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the8n VOL. 47, NO. 36 • Friday, September 26, 2003
FALL RIVER, MASS.
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Bishop to· ordain two new priests FALL RNER - 1\vo men who have May 11,2001, all at Mount St. Mary Semi- homilist. The vesting priest will be Father been serving as transitional deacons will be nary. Paul Clifford. Marie Elena Fitzpatrick and ordained to the priesthood October 11 at 11 He will celebrate his first Mass October Anne Marie Fitzpatrick, sisters of the new a.m., ceremonies in St. Mary's Cathedral 12 at 2:30 p.m., in St. Mary's Church, priest, will be the gift bearers. here. Mansfield. Father William Virtue will be the Rev. Mr. McCarthy, 29, is a native of Rev. Mr. Michael Joseph Fitzpatrick and Rev. Mr. Ethan Garrett McCarthy will be I ordained priests for the Fall River diocese : by Bishop George W. Coleman. It wiU be the first ordinations by Bishop Coleman since he became bishop on July .22. The two men were ordained deacons on March 29. Rev. Mr. Fitzpatrick, 33, is the son of Michael and Elena Fitzpatrick of Wrentham. His home parish is Blessed Sacrament in Walpole. He attended St. Catherine of Sienna School in Norwood, graduated from Xavarian Brothers High School in 1988, and received a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from St. John Seminary College, Brighton, in 1996. He has worked as a childcare counselor and as a residential teacher at the May Cen- . ter. His field assignments, including summers at St. Michael Parish in Swansea and St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, involved being a chaplain at a hospital and at a high school; and also serving at the Shrine at Mount Saint Mary Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md. TRANSITIONAL DEACONS Ethan McCarthy, left, and Michael J. He was admitted to candidacy for holy orders on Nov. 16, 2002; to the ministry of Fitzpatrick will be ordained to the priesthood by Bishop George W. Coleman : lector on May 28, 2000; and to acolyte on at St. Mary's Cathedral in Fall River on October 11. .
Annapolis, Md., and the son of Permanent Deacon Dana McCarthy and Diane McCarthy of Harwichport. He is a member of Holy Trinity Parish in West Harwich. He attended Harwich Elementary School and Harwich Junior High School and graduated from Harwich High School in 1994. He briefly attended Framingham State College and received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from St. John Seminary College, Brighton, in 1998. His field assignments have taken him to St. Julie Billiart Parish in North Dartmouth, Notre Dame Parish in Fall River, St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis, and St. John the Baptist Parish, New Bedford. He has served in hospital chaplaincy and in college campus ministry. He was admitted to candidacy for holy orders on Nov. 16,2001; to the ministry of lector on April 16, 1999; and to acolyte on May 12,2000, all at Mount St. Mary Seminary. He will celebrate his first Mass October 12 at 3 p.m., in Holy Trinity Church, West Harwich. His father, Deacon Dana McCarthy, will be the homilist. Father Gerald T. Shovelton, former pastor of Holy Trinity Parish, will be the vesting priest. He and pastor Father Thomas Rita, will be the concelebrants. Jeff and Siobhan Marzulft, and Brendan McCarthy, will bring up the gifts. A chalice that will be used by Father McCarthy will be blessed by Father Rita.
Bishop ColeDlan attends orientation session in RODle By
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ministries of the bishop was one of the outstanding features of this orientation." FALL RNER - Fall River Bishop Bishop Coleman said that there are George W. Coleman recently returned many similarities and at the same time from a 10-day orientation meeting in many differences in the ministries of his Rome for newly ordained bishops that he brother bishops in other lands. "I met a described as "very useful and of great young 44-year-old bishop from Romania benefit" to his and he relayed ministry. Nearly how his country 120 bishops, or"I assured the Holy Father of the is just now dained within the prayers of the priests and faithful of emerging from last 12 months, 40 years of gathered at the the Diocese of Fall River as he Communist rule. h Vatican for a se- marks the 25 anniversary of his "I also enries of lectures, service to the Church as pope." countered a new meetings and - Bishop George W. Coleman auxiliary bishop presentations led from Cologne, by Cardinal Germany who Giovanni Battista Re, Prefect of the told us about the plans already in motion Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, for World Youth Day 2005 to be held sponsors of the annual event. there." ''The presentations and the resulting Bishop Coleman also said that many discussions were excellent," Bishop of the bishops with whom he spoke reColeman told The Anchor. "Meeting in ceived a great deal from the orientation Rome with bishops from around the sessions. "The other bishops spoke about world for reflection and discussion on the Tum to page 13 - Orientation EDITOR
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POPE JOHN Paul II greets Fall River Bishop George W. Coleman, left, at Castel Gondolfo, Italy, during an orientation session for newly ordained bishops. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops is also pictured. (Official Vatican photo) '1·' :'
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