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Nantucket Curate Named-to Direc·t Seekonk Parish

The i\NCHOR .

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Rev. Daniel E. Carey, 'curate at Our Lady of the Isle Church, Nantucket, will assume the duties of administrator at Our Lady of Mt.' Carniel Church, Seekonk, it is announced .by the Chancery Office. He will be replaced at Our Lady of nard's, Rochester, N. Y. He was the Isle by Rev. Robert F. ordained in 1934 by the late Kirby now serving at St. Bishop James E. Cassidy. At the Nantucket church since Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

An' Anch.or of the, Soul, Sure and F'irm-ST. PAUL

Fall·.River, Mass.

Vol. 3, No. 38

Thursday, Sept. 17, 1959 8eeond CI... Mllil Privilell'eo Authorized .t F.U River. M....

Father Carey, a native of Fall River, attended St. Charles' Sem~ inary,' Baltimore and St. Ber-

PRICE lOc $4.00 per Year

1952, the new administrator's previous assignments included llervice at St. Mary's Church, Turn to Page Eighteen

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Swansea Pastor Heads Diocesan Blind-"Guild

Ordinary Is' Enroute To Meet· Pope 'John

His Excellency, the Most Reverend James'L. Connolly, is enroute to Europe to make his ad limina visit to the Holy Father. The ad' limina visit is a formal report made in person -·to His Holiness once every five years byeve'r! Bishop in the world, according to' a geographical schedule. This is the year for Bishops of the American

continents to visit Rome. The term ad limina comes from a Latin phrase, "ad limina Apostolorum," to the threshold of the ~postles. It refers to the obligation of the Bishop to make a visit to the tombs of SS: Peter and Paul in addition to visiting the . Pope and presenting a' written report of Diocesan conditions to the Sacl'ed Consistorial Congregation. The Fall River Ordinary will offer a spiritual bouquet from the people of the piocese to His Holiness. This was collected from the faithful of every parish during the Summer. Accompanying Bishop Connolly. will be Rt. Rev. Humberto S. Medeiros, Chancellor of the Diocese. The prelates will stop in Lisbon before reaching Rome and h'ope' to make a pilgrimage to Fatima. ' Reaching Rome Thursday, Sept. 24, they will next visit Assisi, Loretto and other shrines of Europe. Other countries on their itinerary are Austria; Germapy:; Belgium, where the Bishop will visit Louvain University, where he did graduate work; En'gland and Ireland. T~e entire journey will take about six' weekt

Hub Architect Draws Plans For School High School, to be 'constructed in Attleboro for occupancy in September, 1961. Among the foremost architects for churches and allied structures in the country, the firm also designed theCatholie MemorialHome, Fall River; ,St. Patrick's, and Sacred Heart Schools, Fall River; St. Thomas More rectory, Somerset; and Kennedy MemQrial. Center, New Bedford. Turn to Page Twelve

Award Contracts Fo, New School In Fall River 'Rev..WilliamH. Harrington,' ,pastor of Holy Name Church; Fall ,River,announced today that the contr'act 'for the new parish elemen-

tary. school has been awarded' to

The first Diocesan Seminar on Sacred Music will take place in St. James Church, New Bedford, next Wednesday evening at 7 :30. The 'Seminar is under the direction of the Diocesan Committee on Sacred Music; established by the Most Reverend Bishop to fulfill t'Ompletely the prescription~ of last Fall's Papal Instruction on Music and Liturgy. Members 'of the panel which will . di~cuss Sacred, ;Music are Rev.' Paul G. Connolly, assistant at Immaculate Conception Church Fall River, as moderator; Miss Germaine Barre, Mus.B., William G. Campbell, Mus.B., Normand Gin g r a f'. ' Mus.B'., and Mrs. Edward L. Studley, Mus.B. Organists and Choir Directors from every parish in the Diocese have been invited to participate in this Seminar. Interested choir members may also take part iIi the discussions. . Mr. Campbell, presently a student in First Theology at St. John's Seminary, Boston, was ,_ fonnerly the organist', at St. •.; Mary's Cathedral in Fall River. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and 'his r~ Seminar topic will be "Appropriate Church Music for the , Small Parish Choir." Miss Barre obtained her deTurn to Pate Twelvo

REV. DANIEL E. CAREY

Maginnis, Walsh & Kennedy, Bos'ton architects, have been: named to draw plans for -the new Bishop Feehan

Seminar on Sac'red Music Featur,es Demonstrations

the low bidder', Gerald McNally of Fall River. . His bid was $394,072. . . The coniplet~'list of bids was . as follows: Carey Construction Co., :F:all'River: $439,223;: Coleman Construction Co., Providence: $404,213; F. L. Collins, Fall River: $401,934; Theodore Loranger & Son! New Bedford: Turn to Page Eighteen

Rev. George E. Sullivan, pastor of St, Dominic's Church, Swansea, has been named Diocesan head of the 'Catholic GUil.d. for the Blind,' replacing Rt~ Rev. Msgr. J. Joseph SullIvan, founder of the organization, and paslor of Sacred Heart' .Church, . Fall River. Fat~erSullivan;' formerly head' of the Fall River area uilit : of the Guild, ,will be succeeded in that 'post by Rev. James F. McDermott. pastor of Oqr Lady of Fatima Church, Swansea. Father Sullivan,' born in Fall River; : attended St. Bernard's Seminary, Rochester. He was ordained 'in June, 1925 by the late Bishop Daniel F. Feehan. Previous assignments were to Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket; St. Joseph's, [Fall River; St. Patrick's, Falmouth; and Holy Name, Fall River. From 1927' to 1933 the new director was' chaplain at St. Vincent's, Home, 'Fall River. This was followed by 10 years' at St. Mary's Cathedral and service in the United' States Army. Father Sullivan was then appointed pastor at Corpus Christi Church, Sandwich, and in February, 1957, pastor at St. Dominic"s. Father. McDermott, born in Taunton, also' attended St. Bernard's· SemiIiary. Ordained in 1932 by the late Bishop Cassidy, he has served' at St. Joseph's Chureh, Fall River; Holy Name, New Bedford; and Immaculate Conception, Fall River. Appointed administrator at St. Peter's, South Dighton, in June, "1956, Father McDerm?tt "PlUl ,to Page Twenty REV. GEORGE E. SULLIVAN o

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'Nursing School to ~raduClte '26 in Sunday CeremQny Twenty-six . young women; includipg 2,0 from the Diocese, will graduate at 3 this Sunday afternoon, Sept. 20, from' St. Anne's School of Nursing; Fall :River. His Excellency, the Most Reverend James J., Gerrard, Auxiliary . Bish'op and Vicar-General, will 'preside, delivering the principal address, conferring diplomas, offering the final

Father James O'Reilly, Seekonk' Pastor, Retires on Te ...·porary SI·ck Leave I. I

prayer and giving his blessing to gr~duates and audience. The program-will also include a pro:cessional and recessional by Dominican Academy orchestra, selections by the school of llUrsing glee club, and reCitation of the Nightingale Pledge by the gradliates. ' 'Rev. A. M. Seguin, O.P., hoscours~ of 27 years.: " , pital . chaplain, will offer the , Nothing much happened in aU opening prayer and Attorney J. those,years, said Father's broth- Edward Lajoie, chairman of the er,H. Frank. Reilly.. of, Fall board of governors, will present River. the program. Greetings from the Nothing ....:... but hundreds of . Medical Staff will be extended Masses said, confessions heard; . b y F red erIC . k J . S u 11'Ivan,.M .D ., ,. sick comforted, babies baptized., president.' . Nothing":-'but the' supern:j.tural ~ , Anne Marie, :l3arboza of the routine of a priest's life" which graduating class will deliver the adds up to eternal salvation for ' . the souls in his care., . class essay. Now' at Massachusetts General Ten of the graduating Class are Hospital for 'treatment Father from New Bedford, and seven O'Reilly is .on tempor~ry sick. from Fall River, with one each leave. He 'will be missed by his from North Dartmouth, Fairpeople for, as his brother said, haven and Taunton. with typical New England unNew Bedfordites include Mary derstatement, "He took pretty Louise Barros, Jeanne Simonne E. O'REILLY good care o( them." Turn to Page Eigh~ '

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A quiet, priest who has served a country parish for over 27 years - that's Father James E. O'Reilly, pastor of Our Lady 'of Mt. Carrnel Chur,ch, Seekonk. Much beloved by his people, whom he knows intimately, Father O'Reilly has devoted himself to their service . since he came among them in June, '1932. One of four boys, Father OiReilly was born in West Wareham, and was a ha; n~ town service. The rectory. member of ~t. Patrick's par-. is a f~w miles distant, which has ish, Wareham. In 1903 the ,me.ant. thousands. of mil.es: of family moved to Fall River travelIng back. and forth m, the

. . ' where he atten?ed Durfee HIgh School, continumg t~ Holy.Cross Coll~ge and St. Marys Semmary, BaltImore. He was ordained June 2, .1917 by the late Bishop Feehan and served in several parishes fQr brief pe!iods during ~he next two years. From.1918 to 1926 he was at SS. Peter and Paul, Fall River and from 1926· to .1932 at St. Lawrence's" New Bedford, remaining there' until his appointment to Seekonk. The only priest in Seekonk, Father O'Reilly has some "missionary:' conditions in his parish. Water, for e.xample, must be brought to the church, since.it

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REV. JAMES


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