THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River -
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A DIOCESAN COUNCIL of Catholic Women leadership team from the Fall River diocese recently conducted a structure/ leadership seminar in Springfield for members of that dio'cese's newly-organized council. Fall River representatives welcomed by Springfield DCCW president Kate 'Kubera, third from left, were, from'left, DCCW third vice-president Bella Nogueira; past diocesan president now serving on the National Council of Catholic Women nominatingcommitee Claudette Armstrong; diocesan president Madeline Wojcik, past president Dorothy Curry; Organization Services chairman Madeleine Lavoie; recording secretary Theresa Lewis. Techniques presented by the Fall River team provided leaders ~f the Springfield diocese,with skills and ' information needed to affiliate area groups With the new DCCW.
ABINGDON, Va.(CNS)-Sis- ·St. Mary's Hospital in Norton, ter Bernadette Kenny was-recently and had to drive the oversize vehicleared of a charge that she had ere over the mountain roads. violated a court order by impeding coal traffic to show support for the coal miners strike in Dickenson COMPANION County. Sister Kenny, a member AND of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, was among 16 people arHOME-MAKER rested for driving slowly and allegedly delaying Pittston Coal Co. Light Duties trucks. This strike tactic has been Wanted For Daytime used by the United Mine Workers From in their five-month-old strike. The nun has admitted sympathy with 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. the strikers, but denied she was For Information Call assisting them. Rather, she said 673·6568 that she was delivering medicine as part of outpatient services from
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Faith sustained' couple while lost at sea jumped in their life raft. In 15 ,arrangements because they wanted minutes their boat was gone. to stay in Costa Rica for a few days Lt. Andy Connor of the U.S. so they could visit the Shrine of the Coast Guard's Pacific headquar- Virgin of the Angels in Cartago. ters in Alameda, Calif., told CNS "That's all you have is your that whale attacks like the one the faith," Ms. Smith said. Butlers described are rare. Ms. Smith, who flew to Costa "A pod of whales might have Rica to be with her parents, added been playing around and the boat that the family would not head' may have been in their way," he back to the United States until her said. "The whales usually don't do parents regained their strength. anything to humans unless they're killer whales. (The Butlers) are very fortunate to have survived." After 20 days adrift, ,the couple ran out of food and started eating A recent series of presentations raw fish. Butler lost 49 of his 175 on Recognizing and Coping with pounds and his wife went from 150 Stress sponsored by the diocesan pounds to 92 pounds. The couple's faith helped them Family Life Center was so over~ survive multiple shark attacks and booked, say officials, that a second the desperation of not being spot- series is being offered for those ted by at least 40 ships they saw who could not be accommodated . throughout the ordeal, their and for other interested persons. Jerry and Scottie Foley, Diocedaughter said. The Butlers recited two psalms san Office of Family Ministry prodaily and listened to church servi-. gram directors, said the new series;' ces on their radio. Once broadcast like the first, will be given by told a story of the Virgin of the Dorothy J. Levesque of the Office Angels, Costa Rica's patron saint of Ministry with Separated, Divoralso known as the Virgin of the ced, Remarried and Widowed Persons of the diocese of Providence. Rescue. They prayed to her., The Foleys said that persons need "If your wish comes true, you're not fit int,o those categories to parsupposed to visit her," Ms. Smith ticipate in the program, which will Frugality said. be held from 7:00 to 9 p.m. TuesDays later, their wish did come "Frugality includes all of the days Sept. 26, and Oct. 3, 17 and true when Ii Costa Rican coast other virtues." - Cicero 31 at the Family Life Center. guard crew plucked them out of .... .... ......... Everyone experiences stress, says the water near Golfito. Mrs. Levesque, noting that it is "a Connor said his office had natural and a needed part of life" GOD'S ANCHOR HOLD' planned to bring the couple back and that without it there can be no to the United States, but the Butlers growth. Her series aims at transopted. to make their own travel forming negative stresses into positive stresses, identifying sources of stress and placing stress-causing events into perspective. Causes ofstress, she said, include death of a family member or other -":" ~._' ·,:·~:\,,:.::\::t::::::t·· loved one; divorce and! or separation; proble~s relating to children, jobs, health or finances; moving; and family dissension. Symptoms may be feelings of confusion, depression, being overHis Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, whelmed or "ready to snap." Bishop of Fall River, announces the appointment of the ReverInformation on the stress sesend Joseph M. Costa to be Administrator of St. Vincent's sions is av,ailable from the Family Home, Fall River, Mass. Life Center at 500 Slocum Rd., Effective Sept. 1,1989 North Dartmouth, tel. 508-9996420.
WASHINGTON (CNS) - For nearly two months, Susan Smith had visions of her frightened parents floating in a raft in a pitch black ocean. Her visions were a reality for her parents, William Butler, 59, and his 56-year-old wife, Simone, of Miami, who were rescued off the Costa Rican coast after surviving on'raw fish-and purified water for 66 days in a life raft. "They had hope, they had faith," Ms. Smith told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview from a hospital in Golfito, Costa Rica, where her parents are recuperating from the ordeal. "Thank God, they are alive." The couple had left MiamiAptil 23 to sail around the world. They hoped to reach Spain by 1992'and return with a Columbus Day regatta. The Catholic couple said some . 60 whales rammed and sank their 39-foot sailboat on June 15 about 1,200 miles away from where they were rescued. The couple quickly sent a mayday signal, grabbed a saltwater converter, a transistor radio, eight cans of food, some cookies and a fishing hook and
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