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IN RECENT CEREMONIES at the Park Street, Fall River, motherhouse ofthe Dominican Sisters ofSt. Catherine .of Siena, jubilarians were honored and a p,rioress and four councilors were installed. Jubilarians (top left pho.to) are, from left, Sisters Monica Lefebvre and Marie Paule Beauregard, celebrating 60 years in religious life, and Sisters Jeanne D'Arc Tremblay and Marie Constant St. Amour (seated), 70 years. New leadership team members are Prioress Sister Annette Roach (center) and councilors, from left, Sisters Joan Bonville, Madeleine Tacy, Claire Sinotte and Louise Levesque. At left, Sister Roach with visiting prioresses Sisters Kathleen Hebbeler and Rose Marie Harkins from the New York Dominican communities of Ossining and Newburgh. (Gau-' dette photos)
assembly, were incorporated into the ceremony. During the service, Sister Roach spoke to those assembled calling attention to the "partnership we share with God in the mystery of redemption and reconciliation" and to our "partnership with one another in the ministry of serving, preaching, nourishing." She paid tribute to "all the won~ derful women who have gone before
due to the continuing unrest in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Times since then got steadily worse for Medjugorje, isolated on a bush- and rock-covered plateau in the staunchly Catholic moun- , tainous area of western Herzegovina, above the Adriatic coast. Ethnic fighting linked to Yugoslavia's breakup spread to Bosnia. , Serb forces bombed and rocketed Medjugorje three times.. Ted Conlin, active with a British Medjugorje group, said the coordinator of an international peace march to the town "pulled no punches" with the pilgrims. "He presented all the eventualities and possible scenarios, urging them at the same time to 'keep your bags packed,''' Conlin said. He said all the visionaries except Jakov Colo were at Medjugorje for the 11th anniversary. Croatian forces advanced just in time for the anniversary, pushing the mostly Orthodox Serbs out of firing range but not hearing range. Soldiers milled around the village bars. Travel to Medjugorje was awkward but safe at the time of the anniversary. The village is near the border with Croatia, where fighting had died down. Franciscan Sister Cecilija, a local
nun, said she thought God had spared the village. from destruction in the fighting. "Something special happened, we all felt it," she said. Although Franciscan churches and monasteries in Mostar have been destroyed by Serb shelling, the devoted in Medjugorje were optimistic. . "Medjugorje is my life," said Mary Marchand of Immaculata' prayer group in Windham, Conn. "One day my home will be a Med-. jugorje center." Ms. Marchand said she has visited five times in three years. This time she and her husband brought $2,000 worth of medical aid for war victims. "We have prayed constantly for peace, but if you accept God's will, you accept the war," said Vicka Ivankovic, one ofthe original seers, now 27, who says the Virgin Mary still talks to her. She said Mary told her recently: "Only by prayer and fasting can the war be stopped, so pray, my dear little children,"
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Medjugorje still a pilgrim magnet With reports from Catholic News Service Several thousand pilgrims traveled to the village of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina on June 24, defying war to pray on the II th anniversary of the first alleged apparition of Mary in the area. Among them was David Dunne of St. Patrick's parish, Somerset, who was in a pilgrimage group of some 28 Americans. He said St. James Church in Medjugorje, site of many of the alleged apparitions, was back in use. The building had not been used for Mass for some time after a shellhad,ianded some 300 yards from it. Dunne, who lodged in a house overlooking the church, said ~here were no problems during his stay in Medjugorje, although gunfire could be heard and "once some pilgrims mistook Ii thunderstorm for guns." But he said the city of Mostar, 50 miles distant, was "devastated." On the anniversary of the first appearance of what six youths described as visions of Mary, about 10,000 persons from the Medjugorje area and an additional 3,000 from other nations crowded into the small village, said Dunne. The number of foreign visitors was 'down from over 10,000 last year,
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Dominican Sisters install new leadership team In a July I ceremony at their with whom the Fall River Dominicans have been engaged in a col. Park Street Convent in Fall River, the Dominican Sisters of St. Cath- laboration process since 1990. erine of Siena installed a new leadThe ceremony's theme, "Blessed' ership team headed by Prioress is the communion partnership Sister Annette Roach, OP. shares with its circle offriends and Guests from several local reli- ' . supporters," reflected the roles of gious communities were in attend- leadership and community nurturance, along with members of the ing one another. The symbolism of New York Dominican communiwheat grains and sharing bread, ties of Ossining and Newburgh, which had been used in a previous
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