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Vineyard. Haven Church Dedi'cation on 'Sunday By Patricia McGowall1l Probably the first Pontifical Mass ever to be 'celebrated .<I)Jli Martha's Vineyard will ·take place at 4 this Sunday afternoon when Bishop Connolly dedicates the new Church St. Augustine at Vineyard Haven. Thought the o~ly all-wood church in the Dio- attention to the altar. . cese, the structure, of conSunlight blazes thro~gh a ,huge temporary desIgn: is linked window in the rear of" the to the past by a 1OO-year-old church, but is softened by
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bell mounted atop its peaked mauve-shaded glass in side win_ dows. In harmony with the 1'00£. . The bell 'is heard thrice daily , maritime tradition of Martha's for the Angelus and announces Vineyard, carpeting and church doors' are of sea-green turquoise. Sunday Masses. ~ Of rubber vinyl, the carpeting Newcomers to the church aasp involuntarily as 'they enter. is guaranteed to withstand the Its 42 foot ceiling, soaring to a tramp of seagoing boots as well Ilharp peak, gives the feeliag of as the more 'customary muddy !mmense height, while a heroic and SilOWY shoes.of Winter. 10 foot 'crucifix draws immediate . . '.fum. to Page Seventeen
Pope John Urges Penance To Prepare for Council VATICAN CITY (NC)-:-PQpe John has issued an enerclical calling for t~e practice. of pen'ance by .the world:s Catholics in .preparation for the coming ~ume~llcal counCIL In the seventh encyclical of his reign, entitled Paenitentiam Agere (To' 1;)0 Penance), f~r it by prayer, the practice of Pope John al~ called on the the normal Christiall. virtues world's bishops to institute an~ voluntary mortification. • solemn novena. in hon~r Qf '. The encyclical pointed out
the Holy Sph;,it to iQvoke the that "if we Consult· 'the1?OOks blessings of divine grace on the of the' Old a~d New Te~taments, F3thers of the council... :~e'~ shall notice that everyocThe eilCyclical was dated Julr .easion of a. ~lore solemn'.' en- . 1, the feast of the Most Preci~us Turn to Page Nineteen Blood. Its Latin text contams " . .
OUR LADY OF THE CAPE CHURCH, BREWSTER
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Services were held in th~ new Our Lady of the Cape parish church, at Brewster (lift Cape Cod, for the first time Sunday when Rev. Joseph A. Nolan, M.S., pastor, celebrated the first Mass. Beginning next Sunday - and continuing through the Summer five Sun-' day Masses will be celebrated ~t 7 :30, 8 :30, 9 :30, 10 :30 and 11 :30 A.M. Formal blessing of the' new edifice will be The church, with a seating Special attention has beeD. held at a date to be an- capacity of about 600, permits given to the parking problem.,' nounced, pro b a b I y near partitioning the front half for with ample facilities available m Labor Day. New Testament. year-round Use and shutting off . a very large lot. . "'accounts 'of Our Lord's associa- the rear section during the The church ia staffed 1>7 tion with the sea suggested the motif for the interior, carried out in scenes depicted in the 14 nave windows. Candelabra ,and sanctuary lamp are constructed in anchor fashion, and the altar reredos follows the pattern of a fisherman's net. '
Winter months. LaSal~tte Fathers, who reside M Basement of the structure will their seminary in East Brewstet serve as a parish hall, with. ~nd serve at Immaculate COIflo stage and kitchen facilities. ception Mission.
Physicians -Should' Allow ••••••••••••••••••••••• Dignity to Those Dying Cornerstone The Most Reverend Bishop, ·.James· L. Connolly, D.D., will 'Iay the cornerstone of the new Taunton Me~orial High School 'for Girls tomOrrow afternoon ai ~. o'cl\Hlk.· , ' . . This will be Die third Dioc- ' esanHigh School. conStructed ·under.'Bishop Connolly's diree·tion.Bishol)Stanr; High School 1n No;' Dartmbuth .and Bishop Feehan'High' School in Attleboro we~ ereeted i... that -order. .-
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LONDON (NC)-A dying person should be allowed. to die in peace and dignity rather than surrounded by such useless litPparatus as tubes and oxygen tents, an American psychiatrist said here. Dr. John R. Cavanagh of Washing., ton,. D.C., spoke, at a panel u. S. Guild of' Catholic Psychilt<> seSSIon on "The Hopeless trists. . Case" during the 10th Inter.; Dr. Cavanagh, who is editor national Congress of Catho- of the guild's bUlletin, asserted' lic PhysiCians. Another participant on the panel was Father Francis P. Rowley, S.J., of poughkeepsie, N.Y., chaplain of the Hudson River State Hospital arid an associate member of the
~~t~;~O~a~~~:~~eth:~e~hr;:: ,Penpal J!isswner$·From :Trinidad, Chile, Meet : : p~~~~~~ofh=naa~~a;:d:~:~ "At St.,; 1,hOlf1!ls .Mor~' Re~tory'",: in So~er.set cdered it indispensable "for the perfection of its sons and its better future." The POlltiff recalled. that ill the document convoking the ecumenical cO\1ncu. he has urged all Catholica. to prepare I
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One's a missiomiry'iIi Chile, the other. in Trinidad; 'they've been, corresponding for years-but they had to come to St. Thom~ More Church in Somerset to meet: They are Rev. Thomas Plunkett, M.M., Fall River native, -and Rev.· Maximilian ,Murphy.. Father ~lunkett, in Chile, saw a request in a Catholic peripdical for €hristmas card-sto be sent ....,~.,...,.. ....,-.' - . . " to,Trinidad. Replying, he. ~L~:',~~~";•.-,, struck up a correspondence 'I:~",b,,:"" with Father Murphy, o,rigin.~!:i" -.' any from Texas, but now
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For Europe The second Diocesan Pilgrimage under the personal leadership. of M 0 s t Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of Fall River, will sail £l~ noon next Tuesday on the SS. Constitution from Commonwealth Pier 5, South ·Boston. C 1 erg y accompanying the lBishop on this pilgrimage will. be Rt. Rev. John J. Kelly of S8. Peter and Paul Church, Fall River, and Very Rev. A.rthur W. Tansey, rector of the Cathedral. The group will visit famed shrines and holy sites in Porrur,al, Spain, France, Switzerlend, Germany, Holland and England on the tour. Highlights of the trip will be visitR to the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal and that of Lourdes in France.
MISSIONERS MEET: Rev. Maxmilian Murphy (left) and Rev. Thomas J. Plunkett, M.M. chat in St. Thomas More rectory, Somerset. Priests met for first time after carrying on correspondence for years.
stationed in the West Indies. The m~eting .came about when Father Murphy was scheduled to preach at ~t. Thomas More under the' Cooperative Mission Plan and Father Plunkett, on home leave from Chile, arrived to fill in for vacationing priests. " Comparing notes, they discussed their use of postage stamps and Christmas cards to ensure mission children's attendance at Mass. Father Plunkett has started his small Chileans on the hobby of stamp collecting, and he adds to their collections with ~ foreign stamp each time they come to Mass. . Father Murphy gives out Christmas cards. Both priests said that the cards and stamps are an excellent way of checking up on children. It they can't produce them the next day, U means they weren't at Mass. Father Plunkett was among Turn to Page Fifthteen
that most of the so-called "agony" of death. is in the minda of those surviving. Such indica:. .tions as labored breathing and the muscular contortions of th~ dying individual may give tlut impression of agony, he said, but they are "merely physical re.sponses of the dying organism.He added: . "Mentally; when the paijent feels that death is near, and th~' is usually the case, his state of mind is peaceful. Our nature iii such that we bear anxiety poorly. In the case of the dying, the anxiety of 'not knowing' is overcome. Now he knows. D)"jolJ is easy for the dying." . Dr. Cavanagh said, however, that the dying patient of today is often so surrounded by medical equipment and gadgets that "he looks more like a complicated experimental animal thu the human person he still is." Turn to Page Eighteen
French Bishops To Ask 'Local language Use PARIS (NC)-Many of th0 bishops of France at the forthcoming Vatican Council will press for the use of more of the local language in t,he Mass and for other reforms to make the Mass more meaningful to the people, according to the head of the French Hierar~ chy's new information office. Father Pierre Haubtmann told the N.C.W.C. News Service that French Catholics want greater use of French at Mass. He said that because many of the bisho> 'turn to Page Fifteen