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Within ti:le lllelCt year and lltalf, some SO years after file first communicants Of <lIM. • • M t.". Anthony MissIon 10 a II
l;apoiset started attending Sun(iJay Mass in 11 rented hall in the !»wn, St. Anthony parishioners lAope to begin building a new lItlalUlrch. 'li'he' new $400,000 structure, (J9inprising.. SII.S-seat ch1Jrch • tIDd an attached eatechetical ~ter with eight classrooms, 'iYUl be built on church-owned .~operty between the present <ll!urch and the parish rectory. The church wiDJI be a brick!!nished colonial house of wor~iP., the Rev. Jl)amien Ve~, fiS.CC., assistant pastor says. The eatechetical center'. will be lJivo-story structure with the etassrooms and a librllry on the filrilt floor and 3 combination. ehurch hall and gymnasium ~ second floor. The two will lle connected. ' Pastor of the ·par,isb. in which
Brick Colonial Structure Planned for Mattapoisett
title memorial donation phase of ioners, Mrs. Thomas Clark and nated a separate parish by the church building program wi~ the building fund campaign how Mrs. John Monynihan. Most Rev. James L. Connolly, his donation of land at Barstow ia being conducted is the Rev. "God is good," says Father D.D., bishop of the Fall River and Hammond Streets for a new Diocese. church. That building WlMl Columba Moran, sS.ce., cur Yeary. Today, there are approximately opened - before it was reaUT rently vacationing in Ireland. General chairman of the fund Teams of parishioners are con drive is Edward Days. Co-chair- 500 families in the year-round finished - in 1906. congregation and an additional ducting the memorial solicitation men are Charles McGowan, rep In 1957, the parish opened itlJ dll"ive, which will be followed by resenting the year-round parish 800 families join the parish flock new Youth Center, a $15,000 to a general building fund cam ioners, and Marcel Roy handling during the summer season. Dur $20,000 structure converted from paign. Watching the team work donations from summer mem ing the summer, Sunday Masses an old barn with volunteer laool1' with fingers crossed are Father' bel'S of the parish .. also are' celebrated in Knights and "about $6,500." However, .despite the tremen Yeary and the recently assigned. "Hopefully," says Father of Columbus Hall on Route 6. dous increase in the number ~ new assistant, the Rev. James Yeary, "we'll start building in Beginning with a ·mere hand Hipp. about a year and a half. We ful of parishioners, the parish parishioners ' - overflow crowd. How do you' get a dturch have to have half of the $400,000 .,has been steadily growing. At still jam the 200-seat "old"" started? .
. before gi·oundbreaking." first services were conducted in church on Sunday mornings.'. . Father Yeary says ;;0'1 begin:
During the first week, '$50,000 tbe old Purrington .Hall in t~e 'God Is Good' with fervent prayer: "Dear God, was raised and Father Veary!s town, hired for the Sundays The situation has been gettin(J . tell me how to· begin..
hope is· being realized. . from the middle .of June to worse for the last quarter of II ''Then you walk down' the St. Anthony's parish is one of . September. A curate from St. centliry. street and meet George Smith the relatively "new" ones in the Lawrence's celebrated the Mass. . Now parishioners are workint: and realize he does this kind OIl area. Established as a mission of When St. Joseph's Church in to change the situation for time . thing.!' St; Joseph's Chui'ch, Fairhaven, . Fairhaven was· established, St. better.' . De .in 1916, it still is staffed by the . Anthony!:;· becl!ffie a mission- of The initial'phase is under way. .Smith Is . signer Sacred Heart Fathers. that church. The first "real" St. The general campaign will he George Smith, a communicant ·Before services were held on a Anthony Church was the old getting into full swing soon. of St. Anthony's, ~esigned .the regular basis in·the town at the Advent Church building in Mat T~e goal is large,' $400,000 new church and center. turn of the century, Catholics in tapoisett. Quickly, that became , but narishioners of St. Anthony'll Interior design will be han Mattapoisett had to travel to tOO small. are willing to work. died by: t'wo other experts ilm New Bedford for. Mass. Dennis Mahoney 91 Mattapoi And, as, Father Veary sa.sna= their field who also are. parishIn 1954, the m'ission was desig sett stinted the first parish "God is good."
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'Fish' Is Ecumenical Project
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The ANCHOR
.Attleboro Unit Designe~ to Help Others By Larry Michaud
A patient in a nursing home in Attleboro,. wanting badly to visit a troubled relativl/! . out of town, sought transportation but ·had no one to turn to. 'l'Jie head of the home dialed
222-2124. "Fish,"-was the answer at the' other end of the connection. The need was
related and immediately met. Such is a typical case experienced by a group of 14 people
who have decided to "do> .
what we could" in the way "I was very much encouraged itual help, as well as providinG:
of helping others. It all. be- by a woman who is familiar physical aid.
Being offered on an emer gan when Leonard Perrault with the group on Beac9n HiU
and Bob Clark were conversing in Boston," Mr. Perrault told. . gency basis are services such 00
a few months ago about the "She comes from Ji:ngland and babysitting, provision of foo<11,
problems of many who have informed me there has been the housework done for the sick, anell
nobody to turn to. It was at that same activity, bearing the same transportation.
Programs of visiting the im~
point that these two men began name thel:e, for some years," he l1 prisoned, reading to the blind,
to "form a group to offer ser- said. rides for shut-ins, and compan
vices," and the name of "The $4.00 per YeCll1 He was also surprised to hear ionship for the elderly are als~ 11, No~ @ 1967 lhe Anchor Fish" was agreed upon, because' PRICE 10: of national publiCity given one being undertaken. of its significance as a symbol "We even have had offem of Christianity, in the early of the Fish groups some m.onths ago by Time magazine. from non-members to provide Church. "Although doing good for Of the 14 members of Fish, housing when needed;". Mr. Pell' your neighbor is not new, we five are Catholic. Mr. Perrault rault said. Some of the experiences Cill thought we wet'e starting some and Mr. Clark, who began the thing'original," Mr. Perrault said. .movement, are Protestant', and countere<i thus far include hav It was later discovered tliere the whole group works together ·lng assisted a woman lackinf: VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope Paul VI's project of the means 'to bury her son and giv !reform of the Roman curia, the Church's central admin are groups in Springfield and in a common cause of heiping ing her solace in the days foll .Boston, oddly enough under those .in need or ·trouble. The fJJtrative offices, has been completed after almost f.our years -the same name, engaged in the spirit· of brotherhood. prevails. lowing; raising funds to send Il fi quiet planning. Publication is tentatively scheduled for same tyPe of good work. and members lead some to spir- Negro boy from .Providence. R. I., for a one 'week stay at • Aug. 18. Among the most Summer camp' in Marion, Mass.; Better ·communications be fur-reaching reforms' is the visiting a hospitalized boy anell ()ll"eation of a centI-al fina-n tween the. curia and the Pope bringing him small gifts; anell will help to achieve that decen;' elial office to supervise and tralization which the Pope him bringing the needs of, a larg.e Turn to Page Six <ooordinate the val'ious financial self listed among the purposes of Iltodies which until now have curial reform 'when . he an been administering the funds of nounced in September, 1963, that the Holy See. he was undertaking it. n has been axiomatic that the Better communications be . lP'ope himself does not know ex;' actly how much money the Holy tween the Pope and the curial offices w~ll mean that the Pope See has or exactly how it is be nng spent. However, Pope Paul will be a,ble to get faster action Ihlas taken pains to emphasize from these offices. Thus he will NEW YORK (NC)-Fou1' that the Holy See's resources are not have to rely so heavily upon Oatholic priests credited with liar from stupendous. He has his state secretariat. calming recent disorders in Since the time of Pope Pius X, 0ven spoken of the Church's the Harlem and Bronx sec Popes have been depending Clblessed penury." tions of New York received Op Whether the new financial more and more upon the state eration Friends Awards from secretariat to get things done (}ffice will call upon civilian ac Police Commissioner Howard R. 00untants for a comprehensive quickly, even in fields that Leary. canonically lie in the competen !revicw of the Holy See's finan The awards sponsored bY' cy of the curial congregations.. ~nal situation and techniques radio station WBNX are given IlS Pope Pius X[ did to his de Another element of the reform monthly to a police officer anell ~lared satisfaction-has not been is the guarantee of the rights of civilian who have helped pro lJlI1nounced. the individual before the mas mote better relations betweellll The principal elements of the sive and impersonal bureaucracy the police and the community. <curia reform al'e expected to of the curia. Standards for this The honored priests are Msglr'. be a clearer definition of the have already been set by the iCeD DIRECTORS: Bishop Connolly has appointed Robert J. Fox, coordinator oil competency of each curial office reform of the former Holy Of Rev. John J. Smith, assistant at St. James Church, New Spanish Community Action in Qr congregation, 3\101 the unclog fice-now the Doctrinal C0I1gre Bedford,as CCD director of the New Bedford area, and the New York Archdiocese; ging of communications among gation-on Dec. 7, 1965. Rev. George W. Coleman, assistant at St. Louis Church, Fathers Raymond J. Byrne oil' St. iihese offices and TJetween them Another aim of the curial re Fall River, as co-director of the Fall'River Area. . O!J!ld the Po.'· Tum to' Page Three Turn to Page ~
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N.Y. Police Honor Priests for' Aid. During Trouble