The cnOR
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, August 27, 1964
Vol. 8, No. 35 ©
1964 The Anchor
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Diocesan CCD Plans Teacher Courses The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine will offer courses in doctrine and methods for CCD teachers in five areas of the Diocese this year. The doctrine course will be given in the Fall,· the methods course in the Spring. The eight-week doctrine course will be con ducted by the five area CCD directors; the eight week methods course will be conducted by sisters of five communi . k' . h D' 1,7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Methods course: Mother Mary ties wor mg In t e lOcese Methods course: Sister Do Fidelis, R.J,M. of Fall River. lores, O.L.V,M. ATTLEBORO The doctrine course may be applied to both elementary and secondary teaching. The methods course will be given on the ele mentary level. A registration form for the course will be mailed to the parish CCD di rectors in the near' future. The eight-week methods course will begin the week of Feb. 28, 1965. CAPE COD Location: Holy Trinity School, West Harwich. . Doctrine course: Rev. PhUip A. Davignon. Opening date: Thur9day, Oct.
NEW BEDFORD Location: Bishop Stang High School. Doctrine course: Rev. John R. FoIster. Opening date: Tuesday, Sept. 29, 7:30 to 9:30p.m. Methods course: Sister Mail' garet Augustine, S.N.D.,
F ,ALL RIVER Looation: Jesus-Marie Aead emy. Doctrine Course: Rev. Richard P. Demers. Opening date: Wednesd3IY~ Sept. 30, 7:30 to 9:30 P.M.
Location: Bishop Feehan High School. Doctrine course: Rev; James F. Kelley. Opening date: Thursday, Oct. 1, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Methods course: Simer Mal'f' Ka'teri, R.S,M.
TAUNTON Location: Bishop Cassidy Higll School. . Doctrine Course: Rev. ThOimall F. Neilan. Opening date~ WednesdaJr. Sept. 30, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Methods course: Sister Jane Raymond, S.U.S.c.
Sacraments, Sacramentals In English on Sept. 14 FATHER BELANGER
FATHEK MORRISEY
Two Fall River Assista'nts Receive New Assignments . Transfer of, assistants at two Fall River parishes was atmounced this'mQrning by the Chancery Office. Effective iJoday, Rev. Donald E. Belanger, ,assistant at St. Jean Bap tiste, will becOme assistant at St. Mathieu Parish and Rev. i'homas E. Morrisey, assist Ordained May 18, 1940 in st. Iltlt at St. Mathieu, will M~ry's Cathedral by the late serve as assistant at St. Jean Most Rev. James E. Cassidy, D.D. B~ptiste.
Father Belanger was educated
tit St. Anne's Parish School imd Blessed Sacrament School, Fall River; St. Hyacinthe's College, St. Alexander's -College, Semi ttarY of Philosophy and the 8rand Seminary of Theology, all in Canada.
Father Belanger was assigned as assistant at St. Joseph;s, New Bedford, He was named assistaJ:l,t at St. Michael's, Ocean Grove, on June 7, 1944 and assigned to St. Jean Baptiste on Dec. 31, 1946. Father Belanger has served u Turn to Page Seventeen
Bishop R.iley To Conduct Diocesan Priests' Retreat Most Rev. Thomas J. Riley, D.D., Ph.D., an Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, pastor of St. Peter's Church, Oambridge, and former rector of St. John's Seminary, Brighton, will eonduct the annual retreat for Diocesan priests starting ~.,...,.,...,-c."=.,....,,.;' Monday night, Aug. 31, at the Diocesan Retreat House, Oathedral Camp, East Free town. Priests will attend in
BISHOP RILEY
two· groups with Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Ordinary of the Diocese, presiding the first week and Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese, will preside the second week. Born in 1900, Bishop Riley was graduated from Boston College in 1922 and ordained by the late William Cardinal O'Connell in 1927 folowing studies at St. John's. He continued his studies at the College of the Holy Spirit, Louvain, Belgium, receiving a Ph.D., degree. Most Rev. Bishop Connolly will preside at the retrea,t the first week which the following priests -will attend: Turn t;o Page Seventeea
WASHINGTON (NC-Traditional Saturday confessions in Catholic churches across the nation will have an unfamiliar ring for penitents in mid-September. The priest will ab solve in English, reciting in the vernacular the formula customarily said in Latin.. Thia change, probably the first to be noticed by th average Catholic, will be part of a sweepin« revision in the administra tion of the Church's sacra tial formulas, of the administra- pr~sident of the U. S. Bishopa' • tion of the sacraments of Bap- Episcopal Conference. menta and Its s.acramentals. tism, Confirmation, Penance, An. The move was immediately The U.S. bIShops have nointing of the Sick (Extreme hailed by Father Gerard So
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agreed to introduce English on Monday, Sept. 14, in the entire eeremonies, inclUding the essen
'BishopToSay Masson TV The Most Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese, will be celebrant of the Mass on "Ohalice of Sal
Unction), Matrimony and HQly Eucharist when it is received outside of Mass. The decision was announced by Archbishop John F. Dearden of Detroit, chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Commission on the Liturgical Apostolate, at the direction of Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, ranking U. S•. Catholic churchman and
Sloyan, president of the National Liturgical Conference and head of the department of religioua education at the Catholic Uni. versity of America, Wa9hington, D. C. "This long-awaited news sur~ ly will be welcomed by priesUi and people throughout the country," he said in St. Louia TU1'n to Page Seven:teen
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Jeanne C. Olsen Leaves As PAVLA Volunteer
vation," a live telecast at 10 A.M. next Sunday over Station WWLP, Channel 22, Springfield, and Stations WRLP. Channel 32, Greenfield, Mass./Keene, N. H., and WHNB, Channel 30, New Britain, Conn. Mi~ Jeanne C. Olsen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer His Excellency will preach the Olsen of Harwichport, has become the second girl from the sermon during the telecast Mass and in the 15 minutes of air Diocese to' volunteer for P AVLA. Miss Olsen left Monday time remaining will take part in by plane for Puerto Rico for a four month course in Spanish an interview with Father Fidelis and Latin American culture· High School, New Bed.. Rice, C.P., on the spiritual and as the final step before she Family educational influence of the ford, left for the Salvador Bahia takes up her teaching duties area. BraziL Confraternity of Christian Doc trine as it appears to the Bishop in Bogota, Colombia, South America. . of a Diocese. Following the completion of Bishop Connolly will be at tending the four-day CCD Con. . her studies at the Institute for gress which starts today at InterCUltural Communication at the Catholic University of Puer Cathedral High School, Spring field. During the interview he to Rico at Ponce, the new vol unteer will teach second grade will have fnteresting .observa tions on the congress as well as at CoHegio San Carlos, a Bene on CCD achievements and goals dictine Institution in Bogota. Jeanne, a former resident of in the Fall River Diocese. Fall River, is a graduate of B.M.C. Durfee High School, Fall River, and Bradford Durfee Col lege of Technology,also in Fall BALTIMORE (NC) - Check River. She has taken courses at your calendar carefully for the the University of New Hamp dates of the three ember days shire and is a candidate for a this September, because it may master of edueation degree at be wrong. Bridgewater State College. Several calendars and direc , Most Rev. Erqest J. Primeau, tories list the ember days "as Bishop of Manchester, gave falling on Sept. 16, 18 and 19 Jeanne her mission cross at cer· of this year. The correct dates emonies conduded in the chapel are Sept. 23, 25 and 26. of St. Joseph's Cathedral, Man· Ember days , days of fast and chester. lust one year ago,' Miss Lucne partial abstinence, occur four tim(!$ during the liturgical ;year. Lebeau, R.N., a il'aGuate of Hoq lOSS JEANNE Co ~-
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