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Diocese of Fall River, Mass.

Friday, October 5, 2018

Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V. celebrated Mass on September 23 with the faithful at St. Bernard’s Parish in Assonet prior to the final day of its 20th annual Fall Festival.

(Photo by Dave Jolivet)

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Participants from the Fall River Diocese attended the recent V Encuentro (Fifth National Hispanic Encounter) in Grapevine, Texas. At right, Father Craig Pregana is pictured with Berta and Mario Herrera.

Area members of diocesan Hispanic/Latino communities attend national V Encuentro

cuentro held in Grapevine, Texas at the end of September, attended by a group of representatives from the Fall River Diocese, part GRAPEVINE, Texas — The of the delegation from Region very first gathering of Hispanic/ I, made up of the archdioceses Latino Catholics in the United of Boston and Hartford, and the States, I Encuentro, was in 1972, dioceses of Bridgeport, Conn.; and drew about 250 attendBurlington, Vt.; Fall River; Manees. Coordinated by the United chester, N.H.; Norwich, Conn.; States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the gathering was a pro- Portland, Maine; and Springfield cess for Hispanic/Latino Catho- and Worcester, Mass.

Approximately 3,000 members lics to raise their voices, lend of the Hispanic/Latino commutheir ears, and act on where the Hispanic Church is going in the nities across the country attended this year’s event.

U.S.; what gifts they bring, and Father Pregana explained what challenges they face. earlier to The Anchor that prior to Since then, there have been the national Encuentro there are five more national Encuentro five local sessions during the year. events; II Encuentro in 1977; III Encuentro in 1985; 2000 Encuen- “The people who attend have five tro in 2000; a Youth Encuentro in reflections on which to medi2006, and most recently V EnTurn to page 23

By Dave Jolivet Anchor Editor davejolivet@anchornews.org

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Fire damages St. Patrick’s Church in Wareham

By Kenneth J. Souza Anchor Staff kensouza@anchornews.org

and Sanctuary areas of the church also sustained heavy smoke and water WAREHAM — An damage that will likely cost early morning blaze on an estimated $500,000 to Saturday, September 22 repair and repaint. broke out at St. Patrick’s In this past weekend’s Church in Wareham, bulletin, Father Antonio threatening the historic da Silva, S.D.V., pastor of house of worship located at St. Patrick’s Parish, ad88 High Street, just steps vised that the main church from Tobey Hospital. will remained closed in Thankfully, the Warethe interim and weekend ham Fire Department Masses will temporarily arrived just after 1 a.m. be relocated to the nearby and managed to put out parish center, while daily the conflagration with Masses will be celebrated mutual aid from departat the parish’s mission ments in nearby Onset, site, St. Anthony’s Chapel, Carver, Marion, Rochester located at 35 Gault Road and Bourne. The cause of in Wareham. the three-alarm fire, which “We would like to exwas confined to the choir press our deepest gratitude loft area just beneath the to everyone who offered church’s towering steeple, support both emotionis still under investigation, ally and Spiritually to us, but initial reports suggest the Vocationist Fathers in it was likely the result of Wareham, and to the parfaulty electrical wiring in ish family of St. Patrick’s the 78-year-old building. in the days following the Much of the charred fire last weekend, which and burned-out choir loft started in the choir loft,” will have to be gutted and Father da Silva wrote. “The replaced, along with the outpouring of compaschurch organ, but the nave sion from clergy, friends,

parishioners, and the community is heartwarming. To our Wareham Fire Department and the other fire departments including Onset, Carver, Marion, Rochester, and Bourne who provided mutual aid, we offer our deepest gratitude.

“To the numerous members of our parish community of St. Patrick’s, many clergy from the Diocese of Fall River, and religious communities, our neighboring parishes and other Christian faiths who took a moment to pray and make themselves available for us, we thank you! Words cannot fully express how grateful we are for your kind thoughts, prayers, and actions. They will always be remembered.”

Father John Sullivan, pastor at Holy Redeemer Parish in Chatham, also offered thoughts and prayers to his former parishioners.

“I want to assure all St. Patrick’s parishioners of

Although the nave and Sanctuary areas inside St. Patrick’s Church in Wareham were spared during an apparent electrical fire in the early morning hours of September 22, the interior sustained heavy smoke and water damage that will likely cost an estimated $500,000 to repair. (Photo from St. Patrick Church Facebook page)

my concern and prayers for your community in the aftermath of last weekend’s fire,” Father Sullivan wrote. “Such a tragedy is always devastating to a parish community. I trust that with your support and the encouragement of Father da Silva and Father Offiong, they will lead St. Patrick’s to a bright, new future.”

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ish hall during the week — such as Wednesday meals, Boy Scout and AA meetings — will continue, however the monthly breakfasts will be susTurn to page 15

The choir loft inside St. Patrick’s Church in Wareham sustained the brunt of the damage during an apparent electrical fire in the early morning hours of September 22. (Photo from St. Patrick Church Facebook page) The Anchor - October 5, 2018

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New England diocesan Catholic schools collaborate on first-ever New England Catholic Schools Week November 4-11

FALL RIVER — This year the 11 (arch) dioceses of New England will be celebrating their own Catholic Schools Week November 4-11. Each diocese is celebrating in a unique way while working together to shine the light on the great things that are happening across New England in Catholic Schools.

For the first annual New England Catholic Schools Week, the Diocese of Fall River’s Catholic Schools Alliance is using this year’s theme of “Celebrating the Beauty of Every Child.”

The week is intended to

raise awareness of diocesan schools in the wider community and showcase what makes the schools and students unique.

Fall River diocesan schools will celebrate the week in school with the following daily themes: Sunday: Faith-Filled Leaders; Monday: Academic Achievers; Tuesday: Humble Servants; Wednesday: Global Influencers; Thursday: Game Changers; Friday: Life-long friends

Saturday: Confident Graduate; and Sunday: Active Alumni.

Be sure to follow the Catholic Schools Alliance and local diocesan schools on Facebook to see the fun activities the schools hold using the daily theme.

There will be several school Open Houses in the Fall River Diocese occurring during the New England Catholic Schools Week: November 3 — Our Lady of Lourdes School, 52 First Street, Taunton, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.; November 4 — Bishop

Feehan High School, 70 Holcott Drive, Attleboro, at 1 p.m.; Bishop Stang High School, 500 Slocum Road, North Dartmouth, from 1-3 p.m.; November 9 — St. Francis Xavier Preparatory School, 33 Cross Street, Hyannis, from 9-10:30 a.m.

Other Open Houses taking place outside the New England Catholic Schools Week are: October 18 — Bishop Connolly High School, 373 Elsbree Street, Fall River, from 5 to 8 p.m. and No-

vember 4 from 1-3 p.m.; October 28 — Coyle and Cassidy High School and Middle School, 2 Hamilton Street, Taunton, from 122:30 p.m.; November 16 — St. John Paul II High School, 120 High School Road, Hyannis, from 9-10:30 a.m.; and November 30 — St. Margaret Regional School, 143 Main Street, Buzzards Bay, from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

To find up-to-date information on Fall River diocesan Catholic schools, visit the Catholic Schools Alliance website at catholicschoolsallliance.org.

Three area parishes to host event for students in grades seven to nine

FALL RIVER — Holy Name and St. Anthony of Padua parishes in Fall River and St. Bernard’s Parish in Assonet are teaming up to sponsor an event for students in grades seven

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through nine themed, “I Have Called You By Name — Meeting Jesus at the Movies.”

The event will take place on October 28 from 2-5 p.m. at the Holy Name Parish Center, 850 Pearce Street, Fall River.

The guest speaker will be Sister Marie Paul Curley, FSP. Sister Marie Paul is a member of Daughters of St. Paul, a worldwide community of women religious who enthusiastically communicate the love of Christ through

their lives and every form of media.

An early childhood love for reading and her Pauline vocation has led Sister Marie Paul’s passion for telling engaging stories that communicate the Gospel and transform culture one person at a time.

The event is open to any student in grades seven through nine.

To register, or for more information contact Donna Costa at 774-644-5878 or email hnvocations@hnsfr. org.

FACE Fall Scholarship Dinner is October 30 in Westport

By Dave Jolivet Anchor Editor davejolivet@anchornews.org

WESTPORT — The diocesan Foundation to Advance Catholic Education has an evening of food, fellowship and a guest speaker in store for those attending its annual Fall Scholarship Dinner at White’s Restaurant in Westport on October 30 from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

The yearly fall dinner, as well as the summer gala on the Cape and other fund-raising events help support the foundation whose main objective is to assure that no child is denied the opportunity of benefitting from attending one of the Catholic schools in the Diocese of Fall River due to financial hardship.

All proceeds provide need-based scholarships for children attending diocesan Catholic schools.

Sandi M. Duxbury, newly-appointed as the first-ever executive director of FACE recently told The Anchor that the foundation awarded about 900 scholarships this year and it hopes to give out 1,000 next academic year.

Chris Lowney As in the past, benefactors are invited to purchase tables to the event in a number of ways: as school sponsors; class sponsors; education sponsors; scholar council; student mentor; patron sponsor; community sponsor; as an individual attendee; or for those unable to attend, with a donation.

The response form can be found on the FACE website at face-dfr. org and clicking on the View/ Download Pledge and Reservation card option.

This year’s keynote speaker will be author, speaker and leadership consultant, Chris Lowney.

Lowney, a one-time Jesuit

seminarian, later served as a managing director of JP Morgan & Co. on three continents. He currently chairs the board of Catholic Health Initiatives, which is one of

career path. But I think he’ll bring some interesting observations and thoughts on leadership. ” Also at the dinner, Dr. Jean F. MacCormack will receive the

the largest healthcare systems in the United States, with more than 100 hospitals.

He is author of seven books, including the bestselling “Heroic Leadership,” which was named to the recommended reading list of the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. His other books include “Pope Francis: Why He Leads the Way He Leads”; and “Everyone Leads: How to Revitalize the Catholic Church.”

His most recent book is “Make Today Matter: 10 Habits for a Better Life (and World),” Dr. Jean F. MacCormack which has won a 2018 Independent Press Award.

Lowney was raised in Queens, N.Y., graduated from Fordham University, roots for the Mets, and hates the Yankees.

Duxbury earlier told The Anchor, “I think he has an interesting background and I think he’s entertaining, too. His background — going from Jesuit seminarian to financier on Wall Street — is quite the

Timothy J. Cotter Friend of Catholic Education Award given to recognize longtime outstanding support of Catholic Education.

MacCormack is the past presi-

dent of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, serving in the role from 2014 to 2017. She is also the former Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she led from 1999 to 2012.

“I think she brought a lot of growth to the school, a lot of visibility,” Duxbury said. “I think she helped develop the law school there as well. So she’s been very instrumental in the growth of UMass Dartmouth and has played a very integral role in education in general in this area.”

The annual FACE Fall Scholarship Dinner is one of the major fund-raising events of the foundation to ensure all families have a chance to share in the benefits of a quality Catholic education for their children.

For ticket or scholarship opportunities, contact the FACE office at 508-675-1311 or visit www. face-dfr.org.

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The two Teresas today

As we make our way through this month of the Holy Rosary, we are also mindful that this month gives us the celebrations of two saints who share the same name (when translated into English) — Teresa. We began on October 1 with the memorial of St. Therese of Lisieux and two weeks later, on October 15, we celebrate St. Teresa of Avila.

Both of these saints were nuns of the Carmelite order. Both were greatly devoted to Christ — the saint of Lisieux’s religious name was “Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face,” while the saint from Avila was “Teresa of Jesus.” Both had to deal with their own personal problems and difficulties in the convent. Both prayed for the Church far outside the walls of their convents. Both of these saints can speak to us in the crises that we face today.

St. Therese wrote about the Church in words that challenge all of us, laity and clergy, to grow in charity: “I knew that the Church had a heart and that such a heart appeared to be aflame with love. I knew that one love drove the members of the Church to action, that if this love were extinguished, the Apostles would have proclaimed the Gospel no longer, the martyrs would have shed their blood no more.” Christ’s love knows no end, but the love in our own individual hearts can diminish. We need Christ’s help to fan the flame of love in our hearts.

St. Therese was conscious of her own sinfulness and her need for Jesus’ mercy: “I feel that even had I on my conscience every crime one could commit, my heart broken with sorrow, I would throw myself into the arms of my Savior Jesus, because I know that He loves the Prodigal Son.” So, we shouldn’t think that we’re hopeless. God is always waiting to forgive us and help us change, to be the people of love He intended us to be.

Writing next to an illustration of the Eucharist, St. Therese commented, “I cannot fear a God Who made Himself so small for me! I love Him! In fact, He is nothing but love and mercy!”

More than 300 years earlier lived St. Teresa of Avila. A famous poem of hers should help us in moments of fear and distress: “Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, all things are passing away: God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.”

Writing about living in Christ, St. Teresa stated, “If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

What more do we desire from such a good friend at our side? Unlike our friends in the world, He will never abandon us when we are troubled or distressed. Blessed is the one who truly loves Him and always keeps Him near. Whenever we think of Christ we should recall the love that led Him OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER www.anchornews.org

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to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return.”

Early in her life as a nun in Avila, St. Teresa had a serious illness, which left her in a coma for four days. She saw it as a symbol of her own sinful resistance to carrying out God’s will. “I wished to live but I saw clearly that I was not living, but rather wrestling with the shadow of death; there was no one to give me life, and I was not able to take it. He who could have given it to me had good reasons for not coming to my aid, seeing that He had brought me back to Himself so many times, and I as often had left Him.” What the saint of Avila wrote centuries beforehand does not negate what the saint of Lisieux wrote about God’s mercy. Instead, the earlier saint is pointing out what God does (in His merciful love for us, since He wants us to be saved) to indicate to us when we are drifting away from Him. Teresa of Avila reminded her fellow Sisters about how important to God a repentant soul is: “He [Our Lord] prizes one soul which of His mercy we have gained for Him by our prayer and labor more than all the service we may render Him.” Both saints offered much prayer, fasting and other sacrifices to God for the Salvation of souls, for individual people and for the whole world.

Even before she entered the convent, Therese was interceding with God for the souls of others. Henri Pranzini was an unrepentant murderer, sentenced to death in France. Therese became aware of this (from the news coverage). “Everything led to the belief that he would die impenitent. I wanted at all costs to keep him from falling into hell, and to succeed I employed all means imaginable, feeling that of myself I could do nothing. I offered to God all the infinite merits of Our Lord.” She also spent a lot of time praying for him and after he had been executed, she read in the newspaper what had happened on the day he died. She herself wrote that as Pranzini was about to put his head on the guillotine, “he turned, took hold of the crucifix the priest was holding out to him, and kissed the Sacred wounds three times! Then his soul went to receive the merciful sentence of Him Who declares that in Heaven there will be more joy over one sinner who does penance than over 99 who have no need of repentance!”

St. Therese also prayed and sacrificed a lot for atheists around the world, whom she called her “brothers.” She offered her final illness for their Salvation, as well as for the spread of the Catholic faith throughout the world.

May these two great saints, our sisters, help us to grow in our own prayer, to imitate the love and mercy of Christ, and to spread His Good News around the world.

Daily Readings Oct. 6 – Oct. 19

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat. Oct. 6, Jb 42:1-3,5-6,12-17; Ps 119:66,71,75,91.

125,130; Lk 10:17-24. Sun. Oct. 7, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Gn 2:18-24; Ps 128:1-6; Heb 2:9-11; Mk 10:2-16 or Mk 10:2-12. Mon. Oct. 8, Gal 1:6-12; Ps 111:1-2,7-10; Lk 10:25-37. Tues. Oct. 9, Gal 1:13-24; Ps 139:13,13-15; Lk 10:38-42. Wed. Oct. 10, Gal 2:1-2,7-14; Ps 117:1-2; Lk 11:1-4.

Thurs. Oct. 11, Gal 3:1-5; (Ps) Lk 1:69-75; Lk 11:5-13. Fri. Oct. 12, Gal 3:714; Ps 111:1-6; Lk 11:15-26.

Sat. Oct. 13, Gal 3:22-29; Ps 105:2-7; Lk 11:27-28. Sun. Oct. 14, Twentyeighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Wis 7:7-11; Ps 90:12-17; Heb 4:12-13; Mk 10:17-30 or Mk 10:17-27. Mon. Oct. 15, Gal 4:22-24,26-27,31—5:1; Ps 113:17; Lk 11:29-32. Tues. Oct. 16, Gal 5:1-6; Ps 119:41,43-45,47-48; Lk 11:37-41.

Oct. 17, Gal 5:18-25; Ps 1:1-4,6; Lk 11:42-46. Thurs. Oct. 18, 2 Tm 4:10-17b; Ps 145:10-13b,17-18; Lk 10:1-9. Fri. Oct. 19, Eph 1:11-14; Ps 33:1-2,4-5,12-13; Lk 12:1-7.

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ver the two last weeks there have been various developments, bad and good, in the clergy sex abuse scandals.

It was announced that former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is now living a life of prayer and penance at St. Fidelis Friary in Victoria, Kan., in the Diocese of Salina, which has brought confusion insofar as the Friary is located right next to an elementary school. Bishop Robert Morneau, a retired auxiliary bishop in Green Bay, withdrew from public ministry for failing to report an incident of priestly sexual abuse in 1979. More state attorney generals and district attorneys launched investigations into the Catholic dioceses, often with diocesan cooperation. Several priests were removed for accusations of abuse decades ago detailed in newly-received letters.

Pope Francis expelled Fernando Karadima, the most notorious abuser in Chile, from the priesthood. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò published another letter. The Catholic Church in Germany presented a comprehensive report describing that between 1946-2014, 1,670 clergy had abused 3,677 minors.

On the positive side, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced on September 19 four steps they were taking to try to respond to the crisis: a full investigation of the accusations against Archbishop McCarrick by trained investigators; the creation of a third-party system to receive confidential complaints of sexual abuse of minors and sexual harassment and misconduct with adults by bishops; the formation of a canonical committee to develop policies for ensuring proper restriction on bishops who have resigned or been removed because

Remedying the corruption

of sexual misconduct; and tions for bishop abusers or the formulation of a code of enablers, so that everyone conduct with regard to sexual will be on the same page if or misconduct by bishops with when a bishop is restricted. minors or adults or episcopal They are also establishing a negligence with regard to clear reporting system for such cases. accusations against bishops Various friends and strang- and protocols for what to do ers, journalists and faithful, with those accusations. Much have continued to ask me will be in the details, but all of various small- and big-picture these seem to be solid, needed questions that deserve forth- steps in the right direction. right answers. I will try again But there’s another step to respond to some of those that they left unaddressed queries. and if it remains omitted, the What to make of the bishops’ staircase won’t reach where it response?

The leadership of the USCCB has been Putting Into working hard, with the Deep haste and determination to address the

By Father scandals. RepresentaRoger J. Landry tives flew to Rome to meet with Pope Francis to ask for his assismust: clear policies with retance. No official details have gard to the sexual misconduct emerged from that meeting, among priests and deacons but the U.S. bishops did not — and not just bishops — waste any time in announcwith those over 18. Some ing four things that they are argue that there’s no need committed to doing on their for such a policy because own.

Canon 1395 of the Code of They have launched an Canon Law has punishments investigation in four dioceses for clerics who scandalously where McCarrick has served, persist in external sins against to try to discover everything the Sixth Commandment they can about the extent and for those who use force of McCarrick’s abuse and or threats in compelling how he was able to get away others to sexual sins. The with it so long. While a full problem, however, is that in investigation of the McCarmany places this canon is not rick accusations cannot be employed or enforced against completed without access to clerics in such circumstances, Vatican files, the U.S. bishops enabling unfaithful priests are not allowing themselves to cheat on their vocations, to give in to excuses or inertia, sometimes flagrantly, without but are doing everything they consequences. can while persistently asking Minimally I believe the for assistance to find out what bishops needs collectively they cannot. and individually to state that They are working hard they intend to apply Canon to fill in the holes of previ1395 with consistent rigor to ous policies on clergy sexual remove from the priesthood abuse, by making policies that those priests who repeatedly cover bishops with regard to or without full repentance the sexual abuse of minors sin against the Sixth Comand extending clear policies mandment and against their to prelates’ sexual sins with promise or vow to celibate adults. They intend to form chastity. clear standards about restricOtherwise, it would be

a contemporary example of Our Lord’s metaphor of building a tower without enough bricks or engaging in war without sufficient troops (Lk 14:28-32). That’s because a Church culture that tolerates priests sinning with consenting adults is corrupt, and that rot easily metastasizes into the Church’s not taking sin seriously in general or looking the other way to sins with unconsenting adults or with minors.

That brings us to the next question.

What to do about corruption in the Church?

St. John tells us that there are three basic forms of corruption, in individuals and in the Church, coming from three different but related sinful desires. He defines them as the “lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life” (1 Jn 2:16), which manifest themselves, respectively, in the corrosive sins of sex, money and power.

In many cases, and in the clergy sex abuse crisis as a whole, we find all three on simultaneous sordid display.

It has come out that former Cardinal McCarrick not only abused power to try to satisfy his carnal concupiscence but was able to get away with so much because he was a prodigious fundraiser for so many important causes and charities. In the Church as a whole, over several decades, various bishops failed to address adequately the sexual scandals because they were more concerned with the Church’s reputation (pride) or the Church’s portfolio (money).

This is one of the reasons why attempts to say that the problem is all about “clericalism,” an exaggerated sense of clerical privilege, are so obviously inadequate. Clericalism, at most, addresses the

situation of power or pride of life. It doesn’t address the corruption of the flesh. It doesn’t respond to the degeneracy of spiritual worldliness and ecclesiastical materialism.

Pope Francis is brutal with regard to denouncing corruption. He regularly distinguishes between “sinners” and “the corrupt.” Sinners are those who recognize they’re fallen, repent, come to receive God’s mercy, do reparation and commit themselves to living holy lives. The corrupt, he says, don’t feel ashamed of their sins, don’t repent, and become “solidified in sin,” like “varnished putrefaction,” attractive on the outside but dead on the inside. They’re hypocrites and fakers, he says, living double lives “with good manners but evil habits.”

How many abusers and enablers were charming company but rotting within?

The response to this type of three-fold corruption must involve effective policies and protocols, but even the best designed and effectively implemented of them won’t go far enough. What is needed is living the evangelical counsels, individual and ecclesially. Poverty of spirit is the antidote to the idolatry of money; chastity is the remedy for lust; obedience to God is the antiserum for the toxins of pride and power. The ultimate remedy is for clergy and the whole Church to yoke ourselves to the poor, chaste and obedient High Priest by treasuring His wealth, love and will as our pearl of great price.

How can the Church preach morals to others when it can’t keep its own house clean?

The scandals certainly make it much more difficult — and those who would like to lead culture further away from Church teaching on various issues are already trying to take advantage Turn to page 20

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Even as I wander, I’m keeping You in sight

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he principal said, “He’s staying in AP chemistry.” Absolutely disagreeing with his decision, but knowing it was pointless to debate, I silently entered the conference room.

The student said, “He didn’t listen to a word I said.” He loudly stated, “This isn’t fair. Failing chemistry will ruin my life.”

My mind replayed recent events. He had struggled with the material. Even with extra help, he still failed the first exam. Next, he had misbehaved. He and I had talked. He had trusted me. We identified the issue. He knew he could not do the work. He did not wish to fail. I had called his mom. She had shared how much time he spent on his homework and how lost he seemed. The Guidance Department

had let me know he had covered this. We both been included to meet know that I am not ready the required number of for the material.” I nodstudents to run the class. ded. I smiled and said, “I Before that meeting, the am the teacher. You won’t student had selected an fail.” Intrigued, his voice alternative class. Everyfell to a whisper as he one, except the principal, said, “What on earth are realized this was not a you talking about?” good fit for this student He and I made a deal. this year.

He was to work hard on I thought Lord what do I do?

Lessons in perseWrestling with God verance are best Holding on for taught in a context His blessing where one can hope for the perBy Dr. Helen J. Flavin son to grow and reasonably succeed with the task. For an adolescent working the material. I would really hard to “earn” a be checking in with his failing grade just does mom regarding his effort not bring forth that mes- level. He was always just sage. to try his best. Come Conscious that the report card time, no matstudent was shouting, I ter what the exam scores quietly said, “Well, then said, so long as I knew you just cannot fail.” he had tried his best, he The student angrily would pass. responded, “We already What happened that

first quarter? He was open to extra help. He did all his homework.

His mom was worried.

He was spending many hours on his homework, yet still failing exams.

I asked her to support him keeping up with his work.

Report cards went home. The next day he stopped by to speak with me. He confided that he had been ready to accept his parents’ punishment for failing chemistry. Though he had kept his part, he really hadn’t believed I would keep my end of the bargain.

Part of me had feared that with that first passing grade he might stop trying. I gently reminded him that my response was predicated upon his hard work. He was not to brag to any classmates about failing, yet passing. He laughed and said not to ing and a beginning.” worry. Even if he did, noone might imagine.

Further Rambo writes, body would believe him.

There is no undoing “the gloss of redemption what has been done. But He kept up his hard is the greatest enemy to work throughout the year. to move forward there those who survive trauThere were a few topics has got to be more than ma; it provides a promand days where he maswords such as “transparise often unaccompanied ency” and “accountability” tered the material. For by forms of life that can in church newsletters. the most part though, he deliver on that promThere has to be action — remained a D/C- student. ise.” For some perpetraI learned from walkswift removal and approtors there is a statute of ing beside that student. priate legal judgment of limitations. Not so for perpetrators, a willingness When he was detached survivors. from his fear of a posto listen to victims and Church leaders should sible negative outcome, their families until they also be aware that these he was free to live being feel heard, and healing heinous crimes cast a long services to provide some fully open to letting good shadow. The media covstuff happen. Challenges semblance of solace. erage of the scandal, as Perhaps the leaders of the were always an opportuin all coverage of sexual nity to explore and grow.

Church might ask themabuse cases, can be a trig- selves — What would What he found wasn’t ger for other sexual abuse Jesus do? what the world calls sucsurvivors. So the damage Joan C. Borgatti cess. In high school, AP is more far-reaching than Pocasset chemistry was always a

Our readers respond What would Jesus do?

All I can say is — finally! Father Roger Landry’s column about the clergy scandals (Sept.

21 edition) addressed, among other points, a seeming lack of anger among many leaders in the Church. His response is the first I’ve read that feels authentic. And Father Landry is correct — there is a “lack of sufficient horror at what has been done.”

According to associate professor of Theology Shelly Rambo, “The trauma survivor occupies a space like Holy Saturday, between life and death, between an end8

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daily challenge for him.

His grade in my class was the lowest on his report card. However, what he found was worth much more than any grade. He found the secret of happiness in being or living in the moment.

Though we all can intellectually say “God asks us just to try our best,” it seems easier to say that than to live it. In truth, within our heart, the drive to openly live that way escapes many of us. We allow failures and disappointments to close off areas to us. When an opportunity arises in one of those areas, we say, “I’m not good at that.”

We tell ourselves that God can and will choose someone else. With that decision, we are succumbing to the possibility of failure instead of embracing opportunity.

Do you remember Peter walking on the water (Mt 14: 28-31)?

The adventure was marvelous until Peter took his eyes off Jesus. The world would classify Peter’s swim as evidence of failure. Yet, it was Peter’s willingness to try that was important to God (not the world’s opinion on the outcome).

God’s call to our heart will always present adventures as challenges.

We can close our heart to them, or we can imitate Peter and that student in being open to the happiness found in embracing them. All we need to do is choose to walk having faith in a Provident God. Anchor columnist Helen Flavin is a Catholic scientist, educator and writer.

Opioids, pain management, and addiction: balancing ethical duties

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lmost two million Americans are now addicted to opioids.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse notes that more than 100 people die each day in the U.S. from opioid overdoses. This unprecedented level of abuse — which involves not only heroin, but also prescription pain relievers such as OxyContin, Percocet, morphine, codeine, and fentanyl — has become a national crisis. Reportedly, about 80 percent of heroin addicts first misused prescription opioids. Yet for many patients, no painrelieving options more effective than opioids exist.

Figuring out how to use these powerful pharmacological agents in an appropriate and ethical manner is urgent and imperative.

At a minimum, a threepronged approach is required. One prong involves working with medical professionals to limit the use and availability of these drugs by modifying prescribing practices. A second involves making patients more aware of the risks of addiction and increasing their involvement in monitoring their medications and managing decisions about their care.

A third involves making effective addiction treatment and outreach programs accessible to those caught in the throes of chemical dependency.

With regard to reducing opioid availability, in recent years medical professionals have been seeking to establish guidelines for prescribing opiates that take into account the number of pills typically needed to get through a surgery or treatment. For example, recovery from more complex stomach

surgeries might require patients. These include the 60 opioid pills, while an use of less-addictive or appendectomy or hernia non-addictive drugs such might only require 15-20. as acetaminophen, ibuproAlthough prescription fen, naproxen, or anesthetguidelines can be helpful, ics and blockers at the they clearly can’t be fixed pain site. Cognitive behavin stone, as individual ioral therapy, stress manpatients will have varyagement and relaxation ing pain management needs. Some nurses recall well Making Sense the days when Out of concerns about Bioethics addiction could result in underBy Father Tad medicated patients Pacholczyk watching the clock and writhing in pain until the time of the techniques can help panext dose. Unmanaged tients learn how to modify pain is a Spiritual assault triggers that increase pain. on the dignity of a person, Specialists sometimes reand plays right into the mind us that bringing pain hands of assisted suicide down to a tolerable level advocates. should be the goal, rather Careful titration of pain than trying to eliminate medications, whether for it entirely, which in many surgery or chronic pain, cases may not even be posalso helps to avoid oversible. Some patients may medicating patients and require assistance to come rendering them letharto accept even a limited gic or semi-comatose; in amount of pain. terminal situations, paA San Diego-based tients still have the right pilot program to reduce to prepare for their death the over-prescription of while fully conscious, and opioids included the novel they should not generally step of notifying physibe deprived of consciousness or alertness except to mitigate excruciating or otherwise uncontrollable pain.

In certain cases, of course, it may not matter if a person becomes addicted to pain medications.

If a patient has only a few weeks of life remaining, and he or she is experiencing intractable pain such that high doses of opioids are the most effective approach, addiction during his or her final days and hours would not generally raise ethical concerns.

There are alternatives to the use of opioids that may be suitable for some

cians when one of their patients had died from an overdose. The San Diego medical examiner would send health care professionals a letter in this format: “This is a courtesy communication to inform you that your patient [Name, Date of Birth] died on [Date]. Prescription drug overdose was either the primary cause or contributed to the death.” In follow up studies, physicians who received these letters were found to prescribe at significantly decreased levels, and they were also less likely to start new patients on opioids at all. Researchers speculated that, like everyone else, physicians tend to assess health and safety risks differently when bad outcomes spring readily to mind. At the same time, taking steps to restrict opioid availability can backfire, with devastating consequences for chronic pain patients who may now end up being refused opioid prescriptions they

need and have relied on for years.

The proper use of pain medications, in the final analysis, requires a balanced approach, attending to objective indications from the patient, so clinicians can offer sufficient comfort and remediation of their pain. Patients must also take responsibility for their own pain management decisions, becoming informed about, and aware of, the challenges and risks. When the goal is to provide the lowest dose of opioids for the shortest amount of time, in direct response to the level and severity of the pain, patients are likely to have better treatment outcomes with diminished risks of addiction.

Anchor columnist Father Pacholczyk earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did post-doctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, and serves as the director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www. ncbcenter.org.

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The Catholic Mass — firmly rooted in the Bible Editor’s note: This continues a series of columns by Father Buote on Catholic worship. hile the events of the fourth century could be said to have brought the Church out of the catacombs and into the Roman world as a full participant in society, this transition was not without its pitfalls. The newfound freedom was seductive.

Using a metaphor of St. Augustine, the City of God became too much like the City of Man! Three examples will suffice. Wars were waged under the deceptive name of crusades. Torture was sanctioned under the deceptive name of an inquisition. Acquisition of property piled up under the name of Peter’s Patrimony.

These and other topics are more suitably studied in general histories of Europe and the Church.

Our concern in this series is centered on the development of worship.

During the time of the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, the Mass of the city of Rome came to dominate

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the religious life of Europe development of the Church and Catholic life (and in with some minor variations. Some of these varia- particular, the Liturgy) was good, grew out of the expetions, which were not so rience of the first generagreat as to be called Rites, were known as Usages: the tion of Christians, and was guided by the inspiration York Usage, the Dominiof Scripture and the Holy can Usage, the Franciscan Spirit. What was needed Usage, etc. For the most was to correct the abuses part, though, the developand build on the solid basis ments of this period are of concern only to the profes- of authentic historical consional historian of Liturgy. tinuity. This was the CathTwo different approach- olic choice, known today as es were followed to seek a solution How Catholic to the problems Worship Came facing the Church. to Be The first approach considered that

By Father corruption was Martin L. Buote so widespread and inherent that the Counter Reformation. it would be best to scrap The Council of Trent everything and start over gave to the dioceses of from the Scriptures to the Roman Rite a comredefine the Church and mon missal for the first worship; avoiding everytime. Certain exemptions thing that contributed to were allowed for dioceses the concept of the Church and religious orders which and Catholic worship as known in the 16th century. could show variations with the dioceses of Europe This approach became to accept this, the last known as Protestantism.

(Vastly over-simplified his- holdouts being in parts of France and Germany. For tory!) those of us who grew up The second approach before the Second Vatican said that the historical

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Council, this was the Mass we knew.

All of the readings and Mass formularies were now included in one book. The invention of the printing press made it possible to make many copies of the Missale Romanum so every church could be standardized. Everything could be included in one volume.

Gone were the days when the prayers of the Mass were either memorized or extemporized, and the readings were taken from separate manuscript copies. Gone also were the days when the Mass formulas, or the series of readings, might vary from place to place. The Church had entered an age that was a bit rigid, and worship was regulated by rubrics.

From the time of Hippolytus, and perhaps before, the idea of a Preface, or introduction, to the Eucharistic Prayer was universal. In all the formularies, the Preface ends with the Sanctus.

The Eucharistic Prayer, the Anaphora, the Great Prayer of the Church, is cosmic in scope. Consider the grandeur of this Liturgical action of thanksgiving: 1. The Preface announces thanksgiving to the Father and gives some reasons for our giving thanks; 2. The Sanctus is the song of the angels (Is 6:1, Rev 4:8) and all present join with the Church in Heaven to praise God; 3. In the course of the Eucharistic Prayer, particular mention is made of those living in this world, the dead who need our prayers, and the saints living in glory; 4. The priest in persona Christi speaks the words

of Consecration and then immediately makes the formal act of offering to the Father; 5. The people now ratify this act of the worship and obedience of Christ to the Father made present through the ministry of the priest with the most important response of the Mass, the Great Amen; 6. Having access to the Father through the action of the Son, the Church now joins with Christ, the Head of the Mystical Body, in the Lord’s Prayer; 7. The Father responds by calling us to the Heavenly banquet. The Apostles participated by anticipation at the Last Supper, we participate by Sacrament, in Heaven, the Church Triumphant participates in glory; and 8. Our reason for having come together having been completed, we are dismissed.

The Council of Trent ordered that special training schools be opened for the training of priests (seminaries) and that the method of apprenticeship be ended. Henceforth, even the parish clergy would be better educated.

The leaders of the Protestant Reformation spoke of Sola Scriptura, only from/by Scripture.

I have tried to show the consistency of Catholic worship with both the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Mass is solidly rooted in the Bible.

In the next installment, we shall skip directly from the Council of Trent to the reforms of the 20th century and Vatican Council II. Father Buote is a retired priest of the Fall River Diocese and a frequent contributor to The Anchor.

anywhere around here,” my my childhood, there was a parents would advise their procession of various mutts. little boy; but I knew. I was a My favorite, a black Lab natural-born cow whisperer. mix, ran out into rush hour It’s a gift. traffic one afternoon and was While other kids wanted struck by a passing car. He rubber cowboys and Indidid not survive. Another, a ans and a Lincoln Log fort collie mix, was sent back to for their birthday, I wanted farm animals (especially cows) and The Ship’s Log a barn.

Reflections of a I was in second Parish Priest grade when my

By Father Tim parents bought me Goldrick an aquarium. They figured it was more practical than a cow.

My first fish tank contained the pound for some reason I a school of guppies, a catfish, never learned. I was developand a couple of black mollies. ing a history of bad luck with It was fine while it lasted, dogs. but I was too young to know Since I was so fond of how to care for an aquarium. animals, I decided to take the One afternoon, while I was name Francis of Assisi when off at school, my mother Bishop James J. Gerrard decided to clean the fish tank confirmed me. for me. She used Clorox. The As a young priest in fish tank sparkled. The fish Buzzards Bay, I had a close died. It was a sad day but encounter with cats. I had not devastating. I really just the unfortunate task of wanted a pet cow anyway. having to visit a parishioner Once we moved to “the to inform the poor woman country” (north end of that her husband had died New Bedford, just beyond unexpectedly. She lived in the mills), we were at last a mobile home with her able to have a dog. During 17 Siamese cats. The cats immediately took a shine to me. They began purring and crawling up and down legs. I learned then and there I am allergic to cats. (Scratch cats off my list of potential pets).

With all these cats hanging around, I started to tear up.

So did the grieving widow.

Although I never met her late husband, the woman concluded her husband and I must have been great friends.

I hadn’t the heart to tell her it was the cats. Some things are better left unsaid.

I also had an experience involving a bird while assigned to South Yarmouth.

At the end of my first Sunday Mass in that church, I raised my arms in the classic posture of blessing. At that Lurch very moment, a bird flew out

4 October 2018 — Homeport: Falmouth Harbor — St. Francis of Assisi Day. ou know me, dear readers, I’m a great friend of the animals.

As a toddler, the first creatures that caught my attention were cows. Forget dinosaurs. I thought cows were the most interesting animals that ever lived. So, by the way, did Father Jack Andrews. Jack, as a child, had his very own pet cow.

Her name was Buttercup.

But Father Andrews grew up in the rural town of Berkley and I grew up in the big city of New Bedford. One simply did not keep a cow on the second floor of a tenement building.

Deprived of a cow of my own, I had to make do with the occasional Sunday drive through the countryside. I had barely learned to speak, but I could identify a cow pasture from miles away.

Riding in the back seat of my parents’ car, I would start getting all excited while we were still miles from the nearest cow. I was over the moon, one might say. “I smell a cow!” “There’s no cow

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from its hiding place in the baldachinum over my head and made a beeline down the main aisle and out the door.

Some people said it was the Holy Spirit but it looked like a pigeon to me.

In North Falmouth, I became interested in learning all about backyard birds. I got myself a pair of binoculars and a “Bird Identification for Dummies” book.

Wary of those wily squirrels, I bought a bird feeder that attached by suction cups to my second floor bedroom window. I had outsmarted those rascals. But wait, there’s more.

Late one night, I was awakened by a mysterious thump on my bedroom window. It happened again the following night. The

third night, I waited for the thump and then threw open the shades. I was face to face with a beady-eyed flying squirrel. Who knew squirrels could fly? Bummer.

During my assignment in Marion, I decided to forget about fish, birds, cats, and even squirrels and go back to dogs. It worked. My current greyhound Lurch is dog No. 10.

I may not be another St. Francis of Assisi, but I do believe I’ve found my niche in the animal kingdom.

“All creatures great and small, the Lord God made them all,” goes the old hymn

by Cecil Alexander.

I have no problem with that. It’s just that I happen to prefer greyhounds.

Anchor columnist Father Tim Goldrick is pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Falmouth.

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And then the rains came “When the rains came, I looked to Heaven. When they washed away my dreams, I cried all night.

In my heart I knew you’d be there because I felt the love and then I saw the light.” s a lover of good vocalists who give us good music and meaningful lyrics (I do sing in the shower on occasion), I have been haunted in recent days by these lyrics, sung by singer and songwriter, Beth Rowley. Beth, born in Lima, Peru to missionaries, grew up in their native city of Bristol, Wales and has been giving voice to Soul and Gospel music. I’m not sure whether to classify this

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song as a love song, or a Gospel and prepare for the onslaught of song, or a combination of both, two approaching storms, Lane but to me it speaks to being and Olivia. Thankfully we esuplifted by love or by the Lord caped the wrath of both storms Himbut the self after Big Island the rains (Hawaii), of misMaui and Moon Over fortune, the east Molokai failure end of

By Father or tragMolokai Patrick Killilea, SS.CC. edy have did take drowned a beatour spirits ing from and washed away our dreams. the rains. When the rains came, Within the past month we the inhabitants of these island here in Kalaupapa have had to communities must surely have “batten down the hatches” (for- looked to Heaven and said, give the expression), so to speak, “Why us?” and cried all night.

Then there are the people of the Carolinas who have suffered so much. We are far away from these East Coast communities and cannot fully appreciate what has happened to them after the rains came and what continues to happen to them in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. Oh

yes, we have a window on the catastrophic effect of the storm through the eyes of television and other modern media sources. While they look to Heaven and ask, “When will this end?” we express our gratitude and admiration for all those who continue to risk their own safety as they rescue those trapped by flooding.

Beth Rowley continues: “Through the hard times, through the bad times you always came and sang to make things right.

Now I don’t worry about tomorrow cause I felt the love and then I saw the light.” In Kalaupapa we were inconvenienced for a few days by the storms that closed our store and post office but we were blessed to have the winds just brush our settlement while we waited for the rains to come.

Aloha.

Anchor columnist Father Killilea is pastor of St. Francis Parish in Kalaupapa, Hawaii.

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e all know what this world is like right now — filled with hatred, accusations, lies, betrayal, bigotries, prejudices, and a total lack of trying to understand each other.

Actually, the world has always been this way, it’s just that now it’s us who are experiencing just how awful human beings can be to one another.

Yet, the world is full of the little things, the acts of people who, without fanfare, slanted news coverage, or seeking compensation, make someone’s day in the simplest of ways.

That can be done by allowing a car to enter a busy street, or if you’re on the other end of such a kind gesture, giving a wave of thanks

Go ahead — make someone’s day!

seemed logical, especially and a smile. since it went for a whopping It can be done by simply $2.99. holding a door for someone (remember when that was commonMy View place?).

From It can be done with a simple the Stands “please,” “thank you,”

By Dave Jolivet or “you’re welcome.”

I repeat, it doesn’t take much. I think I went to the checkout that’s because it doesn’t happen all that often, and when and at the register was a teen-ager — wearing glasses. it does, it means something.

She said, “Wow, that’s a Last weekend I was out great price for three pairs of shopping and picked up a glasses.” “Right?” I said. three-pack of cheap readShe told me her glasses ing glasses — you know the were prescription, and if ones, the ones that actually she takes them off, she can help you see better than the barely make out anything. pair you paid hundreds of “I’m blind,” she chuckled dollars for. halfheartedly. Still with the I have a tendency to lose glasses often, so a three-pack glasses removed, she asked

me, “Do I look blind without them?” I responded, “What?

No, of course not (she didn’t).”

“People tell me I do.” I was flabbergasted. She was a bright, lovely young woman, yet I could tell this world has already made her feel less than adequate.

She continued, “Do you think I’ll go completely blind?” I asked if she has seen an eye doctor, and she said yes. I asked if he said she was losing her sight. She said no. “Then you will not go blind.”

She lit up like a Christmas tree. She probably knew the answer already, but I think

she needed to hear it from someone. That someone was me.

She put her glasses back on and completed my transaction. Then she smiled and said, “You know, if I do go blind, I’m going to come looking for you.”

I looked her square in her lovely eyes and said, “Then I could stand right in front of you and you wouldn’t find me.” Not expecting that response, she burst into laughter.

We both did.

She sent me off with a gleeful “Have a great day.” I could tell by her tone I had already made hers.

It doesn’t take much. davejolivet@anchornews.org.

Priest celebrates 65th anniversary of priesthood and his 90th birthday

NORTON — Father Maurice J. O’Connor celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving September 30 at St. Mary’s Church in Norton in honor of the 65th anniversary of his priestly ordination and his 90th birthday.

Father O’Connor received the Sacrament of Holy Or-

ders from Richard Cardinal Cushing on Sept. 30, 1953 (65 years to the day). Following his retirement from his service to the people of the Archdiocese of Boston, he has served parishes in the Taunton and Attleboro deaneries in the Diocese of Fall River after moving to Taunton.

During Sunday’s Liturgy, Father O’Connor was joined by family and priest friends who concelebrated the Mass with him.

A reception followed in the St. Mary’s parish hall.

Story and photo submitted

by William Breen of St. Mary’s Parish, Norton.

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The Fall River Diocese held its annual Red Mass on September 29, which concluded with the presentation of the St. Thomas More medallion in recognition of dedicated service to justice. This year’s recipients joined Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., for this photo. They are, from left: Atty.

Scott Lang; Judge Daniel O’Shea; Bishop da Cunha; Barnstable District Court regional secretary Faith Shannon; Atty. Stephen Kiley; and Atty. Deacon Robert Surprenant. (Photo by John E. Kearns Jr.)

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Watch the Ordination to Priesthood Online

The 2018 Fall River Diocese Ordination to Priesthood is available for viewing on the video-sharing website YouTube. Visit the diocesan website at www.fallriverdiocese.org and click on the Ordination to Priesthood image on the home page to access the video. The ordination took place on June 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River.

Father Michael S. Racine, pastor of St. Bernard’s Parish in Assonet, presents Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V. with a gift bag prepared by parishioners, following a Mass at the parish September 23, just prior to the final day of the parish’s annual Fall Festival, which celebrated its 20 anniversary. (Photo by Dave Jolivet)

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Diocese of Fall River TV Mass on WLNE Channel 6 October 7 at 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father Matthew G. Gill, parochial vicar at Our Lady of Victory Parish in Centerville and Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Osterville.

October 14 at 11:00 a.m.

Celebrant is Father Paul E. Canuel, a retired priest of the Fall River Diocese.

pended to accommodate weekend Masses. Upcoming funerals and weddings will either be rescheduled to other local churches or at the chapel, depending on the space requirements.

Father da Silva estimated that these temporary arrangements will likely be in effect for at least the next three months.

“We need to remember to thank God that this fire

didn’t completely destroy our beautiful church and to continue to pray for a quick repair for our parish to be back to normal,” he wrote.

“This type of thing is what makes parishes stronger.

With God’s grace and our prayers, St. Patrick’s shall be renewed in the Lord!”

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noon — will be held in St. Patrick’s Parish Hall, 82 High Street in Wareham.

All daily Masses, Monday through Saturday at 8 a.m., will be held at St. Anthony’s Chapel, located at 35 Gault Road in Wareham.

For updated information, visit www. stpatrickswareham.org or call the rectory office at 508295-2411.

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For and About Our Church Youth

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ftentimes we hear people say to be Catholic is to be a good person. Well, goodness is a characteristic of being Catholic, but it isn’t the only characteristic and it’s not enough to just be good.

Being Catholic means believing in God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Being Catholic means seeking to live a loving relationship with Jesus Christ. A relationship that is the most important one in our lives and is the foundation of all of our other relationships in life.

Being Catholic means taking the time to spend with the Lord each day, to share our thoughts and dreams, to give Him praise and thanks for the blessings He has bestowed upon us. It also means taking time to just listen and to just be in His presence.

Being Catholic means taking the time to encounter the Lord in the Sacraments particularly the Eucharist and Reconciliation. It is how we nourish the gift of faith and how we experience healing and forgiveness to grow in that relationship.

Being Catholic means observing the Sabbath, not just taking time for Mass, but dedicating the day to God and to rest.

What does it mean to be Catholic?

Being Catholic means actions, our words are not seeking to live as Christ. believed by our cynical To be patient and loving post-modern, post-Christowards others. To share tian society, but without the Lord’s compassion, words, our actions are not mercy and forgiveness understood.” with others.

A week or so ago, the Being Catholic means Gospel of the day came being a missionary. The image that comes to mind often is the priest or religious sent off

By Father to a foreign land.

David C. Frederici Yet, we are called to be missionaries of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our homes, from Luke and told the neighborhoods, schools, story of the first time Jeplaces of employment, sus sent the Apostles out anywhere we are. The to proclaim the Gospel. In Second Vatican Council His instructions He said stated that the “Church “Take nothing with you.” by nature is missionary.”

In other words, to be misIt also defined the Church sionaries of Jesus Christ, not as the magisterium or we don’t need an app, a the ordained and religious, Bible or “Catechism.” We but all of the baptized don’t need any special — ordained and lay. That training. is who the “Christian Curtis Martin, founder faithful” are. All of us are FOCUS, an organization called to be missionaries, that sends missionaries to each according to one’s university campuses, obown gifts and talents and served that we didn’t need vocation in life. We proto be trained to tell others claim the Gospel by how of a good movie we saw, we live our lives and by or a restaurant we want our words. our friends to try. Why do Father James Mallon, we think we need training author of the book “Dito share our love of Jesus vine Renovation,” has said Christ?

“The witness of life must St. Peter tells us in the come first, but it must lead Scriptures: “Always be to the Word of Life beready to give an explanaing proclaimed. Without tion to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope.”

The Anchor is always pleased to run Our missionary task, our work of evangelization news and photos about our diocesan is not one of threatenyouth. If schools, parish Religious Eduing or declaring to others what they are doing cation programs or home-schoolers have wrong. Rather, it is sharnewsworthy stories and photos they ing our story.

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ence and love? How has that made a difference?

What keeps you rooted to your relationship with Him? What keeps you joyful and committed to Christ in the midst of the chaos you experience in life?

Is your faith life-giving? Has your faith made a difference, a lifechanging difference in your life?

We need to take some time to reflect on these words and come up with an answer, an answer we can readily share in a loving, joyful and nonthreatening way. An answer we know so well, it can fit into a normal conversation

with a friend, co-worker or family member in a nonthreatening way.

It is very possible that the answers don’t come easily. Yet, we need to take time to find the words, as imperfect as they are, that describes how important our relationship with the Lord is.

Faith is an important part of who we are and of our story. We must not be afraid to share this story with others.

Anchor columnist Father Frederici is pastor of St. George’s Parish in Westport and diocesan director of Campus Ministry and chaplain at UMass Dartmouth and Bristol Community College.

Art teacher Shawn Sweet at St. Mary-Sacred Heart School in North Attleboro had each student in the school make a feather in her class. When each student had made their wing, they were put together to make beautiful giant wings. The project was to remind each student they can soar and they are part of a community working together.

Here, kindergartner Avery Cole stands in the middle of the wings.

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Grades one and seven prayer partners at Holy Name School in Fall River worked on a project that helped to teach them to pray together.

Students in grade seven at St. James-St. John School in New Bedford had a blast competing against each other with an online game on adding and subtracting integers. Some had so much fun that they wanted to do again for recess.

In celebration of World Peace Day, St. John the Evangelist School in Attleboro created a rock garden of Peace Stones. Each student decorated a rock with a sign of peace. They placed the rocks in the schoolyard hill and in the gardens. Along with Father Chris Peschel, parochial administrator, Susan Fortin, music director, and the faculty, the students had a ceremony in the gym and sang songs.

Bishop Stang High School, Dartmouth, announced that Patrick J. Clark and Clinton Hegarty have been named Commended Students in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program.

From left: Kathy Ruginis, assistant principal of Academics; Clark; Hegarty; and Peter Shaughnessy, president/principal.

St. John Paul II High School in Hyannis has named Rich Dalrymple as the Lions’ Head Boys Basketball Coach, effective immediately. Dalrymple has previously served as Head Coach at Sturgis, Cape Cod Academy, and Dennis-Yarmouth, where his teams earned six MIAA Tournament appearances and four league titles.

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Holy Hours for reparation and mercy to be held October 5 FALL RIVER — In light of the recent scandals in the Church, Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., has asked that a Holy Hour for Healing and Reparation be held in each deanery of the Fall River Diocese on Friday, October 5 at 7 p.m., except St. Elizabeth, Edgartown, which will begin at 6 p.m.

Bishop da Cunha will preside at a Holy Hour at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Fall River at that time. Other Holy Hours will take place simultaneously at these parishes: — St. Elizabeth, Edgartown (at 6 p.m.); — Christ the King, Mashpee; — St. Mary-Our Lady of the Isle, Nantucket; — St. Mary, New Bedford; — St. Mary, Norton; and — St. Ann, Raynham.

It is the hope that many of the faithful of the diocese will join together in prayer at the same time in the presence of Our Lord for healing, reparation and mercy. All are welcome.

Here are the locations for each church: St. Mary’s Cathedral, 327 Second Street in Fall River; St. Elizabeth, 86 Main Street, Edgartown; Christ the King, 5 Job’s Fishing Road in Mashpee; St.Mary-Our Lady of the Isle, 3 Federal Street on Nantucket; St. Mary, 343 Tarkiln Hill Road in New Bedford; St. Mary’s, 1 Power Street, Norton; and St. Ann, 660 North Main Street in Raynham.

How the L.A. archdiocese is supporting separated immigrant families

Los Angeles (CNA/ EWTN News) — Through Guadalupe Radio the Archdiocese of Los Angeles raised more than $90,000 last month to help reunite separated immigrant families in southern California.

“It was Archbishop [ José] Gomez’s vision to have us be the leaders in treating immigration not as a political topic, but that it was important for the human dignity of people, first and foremost,” said Isaac Cuevas, the archdiocese’s director of immigration affairs.

A two-day campaign was held on Guadalupe Radio at the end of August, raising $92,000 in support of humanitarian efforts

by Catholic Charities. Then, Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles approved a virtual collection plate for the same efforts, which went into effect this week.

Cuevas told CNA that the money will be used to help families with a three-month transitional process and legal fees.

The families were affected by the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy: immigrants found illegally crossing the border would be held in a federal jail until they go before a federal judge, who must determine whether immigrants will receive prison sentences for crossing the border illegally.

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goal with the radio efforts alone separation, because children we reached $92,000 in two days.” cannot be held legally in a fedCuevas said the money would eral jail for more than 20 days be used to help the families with per the 1997 Flores Settlement. basic necessities, including food, These children were placed in clothing, and school supplies. the custody of the Department While the families find places to of Health and Human Services live and while their parents’ he families were affected by the the children get cases were Trump Administration’s “zero tolplaced in processed. erance” policy: immigrants found illegally schools, Cuevas crossing the border would be held in a fed- the funds said he eral jail until they go before a federal judge, will also received who must determine whether immigrants contribute a call in August by will receive prison sentences for crossing the to mental health serthe USC- border illegally. vices and CB stating proposals that 20 reunited families would be com- for self-sufficiency.

The other part of the project ing to the Los Angeles. He said will aid Esperanza Legal Servicthese people came to the city es, a legal non-profit underneath with “literally nothing.”

Catholic Charities. According to “These families were arriving Angelus News, the money will be in the city — some didn’t have used to hire more legal staff for any connections, some did have connections but they were arriv- Esperanza to serve these families.

Angelus reported that a majoring with zero resources,” he said. ity of the families are still underThe radio fund-raiser was a small miracle, he said, noting the going deportation proceedings and require attorneys to fight money raised far exceeded the their cases, which may allow original goal. The diocese first them to apply for asylum status. sought to support 20 reunited Cuevas gave CNA an example families, but raised enough of one of the families the agency money to support 56 families has been able to help — a mother throughout the greater Los Anand her two sons, ages 15 and sevgeles area. en. He said that after their deten“I consider it a small miracle tion, the eldest expressed doubts that even though we were modthat he would see his mother est with our $30,000-50,000

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again and the youngest still struggles with separation issues.

“They assumed that the two boys would be kept together, even though they were being separated from their mom.

Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case and the three of them were separated individually. The eldest talks about [that] he believed he would never get to see his mom again because he saw her taken away in handcuffs,” he said.

“The three were reunited.

[But,] the youngest has a really hard time of even being away from his mom, like just having her be in another room makes him panic.”

Cuevas said the immigration system in United States is broken and needs to be addressed.

He added that immigration policy needs to be seen foremost as a responsibility toward vulnerable persons.

“Before you get into the politics of any topic, it’s identifying with the necessities from a humanistic standpoint. The topic of immigration is exactly that – it’s people in need,” he said.

“As the Church, obviously, we believe in the country and the responsibility for us to protect its borders, but we also believe that people deserve human dignity.

And that is where we would push and remind people to start with that first.”

Pope: Be open to the good, wherever it comes from

Vatican City (CNA/EWTN News) — Pope Francis advised in a recent address that we be open to the good, regardless of whether it comes from someone outside our own “circle.”

The pope reflected on that day’s Gospel, in which Christ taught His disciples humility and to avoid scandal. He was delivering the Angelus address in St. Peter’s Square.

A bridge lies destroyed after being hit by a tsunami, October 1, in Palu, Indonesia. (Photo When the disciples obby Carl Court/Getty Images) jected to someone outside their group casting out a demon, Pope Francis said they “demonstrate a closed attitude before an event that does not fit Manado, Indoneemergency situation. As The CRS teams are join- into their schemes, in this sia, (CNA/EWTN News) heavy damages have affect- ing local partners in the case the action, though — Catholic humanitarian ed access points and infraarea, addressing needs such good, of a person ‘external’ groups have joined the efstructures, CRS expressed it as tarps, blankets, sanitato the circle of followers.” forts to support the victims has had difficulty in reach- tion kits, and sleeping mats.

“Instead Jesus appears of the earthquake and ing devastated areas.

Suryani said a lack of water very free, fully open to tsunami that recently struck “Humanitarian groups and fuel are also a concern the freedom of the Spirit the Indonesian island of are struggling to get people which needs to be adof God, Who in His Sulawesi. into affected areas,” Yenni dressed. action is not limited by A 7.5-magnitude earthSuryani, CRS’ IndoneScottish Catholic Inany boundary and by any quake struck six miles sia country manager, said ternational Aid Fund have enclosure. Jesus wants beneath Sulawesi just after recently. “With the airport partnered with Caritas to educate His disciples, 6 p.m. on September 28. damaged, getting access Indonesia and contributed even today, to this interior It set off a tsunami, which to Palu and Donggala is a more than $25,000 to relief freedom.” caused 20-foot-high waves huge problem. Respondefforts. SCIAF Director Pope Francis comwhich devastated coastal ers and local aid groups are Alistair Dutton expressed mended an examination cities, including, promihaving to drive overland apprehension over the situ- of conscience in relation nently, Palu. The quake 10-12 hours.” ation and said his prayers to this episode, saying, also caused landslides and “That means a bottleneck would be with the Indone- “the attitude of the dispower outages. At least 844 for relief supplies in coming sian victims. ciples of Jesus is very people have died as a result days. Landslides are hin“I’m deeply concerned human, very common, of the disaster. dering road travel in some to see the news of deaths, and we can find it in the The country’s tsunami places. There’s very limited injuries and destruction fol- Christian communities of warning system had report- electricity in Palu but pow- lowing the terrible tsunami all time, probably also in edly been damaged. Though er is out almost everywhere. which has hit Palu city in ourselves.” an alert was still issued, Some mobile phone towers Indonesia,” he said. “My “In good faith, indeed, the size of the waves were have been repaired allowing thoughts and prayers are with zeal, one would like underestimated and power limited communication, but with those who have lost to protect the authenticoutages from the tremors it’s unreliable.” loved ones and are now left ity of a certain experience, caused many people not to Suryani said many to pick up the pieces and protecting the founder receive an alert at all, acpeople are expected to still rebuild their lives.” or the leader from false cording to the BBC. be trapped alive underneath To make a donation to CRS’ imitators,” he said. “But Catholic Relief Services the buildings, noting there efforts to help in Indonesia, you at the same time there and the Scottish Catholic has been reports of shouts can go online to CRS.org and is the fear of ‘competiInternational Aid Fund and lights, possibly from right on that page is a tab to tion’ — and this is bad: have provided relief funds cell phones, among the click on to make a donation to the fear of competition and teams to address the rumble. help in this crisis.

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new followers, and then you can not appreciate the good that others do: not good because ‘it’s not ours,’ they say. It is a form of self-referentiality.”

He said this is “the root of proselytism,” and that the Church “does not grow by proselytism, it grows by attraction, that is, it grows by the testimony given to others by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Christ “calls us not to think according to the categories of ‘friend/enemy,’ ‘us/them,’ ‘who is inside/ who is outside,’ ‘mine/ yours,’ but to go further, to open the heart to recognize His presence and the action of God even in unusual and unpredictable areas and in people who are not part of our circle,” Pope Francis said.

“It is a matter of being more attentive to the genuineness of the good, the beautiful and the true that is accomplished, than to the name and provenance of those who do it.”

Rather than judging others, the pope said, “we must examine ourselves, and ‘cut’ without compromise everything that can scandalize the weaker people in the faith.”

Pope Francis concluded, saying the Virgin Mary, “model of docile reception of the surprises of God, helps us to recognize the signs of the presence of the Lord in our midst, discovering Him wherever He manifests Himself, even in the most unthinkable and unusual situations.”

“May she teach us to love our community without jealousy and closures, always open to the vast horizon of the action of the Holy Spirit.”

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National Vocation Awareness Week set for November 4-10

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Catholic Church in the United States will celebrate National Vocation Awareness Week, November 4-10. This annual event is a special time for parishes in the U.S. to foster a culture of vocations for the priesthood, diaconate and consecrated life.

Pope Francis, in his message for the 2018 World Day of Vocations, emphasized that it is at the loving initiative of God, and

by His personal encounter with each of us, that one is called.

“Even amid these troubled times, the mystery of the Incarnation reminds us that God continually comes to encounter us,” the pope said. “He is God-with-us,

Who walks along the often dusty paths of our lives. He knows our anxious longing for love and He calls us to joy. In the diversity and the uniqueness of each and every vocation, personal and ecclesial, there is a need to listen, discern and live this word that calls to us from on high and, while enabling us to develop our talents, makes us instruments of Salvation in the world and guides us to full happiness.”

National Vocation Awareness Week, sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations, is designed to help promote vocation awareness and to encourage young people to ask the

Easton parishes team up for walk to benefit food pantry EASTON — Immaculate Conception and Holy Cross parishes of Easton are sponsoring the annual 5K, 3.1mile Run/Walk Race Against Hunger on Saturday, November 3. All race proceeds will be donated to the Easton Food Pantry.

Last year, Immaculate Conception Parish alone raised $3,193.59 for the food pantry.

This is the first year that Holy Cross Parish has joined forces with Immaculate Conception in the hopes of raising even more money for the pantry and expanding its community participation.

This great community event is a fun time for families and friends as well as a

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unique opportunity for the experienced runner and/or walker.

The event will take place on November 3 at the family friendly and beautiful Borderland State Park, 259 Massapoag Avenue in North Easton.

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and the race start time is 10 a.m. Participants can pre-register online at www.iccefp.racewire. com or via email at icc. efp.race@gmail.com.

The entry fee is $25 which includes all fees.

There will be T-shirts, refreshments and more provided at the event.

For more information, contact Jim or Diane Kent at diane_kent@ comcast.net, or call Immaculate Conception Parish at 508-2383232.

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question: “To what vocation in life is God calling me?”

Parish and school communities across the nation are encouraged to include, during the first week in November, special activities that focus on vocation awareness and provide opportunities for prayerful discernment.

Contemporary society is all too often saturated by constant activity and noise, so it is important this week to encourage young discerners to take time for silent, contemplative prayer. Results of studies conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, notes that 72 percent of those ordained to the priesthood or sol-

emnly professed within the last year cited participation in Eucharistic Adoration as a prayer experience that proved influential in their discernment.

Cardinal Joseph Tobin, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations, echoes this finding, stating: “Quiet reflection and prayer are essential elements for vocational discernment. It is in the interior depths of our heart where we hear the voice of Christ, where He speaks to us, and where He reveals His will for our lives.”

Observance of Vocation Awareness Week began in 1976 when the U.S. bishops designated the 28th Sunday

of the year for the celebration. It was later moved to the feast of the Baptism of the Lord in January. The USCCB Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations moved the observance of National Vocation Awareness Week to November to engage Catholic schools and colleges more effectively in this effort.

More information and resources for National Vocation Awareness Week, including a prayer card, suggested prayers of the faithful and bulletin-ready quotes are available online at: http://www.usccb.org/ beliefs-and-teachings/ vocations/nationalvocation-awareness-week. cfm.

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of the Church’s damaged reputation. But we’re called to preach in season and out of season (2 Tim 4:2). Even though the currency of the Church’s words has devalued, the Church’s charity remains much stronger and stabler, like gold bullion. We must, however, spend ourselves much more in backing up the teaching Christ has entrusted to us with deeds, the most urgent of which are cleaning up our house and making the wounded feel genuinely welcomed.

How can a priest or bishop celebrate Mass or hear Confessions in a state of serious sin?

This question has been raised often, especially from religious women, daily Massgoers and those whose main Spiritual fight is against lukewarmness: after many years battling venial sin, they just can’t fathom a priest’s celebrating Mass in a state of mortal sin and adding to the sacrilege.

Sometimes there’s been a loss of faith so that a priest

has become an ecclesiastical bureaucrat and Liturgical functionary, no longer praying, no longer seeking to live as an icon of the Lord Jesus.

More often, I think, they have lost a sense of sin, no longer seek to chop off body parts and pluck out eyes if they lead them to sin (Mt 5:29-30), making excuses for not getting to Confession, and letting the serpent wrap himself around them like a poisonous cobra. The same thing can happen in all members of the Church, when they approach Holy Communion without moral certainty that their souls are in communion with the Lord. There’s self-deception, denial and excuse-making of one sort or another so that the words “I confess — that I have greatly sinned — through my own most grievous fault” are totally insincere.

That insincerity leads to general duplicity of life.

What to say to those who are being tempted to leave the Church because of the scandals?

I normally try to bring them to St. Francis de Sales’ words about not committing Spiritual suicide through cutting ourselves off from Christ and His Sacraments that I wrote about in a previous column. Bishop Barron’s words about not abandoning the Church but fighting for her, or even Peter’s words to Jesus, “To whom shall we go?”

I’ve found helpful too in my conversations. It’s not words as much as body language, however, that will be persuasive. We need to show what the Church truly is, that Christ is still present and at work despite the sins, and discuss honestly why we have chosen to stay in the Church out of faith, hope and love in the One Who died for us and will never betray us.

Many other questions remain, which hopefully can be tackled in subsequent columns.

Anchor columnist Father Landry can be contacted at fatherlandry@ catholicpreaching.com.

Pope Francis: Pray the Rosary daily for Church’s protection from Satan

Vatican City (CNA) — Pope Francis has asked all Catholics to pray the Rosary daily during the month of October, asking Mary and St. Michael the Archangel to intercede for the protection of the Church in a moment of “Spiritual turbulence.”

A recent statement from the Vatican said that Pope Francis had recently affirmed that prayer “is the weapon against the great accuser who ‘goes around the world seeking to accuse.’ Only prayer can defeat him.”

“The Russian mystics and the great saints of all the traditions advised, in moments of Spiritual turbulence, to shelter beneath the mantle of the Holy Mother of God,” the statement added.

The pope said that recitation of the Rosary would invoke Mary’s intercession, placing the Church under her “protective mantle.”

The statement also encouraged the prayer of Sub Tuum Praesidium: “We fly to Thy protection, O Holy Mother of God. Do not despise our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O Glorious and Blessed Virgin.”

The pope did not specify the “Spiritual turbulence” to which he referred, but did say that prayer could help the Church to become “more aware of the faults, the errors and the abuses committed in the present and in the past, and committed to combating without any hesitation, so that evil may not

prevail.”

Pope Francis also encouraged that Catholics end the Rosary with the recitation of the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, composed by Pope Leo XII: “St. Michael Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness

and snares of the devil; may God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen.”

In Your Prayers Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks Oct. 6 Rev. Stephen B. Magill, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, North Easton, 1916 Rev. Roland Brodeur, Uniondale, N.Y., 1987 Rev. Thomas McElroy, SS.CC., Former Pastor, St. Joseph, Fairhaven, 2017 Oct. 7 Rev. Caesar Phares, Pastor, St. Anthony of the Desert, Fall River, 1951 Rev. Msgr. Arthur G. Dupuis, Retired Pastor, St. Louis de France, Swansea, 1975 Rev. Andrew Jahn, SS.CC., Sacred Hearts Seminary, Wareham, 1988 Oct. 8 Rev. Roger P. Nolette, Former Chaplain Cape Cod Hospital, 2006

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Oct. 9 Rev. Paul J. Dalbec, M.S., La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, 2000 Oct. 10 Rev. James C.J. Ryan, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, North Easton, 1918 Rev. Boniface Jones, SS.CC., Chaplain, Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford, 1987 Rev. Joseph A. Martineau, Retired Pastor, St. Theresa, New Bedford, 1990 Oct. 11 Rev. James A. Downey, Pastor, Holy Ghost, Attleboro, 1952 Oct. 12 Rev. Felician Plichta, OFM Conv., Parochial Vicar, Corpus Christi, East Sandwich, Former Pastor Holy Cross, Fall River, 1999 Permanent Deacon Chester O. Cook, 2016 Oct. 13 Rev. David I. Walsh, M.M., Maryknoll Missioner, 1999 Rev. James J. Doyle, C.S.C., Holy Cross Residence, North Dartmouth, 2002 Rev. J. Marc Hebert, C.S.C., 2006 Oct. 14 Rev. Dennis M. Lowney, Assistant, Sacred Heart, Taunton, 1918 Rev. Msgr. Edward B. Booth, Retired Pastor, St. Mary, North Attleboro, 1972 Rev. Frederick G. Furey, SS.CC. Former Pastor, Our lady of Assumption, New Bedford, 1999 Rev. Andre P. Jussaume, Pastor, St. Louis de France, Swansea, 2003 Oct. 15 Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Considine, PA, Retired Pastor, St. William, Fall River, 1996 Oct. 16 Rev. Raymond M. Drouin, O.P., Former Pastor, St. Anne, Fall River, 1987 Oct. 17 Rev. Gerald E. Lachance, M.Afr., 1984 Oct. 19 Rev. Manuel A. Silvia, Pastor, Santo Christo, Fall River, 1928 Rev. John Aquinas Powers, O.P., Falmouth native, Chaplain, U.S. Marines, served in parishes in Massachusetts, 2010

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Around the Diocese The Fall River Area Men’s First Friday Club will next meet October 5 at St. Joseph Church on North Main Street in Fall River. Mass begins at 6 p.m. and is open to the public. The Liturgy will be concelebrated by Father Jay Mello and Father Paul Canuel. Following Mass, club members will gather in the hall next door for a hot meal prepared by White’s of Westport.

Following the meal, Father Canuel will make a presentation.

New members are always welcome. For more information, contact Norm Valiquette at 508-672-8174.

First Friday Eucharistic Adoration will be held at St. Andrew the Apostle Church, 19 Kilmer Avenue in Taunton, on Friday, October 5 beginning at 9 a.m. There will be Eucharist Adoration all day and prayers and Benediction at 5:15 p.m., concluding at 6 p.m. All are welcome.

The Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will hold its first meeting of the fall season on Saturday, October 6 at St. Margaret’s Regional School, 143 Main Street in Buzzards Bay. Welcome and refreshments is at 9 a.m., with meeting to follow from 9:30 to 11 a.m. There will be discussions and planning pertaining to forthcoming meetings and events.

New members are always welcome. For more information or to RSVP, call 508-631-0533.

The Catholic Woman’s Club of New Bedford will hold its first meeting of the year on October 10. This will begin the second century of service for the group. Anyone interested in attending, joining, or in need of more information can contact lynnemk21@gmail.com.

A Healing Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, October 11 at St. Andrew the Apostle Church, 19 Kilmer Avenue in Taunton, beginning at 6 p.m. with recitation of the Holy Rosary. It will include the Sacrament of Confession, with Mass beginning at 6:30 p.m. and concluding with healing prayers and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. All are welcome. For more information or directions, call 508-8245577 or email standrewtaunton@comcast.net.

St. John Neumann Parish, 157 Middleboro Road in East Freetown, will host a Harvest Taizé Service on Sunday, October 21 beginning at 7 p.m. Come share the bounty of our harvest with immigrants and refugees; all are welcome.

Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Parish will host its Holiday Fair in the church hall, Coyle Drive in Seekonk, on Friday, November 2 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Saturday, November 3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. featuring food, raffles, and baskets galore! All are welcome.

St. Mary’s Parish, 106 Illinois Street in New Bedford, is having a Holiday Fair on Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days. All are welcome.

For more information, call the rectory at 508-995-3593.

St. Anthony of Padua Church on Bedford Street in Fall River will host a recitation of the Holy Rosary and Litany with the Divine Mercy Chaplet every Monday evening at 6:15 p.m.

All are welcome. For more information, call the rectory at 508-673-2402.

To submit an event for consideration in The Anchor’s “Around the Diocese” listing, send the information by email to kensouza@anchornews.org

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Eucharistic Adoration in the Diocese Acushnet — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Francis Xavier Parish on Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Evening prayer and Benediction is held Monday through Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

ASSONET — St. Bernard’s Parish will have Eucharistic Adoration every Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed on the altar at the conclusion of 9 a.m. Mass and the church will be open all day, concluding with evening prayer and Benediction at 6:30 p.m.

ATTLEBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. John the Evangelist Church, North Main Street, Mondays and Wednesdays from 5-6:30 p.m.

ATTLEBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the Adoration Chapel at St. Vincent de Paul Parish, 71 Linden Street, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

ATTLEBORO — The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette holds Eucharistic Adoration in the Shrine Church every Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. through November 17.

Brewster — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Our Lady of the Cape Church, 468 Stony Brook Road, on First Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. buzzards Bay — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Margaret Church, 141 Main Street, every First Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending at 5 p.m.

East Freetown — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. John Neumann Church every Monday (excluding legal holidays) 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady, Mother of All Nations Chapel. (The base of the bell tower).

EAST TAUNTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the chapel at Holy Family Parish Center, 438 Middleboro Avenue, Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. On First Fridays, Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Holy Family Church, 370 Middleboro Avenue, from 8:30 a.m. until 7:45 p.m.

FAIRHAVEN — St. Mary’s Church, Main St., has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 8:30-11:30 a.m. in the Chapel of Reconciliation, with Benediction at 11:30 a.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Anthony of Padua Church, on the corner of Bedford and Sixteenth streets, has Eucharistic Adoration accompanied by music and prayer every first Wednesday of the month from 6-7 p.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Anthony of the Desert Church, 300 North Eastern Avenue, has Eucharistic Adoration Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Thursdays following the 8 a.m. Mass until Friday at 8 a.m.

FALL RIVER — Holy Name Church, 709 Hanover Street, has Eucharistic Adoration Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the Our Lady of Grace Chapel.

FALL RIVER — Good Shepherd Parish has Eucharistic Adoration every Friday following the 8 a.m. Mass and concluding with 3 p.m. Benediction in the Daily Mass Chapel. A bilingual holy hour takes place from 2 to 3 p.m. Park behind the church and enter the back door of the connector between the church and the rectory.

FALL RIVER — St. Joseph’s Church has a Holy Hour every Tuesday from 6-7 p.m., with Benediction at 6:45 p.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Michael’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with Benediction at 5:30 p.m.

Falmouth — St. Patrick’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration each First Friday following the 7 a.m. Mass, with Benediction at 4:30 p.m.

HYANNIS — St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis, 347 South Street, Hyannis, has Eucharistic Adoration from noon to 3 p.m., daily Monday through Friday.

MANSFIELD — St. Mary’s Parish, 330 Pratt Street, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Benediction at 5:45 p.m.

MASHPEE — Christ the King Parish, Route 151 and Job’s Fishing Road has 8:30 a.m. Each First Friday Mass ends with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Adoration continues until Benediction at 5 p.m.

NEW BEDFORD — Eucharistic Adoration is held every Thursday, with Confessions, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. James Church. Please use the side entrance.

NEW BEDFORD — There is a daily holy hour from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1359 Acushnet Avenue. It includes Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Liturgy of the Hours, recitation of the Rosary, and the opportunity for Confession.

NEW BEDFORD — St. Lawrence Martyr Parish, 565 County Street, holds Eucharistic Adoration in the side chapel Fridays from 7:30-11:45 a.m. ending with a simple Benediction NORTH DARTMOUTH — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Road, every Tuesday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., ending with Benediction. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available at this time.

NORTH DIGHTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Wednesday following 8:00 a.m. Mass and concludes with Benediction at 5 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration also takes place every First Friday at St. Nicholas of Myra Church, 499 Spring Street following the 8 a.m. Mass, ending with Benediction at 6 p.m. The Rosary is recited Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 8 a.m.

NORTH EASTON — A Holy Hour for Families including Eucharistic Adoration is held every Friday from 3-4 p.m. at The Father Peyton Center, 518 Washington Street.

NORTH EASTON — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Immaculate Conception Church Chapel on the first Wednesday of the month beginning after the 8:30 a.m. Mass, until 6:40 p.m. Those wishing to make a monthly commitment can sign up on the parish website at www.icceaston.org or call the parish office at 508-238-3232.

ORLEANS — St. Joan of Arc Parish, 61 Canal Road, has Eucharistic Adoration every First Friday starting after the 8 a.m. Mass and ending with Benediction at 11:45 a.m. The Sacrament of the Sick is also available immediately after the 8 a.m. Mass.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

Taunton — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Tuesday at St. Anthony Church, 126 School Street, following the 8 a.m. Mass with prayers including the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for vocations, concluding at 6 p.m. with Chaplet of St. Anthony and Benediction. Recitation of the Rosary for peace is prayed Monday through Saturday at 7:30 a.m. prior to the 8 a.m. Mass.

Taunton — Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place every First Friday at Annunciation of the Lord, 31 First Street. Exposition begins following the 8 a.m. Mass. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed, and Adoration will continue throughout the day. Confessions are heard from 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. Rosary and Benediction begin at 5 p.m.

Taunton — St. Jude the Apostle Parish in Taunton will host Eucharistic Adoration on Mondays following the 9 a.m.

Mass and the St. Jude Novena, until 11:30, ending with Benediction. It will take place at Holy Rosary Chapel during the summer months.

WAREHAM — Eucharistic Adoration at St. Patrick’s Church takes place 9 a.m. Thursday through 7 p.m. Friday. Adoration is held in our Adoration Chapel in the lower Parish Hall. ~ PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION ~

East Sandwich — The Corpus Christi Parish Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration Chapel is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 324 Quaker Meeting House Road, East Sandwich. Use the Chapel entrance on the side of the church.

NEW BEDFORD — Our Lady’s Chapel, 600 Pleasant Street, offers Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day. For information call 508-996-8274.

SEEKONK ­— Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish has perpetual Eucharistic Adoration seven days a week, 24 hours a day in the chapel at 984 Taunton Avenue. For information call 508-336-5549.

WEST HARWICH — Our Lady of Life Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Holy Trinity Parish, 246 Main Street (Rte. 28), holds perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. We are a regional chapel serving all of the surrounding parishes.

All are invited to sign up to cover open hours. For open hours, or to sign up call 508-430-4716.

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tate and five themes,” he said. “The gatherings are about prayer and listening to each other.” He said that from the five sessions come the ideas and concerns that make it into each diocese’s document.

The diocesan V Encuentro took place at St. Anthony of Padua Church on Dec. 16, 2017.

There were two regional V Encuentros that took place in New England after that, one at La Salette Shrine in Attleboro on March 10 and another in Bloomfield, Conn. on May 12, 2018. In all 698 delegates attended as well as eight bishops.

It was reported that in the New England Region, 10 diocesan Encuentros took place with nearly 2,000 faithful attending.

From the local gatherings, and the diocesan Encuentros, the main areas of new outreach in area dioceses will focus greatly on Hispanic/Latino young adults; people living in housing projects; and homeless people.

The Region I report went on to inform: “The V Encuentro in the New England dioceses was a unique opportunity to connect leaders at various levels regionally in ways

that we had not done for a while. It also served as a way to assess the vast difference of experiences in our region.

“We acknowledge that there are many resources among us, including Catholic universities, schools, and organizations that can be more intentionally at the service of the fastgrowing Hispanic Catholic population, especially youth and young adult Hispanics/Latinos, and families as well. In some of our dioceses it opened opportunities for new ministries and more personnel to serve the needs of Hispanic/Latino Catholics, and it improved communication and collaboration between the Hispanic Ministry Office and other diocesan offices.”

Having grown by leaps and bounds over the last half century, the process of Encuentro for Hispanic/Latino ministry according to its website vencuentro.org, “has been deeply ecclesial. It is motivated by reading the signs of the times and convened by the bishops, who call the Hispanic/ Latino community to raise their voices. In the context of this dialogue among the bishops and

the community, we live a spirit of pastoral ministry illuminated by an ecclesiological communion and missionary vocation that seeks to reach out to those who find themselves estranged from the life and vision of the Church.

The main objective of the process of the Encuentro is to discern the way in which Hispanics/Latinos respond as Church.”

The website also clearly explains the program: Who participates in the V Encuentro?

All leaders in arch/ dioceses, parishes, lay ecclesial movements and other Catholic organizations and institutions are invited to participate by encountering Hispanic/ Latino Catholics, particularly those living in the periphery through the missionary process of evangelization and consultation of the V Encuentro.

What is the goal of the V Encuentro?

The main goal of the V Encuentro is to discern ways in which the Church in the United States can better respond to the Hispanic/Latino presence, and to strengthen the ways in which Hispanics/ Latinos respond to the

call to the New Evangelization as missionary disciples serving the entire Church.

What are the objectives of the V Encuentros?

— Call all Catholic leaders in the United States to become authentic and joyful missionary disciples by giving witness to God’s love with a prophetic voice by encountering their Hispanic brothers and sisters in Christ, therefore embracing the cultural diversity in the U.S. Church; ­— Promote a vision of the Church in mission that develops effective pathways to invite, engage and form Hispanic Catholic youth, young adults, and families and ecclesial movements to live out their baptismal vocation.

This includes the promotion of the vocation to the priesthood and consecrated life; — Invite all Catholic leaders to engage and accompany Hispanic

Catholics, particularly the most vulnerable and those who find themselves in the peripheries of the Church and society; — Identify and promote opportunities for Hispanic Catholic pastoral leaders to serve in leadership positions in the Church and in the larger society, and increase the number of lay and ordained ministers directly engaged in the New Evangelization. This will require dioceses and parishes to receive new leaders and those seeking formation to become leaders; and — Stimulate a new wave of faith formation and leadership development initiatives that prepare Hispanic Catholics to share and celebrate the Good News of Jesus Christ and to become leaven for the Reign of God in society.

For more information on V Encuentro, visit vencuentro.org.

Visit the Diocese of Fall River website at fallriverdiocese.org The site includes links to parishes, diocesan offices and national sites.

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