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Apostolic Delegate Says No Excommunication PROVIDENCE, R.I. (NC) - In a letter to the Providence Visitor, Providence diocesan newspaper, the apostolic delegate in the United States gave several reasons wby he does not believe that a group of Catholics who have sued their bishop are excommunicated.

The Visitor published a story recently on a civil suit filed against Bishop Cronin by five Catholics, members of the privately incorporated St. John's

Day Care Center in Fall River, a flurry of speculation over the who were attempting to ,keep the excommunication issue.

In response, a statement from center open on diocesan property despite an attempted eviction by Bishop Cronin said the" specula· tion was "unfounded" and that the bishop.

The Visitor story speculated he "is entirely content to have that tbe five, two of them nuns, this legal question (of the day faced excommunication for their care center) decided by the civil action because of a law of the courts."

In the latest development, the Church which says that persons are excommunicated if they bring Visitor reported that it had retheir bishop before a civil court . ceived a letter from Archbishop without permission from the Holy Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in Turn to Page Two See. The Visitor article prompted

MEXICAN SISTERS ARRIVE

New Group Formed for Spanish.Speaking The Diocese is home for some 7,000 Spanish-speaking people, approximately 4,500 of whom reside in the New Bedford area.

They have emigrated from Puerto Rico, Cuba and various countries of Central and South America.

Bishop Cronin announced that now, under the Diocesan Department of Social Services and Special Apostolates, two priests and four religious will work in the Spanish Apostolate on a full time basis. They will be joined by a social worker and aided by the part·time assistance of a Sacred Hearts seminarian and a number of religious and lay Volunteers. Bishop Cronin commented "It is a very happy and significant develo:.ment, and I have every expectatiton that our ministry to Spanish-speaking residents will be much enhanced."

Under the new reorganization, Reverend Peter N. Graziano, Director of the Department of Social Services and Special Apostolates, serves as the director-coordinator of the Spanish Apostolate.

Reverend James E. Murphy, a five year veteran of the St. James the Apostle Missionary Society in South AmerIca, is the director of the Spanish Aposto· late in Taunton-Attleboro.

Reverend Charles Soto, O.F.M., formerly assistant pastor of St. Kilian's Parish, New Bedford, is the director of the Spanish Apostolate in Greater New Bedford.

Four religious· sisters of the Misioneras Guadelupanas del Espiritu Santo, recently arrived in the Diocese from Mexico, are now involved in planning catechetical programs, home and hospital visitations and other aspects of the pastoral ministry.

With the i~flux of Spanish-

speaking .people into the Diocese 'some fifteen to twenty years ago, .their special needs soon became apparent. The. Sacred Hearts Fathers were early contributors to the Spanish Aposto. late in New Bedford by establishing and maintaining the Regina Pacis Center, while diocesan priests initiated pastoral outreach in Taunton from Saint Mary's Parish ·in that city.

More recently, Reverend Thomas E. O'Dea has been the director of Regina Pacis while maintaining an associate pastor· ship in st. Lawrence's Parish in New Bedford. Reverend James E. Murphy has not only been attending the pastoral needs of his people in Taunton-Attleboro, but has also worked within the New Bedford area and pursued some ·outreach among the migrant workers on Cape Cod. Refugees from Cuba, the Sisters of the Love of God served as catechists and home visitors in the apostolate for several years, and the pastoral thrUf>t of this ministry was significantly assisted by Sister Carmen Joseph, S.U.S.C., now associated. with the Spanish Apostolate in the Diocese of Worcester. Sister Elizabeth Anderson, O.L.V.M., whHe working in the urban min· istry out of Regina Pacis Center, also maintained an appreciable outreach to the Spanish-speaking, along with the Center's social worker, Mrs. Dorothy Kallevik. The Dominican Sisters of the Presentation have been and still remain an invaluable source of volunteer assistance in the Taunton-Attleboro area. There is also input in this region from some of the Sisters of Mercy and the staff at LaSalette.

In September, 1974, the Diocesan Department of Socia-I Services and Special Apostolates was

formed Iby Bishop Cronin.

Among its chief goals, this Dio· cesan Office has sought to unite and coordinate the diocesan-wide pastoral efforts for the Spanish· speaking.

Reverend Thomas E. O'Dea will now bring his administration at the Regina Pacis Center in New Bedford to a successful close by turning it over to the newly-appointed director, Rev-

erend Charles Soto, O.F.M. Father Soto is a native Puerto Rican as are most of the Spanish·Speaking residents of the Diocese. His religious superior, Very Reverend John-Marie Cassese, O.F.M., Minister Provincial of the Immaculate Conception Province of the Franciscan Friars, has given the Apostolate a vital boost by rseponding to Bishop Cronin's request to relea-se Fatiler Soto

from parish work in order to devote full energies to the Spanish Apostolate.

Mother Dolores Ochoa, M.G.Sp.S., Superior General of the Misionares Guadalupanas del Espiritu Santo in Mexico, has generously answered an appeal of Bishop Cronin and has permitted four of her Si,sters to journey to the United States and Turn to Page Two

SPANISH APOSTOLATE WORKERS: Sisters Maria Goretti Solis, Gloria Rodriguez, Maria Rivera, annd Teresa Aguinaga, all recently arrived from Mexico are shown above with Franciscan Father Charles Soto, a native of Puerto Rico and the new Director of the Spanish Apostolate in New Bedford. In the rear are Fr. Peter N. Graziano, Diocesan Director of Social Services; Fr. Thomas E. O'Dea, former Director of the Spanish Apostolate in New Bedford; and Fr. James E. Murphy, Director of the Spanish Apostolate in TauntonAttleboro.

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An eyewitness account of the canonization of St. Elizabeth Seton Page 3

An editorial

. on the Teacher, Strikes Page 4

Centerfold Picture stories about ~ople around the diocese Pages 8 and 9

Fr. Greeley has little hope for the future of American Catholics Page 10

New Youth Pages this week include reports from Connolly, and Coyle.Cassidy Pages 14 and 15

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The ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Sept. 25, 1975

Only Yesterday in The ANCHOR Sept. 22, 1960 Plans were being made for Bishoo Connolly to bless the new Holy Name elementary school in Fall River.

Mrs. Gilbert C. Motta, Mrs. Vincent J. Worden, and Mrs. Louis L. Dumont presided at a tea given by the New Bedford Cathtolic Women's Club.

John J. Carroll, John V. Nihan. and Myles F. Daley of St. John's, Attleboro attended a St. Vincent de Paul meeting in' Hyannis.

The Domini·can Sisters acquired the former Prescott estate in North, Dartmouth and announced plans to use it as a new novitiate.

Sept. 23, 1965 Rev. Walter .A. Sullivan was named the new director of Cathedral Camp.

Joan Reed and Kathleen Guinen; Campfire Girls from Sacred Heart, Fall River met ~ev. John D. Fernandes, a Portuguese Dominican whose seminary the girls were aiding with their contributions of pennies.

Msgr. Terren,ce J. Cooke, the Chancellor of. the New York Archdiocese, was named Auxilary Bishop to Cardinal Spellman.

Captain Bruce Gordon and Coach Jim Lanagan of the Coyle football team were preparing for the season's opening game against Cardinal Spellman High.

Sept. 24, 1970 The diocese mourned the passing of Mother Pierre Marie, O.P., President of the Corporation of St. Anne's Hospital.

Father Greely lashed out at the tactics of the Berrigan brothers.

Mrs. Adrienne Lemieux, Mrs. Virginia Williams and Mrs. Emma Andrade were planning the events of the year for the Taunton Catholic Women's Club.

The high school football season began with' Coyle defeating Stang 19-8.

Area Religious To Participate In Futureshop Sister Bernadette Marie Costa, formation director for the Providence Province of the Sisters of Mercy, which serves the Fall River diocese, wiIl be among participants in a "Futureshop" to be sponsored by the Leadership Board of the Sister Formation Conference Sunday, Sept.

28 through Thursday, Oct. 2 at the Mercy Generalate, Bethesda, Md. Futureshop, say its organizers, "will draw on the experience, expertise and institutions of women religious who have moved beyond preoccupation with the past and who envision a future that is more Gospel-oriented.

These women intend to be in the midst of those who are creating a more just and human society for the third ceutury of our nation.

The program will open on Sunday evening with an overview of the workshop. On Monday, those attending will join part'icipan'ts in a one-day meeting of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate for a look at new directions in religious life.

For the remainder of the Futureshop, the 22 invited resource leaders will share key ideas with the partkipants in order to initiate dialogue~. Through such sharing it is hoped that new insights will be gained intoapproaches to initial and on-going formation for the future. Key areas to be explored are Learning Communitie&, Emerging Ministries, Projected Tomorrows, and Covenanting.

Necrology OCT. 6 Rev. Stephen B. Magill, 1916, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, North Easton OCT. 7 Rev. Caesar Phares, 1951, Pastor, St. Anthony of the Desert, Fall River EDICTAL CITATION

Diocesan Tribunal Fall River, Massachusetts Prot. No., M·120 Miranda vs. Cabral Simulation Insofar as the whereabouts of Jose luis Cabral, party in the case of Miranda vs.

Cabral. Protocol Number M·120, are un· known, We cite the said Jose luis Cabral to appear before the said Tribunal of the Di· ocese of Fall River on September 26, 1975 at 11:30 A.M. at 344 Highland Avenue. Fall River, Massachusetts, to give testimony to establish: WHETHER THE MARRIAGE IN QUESTION BE NULL? Pastors and others having knowledge of the whereabouts of the said Jose Luis Cabral are ad.vised to notify him in regard to htis Edictal Citation.

Henry T. Munroe Officialis Given from the Seat of the Tribunal, Fall River, Massachusetts, In this, the 17th day of September. 1975 Roland Bousquet Notary

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Continued from Page One filed suit against the bishop as the United States ,giving several head of the diocese for breach of reasons why he does not believe contract, contending that the there is any excommunication in- corporation has a valid lease for volved. use of the property. They have The Visitor did not publish the received a temporary injunction letter, hut reported on its con- ordering the diocese to leave the tents. It said the archbishop be- center open until the substantive lives that Bishop Cronin "has issues are resolved in court. waived any need for recourse to The diocese contends that the Holy See" by his statement there are irregularities in the that he is willing to settle the lease and that it is "wihout matter in the civil courts. precendent" to have an agency . According to the Visitor re- operating out of diocesan faciliport: "Another reason which ties but independent of diocesan Archbishop Jadot gave concerns authority." the fact tbat the five Catholics suing Bishop Cronin did not have prior knowledge of the penalty. Because the plaintiffs continued from Page One were unaware that they would be ta'ke up their apostolate in the ex:communicated for their action, Diocese. The Sisters residing in Archbishop Jadot said, 'It seems New. Bedford are: Sister Mari'a to me that the penalty would Goretti Solis, Superior, Sister apply only in the most ex:ception- Teresa Aguinaga, Sister Gloria al case, and I do not envisage the Rodriguez and Sister Maria present one in that category.' " Rivera.

A standard commentary on The Sisters landed at Greene penal legislation in the Church's Airport in Rhode Island on MonCOiie of Canon Law says that in day, September 8th at 9:00 p.m. order for the plaintiff in such a They were greeted by Fathers civil suit to incur the penalty of Gr,aziano, O'Dea, Murphy, and he must Soto, three Franciscan Sisters excommunication, "know perfectly ... that there is from St. Mary's Home, New Beda serious penalty incurred." It ford, the social worker from cites as a precedent for deter- Regina Pacis and a delegation mining the applicability of the of Spanish-Speaking diocesans. law in the United States a case As they entered the lobby of the in Providence in 1928, in which Airport, traditional Amer,ican the plaintiffs were ex,communi- greetings soon gave way to cated when they filed a civil suit Spanish songs of welcome on the against their' bishop "without part of teenagers and senior citpermission of the Holy See and izens from the Diocese. after clear warning of the penOn Sunday, September 14th, alty." afrter the Masses, the parishioAccording to the Visitor reners of St. Hyacinth's Parish and port, Archbishop J adot said that, the members of the Spanish Comby virtue of the authority given munity met and welcomed the to bishops in a 1966 Church doc- Sisters. The Diocese is blessed ument "On the Office of Bish- by having in its family a large ops," a bishop has the power to number of Spanish-Speaking didispense a plaintiff from getting ocesans. Their cultural heritage permission from the Holy See to and ardent religious faith, united pursue a civil suit against the to that of the Irish, Portuguese, bishop.

French, Polish, Germans, italThe Fall River suit itself arose ians, Cape Verdeans, and other out of a dispute over control of ethnics, is seen as a good omen ChUl'Ch property. What began as for the local Church of God in a parish school in St. Patrick's the years ahead. Enthusiasm parish was later turned into a runs high! day care center, which was independently incorporated four years ago without the bishop's knmyledge.

Funeral Home The bishop ordered the center 571 Second Street closed after repeated efforts to remedy the situation which had Fall River, Mass. the independent corporatiton op679-6072 erating a diocesan facility.

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The ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Sept. 25, 1975

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Rome-"it was a great privelege to be present"

By Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington "We declare and we define tha.t Blessed Elizabeth Ann Bayley, widow Seton, is a saint, and we inscribe her in the catalogue of saints, with the mandate that the members of the Universal Church should venerate her in the company of the saints with pious devotion. . ."

I was present in Saint Peter's Square on September 14th when Pope Paul VI recited that formula at the solemn moment when the Church formally recogni:-:ed the heroic sanctity of the first native-born American to be so "canonized," Mother Seton.

Bisho1) Cronin is participating in a month-long Th,eological Consultation in Rome with some thirty fellow bishops from the United States and other countries where the English language is spoken.

Mid-way through the month, it proved to be useful for me to confer with the Bishop about Diocesan affairs, and the magnificent ceremony of canonization was hap,ily' scheduled right at the time when .J was visiting in Rome.

Original plans had called for the celebration of the Papal Mass at which the canonization would take place for the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome, the custom· ary place for such events. Saint Peter's, the largest 'church' in the world, can accommodate a tremendous ga1'hering . . . perhaps in excess of 50,000 people; however, as plans developed,an outpouring of the faithful in excess of this number was foreseen and the ceremony was arranged for the enormous piazza immediately in front of the Basilica, within the vast area encompassed by two rounded rows of columns designed 'by Bernini. It proved to be a wise decision, as the crowd present for the ceremony eventually swelled 1'0 an estimated 125,000 people. .

The day of the ceremony dawned bright and clear; it is still mid-summer in Rome. Had not a gentle breeze developed, it might have been uncomfortably warm. As it was, the weather favored the outdoor celebration.

Bishop Cronin and I went to the square well in advance of the time when the Mass was to begin. He joined his fellow bishops, many from the United States, in a tribune specially built for the occasion to the left of the Altar of Sacrifice which had been erected just beneath the enor· mous facade of the Basilica facing the piazza. "I took my seat in a special reserved section where charrs h~d been set up in the shadow of the huge statue of Saint Paul which is located within the square at the approach to the Basilica. Seated next to me was Monsignor William McDonough of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, a friend of many years' standing whom I had not seen since the time when he served as Rector of the National Shrine in Washington, D.C. Ordinarily, when one participates in a Papal ceremony at Saint Peter's, one's neighbors in the congregation are likely to be from Latin America, from any number of European countries, or from ,even more far-flung places. Uniquely, we were very nearly completely

surrounded ,by clergy, religious and laity from the United States.

The sound system prepared for the canonization was of excep· tional quality, and ;in various languages instrilctions were given to all as the time for the ceremony approached. We practiced some of the hymns and acclamations whioh were to be sung by 'all present during the Mass. The Sistine Choir was joined on the occasion by a choir composed of Sisters from the great religious family which Mother Seton founded.

Precisely on time, the procession entered the square and the Papal Mass began. The Holy Father was principal concelebrant. On this occasion, he was joined by members of the hierarachy from the United States witb special ties to the new saint and to the religious congrega,Nons which she established.

Thus, as Mother Seton was a native New Yorker, Cardinal Cooke, Archbishop of New York, was at Pope Paul's side. The Baltimore area was particularly important to the life of the new saint, and Caradinal Shehan, former Archbishop of Baltimore, and his suocessor, Archbishop Borders, were aniong the concelebrants. Seton Hall University is located in the Archdiocese of Newark, and Archbishop Gerety of that See, was also among the concelebrants. . The Holy Father greeted the vast congregation gathered in the piazza and then, immediately after the Penetential Rite of the Mass, took his seat in front of the Altar. The formal steps now unfolded for the canonization.

Testimony was first provided, to the Holy Father and to all as· sembled, of the heroic sanctity of Elizabeth Bayley Seton, by four ladies, each representing a different phase of the life of the saint.

A young unmarried woman spoke in French, a married lady, mother of a family, spoke in Spanish, a young widowed lady spoke in Italian, and an American religious woman spoke in English. They recited pertinent details of Mother Seton's life. Convert to Catholicism, Elizabeth Seton is quite appropriately called the foundress of the parochial school system in .AiIl1erica. Of course, this testimony was merely a tiny capsule of the great well of information assembled about the servant

of God over the long years when_ tect a particular edge in the voice her "cause" .was subjected to a of the Holy Father at that mothorough examination by those ment when, precisely as Vicar of whose responsibility it ,is in the Christ on earth, he made that Church to investigate such mat- formal declaration. I have noters. ticed something of the same in At this point, the Pro-Prefect the voice of the Bishop at the of the Congregation for the ordination ceremony here in Saints, A'1'IChbishop Bafile, Saint Mary's' Cathedral. There is stepped forward and called upon . a lengthy prayer of consecration the Holy Father to declare in the rite of priestly ordination, Mother Seton a saint. He was however ,the Church recognizes acoompanied by one of the can· the special importance and sigonists from the Congregation, nificance of certain phrases withone of the clerics who had la- in the. prayer itself, the precise Ibored long on the many details moment when the pouring forth which had to precede the formal of the Holy Spirit occurs, and I petition now made by Archbish>- have heard Bishop Cronin's voice op Bafile. l1he late Cardinal take on something of a special ring at that moment. In fact, as I think of ,it, don't priests in our parishes somehow emphasize the special words ~f the Baptismal rite, long and filled with prayers and symbolic gestures ... so that at the moment that the water is poured and the words, "I ,baptize you, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of ,the Holy Spirit," are recited, the celebrant's voice will betray the special solemnity of that moment.

'It was precisely this kind of emphasis which could be clearly detected in the voice of the Holy Father as Mother Seton was formally declared to be in the heavenly kingdom.

MSGR. HARRINGTON

Raimondi, whom God called to his eternal reward only a few short weeks ago, had been Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation and would have presented the formal petition had he been alive.

Formerly the Apostolic Delegate to the' United States, Cardinal Raimondi had been closely involved in the preparation of the cause of Mother Seton and had himself great devotion to this holy American woman.

In response to the petition, Pope Paul rose and recited the age~ld formula, mentioning the honor and glory of Almighty God, and concluding with the declaration and definition that Blessed Elizabeth Bayley, widow Seton, is a saint. . . The faithful gathered in the square could .de-

Had the ceremony been held inside the Basilica, at this moment a large representation of the new saint on a tapestry would have been unveiled. Because the circumstance of the outdoor celebration rendered this unveiling impossible, the great tapestry depicting Mother Seton had already been visible, hanging on the facade of the Basilica above and behind the altar.

The great throng then broke into applause and cheers ... first a ripple and then a great swelling roar of approval ,and approbation. Americans, we are told, are less enthusiastic at Vatican cere· monies than are natives of other countries, however the assembly did themselves proud in vocal manifestation of their delight at ·this happy moment, a most appropriate conclusion to the actual rite of canonization and a bridge to the Gloria of the Ma!!s which all then sang, joining the combined choirs ,in the familiar chant from the Mass of the Angels.

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American Sister of Charity, a daughter of Saint Elizabeth Seton, proclaimed the first lesson from the Old Testament. The Gospel was proclaimed by a Latin deacon and by a Greek deacon. The Holy Father, speaking in clear and distinct English, delivered a very moving homily, calling upon the Catholic faithful of the United States to rejoice in a particular manner at the joyful news that a daughter of the American Church had been declared a saint. He noted the devotion of Mother Seton to the apostolate of Catholic education.

Applause broke out at the conclusion of the homily, as the festive mood of the thousands present was clearly evident.

As the Holy Father rose to accept the gifts, a most unusual offertory procession formed and moved toward the Papal Altar.

In addition to the bread and wine which Pope Paul, consecrated during the Mass, other symbolic gifts were brought to the Holy Father by members of procession. Doves, symbols of the peace which ,permeated the life and apostolic labors of Saint Elizabeth Seton were brought in decorated cages, to 'be placed next to the altar. Large candles, symbols of the light of Christ which was so brilliantly reflected in Mother Seton's Hfe and work, were presented. Relics were placed on or near the altar as the Eucharistic Liturgy began.

In order to facilitate the distribution of Holy Communion to such a vast congregation, one hundred and twenty-five priests served as Eucharistic ministers.

They moved to vantage points throughout the square when Communion was to be distributed. Among this group of participants in the celebration was Father Paul Rotondi, O.F.M., pastor of Saint Louis Parish in Fall River.

Pope Paul VI personally distributed Holy Communion to a special group of recipients present for the Mass. A little girl, dressed ,in wbite with a lace veil, made her First Holy Communion at the Mass and received the Eucharist from the Holy'Father's own hands. Sisters from the various provinces presently comprising the religious family founded by Mother Seton received Communion from the Pope. Mrs. Seton's two sons, after attending Georgetown University, then a new institution founded by the contemporary of their mother, Bishop, later -Arch,bishop John Carroll, had joined the fledlging United States Navy, and representatives of that 'branch of service of our nation were among ,those to whom the Holy Father disttibuted Communion. Two special people received the Host from Pope Paul: tall, erect Carl Kalin of Yonkers, New York, a gentleman who had ,been diagnosed as incurably afflicted by a terminal disease and who was restored to complete health by the miraculous dntervention of Saint Elizwbeth Seton, and a young housewife from near Baltimore, Mrs. Eobert Hooe, who as a child had ,been cured Turn to Page Sixteen

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Th~ ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Sept. 25, 1975

Lectu·re Series Opens 18th Year With Fr. Guzie

Assassins and the Press Do the names Charles J. Guiteau and Leon F. Czolgosz mean anything to you? They are hardly household words, yet each of these names has been etched forever in the pages of American history. For Guiteau and Czolgosz are, respectively, the assassins of Presidents Garfield and McKinley.

It is only fitting that we do not remember their names for even notoriety should elude those who would perform such heinous crimes.

Last week Time magazine devoted its cover and a feature article to Squeaky Fromme. Alongside her cover portrait was the caption "The Girl Who Almost Killed Ford."

Indeed, the coverage by the television networks and the daily newspapers was more than extensive but Time practically catapulted Squeaky into immortality.

We don't know if this week's would-be assassin (we refuse to print her name) read the Time article but it does seem to us that such personal recognition of this sick act is not wise. To some people assassination offers not only an opportunity to strike out at their own frustrations and impotence but also with that one brief act exists the grand chance in their warped minds to be someone of note.

It is our belief that the media must not play a role that facilitates such behaviour. .

Teacher Strikes In September the weather becomes a bit cooler, the leaves begin to fall, we start watching football, and the teachers go out on strike. This latter event, a somewhat recent phenomenon, disturbs us especially when it occurs in our own area. Confrontations between school committees and teachers' unions are becoming an altogether too frequent scene even in our own diocese and, although it has been said so often it has become p~actically a cliche, the truth remains . . . it is the children who suffer.

We can sympathize with the school committees. They are under a definite pressure by taxpayers to keep school costs down and the overburdened taxpayers have every right to exert such pressure.

However, we must realize that the single most important factor in the quality of education in the communiyt lies in the quality of our teachers.

Administrative positions, facilities, equipment, etc., are undoubtedly necessary. But if we must reduce costs, 'let it be in these areas and not with our most valuable asset our good teachers.

Letters Welcome Letters to the editor are welcomed. All letters should be brief and the editor reserves the right to condense any letters if deemed necessary. All letters must be signed and contain a home or business address.

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Father T'ad W. Guzie, S.J., will open the 18th season of the Christian Culture Lecture Series on Saturday, October 25 at John Hancock Hall with a day-long institute on the theme "The Journey From Religion to Free· dom," a theological reflection on personal religious experience.

Father Guzie, a member of the theology faculty of both Notre Dame University and Marquette University, is the author of the recent book, "Jesus and the Eucharist" which was a Thomas More Book Club Selection.

Among his other books are: "What a Modern Catholic Believes About Confession" and "What a Modern Catholic Believes About Salvation."

The institute, beginning at 9 a.m. and concluding by 4:30 p.m., will include three lectures by Father Guzie and a discussion by participants.

Father Raymond E. Brown, S.S., a professor of Biblical Studies at Union Theologilcal Seminary and author, will con· duct an institute on the death and resurrection of Jesus in April.

Admission to the October 25 program is by preregistration.

Information on this and other lectures may be obtained by contacting: Father Robert F. Quinn, C.S.P., P.O. Box 8579, J.F.K. Sta., Boston, MAo 02114

First Friday Club is Unique

A visit with the First Friday This past weekend, a rather large ad appeared in the Club of Fall River is not a trip New York Times warning Americans about United States into nostalgia, though sight of involvement in Spain. By the terms of the so-called "Madrid its members must stir up memPact" United States military bases and all that goes with ories.

At its founding, 30 years ago, them are allowed on Spanish they relate to the current events Catholic men's clubs were plensoil. This particular ad was on the Iberian peninsula. tiful. Every parish had its placed in the good grey sheet The present struggle in Portu- staunch Holy Name Society, to caution Americans about gal has given rise to speculation loaded with proud fathers who

such a pact wi·th the Spanish government and to urge people to write their representative in Washington opposing renewal of the Madrid Pact. Even with Vietnam in mind, this ad admonishes American military presence in Spain.

Abraham· Lincoln Brigade Now on the surface of events and happenings, this ad would seem to be just another plea by another vested interest, normal'1y deserving a mere glance. However the sponsor of this ad brought back into focus the total terror of the Spanish Civil war. Urging Americans once more to beware of Spain were the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Now for many Americans this organization would have little meaning. For others they are remembered best as the little darling of the red IiberaHsm of the mid-thirties. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was an organization of Americans who volunteered to fight for what they claim was the elected government of the Spanish Republic in its struggle with the forces of Franco. To some this might seem ,a page from history. But it is unique to see this organization once more revive and renew it· seifat this particular moment in world events, especially as

of what might now happen in Spain. What is occurring in Portugal certainly could spill over into Spain with, added fury. The Spanish Communist P·arty in exile is very much alive and encouraged by the events in Portugal. There could very well be a civil confrontation in Spain as the bitter memories of the past are once more inflamed.

Beware Spanish Communist Supporters As political agitat'ion is increased in Spain, one must always keep in mind the sympathetic attitude that the Spanish Communists found in this country. To be sure the Spain and America of the mid-seventies is far different from that of the mid-thirties. But it is interesting to note that the forces that supported the fury of the Spanish Communist Party are alive and well, ready once more to do violence to truth.

There are many in this land who still harbour deep antiSpanish feelings because of our own historical' confrontations with Spain. However as the people of Spain once more attempt to seek new forms of political expression we should be sure that we are not led down the red road of detente by such partisan organizations as the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

could not .wa~t to introduce the sons they had "prayed" through 'a terrible war. .

This Club differs a bit. No dues, no badge, no ritual; just one phone call each month, as a reminder. Fifty men, or more, meet every First Friday, from October to June, and, appropriately, because of their devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, at the Sacre<i Heart, Church, on Linden Street, in Fall River.

Members range in age from the teens to the nineties, and represent every parish and ethnic group in Fall River and the surrounding area.

Mass begins at 6:00 P.M., and 'is followed by a full meal, served at the Sacred Heart School cafeteria.

Good after-dinner speakers are the rule, at the Club; generally religious, and most often brief.

Social activities then commence around 8:00 P.M. Would you like to join? Just coming makes you a member, and the Club is always seeking new members. .

The meal has to be planned, however, and it would be appreciated if prospective memhers who would like to attend on October 3, 1975 would call and give their names to John Romanovitch 674-6830, James Harrington 676·8688, or John Morgan 674-3008. .

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Loves Reading Carson Dear Editor I agree 100 per cent with Eva Clarke. My ,husband and I retired here two years ago and subscribed to The Anchor.

Love reading The Anchor, especially Mary Carson's column.

It is the first thing I look for, too.

Sincerely, Dear Editor Marie L. Trumbour During a visit last week to my .

Mashpee mother-in-law in Somerset I had an opportunity to read your newspaper and I enjoyed it. I also got excited about the Notre Dame-B.C. game.

As a graduate of Canisius College I am pleased to see another Dear Editor: Jesuit school in the limelight.

Within the next few weeks, Sincerely, the United States House of RepJames G. Healey l'esentatives will be called upon Syracuse, New York to decide an issue of profound importance to American consumers. After five years of lobbying, negotiating and educating

by Ralph Nader and other supporters, HR. 7575, a bill to esDear Editor: tablish a federal Agency for It would be a definite mistake Consumer Advocacy (ACA) will to drop Mrs. Mary Carson's come to a vote in early October. column.

In order for this historic bill to Her's is the first column I pass, and withstand the inevread, and sometimes, the only itable Ford Administration veto, one. I find her a warm, sincere, consumers must write their Conunderstanding 'and very con- gressmen immediately to councerned human being. tervail the enormous pressure I for one, among many, I'm . being brought to bear against sure; would not be happy to find the ACA by big business.

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Stephen Rider Boston Sir: Recently I read the criticism that Dante's "Divine Comedy" was a fairy tale, written so as to befuddle the Christian mind.

In my opinon that is an absurd Dear Editor: statement.

About 35 years ago Pope Pius It is not a fairy story, but a great Christian aJlegory, deriving XII sent a letter to the Catholic its power from the terror and Bishops of this country in which splendor of the Christian revela- he said in part. "We raise our voice in a strong, but at the tion. same' time, patemal complaint Yours Sincerely, that in so many schools of your Manuel Vincent land, Christ often is despised or Fall River ignored, the explanation of the universe and of mankind' ,is forced within the narrow limits of material,ism or rationalism, and new educational systems are sought after, which cannot Dear Editor, Mary Carson has given me the but produce a sorrowful harvest courage to express my thoughts in the intellectual and moral life of the nation." and dreams.

Some years ago Norman CousI too, had a dream after reading Mary Carson's article. The ins told about his interview with weeds, the people who were the Nikita Khrushchev, during which "do-nothings" the ones who are the former Soviet chief said:, "·afraid," the ones who only want "Now if only you can do some· "comfort," were taken away. thing about your TV, you wHl be The ones who were left were making some real progress.

"Faith, Hope, and Love, so St. Frankly, I could hardly believe Peter loosened all, because the my eyes when I was in the people left were "Love," there United States, the kind of things was no need to bind anything. you showed on television.

Will our religious leaders give "What you bind on earth will be bound in Heaven, who you America the moral leadership it loose on earth will be loosed in urgently needs during this BicenHeaven," Jesus Christ said to tennial Celebration? The hour is late.

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will be presented by Dr. David J. O'Br-ien at 4 p.m. Dr. O'Brien, Associate Professor of History at Holy Cross College, Worcester, is the author of "Amer·ican Catholics and Social Reform" and "The Renewal of American Catholicism." He is also a contributor to the Bicentennial discussion booklet, "With Liberty and Justice for All." Following a box supper, participants will be asked to share, in groups, reactions to the afternoon panel and lecture as well

A Bicentennial Workshop for parish and school Bicentennial coordinators, religous education coordinators, principals and clergy will be held on Wednesday, October I, 1975, from 3 to 8 p.m. at Stonehill College, North Easton, Mass.

Sponsored by the Diocesan Bicentennial Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Adult Education, the workshop will explore the ethnic traditions that make up the Diocese of Fall River in an effort to motivate parishes and schools to determine, their roles in the Catholic observance of the Bicentennial.

Panel Beginning at 3:00 o'clock, a panel of representatives of several ethnic traditions will discuss why their people came to America, their experience upon arrival, and the importance of keeping ethnic traditions and values alive.

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The NCCW is a federation of some 9,000 national, state and local organizations of U. S. Catholic women. Among convention speakers will be Ar'Chbishop Jean Jadot, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, who will address the gathering on "Woman's Role in Today's World." Dr. Virginia Trotter, Assistant Secretary for HEW, will speak on "Educational Values: Their Effect on Family and Community."

In addition to general program sessions, delegates will participate in workshops and "shareshops," at which speoial interest items will ·be on display.

as specific ideas for practical observances of the Bicentennial in our parishes and schools.

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The Parish Parade Publicity chairmen of Darlsh orlanlzallons are ISked to submit news Items for this eolun'n to lhe Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Name of city or town should be ,. eluded, as well as full dates of III Ictlvltles. Please send news of future rather than past e'/ents.

ST. MARGARET, BUZZARDS BAY The sewing circle of SS. Margaret and Mary Guild will meet at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 29 at St. Margaret's parish center. The next regular guild meeting is set for' 6:30 p.m: Wednesday, Oct. 1 in the center and it will be the annual covered-dish supper. Comdr. James Nesworthy of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy will speak.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER. A newly-organized Educational Planning Committee will sponsor an eight-week Parent Effectiveness Training course open,. if space permits, to parents from other parishes. Led by Mrs. Eleanor Cote, the course will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8 continuing on successive Wednesdays. . Other committee plans include a family Thanksgiving service in November, a Marian liturgical celebration in December and a lecture series by Rev. Robert McIntyre on the subject "Children: the Challenge," to begin in January.

The Women's Guild has regretfully accepted the resignation of the president, Mrs. John Dean. She will be succeeded by Mrs. Ruth Burke. The unit will hold a membership tea at 7 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 28 in the school haR Prospective members may contact Mrs. Roger V. D. Booth.

A month's mind Mass will be offered at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

30 for Msgr. William H. Harrington, former pastor.

A foliage tour is planned for Sunday, Oct. 5 to Litchfield, Conn. Highlights will include a stop at the Lourdes Grotto Shrine and dinner at the Hukelau restaurant. Reservations may be made at the rectory.

Boys in fifth grade or above who wish to be altar boys are asked to meet at 3 p.m. this afternoon in Holy Name School.

Also on the guild's agenda is a Christmas bazaar Sunday, Nov. 23. Paulette Aibar will be chairperson, aided by Pat Martin, Barbara Finnegan and JuIia Morris. Members will contribute African foods to a DiQCesan International Christmas program, to be presented Thursday, Dec. 4.

The next regular guild meet·ing will take place Monday, Oct. 20. Pat Rebello and Sheila Nascimento will be program chairmen and Gerri Malone will 'be in charge of a social hour.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN The Couples Club will hold its installation banquet at 6:30 p.m.

Sunday at White's restaurant, N01'lth Westport. The speaker will be Msgr. Patrick J. O'Neill. diocesan director of education.

To be installed are Mr. and Mrs. Donald Payette, president couple; Mr. and Mrs. Roland Seguin, vice-presidents; Mr. and Mrs. Paul }judon, secretaries; Mr. and Mrs. Neil Rosenberg, treasurers.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER A Fall penny sale to be held at 8 p.m. Saturday in the church hall will be open to the public.

Donations of gift items are requested.

The parish council will meet in the lower church hall after 7 p.m. Mass tonight.

Registration for Christian living classes, grades one through 12, will take place in the school offices after all Masses this weekend. Adults may register at the same times and place for courses to start at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9 in the school.

The annual Oktoberfest will take place Sunday night, Oct. 12 in the school hall. A German buffet will be served at 6 O'clock and dancing to the music of the Deutschmeister German· band from New Bedford will follow from 8 to midnight. Tickets are available from all members of the parish council.

The 10th anniversary of the parish credit union will be marked with a banquet at 4 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 28 in the parish hall. Members wiU be admitted by passbook.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FALL RIVER The Women',s Guild is having a foliage trip to Portsmouth, N. H. Sunday, Oct. 5. Final reservations must be made by Sept.

30. Money will be collected after the 4 and 6:30 p.m. Masses Saturday, Sept. 27 and after 9 a.m.

Mass Sunday, Sept. 28. For reservations caU Mrs. Helen Ouellette 4-4050 or Mrs. Esther Lavigne 4-8681.

The bus will leave from the church yard at 9 a.m. Sunday, Oct.5.

OUR LADY OF ANGELS, FALL RIVER Holy Name Society members will have a breakfast meeting following 8 a.m. Mass Sunday, Oct. 5.

A malasada supper and penny sale to benefit the church will take place Saturday, Nov. 29 in the parish haU. Supper will be served from 6 to 8 p.m. and the penny sale .will follow until 11 p.m. Initial plans for the event will be made at a meeting set for 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, also in the hal'!.

SANTO CHRISTO, FALL RIVER Members of the Council of Catholic Women will receive corporate Communion at 9 a.m.

Mass Sunday, Oct. 5. A breakfast will follow with Mrs. Mary Afonso and Mrs. Mary Cabeceiras ·in charge of arrangements.

Reservations may be made with either until Thursday, Oct. 2.

The unit plans a cake sale at the end of October with date and time to be announced.

I watched the canonization of Mother Seton on TV and it was great. It was great to see Pope Paul preaching in English and inspiring to hear the bursts of applause. It was great to see a woman conducting the singing and to hear the joyful song of the And what about all the remixed choir. But while I was quests for miracles which apwatching all this, truly parently go unanswered. Should happy to see Mother Seton not these count against the candeclared a saint, some mis- didate? Maybe we should keep chievous force kept stirring up ideas that were somewhat irreverent for such a solemn occasion.

ST. JULIE BILLIART, NORTH DARTMOUTH The Ladies Guild will hold a "giant cake sale" in the church hall after all Masses this weekend, under chairmanship of Mrs. Joseph Arruda Jr. The unit opened its season with a Mass and following punch party at· which Mrs. Harry W. Sprague, membership chairman, and Mrs. Leonard Crane, president, aided by a large committee, were hostesses.

ST. JOSEPH, ATILEBORO Boy Scouts will hike to Camp Finberg at 9 a.m. Saturday for an overnight .camping trip.

The par,ish school of religion is now in session, with activities for every age group from fouryear-olds to adults.

Knights of the Altar and Acolyte Supervisors and Kadets will meet in the parish hall at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. At the same time there will be a Christmas bazaar committee meeting in the school. In connection with the bazaar parishioners are asked to contribute scraps of material and trimmings to be used in making novelties. Recipes are also solicited for a parish cookbook and may be sent to Mrs. Evelyn BOlJcher, 57 Wheaton Dr., Attleboro.

Cars will he blessed following each Mass the weekend of Oct. 4 and 5. Parishioners wishing this blessing are asked to park in the school or rectory yard.

OUR LADY OF THE ISLE, NANTUCKET St. Mary's Guild will hold a FaU Festival Saturday, Oct. 18 at Legion Hall. Donations of white elephant or handcrafted items will be appreciated.

OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL, NEW BEDFORD The Women's Club wiU present a fashion show, "The Fall Revue," in the school auditorium at the corner of Rivet and Crapo Street at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept.

28. Other entertainment will be presented and refreshments will be served. Tickets are available from all members and will also be sold at the door.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER The Women's Club will sponsora public whist party at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28 in the Father Coady Center. Mrs. Edward D. Tyrrell and Mrs. Edward F. Kelly are chairwomen.

N,ew 5taint Great in H,eav.en But M,ad1e Waves o:n Ea;rth

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MA8Y CARSON For instance, the biographies I've read of Mother Seton suggest to me that she was a woman with both feet planted on the ground. When the TV camera showed that painting of her floating in space above the c~rth, I couldn't help wondering if she thinks that painting is as silly as I do. . I can't imagine her Iiking it.

I don't think Mother Seton would !'ike to be represented as some kind of "good fairy."

And as the people who had been cured through miracles attributed to Mother Seton appeared on TV I couldn't put aside my feeling that the miracle part of the canonization process doesn't make much sense to me.

Cures Minus Prayer?

Just suppose that while everybody was praying to Mother Seton for a certain cure, somehody, without telling, slipped in a prayer to St. Anthony ... St. Francis . . . or the Blessed Mother. Suppose it was that other saint who interceded. How would we' ever know?

Or consider the fact that a certain number of cures cannot be explained by science, but apparently nobody was praying to anybody for them.

Or suppose a group of people are praying for a cure to ~ candidate for canonz·ation, and this canClidate really isn't in Heaven. But God decides He'd like to cure the sick person anyway. How would we know?

a computerized score to see if the candidate for canonization has a better batting average than the unexplainable cures when nobody was praying to anybody.

I do believe in miracles. I do believe Mother Seton is a saint. But I'm also of the opinion we make too much of the miracle business when it comes to deciding who gets the honors of the altar. If it were up to Mother Seton, I think she would have dispensed with all the protocol, propriety, and red tape that went into her canonization.

She Did Things After aU, she was a person who got things done, and if she were as hung-up on rules and regulations as the people who canonized her, she would never have gotten her schools off the ground.

Finally, I wondered, as I watched their pictures flashing on my TV, how many of the American bishops and cardinals who were so happy to attend her canonization, would be happy to have her back in their dioceses ... back to demand they keep open the schools she worked so hard to start.

Mother Seton got things done, and anybody who gets things done has to make a few waves.

She made plenty!

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PreSierVe Youthfu lin'ess A current magazine carries a write-up on a beauty make-over done for a group of women celebrating the 25th anniversary of their graduation from high school. One of the nicest things I noticed about the article was that that even before the makeover most of these women and the correct U5e of cosmetics, ,if they use them at all. had more beauty and charThe cosmetics that I mentionacter in their faces than ed before are really lovely and shown in their yearbook pictures.

A nd when they did get made-up by the experts, they really didn't look made-up-just younger. Of

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course this is one of the secrets of expert make-up, a non-madeup look.

One of my daughters frequents a make-up 5hop that carries a line of natural cosmetics and while I had felt that they were only for the young I found this to be a mistake as I discovered when I tried them. They give exactly the look we want, a flattering natural one.

It's natural on the part of a .woman to want to look her very best and most of us do not accept the ageing process gracefully but try to curtail it as much ns possible. With the varied Jines of cosmetics available, natural and otherwise, we do have some aids hut. learning how to use them correctly ,is another thing.

Dewy Look One of my daughters has almost a natural instinct with cosmetics and 5he shakes her head a ,bit at this mother who is still strugging to learn. She can't imagine how I could still be learning at my age. I'm sure she wouldn't believe it if I told her my routine started. when you used talcum powder to hide the acne and a lipstick so dark it looked like purple paint and then of course we had a wide variety in perfume, either Blue Waltz or Evening in Paris.

The young people today feature a very dewy natural look that comes from good skin care

Dames Patronesses of Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford, will mark their 50th anniversary as a service organization at a Mass to be concelebmted by AuxHiary Bishop James J. Gerrard, Msgr.

Henri Hamel and Rev. Ernest Blais at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Sept.

28 at Sacred Heart Church. A banquet will follow at 1:30 p.m. at White'S' restaurant, North Westport, at which past presidents w-ill be honored.

Over the past half century the Dames Patronesses have contributed money and equipment to Sacred Heart Home, as well as outfitting a beauty salon and conducting parties at Christmas and other holiday seasons. Day bus trips for home residents are a continuing summer project.

quite pure since they are made ·with ,all· natural ingredients.

Whatever they have in them gives the face a glowing, healthy look rather than a pasty, hard one. The only problem that we have in our house is that with two females using the same make-up it goes twice as fast and at this time there ,i5 no one in the area that has the franchise for this line.

My own 25th reunion will be coming up in a couple of years and I'm sure that the girls with whom I graduated will also look even younger than they did in that yearbook picture with the help of the best ,in beauty aids and attitudes.

House Passes Historic Foreian Aid Bill ,....

WASHINGTON (NC) - The House has passed by a 244·155 vote a historic foreign aid bill for the first time separates foreign economic aid from military and 'Political assistance.

The bill authorizes $1.35 bil- . lion for the 1976 fiscal year and $1.52 billion for the 1977 fiscal year. It emphasizes aid for the poorest nations, with particular emphasis on food and agricultural development.

A major feature of the bill is authorization for the use of repayments of American aid loans for new developmen~ programs.

Also considered significant is a commitment of $200 million for the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a fund originated by the oil-producing nations.

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Mother Seton Bridge Between Churches

ROME (NC)-Welcoming Anglican delegates who had attended Mother Seton's canonization earlier that day, the president of the U. S. National Conference of Catholic Bisho1)s (NCCB) called the new American saint "another bridge between our churches."

Priest To Open Four Archbishop Joseph L. Bernar· Gregorian Chant Centers din of Cincinnati, president of LOS ANGELES (NC) - Four the NCCB, 'and Bishop James S. centers for 'training in Gregorian Rausch, general secretary of the chant will he opened in this area conference, were hosts at are·

by Msgr. Robert E. Brennan, for- ception Sept. 14 for the five Anmer Los Angeles archdiocesan glican delegates, two Methodist director of music. delegates and about 70 U. S. The priest recently returned Catholic bishops. Mother Seton from a year of studying music in had been a member of the AngliEurope, on a tour that included can Communion before becoming the Benedictine Abbey of Soles- a Catholic. mes, France, which is famous for The reception was marked by its liturgical reforms and revival· a cordial exchange of good of Gregorian chant in the 19th wishes between Archbishop Berand 20th centuries. nardin and 'Bishop J. Stuart WetFor centuries Gregorian chant, more, suffragan bishop of the or plainsong, has been consid- Episcopal Diocese of New York ered one of the most appropriate and head of the official Episcokinds of music for liturgical use. palian delegation to the canoniMsgr. Brennan said he sees "a zation. growing movement to bring back Archbishop Bernardin presented Latin and Gregorian chant as a thz five Anglican and two Meth,nol1mal part of liturgical odist guests to the assembled prayer:' America~ Catholic bishops.

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The ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Sept. 25, 1975

i COME, SPOUSE OF CHRIST: Sister Lucille Gauvin, O. P. takes final vows as a Dominican Sister of the Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena in Fall River motherhouse of community. Habits are updated and guitar Mass is contemporary, but ancient spirit of Dominican Order remains as (from left) Sister Barbara McCarthy, general councillor, accepts Sister Lucille's vows on behalf of community, Sisters participate in Mass, Sister Lucille gives reading and Rev. Roland Nadeau, M.S., receives her vows. Music for the occasion was by the Reconcilers, a folk group of which Sister Lucille is a member. led by Rev. Andre Patenaude of La Salette Shrine, .At.tleboro.

CATECHETICAL SUNDAY was observed at churches throughout the diocese this week. Pictured above is the staff of St. Patrick's CCD School in Falmouth as they stand for the commissioning rite. In the picture on the left, members of the St. Louis CCD staff in Fall River light their personal candles with the Paschal Candle as they are commissioned.

SISTER MARY ALOYSIA

Sister Enjoys Celebration Sister Mary Aloysia, former Principal at Sacred Hearts Academy and former Dean of the College of the Sacred Hearts recently observed the sixtieth anniversary of her entl'ance into religious life on Sept. 8, 1915.

At the Convent on 47 Prospect Place a concelebrated Mass marked the occasion with Most Rev. James J. Gerrard, V.G. as principal celebrant: Monsignor Daniel F. Shalloo and Rev. James Lyons as concelebrants. The jubilarian's sister, Mrs.. Melzar P. Sampson, and other members of her family participated in the liturgy. Two nieces, Sister Virginia Sampson ,and Mrs. William J. Sullivan were lectors; another niece Mrs. Jefrey E. Sullivan and two nephews, Jeffrey E. and William J. Sullivan offered the

gifts; two grand nephews, William and Richard Sullivan were servers at the Mass.

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Holy Union Sisters from the Convents in Fall River and Taunton joined the jubilarian and her community for the celebration of the liturgy and for the reception which followed in the convent. .

Sister Mary Aloysia was a member of the faculty at Sacred Hearts Academy for 34 years.

Twenty of these years she spent as teacher of Latin, and for 14 years she was Principal. In 1953 she was appointed Dean of the community's College of the Sacred Hearts in which office she served until the closing of the college in 1970. Since her retirement Sister has resided at 47 Prospect Place.

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Sister Maria Finds Quiet Refuge From War-Torn Island of Timor

By PAT McGOWAN

MIKE JACQUES

Newly Appointed Director Fr. Richard Wolff, S.J., Principal of Bishop Connolly High, announced the appointment of Mr. Michael Jacques as Director of Development and Alumni Affairs, succeeding Fr. Joseph Mullen, S.J. Mr. Jacques is a native of Swansea, Mass. and attended St. Joseph's school in FaN River before attending Bishop Connolly High'School and graduating in the charter class of 1970. He is also a 1975 graduate of Boston College where he majored in English with a specialization in native American culture. While attending B.C. he acted as academic and persona'l counselor in the freshmen assistance program.

As director Mr. Jacques wil'l spearhead fund raising which will supplement the operational budget of the school, thus keeping the tuition at a level accessible to large numbers of interested students in the area. He

will also work at augmenting the scholarship funds, making more grants and aid available to deserving students.

In addition to these tasks, Mr. Jacques wi'll oversee the growing Alumni Association and will also serve as Public Relations Director,acting as liaison between the local press and the school.

His office wrIl also co~rdinate the Century Club which is open to local doctors, lawyers, and businessmen who through their membership become yearly benefactors of the school, and who gather for various social occasions during the year.

The weekly Bingo and monthly Grand Club will also be directed by Mr. Jacques.

As he looks to the future of the school and its need for continued financial support Mr. Jacques hopes to realize a fair and bazaar in the spring as well as a raffle and dinner.

Relaxing in a quiet tenement across the street from Our Lady of Angels Church, Fall River, is a small and lively nun. She needs a season of peace, for she is a refugee from the war-torn island of Timor, a former Portuguese colony about 400 miles northwest of Australia.

Last week Sister Maria Ferreira Raposo de Melo spoke of her long trip from Timor to Fall River, where she is visting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jose Raposo de Melo came to the United States in, 1971 from Capelas, St. Michael, Azores.

Sister Maria entered the Congregation of the Servants of the Family in the Azores before her parents left the islands. For the past eight years she has been stationed in Dili, the capital of Timor, where she worked in a day care center, cared for the elderly and taught pre-primary and night school classes.

Completely apolitical and wanting only to. serve the poor, she was literally ,raught in a crossfire between groups seeking to take over control of Timor in the aftermath of unrest in mainland Portugal. As conditions became more and more dangerous, the bishop of the diocese requested that Sisters working in the area flee.

"Everyone went except for some Spanish Sisters, a few priests and the Bishop himself," recounted Sister Maria, noting tat she and a companion fled by freighter to Darwin, Australia, leaving Timor under fire.

"The Portuguese government paid our fare to Australia and then to Lisbon," she said.

When she reached Portugal, it was time for the religious to make final vows in her community. She had expected the ceremony to take place on Timor, and then at her motherhouse in Elvas, Portugal, and she was happily surprised when her superiors suggested a third placeFall River, where her parents might witness the ceremony.

Accordingly, Our Lady of Angels Church was the scene of' Sister Maria's final commitment to religious life. Her vows were received by the pastor, Msgr.

Anthony M. Gomes, who presided in the absence of Bishop Cronin.

A reception for Sister Maria's family and the many friends her parents have made since arriving

PARISH RECEPTION honors Sister Maria who is flanked by her parents. Bringing the greetings of the city is Mayor Driscoll of Fall River. in this country followed in the church hall.

She. speaks no English, but through her 16-year-old niece, Lisa de Mello, the religious gave her ,impressions of America, which she is visiting for the first time. She said she feels very much at home in the Portuguese neighborhood of Our Lady of Angels, and she laughed when asked her reaction to American foods such 'as hot dogs and hamburgers.

"She hasn't had any," said her niece. "We eat all Portuguese foods here."

Sister Maria has not yet seen any large American cities, but if she reacts to them as she does to Lisbon, where she has studied and where she will return next month, she won't .like them. ,In Lisbon people might live next to each other for 100 years

and not know each other at all," she said expressively.

Her heart is really in Dili, where she hopes eventually to return. She said the island is about 50 per cent Catholic, with the remainder of the inhabitants pagans or members of various Protestant denominations.

Catholic life there has not changed tremendously since Vatican II, she noted. As an example, the habits of her community have undergone no alterartion except for a slight shortening "We have no further plans to change them," she said.

Sister Maria, 35, has been a religious for 12 years. Among relatives welcoming her in FaIl River, in addition to her parents and niece, are another niece, Edwarda, 13; a nephew, Tiberio, 9, four sisters, a brother and many cousins.

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Has Little Hope for Future

Public Service Employees Have Bargaining Rights

Of American Catholicism I've been in trouble lately for not being constructive or hopeful enough. When the charge is made, I plead in my own defense that to pretend hopefulness about Catholicism is to lie. "But," say my accusers, "then you are not Christian, because Christians always hope." To con- for alway~ doing the stupiclithing.

We've blown it-not because we fuse religious hope with were fated to, not because the institutional hope is mind- odds were against us, not because

A West Coast newspaper recently featured an editorial entitled, "Decay in Cities," which severely criticized public employees who, for whatever reasons, resort to the use of the strike. "These people," we are told, "were not drafted . into their appointed community tasks. Each, in his own public service employees sit . 1·' 1 down to bargain over wages and way, Imp IClt y or explicitly other benefits with government chose and vowed (sic) to administretors. But it should also serve the community by accepting the responsibilities of the office. To withdraw this service is, in each case, an act of willful

Iy MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS disregard for the public's safety and general welfare."

In my opinion, this is a gross oversimpilification of an extremely complicated problem.

'Public Interest' Respon!.,ible '1'abor' leaders in the field of public employment readily admit, of course, that public Service employees should be conscientiously concerned about the public interest, but, understanda1Jly, they tend to become very irate when the public interest concept, "waved like a banner when there is a confrontation between public employees, is used to prejudice the communitee against the cause of the public employee ... even though the employee is, himself, part of this taxpaying service-using pubHc." This quotation is taken from a study entitled "Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector," prepared for the Executive Board of the AFL-CIO Martime Trades Department.' I recommend this study very highly. As an "interim " report, it does not pretend to have all the answers to al1 of the questions that can be raised about collective bargaining in the field of public employment, but it does delineate the issues very clearly. It is particularly clear on this matter of the "public interest" which is emphasized so strongly in the editorial referred to above.

In summary, the report says that the trouble with the "public interest" concept is that it is ,only triggered in time of crisis.

There ·is no "public interest" generated ahead of time, no particular show of concern for meeting the genuine economic and social needs of the public employee - whether he be a teacher, a fireman, a policeman, a clerk, or a so-called c'ommon laborer. It is not unti'1 there .is a direct, adverse ef.fect on the body politic that the "public interest" is invoked-and then it is generally invoked against the public employee and on the side of the public administrator.

Face' Responsibility It goes without saying, of course, that the public interest must be taken into account when

be taken into account long before the parties come to the bargaining table. That is to say, . government administrators-and the citizenry at large-have an obligation to show at least as much concern for the elementary rights of public service employees as they do for the public interest. They have no right to expect public service employees to subsidize the rest of the community by settling for wages and other conditions below the standards prevailing in private employment.

PAPAL BIRTHDAY: Pope Paul VI, who has experienced a busy schedule recently because of events surrounding the canonization of the new Saint Elizabeth Seton, celebrates his 78th birthday tomorrow, Sept. 26.

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Catholic Boy Scouts of the Annawon Council, comprising the Attleboro-Taunton area, wiH participate in an ecumenical camporee at Camp Norse, Carver, Mass. from Friday, Oct. 17 through Sunday, Oct. 19.' The theme for the weekend will be "Man and His God."

Strikes in essential branches of thepublic service are admittedly very Important, but short of establishing a system of forced labor, we cannot hope to eliminate them mere'ly by appealing to the concept of the public interest. The only way to reduce their frequency':"'" and, hopef.ully, to eliminate them in the longrun-is for public officials, backed by the citizenry at large, to take the initiative in paying decent wages and setting up equitable procedures for adjudicating such disputes as may arise when the machinery of collective bargaining breaks down.

The program, prepared by chapla'in's aides from participatIng troops, will have as its goal the education of Scouts in the beliefs of Protestantism, Judaism and Catholicism. Films explaining the three faiths will be shown in the course of the weekend and campers wiH attend services conducted by representaHves of each. A full sports program will also be carried on.

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Until government administrators and the public at large are prepared to face up to their responsibilities in this regard, we might just as well get ready for a continuing rash of strikes in the field of pulJIic employment.

Moreover. it would be naive to think th'at we can effectively .prohibit such strikes merely by enacting punitive ,legislation.

That won't begin to solve the problem; as a matter of fact, it might even aggravate it, at least in certain cases.

less and muddleheaded. It is charecteristic of the shallow romanticism which makes me so pessimistic about the future of the American Church.

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. At issue are three differf'nt meanings of the word "hope." It can refer to that virtue which is the other side of the coin of faith. One confidently expects that the kingdom Jesus preached will finally be achieved and that one's work for that kingdom has not been in vain. Such hope is expressed by a'1l Christians daily in the words "thy kingdom come." It is not an easy hope, not a superficial enthusiasm. St. Augustine had it when he died with the barbarians at the gate who were about to destroy North African ChrisUanity. Thomas More had it when he put his head on the block, knowing that the old faith was doomed in England for centuries to come.

We can have it today even though we know that American Catholicism is rapidly falling apart.

Important Role A second kind of hope comes from the religious situation in which one finds oneself. There have been times in human history when. religious issues were not important, when the confidence of humankind in its ability to control its own destiny was so powerful that religion seemed irrelevant. One such era just ended. We are now in the first phases of a new era when questions about the meaning and purpose of human Hfe have begun to take on an almost obsestive importance. At such a time, one can reasonably hope that religion will play an extremely important role in buman lifein the long run.

But in the lon,g run, as Lord Keynes remarked, we will all be dead. It is the short-run future (twenty, thirty years) of the institution ca'Hed American Catholicism for which I find little ground to hope. The Church has a heritage and a tradition filled with resources which could respond to the desperate yearnings of contemporary humankind.

When I was younger I was convinced that we couldn't possibly blow such a marvelous opportunity.

I underestimated the collective capacity of American Catholics

the oppotunities weren't there but becau!le we were too lazy, too self-indulgent, and too dumb to see and respond to them.

Nice going.

Compromise, Consensus Consider: We have a theory of human nature and human society which believes that freedom and trust among human beings is possible. So our left wing eagerly embraces oppressive Marxist socialism. We have the oldest and most glorious mystical and contemplative tra-' dition in the Western world. So our right wing turns to fundamentalist Protestantism for the foolishness of charismatic romanticism. Our inner-city parochial schools are practicing the most generous form of Christian charity in the century, and we are phasing them out so bishops can play with ciosed-circuit TV. Our outer-city parochial schools are still immensely popular with -the faithful-and of proven effectiveness-so we don't build new ones.

Our leaders have been masters of the American game of compromise, consensus, and coalition for a hundred years, and now the present leadership issues a bicentennial program which rejects the American democratic experiment in the name of a "hate America" liberation theology imported from a continent which has never known political freedom. Our great thinkers of the nineteenth century antiCipated by a century the reforms of Vatican II, and we now treat scholars like they had the bubonic p1ague. Our religious communities were the marvel of the modern Catholic world, and we sit idly by while they commit suicide.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH The Composition of the Bible

By REV. JOSEPH JENSEN

In a previous article we spoke of the circles that formulated and transmitted Israel's traditions. In this process both oral and written traditions played their role. Writing was known in the Near East, both in Egypt and Mesopotamia from the end of the 4th mil1enium B.C. These were very complicated writing systems which required extensive training to master, but by the 15th century B.C., long before Israel existed as a people, a simple alphabetic writing began to come into use in Palestine. Oral tradition continued to play a part even after writing came into use.

We tend to think of a composition being most securely fixed when it has been set down in writing, but the opposite case can be falsified by anyone who has access -to it, while that which is passed on orally must meet the approval of all who hear it sometimes a whole community of people who have listened to it countless times before.

The origin of even a single section of the Old Testament, e.g., the Pentateuch, may be very complex. The Bible makes frequent reference to "the law of Moses" or "the book of the law of Moses" and there was a time when this was taken to mean that Moses was the literary au-

thor of the whole Pentateuch; but this is nowhere stated in the Bible, and modern scholars have been forced by the weight of the evidence to abandon that position.

Moses was the man raised up by the Lord to lead His people out of Egypt; he was the mediator of the Lord's revelation and covenant at Mt. Sinai, and he was Israel's first great lawgiver.

His influence on the formation of the traditions found in the Pentateuch was very great. But the Pentateuch seems to incorporate traditions not only of the formative years of Israel but also those from much later times.

For example, the laws of the Pentateuch, while ostensibly coming from the period of Israel's encampment at Mt. Sinai, actually reflect conditions in Israel at various periods; even when dealing with the same subjects (e.g., altar-s, feasts, priesthood), different laws give quite different regulatioris.

Narrative secbions also exhibit complexity. Genesis 1:1-2:4 forms a creation account easily distinguishable from the rest of Genesus 2; each gives its own account of the creation of man, with his creation coming after that of the animals in the first Continued from Page Eleven account, before the animals in the second account.

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Covenant At Sinai God's promise to Abraham became a covenant with the children of the promise.

In the promise of revealing Himself to men God communicates with men on their own level. The covenant made at Sinai between God and the children of Israel is an example.

By STEVE LANDREGAN

A covenant is a human concept. In ancient times it was' an agreement, usually non-written, marked by a solemn ritual, that bound the covenanting parties to certain obligations.

If we look back to Abraham, we will find an example of a primitive ~ovenant ritual in Ge'nesis 15. Here we see God ordering Abraham to cut in two various animals and place the two halves opposite each other on the ground. God, in the form of smoke and fire, passes between the butchered carcasses.

What this represents is an ancient covenant ritual in which

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the two covenant parties pass between the halves of the animals calling down upon themselves a similar fate should they violate the covenant's terms.

God needs no covenant but man does. God originates His covenant with man to respond to man's need, to reveal to man, in a way he will understand, exactly what a man must do to merit the mercy of God (Gen 20:6).

Just as Moses had provided the charismatic leadership needed to'.conltinue the tl'ansforma't'ion of the Israelites from a mob of slaves into a nation, the Sinai covenant provided another essential ingredient ... a system of law.

In the Sinai covenant certain duties and obligations are imposed upon the Israelites in exchange for Yahweh's promise to be their God, to assist them and to deliver them. The most important of these duties and obligations is the Israelites' promise to worship no other God but Yahweh, and in the manner He prescribes. In addition -they must accept certain standards of conduct and morality.

The relationship established between Yahweh and the Israelites by the covenant is one of affection, loyalty and faithfulness. This relationship is deTurn to Page Twelve

"Again and again you offered a covenant to man." The words are still somewhat strange to the Catholic community which prays with the priest the Fourth Eucharistic Prayer.

By REV. PAUL F. PALMER, S.J.

-We used to speak of the Old and the New Testament, and now we speak of the Old and the New Covenant. What is this covenant which God offers man as an individual and man as a community?

The Engli&h word covenant derives from the verb "to convene" or to come together; but covenanters convene for a definite purpose, to enter a sworn agreement, to make an oath in which they pledge their fidelity to one another. The Latin word covenant "foedus" basical1y means fidelity or trust.

We are celebrating this year of 1976 the Bicentennial of our independence, but we are commemorating as well the coming together of the 13 colonies to enter a covenant by which they became "Federated" or covenant states of a single country, a single family. And the loyalty pledged by the federated &tates ran so deep that a civil or family war was fought to preserve the federation or covenant. The great sin against the covenant is separation that ends in divorce and the rejection of the covenant ties that bind us.

A covenant is sometimes referred to as an "elaborate oath," a sworn agreement which has the gods or God as the witness and guarantor of the terms of the agreement. But God's covenant wth man is more than a contractural agreement. Actually, we do not enter into an agreement with God. He makes a covenant with us.

The Sinai covenant demands that we love God with our whole heart and mind and soul and our neighbor as ourselves. But we do so not because of the "law" of the decalogue or 10 commandments, but because we are made members of God's family and the family of man by路covenant.

The eminent Scripture scholar Dennis McCarthy, S.J. goes to the heart of the matter when he perceptively notes that the Sinai covenant is "more than a maHer of agreement, it is a question of kinship." Commenting on the ritual meal and the ritual sacrifice of Exodus 24 and Deuteronomy 27, the author explains the symbolism of both rites: The covenant meal means admission into the family circle of another, but the blood rite is especially

A PRIEST ELEVATES THE CHALICE, emphasizing the covenant that exists between God and His people today.

"We are invited to drink of the blood to symbolize and to effect at the deepest of all le~els our union with God in Christ and with one another." vivid. Jahweh and the people are considered to be related by blood for they have somehow shared the same blood in the rite" (Treaty and Covenant, p. 173).

Irresistibly there comes to mind the words of Jesus at the Last supper which are' repeated in the lopening Eucharistic sacrifice of Christians: "Take this, all of you, and drink from it.

This is the cup of my blood of the new and everlating coven'ant." We are not sprinkled with the blood of sacrifice. We are invited to drink of the blood to symbolize and to effect at the deepest of all levels our union with God in Christ and with one another.

God began making covenants with man when He made the first man into His own image 'and likeness, introducing man into the family of the divine community or trinity of Father, Son an}! Holy Spirit. And because of this initial covenant, God's way with man is different from this relationship to the rest of His visible creation. Man will always be the object of God's elective love, of God's covenant love, even when man "breaks" the covenant with God. F'amily ties can be disowned; the kinship relation can be repected, but not really broken. We rema'in God's children. The object of His special love, even when we reject Him and try to untie the kinship ties that bind us.

The Fourth Eucharistic Prayer says it so well: "You formed man in your own likeness ...

Even when he disobeyed you and lost your friendship, you did not abandon him to the power of death ... Again 'and again you offered a covenant to man."

We are here confronted with ,. the mystery of God's way with

man, with a love that goes on loving even when that love goes unrequited, the most poignant of all loves. Repea-tedly in the Old Testament God's love is likened to that路 of a husband for his bride, even when the bride is faithless. God's love for the in<lividual with whom He has made a covenant is compared to a mother's love for a child even when her love is rejected.

The prophet Isaiah had an in-tuition of God's way of love and has God exclaim: "Can a woman forget her suckling child,. that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold I have you graven on the palms of my hands" (49:15-16).

We have heard the exp~ession: "If only I could stop loving!"

Because God is love, He cannot stop loving even though His love goes unrequited and rejected for all eternity. The mystery of hell is in man, not in God. And because of this love, God time and again makes a covenant with man, with everyman, and not least of all me!

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Charity Ball Group Meets This Sunday Afternoon

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The only meeting to plan the Bishop's Charity Ball of the diocese of Fall River is set for two on Sunday afternoon at White's.

Restaurant, North Westport.

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes diocesan director of the Charity Ball said: "The 21st annual Ball will be in honor of Bishop Cronin, now in his sixth appearance -as honored guest at this social and charitable event. The Bishop is very much interested in this event which helps to maintain .the four schools for exceptional children and four summer camps for the underprivileged and exceptional children of every race, color and creed in the southeastern area of Massachusetts."

The Ball will have as its motif, color, theme and scenario the bicentennIal celebration of the founding of our nation. Colonial dress for the Ball will be optional to the thousands of people who come to this annual social affair.

The Ball Committee will meet with members .of the Society of

The Priests' Senate of the Diocese met on Friday, Sept. 19th -at the Catholic Memorial Home.

Fr. J,ames F. Lyons of Taunton briefed the Senate on the plans for the New England Conference of Priests' Senates annual meeting. This year the diocese of Fall River will host the meeting which is to be held at La Salette on Oct. 26, 27, and 28.

Fr. Thomas C. Lopes of New Bedford gave a presentation on means which will be taken to col1ect data for the next meeting of the National Federation of Priests' Councils.

Fr. John J. Murphy was named temporary treasurer replacing Fr. Marcel H. Bouchard who is away at studies.

The Senate passed a unanimous resolution expressing "gratitude to Msgr. Shallo and Fr. Driscoll for their work on The Anchor and encouragement and support to Fr. Byington as he assumes his role as Editor."

The next meeting of the Senate will be held on Oct. 10.

St. Yincent de Paul and Council of Oatholic Women. These two diocesan groups;lre the cosponsors of this winter charitable and social event to be held on Friday evening, January 9, 1976 at the Lincoln Park Ballroom in North Dartmouth.

The proceeds from the Ball help to promote and to expand the work at the St. Yincent de Paul Camp and Catholic Boys' Day Camp for underprivileged children; the Nazareth Camp for exceptional children and Mashpee Camp on the Cape for the children of 5t. Yincent's Home in FaH River. Beneficiaries of the Ball also include four schools for the education of exceptional children. These are: Nazareth Hall, Attleboro; Nazareth Hall, Hyannis. and Nazareth Hall and the Pre-Yocational Training Center in Fall River.

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Covenant Continued from Page Eleven scribed by the Hebrew word "Hesed." The safe word is used to signify the close relationship of blood relatives.

In addition to defining the relationship between Yahweh and the Israelites, the laws that are part of the covenant (the Ten Commandments -and the Covenant Code) also define the relationship ,and conduct of the Israelites toward one another.

The nation that emerges at Sinai is truly unique, and it is the covenant that gives it this uniqueness. Israel becomes the People of Yahweh, a people belonging to Him in a special way, set aside. His personal possession, a people chosen ... not for privilege but for responsibility. ,Essential to this election of Israel by Y'ahwehas the nation chosen to reveal Him and His redemption is the understanding that Israel's election was not based on merit or accomplishment but on God's free choice.

Misunderstanding and distortion of their closeness by the Israelites wilI bring them to tragedy and destruction and be the

Insta Ilation Rites S-et for K of C At Ocean Grove Rev. ~aymond P. Monty, newly -appointed chaplain for South End Council No. 295, Fall River Knights of Columbus, will celebrate Mass at council installation ceremonies, set for 7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 27, at St. Michael's Church, Ocean Grove.

To be installed are Duarte Medeiros, grand knight; Donald Lavoie, deputy grand knight; John Morgan, chancellor; Albert Banville, recorder, together with their supporting officers.

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subject of God's solemn warnings to them through the prophets.

Like God's covenant with Abraham, His covenant with Israel is marked by a ritual described in Exodus 24. An altar is built by Moses at the foot of Sinai, the same mountain where God revealed His name "Yahweh" to Moses from the burning bush.

Twelve pi.Jlars representing the 12 tribes of Israel are erected at the base of the mountain and holocausts and sacrifices are offered. Moses takes half the blood from the sacrifidal animals and splashes it upon the altar which represents Yahweh.

He then reads the terms of the covenant aloud to the people who indicate their acceptance.

Then Moses sprinkles the other half of the blood over the Israelites saying, "this is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words of His." Just as God's covenant with Abraham was renewed with Isaac and Jacob, the Sinai cov· enant was to be renewed by the Israelites once they had come into the promised land of Canaan (Jos. 24).

Know Your Faith author Father Joseph Jensen writes in his book "God's Word to Israel" that "the covenant becomes the basis of Israel's relationship to God through historical events and sets her faith worlds apart • from the religions around her, tied as they were to the cycle of nature, fertility cults, magical practices and capricious divinities. Faithfulness was expected of a covenant partner. In the years and centuries -ahead Israel would often be wanting in covenant loyalty (hesed), but was never abandoned by the God who called her. Israel's most frequent song of praise would be 'ki 'Ie'olam hasdo' -'For His hesed is everlasting.' "

MOSES WAS THE MAN raised up by the Lord to lead His people out of Egypt; he was the mediator of the Lord's revelation and covenant at Mount Sinai, and he was Israel's first great lawgiver." From article by Father Joseph Jensen.

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The Composition of the Bible Continued from Page Eleven Much of the materia'l that was eventually incorporated into the Pentateuch derives from the sort of traditionary circles referred earlier . Regulations about sacrifice and rules about ritual purity come from priestly circles; much of the material comes from the earliest days of Israel's formation, though it continued to be updated through the period of the exile. Many of the historical narratives, especially those which rec-ount Israel's sins and the Lord's punishment upon them, stem from prophetic circles. Groups of Levites, whose role it was to preach covenant law, _account for much of the material in Deuteronomy.

Some of the traditions incorporated into the Pentateuch probably come from Mesopotamia 'and would be dated far earlier than the origins of Israel -traditions brought by- Abraham and his clan. Others originated in the days of Abraham (somewhere between 2000 and 1500 B.C.), others during the sojourn in Egypt, during the exodus and conquest , and later still--even to the days of the Babylonian -captivity (587-538 B.C.). In the end it was probably priestly circles, during the exiIeand later, who incorporated the traditions of other groups into their own and so brought the Pentateuch to completion. But the beginning of the proc-ess goes back far earlier than Moses himself.

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Elaborate in design, intrioately carved, and liberally touched with gilt, the facade of the Town Hall delights the eye and keeps it long engaged in searching out the abundant details which are woven into its fabric. The tower is massive, and topping it is a heroic figure of St. Michael the Archangel, scintHlant in the sunlight and floodlit through the night.

Much Restoration The other three sides of the Grand' Place are fronted by the guild houses, mostly in Rena,issance style, once occupied by the several guilds of the old citybakers, butchers, brewers, millers, carpenters, etc. Here, too,' there has been much rebuilding and restoMtion because of the havoc frequently perpetrated in this area.

The beginnings of the Grand' Place are obscure. It probably dates from the 11th or 12th century, the time of the primitive settlement of Brussels. From the start, .jt was a marketplace, and in part it remains just that.

If. the visitor is staying at a nearby hotel, he can get up early on a weekday, go through one of the winding streets tributary to the Grand' Place, and see the daily fruit and vegetable market -in full, noisy swing. A few hours later, and no trace or murmur of this remains.

Many Languages Spoken Each Sunday, there is a bird market here. Many kinds of birds are represented in the hundreds

after midnight and before dawn the Grand' Place is empty. But for all of the day and most of the night, crowds move about it.

One hears many -languages being spoken; this is obviously a magnet for tourists. But a high pro· portion of the people stralling or at the cafe tables are Belgians, either residents of Brussels or from other parts of the country.

By far the largest crowd which we saw in the Grand' Place during a week in Brussels, assembled there toward the close of July 20, the eve of Belgium's independence day. People began to gather weB before sunset.

A band appeared on a balcony f,airly high in the front of the Town Ha'll, the brass ,instruments flashing and boring through the din .. This was the first of several bands to perform, each one warmly welcomed and thanked.

Fiery Old Woman Suddenly there was a ruckus at the cafe where we were seated.

An old woman, white-haired, toothless, and with a face deeply graven with wrinkles, was the center of it. She was wearing dirty flannel pajamas and a tattered bathrobe. She demanded entrance to the ,adjacent restau,rant, but waiters barred the door to her.

Three young' and embarrassed policemen appeared and tried to talk her into going to her home, which must have been nearby.

She stood her ground, eyed them contemptuously, op'ened her purse, took out a candy bar, wolfed some of it, then replied with a wild, hoarse shriek, and, as they gingerly escorted her away, she gave the loudest, most vibrant Bronx cheer that I have ever heard.

The people at the tables around ours obviously sympathized with her. After all, wasn't this the eve of independence day? The fireworks which came later were no more explosive than that fiery old woman.

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The Early Apostolate Among The Emancipated Blacks

By DR. EDWARD J. MISCH

The hottest debate among the U. S. bishops at their Second Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1866 was over decrees relating to the recently emancipated blacks. With harsh words and raised voices, Catholic bishops argued over the extent to which the American Church could aid the impoverished blacks. They were not debating theology, but the very practical question of what should be done for the blacks. lt is a question that con· tinues to be asked today .

The destitute condition of the freed slaves just after the Civil War deeply moved a number of southern bishops. In calling the Plenary Council for 1866. ArchIbishop Martin Spalding of Baltimore wrote that it was the bishops' most urgent duty to discuss the future status of the black: "Four million of these unfotunates are thrown on our charity, and they silently but eloquently ap:'eal to us for help."

Archbishop Spalding recommended several programs, among them Catbolic schools and orphanages and shelter and clothing assistance. To carry these out he suggested the appointment of a pFiest administrator who would find staff, raise money and organize projects.

Archbishop Spalding's suggestions included the possibility that the priest administrator could become a missionary bish· op for the blacks. As the field expanded other bisho::,s could be appointed, and the archbishop envisioned a distinct black Catholic Church, following the example of the Eastern-rite groups in the Middle East. He also brought up the question of ordaining Amerircan blacks as priests.

Black priests were a rarity, although black women had helped found two religious communities before the Civil War. Tbe mulatto Healy brothers from Georgia, ordained abroad, worked with whites in the North and were never directly involved with the black apostolate.

The idea of ordaining blacks in this country was rejected even ,before the formal debate began.

And after protests from several bishops the plan for a priest administrator was dro;:,ped, lest problems of jurisdiction arise.

Since so few blacks were Catholic, most bishops were opposed to specific programs on their be-bait. Among blacks in the United States, about one out of 50 was Catholic; they made up only one or two per cent of the Catholic population. Archbishop John McCloskey of New York, whose diocese was faced with caring for increasing numbers of Catholic immigrants, s~oke against general fundraising for the blacks, since "this obligation did not weigh on the consciences of the bishops of the North" where few blacks lived.

In the course of voting, the bishops reduced the proposed decrees concerning the blacks to general exhortations. Each bishop was left to decide what to do in his own diocese. The major

ARCHBISHOP MARTIN SPALDING urged the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore to discuss the future status of blacks. He recommended that assistance pro- . grams be established, providing them schools, orphanages, shelter and clothing.

Not until 1889 did black American Catholics get together as a distict group, the Negro Catholic Congress, which met annually for the next several years.

A complaint was the color li~e within the churches. At their first congress, the black Catholics showed confidence that their Church would dispel the prejudice of a misguided people.

And Archbishop John Ireland, in a sermon in Washington in 1890, publicly attacked the color line and raised black expectations.

Yet the hlacks noted that they were barred from Catholic indus· trial schools and that virtually no Catholic school was open 'to blacks over 12 years old.

Another problem was that whites showed discomfort at black independence and outspokenness. Bishops and priests did not encourage or support the blacks who spoke up; rather they cautioned tb~m to go slow, to wait for public opinion to change.

On the positive side during this period, the northern bishops moved from a general disinterest to some concern. The national collection, statements at the councils, and the annual reports fostered a wariness of the problem.

The Catholic Church made no attempt to change white prejudice. Bishops sought to circumvent enmity between the races.

-by separate facilities, protecting the feelings of the whites. The color line continued to be a problem both in the North and in the South, and few Catholics spoke up against it.

Certain priests such as the Josephites, and congregations such as the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, did work with black communities, but their efforts did not alter the blacks' social plight or remove the prejudice within the Church. The blacks observed that the Church did not use its moral force to strike at the anti-black bias of· its own people. Even in the cathedral in Baltimore, blacks had to sit on the backless benches at the rear.

Such accommodation to white prejudice made the Cathlic teaching on equality meanin~ess for many blacks.

emphasis was on uplifting the blacks morally and providing for his spiritual needs. Wbile individual bishops did become involved in proiects such as black parishes .in Charleston, S.C., and Louisville" Ky., orphanages in New Orleans, schools in Florida, and a small Benedictine monastery in Georgia, these were all on a small scale and often in dire need of funds.

In 1883, writing a report on the American Church for officials in Rome, a high Vatican official, Cardinal John FranzeJin, noted that a vast program was needed to break down the "barrier which exists between tbz blacks and the whites in order to bring about ... th~t they are brothers in Christ, Jesus."

Cardinal Franzelin urged the bishops to order an annual national collection for both blacks' (Dr. Misch is a professor. at and Indians. In 1884 the AmerSimon's Rock College, Great ican bishops decreed this mission Barrington, Mass.) collection.

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Fifty Connolly Seniors Learn Community Needs

Send In The Clowns'

BY THE DAMEANS Isn't it rich?

Are we a pair?

Me here at last on the ground You in mid-air.

Where are the clowns?

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Isn't it bliss?

Don't you approve?

One who keeps tearing around One who can't move Where are the clowns?

There ought to be clowns.

Just when I stopped opening doors Finally' knowing the one that wanted was yours Making my entrance again With my usual flair Sure of my lines No one is there.

Don't you love farce?

My fault, I fear I thought that you'd want what 'I want Sorry,my dear.

But where are the clowns?

Send in the clowns.

Don't bother, they're here.

Isn't it rich?

Isn't it queer?

Losing my timing this late in my career.

But where are the clowns?

There ought to be clowns.

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Judy Collins always seems. to sing plaintive songs of hauntmg memories. Her music envelops you in very private, warm recollections of a poetic past. They are filled with moors and nightingales, cold moons, silvery ribbons and cathedral bells. Her songs go even further, conjuring up the images of your very own past as surely as does silent rain outside your solitary window.

TO my mind, this is Judy's .unique and cherished gift. What memories this time? It is the lover's farce. It is the dance of (wo people who obviously love each other, but somehow cannot do the !>ame steps at the same time. When the boy wants to be with the girl, she is running around busily. When she wants to talk, he is nowhere to. be found. "One who keeps tearmg around, one who can't move ...

Me, here at last on the ground, you in mid-air." As painfu'1ly foolish as it is, the two lives are not in step with each other.

R is not exactly a time for tears. It is not time for the two to confront each other in the circus-eenter-ring. And so, thinking these thoughts, each one swallows private frustrations in hopes that tomorrow the timing

of love will get better.

What is happening? The key comes in the fourth verse of this beautiful song.' Judy sings: "My fault I fear. I thought that you'd want what I want, sorry my dear." The simplicity of the idea crashes around their heads. The other person wal> not seeing or hearing or feeling the same things as the first. The reas0!1 that they misunderstood each other was that they were different persons with different feelings. And they had not thought about talking out what was seemingly so obvious. You can hear them saying, "I thought you knew when I needed te~der­ ness, so, when you were SIlent I heard you saying 'no'. Our scanty words never communicated what was really going on.

It never occurred to me that you didn't understand how much I hurt over my mother's death.

And I had no idea that your work was falling apart and making you depressed. I was sure that you could see my love in my daily work. Isn't it a farce? We were looking for clowns and we find to~ay that we were the clowns."

Judy's song is an exquisite' comment 'on the melancholy farce that can come in communication. It stirs the lover to realize that his world is not the same as the world of his loved one. The song cries out about how easy it is to miss the other's real meanings and needs unless we speak out clearly and with trust. When lovers fail to communicate daily, they become painted and mute clowns playing out their lives in silent scenes far away from the center ring.

Today I give you a truly fine song with a most needed message. I pray that serious lovers will be haunted by the memory' of clowns who cannot talk. I pray that J.udy Collins touches you as deeply as she does me so that you, too, will be moved to learn the steps of trusting openness.

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Coyle-Cassidy Students Investigate Ancestors

By BILL FITZGERALD ' Who am I? Where am I going?

What am I here for?

Seniors in Sr. Vera's English classes at Coyle-Cassidy High School in Taunton investigated these questions with a Bicentennial flair. Choosing the quotation "I am a part of all that I have met" as a springboard, they set out on a 'safari into the past' to locate their family backgrounds,' their heritage. By learning their own past, they are participating in our nation's 200th birthday.

To do this a three part project was created, starting the week school opened.

The students first searched out their family trees, going as far back as their great grand parents, and in Mike Correia's case, as far back as 1775. They talked to relatives and searched through cellars and attics to fill up their geneaIogy charts. Paul Boffetti visited his grandparents' homestead in Nova Scotia, while one student called all the way to California for his information. In looking over ,the finished charts, one discovered -that the students' ·ancestors originate from countries such 'as Ireland, Italy, France, Cape Verde and the Azores, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria, and Lithuania.

The second part was to bring ina family treasure. They exhibited a wide variety of' objects rich in tradition and heritage, heirlooms that are still being passed down, generation to gen-

Cl'ation. These are usually passed to the oldest daughter or youngest son, or whatever family tradition dictates. Examp'les were a gold bracelet, brought back from the Azores by Jeff Vaz's grandfather, Claudia Mulcahy's Last Rites box, which belonged to her greatgrandmother, and -a fifth generation wedding ring, which was given to Linda Ferreira on her Confirmation. Others were' made by the students' ancestors themselves, including a whales' tooth scrimshawed by Margaret Silvia's great grandfather, and a handsewn 13 star flag displayed

by Bruce and Brian R-atcliffe.

Some of the students were not able 'to bring anything; either their ancestors came to America empty-handed, or everything was lost over here.

The final part of the seniors' project was to sum up their thoughts. Most agreed they became better acquainted with their heritage and culture. It also gave them a chance to contrast their backgrounds with those of their classmates, -and to be proud of their own.

The students agreed that the project was worthwhile, creat'ing a new closeness with their families, and opening up new lines of communications. Or, as senior Mike Lamb put it, "Through exploring my family's past, I came to see the international flavor that is a part of me - the relatives in Czechoslovakia, England, Ireland, and Germany have all helped make ME."

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Praying · .. This young man's whoie body suggests what prayer is ... a reCeptiveness an openness A young man kneeling up- · .. to Someone greater . right ... in a park with other more gracious ...than oneself . young people... praying. than the whole world ...

Not a common S'ight in city Prayer is placing oneself ... in parks ... but a moving one . the presence of ... in tune with Shirtless . . . with long hair . · .. God "in whom we live... and torn shorts he seems so and move and have our being" calm ... ,at peace kneeling at- (Acts 17:28) ... So St. Paul detentively in the hot sun His scribes the all embracing reality long arms hang quietly His of the diV'ine ... whose love ... head seems slightly raised as is the source of our life. if aware of a presence ... greater The young pray-er ... recalls than himself There is a sense Moses ... who removed hi's shoes of wholeness being together and bowed to the ground in . . . a kind of openness ... or God's presence ... or Jesus . readiness . . . to listen . . . and who prayed in solitude in the then to respond. quiet hi'lls ... and surrounded by There is something beautiful crowds ill city streets ... or a about a young man praying ... young girl, Mary, .. who stilled so unashamedly ... on his knees her whole being before her God in public... He becomes 'a kind ... listened attentively to his inof challenge ... or attraction ... vitation ... and, responded fully ... 'inviting one to pray. ... "Behold the Lord's handmaid What is prayer? ... Why pray? ... do with me as you wish."

Photo and Text by Father Carl J. Pfeifer, S.J.

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Appeals for Aid To Kenya Teens Brother John Koczka, an American Brother stationed in Kenya, East Africa, is asking his fel'low countrymen to aid the young women of Kenya through participation ,in ROPE (Africa), 'an acronym for Reach Out to People Everywhere.

In a letter to The Anchor, the religious explains that at a cost of $100 yearly, an individual, parish or organization can sponsor the high school education of a Kenyan teenager. The money proV'ides 39 w~eks of secondary education in a boarding school, including books, tuition, food, clothing and medicine.

Participants receive a photograph of the sponsored youngster, her case history and family background and a letter from her in English at six week intervals.

"All men and women carry out for freedom," writes Brother John. "Please help make this a reality for the Kenyan woman, by giving her the chance to escape from the bonds of ignorance by going to school and making her home and community a better place to live."

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These two beneficiaries of the miraculoili> intercession of the new saint were prominent among guests at t~e ceremony.

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Mother Seton had been baptized and reared in the Anglican Communion, and the rector of the parish in New York where she had been baptized was an invited guest at the ceremony of canonization, as were the Episcopalian Bishops of the New York and Baltimore areas. They were seated in a special place among representatives of the various nations of the world accredited to the Holy See ·in a tribune to the right hand side of the altar, directly opposite the place where the bishops, arch· bishops and cardinals were seated in the upper part of the square.

More applause greeted the conclusion of the Mass, as Pope Paul moved in the recessional back through the main doorway of the Basilica. The festival spirit continued to manifest itself as pilgrims from all parts of the United States and many other areas of the globe remained in the square, chatting, waving, tak.ing photogranhs and recalling the beautiful ceremony just ended.

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nearer and nearer. The papal flag, white and gold, fluttered from his gear.. As the Holy Father waved from the balcony and cheered, the thousands wit· nessing this remarkable scene joined in a torrent of sound. The 'chutist, unquestionably a skilled veteran of many jum~s, landed precisely on target in the center of the square, next to the obelisk which marks the heart of the piazza, and saluted the Holy Father as an'other resounding, echoing cheer rose up from the crowd. The carnival atmos;.>here resulting was a fitting climax to the festivities.

As we started back to the bus which had brought us to Saint Peter's, Bishop Cronin was stopped by a group of pilgrims, members of the Knights of Columbus, from Swansea, who took pictures and even made a tape recording of the Bishop's conversation. We met Monsignor George Sullivan's sister, a pilgrim visitor to Rome. I am always amazed at such remarkable coincidences which seem regularly to occur at a place like Saint Peter's Basilica. I suppose one shouldn't be. The Eternal City attracts people from all over the globe. Just the prior day, standing talking with the Bishop at Fuimicino Airport out· side of Rome, I saw a lady approach him and say that she was from Attleboro and that he had confirmed her grandson at Holy Ghost Church last spring.

Humanizing Industry Efforts Successful MONTEVIDEO (NC)-A group of Christian industrialists, meeting here to review three years of efforts to "humanize" their own businesses and factories by running them on Christian principles, decided to try to reach uncommitted sectors of industry.

The Uruguayan branch of the International Union of Christian Leadership in Industry (UNIAPAC) gathered some 70 members here for the evaluation of its prograhm. UNIAPAC's Latin American program was launched in Buenos Aires in 1972.

"We are applying to our activities the social doctrine of the Church regarding management and labor relations, profit sharing and other forms of par·

ticipation in the enterprise," said . Christian doctrine" regarding Chilean industrialist Santiago socio·economic activities.

Bruron, who heads the Latin Among participants were repAmerican branch of UNIAiPAC. resentatives of the Konrad Ad"It has yielded positive re- enauer Foundation of West Gersults in the methods and the cli- many and the UNIAPAC presmate of production," he added. ident, Romald Burkard, from Besides fostering worker par- Switzerland. ticipation, the "humanizing efUNlAPAC groups are working fort is an attempt at placing inin Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Codustry at the true service of man lombia, Dominican Republic, within a changing society."

After reviewing their prob- Ecuador, Me~ico, Puerto Rico lems and accomplishments, par- and Venezuela, in addition to ·ticipants voted "to move into Uruguay.

The or:ganization has 220 other sectors of industry and share the experience" by joining members in this country, and a chambers of commerce and or- training center where some 7,000 ganizations of industrialists, and executives took Christian leadby influencing labor unions and ership courses in the last 15 others on the "validity of the years.

SCHOOLS OPEN DRIVE CAREFULLY!

At all odds, it was a great privilege and pleasure to be present for that historic occasion, the formal recognition by the Church of the heroic sanctity of a saintly woman, native of our country.

Our faith tells us, of course, that' good people, ordinary people, those we know and love and live with ... when called by Almighty God in death to that promised share of life in eternal happiness . . . such people are We waited and shortly, just at saints and the feast that we celthe noon hour, the window ebrate on November first each opened high above the square, year is a great stimulant to our where the Papal apartments are faith and hope in this regard. located, and the Holy Father ap- However, when the Church peared to the cheers of the enor- singles out someone, like Mother mous crowd still gathered below. Elizabeth Seton, who because of He spoke once again in English her extraordinary imitation of of Mother Seton, the new saint, Christ is quite appropritely enthen led all in the recitation of rolled in the formal list, or the Angelus. Pope Paul then in· canon, of saints whom we know voked his benediction' upon to be with Almighty God in everyone. Ordinarily, the Holy heaven, this is precisely a source Father re-enters his apartments of encouragement to us all. So, from the balcony at that point, in the canonization of Saint however on that day he remained Elizabeth Bayley Seton, a woman . . . looking over the crowd and told of formidable virtue and talent everyone to look to the sky. in this international year recog-' From a small airplane hovering nizing women, perhaps we can over the square, a parachutist de- all . . . especially all of us who scended as everyone watched, are fellow countrymen and enthralled. A group of pilgrims women of the new saint • . . from Milan, Italy, where Pope draw a lesson of encouragement Paul, as Archbishop Montini, had in imitating Christ, as she did, in served prior to his election to whatever circumstances we may the Pontificate, had come to find ourselves. This is the lesson Rome with the plan of present- which the .Church has proposed ing to the Pope a replica of the to us, and it is, indeed, a lesson statue of the Madonna which is couched in joyful and festive particularly revered ,in their terms. We pray that the interhome city. The parachutist was cession of the new saint will be bringing the gift. He had devices most profound in our regard here attached to his boots to give off in the portion of the Lord's Vinea smoke trail,and we watched yard which is the Diocese of the circling trail gradually come Fall River.

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Drive extra carefully now that school is open. Let the children get to school on time, even if it means that you are late! Watch out for the youngsters even though they may not be watching out for you.

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