AttleboroArea Laity Hail New School Plan
, Enthusiasm i~ running high in the Greater Attleboro Area over the' the prospect of , the $2,225,000 Ihshop Feehan. Regional High School; scheduled' for opening in September of 1961.' This' is .the second of five projected Regional High Schools for the Diocese. The first is the newly-opened Bishop Stang High in North Dartmouth for the Greater New Bedford Area. It is the consensus of those' interviewed :- in the Attleboro Area that _ parents and those interested'
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, in Catholic education have been wa~tin'g for thi:j opportunity to show support for a Catholic high schooL,·· ' The.new school" which will 'be staffed tiy' 'the' Sisters of Mercy, will be coeducational and will accommodate approximately 880. boys ;md girls from the 12 parishes serving the area between Seekonk and North , . Attleboro from Mansfield to Nor.th Easton. ' Turn' to ~age Fifteen I
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His. Holiness,. Pope John XXIII, received' Most Rev. . 'James:. L.. Connolly, Bishop of J"all, ~iver, in audience
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yesterday, Wednesday morning, ROII).e time, for the Bishop"s "ad limina" viSit: . The Bishop presented the Holy Father, with the Peter's Pence Coli~ction and a spiritual bouC;ruetof prayers from the priests, religious and faithful of the Dioc·ese. ' . l . After the.. B'ishop's audience . PROSPECTIVE ~EACHERS:' Registering f~)I" 15-week . the Holy' Father' also received f Ch riS . t'~an 'Doct" '. . c0l.lrse ' Rt. Rev. Humberto S. Medeiros, Conf ra t erm'tyo, rme t each'er t rammg 'Chancellor of the Diocese who at St. James Church, New Bedford left to right, M~s.. accom'panied the Bisho~ to Fred Osuch, New Bedford and Mrs. JoV n A-Illaral, Rome:. haven. Mrs. James W. Leith far right is regIstrar and' Both the Bl~hop and the. Chan- . .' . '. . ' ., . . celIoI' spoke 111 French WIth the Sister James, O.L.V.M., Holy Trimty Church, West HarwIch,' Holy Father.
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100 Volunteers~nroll For CCD' CO'urse . About 100 volunteers to further the work of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in the Greater New Bedford area gathered at St. James Church Saturday for th'e first lesson in a 15-week course. Volunteer teachers, who will assist priests and nuns calling; census takers; "fishers" in teaching Sunday school to call on parents and offer the classes and Christian' DocTurn' to 'J"age Eilghteen trine classes in parochial schools, were welcomed by Rev. Joseph L. Powers, St. Joseph's Church, .Taunton, Diocesan director of the Confraternity. Sister James of Our Lady ot Victory Missionary Sisters ot West Harwich, a dynamic speaker, descrioed the course which the'volunteers will take - two hours each Saturday until Jan. 16. She gave a chalk talk on the work of the Confraternity' and its objects: to obtain teachers for grade school children, helpers for transportation and phone
.Afternoo.n Mass Every Sunday At Cathedral Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River, announces that there will ,be a 'Sunday afternoon Mass every Sunday at 5 o'clock P.M. at St. Mary's Cathedral only. The Sunday afternoon Masses will begin in the Cathedral on Sunday, October 4. '
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,Rev. Adria.no Moniz, former pastor of Our Lady of Angels Church, Fall River, who retired to the Azores in 1951, is currently visiting the Diocese en route to a stay in California. He is the guest of Rev. Augusto L. Furtado, administrator of St. John of during his years in the Diocese. God parish, Somerset. Father Ordained in 1909 in the Azores, Moniz, who served at Our Father Moniz was a practicing Lady of Angels from 1930 lawyer before his entrance to the to 1951, was also assigned to St. Peter the Apostle, Provincetown; St. John's New Bedford; and St. Anthony's, Fall River,
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'By Marion Unsworth '''It was never as hot in Africa as it has been during these recent hot days in New England,"says.Sister Al~red Claire, .S.U.S.C., a veteran of 13 years in the African missiOlls, who Is' now spending six' months lea~e, of absence in the North Attleboro area. While she is here, Sister is touring schools and convents staffed by the Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred . of the Afric~n vtlla'ge of Dschang mothers, mostly in childbirth,.; , Hearts telling the "nuns and in the Fren'ch Cameroons where Sister Alfred, Claire related. "In children' about mission life she is stationed. the nursery tllere are aboilt 27 'and, showing colored slides ; "ihe most important work at babies, from newborn to three . Dschang (pronounced chung)' is in the 'nursery, where ,we have children who have lost their
Five Intentions for .Roselry In the third encyclical letter of his reign, a 1490-word take its name from its first two document which words, "Grata Recordatio"-"Grateful Memory," Pope John' has placed five different thoughts before the faithful. The letter, dated from Rome on along with his predecessors, a Sept. 26, requests the faith- great concern for the missions. ful to mark the month of He is as aware of the critical October, memorable for the position of the mission countrie,s
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death of Pius XII and his own elevation to the Papacy, by praying the Rosary during this month of the Rosary. The Pope asks that this be done for five intentions. The first is tha t God will guide, the Pope himself in the discharge of the great duties ot his state in l i f e . ' The Holy Father then asks that the Rosary be said fOl' the sue-: ot misSionaries and 'the ~toJ.ate. The Pope haa abo,""
. DIOCESAN GUEST: Left to right, Rev. Augusto L. Furtado, administrator of St. John of God' Church, Somerset 'and his guest, Rev. Adriano Moniz, visiting the Diocese from'the 1\zores. '
as are the communists who see in these a battleground for ideologies. The Pope a,ilks ~hat the faithful pray the Rosary for peace, that the rulers of all nations, great. and small, will earnestly $trive to overcome the causes of strite py goodwill. The Pope ,points out that civil and socjal legislation must be enacted and, attuned. t9 the eternal laW;s ,ot God. ' , . ,Tuna &e.p.... iUcla", ". SlSTEJt: AoCLAlKE.
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seminary. His field was civil law. Following ordination he worked in the Azores 15 years before coming to the United States. Since his retirement, Father Moniz has made. his home at St. Roque, St. Migue't, Azores, where he has a sister and several nephews and nieces. He revisited this country in 1955. On this trip he has been her.e since the' begiim.ing of September. He leaves tomorrow for California, .where he will visit, friends in Ontario. . Old in the priesthood, Father, MOl'I.iz' . eycs ,are set towards heaven. "Now I' prepare 'to die" he remarked serenely. His is ,the certitude of the good and faithfuf servant that the words "well done" will crown his lifetime of labor. '
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. Some 200 organists and choir members of parishes throughout the Fall River Diocese were warned last w'eek that the Church '.~Qoes not intend there be unbridled freedom in selecting music to be used at sacred functions." The Rev. Paul G. Connolly, Another ~arning, in a lighter moderator of the· Diocesan vein, was ,issued to the group . Commission on Sacred Music by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Hugh A. Gal. of which Bishop Connolly is lagher, pastor of St. James, who chairman, told participants in the. first seminar on .church 'music held in the Diocese that rules have been laid down regarding liturgical music. "These laws should be followed as diligently as a priest follows rubrics in the Mass," Father Connolly said at the meeting at St. James Church, New Bedford. "The music at Mass can ~ distracting ... if.t leaves mUch'to be desired either -,s.v.5.c., in itseU'or in its rei1dition.~·
welcomed '. participants to the parish. Praising the, enthusiasm of those attending, Monsignor Gallagher 1,1rged that they "not put too much expense on your pastors with your new music." Fo~r pa~eli~ts allsisted Father Connolly in explaining suitable music for various church functions. They were William G. Campbell, a student at St. John'. Seminary" Boston; formerly organist at· ·St. Mary's Cathedral, 'Turuto Pa&'e Se'venteen '