JUDGE EDWARD A. LEE ATTY. RENRI G. PROULX JOSEPH E. FERNANDES
The -ANCHOR
ROBERT V. McGOWAN
Head Up Attleboro
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.Most Reverend James J. Gerrard, Auxiliary Bishop, will preside tonight at a meeting to outline initial
stages of a fund raising campaign for' the Diocese's second regional high school, to be '. An Anchor of the Soul, Sure and Pirm-Sr. PAUL . located in "Attleboro. All priests of the. area to be served by' the new school will attend, in addition to general "'"ond t.:1... Mall PrivileCeII PRICE lOe chairmen and their' associates. Authorized .t F.lIRioer. M.... $4.00 per Year The gathering will be held at St. John's School auditorium, Attleboro, at 8 o'clock. To be emphasized is the special gifts phase of the campaign, which will begin Sunday, Oct. 11 with" sermons in the 12 parishes which will send A telephone call from Rome has assured Mrs. Blanche students to the school,' and with Turn to Page Eighteen Bouchard, South Attleboro, of the safety of her son, Rev.
Fall River, Mass. Vol. 3, No. 39
Thursday, Sept. 24, 1959
Attleboro Missioner Reports From Laos
Lucien Bouchard, a.M.I., a missionary in Sam Neua, Laos, territory under. heavy attack by Communist forces. Very Rev. JoOhn Hannick, O.M.I., regardless of the consequences. also of Attleboro, and pro- We felt that they needed us more vincial of the missionary than ever during these troubled order telephoned from Rome times." to tell Mrs. Bouchard that her, son was in no danger. Ordained in 1955, Father Bouchard was assigned to the Laotion mission in September, 1956.. He is one of five priests who care for 5,000 Catholics in the war-torn area. Young Catholic men in Sam Neua, said Father Bouchard, "consider fighting against atheiistic communists not only a patriotic, but also a religious duty." " ."When Communists attacked about six weeks ago," said the missionary, "we missionaries decided to st<l楼 with our flock
A United Nations fact-fin'ding mission, appointed by the Security Council, is now in Laos to report on the situation. The Laotian government has accused communist north Viet Nam of aiding Laotian Pathet Lao rebels who revolted against the governn1ent in northeastern Laos. "Since the Communist invasion,". said Father Bouchard, the missionaries, Oblates, of Mary Immaculate, . "have continued missionary work as before." Father Bouchard said his work cOllsists of visiting six or seven mountain villages each 'rurn to :Pa~e Twenty
Bishop Gerra rd To'Attend Mass For Prelate'路, Most Rev. Jam~s J. Gerrard, D.D., V.G.,A~xiliary Bishop of' the Fall. River Diocese, will be in the sanctuary. with other members of the hierarchy at the Solemn Pontifical Mass of Requiem tom 0 r row morning in St. Joseph's Cathedral, Manchester, N. H. for the Most. Rev. Matthew Francis 'Brady, D.D., Bishop of Manchester, who. died Sunday night. . Bishop Brady was well known in the Fall River Diocese, his Turn to Page Twelve
Afternoon Moss At Cathedral
BERNARD nOYLE
EUGENE FARRELL
Dedicate Holy Cross Seminary on. Sunday
The first unit of the new Holy Cross Fathers Seminary in North Easton which has been under construction for the past year will be dedicated. in an official cornerstone laying ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 27 at 2 :30 P.M. it was announced by Very Rev. George S. De- seminary, a remodelled barn Prizio, C.S.C., Provincial for (St. Pius X Seminary), which the Holy Cross Fathers in has provided facilities for 30 the Eastern half of the seminarians each year for the United States. His Excellency the Most Rev. Albert F.. Cousineau, C.S.C., former Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, presently Bishop of Haiti, will dedicate the new seminary, assisted by the Very Rev. George S. DePrizio, C.S.C., and Rev. Roger P. Quilty, C.S.C., Rector at the seminary. Replaces Barn 'Designed by Mr. William Cram of Norwalk, Conn., the new unit replaces - the present
past 10 years. The new dormitory wi'1g. with 30 rooms will house 60. A bright cloister walk connects to the mod ern I "T equipped business offices, dining room, kitchen and recreation room-planned to accommodate 200 students.. Father DePrizio, C.S.C., has announced that the next step in. the proposed one million dollar project will be the construction of a large seminar)' chapel. Turn to Page Eighteen
Cite Fall River Missionary For Success in Guatemala HUEHUETENANGO (NC) - Sixteen years ago the first Maryknoll Missioners arrived in Guatemala, and they found here, as in the rest of Latin .America, a people suffering from the greatest of human tragedies: spiritual starvation. They confronted "At Saloma: Father John M. superstition, amorality and Breen, M.M., of Fall River, hatred-best symbolized by Ma'ss" had 47,155 Communions hundreds of empty, crum- and 10,433 Confessions in a ten bling colonial churches, stark evidence of a Faith that once burned intensely, but because of a lack of priests, was practicaHy dead. z The results of If) years of work by the Maryknollers sho:-v what can be done in other spiritually impoverished areas of. Latin America provided they get priests. An excerpt from a report prepared by the Very Rev. Hugo M. Gerbermann, M.M., ~e颅 gional Superior in Guatemala, is as follows:
month period. He has 62 catechists in his parish." Future Promising The future of the Church in the Maryknoll area looks promising. At present 27 young men are路 s'tudying in seminaries for the priesthood. Two young men are training to become Brothers and two girls are studying to be Sisters. An intensive catechetical project involving 2,000 volunteer lay-teachers, mostly Indians, ia Turn. to Page Eighteen
Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River, announces that there will be a Sunday afternoon Mass every Sunday at 5 o'clock P.M. at St. Mary's Cathedral only. The Sunday afternoon Masses will begin in the Cathedral on Sunday, October 4.
Father Considine Warns Missions On Parochialism WASHINGTON (NC) "Parochialism" is one of the greatest threats to the success of Catholic missionary
GROUNDBREAKING: Most Rev. James J. Gerrard. D.D., V.G., Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese, breaks ground for the Holy Name School, Fall River, in the presence of, left to right, Fathers Donald A. Couza and James A. McCarthy,assistants, and Father William H; Harrington, pAstor. Work preliminary to the construction is under way~
activities, a veteran writer on mission affairs has stated. This point was made by Father John J. Considine, M.M., director of publications for the Maryknoll Fathers, in a statement issued from Hie Washingtqn headquarters of the Mission Secretariat. Father Considine, a native of New Bedford, is a brother. of Rev. Raymond T. Considine of Fall River and Rev.' Arthur G.' Turn to Page Eighteen
AT HOLY HOUR: St. Vincent de Paul Society.membe'J;'S from all parts of the Diocese participated in a Holy Hour at St. Mary's Church, Taunton. Left to right, James Blount, Tauilton; Rev. James F. Lyons,Taunton Particular Council Chaplain; and William J. Fagan, Particular Council pres. ident, are entering the church..
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