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Dartmouth parish to reach out to alienated Catholics

By Dave Jolivet Anchor Editor

Steve Karlen, center, the national director of Outreach for 40 Days For Life, recently visited and prayed with area faithful outside the Four Women Health Services in Attleboro, the only operating abortion clinic in the Diocese of Fall River. Speaking is Ron Larose, co-director of the Attleboro 40 Days For Life campaign. (Photo by Becky Aubut)

40 Days For Life national director visits Attleboro

By Becky Aubut Anchor Staff

ATTLEBORO — Last week, during a chilly mid-week morning, Steve Karlen, the national director of Outreach for 40 Days For Life, visited those standing vigil outside the Four Women Health Services in Attleboro. For more than an hour Karlen talked to, prayed with, and stood vigil outside the clinic, the only operating abortion clinic within the Fall River Diocese.

“It’s good to be here, and it’s good that we are here,” said Karlen, greeting those in attendance. “It’s good to be with

all of you and help encourage you during the second half of the campaign. This is my first full fall campaign, and even before we really began a baby was saved on day one before 8 a.m. [The mother] saw people, just like you, standing in front of the building and saw that as an answer to her prayer. The Lord was working very early in this campaign. ” “40 Days For Life is a focused Pro-Life campaign with a vision to access God’s power through prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil to end abortion,” reads the organization’s website. The mission of the cam-

paign is to bring together the Body of Christ in a spirit of unity with the purpose of repentance, to seek God’s favor to turn hearts and minds from a culture of death to a Culture of Life, thus bringing an end to abortion.

Done twice a year, this is Attleboro’s 11th 40 Days For Life campaign in front of the clinic under the co-direction of Ron Larose, who was also on hand to greet Karlen, and help lead the group through a prayer service. At press time, 289 babies had been saved worldwide during the camTurn to page 15

Catholics must make space for the soul online,Vatican secretary says

By Christine Willams Anchor Correspondent

BRAINTREE — The Internet will host the parish community of the future, according to Msgr. Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

“Social media is redefining how we understand local community,” he said. “The digital parish will be where people cluster around shared interests and shared ideas.”

Msgr. Tighe addressed those gathered at the sixth annual Catholic New Media Conference, held at the Archdiocese

of Boston’s Pastoral Center in Braintree on October 19.

He stressed the importance of Catholics bringing their faith to the digital arena, a place where people are spending a greater portion of their lives.

According to data compiled by eMarketer in August, the average American adult spends more than five hours online every day, and a 2011 survey of Brits found that one in four spend more time on the Internet than they do asleep.

Msgr. Tighe said that people are going online to connect with others.

“I am extremely hopeful because look what people are doing in social media — relationships and friendships, searching for information, sharing ideas, following. They are all fundamental human realities,” he said.

The Catholic Church has a duty to evangelize people who can be found on the digital continent. As the Church sent missionaries to Africa and the Americas, she must also engage people on the Internet. The Church needs to make space for the soul online, he said.

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SOUTH DARTMOUTH — Three years ago in a homily, when he was a parochial administrator at St. Julie Billiart Parish in North Dartmouth, Father Rodney E. Thibault, now pastor of St. Mary’s Parish in South Dartmouth and the diocesan director of the Pastoral Care of the Sick ministry, compared the Church to an emergency room at a hospital.

He told the congregation the Church, like the ER, is “where we should quickly triage the wounded and then work with

the wounded to work on healing them so that their spirits are refreshed and they have a sense of belonging in the community of the Church.”

In September, Father Thibault jokingly told his newly-formed Pastoral Council at St. Mary’s, “Pope Francis had stolen one of my lines in a certain way when the pope had called the Church a hospital.” While the comment may have been tongue-in-cheek, the council, during its first-ever meeting, unanimously agreed on the need for outreach to those who have been alienated from Turn to page 14

Four members of the Bishop Feehan High School cross country team were quick to respond to a roll-over accident they witnessed near the school. The boys pulled the driver out of the overturned vehicle. A first-hand report will appear in next week’s Anchor. The boys were, from left, Sean Legg, Spencer Marcott, and Jason Abdow. Michael Wojtyna was absent from the photo.

‘Wimpy Kid’ author to speak at Fall Dinner event October 30

FALL RIVER — Final arrangements are now being made for the annual St. Mary’s Education Fund Fall Scholarship Dinner set for October 30 at White’s of Westport.

The event’s featured speaker will be best-selling author Jeff Kinney, whose “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series has more than 85 million copies in print in 44 languages around the world. Kinney has twice received Author of the Year honors at the Children’s Choice Book Awards and has

been named by Time magazine as one of its 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Proceeds from the Fall Dinner benefit the St. Mary’s Education Fund, which provides need-based financial scholarships to students attending Catholic schools in the Fall River Diocese.

For more information on the Fall Dinner, please contact Jim Campbell at the Diocesan Development Office at 508-6751311.

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October 25, 2013

News From the Vatican

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Outgoing Vatican secretary of state stresses continuity between popes

Pope Francis meets Juan Bautista Segonds, at right, president of Rugby Without Borders, during a recent general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

Do not reduce the faith to ‘moralistic’ ideology, pope warns

Rome, Italy (CNA/ EWTN News) — During a recent daily Mass homily Pope Francis reflected on the dangers of following one’s own personal, “moralistic” ideology, stressing the importance of prayer in staying open to God. If a Christian “becomes a disciple of ideology,” noted Pope Francis during the Mass, “he has lost the faith.”

Pope Francis offered his words to those who were gathered with him in the chapel at the Vatican’s Santa Marta guesthouse, warning them against acting as if the “key is in (their) pocket, and the door closed.”

The Holy Father reiterated Jesus’ words to the scholars in the day’s Gospel, taken from Luke, in which He tells them that they have taken the key of knowledge, reflecting that in this scene Jesus speaks to us about the “image of the lock.”

It is, he said, “the image of those Christians who have the key in their hand, but take it away, without opening the door,” and who “keep the door closed.”

Asking those present how a Christian is able to fall into this attitude, the pope reflected that “The faith passes, so to speak, through a distiller and becomes ideology. And ideology does not beckon (people).”

Noting that it is a “lack of Christian witness that does this,” he stressed that “when this Christian is a priest, a bishop or a pope it is worse.”

“When a Christian becomes a disciple of ideology,” urged the pope, “he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he

is a disciple of this attitude of thought,” and “the knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge.”

“Ideology frightens, ideology chases away the people,” he stressed, stating that it is because of this that many are distanced from the Church.

“It is a serious illness, this Christian ideology. It is an illness, but it is not new,” he said, recalling how the Apostle John alludes to this mentality in his first letter.

Pope Francis then emphasized that the attitude of those who lose their faith in preference of personal ideologies is “rigid, moralistic, ethical, but without kindness.”

“But why is it that a Christian can become like this? Just one thing: this Christian does not pray. And if there is no prayer, you always close the door.”

“The key that opens the door to the faith,” the pope noted, “is

prayer,” and “when a Christian does not pray, this happens.

And his witness is an arrogant witness.”

The Christian who does not pray, urged the pope, is “arrogant, is proud, is sure of himself. He is not humble. He seeks his own advancement — when a Christian prays, he is not far from the faith; he speaks with Jesus.”

When we pray, the pope reflected, Jesus tells us to “go into your room and pray to the Father in secret, heart to heart,” because “it is one thing to pray, and another thing to say prayers.”

Those who do not pray abandon the faith, stressed the pope, and allow it to become a “moralistic, casuistic ideology, without Jesus.”

“We ask the Lord for Grace,” he concluded, “first: never to stop praying; to never lose the faith; to remain humble, and so not to become closed, which closes the way to the Lord.”

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who as Vatican secretary of state drew rising criticism for failures of the Vatican bureaucracy he oversaw, stepped down October 15 with a speech praising the pontificate of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and stressing its continuity with that of Pope Francis.

The cardinal made his remarks at a ceremony in the Apostolic Palace marking the end of his seven years as the chief aide to two popes. Before his speech, Pope Francis thanked the cardinal for the “courage and patience with which you have lived the adversities you have had to face. They are so many.”

The ceremony had also been planned as a welcome to the incoming secretary of state, Archbishop Pietro Parolin, but to the surprise of most in the room, Pope Francis announced the archbishop had been unable to attend on account of a “small surgical intervention”

that would keep him away from work for a “few weeks.”

The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, said the archbishop had traveled to his native Veneto region of northeastern Italy for the surgery, whose nature the spokesman declined to specify.

The new secretary of state, who until the end of September served as papal nuncio to Venezuela, could be in Rome by the end of October, Father Lombardi said.

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

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October 25, 2013 The International Church Experts meet to consider women in the Church and the world

Rome, Italy (CNA/EWTN News) — Approximately 100 women from around the world recently gathered in Rome to discuss the “feminine genius” described by Blessed Pope John Paul II 25 years ago.

The study seminar was hosted by the women’s section of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and focused on the theme, “God entrusts the human being to the woman.”

Experts in various disciplines ranging from medicine and law to academia and art arrived from

24 different countries to reflect on John Paul II’s writings on women, particularly his apostolic letter “On the Dignity and Vocation of Women.”

There were delegates from 29 different international organizations, including U.S. groups such as Women Speak for Themselves, Catholic Voices, and Priests for Life.

Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, celebrated the opening Mass of the seminar, saying, “It is in this context of seri-

ous anthropological crisis, where humankind wants to ‘go it alone’ and the criteria of humanity have become uncertain and extremely confusing and fluid, that we Christians are called to defend the nature and dignity of the human person, women and men.”

“As Christians in today’s world, we are called in a special way to safeguard humanity. By means of this seminar that starts today, we wish to assume this responsibility,” he continued. “In other words, we wish to safeguard what it is to be a human being, to be human beings who are God’s creatures, women and men.”

Helen Alvare, professor of law at George Mason University and founder of Women Speak for Themselves, spoke on how ideas about women have developed since the publication of “On the Dignity and Vocation of Women” in 1988, and how the Church might respond to those changes.

“We have had a more or less ‘natural experiment’ over the last several decades, allowing us to observe what happens when a substantial number of women can choose how they wish to spend their lives,” she explained.

The “preliminary results” show that “women still wish for the most part to marry and to have children” and that “women are

happy to exercise their talents outside the home as well as in it.”

Moreover, “when they are mothers, most women prefer to work part-time, or in cycles responsive to their children’s needs.”

“Furthermore,” Alvare went on, “modern empirical data is confirming the beneficial effects, not only of attending to the importance of stable relationships in personal lives, but of participating in labor imbued with meaning as human service.”

Women “are still voting with their feet disproportionately to work in the classic ‘caring-professions’ — teacher, nurse, social worker, etc. — and are now adding to that list, lawyers, doctors and politicians.”

What might this mean for the Church?

“Women seem naturally suited to communicate Pope Francis’ stunning calls to re-energize the Church’s mission to serve the dispossessed of this world,” she proposed.

“Women’s natural gifts — as well as their centuries of experience of work directly with the marginalized — make them natural leaders and communicators in all of these areas,” concluded Alvare.

Her words were immediately verified by women from around

the globe, who began a lively discussion of how to better serve those individuals and families of the world who struggle with situations such as poverty or abuse.

Priscilla Kuye, the first and only female president of the Nigerian Bar Association, noted the need to encourage families to give girls, as well as boys, an education — a practice that is not often embraced in the more rural parts of her home country.

Jocelyne Khoueiry, cofounder of the Catholic feminine movement “La LibanaiseFemme du 31 Mai” spoke of her involvement in the John Paul II Center of Social and Cultural Services in Jounieh, Lebanon.

The center was begun not only to help alleviate poverty but to address the “psycho-social” needs of individuals, couples, and families wounded by many years of war and political unrest.

Many others joined the conversation with questions or contributions about their experiences.

The seminar featured many different presentations and panel discussions on topics such as “What is the outcome of the sexual revolution 40 years on?” and “Legal protection of life and family.” The three-day seminar concluded with a meeting with Pope Francis.

Pope denounces wasted food as fruit of ‘throwaway culture’

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis denounced widespread hunger due to wasted food as a symptom of a “throwaway culture,” and called for greater effort to build a worldwide “culture of encounter and solidarity” instead.

The pope’s words appeared in his annual message for World Food Day, October 16, addressed to the director of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.

“The tragic condition in which millions of hungry and malnourished people, among them many children, live today” is “one of the most serious challenges for humanity,” Pope Francis wrote.

The pope called it “paradoxical” that globalization is increasing the world’s awareness of humanity’s needs even as growing individualism “leads to a certain attitude of indifference — at the level of persons, institutions and states — toward those who die of hunger or suffer malnutrition, almost as if it were inevitable.”

The pope called the waste of food, which, according to

the FAO, accounts for approximately a third of worldwide food production, “one of the fruits of the ‘throwaway culture’ that often sacrifices men and women to the idols of profit and consumption; a sad sign of the ‘globalization of indifference,’ which is slowly ‘habituating’ us to the suffering of others, as if it were something normal.”

In response, Pope Francis wrote, “it is necessary, today more than ever, to educate ourselves in solidarity, rediscover the value and meaning of this word, so discomfiting and frequently ignored, and make it an attitude fundamental to decisions in politics, economics and finance, in relations among persons, peoples and nations.”

A boy and his younger brother eat their free meals during a recent feeding program at a slum area in Manila, Philippines. Pope Francis denounced widespread hunger due to wasted food as a symptom of a “throwaway culture” and called for greater effort to build a worldwide “culture of encounter and solidarity” instead. (CNS photo/Romeo Ranoco, Reuters)

The Church in the U.S. Faith leaders welcome government reopening, point to unfinished work

October 25, 2013

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Religious leaders welcomed the congressional deal of October 16 that reopened the federal government after a 16-day shutdown, but some cast wary glances at the unfinished business of Congress as well as the circumstances that brought about the shutdown in the first place.

“The shutdown has had a widespread impact on many people, especially the poor, who suffered for lack of basic services during the period,” said a statement by Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.

“With the government now open, beneficiaries of government services, particularly the elderly and children, can hope to resume a normal life with a safety net securely in place,” Bishop

Blaire said.

The bishops had hoped that the deal that reopened the government and raised the debt ceiling into early 2014 would have included a provision granting a wider exemption to the Health and Human Services contraceptive mandate required of most employers, but no such provision was in the package.

“The bishops have pressed for legislative relief from the HHS mandate since its inception more than two years ago,” said a statement from Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, chairman of the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty. “Church efforts to protect rights of conscience will continue despite this temporary setback.”

Network, the Catholic social justice lobby, said in a statement it was pleased with the vote that

ended the shutdown, but “we also hope that lessons have been learned about how not to govern.”

“It is fair that furloughed federal workers, who were literally locked out of their offices, be paid so they can care for their families. However, little attention is paid to the plight of low-wage government contract workers who will lose two-anda-half weeks of pay,” the statement said.

“Many work in government lunchrooms and mailrooms, clean the buildings and perform other needed duties. And a large number are people with disabilities. There are also many, many others living paycheck to paycheck, including those who depend on tourism, who will never recover their losses. As usual, people at the economic margins suffer the most. That is

Catholics must make space for the soul online continued from page one

Even the pope tweets. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI began using Twitter to send out 140 character messages of faith, and Pope Francis has continued that practice. Pope Francis used social media as the main means for inviting people all over the world to pray for peace in Syria.

Msgr. Tighe said that Catholics should keep a positive tone online. He urged that correcting others online must always be done for the sake of the other, rather than the desire to win an argument. The Church should never let negative commenters define her message.

“Don’t go chasing after every criticism,” he said.

After Msgr. Tighe’s keynote address, participants at the CNMC had the choice of listening to several speakers at breakout sessions throughout the day.

Father Roger Landry, pastor at St. Bernadette’s Parish in Fall River, spoke about Pope Francis’s communication style, saying that the pope gives an authentic witness. He is fatherly, personal, direct, uninhibited and simple. He seldom makes declarative statements, favoring instead to raise questions. He lets others reach their own conclusions. Father Landry called the latter “far more effective.”

Pope Francis emphasizes the “big picture” — that Christ came to save us. When people truly understand this, conversion will follow, he added.

Father Landry said that Pope

Francis has had an “enormous impact” on his own ministry, providing hope to Catholics in his diocese. Many Catholics in Fall River feel a renewed pride in being Catholic.

Another breakout session featured Angela Sealana, who works for a Catholic evangelization apostolate and blogs at Inspired Angela. Like Msgr.

Tighe, she encouraged Catholics to be positive influences online.

In order to be effective new media missionaries, they need to be joyful, humble and merciful. The strength of their prayer life will affect their online projects, she added.

“It may not seem to have a direct correlation to how many Facebook ‘likes’ you have, but it does,” she said.

Participants seemed energized by the conference. Many of them spent a good portion of

the day on their mobile devices.

Some were updating their social media accounts with news of the conference.

Stephanie Kelliker, a youth minister and communications coordinator from Lexington, said that she came to the conference because her parish collaborative is looking for ways to engage parishioners who are registered but not actively participating in parish activities.

She learned from the conference that new media provides “endless possibilities,” she said.

Adrianna Purtell, from the Diocese of Albany, N.Y., said that she more clearly understands that being an online missionary means being authentic.

Her online portrait should show her personality and her likes — both secular and religious.

She felt encouraged to strive to show a person in love with Jesus Christ, she said.

unconscionable.”

As for the nation’s fiscal outlook, Network said, “it is shortsighted to focus only on the debt — which is already projected to go down as a percentage of GDP — and budget deficits — which have dropped substantially. Instead we need to invest in our nation in order to build it up. Our future depends on it.”

The U.S. bishops are part of the Circle of Protection coalition, formed to make sure budget policies don’t adversely affect the poor. Coalition members waged a “faithful filibuster” — reading aloud from the Bible across the street from the Capitol for a week whenever Congress was in session until the deal was reached.

“I want to acknowledge the mysterious influence and power of prayer that spread across the nation to help reopen our broken political process and protect the nation from more catastrophe,” said a statement from the Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, another coalition member.

“Though we are grateful to God for an end to the crisis, we cannot simply exchange one deadline for another,” said a statement from the Rev. David Beckmann, head of Bread for the World, another coalition member. “We need to address the root of the problem, and we

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need to address sequestration.”

Sequestration began last March after Congress failed to reach a broad deficit-reduction deal. Since then, 57,000 children have been turned away from Head Start, and Meals on Wheels cuts have left some low-income seniors without food baskets. The second round of sequestration cuts go into effect January 15 — the same date funding to keep the federal government open expires under the shutdown deal. Cuts to Head Start, the Women Infants and Children nutrition program, and international emergency food aid could be in the offing.

In an address, President Barack Obama identified immigration reform and the farm bill among the items hew wants Congress to consider promptly now that the government is reopen.

“It was promising to hear President Obama mention specifically the unfinished business that is the farm bill in his address to the nation,” said a statement from Roger Johnson, president of the National Farmers Union.

“Now that conferees have been named, it is time for the committee to get down to business and take action to bring certainty to our family farmers, ranchers, fishermen, rural residents and hungry neighbors.”

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Anchor Editorial

Pope Francis and vocations

“True joy does not come from things or from possessing, no! It is born from the encounter, from the relationship with others, it is born from feeling accepted, understood and loved, and from accepting, from understanding and from loving; and this is not because of a passing fancy but because the other is a person. Joy is born from the gratuitousness of an encounter! It is hearing someone say, but not necessarily with words: ‘You are important to me.’ This is beautiful. And it is these very words that God makes us understand. In calling you God says to you: ‘You are important to Me, I love you, I am counting on you.’ Jesus says this to each one of us! Joy is born from that!”

Pope Francis said those words this past July in a meeting with seminarians and novices. He was reminding us of how all vocations are tied into the joy of living in relationship with Christ, whether as single or married lay people or religious or clergy. In none of those vocations is life always easy, but if we live them as a relationship of love with Christ, we are “surprised by joy,” as C.S. Lewis said.

Lewis entitled his autobiography “Surprised by Joy” in reference to a poem by William Wordsworth of the same name, in which he described how “joy” took him momentarily away from the pain caused by the death of his daughter. In all vocations we deal with sorrows, great and small. It is Christ and the promise of an “Easter Sunday” after each “Good Friday” (although often the time “in between” is much more than three days) which helps us remain joyful, even in our sorrows.

Pope Francis contrasted Christian joy with that of the world. “It is the joy of freshness, the joy of following Jesus; the joy that the Holy Spirit gives us, not the joy of the world. There is joy! but — where is joy born? Some will say: joy is born from possessions, so they go in quest of the latest model of the smartphone, the fastest scooter, the showy car, but I tell you, it truly grieves me to see a priest or a Sister with the latest model of a car: but this can’t be! It can’t be. I think that cars are necessary because there is so much work to be done, and also in order to get about, but choose a more humble car! And if you like the beautiful one, only think of all the children who are dying of hunger. That’s all! Joy is not born from, does not come from things we possess! Yet others like the trendiest clothes, entertainment in the most fashionable places. Yet others say joy comes from success with girls or with boys, and even from switching from one to another or from one to the other. This is insecurity in love, which is not certain.”

In his remarks in the last paragraph, the Holy Father brought to mind the old saying of many parents to their children when they did not want to finish everything on their plate; “Remember the starving children in Africa” (many a child then wondered how they could mail their vegetables over to those children). What the pope said has validity for all of us, regardless of which vocation we have. We are all called to Christian poverty, chastity and obedience, each according to our particular state of life. In living these evangelical counsels, we are modeling ourselves upon God the Son, Who obediently became poor so as to save us through His chaste love for us. Each of us needs to ask ourselves “What would Jesus do?” in whatever vocation we are.

Pope Francis reminds us of the absolute need for prayer in our vocations (how can we be in a relationship with Someone with Whom we never communicate?). “‘Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest, to send out laborers into His harvest’ (Lk 10:2). The laborers for the harvest are not chosen through advertising campaigns or appeals of service and generosity, but they are ‘chosen’ and ‘sent’ by God. For this, prayer is important. The field to be cultivated is His. The mission is grace. And if the Apostle is born of prayer, he finds in prayer the light and strength of his action. Our mission ceases to bear fruit, indeed, it is extinguished the moment the link with its Source, with the Lord, is interrupted.”

The Holy Father quoted a seminary professor, “Listen well: ‘evangelization is done on one’s knees.’ Without a constant relationship with God, the mission becomes a job. It is not a job, but rather something else. If we look towards Jesus, we see that prior to any important decision or event He recollected Himself in intense and prolonged prayer. Let us cultivate the contemplative dimension, even amid the whirlwind of more urgent and heavy duties. And the more the mission calls you to go out to the margins of existence, let your heart be the more closely united to Christ’s heart, full of mercy and love. Herein lies the secret of pastoral fruitfulness, of the fruitfulness of a disciple of the Lord!”

These words of the pope are true for all of us, regardless of our vocation. Lay people, too, find that their efforts as Christian disciples are much more fruitful when nourished by prayer (even when it is accomplished in a quiet moment in the car or walking or in line at the bank). May we find joy in this relationship of love and may we pray the Lord to send the diverse set of laborers that we need.

Pope Francis’ weekly Angelus address and prayer Dear brothers and sisters, good day!

In today’s Gospel, Jesus told a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary. The main character is a widow who, forced to plead before a dishonest judge, manages to get him to grant her justice. And Jesus concludes, if the widow managed to convince that judge, do you think God will not hear us, if we pray to Him insistently? The expression used

by Jesus is very strong: Will not God then do justice for His chosen ones who call out to Him day and night?

To cry out day and night to the Lord! This is a striking image of prayer. But we might ask, why does God want this? Doesn’t He

already know our needs? What does it mean to insist with God? And this is a good question, that leads us to deepen a very important aspect of the faith: God invites us to pray with insistence, not because He doesn’t know what we need, or because He doesn’t listen to us. On the contrary, He always hears and knows all of us, with love. In our daily journey, especially in difficulties, in the fight against evil outside of ourselves and within us, the Lord is not far away, He is at our side; we fight with Him beside us, and our weapon is prayer, which makes us feel His presence alongside of us, His mercy, even His help. But the fight against evil is hard and long, it requires patience and resistance like MoOFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

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ses, who had to hold up his arms so that his people could triumph (cf. Ex. 17:8-13). It is so: there is a struggle to carry on every day; but God is our Ally, faith in Him is our strength, and prayer is the expression of this faith. Therefore, Jesus assures us of victory but in the end He asks, “When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?” (Lk. 18:8). If the faith goes out, if prayer goes out, and we walk in the darkness, we will be lost on the journey of life.

Let us learn, therefore, from the widow of the Gospel, and pray always without growing weary. This widow was good, she knew to fight for her children, and I think of the many women who fight for their families, who pray, who never grow weary! Today let us remember, all of us, these women who with their behavior give us a true witness of faith, of courage, of a model of prayer. Let us remember them! Pray always, but not to convince the Lord by the strength of words! He knows better than we do what it is we need. And so persevering prayer is an expression of faith in a God Who calls us to fight along with Him, every day, every moment, to overcome evil with good.

The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary: And she conceived of the Holy Spirit.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the

fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done unto me according to Thy Word.

Hail Mary...

And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us.

Hail Mary...

Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God, that we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen.

(After the recitation of the Angelus, the Holy Father said the following:) Dear brothers and sisters, Today is World Mission Day. What is the mission of the Church? To spread throughout the world the flame of faith that Jesus has lighted in the world: faith in God Who is Father, love, and mercy. The method of the Christian mission is not proselytism, but that of the sharing of the flame that heats up the soul.

I thank all those who through prayer and concrete help sustain the work of the missions, in particular the solicitude of the

Bishop of Rome for spreading of the Gospel. On this day, we are close to all men and women missionaries, who work without making noise, and who give their lives. [Missionaries] like the Italian Afra Martinelli, who worked for many years in Nigeria: one day she was killed in a robbery; everyone wept, Christians and Muslims. They really loved her!

She announced the Gospel with her life, with the works she accomplished, a center of instruction; in this way she spread the flame of faith, she fought the good fight. Let us think about this our sister, and greet her with applause, all of us!

I think too of Stefano Sándor, who was beatified yesterday in Budapest. He was a lay Salesian, exemplary in service to young people, in the oratory and in professional instruction. When the communist regime closed all the Catholic churches, he confronted the persecutions with courage, and was killed when he was 39 years old. Let us unite ourselves with the Salesian family and the Hungarian Church in giving thanks.

I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I invite you to pray for that dear nation, which in recent days has suffered different calamities.

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t’s been 25 years since the first time I helped to save a little baby’s life.

I was a college freshman and with a few other students and a law professor, we went early one Saturday morning to pray outside an abortion facility in Brookline. It soon became a regular practice.

There we would meet up with a few dozen people, mostly Catholics, a few Protestants and occasionally a Catholic priest. We would pray the Rosary and sing various Christian hymns.

Prior to those Saturday pilgrimages, abortion for me was an important “ethical issue.” I had written some school essays about it and even memorably debated one of my English teachers. But after going to pray outside that modern upscale death chamber, seeing pregnant girls my age enter frightened and exit childless, often pallid and in tears seared into my mind the very human reality of abortion.

A few of the women in our group were “sidewalk counselors” who would attempt to engage in conversation those heading into the facility.

Some women would stop and listen as the counselors would compassionately try to help them realize what they were about to do and change course before it was too late.

We would pray when we would see the women arriv-

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he lives of women have been so severely impacted by the dark side of contemporary culture that it’s hard to know where to begin to dig out of the lies. As with a ball of knotted twine, one needs to see the threads distinctly in order to separate and untangle them.

Likewise, we need to separate the tangle of lies undermining authentic femininity, and to reorient ourselves in the secure path of God’s truth.

We begin with the end in mind: we were created to know and love our Creator. We may discover Him in various ways as we grow and learn about the world and ourselves, and yet we cannot fully grasp the magnificence of the Divine embrace that awaits us. We were created for this pilgrimage of faith that will ultimately deposit us at Heaven’s door, and we depend on the Church to guide and protect us along the

Anchor Columnists ing, pray even more when one stopped to talk to a counselor, and pray most of all when someone had entered, all in the hope that they might use their freedom to choose to embrace rather than end the life of the child growing within.

The fact that there was a rather large group of people peacefully praying on a sidewalk often helped awaken the women and those escorting them that they were doing something far more significant than entering a dentist’s office to have a tooth pulled.

On the first Saturday I was there, I had the joy of seeing a sidewalk counselor persuade a girl not to enter the clinic.

We saw the two of them in conversation and the next thing we knew, she brought the girl over to us with a smile and told us that the girl had decided to keep her baby. The girl was shedding tears of joy and briefly told us her story.

On the way there that morning, her conscience was troubling her and she asked God for a clear sign of what she should do. When she saw all of us praying, she thought that that might have been the answer to her prayers. The compassion and patience of the sidewalk counselor convinced her.

One day for life?

It took a little while for the truth to sink in of what had happened, that by showing up and praying with faith and perseverance, I had helped save a life that day and helped to turn a mother’s life around.

The baby whose life was

Putting Into the Deep

By Father Roger J. Landry spared would now be 24.

That memory always gives me hope whenever I head out to pray outside abortion facilities, as I will be doing tomorrow morning with my parishioners and fellow Knights of Columbus outside the Four Women abortion facility in Attleboro, on 150 Emory Street, as part of the semi-annual 40 Days For Life campaign.

It’s of course possible for us to pray for women tempted toward abortion without venturing to the place of mass execution. But there’s something really powerful about the witness of giving up a whole morning to pray together for people they don’t know in order to try to help those contemplating abortion think about what they’re doing once

more. And such pilgrimages of prayer are also quite important for Catholics to grow in their recognition of what abortion is really all about and what God is asking of us.

Several years ago I got a call from a woman who objected to a Respect Life Sunday homily I had preached in which I had encouraged parishioners to make a similar prayerful journey of faith and witness with me.

“With all the sexual abuse by priests,” the woman exclaimed, “I can’t believe that you would even talk about abortion in the pulpit!”

Even though her comment was ridiculous, I thought that since she had brought up the clergy sex-abuse crisis, it could be an effective way to get her to reconsider her position.

I asked whether she thought the crisis was just about the sin and crime of the abuse itself or whether it also involved the sin of omission by all those who knew it was going on and didn’t do all they could to stop it. She said it was both. I wholeheartedly agreed with her.

I then asked if it would have still been evil if, instead of violating the children, the perpetrators were killing them instead. She said that it obviously would. I agreed with her

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“If abortion is the killing of an innocent child,” I then declared, “then how can doing nothing to try to stop that killing not be just as bad if not worse than thinking that sex abuse is wrong and failing to protect kids from the abusers?

“If your conscience couldn’t allow you to stand by doing nothing if you knew a child were being sexually abused, how can it permit you to stand by doing nothing when a child is being killed?”

There was silence for quite some time. Then she said she would have to think about it and get back to me. I still hope she does.

Jesus taught us in the parable of the Good Samaritan that it’s evil to ignore the situation of someone being left for dead. If we’re going to love our neighbor, we need to cross the road, draw near and do what we can.

Tomorrow, my parishioners, Knights and I are going to cross the diocese to be neighbor to mothers in distress and children in mortal danger. I invite you to come to Attleboro to cross the road with us.

Wouldn’t it be great if by our prayers and presence we saved a baby’s life tomorrow?

Anchor columnist Father Landry is pastor of St. Bernadette Parish in Fall River. His email address is fatherlandry@ catholicpreaching.com.

Confronting the lies: Education way. Intrinsic to that pilgrimage their premise. Women do need to be educated, and for that is our femininity (or for men, masculinity) which is the prism reason the Church has always supported schools for girls — through which we love. Unlike even when other cultures and hair color, height, or skin tone, religious traditions discouraged our sexuality is no accident, but the idea. St. Edith Stein (phirather it is itself a fundamental attribute that bears its own transcendent significance.

One misunderstanding of even the earliest feminists was that motherhood was a ball

By Genevieve Kineke and chain that held women back from their full potential. How could they get properly educated and losopher and educator, 1891integrated into the workplace if 1942) elaborated on how the they were tied down by pregeducation of girls should take nancy after pregnancy? How into account their nature — the could they bring their gifts to realities of the feminine soul. the world if they were home Since the physical and psychic cooking, cleaning, and caring for makeup of women is to live in children? creative collaboration with men, In order to respond to this, to receive the human person in we have to meet feminists love, and to nurture life in its halfway and endorse the good in various stages, their education

The Feminine Genius

should take that into consideration.

Unfortunately, most feminists would radically disagree, believing that motherhood is strictly a choice — and one that undermines other options! They go so far as to describe motherhood as a social construct that needs to be deconstructed if women are to “succeed.”

Thus, most educational institutions in the West have conformed to the enlightenment ideal that sees schools as channels of an encyclopedic volume of that information which will be useful in a material world.

Stein disagreed vehemently, insisting that the education of each girl encompass a three-fold goal: “the development of her humanity, her womanhood, and her individuality.” Essential to her humanity is her fundamental equality with men; essential

to her womanhood is the richness of spiritual and physical motherhood (whether or not she is called to Marriage and child-bearing); and essential to her individuality is her particular vocation, her gifts, and her overall disposition. None of these can be ignored if she is to develop in a healthy — fully human — way.

Does our present educational system take these things into account — even our Catholic school systems? Is there a way that we can improve on the current methodologies so that the truth about femininity is revealed to our young people? If we cannot agree with this assessment, then we have allowed a fundamental lie about the vocation of women to enter the very heart of our formation process.

Mrs. Kineke is a wife and mother of five who lives in Rhode Island. She can be found online at feminine-genius.com.

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he past few weeks Luke’s Gospel has focused on prayer.

This Sunday we are asked to take a look at two very different people who went to the temple to pray. In those days, the devout prayed in the early morning, in the evening and, if possible, at noon as well.

Their prayers took on a special meaning if they were said in the temple; so many went there to pray during those times.

Let’s take a closer look at the Pharisee and the tax collector mentioned in this Gospel.

True prayer is always offered to God and to God alone. It appears that our Pharisee did not get the message.

It looked like he went to the temple not to

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O God, be merciful to me, a sinner

pray to God but to pray believing we are better about himself; he went than others? Or are we to tell God how good he more like the tax colwas. On the other hand, lector? Do we present the tax collector stood ourselves to God when off to the distance. He we pray as a sinner, as would not even lift his one not worthy of His eyes to God. His prayer, “O God, be merciful to me Homily of the Week a sinner,” showed Thirtieth Sunday his true humilin Ordinary Time ity and his desire for forgiveness. It

By Deacon Del Malloy was this heartbroken acceptance of his wrongs that brought him the mercy great love? When we of his Heavenly Father. offer Him our prayers, A question we must do we admit our weakask ourselves is, “Who nesses and ask for His we are most like in this forgiveness and the parable, the Pharisee or special gifts of the Holy the tax collector?” Like Spirit? Shouldn’t we? the Pharisee, do we act There are lessons we as if we have no faults, can learn about prayer nothing to be ashamed in this parable. The of ? Are we content most important might

be to understand that true prayer comes from setting our lives beside the life of God, not beside one another. Much of what the Pharisee said about himself was true. He did fast, he did give tithes.

In many ways, he was not like other people, especially the tax collector, but the question is not, “How do I measure up against others?”

The real question is, “How do I measure up when I compare myself to God?” A man rode a train from Scotland to England. As he passed through the countryside, he noticed a little whitewashed house that seemed to shine with

a special whiteness.

A week later, the man returned home to Scotland on the same train.

The previous evening, snow had fallen and covered the ground.

When he passed the little white house, its whiteness seemed drab in comparison with the pure whiteness of the snow. It all depends on who we compare ourselves to. When we place our lives beside the holiness of Jesus, there is only one thing left for us to say: “O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.”

Deacon Malloy is a serves at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Attleboro. He is the commissioner of the New England Collegiate Conference.

Upcoming Daily Readings: Sat. Oct 26, Rom 8:1-11; Ps 24:1-6; Lk 13:1-9. Sun. Oct. 27, Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sir 35:1214,16-18; Ps 34:2-3,17-19,23; 2 Tm 4:6-8,16-18; Lk 18:9-14. Mon. Oct. 28, Eph 2:19-22; Ps 19:2-5; Lk 6:12-16. Tues. Oct. 29, Rom 8:18-25; Ps 126:1-6; Lk 13:18-21. Wed. Oct. 30, Rom 8:26-30; Ps 13:4-6; Lk 13:22-30. Thurs. Oct. 31, Rom 8:31b-39; Ps 109:21-22,26-27,30-31; Lk 13:31-35. Fri. Nov. 1, All Saints Day, Rv 7:2-4,9-14; Ps 24:1-4ab,5-6; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12a.

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ext month, on November 24, the feast of Christ the King, the Year of Faith comes to an end. This Year of Faith had been called by Pope Emeritus Benedict on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the opening of Vatican II and the 20th anniversary of the “Catechism of the Catholic Church.” It has been an eventful year for our Catholic faith, marked by a Synod of Bishops on the subject of the New Evangelization, the resignation of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the election of Pope Francis, and a new papal encyclical “Lumen Fidei,” “Light of Faith,” on, appropriately, the subject of faith.

Towards the end of his life, St. Paul wrote to Timothy, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Tim 4:7). Our Lord says, in the Gos-

Finishing the Year of Faith

for Jesus and our love for pel of St. Matthew, “He who perseveres to the end our fellow human beings should lead us to give witwill be saved” (Mt 10:22, ness to the Good News of 24:13). At the end of this our redemption in Christ, Year of Faith, we might in other words the New ask ourselves about how Evangelization. we have kept the faith so far.

Our Catholic faith has an objecJudge tive and a subjective dimension.

For As Popes EmeriYourself tus Benedict and

By Dwight G. Duncan Francis remind us tirelessly, our faith is in a Person, Jesus Christ, Whom we There is no substitute believe to be God Incarfor a personal encounter nate and the only Savior with Jesus and falling in of mankind through His love with Him. Yes, there life, death and resurrecare plenty of personal and tion. But this objective social ramifications of side of faith, expressed this loving encounter and pretty comprehensively conversion of life by folin the “Catechism of the lowing Jesus. But our faith Catholic Church,” needs cannot be reduced to this to be appropriated indior that doctrine or moral vidually and personally teaching. by us believers and be put Opposed to this life of into practice through faith, which culminates hope and love. Our love

in eternal life, is our usual and typical preoccupation with the here and now, with the material world of money, power and sex.

Pope Francis reminds us of the recurring problem of idolatry, not of course in the sense of graven idols or golden calves but rather in the sense of putting some lesser material thing in place of God. How many of us prefer to gratify our desires for money, power, prestige or pleasure, in lieu of doing what God wants?

The lesson that Jesus gave us was to always do God’s will. He taught us to pray in the Lord’s Prayer “Thy will be done.”

In His excruciating Passion, Jesus prayed to escape the chalice of pain and suffering, but “Not My will, but Thine be done.” This is the key lesson of the saints,

beginning with Jesus’ holy mother. When she learns that she is to conceive of the Holy Spirit and thus become the Mother of God, she responds, “Let it be done unto me according to Thy word.” At Jesus’ first miracle, she tells the servants at the wedding feast of Cana, “Do whatever He tells you.” Jesus, Mary, and the saints all do God’s will and encourage others to do likewise.

This is what a life of faith is about, the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.

For it we need to smash the selfish idols of money and personal gratification that are cheap substitutes for the loving fulfillment of God’s will which impels us to selflessly love and serve our neighbor.

Anchor columnist Dwight Duncan is a professor at UMass School of Law Dartmouth. He holds degrees in civil and canon law.

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Chaplain calls it an honor to serve military, families

DALLAS (CNS) — Surveying the scene at this year’s Na-

tional Conference for Diocesan Vocation Directors conven-

tion in Dallas, Father Matthew Pawlikowski recounted an experience he has often had with soldiers in the military. “Some of the guys will say, ‘Hey Chaplain, where’s your weapon?’ I tell them, ‘Right here,’” said Father Pawlikowski, slapping his hands together in prayer with a Rosary.

He spoke to The Texas Catholic, newspaper of the Dallas Diocese, while attending the vocation directors’ September gathering. Although officially an active-duty Army chaplain since the summer of 2000, Father Pawlikowski has been serving members of the military as a chaplain since he was a student at Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He remembers being drawn to the priesthood as early as high school.

He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in foreign area studies in the Soviet Union. He then spent six years of active duty service as an infantry officer, which took him from Fort Benning, Ga., to Uijeongbu, South Korea, and then eventually to Fort Bragg, N.C.

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October 25, 2013

Pope decides to hold 2014 Lenten retreat away from Vatican

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “As a good Jesuit,” Pope Francis knows it is best not to try to make a retreat where one lives and works, so he has decided the annual papal Lenten retreat with Roman Curia officials will be held outside Rome, a Vatican spokesman said.

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at the Pauline Fathers’ retreat and conference center in Ariccia, a town about 20 miles southeast of Rome, said Passionist Father Ciro Benedettini, vice director of the Vatican press office.

The tradition of having week-long, preached “spiritual exercises” for the pope and members of the papal household began with Pope Pius XI in 1925. For more than 35 years, it was an Advent, not a Lenten retreat.

Pope John XXIII broke the Advent tradition in 1962 when he spent a week in September on retreat to prepare for the Second Vatican Council. His successor, Pope Paul VI, made the retreats a Lenten staple in 1964 and broadened the list of preachers, who almost always had been Jesuits.

The retreats traditionally were held in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel in the Apostolic Palace, beginning on the first Sunday of Lent and concluding the following Saturday morning. Pope Francis’ retreat will be a bit shorter, presumably because it involves having the curia leave the Vatican.

The Spanish Catholic radio station COPE reported recently that Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, four days before retiring as Vatican Secretary of State, had written to the prefect or president and secretary of every Vatican congregation and council and top officials of other curia offices informing them of the pope’s decision to hold the retreat in Ariccia and asking them to confirm their intention to attend by November 30.

Confirming the story, Father Benedettini also confirmed that Pope Francis had chosen Msgr.

Angelo De Donatis to preach the retreat. Pastor of a parish in the center of Rome, he established a spirituality center there and is well known as a spiritual director of priests and seminarians.

The Pauline Fathers’ facility in Ariccia has 120 rooms, each with its own bathroom, as well as a large dining room, chapel, gardens and meeting rooms.

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Pope: Greed destroys, money is God’s gift to help others

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Money by itself isn’t a

problem, but greed and an attachment to money cause evil

and destroy families and relationships, Pope Francis said.

“Money is needed to bring about many good things,” he said a recent morning Mass homily, “but when your heart is attached (to money), it destroys you.

“How many destroyed families have we seen because of money problems, sibling against sibling, father against child,” he said during the Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, according to Vatican Radio. “When a person is attached to money, he destroys himself, destroys the family” and destroys relationships, he said.

The pope focused on the day’s Gospel reading (Lk 12:13-21) and Jesus’ parable of the rich man. God admonished the rich man and said a person who stores up treasures for himself will not be rich “in what matters to God.”

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Dartmouth parish to reach out to alienated Cathlolics continued from page one

the Church. The council discussed in great length, where the life and spirituality of the parish was headed.

“We know that people, for one reason or another, don’t feel welcomed by the Church,” Beni Costa-Reedy, one of the council members and the parish director of Faith Formation, told The Anchor. “We have to welcome back the outsiders as well as those in the pews who don’t feel welcome either. More and more of such people are coming to the forefront and we have to reach out to them.”

Father Thibault and the council met again in early October to continue the discussion. “I issued a challenge to the coun-

cil to ask their relatives, friends, neighbors and co-workers whom they know once regularly came to church why they stopped coming,” Father Thibault told The Anchor.

“Our role is to ask those alienated from the Church, ‘Why is that?’ said CostaReedy. “Have we failed to be welcoming?

Have we failed to ask them to be part of the community? Something is missing in the spiritual lives of those who no longer come to Mass, and for those in the pews who come out of obligation, but still don’t feel welcomed.”

From that meeting came the decision to initiate a “Welcome Home,” weekend

at the parish on November 16 and 17. “It will be a weekend of Reconciliation and healing, reaching out to Catholics who have left the practice of their faith,” said Father Thibault.

The weekend is an effort on the part of the Church, the parish, the pastor and the parishioners to reach out and welcome back those who have strayed.

Father Thibault explained that at a series of weekend Masses beginning on November 16 at 4 p.m., and then November 17 at the 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 11 a.m., and 5 p.m. Masses, parishioners and guests, led

by Father Thibault, will reflect, pray, and listen to the Word of the Lord in an attempt to begin the process of building bridges. “We will ask Jesus to heal those who have been hurt or alienated by the Church due to the faults of her leaders or members, and to welcome the faithful of Christ back into the loving arms of the Church,” said Father Thibault. “After each Mass, there will be a time-appropriate social in the parish center during which time people can socialize and begin to feel at home and welcome.”

A large banner reading “Welcome Home!” will grace the front of the church that weekend.

“This is who we want to be as a parish,” Costa-Reedy told The Anchor. “We have a huge job ahead of us after that, getting people back on board. This is not about what Father Thibault has to say to them, or what Beni Costa-Reedy has to say to them, but what the Church has to say to them, bringing the message of Jesus to the forefront.”

The council at St. Mary’s and the pastor are following the requests of Pope Francis to reach out. “The pope has been professing this since he became pope,” added Costa-Reedy. “People have been waiting for an invitation, and we want to give them a personal invite back to the Church

— a welcoming Church.

“I think we can sometimes get comfortable sitting in the pews. It’s easy to say, ‘I wish they would come back.’ But we have to find out why they’re not and make things right. Instead of just ‘preaching to the choir,’ we have to sing a new song.”

Costa-Reedy said the council realizes that Catholics must be open about their own faith. “As director of parish Faith Formation, I take the job very seriously.

We have to make friends with the parents who drop their children off at Religious Education classes, make them feel welcome and listen to them. Even say ‘I’m sorry’ if someone or something in the Church hurt them in any way.”

“Pope Francis is not reinventing what Jesus is saying,” said Father Thibault. “The pope speaks plainly and clearly. We need to meet people where they are and that is what this local Church is attempting to do.”

The parish is holding a November 5 press conference to let people know about the initiative, with invitations going out to several area secular newspapers. The parish bulletin has also been carrying news of the upcoming Welcome Home weekend.

Costa-Reedy said “There are those in the pews who are already on board. When Father Rodney spoke about it at one weekend Mass, the congregation broke into applause.”

“We at St. Mary’s welcome the changing winds that are blowing around,” said Father Thibault. “We know that now is the time to act and that is what we are doing! We do not need to have anyone interpret what the Holy Father is saying — his words are crystal clear!”

For information about the Spiritual Weekend, contact Father Thibault at 508-992-7163 or email info@ stmarysdartmouth.org

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abortion began to tear up be- who worked in the abortion cause she could relate to that industry (www.40daysforlife. pain. It was like she was at the com). Abundant Hope Pregfoot of the cross. That touched nancy Resource Center is holding its fourth annual Celme very deeply.”

Larose mentioned to Kar- ebrate Life Dinner on October len that each 40 Days cam- 26 from 6-9 p.m., with a perpaign in Attleboro means a formance by Pro-Life comedicommitment of having at least an Mike Williams, at the Natwo people present at all times tional Shrine of Our Lady of outside of the clinic, essentially La Salette in Attleboro; tickets from sunup until sundown, ev- cost $20 and can be purchased by calling 508-455-0425. eryday of the week.

The 40 Days For Life cam“At 480 hours, that’s nearly 1,000 hours of witness out paign ends November 3 and here,” said Karlen of the pairs Larose encourages those feelwho stand vigil. “That’s a great ing the call to come out and challenge. It can be a chal- help pray for the protection of lenge to come when it’s not those most vulnerable.

“We work hard to have so convenient, like during a Red Sox game or work week, people here all the time. We but that’s why that sacrifice is don’t get discouraged; we are Steve Karlen, the national director of outreach for 40 Days For Life, visited those standing vigil outside so important. Sometimes we adamant about staying the the Four Women Health Services in Attleboro, spending time to talk to, pray with, and stand witness outside the clinic, the only operating abortion clinic within the Fall River Diocese. Here he stands with have feedback, asking us why course,” said Larose. “Our the more than dozen people — including Ron Larose, co-director of the Attleboro campaign — who are we even here at six o’clock primary focus is on Thursin the morning? This place day afternoons and Saturday came to attend the vigil that day. isn’t even open, nobody is even mornings when the abortions here; you’re wasting your time. take place. If anybody has not 40 Days For Life national director visits Attleboro We certainly want to reach the come, we encourage them continued from page one women who are getting the strongly to come at those paign, including in one of the of a two-day visit in the area with a woman who had a abortions, but we also know times so that they can get a newest countries to join the where he visited multiple vigil forced abortion at age 17,” said our primary audience is the better understanding of the Pro-Life cause, Africa. sites in Massachusetts, Rhode Karlen. “She was really coerced Lord and that He is the One site and feel a little bit more “Who would have ever Island, Connecticut and New into it by other people in her Who will ultimately change comfortable about being with life. She then tried to attempt thought that 40 Days For Life York. other like-minded individuhearts, not us.” would spread to Africa? I know “We just try to tour as suicide, but thank God wasn’t Karlen recommends peo- als. This is not a protest, as we never expected that, but the many campaign sites as we successful. She worked in the ple read “40 Days For Life” we are accused of, we need Lord is certainly doing some can to encourage people,” he abortion industry before she by Dave Bereit and Shawn to continue to promote the great things,” said Karlen. explained, as he shared a mov- had a conversion. When I was Carney so individuals can be [Pro-Life] message. We need Karlen continued to share ing story with The Anchor of there a week ago, we saw an uplifted by the 40 Pro-Life to continue to pray and focus facts, including that prior to a recent trip he took to West abortion client get out of her stories that range from saved on that message and get it car and just looked exhausted. this campaign, 83 abortion Chester, Pa. babies to conversions of those out there.” workers had left the industry “I was able to pray there This woman who had had the and there are “rumors of others interested in leaving,” said Karlen, adding that he recently took a call about the 41st abortion center, located in Montana, to close shortly after a 40 Sunday, October 27, 11:00 a.m.

Days For Life campaign.

“Number 40 was in Texas, number 39 was in my neck of the woods; I’m from Green Bay, Wis.,” said Karlen. “We Celebrant is Father Paul E. Canuel, just see the Lord doing wona retired priest of the Fall River ders all over the world and Diocese, living at the Cardinal I’m glad that you’re a part of Medeiros Residence in Fall River. it and I get to share time with you.”

Karlen thanked everyone for “being a faithful witness, for your prayers and being part of this worldwide campaign.

We talk a lot about the beginning of the end of abortion being upon us. We know that there is a lot of darkness in our culture, darkness over this facility, a darkness in our society — but we also know that from the Gospel of John, chapter one, verse five, that the light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not overcome it — and I think that all of you are here being the light that shines in the darkness.”

Karlen was in the middle

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Youth Pages

Eva Posk, a fourth-grade student at St. Mary’s School in Mansfield, begins the week for the school community with Monday Morning Prayer.

October 25, 2013

Students from St. James-St. John School in New Bedford were recently visited by the authors of the annual Working Waterfront Festival in New Bedford, that celebrates the commercial fishing industry in that city with music, games and activities.

Pre-kindergarten and fifth-grade students from Our Lady of Lourdes School in Taunton recently enjoyed a field trip to Weir Street Fire Station in that city.

Brothers Jack and Gavin Mooney bring up the gifts during the 90th celebration of Catholic education in North Attleboro. Nine decades ago, Sacred Heart School, which is now St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, opened its doors with five Holy Union Sisters and 211 students. Today the school is taught completely by lay people, aside from the school director, Father David Costa, and there are 286 students.

At St. John the Evangelist School in Attleboro the Buddy Program teaches students to respect and care for each other. This program provides interactive activities between grades kindergarten and seven, and grades eight and one; and the Service Program for grades seven and eight whereby students give back to SJE. Shown here are kindergartners Reagan Bonneau and Jackson Finn with their seventh-grade buddies Maggie McLaughlin and Salima Amiji.

They got together, drew pictures of each other and then enjoyed a Popsicle.

The fifth-grade students at Holy Name School in Fall River recently made montages — a big poster made up of lots of smaller pictures or items — displaying their families, friends, hobbies, pets, and favorites. The students were very creative in the visual representations of themselves.

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e take so many things for granted that we accept them as second nature. No thought or reason is required. It just is and then we move on.

Sometimes, however, this complacent way of thinking can keep us out of touch with reality. I think our biggest fault in taking things for granted lies with our not being grateful. G.K. Chesterton said it best, “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”

Are you in awe of a new day when you wake up and see the sun shining, birds chirping and nature revealing its simple beauty? You should be, because you have been blessed with another day of life — live it to the fullest. Don’t just expect something to be available all the time and forget that you are blessed, or lucky, to have it. Be grateful to the Lord

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all it the Anchor version of “Where’s Waldo?”

Since my column is one of the last pieces written for each edition it gets inserted, pretty much, wherever it fits. So for those who do read this, it’s an adventure to play “Where’s Jolivet?” each week.

This edition, I find myself in new territory. Since our ad man Wayne did such a bang-up job with vocations advertisements, I get to share this youth page with my good friend Ozzie above. And I figure if Deacon Frank Lucca can find his way on the youth pages every fourth week, I can as well, on occasion.

This is not a problem because this week’s gem is about my youth, or to be precise, re-finding my youth.

As a lad, I can distinctly remember three times when I was brought to tears by a major event. The first two occurred within two months of each other — the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968 and Senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy on June 6, 1968.

I remember very well President John Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, but I was a bit too young to become emotional. I was more afraid than anything else.

The third tear-jerker was a

Youth Pages The Lord is always near

know, so it’s OK to do it. for all that is — all of it First of all, there’s nothing comes from Him. When we fail to appreciate the value of OK about sinning. The Lord is always watching, but only something, like clean water or something as true without because He wants what’s best for us and to love us. questioning or testing it or taking it for granted that your parents want you better off than they are, then we become out of touch with reality. If you allow the Lord to be involved in

By Ozzie Pacheco every aspect of your life, complacency becomes minimal. It Maybe we just need to acall starts with knowing that cept the reality that the Lord the Lord is there and to be will never abandon us and grateful for His companionwill guide us along the right ship. paths. Let’s accept the reality The Lord does not hide that the Lord is always near from us in our time of need. to us. Little Timmy does.

But, neither does the Lord A mother was concerned close His eyes when we do about her kindergarten son, wrong or take things for Timmy, walking to school. granted. We may not think He didn’t want his mother to twice about our sinful acts walk with him. She wanted because our minds may to give him the feeling that have accepted that no one he had some independence is watching and no one will

Be Not Afraid

but yet know that he was safe. So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor if she would please follow him to school in the mornings, staying at a distance, so he probably wouldn’t notice her. The neighbor said that since she was up early with her toddler anyway, it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as well, so she agreed.

The next school day, the neighbor and her little girl set out following behind Timmy as he walked to school with another neighbor girl he knew. She did this for the whole week.

As the two walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs, Timmy’s little friend noticed the same lady was following them as she seemed to do every day all week. Finally she said to Timmy, “Have you noticed that lady follow-

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Do you know her?” Timmy nonchalantly replied, “Yeah, I know who she is.” The little girl said, “Well, who is she?” “That’s just Shirley Goodnest,” Timmy replied, “and her daughter Marcy.”

“Shirley Goodnest? Who the heck is she and why is she following us?”

“Well,” Timmy explained, “every night my mum makes me say Psalm 23 with my prayers, ’cuz she worries about me so much. And in the psalm, it says, ‘Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the days of my life,’ so I guess I’ll just have to get used to it!”

Ah! The beautiful mind of a child. Surely goodness and kindness do follow us all the days of our lives. Let’s all get used to it and be grateful for it. God bless!

Anchor columnist Ozzie Pacheco is Faith Formation director at Santo Christo Parish, Fall River.

Finally reaching a goal of mine The Celtics were winning bit more upbeat. The date was them seemingly every season, May 10, 1970. I was home and I wasn’t that much into watching the Boston Bruins attempt to win their first Stan- basketball — my passions were the Bs, Red Sox and Boston ley Cup championship in 29 Patriots. years. The game was on CBS TV with Dan Kelly calling the play-by-play.

On that day, the Bs had a three-games-tonone lead in the bestof-seven finals. It was inevitable they would

By Dave Jolivet beat the far less talented St. Louis Blues in the series, but already, at the To this day, I have the tender age of 13, I knew not center-spread of the Boston to take any Boston sports for Record-American that had Ray granted (the Red Sox prepped Lussier’s famous photo of Orr me well). flying through the air. I had it About midway through the laminated and it proudly hangs third period, Johnny Bucyk, the Chief, tied the game at 3-3, ultimately sending the game into sudden death overtime.

It was nearing 5 p.m. as I nervously settled in for the OT, and before I could even reach into the box of Cheez-Its, my boyhood hero, Bobby Orr, was flying across the Boston Garden ice after scoring the cup-clinching goal just 40 seconds in.

Immediately he was swarmed by his teammates and fans who made their way onto the ice.

It was the thrill of a lifetime I sat there and cried with meeting my boyhood hero, Bobjoy. It was the first time I had

by Orr, at a recent book-signing. experienced a championship.

(Photo by Dave Jolivet)

My View From the Stands

in my home. I still have the newspapers of the coverage of the parade; the 1970 Boston Bruins yearbook; and the record album of the broadcasts of that magical 1969-70 season, “GOAL: BRUINS!” I have a collection of books about that Bruins’ team, and had a Bobby Orr shirt and a poster of him on my wall.

Of all the Boston athletes in any sport, Orr was and still is my favorite.

I did get to see him play at the Garden, and score a goal, and I did attend the unveiling of the statue of “The Goal” in 2010 outside the new Boston Garden. But I never met him ... until last week.

Orr’s new autobiography, “Orr. My Story,” was released last week, and with a series of book-signings.

My co-worker Ken Souza and I decided we would go to the Boston signing that was to take place at noon in the Prudential Center Mall.

We arrived at 11:15 a.m. and made our place in line — almost an entire city block away!

We made friends with our line-mates (a hockey term, but with a different twist).

Two hours later there I was,

face-to-face with Bobby Orr. He reached out and shook my hand with a broad smile on his face. I said, “Thanks for the memories,” and he earnestly responded with a simple, “You’re welcome.”

I took a few photos, collected the two books he signed for me and walked away.

It wasn’t until I got home and sat back and reflected on what had just happened, that it hit me. “I just met Bobby Orr.” Forty-three years after the greatest hockey player who ever played (no debate here) reduced me to tears of joy, he did it again. It brought tears to my eyes when it sank in that I met Bobby Orr. I’m not the type of guy who is an autograph hound, or who idolizes movies stars or athletes, but Orr was different. It’s not just that he was so great at what he did, it’s also that he’s a fine human being and role model. His was the only autograph I really wanted, but more than that, it was to meet him.

I did, and I felt like a kid again, for just a little while.

(Rest in the peace of the Lord, my good friend, Holy Union Sister Eugenia Margaret Ready.)

Anchor columnist Dave Jolivet can be reached at davejolivet@anchornews.org.

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Sister Eugenia Margaret Ready, SUSC

FALL RIVER — Sister Eugenia Margaret Ready, SUSC, (Eileen Ready) of Fall River, died October 2 at Catholic Memorial Home at the age of 90.

She was a native of Fall River, the daughter of the late Eugene and Margaret (Doherty) Ready.

In addition to her Holy Union Sisters, her brother Daniel, sister-in-law Dorothy and sister Regina (Ready) O’Brien and brother-in-law James, several nieces, nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews survive her.

Her sisters Gertrude O’Brien, Elizabeth Wilson, brothers

Eugene and William predeceased her.

Sister Eugenia Margaret was a graduate of the former Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River. She entered the Holy Union Sisters in Fall River, in 1940 and pronounced her final vows on Aug. 15, 1948. She studied at Stonehill College, North Easton; Rivier College, Nashua N.H.; and

Around the Diocese St. Nicholas of Myra Church, 499 Spring Street in North Dighton will hold its annual Holiday Craft Fair on November 2 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The fair will feature many talented crafters, as well as a bake table, food from the kitchen, and the parish’s famous roll-up table.

St. John Neumann Parish’s Women’s Guild will hold its annual Christmas Bazaar in the parish hall, 157 Middleboro Road in East Freetown, on November 2 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The one-day bazaar will feature a wide variety of booths, including assorted gift basket raffles, money raffles, home-baked goods, baked beans, a Chinese auction, lottery raffle tickets, antiques and collectibles. Admission is free.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 235 North Front Street in New Bedford, will host its Spirit of Christmas Fair on November 2 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. featuring crafts, gifts, children’s corner, baked goods and the parish’s famous Polish kitchen.

Msgr. Verdon, director of the Office of Sacred Art and the Center for Ecumenism for the Archdiocese of Florence, Italy, will give a presentation on November 2 at 3 p.m., “The Power of Sacred Art,” followed by a book-signing, reception, service of Choral Evensong, and a Tower Bell Peal at the Church of the Transfiguration, at 5 Bay View Drive, Orleans. For more information visit www.churchofthetransfiguration.org.

St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis will hold its third annual Day of Reflection on November 2 in the gymnasium of the preparatory school directly behind the church on Cross Street. This year’s theme is “Following Your Faith to a Joyful Life” and features keynote speaker Claire McManus, director of the Fall River Diocese’s Office of Faith Formation. All are welcome to this day of faith and fellowship which will begin at 9 a.m. with a continental breakfast and conclude with a 4 p.m. Mass. Registration forms are available at the entrances of the church and at the Sacred Heart Chapel in Yarmouthport or by visiting www.stfrancishyannis.org. Deadline for registration is October 28.

Good Shepherd Parish, 1598 South Main Street in Fall River, will be hosting a Day With Mary on November 2 beginning at 7:50 a.m. There will be a Mass in honor of Our Lady celebrated by Father Andrew Johnson at 10 a.m. There will also be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, silent adoration and Rosary. Confessions will be available throughout the day. For a complete schedule or more information, visit www.gsfallriver.com or call the parish office at 508-678-7412.

Our Lady of Fatima Church in New Bedford is having its annual Harvest Fair on November 3 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ma’s Donuts and coffee will be served as well as kale soup; clam chowder; chow mein; shepherd’s pie; chouriço, peppers and onions; caçoila; hot dog and beans; stuffed quahogs and more. The fair will also have crafts, baked goods, candy, kid’s games, raffles and more.

An Open House for prospective students of Bishop Connolly High School, 373 Elsbree Street in Fall River, will be held November 6 from 5 to 8 p.m. All prospective students and their families are encouraged to attend this informative event. The Placement Test will be held December 7 at 8 a.m. For more information call 508-676-1071.

Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Parish will host its Holiday Fair on November 8 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and November 9 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the church hall on Coyle Drive, off Route 152 in Seekonk. Many raffles including an LG HDTV, Apple iPad, along with scratch tickets, Split the Pot, and the famous “Baskets Galore.” There will also be home-baked goods including fudge, candy and meat pies. Louise’s Cafe will be open both days.

received a B.A. from Manhattan College and a master’s in library science from Villanova University. In her early teaching career, she taught in parish elementary schools in Baltimore, New York City, Queens, and Taunton. She taught at the former Holy Union Preparatory School, Tiverton, R.I. She taught English, typing, algebra and served as librarian at the former Sacred Hearts Academy, Fall River; Holy Family High School, New Bedford; and Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton. She served as a trustee of the Fall River Public Library from 1972 to 1984.

She served as a pastoral associate at Sacred Heart Parish, Fall River from 1995 until her retirement in 2006.

A Mass of Christian Burial took place at Sacred Heart Church, Fall River. Burial was at St. Patrick Cemetery, Fall River. Funeral arrangements were by Waring-Sullivan Funeral Home, Fall River.

Donations in Sister Eugenia Margaret’s memory may be made to: The Holy Union Sisters Mission Advancement Office, P.O. Box 410, Milton, Mass., 02186-0006.

Eucharistic Adoration in the Diocese Acushnet — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Francis Xavier Parish on Monday and Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.

Evening prayer and Benediction is held Monday through Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

ATTLEBORO — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the St. Joseph Adoration Chapel at Holy Ghost Church, 71 Linden Street, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

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

Brewster — Eucharistic Adoration takes place in the La Salette Chapel in the lower level of Our Lady of the Cape Church, 468 Stony Brook Road, on First Fridays beginning at noon until 7:45 a.m. First Saturday, concluding with Benediction and concluding with Mass at 8 a.m. buzzards Bay — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Margaret Church, 141 Main Street, every first Friday after the 8 a.m. Mass and ending the following day before the 8 a.m.

Mass.

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

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

Use the Chapel entrance on the side of the church.

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

FAIRHAVEN — St. Mary’s Church, Main St., has Eucharistic Adoration every Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Chapel of Reconciliation, with Benediction at noon. Also, there is a First Friday Mass each month at 7 p.m., followed by a Holy Hour with Eucharistic Adoration. Refreshments follow.

Fall River — Espirito Santo Parish, 311 Alden Street, Fall River. Eucharistic Adoration on Mondays following the 8 a.m. Mass until Rosary and Benediction at 6:30 p.m.

FALL RIVER — St. Bernadette’s Church, 529 Eastern Ave., has Eucharistic Adoration on Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the chapel.

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

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

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

In Your Prayers

Falmouth — St. Patrick’s Church has Eucharistic Adoration each First Friday, following the 9 a.m. Mass until Benediction at 4:30 p.m. The Rosary is recited Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.

Please pray for these priests during the coming weeks

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

Oct. 27 Rev. Francisco L. Jorge, Assistant, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, New Bedford, 1918 Rev. Edmond L. Dickinson, Assistant, St. Mathieu, Fall River, 1967 Rev. Joseph F. O’Donnell, Retired Pastor, Immaculate Conception, North Easton, 1990 Oct. 28 Rev. Alfred E. Coulombe, Pastor, St. George, Westport, 1923 Rev. Stanislaus Kozikowski, OFM Conv., Pastor, St. Hedwig, New Bedford, 1956 Oct. 30 Msgr. Robert L. Stanton, Retired Pastor, St. Paul, Taunton, 1992 Rev. Denis Sughrue, CSC, Director of Postulancy, Holy Cross Novitiate, North Dartmouth, 2002 Nov. 1 Rev. William H. McNamara, Retired Pastor, St. Mary, Mansfield, 1924 Rev. Louis N. Blanchet, Assistant, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall River, 1927 Rt. Rev. Msgr. John F. Ferraz, Pastor, St. Michael, Fall River, 1944 Rt. Rev. Msgr. George F. Cain, Pastor, St. Mathieu, Fall River, 1953 Rev. William E. Farland, Pastor, St. Joseph, Taunton, 1987 Rev. William F. Gartland, C.S.C. Stonehill College, North Easton, 1988 Rev. John F. Sullivan, SS.CC., Retired Pastor Holy Trinity, West Harwich, 1994 Rev. Manuel T. Faria, Retired, Catholic Memorial Home, 1999

MASHPEE — Christ the King Parish, Route 151 and Job’s Fishing Road has 8:30 a.m.

Mass every First Friday with special intentions for Respect Life, followed by 24 hours of Eucharistic Adoration in the Chapel, concluding with Benediction Saturday morning followed immediately by an 8:30 Mass.

NEW BEDFORD — Eucharistic Adoration takes place 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 233 County Street, with night prayer and Benediction at 8:45 p.m., and Confessions offered during the evening. Please use the side entrance.

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

NEW BEDFORD — St. Lawrence Martyr Parish, 565 County Street, holds Eucharistic Adoration in the side chapel every Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

NORTH DARTMOUTH — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at St. Julie Billiart Church, 494 Slocum Road, every Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m., ending with Benediction. The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available at this time.

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

OSTERVILLE — Eucharistic Adoration takes place at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, 76 Wianno Avenue on First Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

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

Taunton — Eucharistic Adoration takes place every Tuesday at St. Anthony Church, 126 School Street, following the 8 a.m. Mass with prayers including the Chaplet of Divine Mercy for vocations, concluding at 6 p.m. with Chaplet of St. Anthony and Benediction.

Recitation of the Rosary for peace is prayed Monday through Saturday at 7:30 a.m. prior to the 8 a.m. Mass.

Taunton — Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament takes place every First Friday at Annunciation of the Lord, 31 First Street. Expostition begins following the 8 a.m. Mass. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed, and Adoration will continue throughout the day. Confessions are heard from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. Rosary and Benediction begin at 6:30 p.m.

WAREHAM — Every First Friday, Eucharistic Adoration takes place from 8:30 a.m. through Benediction at 5:30 p.m. Morning prayer is prayed at 9; the Angelus at noon; the Divine Mercy Chaplet at 3 p.m.; and Evening Prayer at 5 p.m.

WEST HARWICH — Our Lady of Life Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Holy Trinity Parish, 246 Main Street (Rte. 28), holds perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. We are a regional chapel serving all of the surrounding parishes. All from other parishes are invited to sign up to cover open hours. For open hours, or to sign up call 508-430-4716.

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International humanitarian to speak in Fall River

FALL RIVER — Dr. Jerry Lowney, DDS, of Norwich Conn., founder and president of the Haitian Health Foundation, will be the guest speaker at the November 1 meeting of the Fall River area Men’s First Friday Club. The Haitian Health Foundation began in 1982 with a trip to Port-au-Prince by Lowney, a Connecticut orthodontist, who traveled to Haiti to provide free dental care to the poor.

In 1985, after working for three years in Port-auPrince and other areas of Haiti with Blessed Mother Teresa’s Sisters of Charity, Mother Teresa requested that Lowney move his small group’s outreach to the rural city of Jérémie.

Today, HHF provides support to more than 225,000 of the poorest and most broken people in 100 rural mountain villages in Haiti. Lowney has been honored by the White House and numerous organizations around the world.

The meeting will begin with a 6 p.m. Mass inside the chapel of St. Mary’s Cathedral on Second Street in Fall River. The Mass is open to the public. Following the Mass members and their guests will enjoy a hot meal in the church hall across the street from the chapel.

Lowney will address the club after the meal.

For more information about the club or event, contact Norman Valiquette at 508-672-8174.

For more information about the Haitian Health Foundation or to make a donation, visit www. haitianhealthfoundation.org.

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