THE ANCHORThurs., Sept. 23, 1976
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OFFICIAL ASSIGNMENrS Rev. Thomas L. Rita, Diocesan Pro-Life Coordinator and Director of Diocesan Respect Life Program. Assignment effective Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1976. Rev. Maurice R. Jeffrey, Chaplain, Bristol Community College. Assignment effective Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1976,.
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Continued from Page One has been appointed Assistant Pastor at St. Lawrence Parish, New Bedford, effective Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1976. Father Rita Born in New Bedford, the son Bishop of Fall River of Louis and the late Veronica (Earley) Rita, Rev. Thomas L. Rita was educated at Holy Family High School, that city, and graduated in 1962. Following his studies at St. Mary's College, Kentucky, and l St. John's Seminary, Brighton, he was ordained a priest on May 2,1970. midst of a crowd, or living with Father Rita has served as an others in the same skyscraper, Associate Pastor at St. Mary working in the same office, fac- Parish, Mansfield and St. Antory, barracks or hospital, yet thony Parish, East Falmouth. He feeling alone or isolated?" the has a1so served as Chaplain to e asked. .. o. the Knights of Columbus, CounYes, we are Jomed m the to- cil 240' Assistant Director and gethernes~of sl}aring the sl;lJ)le" .then Director of, the 'CYa: in ~ati?n:alit!,prof~ssion or group .. Attleboro Area.,' m~~b~rship'B.ut.we are str~~g~ .. Father ,Jtlffrey ers, different mSlde and foreignRev. Maurice R. Jeffrey,. son ers to one ~nother:~' .of OliveF and Normande (PreTh~ Po?t,lfff claimed that to- vost) Jeffrey of New Bedford, day the I had become an or- was born Oct. 29, 1934. His early phan and stands alone among education was had at St. Joseph so .ma~y people without know- Parish School New Bedford' ing what its destiny is.': and AssumPti~n College. ' . But, the Chur~~: which !h~ Foil9win g his years of philPope. (lalled a super:familYosophy and' theology at St. rea~m~ beyond the family ~nd . Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, society, offers a program which he was ordained a priest on is "fu~l of light and community," April 2, 1960. he said. Parish assignments have taken
Church Super-Family Says IOld Worker VATICAN CITY (NC)-Speaking as one of the Church's "old workers," Pope Paul VI challenged young Christians to make the Church a "super-family" in a world of loneliness. Addressing nearly 8,000 people in the Vatican's modern audience hall, Pope Paid said tliat Christianity 'ofters community to' today's men and women, standin a lonely crowd. Pope Paul, who turns' age 79 this Sunday, told young Christians that "we old workers are waiting for you and calling out: it is time to construct! "Or rather, it is time to build up the builders-the apostle!! of the city of God." "How many times-perhaps even more than once a dayhave we found ourselves in the
FATHER RITA
Father Jeffrey to St. Jean Baptiste, St. Roch and St. Patrick Parishes in Fall River and St. Anthony of Padua Parish in New Bedford. Father Jeffrey has also served as Notary to the Diocesan Tribunal; Religion Instructor at the former Dominican Academy; Chaplain to Council 86 of the Knights of Columbus Since 1971, he has been the Priest-Instructor at Bishop Gerrard High School, Fall River and a motivating force behind many teenage activities in the Greater Fall River area.
A concelebrated Mass of Christ, the Eternal High Priest, was offered Monday at St. Joseph Church, Fairhaven, for Rev. Kieran To Rush, SS.CCo, who died Sept. 15 in New "(ork City. A resident of the Catholic Memorial Home, Fall River, at the lime of his death, Father Rush was former pastor of Holy Redeemer Church, Chatham, and Our Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet. He was born in Swinford, Ireland, on Oct. 9, 1910, came to the United States for his education at Washington, D.C. and was ordained there on June 8, 1948. As a priest he was a professor at Sacred Hearts seminaries in Wareham, Jaffrey, N.H. and Clones, Ireland and served as a curate at Holy Trinity Church, West Harwich, at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, Rochester, N.Y., where he was also a pastor. He was a superior at the Wareham seminary, in Washington, D.C. and at a House of Philosophy in Winona, Minn. He also taught in a high school of his community in Glendora, Calif. Bishop James J. Gerrard represented Bishop Cronin at the funeral Mass.. Interment was in the Sacred Hearts community cemetery, Fairhaven.
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Bread for World The Cape Chapter of BREAD FOR' THE WORLD will hold its first meeting of the fall season on Monday, September 27, at 7:30 P.M. at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville. The public is invited. EDICTAL CITATION
DIOCESAN TRIBUNAL FALL RIVER, MASS. Prot. No. M-89/76 Since the actual place of residence of Earlynn Hager is unknown. We cite EARLYNN HAGER to appear personally before the Sacred Tribunal of the Diocese of Fall River on September 28, 1976 at 1:30 P.M. at 344 Highland Avenue Fall River, Massa路 chusetts, to give testimony to establish: Whether the nullity of the marriage ex路 Ists In WH ITE路HAGER CASE? Ordinaries of the places or other pastors having knowledge of the residence of the above person, Earlynn Hager, must see to it that she Is properly adVised In regard to this edictal citation. HenryT. Munroe Officlalls Raymond P. Monty Notary Given at the seat of the Tribunal, Fa II River, MassaChusetts, on this, the 20th day of September 1976
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ORDINATION: An expectant Rev. Robert Paul Rousseau of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament stands with Bishop Cronin before the ordination ceremony raising him to the priesthood. He is the son of Mr. arid Mrs. Wilfred B. Rousseau of St. Hyacinth Parish, New Bedford.
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