School Drive Total Climbing
Donations to Fall River Boys' High Near $900,000
St. Roch's First to' Meet Parish Quota
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The Fund Raising Campaign Headquarters of the Catholic Memorial High School for Boys in Fall River an nounced this morning a total of $877,405. This sum is the amount reached 24 hours after the first Memorial Gifts Report Meeting. The meeting was highlighted when in the roll call of parishes, St. Roch's of Fall River passed. At the conclusion of the roll, Rev. George Daigle, pastor, and Pierre Gagnon, lay chairman, arose and announced that their parish surpassed their $40,000 quota by $7200. At once, music and streamers filled the air in the Sacred Heart School Auditorium and the entire delegation from the parish Turn to Page Ten
Fall River, Mass., Tbursday, Oct. 24, 1963
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Vatican Council Centers Attention on Layman By Rev. John R. Foister
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After having discussed the role of the Church in general, the work of the Bishops, the advisability of a permanent deaconate, etc. the Bishops turned their at tention to the lay membership in the structure of the Church. Without belonging layman is a priest in that to the hierarchy, the layman heThe is to participate in the sacri shares in the mission of the ficial life of the Church. He is Church so as to sanctify the a teacher in that he is to be a world from within. The layman cannot only passively posses the faith or receive instruction. He has an active role to play in the life of the Church. Sanctified by Baptism and t:onfirmation, he does share in the three-fold office of Christ. He is, therefore, - like the Bishops - a priest, a teacher EProphet) and a ruler (king).
witness to Christ in all sectors of life and preach Christ in his milieu - especially in his fam ily. He is a ruler in that he is. to reign together with Christ in victory over sin through the sanctification of his own life and his surroundings. For this, he receives the neces sary graces. He receives a Sense Turn to Page Six
Council Expert Asks Laity Have Equal Church Role ROME (NC) - The s':rongest plea made so far in eonnection with the ecumenieal council in favor of an equal status for the laity in the Church came from Fathe:r: Victor Klostermann. Father Klostermann is a member of the faculty of theology of the making the light of Christ shine University of Vienna, Aus in the world." tria, and a council expert. He "We must," said Father Klos termann, "find new means to spoke here at a press con ference under the auspices of the German Hierarchy. Referring to the present coun ell debate on the position of the laity, Father Klostermann said that Holy Scripture knows no distinction among the people of
God. "All believers" he said "are ealled by God to follow Christ no mattcr in what capacity. Bcing a laY'llerson in the world Is just as mu~ a divine calling as'being a priest or Religious. "Lay people," Father Kloster mann went on, "absolutely share this calling with the clergy and Religious. All without distinction are supposed to have a part in the responsibility for the Church as a whole which certainly is Dot only made up of the clerical _ate. All, therefore, have tasla .. aocompliih when it come. .~
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New Bedfordites Head Drug Guild Timothy P. Keating and Rev. Albert F. Shovelton, both of New Bedford, have been named president and chaplain respectively of the Na tional Cat hoi i c Pharmacists Guild, which held its first an nual meeting in Chicago. Serving with them are Clar ence H. Winkelmann, St. Louis, ,first vice-president; Frank H. Moudry, St. Paul, second vice president; Miss Ursula E. Heyer, Baltimore, secretary; and George Mulhauser, North S y rae u ... ueasurer.
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Plan Lay Training Institutes
Program in Five Diocesan Districts First CCD Session in Attleboro Saturday !1ctivity'in which they will take part in their parish. The foll()wing are the instruc tors and the classes they will 'teach. Augustus Silva, Mount Carmel Parish, New Bedford: Officers of the Parish Executive Board; Donald Mayer, St. Francis Xavier Parish, Acush net: Parish High School of Reli gion; George Pontes, Our Lady of the- Angels Parish, Fall River, and Patricia Makin, St. George's Parish, Westport: Parish Ele mentary School of Religion; James Kelleher, St. Joseph's Parish, . Taunton, and Francis Waring, Sacred Heart Parish, Fall River: Fishers; Leonor Luiz, Mount Carmel Parish, New Bed... ford: Helpers; Elmer Cunning ham, St. Lawrence's Parish, New Bedford, and Antoinette Berta lotto, St. Mary's Parish, New Bedford: Dis c us s ion Clubs; Armand Goulet, St. Anne's Par ish, New Bedford, and Mary Neville, St. Joseph's farish, Taunton: Parent-Educators; Ed
The Fall River Diocesan Exec utive Board of the Confrater nity of Christian Doctrine will conduct Lay Training In stitutes in the five districts of the diocese during the current scholastic year. The first of these week-end training sessions will be given for the parishes of the ~reater Attleboro area on Satur day and Sunday, October 26 and 27, at Bishop Feehan High School. Ten or more men and women from each parish, who are pre sent or potential members of the CCD Parish Executive Board, will take the six hour course. All will receive instruction in the particular phase of CCD
Professiona I Men In New Bedford Aid Papal Work New Bedford Cat hoI i e Physicians and Den tis t s Guild has voted unanimously to accept the financial sup
NEW YORK (NC)-Relief supplies worth some $25 million were donated by the U.S. Catholics to the 1962 Clothing Collection sponsored by their Bishops. A record total of 17,842,000 pounds of used clothing, shoes, oedding, blankets and other materials Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom of was given to the 1962 col New York, executive director of lection, according to a report CRS - NCWC, said the materi issued here today by Catholic als given to the 1962 drive to Relief Services-National Cath olic Welfare Conference. The report was made public as preparations were under way for the 1963 T han k s g i v i n g Clothing Collection, which will be taken up "ext month in parishes throughout the country. .A. .tatement b7 Auxiliar,
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Supplies Worth $25 Million Collected in 1962 Drive
port for the first Papal Volun teer from the Fall River Dio cese, Miss Lucille Lebeau of 24 Margin Street, New Bedford. Miss Lebeau is now studying language and culture at Petrop olis, Brazil. Upon completion of her studies she will be assigned to a hospital in Salvador (Bahia); Brazil. Turn to Page Eighteen
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ward Angelo, St. Mary's Parish, New Bedford, and Lawrence Duffany, St. John's Parish, At tleboro: Ap" .q,,~ of God Will. The two day program will be as follows. Saturday, October 26: 9:00-9:30 registration and classroom orientation; 9:30-10:00 general ass e m b 1 y: opening prayers, remarks and spiritual motivation; 10:00-11:00 class in struction; 11:QO-11:15 rest period; 11:15-12:15 cia s s instruction; 12:15-1:30; luncheon; 1:30-2:30 class instruction; 2:30-2:45 coffee break; 2:45-3:45 class instruc tion. .
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taled some 840,000 pounds more than the figure for 1961. That made it the largest total since the annual T han k s g i v i n g Clothing Collections were begun 15 years ago by the BishoPll. Clothing received in the col lection is shipped by cns Turu to Page Twelve