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Friday, September 24,1993

FALL RIVER, MASS.

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Euctlaristic Vigil for Life'set for October Forty-one diocesan parishes, Our Lady's Chapel, New Bedford, and LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro, will be involved as the diocese conducts its first Eucharistic Vigil for Life during O:tober, Respect Life Month. The vigil will involve all-day eucharistic adoration in one or more parishes each day of the month and will conclude with the Vigil Mass for the Feast of All Saints, to be celeb ,ated by Bishop Sean O'Malley 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, at St. M"ry's Cathedral, Fall River. The vigil progra.m will vary according to parish; in some it may encompass a 24 hour period from the morning Mass on the assigned date to Mass the f.:>lIowing morning, while other pa:'ishes will begin with a morning Mass and conclude with evening Benediction. During Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, the congregation may employ prayers, ~;cripture readings, songs, litanie~: and recitation of the rosary in addition to silent adoration. The schedule for the vigil follows: Oct. 1 Sacred Heart, Taunton; Our Lady of Lourdes, Wellfleet; St. Patrick, Wareham; Christ the King, Mashpee; St. Mary, New Bedford. Oct. 2 St. Kilian, New Bed 'ord; SS. Peter & Paul, Fall River. Oct. 3 St. Joh'n the Bapti:;t, Westport; St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. Oct. 4 Immaculate Conception, Taunton; St. Joseph, New Bedford. Oct. 5 St. Stephen, Attleboro. Oct. 6 St. Augustine, Vineyard Haven; Holy Trinity, W. Harwich; St. Mary, Fairhaven; St. Theresa, S. Attleboro. Oct. i Holy Family, E. Taunton; St. Margaret, Buzzards Bay.

Oct. 8 St. John the Evangelist, Pocasset. Oct:9 St. Mark, Attleboro Falls. Oct. 10 St. Ml\ry's Cathedral, Fall River. -Oct. II St. Pius Tenth, S. Yarmouth; St. Joseph, New Bedford. Oct. 12 St. Anthony, Taunton; St. John the Baptist, New Bedford; Immaculate Conception, New Bedford. Oct. 13 Holy Ghost, Attleboro; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Seekonk; St. Mary, Fairhaven. Oct. 14 Our Lady of Health, Fall River. Oct. 15 Our Lady of Victory, Centerville. Oct. 16 St. Stanislaus, Fall River. Oct. 17 St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River; St. Ann, Raynham. Oct. 18 Holy Redeemer, Chatham; St. Joseph, New Bedford. Oct. 19 Our Lady of Angels, Fall River. Oct. 20 Our Lady of Fatima, Swansea; Our Lady of the Cape, Brewster; St. Mary, Taunton; St. Mary, Fairhaven. Oct. 21 St. John of God, Somerset; St. Mary, S. Dartmouth. Oct. 22 St. Theresa, New Bedford. Oct. 23 Corpus Christi, Sandwich Oct. 24 St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River. Oct. 25, 26 Our Lady's Chapel, New Bedford. Oct. 27 LaSalette Shrine, Attleboro. Oct. 28 St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River. Oct. 29 Our Lady of Grace, Westport. Oct. 30 St. Margaret, Buzzards Bay. Oct. 31 Closing Mass, Vigil of the Feast of All Saints, 5 p.m., St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River.

"~;halom" VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II held a historic meeting with Chief Rabbi Isra'el Meir Lau of Israel, an en:ounter hailed by the Vatican as :l sign of religious harmony at a crucial moment for Middle East pea.ce. "Shalom," the '~wo religious leaders said as they greeted each other Sept. 21 with the Hebrew word for "peace." It was the first time a chief rabbi of the Jewish state had met with ~. pope. The Vatican said the meeting demonstrated that Jews and Catholics have overcome "historical misunderstandings" and were now able to invoke together the "gift of brotherhood." The encounter also offered "nec-

DIOCESAN DELEGATES to NCCW convention: front row, from left, Katherine Lancisi, Bella Nogueira, Father James Lyons, Joanne Quirk, Mary Mikita, Dorothy Curry; second row, Claudette Armstrong, Betty Mazzucchelli, Claire McMahon, Vivian Belanger, Claire O'Toole, Ellen Calnan, Vivian Cleary; third row, Mary Murray, Mary Foley, Agnes Lyons, Ethel Zink, Kathleen Maddison, Helen Stager.

N CCW delegates look to future CHICAGO (CNS) - A button pinned to the dresses and jacket lapels of many of the women attending the National Council of Catholic Women convention succinctly summed up its theme: The words "We've never done it that way before!" were superimposed with a red circle and slash. More than 2,300 women from all over the country met Sept. 1620 in Chicago to set themselves "On the Wings of Change," the theme chosen for the 46th biennial convention of the NCCW, a federation of 8,000 U.S. Catholic women's organizations. Among participants were 21 women from the Fall River diocese, led by DCCW president Bella Nogueira of St. John of God parish, Somerset. Mrs. Nogueira was a hostess at the convention and Mrs. Claire McMahon, St. Mary's Cathedral parish, Fall River, was a facilitator at workshops.

Mrs. Mary Mikita, immediate past president of the Fall River DCCW, was elected to one of-nine positions on the NCCW nominat-

Saint remlembered Monda)', Sept. 27, Vincentians in the FaH River diocese and throughoUl! the United States will attend Mass and receive Holy Communion to mark the 333rd 21nniversary of the death of SI. Vincent de Paul, patron ofthl~ international charitable society named for him. The saint died in Paris at age 80 on Sept. 27, 1660. The St. Vincent de Paul Society was founded, also in :Paris, in 1833 by Frederic Ozanam, a young student.

ing committee. Also, the National Council of Catholic Women Associates, an organization which supports many NCCW projects, elected Mrs. Claudette Armstrong, St. Louis de France parish, Swansea, as a director to fiH an unexpired two-year term. Mrs. Mary M. Geary of Holy Name parish, Fall River is also a current director. "We're trying to move into the 21 st century," said Carroll Quinn, NCCW president. "For a long time we were very, very successful. But we got a little bit comfortable and a little bit complacent. We weren't as diligent with the issues that younger and middle-aged women face," she told The New World, Chicago archdiocesan newspaper. Ms. Quinn admitted that the federation had lost some member organizations, perhaps from parish closings, and that other affilTurn to Page 13

was the greeting as pope, Israel's ctlief rabbi meet.

essary moral support" to regional leaders as the delicate peace process moves ahead in the Middle East, said a statement by Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls. Rabbi Lau and his older brother, who was born in the pope's hometown in Poland, spoke privately with the pontiff for 35 minutes at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, outside Rome. The rabbi repeated the Israeli government's invitation to the pope to visit Israel, and said the pope told him "the time is approaching" for such a trip. The pope did not speculate on a possible date for the visit, however. Rabbi Lau said Israelis hope a papal visit "will build even stronger

bridges in order to prevent discrimination, hatred and anti-Semitism" throughout the world. Navarro-Valls said the pope appreciated the invitation and restated his desire to visit the Holy Land. At the same time, he said, the pope expressed the hope that religious leaders can pray for peace and mutual understanding "as pilgrims in the Holy City of Jerusalem." The rabbi was accompanied by Israeli Embassy officials, but both the Vatican and the Israelis downplayed any political interpretation of the visit. Rabbi Lau said most of his conversation with the pope centered on their respective experiences

before and during World War II. The rabbi is the youngest survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. "The pope spoke a long time about the tragedy of the Jewish people in the Holocaust, about the world's debt to those he called 'our elder brothers,' the Jews, and about the obligation of the world to ensure the future of the Jewish people," Rabbi Lau said. The rabbi told the pope that Jewish people appreciate his "warm and friendly" approach to them, and he recalled the pontiffs unprecedented visit to the Rome synagogue in 1986, The Vatican said the pope emphasized the spl:cial ties that

exist between Catholicism and the Jewish religicn - a "relationship that does not exist with any other religion." Afterward, Israel's Ambassador to Italy Avi Pazner, who accompanied Rabbi Lau to the papal audience, said the meeting was symbolic of the "good atmosphere" that currently exists between Israel and the Vatican. Pazner is a member of the Vatican-Israeli commission that is trying to resolve church-state problems with a view toward establishing diplomatic relations. Pazner said the talks were moving ahead well but added, "We still have some work to do."

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