.Services to Be Held TemporarHy •an Bishop Feehan High School
Establish Attleboro Falls Parish Fr. Raymond W. McCarthy First St. Mark's Administrator
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~ 11, No. 33, Aug. 17, 1967
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Establishment of the new parish of St. Mark in Attleboro Falls has been decreed by the Most Rev. James L. Connolly. Bishop of Fall River. The new parish bas been made necessary as a result of the continual increase in the number of the faithful in the so-called Jewelry City 00 the northern periphery of the diocese.
. Rev. Raymond W. McCarthy, ·presently a curate at St. Patrick's parish in Fall River, has been designated as the first administrator of the new parish. Fr. McCarthy, who serve;s as associate . director of Cath~1ic·
Charities Appeal, is a native of North Attleboro. Temporarily, services for the members of the new parish will be held .at Bishop Feehan High School. It is expected that construction of a church to serve the parishioners will be started in the near future. Fr. McCarthy will reside at the regional diocesan school. The new St~ Mark parish ·win comprise members of St. John the Evangelist in Attleboro and St. Ma:ry;s in North Attleboro. Father McCarthy is the son of the late. Raymond L. and the late Margraet McGowan McCarthy. Born March 6, 1919 in North
Attleboro, he was graduated from St. Mary's Parish School and North Attleboro High Schoool, and attended Providence College. He completed his studies for the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore and was ordained Feb. 24, 1945 by the late Bishop Cassidy. Father McCarthY served as assistant at Sacred Heart, Fall River and St. Patrick's, Somerset until his present assignment to St. Patrick's in 1963. Bishop ConnollY appointed him director of the Family Life Bureau in 1952 and Fall River area director of the DiOCesan Turn to Page Tw~
FR. RAYMOND W. MeCARTBr
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'f'South Easton .Church· Dedicaticinon Saturday, Sept. 2
Fr. Lyons to Centerville Most Rev. ·James L.-Omnolly, Bishop of the Diocese of Fall RiVer, has annoul.\ced the transfer of Rev. James
Y. - Lyons, ·administrator of . st. Peter"s Church; Dighton, 10- pas.... 01. Our Lady of Victory Ch.trch, CenteJ:Vilic. . .Father Lyons succeeds Rev. .losepll It. Welsh, woo retired OIl Aug. 9, as pastor of the Cape Cod parish. o'.IM: DeW pastOl' will assume 10M cluties OIl Wednesday, Au•. 23. Administrator of 81. Peter's, 1).ighton, since July, 1"986, Fat~ Turn :to Pale- Tw. 0
R. ,JAMES F. LYONS
Montforts
Investiture The Chancery Offiee . . . abb.unced that the investiture of the newly. Dame. l ' Domestie Prelates will
bke place at 7:3t, . . S_lIIay Dirrht. Sept: •• iJl St. MarT'S C,tbedra1, FaU River. Te l.te invested: Fr.. Fan Ittver....;....:Msc'nJ.. .l9IUIl!:. B.ml•. Lester, L. ...... Roben· L. St....., Georl'e E. Sallin•. Fr_ CaPe C .......- . . . . ...... A. Chippendale, Le<>.I. D.a.ri. William D. Thoms••.
Also:
Ms.-n. Arlhur G. Bop.is. Swansea: Patriek R. Hllrley. Taunton .and Armand·· J. Levasseur, NewBedferd.
The M<lntfort Fathers, WM al'e-headedinA*'epn>yinee which serves this area by a Fall .River n..tive, win
assume control of St. Peter's Ch\lrch in Dighton by directive of the Most Rev. J'am..es L. Connolly. Bishop of Fall River.
Very Rev. Roger M. Charest• S.M.M. is the proviacial of· the Montfort Fathers wlto currently have a Taunton mission house. TbeMontfort Fathenl are the newest religious community to do parish work in the ~an River See. A. Montfort Father will 1» 0
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designated _as adminiistrator ~ t~ South):,ng,hton panish to suc-" c~d Rev. James F. Lyons wile has been nam~ pastor. of Our . Lady
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The Montfort Fathe:,rs came .to the Fall' River Diocese in 1962:·' and the Taunton M-is:sfon hOuse· estaqlishtnent markedl the first residence of the Montfort Fathers in the state of Massachusetts. Two other residences in ~ew England illlc]ude 81. _ ~uis de Montfort Seminary, L~tchfie1.d, C~nn.• and Camp SL Louis, Sabattus, Me., a Summer Tum to Page Tw.