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Friday, July 27, 2018

Now nearing the conclusion of its 100th year, Cathedral Camp in East Freetown has maintained its charm and simplicity, while still providing a safe, fun and fulfilling summer for hundreds of area boys and girls; allowing them to enjoy the outdoors with activities, games and companionship. Story on page two. (Photo by Dave Jolivet) The Anchor - July 27, 2018

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After a century of providing a safe, fun summer camping experience for area kids, Cathedral Camp maintains its charm and home-spun feel

By Dave Jolivet Anchor Editor davejolivet@anchornews.org

EAST FREETOWN — Baby-boomers and their parents will most likely remember the old “Rocky and Bullwinkle Show” cartoons from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

In the show was a segment with “Mr. Peabody,” everyone’s favorite dog scientist, and “his boy Sherman.” The brainy pooch enlisted the help of the “Wayback Machine” to help him and his sidekick travel to times and places long ago.

Area young boys and girls of today really don’t need a Wayback Machine to carry them to the past — a time filled with fun, friendship, and a feeling of being home.

All they have to do is hop on a bus and spend a session during the summer at Cathedral Camp in East Freetown — a homespun summer location now nearing the end of its 100th year.

“Cathedral Camp is like home,” Rena Lemieux, the camp’s assistant director told The Anchor. “It’s like it was 50 or more years ago.

You can hear the slamming of the screen door at the nurse’s station, the children are outside playing, getting dirty, having fun, and at the end of the day, many of them fall asleep on the bus.

“While we have kept up with the times, it’s still like stepping back in time at the camp, with the campers participating in most of the same activities they did 100 years ago.”

A perennial favorite of the summer campers at Cathedral Camp in East Freetown is the selection of ice cream treats offered during the day at the ice cream window. While the selections may be more elaborate, kids are kids and ice cream is ice cream. (Photo by Dave Jolivet)

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Lemieux, who has been assistant director since 2008, after having spent two decades at the diocesan Family Life Center in North Dartmouth, was recently joined by Pat Conforti, the camp’s retreat coordinator among other duties, and Tom Stone, who has been involved with the camp since 1947, for an interview with The Anchor.

Each of them, including other counselors who also commented on the camp, had the same description: “It’s home.”

The camp, at the former Lakeside Park on Long Pond (then known as Lake Apponequet) in East Freetown, opened as a full-time camp in 1919 when the Diocese of Fall River began leasing the property from the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway for three weeks in August; one week for girls and two for boys.

The diocese purchased the property outright in September of 1920.

Through the years the diocese upgraded the area adding water works, buildings and other amenities to make it a proper full-time summer camp for area boys and girls.

In 1923 a large, 76-room U-shaped dormitory was built, “The Hotel,” which allowed children and counselors to experience the camp as a two-week overnight adventure. The building was also used for priest retreats.

So in demand was the hotel that an addition was added in 1936 making it the H-shaped building it is today.

The early campers, much like today’s youngsters, enjoyed swimming, boating, archery, arts and crafts,

The more things change, the more they stay the same; so the adage goes. Campers attending any of the seven oneweek sessions at Cathedral Camp are kept busy with activities such as archery, swimming, boating, paddle boarding, arts and crafts, dance, and games, exactly as their predecessors who attended the East Freetown camp 100 years ago did. (Photos by Dave Jolivet)

and games — even horseback riding. Aside from the equestrian activities, not much has changed in 100 years. “Kids are kids, no matter what the generation,” added Lemieux. “Today our campers don’t need to be playing video games, using cell phones, watching cable TV or staying indoors at all. And they don’t miss it. They are constantly being kept busy and having fun, and that’s what it’s

all about having a summer camp experience.”

The camp is open to everyone, ages four to 14.

Campers are grouped into units according their ages, and each unit encounters six periods of different activities per day, to ensure the campers receive the full camping experience.

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Fall River DCCW to host immigration session August 1 in Hyannis

By Dave Jolivet Anchor Editor davejolivet@anchornews.org

HYANNIS — The Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will be hosting a two-hour panel discussion on August 1 entitled, “Immigration & Its Impact.”

The event will take place at St. John Paul II High School, 120 High School Road in Hyannis. The doors will open at 6 p.m.

In a flyer promoting the session, the DCCW said, “We, the DCCW members are called to make known this important issue that affects the lives of so many. As Catholic women, we are involved in education, supporting and empowering all women in the areas of Spirituality, leadership and service.”

The free event (free-will donations welcome) will include a panel of three speakers: Attorney Schuyler Pisha from the diocesan Catholic Social Services; Attorney Colin Mickle from Community Action of Cape Cod; and Father Richard D. Wilson, rector of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River, and executive editor of The Anchor.

“The FRDCCW offered this topic at a power breakfast in New Bedford last year,” DCCW president Beth Mahoney told The Anchor. “It was so well attended and people thought it so worthwhile that we decided to offer it again. This time we wanted to offer this program in the evening on the Cape. We try to offer various programs alternating our programs within the five deaneries.

“This topic is a very important issue within the USCCB and within our Church and society.

We want to make the information known to people in the diocese and to help them obtain correct information on this issue. We want to make sure people are aware of how they can help, what they can do and how to address this issue.”

Each of the speakers are wellversed in matters dealing with immigration and will give witness to the issues, problems and solutions to the immigration situation in the area of the Diocese of Fall River.

Refreshments will be served at

6 p.m. with the speakers slated to begin at 6:30 p.m. and ending at 8:30 p.m.

“I am happy to work together with the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women to participate in this forum regarding issues around immigration,” Father Wilson told The Anchor. “Last year I was part of a panel discussion that the DCCW organized on the same topic in New Bedford. I believe that the DCCW thought it would be good to have a forum on Cape Cod, so as to make it more accessible to people ‘across the bridge,’ both year-round residents and vacationers.

“I have long worked together with the DCCW on the topic of immigration. More than 10 years ago, when I was the bishop’s secretary, I remember meeting with the leaders of the DCCW repeatedly as we prepared prayer services entitled, ‘Welcoming the Stranger.’The DCCW took seriously then, and still does now, the call of the Church, and of God, to ‘welcome the stranger.’ Part of those prayer services involved people sharing their experiences of coming to the United States. I recall a woman who moved here from France after World War II. When she came to the Fall River area, she was told that she should worship ‘at the Canadian church.’ She wondered what a ‘Canadian church’ was — it was a parish established to welcome French-speaking immigrants from Canada, mainly Quebec. So, some people came to refer to it as a ‘Canadian church,’ although most people referred to it as a ‘French parish.’

“I have worked with immigrants, mainly Spanish- and Portuguesespeakers, for most of my priesthood. I have enjoyed witnessing their faith, while also trying to help them work on their immigration status. Lawyers and other professionals from Catholic Social Services have been very helpful, as well as other lawyers from social service groups or private law firms.”

“Everyone is talking about immigration these days,” Attorney Pisha told The Anchor. “The con-

versation is overdue, if not always productive. Immigration law, policy and history are complex and pundits and political figures often get things wrong, sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

In this forum, presenters will shed light on the complexities of the situation, dispel common myths and misunderstandings, and place our current challenges in a historical context.

“I plan to discuss the pressing issues we are encountering in our service to low-income immigrants in the diocese. These include: DACA’s uncertain future, the end of

Haitian, Honduran and Salvadoran TPS, attacks on asylum protections for domestic violence survivors and troubling policy changes pertaining to affirmative applications for immigration status.

“I will also examine the xenophobic rhetoric and intent of some policy makers who have sought to divide the American public along ethnic lines through misinformation and ahistorical narrative. In particular, I will address the myths around immigrant access to public benefits, assimilation and crime.

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Share the journey

J

esus’ questions sound so easy but the answers can be complicated.

“When did you see Me homeless? Who is your neighbor?” When Jesus asks a question He expects us to respond with action, not philosophical musing. Thus, in 1943, while World War II was raging through Europe, Catholic Relief Services came into existence to help people displaced by the violence.

Seventy-five years since CRS first took care of the millions of refugees wandering across Europe, it is still providing care and raising awareness of the plight of migrants.

The care of migrants is an ancient mandate found deep within our JudeoChristian roots. Pope Francis’ message on the World Day of Migrants and Refugees in 2016 reminds us that “Biblical revela-

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tion urges us to welcome number-one lesson they the stranger; it tells us that have learned is that people in so doing, we open our do not leave their homes doors to God, and that in by choice, but mostly to the faces of others we see escape violence. Families the face of Christ Himself.” are fleeing war-torn counThe essence of Catholic tries across the globe, in Social teaching is the belief places like Syria, Afghaniin the inherent dignity of stan, South Sudan, and the human person.

It is this principle that underscores the Church’s efThe Great fort to provide care Commission and protection for displaced people,

By Claire McManus striving to “create a world where immigrants, migrants, refugees Myanmar. The U.N. Refuand people on the move are gee Agency (UNHCR) treated with dignity, retracks the movement of the spect, welcome and belong- 44,000 displaced people ing,” according to USCCB who leave their countries Migration and Refugees every day. They walk away Services. from their homes and Through the years CRS face perils along the way has learned many valuable that most of us can never lessons on how to care for imagine. This is why Pope families displaced from Francis felt it necessary to their home countries. The help us to understand their struggle. On Sept. 27, 2017 Pope Francis launched a two-year campaign called “Share the Journey” to raise awareness of the plight of migrants around the world.

“Share the Journey” is being sponsored by

Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s worldwide charity organization. Here in the United States the campaign is supported by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Charities USA. “The Holy Father wants us to feel this personally,” says Sister Donna Markham, O.P., Ph.D, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA. “Each of us must work to encounter the migrants and refugees who are all around us. All too often they seem invisible to us. We need to hear their stories, literally share their journeys, and see them as our brothers and sisters.”

The goal of “Share the Journey” is to ask each of us to be a witness of our faith by taking a stand in support of migrants. One of the ways this is being done is to organize symbolic pilgrimages around the country to walk in solidarity with migrants and refugees. By Nov. 13, 2018 it is hoped that United States Catholics will have walked the distance of the Earth: 24,900 miles. “Share the Journey” is not a fund-raiser, but a consciousness-raiser. On August 7 the Diocese of Fall River will add miles to the goal by taking part in “Share the Journey” during the Catholic Youth Day celebration on Martha’s Vineyard. Three hundred youth from around the diocese have been invited

by Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., to join him on this pilgrimage, which will culminate in a special celebration of their faith.

The day will be filled with music, prayer, fun and food,

but it will begin with a solid show of support for our brothers and sisters around the world who have been displaced from their home countries.

The pilgrimage will begin when the youth get onboard buses at the Catholic high schools in each deanery. They will converge at Woods Hole on Cape Cod where they will board the ferry to Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard.

The youth and their adult chaperones will begin the three-mile walk to Vineyard Haven where they will gather at St. Augustine Church for the Catholic Youth Day festivities.

The celebration of Catholic Youth Day on Martha’s Vineyard is one part of the Diocese of Fall River’s focus on youth that began on June 27 with their listening session with Bishop da Cunha.

The youth have stepped forward to be heard and to pick up the mantle of service that is central to our Catholic mission.

After the pilgrimage on Martha’s Vineyard there will be a diocesan-wide service project that focuses on welcoming our immigrant families.

All youth of our parishes and schools will continue Pope Francis’ call to raise awareness about global migration by collecting items that will be included in welcome packages for those newly-arrived immigrants to our diocese. The youth will come together on March 31, 2019 at the Diocesan Youth Convention to culminate their service, celebrate their effort, and to lead our diocese into the future.

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

Fatima statue adorns cover of diocesan directory to be published next month

By Kenneth J. Souza Anchor Staff kensouza@anchornews.org

FALL RIVER — A newly-revised and fully updated 2018 edition of the annual Catholic Directory for the Fall River Diocese will be released

by Anchor Publishing, a subsidiary of The Anchor, next month.

This year’s directory cover features a stylized photograph of the beautiful statue of Our Lady of Fatima that was installed at the entrance to the campus of Bishop Connolly High School on Elsbree Street in Fall River on Oct. 13, 2017 during the 100th anniversary of the final apparition of Our Lady to three Portuguese shepherd children. To commemorate the centennial, Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., celebrated an outdoor Mass with more than 3,000 students from all the Catholic schools within the diocese after which the statue was blessed and dedicated.

When the all-white, Italian-made statue first arrived at Connolly’s campus last year, principal E. Christopher Myron described it as “an image of Our Lady who is not just the mother of God, but the mother of us all.”

“She looks beautiful,” Myron told The Anchor.

“Her face has a slight smile, a gentle smile, as she looks on us with loving care. She resonates innocence, and exudes her love for us as a gentle protector, letting us know not to be afraid, even in these trying times.”

Myron recently said he had been searching for the perfect depiction of the Blessed Mother to grace

the Connolly campus for some time and he was hoping to maybe acquire one from a former diocesan church. But it was Marian Desrosiers, director of the Pro-Life Apostolate for the Fall River Diocese, who ultimately found the statue online.

“She had taken a long time looking for a statue and she found a person who made this one in Italy,” Myron said. “She was really essential in bringing Our Lady here, that’s for sure.”

And for him, there’s no more welcoming presence or ambassador of peace than Our Lady.

“To have our Blessed Mother here, praying for us and protecting us is really a piece of Heaven,” he said.

“As you enter our campus, you’re greeted by her and I think her presence here has really strengthened the peace we feel.”

It’s important to note that Our Lady of Fatima’s final apparition to the three children was the culmination of her efforts to use the three visionaries to help change the hardened hearts of the world and for the conversion of sinners.

Our Sunday Visitor wrote of that day in 1917: “The most dramatic of the apparitions, some 55,000 people gathered on a rainy day near Cova da Iria in Fatima and witnessed the ‘miracle of the sun.’ Some 20,000 other people witnessed the miracle from as far away as 25 miles. The sun started spinning and grew larger. It looked like it was going to fall on the earth. People fell to their knees in fear. The people then noticed that their clothes were completely

dry even though they had been standing in the rain for some time. Even unbelievers and skeptics witnessed the phenomenon. The secular newspaper, O Século, had a front page story on ‘How the sun danced at midday in Fatima.’

“While the people were looking at the miracle of the sun, the three children saw a sequence of apparitions. St. Joseph was seen with the Christ Child, and they appeared to bless the world. The Blessed Mother was seen robed in white with a blue mantel; then she appeared as Our Lady of Sorrows and then as Our Lady of Mount Carmel. The Lady revealed her identity to the children as ‘Our Lady of the Rosary.’ She asked them to pray the Rosary every day and to have a chapel built at Cova da Iria, the site of the apparitions.”

Slated to being shipping the first week of September, the newly-revised and fully updated 20182019 diocesan directory, published annually by The Anchor, has consistently been the go-to reference guide for all the parishes, offices and apostolates within the Fall River Diocese and has continued to offer more information with each subsequent edition.

With significant pastoral transfers and assignments that were announced earlier this year, the directory provides all of the latest parish data, including Mass times, staff listings, and contact information. It also provides listings of all diocesan priests, the various Religious Communities working in the diocese,

along with a complete listing of active and retired deacons living in the diocese, whether they are assigned to a given parish or not.

One of the more popular sections — a gathering of parish statistical data including total number of parishioners and weekly Mass attendance — was revised and expanded over several pages last year to make it easier to read.

And in this computerand smartphone-savvy era, information such as individual parish websites along with the email addresses for key diocesan administrative personnel have been incorporated into the directory’s contact listings.

As in past years, the directory continues to provide important contact information for diocesan offices, personnel, archives, priests’ residences, councils

and apostolates ranging from The Anchor to Catholic Social Services and its many offices, campus ministry, Chancery, Faith Formation, insurance, legal, communications, scouting, shelters, vocations and much more.

Each parish has its own dedicated page with contact information, a staff listing, details about Mass times, when a priest is available for Confession, and unique offerings such as Adoration hours and when and where a parish’s mission site has Masses.

As always, the support of dedicated advertisers is pivotal to the directory’s annual success; and the 2018-2019 Catholic Directory is not only an invaluable diocesan resource, but also offers a guide to loyal sponsors who support the diocese’s mission and, in turn, deserve your Turn to page 12

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Anchor Editorial

The Bread of Life

This coming Sunday and all of the Sundays of August we will be listening to the sixth chapter of the Gospel of St. John at Mass. During this we will hear about the multiplication of the loaves and fishes and then Jesus’ discourse on the Bread of Life that He delivered in the synagogue in Capernaum.

In the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” (at #1336) we are told, “The first announcement of the Eucharist [which this was] divided the disciples, just as the announcement of the Passion scandalized them: ‘This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?’ ( Jn 6:60). The Eucharist and the cross are stumbling blocks. It is the same mystery and it never ceases to be an occasion of division. ‘Will you also go away?’ ( Jn 6:67). The Lord’s question echoes through the ages, as a loving invitation to discover that only He has ‘the words of eternal life’ (St. Peter in Jn 6:68) and that to receive in faith the gift of His Eucharist is to receive the Lord Himself.”

This is a great thing to meditate on during these summer months, when many people have more free time than during the rest of the year. It might move you to go to Mass more often, maybe even daily, to receive Our Lord worthily and make this an act of Thanksgiving (as the word “Eucharist” means in Greek) for all the blessings you have received from God. It might be an opportunity to take more time for prayer with Jesus, either in the Tabernacle or exposed on the altar for Adoration.

In the Our Father we ask God to “give us this day our daily bread.” In the “Catechism” (#2836) we are taught, “This day is also an expression of trust taught us by the Lord (Mt 6:34; Ex 16:19), which we would never have presumed to invent. Since it refers above all to His Word and to the Body of His Son, this ‘today’ is not only that of our mortal time, but also the ‘today’ of God.” Then, quoting St. Ambrose, the paragraph continues, “If you receive the bread each day, each day is today for you. If Christ is yours today, He rises for you every day. How can this be? ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten you.’ Therefore, ‘today’ is when Christ rises.”

In the following paragraph (#2837), the “Catechism” adds, “‘Daily’ (epiousios) occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. Taken in a temporal sense, this word is a pedagogical repetition of ‘this day,’ to confirm us in trust ‘without reservation.’ Taken in the qualitative sense, it signifies what is necessary for life, and more broadly every good thing sufficient for subsistence. Taken literally (epi-ousios: ‘super-essential’), it refers directly to the Bread of Life, the Body of Christ, the ‘medicine of immortality,’ without which we have no life within us (St. Ignatius of Antioch). Finally in this connection, its Heavenly meaning is evident: ‘this day’ is the Day of the Lord, the day of the feast of the Kingdom, anticipated in the Eucharist that is already the foretaste of the Kingdom to come. For this reason it is fitting for the Eucharistic Liturgy to be celebrated each day.” And if it is celebrated each day, why not try to make time to attend it (if humanly possible)?

The “Catechism” then quotes St. Augustine: “The Eucharist is our daily bread.

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of Him, we may become what we receive. This also is our daily bread: the readings you hear each day in church and the hymns you hear and sing. All these are necessities for our pilgrimage.” The late bishop of Hippo described well the benefits we can enjoy by attending Mass daily.

Next, St. Peter Chrysologus is also quoted. “The Father in Heaven urges us, as children of Heaven, to ask for the Bread of Heaven. [Christ] Himself is the Bread Who, sown in the Virgin, raised up in the flesh, kneaded in the Passion, baked in the oven of the tomb, reserved in churches, brought to altars, furnishes the faithful each day with food from Heaven.”

On the feast of Corpus Christi in 2017 Pope Francis spoke about Jesus being the “Bread of Life.” “The ‘Living Bread, come down from Heaven’ (Jn 6:51) is the Sacrament of memory, reminding us, in a real and tangible way, of the story of God’s love for us. Today, to each of us, the Word of God says, remember! Remembrance of the Lord’s deeds guided and strengthened His people’s journey through the desert; remembering all that the Lord has done for us is the foundation of our own personal history of Salvation. Remembrance is essential for faith, as water is for a plant. A plant without water cannot stay alive and bear fruit. Nor can faith, unless it drinks deeply of the memory of all that the Lord has done for us.”

The Holy Father continued, “Remember. Memory is important, because it allows us to dwell in love, to be mindful, never forgetting Who it is Who loves us and Whom we are called to love in return. Yet nowadays, this singular ability that the Lord has given us is considerably weakened. Amid so much frantic activity, many people and events seem to pass in a whirl. We quickly turn the page, looking for novelty while unable to retain memories. Leaving our memories behind and living only for the moment, we risk remaining ever on the surface of things, constantly in flux, without going deeper, without the broader vision that reminds us who we are and where we are going. In this way, our life grows fragmented, and dulled within.”

As stated previously, summer allows most of us the luxury of some more time to remember the many blessings that God gives us. “[I]n our fragmented lives,” the pope preached, “the Lord comes to meet us with a loving ‘fragility,’ which is the Eucharist. In the Bread of Life, the Lord comes to us, making Himself a humble meal that lovingly heals our memory, wounded by life’s frantic pace of life. The Eucharist is the memorial of God’s love. There, ‘[Christ’s] sufferings are remembered’ (II Vespers, antiphon for the Magnificat) and we recall God’s love for us, which gives us strength and support on our journey. This is why the Eucharistic commemoration does us so much good: it is not an abstract, cold and superficial memory, but a living remembrance that comforts us with God’s love. A memory that is recollection and imitation. The Eucharist is flavored with Jesus’ Words and deeds, the taste of His Passion, the fragrance of His Spirit. When we receive it, our hearts are overcome with the certainty of Jesus’ love.”

May we remember and be moved to love Jesus in the Eucharist and in our neighbors.

Daily Readings July 28 – Aug. 10 Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat. July 28, Jer 7:1-11; Ps 84:3-6,8,11; Mt 13:2430. Sun. July 29, Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2 Kgs 4:42-44; Ps 145:10-11,15-16,17-18; Eph 4:1-6; Jn 6:1-15. Mon. July 30, Jer 13:1-11; (Ps) Dt 32:18-21; Mt 13:31-35. Tues. July 31, Jer 14:17-22; Ps 79:8-9,11,13; Mt 13:3643. Wed. Aug. 1, Jer 15:10,16-21; Ps 59:2-4,10-11,17-18; Mt 13:44-46. Thurs.

Aug. 2, Jer 18:1-6; Ps 146:1-6; Mt 13:47-53. Fri. Aug. 3, Jer 26:1-9; Ps 69:5,810,14; Mt 13:54-58.

Sat. Aug. 4, Jer 26:11-16,24; Ps 69:15-16,20-21; Mt 14:1-12. Sun. Aug. 5, Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Ex 16:2-4,12-15; Ps 78:3-4,23-25,54; Eph 4:17,20-24; Jn 6:24-35. Mon. Aug. 6, Dn 7:9-10,13-14; Ps 97:1-2,5-6,9; 2 Pt 1:16-19; Mk 9:2-10. Tues. Aug. 7, Jer 30:1-2,12-15,18-22; Ps 102:16-23,29; Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2,10-14. Wed. Aug. 8, Jer 31:1-7; (Ps) Jer 31:10-13; Mt 15:21-28. Thurs. Aug. 9, Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:12-15,18-19; Mt 16:13-23. Fri. Aug. 10, 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2,5-9; Jn 12:24-26.

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his week, on July 25, the Church marks the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s “Humanae Vitae,” the most reviled and rejected magisterial document in Church history. This antipathy came not only from predictable sources, like radical secularists, sexual revolutionaries and anti-Catholic Christians, but also from remarkably atypical ones, such as Catholic bishops, priests, religious, theologians, and otherwise observant married couples.

Since its publication, surveys have shown that more than 90 percent of Catholic spouses at some point in their Marriage have contravened its moral summons and that most consider its teaching on the immorality of the use of contraception in Marriage erroneous. Opposition to it ushered in an age of dissent and led to a severe enfeeblement of the teaching office of the Church, as many clergy, theologians and catechists failed even to acknowledge its existence, not to mention faithfully transmit its teaching.

So why does the Church celebrate its golden jubilee?

Because the teaching of “Humanae Vitae” is nevertheless unmistakably true. Its message, at the dawn of the sexual revolution, was heroic and prophetic. As its predictions of what widespread contraceptive use would lead to become sadly and conspicuously validated — marital infidelity, general lowering of moral standards, the objectification and instrumentalization of women, the coercive use of it by public authorities — and as other negative consequences that were not mentioned but flow from a contraceptive mentality and lifestyle metastasize — promiscuity, divorce, out of wedlock conception, abortion, sexually-transmitted

Keeping love loving and open to God

diseases, in-vitro fertilizagift of the truth contained tion, cloning, embryonic in “Humanae Vitae,” confess experimentation and dewhere we’ve failed, and make struction, widespread under- a firm amendment ecclesipopulation, the acceptance ally and individually to live of same-sex sexual activity and announce its sanctifying and ultimately the redefinimessage better. tion of Marriage according We can consider several to a non-procreative ideal — areas of needed improvehonest observers are increas- ment. ingly admitting that Pope First, we must do a betPaul VI was right about both ter job on proposing moral effects and cause. alternatives to contracepTruth in general is oftion. Pope Paul VI noted ten unpopular and rejected that there are serious physiand Pope Paul VI anticipated opposition to “Humanae Putting Into Vitae.” “Perhaps not the Deep everyone will easily accept this particular

By Father teaching,” he wrote, Roger J. Landry but added that the Church cannot “evade the duty imposed on her of proclaiming cal, economic, psychologihumbly but firmly the entire cal and social reasons why moral law, both natural and a couple might determine evangelical.” He said that the that conceiving a child at Church, “no less than her the present time would be Divine Founder, is destined imprudent. Many think, to be a ‘sign of contradichowever, that contraception tion.’” And in the last cenand complete abstinence are tury, there is no way that the the only options. That’s why Church has been a greater teaching fertility awareness sign of contradiction than methods is so important. with regard to Pope Paul Not only do they promote VI’s and the Church’s efforts respect for women, increase to keep conjugal love loving spousal communication and and open to the love and will dramatically decrease divorce of God. rates, but the knowledge they To regard the Church’s provide are among a couple’s teaching on contraception, greatest aids when they hope however, fundamentally as a to conceive. Every engaged “sign of contradiction” is to couple should receive this do it an injustice, because it training free from parishes is not principally a negative and dioceses. It should also retort to Playboy, pills and be a standard offering in a prophylatics, but a positive parish’s accompaniment of articulation of the goodness families as well as part of the of human love in the Divine remote Sacramental Marplan. The 50th anniversary of riage preparation in every “Humanae Vitae” is a chance Religious Education profor the Church to ponder gram. that Gospel anew and comSecond, we must assist mit herself to understand it couples to involve God in better, live it, and proclaim it. their approach to sex and At the same time, the children. Many couples golden jubilee is an occasion unfortunately put up in their for an honest examination bedrooms a virtual “No enof how we’ve received the try” sign to God, eliminating

the procreative significance from their love-making and thereby effectively evicting the Creator. Many couples also make larger “family planning” decisions about family size without consulting God in prayer. This jubilee is an opportunity to assist them to unite all aspects of their married life to God. Third, we must honor and thank those couples who have faithfully sought to live by the teaching of the Church without much support and encouragement from fellow couples, their parishes and the wider Church. Whether by generously raising up a large family of disciples or having recourse to moral means when their circumstances didn’t permit it, many are true heroes of faith whose example should be put on a lamp stand.

Fourth, we must overcome our shame in preaching the challenging parts of the faith.

Many clergy and married couples treat the teaching of “Humanae Vitae” as “bad news” rather than good and clam up out of embarrassment. This teaching, however, is not a peripheral or optional part of the Catholic faith: the essence of our faith is loving God and loving neighbor, and neither God nor one’s spouse is sincerely loved through the sins involved in contraception. The Church needs to proclaim that love with apostolic boldness all the more at a time when many treat lust as a god and when the sexual revolution catalyzed by contraception has left so many hurt and culture ailing.

Fifth, we need to strengthen the teaching of “Humanae Vitae” by communicating its substance in ever fresh and adequate ways. This is what Pope John

Paul II sought to do. While absolutely agreeing with its conclusions, he thought that Pope Paul VI’s natural law analysis of the “conjugal act” was not the most effective means to communicate the “why” behind the “what” of the Church’s teaching. Philosophically he sketched out a personalistic, anthropological analysis of what the use of contraception does to men, women and their attitudes toward children, the truth of which readers could verify on the basis of personal experience. Theologically, especially through his catecheses on the “theology of the body,” he sought to ground the teaching on contraception in the light of Sacred Scripture, which he was convinced would be more persuasive to people of faith than objectivistic natural law arguments.

Communicating the faith always involves seeking the best methods to convey unchangeable teaching in changing times. The 50th anniversary of “Humanae Vitae” is an opportunity for evangelically faithful creativity.

The history of the Church has shown that the reforms of popes, ecumenical councils, new religious orders, often take decades to take root and be appreciated. Sometimes the words of prophets, moreover, are valued only after people have suffered because of a failure to heed them. “Humanae Vitae’s” 50th anniversary is a time to read it with renewed eyes, and to pray that its prophetic teaching on the blessing of marital love in God’s plan — and on the inevitable affliction when that gift is treated as a curse — will be listened to anew and responded to with humble and courageous faith.

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

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he most perplexing aspect of the arguments surrounding abortion are the fundamental inconsistencies.

After years of pushing for access to contraceptives and abortions, the proponents of the sexual revolution settled on the word “choice” as their primary sales pitch. It seemed to be an excellent conversation stopper touting an indisputable value — one which couldn’t be countered in an equally pithy way.

Certainly, no one likes being railroaded into a decision because of a lack of options, but explaining that we are only free to choose among moral options requires careful reasoning, especially when marginal and complex cases are thrown about to muddy the waters and draw sympathy.

So abortion proponents won the immediate verbal battle, having convinced most people

Whose law will prevail?

that “choice” begins ties who care little for with how we view sexual the precepts of the moral relations. The Church’s law. Who will blame a explanation — that they government which in its were to be reserved for attempt to resolve the married couples and each problems affecting an conjugal act open to life entire country resorts — was widely rejected by to the same measures as the world, which insisted are regarded as lawful by that nothing significant Married people in the need be attached to such relations, especially when The they could be Feminine easily rendered Genius sterile.

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By Genevieve Kineke several dire [and vindicated] predictions Pope solution of a particular Paul VI made about family difficulty?” In esuniversal access to consence, if the population traception (and thus by necessity abortion) is the has already adopted a role that governments contraceptive mentality, would inevitably play in then how can a principled fight be waged such “choices.” The 1968 document “Humanae against a government that demands as much of its Vitae” posited: “Finally, careful consideration citizens for a compelling should be given to the reason. danger of this power This highlights the passing into the hands most glaring inconsistenof those public authoricy of the anti-life move-

ment, which shrugged its collective shoulders when China waged a draconian population control program — China even boasting that 400 million Chinese children were “prevented” because of its family planning campaign. Since to achieve this they relied on coercive pregnancy monitoring, fines, and forced abortions, we discover that “choice” means choice — until it doesn’t.

China seems to have taken the prediction in “Humanae Vitae” as its very playbook, the document warning that people who reject God’s law about conjugal love “may give into the hands of public authorities the power to intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of husband and wife.”

This is the brazen lie behind “choice,” and the wicked irony is that now China is changing course.

With a deficit of 34 million girls compared to boys, and a birth-rate so low that it’s devastating local economies, the government is now limiting

access to abortion and offering financial incentives for women to bear children. This coercive shift has likewise drawn no response from the “choice” crowd, betraying their indifference towards the real issue at hand, which is the external pressure exerted on what should be the “intimate responsibility of husband and wife.”

Ultimately, for all the euphemisms and catch phrases, there is a darker element at work — a malignant force that despises chastity, innocence, and authentic freedom. Whatever weakens the marital bond and family ties benefits those who prefer to replace the free and fundamental unit of society with a toxic social construct, one that glorifies the individual as an independent agent — independent of Divine and natural law, offering instead the opportunity to live by the law of the jungle. Despite its allure, that’s a horrific choice through which we all suffer.

Anchor columnist Mrs. Kineke is the author of “The Authentic Catholic Woman.” She blogs at feminine-genius.typepad. com.

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

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uperheroes attract us. From Greek gods to Superman and Spiderman, our fascination with the awesome deeds of superheroes beckons us to become masters of our own destiny. Yet even as we enjoy the fantasy of acquiring Promethean powers to combat our enemies and conquer evil, we have legitimate misgivings about mere mortals taking on godlike powers in real life.

We are concerned about those who play with fire just like Prometheus did, at the risk of harm and great destruction. Today, as modern medicine tries to rebuff death and control our humanity in ever more sophisticated ways, new temptations arise that challenge us to choose between life and death, between living in reality and living in a fantasy world where we elevate ourselves as “masters of our own destiny.”

We encounter these Promethean temptations today in the expanding fields of reproductive medicine and infertility. We may be drawn to the idea of “manufacturing” children through in-vitro fertilization and related forms of assisted reproductive technologies. By producing and manipulating our children in laboratory glassware, however, we cross a critical line and sever our obedience to the Giver of life. We assume the role of masters over, rather than recipients of, our own offspring. We allow our children to be mistreated as so many

Promethean medical temptations the fate and destiny of embryonic tokens — others through activities with some being frozen like euthanasia, direct in liquid nitrogen and abortion, and human others being discarded as biomedical waste. We embryonic stem-cell research. take on the seemingly Although we are creaDivine role of creating tures intended for life, another human being we may not be entirely and reigning supreme over his or her destiny.

Making Sense We are tempted toward this Out of same type of Bioethics Promethean masBy Father Tad tery at the other Pacholczyk end of life. While we recognize that we cannot avoid clear about how we came death, we may be trouto possess that life. We bled and vexed by the possibility of a protract- sense how we have been cast headlong into exed and painful dying istence without asking process. We may decide for it, and we know, with that the best answer certainty, that we did is to “take charge” of not create ourselves or the situation and move have any role in bringing into the driver’s seat, ourselves into being. The resolutely calling the final shots ourselves. By fact that we were created entirely apart from ending life “on our own our own will means that terms” through physician-assisted suicide, we our existence has been hope to steer around the intentionally chosen by Another. The goodness sufferings and agonies and beauty of our life of the dying process. has been independently Yet suicide clearly goes conferred on us by One against the grain of the kind of creatures we are, Who has radically willed our personal existence. creatures intended for Because that existence life, not death. is good and beautiThe temptation that ful, it ought always to flashes before us when be treated as such, and we consider suicide is the fantasy of becoming never directly violated.

The goodness and “master” over our destiny beauty of the human life by arrogating to ourwe have received is also selves direct power over life and death. We begin connected to the gift of our masculinity or to accept the falsehood femininity. Yet here we that we are uniquely in also face the temptation charge of our own desof Promethean mastery tiny, and can remake or as we imagine we can destroy ourselves as if we were gods. It is but a become the opposite sex, short step, then, for us to or that we needn’t be take further powers unto either male or female, ourselves, lording it over but can be any of doz-

ens of different “gender identities.” We engage in the fantasy that our embodied nature is fluid and malleable, and that we can vanquish our birth sex, remaking ourselves through the gender bending powers of medicine and science. But the damage that this fantasy can wreak in a short space of time — the hormones, the surgeries, the irreversible decisions and mutilated bodies — is not trivial. The lives of many thousands of individuals, convinced they have become masters of their own identities, have already been irretrievably altered or ruined, often

with the assistance of other medical or political masters.

The ever-expanding powers of biomedicine call us to careful ethical reflection and discernment, so we do not fall prey to the temptation of seeing ourselves as masters, rather than collaborators with God, our inalienable Source of life and being.

Anchor columnist Father Pacholczyk earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did post-doctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River and serves as the director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www. ncbcenter.org

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Early Christian worship Editor’s note: This continues a series of columns by Father Martin L. Buote on Catholic worship. wo thousand years ago there were no Churches or churches!

Classical paganism had no structure or governing body. Local shrines and temples gave people opportunity to access the deity of their choice.

Judaism had a written rule of life, familial and local religious practices, and the Jerusalem Temple for Jews everywhere. The designation of a man who officiated at these religious sites was kohen ( Jewish), hierus (Greek), or sacerdos (Roman). None of these terms has survived in modern English.

When Jesus presented His Body and Blood to His disciples at the Last Supper and ordered that there be a ritual repetition,

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they did not use the forthe setting was a domesmer vocabulary, but used a tic meal, not a shrine or temple. Likewise, the ritual domestic vocabulary which has given us the English repetitions took place in a terms “father” and “priest.” domestic setting. The perI am citing these terms son designated to present in several modern lanthe sacrificial elements of bread and wine was the father of the household, or the How Catholic elder of the local Worship Came group of Christians. These words, to Be father and elder,

By Father have survived in Martin L. Buote English and other modern languages.

The Aramaic guages, not to give a total word for father comes into English as father, and listing, but just to show that these words have a into Spanish as padre. The wide presence in modern Greek for elder, presbytecultures. ros, comes into English as Since the Christian priest, French as pretre, and gatherings for worship German as priester. As we saw in the last installment, were domestic in nature, the early Christians recog- the place was called exactly that, a gathering house, nized that they had sacor an assembly house. In rificial gifts to present to Greek and Latin, that God, and we see now that would be oikos ekklesia and domus ecclesia, respectively. In modern languages that assembly appears as igreja (Portuguese), l’eglise (French), etc. Since that assembly house and what took place in it, “pertained to the Lord,” it was referred to in Greek as kyriakon. This Greek word finds modern counterparts in kirk, Scottish, kirche, German and church, English.

Thus, current English words priest, father and church are the very terms used by Christians of the first century! Since the presbyters had the same function of presenting sacrificial gifts, the word “priest” now translates the ancient terms kohen, hierus, sacerdos.

The early Christians felt no need to strive for absolute uniformity in the words and actions of ritual from one Christian com-

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munity to another. This gave rise to a diversity that has blossomed in the many Rites of the Catholic Church (Coptic, Ethiopian, Chaldean, Malabar, Malankar, Maronite, Russian, Melkite, and, of course, the Roman). There are some 25 rites which form the one Catholic Church. Of these, the Roman Rite is the largest. Many of the Catholic Rites have counterparts among the Orthodox Churches.

It is truly remarkable that these different religious expressions in different parts of the Roman Empire, and even outside the empire, retained such a unity of essentials that they could recognize each other as members of the same Church. Those that did not maintain that core unity have faded, or have been rejected by the Councils of the Church.

Some of these local variations can be seen in somewhat different accounts of events in the Bible. Even today, we find it acceptable that different communities have different forms of the Lord’s Prayer.

One of the first historical records we have of what actually took place at the Christian worship comes from the Roman Legate, Pliny the Younger, about 112 A.D. He interrogated arrested Christians and learned that they met on a fixed day (Sunday) before dawn, sang to God in alternating verses, and pledged themselves by solemn oath not to do any wrong (this is a condensed quotation).

Just a few years later in 150 A.D., Justin, who was

martyred in 165 A.D., gave a rather detailed description of Christianity, and Christian worship in a letter to the emperor. What Justin has to say reflects his knowledge not just of the Church in Rome, but also of Christianity in other parts of the world where he had traveled.

There is only room here to give a small portion of Justin’s letter, but I believe it is important, and it gives us a taste of early Catholic worship.

“And on that day which is called after the sun, all who are in the towns and in the country gather together for a communal celebration. And then the memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of prophets are read as long as time permits. After the reader has finished his task, the one presiding gives an address, urgently admonishing his hearers to practice these beautiful teachings in their lives. Then all stand up together and recite prayers. After the end of the prayers, as has already been remarked above, the bread and wine mixed with water are brought, and the president offers up prayers and thanksgivings, as much as in him lies. The people chime in with an Amen.

Then takes place the distribution, to all attending, of the things over which the thanksgiving had been spoken, and the deacons bring a portion to those absent. Besides, those who are well-to-do give whatever they will. What is gathered is deposited with the one presiding, who therewith helps orphans and widows.”

Father Buote is a retired priest of the Fall River Diocese and a frequent contributor to The Anchor.

26 July 2018 — Homeport: Falmouth Harbor — Saints Joachim and Anne, grandparents of Jesus ne of the joys of my priesthood, dear readers, is interacting with the sick and the elderly among us. They carry the wisdom of their years. They are happy just to be alive. They are free to be themselves. They wear what they want to wear. They say what they want to say. They do what they are capable of doing.

As any pastor, I celebrate monthly Mass at the nursing facility in my parochial jurisdiction.

Some of the residents are mobility impaired; others are experiencing serious illness; most are showing the frailties of age.

But all of them are very appreciative of the opportunity to directly participate in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist.

They have all the dignity of the Children of God. I tell them they are valued members of the Church — and they always will be.

The residents are constantly thanking me for coming to celebrate Mass for them. I tell them it’s my pleasure and they think I’m just being polite. But I mean it.

I try to leave some time to chat after Mass.

The topic doesn’t matter: the weather, the lunch menu, the national news, or the way things were in the old days. We laugh a lot. In fact, the residents laugh at just about all my corny jokes. We are, after all, only human. And being only human, we can’t take ourselves too seriously. The sick and the elderly are acutely aware of this fact of life. And as

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for death — well, that’s telephoned me and reup to God. Just don’t get ported, “Father, you have in God’s way. cancer. You need to have You know me, dear radical surgery at once. readers. I certainly don’t Let’s hope it hasn’t alconsider myself old ready spread.” Well, that enough to be ranked phone call would take the among the elderly. I am, wind out of anybody’s after all, only 72 years of age.

I get a kick out The Ship’s Log of these reportReflections of a ers describing a Parish Priest 55-year-old man

By Father Tim or woman as Goldrick “elderly.” Really?

These are words only a 20-something would write. May sails, as we say here I point out that Noah’s on the Cape. I had the grandfather (Methusesurgery and the cancer lah) is reported to have had spread. It could have lived to the age of 969 gone either way, but the years? Poor Noah himself surgery proved to be sucdied young at the age of cessful. I’ve been canceronly 950 years. I must free for decades; thanks admit, though, Methuse- be to God. lah may have pushed the Earlier this month, I envelope a bit too far. was stunned to read the Of course, being 72 is front-page headline in a not the same as being 22 major Cape Cod news(thank Heavens). After paper: “Falmouth backs celebrating three or four death,” adding the coded Masses on a weekend, my caveat “with dignity.” feet are killing me. And Seems the town Board my right ankle seems to of Selectmen have dehave developed a mind cided to pass a resolution of its own. Without any supporting suicide by a reason whatsoever, it will purposely prescribed fatal suddenly decide to stop dose of medication. With working. I get pains in one abstention, the board places I never knew I plans to call for the State had. And I do have to re- Legislature to permit member to take my pills terminally-ill patients — all nine of them a day, to commit suicide, with at last count. But still …. their doctor’s assistance.

I have had only one re- “The citizens have spoally serious illness in my ken,” proclaimed one vo72 years. After a routine cal (and local) proponent. physical, my physician You may find this hard to

believe, dear readers, but things on Cape Cod are not always as idyllic as they seem.

Four citizens (even if they happen to currently be town officials) expressing their opinions does not represent an entire town’s approval of physician-assisted suicide. And even if they did, the vote has already been overridden by much higher authorities.

The elderly and the sick are an essential part of any community. They have a right to life and a right to a natural death.

Although we are only human, we human beings are

just a little lower than the angels, according to the Letter to the Hebrews.

The local Catholic clergy, in a letter to the Board of Selectmen, affirmed our belief that “people, even in the end stages of their lives, have a value and a dignity of their own.” Somebody had to say something.

It was a moral and civic duty. Is that mingling politics and religion?

Maybe.

“Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.” — Albert Einstein Anchor columnist Father Tim Goldrick is pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Falmouth.

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FALL RIVER — FACE, Inc., the Foundation to Advance Catholic Education, has announced the appointment of its first executive director.

Sandi M. Duxbury (in photo), a longtime marketing professional with extensive experience in the health care field, began the new position on July 16.

As executive director, Duxbury will serve a key role in assisting members of the board of FACE to fulfill the critical mission at the heart of the foundation: to assure that no child is denied an opportunity to attend a Catholic school in the Fall River Diocese because of financial hardship.

FACE names its first executive director Duxbury will lead the day-today operations of FACE, supporting the work of its board to implement and grow endowed scholarship funds through increased participation and enhanced major gifts. She will also work collaboratively with the Catholic Schools Office and Chancellor’s Office to administer the FACE financial aid process; provide direction for the policies and procedures with regard to the awarding and delivery of scholarship programs; and

oversee various staff involved in the planning and execution of FACE events to raise awareness and financial support for scholarships.

Going forward, as the Catholic Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts is formed, Duxbury will work closely with its executive director on matters related to FACE gifts and endowments.

Duxbury, who is a resident of Bourne, recently shared that she is eager to begin her work.

“I am very humbled and honored to be given the opportunity to lead and grow the Foundation to Advance Catholic Education,” she said. “Moreover, I am even more excited to help families within the Fall River Diocese send their children to Catholic schools and obtain a first-rate education that also provides a solid Spiritual foundation.”

Duxbury has years of expertise in marketing gained primarily from her work in the health care and medical device industries. Most recently she was with Utah-based Merit Medical Systems, serving in its Interventional, Oncology and Spine division. Previously, as an independent consultant, she assisted start-up medical device companies with the development and implementation of marketing strategies.

She began in this field with a Johnson and Johnson company, initially covering South America, and progressed through various product management roles.

Later, she also served as senior marketing communications manager for BioSphere Medical where she educated healthcare professionals and patients about its products.

Duxbury is the mother of two daughters. She and her husband Stephen are active members of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Pocasset.

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consideration.

“This edition of our directory is one of the most successful we’ve ever had from an advertising perspective,” said Wayne R. Powers, advertising director for The Anchor and the directory. “I think people know it’s still one of the best vehicles and values to make their products and services known throughout the diocese.”

To pre-order a copy of the newly-published 20182019 Catholic Directory, send a check for $29 made payable to “Anchor Publishing,” to The Anchor, 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass.

02720. You can also place an order online at www. anchornews.org by clicking The new Fall River diocesan directory on the cover image on the scheduled to come out next month features homepage. a statue of Our Lady of Fatima on its cover.

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Catholic Youth Day on Martha’s Vineyard fast approaching

VINEYARD HAVEN — High school-aged youth of the Fall River Diocese who are interested in attending the August 7 Catholic Youth Day on Martha’s Vineyard are encouraged to contact their parish office or parish director of Religious Education as soon as possible.

Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., has extended an invitation to high-schoolers to this first-ever diocesan Catholic Youth Day to take place in and around the grounds of St. Augustine Church in Vineyard Haven.

Modeled after World

Youth Day, this local version will include music, talks, Mass and dialogue with Bishop da Cunha, a cookout lunch, lawn games, and special guest, singer-songwriter Chris Muglia.

As part of the diocesan response to Pope Francis’ invitation to “Share the Journey,” Catholic Youth Day participants will also walk together in a threemile pilgrimage on the island as a sign of solidarity with migrants everywhere.

Youth Day participants will travel by bus from different points in the diocese to Woods Hole to take the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard and, following

their ferry return trip from the Vineyard, buses will bring participants back to their point of departure.

The event is free, but limited to the first 300 who sign up through their parish. For more information, visit www. fallriverfaithformation.org.

To advertise in The Anchor, contact Wayne Powers at 508675-7151 or Email waynepowers @anchornews.org

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FACE, the Foundation to Advance Catholic Education, held its 21st annual Summer Gala on Cape Cod July 13, which included the presentation of two awards to recognize longtime commendable service. Sheila Yates (bottom right), a teacher at St. Pius X School, South Yarmouth, stands with Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., holding the Al Makkay Sr. Award which she received for her years as an dedicated educator and as creator of the middle school math program at St. Pius X. Top right, John V. McManmon Jr., seated center, received the Sheila Dunne Feitelberg Award honoring his longtime service as a volunteer and philanthropist. He was instrumental in forming the summer dinner committee 21 years ago. He is joined at the table by his wife, Connie, and standing left to right, his son, Jack McManmon; Summer Gala committee member Patrick Carney; and Bishop da Cunha. Student greeters at the FACE Summer Gala take a break to join Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., for the photo above. The students are, from left, Harry O’Brien; Brendan Santos; Owen McGrath; and (in front) Ava Santos. The three boys attend St. Francis Xavier Preparatory School in Hyannis; Ava is a student at St. Margaret Regional School in Buzzards Bay.

New Bedford student wins award in Holy Cross Family Ministries contest

NEW BEDFORD — A through 12th grade creativestudent from New Bedford ly depicted in various forms was named a first-place winner in the 2018 “Try Prayer! It Works” contest.

Sponsored by Family Rosary, the national competition encourages students to express their faith through art, poetry and prose. It attracted nearly 800 entries from across the country.

The home-schooled winner from New Bedford was eighth-grader Hannah Ramalho, who won first place in the art category (shown at right).

Each year, children and teens from Catholic schools, parishes and other Catholic organizations across the globe utilize their creative skills to illustrate a different faith-based theme.

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how their families are united through prayer and faith.

Watch the Ordination to Priesthood Online

The 2018 Fall River Diocese Ordination to Priesthood is available for viewing on the videosharing website YouTube. Visit the diocesan website at www.fallriverdiocese.org and click on the Ordination to Priesthood image on the home page to access the video. The ordination took place on June 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River.

Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on WLNE Channel 6 July 29 at 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father Riley J. Williams, parochial administrator of St. Francis Xavier Parish in Acushnet.

Southcoast Health selling limited-edition T-shirts in support of the Sgt. Sean M. Gannon Memorial Playground

New Bedford — Southcoast Health is selling limited-edition Tshirts to help raise funds for the construction of the Sgt. Sean M. Gannon Memorial Playground located at the Campbell Elementary School in New Bedford.

Net proceeds from the sale of the T-shirts will be donated to support the construction of the Sgt. Sean M. Gannon Memorial Playground at Campbell Elementary School.

Southcoast Health sponsored the design and production of the T-shirts, working in partnership with the Sgt. Gannon Memorial Playground Committee at Campbell School.

A member of the K-9 unit of the Yarmouth Police Department, Sgt. Sean M. Gannon, son of Patrick and Denise Gannon and the grandson of the late Deacon Marcel Morency, was shot and killed in the line of duty on April 12. His dog,

Nero, was also shot but survived his injuries.

“Employees at Southcoast Health were deeply affected by the tragic death of Sgt. Gannon, whose parents both work for the organization,” said Keith A. Hovan, president and CEO of Southcoast Health.

“We wanted to pay lasting tribute to Sgt. Gannon, and this project is just one opportunity to do so while fulfilling our mission of promoting health and wellness within our community.

“Playgrounds encourage healthy, safe play and enhance our community, all of which we stand for as our community’s healthcare system,” he said.

Sgt. Gannon grew up in New Bedford and often played on the Campbell School’s grounds.

“We are very excited to partner with Southcoast Health. We feel that in order to encourage our youth to stay active and healthy, we need to make

sure that we give them the tools and creative spaces to do so,” said Carla Mourao, chairperson of the Sgt. Sean M. Gannon Memorial Playground Committee. “The support that Southcoast Health is providing to help build this special playground will allow us to keep our youngest citizens physically active, engaged in their community and healthy. This playground will continue Sgt. Gannon’s lasting legacy of serving others and improving our community.”

The Sgt. Gannon Memorial Playground Committee is made up of parents, teachers and community members. The school is located at 145 Essex Street, New Bedford.

T-shirts are available for purchase at the Southcoast More Store (www.southcoast.org/ morestore) and sell for $25, shipping is included.

They come in male, female and youth styles and sizes.

August 5 at 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father Craig A. Pregana, pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish at St. James Church, New Bedford.

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hen I was younger, I never said no to God, I just never said yes. That phrase is perhaps a perfect description and summary of my spiritual life through the age of 31. I would guess that this high level of Spirituality is quite impressive to you and now you know why they ask me to write for The Anchor!

Seriously though, those first 31 years were pretty basic faith-wise.

I did what I was supposed to do or perhaps better stated, what I had to do. I surely didn’t go out of my way to live out my faith. Most often I did things because they looked good or they made me feel good.

Hardly what a disciple of Christ is called to do or be.

It wasn’t until my wife convinced me to go on a Cursillo retreat did my life change for what I now know is the better. That weekend was the catalyst that began to change what was a superficial relationship with God into something deeper and more meaningful.

I remember when I returned from that retreat weekend, I put up a small plaque in our room that stated, “Please be patient, God isn’t finished with me yet.” Thirty-one years after that Cursillo weekend, the plaque is still there, and I am still trying to become that disciple

For and About Our Church Youth Follow Me God wants me to be or knows I can be. I thank God every day that He is still patient with me and so is my wife!

So how do we become good Christian disciples? If we turn to the Bible, I think we will find the instructions. It is a simple demand.

Only two words. Do you want to venture a guess what that phrase is before reading further?

It’s —

By Deacon Follow Me. Frank Lucca These two words contain in a nutshell what God wants of us, and what we should regard as an obligation we have towards God in this life. The phrase appears at least 20 times in the Gospels. So, I think it is safe to conclude that to be a Christian disciple means to follow the Lord. Period. Seems very clear to me now.

There is no way to get to know the Lord except by doing what He did, behaving as He did and taking His basic principles of life and making them our own.

In calling us, God asks us whether we are willing to help Him reach others so that all will be saved. Our calling is an invita-

Be Not Afraid

tion from God not because of any merit on our part but just because He chose us out of love, because He wanted us. Anyone who asks this question “why was I called?” will only get the answer God had already given to the chosen people in the Old Testament: “I did not choose you because you were more virtuous, more gifted, more suited.

No, I chose you because I loved you.” This means we are someone; We have a place in God’s plan; We are important for God’s great design for Creation; we are partners; our lives count.

Of course, it isn’t and it won’t be easy at times to hold onto this Divine dimension in our lives. Fortunately for us, God’s faithfulness prevails over all our failures and unfaithfulness. When God chooses someone, He will stand by that person no matter how unfaithful the person may turn out to be. If something is obvious about God in the Bible it is His faithfulness to us and, in particular, to those whom He has called to help Him accomplish His purposes. If I refuse, God

Kindergarten students at St. John the Evangelist School in Attleboro recently celebrated their “There’s a Rumble in the Jungle!” Class Day. The students, dressed in jungle costumes, sang songs, recited prayers and received diplomas. They also enjoyed refreshments with their classmates, teachers and faculty.

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will not stop loving me, but He might have to use others to reach me. Remember it was my wife that God first used, to reach me, so that I could say YES! Perhaps He is using me to reach you today as you read these words. So, what is your response going to be?

As you continue on your life’s journey, I hope that you will not wait 31 years to answer God’s call to true discipleship with not just words, but action!

To sum things up, I’d like to share this simple prayer with you.

My hope is that it will speak to you as it has spoken to me: “Lord...

“You asked for my hands that You might use them for Your purpose. I gave them for a moment, then withdrew them for the work was hard.

“You asked for my mouth to speak out against injustice. I gave You a whisper that I might not be accused.

“You asked for my eyes to see the pain of poverty. I closed them for I did not want to see.

“You asked for my life that You might work through me. I gave a small part that I might not get too involved.

“Lord, forgive my calculated efforts to serve You only when it is convenient for me to do so, only in those places where it is safe to do so, and only with those who make it easy to do so.

“Lord, forgive me, renew me, send me out as a usable instrument that I might take seriously the call to follow You.” (Seremane, “Bread of Tomorrow”) Anchor columnist Frank Lucca is a deacon in the diocese of Fall River, a youth minister at St. Dominic’s Parish in Swansea and St. George’s Parish in Westport, and a campus minister at UMass Dartmouth. He is married to his wife of 40 years, Kristine, and the father of two daughters and their husbands, and three grandsons. So blessed!

Comments, ideas or suggestions? Please email him to DeaconFrankLucca@comcast.net.

For and About Our Church Youth Bishop Stang High School announces 2018 Hall of Honors inductees

North Dartmouth — Bishop Stang High School has selected its second class of inductees to the Hall of Honors, and the selection committee will host an induction ceremony at White’s of Westport on October 21.

The Bishop Stang Hall of Honors was established in 2016, to honor the legacy of many of the graduates, faculty members and friends of the school who have made an enduring impact on the community.

Past inductees are: John C. O’Brien, Theresa Dougall, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, The Carney Family, Dr. Arthur Buckley, and Kathryn Crosson (Pope Francis Inductee).

The Hall of Honors Class of 2018 includes: Maureen Sylvia Armstrong ’82: Maureen is a Bishop Stang High School graduate of the Class of 1982. After graduating from Boston College’s Carrol School of Management, Maureen began working at Sylvia Group of Insurance Companies, and has led the company since 1998, growing from 10 to 50 employees during that time. As an alumna, advisory board member, founder of the annual auction, co-chair of the Building Our Future capital campaign, generous supporter, and parent, Maureen has given the trifecta of her time, treasure, and talent for the benefit of Bishop Stang.

Jim Black ’69: Jim is a Bishop Stang High School graduate of the Class of 1969. Jim lives in Houston, Texas but remains in close touch with his class and the school. As president and CEO of Moran Shipping Agencies, Jim has grown the company to become the largest independent steamship

agency in North America.

Jim has been an ardent supporter and ambassador for Catholic education everywhere, is a trusted advisor and donor to the O’Brien Scholarship Fund and generous supporter of capital fund raising campaigns for Bishop Stang.

Paul Duchaine (Posthumously): Paul Duchaine and his wife Jeannine raised five children, all whom graduated from Bishop Stang High School. Paul was a successful business owner, and was the CEO of the My Bread Baking Company in New Bedford. He was blessed with the financial rewards of his hard work, and generously supported Catholic programs. In 1982, Paul built the tennis courts for the Bishop Stang athletic program, and in 1983 he established the Duchaine Family Scholarship. In 1997, Paul increased the endowment, and later crafted a careful and deliberate endowment gift which will provide financial aid for Bishop Stang students in perpetuity. Although he died in 2006, his legacy continues to grow and thrive at Bishop Stang, as his gift continues to create opportunities for students and makes Bishop Stang stronger and more accessible.

Sean Hargraves ’71: Sean is a Bishop Stang High School graduate of the Class of 1971, and is being honored with the Pope Francis Service Award. Sean is a living example of the Gospel in his service to the needs of under-served youth in the South Central neighborhood of New Bedford at the Dennison Memorial Center. For the past 35 years Sean has given all he has to keep this neighborhood haven open, and he is an example of

commitment to serving others, and “making known the goodness of God” through his actions.

Jean O’Brien: Jean O’Brien has been at Bishop Stang celebrating students’ success since the fall of 1961, when her husband John was hired to teach and coach basketball. While raising their children and teaching for the Somerset schools, Jean always found time to root for the Spartans, especially when her four children were students. In 1985, John O’Brien died of cancer and the school community mourned with the O’Brien Family. Since then, Jean has made her biggest impact, by continuing to be a strong, positive presence at the school. In the 33 years since John died, Jean has continued to support the school by her presence at awards ceremonies, meeting scholarship recipients, rooting for the Spartan teams and cheering on performances, accepting honors on behalf of John, granting interviews, and participating in fund-raisers. Jean has been sharing herself with Bishop Stang for more than 57 years, and has devotedly watched more than three generations of Spartans.

Sister Theresa Trayers, SND: The National Honor Society at Bishop Stang is named in honor of this math teacher and guidance counselor who served Bishop Stang from 1975 until 1998.

Sister Theresa smiled with her eyes and offered positive support to students. As the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur moved out of the convent and the faculty transformed into a lay faculty, Sister Theresa remained at the school, serving as a living link to the Sisters’ community. Her commitment helped ensure the school’s

mission continued to include service to others, and in the spirit of the Sisters of Notre

Dame de Namur, the school strives to “make known the goodness of God.”

Ireland Nordstrom, who will be entering the seventhgrade at St. Joseph School in Fairhaven, was named an All- American Scholar by the Pop Warner Organization.

This award is presented to the students who rank academically in the top two percent of the 375,000 students who participate in Pop Warner Football and Cheering throughout the country. As a recipient of this award, Ireland attended the 58th Annual All-American Banquet held in Orlando, Fla., where she was recognized for her academic achievement. The National Junior Honor Society member has aspirations of becoming an Aerospace Engineer and a Formula 1 Race Car Driver.

A three-week summer tutoring program for ELL students was offered at Holy Family-Holy Name School in New Bedford. To celebrate the conclusion of the program, the tutors, Mrs. Boswell and Mrs. Hajder, took their students to the State House in Boston. During the program the children learned about government, the city of Boston, and a variety of other things. A special thanks to Senator Mark Montigny and his staff for all their help in making this trip a reality.

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still kept quite busy.

Stone, now 85 years old, first came to Cathedral Camp as a 14-year-old camper. He returned as a counselor. He eventually married and had children and took a break from the camp to be with his family.

He returned when he was able as the camp’s “handy man.”

When asked why he comes back every year, Stone told The Anchor, “This is home, I love it here.”

His age has not slowed him down. Stone takes care of camp maintenance, including cutting the grass, yard work and fixing equipment. “There’s nothing he can’t do,” Conforti told The Anchor. “This is a second home to most of us,” she added. “It’s hard to explain.”

Lemieux and Conforti too, are multi-taskers, taking on any duties that arise.

They also work year-round, unlike the counselors who are summer employees.

Stone first came to the camp shortly after the only time in 100 years it was closed to campers — from 1941-47. That was at the peak of World War II and the Diocese of Fall River offered the property and its amenities to the United States Army.

Where children once played and had fun, large tanks rumbled across the camp in the lower field.

The Army made several significant upgrades during its stay there, improving the dormitories and retreat house, adding a large potbellied stove for heating purposes.

“When I came in 1948, we had hot water and the hotel [dormitories] were heated with coal,” said Stone. “The Army left the 18

place in great shape, making some improvements.”

After that it was business, or fun, as usual at the property on Long Pond in East Freetown.

Back then the sessions were two-weeks in duration and many of the campers stayed overnight in the hotel. There were about 250 campers per session.

Lemieux, Conforti and Stone all had children who attended the camp.

Lemieux has a daughter who came back and worked at the camp, and Conforti and Stone had grandchildren who attended and worked there.

“I would say about 80 percent of our counselors were at one time campers here,” said Lemieux. “At age 15 boys and girls can become junior counselors and at 16, senior counselors.”

Lemieux said that attendance at the camp is still very good. “Years ago, we were the only game in town, so the attendance was greater,” she told The Anchor. “Now there are many specialty camps out there; baseball, basketball, computer and other camps. But we still have that summer camp feel and atmosphere, and that’s what kids and parents love. It’s simple, basic, fun and safe. That’s everything a kid needs.”

Even something as simple as the ice cream window (see photo on page two) still maintains a certain charm for the campers.

“The children love the ice cream window,” Lemieux said, “it’s magical.”

Not to be lost in all the modern day “nostalgic” fun at Cathedral Camp is the fact that it is a part of the Diocese of Fall River.

“We accept all kids, no matter the religion,

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race, or anything else,” said Lemieux. “But we do maintain a Spiritual element here. At the start of each day we gather at the lake and pray the Our Father, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and pray for a safe day.

“Even our arts and crafts often have a Spiritual element to them.”

“I find this a very Spiritual camp,” added Conforti.

Eighty-five-year-old Tom Stone has been involved with Cathedral Camp in one way or another since 1948.

(Photo courtesy of Rena Lemieux)

“And great memories are made here.”

“And Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., has been very supportive of the camp,” added Lemieux, “as has our wonderful director, Father Greg Matthias. Father Greg cares a great deal about the camp, the campers, the staff and the many volunteers. Whenever we need something, Father Greg is there for us.”

“The diocese’s purchase of this piece of property on the shores of Long Pond was and is a great blessing,” Father Matthias told The Anchor. “It is a perfect setting for the traditional-type summer camp which is run

by Rena Lemieux and her capable staff. I think that it

is especially helpful to give children from the cities an opportunity for something better than the local playgrounds can afford them.

“With a range of traditional camp activities like waterfront, arts and crafts, archery and other things — within a safe, Christian environment — the camp soldiers on summer after summer. The people of the diocese should be proud to offer this opportunity to the children.”

Another mainstay and vital cog who kept the camp vibrant and fun was the former director, Sister Joseph Marie Levesque, O.P. Sister Joseph Marie began at the camp with Conforti in 1994, and was director from 1995 until 2008. “Sister Joseph Marie loved this camp and was such an important part of this camp,” said Conforti.

Sister Joe, as she was known to the campers, told The Anchor, “I thank God and the diocese for the privilege of serving the people of God at Cathedral Camp and am grateful for the 13-plus years that I lived on that holy ground.

“By then the St. Vincent de Paul Camp was also part of Cathedral Camp, which was fully accredited by the American Camp Association. We also had special needs campers from the Nazareth School. The camp was up for reaccreditation that summer, so I had a short learning curve.

It was a wonderful experience dealing with all those young counselors and lively four- to 14-year-old campers, as many as 500-plus some sessions.”

Sister Joe also told The Anchor of the camp’s multipurpose existence: “The beautiful grounds were also used by parish and other groups for picnics on weekend. During the camp off-season, the Retreat

Center received many retreat groups of all ages, as well as school faculties and others for day meetings, all graciously hosted by our retreat coordinator, Mercedes Petkunas.”

Father Matthias, Sister Joe, Lemieux, Conforti and Stone have weathered a few storms at the camp, but with hard work and much help from volunteers and staff, have weathered them — storms like a major fire that destroyed the office and many of the camp’s records and historical documents; a bridge swept away by Mother Nature; and broken pipes — none of which kept them down for long.

During The Anchor interview at the camp, the sound of reveille could be heard blaring over loudspeakers strewn about the camp, only adding to that old-time, home-spun atmosphere.

Each year also brings a handful of “special event” days. This year’s array included: Red, White and Blue Day; Hawaiian Day; Family Field Day; and Christmas in July; and coming in August, Camp Olympics and Dress As Your Favorite SuperHero Day. Lemieux told The Anchor there are four buses that pick up the children each day of each session and deliver them home at the end of a full day.

The buses serve the five diocesan deaneries.

Lemieux also told The Anchor that it’s not just local kids who enjoy the camp during the summer months. “We’ve had kids come from Germany, Poland, Australia, and Japan, who are visiting family in the U.S. and they want them to have an American experience.”

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The smokescreen of emanations from penumbras

his Sunday, July 29, is the 50th anniversary of the actual publication of Blessed Pope Paul VI’s encyclical “Humanae Vitae” on the regulation of birth, and more specifically on the immorality of artificial birth control, though it was formally dated July 25, 1968, the feast, then as now, of St. James the Apostle.

Pope Paul is himself scheduled to be canonized a saint in Rome this October 14. His controversial encyclical insisted on the intrinsic connection between what it called the unitive and the procreative meanings of human sexuality — that sexual activity has a meaning and purpose intimately related to the transmission of human life, and thus that recreational sex, sex for pleasure apart from openness to children, was in some way inhuman and objectively sinful.

Coming as it did at the height of the sexual revolution of the late 60s, when all authority was viewed as suspect, and the then youthful Baby Boomers were celebrat-

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’ve mentioned before that I have always had an affinity for wolves. It’s likely because my pépère was born in Rivière-duLoup, Quebec (River of the Wolves).

I’ve also written previously about a wonderful world less than two hours from Southeastern Massachusetts — Wolf Hollow in Ipswich — a wolf reserve where guests can learn the truths about these marvelous creatures and the bad rap they have and still receive in the minds of “human beings.”

They’ve been perpetually stereotyped as evil killers in literature and TV shows and movies. Mankind does have a way of exaggerating things to suit its own purposes.

Wolves in many places in

Amendment’s guarantee of ing sex, drugs and rock and roll, heedless of consequences, due process of law required states to refrain from imping“Humanae Vitae” struck a ing on privacy. nerve and provoked wideThis was a remarkable turn spread dissent and disobediin our Constitutional hisence. It took a lot of courage for Pope Paul VI to articulate tory, for the requirement was said to be an implication of and defend the Church’s teaching in the face of ready access to the Judge Pill, itself a recent contraceptive innovaFor tion. He turned out Yourself to be prophetic about

By Dwight Duncan the sad consequences that would ensue from disregarding this “emanations from penumteaching: widespread marital bras” of specific protections infidelity and a lowering of of the Bill of Rights, things moral standards, viewing like free speech, or freedom women as mere instruments from unreasonable searches for the satisfaction of male sexual desire, public authority and seizures, or freedom from unhinged from moral law. Me compulsory self-incrimination, or (my favorite) the Too, anyone? freedom from being forced to But I want to draw attenquarter soldiers in your house tion to an amazing coinciin time of peace (the Third dence in our history, that a Amendment). few years earlier, in 1965 to On that basis, the Supreme be exact, the U.S. Supreme Court said it was outside Court had declared that Connecticut’s law prohibiting the power of a state to ban the use of contraceptives vio- contraceptives, though the lated the U.S. Constitution on relation of condoms to, for example, housing soldiers was grounds that the Fourteenth

none too clear. Not to mind, because the “emanations from penumbras” operated as a smokescreen, disguising the fact that these judges were in fact reading their own policy preferences into the Constitution under the pretext of interpreting it. But because people liked the outcome and result, they didn’t mind the dubious method.

But ends do not justify means, as St. Paul had stated and the encyclical also explained.

And why wouldn’t recreational drug use be included?

Again, that really had to do with the policy preferences of the judges rather than any real Constitutional principle. And so the Supreme Court used that privacy right, or liberty interest, as the basis for deciding that unmarried minors should have access to contraceptives, the same as married adults, that homosexual sodomy was at first not Constitutionally protected, and later deemed Constitutionally protected, and that the freedom was “broad enough to

encompass a woman’s decision to terminate her pregnancy,” and thus make abortion a Constitutional right in Roe v.

Wade 45 years ago.

Whatever the fate of these Constitutional precedents under stare decisis, the presumption that the rules deciding cases should be retained, I would hope that the ascent of a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, which the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as Justice would likely entail, would mark the end of “emanations from penumbras” as a creative basis for interpreting the United States Constitution, at least going forward.

The illegitimate game is up: no longer should unelected elites be able to impose their values on society, engage in social engineering and invalidate democratically enacted legislation on the pretext of such an open-ended smokescreen.

Anchor columnist Dwight Duncan is a professor at UMass School of Law Dartmouth. He holds degrees in civil and canon law.

The pups are growing this country and across God’s fast and their instincts are Big Blue Marble, are enkicking in, as it should be. dangered, largely because of They’re not pets, nor domesman’s misconceptions of the wolf, thereby finding no fault ticated. The pups and the in killing these creatures of God, even My View when they’re pups.

I follow Wolf From Hollow on Facebook the Stands and a wonderful

By Dave Jolivet story came across cyberspace beginning in May of this year. other wolves at Wolf Hollow In May three new-born are in their own habitat, it’s pups were brought to Masjust they’re protected by kind sachusetts from a reserve in people against not-so-kind Montana. people.

The pups have to be temLast week the main pack porarily hand-raised living on began to howl as a group, a reserve, otherwise it would which is common. Across be very stressful for them. the reserve, the pups, not Being raised in the wild yet ready to be integrated could be deadly — largely into the main pack, began to because of man.

howl back.

There is a photo of three of the main pack howling, and the next frame shows them listening for a response.

Their eyes were sharply focused on where the responses were emanating. Their ears were like radars awaiting the response.

It was such a beautiful sight, it brought tears to my eyes.

Eventually the pups and the main pack began to howl together. “It’s been amazing to start hearing them howl together as a pack,” wrote the wolf advocates on the site.

It was an emotional example of the hearts and souls of the pups and pack connecting. There are no races, religions, or borders

with these wolves.

They’re one.

After watching man’s consistent inhumanity to man and nature, it did the heart good to see and read this.

God didn’t put wolves on this earth for evil. Oh no, far from it. From what I can see, they were put here to teach us all a life lesson — how to become one pack, and take care of each other and everything else with which God has gifted us.

A visit to Wolf Hollow is well worth the ride. For more information on this remarkable reserve and the incredible people who care for these beautiful creatures, visit wolfhollowipswich.org or visit them on Facebook or Twitter. davejolivet@anchornews.org.

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Anchor renewal and price changes

FALL RIVER — The Anchor, the official Catholic newspaper of the Diocese of Fall River, has announced a few changes of which current subscribers should be made aware.

At the renewal date for each subscriber, the annual cost for The Anchor will become $25. This is the first rate increase for The Anchor in more than 10 years. While we realize it may be an extra burden to some, the $20 cost did not cover printing and mailing overheads. At the new rate, it still works out to costing subscribers less than $1 per issue, far less than most publications.

The Anchor is also offering its readers the option to renew for two years at $45 for 52 issues, a savings of $5.

The date in which the sub-

scription will expire will be listed in each edition above the name and address of the subscriber on page 24.

Subscribers are encouraged to renew their subscription by that date by sending a check or money order for $25 made payable to The Anchor, 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02720. Subscribers may also renew via PayPal by visiting The Anchor website at anchornews.org and pressing the “Subscribe” button and following the onscreen directions. We cannot accept credit card payments by phone.

If a payment isn’t received within 30 days of the expiration date, The Anchor will send out one reminder notice.

A sample of the new mailing labels appears in today’s edition on page 24.

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propagated by some, today’s immigrants are essentially the same as the immigrants of previous centuries. The vast majority are motivated by a desire to achieve safety, freedom and opportunity for themselves and their families through honest hard work.”

Attorney Pisha continued: “Immigrants have not changed. Immigration policy has. The United States has become far less welcoming to hard-working but poorly educated immigrants. This has intensified in the past few years with the elevation of extremists who portray immigrants as lazy, freeloading and violent. Lazy people don’t travel thousands of miles from their homes, bringing little more then their dreams, to start a new life in a new country in a new language.

“While many of us know these truths in our hearts, it is difficult to resist the constant grind of

the xenophobic counter narrative. I hope that this forum will allow attendees to reflect on the positive contributions of today’s immigrants and the connections between new arrivals and nativeborn Americans.”

“As Catholic women we are living our mission by organizing an event such as this one within the diocese,” added Mahoney. “The NCCW/FRDCCW was founded 98 years ago by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to do exactly what our mission states and it is a joy for us to offer this evening on immigration within the diocese.”

All are invited to attend and bring a friend.

For more information contact, in the Cape Cod area: 508-743-5448; in the Fall River area: 508-674-7036; Taunton area: 508-821-6201; New Bedford area: 508-993-5085; and the Taunton area: 508-369-0966.

A subscription to The Anchor would make a wonderful gift for a loved one, a friend, or yourself.

It’s a publication that provides a Spiritual uplift and keeps Catholics connected to our beloved Church — locally and beyond.

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Sheila A. Washburn, mother of Father Thomas S. Washburn, O.F.M.

NEW BEDFORD — Sheila A. (Mitchell) Washburn, 75, of New Bedford died Monday, July 9, 2018 at St. Luke’s Hospital surrounded by her loving family after a long illness. She was married for 53 years to the love of her life, George S. “Scott” Washburn.

Born in New Bedford, daughter of the late Sylvester and Kathleen (O’Brien) Mitchell, she lived in New Bedford and Acushnet all of her life.

Sheila was formerly employed at Savoy Conva-

Liana Fantasia, mother of Deacon Frank Fantasia

WATERTOWN — Liana Fantasia, age 101, of Watertown, passed away surrounded by her family on July 16.

She was the beloved wife of the late Serafino Fantasia, and loving mother of Deacon Frank Fantasia and his wife Marie of Mashpee and the late Paul Fantasia and his wife Gaylene of Watertown.

Liana was the cherished “Gram” to Liana, Paul, Vincent, Julie and Jill. She is also survived by six great grandchildren. She was the sister of the late Frances Lord and Henry Cerqua.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on July 19 at St. Patrick’s Church in Watertown.

Burial followed in Ridgelawn Cemetery.

Donations in her memory may be made to Christ the King Food Pantry, Box 1800, Mashpee Commons, Masphee, Mass. 02649 or Watertown Food Pantry, 80 Mount Auburn Street, Watertown, Mass. 02472.

lescent Home as a licensed practical nurse for more than 30 years until her retirement.

Sheila was active in her faith community having served as a special Minister of Holy Communion, lector, parish council member, and member of the Ladies Guild. She was devoted to the Blessed Mother and prayed the Rosary daily.

She was extremely proud of her Irish heritage. She was always the life of the party, and was happiest surrounded by friends and family, especially her Friday morning breakfasts with the ladies at Cyd’s.

Survivors include her husband, Scott; three children, Michael S. Washburn and his wife Anna of New Bedford; Father Thomas S. Washburn, O.F.M., pastor of St. Margaret’s Parish, Buzzards Bay; and Mary-

Beth Baty and her husband Boy of Schulenberg, Texas; her siblings, Sister Maureen Mitchell, R.S.M., of Cumberland, R.I.; David Mitchell of Laie, Hawaii; Daniel Mitchell of Erie, Penn.; and Timothy Mitchell of New Bedford; four grandchildren, Cadie Washburn, Damien Gifford, Samantha Paiva, and Makayla Paiva; a great-grandchild; and several nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her brother, Lawrence Mitchell.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on July 16 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish at St. James Church. Burial followed in Pine Grove Cemetery.

Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of Mercy Northeast Community, 15 Highland View Road, Cumberland, R.I. 02864.

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sive lake-side property, it’s the retreats that truly help the camp thrive. Conforti is the director of the retreat activity at the camp, which includes several Emmaus retreats a year and the annual Christian Leadership Institute.

The camp mission as a ministry of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River is to “offer quality camping opportunities in an atmosphere where Judeo-Christian principles are modeled by the way we treat one another and our environment” — as it faithfully has for one century.

Cathedral Camp complies with all regulations of the Mass. Department of Public Health, as well as diocesan regulations, and is licensed by the Freetown Board of Health. Criminal

background checks are conducted on all staff members on a yearly basis in addition to potential staff members prior to hiring.

This is the 100th year of the camp, and next summer will mark it’s 100th birthday, beginning it’s second century of serving area youth.

No particular celebration plans are yet scheduled for next summer, but if former campers, their parents, former counselors, or volunteers have any artifacts from the camp they would like to share, or if they have suggestions for the centennial celebration, they are encouraged to contact Pat Conforti at pat@cathedralcamp.net.

For more information on the camp visit the website at cathedralcamp.net.

In Your Prayers Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks July 29 Rev. Mathias McCabe, Retired Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall River, 1913 Rev. Charles P. Trainor, S.S., St. Edward Seminary, Seattle, Washington, 1947 July 30 Rev. Francis Kiernan, Pastor Sandwich, New Bedford, Wareham, 1838 July 31 Rev. Daniel Hearne, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton, 1865 Rev. Hugh J. Munro, Chaplain, Marian Manor, Taunton, 2003 Aug. 1 Rev. Marc H. Bergeron, Pastor, Our Lady of Fatima, New Bedford, 2014 Aug. 5 Rev. Martin J. Fox, Founder, St. Paul, Taunton, 1917 Rev. Thomas A. Kelly, Pastor, SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River, 1934 Aug. 6 Rev. Joseph P. Lyons, Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall River, 1961 Aug. 7 Rev. John F. Hogan, Pastor, St. Julie Billiart, North Dartmouth, 1986 Very Rev. Roger L. Gagne, V. F. Pastor, St. Mark, Attleboro Falls, 1987 Aug. 8 Rev. William Bric, Founder, St. Joseph, Fall River, 1880

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Around the Diocese Our Lady of the Cape Parish, 468 Stony Brook Road in Brewster will host a presentation on Sacred art by Dr. Esperanca Camara, professor of Art History at the University of St. Francis in Ft. Wayne, Ind., on July 31 at 9:30 a.m. in the parish center. The program is entitled “Meditations in Stone: Michelangelo’s Pieta.” The Pieta, now housed in St. Peter’s in Rome, is one of the most famous works of art ever made and marked the beginning of Michelangelo’s lifelong meditation on Christ’s death and the Blessed Mother’s suffering. This presentation will examine his deeply personal and theologically-rich reflections on this theme.

Father Leo Patalinghug, founder of Plating Grace (formerly named Grace Before Meals), will be the guest speaker at a summer presentation on Friday, August 10 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Christ the King Parish Center in Mashpee. Proceeds will support FACE, which provides need-based scholarships to students attending Catholic schools in the Fall River Diocese including those on Cape Cod. Ticket prices for are $15 for adults and $10 for youth ages five to 18 (there is no charge for children under five). Please make checks payable to FACE and mail them to P.O. Box 405, Monument Beach, Mass., 02553. Reservations and pre-payment are needed for seating. The deadline is August 3. Please contact Jane Robin of the FACE Cape Cod office with questions at 508-759-3566 or by email: janer@dioc-fr.org.

St. Anthony Parish Thrift Shop, 18 Davisville Road in East Falmouth (next to CVS), will host a Jewelry, Art and Fine Porcelain Sale on Friday and Saturday, August 17 and 18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with early bird viewing on Thursday, August 16 from 3 to 6 p.m. The public may rent a table for a $10 donation to St. Vincent de Paul. Please call 508-540-0505 for more information.

Holy Rosary Fraternity Gatherings are held in the hall of St. Jude the Apostle Church, 249 Whittenton Street in Taunton on the second Sunday of the month at 1:30 p.m. All are welcome. For more information, call 508-695-5430.

The Third Order of Carmelites meets on the third Sunday of the month at Christ the King Parish in Mashpee for 10:30 a.m.

Mass followed by a teaching in Room A and daytime prayer in St. Jude’s Chapel. They meet every Sunday at 6:30 p.m. in St. Jude’s Chapel for evening prayer. All are welcome. For more information about the Lay Carmelite Order of St. John of the Cross, contact Dottie Cawley at 508-477-2798.

The Holy Rosary Fraternity in Taunton is seeking to grow. Adult Catholics interested in learning more about the Secular Franciscan Order are invited to contact Peter Fricano at 774-225-8874 or homevue@yahoo.com.

Renew the faith and rekindle the Spirit with “Holy Cross Landings.” If you have been away for a while, Holy Cross Parish in Easton invites you back to join them. For more information, visit www.holycrosseaston.org or call Harold Smith at 508-238-1899.

A Holy Hour will be held every Monday (with the exception of holy days or holidays) beginning at 7 p.m. at Holy Name Church, 709 Hanover Street in Fall River. It will include Benediction and Confession (once a month) and every week will feature the Rosary, Novena, and prayers for vocations to the priesthood will be recited along with a short meditation. All are welcome.

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

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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 — 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 at St. John the Evangelist Church, North Main Street, Mondays and Wednesdays from 5-6:30 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.

Brewster — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Our Lady of the Cape Church, 468 Stony Brook Road, on First Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. buzzards Bay — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Margaret Church, 141 Main Street, every First Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending at 5 p.m.

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 — St. Mary’s Church, Main St., has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 8:30-11:30 a.m. in the Chapel of Reconciliation, with Benediction at 11:30 a.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Anthony of Padua Church, on the corner of Bedford and Sixteenth streets, has Eucharistic Adoration accompanied by music and prayer every first Wednesday of the month from 6-7 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.

FALL RIVER — St. Joseph’s Church has a Holy Hour every Tuesday from 6-7 p.m., with Benediction at 6:45 p.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Michael’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with Benediction at 5:30 p.m.

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 is held every Thursday, with Confessions, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. James Church. 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.

NORTH EASTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Immaculate Conception Church Chapel on the first Wednesday of the month beginning after the 8:30 a.m. Mass, until 6:40 p.m. Those wishing to make a monthly commitment can sign up on the parish website at www.icceaston.org or call the parish office at 508-238-3232.

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.

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 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. Rosary and Benediction begin at 5 p.m.

Taunton — St. Jude the Apostle Parish in Taunton will host Eucharistic Adoration on Mondays following the 9 a.m. Mass and the St. Jude Novena, until 11:30, ending with Benediction. It will take place at Holy Rosary Chapel during the summer months.

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.

Father Leo of Plating Grace coming to Mashpee for FACE benefit

MASHPEE — Are you looking for a fun family summer event?

FACE, the Foundation to Advance Catholic Education, is hosting an evening with Father Leo Patalinghug, Catholic priest, chef, cookbook author and founder of Plating Grace, a family

and food movement.

It will take place on Friday, August 10, at 7 p.m. at Christ the King Parish hall in Mashpee.

Doors will open at 6 p.m.

Light refreshments will be offered after the presentation.

Plating Grace is a movement to bring fami-

pilgrimages or traveling to speak to groups to promote the importance of not what appears on lies back to the dinner the table, but who gathers table — away from work, around it. school, TV, games, etc., Proceeds from this to share a delicious meal evening will benef it together, to communicate, FACE, which provides and to love one another need-based tuition and be nourished — body, scholarships to students mind, and soul. It’s cenattending Catholic schools tered on one fundamental in the Fall River Diocese. concept: the simple act of creating and sharing a meal can strengthen all kinds of relationships.

Introducing the concept of Plating Grace at the August 10 evening with be the founder and force behind it: Father Leo, as he is known, a priest member of a community of consecrated life, Voluntas Dei. Father Leo is a best-selling author and the host of “Savoring Our Faith” on EWTN, which was developed after his dynamic win on the Food Network cooking competition, “Throw Down! with Bobby Flay.” He is also the founder of a nonprofit organization, the Table Foundation, with the mission to elevate culture and family life, one meal at a time.

Born in the Philippines, Father Leo was raised in Baltimore, Md., which remains his base when he’s not leading

Ticket prices for are $15 for adults and $10 for youth ages f ive to 18 (there is no charge for children under f ive). Please make checks payable to FACE and mail them to P.O. Box 405, Monument Beach, Mass. 02553.

Reservations and prepayment are needed for seating. The deadline is August 3.

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St. Vincent’s to host 13th annual Motorcycle Run

FALL RIVER — August 19 is the date for the 13th annual Motorcycle Run and Raffle sponsored

by St. Vincent’s Home in Fall River.

The event, which draws hundreds of bikers and riders each year, helps support the children and youth who depend on the home.

The scenic 45-mile run takes riders through the back roads of Assonet, Freetown, Berkley, Lakeville and Taunton.

The run begins and ends at St. Vincent’s Home at 2425 Highland Avenue in Fall River. A barbecue and raffle await the riders’ return.

Registration begins at 9 a.m. and the ride takes place at 10 a.m., with lunch at noon and raffles and silent auction at 1 p.m.

There is a discount for active and retired military veterans.

For more information contact Jenny Mello Reis at jreis@stvincentshome. org or 508-235-3228; or Kathryn Dow at kdow@ stvincentshome.org or call 508-235-3316.

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