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Diocese of Fall River, Mass.

Friday, August 11, 2017

Father Jay Mello, pastor of St. Michael and St. Joseph parishes in Fall River, poses with two “Roman soldiers” just before marching in the feast procession last Sunday. With Father Mello are parishioners Aiden Barroso and Bradyn Costa. The parish held its annual feast honoring St. Michael on August 4, 5 and 6. The weekend’s closing day featured a procession at 2:30 p.m., followed by benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and food, games and entertainment in the church yard. (Photo by Shanna Lubold) The Anchor - August 11, 2017

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Bishop da Cunha ordains second-ever Vocationist bishop

By Dave Jolivet Anchor Editor davejolivet@anchornews.org

FALL RIVER — And then there were two. Fall River Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., recently traveled to his native Brazil to ordain the second-ever bishop who is a member of the Society of Divine Vocations, Father José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira, provincial of the order. Bishop da Cunha was the first-ever Vocationist Father to be ordained as bishop.

The Society of Divine Vocations was founded in 1920 by Father Justin Russolillo, then pastor of St. George Parish in Pianura, Naples, Italy. The order’s website states, “The ultimate goal of the Vocationist Fathers is to bring all its members, and, through them, the whole world to perfect Divine union with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Vocationist Fathers believe in universal sanctification and

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promote it in all walks of life.”

Bishop da Cunha was appointed a bishop by St. Pope John Paul II in June of 2003, and was ordained Titular Bishop of Ucres three months later.

Bishop Oliveira’s ceremony was held July 16 outside Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Parish in the Municipality of Araci, Bahia, Brazil, in the Diocese of Serrinha, which is a suffragan see to the Archdiocese of Feira de Santana. The joyful event was attended by 10 bishops, including Bishop da Cunha, the principal consecrator, and more than 1,000 faithful, including many former parishioners, priests from the diocese and surrounding dioceses and all over the world. The Vocationists have members in 12 countries worldwide.

“This was such a joyful event,” Bishop da Cunha told The Anchor. “Bishop Oliveira and myself come

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from towns very near each other. With only two Vocationist bishops in the world, there must be something in the water there.”

Bishop Oliveira was assigned to be prelate of Itacoatiara, Amazonas, Brazil.

“It is in the middle of the Amazon, on the banks of the Amazon River,” added Bishop da Cunha. “He had never been there before until his installation on July 30. It’s a fairly remote area, small demographically, but large geographically. There are only eight priests in the whole diocese.”

When Bishop Oliveira received word of his appointment in April of this year, he reached out to Bishop da Cunha to be the principal consecrator. “We have known each other many years,” the bishop told The Anchor. “I was there when he was ordained a deacon, and when he was ordained a priest in 1992.

He was also there when I was ordained a bishop, so

Top photo, just some of the more than 1,000 people who attended the ordination of Bishop José Ionilton Lisboa de Oliveira, S.D.V., in Araci, Bahia, Brazil last month. Bottom photo, Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., lays hands on Bishop Oliveira during the ordination. The two are the only Society of Divine Vocations priests who have become bishops.

our friendship goes back years.”

Bishop da Cunha also said that then-Father Oliveira has asked him to ordain a number of men to become Vocationist priests over the years.

“This is awesome because it’s very rare when someone who is not yet an auxiliary bishop is appointed a bishop,” said Bishop da Cunha.

“So this may be an once-ina-lifetime opportunity.

“This is incredibly important and it is such an honor to have been a part of this ordination of a friend and confrere.”

Bishop da Cunha said the ceremony that took place outside Our Lady of Immaculate Conception Church in Araci was planned by the parish, the diocese and Bishop Oliveira. “But I was impressed by the large number of

lay volunteers who helped make the day such a joy and a success.

“It was a real example of community coming together, including the mayor, the police and so many others.

“Many of those people there had mixed emotions about losing a beloved priest, but also very proud to see him become only the second Vocationist bishop.

“Bishop Oliveira’s brother spoke at the conclusion of the ordination also expressing joy and sadness regarding his brother’s becoming a bishop, yet embarking on a new journey.”

Serving as co-consecrators were Archbishop Zanoni Demettino Castro of the Archdiocese of Feira de Santana, and Bishop Ottorino Assolari, C.S.F., of the Diocese of Serrinha, both in Bahia.

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‘Live long, die short’ is presenter’s message at Our Lady of the Cape

By Becky Aubut Anchor Staff beckyaubut@anchornews.org

BREWSTER — Don’t be like the low tide, quietly fading away without much notice. Be a wave.

Become strengthened with movement, and end with a flourish.

In other words, “Live long, die short,” said Dr. Roger Landry, a preventative medicine physician and author of “Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging.”

Living life as a wave is a perfect metaphor for how to live your life, explained Landry.

“It should be how you live,” he said, adding that “aging” in a reserved and quiet fashion is a “stereotype.” It doesn’t matter at what age you embrace this message. Understand, said Landry that “life is a gift

and should be lived with maximum intentions and be experienced fully.”

While you cannot stop

better.

Citing the Rowe-Kahn model of successful aging, Landry explained how in

Dr. Roger Landry, a preventative medicine physician and author of “Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging,” spoke to an audience at Our Lady of the Cape in Brewster recently. (Photo by Becky Aubut)

the aging process, studies have shown that subjects who take the “high road” when it comes to aging, do

their original model, Rowe and Kahn defined successful aging as the avoidance

about the best strategies for signature gathering, the legal dos and don’ts, what rights we have to gather signatures in public places, managing other volunteers, proper procedures for dropping papers off at town halls, and the next steps in the effort should we get the signatures we need,” he said.

For those interested, there are three sessions being held within the Fall River Diocese: — Monday, August 21 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Grace Baptist Church, 1000 Oak Hill Avenue in Attleboro; — Wednesday, August 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 57 Fairhaven Road in Mattapoisett; and — Wednesday, September 6 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at

the Knights of Columbus Hall, 375 Foundry Street in North Easton.

“We anticipate we’ll have signature papers some time in September, but before that we want to make sure our volunteers are well-prepared,” Harvey added. “We urge everyone to attend at least one of these trainings, and invite your friends to attend and volunteer as well.”

For more information about the petition effort, contact the Massachusetts Alliance to Stop Public Funding of Abortion, P.O. Box 345, Arlington, Mass.

02476.

For information about the training sessions here in the diocese or Massachusetts Citizens for Life, visit www.masscitizensforlife. org or contact Andrea St. Germain at 508-776-9506.

Petition drive to end abortion funding in Mass.

FALL RIVER — Last year, Boston-based attorney Tom Harvey, known for his pro bono work for the Pro-Life movement, led a petition drive to put an end to publicly-funded abortions in Massachusetts.

That initial effort fell short of the needed quota of 66,500 signatures — they managed to get only 34,000.

A new effort is being spearheaded by Attorney Harvey to organize volunteers in every part of the state to resubmit a signed petition in September.

Harvey has already filed the necessary paperwork with the attorney general’s office and a series of Regional Signature Drive and Activist Training Sessions are being held throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to “talk

of disease and disability, but more recently they expanded their model to include maintenance of physical

and cognitive function, and engagement in social and productive activities.

“Life will throw you curveballs,” said Landry, “but it’s how you bounce back through the choices you make, that will make

the difference.”

“You can start with lifestyle changes that will help you improve to be better and stay better,” said Landry. “Most people tend to want to put the elderly out to pasture, thus marginalizing that population. However, this ideal of relegating the elderly to the sidelines came about more than 200 years ago from the Industrial Revolution.

Before then, being an older adult was a privilege and appreciated, though there are some societies that still take care of their elderly.”

Instead of allowing yourself to be sitting on “the bleachers of life,” said Landry, “get on the playing field. Reach out, be part of the community. Elderly people tend to isolate themselves. Be part of a social organization or religious community. That is so important.”

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OFFICIAL His Excellency, the Most Reverend Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., D.D., Bishop of Fall River, has made the following appointment: Dean Very Reverend Timothy P. Reis, V.F. – Attleboro Deanery Effective: July 27, 2017 The Anchor - August 11, 2017

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The Permanent Diaconate — A short history

By Deacon Frank Lucca Co-Director, Diocesan Permanent Diaconate Office

In anticipation of accepting applications for the 10th diaconate class this fall, we would like to take this opportunity to share with you and with all members of the diocese, information on the permanent diaconate.

A permanent deacon is a man who serves God and His people as an ordained representative of the Church. In the early Church, besides bishops, some men called deacons were ordained to serve the Church and help fellow Christians. In the years that followed the apostolic age, the diaconate became a recognized and important office in the Church, a full part of the three-

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fold hierarchy of orders: bishops, priests and deacons.

As the diaconate flourished in the early life of the Church, the signs of decline began to appear. The reasons for this decline were varied, but the one which emerged as the strongest seemed to be an overemphasis on the deacon’s Liturgical role at the expense of his other functions. The ministry of service began to be taken over by priests and lay people. During all this, the Church lost sight of the special role of the deacon, and the need for the office became less and less clear. Thus, by the Middle Ages, it had become, for all practical purposes, what it has remained until 50 years

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ago, namely a preparatory stage for priesthood. Over the last seven centuries, this Sacred order had been received almost exclusively by those who would eventually be ordained priests With the onslaught and aftermath of World War II, however, and the attending rigors it brought to the Church, the absolute need for the restoration of permanent deacons became evident. Thus, from 1951-1968, preparations were made and set in motion to restore the office of the permanent diaconate.

The Second Vatican Council recommended that the diaconate be restored as a permanent order in the modern Church. Shortly after Blessed Pope Paul VI declared that he would restore the diaconate in those countries that wished it. In August of 1968, at the request of the Catholic bishops, he approved the permanent diaconate in the United States. In 2018, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the restoration.

It is significant to note that the word deacon comes from the Greek work diakonia which means “service” or “helper.” It occurs several times in the New Testament and sometimes is applied to Christ Himself.

A deacon may serve in a variety of ways depending on his abilities and desires and the needs of the local community. He may service full time, or more likely, part time. He will serve with the help of the Sacramental grace of Holy Orders. Today’s permanent diaconate, in short, is a way to serve the people of God. At the Second Vatican

Council, the bishops of the world anticipated the Church’s growing need for the ministries of word, Liturgy and charity, which at that time were principally shared only with bishops and priests. The bishops of the council reflected on the ministry of the deacon, as it was exercised in the first few centuries of the Church’s history, and decided to restore it as an active and permanent ministry open to married and single men.

The Church today needs the service of permanent deacons. They implement and enrich the work of their brother priests and bishops while at the same time bring a unique sensitivity to the entire concept of ministry.

Candidates accepted by the diocese will relate to the whole Church community. The ministry of the deacon is three-fold — Ministry of the Word, Ministry of the Liturgy, and Ministry of Charity: Ministry of the Word The Church was commissioned by Jesus Christ to proclaim authentically and fully the Good News to make disciples of all peoples. This mission is still going on. As a sharer in Holy Orders, the deacon is sent to preach the Word of God. He fulfills this role by reading the Gospel and preaching at Liturgical celebrations, by conducting prayer services, Bible vigils, Penance services, by preparing people for Marriage, Confirmation, reception into the Church, etc.

Ministry of the Liturgy It is the duty of the deacon, to the extent that he has been authorized by competent authority, to administer Baptism solemnly, to be custodian and

dispenser of the Eucharist, to assist at and bless Marriages in the name of the Church, to bring Viaticum to the dying, to read the Sacred Scriptures to the faithful, to administer Sacramentals, and to officiate at funeral and burial services.

Ministry of Charity Loving and serving individuals and the community of persons in Christ is the deacon’s most characteristic ministry; like the Lord, he washes the feet of others. For many people, the deacon’s chief witness will be in personto-person encounters — from the aged, the sick in hospitals and homes, prisoners, the poor and the rejected, to prisoners, to the young on our college campuses, and to the poor, to the marginalized and those on the periphery — for all of these a deacon can be one who cares, who brings Good News from the heart of the Christian community.

The potential for good in the diaconate ministry is far-reaching, in our own diocese and in the modern world. The deacon is the ordained minister whose mandate has existed from the time of the Apostles.

The call to the diaconate is a call to service and a total commitment to God. It is a call to share in a community in today’s Church that will be recognized by all of God’s people through the deacon’s sign of service.

As the Church continues to face the challenges of today, it needs to be constantly reminded that the Lord came to serve and not be served. The deacon symbolizes and exemplifies Christ the Servant.

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New diocesan directory cover features famous Fatima painting

Italian descent — as well as I can’t say definitively who Saints Jacinta and Francisco a young actress who posed (modeled) for the portrait,” Marto — are dressed in the said Msgr. Avila. “He knew peasant clothing typical of the for the image of the Blessed FALL RIVER — In Mother. While the identity Veronica Lake, but Linda period, kneeling in adorahonor of the centennial year of the actress was never ofDarnell was a friend of his, tion, their eyes directed to of the Fatima apparitions, the her haloed presence. Nearby ficially revealed, two names so I maybe lean towards her. soon-to-be-published 2017 But others have said it was sheep and a pet goat are pas- continue to be mentioned as edition of the annual Catholic turing in a beautifully peacelikely models: Linda Darnell, Veronica Lake.”

Directory for the Fall River a close friend of Medina, and No one involved in the ful setting. Infinitely tender Diocese will prominently project, neither the models and moving is the expression Veronica Lake — both of feature a stunning painting whom were popular Hollynor the artist, would accept of the Blessed Mother and of Our Lady of Fatima as she the children, who gaze as wood actresses at the time. payment for their work. The first appeared to the three painting was unveiled in if in ecstasy upon the Portuguese shepherd children ineffable beauty of the August of 1946 in East in 1917.

Falmouth, after which it apparition.

And the painting also has was stored away at the Educated in Portugal a local connection in that the and Paris, Henrique rear of the church until original artwork resides right Medina lived in Lonits installation as part here in the Fall River Diocese don for 10 years before of the new reredos and — on the wall behind the altar. arriving in Rome, where altar at St. Anthony’s Church he famously painted The altar and paintin East Falmouth. ing were later blessed by Mussolini’s portrait.

“We’re very fortunate — it After traveling to São Bishop James L. Conis just an absolutely stunnolly on Aug. 16, 1951, Paulo, Buenos Aires, ning painting,” said Msgr. and the painting has Madrid and Stockholm, Stephen J. Avila, pastor of St. Medina eventually remained in the SanctuAnthony’s Parish. “It’s really ary ever since. moved to the United something of a hidden gem Earlier this year, in States and lived in in our diocese.” honor of the occasion of Hollywood, Calif. for Painted in 1946 by disthe 100th anniversary of six years, during which tinguished Portuguese artist the Fatima apparitions, time he painted many Henrique Medina (1901Msgr. Avila announced famous actresses’ por1988) — an internationallythat the Vatican Office traits. known portrait artist — as an of the Apostolic PeniIt was during this expression of his devotion to tentiary had approved period that he was his Catholic faith, the paintthe painting for veneracommissioned to paint ing was given as a gift to the tion. the “before” portrait of pastor and people of St. An“It’s approved for the titular character in thony’s Church, which was veneration as an image the 1945 MGM thriller once a Portuguese national “The Picture of Dorian “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” by Hen- to meet the criteria for parish. the indulgence that’s rique Medina.

Gray,” based on Oscar The original painting being offered during the Wilde’s novel of the of Our Lady of Fatima is Darnell is probably best Year of Fatima,” Msgr. Avila same name. That well-known approximately five-feet-byknown for films like “My said. “It’s a matter of praying painting of actor Hurd Hateight-feet. Dominating the Darling Clementine,” albefore the image, offering field as Dorian Gray was sold picture is the white-robed though she is also said to prayers for the Holy Father, in 1970 when MGM held figure of the Blessed Virgin have played the uncredited going to Communion and an auction of movie props.

Mary, standing in the midst role of the Blessed Mother in going to Confession. The It has been held in private of a bluish cloud and floatdocument specifically talks collections ever since and was the 1943 film, “The Song of ing above the green fields, Bernadette” about the earlast purchased at a Christie’s her hands clasped together in auction in New York in 2015 lier apparitions in Lourdes, prayer and a Rosary suspend- for $149,000.

France. Lake was known for ed from them.

Like the Dorian Gray por- starring in film noir classics Medina has portrayed Our trait, Medina used live models like “This Gun for Hire” and Lady with a human face exfor many of his paintings, and “The Blue Dahlia,” and many pressive of that purity which art historians claim the facial his depiction of the Fatima can only be born of underfeatures of Our Lady in Meapparition is no exception. standing and self-surrender. dina’s painting most closely It is believed he used three Below, the three children — resemble hers. children of Latin origin — Lucia Santo, and her cousins “As much research as I did, the eldest, he claimed, was of

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about praying before a statue of Our Lady of Fatima, but I wanted to make sure that this image was a part of that.

I sent them a picture and they approved it.”

Msgr. Avila noted that Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., will join parishioners in celebrating the Fatima centennial during a Mass on August 19 at 4 p.m. The bishop will also bless participants in the Falmouth Road Race that weekend.

“Because the children were arrested on August 13, the apparition did not occur,” he said. “Instead, it took place on August 19 that month by the time they got out. So that’s why it worked well into our Saturday evening Mass to have Bishop da Cunha come celebrate. Every month (since May), we’ve been having a special celebration, and it’s been a beautiful testament to our parish, especially with its Portuguese roots.

“It’s funny, because a lot of people do ask when they walk into St. Anthony’s Church, why is there an image of Our Lady of Fatima (on the altar)?

I explain it’s because of the devotion of the Portuguese people. Remember, when this image was painted, many of the people who were in that parish were living at the time the apparition took place.

Those people who had come from Portugal brought that devotion with them.”

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Anchor Editorial

The continuing battle with Satan

On Monday Pope Francis had Pietro Cardinal Parolin, the secretary of state of the Holy See (the Vatican), sent a telegram to Bishop Hilary Paul Odili Okeke of Nnewi, Nigeria, which said, “Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and injury following the violent attack in St. Philip’s Catholic Church, Ozubulu. His Holiness Pope Francis extends heartfelt condolences to you and to all the faithful of the Diocese of Nnewi, in particular the families of the deceased and all those affected by this tragedy. Upon the entire diocese, His Holiness willingly invokes the Divine blessings of consolation and strength.”

According to the BBC, 11 people were killed and 18 were wounded at the church, while it was still difficult to determine if one or several people committed the murders.

The Vanguard (a Nigerian newspaper) reported Monday that “no fewer than 35 worshippers” were killed. The massacre happened during the 6 a.m. Sunday Mass, when around “6:45 a.m., the gunmen rode into the church in a Lexus SUV, as one of them entered the church and shot at close range an elderly man, later identified as Pa Ikegwuonu, while others remained in the vehicle outside.”

“An eyewitness told The Vanguard that after killing the old man, the gunman opened fire on other worshippers, as those who tried to flee were cut down by the gunmen outside the church.”

According to the BBC, the Nigerian police claimed that the killings were not an Islamist attack by Boko Haram, but rather either “the result of a feud between Nigerians from Ozubulu who were living abroad” and/or due to conflicts amongst drug traffickers.

The BBC quoted the pastor, Father Jude Onwuaso, who said, “After the first round [of shots], there was second round and I guess it was during the second round that people were shot dead. When I came back I discovered that some of my parishioners were dead, about five or six I saw shot dead bleeding.”

One of the worshippers, Stephen Ohamadike, told The Vanguard that the killers entered as the prayer of the faithful was about to begin. He said, “Those of us who were to say the prayers of the faithful had just assembled at the altar and I had number two which meant that I was to say the prayer for Nigeria.

Suddenly, I saw someone who was putting on a cap shooting indiscriminately inside the church. There was pandemonium and in the midst of the confusion, I just lay down on the floor.”

Turaki Hassan, a Nigerian official spokesman, asked, “Have we lost our humanity? Where is the place of sanctity of life and Sacredness of worship places in our society? What offence did the worshippers commit to warrant their massacre in cold blood by wicked souls and heartless men?”

The Vanguard reported that Father Hygi Aghaulor, a Catholic Church spokesman, asked. “What on earth would make people open fire on innocent unarmed worshippers including children and women on a Sunday morning?”

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of evil. On the feast of the Archangels, Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael (September 29), in 2014 Pope Francis spoke about “the great dragon, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world.”

The Holy Father said, “Satan always seeks to destroy man: that man whom Daniel saw there, in glory.”

Pope Francis said that Satan is envious of humanity, since God raises us up higher than the angels (Psalm 8) and the devil “could not bear this humiliation on his shoulders, that an inferior creature could be made superior; and he sought to destroy man.”

The pope then got to our duty: “The task of the people of God is to guard the Man Himself: the Man Jesus. Guard Him, because He is the Man Who gives life to all men, to all humanity.” Of course, in saying this, the pope was in part reminding us that any action done to another human being is being done to Christ. So, that blatant disregard for humanity in the Sunday Mass in Nigeria was being done to Our Lord.

Pope Francis explained that the devil has “so many projects for the dehumanization of man, simply because he hates man. He is subtle, he presents things as if they were good. But his intention is destruction.”

“The battle is a daily reality in Christian life, in our family, in our people, in our churches, such that unless we fight, we will be defeated.”

Someone who fought that battle and won with God’s help was Blessed Oscar Romero. Last Saturday Pope Francis sent a letter to a Chilean archbishop who was going to represent him at the 100th birthday celebrations for Romero in San Salvador on August 15 (he truly was born on the Solemnity of the Assumption and was martyred on the eve of the Solemnity of the Annunciation, so the Blessed Mother had a special role in his earthly and in his eternal life, as she helped him to love her Son in the Eucharist and in the people he served).

Pope Francis described Romero as a “bishop and martyr, a prominent shepherd and witness of the Gospel, a renowned defender of the Church and human dignity, a beloved son of El Salvador” and “his love for all, especially the poor, the neglected, and those rejected by society.” He noted that Romero “promoted justice, Reconciliation and peace.” These are not values which Satan wants us to embrace.

In American society today, we often want to view an evil massacre as either gun violence (so as to blame Republicans) or terrorism (so as to blame Democrats). We seem to forget that there is an evil force, much stronger than any political party (although every member of every political party ever has collaborated to some extent with this force, at least in a venial way, since only Jesus and Mary were without sin). We pray for victims of violence, locally and internationally, and we ask God to give us the grace to “let peace begin with me” by embracing His will (which is always full of love — which also means sacrifice) and no longer our own selfishness.

Daily Readings August 12 — August 25

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat. Aug. 12, Dt 6:4-13; Ps 18:2-4,47,51; Mt 17:14-20.

Sun. Aug. 13, Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, 1 Kgs 19:9a,11-13a; Ps 85:9-14; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33. Mon. Aug. 14, Dt 10:12-22; Ps 147:12-15,19-20; Mt 17:2227. Tues. Aug. 15, Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Vigil: 1 Chr 15:3-4,1516;16:1-2; Ps 132:6-7,9-10,13-14; 1 Cor 15:54b-57; Lk 11:27-28. Day: Rv 11:19a;12:16a,10ab; Ps 45:10-12,16; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56. Wed. Aug. 16, Dt 34:1-12; Ps 66:1-3a,5,8,16-17; Mt 18:15-20. Thurs. Aug. 17, Jos 3:7-10a,11,13-17; Ps 114:1-6; Mt 18:21—19:1. Fri. Aug. 18, Jos 24:1-13; Ps 136:1-3,16-18,21-22,24; Mt 19:3-12.

Sat. Aug. 19, Jos 24:14-29; Ps 16:1-2,5,7-8,11; Mt 19:13-15. Sun. Aug. 20, Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Is 56:1,6-7; Ps 67:2-3,5-6,8; Rom 11:13-15,29-32; Mt 15:21-28. Mon. Aug. 21 Jgs 2:11-19; Ps 106:34-37,39-40,43ab,44; Mt 19:16-22. Tues.

Aug. 22, Jgs 6:11-24a; Ps 85:9,11-14; Mt 19:23-30. Wed. Aug. 23, Jgs 9:6-15; Ps 21:27; Mt 20:1-16. Thurs. Aug. 24, Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13,17-18; Jn 1:45-51. Fri. Aug. 25, Ru 1:1,3-6,14b-16,22; Ps 146:5-10; Mt 22:34-40.

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A captivating model of Marian devotion and Christian charity

ne of the most important signs of maturity, hope and health in the Church in the United States is the number of candidates now being proposed for canonization. On September 23, Father Stanley Rother will be beatified in Oklahoma City and on November 18, Father Solanus Casey in Detroit. Presently the Church in the United States humbly boasts of 14 saints, seven blesseds, 17 venerables (whose heroic virtue the Church has declared), and 75 servants of God (whose heroic virtue is now being studied).

One of the most fascinating causes is being promoted by the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo. It’s of someone who has never set foot in the United States: Sister Marie de Mandat-Grancey (1837-1915), a French religious Sister famous for helping to rediscover the ancient house in Ephesus, Turkey, where many scholars and several recent popes plausibly conclude the Blessed Virgin Mary spent the last years of her life and from which she was assumed into Heaven.

The Archdiocese of Smyrna, Turkey, where Sister Marie died, has wanted to promote her cause since then-Archbishop Giovanni Zucchetti unofficially canonized her during her 1915 funeral, asserting that Christ has already beatified the merciful (Mt 5:7) and promised to call to His Father’s Kingdom those who have cared for Him in the poor and needy (Mt 25:31-46), as she so notably did. But two World Wars, persecution of the Church in Turkey, and the lack of financial and canonical resources in the Archdiocese of Smyrna

like Mary,” she would say have made it impossible to the ever-growing groups for the diocese where she of children. died to advance the cause.

When Sister Marie In such circumstances, it read Blessed Anne Cathis possible for one diocese erine Emmerich’s revelato ask another to take tions on the “Life of the over. So the Archdiocese Blessed Virgin Mary,” of Smyrna, knowing that which among other things, none of the dioceses in included a very detailed Turkey were adequately equipped, asked the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph if Putting Into it would be willing the Deep officially to assume the promotion. The

By Father Missouri diocese Roger J. Landry has a rich history of Vincentians and Daughters of description of where Charity, has a new Benedictine monastery dedicat- Mary’s long-lost house in ed to imitating Our Lady’s Ephesus would be located, she desired out of ardent hidden life in Ephesus, is Marian piety for it to the headquarters for The be found. Transferred to Ephesus Foundation and Smyrna, she perseveringly has some of the leading lobbied initially skeptical members of the AmeriVincentian priests to take can Society of Ephesus.

Then-Bishop Robert Finn up the hunt. When they succeeded, using Emmof Kansas City-St. Joseph happily agreed and the di- erich’s revelations almost ocese has moved the cause as a map, Sister Marie forward quite competently used her family’s resources to buy the mountain on and expeditiously. which the house was built, What can Catholics in funded its rehabilitation, America and faithful everywhere learn from Sister and then oversaw its development as a place of prayer Marie? and pilgrimage. Even if First, she is a tremenone has questions about dous lover and apostle of Mary’s Divine and ecclesial private revelations or the historical case for Mary’s maternity. In 1831, Mary House in Ephesus — visappeared to St. Catherine ited by the future John Labouré, a Daughter of XXIII and Popes Paul VI, Charity, with the revJohn Paul II and Benedict elation of the Miraculous XVI — there’s no question Medal and asked that about Sister Marie’s heroic associations of the Chilfilial love for the Blessed dren of Mary be formed.

Mother.

When Sister Marie beSecond, she is also a came a Daughter 26 years model of vocational receplater, that’s precisely what tivity and response. She she did, forming thriving was born to a very wealthy Children of Mary groups and noble French famin France and in Turkey ily that numbered among to promote the devotion its ancestors two French of children to the Mother God the Father chosen for popes and three saints and His Son and that Son from blesseds. To set aside her situation of wealth, status the cross chose for us. “Be

and privilege to serve the poorest of her day took a lot of courage, as did overcoming the strong opposition from her eldest brother when saying yes to a vocation that meant one might never see one’s family again. But she prayed at 13, “Grant me, I implore, my God, a vocation to religious life. Give me the grace, O my God, to completely detach myself from the things here below and to aspire only to Heaven.” And God heard that prayer.

Third, she’s a compelling example of heroic Christian charity. In her first assignment, in AireSur-La-Lys, she cared for 55 orphans, ran a sewing workshop for 60 girls, directed the pharmacy, cared for the sick in neighboring towns, founded the Children of Mary, and showed special love for children with lice and scurvy, overcoming her revulsion to help them heal so that they wouldn’t be ostracized from other children.

After her transfer to Le Pecq as superior, she directed an orphanage that, because of the brutal Franco-Prussian war, trebled in size, leading her, born noble, to beg shamelessly for food, clothing, beds, medicine, school supplies and for another building to house them all. When huge numbers of new children would arrive — totally alone after their parents were killed — she would welcome them first with love, before figuring out where to lodge and how to feed them. She was so successful in her 16 years in helping the orphans find new families and forming a culture of loving accep-

tance that she was able to put the orphanage out of business.

The final three decades of her life were spent in Smyrna, Turkey, where she responded to Pope Leo XIII’s call for missionaries.

She and her fellow Daughters of Charity took over the French hospital, where she cared for wounded sailors and everyone else, used her family’s resources to renovate the institution, established classrooms to provide first sick children and then everyone a basic education and catechism, inaugurated two sewing workshops for girls, and once again founded an association of the Children of Mary.

Throughout her 58 years of religious life, she valiantly and joyfully fulfilled her fourth vow of service, following the example of St. Vincent and St. Louise in serving Christ in the poor.

Those wanting to know more about her inspiring life can turn to Father Carl Schulte’s 2011 biography “The Life of Sister Marie de Mandat Grancey” or visit www.sistermarie.com, where prayer cards can be downloaded or ordered to pray for miracles through her intercession.

If her cause succeeds, her beatification would almost certainly take place in Missouri, with celebrations likewise in France and Turkey, the three continents in which there’s already devotion to her. That would be a confirmation that she’s already celebrating eternally in the place to which from Ephesus the mother she loved was assumed body and soul.

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

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any years ago there was a study of the cause of malnutrition in an Asian village beset by famine. One group of children seemed to thrive, however, which prompted the researchers to look for the reasons.

They learned that the mothers of these healthy children had found tiny shrimp in the rice paddies and added them to their children’s diet, while the others were not so innovative and thus their children failed to thrive. Is there a lesson here for the Church?

Why are some young people committed to their faith while others fall away as soon as they leave the home?

Christian Smith, the sociologist renowned for observing the religious practices of teen-agers through his groundbreaking work, “The National Study of Youth and Religion,” finally asked the question, “What did the parents of religiously active young adults do right?” His latest research, “A Report on American Catholic Religious Parenting,” reveals that religiouslycommitted families have certain practices in common that produced the results that no parish

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Creating a culture of faith effort can ever duplicate. parents created a way The families of reof behaving that made ligiously-committed sure that the children youth and young adults understood that “being a all create a home in practicing Catholic is a which the values of the long-term, worthwhile, Catholic faith are part of and primary life committheir culture. The moment.” The parents play tivation to do this was the role of sponsor of the as varied as the families Catholic faith, particuthemselves. Some were larly in a society that no motivated by dogma, longer fosters faith as believing that Catholicism was true and right. OthThe Great ers were attracted to the communal Commission life of the parBy Claire McManus ish, while some felt that religion made the family happier. There were a necessary element of those who wished to pass successful child-rearing. along their ethnic heriThese parents also are tage that was wrapped the “gatekeeper” of reliup in Catholic piety, and gious content. It is up to some were very individu- them to determine how alistic, i.e. “My faith is much Catholic practice important to me and so their children receive, I want my kids to have i.e. prayer, reading the what I found.” Whatever Bible, receiving Commuthe motivation, they all nion. Most important to created a home in which the transmission of the the children knew that faith is that the parents faith “worked” and was a embody a manner of bepriority. ing Catholic. The study The million dollar refers to this as being the question is, “What ex“interpreter” of the faith. actly do these families “If children do not ‘see’ do to create a Catholic Catholicism in the ‘face’ culture that sticks with of their parents, they their children?” There will never gain sufficient were several factors familiarity with it to in place in every one commit to practicing the of these families. The faith in the long run.”

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The parents were resolute about handing on the faith, which required them to “weave a Catholic world around their children, providing them with a variety of mutually reinforcing religious content.” They identified several practices that these families employed to expose their children to religious content. Teen-age youth were invited to teach Religious Education to younger kids.

Some enrolled their children in Catholic schools.

They prayed the Rosary as a family, or went on pilgrimages. Some of these families sent their children on foreign mission trips, or brought their kids along while they attended meetings in the parish. Their children were enabled to sing in the choir or were encouraged to participate in youth ministry.

These families said grace before meals and prayed with their children at bedtime. They are the families that bring their children to the Triduum each year. These families are an inspiration and the backbone of our parishes.

The study turned

to the other groups of parents whose faith was described as being on “autopilot.” These are the families who think that faith can be attained through osmosis as long as they do the right thing by bringing their children to Religious Education and go to Mass occasionally. Like the committed Catholic families, they are not all the same and have various reasons why they seem to fail to transmit the faith.

The largest group, unfortunately, are those that are nominally Catholic and are indifferent about transmitting the faith.

Those are the greatest challenge to the Church.

There is some hope for other families whose parents are just not totally convinced of their own faith. “They expose their children to Catholicism but retreat from modelling it themselves.” They often mask their uncertainty by saying that they will leave it up to their children to make their own decision about the faith when they’re older. Some have a deep, individual faith that is newly-minted, and thus feel that it is too late for them to pass it along to their children. These families have hope and might be a good starting place for a parish.

Sometimes evangelization is just a matter of encouraging families to disengage autopilot and take back control of their children’s faith.

Anchor columnist Claire McManus is the director of the Diocesan Off ice of Faith Formation.

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ow often do we get stuck in a rut?

We get into our routines and just plow through, day by day, continuing on with the status quo. Life gets comfortable, habits get familiar, and the way we navigate our days can become all too cozy. Why is this a bad thing? Well, it’s not truly bad. What can be negative is the side effect of this.

When we get too comfortable we might hesitate at new opportunities, balk at something out of our comfort zone, or decline an experience that would otherwise have challenged us or revealed something new about ourselves. Ultimately, sometimes our routine can mean we live in a vacuum.

Recently, with the changes in my life including a new job and a new living situation, I’m constantly striving to find the balance between creating routine (you know, so I have meals cooked each week and clean clothes to

Out of the zone wear) and finding things to disrupt that routine.

Sure I may have an idea of what I want my afterwork hours to look like, but if an invitation comes along to meet up with friends or I hear of something happening at a local spot that could be fun to check out, if I’m unwilling bend on this routine I’ve created then my life is going to look very structured.

Again, is there anything inherently wrong with structure? Not that I can tell. In fact, I used to live by it. During my high school and college years I practically lived by a planner.

Nearly every part of my day was written down or doodled about and if something wasn’t written down and somehow managed to happen, well, I probably wrote it in my planner after the fact.

And because of this, I was incredibly organized, always knew where I

needed to be next, and was able to manage my time efficiently.

However, what it meant for my post-college years until now is a different lesson entirely.

Radiate Your Faith

By Renee Bernier

When I graduated college and began working, my life took on a drastically less-structured persona. I didn’t have the added routine of schoolwork and enjoyed a life that was unrestricted by the time line of degree completion — until I decided to embark on my graduate program. It’s funny how going from my undergrad experience, to a work/life experience, back to an academic environment forces you to consider the patterns you create for yourself and the breaks in those pat-

terns you allow. Graduate school forced me to finally learn how to balance my academic career with my social relationships so that I was able to continue to challenge myself and grow outside of the classroom.

My point here is that we often view ourselves within structures.

Who am I as an employee? Did I do my job today?

Did I complete the tasks I put forth for myself ? Did I check my email enough, respond fast enough? Who am I as a tenant? Did I take the garbage out? Did I bring the garbage in?

Did I close my windows because it’s supposed to rain today? And finally, who am I as a Catholic? Did I go to Mass this week? Did I say my prayers? How am I doing with the Com-

mandments? Was I kind, forgiving, loving?

My challenge to you is this: Think outside of the structure and break from your routine. Find ways to disrupt your day-today habits, be it at work, in your relationships, and in your faith. If we do the same things over and over again, we stagnate.

We long for a challenge, for change, for an opportunity to grow. What does challenge, change, or growth look like in your faith life? What does breaking from your routine so you can encounter Christ in a new and illuminating way look like?

What will break you from your routine? Who will give you new perspective?

I don’t have an answer for that, but you do. Happy searching, everyone.

Anchor columnist Renee Bernier can be reached at reneebernier17@gmail. com.

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July 13 apparition of Mary Editor’s note: This guest column by Grace Small, a parishioner of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Attleboro and a high school teacher, is the sixth in a nine-part series on the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima. he apparition of Our Lady of Fatima on July 13 is one of the most notable of the apparitions. In this third apparition, we see the Blessed Virgin who showed hell to the three children: Lucia, 10, Francisco, nine, and Jacinta, seven. In an age which blatantly denies the existence of sin and hell, we see the mother of God showing hell, the place of eternal damnation to three innocent children. There the children see demons in the form of horrible monsters, and the souls of the damned burning in a huge fire! Why would she do such a thing? In this article we hope to see once more the importance of our prayer of the Holy Rosary and the power of Mary’s intercession to save our souls. Lucia describes in her memoirs the details of this third Marian apparition: “A few moments after arriving at the Cova da Iria, near the holm oak, where a large number of people were praying the Rosary, we saw the flash of light once more, and a moment later Our Lady appeared on the holm oak. ‘What do you want of me?’ I asked. ‘I want you to come here on the 13th of next month, to pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary, in order to obtain peace for the world and the end of the

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war, because only she can in this historical context of World War I and the help you.’

“In this apparition, the onset of a communist Blessed Mother explicitly Revolution in Russia that Our Blessed Mother requested that the Holy wanted to be invoked Rosary be prayed every day in honor of Our Lady once again to obtain her powerful protection by of the Rosary. The sinthe daily recitation of the gular power reserved to Our Lady under this title Holy Rosary. One hundred years later in the is seen by Mary’s words midst of international when she says that the upheaval, Pope Francis Rosary is to be prayed still exhorts us to pray the ‘to obtain peace for the Rosary for peace. Pope world and the end of the war, because only she can Francis in condemning the November 13 Paris help you.’”

On Sunday, Oct. 7, 1571 the combined Christian fleets Living Our achieved a sigLady’s Message nificant naval victory over the

By Grace Small Turks in the Straits of Lepanto. Thousands attacks referred to them of Christians were liberas a “piecemeal World ated, the Turkish fleet War III” as the level of was destroyed, and they violence around the world suffered their first great defeat at sea. In gratitude rapidly rises, fueled by militant Islamists. Prior to God and Our Lady, to his trip to Fatima on Pope St. Pius V ordered the Fourth Sunday of an annual commemoraEaster, Pope Francis tion to be made of Our pleaded, “In this month Lady of Victory. In 1573 Pope Gregory XIII trans- of May, let us pray the Rosary in particular for ferred the feast to the peace. Please! let us pray first Sunday of October the Rosary for peace, with the title feast of as the Virgin of Fatima the Most Holy Rosary since the victory was won asked us to do.” Once again, the message is urthrough invocation of gent and relevant for our Our Lady of the Rosary. times.

In 1716 Pope Clement “‘I would like to ask XII extended the feast to the whole Latin Rite cal- you to tell us who you are, and to work a miracle so endar, assigning it to the that everybody will befirst Sunday in October. lieve that you are appearPope St. Pius X changed ing to us.’ the date to October 7 in ‘Continue to come here 1913. In 1969, Pope Paul every month. In October, VI changed the name of I will tell you who I am the feast to Our Lady and what I want, and I of the Rosary. Countwill perform a miracle less graces have been for all to see and believe.’ bestowed on ChristenI then made some redom through the Queen quests, but I cannot recall of the Holy Rosary. It is

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now just what they were.

What I do remember is that Our Lady said it was necessary for such people to pray the Rosary in order to obtain these graces during the year.”

Our Blessed Mother agrees to the children’s requests to tell the children who she is and to work a miracle in October so that everybody would see and believe that Mary was appearing to the children. It is reminiscent of John 20:24-29: “Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord!’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see the nail marks in His hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.’ A week later His disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you!’ Then He said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; see My hands.

Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.’

Thomas said to Him, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Then Jesus told Him, ‘Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’”

We who have not seen Our Lady’s apparitions and October miracle yet have believed and put her requests into practice are also blessed. It also becomes clear that obedience to Our Lady’s

request to pray the Rosary will work miracles of grace for those who seek them because Mary is the mediatrix of all graces.

And she continued: “Sacrifice yourselves for sinners, and say many times, especially whenever you make some sacrifice: ‘O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.’ As Our Lady spoke these last words, she opened her hands once more, as she had done during the two previous months. The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw as it were a sea of fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. (It must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me.) The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. Terrified and as if to plead for succor, we looked up at Our Lady, who said to us, so kindly and so sadly: ‘You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go.

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Thursday 10 August 2017 — Homeport: Falmouth Harbor — “Candid Camera” TV series premiered on this date in 1948 ack in middle school, the teacher encouraged my class to read the daily newspaper. “But be careful,” he warned.

“Don’t believe everything you read. There can be a bias in any newspaper.” In those days, kids were more naïve. Now such a warning is unnecessary. What middle school student today could possibly be unaware of the meaning of the term “fake news”?

Nevertheless, that advice from my middle school teacher came to mind not once but twice this week.

Someone forwarded a Tweet to my smartphone. It was a video that was going viral on the Internet. Since (as you well know) I keep my thumb on the pulse of popular culture, I opened the video with great anticipation. It showed two priests, dressed in proper clerical garb, attending some sort of Catholic youth rally.

In the background, I noticed an enshrined statue of Our Lady of Lourdes. How nice, thought I. Then the priests took to the dance floor for a breakdancing challenge. One of the priests executed a series of twirling dance moves across the floor and then flew through the air with the grace of Bruce Lee in a KungFu movie. Multicolored lights swirled. Plumes of fog shot from machines strategically placed at the edge of the dance floor. Teenaged girls shrieked as though at a Justin Bieber concert. I am not making any of this up.

You’ve got to ask — what were those two thinking? Where do breakdancing priests learn their moves? Had they practiced for years in the corridors of some seminary? What did their bishop think of all this? Were they dispatched forthwith to a hermitage to spend time in solitude and reflection? I’ll never know. I do, however, wonder if this is some new form of youth evangelization. Am I missing out on something here? Do I need a refresher

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course in the latest Church outing tectonic shift in the ordained reach methods? Does it include priesthood, Time prophesized. breakdancing?

How is any of this radically Being a groovy young priest new? can be physically exhausting. I Here’s the reason for this “new know this from personal experikind” of priesthood, according to ence. But now I’m an old fogey. the article. It’s due to the singuSometimes, on a bad day, I use lar efforts of Pope Francis, who, the hand unlike his railing to predecesThe Ship’s Log climb the sors, is big Reflections of a Sanctuary on pastoral Parish Priest stairs. One ministry. morning Really?

By Father Tim last month How so?

Goldrick my back Every pope was killing since St. Peme, so I actually borrowed a cane ter has had the task of shepherdjust to walk to the nursing home ing the Universal Church. A pope next door and visit 96-year-old is the ultimate pastor. What use Father Frank Wallace. “What’s is there having a pope who lacks with the cane?” he asked. It was pastoral abilities? his cane.

The way I see it, there is only Is there a breakdancing craze one priesthood. It is the Priestamong young priests these days? hood of Jesus Christ. The call to For me, breakdancing is out of share in that priesthood is heard the question. Can a priest like by all kinds of people, in all kinds myself, lacking in basic breakof cultures, in all kinds of places. dancing skills, be effective in ministry?

My question was soon answered by an unlikely source.

Time published an article entitled, “God Squad: The Next Generation of Catholic Priests.”

Forget your stereotype of priests, it urged.

The writer interviewed several young and seemingly earnest priests and seminarians. She posited the premise that there has suddenly emerged a revolutionary new breed of priests for the 21st century. She went on to illustrate how these ordained millennials are different from other generations of priests. Young seminarians are now encouraged to pursue the priesthood by their families and pastors. They speak honestly with their Spiritual directors. They go on missions to third-world countries. They routinely help the poor and needy.

They use Facebook and Twitter.

They’re fond of texting. They can’t be pegged as either Republican or Democrat. They wear clerical attire. They pray. They use incense.

They reach out to people of other faiths. These are signs of a com-

The call is the same; the individuals differ. Priests, as diverse as they are, strive to live out their particular vocations in their own time and place. It is, at the core, a call to holiness — which, by the way, is a universal call.

I know several millennial priests. Even though we have a significant age difference, I think they’re terrific. They’ll have a lot on their plate sooner rather than later. They’ll grow into it. Sure young priests see the world differently than I do.

They see through their own eyes. Who doesn’t? The priesthood we share remains one and the same.

Give me a break, Time. This is fake news. Unlike laundry detergent, there is no “new and improved” Catholic priesthood. A priest is a priest forever, whether or not he can dance.

Anchor columnist Father Goldrick is pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Falmouth.

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Pope Francis: summer is an ideal time to re-focus our life on God

Vatican City (CNA/ EWTN News) — Pope Francis recently said the feast of the Transfiguration is an invitation to put God and others first, adding that the lazy summer months are the perfect time to take a step back and refocus on the essentials.

“The event of the Transfiguration of the Lord offers us a message of hope: it invites us

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to encounter Jesus, in order to be at the service of our brothers,” the pope said during an Angelus address.

Looking to pilgrims gathered in a sweltering St. Peter’s Square, he turned to the day’s Gospel passage from St. Matthew, which recounted the event of the Transfiguration and the disciples descent down the mountain afterward.

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The image of the disciples going down Mount Tabor serves as a reminder of the importance of detaching ourselves from worldly things, and walking toward Christ, he said.

And to do this, he added, involves dedicating ourselves to an “attentive and prayerful listening to Christ,” by looking for “intimate moments of prayer that allow the docile

and joyful welcoming of the Word of God.” Speaking in August, when most Romans are out on vacation, he said summer time is the perfect opportunity to delve into this prayer, and called summer a “Providential moment to enhance our commitment to seek and encounter the Lord.”

“In this period, students are free from scholastic duties and many families are taking their vacation; it’s important that in the time of rest and detachment from daily concerns, they can re-energize the forces of body and spirit, deepening their Spiritual path.”

Returning to the image of the Transfiguration, Pope Francis noted that the disciples went back down the mountain with “eyes and hearts transfigured by their encounter with the Lord.”

This is also a path that we can take, he said, adding that

the “ever more vivid” rediscovery of Jesus is not an end in itself, but rather something that leads us to go down the mountain ourselves, “recharged by the strength of the Divine Spirit.”

With this renewed strength, we’ll be able to take “new steps of authentic conversion” and will be able to “constantly bear witness to charity, as a law of daily life.”

By allowing ourselves to be transformed by the presence of Christ and His Word, we will become concrete signs of love for our brothers and sisters, Francis said, especially those who suffer due to loneliness, abandonment, illness, injustice and violence.

Pope Francis prayed that Mary would help all to enter into harmony with the Word of God, enabling Christ to be “the light and guide” of our entire lives, and entrusted to her all those on vacation during the summer months.

e waited and waited and waited and there W still was no sign of the plane.

Fifteen minutes passed, then 30 minutes, and at long last, after 45 minutes, the twin engine Chieftain showed up against the evergreen background of the mighty Pali.

We breathed a sigh of relief as Makani Kai Air from Honolulu pulled up outside Kalaupapa’s Terminal One. The eagle had landed. It had been a last-minute refueling situation that caused the delay.

After greeting my pilgrims, we immediately set out to meet and pick up the hikers and mule riders who were coming down the trail from topside Molokai. Then it was back to the airport to collect some pilgrims who had arrived from Maui.

All of this came about because, on the previous weekend, I had been asked

by Marlene, the owner of the Mule Ride and Kekaula Tours, if I would be free and

Rocky road to Kalawao Well everything went willing to be the tour guide for pretty well the first two days, three days to start the followwith a few little hitches, and ing week. So, as I have done here we were on the third day, this tour on numerous occasions on request from individuals over the course of my five years here in Kalaupapa, I Moon Over said, “Sure!” Little did Molokai I know that this would be a whole other expeBy Father rience, challenging as Patrick Killilea, SS.CC. well as fulfilling. First I had to make sure having made the usual visits that my pilgrims had signed to Mother Marianne’s grave, up with my tour, Kekaula the bookstore, and a few other Tours, rather than Damien Tours. After all I did not want brief stops, and were now on our way over the rocky road to be in the middle of a war between the two, where I was the culprit. LOL. Then I had to keep my balance in the van while standing up, holding on to a pole for dear life, while giving a commentary on the long rocky road to Kalawao, the site of the original settlement. It would have been very embarrassing had I ended up in the lap of one of the pilgrims.

to Kalawao. This road reminds me of my childhood days when I would drive the ass and cart over the old rutted bog road. Suddenly it flashed across my mind (must have been the Holy Spirit) that I had forgotten to pick up the food cooler at the airport. The pilgrims, by this time, looked hungry enough to take a bite out of me.

So I told Kamaka, the driver, to turn around and return to the airport, and that after we passed the Kalaupapa town, to “put the pedal to the metal.”

He did so, God bless him.

Having retrieved the food cooler, we set out for Kalawao and arrived there in record time. After a pleasant lunch in Judd Park and having taken lots of pictures at the landing, we visited St. Damien’s church, St. Philomena. Then it was off to Kalaupapa and the mule corral where we arrived right on schedule. It had been a great day and a great experience — but I doubt that I will be called on to do this again any time soon. LOL. Aloha.

Anchor columnist Father Killilea is pastor of St. Francis Parish in Kalaupapa, Hawaii.

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onized saint on the cover (St. Theresa of Calcutta, during her visit to New Bedford), this year’s edition also honors two brand new saints: St. Jacinto and St. Francisco — the younger brother and sister seers who were canonized by Pope Francis in May. Slated to begin shipping the first week of September, the newly-revised and fully-updated 2017-2018 diocesan directory, published annually by The Anchor, has consistently been the go-to reference guide for all parishes, offices and apostolates within the Fall River Diocese and has continued to offer more information with each subsequent edition.

With several pastoral transfers and assignments that were announced earlier this year, the directory provides

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esan administrative personnel.

As in past years, the directory continues to provide updated telephone all of the latest parish data, including and address listings of all diocesan Mass times, staff listings, and contact offices, personnel, information. It also provides listings of all diocesan priests, the various Re- archives, priests’ residences, councils ligious Communities working in the diocese, along with a complete listing and apostolates of active and retired deacons living in ranging from The the diocese, whether they are assigned Anchor to Catholic Social Services and to a given parish or not. its many offices, One of the more popular sections campus ministry, — a gathering of parish statistical data including total number of parish- the Development Office, Chancery, ioners and weekly Mass attendance Faith Formation, — has been revised and expanded insurance, legal, over several pages to make it easier communications, to read. And in this computer- and scouting, shelters, smartphone-savvy era, there are now vocations and much complete listings of all the individual parish websites along with a breakout more.

As always, listing of email addresses for key diocthe support of dedicated advertisers is pivotal to the directory’s annual success; and the 2017-2018 Catholic Directory is not only an invaluable diocesan resource, but also offers a guide to loyal sponsors who support the diocese’s mission and, in turn, deserve your consider-

ation.

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

To order the newly-published 2017-2018 Catholic Directory, send a check for $29 made payable to “Anchor Publishing,” to The Anchor, 887 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02720; or use the handy coupon that appears in the ad in this and subsequent editions. You can also place an order online at www. anchornews.org or by calling 508-6757151.

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Superheroes and the power of love

uperman has his red power cape. Elijah wore a cape to manifest his Divine authority. Most famously, the Virgin Mary is usually portrayed wearing a cape-like garment known as a mantle, often blue

and sometimes adorned with stars, to highlight her extraordinary role in history. In the Church’s oldest Marian prayer we say, “Beneath your mantle we take refuge, O Mother of God.” Medieval artists often

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Celebrant is Father Thomas C. Lopes, a retired priest of the Fall River Diocese

depicted Mary under the and heal all their sorrows, title of Our Lady of Mercy, hardships and sufferings.” with her arms outstretched Our foundress, St. to reveal a crowd of tiny Jeanne Jugan, was also suppliants huddled in the known for her mantle, a folds of her mantle. All black-hooded cape which kinds of people found a billowed in the Breton place at Mary’s feet — winds and under which from princes and pious she fingered her Rosary nuns to slaves and peasants. In “The Virgin of the NaviGuest gators,” a Spanish work, Our Lady’s Columnist mantle is full

By Sister enough to envelope Constance Veit, LSP a whole armada of ships! Through these paintings, whether beads as she traveled on they were seeking refuge foot seeking alms for the from pirates or the plague, elderly poor to whom she medieval women and men had given a home. Perhaps expressed their faith in finding inspiration in the Mary’s motherly protection traditional images of Our and powerful intercession.

Lady of Mercy, several artOur Lady’s mantle had ists have portrayed Jeanne a special significance in the Jugan gathering the elNew World too. As Mary derly under her mantle and appeared to St. Juan Diego holding them tightly to her in Guadalupe, she assured breast. him, “Do not let your I find solace imagining countenance, your heart be disturbed. Am I not here, I, who am your mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Are you not in the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of my arms? Do you need anything more?”

Mary explained to Juan Diego that a Sanctuary should be built on the hill of Tepeyac so that she could demonstrate her merciful concern for God’s people: “I will give Him to the people in all my personal love, in my compassion, in my help, in my protection,” she told him.

“I am truly your merciful mother, yours and all the people who live united in this land and of all the other people of different ancestries, my lovers, who those I love and care for love me, those who seek sheltered in the folds of me, those who trust in Mary’s mantle, or nestled me. Here I will hear their close to the heart of St. weeping, their complaints Jeanne Jugan. But I also

sense a challenge, and I believe that is why God has inspired me to contemplate these images, which manifest the powerful yet gentle and merciful love of God Himself.

I believe that God is calling the Church today, and each of us, to open our arms, reach out and draw all those on the peripheries of society into our circle of love. “We are called to bring to everyone the embrace of God, Who bends with a mother’s tenderness over us — stooped down in a gesture of consolation,” our Holy Father once said to consecrated women and men.

These words of Pope Francis can motivate all of us. This is how we will be missionary disciples who bring the joy of the Gospel to the field hospital of today’s world. St. Jeanne Jugan’s feast day is celebrated on August 30 and during these last weeks of summer we celebrate Mary’s Assumption and Queenship, as well as her birthday. On these special days let’s ask Our Lady and St. Jeanne Jugan to teach us how to extend a mantle of compassion over wounded souls, creating — and becoming ourselves — sanctuaries of that powerful yet gentle love which animates the heart of Christ.

Sister Constance Veit is director of communications for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Photo Caption: Drawing of St. Jeanne Jugan by Gerard Rooney. Rooney was an illustrator for The Pilot, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, and a resident of Jeanne Jugan Residence in Somerville.

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orking at Bishop Stang High School, and I’m sure most schools, you quickly learn that there is very little down time. There is always something going on.

During the summer, Stang offers several athletic, academic, and arts summer camps.

This summer however, we have some more excitement going on in our building. Since the end of the 2016-2017 school year, we have started updating our chemistry and biology labs. In June they did the demolition and then started with the reconstruction of the labs. It has been such a great process to watch how something old can be made new.

This whole “deconstruction and reconstruction” of our labs began to get me thinking about what in my own life and in the world could use some deconstruction and reconstruction. We read so many times in Scripture that God can make all things new.

In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians we read, “But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being 16

For and About Our Church Youth All things new corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the Spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth” (Eph 4: 20-24). I love the image of a “new self.” As someone who is perpetually on a diet, the idea of a “new self ” is one I search for with each new passing fad. Beyond our physical search for a “new self ” however, is this need to be constantly seeking to make our inner self better.

It is not that we are constantly in a state “corrupted in the accordance with lusts of deceit,” but it is a wonderful reminder that when we find ourselves outside of a state of grace, that we are given an opportunity to make ourselves new.

One of the ways that God makes all things new is through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. We go into the Sacrament weighed down with the burden of sin and come out of the Sacrament a new person, freed from the prison of iniquity. God makes us a new creation in His forgiveness. We are given a new heart in a way, a heart that is light and

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free, and in this new creation we can love more perfectly.

Later in the Book of Revelations we read, “Then I saw a new Heaven and a new earth; for the first Heaven and the first earth passed away, and

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there is no longer any sea. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, ‘Behold, the Tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.’ And He who sits on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new’” (Rev 21:1-5). In this passage we read about a whole new earth and a whole new Heaven.

In this new earth, God will dwell among His people forever.

He speaks of this new Earth being a place where there will be no more death, or illness or sadness.

God makes all things new through resurrection. We get a chance to live a new life in Heaven to live with Him forever. We will live with Him in a way that will only bring us joy, peace and the purest form of love. While we wait for this resurrection and this new earth however, we are called to continuously find the time and the ways to make our hearts new.

For many of us there are two new years; the one we all celebrate on January 1 and the one we begin with in September when a new school year starts.

These milestones can help us to remember that we need to be made new but it does not just have to be in the big moments. If we can look at all the

construction around us (and Lord knows there is plenty on the roads) we can remind ourselves that there are things in our lives that we need to deconstruct and reconstruct to make ourselves better Christians. Maybe it is a habit, a relationship, an addiction or any other way that keeps us from completely giving our lives to God, we need to find a way to deconstruct that mess from our hearts and our lives and reconstruct ourselves to be made new. As we finish up our summer, I pray that we do not get stuck in the traffic of construction, but rather we find that deconstruction of our journey as a stepping stone to the reconstruction of being made new!

Anchor columnist Amanda Tarantelli has been a campus minister at Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth since 2005. She is married, a die-hard sports fan, and resides in Cranston, R.I. She can be reached at atarantelli@ bishopstang.org.

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For and About Our Church Youth St. Vincent’s Home names new chief operating officer

FALL RIVER — St. Vincent’s Home executive director John T. Weldon, recently announced the promotion of Kristen L. Dutra, MA, LMHC, to the position of chief operating officer of St. Vincent’s Home. In making the announcement, Weldon said, “We are pleased to have Ms. Dutra oversee all operational and administrative functions for all programs and services within the agency with primary responsibility for leading the day-to-day operations.”

Dutra’s supervisory responsibilities will include all of the agencies Hyannis Sound, Cape Cod’s finest a cappella group, pictured here with programs and services, parish pastor Father Thomas A. Frechette and volunteer event organizer including: the OutpaJane Robin, recently performed at the St. John the Evangelist Parish Wel- tient Behavioral Health Clinic, In-Home come Center in Pocasset to a sold-out show of 300 guests.

Therapy and Therapeutic Mentoring, Group Home, Intensive Group Home, and PreIndependent Living More than 200 motorcycles expected to take part programs, Comprehensive Support and Stabilization, FALL RIVER — St. Vinyour tickets today, and have a Short Term Assessment and Rapid cent’s 12th annual Motorcycle great time while helping the Reintegration, Central Intake, Run and Raffle will be held on children and youth of St. VinHealth Services, and Quality ManAugust 20, beginning at 9 a.m. cent’s. Advance registration is agement. “Ms. Dutra’s knowledge at 2425 Highland Avenue in $20 for drivers, $15 for active and expertise in child welfare and Fall River. military and veterans, $10 for a behavioral health are strong assets The 40-mile bike run will passenger and includes coffee which will support our work with travel through the scenic back and donuts in the morning and a the children, youth and families roads of Fall River, Freetown, cook-out immediately following we serve as well as support our Taunton, Berkley and Lakeville, the Motorcycle Run. Tickets on program staff, who provide direct ending back at St. Vincent’s the day of the Motorcycle Run care on a daily basis,” noted Welfor a cookout, raffle and silent are $25 for drivers, $20 for active don. “Ms. Dutra has many years of auction. Gazelle from the Fun military and veterans, and $10 demonstrated leadership qualities 107 morning radio show will for passengers. and experience which will enhance attend and will provide music St. Vincent’s 12th annual the agency’s clinical service delivery and entertainment. Raffle prizes Motorcycle Run is sponsored and inform her collaboration with and silent auction items donated by Preferred Concrete of East by area businesses will include Freetown. The Chopper Sponjewelry, beer, wine, gift baskets, sors are MS Catering, Sysco, and sports memorabilia, destinaUS Foods. tion packages, gift certificates To register, please visit our and much more. More than 400 website www.stvincentshome. bikers, passengers and guests are com, on Facebook at https:// expected to participate. www.facebook.com/ Trophies for favorite motorSaintVincentsHomeFallRiver/ or cycle, as judged by St. Vincent’s contact Kathryn Dow at 508youth, will be awarded at the 235-3316 or Jenny Mello Reis at end of the Motorcycle Run. Get 508-235-3228.

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all of our community partners,” added Weldon.

Dutra has worked for St. Vincent’s for more than 17 years in various clinical supervisory roles most recently as the agency’s clinical director. In 2011, Dutra received St. Vincent’s Mission Award in recognition of her significant contributions to St. Vincent’s children, youth and families.

She is a graduate of Lesley College and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor.

Referrals to St. Vincent’s continuum of services can be made by contacting Allison Garside, LICSW, Intake Coordinator, at 508679-8511, extension 3425.

St. Vincent’s is a nationally accredited, multi-service behavioral health, child- and family-serving organization with program sites in Fall River and Plymouth. Staff provides direct care, in-home and community-based services, outpatient behavioral health, residential and group living support, many forms of support and stabilization, respite for families, life skills training for older adolescents and special education for middle and high school students. For more than 132 years, St. Vincent’s mission has been “Giving Children and Families In Need What They Need Most.”

For more information, please call St. Vincent’s at 508-679-8511 or visit www.stvincentshome.org.

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To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father. To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded Russia will be converted, and there will be peace, if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world. In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved. Do not tell this to anybody. Francisco, yes, you may tell him. When you pray the Rosary, say after each mystery: ‘O my Jesus, forgive us, save us from the fire of hell lead all souls to Heaven especially those who are most in need.’ After this, there was a moment of silence, and then I asked: ‘Is there 18

anything more that you want of me?’ ‘No, I do not want anything more of you today.’ Then, as before Our Lady began to ascend towards the east, until she finally disappeared in the immense distance of the firmament.”

First, let us note that Our Lady exhorts the children to make sacrifices, a continuity of the appeal made of the Angel in his prior apparitions. Our Lady requested that sacrifices be made conscientiously and with a deliberate intention saying the prayer she offers when we make a sacrifice, “O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” The fulfillment of the two great Commandments is reflected in this prayer: love of God and love of neighbor.

To save souls the message points once again to devotion to Mary’s Immaculate Heart. Those who are devoted to our Blessed Mother will be conscientious in making intentional reparation for sins against the Immaculate Heart. Our Blessed Mother asked for the consecration of Russia, and Eucharistic Communions of reparation on the First Saturday of five consecutive months to repair the five sins against her Immaculate Heart: (1) blasphemies against her Immaculate Conception, (2) against her perpetual virginity, (3) against the Divine Maternity, refusing at the same time to accept her as the mother of all mankind, (4) those who try publicly to implant in the children’s hearts indifference, contempt,

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and even hatred against this Immaculate Mother, and (5) those who insult her directly in her Sacred images. It is clear that those who sin against God, their neighbor and the Blessed Virgin Mary are in danger of eternal punishment and therefore the Mother of God came to Fatima to ask her faithful children to stand with Mary in the breach imploring from God their conversion through the prayer of the Holy Rosary and personal sacrifice and Penance.

In “The Calls from the Message of Fatima,” Sister Lucia states, “There are unbelievers in the world who deny these realities, but this does not make them any the less real; nor does these people’s incredulity deliver them from the pains of hell if their lives of sin should lead them to it.

There are many passages in Sacred Scripture that speak to us about hell and its torments, and about those who go there.” One particular passage leaves no doubt. Jesus says, “If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands go to hell, to unquenchable fire. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter the Kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, where the worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.” (Mk 9:43-49) Sister Lucia in “Calls” explains: “The last passage quoted does not mean that God really intends us to tear out our eyes or to cut off our hands and feet, but that we are to tear out, or cut off, the temptations, evil inclina-

tions, passions and vices which drag us along the path of sin and might, for this reason, be the cause of our eternal damnation” (“Calls,” page 139).

Today there are many who deny that the doctrine of hell exists. Yet, the Blessed Virgin showed the reality of hell to the children with an expression of sadness. The vision of hell was initially kept secret and was not revealed until 1941.

Mary’s message remains relevant to us today in a society that has forgotten the four last things: death, judgement, Heaven or hell. On Nov. 22, 2016, Pope Francis said “The Lord will come to judge the earth. However, some people don’t recognize that fact, deceiving themselves into thinking the end is nowhere in sight, and how they live on earth has no consequences after death. I remember when I was a boy, when I’d go to catechism they taught us four things: death, judgment, hell or glory — that after judgment there’s this possibility” of going to hell or sharing in God’s glory.

But the kids were incredulous telling the priest he was only saying those things to scare them. The priest insisted, ‘No, it’s true! Because if you do not take care of your heart so that the Lord is with you, and you always live far from the Lord, perhaps there is this danger, the danger of continuing to be distanced from the Lord for all of eternity.’”

According to Sister Lucia, Our Lady’s call to devotion to her Immaculate Heart makes clear the consistent teaching of the Church on hell or God’s glory. Sister Lucia describes two distinct

progenies. “The progeny of Satan, which leads people into the way of sin, and the progeny of the Immaculate Heart of Mary who, as the mother of the children of God, leads them in the way of truth, justice and love, since God is love, and all His children are known by the way they love. And whereas the children of God climb by the way of love to the possession of eternal happiness in the Kingdom of God, the children of Satan are dragged down by the vileness of sin into the abyss of eternal punishment.”

Our Lady at Fatima, during all six of her apparitions told the children they must pray, especially the Rosary. The three children responded generously to Our Lady’s requests and made sacrifices for the conversion of sinners, to save them from hell. What is keeping you from doing the same thing? Do not say, “I do not have the time!”

Because if you are too busy to pray the Rosary, then you are busier than God intends you to be!

Meditate upon the following words of Our Lord: “What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?” (Mt 16:26). Our first priority is to save our soul and we do so by keeping God’s Commandments and the Commandments of the Church. Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary offers us a sure path which leads securely to Heaven and glory. Let us do our part then to fulfill Our Blessed Mother’s requests at Fatima by praying the Rosary, making sacrifices and completing the First Five Saturdays of Reparation.

‘Live long, die short’ is presenter’s message at OLC

Bishop ordains second Vocationist bishop

Landry shared how our ancestors were hunters and gatherers with no sense of time but with incredible sense of community. Even though they may not have lived as long as we live now, said Landry, the elders were a wealth of knowledge that the younger people gleaned from, and everyone had their unique place in the society.

“Now, we move less and that comes with a huge price tag,” said Landry. “Sitting is the new smoking. A sedentary lifestyle is much more dangerous. With cars, elevators, jobs that require you to sit — there are even people-movers in airports.

We do better when we move. Our brain works better, our bones are stronger, our gastrointestinal and heart work better. We are creatures of movement.

“The hunters and gatherers were always learning, strengthening their intergenerational network. There was no putting elders out to pasture; older adults had a purpose and were part of a group.”

The ancestors’ diets consisted mainly of fruits, nuts, vegetables, fish and small amounts of meat: “They ate better,” said Landry. “They were close to nature.”

We should rediscover what is healthy for us, said Landry, as he shared that there are a few societies that have incorporated that way of life into their culture, and the results have the elderly population living longer than their counterparts in the rest of the world.

The “Blue Zones” are an anthropological concept that describe the characteristic lifestyles and the environments of the world’s longest-lived people. Dan Buettner first coined the phrase when it appeared in

Bishop da Cunha told The Anchor that the Society of Divine Vocations is a growing order. “We have two new houses in South Africa and the United States, and one new house in England,” he said.

No doubt the ordination of

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his article published in a November 2005 National Geographic magazine story, “The Secrets of a Long Life.”

Buettner identified five geographic areas where people live statistically longest: Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Nicoya, Costa Rica; Icaria, Greece; and among the Seventh-day Adventists in Loma Linda, Calif. All subjects shared common lifestyles that contributed to their longevity, including strong family connections, social engagement, physical activity, an appreciation of Spirituality or religion, a sense of life purpose and moderate caloric intake that was mainly plant-based in diet.

There are a number of steps one can take to lead an authentic health and successful living, said Landry.

Use it or lose it: keep moving and stay active. Stay connected: get out of the house and be part of the community. Never act your age: find a purpose in your life. Wherever you are, be there in the moment. Ask yourself if you are using your talents? Are you shortchanging your brain? Are you connected critically?

Is your age or your Spirit in charge? Are you having fun?

Kaizen is a Japanese word for “continual improvement,” of activities that improve all functions, to “change for the better,” or as Landry put it, “baby steps.”

And it will take baby steps for some people to make these lifestyle changes, he added, but it will be worth it.

“When we want to make a big change, we tend to be unsuccessful,” said Landry, who quickly polled the audience by asking who

was still undertaking their New Year’s resolution, with almost no one raising his or her hand. “We find change a huge threat, which is selfinduced and takes away our ability for success.”

Landry cited a story of a patient who needed to lose weight but was having a hard time getting to his goal. His “kaizen” solution was to spit out the first bite of a candy bar. Soon it was two bites, and then three, until he ultimately wouldn’t buy them anymore. The same can be done when walking. Another patient was told to simply stand during commercials while watching television. Then Landry added more movement during commercials, until that patient began walking more regularly.

“Kaizen is the start of a lifestyle change that will work for you,” said Landry.

Don’t ignore your risks.

If heart disease or colon cancer runs in your family, make sure you do the right thing and stay connected with a doctor. Continue to challenge your brain, stay connected with community and family, and “find Spirituality in the moment.”

“It’s a search,” said Landry. “Why am I here?

Look for opportunities, have an awareness of thought. We are Spiritual beings living a human experience. We don’t always live in the moment. Our minds are always moving. You can’t be stressed without a sense of time. Choose faith, prayer, nature, music, even knitting [to relax].”

Everyone has untapped potential, regardless of age, but push your way and be connected, said Landry.

“Be like a wave, and your end will be in a flourish,” he said.

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Bishop Oliveira can only help promote more vocations.

“I haven’t heard from my friend since the ordination, but he’s been quite busy since,” said Bishop da Cunha. “I hope to visit him in Amazonas when I make my next visit home.”

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If you would like more information on the permanent diaconate, please visit our website http:// www.fallriverdeacons.com.

We anticipate that we will be accepting applications beginning this fall for our 10th class of deacons who will begin their five years of formation beginning in the spring of 2019. If interested in discerning your vocation to this diaconal ministry, please consider applying.

The discernment process as to whether you are being called to the ministry, takes place during the

years of formation.

In future articles, deacons of the diocese of Fall River will share their diaconal journey and we’ll provide additional information of the various steps on the road to ordination as well as responding to questions you may have.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Father Bob Oliveira or Deacon Frank Lucca, diocesan codirectors of the Off ice for the Permanent Diaconate at frpermanentdiaconate@ verizon.net.

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Chile’s bishops lament lifting of abortion ban

Santiago, Chile (CNA/EWTN News) — Chilean lawmakers recently approved legislation that would allow for abortions under certain circumstances, ending the country’s longstanding wholesale ban on the practice.

The new law would permit abortion in the cases of rape, endangerment of a mother’s life, or in cases when the fetus has a lifethreatening birth defect. It would allow for objecting doctors to refuse to perform abortions, except in cases when the mother’s life is in danger and there are no other available physicians.

The legislation has drawn harsh criticism after a year’slong heated debate from

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many in the majority-Catholic country, including many of the country’s bishops who have expressed their dismay at the lifting of the ban.

Bishop Fernando Chomali of Concepción told CNA he “deeply regretted” that the law had thus far been approved, noting that it wouldn’t help women in need and that it goes against the country’s constitution.

“I deeply regret that the bill has been approved. It seems to me that it does not help women in difficult situations and opens the door to free abortion, as it has happened in many parts of the world,” he said.

The new law will go into effect if Chile’s Constitutional Tribunal approves it,

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which would end a blanket ban on the procedure that has been in place in the country for nearly 30 years.

However, it also needs to survive an appeal to the Constitutional Court which seeks to declare the abortion bill unconstitutional.

The appeal was filed by 11 senators from Chile Vamos, a coalition opposed to the government of President Michelle Bachelet.

While abortion was allowed for in some circumstances in Chile starting in 1931, it was strictly outlawed in all circumstances by dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime in 1989, and punishable by up to five years in prison.

Bachelet has made relaxing abortion restrictions a priority of her administration, and celebrated the approval of the legislation on Twitter.

Bishop Chomali called on the Constitutional Court “to act with knowledge and conscience in the light of the Constitution of the country that protects the life of the unborn. I have great hope that those who compose it will think about the common good and the weakest,” he told CNA. Bishop Juan Ignacio González of San Bernardo said the law violates the truth of the human person, according to local newspaper El Mercurio.

In Your Prayers Please Please pray pray for for these these priests priests during during the the coming coming weeks weeks

Aug. 12 Rev. Victor O. Masse, M.S., Retired Pastor, St. Anthony, New Bedford, 1974 Aug. 13 Rev. Edward J. Sheridan, Pastor, St. Mary, Taunton, 1896 Rt. Rev. Leonard J. Daley, Pastor, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis, 1964 Rev. Gabriel Swol, OFM Conv., Former Associate Pastor, Holy Rosary, Taunton, 1991 Aug. 14 Rev. Raphael Marciniak, OFM Conv., Pastor, Holy Cross, Fall River, 1947 Rev. Conrad Lamb, O.S.B., Missionary in Guatemala, 1969 Aug. 15 Rev. Charles W. Cullen, Founder, Holy Family, East Taunton, 1926 Permanent Deacon Robert W. Pelland, 2016 Aug. 17 Rev. Cornelius O’Connor, Former Pastor, Holy Trinity, Harwich Center, 1882 Rev. Msgr. Maurice Souza, Retired Pastor, St. Anthony, East Falmouth, 1996 Aug. 18 Rev. Msgr. William H. Dolan, Retired Pastor, Holy Family, East Taunton, 1977 Aug. 20 Rev. Bernard H. Unsworth, Retired Pastor, St. Mary, New Bedford, 1982 Rev. Thomas Cantwell, SSJ, Retired, St. Joseph’s Seminary, Washington, 1983 Aug. 21 Most Rev. Lawrence S. McMahon, Bishop of Hartford, Former Pastor, St. Lawrence, New Bedford, 1893 Aug. 22 Rev. Msgr. Manuel J. Teixeira, Pastor, St. Anthony, Taunton, 1962 Rev. William R. Jordan, Pastor, St. Louis, Fall River, 1972 Rev. Msgr. Joseph C. Canty, USN Retired Chaplain, Retired Pastor, St. Paul, Taunton, 1980 Msgr. John F. Denehy, USAF Retired Chaplain, 2003 Aug. 23 Rev. Thomas F. Clinton, Pastor, St. Peter, Sandwich, 1895 Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, PA, Retired Pastor, Our Lady of the Angels, Fall River, 1992 Aug. 24 Rev. Peter J.B. Bedard, Founder, Notre Dame de Lourdes, Fall River, 1884 Very Rev. James F. Gilchrist, CPM VG, Vicar General of the Congregation of the Fathers of Mercy, 1962 Rev. Msgr. James E. Gleason, Retired Pastor, St. Patrick, Falmouth, 1987 Aug. 25 Rev. Joseph F. Hanna, C.S.C, Founder, Holy Cross, South Easton, 1974 Rev. Thomas E. Lawton, C.S.C., Holy Cross Retreat House, North Easton, 2002

Domaniewice, Poland — Cecylia Chmurska, 86, died peacefully in the late evening of July 19, following a brief illness.

Cecylia was the devoted wife of Jan Chmurski for 54 years and the loving mother of Father Marek Chmurski, parochial vicar of Christ the King Parish, Mashpee, and Krzysztof Chmurski and his wife, Ewelina of Ostrow, Poland and grandmother to their infant daughter, Laura Helena.

Cecylia was born on Dec. 3, 1930, in Strzebieszew, Poland, the fourth

Cecylia Chmurska, mother of Father Marek Chmurski

of five children of the late Franciszek Drozka and his wife Antonina. Cecylia was preceded in death by her brothers Mieczyslaw, Jozef, and Stanislaw, and is survived by her younger brother Jan. In her early years during the Second World War Cecylia experienced the Nazi invasion and occupation of Poland. Following that war and until 1989 she saw her native land subjugated to communist rule as a satellite state of Soviet Russia. As wife and mother she often had full responsibilities at home as her hus-

band’s work would require him to be away during the week. Until the fall of the communist regime she had to contend with food rationing stamps, low wages, bureaucratic control of all aspects of life, and the suspicions and fears generated by a totalitarian regime. Like many women of her generation in Poland, Cecylia forged ahead

Marie C. Perry, mother of Father John J. Perry

FALL RIVER — Marie C. (Carvalho) Perry, age 81, of Fall River, passed away August 4 in Charlton Memorial Hospital after a brief illness.

She was the wife of the late John Perry.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the daughter of the late Joseph and Angelina (Casso) Carvalho, and was a graduate of BMC Durfee High School. Mrs. Perry was employed as a secretary with United Merchants and Anderson Little in Fall River.

She was a member and past president of the former Fall River Firefighters Ladies Auxiliary, member of the Ladies Firefighter Bowling League, a member of the Legion of Mary, taught Religious Education at Holy Name Church in New Bedford and was a communicant of Holy Rosary and St. Joseph’s Church in Fall River.

She is survived by her four children, Father John J. Perry pastor of Our Lady of Victory Parish in Centerville, and Our Lady of Assumption Parish in Osterville; Michael L. Perry

and his wife Melissa of Somerset; Robert J. Perry and his wife Catherine of Assonet; and Nancy M. Blythe and her husband Kevin of Fall River; six grandchildren: Kory Marie Silva, Nina Blythe, Jenna Perry, Robyn Perry, Michael Perry and Rachel Perry; a great granddaughter Merilyn Marie Silva and a goddaughter Lisa Carvalho.

Mrs. Perry was the sister of the late Joseph Carvalho.

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on August 7 at St. Joseph’s Church, Fall River.

Memorial contributions in her honor may be made to Southcoast Health Philanthropy Department, 101 Page Street, New Bedford, Mass., 02740 or to Catholic Memorial Home 2446 Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass., 02720.

Interment followed in St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Fall River.

Waring-Sullivan Funeral Homes was in charge of the arrangements.

even in these challenging circumstances and with her love of gardening and cooking she did all that she could to provide the best food for her household and a safe and love-filled home for her family, and an open door to relatives, neighbors and friends. Remaining ever mindful and proud of her heritage, Cecylia passed on a great love for the Catholic faith and a deep appreciation of the culture of the Polish people to her sons.

Proud that her eldest son would wish to devote his life to the service of the Church, as had her cousin as a priest and her brotherin-law as a Franciscan Friar, Cecylia was nevertheless concerned to have him go so far away in order to do so, but she came to accept that there was a greater need for priestly vocations in the United States than in Poland. Cecylia enjoyed three visits to the United States, first for the ordination of Father Marek in

1995, an additional visit for travel and sightseeing, and then a final visit in 2005 to be present for the celebration of Father Marek’s 10th anniversary of ordination.

A Mass of Christian Burial for Cecylia took place on July 24 in the Church of St. Bartholomew in Domaniewice with Bishop Wojciech Osial, Auxiliary Bishop of Lowicz, presiding and Father Kazimierz Bednarek, chaplain of the hospital in Lodz where Cecylia had been a patient, preaching.

Following the Funeral Mass which took place in the same church where Cecylia was married to Jan on Sept. 23, 1962 and where three generations of the Chmurski family have been parishioners, the procession moved on foot to the parish cemetery where the committal service and interment took place.

A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at Christ the King Church in Mashpee at a later date.

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Around the Diocese The St. Vincent de Paul Store located at 141 Washington Street in Taunton will be having an indoor yard sale of gently-used wedding gowns and some tuxedos during the month of August. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 12 noon. For more information, contact Jean or Bob at 508-823-6676.

St. John Neumann Parish is hosting a series of silent, outdoor retreats that introduces participants to the writings and life of one saint or master in the Catholic tradition. “A Day of Silence with the Masters” takes place on the church grounds, 157 Middleboro Road in East Freetown, on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Retreats will be dedicated to Julian of Norwich (August 12) and St. Bernard of Clairvaux (October 14).

The days begin at the camp house with an introduction to the master and an opening prayer or reading.

Participants are then invited to silently move among outdoor stations to reflect on the posted readings from the master. Lunch is on one’s own, although the group gathers for midday prayer and a brief discussion at 1 p.m. and then goes back into silence until 3:30 p.m. All are invited to attend the regular 4 p.m. Mass at St. John Neumann Church if desired. Beverages are provided, but participants should bring a bag lunch. For more information, contact Karen Howard at 508-947-0193 or email klhoward@aol.com.

St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Shop, 18 Davisville Road in East Falmouth is now open. The shop hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The shop is affiliated with St. Anthony’s Parish and will be offering a Bedding Sale for the back-to-college set and thrifty homemaker on Road Race weekend, August 25-26. For more information, call 508-457-0085.

Nancy Valko, R.N., will present “Fighting Back: One Nurse’s Battle with the Culture of Death,” a lunch and lecture event on September 23 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the parish center of Corpus Christi Church in East Sandwich. Admission is just $5 and attendees are asked to RSVP to Agatha by September 16 at 508-8883808 or email abodwell@comcast.net. The event is sponsored by the Cape Cod Chapter of Massachusetts Citizens for Life.

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

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

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Eucharistic Adoration in the Diocese Acushnet — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Francis Xavier Parish on Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Evening prayer and Benediction is held Monday through Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

ASSONET — Beginning September 14, St. Bernard’s Parish will have Eucharistic Adoration every Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed on the altar at the conclusion of 9 a.m. Mass and the church will be open all day, concluding with evening prayer and Benediction at 6:30 p.m.

ATTLEBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the Adoration Chapel at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, 71 Linden Street, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

ATTLEBORO — The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette holds Eucharistic Adoration in the Shrine Church every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. through November 17.

ATTLEBORO — There is a weekly time of Eucharistic Adoration Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church on North Main Street.

Brewster — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the La Salette Chapel in the lower level of Our Lady of the Cape Church, 468 Stony Brook Road, on First Fridays beginning at noon until 7:45 a.m. First Saturday, concluding with Benediction and concluding with Mass at 8 a.m. buzzards Bay — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Margaret Church, 141 Main Street, Monday through Saturday, from 6:30 to 8 a.m.; and every first Friday from noon to 8 a.m. on Saturday.

East Freetown — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. John Neumann Church every Monday (excluding legal holidays) 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady, Mother of All Nations Chapel. (The base of the bell tower).

EAST TAUNTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the chapel at Holy Family Parish Center, 438 Middleboro Avenue, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. On First Fridays, Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Holy Family Church, 370 Middleboro Avenue, from 8:30 a.m. until 7:45 p.m.

FAIRHAVEN — St. Mary’s Church, Main St., has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 8:30-11:30 a.m. in the Chapel of Reconciliation, with Benediction at 11:30 a.m. Also, there is a First Friday Mass each month at 7 p.m., followed by a Holy Hour with Eucharistic Adoration. Refreshments follow.

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

FALL RIVER — St. Bernadette’s Church, 529 Eastern Ave., has continuous Eucharistic Adoration from 8 a.m. on Thursday until 8 a.m. on Saturday.

FALL RIVER — St. Anthony of the Desert Church, 300 North Eastern Avenue, has Eucharistic Adoration Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

FALL RIVER — Holy Name Church, 709 Hanover Street, has Eucharistic Adoration Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady of Grace Chapel.

FALL RIVER — Good Shepherd Parish has Eucharistic Adoration every Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass and concluding with 3 p.m. Benediction in the Daily Mass Chapel. A bilingual holy hour takes place from 2 to 3 p.m. Park behind the church and enter the back door of the connector between the church and the rectory.

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

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

Falmouth — St. Patrick’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration each First Friday following the 7 a.m. Mass, with Benediction at 4:30 p.m.

HYANNIS — St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis, 347 South Street, Hyannis, has Eucharistic Adoration from noon to 3 p.m., daily Monday through Friday.

MANSFIELD — St. Mary’s Parish, 330 Pratt Street, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Benediction at 5:45 p.m.

MASHPEE — Christ the King Parish, Route 151 and Job’s Fishing Road has 8:30 a.m. Mass every First Friday with special intentions for Respect Life, followed by 24 hours of Eucharistic Adoration in the Chapel, concluding with Benediction Saturday morning followed immediately by an 8:30 Mass.

NEW BEDFORD — Eucharistic Adoration is held every Thursday, with Confessions, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. James Church. Please use the side entrance.

NEW BEDFORD — There is a daily holy hour from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1359 Acushnet Avenue. It includes Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Liturgy of the Hours, recitation of the Rosary, and the opportunity for Confession.

NEW BEDFORD — St. Lawrence Martyr Parish, 565 County Street, holds Eucharistic Adoration in the side chapel Fridays from 7:30-11:45 a.m. ending with a simple Benediction NORTH DARTMOUTH — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Road, every Tuesday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., ending with Benediction. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available at this time.

NORTH DIGHTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Wednesday following 8:00 a.m. Mass and concludes with Benediction at 5 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration also takes place every First Friday at St. Nicholas of Myra Church, 499 Spring Street following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending with Benediction at 6 p.m. The Rosary is recited Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 8 a.m.

NORTH EASTON — A Holy Hour for Families including Eucharistic Adoration is held every Friday from 3-4 p.m. at The Father Peyton Center, 518 Washington Street.

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

ORLEANS — St. Joan of Arc Parish, 61 Canal Road, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday starting after the 8 a.m.

Mass and ending with Benediction at 11:45 a.m. The Sacrament of the Sick is also available immediately after the 8 a.m. Mass.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

Taunton — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Tuesday at St. Anthony Church, 126 School Street, following the 8 a.m. Mass with prayers including the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for vocations, concluding at 6 p.m. with Chaplet of St. Anthony and Benediction. Recitation of the Rosary for peace is prayed Monday through Saturday at 7:30 a.m. prior to the 8 a.m. Mass.

Taunton — Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place every First Friday at Annunciation of the Lord, 31 First Street. Exposition begins following the 8 a.m. Mass. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed, and Adoration will continue throughout the day. Confessions are heard from 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. Rosary and Benediction begin at 5 p.m.

WAREHAM — Eucharistic Adoration at St. Patrick’s Church takes place 9 a.m. Thursday through 7 p.m. Friday. Adoration is held in our Adoration Chapel in the lower Parish Hall. ~ PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ~

East Sandwich — The Corpus Christi Parish Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 324 Quaker Meeting House Road, East Sandwich. Use the Chapel entrance on the side of the church.

NEW BEDFORD — Our Lady’s Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street, offers Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day. For information call 508-996-8274.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

WEST HARWICH — Our Lady of Life Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Holy Trinity Parish, 246 Main Street (Rte. 28), holds perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. We are a regional chapel serving all of the surrounding parishes.

All are invited to sign up to cover open hours. For open hours, or to sign up call 508-430-4716.

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