

And I like to hear them small birds singing Merrily upon their laylums.”

I have absolutely no idea what a “laylum” is. Some say the word means “fallow ground,” others maintain it means “chorus line,” still others speculate it might mean “perch.” If you know the definition of the word, please be so kind as to close this gap in my education.

I find myself humming this catchy tune as I sit on the back porch watching the birds, earl-eye in the morning. For my 70th birthday I bought myself a bird feeder. This is no ordinary bird feeder. This is a patented Squirrel Buster “Legacy” imported from Quebec.

According to the promotional material (in English), it’s guaranteed squirrelproof. It’s hassle-free, easy to fill, easy to clean, chewproof, weight-adjustable, and comes with the latest Seed Saving Technology. There’s a “weight mechanism” (a spring) that shuts tiny doors under the

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weight of heavier critters. der of crows” and a “pride It has normal perches and of peacocks,” why not a a “shroud” (a metal mesh) “cackle of grackles”?). The which provides “clinging grackles took a few hours to footholds.” It has Seed figure out the issue of the Tube Ventilation (air holes). It has a Detachable Compo- The Ship’s Log Reflections of a nent System (meanParish Priest ing it comes apart) and a Negative Grip

By Father Tim Tube (a sliding plasGoldrick tic hose) to prevent squirrels raiding from above. It’s dishwasher weight baffle. Now, instead safe, but do not microwave. of landing on the perches, How could I resist such a they flutter like hummingmarvel of modern technol- birds at the seed portals. ogy? It was well worth the Grackles, I’ve learned, live price. by the principle of “whatThe instructions (I do ever works.” sometimes read instrucI was beginning to think tions, though rarely) say that there were no songthat the birds should birds in all of Falmouth. eventually discover the Then I heard the melodious feeder within four weeks. sound of wild turkeys. Yes, The squirrels arrived in dear readers. There is good five minutes. They had first news. The turkeys are back to figure out how to get in town. The undertaker at the seed. After several next door reported that one bumbling attempts, they of the females escaped the succeeded. Persistence pays Department of Wildlife off, it seems, even among Management purge and squirrels. had nested in a quiet corner One clever squirrel of the funeral parlor propfound a particularly bouncy erty. Here she was now, in branch and used it as a my backyard, followed by catapult to propel himself six chicks. Maybe my new through the air with the hobby of bird watching isn’t greatest of ease in the gen- so bad after all. eral direction of the feeder.

It took the songbirds anHe purposely whacked the other day to find the feeder. feeder as he whizzed past.

But once they found it, they Seed fell to the ground. He arrived in large numbers. I proceeded to eat his hardfigure birds chat with each earned lunch. other about a new restauNot only was this parrant in town, as do all Cape ticular squirrel mechaniCodders. cally gifted, but he was also On a fine summer morna born leader. He promptly ing, I sit on the porch with taught all the other squira cup of Dippin’ Donuts rels his “flying squirrel coffee, read the papers, and technique.” My backyard watch the bird feeder. In squirrels have become the the past week I have spied rodent equivalent of the nuthatches, chickadees, Flying Wallendas. goldfinches, titmouse, Then came a marauding finches, and sparrows; but cackle of iridescent grackles fortunately no pigeons, (OK, I made up the phrase starlings, or blackbirds. I but if you can have a “mur- did see one blue jay, two

mourning doves, and a pair of cardinals.

Once, long ago, I was having breakfast with an early-morning visitor at the rectory. Looking out the window into the back yard, I commented, “I see a cardinal.” “Of course you do,” responded my guest. “I’m sitting right here at the table!” The guest was Humberto Cardinal Medeiros. Oops.

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joined me on the porch one morning. “Isn’t the local wildlife wonderful?” I asked excitedly. “I suppose so,” he said with well-controlled enthusiasm, “but what’s wrong with that squirrel over there? Wait. That’s no squirrel. That’s a rat!”

Alas, I no longer like to sit on my porch when the sun she rises, earl-eye in the morning.

Bummer.

Anchor columnist Father Goldrick is pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Falmouth.

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here she sat in the ballroom, decked in leis, surrounded by her family, and looking like the Biblical Queen of Sheba in all her splendor.

Meanwhile camera bulbs flashed as though it were the Fourth of July fireworks or the celebration of King Kamehameha Day. Indeed Hawaii had celebrated the great Kamehameha that very day with a floral parade through the streets of Honolulu. So it was indeed appropriate that we gather in the Mauna Kea ballroom of the Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Damien Tours and to honor Gloria Marks and her husband of fond memory, Richard Marks, the co-founders of Damien Tours.

Now it has been said that “behind every good man there is a good woman — pushing.” I

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Gloria In Excelsis

will not dare to further elabogave their lives to caring for the rate on this saying but I do have victims of Hansen’s Disease. confidence that Sheriff Richard We had partaken of a sumpMarks knew that Gloria had his tuous meal capped off by cheese back, to use a modern phrase, cake dessert and now it was in all his time for the endeavors. roasting and So 50 years toasting of Moon Over ago Gloria Gloria. We Molokai and Richhad some

By Father ard started emotionPatrick Killilea, SS.CC. Damien filled words Tours from of praise humble from Pabeginnings. It was a struggle at mela Young of KITV. Dr. Kafirst but this dynamic duo prolani Brady recalled how he had gressed from trucks to cars to driven the bus one day for Gloria vans to buses, bringing the story and in the middle of the tour she of Kalawao and Kalaupapa to the had told him, “Sing! Sing!” Now many pilgrims who came from know that Dr. Kalani is the secall over the world. In the proond coming of Mario Lanza. So cess they told the world about he sang for her. Pat Boland, in the great and heroic men and women such as St. Damien and St. Marianne and others who

his usual humorous tone, shared with us his long association with Damien Tours as a tour guide.

Pat is tops at his trade. Then came the lady herself, Gloria Marks, co-founder of Damien Tours. Let me say that she did not disappoint us with her humor and wit.

It was now the hour to close out this evening of celebration and so we gave thanks to God for 50 years of Damien Tours.

We continue to give thanks to God for Gloria and for her untiring efforts to share with the world at large the story of Kalawao and Kalaupapa. Gloria in excelsis. Aloha.

Anchor columnist Father Killilea is pastor of St. Francis Parish in Kalaupapa, Hawaii.

Special visiting hours for the Holy Door at St. Mary’s Cathedral

FALL RIVER — St. Mary’s Cathedral will be open for special visiting hours on Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to noon, through the summer, from now through the end of September, so that people observing the extraordinary jubilee Year of Mercy will have the opportunity to enter through the Holy Door. The Holy Door is also accessible at the usual Mass times on weekends (Saturday at 4 p.m. and at 7 p.m. [Brazilian], Sunday at 10 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. [Spanish]).

Pope Francis directed cathedrals around the world to open their Holy Doors so that symbolic pilgrimage could be experienced by the faithful without needing to go to Rome. When he opened the Holy Door at Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lat-

eran last December, the pope said, “It begins a time of great forgiveness.

It is the Jubilee of Mercy.”

He added, “God does not love rigidity. He is tender.”

These doors are symbolic of God’s mercy. The jubilee is “extraordinary” in the sense that it does not follow the usual Catholic practice of having jubilee years at 25year intervals. This jubilee coincides with the 50th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council, which sought to proclaim God’s love to modern society.

Pope Francis granted bishops the discretion to designate other churches as having Holy Doors, for the sake of those who cannot get to their cathedral. In additional to St. Mary’s Cathedral, which is on Spring Street in Fall

River, the other churches in the diocese to have Holy Doors are St. Mary, Taunton; the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette, Attleboro; Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New Bedford; Corpus Christi, East Sandwich; and Holy Trinity, West Harwich.

The pilgrims who enter

these churches through the Holy Doors are making a gesture which represents a motion in their lives from sin to grace. In his decree for the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, the pope said, “By crossing the threshold of the Holy Door, we will find the strength to embrace God’s mercy

and dedicate ourselves to being merciful with others as the Father has been with us.” The Jubilee Indulgence is granted to those passing through a Holy Door or performing one of the Spiritual or Corporal Works of Mercy (subject to the normal conditions for indulgences).

St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River will be open during the summer from now through the end of September, on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon, to enable diocesan faithful to enter through the Holy Door while observing the jubilee Year of Mercy. (Photo by Dave Jolivet) The Anchor - July 8, 2016

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St. Maximilian Kolbe relic to visit New Bedford church July 8-10 NEW BEDFORD — In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the martyrdom of Conventual Franciscan Friar, St. Maximilian Kolbe, Our Lady of the Angels Province has scheduled a pilgrimage of a relic throughout its province’s U.S. and Canadian territory.

A reliquary will visit Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, 235 North Front Street in New Bedford, from July 8-10.

The reliquary is one of four that was created in 1971 (11 years prior to his canonization — thus marked as “B. Max. Kolbe” as he was then only elevated to Blessed) to hold a portion of his beard that in 1938 was shaved after Friar Maximilian received permission from his minister provincial.

The program of events for the visitation of the pilgrimage is: Friday evening ( July 8) arrival of the relic is at 6 p.m., with a prayer service and veneration. A movie on the life of St. Maximilian Kolbe will follow the prayer service in the church hall.

Following Masses on July 9 (7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.) for two hours and again on July 10 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. there will be an opportunity to view and venerate the relic.

The visitation of the pilgrimage of the St. Maximilian Kolbe Relic will

conclude with a prayer service at 3 p.m. on Sunday afternoon.

The reliquary contains many symbols from the life of St. Maximilian: the base is in the shape of his birthplace of Poland, covered in the

Reliquary of St. Maximilian Kolbe

“thorns” of occupation by the Third Reich. Out of those thorns, however, burst forth a lily of purity and a tulip of martyrdom — symbols of love triumphing over hate.

The strands of the saint’s beard are housed in a glass case entwined with the Franciscan knotted cord representing his vocation to the order and the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience.

St. Maximilian first grew out his long beard to enhance his missionary work in Japan where the

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beard helped to earn the respect of the people he served. Upon his return to Poland, under the National Socialism, the beard instead provoked not only his own persecution but the persecution of his fellow friars, “Beards provoke the enemy who rapidly is approaching our friary.

Our Franciscan habits also will provoke him. I can part with my beard. I can’t sacrifice my habit,” he said.

After having shaved Maximilian’s beard, one of the friars placed it in a pouch. Strands of the beard still are preserved in the Niepokalanow archives (Claude R. Foster, “Mary’s Knight,” Marytown Press 2013, p. 586).

From some of those strands, four identical reliquaries were created, one of which will be venerated during this pilgrimage.

In 1941, St. Maximilian demonstrated heroic charity by giving his life in place of a fellow prisoner, Franciszek Gajowniczek, a husband and father who was one of 10 men chosen to suffer death by starvation after being subjected to hours of standing in the hot summer sun, in the Auschwitz (Poland) concentration camp during World War II as consequence for one prisoner’s successful escape.

Franciszek’s cry of despair, “What will become of my family?” moved St. Maximilian to step forward and ask to be taken instead.

Canonized Oct. 10, 1982, St. Maximilian Kolbe was declared the “Patron saint of our difficult century,” and a Martyr of Charity by Pope St. John Paul II.

Members of the Holy Rosary Sodality of St. Anthony’s Parish in Taunton recently gathered for their annual summer dinner, where they presented pastor Father William Rodrigues with a check for the Catholic Charities Appeal.

Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on WLNE Channel 6 July 10, 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father Anthony Szakaly, C.S.C., director of Campus Ministry at Stonehill College, Easton

July 17, 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father Kevin J. Harrington, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in New Bedford

Visit the newly-designed Diocese of Fall River website at fallriverdiocese. org The site includes links to parishes, diocesan offices and national sites.

Applicants sought for superintendent of schools Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V. announced the search has begun to hire a new superintendent of diocesan Catholic schools. Interested parties should visit the Diocese of Fall River website at fallriverdiocese.org, click on the “About Us” menu choice, then select the “Employment Opportunities” option. Once on that page, select “Click here for job description and details,” on the Superintendent of Schools job opening.

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Youth Pages Simple pleasures

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look forward to the summer. For me it’s a time to unwind, relax, enjoy the warm weather and do a lot of thinking. I am up early each morning, especially when the sun is shining. I make some coffee and go out in the yard.

I look to the sky and thank God for the day He has given me and the family and the world I get to share it with. I look all around me and watch nature unfold before my eyes. Then, I walk to my garden. I stand there in awe looking at what was once bare ground, and now it is full of life. I thank God for these simple things, and in these simple

they’ve said or done and things I find God. believe God will frown I think that the reason why many people can’t find upon them. Nonsense!

Don’t run away from God, God in the ordinary day run to Him. This is becomof their ordinary lives is because they don’t make themselves present to God. This makes it hard to appreciate the beauty of the simple pleasures that life has to

By Ozzie Pacheco offer. So, how do you become present to God and how do you ing present. Think of that maintain that presence? one person in your life Sadly, I’ve known many people who have distanced who loves you the most, unconditionally. God’s love themselves from God. Not for you is infinitely greater. because of wanting to, but And for that reason God mostly because they are will forgive you, no matashamed of something

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ter what. Life’s simple pleasures are more fully enjoyed, and appreciated, when our hearts are not heavy and our very lives not burdened with so much clutter. There simply isn’t room for God in our lives when we are preoccupied with so much stuff. Let it go and let God in.

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest” (Mt 11:28).

What is this “rest” that the Lord talks about? I’m sure there are many ways you can interpret that, but the one that stands out for me is the rest He gives me at His banquet table at Mass. That’s where I start to make myself present to Him. But Jesus wants so much more than just our attendance at Mass. He wants our very presence just as He is truly present.

So, once you make yourself present, how do you maintain that presence?

First of all, are you relaxed?

If not, take a walk outside and let the gentle warmth of the sun touch your face.

It always relaxes me! It assures me that God is there!

To be truly present you have to be calm. Your presence should show an air of simple elegance and refinement in your attitude and form. You should always appear to be physically, emotionally and Spiritually strong, yet, you still have greater strength in reserve.

When you feel happy, you smile. When you feel generous, you give. When you give your word, you keep it.

Maintaining your presence means you are deliberate. Everything you say and do is with confidence. You

feel assured and alert. You keep your head up and your shoulders back. Your eyes are always looking forward.

You breathe deeply assuring yourself that God’s Spirit strengthens you. Every breath has meaning. Every word you speak has conviction. And when you do speak it’s always with a soft voice in a thoughtful manner. You rarely interrupt.

You walk with purpose. You don’t rush. You savor every moment because every moment is a gift.

Maintaining your presence allows the things you want drawn to you to come as a result of your good nature and determined persistence. All that is good will be drawn to you and God will be there also.

Sometimes I think that God is the loneliest person in the world. It’s easy to forget Him, but only when we forget to be present. If you’re going away on vacation, take God with you.

Go see Jesus at your destination’s parish church. Yes, the same Jesus you thought you left behind back home.

He’s there, always one step ahead of us. So enjoy your vacation, relax in the sun or shade and enjoy every simple pleasure.

Every moment is a blessing from God. Take the time to enjoy the simple things you encounter each day. If you can do that you will find God and the wonderful surprises He has for you. And then the phone rings. “Hi dad! Want to play a round of golf ?” And this simple and beautiful summer day just got even better. God bless!

Anchor columnist Ozzie Pacheco is Faith Formation director at Santo Christo Parish, Fall River.

Youth Pages

Sixth-grade students at Holy Family-Holy Name School in New Bedford built beam and truss bridges as they continued to develop their engineering skills in science class.

Fifth-graders from St. James-St. John School in New Bedford came together on their last full school day sporting their tie-dye projects.

Pre-kindergarten students from Our Lady of Lourdes School in Taunton enjoyed a field trip to Buttonwood Park Zoo with their Coyle Cassidy classroom helpers, Hannah and Brendan.

St. Mary’s School in Mansfield celebrated its last day of school with Ms. Garabedian and Mrs. Robistow by sharing a variety of songs they learned throughout the school year.

One of the many projects and outings of the youth group from the parishes of Good Shepherd and St. Stanislaus in Fall River was a pilgrimage to the National Shrine of Divine Mercy with Father Andrew Johnson.

Empire Hyundai’s recent lemonade sale raised more than $400 for St. Vincent’s Home. In support of young entrepreneurs, Empire Hyundai helped the volunteers reach their goal in the lemonade business by matching donations. The youngsters raised more than $220 for a great cause. The money collected will support St. Vincent’s trauma treatment services for children and youth in the community.

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Kindergarten students at St. John the Evangelist School in Attleboro recently celebrated their “Putting On A Show” Class Day. The students were dressed in white and yellow with pink scarves and sunglasses as they sang songs such as, “If All the Raindrops” and “Mr. Sun.” They also enjoyed refreshments with their classmates, teachers and faculty.

Fifth- and sixth-grade students from St. Margaret Regional School in Buzzards Bay recently launched a Near Space Balloon. The parachute was designed, cut and sewn by grade-five In the June 24 edition Balloon Club members along with five grade-six mentors who of The Anchor, a photo of were involved in the project last year. After the successful launch, students and families followed the path of the balloon First Communion recipients via GPS and iPads on their way back to Bourne. The balloon along with Father Michael A. burst at 99,465 feet into near space. The parachute opened carCiryak appeared on page 17. rying the Apollo model capsule complete with a GoPro camera The parish was incorrectly videoing the entire voyage and instruments to measure altiidentif ied as St. Francis tude, temperature and humidity. On its descent the parachute Xavier Parish in Swansea. It soared east toward Cape Cod Bay, then turned west toward was in fact St. Francis of Assisi Buzzards Bay. The flight was approximately two-and-one-half hours.

Parish in Swansea.

Joyce Allison-Saucier, a veteran teacher at St. Margaret Regional School in Buzzards Bay, has been named as the school’s new principal, effective July 1. Saucier was serving as middle school lead teacher at St. Margaret Regional, where she has taught since 1995. She holds a master of education in administration degree from American International College, teacher certification from the State of Massachusetts, and a bachelor of arts in English from North Adams State College.

She is also certified as a religion teacher through a program sponsored by the Diocese of Fall River in collaboration with Notre Dame University. She has taught in schools of Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth welcomed the Class of 2020 at the recent annual Incoming the Diocese of Fall River for more Freshman Picnic. With the assistance of more than 100 current Stang students, trained to be Peer Mentors, than 30 years. the newest “Spartans” enjoyed an afternoon of games, activities, and making new friends.

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Pope Emeritus Benedict praises Pope Francis during rare public appearance

VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) — On June 28, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI gave his second public speech since his final day as pope, expressing gratitude for a lengthy priesthood and for Pope Francis’ “goodness,” which he said moves him deeply.

Speaking to Pope Francis and members of the College of Cardinals gathered inside the Vatican’s small Clementine Hall for the 65th anniversary of his priestly ordination, Pope Emeritus Benedict said the Greek word “Efkaristomen” (let us give thanks), expresses “all that there is to say” for the occasion.

“Thank you, thank you everyone! Thank you Holy Father — your goodness, from the first day of your election, every day of my life here moves me interiorly, brings me inwardly more than the Vatican Gardens.”

“Your goodness is a place in which I feel protected,” he said, and voiced his hope that Pope Francis would be able to “move forward with all of us on this path of Divine Mercy, showing Jesus’ path to God.” Since his resignation from the papacy in 2013, Benedict XVI has made only a handful of public appearances, speaking only at his reception of an honorary doctorate from the University of Krakow last year in Castel Gandolfo.

The celebration inside the Vatican Palace, then, marks not only another rare public appearance, but is only the second time he has spoken in public since his resigna-

tion Feb. 28, 2013.

The June 28 celebration was held for Pope Emeritus Benedict in honor of the 65th anniversary of his ordination as a priest, which took place June 29, 1951 —

of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Cardinal Muller gifted Pope Emeritus Benedict several copies of a book containing his homilies on the priesthood printed specifically for the occa-

touched my heart.”

He then returned to the word Efkaristomen, which he recalled a fellow priest ordained on the same day had written on the memorial card for his first Mass.

Pope Francis greets retired Pope Benedict XVI during a June 28 ceremony at the Vatican marking the 65th anniversary of the former pontiff’s priestly ordination. (L’Osservatore Romano photo)

the feast of SS. Peter and Paul — in the cathedral of Freising. His older brother Father Georg Ratzinger, who is still living today and was present for the ceremony, was ordained with him.

After the choir singing Sacred polyphony had finished, the retire pope listened to brief speeches made by Pope Francis; Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, and Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect

sion of his anniversary.

Pope Emeritus Benedict in turn gave one to Pope Francis.

In his brief, off-thecuff speech, the retired pope thanked Cardinal Sodano and Cardinal Muller for their speeches, and for the book.

He told Cardinal Sodano that his address, which quoted Scripture from the day of Pope Emeritus Benedict’s ordination and his speech during his visit to Freising in 2006, “truly

This word, he said, hints not only at “the dimensions of human thanksgiving,” but also “the deepest word that is hidden,” and which appears in the Liturgy and Scripture in the expression “gratias agens benedixit fregit deditque,” meaning “having given thanks, He broke it and gave it.”

“Efkaristomen sends us again to that reality of thanksgiving, to that new dimension that

Christ has given,” Pope Emeritus Benedict said, explaining that Jesus has transformed into thanksgiving “the cross, suffering and all of the evil in the world.”

In doing so, Jesus “fundamentally transubstantiated” life and the world, he said, adding that the Lord has given and continues to give us daily “the Bread of true life, which overcomes the world thanks to the strength of His love.”

Pope Emeritus Benedict closed his address by expressing his hope that all would, with the help of God, help in the “transubstantiation of the world: that it be a world not of death, but of life; a world in which love has overcome death.”

In his brief speech, Pope Francis told his predecessor that “you continue to serve the Church, you do not cease to really contribute with vigor and wisdom to her growth.”

By contributing to the Church and her mission from the small monastery of Mater Ecclesiae inside the Vatican, Pope Emeritus Benedict represents “anything but these forgotten corners in which today’s culture of waste tends to relegate people when, with age, their strength becomes less,” Pope Francis said.

He prayed that the retired pope would continue to feel the hand of “the merciful God Who supports you,” that he would continue to experience and bear witness to the love of God, and that alongside Peter and Paul, he would “continue to exult with great joy while walking toward the goal of our faith.”

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Differing paths led to similar blessings for retired priests continued from page two

He has served on the board of directors for Catholic Relief Services; Catholic Telecommunications Network of America; and St. Francis Preparatory School in Spring Grove, Pa. Msgr. Hoye served on the Board of Governors for the Canon Law Society of America, and was vice president and president of the society.

He is also a member of the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

Father Camara attended B.M.C. Durfee High School in Fall River.

Father Camara entered the Franciscan Friars, Province of the Immaculate Conception, New York, in 1973.

He was a religious Brother with the community for 15 years, involved with high school ministry at Serra Catholic High School in McKeesport, Pa., where he taught, was Dean of Students, an administrator, and assistant headmaster.

He was also chaplain at St. Francis Hospital in upstate New York, and a teacher at Christopher Columbus High School in Boston.

He was received into the order in August of 1975 and made his solemn profession on Dec.

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28, 1982.

He later went on to attend St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., earning a bachelor of arts in Religious Education in 1984.

Father Camara earned his master’s of Divinity from St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe and was ordained into the priesthood on May 27, 1989 at St. Michael’s Church in Fall River, by Bishop Virgilio Lopez, OFM, of Trujillo, Honduras.

Father Camara was incardinated into the Diocese of Fall River on Feb. 17, 1998 by Bishop Sean P. O’Malley, OFM, Cap. His parish assignments in the Diocese of Fall River included: St. Kilian Parish, St. John the Baptist Parish, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish and Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Parish, all in New Bedford; Holy Family Parish in East Taunton; St. Michael’s Parish, Our Lady of Health Parish and Santo Christo Parish, all in Fall River.

He has also served as chaplain at Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, and was on the faculty at Bishop Connolly High School in Fall River.

Msgr. Hoye told The Anchor that in his 47 years as a priest, “I have had the blessing to spend

12 years working for the bishops’ conference in Washington, D.C. It was a great experience meeting so many people and getting involved in so many different issues. My expectations never included canon law graduate school and my time in D.C.” Father Camara told The Anchor, “Really, I can say nothing has been a big surprise for me over the years.” Recalling his time in the Air Force, in the Franciscan community and eventually as a diocesan priest, “I think my past experiences have made me realize that nothing will come as a complete surprise.

“Being a priest was something that I had in my mind since I was a very young person. But over the years, the good Lord has sent me on many detours to get there.

No regrets, because each of them has made me a better person, and a better priest. I thank God for the years, and wouldn’t trade any of them. I indeed love being a priest.”

Both enter retirement with warm memories of the faithful whom they served through the years.

“My parishioners have helped me appreciate the challenges of family life, the difficult journey of the

adolescent, and the aging process,” said Msgr. Hoye.

“The parishioners over the years have indeed been a big help to me by their presence. By their comments, whether good or bad, all this has helped me grow over the years,” said Father Camara.

Msgr. Hoye plans on taking the summer off, traveling, and “wintering” in Florida. Father

Camara will take some “quality time to relax and unwind,” while residing at the Cardinal Medeiros Residence in Fall River.

“In September I will begin to help out at St. Mary’s Parish in South Dartmouth,” said Msgr.

Hoye. “I will be available to help wherever needed,” added Father Camara.

Just like a Marine — or a priest.

Prayer at work in Spiritual Adoption continued from page three

formed, and in the case of a girl, the uterus has already developed and the ovaries are in the proper place. “[The posters show] that your baby’s heart is beating, or that it shows your baby is moving; it’s a whole sequence,” she said.

“We put information on the bulletin board on how the baby is doing at that point. The people who do this may be a single adult, or a family will do it. A lot of the teen-agers get a kick out of praying for their own Spiritual child.

You’ll see parents stopping and showing their children how their baby looks now. That’s a lovely thing for kids to be able to see.”

In November, right before Christmas, the parish hosts a baby shower where all the parishioners are invited to attend on a Sunday morning after Mass.

Balloons line a decorated table and everyone enjoys a big cake. People bring gifts or checks for donations.

“We have a bounty of baby clothes and money,” said Stebbins. “We give to Abundant Hope in Fall River or we give it to Friends of the Unborn in Quincy; we distribute to where [the donations] are given to the mothers. It’s a fun thing to do because everyone looks forward to a baby shower.”

Since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion 43 years ago in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, more than 58 million unborn children have lost their lives. Each one of those abortions is a tragedy, not just because an innocent child died, but because of the lasting impact the abortion itself had on the mothers of those children.

“We know Mary really cares for all these poor children who have been massacred,” said Stebbins. “It’s 58 million now; that’s really a tragedy. It’s enough to populate California, Pennsylvania and a few left over. It’s awful. This is a product of a society that has lost touch with God. It definitely is, and we have to turn this around.”

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in swimming, working out or meeting other people. I think that sometimes we overlook how important it is to move our bodies to help move our emotions and thought processes,” said Reeves.

This initial 16-week Getting Ahead program ran solely on funds raised

by St. Vincent de Paul, but this year Mary Dwyer, in her first year as president of the St. Vincent de Paul Attleboro District Council, applied for a grant from the National Office of SVdP, which had received an anonymous $300,000 grant to disburse for special Vincentian projects to help the poor and marginalized.

Dwyer stated the group received a $5,000 grant to continue to fund the Getting Ahead program to further the SVdP systemic change agenda. Because of the grant, there will be another Getting Ahead program either this fall or early winter, said Dwyer.

Though they had applied for the grant last year, they were denied, but this year Dwyer suspects that it was because of the success of the program that allowed them to receive the grant: “This is my guess, we were not told — we’re in the midst of a successful program that is ongoing right now, which had not yet begun at the time of our prior submission. They clearly want to see this money be put to good use; they don’t want it going to try for something that’s never going to happen, or that’s never going to be successful. I think the fact that we’ve demonstrated some success must have helped,” said Dwyer.

Reeves stated that the

Getting Ahead program is a group effort, and that along with her, Frechette, and Kathy Jaaskelainen, a fellow Getting Ahead facilitator, the recognition of the program by the awarding of the grant by the National Office of St. Vincent de Paul is a sign of good things to come.

“Each person comes to this program with different strengths and different needs, and they leave with very different goals,” said Reeves. “What is delightful for me to see is the extent to which each person who came in bordering on somewhat hopelessness has developed hope. We talk about it being a handup, not a handout.”

Father Richard A. Delisle, M.S.

ATTLEBORO — Father Richard A. Delisle M.S., 85, of La Salette Shrine passed away June 22 at Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro.

He was born on March 15, 1931 in Cohoes, N.Y., son of the late Armand and Anna (Beaulme) Delisle.

He completed all of his formation with the La Salette Fathers and Brothers. On April 25, 1959 he was ordained into the priesthood in Fall River by Bishop James L. Connolly.

In 1978 he was appointed superior and in 1982 he was assigned to the La Salette Retreat

In Your Prayers

Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks

House in Attleboro.

He also was assigned to the La Salette Shrine as treasurer in 1988.

In Father Delisle’s last assignments he was named parochial vicar

at the Sacred Heart Parish in Lebanon, N.H. in 1999 and assigned to the La Salette community in 2011 in Attleboro.

Father Delisle is

survived by his brother Thomas and wife Judy Delisle and by his brother-in-law Tom Carpenter.

He was also brother to the late Armand Delisle and Marie Carpenter.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated June 27 at the La Salette Shrine Church in Attleboro. Burial services followed at the La Salette Shrine Chapel in Enfield, N.H. To sign an online guest book for Father Delisle, please visit www.sperry-mchoul. com.

Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Sperry McHoul Funeral Home, North Attleboro.

July 10 Rev. Pie Marie Berard, O.P., Dominican Priory, Fall River, 1938 Rev. Maurice E. Parent, Assistant, St. Michael, Swansea,1972 Rev. John E. Morris, M.M., Retired Maryknoll Missioner, Former Assistant, St. Joseph, Fall River, 1987 Rev. Theodore M. Morin, M.S., La Salette Shrine, North Attleboro, 1987 July 12 Most Rev. Joseph P. Delaney, 2005 July 13 Rev. Arthur P. Deneault, M.S., La Salette Father, 1979 July 14 Rev. Nicholas Fett, SS.CC., Pastor, St. Boniface, New Bedford, 1938 Rev. Edmund J. Neenan, Assistant, Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs, 1949 Rev. Vincent F. Diaferio, Pastor, Holy Rosary, Fall River, 1998 July 16 Rev. Bernard Percot, O.P., Founder, St. Dominic, Swansea, 1937 Rev. Matthew F. Sullivan, SS.CC., Retired Chaplain Bristol County House of Correction, Former Pastor, St. Mary, Fairhaven, 2002 July 17 Rev. William J. Smith, Pastor, St. Jacques, Taunton, 1960 Rev. Edmond Rego, Assistant, Espirito Santo, Fall River, 1981 Rev. Ernest N. Bessette, Retired Pastor, St. Joseph, Attleboro, 1997 July 18 Rev. Adalbert Szklanny, Assistant, St. Patrick, Fall River, 1968 Rev. Lionel G. Doraisi, SSS., 1984 Rev. Joseph Quinn, C.S.C., Holy Cross Residence, North Dartmouth, 2007 July 19 Most Rev. Daniel F. Feehan, D.D., Second Bishop of Fall River, 1907-34, 1934 Rev. Francis M. Coady, Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River, 1975 Msgr. Joseph R. Pannoni, Retired Pastor, Holy Rosary, Fall River, 1992 July 20 Rev. Joao Medeiros, Retired Pastor, St. Elizabeth, Fall River, 1983 July 22 Rev. Francis L. Mahoney, Retired Pastor, Holy Name Fall River, 2007

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Around the Diocese St. Pius X Parish in South Yarmouth will be having its annual Summer Fair sponsored by the parish’s Women’s Society. It will be held on July 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and will feature crafts, a tag sale, jewelry, raffles, homemade goods, and vendors located in the school gym. The St. Mary’s Café will also be open for lunch and snacks during the day. Admission is free.

St. Patrick’s Prayer Group invites all to attend a seven-week Life in the Spirit Seminar, to be held at St. Patrick’s Church, 82 High Street in Wareham, on Thursday evenings from July 14 to August 25. Each meeting will begin at 7 p.m. and end at 8:30 p.m. The Rosary will be prayed at 6:45 p.m. The purpose of a Life in the Spirit Seminar is to help those who attend make a renewed commitment to the Lord, allowing them to experience a fuller life in the Spirit. The seminar will consist of praise and worship music, talks and witnesses given by others who have previously attended a Life in the Spirit Seminar, small group discussions, and prayer. Please sign up by calling 508-2956650 or by sending an email to stpatricksprayergroup@yahoo.com.

Called By Name, a day of reflection for young women to help them discern a vocation to Marriage, consecrated religious life and single life, will be held August 12 at 6 p.m. through August 14 at 1:30 p.m. at the Sacred Hearts Retreat Center, 226 Great Neck Road, located on the shores of Buzzards Bay. For more information, contact Sister Paulina Hurtado, O.P., at sr.paulina@dioc-fr.org or by calling 508-675-1311.

St. John Neumann Parish, 157 Middleboro Road in East Freetown, will be hosting another “Day of Silence with the Masters” on July 23, this time offering a summer day with St. Thomas of Aquinas. The quiet day of prayer will be at the camp house and outdoors on the grounds (camp house is accessible through road next to the rectory) and will begin at 9:30 a.m. and run until 4:30 p.m. with the parish Liturgy at 5 p.m. as an option for those who would like to stay. Midday prayer is offered at 1 p.m. and Confessions are available at 4 p.m. St. Thomas Aquinas’ teachings will be posted throughout the property at 12 stations and a booklet containing those stations and midday prayer will be distributed. There is no charge, but participants are asked to bring a bag lunch and beverages will be provided. One may come for the whole day or part of the day. For more information, email Karen Howard at klhoward@ aol.com or call 508-947-0193.

The 12th annual golf tournament to benefit Holy Family-Holy Name School in New Bedford will be held on September 25 beginning with registration at 11:30 a.m. and a shotgun start at 1 p.m. at the Allendale Country Club, 1047 Allen Street in North Dartmouth. For more information about the event, contact Tricia Grime at pgrime62@ msn.com or call 508-648-2783. Volunteers are also needed to help with the event — if interested, call 508-993-3547.

The Diocesan Marriage Preparation Program is looking for married couples who would like to enrich their Marriage while helping engaged couples prepare for their lifetime together. There is also a Re-Marriage Prep Program for couples entering their second Marriages. If you are interested in sharing the joys and challenges of married life, please contact your pastor or the Diocesan Office of Faith Formation at 508-678-2828 or email cmcmanus@dfrcs.org.

To submit an event for consideration in The Anchor’s “Around the Diocese” listing, send the information by email to kensouza@ anchornews.org

Visit the newly-designed Diocese of Fall River website at fallriverdiocese.org The site includes links to parishes, diocesan offices and national sites.

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Eucharistic Adoration in the Diocese Acushnet — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Francis Xavier Parish on Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Evening prayer and Benediction is held Monday through Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

ASSONET — Beginning September 14, St. Bernard’s Parish will have Eucharistic Adoration every Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed on the altar at the conclusion of 9 a.m. Mass and the church will be open all day, concluding with evening prayer and Benediction at 6:30 p.m.

ATTLEBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the Adoration Chapel at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, 71 Linden Street, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

ATTLEBORO — The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette holds Eucharistic Adoration in the Shrine Church every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. through November 17.

ATTLEBORO — There is a weekly time of Eucharistic Adoration Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church on North Main Street.

Brewster — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the La Salette Chapel in the lower level of Our Lady of the Cape Church, 468 Stony Brook Road, on First Fridays beginning at noon until 7:45 a.m. First Saturday, concluding with Benediction and concluding with Mass at 8 a.m. buzzards Bay — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Margaret Church, 141 Main Street, Monday through Saturday, from 6:30 to 8 a.m.; and every first Friday from noon to 8 a.m. on Saturday.

East Freetown — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. John Neumann Church every Monday (excluding legal holidays) 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady, Mother of All Nations Chapel. (The base of the bell tower).

EAST TAUNTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the chapel at Holy Family Parish Center, 438 Middleboro Avenue, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. On First Fridays, Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Holy Family Church, 370 Middleboro Avenue, from 8:30 a.m. until 7:45 p.m.

FAIRHAVEN — S t . M a r y ’s C h u r c h , M a i n S t . , h a s E u c h a r i s t i c A d o r a t i o n e v e r y Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Chapel of Reconciliation, with Benediction at 11:30 a.m.

Also, there is a First Friday Mass each month at 7 p.m., followed by a Holy Hour with Eucharistic Adoration. Refreshments follow.

Fall River — Espirito Santo Parish, 311 Alden Street, Fall River. Eucharistic Adoration on Mondays following the 8 a.m. Mass until Rosary and Benediction at 6:30 p.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Bernadette’s Church, 529 Eastern Ave., has continuous Eucharistic Adoration from 8 a.m. on Thursday until 8 a.m. on Saturday.

FALL RIVER — St. Anthony of the Desert Church, 300 North Eastern Avenue, has Eucharistic Adoration Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

FALL RIVER — Holy Name Church, 709 Hanover Street, has Eucharistic Adoration Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady of Grace Chapel.

FALL RIVER — Good Shepherd Parish has Eucharistic Adoration every Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass and concluding with 3 p.m. Benediction in the Daily Mass Chapel. A bilingual holy hour takes place from 2 to 3 p.m. Park behind the church and enter the back door of the connector between the church and the rectory.

Falmouth — St. Patrick’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration each First Friday following the 7 a.m.

Mass, with Benediction at 4:30 p.m.

HYANNIS — St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis, 347 South Street, Hyannis, has Eucharistic Adoration from noon to 3 p.m., daily Monday through Friday.

MANSFIELD — St. Mary’s Parish, 330 Pratt Street, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Benediction at 5:45 p.m.

MASHPEE — Christ the King Parish, Route 151 and Job’s Fishing Road has 8:30 a.m. Mass every First Friday with special intentions for Respect Life, followed by 24 hours of Eucharistic Adoration in the Chapel, concluding with Benediction Saturday morning followed immediately by an 8:30 Mass.

NEW BEDFORD — Eucharistic Adoration takes place 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 233 County Street, with night prayer and Benediction at 8:45 p.m., and Confessions offered during the evening. Please use the side entrance.

NEW BEDFORD — There is a daily holy hour from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1359 Acushnet Avenue. It includes Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Liturgy of the Hours, recitation of the Rosary, and the opportunity for Confession.

NEW BEDFORD — St. Lawrence Martyr Parish, 565 County Street, holds Eucharistic Adoration in the side chapel Fridays from 7:30-11:45 a.m. ending with a simple Benediction NORTH DARTMOUTH — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Road, every Tuesday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., ending with Benediction. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available at this time.

NORTH DIGHTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Wednesday following 8:00 a.m. Mass and concludes with Benediction at 5 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration also takes place every First Friday at St. Nicholas of Myra Church, 499 Spring Street following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending with Benediction at 6 p.m.

The Rosary is recited Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 8 a.m.

NORTH EASTON — A Holy Hour for Families including Eucharistic Adoration is held every Friday from 3-4 p.m. at The Father Peyton Center, 518 Washington Street.

ORLEANS — St. Joan of Arc Parish, 61 Canal Road, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday starting after the 8 a.m. Mass and ending with Benediction at 11:45 a.m. The Sacrament of the Sick is also available immediately after the 8 a.m. Mass.

OSTERVILLE — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, 76 Wianno Avenue on First Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

Taunton — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Tuesday at St. Anthony Church, 126 School Street, following the 8 a.m. Mass with prayers including the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for vocations, concluding at 6 p.m. with Chaplet of St. Anthony and Benediction. Recitation of the Rosary for peace is prayed Monday through Saturday at 7:30 a.m. prior to the 8 a.m. Mass.

Taunton — Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place every First Friday at Annunciation of the Lord, 31 First Street. Exposition begins following the 8 a.m. Mass. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed, and Adoration will continue throughout the day. Confessions are heard from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m.

Rosary and Benediction begin at 6:30 p.m.

WAREHAM — Eucharistic Adoration at St. Patrick’s Church takes place 9 a.m. Thursday through 7 p.m.

Friday. Adoration is held in our Adoration Chapel in the lower Parish Hall. ~ PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ~ East Sandwich — The Corpus Christi Parish Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 324 Quaker Meeting House Road, East Sandwich. Use the Chapel entrance on the side of the church.

NEW BEDFORD — Our Lady’s Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street, offers Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day. For information call 508-996-8274.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

WEST HARWICH — Our Lady of Life Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Holy Trinity Parish, 246 Main Street (Rte. 28), holds perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. We are a regional chapel serving all of the surrounding parishes. All are invited to sign up to cover open hours. For open hours, or to sign up call 508-430-4716.

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Knights of Columbus Father Hogan Council No. 14236 of Dartmouth recently presented a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Va., during a wreath-laying ceremony. Grand Knight Chris Pereira presented the wreath on behalf of the council. The ceremony took place in between the “changing of the guards.”

Pereira is also a technical sergeant in the Air National Guard. Pereira said, “It was the most moving act I have ever been a part of. What an honor.” He also placed a Hope and Honor Cross wreath at President John F. Kennedy’s Eternal Flame grave site. President Kennedy, a Massachusetts native, was a U.S. Navy veteran and member of the Knights of Columbus.

Pereira went on to say, “Words can’t describe how special this place is. We will always remember.” Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting place for more than 400,000 service members, veterans and their families. Service to country is the common thread that binds all who are remembered and honored at Arlington.

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The Fifth of July

this week to make up for all the hat a glorious Fourth anti-health food intake, but the of July weekend it was.

Fourth only comes once a year.

From Friday straight through The only hitch was that we can Sunday evening, it was a warm, no longer watch Boston’s coversun-soaked weekend spent on the deck with family and friends, age of the Pops at the Esplanade food, beverages, laughter, and oh, until the national coverage kicks in. Our cable provider, in its did I mention food? infinite wisdom, considers us to It was one of those rare weekbe part of Rhode Island, so they ends where one gets to do pretty much what one intended to do in took away our WBZ Channel 4 in lieu one’s mind’s of WPRI eye.

My View Channel 12 Went to From in Provivisit mom dence. We and listen to the Stands live in Masher tell DeBy Dave Jolivet sachusetts nise how tan people! she is, like I Anyway, wasn’t even there. I have some color too! And as I hit the sack that night of the Fourth, I reminisced about the they both got to talking about great three days I just spent, and how retirement is. Grrrr.

Then went to see dad at Catho- awoke this morning (Tuesday) still feeling good. lic Memorial Home and bring I looked out the window this him out on the piazza, and sit morning knowing it was raining, and chat in the nice warm breeze but that was fine; we needed it, overlooking the beautiful setting I didn’t have to water our plants, of the St. Vincent’s Home chapel and its and it was a work day. It was fine tree-lined surround- until I glanced at my car and noing. I even got to roll ticed I had neglected to shut my around in his wheel- car windows. Luckily everyone chair as we sat there. was sleeping and only Igor got to hear what was said next.

It was a weekend I dried off all the electronics where my Red Sox on the front doors, hoping they gas grill worked overtime — tanks be would still function, and I got to to God (alright, that ride to work sitting on the most absorbent towel I had and stuffed was bad one). face cloths in puddles in the Throughout the change holders in each door — weekend I sizzled up some sirloin tips, all while running my defrosters at full blast to get rid of the fog on cheeseburgers, St. Louis ribs, and corn my windshield and rear window.

Not the best way to start a new on the cob. And some shrimp on the week. I guess that’s why we never hear too much about the Fifth of barbie!

July.

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