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FR. MAYO TELLS PRIESTS

Get Involved in Dialogue

By REV. EDWARD J.. BYINGTON

Anchor Staff AITLEBORO - Rev. Reid C. Mayo, 'President of the National Federation of Priests' Councils (NFPC) told over eighty delegates 8Jttending the New England Congress of Priests Senates here that the priests must be involved in forming the new style of ministry which will emerge to serve the Church in the 1980's. "If you do not decide wha't the new style of priestly' ministry will be, someone else will make that decision for you" the Vermont priest told the gathering.

After the Second Vatican Council in the mid-1960's many priests suffered identity crises as the concept of ministry changed.

Many priests left the priesthood and many remain who have not solved the problem for themselves. However, Mayo pointed out that, the problems of priests are secondary and only indicative of a greater malaise that affects the whole Church community.

The real problem as Mayo sees

it is that ,the Church is ill adapted to serve in a world of new socio-economic structures. The Church while keeping her tradition must adapt to the new day, the new situation.

Father Mayo 'as president of the NFPC represents 130 priests councils throughout the United States. The senates of the eleven dioceses of New England have been members of the NFPC since its formation.

Mayo told the priests that today there is a real need for priests to support each other at all levels but esnecially on the spiritual level. This can be accomplished by greater participation by the priests in their senates. Mayo noted that the diocesan senate is a new tool and new ,tools are difficult to use ,but with hard work senates can formulate successful projects which will establish their credibility with the majority of priests.

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REV. REID C. MAYO (center) the president of the National Federation of Priests Councils is flanked by Frs. James F. Lyons (left) and Walter A. Sullivan (right) of the Fall River Priests' Senate..

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MORRISTOWN N. J. (NC) The Roman Catholic faith of Joseph and Julia Quinlan has played a central, if at times confusing, role in the historic court hearing involving the fate of their 21year-old daughter, Karen Ann. The ethical and moral dimension of the dramatic hearingin which the Quinlans are seeking to be appointed Karen Ann's guardians in order to turn off the respirator which has kept her alive, but comatose, for six months - has stirred sympathy, concern and debate from Catholics within the family's small Mount Arlington parish community all the way to the Vatican.

If average church-goers have conflicting views of the merits of the case they aie not alone; so do some leading theologians.

Nonetheless, the official position of the Church is c1earthere is no requirement to use extraordinary means to sustain the life of a patient when there is no chance for recovery. The theologians generally hold that 'medical treatment is considered extraordinary if it is not readily available, is extremely expensive, would cause severe pain, or holds no hope for curing the patient.

The Paterson diocese and a spokesman for the office of Vatican's apostolic delegation in the United States made it clear that the Church's position has not changed, despite some confusing signals coming from Vatican communications sources.

Father Richard Pates, ~ecre­ tary to Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the United States, spelled out specifically that the matter "falls within the competency of the, bishop of Paterson."

Bishop Lawrence B. Casey of Paterson, who was released Oct. 27 from St. Joseph's Hospital, Paterson, where he was operated on earlier this montb, had no di, rect comment on the case after the first week of hearings.

The Church's involvement with the Quinlan case began in a most natural fashion - the Quinlans feIt they needed guidance on a critical moral question and turned to their parish priest, Father Thomas Trapasso.

When Karen Ann lapsed into a coma last April, Father Trapasso tried to comfort the family. As time went, the Quinlans became convinced by physicians that there was no chance for Karen's recovery, and sought his advice. Father Trapasso explained the teaching of the Church. He testified in the· first week of he~rings that he advised the Quinlans individually; and iater together, that the Church does not consider it obligatory to continue using "extraordinary means" to sustain life when there is no hope for recovery.

QUINLANS AT HOME - Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Quinlan leave their home near Morristown, N. J. where a superior court is holding a hearing on a petition that the Quinlans' daughter, Karen, should be allowed to die by withdrawal of a respirator which has kept her alive since April.

With them is their pastor, Father Thomas Trapasso who testified on their behalf.

Once the Quinlans had made their decision and a trial date was set, public discussion of the case increased rapidly. Partly in response, the Paterson diocese issued a statement Sept. 16 reaffirming traditional Church teaching on ordinary and extraordinary means of sustaining life.

Publicity· attending the case reached worldwide proportions as the hearing got underway Oct. 20 and the first major suggestion of a possible division in Church position came then.

On that evening, Vatican Radio broadcast an interview with a Rome physician, Dr. Corrado Manni, .who said that removing life sustaining devices in a case such as Karen Ann Quinlan's "could be extremely dangerous" in a society pondering the rights and wrongs of mercy killing.

A news service erroneously reported that the interview constituted Vatican disapproval of the. Quinlans' course of action.

Officials of the Paterson diocese . hastily arranged a press confer· ence to set the record straight.

Msgr. Frank J. Rodimer, Paterson diocesan chancellor, explained that the physician who made the comment over Vatican Radio was speaking in his professional capacity, his position seeming "to reflect the admirable commitment of the medical profession to preserve the life of every individuaL" Msgr. Rodimer's statement added, "he is not speaking as a theologian, nor as a pastor of souls."

In the question and answer session that followed, Msgr..

Rodimer repeated the "approval,

sympathy and understanding" of the diocese for the Quinlans.

The following day, however,. some additional confusion was raised when L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily newspaper, published an article by its religion section editor, Franciscan Father Gino Concetti.. He maJntained in the article that for moral reasons, Karen Quinl~m should be kept alive.

In providing bac~ground for his arguments, Father Concetti ascribed to the· Quinlans' pastor a statement which said that in her present state, Karen Quinlan "is not really a human being, but an appendage of a machine on which her movements· and reactions solely depend."

The quotation deeply saddened Father Trapasso, who told the Beacon, Paterson diocesan newspaper, that "it's such a gross misstatement, I couldn't even call it a distortion."

"I have no idea where that came from," Father Trapasso said. "But I know Karen and her family so well I could never say it myself."

Two leading moral theologians quickly took issue with Father Concetti's position which had been accorded special significance in the American press because of its appearance in the Vatican newspaper.

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World Priest Dies in Prison ROME - A 61-year-old Salesian priest has died in Czechslovakia because the authorities refused to give him an essential medicine man'ufactured only in the West, it was reported here.

The death of Father Frantisek Jurecka was reported Oct. 23 by Italy's Catholic Newspaper, Avvenire, which based its report on information from Amnesty International, and on information published in Austria. Father Jurecka had been sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges of negligence on his supervision of churches and religious corporations. But, said Avvenire, in reality he was being persecuted because of his work among young people.

Leftists Hold Radio Station LISBON-Leftist workers and soldiers began broadcasting revolutionary songs and appeals for a show of opposition to moderates in the government shortly after the Church-owned Radio Renascenca was occupied for the second time in eight months. The station's facilities had been sealed Sept. 29 on orders of president Francisco da Costa Gomes after communist-led workers broadcast appeals for the people to riot to protest the recent execution in Spain of five terrorists. The workers had taken over the station in February. The new occupation came on the eve of a huge demonstration by leftists against the government of Premier Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo, and only hours before President Da Costa left for Rome to confer with Pope Paul and with Italian officials.

Asks B!ishops to be Silent VATICAN CITY-The head of the SlJanish Conference has asked his fellow bishops in Spain to maintain silence and a safe distance from politics during Spain's current political crisis, according to word published in the Vatican.

The Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, and Vatican Radio said Cardinal Enrique y" Tarancon of Madrid said in a letter to the people of his diocese: "For Spanish bishops today, silence is not only a right but an obligation." He spoke out in an atmosphere of tension and violence following the execution of five terrorists Sept. ~7 by the Franco government. . .

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Lebanese Clergy Oppose War

Hopes to Curb Abortion

BEIRUT, Lebanon':""Leaders of Lebanon's religious communities have condemned communal fighting in the country, calling it alien to the spirit both of Christianity and Islam. They also opposed all talk with partitioning the country between its Moslems and Christians, saying they feel that the collapse of national unity would mean a condemnatIon of both the Moslem and Christian religions. These were the main points of a statement issued at the end of a meeting attended by heads of all religious communitiesthe Sunni and Shiite Moslems, the Druzes, the Maronite-rite and Melkite-rite Catholics and the Orthodox and Armenian churches. Many observers here agreed that the pattern of fighting in recent days suggested strongly that deliberate efforts were being made to perpetuate the tension and bloodshed.

BALTIMORE, Md.-One way of curbing abortion, according to Eunice Kennedy Shriver, is to strengthen the opportunities for teenage mothers to keep their babies. The wife .of .

Democratic presidential hopeful Sargent Shriver announced at a press conference here Oct. 22 that the Joseph P. Ken n edy Jr. Foundation has made a $330,000 g ran t to the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore to develop.. the nation's first center for comprehensive services to teenage mothers. To be called the Center for Teenage Mothers and Their Infants, it aims to provide medical, psychological, social, educational,. moral and vocational services during pregnancy, and for two years after childbirth, to a minimum of 250 teenage girls annually.

Rome May Go Communist ROME-Pope Paul VI's vicar for the diocese of Rome has declared himself staunchly opposed to a. communist victory in the city's coming administrative elections. Cardinal Ugo Poletti in a speech to priests and auxiliary bishops of Rome, raised the very real possibility that next spring's municipal elections would turn the city's government over. to a Marxist administration. "To avoid misunderstandings, I want to affirm that I will never be able to consent to any kind of yielding to communism or to Marxism-not in any place or at any time," the cardinal said.

No Time for Social Action MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay-"This is a time for reflection and 路not social action," said a highly. placed Catholic clergyman in explaining the current situation of the Church in Uruguay, where labor unions and political parties are not allowed to function and any non-government grassroots activity is immediately suspected as subversive.

He said it would be "suicide" for the Church to confront the government because the Church "is institutionally weak." Another obstacle, he said, is that most of the 12 bishops are conservative and not inclined to activism.

National Involve People in Programs CINCINNATI-"People hate to give money because, among other things, they hate to have money used as a measure of their concern and generosity," former Ohio Gov. John J. Gilligan said at the joint general session of the National Conference of Catholic Charities and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. He recommended seeking to involve people in programs and projects rather than asking only financial contributions.

He also suggested assigning some fixed portion of the operating budget of each parish and each diocese to works of charity.

Denounces UN Resolution ATLANTA-In a strongly worded statement, Archbishop Thomas A. Donnellan of Atlanta denounced a resolution of a commit tee of the United Nations which linked Zionism with racism. In a keynote address at a twoday conference here commemorating Vatican Council, II, spon.sored by the American Jewish Committee and the Atlanta arc h d i 0 c ese, Archbishop Donnellan said: "I would like to take this occasion to give public expression to my regret that the recent action of a United Nations' full membership committee in recommending to the General Assembly that it determine that Zionism is a form of racial and social discrimination. Such a recommendation is not in accord with the facts, and is productive of much harm. I am proud that the United States delegation denounced this as an antiSemitic and obscene action, and warned that the resolution places the work of the United Nations in jeopardy."

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Are The Workers Happy?

DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

OFFICIAL ASSIGNMENTS Rev. Marilin L. Buote as assiMa'l1lt pastor of Sit. Michael's Parish Ocean Grove.

Rev. R:aymond P. Monty as assistant pastor of St. Roch's Parish, 'FaU River. .

APPOINTMENTS Rev. John A. Perry as Ohaplain of Serrn Club of New Bedford.

Rev. Robert J. Oa'rter as Chapla.in, Daughters of Is'abella, Benedict Circle, North Attleboro.

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On Labor Day, 1972, Pope Paul VI reminded everyone that Christ did manual labor and was known as the son of a carpenter.

The Church has often defended the laborer for "it sees in him and proclaims for him the dignity of man, the brother who is equal to every' other man, the :inviolable person upon whose face is impressed a divine likeness."

This is a familiar theme of Christian sod'al teaching. Previous popes countless theologians and experts steeped in Christian tradition have voiced the theme. But it takes on new meaning and new implications and must be applied in different ways in each succeeding generation, including our own.

It would be a mistake to assume that, because of our phenomenal progress in technology and our rising standard of living, there is no longer need to be concerned about the dignity of labor in general and manual labor in particular.

There is mounting evidence that technological progress even in this, the wealthiest nation in the histoy of the worldhas created as many problems for a large segment of the working force it has thus far man~ aged to solve.

Of the many unsolved economic and social problems in this area, one in particular - the sheer boredom and the meaninglessness of so many of today's dead-end occupations and the low esteem in which society seems to hold them' -is one of the' most crucial for the workers.

Many workers themselves are currently complaining ·about the boredom and the .deadly routine of their occupations, the frustration which they experience in their daily working lives and, above all, their feeling that they have been trapped ina kind of vicious circle and are not being accorded the degree of recognition to which they feel they are entitled and which their contribution to society fully merits.

Workers have been telling the media lately, not only in sorrow but in -anger, that while they need higher wages and will demand a fairer distribution of the national income, they want, more than anything else, to find a sense of meaning in the work that they are required to do and want to be recognized >by society as men and women of dignity and worth.

The aggrieved worker's "essential frustration," as one sociologist has put it, is the utter stagnancy of his or her status. Wages may continue to increase but op-

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Holy Name Election

Necrology

BOSTON (NC) - J. Lanaux Marston, Jr. of Mobile, Ala., was elected to a two-year term as president of the four-million member National Association of the Holy Name Society at its annual convention here.

NOV.S Rev. Patrick S. McGee, 1933, Founder, St. Mary, Hebronville NOV. 11 Rev. A. Gomez do Silva Neves, 1910, Pastor, St. John Baptist, New Bedford NOV. 12 Rev. James H. Looby, 1924, Pastor, Sacred Heart, Taunton Rev. Bernard Boylan, 1925, Pastor, St. Joseph, Fall River NOV. 13 Rev. Louis J. Deady, 1924, Founder, St,' Louis, Fall River

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Guard Honored At Sacred Heart Church in New Bedford this Sunday at a 3:00 p.m. Mass, Sir Knight Russell W. Fontaine, 4th Degree Knight of Columbus, will be honored for an act of heroism as a guard in the prison.

After Mass which will be celebrated by Faithful Friar Ernest E. Blais with singing by the Sacred Heart Choir there will be a happy hour and dinner at White's Restaurant. Tickets are $7 per person.

portunities for advancement are nil. The worker feels that society does not value his or her work.

It is as if the worker had been betrayed by the very system he or she so passionately defends. ' Making work more human and more humane and making.it possible for unskilled or semi-skilled workers to live not as machines but as men and women of dignity and worth will not be easily accomplished, but it goes to the heart of what we mean by social justice. It also goes to the heart of the Gospel message concerning the dignity of manual labor.

The Christian theology of work, which derives from this Gospel message, starts from the premise that people work - or should work - not merely to earn a living, not merely to develop as persons, not merely to serve the needs of their fellows, but also and more profoundly because by means of their labor they hecome partners in the work of hringing God's creation to perfection.

Some experts do say that American workers hy and large are reasonably content, regard· less of their occupation. Many jobs are admittedly monotonous, it is said, but there is very little that anyone can do to correct or improve upon this situation.

Still others take the position that while it might be desirable in theory to make improvements in this area, the cost of doing so . would be .prohibitive both to industry -and the consuming public.

We are called upon to work for a change in the system which has thus entrapped so many workers. In this connection, the Vatican Council was very emphatic ih stating that, in addition to our da'ily round of duties in our particular occupation or profession, each of us has the added responsibility to engage, accord· ing to his or her talents, in this all-important work of social justice: "ChrisHans who take an active part in modern socio-economic development and defend justice and charity, should be convinced that they can make a great contribution to the prosperity of mankind and the peace of the world. Whether they do so as individuals or in associations, let their example be a shining one.

"After acquiring whatever skills 'and experience· are abso'lutely necessary, they should in faithfulness to Christ and His Gospel observe the right order of values in their earthly activities.

This their whole lives, both individual and social, will be permeated with the spirit of the beatitudes, notably with the spirit of poverty.

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Christ seeks first the kingdom of God will as a conseqeunce receive a stronger and purer love for helping all his brothers and for perfecting the work of justice under the inspiration of chal'ity."

- DiscUssion Questions 1. Is there ·anything about your job or its products that is harmful to other people? Why? Anything that is beneficial?

Why?' 2. What aspects about your work help to make you more human? What aspeots make you less human?

3. What kinds of work best express the values of justice and freedom? What kinds of work most produce injustice and oppression?

4. The majority of workers in the United States labor FOR an employer. The workers eam a set wage for 40 hours work a week. The employer, the president of the Board and its members all earn much, much more than the laborer. a) Do you think it is just for the employers and the Board of Directors to make so much more than the laborers? Why; Why not? b) Do you enjoy your work and enter into it with enthusi· asm? Or is it "just a job?" c) Do you fully support the economic system in the United States and are you basically comfortable with your position in it? If not, what would you like to see changed?

5. For many women being a mother and homemaker are full· time jobs. Today, some mothers consider home-making a part· time affair and are taking up other jobs and professions. a) What do you think is the effect of this trend on children? b) As women enter the work force more regularly what will be the effects on the labor situation .in the United States? 'c) Should women receive pay at the same rate as men for performing ·the same tasks? d) (For men only) What would you feel if your boss were a woman?' e) (For women only) How would you feel if you were super· vised by a group of men?

In the light of this discussion, what specific issues concerning work would you like the 1976 Bicentennial Conference .to consider?

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Karen, Live or Die

Quinlan Case: Roman Interference L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily, published two separate articles stating that Karen Ann Quinlan should he kept alive. Now while we hold that rational debate on critical questions is indeed crucial we question whether L'Osservatore Romano should be a party to this debate.

The Quinlans received advice from their parish priest whIch is supported by Bishop Lawrence B. Casey of Paterson in whose diocese the case is being tried. The position and advice of the parish priest and Bishop Casey is based on a clear statement on the Church's position on the use of ordinary and extraordinary means to save life. This position was made quite clear by Pope Pius XII in a speech which he gave to an international congress of anesthetists in 1957.

Now the articles of L'Osservatore Romano, due to the eminence of the Vatican daily, have certainly muddied the waters. It would appear that what we have here is basic interference in a bishop's handling of a difficult question within his own diocese. If Bishop Casey's position were incorrect he would have been so advised by the proper Vatican officials.

In any case the articles by the Vatican daily are out of line and the authorities responsible for them should be notified that they are not appreciated by the American Church.

LITURGICAL DANCE. Students of the Peabody Dance

Ensemble of Baltimore perform a liturgical dance during the Gospel acclamation of a Mass at the Baltimore Congress on the Liturgy. The dance was choreographed to music by celebrant Father Lucien Deiss.

Priests Working Together Fr. Reid Mayo's comments which are reported on page one of this issue should not be passed .over lightly. We cannot ignore the problems which our Church has suffered in the past ten years and to come to grips with these problems there is a definite need for all of us to pledge <ourselves to the unity which binds us. This is especially true in the case of the priests who are confronting these problems on a daily basis. There is a tendency for some priests to be overwhelmed with the problems and leave the priesthood.

There are also other priests who are similarly afflicted and who while remaining priests seek shelter from the storm doing their own thing.

We cannot flee from our problems or refuse to admit that they exist. Priests need to come together to share their ideas an~ responses to the questions of the day. Priests should participate and support their senates so that these bodies may be proper forums for implementing the collective energy and abilities of the priests.

Let there be differing opinions among the priests and let these differences be voiced in a spirit of Christian brotherhood. But those priests who decide to go it alone, who ignore the problems of the greater Church are not helping in a time when ,help is so desperately need'ed.

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In Old New York From east side to west side they say the town is broke and seemingly very few really do care. The woes of Gotham to a great extent are like dining at the "21".

You just eat and eat until you get the bill and that is just what the city of New York has been doing. It has farmer coming to town for the time, Uncle Sam cannot disbeen wining and dining it- first tinguish between the sin and the self with the illusions of sinner. While billions of tax-

prosperity without really taking a good look to see if it could afford such an expensive repast. Like a night on the town, the over generous welfare program is bleeding the city dry.

Everything is going out while very little is coming in.

One of the most devastating problems that the government of the city has to face is its eroding tax base. As the Wall Street Journal has pointed out, over 40,000 apartment. units a year are abandoned by their owners.

They are doing this because rent controls make it impossible for . them to make a profit or pay their tax bills. In addition to this situation there exists the problem of thousands of square feet of new office space that has not been leased. New companies are not moving into the city and the old standbys are fleeing to the suburbs. Fun city is in real trouble.

However it is difficult to see why everyone is turning their backs on the city that welcomed a vast majority of the world's poor to its doorstep. The federal government's failure to even seriously consider the city's â&#x20AC;˘ plight is hypocritical. Like a

payers' dollars are poured into such nations as Egypt and Israel, while more than ge,erous loans are made to every postage stamp emerging nation anJ while the wheelers and dealers of American grain and other food supplies battIe to save the Soviet Union, old New York is all but ignored. Like Nero, Uncle Sam is fiddling away while the city is reduced to ashes.

This could be the one mistake on the part of the federal government that could plunge every city in the nation into the same situation that New York now faces. Such an attitude in Washington could very well force a decline of American confidence in all American investments.

Fear can breed fear and despair can breed despair. Anyone who has seen the Wall Street averages in the past' couple of years is only too well aware of the importance of psychological factors affecting the stock market. Thus in a very real way New York's problems could be everyone's problem unless the patient receives quick and speedy emer~ gency aid.

How this is to be done must of course rest in the hands of

Continued from Page One "contrary to the unanimous moral tradition since the first half of the 17th century," which differentiates between ordinary and extraordinary means to sustain life.

"In the Quinlan case, according to press reports," Father O'Riordan said, "the means currently employed are all extraordinary as understood by moralists."

Another Rome theologian, Jesuit Father Domenico Grasso of the Pontifical Gregorian University, argued in an interview in La Stampa, Turin daily newspaper, that there is no moral responsibility to prolong the life of a person for whom there is no chance of recovery.

"It's not a case of killing her," he said in a direct reference to Karen Quinlan, "but of letting nature take its course."

Asked about the possibility of a miracle, Father Grasso replied: "God is free to work miracles if and when He wants. Man, however, cannot insist on it nor make his own decisions based on such a possibility. God has made laws of nature that man must foHow." Father Pates' comments for the Apostolic Delegation Oct. 24 provided informal, but nonetheless significant affirmation that the Church's position on the question remains unchanged. The delegation's secretary said directly that the matter is one for the Paterson diocese to deal with, inferentiaHy endorsing diocesan actions to date.

With the outcome of the trial still in doubt, moral theologians will study the final decision as closely as will attorneys and physicians for whom the case has assumed landmark proportions.

Get I"volved Continued from Page One divorce, and remarriage, priests who leave the ministry, and the distribution of world resources.

Priests' senates from all over the <:ountry have been asked to explore one or more of these subjects and the resulting facts and figures will be studied alt the national convention of the NFPC in ~arch. "This is a great feat."

Mayo declared. "Just the fact that so many priests are addressing themselves to these topics is bound to have an effect in this country."

The responses to the four areas will undoubtedly d'iffer but Mayo sees no problem in such differences. "We can have plurality without disruption of central unity and just the fact that priests are coming together is a contribution to unity which is Church."

the so called experts. Yet it seems difficult to believe that this nation which takes care of every other person and problem beyond our shores can not help one of its own when it is in tro"uble. Certainly the City of New York must do everything in its power to put its own house in order. However while the .city is attempting to make the necessary repairs, it would be a shame for the house to collapse into a heap of ruins.

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Only Yesterday

Letters to the Editor

in The 'ANCHOR October 27, 1960 Bishop Connolly met with Pope John XXIII during the course of the Fall River Diocesan Pilgrimage to Rome.

Mrs. Winifred Ford the 84year-old organist at St. Mary's North Attleboro had been on the job since 1894.

Mrs. Alfred H. Doyle, Edgartown, Mrs. Edward S.

Likes McGill's Busing Stance

Smith, North Attleboro, Mrs. Joseph C. Motta, New Bedford, and Mrs. James E. Lynch Jr., Hyannis were among sixty ladies of the Dio· cese who made a retreat at Cathedral Camp.

Rev. Arthur C. dos Reis was welcomed as the new pastor of Santo Christo, Fall River.

Dear Editor: Pray allow me to congratulate Bob McGill (Oct. 16) upon his superb analysis of the ·forced· busing social experiment constrained by the false liberals. 1 October 28, 1965 write as one who until recently James Gibney and Michael Providence College addressed has spent many years in teaching McNally of Fall River were the Queens Daughters of in the heart of Roxbury at Girls' off to the national CYO con- Taunton -at their monthly High School now known as Roxvention in Chicago. meeting. bury High. May I suggest that Richard A. Krzyzek from Two Fall River Dominicans, the hlacks need no busing nor St. Mary's, Seekonk was play' Edward Paul Doyle and John patronizing nor socializing nor ing middle line backer at Holy D. Hickey were serving at St. smoke parties with participating Cross.

Thomas Parish, Charlottesteachers nor entertainment. . .

Dr. Paul van K. Thomson of ville, Virginia.

They crave and desire discipline, development of skills in reading, October 29, 1970 writing, arithmetic, social adust· Rev. Roland R. Bedard was the stars of the Amherst foot· ment, family reconstruction. appointed the new superior of ball team.

They need -a long stride forward La Salette in Attleboro.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. atbut not by the easy vehicle of Chor-Bishop Joseph Eid tacked the permissiveness of busing. They cry out for teachdied while visiting his native American society in a speech THE BISHOP'S CHARITY BALL to be held Friday, ers who are themselves soundly Lebanon. at a communion breakfast ateducated, dedicated and devoted, Jan. 9 at Lincoln Park Ballroom, No. Dartm~ut h - th e 21 st who will be able to conduct c1assPeter J. Auger, St. Francis tended by over 750 real FBI Annual Ball - will have as honorary chairpersons: Mrs. rooms with firmness and f1exiXavier, Hyannis, was one of men in Washington.

Michael J. McMahon, St. Mary's Cathedral Parish, Fall bility.· River, diocesan president of the Council of Catholic Women.. As Bob indicates, the whites V. Vincent Gerardi, St. John the Baptist parish, New Bed- are likewise entitled to their ford diocesan president of the Society of St. Vincent de neighborhood schools in which P for generations they have been au . taught these very skills which have enabled them to vaul,t upward in this free society.

Sacred Heart Nursing Home imately 23,200 facilities in the The Garritys, the Brookes, the has been accredited by the Joint U. S. that fall into the long term The honorary chairpersons of will serve as co-chairman, repre- Kennedys have no interest in the Commission on Accreditation of care classification of the JCAH. the 21st Annual Bishop's Char- senting the Society of St. Vin- blacks or the whites. They are Hospitals (JCAH) according to The Accreditation Council for ity Ball of the Fall River Dio- cent de Paul of the diocese, one interested only in themselves.

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Long Term Care Facilities was cese were named today by Rev. of the co-spopsors of this chariCordially, This accreditation is the re- formed in 1971 to set standards Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, dio- table event. Mr. Gerardi is diosult of an on-site survey made as a benchmark of quality for cesan director of the Ball. This cesan president of the Society of Bernard McCabe by a field representative of the facilities that provided extended, social and charitable event bene- St. Vincent de Paul. Mrs. Mich· South Yarmouth, Mass.

Joint Commission's' Accredit~­ nursing, or residential care. This fits the underprivileged and ex- ael J. McMahon, St. Mary's Cation Council for Long Term Care Council, one of four such pro- ceptional children of every race thedral parish, Fall River was' Facilities (ACjLTCF). Accred- grams of the Joint Commission, color and creed in the south· named co-chairwoman, repreitation indicates that Sacred is comprised of representatives eastern area of Massachusetts. senting the diocesan Council of 1st ANNUAL' FROLIC Heart has chosen to operate ac- of the American Association of The proceeds from the Ball help . Catholic Women, the ot-her sponSenior Citizens Day cording to standards set by Homes for the Aging, the Amer- to support the four schools for sor of the Ball. Mrs. McMahon Free Admission ACjLTCF) and that the home ican Hospital Association, the the exceptional children. These is in her first term as president 12:00-5:00 - Wed.· Nov. 5 substantially complies with these American Medical Association facilities and institutions are of the diocesan Council of CathLINCOLN PARK BALLROOM standards. and the American Health Care under the supervision of the olic Women.

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Thoughts on Tim1es Cov,er, Mrs. Luce and Astrology

PUblicity chairmen of oarish orlanlzatlonl Bre 'Sked to submit news items for thll column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fill River. 02722. Name of city or town should be l,cluded, as well as full dates of all activities, Please send news of future rather than past events.

Clare Booth Luce tells us that "Squeaky" Fromme is a symptom of the moral relativism, permissiveness and rejection of religious belief that, according to Mrs. Luce, are widespread in U. S. society.

But there are well over 30 million young people in the ogy. They say there's nothing to it. These scientists are a bit late.

U. S. who have not tried to Churchmen have been saying shoot President Ford. What the same thing about astrology

HOLY ROSARY, FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will sponsor a buffet and harvest dance in the church hall at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1. Music will be by Al Rainone and tickets will be sold at the door. Chairpersons are Mrs. Florence Dearden and Mrs. Michael Fournier.

are those 30 million kids symptomatic of? Whatever it is, I guess it's more widespread than relativism, permissiveness, etc.

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Mrs. Luce says Squeaky's father kicked her out because she was promiscuous, and that some psychologists will say she tried to shoot President Ford because he represented the father she hated.

On the other hand, Betty Ford says she wouldn't throw her daughter, Susan, out if she engaged in pre-marital sex. Susan Ford, you will notice, only shoots people with a camera.

Maybe that proves something.

Mrs. Luce attached great significance to the fact that Time magazine put Squeaky on the cover and not Mother Seton. But in the past few weeks, the New York Times Sunday ·Magazine featured not only Mother Seton on the cover, but also Father Hans Kung and Pope Paul. If magazine covers measure interest in religious belief, New York is in the midst of converting en masse to Catholicism.

But don't get your· hopes up.

My husband was in New York last week on business and had to walk through Times Square (which is where the New York Times is printed). He says very little religious interest was evident ... on magazine covers or anyplace else.

Late Scientists Also in the news is a story about a group of scientists who 'took the time to knock astrol-

'Sword of Loyola' Award to Newhart MAYWOOD (NC)-Comedian Bob Newhart will receive the 1975 Sword of Loyola award at Jesuit-run Loyola University in Chicago at ceremonies Nov. 25.

A 1952 graduate of Loyola and a former Loyola law student, Newhart currently appears in the Bob Newhart Show on television. He first performed on the Dan Sorkin TV show in 1957 and has appeared in the films "Hot Millions" and "Catch 22."

In 1961 he received the Emmy award and the Peabody award.

He will be cited by Loyola for using the medium of comedy "to show us truths about ourselves and society."

for years. ' But seeing the scientists and churchmen agreeing on, something is encouraging. Years ago they didn't seem to agree on anything.

It seems to me that the real problem was that both the scientists and the churchmen were each trying to corner the market on knowledge. Each felt his own discipline was the only source of true knowledge.

But the source of all knowledge is God. He can reveal it in His own good way. It seems He has a sense of humor about the way He. does this, sometimes using the least likely instrument to reveal some great truth.

God has been very generous in dispensing knowledge through science and religion. It seems .like poor sportsmanship for either churchmen or scientists to knock astrologers. If God decides to make something known through astrologers, will scientists or churchmen. tell Him He can't do that?

God might just do it ... to deflate some egos.

I'll bet Clare Boothe Luce wouldn't be as tough on astrologers as churchmen and scientists have been. She determines the direction morality is going by whose (ace is on Time's cover. She'd understand people who determine the direction of their lives by where the planets were when they were born.

HOLY NAME, FALL RIVER A harvest dance will be held for parochial school parents from 8 to midnight Saturday, Nov. 8 in the school hall. Tickets are available at the school or rectory.

A Halloween party' for all children of the parish from first through sixth grades will be held at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in the school.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA Judith Cabral was chairperson of a rummage sale sponsored by the Women's Guild. Members saw a cosmetics demonstration at the October meeting.

ST. JOSEPH, NORTH DIGHTON Women's Guild members will see a flower demonstration at their November meeting, for which Mrs. Theresa Bianchi will be chairperson.

Mrs., Virginia Williams is in charge of arrangements for a guild communion breakfast planned for January.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN A parish dance from 8 to midnight Saturday, Nov. 1 will benefit the school. Music will be by Bob St. Amour and refreshments will be served at midnight, according to announcement made

by Mrs. Philip Harding, chairperson.

ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, FALL RIVER Eleven new members were welcomed by the Council of Catholic Women at the October meeting. Planned for Saturday, Nov. 15 is a 10 a.m. Mass for deceased council members, to be followed by a continental breakfast. Members will bring contributions of food to a potluck supper to be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18. A meeting will follow.

ST. ANNE, FALL RIVER A special liturgy marking the 50th anniversary of our parish school building on Forest Street will be celeQrated by Bishop James J. Gerrard at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 1. A dinnerdance will follow this ceremony.

The first of three sessionS of a Bicentennial discussion group will meet at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2. This offers an opportunity to develop a plan of action to foster social justice in the United States. Rev. Pierre La,: chance, O.P., will be moderator.

Weekday Masses beginning Monday, Nov. 3 will be celebrated in the lower church.

An important meeting for all young adults of the parish who are juniors and seniors in high school is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 3 at the parish school.

ST. MARY'S CAmEDRAL, FALL RIVER Miss Claire O'Toole and Mrs. Michael Arruda are hostesses for the Women's Guild meeting to be held in the parish hall at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3.

The annual Mass for deceased guild members will be celebrated at 12:05 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15.

ST. JOSEPH, ST. MARGARET, ATTLEBORO BUZZARDS BAY High school CCD youth will SS. Margaret Mary" Guild will· have their first meeting from meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2.

5 in the parish center on Main The speaker will be WJAR-TV Street. meteorologist John Ghiorsi, who will speak on the meaning of ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT Christ in his life.

Carolyn Forand is chairperson Bernie Carbo of the Boston for a turkey whist to be spon- Red Sox will be guest speaker sored by the Women's Guild at at a sports night to be held at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1 in the 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1. Mr. school hall. Door prizes will be and Mrs. Norman Santos are awarded and the public is in- chairmen. vited.

A Las Vegas night will be held SACRED HEART, in the hall from 8 p.m. to mid- FALL RIVER A penny sale of canned and night, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7 and 8. Refreshments will be in- packaged foods will highlight cluded in the cost of admission. the Women's Guild meeting set In charge of arrangements are for 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3. Cochairpersons are Mrs. Thomas David and Louise Buckley.

McVey and Mrs. Thomas MurIMMACULATE CONCEPI10N, phy~ FALL RIVER The Women's Guild will hold its next meeting on Monday, Nov. 3 at 8:00 p.m. in the church hall. A jewelry show will be presented at the meeting.

On Sunday, Nov. 9 a Mass for the deceased members will take place at 11 :30 a.m.

HOLY CROSS, soum EASTON The eighth annul¥ parish Holly Fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 at the church hall. Booths will feature knitted and crocheted items, needlework, baked goods, plants, holiday decorations, toys, white elephants and other children's items. Raffles will be held throughout the day and a snack WASHINGTON (NC)-A stand- bar will be open. From 1 p.Ql. ing-room-only crowd thronged' on, children may be photothe vast National Shrine of the graphed with Santa Claus.

Immaculate Conception here Oct. 26 to honor Mother Teresa, OUR LADY OF mE CAPE, the Albanian-born nun who has ST. MARY'S, BREWSTER inspired the hearts of millions NEW BEDFORD St. Mary's Senior Citizens is The Women's Guild will sponthrough her ministry to the sick and dying among India's "poor- sponsoring a Bi-Centennial Dance sor a "bag sale" from 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 5, 7 and 8 in est of the poor."

Dancing for your pleasure will the Guild Hall at Immaculate Mother Teresa's Calcutta-based be from 8 to midnite with music Missionaries of Charity, which by "The Senators." Donation is . C;onception Church. now number more than 1,100 $2.50 per person.

Sisters, is 25 years old this year.

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ST. CASIMIR, NEW BEDFORD St. Casimir's Circle will sponsor a whist party ot the parish hall, 2056 Acushnet Ave. at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22.

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sari that is the official garb of her Religious community, told her audience that she regards her work among the poor as a form of direct service to Christ.

In Jesus, she said, God "made himself the hungry one,' the naked one, the sick one ... so that you and I might have the joy of feeling wanted ...

"That Jesus, that Jesus hungry for love and bread ... that Jesus is today around the world everywhere, even in the United States, looking up at you and me and asking, 'Will you help me?' "

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SS. PETER & PAUL, FALL RIVER The Women's Club is holding a Rummage· Sale on Thursday, Oct. 30 from 6 to 9 p.m. and on Friday, Oct. 31 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon in the Father Coady Center, 240 DOver Street. Mrs. Inez Pacheco and Mrs. Mary Walmsley are co-chairmen.

Women's Club members will depart at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5 from the A&P parking lot, on Stafford Road for a theatre party at Chateau de Ville, Warwich.

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If It Weren't for Family, She'd Be Organized

By Joseph and Marilyn Roderick Garden cleanup is in order now. Leaves are falling Jff the trees and dead foliage is everywhere to be seen.

This is the time when we are the least inclined to get outsided and work, but it is necessary to face a little cold weather to get the garden in otherwise disposed of rather ~hape for the Winter ahead. than left in the garden.

Last Spring we invested In The Kitchen in a shredder after,deliberatEveryone has a goa! in life

ing for a few years. This is a motor-powered set of blades which I will use to prepare compost for the Spring. All leaves and dead plants will be fed into the m$lchine, giving me considerable debris to be put in piles in the expectation that it will decompose quickly and be ready for the garden by the time the good weather arrives.

Why Clean Up:'

Aside from compo sting, cleanup is essential for a number o'f reasons. One is that it is necessary to remove debris to pre"ent proliferation of diseasecarrying plants. Left in the garden, these will fall to the ground and the disease they carry will re-emerge in the Spring.

All plants which are discarded should be looked at carefully to be sure that they are not carrying fungus or blight. Such plants should be placed iI'l plastic bags for disposal rather than in a compost heap.

The other reason for making sure that dead debris is removed is that untended leaves and other trash tend to mat up and cause problems at soil level.

The decaying matter tends to take necessary nitrogen from the soil and affords a perfect milieu for fungus and other growth which can be harmful to the garden. Better these should be raked up and composted or

Honor Bishop In Taunton ~onight More than 400 women of the Taunton and Attleboro Districts of the National Council of Catholic Women will celebrate Bishop's night with a mass at St. Mary Church, Taunton at 7:00 tonight, followed by a supper at Taunton High School.

The service will include a Bicentennial observance.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will be homilist and principal celebrant of the Mass and concelelbrants will be Msgr. Chabot and Rev. James F. Lyons, district moderators, assisted by clergy of the two districts.

The Marian Award Class of the Taunton Girl Scouts will usher and Troop 21 of Our Lady of Lourdes Church will serve as an honor guard.

After the supper, Kiah O'Brien, musical director of Somerset High School and a group of 24 students will entertain the group.

Mrs. Albert Moitoza and Mrs. Normand Jette are co-chairmen of the evening's activities, assisted by Mrs. Francis Cottrell, Mrs. Joseph Ricketts and Mrs. Blanche Cesalini, vice chairmen.

Mrs. Aristides Andrade, president of the Taunton area, will officiate as toastmistress.

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Oct. 3D, 1975

Somlerset Girl Nam·ed .. To Who's Wh·o EASTON, MASS. - Donna M. Levesque, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Levesque, of 72 Hezekiah St., Somerset, has been named to Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities.

Miss Levesque was elected to Who's Who because of her exceptional student record and her contributions to student life at Stoneh-ill College.

Society, the Greasepaint Players, (a student t'heatrical group,) the Robert F. Kennedy Society, (a big brother-big sister organ· iza·tion,) and the International Student Leadership Institute as well as other campus organizations.

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"Little Mary Sunshine" at Stonehill EASTON - The Greasepaint Players, a Stonehill College student music'al theater group, will present "Little Mary Sunshine," on Saturday, Sunday and Monday evenings, Nov. I, 2, and 3, at 8:30 p.m. in the Hemingway Theater.

"Little Mary Sunshine" is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Rick Besoyan. 'J1he show is produced in cooperation with Samuel French Inc.

and mine is to be organized.

"What time is so holy and fit I've given in to the realization for sanctification and the recejvthat this may never take place ing of gifts as the time of prayer, while I have other people living A graduate of Somerset High in which man speaks with God?" in the house wilth me. I'm sure School, she is a senior majoring -St. Isa'ac of Ninever, circa 700, Tickets will be $1.50 for that they are the ones who keep in child development. Miss Lev- "The Apostolic Fathers," ed. adults, $1 for students and will moving things from the places esque is a member of the Ames Lightfoot.' be sold at the door only. where I put them. Just think how beautifully I would function if no one put empty bottles in the refrigerator, wiped up the dog's spilled food with my best towel, or washed said hairy dog in the bathtub!

To me, organization is akin to winning the top lottery prize.

How beautiful it must be to be able to: Find two socks that match after they've been washed (or there are days when it would be nice to find just two socks that even slightly resemble one another.

Go to make a recipe and find that all the ingredients are there.

Catch up on the ironing.

Have one Saturday where you don't have to pick up one thing or one person.

Have one's columns ready ahead of time.

Wake up in the morning and find that someone else has fed the cat and dog.

Get thank you's out on time, or at least before you meet the person and have to apologize in person for not sending one.

Have all one's appliances and both cars in smooth running order at the same time.

In other words, just get one's life in decent running ordersomething I have never and probably never will be able to do.

Recently I enjoyed a delicious Portuguese dinner at St. Michael's Church in Fall River. The cook was to be congratulated, for the meal was both unusual and delicious, and it was to my delight that I discovered the main chef of the evening was Father John Oliveira, pastor of the church.

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Fall River 2) Saute onion (or onion and Assonet Somerset peppers) until golden.

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New Bedford Maryknoller Marks· Golden Jubilee MARYKNOLL, N. Y. - Sister Mary Winifred Collins, of New Bedford, was among the 27 Maryknoll Sisters who recently celebrated their fiftieth anniversary as members of the Maryknoll Sisters. Sister Winifred was one of the 13 who celebrated their golden jubilee at the Maryknoll Sisters' Center in Ossining, N. Y., while 14 others marked the occasion elsewhere in the U. S. and at missions in Mexico and Hong Kong.

SISTER WINIFRED Bishop Edward McGurkin, M.M., recently retired from his See in Shinyanga, Tanzania, East Africa, accompanied by seven concelebrants, offered the 11 :00 a.m. Mass which was attended by relatives and friends of the Jubilarians.

During the Mass the Jubilarians publicly renewed their Baptismal vows and "1:ommitment to God and the serVice of the Church in Maryknoll. An anniversary dinner for the Sisters and their guests f"Howed the liturgy.

During her five decades as a religious of Maryknoll, Sister M. Winifred has faithfully served the Church in various mission houses in the U. S. After her profession in 1927, she was assigned to the Mother-

V·incentians Set Two Masses Members of the Greater FalI River Coundl of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and their wives will attend a memorial Mass for Msgr. William H. Harrington, former council chaplain at 6:15, p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22 at St. John of God Church, Somerset.

The annual corporate communion and breakfast of the council will take place at 8 a.m.

Sunday, Dec. 7 at St. Jean Baptiste Cl)urch, FalI River. A general ~eeting will folIow the breakfast.

house as an office, worker. In 1944 she became superior of the MaryknolI house in Clark Summit, Pa. until 1950 when she was transferred to ValIey Park.

Mo. Except for a brief period when she came to the Sisters' Motherhouse to act as general procurator, Sister remained in ValIeyPark until poor health forced her to return to New York in 1962. Sister Winifred was able to work in the Development Department until very recently when persistent ill health forced her to retire.

Sister M. Winifred, the former Mary R. C. Collins is the daughter of the late Joseph and Mary ColIins of New Bedford. Her sister, Mrs. Martin Murray, and her brother, Roger, still reside in New Bedford; while her sister, Mrs. Winifred Noon, lives in Fairhaven, Ma. The Maryknoll Sisters were founded in 1912 by Mary Jo-. sephine Rogers, later Mother Mary Joseph, of Boston, Mass.

A biology instructor at Smith College, Mary Rogers started a Catholic Mission Club there at the urging of a Protestant professor, an early expression of the dedication to mission which led to the founding of the Maryknoll Sisters, the first American missionary community of women in the U. S. Of. the more than 1,000 Sisters in the Community today, about 600 are serving in 21 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Central Pacific.

Clothing Drive In Four WeeksThe Thanksgiving Clothing ColIection will be taken up in all the parishes of the Diocese from Nov. 22 to 30 in the spirit of offering thanks and sharing our goods with the more needy.

Emphasis this year should be placed on the collection of summer weight clothing since the vast majority of the poor overseas who will be the beneficiaries of this clothing appeal live in the hotter tropical countries of the world.

So, please, think of this as you store last summer's lightweight clothing and prepare for your winter wardrobes.

Woolen blankets, as well as cotton blankets, are very acceptable however, as such are not only a high priority item in times of disasters and emergencies, but are needed and wanted in tropical areas in which the temperature drops sharply at night.

Also being especially requested this year will be children's clothes, infants' layettes, men's shoes and workpants.

God's Word "God's Word is not simply a communication or an objective statement, but a positive command which does not permit man ,to assume the attitude of a spectator or to enjoy mere disinterested researcb."-Adolph Keller, "Religion and the European Mind," 1934.

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FIFTY YEARS AGO: Historic picture shows opening ceremonies for St. Anne's School, Fall River, with Bishop Feehan presiding and American and French flags flying over scene.

Visible at right center is bunting-bedecked area for guests of honor, occupied by Sisters and Dominican Fathers. To far right can be seen several cars of era, and interested observers on tenement balcony.

St. Anne's School, Fall River Marks Fifty Years of Serving the Community This Saturday St. Anne's par- blessed the cornerstone on Oct. ish, Fall River, will mark the 21, 1923.

The school actually opened in 50th anniversary of its Forest Street school, for which initial September, 1925, replacing three plans were made in 1912 when school buildings formerly used the parish acquired a large tract on Grant, Hope and Hunter of land bounded by Forest, Os- Streets.

Saturday's celebration will born, Ridge and Middle Streets.

Approved by Bishop Feehan in open at 5:30 p.m. with a Mass 1922, the plans called for a 33- at which Bishop James J. Gerclassroom school, plus two kin- . rard will be principal celebrant, dergartens and an auditorium assisted by priests of the parish, with a seating capacity of 1200. former pastors and a delegation Groundbreaking took place in of former pupils of the school.

April 1922 and Bishop Feehan Homilist will be Rev. Eugene

Commends Bicen'tennial Efforts WASHINGTON (NC) - Sen. Wa'\ter F. Mondale (D.-Minn.) has praised the U. S. Catholic observance of the American bicentennial.

He called the U. S. bishops' bicentennial social justice program "a magnificent undertaking, and a celebration of our bicentennial in the finest possible way," In remarks made on the Senate floor Sept. 17, the Minnesota senator congratulated the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) for its "remarkable effolit to estaMish a broadbased five-year program of social action," "At hearings held throughout the country," Sen. Monda'le said, "the bishops of the national conference set an example which we 'in the Congress would do well to foN6w. These hearings touch on the topics of our deepest concerns in this country today-' from the problems faced by American families, to the family farm, from the problems of Spanish-speaking citizens to our .relationship with the developing countries of the world."

Sen. Mondale testified at a NCCB Bicentennial hearing at St. Paul, Minn., in June on justice for native Americans.

Boutin, episcopal vicar of the Manchester, N. H. diocese. Also participating in the liturgy will be present and former principals, teachers and pupils.

A dinner-dance at the school will conclude the festivities.

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Mrs. Wahl. Other difficulties come because of the commonWhat do you do when you wealth's policy of returning padon't know what to do? In Fall tients from large mental hospiRiver, you' might try calling a tals to their own communities new service, somewhat formi- wherever possible. dably entitled Protective-LegalMany such patients were Advocacy Services for the Devel- placed in institutions years ago. opmentally Disabled, a project' They are strangers to their famof the Family Service Assn. at ilies, who are often quite un101 Rock St. equipped to care for them. And But fear not. Behind that long there are very few community name there are some very human facilities to receive them." people, Dorothy Wahl, a Family It's Confidential Service Assn. social worker, and It is to handle such situations young and enthusiastic Nancy that the advocacy service exists.

Edmonds, coordin'ator of outAlthough only two months old, reach for the new project, which it has already served I 0 clients has among its board members and Miss Edmonds has been busy Rev. John Gomes of St. Anthony letting other area agencies know of Padua parish in Fall River of its existence. and Dr. Joseph Ryan of Holy She noted that an important Name parish, director of pupil aspect of the service is its confipersonnel for the Fall River dentiality. Medical, legal, ecoschool system. nomic, housing and social needs The advocacy program came are met with a sensitive concern into being, explained Mrs. Wahl, for the rights and wellbeing of as an outgrowth of a similar the person being aided. program for the aged, developed What is now needed for the by the Family Service Assn. in growth of the program is volorder to care for elderly people unteers who would help in locatunable to handle their own af- ing people who need its seLVices, fairs and in danger of financial who would keep in touch with exploitation or other mishan- such persons on a friendship dling. In some cases, she said, basis and who would spread word seniors living alone had been of the project to clubs, guilds found dead because although it and other organizations. was known that they could not "Volunteers will be trained care for themselves there was and won't be thrown into any no agency with the legal authorsituations for which they might ity to step into the situation. be unprepared," stressed Miss The situation of the develop- Edmonds. mentally disabled is in some Mrs. Wahl noted that the origways more complicated than that inal advocacy program for' the of the aged, pointed out Mrs. Wahl. Retarded individuals or aged is "a model for the counthose suffering from epilepsy or try." She spoke on its organizacerebral palsy and sometimes tion at a national gerontological hidden away so that no one meeting held last year in Oregon knows of their existence, an at- and has had inquiries about it titude dating from days when it from all parts of the nation: She feels the new program was considered in some way a fills an equally unmet need and disgrace for a family to have such problem~ among its mem- hopes it will be copied in other parts of the commonwealth and bers.

When, for instance, parents the Fall River diocese. die or become ill and there is no Those interested in further inone to care for such a program, formation can contact her or a multitude of legal and prac- Miss Edmonds at 101 Rock St., tical considerations arise, said telephone 678-7541.

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Inquiring Photographer' Many people clailIl that witches do not exist. Tomorrow night being Halloween, we thought it would be an appropriate time to obtain some expert opinion on this sub-

ject.

QUESTION: Are there really witches?

WHO ASKED: First graders at Holy Name School, Fall River.

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Jim Perreira, Yes there were two of them ,in my yard under the slide. One of them had a head and the other didn't. My mother threw a pail of water on them and they melted.

Peter Bennett, No, the only witches are really kids in costumes but this Halloween I am going to be a wolfman.

Jay Hanley, No because I have been to a real haunted house in New Hampshire and there was a ghost hut I 'saw him later and he was just a man.

Chris Pelletier, Witches, no; goblins yes. Witches are bad but goblins are good. Goblins get candy and then have a party.

Julie Nizalowski, Yes, I have never seen any but I know they go 'Yeah ah ah ah' and scare people out of houses where they don't want them to live.

Wendy Moniz, Yes, I saw four of them at North Park. They were hiding behind the trash cans and then they came out and flew dn a circle on their brooms. All the kids got scared and then the witches flew away.

Holy Year Pilgrims Top Five Million

Joe Reilly, Yes, 1 saw some in the cemetery. They had green faces, purple clothes, black hair, and zig zag wiggley noses. They were knocking down the grave stones and then they flew off.

Knowledge of God PARTICIPANTS in the New England Congress of Priests' Senates included (left to right) Rev. Thomas C. Lopes of New Bedford a national offi<;:er of the NFPC, Bishop Cronin, and Rev. Arthur Dupont of the Hartford Diocese. â&#x20AC;˘

"Wisdom precedes,. religion follows; for the knowledge of God comes first, His worship is the result of knowledge."-Lactantius, "Divine Institutes," circa 310.

VATICAN CITY (NC) More than five million pilgrims had visited Rome for the Holy Year _ by the end of September, according to an official of the Vatcan's Holy Year Committee.

That number exceeds official predictions of the Vatican for the 12-month period of the Jubilee Year, he added. Holy Year ends Dec. 24.

The Vatican figure is very conservative in comparison with estimates in the Italian Press.

For example, Carriere della sera, the Milan daily, estimates that eight million pilgrims have already been in Rome this year.

I Dawn Casey, Yes, I was sleeping, heard a noise and saw six of them flying around my back¡ yard. They had green faces and pointed hats.

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Advises Studying Is~ues In Bargaining Disputes

FACES in the

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There are two (precisely, one and one-half) major strikes going on as of this writing, in the greater Washington area. The pressmen are on strike at the .Wa~hin~ton P~st, the city's leading newspaper, and the pollee m neighbonng Prince Georges County, Maryland, while not actually word about the particular problem that prompted Reston's on strike, are providing a column. minimum level of service There was sabotage and van-

(e.g., by following the rule book to the letter) as a form of protest against the County's failure to meet what they consider

By MSGR. GEORGE G. HIGGINS to be legitimate collective bargaining demands.

1 don't know enough about .either dispute to take sides one way or the other. 1 would hate to think, however, that the highly publicized reaction of one suburban couple to the police sloW-down and the frantic reaction of New York Times columnist, James Reston, to the Washington Post strike are typical of the general public's way of looking (or not looking) at the pros and cons of a particular strike or slow-down.

Both the aggrieved Maryland, couple and Mr. Reston (with much less ,excuse) are railing against the offending strikers, but they have said not a word about the issues involved in the two disputes. It's clear that they are simply not interested in finding out what caused the disputes in the first place and how they might be resolved with fairness to all concerned.

The Maryland couple's grievance against the County police is completely understandable.

The wife had been receiving obscene telephone calls over a period of several days. Finally, by careful maneuvering, she and her husband tricked the caller into paying them a visit. The husband, armed with a revolver, and one of his friends or neighbors hid in a closet. As soon as the caller arrived, they put him . under citizen's arrest, but, unable to get the COU'lty Polke to respond to their repeated calls for assistance, they eventually had to release him. No wonder they are so angry at the police.

Who can blame them?

Inflated Rhetoric On the other hand, what were the police to think when they read in the' papers the next morning that the couple, by their own admission couldn't care less about the grievance which led the police, in desperation, to initiate their slow-down?

Mr. Reston's highly emotional column on the Washington Post strike - a column replete with inflated doomsday rhetoric-was probably the least sensible piece ever written by this distinguished journalist. But first a

dalism in the Washington Post press room the day the strike began. This was absolutely indefensible. Those responsible will be brought to trial as soon as the Grand Jury has completed its investigation of the case. The vandals deserve to be punished to the limit of the law.

Unfortunately, however, Mr. Reston is so concerned about (I almost said obsessed with) the vandalism and sabotage committed by a few of the strikers that he seems to have lost his cool completely, he is well known in his profession for being the cool, calm, and collected pundit who never goes off halfcocked. This time, however, he almost went berserk.

Meditation "Meditation is like a needle after which comes a thread of gold, composed of affections, prayers and resolutions."-Sit. Alphonsus (1696-1787), "Veritable Epouse de J.C."

Jews are funny; they have all kinds of strange ideas.

Like they think' that their elderly immi~rants ~re important people, and that it is essential to get theIr stones while they are still alive. So the American Jewish Committee has an elaborate project to interview the "survivors"-those that they came with little more than their ambition, their courJews who escaped the Holo- age and their dream. caust by fleeing to the UniNever mind that in a few

ted States (or other countries and then to the United States) before the Nazi murders began in 1939.

By R~V. MR. EDWARD DOHERTY, a former state departANDREW M. ment official and now a repGREELEY resentative of the U. S. Catholic Conference addressed the delegates of the New A substantial amount of reEngland Congress of Priests sources are being invested in Senates at La Salette in At- this task of historical documentation; long survey questiontleboro.

'Planned' Act In the first place, Reston said that the vandalism at the' Post was a "planned" act of sabotage, clearly implying that the union itself had engineered it all. To the best of my knowledge, there is no verifiable evidence, at this time, to suggest such a serious allegation. This being the case, 1 think Reston would have been better advised to hold his peace and wait for the courts to rule on the case.

Mr. Reston's frantic over-playing of his hand on the issue of sabotage and vandalism is bad enough, but worse than that, in my opinion, is his failure to say a single word about the issues involved in the Washington Post strike. Like the Maryland couple referred to above, he apparently doesn't "give a damn" about the pros and cons of the dispute. No, 1 am wrong about that. Rather, it would seem that he has already made up his mind that the Post is absolutely right and the pressmen are absolutely wrong and is determined to do what he can, as an outsider, to break the strike at any cost -in the name (save the mark) of the First Amendment.

That's a superficial and very irresponsible way of looking (or not looking) at this or any other collective bargaining dispute. 1 might add that with friends like Reston, the Washington Post-which, let's face it, is in serious trouble - really doesn't need any enemies.

Reston, in other words, would be doing the Post a favor if he were to stick to his last. He is a great journalist, but it's obvious that labor relations is not his forte.

Jews and Catholics Deal With the Old Immigrants

THE ONCE AND FUTURE - Gen. Francisco Franco, 82, chief of state in Spain for' nearly fOl,lr decades, is shown with his prospective successor, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon, during a ceremony in 1971.

Franco, who has been incapacitated by heart attacks, is' to be succeeded by the prince if he steps down or dies.

ABRACO FROM DOM HELDER - Archbishop Helder Pessoa Camara of Olinda and Recife, Brazil, gives the traditional Brazilian hug or abraco to President Warren Bennis of the University of Cincinnati after receiving an honorary doctor of law de-. gree.

naires are being administered and extensive tape-recorded oral histories are being collected. One of my colleagues who escaped from Holland one step ahead of the Wermacht has facetiously commented that she seems to be spending all her time lately answering interview questions.

But the AJC thinks that the history of the"survivors" is important and that the investment of time and money in the, project ie justified.

Like 1 say, Jews are funny.

Ambition, Courage Can you imagine any. Catholic agency investing money in interviewing the surviving Catholic immigrants from southern and .eastern Europe - either those who came before the nativist immigration laws of 1920 or. those who came in the DP wave of the late 1940s? Why should we waste our resources on such unimportant people? The old mamas and babushkas are tucked away in back bedrooms or old people's homes and we do our best to pretend that they are not there and perhaps that they never even existed. They don't !5peak good English and we are kind of ashamed of them.

Hell, they don't know anything about- liberation theology.

Who cares about their story?

Never mind that these were once strong, vigorous, brave young men and women. Never mind that with little education and few skills they left behind their farms and villages to set out on a terrifying adventure into a world which was totally unknown to them. Never mind

short decades their children and grandchildren have become more successful than the people who had been here for two centuries.

Never mind that most of us American Catholics owe all that we have and all that we are to their vision, their heroism, their nerve.

Let's forget about them as quickly as we can, let's heave a sigh of relief as they die off one by one; let's pretend that we have no obligation at all to them, their work, their memory.

'Most Brilliant' After all, the Jews who escaped the Holocaust were, as Daniel P. Moynihan put it, the most brilliant immigrants in history. You can be proud of surgeons, psychiatrists, musicians and artists. But who ever was proud of a babushka? It's not the courage that counts, it's not leaving behind everything that you had ever known - for in these, respects the Jewish. psychiatrist and the babushka were very similar. What counts is how well you speak English and how many letters you can put after your name. If a babushka had a Ph.D., then maybe her story would be interesting.

The American hierarchy has put a fat chunk of money into a bicentennial program which in multicolors tells us how bad America is. They have paid an incompetent Mexican sociologist to decry the presence of large Catholic schools in the inner city. These are important activities. Who could expect a bishop to think that oral history from the surviving immigrants would be worth a damn? You want to remind them that for all their power, they, too, are the descendants of poor, illiterate but very brave people? Don't be silly.

As the fellow said in "The Man Who came to Dinner," I may vomit.

(Andrew Greeley, priest and sociologist, is Program Director of the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago.)

(C) 1975, U~iversal Press Syd'c't

Meditation "It is meditation that leads us in spirit into the hallowed solitudes wherein we find God alone -in peace, in calm, in silence, in recollection,"-J. Crasset, "A Key to Meditation," 1907.

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KNOW YOUR FAITH Liturgy •In Israel

By Rev. John J. Castelot, S.S. After the descendants of Jacob escaped from Egypt and made their way back to the land of the patriarchs, many sacred shrines came into prominence.

During the Exodus, however, the Israelites had a portable sanctuary: the Tabernacle or Tent. In the earliest tradition, it was a place where Moses consulted Yahweh to learn His will (Ex 33:7, 11; Nm 12:8). This role appears in the later tradition· as well, but there a new word is used in preference to the ordinary word for tent. This new term (mishkan) emphasizes the abiding presence of Yahweh among His people.. The two traditions vary also on the matter and location of the Tent. In the earlier texts it was outside the camp; in the later it was in the center of the encampment.

It is very difficult to say, with any degree of assurance, just what the desert Tent looked like, for the oldest traditions offer no information. The latest tradition (P) seems to give an idealized reconstruction, making the Tent a sort of portable scale model of the Temple of Solomon, which was the center of worship when this tradition was on its way to definitive formulation. On two occasions the P editors describe the Tent in detail: first, when Yahweh gives the specifications for its construction (Ex 26) and again, when Moses has it bu.ilt

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(36:8-38). It is significant that the dimensions of the Tent as reconstructed by the P editors are exactly half of those of the Temple. This fact, plus the evi~ently idealistic qIements of the descriptions, points to the conclusion that the Tent (as conceived by the Priestly editors) was reconstructed with the Temple as a model rather than vice versa.

In spite of all these conflicting data, one basic truth stands out: There was a Tent that served as a center of workship during the sojourn in the desert. God's people lived around their God. He was the center of their existence.

From parallels discovered by biblical archeologists as well as from the constant bibilical traditions themselves, it is very probable that the movable sanctuary of Israel's desert wanderings was fashioned like their own tents. The last clear mention of it occurs in Nm 25:6, which tells of the Tent's being put up in the plains of Moab, the last stop before the invasion of Canaan.

Once the Israelites had settled in the promised land and were no longer living in tents themselve,s, the Ark, too, would have been housed in a more permanent adobe. The sanctuary of Shiloh was a building of some sort (1 Sm 1:7, 9; 3:15) and later traditions that speak of the "Tent" of Shiloh do so by a sort of poetic archaism. When David Turn .00 ~ge Twelve

A Multi-Purpose Church

"How lovely is your dwelling place, 0 Lord of hosts! My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God."

By FR. JOSEPH M. CHAMPLIN For centuries believers have prayed those phrases of Psalm 84. Parishioners and visitors to the new Church of the Resurrection in Solon, Ohio, do so today with special enthusiasm. This multi-purpose church structure is indeed a lovely dwelling place both for the Lord of hosts and for God's pilgrim people.

Despite the multi-purpose arrangement and modern architectural style, its huge, contemporary tower and lofty cross clearly tell those who view the exterior from near or far that this is primarily a church. A magnificent black and white photo of that roof, tower and cross, against a cloudy sky and dark foreground evokes thoughts

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of Calvary and Jesus' words: "If I be lifted up I will -draw all men to myself."

Inside the main entrance a visitor notices office spaces on either side and a small chapel directly in front. The- latter contains the Blessed Sacrament, , thus reserved in an area apart from the place where Mass is celebrated, and two reconciliation rooms' for the sacrament of Penance in- which penitents have the option of sitting face-to-face with the priest or kneeling behind the traditional screen.

Behind and beyond this section is the main worship area.

Upholstered, color-coordinated . chairs, placed in a fanshaped arrangement, provide seating capacity for 600 with no person more than 50 feet from the altar. These comfortable seats, easily rearranged or cOJIlpactly stored in corner rooms, likewise offer parish leaders the possibility of using that space for other purposes.

A folding, wooden, floor-toceiling door can close off a smaller unit around the sanctuary, reducing it to a space with seating for 200 - mUGh more suitable for weddings, funerals, special Masses, etc., in which a Turn 'to Page Twelve '

The Greek word "liturgy~' conveys the meaning of the Hebrew word for the public worship celebrated in the temple of Jerusalem. Literally, the word liturgy means the work of the people or community, a public works project in which everyone has an assigned and proper task. The building of walls to protect the city state, the building of ships to promote the trade of coastal cities, the building of' Solomon's temple in which to celebrate a liturgy were all liturgical works in the secular meaning of the word.

By REV. PAUL F. PALMER, S.J.

Before the Israelites settled in Canaan, they were a wandering people who pitched their tents in the desert. They had no time to build a temple to house their God. But Yahweh, the God of Israel, was more than content to live in a tent, so long as the worship of the people was "worthy" or appreciative qf God's worth.

The absence of a temple did A FATHER'S ROLE OF leadership of the Seder is ennot mean that the Israelite had to worship in the privacy of his acted in this demonstration Passover meal in Washington, own soul. Man is not only an D. C. "This is the matzoh of hope," says the leader as he individual, he is a member of a raises the unleavened bread. "Even after the building of the community. Again, man is not temple and the transfer of priestly functions to the Levitical a disembodied spirit, he is a spirit enfleshed. Accordingly, "to priest, the family liturgy of the Sabbath meal and the Passworship God in spirit and in over or Seder continued to be celebrated, as it.is today, by truth" meant to celebrate the the head of the Jewish family." great feasts of the year in procession and dance, in sacred , and punctuated by trumpets and also meant for the Israelites the song, in psalm or hymn, accom- the clash of cymbals. offering of gifts to God, not that panied by stringed instruments Liturgical or public worship God needed them but because man needed to show his gratitude. Sacrifices of thanksgiving were offered, the first fruits of the harvest; peace-offerings and sacrifices of atonement were "Not to know Scripture is not One approach may appeal to offered by which the people to know Christ," wrote St. you; another way appeal more were made one with God in Jerome 25 centuries ago. That's to someone else. But r~cently a God's acceptance of their gifts.

Before the Israelites settled in a strong statement. One worth friend shared with me a way pondering. ,that you might also find helpful. the land of Canaan, the patriarch or head of the family was the It is the way of the five P's.

Take a Bible passage,-e.g., recognized liturgist. He kept from Sunday's readings at the alive the memory of God's past liturgy, from your children's re- favors towards his people and ligion lesson for the week, or offered sacrifice in their name.

By from the Know Your Faith col- Even after the building of the umns. Then follow the five P's temple and the transfer of FR. CARL J. in trying to come to grips with priestly functions to the Levitical .God's word in that Bible pas- priest, the family liturgy of the PFEIFER, S.J. Sabbath meal and the Passover sage as it relates to your life.

Turn to Ptage Twelve 1. PREPARE: Put your work and worries aside 'for a few moBut if it is true, Jerome's conviction is our challenge. How do ments. Still your mind and quiet .'--------------------~~ you get to know the Bible? It your heart. It may help to find seems such a difficult book. a quiet place inside or outdoors.

Where do you begin? How can Recall that God is present with J. TESER, Prop. , you be sure you are understand- you and wants to speak to you. , : Ask His help in hearing His : RESIDENTIAL ing it right?

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Liturgy of World and Sacrament Continued from Page Eleven of "Seder" continued to be celebrated, as it is today, by the head of the Jewish family.

It is important to note that liturgy embraces more than the liturgy of sacrifice. "Every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins" (Heb. 5:1). But even the Levitical priest was more than a liturgist of sacrifice; he was also a liturgist of the Word.

The priests of Levi were called upon "to put incense before Thee and a whole burnt offering upon Thy altar." But they also "shall teach Jacob Thy ordinances, and Israel Thy law" (Deut. 33:9, 10). It was only after the destruction of Herod's temple that the synagogue liturgy of the Word was completely divorced from the liturgy of sacrifice, with the role of liturgist taken over by the rabbi or teacher instead of the Jewish priest.

For a short time the early Christian community celebrated a separate liturgy of the路 Word, modeled on the synagogue service of the Jews, with an opening greeting, the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the chanting of psalms, a homily and a dismissal. But quite early the liturgy of the Word became an integral part, along with the liturgy of the Eucharist, of the Sunday service.

St. Justin Martyr of Rome (c. 150) describes the liturgy of the Word, in which "the memoirs of the Apostles 'or the writings of路 the Prophets are read" (The First Apology, 67).

But the Sunday service of Christians continued with "the Eucharist of the bread and the chalice, which are offered by us Christians in every part of the world, and which are pleasing to Him" (Dialogue with Trypho,"

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True,' the writers of the New Testament do not call the liturgists of the Word and the Eucharist priests.

The term "priest" is reserved to Christ, our High Priest who is "the liturgist in the sanctuary and the true tent which is set up not by man but by God" (Heb. 8:2). But early Christian reflection on the sacred ministry or liturgy of the Apostle Paul and the Twelve led the Church to see in those whom she came to call priests the continuation of Christ's own ministry of teaching, of preaching, of offering a sacrifice for sin and of forgiving sins in what will come to be called the sacrament of Penance. . In his letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul refers to himself as "the liturgist of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit" (15:16).

But the - proclamation of the Gospel or Good News is not restricted to the word preached or homilized. At the Last Supper Jesus told the Apostles: "Do this in remembrance of me: .. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes" (1

The . Fairhaven-based Sacred Hearts Fathers and Brothers offer men who would like to learn more about the life of a religious priest or brother a unique opportunity to "live in" for a weekend. November 7 through 9 they will open the doors of their Wareham seminary for a "Vocation Search Weekend. Father Frederick LaBrecque, SS.CC., Vocations Director, says that the . program is basically an opportunity to see a religious community in action, to share its life and prayer, and to take part in talks, discussions and activities geared towards providing information, deepening understanding, and helping each individual "search his own heart" with regard to his future.

Cor. 11 :25,26). The priest is called upon to be a minister or liturgist of the Word, but he is preeminently and most effectively so when he gives sacramental and sacrificial proclamation to the death and resurrection and coming again in glory of the risen Lord, "the mystery of faith."

Multi-Purpos'e'

Continued from Page Eleven fewer number of worshipers wiIl participate.

Wheeled 6 feet by 8 feet partitions can further divide the outer area into units suitable for meetings, instruction classes, discussion groups and the like.

The handsome Parish Center of the Church of the ResurrecM9re information and reservation is not the proud accomtions may be made through plishment of a single individual Father LaBrecque's office at: 3 nor the lasting monument erected by an energetic, forwardAdams Street, Fairhaven, Ma. 02719. There is no charge for thinking pastor. Rather it repreparticipation. sents the fruit of many parishioners' planning and cooperation under the leadership of a pastoral team which includes SisCLOUDS become a backdrop for a church outside ters of St. Joseph Rosemary The Southeastern MassachuWestminster, Md., suggesting the words of the psalmist Kuhns, Mary Lou Misciasi, and setts University Library Associabout God's glorious reign.

Patricia Ross together with ates cordially invites the public Fathers William Plato and Louis . to attend their fall meeting on Trivison.

Wednesday, November 5 at Their efforts were seasoned 1230 p.m. in the SMU library.

The LORD is king; let the earth by prayer, especially on ThursContinued from Page Eleven Featured speaker at the meetrejoice; day or "Prayer Night." No meeting will be SMU English Instruclet the many isles be glad. ings or parish events are sched- brought the Ark to Jerusalem, uled for that evening. Families he housed it in a tent, but this Clouds and darkness are round tor Richard Larshan who will review the book Ragtime, the about him, are encouraged to participate in was not THE Tent. It was a justice and judgment are the Book of the Month Club selecMass then join with the pastoral temporary arrangement, meant tion, written by E. L. Doctorow. foundation of his throne. team in prayer as the Blessed to recall the>- days of wandering Refreshments will be served.

Fire goes before him Sacrament is exposed until 10:00 in the desert (2 Sm 6:17).

Eventually, David's son and p.m. and consumes his foes round Why' such a "multi-purpose successor, Solomon, built the about. church"? In a foreword to the Temple, the solid Tent which His lightnings illumine the , Bath Tub Ruined ? world; dedication booklet entitled, "The was to house the Ark of the Covenant and to become the the earth sees and trembles.

People Are the Church," the parish leaders explain the phil- more or less abiding symbol of The mountains melt like wax Yahweh's presence in the midst before the LORD, osophy behind that concept: of His people. before the Lord of all the "The term 'multi-purpose Here, in the course of time, earth. church' refers to a building We Can RESURFACE IT! planned to permit diverse uses a very rich liturgy developed, The heavens proclaim his justice, Like New - Guaranteed - No Remoyal WHITE OR COLOR of the same space or area; it involving various types of sacri- and all peoples see his glory CaU Collect LECTROGLAZ 1路385路9319 fice and sacred music.

This (Ps 97:1-6). does not mean 'all purpose.' For example, a multi-purpose church music (the psalms) expressed in might serve as a parish educa- song all the sentiments of relitional center, as well as for par- gion, the noblest of which is that ish or community meetings, but of praise. Conscious of being not as a gymnasium. It does not God's people, the Israelites loved mean a room designed primarily to extol Him as their King. Here, 102 Shawomet Avenue as a gym or auditorium that is for example, are the first of two also used for Mass. The first strophes of Ps 99: Somerset, Mau. Contractors & rndustrial consideration should be a proper The Lord is king, the people Tel. 674-4881 Richard Souza, Inc. setting for the church's worship." tremble The multipurpose church alhe is throned upon the cher31f2 room Apartment Locati~ns in lows what is now used for a few ubim 41f2 room Apartment FALL RIVER & SOMERSET hours a week to be used triple the earth quakes.

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Than You Ever Thought Possible. In Fact You'" Save show concern for the masses of Hundreds of Dollars. underprivileged people, it is not Of course, one must remember wrong to build churches but that the psalms are essentially they must be artistic signs of poetic, and that their descriptions -- 'Ashleythe Church's mission to build a . are rarely to be taken literally, I . STERN MASS, VOLUME F people, to call them together in They are human attempts to exorder to nourish their faith in press the inexpressible, to deall the ways needed, not only scribe the indescribable. A case 395 Mt. Pleasant St. r New Bedford, Mass through worship but through in point would be Ps 97, which talks, discussions, plays, formal extols the Lord as the king of 996-5611 teaching ..." all creation:

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"Why am I writing this book?" Elizabeth Hamilton asks at the outset of Suenens: a Portrait (Doubleday, 245 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. 10017. 283 pages, $7.95). She answers, "In the hope that the Cardinal's thinking may become widely known; that his courageous, optimistic outlook, non -inspired 'by a religious motivation. . . . Possibly .•.. a way above all his confidence in of expressing one's feelings for the Holy Spirit at work in God,"

the Church of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, may lift men's hearts, dispel gloom, shed joy."

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Joseph Suenens, Archbishop of Malines·Brusse~s, is not a full biography. Such work is impossible while the subject is still living.

But she does give a sketch of Suenens' life.

He was born in 1904, an only child. llis father died when Leon was three years old. The youngster did well in school. From an early age his heart was set on the priesthood. He completed his seminary education in Rome, and was ordained in 1927.

When he became a bishop he took as the motto on his coat of arms "In Spiritu Sancto" - "in the Holy Spirit." And this, as Miss Hamilton demonstrates, sums up his attitude and his en· deavors. All is to be seen, and all is to be done, in the light and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Mystical Aspect "Institutional reforms are still needed," Suenens once said, "but the Church cannot be renewed by these alone. We have to stress the mystical aspect of the Church. An evangelical renewal is taking place, a rediscovery of the Gospel,a fresh realization of the meaning of Christ for this age. The Holy Spirit is preparing a new springtide for the Church.

Something is dying, but some· thing else is growing."

Cardinal Suenens has been a proponent or champion of vari, ous ideas and movements. For example, he spoke in favor of Charismatic Renewal before it had won any large measure of approval. He thinks of it as a current of grace "sent to remind us of what it means to be a Christian; what, in fact, Christians are by virtue of their baptism."

But he has taken pains to make needed distinctions. "Normally ... he regards 'speaking in tongues' as a natural phenome·

Meet in Rome· ROME (NC)-Knights of Malta from 40 nations held their biennial four-day meeting here to discuss the expansion of their hospital program and other charitable works throughout the world in the spirit of the Holy Year.

He rejects the idea that "Bap· tism in the Spirit" is a second baptism in the Holy Spirit. "He is insistent upon the traditional Catholic teaching of there being one sacramental baptism. There is, he says, one baptism only, in water and in the Spirit. There can be no second baptism," So it is with 'other contemporary developments in the Church.

He is sensitive to problems, open to new things, but careful to measure everything bv the official teachings of the Church and its authentic tradition. The author has made a thorough examination of the cardinal's writings and speeches, and finds amTlle evidence of a profound fidelity to the Church and a balanced approach to every question.

Watergate Book In early September 1973. Eliz· abeth Drew began compiling a running account of what was happening in Washington. At that time, the Ervin committee hearings had all but ended. and 'already there was speculation that the Nixon Presidency might be ending before the expiration, of Mr. Nixon's second term.

Miss Drew's account, concluding with the P.rei;ident's resignation in August 1974, is now pub· Iished under the title Washington Journal: The Events of 1973-1974 (Random House. 201 E. 50th St., New York, N.Y. i0022. 428 pages. $12.95). It is uninue among Watergate books in that its several parts were written at the very time that the events it records took place. It has freshness, imm'ediacy, and a suspensefulness for the reader even though he already knows the outcome.

"At the heart of it all." says Miss Drew toward the close of the book "was the Question of whether our constitutional form of government would continue," Does this seem an exaggeration?

Not if one has read all that goes before:

Values in Polish Heritage Stressed MILWAUKEE (NC) - Poles "need th'is country and this country needs us, not as persons of the world, but as men and women who are examples of the faith," Bishop Aloysius WydslQ of Green Bay tdld the Polish National AI'1iance convention here.

Bishop Wycislo, speaking at a Mass at which Archbishop Wil-' Iiam E. Cousins of Milwaukee was the chief concelebrant, said that the Polish National AHiance must emphasize public service over private goals.

He said that modern man demands that as organizations become more public they must become more and more related to the world and its prob'lems.

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Cesar Chavez talks with United Fann Workers Supporters.

Walk for Farm Workers Will be Held Saturday

By CLAUDIA SHACTER This fall, a law took effect in CaHforni·a which promised to guarantee free secret-ballot ele.ctions to farm workers. But the elections, as they are now taking place, are not free, fair or ser.ret.

Although the United Farm Workers AFL-CIO, has won the rna· jority of the vote so far, the growers are attemptiM to hend the election process into a tool to destroy the union.

Throughout the summer, and now, as elections occur, workers have been denied their right to s"leak with UFW organi?ers. Surrounding the Elmco ranch in Delano. high tension wires keep UFW organi7.ers out - and the work force isolated within. Hired vigilante groups "protect the growers' property rights" in Stockton ar.d Fresno. At Gallo vineyards. following loud protest of company interference bv clergy who accompanied UFW representatives, organi7.ers were finally admitted to the fields.

Workers who spoke to UFW organizers were photographed and then threatened by Teamster "security guards." Hundreds of workers have been fired or laid off iust before the elections workers known to he sympathetic to the UFW. Other growers have ,promised to plow under their crans and fire the whole work force if the vote is for the UFW. All these acts are illegal under the law. Why, then are they going on?

A closer look at the structure of the law may give us an answer. The law provides for a California Agricultural Relations Board, appointed by the Governor, and charged with the task of making decisions about all election problems as well as gen· eral policies. But independent of

the CALRB, and also appointed by the Governor, is the General COl,Insel - Walter Kintz. It is Mr~ Kintz and the staff he hires who run the elections on a day to day basis, and investigate and file charges (which the CALRB would then hear.) It is Mr. Kintz who seems to 'be holding up the enforcement of the law. Over 130 unfair labor practice claims have been filed by the UFW. Mr. Kintz has not yet acted on one!

The UFW is not being notified when and where elections are to be held. The entire voting procedure seems to 'be set up for the convenience of the grower! Almost all elections have been held_ on company property. Company buses transport: the workers to the polls. Voting hours are set, in many 1:ases so that the strik· ers from 1973 who have every right to vote under the law, will have difficulty doing so.

All across the country, people are fighting for justice in the fields. Thousands of letters are going to Gov. Brown at the State Capitol in Sacramento, asking for Kintz' removal from office, and for strict enforcement of the law. Consumers continue their commitment to dignity in the fields by not buying iceberg lettuce or grapes or Gallo wines.

Until the workers get their fair elections and strong contracts the boycott will continue.

In Southeastern Mass. and R.I., boycott supporters have called for a "Walk For Farm Workers" on Nov. I, meeting at Cathedral Square in Providence ;1t 11 a.m. lf you are unable to join them, I'm sure that you will join in their message: "There's- A Boycott On!" (Ed. note: Claudia Shacter is the co-ordinator of Southeastern Massachusetts organization of the United Farm Workers.)

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sage through. Then go back and read it more slowly. Focus on particular words, phrases that strike you. Notice how it makes you feel. Wh'at ideas strike you most? What questions does it give rise to? What does it seem to mean? Does it make sense?

What does it say to you? What does it mean in terms of daily life? If you are so inclined, you might like to read something about it by an expert, like in the Know Your Faith columns, or in the "Jerome BiblicaL Commentary," Really ponder the passage.

3. PICTURE: Next try to picture what the passage talks about . Use your imagination.

See what the people are doing.

Hear what they are saying.

Imagine the scene, the place.

Here you may find works of sacred art helpful. Some Bibles contain many -good reproductions of great Christian art.

There are many books of Christian art available in most bookstores, usually at reduced prices!

You need really look no further than your own imagination.

Cyril of Jerusalem, one of the great Christian educators in the early Church, taught that faith comes more from seeing than from hearing. So picture the passage.

4. PRAY: Then enter more fully into relationship with God who speaks through the Scriptures. Pray. Open yourself to His presence.:.. Allow your thoughts and feelings to bring you into relationship with a loving, caring God who is pr~sent with you. Be silent. In your heart and mind. Listen with your real self, that core of you that is really you. As the Psalm urges in God's name: "Be still, and know the Lord, your God." The Scriptures are not magic. They provide few panaceas. But through them God tries hard to reach our hearts. Prayer is relaxing enough in His presence to allow Him to help us respond to Him. 5. PROMISE: And, finally, promise to do something about what you have pondered, pictured, and prayed over. Make God's word your own by translating it into a concrete action or attitude. God's word to us through the Bible is always an invitation, a call, a challenge. It is not just theory or abstraction.

God wants to communicate with us in order to help us discover life's meaning. He wants to help us find our way toward a fuller, richer life. His Word is a word of wisdom, of practical knowledge about life. Such knowledge is learned only as it filters into our lives, touches our basic attitudes , challenges our goals, makes us question our values, sparks actions that are deeply human, Christian. We need to respond, to promise.

Take up your Bible. Try the way of the five P's: Prepare, Ponder, Picture, Pray, Promise.

It may not be easy. But it will be rewarding. Try it. You may like it.

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GONE AT LAST

By THE DAMEANS The night was black the roads were icy The snow was falling, drifts were high I was weary from my driving when I stopped to rest for awhile I sat down at a truck stop, I was thinking about my past.

I've had a long streak of that bad luck, but I'm praying it's gone at last.

Gone at last, gone at last, gone at last, gone at last.

I ain't dumb, I've kicked around some, I don't fall too easily,

blit that boy looked so dejected, he just grabbed my sympathy.

Sweet little son, now what's your problem, Tell me why you're so downcast.

I've had a long streak of that bad duck, but I'm praying it's gone at last.

Gone at last, gone at last, gone at last, gone at last.

Once in a while, from out of nowhere, when you don't expect it, and you're unprepared somebody will come and lift you higher, and your burdens will be shared.

I do believe, if I hadn't have met you, I might still be sinking fast I've had a long streak of that bad luck, but· I'm praying it's gone at last Gone at last.

Sung by: Paul Simon and Phoebe Snow (by: Paul Simon, (c) CBS, 1975)

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Yet, Simon is a very serious artist as we have known him - in the past, so he says something valuable with this song almost in spite of himself. He chooses a gospel-style for fun, but he actually accomplishes what the Gospel really does.

Gospel means "good news" and when you hear "Gone at Last," you find yourself laughing at your own "long streak of that bad luck." To realize that you can laugh at things is to realize that there is something more in Hfe than just "bad luck."

That awareness is "good news."

Simon also jokingly shows how had luck will be ended by . , someone else because then "your burdens will be shared."

While he jokes about it, he also proves that it's true because teaming with Phoebe Snow has given this song almost instant success. Sharing burdens really works with 'bad luck, not so much because it changes the luck, but because when someone shares it with you, your attitude changes and it becomes laughable.

But perhaps the thing that is most fun of all is that the song and the message are a surprise. lit's when you don't expect it and you're unprepared" that the best surprises happen. Making friends is that kind of a surprise, and so is Resurrection. To know that surprises are always possible is to realize that we can hope even when we have the worst kiind of bad luck." That's enough ihope to llive one.

Aill correspondence should be direoted to: The Dameans, P. O. Box 2108, Baton Rouge, La. 70821.

(Copyright (c) 1975 by NC News Service)

Two Area Chaplain Aides Will Develop National Boy Scout Program Despite rain and cloudy skies. a "Man and His God" weekend held at Camp Norse, Carver, under sponsorship of the Catholic Scouting Committee of the Attleboro-Taunton area was voted a huge success by participants and 103 Boy Scouts are now proudly wearing a colorful emblem combining symbols of the Chrisian, Jewish and Mohammedan faiths, all of which were studied during the three day program.

Planning for the religious camporee was carried out by the newly organized Chaplain Aide corps of the Annawon Boy Scout Council, directed by Rev. Normand Boulet, Catholic Scout chaplain for the council, and a large lay committee.

Official induction of seven Scouts as chaplain aides was a highlight of the weekend. Two of the Scouts, Arthur Cote and David Dion, were further designated as aides-at-Iarge, with responsibility for Scout religious activities on a council instead of a troop level: During 'the coming year the two boys will develop an aide-atlarge program for use by the national Boy Scout program.

Other aides inducted were Michael Hebert, John Raposa, Ernest Anelunde, Brendan Murphy and Mark Paradis.

Full Program The weekend program began Friday night with a slide presentation on the theme "Passing on God's Love," which was used throughout the weekend. A Jewish sabbath service followed, con· ducted by Al Garcheck and his Scout son, with all Scouts participating in re~itation of various prayers.

Saturday morning's activities included viewing of a film on the - Jewish faith, followed by a presentation on the meaning of friendship. In the afternoon Father Boulet gave a witness talk on the priesthood and chaplain aides presented filmstrips, slides and a film on aspects of Catholicism.

Induction of the aides took place during a Mass celebrated

by Father Boulet, and special awards for "dedicated service to God and Scouting" were made to Raposa, Hebert. Cote and Dion.

Parents of the aides were guests of honor at the Mass.

Saturday evening Abdul Samrna, district Boy Scout executive, e~plained Mohammedanism to the campers and remarks were also made by Frederick Govain, chief of .the Annawon Council. A campfire program followed.

A Protestant service, conducted by Rev. Robert Ryder, executive secretary of the aT.ea Council of Churches, took place Sunday morning, and a filmstrip on Prot- ' estant ,beliefs was shown.

Following the service, Dion explained the religious awards available in the Scouting program to his fellow Scouts and over 25% of the oampers indicated an interest in studyi.ng for one or another award.

At closing ceremonies partici· pation ribbons were given to each troop and.to the chaplain aides, and each camper received the uniform emblem signifying attendance at ,the weekend.

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Above, chaplain aides receive awards for "service to God and Scouting." From left, Arthur Cote, aide; Matt Bury, past president, Annawon Boy Scout Council; John Raposa, aide; James Melloni, area Catholic Scouting Committee chairman; Michael Hebert, aide; Rev. Normand Boulet, Council Catholic Scout chaplain; David Dion, aide; Frederick Govain, Annawon Council chief. Below, new aides are inducted by Father Boulet, from left, Arthur Cote, Michael Hebert, John Raposa, Ernest Anelunde, Brendan Murphy, Mark Paradis and David Dion.

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~l_ LISTENING A boy ... and a man . . . deep in conveersation · .. It is not important if the man is the boy's father, or brother, coach, teacher, or friend ... What is important is their absorption in their conversation.

talking ... He looks The boy seems at ease somewhat serious ... happy ... The man listens but relaxed ... There is a feeling of mutual trust·. . . a sense of peaceful understanding ... a respectful sharing.

It's not often one sees someone genuinely listening to another . . . Even rarer is the sight of an adult really listening to a child . . . taking a child seriously · .. as having something to say.

When is the last time you felt someone listened to you? ... really listened? ... with their heart as well as their ears? ... When did you last listen to someone? · .. to a youngster? ... really listen?

Listening to another says ..."You're important to me" ... "You have something worth saying" ... . "You're worth my time and attention" ... "You're O.K."

True listening frees one to be oneself ... to reveal one's weaker self ... to want to become one's better self . . . Hardly: anything is more healing . . . more creative ... more loving.

The boy is lucky ... to have found someone who really listens ... No wonder he talks happily ... at peace.

CANDIDATES speak at Gerrard. Shown above are left Mayor Wilfred Driscoll the incumbent, Debbie Smith, Anchor correspondent and Chairperson of the progt'am, and Ernest Ladeira the challenger.

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Gerrard: Candidates Talk agreed to participate in the proAbout a month ago, students gram planned by the students. studying Contemporary Issues at This program called for both Bishop Gerrard High School candidates to make a five minwere assigned long-term projects' ute speech. Mr. Driscoll's speech concerning life in the city. Part centered around his qualificaof the assignment was to inter- tions for office and past governview various city officials, par- mental positions he has held. ticularly the mayor and city The mayor also stressed his adcouncillors, for their views and ministration's accomplishments opinions on both the accomplish- for the city's youth, especially in ments and problems facing Fall the areas of recreation, education, and employment.

River.

The content of Mr. Ladeira's One point that was repeatedly speech focalized on the controstressed by all the officials interversy surrounding the present viewed was the apathy of the citizens of Fall River. Too many administration concerning use citizens do not demonstrate a of state funds and appointments. high degree of interest or knowl- He reiterated his hope to funnel edge about their city govern- more state funds into Fall River ment. Too many citizens do not to provide more jobs for city really know the candidates run- residents.

Following the speeches, both ning for office. The students also expressed surprise to hear candidates fielded spontaneous that many young people who questions from the audience. A have recently been granted the mock election will be held at right to vote do not exercise that Bishop Gerrard in which the entire school will have the opporright. tunity to vote for the candidate The class felt that as young of their choice. citizens of an All American City, they should attempt to do something to change this trend. As a Polish Pilgrims result the Contemporary Issue class invited both candidates run- Going to Rome VATICAN CITY (NC)-Two ning for mayor to address the faculty and student body of major Polish pilgrimages for the Holy Year are scheduled to Bishop Gerrard High School.

Mr. Driscoll and Mr. Ladeira come here in October, Vatican Radio reported. .

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