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"No more war! War never again!"

World mourns Hiroshima, Nagasaki WASHINGTON (CNS) - Re1945 atomic bo~blngs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "car~y a unique burde.n," ~aid a Cat~ohc moral theologian In a reflectIOn on what the human race must learn from the Aug. 6 and 9 destruction of the Japanese cities.

Remembering "requires of all peoples a special moral scrutiny," said Father Francis X. Meehan, writing in The Catholic Standard and Times, newspaper ofthe Philadelphia archdiocese.

Achieving objectivity about the bombing is hard, said Father Meehan, because people remember that they saved American lives and cannot be isoiated from a fuller context that included Pearl Harbor and "the total brutality of the Japanese and Nazi expansion."

But troubling questions still surface, he said, concerning alternative strategies that might have been been used, other motives for the bombings. Allied insistence on unconditional surrender, and the need to drop a second bomb.

Father Meehan. pastor of SS. Simon and Jude parish in West Chester, Pa., said the most troubling moral questions come from "a criterion of morality enshrined even then in international law and within all religious traditions: the norm granting immunity, to civilian populations from direct attack and terror," He called the 50th anniversary "less a time to celebrate, and more a time to beg the wisdom of God." In Missouri, Archbishop Justin F. Rigali of St. Louis recalled remarks made by Pope John Paul II during a 1981 visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.

"It is with deep emotion that I have come here today as a 'pilgrim of peace,'" the pope said at the time. "I wanted to make this visit .., out of a deep personal conviction that to'remember the past is to commit oneself to the future."

"Surely, those reflections of the Holy Father ... can serve as a powerful catalyst for our own reflection ...... wrote Archbishop Rigali in a column for the July?8 issue of his newspaper, the St. Louis Review.

"They offer an incentive for a still more fervent commitment on the part of all to the pursuit of peace and ... of the justice that produces peace."

The archbishop urged the world, in remembering"the tragic events" of 50 years ago, to echo the message of Pope Pius xn on the end mem~rances ~f th~

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Early ,reservations advised for Sept. 9 FIRE rally Early reservations are advised for a FIRE rally S(:t for Sept. 9 at Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis. Of the tent's 2,256 seats, only about 300 are still lIvailable, said Sue Raymond, among the event's organizers. The rally is set for 9 a.m.to 6 p.m., with entrance to the tent permitted at 8 a.m. and a Mass scheduled for 4 p.m.

FIRE, which stands for Faith, Intercession, Repentance and Evangelism, is sponsored by the Cape and Islands deanery of the diocesan Charismatic Renewal movement. Bishop Sean 0' Malley hopes to be present and speakers will be Father John P. Bertolucci, Father Michael Scanlan, TOR, Ann Shields and Ralph Martin.

Speakers' Biographies Father Bertolu(:ci is a priest-

evangelist ofthe diocese of Albany, NY. Ordained in 1965, he has served the diocese as pastor, chancery official, high school lecturer, pastoral counselor, preacher and teacher. Since 1980, he has been a visiting assistant ptofessor oftheology at Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH. He has hosted over 300 television and radio programs for St. Francis Association for Catholic Evangelism and has written a number of books and booklets. Father Bertolucci is a contributing editor of New Covenant magazine.

Father Scanlan has been president of Franciscan University of Steubenville since 1974. A graduate of Williams College, Harvard Law School, and St. Francis SemiTurn to Page 13

of World War II, in which he said: "We need to cry out loudly: Enough with war! Let's build peace."

Also remembered by many was the poignant 1965 plea of Pope Paul VI before the United Nations: "No more war! War never again!"

The Hibakusha According to the author of a new book, Hiroshima survivors or "hibakusha," which literally means "bomb-affected people" are often ignored in debates over the meaning and legacy of the bombings.

Rachelle Linner recounts stories of this dwindling group in her first book, "City of Silence: listening to Hiroshima," recently published by Orbis Books. She went to Hiroshima in 1985 to interview survivors and to research testimonies taken in the years following the bombings.

She said she undertook the project because she feared the "spirit of Hiroshima," personified in the hibakusha and tbeir quest to be heard, was in danger of being lost as they age and die. A consistent theme she found from the testimonies was: "It is war we hate ... not Americans."

One survivor recently recounted the horrors ofthe blast in an interview with The New World, Chicago's archdiocesan newspaper. Sister Theresia Yasobu Yamada was reading the Bible in her convent's garden when the atomic bomb was detonated miles away.

"I saw a light like a shining rainbow. A small beam became bigger and bigger and covered the whole sky," recalled Sister Yamada, now 77. A member of the Society of Helpers of the Holy Souls, she came to the United States in 1973 and now serves in Chicago.

Clothed in her black habit, she tried to run but could only move a few feet.

"It felt like my whole body was on fire," she said. "I lay flat on the ground, said my religious vows and prayed. When 1 opened my eyes 1 was not dead yet."

She hurried to the river with the other nuns. She saw naked people running wildly from the center of the city, where the bomb had hit.

She thought some were wearing rags, but they were not. "It was their skin that had peeled off." She saw others who were black and swollen" "carbonized," she said.

At the river the nuns helped those they could.

Sister Yamada, who never suf-

fered radiation sickness, says even today she thinks the bombing"was sent by God to end the war for Japan."

Another eyewitness, 78-year-old Jesuit Father Klaus Luhmer, recently spoke with The Catholic Standard and Times in Philadelphia by phone from his Tokyo home. On Aug. 6, 1945, he was at a Jesuit novitiate about four kilometers north of Hiroshima when he heard the distinctive drone of airplace engines.

"I saw the purple-yellow blast and ran as fast as I could," he recalled. "I imagined it was an ordinary blast, but there was no sound and no debris." When he and other Jesuits at the house looked outside, they saw the entire city on fire, but did not learn until after the bombing of Nagasaki that both cities had been struck by atomic bombs.

Father Luhmer said his own residence, which lost windows and part of the roof, became a temporary hospital. He went into the city that day to help carry out two injured priests who he said recovered and lived to old age.

"I was sick, 1 suppose for three or four weeks," he said. "It was probably caused by the radiation, but we didn't know it then."

Because of his proximity to the blast zone, the priest said he has "an atomic health pass."

In Fall River, there will be a service of remembrance at 6 p.m.

Aug. 6 on the steps of the city's Government Center to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first use of atomic weapons.

Participants will be asked to read and meditate on eyewitness accounts, both Japanese and American, of the bombing.

There will be a speech by the Rev. Fuad Bahnan of Calvary Presbyterian Church, who has worked on peace mediation in the Middle East; Debra Polselli of Pax Christl will explain the tradition ofJapanese folded-paper peace cranes, which will be displayed at the service; and Charles Moran of the Greater Fall River Coalition for a Nuelear Weapons Freeze will read a letter he has written to French President Jacques Chirac protesting France's planned resum~ tion of nuelear weapons testing.

Music will be led by Judith Conrad and Dick Munro.

Further information is available from Ms. Conrad, tel. 674-6113.

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Youth ministry project targets 20-somethings - Expansion of faith communEAST AURORA, N.Y. (CNS) ities that attract young adults of all - People in their 20s seem skepticultures. cal of organized religion, if a 1993 Gallup Poll of U.S. Catholics showStart-up of lunchtime and afterwork groups to discuss ethical and ing a drop by nearly half in Mass social justice issues. attendance over the last four - Involvement of young adults decades is any indication.

Some say that parishes are not in volunteer service projects that "young adult-friendly" because they serve the needy or the needs of parishes. offer few programs that meet their "We're trying to involve young needs.

So 44 campus, young adult and adults in the life of the church in parish ministers from around the new and different ways," said country recently met at Christ the Donald R. McCrabb, executive King Seminary in East Aurora, in director of the Catholic Campus the diocese of Buffalo, to brainMinistry Association. storm, plan and design I 0 new The pilot programs will be evaloutreach efforts to bring youth uated and refined before training back to the church. manuals, audio-, and videotapes The proposed programs, which are made available to dioceses run the gamut from workplace around the country for use in discussions on business ethics to young adult ministry, said McCrabb. peer ministry programs in parishes, Results also will be shared at a are a joint effort of the Catho~ic regional conference and summer Campus Ministry Association, based at the University of Dayton, institutes. It is hoped that a proOhio, and the National Catholic gram leading to a national certifiYouth Adult Ministry Association cate in ministry with young adults in Washington. will be offered at sites across the "There is a lot of talk about country, beginning in the fall of Generation X in our culture," said 1998. .

Father Charles Pfeffer, a sponsor The project, called "Ministry of the conference and director of With Young Adults: A National youth and young adult ministry Catholic Initiative," is directed by for the archdiocese of Philadelphia. the St. John Eudes Center in Buffalo, and the Center for Youth "We need the young adults to Ministry Development in Nauga~ help the church understand their tuck, Conn. needs and experiences and how "We have, with this conference, the Gospel comes alive in their claimed young adults for the church lives," he said in an interview. "It is now, today, not in some distant time for the baby boomers to stop and undefined future," said Father defining the next generation; they Brendan Gillan, campus minister need to speak for themselves." at the University of Central Florida.

Amy Wortmann-George, 25, a conference participant who is writ'ing a master's thesis on young adult faith development at the University of Dayton, agrees with that assessment, but notes that the spiritual needs of her generation aren't always met in parishes.

DA YTON, Ohio (CNS) - Sis"Even if young adults would be going to church, there isn't a speci- ter Doris Gottemoeller was refic ministry for them," said the elected president of the Sisters of graduate student in theology. Mercy of the Americas July 27 at "Some parishes are 'young adult- the order's chapter meeting in friendly,' but often there i,sn't any Dayton.

It will be her second four-year ministry between youth ministry and family ministry. We fall term as president of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, whic~ was through the cracks."

Pilot programs to be launched founded in 1991 to strengthen the Mercy mission by uniting more over the next year in churches, campuses and communities to than 6,400 sisters from North. rea waken the interest of young South and Central America, the Caribbean, Guam and the Philipadults in their faith include: pines.

- Development of homilies ad"Our institute is firmly estabdressing issues that impact young lished," Sister Gottemoeller said. adults, such as establishing healthy "Now we are ready to test our abiland safe relationships. ity' to strengthen one another as regional communities, as ministries and as individual members in our search for the best way to live and CHICAGO (CNS)- A schol- to express Mercy in today's world." arship program begun in 1990 is A native of Cleveland, Sister helping ease a shortage of Africun- Gottemoeller entered the CincinAmerican lay ministers in Chi- nati Sisters of Mercy in 1953 and cago. The Augustus Tolton Pas- was Cincinnati provincial admintoral Ministry Program pays for istrator for the Sisters of Mercy of tuition and books for African- the Union from 1983 to 1990.

She holds doctorate and masAmericans pursuing graduate degrees at the Catholic Theological ter's degrees in theology from Union. In exchange. graduates Fordham University and a masagree to serve in a pastoral role in ter's in chemistry from the Univerthe Chicago archdiocese for three sity of Notre Dame. years. Believed to be the first of its During her first term as Mercy kind. the program has two gradu- president, Sister Gottemoeller was ates and eight students. and is president of the Leadership Connamed for Father Augustus 1'01- ference of Women Religious and ton. the first U.S.-born African- was one of three U.S. auditors American priest and founder of named to attend the world Synod the first black Catholic church in of Bishops on religious life in Chicago.

October 1994.

Doris Gottemoeller re-elected head of Mercy Sisters

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Anthony Flanag:!n Anthony Flanagan, 83, of Glasgow, Scotland, a retired shipyard worker, died July 15 after a long illness. The husband of the late Margaret Flanagan, he is survj,ved by his daughter, Sister M. An,thony, OP, of the Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Home in Fall River, and by daughters Mary Ives, Margaret Dolan and Rose Adams and a liOn, Joseph Flanagan, all of Glasgow.

Also among survivors are 16 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

FCJ Sisters set centennial fett~

JOHN MICHA路EL TALBOT

John Michael Talbot

Christian musician will be on September "Lifestyles" EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. six traditional Gregorian chants (CNS) - The rich and famous and six other chant-styled melodies written by Talbot. have champagne wishes and cavBrothers from the community iar dreams.

The spiritually rich, however, formed the albums' choir. Although have many blessings often over- ' flattered by Talbot's decision to use their voices instead of profeslooked by secular media and entersionals, many of the brothers q uestainment programs. At least until tioned their singing ability. recently.

In late June, Robin Leach's "We sing every day together, but this was nerve-racking," Broth"Lifestyles" syndicated TV proer Timothy McMillan told the gram visited singer-songwriter John Michael Talbot and his LitArkansas Catholic, newspaper of tle Portion Hermitage for a taping the diocese of Little Rock.

For the album a mobile recordsession. A segment on the Catholic community is scheduled to air in ing truck was brought to the grounds. Talbot sang or played September.

Talbot and the monastic com- the guitar inside it and the choir munity he founded, Brothers and viewed him on a television moniSisters of Charity, livein the Ozark tor and sang along with him.

Mountains, about 30 miles from Talbot's community blends traEureka Springs. The occasion for ditional forms of community life the "Lifestyles" visit was the release - men and women living as celiof Talbot's 30th album, "Chant bates - with families with chilfrom the Hermitage." The new dren. It currently numbers about album also has sparked a number 40. of newspaper interviews.

The community is a pu blic assoTalbot's experience with chants ciation of the faithful, one of 10 in began in the 1980s with his "Come the world with canonical status to the Quiet" album. "Chant from and the only one in North Amerthe Hermitage" contains 12 psalms, ica. It is under the supervision of the Catholic bishop of Little Rock.

Talbot's spiritual journey took him through a Methodist boyhood, a career in rock music and experiences with Buddhism and Native American religions.

He became part of the bornAug. 5 again Christian movement, but a 1917, Rev. Martin J. Fox, fascination with the life of St. Founder, St:' Paul, Taunton Francis of Assisi led him to Ca1934, Rev. Thomas A. Kelly, Pastor, SS. Peter and Paul, Fall tholicism.

Despite the fame and attention River Talbot's music has brought him, Aug. 6 to keep music from' taking he tries 1961, Rev. Joseph P. Lyons, over his life. He's cut back on his Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall River touring - and when he does tour, Aug. 7 he tries to be away for only parts of 1986, Rev. John F. Hogan, Pas- each month. tor, St. Julie Billiart, North DartAttention to life and its rhythms mouth is the basis for his creativity and 1987, Very Rev. Roger L. Gagne, music ministry, he said.

Pastor, St. Mark, Attleboro Falls "I really believe that music has Aug. 8 to come out of life," he said. "Our 1880, Rev. William Bric, Foundministry will flow out of our life in er, St..Joseph, Fall River God."

The Sisters, Faithful Companions of Jesus (FCJ) are preparing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the community's arrival in the United States from Canada, where they had been experiencing bigotry.

Initially going to Fond du Lac, WI, in 1896 they also went to Fitchburg to staff a school being built by LaSalette missionarie:s.

Founded in 1820 in Amiens, France, today the FCJ Sisters have communities throughout the world and in five areas of the Ur.lited States: Fall River and Fitchburg, MA, Portsmouth and Providence, RI, and Northport, Ala. In the Fall River diocese, members serve at St. Luke Hospital, New Bedford, St. Anne Hospital,. Fall River, and at Coyle & Cassidy High School, Taunton.

A centennial celebration themed "Courage and Confidence" i:i set for Sunday, Sept. 10, at St. Philomena School and Convent, 324 Cory's Lane, Portsmouth. It will include a special liturgy, historical display and reception. Further information: Mary Alexandre, St. Philomena School, (40 I)683-0268.

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Real prayer "is best entered into in total silence," he added. "Even sacred music can be a real obst ruction. But it's a great doorway to that 'room' of prayer. It's a shame if we just stand in the doorway all the time."

As a result of that thinking, he himself listens to very little m'Jsic.

"What I hunger for in my hl~art, in terms of what I hear - I don't know how to make that kind of music, and I don't know anyone else who can. Maybe that's a hunger for heaven," he said.

"Even the sacred music I listen to, the various chants, they can be intrusive. When I get really deep with the Lord, I don't listen to music.'" ' Talbot and his community are offering others a chance to find that depth with their new "School in Simple Living" retreat.

"Simple living is a popular idea," Talbot told the Observer, n,:wspaper of the diocese of Rockford, Ill. "But real simple living is not popular, because it demands change."

"I used to think I was a believer - now [I see myself as] a survivor," he said, emphasizing the importance of perseverance. "We: are not called to be fanatical; we are called to be radical- to be rooted in Christ."

Without the Holy Spirit, people looking at their pride, gluttony and other sins just feel guilt, Talbot said, "but with the Holy Spirit, we have an optimistic view, a 'let's get to work' outlook."

Love conquered in Vietnamese jail

FATHER BABBITT

FATHER BYINIGTON

Two pr'iests mark jubilees Fathers Edward J. Byington and William T. Babbitt will mark their silver jubilees of priestly ordination Tuesday, Aug. 15. Both were ordained by the late Bishop James L. Connolly in St. Mary's Cathedral. Fall River.

Father Byington, who has been pastor at St. Franci!; Xavier parish, Hyannis, since March, said that he had discouraged a parish celebration of his anniversary.

"I've been here s,uch a short time," he said, explaining that he will have a dinner with fellow priests and will also mark the occasion with classmates at Boston College, from which he graduated in 1960.

Father Babbitt, now retired, will offer 7 p.m. Mass Aug. 15 at St. Mary's Church, North Attleboro, where he is in residence. A potluck supper will follow in the church hall.

Father Byin'gton A Fall River and Sacred Heart parish native, Fathelr Byington is the son of the late Maurice and Ethel (McCoomb) Byington. He graduated from Durfee High School, Fall River, and Boston College and served in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps and the Federal Bureau of Investigation before entering St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimon~ in 1967 to prepare for the priesthood.

Following ordination, Father Byington was parochial vicar at St. John Evangelist parish. Attleboro. Sacred Heart and St. Paul parishes. Taunton. St.. Patrick, Fall River, St. George, Westport, and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Seekonk.

He was also a former editor of the Anchor and diocesan director of communications.

In 1986, Father Byington returned to his native parish as pastor. remaining there for nine years before assuming the Hyannis pastorate. His interests include study

of Polish language, literature and customs and running. His most noted exploit in the latter area came in 1989, when he ran the Boston Marathon in four hours and 17 minutes, garnering $10,000 in pledges from parishioners and friends, more, noted the Anchor for April 21 of that year, than anyone else in the race except for the top five men and women racers.

"It's unlikely," added the Anchor story, "that any will spend his or her winnings as will Father Byington." He had dedicated the pledge money to ridding Sacred Heart parish of termites.

While at Sacred Heart, Father Byington was also chaplain for the Fall River police department from 1990 until February of this year.

Father Ballbitt Father Babbitt ·is a native of Norwich, Conn. He attended St. Joseph of Holy Cross High School, Valatie. NY, Notre Dame University and St. John's University. He holds a master's degree in education ftom Bridgewater State College.

He was a Holy Cross Brother and taught at then Msgr. Coyle High School in Taunton for 10 years before beginning studies for the priesthood at Catholic University. After ordination he was parochial vicar at Holy Ghost parish, Attleboro, St. Mary / Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket. and St. Paul and St. Mary parishes in Taunton. While at St. Mary's, he was also a chaplain at Morton Hospital in the city.

Subsequently. Father Babbitt was parochial vicar at Our Lady of Fatima, New Bedford. and St. Mary, North Attleboro. He has also been spiritual director for the widowed Catholics program in Attleboro. At presertt, while in residence at St. Mary's. he is chaplain for Madonna Manor in that city.

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NEWYORK(CNS)-Anexiled Vietnamese archbishop recently told a New York audience how he continued his ministry in a concentration camp.

Archbishop Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, said he overcame the constraints of imprisonment by maintaining his determination to love. ' He said he told his two guards of his love for them, and eventually "they became my students."

They asked him to teach them French, and one o( them later wanted to learn a song in Latin, the archbishop said. So he taught the guard the Pentecost hymn "Veni Creator" ("Come, Creator").

"He learned it by memory, and every morning while this communist policeman was doing his exercises and wa.shing, I could hear him singing'Veni Creator.... said Archbishop Nguy(m.

Archbishop Nguyen was named coadjutor archbishop of Saigon shortly before it fell to the communists in 1975.

He was arrested later that year and held until 1988, much of the time in solitary confinement. Since 1991, he has been in exile.

Archbishop Nguyen recounted his experiences at a lecture sponsored by the Wethersfield Institute, program arm of the Homeland Foundation in New York, which makes grants to Catholic educational projects.

The archbishop said that when . he was arrested he remembered a statement by the late Maryknoll Bishop James E. Walsh about the importance to him of continued activity whil(: he was imprisoned in China.

Concerned about staying in touch with his people, he reflected on the Apostle Paul writing letters from prison, and decided: "I will write."

For a time, Archbishop Nguyen was under house arrest in an area where children could come in and out. He told of getting a boy to bring him old calendars and take away what he wrote on the back of them.

A compilation of these messages was later published as "The Road of Hope," and the boy who carried them is now a seminarian in HoIland, the archbishop said.

Recounting other pTison experiences, Archbishop Nguyen told of writing a message asking his people to send wine for his "stomach disease." He said they understood and sent him sacramental wine labeled "for stomach relief," The church in Vietnam has freedom of worship today, but some priests, mostly former military chaplains, remain in prison, he said. Nevertheless, there have been many vocations and conversions.

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He said the church in Vietnam now has six seminaries, but the government limits the number of students, thus each diocese has men preparing for the priesthood who are unable to enter regular seminary programs.

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Don't Give Up the Fight One of the most serious potential setbacks to sound environmental legislation is lurking right in Congress. There are legislators who would cut back, reduce and even eliminate many of the environmental safeguards now in place. This might be temporarily good for the in-and-out investor, the land developer and the world of corporate gain. But in the long run it would be bad for aU who live on planet Earth.

It has taken America a long time to clean up its act. The last 20 years have seen some effective guidelines put in place. As a result, in many areas the air is cleaner, the water is purer and recycling has become a way of life. Our rivers and lakes are less polluted, acid rain is being brought under control and new landfills are closely supervised. .

Surveys and polls indicate that most Americans want to continue the clean-up job. They know that toxic waste is lethal and that it is possible to build an automobile that does not pollute the atmosphere.

They also know that Ea.rth can be a cleaner place to live only if each of us feels personally responsible for working in concert with nature to preserve the precious gifts of air, water and land without which we cannot live. It's tragic that members of Congress do not share the concerns of the citizens to whom they are accountable and who put them in office.

Over the centuries, Big Brother, be he wearing the garments· of Communism or capitalism, has paid little heed to the environment. Miners died and continue to die of black-lung disease, textile workers succumbed to cotton fiber or white-lung disease. People were expendable on the altar of profit. With that mind-set toward human beings, there was even less thought given to protecting natural resources. Both were there to be exploited for the benefit of the few. We must never return to those days.

One way to make sure of that is for each person to accept responsibility for guarding the gifts of nature. This demands individual sacrifices, a concept unacceptable to those whose sole concern is achievement of the so-called good life. The call to use less and to control growth and economies might not be seen by some as the proverbial" American way," but for our very survival it might be the only way.

Many scientists are warning that we are in for some very hard times because of our abuse of nature.· Disastrous droughts, intolerable heat waves and cataclysmic storms are foreseen as a result of our ignoring the greenhouse effect, the progressive warming of our planet.

It is imperative that we set our sights higher than the achievement of better cars and bigger supermarkets. Rather, we must formulate better laws, share international technologies and limit world dependency on fossil fuels. We must face. the difficult decisions to limit our waste, support or:ganic farms, develop aquaculture and in general exercise restraint in our use of nature's bounty.

It is simply wrong for us in the so-called developed world to continue pursuit of the good life image. The tragedy of this goal is that it is hedonistic and selfish. Americans must see that the good life is a disaster without the God life.

We must see sunsets, rainbows, pounding surf and flowers as the reflection of a beauty that is a gift of the Creator. We must not commit environmental suicide. We must support legislation that will prevent this fate.

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DEVASTATED HIROSHIMA, SIX MONTHS AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB WAS \ DROPPED ON THE CITY AUGUST 6, 1945

"Thy cities shall be laid waste, remaining without an inhabitant." Jer. 4:7

Church slow to comment on atom bomb WASHINGTON (CNS) tain that war is a fit instrument principles of noncomabant imOfficial church teaching on use of with which to repair the violation munity had evaporated in World of justice," he said. nuclear weapons in war has War II with the mobilization ofal! emerged only gradually and painThe Second Vatican Council sectors of society into the war stakingly in the half-century since took up the same theme i:~ 1965 effort. with its call for"a completely fresh In a speech on the war in 1943, the Vnited States dropped atomic appraisal of war" in light of modbombs on Hiroshima and Nafor example, he said, "In all nations ern technology, particularly the gasaki. aversion is growing against the A report from the then National brutality of the methods of total power of nuc\ear weapons.

Catholic News Service, which apwar, 'which goes beyond all just The council also declared, "Every peared only hours after the war's limits, all rules of divine and human act of war directed to the indissecond atomic bomb was dropped criminate destruction of whole citright." on Nagasaki, quoted several V.S. ies or vast areas with their inhabitThe first major policy statement Catholic theologians who conon nuclear warfare by Pope Pius ants is a crime against God and demned the bombings as a violaXII came in his 1954 Easter mesman, which merits firm a:~d unequivocal condemnation." tion of moral principles of proporsage when he asked the nations of tionality and noncombatant imthe world to ban atomic, biologiConciliar and post-conciliar munity in the conduct of war. cal and chemical warfare. teachings set the stage for further During the war Pope Pius XII "For our part," he said, "we will development and refinemt:nt of had roundly condemned aerial tirelessly endeavor to bring about, church teaching on a whole series warfare in general for its indisby means of international agreeof issues surrounding nuclear criminate effect on innocent lives ments - always in subordination weapons. Among issues addressed and nonmilitary targets. to the principle of legitimate. selfwere the morality of nuclear deterOne notable example was his defense - the effective proscriprence and its military and political 1942 Christmas message, in which tion and banishment of atomic, role, moral implications of the he cited indiscriminate bombing· biological and chemical warfare." strictly military use of tactical among a litany of war horrors for Pope John XXIII moved the nuclear weapons and the m,)rality which all mankind owed God a level of moral debate to a new level of first use of nuclear weapons in solemn vow to restore the world to in his 1963 encyclical "Pacem in response to a conventional attack. peace and justice based on law.

Terris" when he ·argued that the sed again in the 50 years since "Mankind owes that vow," he very existence of nuclear weapons Hiroshima and Nagasaki, said, "to the many thousands of had changed the moral evaluation The V.S. bishops' landmark noncombatants, women, children, of war itself. "Thus, in this age pastoral letter on peace in 1983 sick and aged, from whom aerial which boasts of its atomic power, . brought all the main eleml:nts of warfare - whose horrors we have it no longer makes sense to main- church teaching on nuclear warfrom the beginning frequently defare together in a single document.

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Tr'ansflguration foretells our own glory Daniel 7:9-10,13-14 2 Peter 1:16-19 Luke 9:28b·36 In the midst of the liturgical year, the feast of thl~ Transfiguration is a reminder of the exalted nature of Jesus as God's beloved Son and of our own future as glorious children of God. Let us affirm Jesus' hidden dominion over the cosmos in the words of this Sunday's psalm: "The Lord is King, the most high over all the earth."

In the first reading, Daniel's vision is meant to console the faithful Jews who were being persecuted for their faith by King Antiochus IV Epiphanes (c. 175163 B.C.E.). In thl~ first part of Daniel's vision, four terrifying beasts, symbolizing the nations who have oppressc:d the Jewish people for almost 500 years, emerge from the chaotic sea and appear to dominate the world.

But then Daniel witnesses in a vision the future triumph of God's kingdom over the powers of violence and evil. He sees the heavenly throne room of "the Ancient One" and watches the destruction of the fourth beast and the removal of the dominion of the others.

This is followed by another vision in which a human figure, "one like a son of man," ascl~nds "with the clouds of heaven" into the heavenly court and receives from the Ancient One "dominion, glory and kingship" which "shall not be destroyed."

The interpretation of the vision follows in 7: 15ff. An anxious Daniel asks a figure in the heavenly court (the interpreting angel of apocalyptic visions) to explain it to him. He learns that the four beasts are four kingdoms who will arise out of the earth and that the son of man represents "the saints of the Most High" who will receive the kingdom and possess it forever.

For us as Christians, Jesus, who faithfully carries out his Father's will, is the ultimat(: fulfillment of this vision.

2 Peter is written as a "testament" by the head of the apostles to defend two important features of apostolic preaching: Jesus' promise to come again as judge and the need for his followers to live morally upright lives. It seems that certain "false teachers" were denying both these doctrines.

In our selection, the author refutes the accusation that the apos-

Daily Readings Aug. 7: Nm 11:4b-15; Ps 81:12-17; Mt 14::13-21 Aug. 8: Nm 12:1-13; Ps 51:3-7,12-13; Mt 14:22-36 Aug. 9: Nm 13:1-2,2514:1,26-29a,34-35; Ps 106:67,13-14,21-23; Mt 15:21-28 Aug. 10: Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2,5-9; In 12:24-26 Aug. 11: Dt 4:32-40; Ps 77:12-16,21; Mt 16:24-28 Aug. 12: Dt 6:4-13; Ps 18:2-4,47,51; Mt 17:14-20 Aug. 13: Wis 18:6-9; Ps 33:1,12,18-22; Heb 11:1-2,819; lk 12:32-48

By DR. PATRICK V. REID tles' preaching of the Lord Jesus Christ's second coming in power (parousia) was based on "cleverly concocted myths." 2 Peter insists that Jesus' return in judgment is based on a divine revelation.

First, the author appeals to the fact that Peter was an eyewitness ofthe Transfigurati,on. In this event Jesus was pro~laimed by God the Father as the unique divine Son: "This is my beloved Son on whom my favor rests."

Secondly, the author appeals to "the prophetic message" which is "reliable" because it comes directly from God. If Christians will keep their attention closely fixed on Jesus' divine sonship and his second coming, they will have "a lamp shining in a dark place until the first streaks of dawn appear and the morning star rises in (their) hearts."

Luke's account of the Transfiguration is closely tied to the beginning of Jesus' fateful journey to Jerusalem (see 9:22-62). Immediately before and shortly after the Transfiguration, Jesus speaks to the disciples of his own passion and resurrection and the need for them to follow him in this path, although "its meaning was hidden from them ..." (9:45).

In the actual ~ccount of the Transfiguration, Luke also emphasizes Jesus' passion, resurrection and ascension. When Moses and Elijah (figures associated with the

Couple to receive Pax Christi award ERIE, Pa. (CNS) - Jim and Kathy McGinnis, founding members of the Institute for Peace and Justice'in St, Louis, have been named 1995 recipients of Pax Christi USA's Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace Award.

"In a world where families appear to be an icon of the past, this steadfast couple courageously promotes the unity offamily in today's changing world," said the citation to be presented to the McGinnises Aug. 13 at the Pax Christi USA convention in Portland, Maine.

The St. Louis institute provides educational resources and materials for high schools and colleges.

The Parenting for Peace and Justice Network extends the institute's materials into families and parishes.

The McGinnises co-wrote "Parenting for Peace and Justice," published by Orbis Books, and have . written many other books, articles and publications ranging from family organizing to solidarity with the people of Nicaragua.

The award will be presented by Bishop Walter F. Sullivan of Richmond, Va., president of Pax Christi USA.

Law and the Prophets who also were transfigured or ascended), appear in glory with Jesus, they speak "of his passage which he was about to fulfill in Jerusalem." For Luke, Jesus, like the suffering prophets before him, has a destiny to go to Jerusalem to die and then be raised and ascend (13:31-35).

At this point Jesus' disciples cannot understand this mission, nor its implications for their lives.

They will be instructed in the way of discipleship on the longjourney to Jerusalem (9:51-19:27), but only with Jesus' resurrection will they begin to understand that according to the Law and the prophets "it was necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and enter into his glory" (24:25-27, 44-49).

Therefore Peter, upon seeing the glory of Jesus, Moses and Elijah, wants to capture it by building "three booths" to honor them.

But we are told, "he did not really know what he was saying."

He had been given a temporary glimpse of JI:SUS' glory, but now he must follow Jesus on his way to Jerusalem and the cross. When the cloud overshadows the three, God's voice speaks, as it had at the baptism, "This is my Son, my Chosen One. Listen to him."

As the disciples leave the mount of Transfiguration to continue the journey to Jerusalem, they see only Jesus, but they have been told what to do. They are to listen to the Son as he teaches them on the way to his cross and resurrection.

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FINALIZING PLANS for the Bishop's Night on Cape Cod, to be sponsored Aug. 8 at Tara Cape Codder Hotel in Hyannis by the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, are Msgr. Henry T. Munroe, Cape & Islands district moderator, seated, and standing from left, Helena Luxton, DCCW treasurer; Kitsy Lancisi, president; and Maureen Papineau, Organizational Services chairman. (Lavoie photo)

All about middle-aged Catholic guys would send you into the fires of hell for all eternity..

There is no guy like a Catholic They also remember the indeguy who grew up during the 1950s scribable relief they felt - like a and early 1960s. We are a unique cool breeze on the hottest summer breed. , day - after they told God they We spent our boyhood and youth were sorry and "made a good in the "old church," while our confession." adulthood has been entirely in the Middle-aged Catholic guys re"new church." We are sometimes member making the sign ·of the pathetically confused, sometimes cross with no embarrassment beexceptionally courageous. fore making a foul shot in a CathoHere are some of our charlic high school basketball game or acteristics: stepping into the batter's box in a We know what it felt like to be allowed into the sanctuary during baseball game.

More than a few of us have Mass with the priest, where no watched sadly as some of our peers female was allowed to tread - not abandoned the church from indifeven the nuns! We didn't know it ference or left in anger over one. was male repression of women. thing or another.

We felt privileged.

Why did they feel they had to A great many of us, now between the ages of 45 and 55, can still leave? How could they walk away recite the Confiteor from memory from their spiritual roots like that? in Latin. We had an intimate The church is far frorr perfe!=t,.but. knowledge of the Mass, and we does no church or some other church really help them 'to have a were proud of it. better life? .

Middle-aged Catholic guys reSometimes middle-aged Cathomember when Catholic boys believed it was important to respect .lic guys get together for a picnic, or girls and women and never to use they take their families to the profanity in their presence ... or " beach, or they gather after Sunday Mass over coffee and donuts: One any other time, for that matter. of them says something that re"Feelings" was' a 'concept we' heard nothing about in connection minds the grouPlhat being a. with religion for the first 25 or 30 middle-aged Catholic guy -isn't' what it was in their fathers' day or years of our lives.

While growing up, most middle- what it will be for their own sons.

Catholic guys wh~ grew up in aged Catholic guys gave at least the 1950s and early 1960s are a some serious thought to becoming . unique breed. One foot in the "old a priest or brother.

We remember what it was like church," one foot in the new to take a girl on a date on a Friday church," eyes on an uncertain evening and have it taken for grant- future, heart given to a loving but ed that for dinner both of you unpredictable God. You will not would order fish and chips instead see our like again. of hamburgers.

We remember knowing for a fact that, like our fathers, when we grew up the manly thing to do would be to join the'Holy Name Society.

Middle-aged Catholic guys remember the overwhelming guilt and fear that came with the absolute certainty that for one aLi of adolescent masturbation God

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A liveiy guide for youth In' my area, newspapers have Hungarian, Spanish and Italian been overdosing on stories about Masses. youth who are miserable, in desWith 25 years experience as a pair, in trouble and even suicidal. nun, much of it in teaching and When this happens, people tend youth work, Sister Wiecezak has to latch onto the negativity about learned a lot about young people. youth, forgetting the young people They want to help others, inject who are prod!lctive, who look some fun into their church activiahead to what life may offer them ties and make a positive difference and who are truly happy to be in what they do. alive. .

Knowing this, she challenged I recently heard about some 50 the youth to carry out a substanyoung people who fit this descrip- tial number of service programs tion when I visited the Benedictine and spiritual activities. "We have abbey of Regina Laudis in Con- something planned for every weeknecticut. The abbess told me about end," she said, noting that all a group of young people who had activities are linked with prayer, just spent a day there. social, cultural and service proSome of the youths worked with grams. the nuns in the plant and vegetable Her projects have included fundgardens, improving landscaping raising drives to sponsor buses for and grounds. All worked in the seniors; volunteering at the Thomkitchen, making pizza for lunch as Merton House of Hospitality, for about 150 people, the nuns which is a soup kitchen in Bridgeincluded. port, Conn., one of the nation's This day of service came about poorest cities; and having a monthbecause of another nun, Sister . ly rap session on topics like honesty, Mary Bernard Wiecezak, a sister sibling rivalry and family problems. of the Holy Family of Nazareth Sister Wiecezak communicates and her parish director of youth her own devotion to the church. A ministry. She organized youths profound experience for her was from three parishes for the abbey an assignment at the Vatican, project. where she worked from October "We are linking our kids with '91 to December '93, "handling other parishes, especially ethnic English correspondence for the ones," Sister Wiecezak said, men- Holy Father." tioning that she brought them to She said she learned "a deep

A troublesome decision Dear Dr. Kenny: My ex-wife and I have been divorced for four years, and I have custody of our 9-year-old daughter. In the past two years 'my ex has been in and out of multiple relationships and has seen our daughter only five times.

Now my ex wants to see her every other weekend and has filed in court.

My daughter wants none of it.

She's willing to see her mother once in awhile when she wants to, but does not want to visit with her mother's new friends. What should I do? - New York

dulge your daughter in an effort to sway her in your favor. Your daughter may use this tendency to manipulate both of you to get her way in other things. Both of you may find it hard to set and maintainthe ordinary limits of good discipline.

You daughter may develop an "attitude," one of power and unwarranted self-importance. She may become bossy, spoiled, inclined to insist on her way.

Your daughter's wishes should be heard and respected, but they, should not be the final word. Better that you and your ex, with the judge's help if necessary, !TIake the Have YOlJr lawyer ask the judge decision.

The best way to keep your to appoint a mediator, someone who can help you and your ex-wife daughter out of the decisionwork out an agreement. You want making loop is to arrive at a firm to avoid a <;ourt battle if you can. plan for child care, Argue the Court decisiqns have winners details out. Mediate and comand losers. Too' often, the loser : promise. If you get nowhere, let· returns to court in Ii very short the judge decide. But be sure that time. C;ourtis a poor place to raise . the ,eventual rule is 'specific, telling, . exactly when and how often the children.. , .

If.medlatlon IS not pOSSible, ask visitation should take place.

You may even provide an escape . the Judge t~, or?er a 'h.o~e stu~y . b~~ore. cOI:\sld'enng al) IDcrease 1D, , clause,foT.lyour daughter....Identify vls~tah()n: B~s;d ,on your daug~a ·neutral.third 'party wh6m'ypur t~r s concerp ~bout her mother s daughter may contact.if she doesn't hfestyle, that I.S 'a reasonable re-. '! wish to 'go for a particular visitaquest. . tion. . Agood home study will be per- .

After listening to your daughf?rmed by a ~ental h.ealth profes- ter, the third party, not. you or slOnal an? .w~1l consist of a t~o-· your ex or your daughter, will rou~h SOCial ~Istory, psych?logl~al. decide if she is to go or not. .

For a free copy of the Kenny testlDg, physlcal.exam, flDanclal' pamphlet "Children of Divorce," report, .I~tters of reference and a home VISIt. send a business-size self-addressed One thing that worries me about ' your situation is the danger that your 9-year-old daughter will be put in a decision-making position.

Both sides and the judge may try WASHINGTON (CNS) - A to cater to her.

Catholic News Service story about I have seen many children of a book marking the 75th anniverdivorce, and very few want to be sary of the National Council of forced to choose between mommy Catholic Women incorrectly reand daddy. That is a no-win situa- ported that the book had been tion for a child and one that carries presented to the NCCW by its too many lifelong consequences. author. Actually, the book was Even if your daughter relishes presented to the National Conferthe position, dangers are present. ence of Catholic Bishops by offiBoth you and your ex may overin- cials of the NCCW.

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love and respect for the Holy Father as a person" and really discovered "how rich our heri':age is in the church." She passes this attitude on to her youthful charges.

I applaud this lively nun and the young people she guides. I th.ought of them recently when I read a quote by Robert L. Woodson Sr., head of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise: "We have been looking for cures in all the wrong places. We don't have a crisis in recreation, or social services, or consumer capacity.

Certainly our children need these things, and need jobs tOCi. But these things have no redemptive quality, and what our youn.g people need above all is to be redeemed."

I think that's the beautiful element present when young people, spiritually motivated, are guided to embrace work and activities that are other-centered, who\t:some and loving - "redemptive" qualities. Bravo to leaders like Sister Wiecezak!

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Come to an agreement between yourselves. Stay out of court if you can. But however you arrive at a resolution, be certain it is specific and does not place your daughter in a decision-making po!:ition.

Good luck with a troublc:some problem.

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What happens when students are preg~nant Q. The Catholic high school our granddaughter attends just made a rule that I find terribly crueI.1f one of the female studlmts is pregnant, she must leave the school at the beginning of the seventh month of pregnancy. If she has an abortion, and the fact becomes public, she will be expelled.

I know we want to discourage premarital sex. But my husband and I think this rule does something else. It almost encourages abortion.

I don't know the whole answer, but can't we do better than this? It seems to me a terrible and sexist way to deal with a tragedy that we all need to face. (I)ennsylvania) A. Interestingly, your letter arrived the day after I myself wrote a letter concerning a school in our region proposing oil similar policy.

It is my conviction, as pastor and former family life director of my diocese, that such rules are a poor and harmful response to a serious problem.

First, the concern and sanction seem to be not so much about the sin that may hav(: been involved, or even the pregnancy, but rather the embarrassmel'l't caused us by the fact that the pregnancy is beginning to "show."

I have sat in the living rooms of parents who were urging their pregnant daughter either to abort or separate herselffrom the family until"things are over." We would surely be perceive:d as approaching such an attiwde in such a policy.

This becomes yet more serious when the pregnancy results, as it so often does today, from incestual rape by a parent, sibling or other relative. Often, if not most of the time, the school, a caring faculty and a few friends, offer the only hope and emotional (sometimes even physical) safety such young women have.

Surely we need to deal with the problem, but our Catholic credibility is heavily at stake here. As you point out, when we say in effect, "If you are still pregnant by the seventh month, you will need to leave our school" - and that is exactly what we will be heard by many as saying - what are we telling them is the alternative?

A policy expelling students who have an abortion could simply be seen as "damage contro1." If you have an abortion you cannot say we didn't tell you not to. Such will be the message heard, even by many of our own people.

You hint also that such policies

individual's pastor, to handle these cases one by one, with their onthe-scene knowledge and concern for the people involved, perhaps isn't the best of all solutions and has built-in risks.

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say nothing about the boy or man who is at least as responsible for the pregnancy, apd often for the abortion, as is the young woman.

What happens to them in these kinds of sanctions?

Usually nothing nearly as punitive. This, if notlling else, shows there is something unjust about what is being done here.

Wouldn't it be spiritually and pastorally better to acknowledge that we don't have a clean-cut solution, that we all need to keep our respect for each other and pniya lot more over it so our decisions are as Christlike as possible?

Good Christian parents of such children do this. As Catholic institutions which proclaim and profess to live the same faith, can we admit that maybe we don't have an all-wise, one-size-fits-all solution at this point?

One glaring concern is how we justify this exclusion of women who may have sincerely repented and confessed their sin. How could we explain this sanction on teens who, because of extreme force or fear, or sheer unhinged panic (which a little pastoral experience proves are not uncommon), very possibly have not even committed a subjectively serious sin? What are we punishing? And again, what good are we accomplishing?

Such rules may seem to be a quick fix for frustrated administrators and other leaders. In addition to everything else, however, they contradict the attitude and practice Pope John Paul II has more than once said we should have toward women who have had abortions, most recently in his July 10 letter to women.

It's understandable that we would like something clear and absolute, but in human realities that delicate and fragile, that is not always, maybe never, possible.

The experience of those who apparently have ~eveloped successful policies in this regard suggests that the most we can, and perhaps should, justifiably require of singlemother students is that they bring neither their child nor pictures of their child to schoo1. For everyone's sake, we don't wish to do anything that will glamorize or glorify their situation.

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Fourth plac:e went toJohn Mello (right), who ex.. plains that tIle way Christ rules is .through the 10 Commandments.

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Two anonymous artists: one points out that evil stamps God under its foot and the other tells us that sin bites.

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Here are sonte more of the gang and there's Betty Smolinski who C,().. ordinates our CC,D program. She ~fi~d Father Ronald i\.

Siciliano, OF~1, pastor, provide ~~n atmosphere where kids want to get excited about GOld. (Photos by'Joanne Plante, 5th gratle CCD teacher)

Carpe diem!

Are \Ve living our dreatns?

The following addres~s was delivered by Father William W. Norton, pastor of St. Joseph's parish, Woods Hole, at the Jewish Congregation of Falmouth.

A character in the movie "Dead Poets Society" is John Keating, the transformative teacher played

by Robin Williams. In this masterful film, Keating takes Ii group of regimented, uptight and spiritually impotent students at a rigid prep school and inspin:s them to think about making their lives extraordinary.

A scene early in the movie shows Keating taking the boys to the school lobby where a trophy case displays photos of earlier graduating classes. .

"Look at these pictures, boys," Keating cries to his students. "The young men you behold had the same fire in their eyes that you do.

They planned to take the world by storm and make something magnificent of their lives. That was 70 years ago. Now they are all pushing up daisies. How many of them really lived out their dreams? Did they do what they set out to accomplish?"

Then Keating leans into the pack kind or civil to adults?" is a freof preppies and whispers "Carpe quent attitude. diem! Carpe diem! Sei~e the day!"

Once as Yohana Zakka went forth from Jerusalem, Rabbi All of us are walking around with a gift we would like to give, an Joshua followed him and beheld expression of joy, kindness, crea- the temple in ruins. "This, the place where the inequities of Israel tivity or aliveness that !we are hidwere atoned for, is laid to waste," ing in our blouse or shirt.

We live in incredible times of cried Rabbi Joshua.

"My son," said Rabbi Yohana, knowledge, computers, headlines, books, the arts. The creativity of "be not grieved. We have another atonement as effective as this. It is human beings in this century is astounding, but there are stagger- acts of loving kindness as it is said, 'For I desire mercy and not sacriing problems too. fice.'" (Hosea 6:6) Recently in the Boston Globe I Martin Buber's book, "On Juread an article "Social Ills Linked daism" says "If then, we relate to Isolation of Youth." Crime, ourselves to elemental Judaism's depression, suicide, eating disspirit, if we strive for unity within orders, alcohol and drug abuse our very souls, and purify the peohave risen sharply among young ple, we shall have helped to effect a people in almost all developed liberation and to set Judaism free nations in the last 45 years, accordonce again for its deeds. within ing to a recent study. A growth in mankind." youth culture that sets adolescents There is a story about a univerapart from their paret1ts may be to sity professor who came to a Zen blame, and increased individualmaster to ask him about Zen. The ism and rising expectations that master served him tea. He poured cannot easily be met may be among . his visitor's cup full and kept pourthe causes of rising disorder. ing. The professor watched it overSince World War II there have flow until he could no longer rebeen substantial increases in psystrain himself. "It is over-full. No chosocial disorders among youth more will go in!" he exclaimed. in nearly all developed countries.

Like this cup, said the master, The increases came suddenly; there had been no similar increases ear- "you are full of your opinions and ego and intellectual concepts. How lier in the century. Reasons could include availability of drugs and an increasing openness to sexuality and living together before marriage.

It also may be that an illolated th youth culture removed from family nurturing and the influence of parents has led to the increase in psychosocial problems. Permissiveness of the sixties has also been cited. The London Da~ly Mail said "the sixties generation wanted to make love, not war, but what the radicals of the sixties really achieved was to make life unbearable for our teenagers."

Some ofthe effects have ,included a loss of the age-old values of Judeo-Christian culture and ofthe sense of belonging to a community. "What's in it for me if I am

can I teach you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"

To care as God calls us to care is to empty our cup. Why it is that we keep the great gift of care so hidden? Why is it we keep giving a dollar without looking into the face of our brother the beggar?

Why is it we do not join the lonely? Why is it that we so seldom knock on a door or pick up the phone just to say hello, especially to those in pain?

Why are smiles so hard to get and words of comfort and care so difficult to come by? Why do we

keep bypassing each other, always on the way to something or someone more important?

Fear, my friends. Fear born of selfishness, our myopic little view.

I am right, you are wrong. Empty your cup and help me to fill my cup. For to give is to receive a hundredfold.

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JESUIT BROTHER Rick Curry (CNS/Toolan photo)

In

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Breadbaking brother also offers tips on prayer NEW YORK (CNS) -- Jesuit Brother Rick Curry reveals "The Secrets of Jesuit Breadmaking" in a new HarperCollins book, but his aim is also to impart secrets of Jesuit prayer.

In the book he offers recipes he has gathered from Jesuits and others from around the world, with the introduction providing general tips on breadmaking.

But in an interview at his apartment iii lower Manhattan, he said the true secrets he wishes to convey are about Jesuit prayer.

As he carries out the steps of making bread each evening, Brother Curry takes the Jesuit steps in examination of conscience.

"After reading the recipe, I take a deep breath, relax and recall that I am in God's presence," he explains in the book's introduction.

As the dough rises, he reflects on the good things that have come into his life. And when the smell of fresh-baked bread fills his kitchen, he is filled "with gratitude and praise for God and for all the things in my life."

Brother Curry began making' bread in I961, at age 18, when he entered the novitiate ofthe Jesuits' Maryland Province at Wernersville, Pa. The novitiate no longer exists, and neither does its bread recipe book filled with written notes from generations of Jesuit brothers.

So he put together his book to preserve some recipes known from memory, and to make readers more aware of the world of Jesuit brothers.

He plans to go on a book tour in September to promote his work, because he wants to mak<: some money for another of his projects - a theater program for the handicapped.

Founder and director of the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped, Brother Curry was born with a right arm that extends only to the elbow.

After getting a doctorate in theater from New York University, he decided to offer training to other handicapped people. Currently, he does this in his apartment, but plans to open an International University of the Arts in

Belfast, Maine, for handicapped students. .

Brother Curry said he teaches his students bread making as well as theater skills. By helping him bake, they pay some oftheir tuition.

During the winter months he bakes about'250 loaves a week for more than 100 regular customers and at Christmas and Easter, he and his students turn out thou.sands ofloaves for workshop benefactors.

Readers of Brother Curry's book get a few pages on the history, theory and general techniques of bread making, list of things that might go wrong and possible solutions.

They get recipes for Advent breads, such as his own cranberrywalnut buttermilk loaf, and for the Italian Easter breads served by Jesuit Brother Raphael Garcia Bandera, a Spaniard who recently died of a heart attack. He said Brother Bandera worked many years at Jesuit headquarters .in Rome. One of his jobs was as 'nurse to the Jesuits' la~e minister general, Father Pedro Arrupe, during the years he was incapacitated, and he learned to make breads of many countries.

Cornbread, Brother Curry reports, has been important in Jesuit life; each Jesuit fiercely contends the only correct recipe for it is the one used where he served his novitiate. To be fair, Brother Curry includes several recipes, though he puts the one from Wernersville first.

Along the way, he slips in a lot of miscellaneous information about bread and the Jesuits.

For example, readers who think sourdough originated in San Francisco will find it'was discovered by the ancient Egyptians, and that en route to India the Jesuit St. Francis Xavier "kept a sourdough starter alive in his cassock and baked bread with it every day on the high seas."

Brother Curry dedicated the book to his sister Denise, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur who teaches special education classes in a Washington, D.C., public elementary school.

When a parent is serio'usly ill

By Monica and Bill Dodds' The adult child of an aging parent who is seriously ill soon discovers that the reactions of others, and one's own emotions, can take surprising twists and turns.

'It can be hard even to think about what is happening to your parent, and worse yet to have to say those words out loud.

"Mom has had a stroke."

"Dad was diagnosed with cancer."

"It's at the stage where nothing else c'an be done."

But if your parent is seriously ill, it often means work has to be missed by an adult child and that an explanation ne'eds to be given.

It means the normal car-pool arrangement with the neighbor's kids has to be modified. And so on.

It means repeating. time' and again those painful words, or vague ones that convey the same, awful message: "Mom has had a stroke.;' That's when, at times, the questions asked by peers can hurt: "How old is your dad?"

"Did your mom smoke?"

"Had he been sick a while?"

"Did she .take good care of herself?"

Though it's never explicitly said, the meaning seems clear: Thank God it's your' parent who's sick and not mine. Mine is younger.

Mine never smoked. Mine has been healthy and goes to the doctor right away when he's not. Mine exercises and eats right.

These people don't mean to be rude, but sometimes their words sting. Theirs is a natural reaction.

There was a sense of relief, a gratefulness that for now anyway, they themselves had been spared.

Then, too, it can come as a surprise when you feel a strange burst of resentment - or anger - at members of the older gen'eration who are still healthy. A burst of envy toward your peers whose parents are still strong and vibrant.

Not that you wish them ill. Not that you wish anyone ill. But why are some senior citizens up and around and,. doing so well when your aging parent is failing so rapidly?! . And how can everyone else appear to continue to behave so normally, continue with business as usual, when your mother, or

when your father is close to death?

There is no easy way of letting go, n.o gentle way of saying goodbye, to a parent. Not even when our faith - which, in many instan(;es our parents nurtu red within us - tells us that death is not the end, that death brings eternal life. Even then, there is no truly. satisfying answer to "Why my parents?" or "Why now?"

It's at this point that the reacti'on from fellow membl:rs of the middle generation can be incredibly supportive. Not infrequently there are .people whose parent or loved one has been ill. Whose parent or loved one has died. They know. They understand.

Maybe it comes from surviving those thoughtless, sting:,ng questions, maybe from walking in the valley of the shadow of death and discovering the Shepherd really is there.

These friends and co-workers can offer an unmatched sense of compassion. They can share an amazing grace. They clearly know the power of the simp\(: "I'm so sorry to hear that. I'll keep you and your parent and yO'Jr family in my prayers."

The parish: a giving community

By Father Eugene Hemrick The church has a thousand ways of reaching into your wallet and relieving you of its contents. That reality surfaced during a meeting of researchers studying what motivates people to give to charitable causes, including the church.

Thanks to a Lilly Endowment grant, Dean Hoge at the Catholic University of America in Washing. ton has undertaken a study of five religious denominations and the giving habits of their members.

As we reviewed his preliminary findings, we discussed the various ways churches acquire funds other than through the Sunday collection.

As the conversation unfolded I could't help but remember how, when I was a child, we were urged to give pennies to help adopt a poor "pagan" baby. It was a program that taught us something about poverty in the world.

I remember also a time when a parishioner, who was a well-known author, came into our classroom and told us that if we helped him sell his book he would donate much ofthe earnings to the parish.

My mind wandered from these memories of grade school to my uncle's first parish. He was assigned to build St. Francis Borgia Church in Chicago.

To accomplish this and to support his new school he instituted ~ingo. In order to have bingo weekly, he relied on volunteers like my father and his brother-inlaw to clean and set up the hall.

Today, in-the parish where I assist, people sell supermarket certificates every Sunday. You can use a $10 certificate to purchase $10 worth of merchandise, but the parish gets to keep a percentage of the money from the certificates it sells.

To survive financially, parishes often employ more than one system of fund raising. Whether it is a parish picnic or a building-fund drive, there is always some new method designed to get us to dig deeper into our wallets.

If we take a second look at how parishes survive we also learn that they rely heavily on volunteers

who minister to shut-ins, visit hospitals or provide religious education for our children. Often the value of these services cannot be computed in dollars-and-cents terms.

The fact that we can't fully compute the value of the giving that occurs does not mean we should stop trying to measure it. A study like Hoge's reminds us to stop and take account of the extent to which a parish is a giving community.

Sometimes we lose sight of this by thinking in terms of people "attending" church functions. Or perhaps we think of the parish as a building. In either case, we over-

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look the generosity the building and its people represent.

Look around you the next time you're in church and take account of those who have volunteered: lectors, extraordinary eucharistic ministers, ushers, religion teachers, choir members, ministers to the sick and others. Next, reflect on all the methods the parish uses to obtain funding and review in your mind what all this is for -- what it achieves.

You and the people in church with you are a giving community.

This is a community chamcterized by a generosity that is mUI:h bigger than it first appears.

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MORRIS

The hero of "Grasshopper and l~, "ri路, ~ the Ant" has decided he wants to ., .'/ '\~! __--.A-I:.,I winter at our house, he and his war machine. Even after a couple of gether. "Nuke 'em, eh?" ~he said nasty childhood run-ins with ant gleefully. I nodded. She :pulled a hills, I've been able to maintain a smallish plastic container off the Disneyesque attitude toward the shelf, glancing left and right as she did. little guys.

"Zees viII dooozee jop," she Until recently. whispered.

I blame Bud, my neighbor.

"When did you develop the funny Bud sprayed his lawn with something that caused massive panic in accent?" I asked.

"Only ven I zellzees," she' smiled. the insect world. Lines of refugees "Veel it verk?" I asked. were soon seen wandering down She tapped the label. The direcmy driveway; up my drain spouts, tions were written in three lanaround my mailbox, into my water guages in print small enough to meter and over my shingles.

Many of them claimed they had make even the ants squint. As near seen teensy road signs pointed our as I could make out, an ounce of the stuff dihited in five gallons of way.

Bud denies this. But I overheard water and then misted into the air the troublemaker cackling and tell- would drop a charging rhino.

She also sold me a sprayer, a ing one colony (all their possesmask, a shoulder harness, extensions on their backs) that they'd be safe and welcome at Uncle Dan's sion hose, rubber gloves and a set of teensy road signs. and" Ant" Eileen's.

"You look like a character from Cute. r sought U.N. help (Ursula's 'Ghost Busters,''' my wife observed.

Nursery). "Ursula," I pleaded, "I've I want to believe it has worked. given up on inter-species commun- . But I could have sworn I heard the ication. I want to destory every ant sound of an itsy, bitsy violi.n comwithin a fhree-mile radius of 'my ing from under a fir tree and wee infested rhododendron roots." voices singing" Antland Uber Ursula rubbed her hands to- Alles."

Dorothy Day is subject of nlew Paulist film I

WASHINGTON (CNS)-After making his first feature film, "Romero," Paulist Father Ellwood "Bud" Kieser thought that maybe the making of his latest effort, "Dorothy Day," might be easier.

It turned out that he didn't get the star he wanted. Or the writer.

Or the composer.

"But God was al'ways able to show me that my st~cond choice was better than my first," said Father Kieser of Paulist Productions and the producer of both movies.

His hoped-for star to portray the Catholic Worker movement's co-founder was Michelle Pfeiffer, whose husband he knew.

He was hoping that the friendship was enough to get Ms. Pfeiffer to forgo her usual multimilliondollar pay and star in a movie budgeted at $4.2 million, $220,000 of which was supplied by a Catholic Communication Campaign grant.

But no go.

Instead, he lined up Moira Kelly, an Irish-born Catholic:. More movie audiences have heard her than seen her - she was the voice of Nala in "The Lion King" - but she also starred in "With Honors," "The Cutting Edge" and in two roles in "Chaplin."

"Moira is a believer and she acted this part from her heart.

That's why she gave the superlative performance WI~ see in this film," Father Kieser said. "Moira will be a major star after this picture."

He didn't name hi!; first choices for writer or composer, but for writer the priest landed John Wells, co-creator of NBC's new smash "ER," The movie's composer is Bill Conti, best known for his stirring sco~es from the "Rocky" movie series.

Also featured are two-time Oscar nominee Melinda Dillon as Sister Aloysius, who befriended a young Dorothy; Martin Sheen as Peter Maurin, her mentOJr; and Brian Keith as the archbhihop of New York, with whom Dorothy has her share of run-ins.

The director is Michael Rhodes, who also directed "Romero," "Dorothy Day" looks at its subject's life during a 2:0-year span, 1917-37: "That's where Dorothy ma kes all her big decisions," Father Kieser said.

The movie, he added, is in four parts. ' .

In the first part, Dorothy, III New Yor.k, has an abort.ion. The second part has Dorothy relocating to Staten Island, ~here she finds God, has a child with her common-law husband and decides to raise the child as a Catholic.

In the third segment, Dorothy co-founds the Cath()li~ Worker with Maurin. The Catholic Worker movement espouses voluntary poverty and service in the midst of the poor.

The final part details Dorothy's "dark night of the soul," Father Kieser said, "where she pays the price for that kind of lifestyle," .

"Serving the poor is not easy, and this film does not romanticize the poor," he said. "Being celibate involves a price. Being poor yourself involves a price. Being nonviolent in the face of violent conflict has a price. All this happened to her," The priest said he knew Dorothy Day personally, having been in Rome with her for Ithe fourth session ofthe Second Vatican Council.

Dorothy Day, he said, was "a feisty, street-smart, American version of Mother Teresa. But one who had affairs and an abortion."

Her story "gives people an experience of God's presence in the situation. It tweaks nerves in American society. It is about women's rights, it is about dignity, it is about fulfillment.

"It is ab0ut the need for God, it is about abortion, itis about single parenting, it is about lay ministry, it is about the homeless, it is about finding God in the poor, it is about commitment and sexuality."

With all that, finding a company to distribute "Dorothy Day" should be no problem, Father Kieser said, despite earlier reports to the contrary.

In Fall River Diocese Dorothy Day, who died Nov. 29, 1980, at age 83, visited the Fall River diocese in 1974 in the course of a lecture tour that took her to Boston, the' Trappist abbey at Spencer and Bridgewater State College.

At Bridgewater, reported a story in the Anchor for Feb. 14, 1974, she discussed the ba~kground that led her to the founding of the Catholic Worker in 1933. Miss Day said that as a young girl she worked on a socialist newspaper in New York and "was so horrified by what I saw that I decided the only way I could get over my aversion to the living conditions of the poor was to live with them," Accordingly the 20-year-old left home and moved into a furnished room in a dark, unheated house.

No Baths There were no bathing facilities, she said, and public showers were half a mile distant from the house.

Such showers exist. today for the poor of New York City, she added.

In such an abrupt manner, she said, she was introduced to the class' struggle and. to efforts of immigrants to accalturate themselves to American ways.

For some time" ,she said, she upheld Communist principles, but friends told her she was too religious to make a good Communist, and they were proved correct when in 1927 at age 30 she was baptized a Catholic.

All the time she. continued to write for various Socialist publica- .' tions and it was her. writings that brought her to the attention of Peter Maurin, a· French peasant who had been a ChHstian Brother' but who left his community seeking a way to found ¢hristianfarm- . ing communes which would support city houses', of hospitality offering shelter and food to the needy with the directness and simplicity mandated by the gospels.

Eager Listener I In Dorothy Day the Frenchman found an eager li~tener and the Catholic Worker movement began to take form, eventhally including farms, hospices in cities across the country, many of which are still in operation, and the famous Catholic Worker newspaper which for 61 years has maintain~d its price of a penny a copy.

She said, speak.ng, ironically, on the same night that then-President Nixon declared in his State of the Union message that Americans were enjoying the highest standard of living ever known, "In my long lifetime I've never seen conditions worse. So many welfare programs have been cut out,"

DOROTHY DAY, left, as portrayed by actress Moira Kelly in the forthcoming Paulist Productions film and right, 1974 photograph of her taken during a visit to the Fall River diocese.

We Must Trust Discussing the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolence espoused by the Catholic Worker hous'es of hospitality, Miss Day said that despite the fact that house of hospitality guests are not screened, there has never been anyone hurt at the CathoHc Worker. "We break

windows, not heads. We must trust each other!"

She summed up her years of witness with the comment: "Be what you want the other fellow to be," And she demonstrated her com-

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Vatican OKs 12 titular sees for former US dioceses WASHINGTON (CNS) - The Vatican has approved the establishment of 12 titular sees named for former U.S. church jurisdictions.

Auxiliary bishops and others who do not head a diocese, including most bishops in Vatican service, are assigned to titular sees when their episcopal appointments are announced.

Most titular sees are ancient cities of northern Africa, the Middle East or Spain that had to be: abandoned because of schism or lls1l1mic rule. Some titular sees, especially those in the United States, ceased to be active see cities because of a decision to merge dioceses or transfer diocesan headquarters to another city.

Some of the newly announced titular sees have complex histories. The see of Leavenworth, Kan., for example, was erected in May 1877, then transferred to Kansas City in Kansas in May 1891. Again named as a diocese in March 1897, it was finally returned to the jurisdiction of Kansas City in Kansas in May 1947.

The other new titular sees are: - Alton, Ill., and Quincy, III. The diocese of Quincy was erected in July 1853, transferred to Alton in January 1857, then transferred to Springfield, Ill., in October 1923.

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- Concordia, Kan." erected in August 1887 and transferred to Salina, Kan., in December 1944.

- Grass Valley, Calif., erected in February 1868 and transferred to Sacramento, Calif., in May 1886.

- Jamestown, N.D., erected .in November 1889 and transferred to Fargo in April or May 1897.

- Kearney, Neb., erected in March 1912 and transferred to Grand Island in April 1917.

- Lead, S.D., erected in August 1902 and transferred to Rapid City in August 1930.

- Natchitoches, La., erected in July 1853 and transferred to Alexandria, La., in August 1910.

- Nesqually, Wash., erected in May 1850 and transferred to Seattle in September 1907.

- Sainte Marie, Mich., erected in January 1857, with its name changed to Sault Sainte-Marie and Marquette in October 1865 and to Marquette in January 1937.

- Vincennes, Ind., erected in April 1834 and transferred to Indianapolis in March 1898.

The Vatican had earlier approved the establishment of Bardstown, Ky., as a new titular see at the request of Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly of Louisville. Erected in April 1808, it was transferred to Louisville in February 1841.

No bishops were immediately named to the new titular sees. The most likely candidates are new auxiliary bishops in major U.S. archdioceses, although bishops from any country could be appointed to路 them.

MSGR .. THOMAS J. McDade, vicar for education for the archdiocese of Newark, N.J., has been named education secretary for the U.S. Catholic bishops. His appointment is effective Sept. 18.

Msgr.McDade,47,hasbeen Newark's vicar for education since 1990. Earlier he was associate vicar for education, director of apostolic programs路 at Seton Hall University College Seminary in South Orange, N.J., and associate superintendent for secondary schools for the archdiocese. He succeeds Mercy Sister Lourdes Sheehan, who r.esigned in June.

AT TOP, the first leadership team of the Dominican Sisters of Hope: Sister Anne Marie Ryan, OP; Sister Veronica .Miller, OP; Sister Catherine Walsh, OP, Prioress; Sister Philomena Marie McCartney, OP; Sister Cecilia Crittenden, OP; bottom, sign at the Park Street convent in Fall River marks the change for the Dominican community from Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena to Sisters of Hope. The sign is the work of Sister Gertrude Gaudette, OP.

Dominican Sisters of Hope elect first leadership team The newly formed Dominican Sisters of Hope, comprised of the Dominican Sisters of St.. Cathe~ rine of Siena of Fall River; the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy RosarY'of Newburgh, NY; and the Dominican Sisters of the

Papal message The weekly English-language message of Pope John Paul II can be heard at the cost of $0.75 per minute by dialing 1-900-737POPE. It consists of a short greeting from the pope, followed by his weekly message, translated into English by the papal newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano. It concludes with a solemn papal blessing in Latin. The average call length is eight minutes. Part of the proceeds from the telephone charges goes to Catholic charities.

Sick Poor of Ossining, NY, elected their first leadership team during their first general chapter, held July 20 to 26.

Elected were: prioress Sister cath-' erine Walsh, OP, and Councilors Sister Philomena Marie McCartney, OP; Sister Veronica Miller, OP; Sister Anne Marie Ryan, OP; and Sister Cecilia Crittenclen. OP. Sister Anne Mane IS ad~inis颅 trator of the Fall River Center of Hope, as the headquarters of each of the three 'former communities

will be known.' She hold!: a master's degree in pastoral ministry from Seattle University and is involved in the use of plants as a means of healing the spirit of elderly persons.

Sister Walsh assumes her role as prioress after having served as a councilor for the past four years for the Dominican Sisters of Newburgh. A doctoral candidate in education at Fordham University, she is completing her dissl~rtation - a case study ofthe proc(:ss leading to the formation of the new community.

Sister Philomena Marie McCartney is currently pastoral. associate for music ministry and religious education at St. Benedict parish, Newark, NJ. Sister Veronica Miller ha.s served in congregation administration and is currently a maternity and child health nurse at Siena House, Bronx, NY. Sister Cecilia Crittenden is a nurse at Rainbow Home, a residence for AIDS patients in Wernersville. P A. During their historic gal:hering, delegates also reviewed their first constitutions, deliberated on local organizational structures, and discussed ways of implementi Ilg their threefold focus on the poor and marginalized, women, and Earth.

While the new congregation is based primarily in the northeastern United States, approximately 350 sisters serve in 34 dioc(:ses and 21 states as well as in Puert 0 Rico.

Their ministries focus on various aspects of education and health care.

Need to revUanlize VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In its evangelization campaign leading up to the year 2000, the church needs to revitalize its prl:aching and take advantage of modern mass media, Pope John Paul II says. Addressing the Vatican's planning committee for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, he said the. church wiII need a major effort to break through today's widl:spread religious indifference. While important ecumenical and intem:ligious events are being planned for the coming five years, the primllfy aim should be announcing the Gospel, he said.

Ma,rian hymns sought DAYTON, Ohio(CNS)- Wanted: Good, quality hymns about Mary, the mother of Jesus. Poets encouraged to apply.

With the release in 1992 of the English translation of Collection of Masses of the B11~ssed Virgin Mary for use in parishes, the Mariological Society of America sees a strong need for a new batch of Marian hymns that can be used in the liturgy.

Society officials say today's hymn books in Catholic churches contain only about half as many songs' devoted to Mary as those before the Second Vatican Council. So they kicked off a Marian hymnwriting contest during the society's annual meeting.

The Mariological Society of America, based at the University of Dayton, was founded in 1949 to encourage theological studies of Mary. The university's Marian Library holds the world's largest collection of printed material on Mary.

"Some of the (pn:-Vatican II) hymns were so swec:t and sentimental that adults couldn't get together and sing them without wincing at the words.," said Marianist Father Thomas Thompson, initiator of the contest and director of the library.

"Although hymnals have made strides in recent years, texts for Marian hymns are still needed," he said. "We need goodl poetic texts that are scripturally based and doctrinally sound and which fit our present liturgy. The greatest need is not the music, but suitable texts that can be set to music."

Contest guidelines ask entrants to: - Use images of Mary found in recent church documents, such as the two-volume Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary

and the "Catechism of the Catholic Church," and relate her to Christ and the church.

- Write in hymn form, which consists of lines of poetry arranged in stanzas. A hymn includes a regular meter, consisting of a number of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line. The rhythmic pattern and rhyme scheme are repeated in each stanza. A hymn usually involves three to five stanzas.

- Develop a Marian hymn suitable for some part of the Eucharistic liturgy. ' Deadline for submissions, which should not be set to music, is March 31,1996.

A panel of judges, comprised of theologians and writers, will pick the winners, who will be announced next May at the 1996 Mariological Society of America's annual meeting. Prizes include $500 for the best hymn, $250 for second place and $100 for third place.

"Hymn writing requires a developed sense of poetry, a deep familiarity with Scripture and with images, symbols and references to the Virgin Mary and a knowledge of what the Catholic liturgy requires of a hymn," Father Thompson said. "I don't want to discourage musicians, but we really want the poets and theologians to come forth."

In a study that will be published in the journal Marian Studies this summer, Father Thompson examines a century and a half of Marian hymns, beginning with the works of the prolific Frederick W. Faber, a convert to Catholicism whose hymns expressed Victorian piety and sentiment. The study focuses on the nearly four 'decades since Pope Pius XII's 1955 encyclical on sacred music. Popular hymns, according to the encyclical, should

be in "full conformity with the doctrine of the Catholic faith and express and explain that doctrine accurately."

In addition, they should "use plain language and simple melodies and must be free from violent and vain excess of words."

The early Marian hymns were meant for processions and evening devotions. "They are not suitable for the Eucharist, the principal and sometimes only religious ceremony in which Catholics participate," Father Thompson said.

He said he is not advocating a flood of new Marian music. He:d like to see "first, a liturgical orientation. And sl:condly, hymns in a contemporary style and also in Gospel and African-American styles," he said.

"Future hymns should show Mary as a model or a disciple of Christ. They should be scripturally based and present Mary as the model ofthe church at worship."

Entries may be sent to Father Thomas Thompson at Marian Library, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Da)'too, 0 H 45469-1390.

THIS MOSAIC depicting the Assumption of Mary is in the Basilica ofthe National Shrine ofthe Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC. The Assumption is one of the oldest Marian feasts, dating back to at least the seventh century.

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FIRE rally Continued from !Page One nary, he was a member ofthe New' York State Bar Association and served as Staff Judge: Advocate in the United States Air Force.

He entered the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance in 1957 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1965. After serving for five years as an ac:ademic dean, he was Rector/President of St. Francis Major Seminary, Loretto, PA, from 1969 to 1974. He is the author of 12 books and booklets including his autobiography, "Let the Fire Fall."

In 1990, Father Scanlan was awarded the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by Pope John Paul II. He received the Founder's Award from the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars in 1993, and in 1995 was honored by the Pro-Life Action League with the Protector Award for his defense of thl~ unborn.

Ann Shields lead!; the Servants of God's Love in the diocese of Lansing, MI. The Servants are a group of women committed to living the single life for the sake ofthe Gospel. Ms. Shields was a college English instructor fClr 18 years and now heads a college I:ampus ministry program. She is currently cohost on Ralph Martin's television program, "The Choices We Face."

A frequent speaker at national and international conferences, she has written two books and was coauthor with Father Scanlan of "And Their Eyes Were Opened."

Ralph Martin is president of Renewal Ministrie:i, a Catholic mission organization dedicated to

evangelization and renewal that sponsors a weekly television series, "The Choices We Face," and a daily shortwave radio program, "Food for the Journey." The ministries also assist the church in Eastern Europe and Africa and coordinate regional conferences throughout North America.

Martin is founding editor of New Covenant magazine and the author of numerous books. The most recent is "The Catholic Church at the End of an Age: What is the Spirit Saying to the Church?" He is a trustee of the Franciscan University of Steubenville and is a leader of The Word of God, an ecumenical Christian community in Ann Arbor, MI, where he resides with his wife, Anne, and their six children.

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results listed The annual Fall River Area CYO golf tournament was held July 31 at the Fall River Country Club~ In the Senior Division, Kevin Blaser of Somerset took first place with.a 77, followed by Fall River's Marc Turgeon who shot an 88. In the Intermediate Division, Keith Vieira from Fall River shot an 80 to finish first. Doug Noble from Fall River finished second with a 92.

In the Junior Division of the tourney, Mike Azza' of Swansea took the championship with a score of86and Mike Letendre from Fall River was a close second wit h an 89. In the Cadet Division, Brent Amaral from Westport shot an 86 to take first place and Westport's' SCHOLARSHIP AWARD winners with contest coorJustin Silvia was runner-up.. dinator Barbara' Leach, second left,an'd Mrs. Diane P.illsbury, Champions and runners-up are fourth left.

Children, from left, Annabel DeSousa, I st place; eligible to enter the Fall River 2nd place; Elise Goyette and Lauryn Corrie, Shaun Almond, Diocesan CYO tournament, to take place Monday, Aug. 28, at Po- , tied for third place. casset Golf Club 'on Cape Cod. Father J;iy Maddock, CYO director, expressed special' thanks to Tom Tetteault and Fall River Country CluJ;> members for hostSt. Joseph's School, New Bed- trophies. Mrs. Diane Pillsbury, ing the tournament again this year. ford, ended the school year at a Kevin l s mother, said the family Everett .Smith, assisted by Roger Mass celebrated by Father Roger organized the· contest as an exDugal, was tournament director Levesque, assisted by Deacon pression of appreciation to the and was also singled out for gratiMaurice Lavallee. school and Kevin's classmates for tude by Father Maddock. . Immediately following the Mass, their concern and prayers for her Memorial Scholarship awards were son throughout 'his illness. presented in memory of classmate "I wanted to promote Catholic Kevin Michael Pillsbury, 10 years education,"'she added. "Only in a old, who was' diagnosed as having Catholic school would Kevin have cancer on the last day of school in received such support."', 1993. His brave battle ended on Winning Essay GO'odFriday,~pril 1, 1994. .

How' ~o~ld you feel if Jesus In his memory the Kevin Michael Himself were to come to have Pillsbury Memorial 'Scholarship , lunch with you? What do you fund has been established in con- think you' would talk about? nection with an essay 'contest.

If Jesus Himseif was going to Yearly, the fund will award a tui- have lunch with me I would be so tion credit for the upcoming school happ'y and excited. Wouldn't you year to first, second and third be if Jesus came to your house for place winners of an essay contest lunch? That would be an honor if open to fourth and fifth graders. at Jesus came to my house just to eat St. Joseph's. The awards are made a simple peanut butter sandwich on the last day of school. . with me. I mean, ifJesus was comThis year Miss Barbara Leach, ing to my house for lunch I would contest coordinator, announced be overflowing with excitement, that 42 students entered unsigned but' when I 'saw Jesus I would essays to be judged by the Pills- probably faint! bury family. . .

If Jesus were coming to my First-place winner of a $1,000 . h'ouse for lunch we would probtuition credit was fifth-grader ably talk about heaven. Of course Annabel DeSousa; second place I would ask a lot of questions'. The went to fifth-grader Shaun Al-, first question I would ask is if mond; fifth-grader Elise Goyette heaven is the same as earth, but no and fourth-grader Lauryn Corrie violence? My second question I tied for third place. would probably ask if my grandAdditionally, Annabel received fathers and my grandmother were a plaque, as did St. Joseph's School, in heaven and, if they were in and the other winners received heaven, did they like it there? Then I would ask if my friend Kevin liked it in heaven too. I would probably have many more quesSOMERVILLE, N.J. (eNS)- tions, but if I wrote them all I An Internet connection is allowing would not have room. fifth-grade students at Immaculate.

When we' were done eating, I Conception School in the diocese would probably try to push my of Metuchen to link their science luck and ask if I could see an angel. project to the world outside·the Or maybe I 'would ask to see classroom. Alva Lange, the fifth- heaven. I may ask to see my grandgrade science teacher, responded fathers and grandmother or I INCOMING University of to an invitation on the Internet would ask to see my friend Kevin. from a teacher in the United KingEven if Jesus did not come for California at San Francisc~ dom. to ,do a jointexperimerit'.on student Kim Tercero demon- mold and food decay with stu- lunch today I know he still loves' me. But when I am in heaven strates infavor of affirmative dents from countries throughout someday I will have lunch with action on July 20, the day that the world. "This kind of interna- Jesus. regents voted to end race- tional project allows teachers and Spring to b~ 'a part of the J:'eality based admission programs in students of the whole world," said Sister "Spring is when you feel like' the university's nine-campus Diane Mollica, the school's com- whistling even with a shoe full of system. (CNS/ Reuters photo) puter lab teacher. slush." - Doug Larson

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS)Derrick Jones' first memory is of attending a pro-life meeting with his grandmother. Heather Clapsaddle didn't get actively involved until her early teens.

But, at ages 17 'and 23, respectively, they remain deeply committed to the pro-life movement, fueled by their involvement with National Teens for Life.

Jones, an incoming senior at Ursuline Academy in Springfield, IL, was elected to a second term as president of the teens' group July I. Ms. Clapsaddle, a Baptist, became involved eight years ago as a sophomore at New Leipzig High School in New Leipzig, N.D. Although her parents had long been . active in the pro-life movement, her own interest wasn't piqueo until she attended a state Right to Life convention and then helped found the North Dakota chapter of Teens for Life, one of the most active in the country. Nearly half of the 100 participants in the June: 29-July I National Teens for Life convention in Nashville were from North Dakota.

Ms. Clapsaddle is now an assistant for the National Right to Life Political Action Committee, based· in Washington, and an adviser to National Teens for Life.

Jones said that' although hi~ grandmother introduced him to the pro-life cause, "as I've grown older and read more and learned more, I've become' more solidly , pro-life than I was."

The Nashville meeting marked the 10th a~ni~ersary of National Teens for Life and included separate workshops and speakers aimed at a younger audience. Former Miss Tennessee Leah Hulari, who ser~ed in Operation Desert Storm with the U.S. Army Guard, was the Saturday banquet speaker.

Jones said the teen-oriented con-

vention, with sessions planned by and for teens helps its members deal with friends who are sometimes hostile to the pro-life cause, , "I have a few friends who are pro-abortion, and we have 2, lot of debates and arguments, but we can set aside our differences," Jones said.

"And every debate I have is more educational for me and for them;" he said. "I'm slowly chipping a'jVay at the pro-choice mentality of my peers." . ,Ms. Clapsaddle, who was attending her fifth I'!'ational Teens for Life convention, said the group's m~rnbership now has state and/or local 'chapters in, all 50 states.

The group sponsors a congressional reception. following the March for Life each January, publishes a newsletter for members and works to strengthen stai:e and local chapters.

"We have a pretty good network, but we are still trying to get into every part. of the country," Ms. Cl~psaddle said.

The mission statement of Nati~nai Teensfor Life describes it as ~teenage America'~ answer to abortion on demand" and states the belief that "teenagers are innately pro-lif~."

. "Only because. they have been fed so many half-truths about abortion do our peers somf:times think they are 'pr~-choice,'''it adds.

J ones, who said his pro-life: commitment is "deeply rooted" in his involvement in the Catholic Church, s'ees much reason to celebrate the 10th anniversary.

National Teens for Life "was started when a handful of dedicatedteens came together at the NRLC convention to make a difference in the battle against abortion," he said. .

"In 10 years, NTL has grown to include more than 3,000 members," he added. "That gives us a lot to celebrate."

Kids suffer in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (CNS) - Three boys who escaped from forced labor at a bleach factory outside Manila led police back to their former workplace to rescue eight youthful colleagues in a case that illustrated the plight of child workers.

Social workers who accompanied police on the raid said they found some 30 wor·kers, including the eight minors, living in subhuman conditions at the factory.

The workers were housed in overcrowded, poorly ventilated rooms, the report said. Some slept in dilapidated trucks.

All the young employees had coughs and breathing problems and complained ofheadach~s, chest pains and wounds on their arms.

The young escapees, ranging in age from'I3 to 18, said they had to work '12 hours a day with little to protect them from chemicals used in the bleach manufacturing process. They said. the factory owner slapped and kicked them when he· decided they weren't working hard enough.

The three boys said they slipped through a hole in the factory wall, ran to a nearby store and <;aIled the Kamalayan.Foundation, a nongov-.

ernmental children's rights organization.

Children were recruited for the factory "with or without the knowledge of thc::ir parents," the foundation's Merlie Asuncion said.

Brian Marsada, 14, said h,: was promised 1,000 pesos (US$40) a month, but found out from f,~lIow workers that he would' not be paid until after the third month of work.

Factory officials said the first three months' salary "was to pay for the expenses of management for re,:ruiting us."

After the three months, thl~ pay was 800 pesos (US$32), with the remaining 200 pesos (US$8) withheld for room and board, he said.

"But you couldn't call it d,:cent board and lodging," Asuncion said.

"It was a small cubicle where all the children were kept. How they could even stretch out their bodies, I do not really know."

Philippine labor laws prohibit hiring of children under 15. Children 15 to 18 can be employed, but onlyfornonhazardousjobs. Ao:ord-' ing to 1989 data, 2.1 6 . million children aged 10 tlo 17 were working in the nation's agricultural, industrial, serv.ices, and trade sectors..

By Charlie Martin

WATER RUNS DRY We dOIl't even talk anymore And Wl~ don't even know What ,,~c argue about Don't E:ven say I love you no more 'Cause saying how we feel Is no longer allowed Some I)Cople will work things out And s(Jlme people just don't know How to change.

Let's don't wait Till the water runs dry We mil:ht watch Our wlnole lives pass us by Let's don't wait Till the water runs dry We'l make the biggest mistake Of our lives Don't do it baby.

Now tlney can see The tea.rs in our eyes But we deny the pain That lil~S deep in our hearts Well maybe that's a pain We call1't hide 'Cause everybody knows That we're both torn apart Why dl) we hurt each other?

Why do we push love away?

Written by Babyface, Sung by Boyz II Men,(c) 1994 by Sony Songs Inc./ECAF Music (BMI)

CONSIDER THIS situation.

A couple has had a good relao tionship, but now their love doesn't seem the same. They go through the motions but they don't really talk any more. They deny the pain in their hearts.

This is the story described in "Water Runs Dry." With this release, Boyz II Men has yet路 another hit off thl:ir very successful "II" disc.

The couple in th,e song face a turning. point. They are pushing

love away. Should they reopen themselves to the good that the relationship originally brought into their lives?

The song states that "some people just don't krtow how to change." Thisis true; Even when we realize that the status quo is hurtful, we are often unsure what to do about it.

One helpful step ~ight be for the couple to reach out to friends in order to talk honestly about the hurt, the disillusi~>nment, the

uncertainty. Often, we need to get such feelings out before we can figure out what to do about them.

Perhaps the couple can find a way to focus on what was good in their romance, even if it seems like a dist".nt memory.

This is what married couples must do from time to time in refreshing their rdationship. Of course, we aren't told whether the couple in the song is married or not.

The song offl:rs advice: "Let's don't wait till the 'water runs dry." The longer the two people delay looking at the truth, the larger the emotional pain between them. This hurt then acts as a block to renewing the relationship.

This is one reason talking with a friend can be helpful. It can play a role in breaking through the de:nial and taking the first step toward creative change.

If a dating relationship still seems to have: a future, one partner could take the risk of speaking about what he or she considers valuable in the relationship. And remember, if you're trying to save a relationship, it's a mistake to address all your pain in this first discussion.

You might say that you believe there are several issues to talk about, and that it feels like the "water" of the shared love is running dry. You can explain why you still believe there is hope for the relationship.

Taking such steps re~uires courage for young people learning about relationships. It is a painful learning process for many young people because many youthful romances don't involve long-term commitment and aren't permanent: Eventually, however, what needs to be learned is that a relationship of love isn't over just because it experiences a "dry" spell. Otherwise every marriage would end in divorce.

Your comments are welcomed

by Charlie Martin, RR 3, Box 182, Rockport, IN 47635.

Stude][tt activist survived firing slquad JERUSALEM (CNS) -George Seremba was almost counted among the I million Ugandans killed during 13 years of military rule in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1980, as a 22-year-old student activist, he was abducted by the police, tortured and brought to a forest near Kampala, Uganda, where he was shot eight times by a firing squad and left for dead.

But Seremba survived, with the help of rain which he said quenched an unbearable thirst, and dragged himself to a road, where a boy found him and brought help.

"That night there was the good rain, my will to live and anything else one can only call a miracle. If that doesn't replenish your faith, I don't know what would," said Seremba, a Catholiic who has worked as an actor in Toronto since 1986.

He was in Jerusalem for the Israel Festival, where he performed his one-man autobiographical play, "Come Good Rain."

On stage he relives his capture and torture. Most find it painful to watch, and Seremba S::lys it is painful to perform, but very therapeutic.

What went through his mind as he faced a firing squad, staring

into the faces of the men about to kill him? "rknew I had no choice but to make my peace and Say my prayers," said Seremba. "I wanted to cling to some sort of dignity, if nothing else. In that Way I wanted to show them that aithough they were going to kill me,i they had not really won the: battle. ~hen part of the point was to strip me of my dignity, it bc:came i'mportant to maintain some semblance of dignity." ' His thoughts, however, were also on the men holding the guns. One man put his gun down and could not face Sere mba.

"They were very pathetic and hopeless men," saidSeremba. "I thought of them going to their wives and children; surely they must be haunted."

Seremba began performing his play in 1992 and has toured with it throughout the United States, Canada and london.

He said that when Uganda was ruled by Idi. Amin ~ and Milton Obote, people were frightened to speak out. But he was often involved in plays that opposed the leaders.

Seremba had been forced into exile in Kenya by 1980, but slipped

back into Uganda to spend Christmas with his mother.

After the attempt to shoot him failed, the villagers who helped him contacted his family, including a great-unde, Brother Stefeno Bwanika of the Brothers of Christian Instruction.

After Seremba had been treated in a Ugandan hospital, Canadian Brother Andn~w Paquette, a colleague of Brother Stefeno who was preparing to leave for neighboring Kenya, added Seremba's name to his exit permit as a novice. Together with Brother Paquette and another brother, Seremba got through military road blocks with the forged document, until the party reached an airport. .

Seremba said i"n general the Catholic Church was limited in what it could do in the face of the Ugandan terror. Priests were for the most part as vulnerable as their parishioners. Many were abducted, and in one case a priest was dragged off the altar during Mass, he said.

The young man said that visiting Israel for the first time during the Israel Festival was bittersweet: one of the charges brought against him by the Ugandan government was that he had secret connections to the Israeli government.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fan River-Fri., Aug. 4, 1995

By Amy Welborn Today's survey question: Name the area in which teens face their greatest moral challenges.

Must be either sex, drugs or alcohol, right?

I'll surprise you. I say none of the above.

It's honesty.

As serious as those other problems are, the fact is that not all teens are sexually active, and the majority of them aren't getting high or wasted every weekend.

But from my experience in the classroom and in parish ministry, I'd say that a startling number of teens, even the "good kids," regularly lie to their parents and have extraordinarily relaxed attitude'S toward cheating.

Most lying revolves around their social lives. It begins when they get their car or latch on to friends with cars.

Beginning in the sophomore year of high school, my students regularly regale me with tales of their exploits on the road and in the large cities nearby, all made possible because of the privilege of driving.

One group of 15- and 16-yearold girls - all honor students and all active in their churches - ended up getting arrested in one of those cities because they were unaware it had a curfew for teens.

They agreed to a story to tell their parents to cover up the incident. But the truth was eventually discovered because of one inconsistency. "That's where I messed up," Maria explained.

"Maria, didn't you mess up when you started lying in the first place about where you were going and where you'd been?" I asked.

The girls all chimed in to help.

"Oh no, we had to do that. We couldn't have fun if we didn't.

"We lie. Most of the time, they aren't awake to notice anyway. Or

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we say we stopped off at a friend's house and ended up falling asleep there."

One senior, a boy recognized by faculty and community alike as one of the all-around best in his class, summed up five years of deception by saying "My parents are so naive," Any high school teacher can verify that observation. Some parents are realistic about their children, but many more, when confronted with a call between a teacher's or administrator's word and the student's, will answer with a firm, "My child would never lie to me."

And cheating: well, we could write a book on that. Suffice it to say that surveys taken over the years show a greater acceptance of cheating among today's high school and college students than ever before.

I'm convinced that this lack of commitment to honesty and personal integrity lies at the base of all these other problems. After all, teens are able to go out and involve themselves in dangerous activities partly because they are lying to their parents about where they are and what they're doing. They're also lying to themselves about the potential consequences of these activities.

But as I say over and over in defense of these same teens, they didn't come into these attitudes on their own. Somewhere along the way they were taught. Listen to a fourth-grade teacher: "Children regularly come into my classroom with stories about their parents' dishonesty. "Hey, Mrs. Andrews, guess what happened yesterday. The bank teller accidentally gave my dad $20 extra in the drive-through, and boy, was he happy!"

No classroom teacher or youth minister could teach a more enduring lesson than that.

IF MUD WASN'T in their eyes, it was every place else as these youngsters from Sacred Heart of Mary parish in Boulder, Colo., participated in a Mud Bowl program sponsored by seven parishes. Fun included volleyball, rugby and a relay race. Hopefully, showers were nearby. (CNSj Baca photo)

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CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE Alumni and current Providence College students are invited to attend 4 p.m: Mass Aug. 19. Refreshments will follow. RSVP or information.

Steven Allietta, 477-9357.

Cape Irish Children's Program meets 7:30 p.m. each second Thursday. CCD Center Room C-I. Parish food pantry is in need of crackers. peanut butter and juice. . AFDC ADVISORY TIBERIUS EXPERIENCE, Contrary to rumors, there are no LaSALETTE SHRINE, changes in the Aid to Families with ATTLEBORO Dependent Children program. For Youth of all denominations welmore information, call (617)497- come for ecumenical prayer service 0126. around campfire 8:30 p.m. Aug. 16.

Information: Brother Dave, 222EARLY INTERVENTION 5410.

PROGRAM, DEPT. OF PUBLIC HEALTH ,SAINTS & SINGERS CHORUS, Those who feel ababy has a prob- BUZZARDS BAY lem affecting his or her physical or Rehearsals for Christmas concerts emotional development may call 1-. take place 7 to 10 p.m. every Friday 800-462-5015 to arrange a free eval- and every other Thursday Sept. 7 uation by the state Department of through Nov. 24 in the Harrington Public Health Early Intervention Bldg. lecture hall at Massachusetts program. Information als.o available Maritime Academy. New members at 775-6998, Cape & Islands; 675- welcQme; ability to read music not 5778, Greater Fall River; 997-1570, essential. Music and performance New Bedford; 226-6035, Attleboro; attire provided. Further information: 880-0202, Taunton.

759-4690 or write Box 271, Buzzards Bay 02532.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER Sister Elizabeth Doyle, RSM, will ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN join the parish staff in September as Golden Agers meeting Aug. 10; coordinator for adult formation and weekly meetings resume inSeptemspirituality. ber.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Aug. 4, 1995

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE All welcome at Marian hour of prayer with rosary and chaplet of Divine Mercy 3 to 4 p. m. each Tuesday. Rosary and act of consecration to Mary 8:35 a.m. Aug. 5, preceding 9 a.m. Mass.

PRO-LIFE ACTION, HYANNIS .

Peaceful rosary prayer vigil 10 a.m. to noon each Tuesday and Wednesday, abortion clinic, 68 Camp St., 2nd floor.

OUR.LADY'S RELIGIOUS STORE Mon. - Sat. 10:00 -5:30 p.M.

GIFTS

CARDS BOOKS 673-4262 936 So. Main St.. Fall River

FOR ALL DAY WALKING COMFORT JOHN'S SHOE STORE 295 Rhode' Island Avenue Fall River, MA 02724

ST. FRANCIS FRATERNITY, WEST HARWICH Meeting 2 p.m. Aug. 13, Holy Trinity Church, West Harwich, preceded by I :30 p.m. rosary. Mass will be offered by Rev. Cornelius Kelly, OFM, who will speak on "Keep Our Spirit Alive." Business meeting, discussion and refreshments will follow. All welcome. Further information: Dorothy Williams, 394-4094.

FATHER McELROY

TAUNTON STATE HOS1PITAL, TAUNTON The hospital is in need of Bermuda shorts for men and women, men's caps and women's sun hats.

Information: Sanford Epstein, 8247551 or (617)727-7978, ext. 127.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Instruction class for those wishing to become Catholics, for Catholics wishing to review their fa itt., and for. unconfirmed adults begins Sept. 18.

Call rectory at 295-2411 to register.

ST. THERESA CHAPEL, SAGAMORE Afternoon of recollection for women Monday, Aug. 14. Opus Dei priest will hear confessions 2:30 to 3 p.m. and at 5 p.m. All area women welcome.

DIVORCED/SEPARATI:D SUPPORT GROUP, N. DARTMOUTH Upcoming meetings at 500 Slocum Rd., N. Dartmouth: Wednesday, Aug. 9, Sister Jane Hogan will speak on "A Wake-Up Call"; Monday, Aug. 28, Pierre Blaise will discuss "What Is Depression?"; Wednesday, Sept. 13, Dorothy Levesque will discuss stress; Monday, Sept.

25, open meeting.

ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO Healing service and Mass with Father William Babbitt 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 6. All welcome.

HOSPICE OUTREACH SUPPORT GROUP, FR Support group for family,' friends/ caregivers of the terminally ill meets 1 p.m. each Wednesday at Hospice Outreach office, 243 Forest St., Rm. 220 Clemence Hall. To register or for further information: t:all 6731589.

CORPUS CHRISTI, E. SANDWICH Cenacle of prayer 7:30 p.m. each Monday, Charismatic prayer meeting (please bring Bible) 8 p.m. each Monday, both in parish center.

Chaplet of divine mercy each Wedne~day following 9 a.m. Ma~)s; MIraculous Medal novena. 1 p:m. each Tuesday.

Mass is offered at 5 p.m., on first Fridays at St. Theresa's Chapel. Bible Study group informational sessions 7 p.m., Aug. 20 and 27. Bibles provided; all welcome. Child ca.re available at.1O a.m. Mass summer Sundays.

UPCOMING activities at LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, include an old-fashioned hymn sing at 6:30 tomorrow evening. Led by Father Richard Delisle, 'MS, and friends, the program will include old favorites and currently popular hymns. Song sheets will-be available, and lawnchairs may be brought.

The sixth annual LaSalette tent revival will take place beginning at 7 p.m. Aug. 6, 7, 8 and 9. With the theme "Come, Share Our Hope," Father Tom McElroy, SS.Ce., pastor of St. Francis Xavier parish, Acushnet, will preach Aug. 6. To be heard on successive nights will be Most Rev. Soi-Daniel Brown of Providence; Carol Adams of North Attleboro; and Father Delisle, who will close the revSAGINA W, Mich. (eNS) ival with a Mass. Confessions . Saginaw Bishop Kenneth E. Untener says that when preachers in will be heard Tuesday evening the diocese have trouble with their and those who wish may be sermons, they try to hl:lp one anointed. Music for the four another. nights will be by Brethren, a "The homily is such a big factor four-member Rhode Island in making the Mass a cekbration that you are attracted to," said the band. Those attending are bishop. asked to bring a nonperishaThat was the premise behind ble food item for St. Joseph's Bishop Untener forming the BishFood Pantry. op's Homily Groups, eac:!l made Saturday, Aug. 12 will see a up of five or six priests, pastoral daylong songfest, to continue admi.nistrators, deacons and any from 12:30 to 9:30 p.m., rain others who preach in the diocese.

Bishop Untener, who is, on his or shine. The first-time event 10th group since beginn:ing the is for all who enjoy good process in 1993, selects particiChristian music. Groups to be pants, mainly in alphabetica.l order. heard will include Brethren, Each member sends a tape of a live The People of God's Love homily to the bishop's sec:retary, Worship Band and The Vine- who duplicates the tapes for other yard Fellowship Band. Addi- group members.

Then they meet, listen to the tionally, John Poke will offer an afternoon and evening per- tapes and take notes. Before the group is disbanded, each preacher formance. A supervised chilhas his homilies reviewe:d four dren's prqgram is planned for times.

2 to 4:30 p.m. to free parents Father DaleOrlik, a member of wishing to attend the after- the first homily group, found it noon performance. Ticket helpful in getting his homilies more sales will benefit Food for the to the point.

"I make an outline, and the best Poor. thing I learned from him was to go For further information on through with a red pencil ,and see any program or for directions what.you could cross out, because to the shrine, call (508) 222- sometimes we put too mu.ch and make it too long'," he said.

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