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NAZARETH INTRODUCES VOCATIONAL COURSES: The senior boys of Nazareth Hall, Fall River, are now enrolled in a vocational Program for the firS't time. Making a portable altar to be used in the auditorium art 887 Highland Ave. for Masses on the First Friday and ether special feasts, are: Mr. Louis Laplante, instructor in manual arts
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assists Ronald Harrison, a student, in readying the plywood panel. Centet': Robert McMillan and Paul Sullivan sand the sides for the altar. Right: Sr. Maureen, RSM, supervises and inspects the work of the pre-vocation al group as Stephen Malone and Roberts Hicks assemble the new alta.-. Nazareth's enrollment for 1967-68 amounts to 74 students.
Thousands Ready to. Join
In CCD Programs Sunday
The Confraternity of Chris tian Doctrine will embark Sunday on a full week's activ ities in launching the schoI
a~tic year's plans for increased .child, youth and adult religious education. On Sunday, the Most Rev. C. . Emmett Carter, Bishop of Lon don, Ontario,and a world-wide authority on catechetics, will come to Bishop Stang aigh School in No. Dartmouth, to ~ead a day-long workshop for the re ligious of the diocese and sur • <4.00 per Year rounding communities. PRICE 10e . . To permit the attendance of
Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Sept. 28, 1967
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1961 The Anchor
First~Ever Bishops' 1'he Synod of Bishops, tomorrow in Rome, has already stirred post- con ciHar hopes and fears. ~ning
Two hundred cardinals, bish ops and religious superiors are llkeady in the Eternal City for tomorrow's convocation of an
estimated one-month period of daii y discussions of serious Church matters. It is the first· attempt' to give concrete 'expression to the concept of the collegiality of bishops, by which. the Pope and all the bishops of the wol'1d, together with him, share the responsibility for the
Cardinal Forbids Arbirtrary Liturgy Experimentation! WASRINGTON (NC)-Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle, tak ing a firm stand against "arbitrary adjusting and experi
menting with the Church's liturgy," issued eight directives to guide pastors and priests of the Washington archdiocese. One directive specified: -A priest who is unwilling In all celebrations of the lit to conform unfuilingly to the urgy each priest "will avoid any kind of personal innovation in Church's liturgical norms is formula, text, rite, gestures,
understood to relinquish ipso facto the faculty granted to him to celebrate Mass in this dio
eese." Cardinal O'Boyle emphasized that the directives apply to all priests, diocesan as well as mem bell'S of religious communities, in the archdiocese. The other directives outlined 'D7 the cardinal in a letter to all pastors and priests in the arch lIIlocese specify':
priests who will of necessity be busy on a Sunday morning, the Bishop will address the meeting at a general session at 1:30 in the afternoon, and end the day's ac tivities with a Mass. On Tuesday, the New Bedford . Area will open its teacher-train ing-adult education activities at Bishop Stang High School at 7:30 in· the evening. The Taunton CCD will also open its basic reli gion and methods courses on Tuesday with classes at Bishop Cassidy High School also at 7:30 in the evening. Thursday will see Fall River, Attleboro and ,the Cape CCI>a
begin their coul'ses-all at 7:. in the evening. Fall River' wUI hold basic and advanced classe at Mt. St. Mary Academy; Attle- boro, at Bishop Feehan Hip School; Yarmouth will hold" classes in St. Pius X Parish Hd while Ea. Falmouth will pres~ its classes in the St. AnthOl~ ,Catechetical Center. Sunday's workshop and all dress by Bishop Carter is SPOil sored" by the TSBC (Teachiuc Sisters and Brothers Commit tee). This is a committee coq, posed of reprfllsentatives of t¥ . religious commun ities in the Turn to P,lge Ten
Synod Starts Tomorrow
guidance .of the . Universal Church. Even before the synod has ", opened, however, there has been great concern as to how concrete an expression of colle giality it is going to be. Mostly from outside Rome, some Church leaders have'called upon the synod to do things far beyond the specific competence already assigned to it by the Pope. Others fear over-control. Others, many of them in Rome, watch it with care, fearful that it might infringe on the Pope's authority. One hears in Rome frequently the statement: "A synod is not a council," And it seems really that here the ker nel of the problems of both hopes and fears lies.
.. An ecumenical council, such According, to the synod's as the recent one, is an ancient norms, it comes into being and institution. It is a. gathering of ceases· to be at the will of the the bishops of the Universal . Pope, and 'its essential role is Church with others' entitled to that of offering to the Pope a vote, meeting under the Pope means of gathering the views of or his legates, to determine the the various ·bishops' conferences interpretation of doctrine or laws Turn, to Pllge Ten for. the Church. The decrees of a council, once approved by the Pope, apply to the Universal Church.
On the contrary, the synod is
a modern creation. The Pope Judge Beatrice Hancock called it into being in 1965 in response to the desire of the Mullaney, L.R.S., is the new council's bishops, who urged a President of the Diocesan more visible sign of their colle School Board, it was an giality. It is clearly understood nounced by Rev. Patrick J. O' that the synod itself does not have deliberative powers, unless Neill, Superintendent of Schools. delegated such by the Pope. Other officers elected by the Diocesan Board were Rt. Rev. Msgr. Alfred Gendreau, S.T.D., Vice-President, and Sister Mary Urban, R.S.M., Secretary. The telegram reads: The new officers paid special "Entire people of God of tribute to Dr. Clement Maxwell Brownsville Diocese ex pre s s and the entire board expressed a your Excellency and Faithful vote of thanks to the doctor, the flock whose good shepherd you retiring president, for the great are heartfelt thanks for message contributions he made during the first year of the board's or brotherly concern and pray organization. ers." Other business for the first Humberto S. Medeiros, meeting of the school year was: Bishop of Brownsville Turn to Page Eleven
Bishop Medeiros Most Appreciative
place of celebration, vestments Most Rev. Humberto S. Me and the like." deiros, Bishop of Brownsville, "Every pastor, rector, chaplain Texas, and former Chancellor of and superior has the personal Fall River sent the following responsibility to insure that in telegram of thanks to Bishop churches and chapels under his Connolly on his thoughtfulness care, each celebration of the to the Texan prelate and his liturgy conforms to the willI of people of God on' the ocassion the Church as that will. is ex of the destruction and hardship pressed in the conciliar constitu brought by Hurricane Beulah to tion, the ordinances of the Apos- the territQry of the Brownsville Tum to Page Eleven Diocese.
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