10.07.94

t eanco VOL. 38, NO. 3'9

•

Friday, October 7,1994

FALL RIVER, MASS.

FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS Southeastern Massachusetts' Largest Weekly

•

511 Per Year

Dedicating the house that hope built

By Marcie Hickey "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad!"

Sister Joanna Fe:rnandes, OP, quoted the popular psalm on a day she herself had long awaited.

Behind her stood 306 Osborn Street, Fall River--a house once slated to be razed for parking spaces-now renovated, expanded, painted and furnishc:d; the realization of a dream to provide a home for persons with AI DS who have nowhere else to go; a place called Hope House.

Sister Fernandes, chairperson of the board of St. Anne's Hospital in Fall River, amnounced the hospital's plan to create such a residence on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1.1992. Last week, the plan a reality, supporters of Hope House gathered in a tent adjacent to Hope House for the blessing and dedication of the facility by Bishop Scan O'Malley.

The home's first resident was scheduled to move in the day after the Sept. 27 ceremony. With accommodations for I() persons with AI DS who are homeless or at risk of becoming home1f:ss, Hope House "makes visible our commitment to the healing ministry of Christ," Sister Fernandes said at the dedication. "Hope House will be a place of acceptance and belonging for residents, caregivers and supporters to find oneness in the mystery of suffering."

In testimony to that mystery, a lily blossomed on stage in memory of Joseph Borges, one of the Hope House planners, and in each room of the house a plaque and crucifix

were hung in memory of a person who died of AIDS. Toby Shea, Hope House director, recalled meeting Borges a year and a half ago "appr,opriately under one of the panels of the AI DS quilt" at Bristol Community College in Fall River. Ms. Shea is on

project despite failing health due to complications of the disease. As completion of the house drew near, Ms. Shea said, planners were "in denial, not wanting to accept that he might not be here for the dedication."

When Borges died in July, a

J' BISHOP O'MALLEY offers a blessing for Hope House at the dedication liturgy for the residence for persons with AIDS opened last week by Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River.

(Hickey photo) leave from her position as a BeC nursing professor to help launch Hope House.

Borges, who was active in several H IV / AI DS service organizations, became an adviser to the

friend donated some lilies- Borges' was surrounded by family and favorite flower-to Hope House. friends who assisted him through One was set aside fot the dedica- that journey." tion and bloomed, with perfect _ Linda Valley, director of Hospice Outreach, Inc., in Fall River timing. that day, offering its own and a member of the Hope House silent benediction on the ceremony.

Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster, England, said ifconsecrated life is prOmoted as a truly radical way of following Christ, the number and quality of its members will increase.

Introducing synod discussion on Oct. 3, the cardinal listed challenges the bishops should address.

They included: - Helping communities discern their lifestyles and mission while respecting their autonomy and encouraging collaooration with diocesan priests and lay people.

- Promoting renewt:d emphasis on spirituality "because it is the heart of consecrated life and is the source of its apostolic dynamism."

Turn to Page Eight

Advisory Council, added that "we can't necessarily add days to lives, but Hope House can add life to those days."

Bishop O'Malley said that the tragedies of AI DS, hunger and homelessness "betoken the mysterious presence of the suffering Lord."

Those who "reach out in love to make the healing Lord more visible" make "an important statement of our faith that everyone is important in God's eyes" and that "where life is frapile, there we must be to defend it."

It was appropriate, he said, that the dedication was held on the feast of St. Vincent de Paul, who has inspired so many throughout history to charitable works.

A Wonderful Story "This is an absolutely wonderful story," said Rep. Edward Lambert, one of several officials and agency representatives speaking at the ceremony.

Hope House is the first such residence in the area. and the first to be completed using state funding designated for AI DS housing projects, said Daniel Grabauskas, deputy secretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and Development.

Rep. Lambert praised Sister Fernandes and Toby Shea for their persistence in negotiating the maze of agencies, offices and institutions whose support was needed for the project. while others expressed hope tha t the process of establishing future such housing could be streamlined.

Fall River Mayor John Mitchell Turn to Page Eight

A Tale of Tvvo

Religi4)US life synod opens VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Pau.l II opened a monthlong examination of religious orders by saying the church strengthens itself and increases its service to humanity when it promotes religious life.

At the opening Mass Oct. 2 for the World Synod of Bishops on Religious Life, the pope said the synod should help the church better appreciate re:ligious life and help consecrated men and women renew their commitment to the church and the world.

Walking without visible discomfort and speaking in a strong voice, the pope concelebrated the Mass with the 244 synod members in St. Peter's Basilica.

It was a reminder, saId Ms. Shea, that while Hope Houseemphasizes living with A I DS, "the reality is that people will die while with us." The home offers the love, comfort and dignity that others will need to experience what Borges did: "a beautiful passing, in that he

Priests

By Pat McGowan

A tale oftwo priests. Father Walter Sullivan. Father Paul.

McCarrick.

Over the years their paths have, at one time or another, merged, followed and run parallel to one another. Both were parochial vicars at St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River, and they were together at Sacred Heart parish, Taunton, FATHER McCARRICK

Turn to Page II

FATHER SULLIVAN

_---In This Issue---------~------------------------, Not Just for Olildren

Wife, Widow, Sister

Page 2

Page 3

The Rocking Rosary l'

Pliges 4t 5

Thousands Waik for Life

Pay Homemakers, SalS Vatican

Page 7

Page 12

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Convention keynoter Greer Gordon greets participants in her later workshop titled "A Well-Woven Tapestry: Ministry Within the Multicultural Black Community"; catechists attend convention

Mass at St. Julie's Church; Sister Elaine Heffernan, RS M, religious educa.tion director within the Diocesan Department of Education, leads Mass procession. (Hickey photos)

Religious education not just for children, says ke~noter

By Marcie Hickey Religious education isn't only for the young, Greer Gordon told some 800 diocesan catechists. at the annual Religious Education Convention Sept. 24. "Seek God's Wisdom" was the theme of the convention and of national Catechetical Sunday, observed Sept.

18.

Adults must continually develop their own spirituality and lellrn about their faith if they are to be effective teachers-in the classroom or as parents or role models, Ms. Gordon said. .

"We don't talk about the fact that learning about the Lord is a lifelong process; we don't tell the laity that you too are required to pray," she said. But if adults are to live the faith and pass it on, they' must follow St. Paul's exhortation to "pray constantly"; that is, to be a prayer-centered people.

"Somewhere at your core you must have a sense of the presence of the Lord. If we do not have the ability to hold onto the Lord, we will not be able to pass [faith) on to others," said Ms. Gordon.

A faculty member at Regis College, Weston, and a doctoral candidate in religion and theology at Boston University, Ms. Gordon gave the convention's keynote address, titled "Wisdom Has Built Herself a House: Seek God's Wisdom."

The day's program included a Mass celebrated by Bishop Selin O'Malley and 10 concelebrants at St. Julie Billiart Church, North Dartmouth, and a slate of afternoon workshops at adjacent Bishop Stang High School.

Those looking for wisdom, Ms. Gordon said, are not going to find it in the contemporary society that encourages "constant rapid motion" and devalues the insight of elders.

Wisdom seekers are rather to be "a centered people and a prayerful people" who recognize the value of silences-"listeningto ourinsides"·and of the guidance of "others who know more."

Those who claim they are too busy to pray "probably need to re-examine your life," Ms. Gordon said, recalling a period of time she spent with an order of COIltemplative nuns.

"These are women whose entire life is devoted to contemplation and P'ay"," ,h, 'aid, "and 1h,,'

complained that they didn't have enough time to pray!' \ "You can fill up your life any way you wish," Ms. Gordon concluded. .' I For ~dults to bee~fectivetea9hers and models of faith, they must themselves be centered in f~ith; hence the critical need for programs that nurture adults' spihtuality, said Ms. Gordon.

1 She said that while marriage preparation programs are dcellent, newly-married couples a~e in particular need of support in a society "that says it's better to!live together" rather than make commitments, better "not to Have children."

I "As church we must offer s~stenance" to.those who will intr09uce the next generation to the faith, she said.

On the whole, "we leave adult~ to languish," Ms. Gordon clai~ed.

When Mass attendance drops ~nd many attend "only ~n ChnstJ;t1as an~ Ea~t~r, the la~~y have lost thel,: spmtual c.enter and for~otten the ce~trality of the t~bl~, t nd th~ ce,?tralityof community, !she said. Somewhere w.e have falll~? to pass on the essentral mys~err· S~me, Ms.. Gordon .co~;rnule?, are ap.ologetlc Catholics, .afr~ld to publicly ~ck~owledge their f~lth ~r to ~hare It With others f?r f~~r of passrng on the wrong t~rng·.1 However, all of the faithful are c~arged with.th.e catechetic.al rryisslOn of modeling that faith for ot~ers. . " . I Catechetlcal ministry IS flot " .M s. G orsome thOrng we c h oose, d~n asserted. At some ~oint, llhe said, we make a commitment to live the baptismal vows that WI re ~ade fo,~ us by other~. !hose V?IWS rnvolve the responSibility notJust of living the faith but passing it on."

All of us are teachers and all of us have' teachers in the faith who don't necessarily hold the forn?al title of catchist, Ms. Gordon said.

Part of wisdom is recognizirg that we don't have all the answers and not being afraid to admit lit.

"All of us must find others who know more," she said, recallihg that the most inf1uential"teache~s" in her life were "just ordinary pe1opie" living the faith and imparting it with delight.

I Such a role is one to look fqrward to as we grow older, 1\1s.

GO'd on .aid, ,ugg"ling tha "~l

I

1

I

ty would benefit from a return to associating wisdom with age.

"I've spent so much of my life learning from elders," she said, recalling her childhood in Louisiana, when she would. "hop the fence" to visit her grandfather next door and listen to his stories.

"Papa would begin with the Bible in his hands and tell me about the Lord, and sometimes we would fall into silences and listen to our insides."

Rather than face the passage of years with dread, Ms. Gordon believes "it's not at all awful to be old; I hope to share with my nieces and nephews what Papa taught me." But, she asked, "How many of usas elders spend time with littie childr~n, letting them listen to us? How often do we as adults spend time with our parents, learning from them still?"

The Catechist "For many children, you are the closest thing to God they will experience," Ms. Gordon told the catechists. ':They know whether you are patient,.listen to them, are loving... We are role models. If we dor)"t practice the faith, it's moot."

Thecatechistmustexamine"how well we are living this life, following what it is to be a believer," she advised, and that begins with standing before God in stillness, stepping back from the life of constant rapid motion.

She told of a teaching assignment she had "after coming out of Notre Damefeeling like a theological wonder." She was entrusted With "14-year-olds raised entirely on sugar-they had never known a still moment in their lives!"

The ultimate punishment for misbehavior was detention: students were required to sit still with absolutely nothing to distract them.

One particular student, Mary, found herself in detention time after time and complained she would go out of her mind with boredom.

Ms. Gordon offered to teach her to pray. ""11 do anything! Teach me how todothispraything!" Mary agreed.

"In three orfour months, Mary's presence in detention lessened," Ms. Gordon reported. "It's unfortunate we need to use detentions to teach children to pray," but it seemed to work: "I got a letter from one of these students saying she is now "a'hing thwlogy in high "hool."

•

•

I ·.1

JI

1.'

f

NOT JUST CLOWNING AROUND: Kathie Barboza, center, principal of S1. Jean Baptiste School, Fall River, and her colorful corps of clowns speak on sacramental way of living during a convention workshop called" A Clown Experience," (Hickey photo) The bottom line, said Ms. Gordon, ·is that "we have to teach kids silence and we have to learn it ourselves. " Wisdom will be found, she said, "if ww are a people of faith willing to make a commitment to go out of our way to live the best Christian life we can; to be available to each other; to look at our insides; to teach the truth" and do it with joy.

"We will know God to the extent that we have served God," she continued. "If we live according to the ways of Christ, when the Lord appears, we will see him and know him as he truly is."

"I love theology and the whole process of sharing theology and passing on the faith," Ms. Gordon declared, convinced that "it is one of the greatest things we can be engaged in. "We feel we've been entrusted with 'something very special."

To Arrive at Love In his Mass homily on the Gospel reading about the rich young man (Mk 9:30-37), Bishop O'Malley said the central question of the story, "What do I have to do to inherit eternal life?", is a question catechists deal with "every time we stand in front of a classroom."

I 1'1 the passage, Jesus is addressed

as "Good Teacher," a "beautiful description of Jesus" and one which appears often in the Gospels, :.aid the bishop.

In his final mandate in the Gospels, Christ the teacher commissions his disciples to catechize the world in his name, spreading what he taught them through divine revelation, said Bishop O'Malley.

Jesus said, "My teaching is not from myself but comes from the one who sent me," the bishop continued. "The smorgasbord C2.tholic"-one who picks and choc'ses what to believe-"has lost sight of this fundamental teaching...

"If we are to call ourselves faithful Catholics, we must embrac(: all of the church's teachings as teachings of Christ," said Bishop O'Malley.

Catholic education "is our response to Jesus' last mandate," the important mission of telling "the truth about Christ, the truth about the church, the truth about the dignity of human life," he added.

Bishop O'Malley concluded that the new Catechism of the Catholic Church says that the church's doctrine and teaching are "directed to a love that never ends." These teao:hings, the catechism says, "spring from love and have no other objl~ctive but to arrive at love." .

-----------------------Vowed life is parley topic

THE ANCHOR -

Sister Barbara Fiand, SND, will discuss "The Vowed Life: A Contemporary Vision" at a conference for religious to be jointly sponsored by the Fall River Diocesan Office for Religious and the Interdiocesan Ongoing Development Committee of the Fall River and Providence dioceses.

It will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, at St. Mary's Academy-Bay View, Riverside, RI. Registration information is available from Sister Noel Blute, RS M, Episcopal Representative for Religious, tel. 992-9921.

Catholic Charities appointments made

Sister Sellmayer professes plerpetual vows Sister Jane Sell mayer, SUSC, recently made perpetual profession as a Sister of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts at St. Bridget's Church in Abington.

A native of New York, Sister Sellmayer graduated from St. Mary's School of Nursing in Rochester, NY. The mother of three grown children, Mary Beth Smith, Britt Sell mayer and Monica Paquin, she was widowed in 1987 an~ entered the Holy U !lion community in 1989.

During her two-year novitiate. she worked at St:Colman's Church in Brockton. After her first profession in 1991 she began ministry at St. Bridget's parish, where she visits the elderly, sick and housebound.

She also facilitates a bereavement group for those mourning a spouse, parent or friend, baptismal preparation. and a scripture study program and is a lTIember of the adult religious education leaders' team. Prior to entering the Holy Union community, Sister Sellmayer was employed as a geriatric nurse.

Accepting her cbmmitment to Holy Union were ~ister Patricia Heath, Fall River provincial superio"r; Sister MarlLou Simcoe, a general councilor of the international congregation; and many fellow sisters.

The liturgy was celebrated by Father George Harrison, assisted

by Fathers Allan Butler, Philip Davignon, Alexander Keenan, Celsus Repole OFM, Cap., and Deacon Thomas Hanlon.

OASIS program anno,unced for F'allRiver deanery OASIS, a program for persons "seeking ways to quench the thirst of God's people," will be offered at Santo Christo parish center, 185 Canal St., Fall Rivl~r, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23.

The spiritual and human needs of residents of the Greater Fall River deanery of the diocese will be discussed, along with ways in which lay and religious caregivers can meet such needs.

A video panorama of the many activities sponsored by the diocese and by religious congregations, priests and laity in the area will be shown. Speakers, all active in Fall River area ministries, will include Mary-Lou Mancini, Diocesan Office of Social Services; Jacqueline Racine, Diocesan Office of HIV / AIDS Ministry; Sister Linda Lambert, CSJ, chaplain at St. Anne's Hospital; and Re\'. Maurice Gauvin, Santo Christo parochial vicar.

Geared to single Catholic adults of the Fall River deanery, OASIS will include time for discussion, questions and refreshments. The program was planned with the aid of the speakers, Jim L'Heureux of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, and a subcommittee of the Diocesan Vocation Council. Sub-

committee members are Sisters Carole Mello, OP, and Aliceann Walsh, RSM; Brother Robert Hazard, FSC; and Fathers Andre Patenaude, MS, and Craig Pregana.

The upcoming OASIS program is the second in a series. The first was presented last May for the Tauntonl Attleboro deaneries. Next March and May the program will be offered in the New Bedford and Cape and Islands <!eaneries respectively.

Registration forms with further information are available in all parish churches of the Fall River deanery. Pre-registration is preferred but registrations will also be accepted at the door.

r<espeCL Li.J::e 111I11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 THE AN (" H 0 R (LJ S PS-545-(20). Second Class Postage Paid "t Fall River. Mass.

Published weekly except the week of July 4 and the week after Christnws at XX7 Highland Avenue. Fall River. Mass. 02720 by the Catholic Press or the Diocese of Fall River. Subscription price hy mail. postpaid $11.00 pCI' year. Postmasters send address changes to The Anchor. P.O. Box 7. Fall River. MA 02722. .

For your home or business.

LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE • Cards

John C. LINDO & SON

:• :;:~~~ ~ Rosaries •••

Plumbing & Heating Est. 1920

Lie. 10786

(508) 678-5571

TEL. (508) 997·1165 Open-Man, - Sat. 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM 282 Union Street - New Bedford Save this coupon for $1.00 off purchase of $10.00 or more.

"The Experienced Plumbing People" Providing a Full Line oj Plumbing & Heatin/{ Services •

FAll RIVER

SWANSEA

SOMERSET

~-----------_..I

She inherited her lDother's eyes, her fathers nose and her grandmother's history of breast cancer.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. At one of our special presentations we'll discuss how your family history can put you at risk of developing breast cancer. If this or any other progra.I'1'!- interests you, sign up. Because knowledge isn't inherited. You have to learn it.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

R.N. at 674-5600, ext. 2390.

"Financial Workshop for Seniors" Sunday Senior Llmcheon Oct. 16, noon-l:30 P.M., Education Classroom. Buffet lunch to be followed by a presentation given by Jeff Luiz, Vice President, PaineWebber, Inc. Pre-registration is required. Contact the Food & Nutrition Dept. at 674-5600, ext. 2635. There is a $4 charge for this program which includes lunch.

"Recent DelielopmentJ in FamiliaL Cancer/ Oct. 25, 6:00-8:30 P.M., at White's of Westport. Presented.

by Judy E. Garber, M.D., Assistant First Aid/CPR Course Oct. 26 & 27, 6:00-10:00 P.M., at Saint Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Free and open to the public. PreAnne's Hospital. Presented by Louis registration is required. Contact the "Butch" Chagnon, this course will provide Hudner Oncology up-to-date information Center at 675-5688 or in a low-stress environment. It includes the Education Dept. at 674-5600, ext.

SAINT ANNE'S HOSPITAL hands-on practice with 2480. manikins and classmates. Cost is $40.00. Contact the Prostate Education Dept. at 674-5600, ext. 2480.

Cof11l1UlJ1icafe.· Health!

Support Group

Oct. 11 & 24, 6:00-7:30 P.M., Nannery Conference Room, Clemence Hall. Free and open to the public. Contact the Clinical Social Work Dept. at 674-5600, ext. 2279 or Rosemarie Baylies, R.N., O.C.N. at 675-5688.

Caretakers Support Group for NonOffending Parents of Sexually Abused Kids

"Taking Stock of Your Stock" DiafJetl'..J EJw:ation d Support Group

[It] Saint Anne's • Hospital

Oct. 13, 6:00-7:30 P.M., Nannery Conference Room, Clemence Hall. A talk about drug actions and interactions, presented by Jamie Nightingale, Pharm. D. Free and open to those with diabetes and their loved ones. Contact Maria Cabrales,

3

NEED A GOOD PLUMBER?

• Gifts

Anchor thanks go to Msgr.

Daniel F. Hoye, pastor ofSt. John the Evangelist parish, Attleboro, the first to respond to our request for parish histories. Any more out there'?

Fri., Oct. 7, 1994

the ;-.Jew Bedford deanery and Rev. Robert A. Oliveira will be assistant director of Catholic Charities for the Attleboro deanery.

Bishop Sean O'Malley has announced that effective immed iately Rev. Ralph D. Tetrault will be director of Catholic Charities for

Thank you!

NEWLY-PROFESSED Holy Union Sister Jane Sellmayer with Fathe:r George Harrison, celebrant of the liturgy for her perpetual profession of vows.

Diocese of Fall River -

Group meets Mondays at 4:30 p.m.

Therapy groups for sexually abused children & adolescents are also offered. If interested in joining the group, contact Lee Weille, L.I.C.S.W., at 674-5600, ext. 2280.

Caring for our community.

795 Middle St., Fall River. MA 02721-1798 (508) 674-5600. ext. 2480

.4

THE ANCHOR -

.

Diocese of Fall River-- Fri., Oct.

.

7;, 1994

the moorin~, Casino: Good or Bald?

the living word

I

I

Casino gambling is very much an issue in this year's elections. No matter what one thinks about it, it is not going away.

Many would bury casinos under a veneer of pietistic p,latitudes. Some would even make the subject a so-called "Bi,ble" dilemma.

Such people, it might be noted, often ignore the very rea1life issues presented by Holy Writ and opt for abortion a~ an acceptable alternative to bringing a baby to birth.

There are also those who can only be viewed as foolish , fundamentalists whose world is so narrow that their vision of life is truly impaired. Logic is wasted on such biased individuals.

On the other side of the casino ca use are people who feel ;that such institutions will solve all the economic problems of an area. People will be employed, businesses will flourish 'and I communities will be transformed. , But facts and figures clearly indicate such is not the sase.

Few residents of Atlantic City, for example, have yet benefited from gambling's so-called windfalls. In many cases the e~act opposite is true. Casinos generate big money for the few \Vhile also attracting people who thrive on the risks of life. :.

Addiction to gambling is a very real and serious pro~lem that has been purposely overlooked in this current debate. In a social order which thrives on addiction, casinos are to gamblers as heroin is to the dope addict. There is a selfdestructive force in gambling as devastating to its victims as are all other forms of human weakness.

I • Casinos tend to encourage human faults and failures ~nd too often become magnets for those who live on the dark ~ide of life and feel that winning will turn their situation arouqd.

There is a very real difference between a game and gambling.

The former is an activity engaged in for diversion or am~se­ ment. Gambling is inherently risky. Thus when games ~nd gambling are merged, we get some of the horror shows now eroding the professional sports scene. .: One effect noted in many areas where casino gambling 'has been legalized is a downturn of charitable donations. for example, a recent survey of Connecticut churches showed that financial support was on a downslide, not just for local bihgo games but for weekly contributions. ' In this context it should be remembered that church and synagogue-sponsored bingos are permitted by the state as a means of supporting schools and other worthwhile undertakings that receive no state aid. In short, as much as many churches do not like to have bingo, they must do so to keep schools and other charitable efforts in operation.

I It is most important for every citizen to understand the pros and cons of the casino gambling controversy. So often the benefits are limited and the disadvantages are innumera})le.

The issue is one that can have serious ethical and moral con:sequences not only for individuals but also for the casino sp~nsoring organization. , For tne present, let's not rush into casino gambling as a cOre for all our ills lest we wake up to see that Big Brother has s<;>ld us yet another bill of goods.

Too many backroom deals end up creating more problems than they were expected to solve. Too often the poor become poorer and the rich richer. What good is winningajackpot ifit destroys the winner? Now is the time for the voters of qur Commonwealth to take charge of this.very serious issue. ' The Editor

the

OFfiCIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River P.O. BOX 7 ' 887 Highland Avenue Fall River, MA 02720 Fall River, MA 02722-0007 • Telephone 508-675-7151 FAX (508) 675-7048 Send address changes to P.O. Box 7 or call telephone number above I

EDITOR

GENERAL MANAGER

Rev. John F. Moore

Rosemary Dussault ~ leary Press-F"atr River

I

C~

S photo

BALTIMORE YOUNGSTERS WHO PARTICIPATED IN ROSARY-ON-RADIO PROCESSION THROUGH CITY STREETS HOLD THEIR ROSARIES ALOFT (Story on page 5)

"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among wom(!D." Lk. 1:28

Insight from the saints

By Father Kevin Harrington lived quiet but courageous lives of One of the most surprising come- generous self-giving but have never gained the Church's formal notice. backs 01 late is the resurgence in It is always dangerous to categpopularity of angels and saints. orize; however, saints do lead us to I once asked a teenager what it meant to be canonized and he that temptation. It seems to me responded that it meant the stunt that there are two kinds of saints: of being shot from a canon. No those who never sully their baptismal robes, instinctively gravitatdoubt about it: canonization, the ing from birth toward goodness addition of someone's name to the fixed list (canon) of official Chris- and graciousness, and those who have a more adventurous journey. tian saints, wasn't a household The first kind live without the word for him! slightest whiff of smugness or selfEven among Roman Catholics, righteousness. They would be the who were' once preeminent for naming their children, their cities, last to consider themselves saints because their lives are a testimony their streets and their holidays to the argument that genuine goodafter some saint or other, prayer to ness of spirit is something that a the saints has been on the decline person receives as a gift. since the Second Vatican Council.

Other saints follow a path of People are reluctant to admit that they pray, for it instantly says that trial and error similar to that of the we are weak, that we need help to prodigal son. They recognize their make it through the day, that we heart's hunger for fulfillment and can't stand alone, that we are not . seek it through the passing pleasures that this world affords. Only in control of our lives.

A saint is one who has been after a series of errors do they made holy. This observation might well be a necessary corrective to those who, in this age of personality development, define a martyr as someone who lives with a saint!

It is reassuring in this day and Oct. 10 age when our shelves are replete 1918, Rev. James c.J. Ryan, with books about hobb.ies, physi- Assistant, Immaculate Conception, . cal fitness, sex manuals, and low- North Easton fat cooking that the saints can 1987, Rev. Boniface Jones, dra w us out of our selfishness and SS.Cc., Chaplain, Sacred Heart have us contemplate what William Home, New Bedford Butler Yeats called "vague immen1990, Rev. Joseph A. Martineau, sities." The great Jesuit Gerard Retired Pastor, St. Theresa. New Manley Hopkins wrote: ..... good Bedford grows wild and wide, has shades, is Oct. II nowhere none." He could well 1952, Rev. James A. Downey, have been writing about the paths Pastor, Holy Ghost, Attleboro of sanctity, both inside and outside Christianity.

Oct. 14 Doubtless the annual feast of 1918, Rev. Dennis M. Lowney, All Saints on November 1st is the Assistant, Sacred Heart, Taunton Church's way of recognizing Hop1972, Rev. Msgr. Edward B. kins' insight that there are plenty Booth, Pastor Emeritus, St. Mary, of unrecognized saints who have North Attleboro

come to their senses, acknow:ledge their powerlessness a nd return with .humbled hearts for forgivenes'> and redemption.

Canonized saints provide us with the insight that God can sanctify in his mysterious ways far from perfect people when they learn to rely more upon his grace and less IIpon their own willpower. This means, at a practical level, that whether our personalities are such thRt we never stray from the path of righteousness or whether we have sinned boldly, the saints are not that much different from us. These heavenly intermediaries can befriend us in our hour of need and lighten life's burdens.

In our day and age saints are more relevant than ever. Too rr..any people are so fixated on matl:rial things that they never consider the spiritual. Perhaps the headlong pursuit of wealth, beauty, fame and power has distracted too many from the hunger for holiness present in every human heart. Advertisers work overtime to convince us that happiness can be found in a new house, a new car, a new relationship, a new "something." The saints remind us that happine!:s is not found in selfish pursuits but rather is God's gift when we liurrender our will and say with utter sincerity, "Thy will be done."

Archdiocese splits MEXICO CITY (CNS) - A church official has confirmed that portions of the archdiocese of Mexico City will be split off to create four new dioceses following the retirement of Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada.

On his 75th birthday June 29, Cardinal Corripio submitted his resignation to Pope John Paul II, as required by canon law.

-------------------I~'

'/.

,',,'/1'

. ,I., " , ., ..

.fJI'~}(',.,.

" L.'

""","

. ,. I ,

J

,

• ' , ' , '')',

. : ' .'.

Rock'beat

•

"."~" \/1~~'~.1~~,..:.>,~~:;~<

"

Forgiveness after an abortioll

Q. Several years ago I committed a grave sin by huving an abortion. I did so because of a genetic test result, which I reulize does not make the sin any le!;s.

I confessed the sin and the priest told me I was forgivcn. The penance was minimal, but I live daily with the pain and shame of what I did, and six years latcr still pray for forgiveness.

My question is this.ljust read in the new Catechism ofthe Catholic Church that one who has an abortion "incurs excommunication latae sententiae," by thc nry commission of the offense.

Have I been ex(:ommunicated, or did the priest have authority to absolve me? Since my confession I have been receiving the sacraments.

Is that wrong? (Iowa) A.. Several times in the documents preparing and presenting the new catechism it is noted that it is meant particula rly as a guide and resource for bishops, priests and other teachers of the faith.

Pope John Paul II says, for example, in his letter introducing the work, that it is intended as a reference text, a norm for teaching the faith, "to encourage and assist in the writing of new local catechisms, which take into account various situations and cultures," in other words to ,explain and expand on the teachings contained there as necessary for people to understand and apply them correctly.

The subject you bring up is a good example of why the pope said that. Some elements of church teaching and law are quite complicated, and the entire picture cannot be put into fo(:us every time an intricate subject comes up.

Let me explain. The sentence immediately after the one you quote (in No. 2272) says that this excommunication is incurred "subject to the conditions provided by canon law."

That is a weighty sentence: Canon law places many conditions which must be present before a person incurs such an excommunication, conditions about which many or most Catholics would be unaware.

The same paragraph also has two other words which you passed over, but which are highly significant. It notes that "formal cooperation" in an abortion constitutes a grave sin and can incurexcommunication.

DAILY READINGS Oct. 10: G,al 4:22-24,2627,31-5:1; Ps 113:1"7; lk

11:29-32 Oct. 11: Gal 5:1-6; Ps 119:41,43-45,47-48; lk 11:3741 Oct. 12: Gal 5:18-25; Ps 1:1-4.6; lk 11:42-46 Oct. 13: Eph 1:3-10; Ps 98:1-6; lk 11:47-54 Oct. 14: Eph 1:11-14; Ps 33:1-2.4-5.12-13; lk 12:1-7 Oct. 15: IEp~ 1:15-23; Ps 8:2-7; lk 12:fl-12 Oct. 16: Is 53:10-11; Ps 33:4-5,18-20,22; Heb 4:1416; Mk 10:35-45

~:

'.'

. (!

"

THE ANCHOR -

Diocese of Fall River -

Fri., Oct. 7, 1994

•

accompanies rosary walk

ByFA'fHERJOHN DIETZEN This space is too short to go into what formal cooperation means, but it introduces even more conditions before an individ ual is excommunicated.

To give an idea qfwhat I'm talking about, in order to incur this excommunication a person must be at least 18 years old and must be aware when the act is committed that such an excommunication is going to be incurred if the act is carried through.

Obviously, many people who know that abortion is seriously wrong still do not know that an excommunication is incurred at the same time. You appear to be a good example.

Furthermore, if circumstances surrounding the pregnancy are such as to cause grave' fear and confusion in the mind Qfthe woman, or if she is under severe pressure from family or perhaps close friends, again the excommunication would not. be incurred. : .

As the catechi'sm explains, by attaching here the penalty of the excommunication the church wishes to make clear the gravity of the crime of taking unborn life and the harm done tothe innocent one put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society. It does not wish to restrict the scope of God's mercy.

Trust what the priest tells you. It sounds as if he knew what he was doing.

For those interested in checking references, the most relevant parts of canon law here are 1398, 97, 1323 and 1324.

A free brochure outlining basic Catholic prayersi beliefs and practives is availab!e by sending a stamped self-adlJressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Holy Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Bloomington, III~ 61701. Questions for this column should be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address.

BALTIMORE (CNS) - Rock and the rosary combined to make a joyful noise on the air waves as part of the recent National Marian Conference of Baltimore.

"The Wind Cries Mary," a bluesy rock song by the late Jimi Hendrix, was combined with the Glorious Mysteries of the rosary, for instance, to become a meditative prayer.

The Hendrix song was one of a handful aire:d on WIYY 98 Rock as part of a youth-oriented rosary that coincided with a procession through downtown Baltimore.

The rosary was part of the youth track of the Marian. conference, which drew about 5.000 participants.

More than 300 junior and senior high school students participated in the conference's youth track, which included skits, music and lectures: but the favorite part of the day for most was the procession.

"It's awesome," said Steve Kuzmak, a freshman at Mount St. Joseph High School. "It was a little weird having everyone looking at us, but it felt good."

Andy Schneider, a junior at Mount St. Joseph, added, "And the music was great. Hendrix is cool."

Father Richard Lobert. organizer of the youth track, was elated by the participation. "I'm really happy," he said. "Considering this is an optional exercise [for Catholics] it's an impressive turnout, and having 98 Rock's cooperation is incredible."

Edward Kiernan, general manager of WIYY, donated air time for the rosary as well as studio time to record it. Jonathan Hanst, a producer, chose the music that accompanied it.

Songs interspersed throughout the rosary included U2's "In God's Country," "Best Friend" by Queen, "Closer to the Heart" by Rush and "Shine" by Collective Soul. Instrumental music by Dire Straits accompanied the spoken parts of the rosary.

Those in the procession were supplied with personal stereos with headphones and boom boxes.

"One thing's for sure," said Father Lobert. "They'll never listen to these songs the same way again."

Get a Quick-and-Eas~ Auto Loan at Citizens-Union.

Pre-approved financing is available for new auto loans.

Transfer your payment from a Citizens-Union checking or savings account and reduce your rate by .25%.

0lTI2ENS-~ Call 508·678·7641

CLARA WEEKS-BOUTILIER, L1CSW, ACSW, BCD

is pleased to announce the opening of her full-time private practice specializing in

CARING, PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY for INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES, AND FAMILIES 35 Hawes Street, North Dartmouth, MA ' 508·993·1651 confidential day evening and weekend appointments available most insurances accepted

Weston Jesuit School of Theology O·P·E·N H·O·U·S·E Are you interested in education for professional ministry in today's Catholic Church?

praye~BOX

Case for choice

Respect for Life

DA YTON. Ohio (CNS) - A school system built on choice is preferable to one built on compulsion because "it~s not fair to compel child ren to attend bad public schools." a former assistant secretary of education in the Bushadministration told Catholic educators.

"Many of the critics are saying they would rat~er see thousands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of poor. black and Hispanic kids fail and drop out than to see a single public dollar go to support these children in Catholic schools." said Diane Ravitch. She urged educators to build the case for school choice through more research into the benefits of private education. She spoke at a national symposium at the University of Dayton.

Father of mercies, the wondrous quality of human life comes from you. By your grace, help us to reverence and protect the lives of those who are silenced by age or illness, or who suffer intensely. For our reverence proclaims your mastery over life and death, and the protection we give shows the sacred dignity of every human person. We make this prayer through Clhrist our Lord. Amen.

r<espec"t Lf.J:e

Programs Include: Master of Divinity Master of Theology Master of Theological Studies Licentiale in Sacred Theology Continuing Education Programs including the Sabbatical Program

Weston Jesuit School of Theology A National Theological Center

Open House Visiting Days Wednesday, October 19,1994' 9:30am-2:00pm Thursday, November 17,1994' 5:30pm-9:00pm Wednesday, November 30, 1994' 9:30am-2:00pm Wednesday, February 8,1995' 9:30am-2:00pm For infonnation please (ontact: Mary Ellen Herx-Morrill, MDiv Director of Admissions Weston Jesuit School ofTheology 3Phillips Place. Dept. Q4 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 -3495 Phore: (617) 492-1960' Fax: (617) 492-5833

5

6

I

THE ANCHOR -

-.

•.

Diocese of Fall River -

, .•.•

Fri., Oct. 7,1994

RESEARCH LIMITS The Catholic Church rejects all human embryo research. NIH set these guidelines: ACCEPTABLE • studies to improve successful pregnancies • research on the process of fertilization .genetic tests on embryos being used for in vitro fertilization .studies on embryonic stem cells

NOT ACCEPTABLE .c1oning of human embryos for transfer to the womb • research on embryos after 14 days of development .genetic diagnosis for sex selection • cross-species fertilization .attempted transfer of human embryos into non-human animals • fertilization and gestation of eggs from aborted fetuses Source: National Instltutos 01 Hoollh

C 1994 eNS Graphics

A vocation to Catholic ideas

By Father Eugene Hemrick It's no secret that many Catholic universities and colleges are searching for a facelift to restore their Catholic identity.

In addition to ensuring excellence in education, they are seeking ways to instill in students a Catholic tradition that will impact their lives and, through them, their culture.

One way universities and eolleges might do this is by planting the idea in students that some of them just might have a vocation in some form to the world of Catholic idcas.

Several questions that are difficult to answer prompt my suggestion. Where today do we find Catholic playwrights, novelists, poets, musicians and philosophers who combine the best of Catholic imagination with their disciplines and who make an impact on our culture?

Where, for example, are lhe Catholic playwrights who probe the plight suffered by Third World people? One well-thought-out play could do more to raise consciousness than any of us might dare to imagine.

Where are the musicians whose compositions are capable of moving the soul and lifting our thoughts to heaven? Why is it that people all of a sudden are rediscovering Gregorian chant?

When did we last experience the moving force of a poem by a Catholic writer whose spirituality was rich and wise?

In other words, where are the Catholic men and women who are devoted to original ideas, new harmonies and creative images -who are willing to come together, identifiably as Catholics, and to sacrifice a lifetime for their vocation?

I stand to be corrected, but I believe we have too few Catholics today who sense that their true vocation is to the intellectual life .

Perhaps because of the pace of life, too many spend all their time reacting to events and don't take the extra step needed to influence and transform their world. Like news commentators, they focus heavily on problems of the moment

and jump from one topic to another.

What is needed is the willingness to "suffer" with an idea, to respect its scope -its infinity and humbly to bow before God with it. That is where the idea of "vocation" comes in.

It is disturbing to see how many Catholic students today are motivated more by the desire to achieve financial security than by an adventuresome spirit bent on changing the world for the better, no matter the personal cost.

A number of professors who once dreamt of mastering their fields are abandoning the teaching profession to join industries that are driven more by profit than love for the world of ideas.

Poetry, theatre, music and ideas have always been feared by dictators because of their power to fire the imagination and create a revolution.

Giuseppe Verdi, the great italian composer, rallied Italy against Austria through his music. and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's writings played a role in bringing down Soviet power.

The death of Socrates occurred as i't did because he dared to challenge his students' idea of the gods.

Because he challenged them to think. he was considered a threat.

It is the power of ideas and creativityto move the mind and the heart. But if the world today needs a Catholic intelligentsia, it is not just to move mind and heart, but to speak to the soul.

Estonia rebuilding CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) - Although it is a minority in Estonia, the Catholic Church can contribute to the Baltic nation's rebuilding if relations with the government remain open and effective, Pope John Paul II said. The pope recently met with Estonian President Lennart Meri at the papal summer residence. "After the sad period of trial, particularly marked by the lack of basic human freedoms. the Estonian nation currently is living in a climate of moral.and civil rebirth," the pope told the president.

,

I

F oster parenting Dr. Kenny: What does it take to be a foster parent? My wife and I are considering applying at our local welfare department, but we wonder if we are qualified. Any ideas? (Chicago) Foster parenting requires a lot of love and giving. Many of the children who need foster care today are older and have some problems.

Love isn't always easy.

You have a good heart even to consider it. I welcome your question because it gives me a chance to think through some qualities that we learned as foster parents.

- You need experience. Having had other children is a big help. If your first adventure in parenting is with an older and troubled child, you may have more than you can handle.

- You need to suspend judgment. Threatening and blaming are not good discipline techniques.

You must rather insist on the desired outcome without judging the person. If homework needs to be done by bedtime, then find .some effective way without putting down the child .. Remember, your foster child comes to you with considerable emotional baggage, of which you know little.

You don't know why he reacts the way he does, so don't blame or judge.

- You need patience. Foster children often have much to unlearn. Lessons of discipline may need to be taught over and over.

Perseverance is important. Don't be discouraged. .

- You need to have modest expectations. You are not going to change the world overnight. No matter how much love you have to give he may still lie about his homework, and she may still procrastinate on her ch<;>res.

- You need to be detached from your possessions. Kids break things, like lamps and windows.

They "borrow" your clothes without permission. And if it can be spilled, it will be. The situation may eventually improve, but in the meantime some of your favorite items may suffer. Kids come first, but it's hard to see your treasures trashed.

- You need to have a childfocus. If you are to be a good foster parent, your life should center around children and their events: ballgames, school events, vacations with kids, Disney and adventure videos, family meals, family prayer.

By Dr. JAMES& MARY KENNY Taking on emotionally needy l'oungsters as a sideline is a mistake.

- You need unselfish love. Don't expect gratitude. Don't expect good behaVior just because you have given a lot of time and love. Instead you may be disappointed, "chewed out," even called names be'cause you insist on setting proper limits.

Love is something you give, whether you receive it back or not.

What's in it for you? The inner satisfaction that you have tackled a hard job, one that few other people are willing to try today.

Foster parents have a rare opportunity to make a critical difference in the life of a youngster. It's hard.

But to borrow the motto (If the Peace Corps, it may be "the toughest job you'll ever love."

Reader questions on family living and child care to be answered in print are invited by The Ke rmys; 219 W. Harrison; Rensselaer, IN 47978.

It's wonderful With a title like "Catholic Is Wonderful," I must admit I became curious' when the booklet came across my desk.

I asked myself what it was about the faith of this author - a husband and the father of three sons - that would lead him to use that title. It was easy to find out by reading Mitch Finley's 64-page booklet (Resurrection Press).

For Finley Catholicism offers "the greatest potential to experience God's self-gift, or grace. You will find in the Catholic Church the most reliable opportunity to discover the truth about yourself, about other people, about life and about the world we live in," Finley writes.

He punctuates this belief with poetic words, writing that "Catholicism ... is like a great old oak tree 'whose roots are fed from the earth, while its highest branches reach almost to the stars.' That's what it means to be Catholic, and it truly is wonderful," Finley says.

He describes what it means to "stay Catholic" in your relationships, as a parish, in the workplace and personally, for yourself.

"A Catholic is one who can say, in all honesty, 'I'm not perfect and neither is the church.' A Catholic is one who is baptized, wants to belong to the Catholic Church, finds God in the Catholic community of faith and finds there forgiveness, spiritual nourishment, courage, healing and light tQ live by."

Most readers will recognize themselves somewhere in his chapter "What kind of Catholic Are You?" Finley describes different kinds of Catholics, and he has a name for each. Some he calls "progressive," some "liberal," others "Sunday Catholics" and "cultural Catholics."

But the writer isn't encouraging readers to identify themselves with this or that label. That's just what he doesn't want. He offers insights to help people realize that it's OK to lean sometimes more to one position than another. That doesn't make us less Catholic, so long as we keep our bottom line statements of faith. And there's no compromise there. A Catholic believes in the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed.

The bizarre bazaar, I had a dream. Msgr. O'Kneel, our pastor, put our men's 'club in charge of the annual, All Saints bazaar, and we turned it into the Bizarre Bazaar.

First, all planning was done by men, largely because all the members of the men's club are men.

This was confirmed by a vote of 10-3 with one abstention.

Initially, a militant minority wanted to radicalize the event move the site to Las Vegas and invite two middle-weight contenders to fight for the All Saints Bizarre Middle-Weight Champion title.

Once they were convinced this was old hat, however, we all pretty much agreed to structure the fund. raiser around traditional centers of income: games, booths, food and coerced sale items.

Food was easy. A banner emblazoned "Terminal Eats" would be hung over a kiosk featuring delicacies from all the forbidden food groups: Lethal Snacks, Twinkies, Chocolate Covered, Carbonated, and Dripping Lard.

Everyone also liked the idea of a face-painting booth. Ou'r venture though, would not rely on the traditional painting of hearts and clowns on pe<;>ple's cheeks.

Ours would be titled "Schwarzenegger Face Camouflaging." A barber chair would be centered on a 30-foot by 30-foot dropcloth.

Victims, uh, clients, would have releases signed by guardians or Msgr. O'Kneel. Paint would be applied with 5-inch brushes by volunteers stationed around the barber chair slapping on the stuff as the patron was spun 'round.

By ANTOINETTE BOSCO

"I think of myself as a pro:~res­ sive Catholic with a few liberal, as well as a few conservative leanings, depending on the particular issue," Finley writes.

He wants people to remember that fa.ith is a gift; and so is Catholicism. And he often does this in a memorable way, as when he says it is "important to maintain a high awareness of the sacred nature of what we are about."

How often we forget that we don't just get through life, day by day. We bring God to others because God is in us, and we encounter God in others and in the world; they bring God to us.

We are immersed in the sacred,. yet we hardly think of this - until a booklet like Finley's comes along to remind us.

By DAN MORRIS

Actually, we figured we coald make m'ore money by charging '~he volunteer painters than by charging the victims, uh, customers.

We werejust beginning to des::gn the dunk tank for the archbishop when my wife shook my shoulder.

"What in the world are you dreaming about?" she asked. "You ke:ep twitching and grinning."

"I don't suppose you'd belie:ve me if I told you I was dreaming about fund raising for the parish?"

I ventured.

She didn't.

Pro-life's fighting a winning battle, avers GOV. Casey WASHINGTON (CNS)-Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey told some 3,000 delegates at the recent annual convention of the Christian Coalition that politicians who think the fight against abortion on demand is "not winnable" are wrong.

"Do not tell me this is not a winning issue. I know you can win with it, because I've done it," he said, referring to his record milIionvote margin in Pennsylvania's 1990 election over a Republican supporter of keeping abortion legal.

Casey, who differs sharply with his party on abortion, was the only Democratic politician to address the Sept. 17-18 convention in Washington.

On the Republican side the speakers' roster included at least three 1996 presidential prospects: former Vice President Dan Quayle, Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas and former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander. Also there was William J. Bennett, former ed ucation secretary a nd federal drug control director, who disappointed many by deciding he will not run for president in 1996.

The Christian Coalition, founded five years ago by former television evangelist Pat Robertson, claims more than a million members and has become a significant force in several state Republican parties.

Speaker after speaker criticized the policies and personnel of the Clinton administration, and several predicted a massive antiClinton voter turnout in this November's elections.

;..:

THE FALL RIVER diocese was well represented at Sunday's March for Life, as top two pictures show. Bottom, Bishop Sean O'Malley addresses marcher~; this winning youngster might have been aborted had his mother not found pro-life friends. (Studio D photos)

Thousal1lds show at Respect Life Walk Thousands of pro-lifers, including many from the Fall River diocese, participate:d in last Sunday's eighth annual Respect Life Walk for Mothers and Children. The Fall River contingent was led by Bishop Sean O'),I(alley and organized by Father Stephen A. Fernandes and Mrs. Marian Desrosiers of the diocesan Pro-Life Apostolate.

"The Walk underscores our concern for women," said Madeline McComish, president of Massachusetts Citizens For Life. "It raises money and visibility for hotlines, shelters and support groups. It's

about empowering women with real help, real choices." Featured speaker Bernard Cardinal Law noted that the Walk reflects the fact that the pro-life movement "is a movement ofcompassion...a movement of nonviolence."

As in yearS past, the Walk benefits pro-life organizations in the participating dioceses. Participants traveled. from throughout the state and included Massachusetts Blacks for Life, Local Lutherans for Life, Episcopalians for Life. Teens for Life and College Coalitions for Life.

Bennett said the administration "has forfeited its right to moral seriousness" by its continuing support of Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, whose outspoken views on drugs, sex, abortion and religious morality have angered many Catholics and evangelical Protestants.

Casey's speech was interrupted frequently by cheers, applause and standing ovations.

"I t is, for me, the bitterest of ironies that abortion on demand found refuge in the national Democratic Party - my party, the party of the weak and powerless," he said.

"The silent figure at the center of our great cultural debate is the unborn child," he added.

Casey, who tried unsuccessfully to get a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention in 1992, said: "To people who opposeabortion on demand, the national leadership offers a simple message: Don't organize. Don't object. Get away from the microphone. Break it up. Move along."

"And what about the Republicans?" he asked. "I am not so sure the Republican Party isn't edging away from its own conscience....

There, too, we hear the familiar, anxious warnings: Stay away from all that cultural stuff. Forget about abortion. It's just too risky. Too divisive. Not winnable. Drop it.

Move on."

The Republican presidential aspirants who addressed the coalition stepped gingerly around the abortion question, leading The Washington Post to report that "one of the most striking aspects of [their] speeches .... was their failure to use abortion as a mobilizing issue."

Casey compared the abortion issue today with the slavery issue in the 19th century.

THE ANCHOR -

Diocese of Fall River -- Fri., Oct. 7, 1994

7

Family is safe NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (CNS) - Clotilde Twagiramariya, a Rwandan Catholic studying at Rutgers University, lived first a nightmare, and then a miracle, regarding the family she left in Kigali in May 1993. Reports of escalating violence in Rwanda inspired Ms. Twagiramariya to hire a pilot, charter a plane and airlift her husband and three children to

safety in Kenya in July. When she heard their voices by phone after three months without communication, she told The Monitor, newspaper of the Metuchen diocese, that prayer and trust in God shaped her faith. "You can't just pray and sit there," she said. "You have to do something. [God) will show you the right thing to do at the right time."

A-1 TRAVELERS MOTORCOACH TRIPS NOY.6-7

Atlantic City, Taj Mahal, 1 Night $95.00D.P.P. $10,00 Bonus.

NOY.15

Boxborough, Eddie Fisher, Dinner and Show

$42.00

Radio City, Christmas Show & Meal $30.00 Deposit Requested

$72.00

Noy. 22

For More Information And Reservations Call Annette Dellecese At (508) 679-3278

:J-La Salette Center for HIT Christian Living Attleboro, MA 02703-5195

Nay, 4-6

DIRECTED RETREAT WEEKEND (Castle)

Nov, 11-13

WOMEN'S I RETREAT

Nov. 11-13

CASTLE RETREAT

Nov. 15

DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT OF DUAL DISORDERS DRINKING FROM THE LIVING FOUNTAIN: St. Teresa of Avila (Castle)

Nov. 18-20 Dec. 3

ADVENT DAY OF PRAYER (Castle)

For more information, please call or write Retreat Secretary 508-222-8530

~

A. G. Quintal

~

INVESTMENT COMPANY. INC.

@

Stocks. Bonds, Options ... On All Exchanges • • • • •

Mutual Funds Of All Types Tax Free Insured Income Trusts U.S. Treasury Bonds & Notes IRA's • Pension Plans Tax Planning BUSINESS AND TAX

FINANCIAL PLANNING Estate ... Trust and Portfolio Analysis

"'~;.I · ~ \

1 .1

'.'.

I

JOYCE B, WHITE

MARK A. QUINTAL CFP

Account Executive

Certified Financial Planner

Quintal Bldg. at Lunds Cor. 2177 ACUSHNET AVE. NEW BEDFORD, MA

995-2611

NOS (-'ALAMOS PORTUGUES

-----------------------

. HOPE REALIZED: Bishop O'Malley blesses one of the rooms of Hope House; at right, Sls.ter Joanna Fernandes places a crucifix in a room furnished by Saint Anne's Hospital staff.

(Hickey photo)

The house that hope built Continued from Page One said the Hope House planners' enlhusiasm was such that "they shared the wealth-some of the neighbors even got new sidewalh!"

More seriously, he said, "We need an AI DS shelter sadly. It's something the city wanted to see completed."

After leading a liturgy for those in the tent, Bishop O'Malley and a small group proceeded to Hope House, where the bishop bless(~d its 10 bedrooms, common room, kitchen, laundry room and offices.

Furnishings were provided by

families or groups on hand in each room to hang crucifixes: in one, a large family remembering a son and brother who died of AI DS; in another, a group from Bishop Feehan High School. Attleboro; Sister Fernandes herself hung the crucifix in. a room sponsored by Saint Anne's Hospital staff.

Hope House will provide 24hour support to residents. It has a volunteer corps numbering more than 50 and there are 10 full- and part-time staff members.

After the blessing, the house

was open to supporters who wanted to view the fruits of their many months of planning and effort, their "words turned into action," said hospital president James Dawson.

Bishop O'Malley noted that AIDS inspires fear, a fear which causes many to lose hope. But "our message today is one of life and hope even in the face of death," he said. "We call this Hope House" because "there will always be hope as long as there is love."

Outside the house, lilies will be planted.

Nurses' council reports on activities The Diocesan Council of Catholic Nurses will host its annual seminar 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 22 at St. John the Baptist Church Hall, Westport.

Themed "Touting Humor's Healing Powers: Laughter as a Stress Reducer," it will have as speakers John E. Murphy, Ed.M. and Ann M. Murphy, Ed. M. Murphy is a nationally-certified . speech, language and hearing therapist who has been a school administrator, author and teacher.

His wife is also a teacher and author of 12 books on family and parenting. She also writes a magazine column for families and pre-

sents weekly workshops for parents.

Diane Lebeau, a nursing studept at Bristol Community College, Fall River, will receive a DCCN scholarship of $750 at the seminar.

Registration for the event is requested by Oct. 17. For information contact Alice Leblanc 64 Waldo St., New Bedford 02745.

A group of DCCN members will attend the conference of the Catholic Nurses of. New England Oct. 14 to 16 in Farmington, Conn.

A~ong those addressing the group Will be former Fall River bishop Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin of Hartford.

Ruth Hurley of Fall River and Marylee Meehan, a Cape Cod resident, will receive awards at the conference. Each will receive a medal inscribed "For God and Nursing."

Mrs. Meehan, along with her husband Jack, and Sisters Rachel Lafrance and Therese Bergeron, SCQ, of Sacred Heart Home, New Bedford, were among 23 Americans who attended the World Congress of Catholic Nurses last month in Leuven, Belgium. The United States was recognized as a member of the international congress for the first time in 20 years. 48 countries were represented at the gathering, which had 500 participants.

. IN BELGIUM: Diocesan Counc.il of Catholic Nurses members Marylee Me~han and Sister Rachel Lafranc~, SC<~, (s~andl.n~, second and third left), along with Sister Therese Berger?n, SCQ, ~standlng, thIrd nght)Joln other American delegates at the World Congress of Cathohc Nurses In Leuven, Belgium.

Synod opens Continued from Page One - Structuring the community life of consecrated people in the face offast-changing, complex and often .fragmented cultures.

- Promoting vocations.

"The place of consecrated women is a challenge that" deserves great attention on the part of this assembly," he said, noting that about 72 percent of the consecrated people in the church are women.

Cardinal Hume said Pope John Paul's letter explaining why the church cannot ordain women to the priesthood "does not limit in any ~ay the promotion of women and women religious in the church, including in consultations, decision-making and, even more, in evangelization."

The cardinal, a Benedictine monk, told his fellow bishops that the lifestyle of religious should receive special attention at the synod.

"In this context, the time has come to reopen the debate on the habit as a sign of a consecrated person," he said, arguing that" inside and outside the church, the wearing of a habit has more importance than some people claim.

As the church works and prays for new vocations to the religious life, especially in places where more and more lay men and women are sharing the church's work, Cardinal Hume said, the special meaning of consecration must be clear.

"It is the way of Gospel radicalism, of total giving, of a closer following of Jesus, a life worth embracing," he said.

Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo, one of three synod presidents, opened the gathering's first working session Oct. 3 with words of thanks to the 1.1 million men and women in the church who have made public vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. .

The cardinal, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, said consecrated men and women provide a continuing presence of Christ in the world, show the splendor of living the Gospel and "with their charity show the paternal face of God and the maternal care of the church."

Archbishop, Francisco Javier Errazuriz. Ossa, secretary of the Vatican congregation, told Vatican Radio the synod's job would be to "call the consecrated life by

name as belonging to Christ" and help it fulfill its role in the church and world.

While reasons for a decline in the number of religious are complex, he said, one cause is an overemphasis on material well-being and pleasure found in some countries, where "voluntary pove rty, obedience and chastity are not respected."

Most religious orders have remained true to the Gospel and their charisms, he said, but a few have "concentrated their 'interests in temporal things, lost the stren,gth of their interior life, conceded wo much time to television and so forth." .

Pope John Paul,. discussing religious life during his Sept. 28 general audience, said all members of the church are called to a life of holiness because of their baptism.

But some, he said, live that call "in a particularly intense way by embracing the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and ohedience."

The Holy Spirit is the source of the spiritual gifts given to individuals and religious communities to benefit the church and the world in every age, he said.

But when a particular order is no longer suited to the needs of its age or lacks new members, the pope said, it may need to close Dr to unite with another community.

"The guarantee of lasting until the end of the world, which has been given to the church as a whole, is not necessarily given to individual religious institutes," the pope said.

Empty

promises~~

WARSA W, Poland (CNS) .A Catholic priest in the Russi~.n Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad has accused local authorities of making empty promises to return seizc'd churches and warned that a major church festival might have to be stage~ in the open as a result.

Father Jerzy Steckiewicz, rector of one of Kaliningrad's four Catholic parishes, said the enclave w~.s to host international celebration.路s in 1997 to mark the 1,000th ann::versary of the death of St. Wo;ciech. "Yet we cannot start re:building his church here, and the main Masses will probably have tD take place against its outer walls," the priest added.

THE ANCHOR -

PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN are asked to submit news Items lor this column to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River, 02722. Name 01 city c:lr town should be Included, as well as full dates 01 all activIties. Please send news 01 luture rather than past events.

Due to limited space and also because notices 01 strictly parish allalrs normally appear In a parish's own bulletin, we are lorced to limit Items to events 01 general Interest. Also, we do not normally carry notices ollundralslng activities, which may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable Irom The Anchor business ofllce,telephone (508) 675-7151.

On Steering Points Items, FR Indicates Fall River; NB Indicates New Bedlord.

SISTER LOF(;REN

......

....

;"

'

HOLY NAME SOCIETY, NEW ENGLAND REGION National Association of the Holy Name New England Regional Convention Oct. 22-23. St. Catherine of Siena Church, 1023 Parker St.. Springfield. Saturday program includes keynote by Manchester. NH. Bishop Joseph E. O'Neil, workshop sessions and Mass celebrated by Bishop Joscph F. Maguirc. retired Springfield bishop. Sunday session will be "Revitalizing the Parish Holy Name Society." Information: Walter Bart.

(617) 566-5924; Mautice Roberge.

(413) 543-1852.

ST. LAWRENCE, NI,l Parish will sponsor concert by John Michael Talbot 8 p.m. Nov. 12. Zeiterion Theater. N B. Information: 994-2900.

DR. COLLAMATI

New Catechism topic of le1ctures The Catechism of the Catholic Church will be the subject of several presentations in the Fall River diocese during the months to come.

An overview of the work will be offered from 9:30 lun. to 12 noon on Friday. Oct. 21, at St. Paul's Church, Taunton. by Sister .Joan Lofgren, CSJ. assistant director of religious education for schools of the Boston archdiocese. She has given workshops on thc new catechism for principals. ll:achers. deacons and several parishes in the Boston area. Thos'c wiShing to attend the Oct. 21 program should call the Catholic Education Centel', 678-2828.

Two of the four "pillars" or parts of the catechism: Profession of Faith and Celebration of the Christian Mystery will be discussed by two presenters.

The first pillar w~ll be the topic of Dr. Ernest Colla mati. professor of religious studies at Regis College, Weston. He will speak at St. Pius X parish, South Yarmouth, Oct. 25; at St. Patrick parish. Fall River. Nov. I; at St. .Joseph parish. Taunton Nov. 8; and at St. Mary parish. Seekonk. Nov. 15.

All presentations will be from 7 to 9 p.m. and all are on Tuesdays.

Registration infMmation is available from the Catholic Education Center.

The second pillar will be discussed by rather Mark Hession. parochial vicar at SI. Mary's Church. New Bedford. on Wedncsdays March 8. 15.22 and 29.

1995. at the same parishes and in the same order.

Best Alrmor "Prayer is the best armor we have; it is the key which opens the heart of God."-- P~dre Pio

MASS. CITIZENS FOR LIFE, CAPE COD CHAPTER Meeting 1:30 p.m. Oct. 14. Presbyterian Church. Rte. 132. All welcome.

SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO Farewell recep~ioll in church hall honoring Father Marcel Bouchard following 10:30 a.m. Mass Oct. 9.

CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, NB Membership meet,ing 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 12, Wamsutta Club. Executive board meeting 7 p.rn. Oct. 26. St. Lawrence rectory, 110 Summer St. HOSPICE OF CVNA, ATTELBORO Hospice of Community Visiting Nurse Agency is sponsoring bereavement programs for children and adults. meeting separately 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Nov. 15 at the CVN A, 141 Park St. Preregistration required; information: Pat Potter. 222-01 18.

CORPUS CHRISTI, E. SANDWICH Natural Family Planning course begins 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 26 and will continue monthly through December. Information: 888-0209. All welcome at prayer group each Monday, 7:30 p.m., in church.

SPIRIT OF JESUS PRA YER GROUP, HY ANNIS All members and former members are welcome al the group's 20th anniversary celebration beginning at 9 a.m. Oct. 15 with prayer. praise and liturgy and concluding with lunch at parish center. St. Francis Xavier Church. Hyannis.

HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBORO Celebration of feast of Our Lady of Fatima Oct. 9 beginning 6 p.m. with liturgy, followed by candlelight procession and Benediction. Refreshments will be served in church hall to conclude the program.

ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, POCASSET Rosary for Life will be recited following 8 a.m. Mass tomorrow.

ST. ANTHONY, TAUNTON Mass for feast of Our Lady of Fatima 7 p.m. Oct. 15 with homilist Father Victor Viera. pastor of Our Lady of Fatima parish, Cumberland.

RI; candlelight procession and Benediction will follow.

OUR LADY'S REliGIOUS STORE

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN "Power of Love" parent support group 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. each Thursday. rectory meeting room. All welcome.

Fri., Oct. 7, 1994

9

LaSAl,ETTE CENTER, ATTLEBORO Retreat for Compulsive Eaters," A Craving for a Companion God," with Sister Mary Sullivan, RC, Dec. 9-11; registration required by Nov. I. Information: 222-8530.

LEARY

•.•.• 234 $llcond Street FQIlRiver, MA 02721 .. ": ';

w;" oirse~

PRESS'

t!~Wspape~

MAILERS Ptfnti1l9.& AlaiHng (~08)679~5262

";":

. FCl.d73~1545·

:~uJ~~~~~ ~nkBs I

Man. . Sat. 10:00 . 5030 PM.

GIFTS

DCCW, DISTRICTS III & IV 35th annual communion supper beginning with 6:30 p.m. Mass with Bishop Sean O'Malley, Oct. 13, O. L. M t. Carmel Church. Seekonk.

TAUNTON STATE HOSPITAL First annual healthy lifestyles fair I to 4 p. m. Oct. 13 . Gifford Building.

Topics include blood pressure, cholesterol. stress management, exercise. smoking cessation. Information: Sanford R. Epstein. 824-7551 or (617) 727-7978 ext. 127.

Diocese of Fall River -

CARDS

BOOKS 673-4262 936 So. Main St..

ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR Applications are being accepted for the winter junior volunteer program for 9th to 12th grade students.

Volunteers are asked to work one afternoon a week from 3 to 5: 15 or Saturday morning from 8 to 11:45.

Information: Volunteer Dept.. 6745741.

HOSPICE OF COMMUNITY NURSE, FAIRHAVEN Bereavement group for adolescents will meet 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays Oct. 25 to Nov. 29, Community Nurse. 62 Center SI. Open to teenagers ages 13 to 18 who have lost a significant person through death in the past five years. To register call Sue Vincent. L1CSW. 999-3400.

Fall River

BIBLE STUDY CLASS

Wednesday, Oct. 12 10:00 A.M. & 7:00 P.M. NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF LA SALETTE Wednesdays at 12:10 & 6:30 P.M. Masses Wednesday evenings followed by La Salette Hour of Prayer

CATHOLIC WOMAN'S CLUB, FR Bishop's Night dinner 6:30 p.m.

Oct. II. White's of Westport. Music

by Honors String Quartet.

WORKSHOP ON SELF-ESTEEM

Saturday, Oct. 22 - 10:00 - 4:00 Dr. Bary Fleet, M. Div. Pre-registration.

Call for details.

DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN Annual living rosary 7 p.m. Oct. 17. St. Dominic's Church. Swansea.

DO YOU WANT TO BE INVOLVED? Oasis is an opportunity for SINGLE, CATHOLIC ADULTS to meet lay men and women, sisters, brothers and priests in church service responding to the human and spiritual needs of the people of God.

siS

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23

C~~~;::~~~'

SANTO CENTER COLUMBIA ST . FALL RIVER

0 et

A GATHERING OF PEOPLE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO QUENCH THE THIRST OF GOD'S PEOPLE.

I--

-PRE- REGISTERING WILL HELP OUR PLANNING -

I NAME

,

-

-

-

TEL. #

-1

--II

: ADDRESS

-----------.

1- - - - - - - - - - - SR. M. NOEL BLUTE

I

Please Return To:

500 Slocum Rd.. No. Dartmouth, MA 02747·2930

10

THE ANCHOR-Diocese路ofFaJI','River-Fri., Oct. 7,1994

Human sexuality: where faith and science meet,

By Theresa Notare with reverence, never trivializing it or separating it from its real meanThe age-old perception that ing. This vision of human sexualscience undermines faith in God ity provides compelling reasons has only recently given way to an appreciation of how scientific dis- for reserving sexual intercourse covery can reveal the beauty of for marriage, reasons compleSt. Joseph's parish, Taunton, creation and especially the wonder mented by current medical stabegan the CCD year with commisof the human pe,rson. The vast far tistics. sioning of catechists by Msgr.

God has given life to us and to reaches of space as viewed through Thomas Harrington. In accordance the Hubble telescope remind us of our world, and he has commanded with the year's theme, "U pon this God's grandeur. And the micro- us to "be fruitful and multiply." rock I will build my church," scopic interaction of sperm and But this command does not stand teachers had been presented at an ovum which results in a unique on its own; it is also a call to be earlier evening of reflection with a human being fills us with awe. stewards of all creation. Concern "prayer rock" and poem. Students Science can reveal God's mag- for regulating births can be an received the same at their first important aspect of this stewardnificence. class meeting. ship. But stewardship does not One area where science and faith Students, parents and teachers mean "control at all costs." It currently meet is tha,t of human of grade I met for an open house means responsibility to one's sexuality. In some circles it is program titled "I Am Special." acceptable - even politically cor- spouse, children, and society, in a After a welcoming ceremony, manner that respects the gift of teachers led their students in prorect - to mock the Church's beliefs, but the scientific study of human fertility. This responsibility and jects while CCD coordinator Marsexual behavior confirms the va- respect form part of the reason garet Borden addressed parents, lidity and the wisdom of Church whey the' Church cannot condone discussing the schedule of activiteaching. It also challenges us to the use of artificial means to reguties for the year. Msgr. Harrington . late births. respond to an emerging crisis. ing the, program, parents traced also spoke, encouraging the parThe question of responsible Since the sexual revolution of the sign of the cross with holy ents to fulfill their responsibility as parenthood reveals another nexus the 1960s, there has been a steady water on their children's foreheads. their children's primary educators. rise in sexual activity outside of between Catholicism and science. . Mrs. Borden welcomed her oldAt a blessing ceremony conclud-' When families desire to or must marriage. Along with a rise in earlimit births, the Church teaches lier first intercourse and the trend of multiple partners before mar- that natural family planning (N FP) riage, research also shows a well- is the only authentic way to accomBy Monica and Bill Dodds plish this goal. Pope John Paul danger of your getting overinvolved documented rise in sexually-transhas noted that NFP calls couples mitted diseases. These have varied You've reached the point where and burning out. to love generously and enables If you live near your parent, a consequences ranging from disyou know your aging parent needs them to make a permanent gift of comfort to lifelong health, probmore help than you alone can pro- good first step is to call Senior themselves to each other.

Information and Assistance, which lems, even death. vide. Now what do you do?

But many, including Catholics, The world faces a crisis which Typically this will be easier if is listed in the telephone directory. the teachings of the Church can do not know that NFP is the both you and your parent live in Someone there can tell you what umbrella term for several natural, private and public social service help reverse. the same area. Calls are local and programs are found in the area.

The Church's vision of human modern and scientific methods of you can have personal contact They would include, for examsexuality is scripturally based, sac- family planning. These include the with the people who will be workple, home health care (visiting ramentally real, morally honest, sympto-thermal method (STM), ing with your parent. and spiritually rich. But sadly, ovulation method (OM), and the On the other hand, living nearby nurse, bath aid); home care (housekeeping, laundry, grocery shopmany people, including Catholics, basal body temperature method often means making more of a ping); transportation; and food do not know how the Church's (BBT). Each method is scientific, time commitment 'to get things teachings can evoke true freedom and makes use of the observable started and to monitor them once service (programs such as Meals and promote the complete health signs of a woman's cycle of fertility. they're going. There can be a greater on Wheels).

But what if you and your parent These natural methods can be of the person.

11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 live in different parts of the country?

The Church is keenly aware of used any time, during the repro- effectiveness of 85-95 percent.

By law, according to the Older the communal dimension of sexu- ductive life of a married couple Research has helped the NFP Americans Act, every state must ality. This understanding begins because they do not depend on community understand that in be able to provide information by respecting the private dimen- regular menstrual cycles. Through order for couples to achieve the about services for the elderly living sion - the truly profound "gift of the modern NFPmethods,a woman 97-98 percent effectiveness rate, there. self' between spouses. In the words can observe her fertility signs or they must be taught by certified of Pope John Paul II, an "original chart the rise and fall of her basal A service called the Eldercare NFP instructors, be motivated to body temperature which coincides unity" willed by God for men and use the method, and be cleat about, Locator (1-800-677-1116) can give women in marriage is expressed by with hormonal changes. In some their family planning intention. you, without charge, the Senior methods of STM, cervical changes their conjugal relations. This unity Today we are confronted not Information and Assistance numis sacramental; that is, God is are monitored as well. All of this only by the wonder and beauty of ber anywhere in the United States. made present to the world in this information is readily available to human sexuality, but also by the (All they need is your parent's ZIP vowed love because it isa true those who wish to learn. weighty consequences of using that code.)

Nonetheless, many people still , gift. How can the Church respond community of persons. The sexual Senior Information and Assistrelations of husband and wife think of "rhythm" when they hear ance, in turn, can send you a list of to this challenge? simultaneously express the spirit- the term NFP. But the rhythm or We must grow in our ability to private and public social service ual and co-creative life-giving real- calendar method of determining draw from science the knowledge programs for the region in which fertility is seldom used in the U niity of God our Father. that helps us make deeper connec- your parent lives. It can also proThe Church teaches that sexual ted States today and not used by tions between our faith and our vide information on local case union is an awesome treasure given N FP practitioners. N FP is not lives. We must be consistent managers. to married couples. There is no rhythm, which yielded poor effecThe use of a case manager is through our catechetical and pasother human act through which tiveness rates. Today, many studies toral programs on human sexual- something to consider whether you two human beings reach out to attest to the effectiveness of natural ity, natural family planning, mar- live near your parent or not. This each other and at the same time family planning. For example, the is a social worker who can help riage and family life. can touch God's hand and create World Health Organization and Theresa Notare, M.A., is special you explore what options are availanother human being with him. the U.S. Department of Health assistant to the director of the able for your parent and can help Because sexual inte'rcourse signi- and Human Services both confirm Diocesan Development Program Mom or Dad get signed up to fies profound human and divine an NFP effectiveness rate of 97-98 Jor Natura/Family Planning, Nation- receive them. percent and an estimated user dimensions, the Church treats it Whether you use a case manal Conference ofCatholic Bishops.

St. Joseph's parish launches CCD year

est grandchild, Andrew Travis, to the first grade CCD program.

Another grandson, Dustin Travis, is in the kindergarten class.

Support networks for your aging parent ager or not, as you begin ::inding out what help is available for your parent's particular needs and wants, it is important to keep an l:ye out for what else is being offen:d.

You may realize there an: other areas in your parent's everyday life where he or she also needs assistance. Or it could be that six months or a year from now your parent will have an additional need, and you'll have'a better idea of how it can be met.

Financial help is another concern to keep in mind. With some programs, an elderly persoll does not have to fall into a low-income bracket to receive low- or n a-cost services. Don't shy away from a program because, at first glance, it seems too expensive. It may in fact use a sliding-fee scale.

All of the above can be I:onsidered a "formal support network" for your parent, but don't forget that informal network. This would include other family members as well as your parent's friends, neighbors and parishioners.

Often those most pleasl:d to help - to be asked to help -- are friends, neighbors and parishioners who have an elderly f~,mily member in another part of the country who is benefiting from his or her own "informal network."

They know how much that help has meant not only to their relative, but to them.

He Knows Jesus is the one place in the world where we need not restrain our sorrows, because He already knows them all. - Helmut Thielicke

----------------------The Anchor Friday, Oct. 7, 1994

DOlVC SOUIU

Fall River Herald \:ews photo

APPLAUSE GREETS Father Paul McCarrick as he enters dining room of White's Restaurant (left photo); at right, the sanctuary rug presented to Father Sullivan and St. Mary's parish.

A Tale of Two Priests Continued from Page One Father Sullivan as pastor and Father McCarrick as parochial vicar. Today both are pastors, Father Sullivan at St. Mary's, South Dartmouth, and Father McCarrick at St. Joseph's, Fall River.

They followed each other as Fall River area director of the Catholic Youth Organization and did the same on the c:iocesan level.

Father Sullivan headed the diocesan CYO from 1959 until 1970, when Father McCarrick succeeded him, serving from :970 until his retirement from the post last May 1st.

And both were mainstays of Cathedral Camp in East Freetown during their seminary years, Father Sullivan as head counselor and Father McCarrick as director of athletics. In the latter position, Father McCarrick was known to grant "one-day athletic scholarships" to boys who had already gone home from camp but would be an asset to the Cathedral baseball team in matches with other camps.

Now the years have flown. Last Sunday Father Sullivan celebrated both his 70th birthday and his 40th year of priesthood, and on Sept.

25 the Catholic Youth Organization honored Father McCarrick, 63, for his 38 years of priestly dedication to youth, in addition to his service as a seminarian.

Father Sullivan was honorary chairman of Father McCarrick's arrangements committee and Father McCarrick was of course among the 76 priests in attendance at Father Sullivan's celebration.

Father SUlllivan Father Sullivan, a native of Fall River, attended Xa.vier University in Cincinnati before studying for

the priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore. He was ordained by the late Bishop James L. Connolly and served St. Lawrence parish, New Bedford, as parochial vicar before assignment to the Cathedral, Sacred Heart, Taunton, and St. Mary'S South Dartmouth. While at Sacred Heart he was vicar of the Taunton deanery of the diocese, and while at the Cathedral he was diocesan director of Catholic Scouting. For several years he also returned to Cathedral Camp as its director.

The theme of last Sunday's celebration was a quotation of unknown authorship that has meant a great deal to him during his priestly life: "Whllt you are is God's gift to you ... what you make of yourself is your gift to God." Those words were the subject of his homily. appea'red on invitations to his celebration, on the day's program and on a large banner adorning the parish hall during the social period following his Mass of Thanksgiving.

As Father Sullivan, Bishop Scan O'Malley and the long line of priests entered packed St. Mary's Church, the congregation erupted in spontaneous applause whi,ch continued throughout the procession to the sanctuary.

Another tribute came at the offertory of the Mass when Father Sullivan's sister-in-law, Elizabeth Sullivan, aided by her husband, John Sullivan, unrolled a 9 by 5~ foot needlepoint rug before the altar. With a \Y.edgwood blue background, centered with the Eucharistic symbols of grapes, wheat and chalice and bordered by lilies symbolic of Mary, it was the product of 1,000 hours of work on the part of Mrs. Sullivan. Additionally, several years offinalizing

Books are cornerstone for rebuilding church in Eastern Europe WASHINGTON(CNS)- Rebuilding the church in Eastern Europe takes more than construction equipment. It requires lots of books, according to a church official.

'We [in the United States] have so much printed material that we take for granted. But in Eastern Europe, they have a great appreciation for books, especially religious material which has often been destroyed," said Msgr. R. George Sarauskas, executive director of the U.S. bishops' Office to Aid the Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe.

So over the past four years his office, funded by a yearly national collection, has sent about $100,000 worth of books overseas.

Mark Cunningham, who coordinates the theological library project, told Catholic News Service that the bulk of religious resources in Eastern Europ~datefrom 1917 or earlier.

"We send seminaries books as soon as they open, and they immediately write and ~ell us how grateful they are." he said.

To date, books sent to the seminaries ha ve only been in English, because they are only available in that language. The best material on subjects such as medical ethics and pastoral theology is written in English, said Msgr. Sarauskas. And since English is often the second language in these countries, it is not a problem. he added.

the design and having it transferred to needlepoint canvas preceded the final I,OOO-hour period.

"I did most of the work while in bed recuperating from knee surgery," said Mrs. Sullivan. "Every stitch was really a prayer."

In his comments at the Mass, Bishop O'Malley, complimenting Mrs. Sullivan, noted that he thought St. Mary's parish should hereafter resemble a mosque in that those in the sanctuary should doff their shoes.

Indeed, Father Thomas McGlynn, parochial vicar at S1. Mary's and with Rev. John P. Driscoll a principal celebrant at the Mass, confided that when he stood on the rug to receive the offertory gifts, he motioned to the attending altar boys to step on it as well, but they couldn't bring themselves to do it.

Presenting a papal blessing to Father Sullivan, Bishop O'Malley declared "he has been a gift to us and everything he has done for the past 40 years has been his gift to the priesthood.

"We thank God for the countless lives he has touched and for the ways in which he has made Christ, the Good Shepherd, visible to all of us," said the bishop.

Father McCarrick Clearly reluctant to accept the tribute of 700 persons at the CYO testimonial to him, Father McCarrick at first did his best to ha ve it canceled but in the end, possibly pressured a bit by Bishop O'Malley, he consented to being honored.

Master of ceremonies for the event, which filled two large rooms at White's restaurant in Westport, was Fall River Superintendent of Schools James Gibney, one of the legions of youngsters Father McCarrick had coached over the years, not only in athletics but in how to play the game of life.

Another of "Father Mac's kids," Fall River Mayor John R. Mitchell, brought greetings of the city and recalled that in his college days, When time hung heavy on the hands of himself and his friends, Father McCarrick was always good for a chow mein sandwich.

In fact, Fall River restaurants know him and his entourage of youngsters well. When Bishop O'Malley spoke at his testimonial, he noted that he wasn't quite sure the priest would be on hand. "I thought maybe we should have stopped by Friendly's on the way, just to make certain he wasn't there." the bishop quipped.

As devoted to his own family as to his larger CYO family, Father McCarrick penned a note to the Anchor n::arly 30 years ago. It read, '" am an uncle 10 times.

Please check annually as this count seems to be flexible and I would

want the correct count of same in my obituary. You know how the

last line always reads, 'and Father also leaves 'several' nieces and nephews.' I will leave six nephews and four nieces as of Feb. 3, 1965."

For the record, the total now stands at 15 nieces and nephews and "quite a few" grandnieces and grandnephews.

And in addition to the many pursuits shared by Fathers Sullivan and McCarrick, the latter founded the former Bristol County Hockey League and continues to direct the Bristol County Baseball League.

He was formerly chaplain to the Fall River police and fire departments, was a member of the Attorney General's Task Force on Drugs and was among prime movers in establishment of a drug clinic at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River.

St. Stephen Priory Spiritual Life Center 20 Glen Street Box 370, Dover, MA 02030

Tel: 508-785-0124· FAX 508-785-1020 "Our God waits to October 14 -16 October 16

bl~

11

~~fN-ta

IF ~~ ~~@'~ ...ltiLU~

gracious to you." Isaiah, 30

Discovering God in the Seasons of Your Ufe with Mary Fahy, RSM Day for Eucharistic Ministers 2:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.

October 21 - 23

Dreams: Source of Growth and Prayer

October 28 - 30

Centering Prayer Retreat: An Introduction Human/Spiritual Journey Retreat on Relationships to God, ourselves and others Hermitage: A Quiet Prayer Weekend

Answer the Call Answering the call to ministry can be embodied in a variety of apostolates: education, hospital and university chaplaincy, parish ministry, peace and social justice ministry, missions, and spiritual direction, to name a few. Weston Jesuit School of Theology can help you prepare for a life of ministry. We provide you with: • comprehensive theological and pastoral education • opponuJ;lities for spiritual fOffilation • a world-renowned faculty available to students • membership in the Boston Theological Institute

Weston Jesuit School of Theology A National

Theological Center

To learn more about earning a Master of Divinity or Master of Theological Studies degree at WestonJesuit, please contact: Maty Ellen Herx-Morrill, MDiv

Director ojAdmissions Weston Jesuit School of Theology 3 Phillips Place, Dept. Q3 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-3495 Phone: (617) 492-1960 Fax: (617) 492-5833

Financial aid is available.

','

t

t2

: •• ' , ' I

,

':"."

J

~

~

I •

'-:~

,'J '

~

'.'.

,'.

------------------

••.

, ' •• i \ ; ' . ' •

..,

1,,-

.-

Insurance to cover losses on canceled papal.trip

Leper priest beatification t:eschedu)ed .

",

"

ROM E (CN S) - Pope·.1 ann Paul II is tentatively schedule.d to visit Belgium next May to beatify Father Damien de Veuster, the 19th-century Belgian "leper priest," according to church officials i~-' volved in preparing the trip. . "If the health of the pope permits, he will be in Belgium May 28," said Father Angel Lucas, procurator general at the Rome headquarters of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

Father Damien belonged to the missionary order, which is represented in four parishes and a retreat center in the Fall River diocesl.:.

Father Lucas told Catholic News Service that the Vatican Secrcta'riat of State had communicated the beatification date and papal ~isit plans to him. , A Vatican papal trip organizer said May 28 was the "probable date" for the papal beatification to take place in the Belgian capital of Brussels.

The pope was originally scheduled to beatify Father Damien last May 15 but the ceremony was

'

r

to

•

post poned indefinitely after the pope fell and, broke his right thigh bone in April.'· Beatification is the step before sainthood and bestows the title "blessed" on a person. It also allows the person to have a feast.day on local liturgical calendars. . Father LUCii Ssaidthe 1995 papal visit would have the same program as the postponed trip. The pope is expected to arrive May 26, said Father Lucas.

The 1994 itinerary included stops at Tremelo, the town where Father Damien· was born, and Leuven. the city where he is buried.

Father'Damien became known for his work among victims of Hansen's disease, the formal name fo~ lepro·sy. on the Hawaiian isiand of M olokai. In 1873. he was assigned to work in the colony on the island where those afflicted by the disease were sent.

In 1884 he contracted the disease. but continued working until a month before his death in 1889. at age 49. He is often cited as a model of missionary commitment.

- "l.

-.-. ~

f"

~

...

',- --, I' '" .,

~

Pay 'honienulkers Vatican suggests

THE ANCHOR-·Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Oct. 7,1994

WASHINGTON (CNS) - If planning trips taken by him and Pope John Paul II had suddenly Msgr. Lynch, and the cost of media canceled his 1979 or 1987 trips to relations.

For the dioceses, he said, there the United States, it would have meant substantial financial losses were administrative and planning to dioceses preparing to greet him. costs and such things as architects' Not this time. fees for designing stages and altars.

The National Conference ofCathThe priest said he did not know olic Bishops and the dioceses the what costs dioceses way have pope was to visit this October took incurred in the way of rental fees out insurance to cover losse~ if the or cancellation penalties for equiptrip was canceled, as it was because ment or sites at which the pope the leg the pope broke last April had been slated to appear. has been slow to heal.

The priest said he did not know Details on the insurance were what costs dioceses may have not immediately available. A spokes- incurred in the way of rental fees man for the firm that brokered the or cancellation penalties for equippolicy" said it gives out no infor- ment or sites at which the' pope mation on a policy without written had been slated to appear. permission from the client.

Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh Douglas Cissel, general services of the NCCB-USCC Media Reladirector of the NCCB and U.S. tions Office, who was media coorCatholic Conference, who handles dinator for the 1993 World Youth conference insurance matters, also Day in Denver, said no insurance declined to give details. was taken out against a papal canThere was no cancellation insur- cellation for that event. ance in 1979 or 1987, "but this time The reason, she said, was that I insisted on it," said Msgr. Robert World Youth Day would have N. Lynch, NCCB-USCC general taken place as planned even had the pope not come. Important as secretary, who coordinated the two earlier trips. his appearance was, "he was jusra Father Michael Souckar, a Miparticipant" and not the central ami archdiocesan priest temporarpurpose of the gathering, she said. ily working with the NCCB staff to Before the pope visited Canada coordinate the canceled trip, said in September 1984, the Canadian the decision is to take out i nsur- bishops took insurance against canance was made shortly after the cellation of all or any part of the trip was decided and two-and-a- trip. half weeks before the pope feB and During the visit heavy fog prebroke his leg. vented the pope from meeting with Father Souckar said the deci- native peoples at Fort Simpson, sion was based partly on cxpe- Northwest Territories.

In May 1986 the Canadian rience from previous trips, when bishops learned how high advance bishops' conference and the affected costs could be, and partly because dioceses received a negotiated setthe pope, now 74, is not as vigor- tlement of slightly more than ous as he used to be. $200,000 on claims for administraHe said the bishops' conference tive costs, site preparation and and each diocese or archdiocese travel costs of several thousand the pope was to visit decided how people who journeyed long dismuch insurance it needed on the tances to" see the pope. The amount basis of its anticipated costs. The represented 50 percent of total Knights of Columbus were also, claims, less a $50,000 deductible.

The local papal visit committee involved a.s .co-hosts of the pop~'s planned VISIt t~ Shea Stadium In.- at Fort Simpson put the money it the Brookl~n dIocese. ' received.into a trust fund and used .For the bISh~ps, Father. ~ouckar it in 1987 when the pope flew to said, expenses Included hmng him Fort Simpson at the end of a U.S. from June to November, various visit.

.

POPE JOHN PAUL II prays at shrine of Lourdes.

Reflections of a pilgrim to the shrine of Lourdes The clear message of Lourdes is the "yes" of Mary to God. a "yes" she never retracted. At Lourdes.

Jesus is the healer; indeed. most cures seem to take place in the late afternoon as the Blessed Sacrament is carried to the sick. Jesus is passing by and the people plead.

"Have pity on me."

"God who is mighty has done great things for me": Mary enjoys the favor of God. This does not imply freedom from human pain nor material security. Mary was poor, one of the ana wim, that is, one who is totally dependent on God. She was the woman of Seven Sorrows. but not a sad woman.

God's greatness has no boundaries and he calls many to spiritual motherhood by the power and overshadowing of the Holy Spirit.

God called Mary to be the mother ***** Last Sept. 4. I went from Lille. of Christ. the "Theotokos." mothFrance. where I had officiated at a er of God and ,mother of the friend's wedding, to Lourdes. It human race. has been my privilege to visit this Mary is also the New Eve. Her shrine five times since 1962. "yes" brought us the promised Lourdes is a small town in the Savior. Jesus Christ, God's final Pyrenees mountains less than 100 Word made flesh for us. miles from the Spanish . border.

Women would never be the same Since 1858. when Mary appeared. after Mary's aeclaration:'" am the IX times between Feb. II and July handmaid of the Lord, Let it be 16to 14-year-old BernadetteSoubidone according to his word." rous at the nearby g'rotto of MasWomen would find their new place sabiclle. Lourdes has been a place in salvation history. All women of pilgrimage. especially for the are blessed in Mary's "yes." sick. Today it· h.as over 400'hotels In our century we 'have seen and is crowded annually from May' man's inhumanity to man'in the to the first.day of October. I spent.

Holocaust. Hiroshiina, the hydrothree days in this awesome place gen and atomic bombs. napalm where pilgrims come to honor the gas: abortion, homelessness. AIDS, Mother of GOd,and many also· ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, the seek physical healing. horrors of the conflicts in Haiti.

Bernadette. a peasant child who< Somalia, Rwanda, Romania: Northcould not read' or write, was told by her past~r' to ask the "Lovely ern Ireland and the Persian Gulf.

The Church is the only hope for Lady." as she called !ler. her name.

The reply was "I am the Immacu- rich and poor alike. She i's the hospital for· sinners. II saw Christ's late Conception." The Lady then beautiful Body in my three days at told Bernadette to strike a rock Lourdes: in the'sick. in the medical and water .would flow' 'that would volunteers, in the Holv Eucharist aid the sick.

To tbis day the sick come to' in Penance. in the nig-htly canale~ light processions where thousands Lourdes to bathe in those waters, One plunges in and there is no pray together.

L:ourdes is a place where the need to dry oneself before putting world is kept from ruin and from a one's clothes back on!

The water is there for everyone; collision course with evil. I left this and there have been over 80 mira- holy place assured that God loves cles approved by the Church as this world so much that we need not fear. well as countless others unrecorded As his Son said: "Fear not. or as yet not examined by medical have overcome the world,'" experts.

By Father William W. Norton Pastor, St. Joseph's'Church Woods Hole Father Rene Laurentin, in his book, "Queen of Heaven," says that theologians often tend to undervalue apparitions of Mary for two reasons: I) they know that divine revelation is closed and that they have no reason to base their writings on heavenly manifestations rather than on Sacred Scripture, tradition and the magisterium of the Church; and 2) they are repelled by the banality and sensationalis'm of certain books on Marian apparitions.

But Laurentin declares that we have no right to ignore such apparitions, of which the two most important, those that took place at Lourdes and Fatima, have received Church approval.

VATICAN CITY (CN~:) -In a preparatory document for an international conference on women in 1995, the Vatican said women deserve better protection against violence, subsidies for homemakers and greater access to political positions.

At the same time, the Vatican said that among the greate:;t obstacles facing many women are poverty and lack of education.

The Vatican outlined its position in a document presented in Geneva this summer to tht: United Nations, which is organi;~ing the Fourth World Conference on Women, to be held in Beijing in September of next year.

The Vatican said it was pleased that the tendency of most women's rights movements is no longer that of promoting a "masculine lifestyle" for women, but of recognizing the complementary nature of the sexes and the need for ,:ooperation in the family and society.

In this sense, it said, maternity deserves better legal prote,:tion in society. It called for greater respect for homemaking and child-raising, including the payment of some form of subsidy for such work.

"The payments should be enough so that the mother in a fa mily is not obligated to work out!ide the house, to the detriment of family life and the education of the children," it said.

The Vatican paper identified violence against women in many forms; physical, sexual, moral and psychological. It criticized the treatment of women in the mass media and in the advertising industry.

Pornography, while radically opposed to women's dignity, is often "tolerated by public opinion and used by the mass media," it said.

The document assailed prostitution and the sexual exploitation of young women, which it said has become an international indw:try. It also condemned coercive birth control programs, including "forced sterilizations and the enco'lJragement to have abortions."

The Vatican said women are often gifted in education, politics and economics and should be encouraged to make contributions in these fields. It said that politics is still largely a male world, a nd for that reason problems of everyday life are not adequately taken into consideration.

Call for freedom WASHINGTON (CNS)- Vietnam must give 'greater religious liberty not only to Catholics but to all wishing to practice their religion there, said a statement by the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Policy. "The still-uns':ttled fate of ttiousands of refugel:s" is also at issue, said the statement, issued by Bishop'Daniel P. Reilly ofNorwich, Conn., committee I:hairman. Addressing these areas of special concern could mark "another milestone" in imp'roving U.S.Vietnamese relations similar to President Clinton's lifting in February of the trade embargo against Vietnam, the statement said.

Marian pl'iests mark 50th year in Stockbridge STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. (CNS) - At age 42, Marian Father Waiter Dziordz is too young to remember the founding days of the Massachusetts province of his community 50 years ago, when the priests operated a working farm with corn fields and dairy animals.

"What I can attest to is the relationship of the early Marians to their God. because all of us - the younger Marians _. have been nurtured by that," said the priest, newly elected head of the St. Stanislaus Kostka province of the Congregation of Ma.rians of the Immaculate Conception.

Marian priests and brothers, mem-· bel's of their families, and guests from as far away as California and Australia gathered in September at Eden Hill in Stockbridge for three days of prayer, followed bya Mass of thanksgiving.

Many persons in thc Fall River . diocese have made pilgrimages to the Divine Mercy Shrine at the Stockbridge provinci,al headquarters.

The September celebration marked three milestones: - The presence ofthc Marians as a religious community on Eden Hill for 50 years.

- The 50th anniversary of the Association of Marian Helpers, a spiritual benefit society of people who pray for and support the Marians. Formed by a few hundred family members and friends of Marians, it now numbers nearly a million people worldwide.

- The 50th annivf:rsary of Roze Maryi (Roses of Ma.ry), a Polishlanguage magazine dealing with Ca'tholic faith and spirituality.

Founded on Eden Hill in 1944, it is still published today.

Capuchin friar's life on TV Sunday

CNS phOIO

FATHER DZIORDZ great things. They have touched hearts because of their love of God." "All the young Marians today can build on that," he added,looking at the nine novices, postulants and seminarians present at the celebration.

Addressing the question, "Do we have a future?" Father Dziordz replied: "You bet wedo." Headded: "A mantle has been passed on. The cloak of the love of God is being worn by younger Marians. They will touch hearts because of the deep love of God they learn to experience in prayer. That is where our future is." , In his talk on the prospects for the next 50 years, Father Dziordz noted the example of the province's founding Marians, like Father Walter Pelczynski, who spent long hours in the chapel, praying especially for the intentions of people who had asked for 'prayer.

Looking to the inany accomplishments, of the past 50 years, he said that "all these men have done

Identity important to Catholic press sa:ys Charles Osgood.

NEW YORK (CNS) - At a regional meeting of the Catholic Press Assn., CBS broadcaster Charles Osgood told journalists that their success dc:pends on giving attention to their Catholic identity.

Recalling Hal Prince, producer of "Fiddler on the Roof' and other Broadway shows, Ine said Prince began by pushing for the most fundamental anSWf:r to the question, "What is this show about?"

He said Prince would not accept the answer that the: script for the proposed "Fiddler on the Roof' was only about a Jl:wish family in a East European village, but kept probing until he decided its essence was tradition and the forces that dissolved tradition. Then Price shaped everything about the production to convey that message, he said.

Osgood, a Catholic. called on Catholic journalists to look at their own work and ask. "What's this show about?" Everything, he said, should make sens,e in relation to the Catholic context, and whatever does not should be cut out.

Osgood, who broadcasts on CBS radio Monday through Fridayand anchors "Sunday Morning" on CBS-TV, said in other comments that a "decline in civility" has occurred injournalism since Watergate. Many media people, aspiring to be "investigative reporters," now think it would be "such fun" to bring down a president, and feel they "have not done a decent job

unless they leave a pool of blood." he said.

Asked why the secular media feel uncomfortable with religion, Osgood acknowledged the discomfort, recalling a producer who asked him to close with "Good night" rather than "Merry Christmas" one Christmas season to avoid offending anybody who might object to the religiol1s connotations of the holiday.

Osgood said, however, that his current "Sunday Morning" program closes with an "almost churchlike" part in which "the anchorman shuts up" and scenes of nature are shown. "If that's not a prayer, I don't kJ;low what is." he said.

The Christophel's. who sponsored the CPA regional meeting, announced winn~rs of a contest for radio spots that invite lapsed Catholics back to' the church.

Robert Dylak, editor/ publisher of The Catholic ~dvocaie, newspaper of t he archd iocese of Newark, N.J .. won the first prize of $1.000 for a piece using sound effects and the concept of time. pointing out that God always has time for those who may feel they do not have time for him.

The Anchor was represented at the New York City meeting byeditor Father John Mooreand general manager Rosemary Dussault. Also attending was Jo.hn Kearns of the Fall River diocesan office of communications.

DETROIT (CNS) - The life and work of a Capuchin friar whose cause for sainthood awaits Vatican action will get nationwide airing on a special edition of NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries."

Father Solanus Casey, reports of healings attributed to his intercession and other events connected with him, will be the focus of a 12-minute segment of the program, to air 7-8 p.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 9.

NBC crews visited several Detroit sites. including the Capuchin monastery, St. Joseph Church and Sacred Heart Major Seminary, to film footage for the segment.

"People like these kinds of stories," Kathy Cumbo. segment producerfor the show, told The Michigan Catholic, Detroit's archdiocesan newspaper. "It gives them a sense of hope."

"If this show opens up other people to his name and the Capuchin soup kitchen and the [order's) charities. and certainly his sainthood, we couldn't ask for anything more than that; that would be wonderful," Ms. Cumbo said.

The segment features two reenactments of healings attributed to the priest and interviews with people who knew him and family members of some who were cured of their afflictions after seeking his help.

Born Bernard Casey in Wisconsin in 1870, he was the sixth child in a family of 10 boys and six girls.

He quit school at age 16 to help his family and worked as a lumberjack, streetcar motorman and a prison guard. At one time he entered the Milwaukee archdiocesan seminarv. But he left after the studies pro~led too difficult for him. But a few years later he was accepted by the Capuchins and entered the order's Detroit novitiate on Dec. 23,1896.

As a copy of the TV segment ·furnished to Catholic News Service notes, Father Casey was ordained in 1904 but without faculties to preach, hear confessions or teach doctrine because he had done so poorly in his academic studies.

He was given the duty of doorkeeper, a job he had for about 20 years at parishes in New York and for another 30 in Detroit. He be-

came known for his ministry to the sick and people came to the gentk monastery doorman to seek God's favor in desperate situations.

H is charity was especially noted during the 1930s Depression, when he aided many in need of money and food and also helped with a soup kitchen, .

Father Casey died at age 86 in 1957, and 10,000 people came to his funeral. His sainthood cause was submitted in 1966, and in 1987 his body was exhumed, found n:markably free of deterioration and reburied in the Detroit Capuchin

monastery's chapel. The site attracts many pilgrims.

Capuchin Brother Leo Wollenweber, vice postulator for Father Casey's canonization cause, sees the broadcast as "a wonderful opportunity to publicize Father Solanus." Brother Wollenweber himself is featured in the show.

"Many people are influenced by his example and inspired by his life. This shows that he is relevant for our times," he said.

SaJJivQn)s Est, 1962

Montie Plumbing & Heating Co.

Religious Articles Books • Gifts Church Supplies

Over 35 Years of Satisfied Service Reg. Master Plumber 7023 JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. 432 JEFFERSON STREET Fall River 675-7496

428 Main St. • Hyannis, MAo2601 508-775-4180 Mon.-Sat. 9-5

FRANCISCAN FRIARS MASS AND DEVOTIONS to

ST. PEREGRINE FOR CANCER VICTIMS AND THEIR LOVED ONES Every Thursday • 9:30 A.M. ST. LOUIS CHURCH 420 Bradford Avenue • Fall River

Charlie's Oil Co., Inc. • Prompt 24 Hour Service • Automatic Deliveries • Call In Deliveries • Budget Terms Available • Free EstImates You Never Had Service Until You Tried Charlie's We're located at . ..

46 Oak Grove Ave., Fall River oreall . ..

508-675-7426·674-0709

SISTERS of MERCY 25th ANNUAL BENEFIT DINNER MT. ST. RITA HEALTH CENTRE

Sunday, November 6 VENUS de MILO $50.00 PER PERSON

DINNER .. DANCING 12:30 P.M. TICKETS OR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: 679-8511 Ext. 319 SISTER MARIE LOURDETIE SISTER MARY ROSE ANGELA 222-7970 SISTER MARY NORA

992-3694

IN LIEU OF PURCHASING A TICKET, DONATIONS ARE APPRECIATED

Bishop Stang High

. LEADERSHIP ASSEMBLY officers at CoyleCassidy are (from left) secretary Christy (:haves., pres.i·· dent Mary,Catherine Savard, vice president Joshua Dion.. and treasurer Julie Beals..

.

. (

..

C.oyle~,CassidyHigh TAUNTON' - The Coyle and' Cassidy st'udent body recently chose its 1994-95 Leadership Assembly and class officers in school-wide elections.

Mary Catherine Savard of Middleboro was elected student body'presiden'CVice~ljresidentis Joshua I?ion,of .

Taunton; se'cretary is Christy Chaves Of Taunton and , Jule Beals·of.Carver'is treasurer, .'.

Kate Brennan and Don Pelletier are the Leadership " . .

Assembly's faculty modenitofs.

Elected by the senior class were Peter Fletcher' of Bridgewater, president; M~ry M'argaret Gibborisof Ply- . mouth, vice-president; Jennifer Parent of Middleboro, . secretary;. and Jessica Jack~on'of Taunton, treasurer..

Kathleen St. Laurent is tHe 'senio~ class moderator.

'The juniors chose 'Vanellsa DeMarco of Berkley as their presi<;lent, Alana Cordeiro of Bridgewat~r as vicepresident, Christopher Wenson of Bridgewater as secre- . tary, and Michael Previti of Raynham as treasurer. WiI-" liam Breen is the class moderato·r.· .

For the sophomore class, Melissa Chaves of Taunton is president; Matthew Pelle~ier of Dighton is vicepresident, Kerri-Jean Angele)' of Taunton is secq:tary, and Maureen' Hamel of Taunton is treasurer. Virginia O'Brien is class advisor. .Freshmen will hold elections' in a couple of weeks.

. :.' . 1.....

Fac~lty member Kate'Brennan is Coyle and Cassidy's

new coordinator of student activities. 'Miss Brennan, a member of the social studies department, will oversee students' social events a:nd class activities.

English teacher Mary Lou (aannakoulis is ~he chairperson of committee that will help rewrite Coyle and Cassidy's philosophy and mission statement. The school, during this academic year,"is assessing its philosophy and. mission statement as it does every three years. The members ofth~ CC staff will determine new one's by June..

.Holy Family-l-/olyName NEW BEDFORD - Holy Family-Holy Name held a "Welcome Back to School Dance" Sept. 19, a fun night for students and parents to get reacquainted and to make new friends.

Ne'w this year for junior'high students is the opportunity to practice swimming at the New Bedford YMCA. Swimming will be part of the students' physical education curriculum during October and November.

Also.pew forjunior high.students is a chess club, which meets after 'schoo] under direction of eighth grade teacher Sue ;Mass:oud and par~ilt Elaine Hayes. They hope.to expand the' club to. other grades ~.nd welcome assistanc.e fr.om .pa·rents, grandparents and friends.

Parent M~ry Tondrea'u \V.ill be holding craft classes for jun'ior hlghgir1~: . . . .' .. . Mem!>ers of grades 2~8'have formed the Junior Choir.

Robby Massol;ld an<;l Rebecca. FernaJ;ldesprovide keyboa~d accoinpaniment,.and playing stringed instruments are Daniela C.hii'igotis~ Isaiah I1oufman, Preston Raymond and Ryan Howart~. The Select. Choir of the Junior Choir will lead music at, monthly liturgie·s.

National Park' ·Service. Ranger Ray-;"'ond Boswell recently"visited Lois Gacek's second grade class to speak about' wilcHife native to Blackstone Valley. He showed pictures ofanimals and played audio recordings of their calls. The second-graders enjoyed matching the pictures to the calls. The pr.ogram complemented a study unit on . nat~re,.whimsically dubbed "Camp Give-A-Hoot."

NORTH DARTMOUTH - Senior Eric Livingstone of Fairhaven, one of three Stang seniors attending the American Legion Boys' State Conference at Bentley College in June, was the recipient of the Boys' State Committee's Joe Nasiatka Award. The award, memorializing an American Legion.member who died in 1976, is given to a Boys' State participant who exemplifies dependability, perseverance, loyalty, leadership and honesty. . At Stang, Livingstone is a participant in Habitat for Humanity, the math team, the National Honor Society arid weightlifting. He is also a volunteer at St. Joseph's School in New Bedford ..

Also attending Boys' State from Stang were Jim Olden .of Fairhaven ana Chris Erickson of South Dartmouth.

"The week was a lot of fu'n," Livingstone said. "But more than that, it was a great ch~nceto learn how government works il'nd, how we can participate in it."

-Classmates Rachei Brune and Lori Pedro. meanwhile. attended Girls' State at Mt. Holyoke in' South' Hadley.

Miss Brune called it, "a rewardiiig experience. It helped me learn about our gove~nmeni and form some great friendships." ,.

Also during the summer. senior Michelle Neves represented Massa'chusetts il1 the Miss USA Pageant in Biloxi, Miss.' The two-week pageant culmi'nated with the naMis.s Tee'n USA 1994 in tionally,televised crowning August.,.

Senior Daren Pereira overcame a broken leg suffered in ,a· 1990 motorcycle accident to" earl} a fourth-place .·finish in the National Moto-Cross 250 cc. Championship in Southwick in August. .' . , .. ' .' Perei~a won tH~ 1990 N IMA N'atibnal 80 cc. Championship before'his accident' temporarily kept him out of competition. . ". ..Debbie Flagg.li senior a'nd youth m,inistry·leader. traveled to Romania for three weeks with Youth With a Mission, a ~O-persori team that· visited orphanages in Clujnapoca and spread the, Word of Christ. ';l've gone on missions before," said Miss Flagg. who went on a Caribbean mission in 1992; "but I wanted to help more. T're Ro'mania mission was actually a calling."

"The orphanages were very sad," she said. "The child, ren. wanted affection so badly. They fought for attention.

While I held one child, eight ()'thers would be reaching up asking to be held. .

"I ,know our presence made a diff~rence," she concluded. "I saw a lot of people accept Christ."

Social studies teacher Len Rocha spent two weeks as a c,oach of little leaguers touring Japan.

The tea~ included Stang freshma~'Tom Osucti.

or'

Bishop CiJnn(jlly'High

FALL RIVER -.Senior~ .Jaime Caron of Swansea and Richard Sisson of.portsmouth, R,i. .have been nominated for the Wendy's High S.chool Heisman Award and could win a $5,000 award· for, their. ~C;hool. The newly created national program re,cognizes academic achievement. community servi!<e.ar;td .atl1letica.ccomplishment.

Jaime Caron plays on the varsity s.occer, bask,~tball and softball teams and is ac.tive in.the:National Honor Society and the Por:tuguese. N.ational Honor Society.

Richard Sisson is a member of the varsity basketball team, the Nationa.1 Honor Society and student government.

The High School Heisman. Award ·is sponsore'd by Wendy's restaurants and the Downtown Athletic Club in association with the,NatiQnalA~sociationof Secondary School Principals. Competition is open to high school seniors, who participate in any of the 31 sports officially sanctioned by the National Federation of State High School AssQciations. ' . , Priricipalsat'the nation's estiinated 25,000 high schools weie invited t6 nominate one male and one female: student' athlete into the award competition. The scholastic review serv'ice CTBj McGraw-Hill"will narrow the fidd to 1,200 Regional Finalists and then to 120 Regional Award Winners. .

A distinguished panel of judges, from the worlds of business;"media, cd ucation,politics an'd sports, including former Heisman Trophy award recipients, will review the regional winners and name 24 .National. Semi~Finlllists who will each receive a $1,000 a ward for their school.

Twelve National Finalists, one boy and one girl re:presenting six geographic regions. will then be selected, ~ach .earning $3.000· for their school: .' .

These 12 National Finalists will be invited to New York City. in December to participate in the Heis,man Trophy actiVIties at the Downtown Athletic Club. One' boy and one girl will then be selected as the National Award ERIC LIVINGSTONE. a Bishop 'Stang senior. winners and recognized 'during tlie Heisma:n Tmphy received an award at Boys' State.. nati'onal telecast, Dec. 10. The two National Winners will . each receive a $5,000 award for their school. ".' ' .' Ms. Caron and Sisson will be presented with cel'tifi. ca.tes of recognition at the Senior B~nqiJet'in June.

"These two students represent the' outstanding eff,)rts FALL RIVER - ' SS.· Peter and Paul studenfs' are •..... that many .stude~ts at Bishop 'Connolly High School attending today's kickoff cde'bration for·stamp.collecting "'.' make each day in the classroom;on theplaying'field, and month at the Fall River's main post office. Bob Schenk of' in the community," said Principal.Rev. John P. Murray, Animal Instincts pet shop will speak about some of the S.L "We:are especially proud to ~ecognizet~em ""ith ':his animals depicted ori ne.w.stanlps; which have the theme ho.nor and hope one or both of them is invited to !'Iew "Wonder of the Seas." . . .York Ci~y tliii; December." . .. ' .

A mural created by SS.Peter arid Paul students with . po~tal worker Tony Henriques will· be unveiled today.

Studcrnts. are designil}g their own stamps, which will be on 'Mt~ display in the main post office's. fobby throughout the' month:· . . . NEW' BEDFOR D - Our Lildy of Mt. C~rmel School . .' began its 95th school"year with at Sept. '13 Mass at which teachers were' commissioned by' pastor Father HeirlrY ·'Arruda..

ATTLEBORO - The student council invites all New faculty and staff members this year are: Brouke alu'mni, parents and friends to Bishop Feehan High Burgess, pres'chool teacher; Marie Guy·, h~alth teacher: School's 25th Annual Homecoming celebration Oct. 15.

Delores Vasconcellos and Judith DeMello, school secreCeremonies begin at noon on the Feehan campus, foltaries; and Elizabeth Correia, bookkeeper. lowed by a parade and afternoon homecoming game. An .

This year promises to be a busy one with activities alumni memorial Mass, breakfast and school tours will including drama club, National Honor Society. volleybe held Oct. 16, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the school ball, basketball. cheerleading and student council well auditorium. underway.

SSe Peter and Paul School'

Carmel-School

Bishop Feehan Homecoming.

By Charlie Martin

I'D GIVE ANYTHIN G I'm waiting for someone Who could turn my life around Someone who could make me feel The way that I used to feel But she never comes I'm :scarching But there is no one That I care to talk about And all the lovers in the world Don't amount to much What I really want Is one true love And I would give anything And everything To Ifall in love JUSlt this one time I'd like to find What I've been dreaming of If I could find Someone to hold me But that wouidn't be enough But I'd give anything To filII in love Now I'm waiting I'd rllther not be Sleeping by myself Staring at the walls I qucstion it all Will she ever come wm she ever come All the people making wishes All the people being strong I won't settle for less Than true love at its best 111 keep holding on I "ant to fall in love I'd give anything To fall in love Written by C. Farren/ J, Sissie/V. Milumsh. Sung by Gerald Levert (c) 1994 by Atlantic Recording Corp, DO YOU wish that you could gives expression to the comfall in love? If so, you are likely monly felt need to have a 1'0to identify with at least part of mance in life. The person in the the message in Gerald Levert's song says he is "waiting for "I'd Give Anything." someone who could turn my Levert's dynamic vocal style life around, someone who could

PET PROJECT Bishop O'Malley blessed furred, scaled and feathered pets in the courtyard of SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, on the Feast of St. Francis, Oct. 4. Along with the traditional dogs and cats, as well as goldfish in their bowls, were a few more exotic creatures, ranging from a hermit crab to an iguana and a chinchilla. Also on hand was principal Kathlee:n Burt's dog Freckles.

Student council president Valerie Costa presented Bishop O'Malley with a collection of student essays on thei r ex pectations of" A visit from the bishop." At a Mass preceding the blessing ceremony, SS. Peter and Paul was awarded accreditation for completing the diocesan school self-study process. (Hickey photos)

mak'~ 'me feel the way' that I used to feel." Thus, he also says "I would give anything and every~ thing to fall in love just this one time."

As a pastoral counselor, I sometimes hear others describe their loneliness. ';he pain of loneliness can fill '} person's life with longing.

If that someone is not eventually found, the loneliness may lead to lots of frustration. Like the person in the song, one may wonder: "Will she (or he) ever comeT' Clearly, one can do many things so to meet others. However, whether romance will develop from these contacts is uncertain. It's a mistake to make such a need the major focus in one's life,just "waiting for someone" to make one's life better.

An overfocus of this kind could even lead you into a relationship that is false and into inappropriate actions that do not reflect your true value system.

It helps to explore your other interests. Ask yourself: What do I really enjoy? What do I genuinely care about?

List your answers, and then parcel your time and energy so that some of it goes into these aspects of your life.

Besides gaining the satisfaction of pursuing interests that add meaning to your life, you are more likely to meet others that have some things in common with you.

This will provide a basis for getting to know others and establishing friendships. Even when you share in a romance, don't expect this relationship to provide all the elements of your happiness.

Certainly the' ongoing connection with another person may help you reach important dreams. Yet, our lives have many dimensions. Just being in a romance is not enough to attain lasting life satisfaction.

God gave each of us an expensive gift when we were given life. How you live and create your life will be your greatest work of art.

By Christopher Carstens holding college application orie Finding the right college for you tation meetings for juniors. Fin - and then getting in - is a real out when they are, and go. Be sure challenge. Too many high school to invite your parents. They have a students think it's a project they big stake in the process. There's a :, can put off till the spring of senior whole new language to learn, things' like "rolling admissions," "early year.

The great college hunt actually decision" and the difference bebegins their first semester of your tween the ACT and the SA T. As you find out about colleges, junior year.

Even if you're the best student in focus in on schools that meet your your school or the star of the bas- requirements. Don't just pick one, ketball team, don't count on col- and don't pin all your hopes on leges looking for you. There's a lot getting in there. It's too risky.

The ideal is a list of about 10 of competition for admissions to the very best schools. Harvard schools, divided up into three cateaccepts only 17 percent of the gories. Category I is made up of 12,000 students who apply each the top schools in your field, ones year, and Notre Dame takes only you might get into if you're really lucky. Why not shoot high? about one in three.

Category 2 is schools you'd like, It's important to know what colleges offer the education you want, where you stand a pretty good not just which ones are famous. It chance of getting in. Category 3 is may well be that the academic schools where you're sure of admisprogram that best fits your needs sion - just in case Categories 1 and ambitions is at a school you've and 2 don't work out.

When you've got your list of 10 never heard of.

You can't apply to your "perfect schools; send out letters, letting school" if you don't know it exists. them know you're interested. SudYour school counselor can help denly your mailbox will be filled you find the information. Counse- with colorful and interesting mail from colleges. lors aren't just for troubled kids.

Read the responses carefully, Matching students to colleges is an but remember that they are basiimportant part of their job, and it's cally advertisements, and like any often the part they enjoy most.

A good way to begin is by ad they put the best possible face reviewing some of the many col- on things.

In the fall of senior year, narrow lege guidebooks on the market. .

One of the best is the Fiske Guide your list to five or six colleges, to Colleges. It comes out every with choices from each of your year and rates different schools on three categories. Send in your applieverything from the quality of their cations (on time, please!) and wait of their faculty to the state of cam- for the news.

If you've done your preparapus social life. tion, and applied to a range of Your counselor should have a whole shelf of different college schools, you're almost guaranteed guidebooks, and you can go a slot at a school that meets your needs. through them in the counseling Your comments are welcomed office. He or she will probably have a variety of other college by Dr. Christopher Carstens, c/o Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth information as well.

Your school probably will be St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017.

.. , ,.

~~~~~_~,~",",!",!,!,!",,!",~_ _~.

/.

•

. ..

~.

'. ...

~

..... ,

....

'''''1'''''.-.- - - - - - . - - ,

;~-_~-_--_;~;.""5-'''.''!'''. ""2:. . . . .:. ._ ."."!"'._:..."!"' .....

'7

, •

"Marian Apparitions Explained" is a terrific evangelical tool for reaching your family and friends with Our Lady's urgent messages. Without ever 'preaching', it allows you to make up your own minds about the facts. If you care about your country and loved ones, you must listen to this audio tape!"

Michael H. Brown, best selling author, The Final Hour "Bud Macfarlane, Sr. gives the listener the most conci$e, accurate, orthodox, and dramatic explanation of historical and curre:pt day Marian Apparitions ever recorded. No one has a greater grasp and mastery of Marian Apparitions than Bud Macfarlane, Sr. This audio will inspire even the most skeptical listener. It will captivate you from start to finish!"

Ted Flynn, best selling author, The Thunder of Justice Please Clip or Pbotocopy and .Mail Today: Dear Mary Foundation: Please send me one copy of the free audio tape, "Marian Apparitions Explained" by Bud Macfarlane, and include the pamphlet, "The Incredible Story of the Mary Foundation", and a list of your other Free Catholic Evangelical Materials. _ _ I understand the tape is free, but I have enclosed an optional donation to help you with the cost, shipping, and handling of this free tape, and to help you supply free Catholic . Evangelical Materials to my brothers and sisters in Christ. (suggested amount: $2 to $10+).

(Please Print)

My Name:

_

Street Address: Town :~ State:

. .

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Zip Code:

_ _

Send to: The Mary Foundation· Anchor Offer, Box 614, Lakewood, OH 44107 Please make checks payable to: "The Mary Foundation". Your gift is tax deductible.

Your tape will go in the mail the day we get your letter! God Bless You. ANC

.The Mary Foundation: Since early 1992, hundreds of thousands of "Marian Apparitions Explained" and other . audio tapes have been distributed

by The Mary Foundation, the largest producer of Catholic Audio Tapes in the U.S.A. All of our materials are free, and we do no direct fund raising. Our patron and model is St. Maximilian Kolbe. This announcement was made possible through the generosity of one of your fellow diocesan parishioners, who wishes to remain anonymous.