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JANE ROBIN and Nicholas M. Christ, master of ceremonies for the St. Mary's Education Fund Fall event, present a check for $638,433 to Bishop George W. Coleman to provide need-based scholarships to students attending Catholic schools. At, right, Rebekah DePillo, a seventh-grader from St. Mary's School, Mansfield, is greeted by Bishop Coleman at the event. Behind DePillo is her mother Lisa. (Anchor/Gordon photo)

Education Fun.d combined events raise $638,433

By MIKE

GORDON ANCHOR STAFF

WESTPORT - The 11 th annual St. Mary's Education Fund Fall Dinner closed with a bang October 27 at White's of Westport, when Bishop George W. Coleman was presented with a check for $638,433.

The funds will provide need-based financial scholarships to hundreds of students at Catholic elementary and middle schools throughout the Fall River diocese.

Th~t was good news to Director of Development Mike Donly. ''We're very pleased with the efforts this year," said Donly. "We had well over 400 people here and I'm thankful to all

the committees and people who have worked so hard to make the St. Mary's Education Fund a success."

The event was themed "When You Touch the Lives of Children, You Touch the Future: Theirs and Yours."

Diocesan Superintendent of schools George A. Milot was happy they could raise more than $600,000 this year and said the Fund is very important. "It's crucial to our schools," he declared. ''We want our· schools to be open to all students and the fund makes that pos.sible. It's very important to the Fall River diocese," Milot added. "Catholic education should be available to all students."

The superintendent went on to praise

Catholic schools for spreading the Gospel message and evangelizing.

"We feel we are training the future leaders of our community and Church.

We are known for our academic excellence and we care about moral codes and values. We're teaching our faith to our children and that's important," said Milot.

Proceeds from the October event and Summer Scholarship Dinner on Cape Cod were represented in the grand total presented to the bishop.

Since it began in 1991, the St. Mary's Education Fund has provided millions in scholarships to children and it will help more than 650 students in the 2005-2006

school year by distributing more than $650,000.

The objective of the Fund is to make Catholic schools more accessible to children. According to Principal Kathleen A. Burt of SS. Peter and Paul School, Fall River, it is doing just that.

"Through the St. Mary's Education Fund our students are able to choose a Catholic education," said Burt. "It helps a great many families."

She looks forward to the gathering each year because "It's a way to celebrate our Catholic schools. The school children shown during the video presentation have such an appreciation for being at a CathoTurn to page J2 ---:- Fund

Swansea parish's Women's Ministry bringing comfort to wounded GIs in Iraq

By DEACON JAMES N.

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SWANSEA - What's red, white and blue and brings a practical message of loving concern to wounded American servicemen and women serving in Iraq? A "Comfort Pillow."

Called "Operation Comfort: The Patriotic Pillow Project," it is the newest outreach of Swansea's St. Louis de Fnince Parish's Women's Ministry, which has undertaken making the patriotic pillows to help the military wounded and send along a personal message of hope as well.

"Through an organization in the parish we found out about the non-profit program initiated by Catholic Fanlily Life and affiliated with Catholic Family Life

Insurance in Milwaukee, Wisc.," said Judy Lachance, a member of the Women's Ministry and the unofficial chairman of the Comfort Pillow endeavor. ''The whole idea of the patriotic pillows is to bolster the spirit of the wounded soldier serving in Iraq," said Lachance, a longtime members ofSt. Louise de France Parish.

"The Women's Ministry was excited about it and decided to participate. After getting the information, we received the pattern for the pillowslips, which will be all the same, made of red, white and blue brushed cotton material and resemble the American Flag," Mrs. Lachance explained.

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BISHOP GEORGE W Coleman celebrates Mass at the two-day Convocation of Priests of the Fall River diocese held last week at the Conference Center on Goat Island. Hundreds of faithful across the diocese prayed for the spiritual well-being of their parish priests while they were away. (AnchorlJolivet photo)

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Tijuana priest shot dead by unknown assailants MEXICO CITY (CNS) - An unknown gunman shot and killed a Catholic priest from the border city of Tijuana, and authorities suspect the murder-might have been the work oforganized crime.

Father Luis Velasquez Romero was handcuffed in his car and shot six times with a pistol during the early hours of October 24, Mexican media re- . ported. The city's top homicide detecti ve, Francisco Castro Trenti, said police were "provisionally" treating the murder as related to organized crime, the

Mexico City newsmagazine Proceso reported.

However, Castro said police were unaware of Father Velasquez having received any threats. Father Velasquez, 52, was well-known in Tijuana for his outspoken sermons that often criticized local politicians.

The Tijuana newspaper Frontera reported that police did not discover his body for an hour after. the murder, despite the shooting having occurred in Plaza Zapato, a trendy bar and nightclub complex.

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Concert will showcase 93-ye~r-old pipe organ

By MIKE GORDON

is equipped with a large pipe organ in the choir loft, standing NEW BEDFORD - For or- more 101 steps above the conganist Richard Hill, November 6 gregation, and has a smaller chanSERVICE.. .By caring family and service-family professionals will be a special day because he cel organ in its sanctuary. will be participating in a pipe orTR.UST.. Jn the people you knolQ The American Guild ofOrgangan concert at St. Anthony of ists holds a concert each year, but 0 ICE... Custom-:designed, pe1'$onalized tributes Padua Church, joining with co.!- this will be its first visit to the New leagues ofthe American Guild of Bedford church.

AFFORDABILITY.. ,Digt1ifie4 sef'lJices 4t affordable cost Organists to perform on its 1912 Other guild members who will Casavant Organ. perform are Thomas Sargent, or"I'm very excited to be par- ganist and music director of the ticipating," said Hill, who is sec- First Congregational Church of .JIRIIB'I' "IIJLU¥AI(-, AIIftQtf .. a:suaHIDf.• 1JUICIaLL retary of the American Guild. Wareham,DennisFe~onofthe www.warlng.&ullivan.com II SEilviCE F~MIl.Y IIfFlLl\'l1l OF Mrs&SERVIcECOlW. I}.TL,m Rt~StilEl!tFlIlLIUVER;~iAQ.!lZll50Wf>02H. "It's a wonderful place to play Murray Universalist Unitarian and the acoustics are very good Church of Attleboro and Judith (i'j Il_.. __ !_IJ there."

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"It's turning into a big event," Ught a virtual candle at donations are being collected to , benefit the Casavant Organ Reno- said Gise1e Pappas, parish organ restoration coordinator. It's someHathawayFunerals.co~ vation Fund. "....."

It will feature several re- thing that our parishioners are nowned organists including Pe- looking forward to as are the orter Lea-Cox of London, England. ganists. They're chomping at the bit to play," she declared.

Pappas said much work has FUNERAL HOMES Patrick's Church in Falmouth at gone into the organ and estimates 8 p.m. He.will be directing sing- that they've spent $50,000 on res' d " h ers in an all day workshop culmi- toration over the last several H I I _•_fi.._I1__._o.:.:..p_e_~~_-' .. nating i.-.-_ _.:.....e-:p:-i_n.:::.g-::.p_eo_ ....:.,p_e in the evening concert. years. "It's always been in use Lea-Cox studied at the Royal since it was installed in 1912."

Academy ofMusic in London and Pappas has attended Masses "WE CAN SAVE YOU HUNDREDS OR has given organ concerts in Brit- at St. Anthony of Padua parish ain, Germany, Denmark, Sweden since she was born and has been EVEN THOUSANDS OFF YOUR FUNERAL and the United States. . a member of its choir since sixth .EXPENSES." Hill is the organist and music grade. She said music makes the director at the Unity Church in celebration ofMass complete. "It North Easton. He will open the raises the celebration and I think concert with a composition writ- it does that for many people," ten by Gustave Gagnon, an an- .said Pappas. "It helps people be cestor of one of the founding connected to God and the French-Canadian families who Church." helped build the church.

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"It has four keyboards, called The parish has been ordering manuals, 60 stops and a gorgeous parts here and there and has essound." He said that the company tablished an Adopt an Organ OPEN MONDAY· FRIDAY 10 AM • 4 PM which made the organ was from project. Pappas estimated the parSATURDAYS • 10 AM • 1 PM Quebec and although much has ish has raised nearly $20,000 with been restored there is "still some previous concerts and said they WE PRICE 40-70% LOWER! work to be done. It was always are planning a choir recital in DeApPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE 24 working, but not all the aspects cember. of the instrument."

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Pappas. "My mother remembers one of the first concerts when they opened the windows and people said they could here it from far away streets." She said the church owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Hill. "He's donated his time to us so generously and this is the fourth event he will play at."

The recent repairs have been done by the father and son organ restorers Normand and Dan Lemieux ofAttleboro. The fourth manual has recently been fixed and a set ofpipes that hasn't been heard for some 50 years was repaired earlier this year.

They have been working on the organ since August of 2004 and Dan said it's been keeping them busy. "It was not a complete restoration, but we~ve been doing a lot."

According to Lemieux, there are thousands of leather pieces which regulate the air flow of the organ and over the years theybave been deteriorating. "Those will need to be replaced eventually," I he said.

Lemieux is a graduate from thl:?

Eastman School of Music in Rochester where he studied pipe organ repair. He said repairing organs "is a passion because he's interested in keeping the tradition alive."

The organ was featured at the July meeting of the Southeastern Massachusetts National Convention ofthe Organ Historical Soci~ ety attended by more than 300 members from as far away as Australia. They visited pipe organi! throughout the region and the on~ at St. Anthony of Padua was the overall. :!

FoUowing the concert, attendees are invited to visit the Christ~ mas Bazaar and enjoy one of re~ tired Msgr. Edmond Rlj Levesque's famous meals in th~ church hall. For more informa~ tion about the concert visit www.saintanthonynewbedford.org;; or call 508-993-1691.

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CSS offering infant adoption training to health care workers

By DEACON JAMES N. DUNBAR FALL RIVER - Pregnant women uncertain about whether they want to parent their child will receive care and counseling about adoption from health care professionals slated to receive specialized training sponsored by Catholic Social Services L:l'Fall River, a diocesan agency.

CSS is collaborating with Catholic Charities ofthe Archdiocese of Boston, which has received a federal grant, to provide continuing education designed for health care professionals serving pregnant women.

Known as Infant Adoption Training, the first session of the program will be held November 16, from 9:30 a.m., to 2:30 p.m., at Catholic Social Services, 1600 Bay Street.

"The initiative is to train staff in private pmctice, or at public and non-profit entities, that provide health and counseling services to pregnant women, teens and birth fathers," said Nancy Harper, coordinator of CSS's Pregnancy, Foster Care and Adoption Program, in an interview with The

Anchor.

The training is offered at no cost to health care professionals working in community-based health centers, public and private hospitals, and school-based clinics.

Participants who attend the training will receive an information binder and a community resource guide that can assist their clients and or patients. The program is highly interactive, Harper said. It will include case examples, videos, and small and large group discussions will be used to answer participant's questions.

The newly-revised, four-hour workshops address questions that typically arise when a health care professional - and that includes nurses, physicians and health care advocates - are providing non-directive, non-coer.cive counseling to a woman or teen with an unplanned preg:' nancy, Harper explained.

Some of the topics address the legal rights of birth mothers and birth fathers, and the parents' role

in choosing the adoptive family.

At stake is special consideration in counseling teens, and resources for patients who decide to parent their child.

Harper describes that infant adoption greatly changi,ng during the past half-century, following societal trends, and reflect "a greater openness in our discussions about personal matters."

They also point up a deeper understanding of human strengths and weaknesses that have occurred in almost every segment of our lives, she added.

Although statistics show the United States had a total of 127,630 adoptions in 2001, and 4,000 children adopted in Massachusetts through agencies in 2002, most of those are not infant adoptions, Harper noted.

"At our CSS agency we place an average of five domestic infant adoptions yearly, as compared to approximately 20 to 25 international adoptions of older children from foreign countries such as China or Guatemala," Harper reported.

Harper hasn't seen statistics on the number of pregnant women seeking guidance and advice on adoption, but said, "It has become a common occurrence."

She pointed out that whereas it used to be only unwed teens who sought adoption for their children born out of wedlock, the trend now is for more married women with children to seek such advice.

In the 1960s, before 1972's Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion, there was a stigma attached to unwed mothers and parenting, Harper said.

"The situation usually involved young women in high school or college who had become pregnant. They would perhaps be sent to an aunt's house or a maternity home, because it was thought the pregnancy outside marriage would reflect badly on her family," said Harper.

"But now the social mores have greatly changed. There is still something of a stigma. But today we are finding more women in their 20s, already with children,

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who in their unplanned pregnancies are openly asking details aoout the adoption process. They understand the difficulties of childrearing and for a variety of reasons don't want to face them."

Happily, many pregnant women no longer see abortion as their only alternative.

"Women are more open to talking about their situation," Harper reported. "And now, besides family, there is more readily- available help and resources to assist them, including housing and welfare."

She added, "This is why we need informed professionals who can help these women - and frequently their husbands too - to make an better informed decision when they ask about placing their child for adoption."

Harper said because the adoption agency is non-denominational, "we are not just to. serve Catholics. We serve everyone who comes to us." However, the program is funded through Catholic Charities, she said candidly.

"There are no fees for birth parents, for pregnancy counseling or placing the children, of for loss and grief counseling. Adoptive parents pay a fee, but it is mini-

mal compared to other agencies," Harper explained. "We want adoption to be affordable to anyone who wants to."

Gmteful that The Anchor would be announcing the tmining sessions on adoption earmarked for those in the health care field,

Harper was quick to add, "Remember, November is National Adoption Month."

For more information on the CSS sponsored training, contact Nancy Harper at 508-674-468, or you can register on the Website www.iaatp.com.

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The Eucharist and the celibate priesthood Among the many issues debated and discussed during the recent Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, the topic of priestly celibacy was perhaps the most closely followed. Several bishops at the beginning of the three. week session noted that if the Eucharist is really to be the '.'source and summit of the Church's life and mission," Catholic faithful need to be able to receive and adore the Eucharist. In many areas of the globe, however, access to the Eucharist is quite limited because of a shortage of priests. "In the 'absence of a priest, there is no Eucharist," said one bishop from the Philippines, before imploring, "We must face squarely the issue of the shortage of priests."

The synod did tackle that issue head on. In the preparatory document for the synod and in interventions and discussions throughout the three week assembly, several participants raised the possibility ofordaining as priests what'the early Church referred to viri probati. These "married men of proven virtue" would receive an abbreviated training for the priesthood and be ordained to celebrate the Eucharist and other sacraments in areas where priests are absent or in short supply.

After much substantive debate, the entire body of Synod Fathers concluded that this "hypothesis was not a path to follow." The participants gave various reasons for that verdict. Bishops from the Eastern Churches, which. have a married clergy, described a multitude of practical difficulties. Others described the dangers that might come from shortened preparation, which might lead to problems similar to those the Church experienced prior to the Council of Trent and the formation of seminaries.

But the main reason various participants gave for their decision is instructive not only in relation to priestly vocations and celibacy, but to the meaning ofthe Eucharist in the life of the Church. They said that the priestly vocations crisis is not really one of celibacy but of faith. They noted that in most countries, as the number of Catholic priests have declined, there have been parallel decreases in churches and denominations with married clergy. Among Catholics, the reduction in priestly vocations has mirrored a decline in the participation in the sacraments in general. Within a culture in which people are giving God less, it's no swprise that we are finding more Rich Young Men who turn away from Christ's more demanding invitations (Mt 19:16-22).

Some Fathers noted that there is a temptation to approach the situation of decreasing numbers ofpriests as a manager of a multi-national corporation might, trying to fill slots with the most qualified people that can be found at the moment: But in the Church, they said, there must be greater trust in the "Harvest Master," to whom Jesus instructed us to pray, and who alone knows how many laborers are needed in his vineyard (Mt 9:38). He will continue to call an adequate number: the crisis is路 not one of "calling," but of "hearing and responding" with faith and generosity. .

Pope Benedict, in his homily to conclude the synod, pointed to the means by which the whole Church would be led to greater faith and selfgiving love and to a deeper understanding ofpriestly celibacy. "The celibacy that priests have received as a precious gift and sign of undivided love towards God and neighbor," he stressed, "is founded upon the Eucharistic Mystery, celebrated and adored."

It is in the Eucharist that the faithful willieam how to "give one's body" to God and for others. It is also in the Eucharist that young men willieam the importance of the priesthood. Once a man recognizes that the Eucharist is the source and summit of his life and the Church's life, then the relevance of the priesthood, through which alone Jesus gives us the Eucharist, comes into full view. And the more one receives and reciprocates Christ's love in the Eucharist, the easier it is for one to be willing to give up-the love ofa wife and family for a greater love. Rebirth in Eucharistic amazement and worship and a resurgence of priestly vocations will go hand-in-hand. , The Synod Fathers, in the list of final propositions presented to Benedict, noted that the Church as well must do a better job explaining the "relationship between celibacy and priestly ordination ... in full respect ofthe tradition ofthe Eastern Churches." That will be the subject ofnext week's editorial.

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The effects of our sins Each year, in the month of often accused of being ''pre_. assuredly wiped away, but certain November, the Church focuses Vatican II." Purgatory is the state effects may remain (Catechism, on praying for the dead. As we of final purification of the souls of 1472-73). It is part of the nature come to the end of the liturgical the just, after death, but before of sin to leave a certain residue on year, we turn our thoughts and entering heaven. the soul, in the form of unhealthy attention to the inescapable reality It is part of our Catholic faith attachment to creatures, inof death - the end of our earthly that the soul of each person who creased inclination to sin, or the pilgrimage, the frontier of our dies before Our Lord returns temptation to take pleasure in the human experience, and the undergoes a particular judgment memory of sin. transitiQn to eternal life. In fact, immediately after death, when the It is these effects of our sins most good spiritual directors soul's eternal fate is determined that often need to be purged and recommend an annual purified, even.after the sin meditation on death, and is absolved and forgiven. our readiness for it, at If this purification is not some point during the Putting Into finished in this life, it month of November. continues after death, the Deep The practice of before the soul enters into praying for the dead has God's presence. God is

By Father David existed in the Church perfectly holy. His inner from the very beginning.

A. Pignato life is totally incompatible Even today, most with sin and its effects; Catholics feel an intuitive so, those who are to join need to pray for their beloved based on the condition of the soul him in communion of life must be deceased. The tradition of praying at death (2Cor 5:10; Pope perfectly purified. for the dead has been rooted in Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus, And, in God's divine plan, three core beliefs: the deceased 1336). each ofus plays a role in helping need our prayers; we have an At the particular judgment, , the souls of the deceased to be obligation to pray for those who there are only two irrevocable purified. It is our prayers and have gone before us; and our possibilities: eternal life with, or penances and meritorious acts of prayers actually help the dewithout, God: heaven or hell. But, mercy and charity that God ceased. Today, however, the even those who die in a state of rewards with the grace of practice of praying for the dead is sanctifying grace, with all mortal purification for the holy souls in often more of an instinctual sins absolved, and who are purgatory. How flattered we response to the desire to maintain guaranteed the reward of eternal shoUld be that God has granted an emotional bond with a life with God, may still be in need such value to our spiritual deceased loved-one, than it is a .ofpurification, before they en~r efforts, and has invited us to reflection of the beliefthat the Paradise (Catechism of the participate in his eternal plan of dead need our prayers. .Catholic Church, 1030). salvation by praying for the dead.

The reason we believe that the The reality ofpurgatory is due, And how resolved we should be, dead need our prayers is our to the real distinction between the especially during this month of beliefin purgatory. Yes, that's guilt and the temporal effects of November, to pray for the right, the Chtirch still believ~ in our sins. When a soul confesses deceased, both those who were purgatory, even though those and repents ofa sin, the guilt and loved, lind those who were who dare to utter such a belief are eternal pUnishment of that sin are unloved.

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Brain dead means dead A few months ago during a CNN interview segment dealing with the Terri Schiavo case, a reporter asked me a challenging question. He wondered why Catholics have to do everything possible to keep people alive who are basically brain dead.

He took it for granted that Terri was an instance of this and seemed perplexed that she had to be fed at all.

Wrapped up in his line of questioning was a double error.

First, of course, Terri was not a brain-dead individual She was a healthy person with a serious brain injury, Le. a person with a disability. Second, whenever somebody is in fact brain dead, they are dead, and we do not have an obligation to "keep them going." All machines can be turned off at any time after the declaration of brain death, because braindead individuals are corpses, not patients. This is the harsh reality. One can choose to keep the life-support machines running a little while longer so as to sustain organs for transplantation, but such a decision is optional, not obligatory. Brain death is not well understood' by the general public, but four points

can help clarify some of the more common misconceptions.

First, brain death refers to the fact that both the higher and lower centers of the brain have died. The individual has undergone a traumatic event

Making Sense Out of Bioethics

By Father Tad Pacholczyk

resulting in the complete and irreversible cessation of all brain functions. Those portions of the brain that allow a person to breathe on his own have also ceased to function. If somebody were to declare that a patient who was breathing on his own was brain dead, such· a claim would necessarily be false.

Brain-dead people are unable to breathe on their own and always require the support of a ventilator.

Second, brain-dead people cannot be kept going on machines forever. In fac·t, there is usually a period of only a few days that it may be possible to extend the functioning of their organs by

initial determination is reascal signs inevitably follow, sessed after a suitable interwhich medicine has learned to val, and then confirmatory recognize with increasing keeping them on a ventilator. studies can be carried out, precision. In this sense, the Whenever the brain dies, tests such as blood flow "criteria" for ascertaining central regulatory mechastudies to the brain, or EEG death used by medicine today nism~ no longer function, so tests to confirm the absence should not be understood as blood pressure, electrolyte of any electrical activity in the the technical-scientific levels, temperature regulation, brain. determination of the exact and other systems will soon Third, brain death is moment of a person's death, get all "out of whack." altogether different from a but as a scientifically secure Disintegration will persistent vegetative state means of identifying the inevitably set in. Heart (PVS). A PVS often involves biological signs that a person contractions will brain damage, but never death has indeed died." typically cease in of the whole brain. Genuinely In conclusion, both brain-dead individuals brain-dead individuals never healthcare professionals and after a few days "wake up." Patients in a PVS the lay public can benefit despite the presence occasionally do. The higher . from a clear understanding of of a ventilator. Stories centers of the brain may be the criteria for brain death and of people continuing compromised in PVS patients, of the misconceptions associon a ventilator for while the lower brain centers ated with this end-of-life months or years after that control breathing and situation. Armed with this being declared brain other basic physiological knowledge, they can more dead typically indicate functions may be partially or effectively participate in final a failure to apply the tests and completely functional. Padecision making on behalf of criteria for determination of tients in a penistent vegetabrain-dead individuals and brain death with proper· tive state are not dead, and their families. attentiveness and rigor. In Father ,Tadeusz they should never be considother words, somebody is ered candidates for unpaired Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned his likely to have cut some organ donation, unless and doctorate in neuroscience comers in carrying out the until such time as they die a from Yale and did posttesting and diagnosis. A valid natural death. doctoral work at Harvard. He brain death diagnosis can be Fourth, defining brain death is a priest of the Diocese of made only after a thorough as the irreversible cessation of Fall River, and serves as the battery of tests has been all functions of the entire Director of Education at The carried out on the individual. brain, including the brainstem, National Catholic Bioethics The clinical determination of is compatible with a Christian Center in Philadelphia. brain death involves reflex understanding of the true tests, tests for responsiveness nature of man. Pope John to pain, ocular movement Paul II once put it this way C.C. NATIONAL tests, breathing tests (to during his address to the 18th MORTGAGE assure they canno~ breathe or International Congress of the gasp on their own), body Transplantation Society: "Here temperature tests, and tests it can be said that the criterion for the absence of drug adopted in more recent times intoxication or poisoning. The for ascertaining the fact of Low, low rates starting at death, namely the complete and irreversible cessation of all brain activity, if rigorously NO POINTS, NO CLOSING COSTS applied, does not seem to 1ST, 2ND, 3RD MORTGAGES PURCHASE OR REFINANCE Tedy Bruschi extended his New conflict with the essential IMPROVEMENT, REPAIR elements of a sound anthroEngland Patriots career, accepting a DEBT CONSOLIDATION CREDIT CARD PAY OFFS, ''home town" discount to spend his pology." He went on to HOME EQUITY, COMMERCIAL conclude: entire career in friendly Foxboro.

2ND HOMES, TUITION, SELF EMPLOYED "In this regard, it is helpful Tedy Bruschi belongs to New NO INCOME VERIFICATION POOR CREDIT - NO CREDIT England - just like apples. Manny to recall that the death of the PAY OFF LIENS & ATIACHMENTS Ramirez wants to be traded to south- person is a single event, FORECLOSURE-BANKRUPTCY consisting in the total disinteAPPLICATION TAKEN ON PHONE ern California, the westem home of NO APPLICATION FEE. Mickey and Minnie gration of that unitary and FAST SERVICE. WE CAN HELPI Mouse - a great place to integrated whole that is the CALL NOW personal self, ... The death of be an orange.

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By Dave Jolivet crazy New England climate, and oranges dig the sunny tropical breezes found in the southeastern home ofMickey and Minnie Mouse. steps as a battleground where there Apples and oranges. Manny is no room for the faint of heart.

Ramirez and Tedy Bruschi - in Manny Ramirez finds the need some ways the same, and different to sit out a game or two or three in many others. Both are premier when he's got a nagging twinge athletes arid fun to watch. Both take somewhere on his body, or when great pains to keep their bodies in he's tired, and Tedy Bruschi tip-top shape. Both are great hus- couldn't wait to make it back from bands and fathers, and their families a stroke he suffered a mere eight come first and foremost intheir lives. months ago.

And both can have a huge impact Manny Ramirez didn't seem to on the outcome of any game in have aproblemaccepting an insanely which they are playing. exorbitant eight-year contract offer On the other hand, Manny from the Red Sox, and he also has Ramirez and Tedy Bruschi are the no problem asking for a trade every quintessential examples ofopposite year because he's not happy spendends of the spectrum. Manny ing eight years as a BostonRed Sox.

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Practice what you pre'ach I had the experience of attending summer camp as a child and enjoyed the experience so much, I worked at that camp for 12 years! The dreaded day路 of each summer season is the last day of camp. Staff and campers would all be in tears, exchanging addresses and phone numbers. I'm sure now they also exchange E-mail and 1M addresses, and promise to remain in contact.

It was a day that everyone dreaded, because no one likes to say goodbye, even when we knew that we would be seeing each other again. While there was sadness, it was a temporary sadness. Why? We had a hope that we would see each other again or at least keep in contact with them. It was a hope based in reality. Our friendship motivated us to call

liturgies, those times when and write each other and to goodbye seems to be set up times throughout the permanent. Yet, our funeral year in which we would get rites remind us that even together. Our hope allowed our experience of death us to see that while this here on earth is not permagoodbye was difficult, it nent, that we live in the wasn't permanent.

"We do not want you to be HOrtlily of the Week unaware, broth~II Sqt;lday路in ers and sisters, about those who .

Ordinary Time have fallen .g~;\ By Father asleep, so that Oiivid C.Frederici you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope of the gift of eternal hope." life offered to us. Even The hope that St. Paul with. this hope, the death of writes about is much a loved one can still be a stronger and much more painful experience, we powerful than the hope that want to be with the person is found in people the last and will mis路s that person's day of summer camp. This presence. It can be a time hope is rooted in the Gospel when we may even forget and reaches to the very God's promises to us, depths of our being. regardless of how strong This is.a reading that is our faith may be. We ar~ often proclaimed at funeral

too emotionally and spiritually exhausted to pray, we have trouble finding the words for prayer. Yet, because of his great love for us, God does not forget us even in these moments. He continues to give us the gifts we need to persevere in hope. One of these great gifts is the psalms. The psalms were written as prayers and we can use them for our own prayer. We can be the . "I" that is speaking to God. The words of Psalm 63 are words that we can pray in those moments when we are struggling to experience hope at the time of loss. "0 God, you are my God whom I seek; for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water."

They speak of our desire

for God at a time when all we are experiencing is pain.

These verses are a lament, but the psalmist doesn't dwell in the pain. In the verses that follow, he moves on to praising God: "For your kindness is a greater good than life; my lips glorify you." The psalm helps to tap us into the source of our hope. It invites us to enter into a dialogue with God, to share our pain, but also to listen and to see where God is at that moment and to remember his promises .

We are called to be a people of hope, a hope rooted in our faith and love of God. When we live this hope, we become his lights in a world that is in desperate need of hope.

Father Frederici is chaplain at Cape Cod Hospital, in residence at Our Lady of Victory Parish in Centerville.

The Offertory: When we give our lives to God With the Prayer of the Faithful, over (recall the line in the Holy Thursday hymn Pange Lingua: the Liturgy of the Word is finished..Our focus shifts from the "O'er ancient forms departing, lectem or pulpit to the altar, where newer rites of grace prevail").

Christ's perfect sacrifice to the Father is made present to us under sacramental signs.

The Liturgy of the Eucharist begins with the Preparation of the Gifts, formerly called

By Fr. Thomas M. Kocik the Offertory. Originally, the faithful brought bread and wine from their homes to church to be At the altar, the priest offers to God first the bread, then the used for the Mass and to be given to the clergy and the poor. wine. These offerings are Today we make a similar offering accompanied by prayers (said silently or aloud) similar to those for the parish and the poor with our monetary contributions.

Jesus used at the Last Supper.

At the beginning of the rite, Before offering the wine, the priest or deacon pours it into the the deacon or a server brings the chalice, adding a drop of water. chalice to the altar. Meanwhile; ushers take up the collection as In ancient times it was customary the congregation or choir sings a to add water because the wines hymn related to the season, the were very heavy. Over time, a feast, or the offering of the gifts. symbolic meaning was given to the water mingled with wine: Members of the congregation come forward and present the .

The wine represents Christ; the gifts of bread and wine to the路 water, humanity. As the priest or priest. These gifts, our food and deacon adds the water, he prays drink, represent our life; in silently: "By the mystery of this . offering them to God through the water and wine may we come to hands of the priest, we are giving share the divinity of Christ who God ourselves. humbled himselfto share in our humanity."

In the Western or Latin Church, the bread must be made After presenting the bread and of unleavened wheat and water, wine, the priest bows before the with no additives, thUs maintainaltar and silently asks God to ing the connection between the accept our gifts~ Since these gifts Eucharist and the Passover. will become Christ himself, God However, the Eastern Churches will surely accept them. But (Ca~(jlic and Orthodox) use since our self-offering is joined leavened bread to symbolize both to Christ's, we must make the resurrection and the superior- ourselves worthy. Only by ity of the Eucharist to the Passsurrendering ourselves to God's

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will can this be done. On the paten with the bread and in the chalice with the wine, we figuratively place our hearts and our minds, our home life and our work, our joys and our sorrows: all these are offered to God in union with Christ's sacrifice.

The priest may then incense the gifts to honor them for what they are (the fruits of creation and human labor) and for what they will become (the Blessed Sacrament).

If so, he then walks around the

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Wis 6:12-16; Ps 63:2-8; 1 Thes 4:13-180r4:1314; Mt25:1-13 Wis1:1-7;Ps 139:1-10; Lk 17:1-6 Wis 2:23-3:9; Ps 34:2-3,16-19; Lk 17:7-10 Ez47:1-2,8-9,12; Ps 46:2-3,5-6;89; 1 Cor 3:9c11,16-17; In 2:13-22 . Wis 7:22b-8: 1; Ps 119:8991,130,135,175; Lk 17:20-25 Wis 13:1-9; Ps 19:2-5; Lk 17:2637 Wis 18:1416;19:6-9; Ps 105:2-3,3637,42-43; Lk 18:1-8

altar while incensing it (and the (the offering of holy lives); and crucifix on or near it), after which we respond: "May the Lord the deacon or server honors Christ accept the sacrifice at your in his sacred ministers and people hands..." Finally, the priest says by incensing first the priest, then or sings the Prayer over the Gifts, all clergy present, and finally the asking God to look favorably on congregation. our offerings.

Next, the priest washes his The Preparation of the Gifts hands, praying silently: "Lord, finished, we are ready to enter wash away my iniquity; cleanse into the heart of the Mass, .the me from my sin." This ritual Eucharistic Prayer. symbolizes the interior purity Father Kocik, an author of needed to offer the Eucharist two books, ofJe on the liturgy, is worthily. He then invites us to chaplain at Charlton Memorial pray that God will accept both Hospital, Fall River, and resides his sacrifice (Christ's sacramenat St Thomas More Parish, tal Body and Blood) and ours Somerset

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It takes more than a village 27 October 2005 - Port-OCall: Assembly ofPriests Here I stand in a hotel lobby with Msgr. Steve Avila. The priests of the diocese have just concluded a three days conference.

Our brothers are scunying here and there as they prepare to head for home. You can tell by the broad smiles and cheerful farewells that these men have had a wonderful experience.

Steve and I are waiting for the arrival of our movers. Our brother priests cany . simple suitcases. The two of us need a moving van! We do not travel lightly.

Let me explain. Private and communal prayer was a vital part of this assembly. For 113 priests and a bishop to concelebrate Mass, we needed an altar, ambo, and chair. These beautiful, and heavy, mahogany pieces were transported by moving van from St. John Neumann Church in East Freetown to the hotel. This is the

reason Steve and I are standing here waiting for the return of the van.

I had arranged with Steve for the use of the sanctuary furnishings, and sent the movers - but I

-Goldrick forgot to tell Jackie Matthew, the parish secretary. Last Tuesday I received a frantic phone call from Jackie. "Father, Father! There's a crew here removing all the furniture from our church! They say you sent them." Oops. I had dropped the ball.

Three nine-foot hangings, silkscreened with the assembly logo, were suspended from the ceiling of the worship space. These were custom-made and donated by the Phantom. The Phantom wishes

to remain anonymous. Our lips are sealed. The Phantom is a highly trained artist who formerly lived and worked in New York City as a designer for Lord and Taylor's, Macy's, and other up-scale stores.

He also donated the lovely 10-foot floral arrangement for Mass, themed "Autumn Breakfast at the Shore." When I arrived on Tuesday, I found the Phantom already working away in a comer of the corridor, surrounded by heaps offloral materials.

We actually had two prayer rooms. One was the larger room for the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours. The other was a smaller Eucharistic Chapel for private prayer. Simply set, it contained a tabemacle of silverleafed cedar. This too was custom-made and donated.

Father Roger Landry said the tabernacle reminded him ofthe Ark of the Covenant. Priests drifted in and out of the Eucharistic Chapel during free time, sitting in communal silence in the

Jesus is love, plus a little more What do the following things option to work. So what did I do? I have in common? blamed the camera! I called the 1. Assembling a bike. manual "lousy" because I hadn't 2. Baking a cake. taken the time to really read it.

3. Setting up a OVD player.

How often have we done the same 4. Raising a family. with God? How often have we gotYou guessed it! In order to end ten ourselves into a bad situation up with a functioning, tasty, oper- because we didn't know or didn't able, or well-adjusted product, you follow the Church's directions on must read and follow the directions. holy living and then blamed God for Unfortunately, some ofus think we the resulting prob1~? I have met know better than the manufacturer many Catholics of my generation, how things should be assembled. those growing up in the 1970s and When assembling abike and discov- 1980s, who were never properly ering a few leftover nuts and bolts, instructed in faith and morality. we just sort of sweep them under the rug instead of starting over. Others simply think they already know the directions. I've had a I few junior chefs in my house that

By Heidi Bratton thought they knew how to mix up a batch of brownies better than the "Jesus is love" is as far as my CCO directions on the back of the box. education went, and was all I The final result was a sort ofwarm, thought I needed to know to be a rubbery sponge that was hard to good Catholic until I was about 18 truly identify as food. One approach years old Sin, repentance, fasting, to setting up anything electronic the saints, and even the rosary, were without reading the directions is to all glossed over as so much "oldtry every possible combination of school" jazz. wires, cords, and plugs until someSt. John confirms that "God is thing either blinks on or blows up. love" (11ohn 4:16), but it's not the Now, most ofus are not quite as whole story, and as an adult Cathothick as I've described. We at least lic I had a responsibility to get the scan the directions and certainly get whole story. ''We know that we have farther along than someone who come to know him [Jesus] if we totally disregards them. However, obey his commands," writes St. there is a good chance that by jpst John more fully in 1 John 1:3-5. scanning the directions we actually "The man who says, "I know him," get ourselves in more trouble than but does not do what he commands not down the road. For example, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. having only scanned the directions But ifanyone obeys his word, God's to my new digital camera, I got love is truly made complete in him." myselfin the embarrassing position Those are some tough words of trying to take a photograph of from St. John, but look at the infriends with the self-timer, and I credible promise at the end of the couldn't remember how to get that verse; to have God's love complete

.in ourselves. What better way could . there be for our families to live than to be whole, fully operable, and completeinJesus? Andrightthereinprint are our manufacturer~s directions for doing so: "Obey God's word."

We set ourselves up for big trouble when we sweep under the rug certain parts ofBiblical truth that we don't like, when we decide that we are exceptions to the rule or don't need all the regulations of Christianity Gust love and acceptance), or when we toss out parts of Catholic teaching that we don't want to deal with. By big trouble I mean things a lot worse than beingembarrassed in front ofagroup of friends. By big trouble I mean taking risks like a couple deciding to live together before getting married (they are in love after all) and winding up with an unplanned pregnancy. Instead of owning up to the fact that they skipped over several basic steps of building a -healthy family, they blame the church for having some outdated rule about abortion not being amorallyacceptablesolutiontotheirproblem.

Please, ifyou missed outon some basic Catholic instruction as a child like I did, make a commitment to your family to catch up on the fundamentals. Join RCIA, other adult formation programs, oraBible study at your church. Read, don't just scan, this newspaper as an excellentsourceofteachingontheCatholicfaithandE-mailtheeditorortalk to your parish priest about anything you didn't understand Ifyou didn't miss, but have been ignoring or rewriting Catholic teaching to suit yourself, now is the time to stop and reassess the risks of passing such behavior down to the next generation. They could be greater than having to eat a few spongy brownies.

presence of the Lord. Beside our welcome the arriving priests. tabernacle stood a single red rose, A true master - Patricia slowly opening. It came with a Kelly and her staff - conducted note from the ECHO Community. the work-sessions. She gently led The high school retreatants wrote: us priests into trusting, open and ''Thank you for the gift of your heart-felt sharing, always bringing priesthood! As you watch this it to prayer. rose unfold, may your hearts be After supper on Tuesday, open to the Spirit throughout these Father Bento Fraga, approaching days of Assembly." his golden jubilee, reflected on a Events like this just don't long and fruitful ministry. Father happen. A lot oflove has gone into Henry Dahl spoke of his situation this. You can tell. Father Mark as a priest at mid-life. Father Tom Hession and his assistant, Cathy Costa, only three months ordained, already had amusing Carpenter, coordinated the planning. Msgr. Steve Avila and experiences to share with us.

Father Rodney Thibault formed Bishop Coleman wanted his the Worship Committee. A team of priests to gather someplace away, talented young musicians provided to get together with Jesus and liturgical music: John Jannis, with each other, to hear each coordinator, Mark Johnson on other's life stories, to strengthen keyboard, Kate Heffernan on them in charity and unity and to flute, and Dana Ringwald on refresh them before being sent out violin. Dave Jolivet took photoagain. It was a "mountain top" graphs. The staff of Corpus experience for us priests, as Father Tom Lopes observed, Christi Church in Sandwich prepared the worship aids for the and it took more than a village to Liturgy ofthe Hours (Midday bring it to fruition. It took a diocesan-wide Church working Prayer, Moming Prayer, and Evening Prayer). Prayer cards and praying together. Mission accomplished. were prepared and mailed in advance to all churches by Phyllis So, Steve and I are still standing here waiting for the moving van Ganey and Sally Hogan. Kelley Spodris prepared the nametags.

- but we don't mind one bit. We Nancy Ronayne checked and hold a deep, refreshing sense of double-checked the registration peace in our hearts. list. Bill Connolly, John Lees, Father Goldrick is pastor ofSt David Ryan, and Don Weber, Bemard Parish, Assonet Comamong others, sent E-mails far ments are welcome at and wide to remind people to pray StBemardAssone@aoLcom. for priests. Cathy Carpenter and Previous columns are at Judy Perella were in the lobby to wwmStBemardAssonetorg.

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Nominee Alito would be fifth ,Catholic on Supreme Court

By JERRY FILTEAU News SERVICE

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WASHINGTON - If Judge Samuel Alito Jr. is confIrmed as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, it would be the fIrst time in history that the majority ofjustices on the nation's highest court are Catholic.

President George W. Bush on Monday nominated Alito; a former U.S. attorney in New Jersey and for the past 15 years a judge on the Philadelphia-based 3rd, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He is widely regarded as a strong conservative on an appellate court th'at is considered among the most liberal in the country.

The 55-year-oldjudge is likely to face strong Democratic opposition because on the appellate court he opined that it was constitutional to require wives to notify their husbands before having Notice Early last week, several readers from Taunton, Swansea and Norton called us to let us know that their October 21 edition had not arrived.

Our printers looked into, the cause and discovered the delay was caused by two-day havoc and shutdown in the Taunton Post Office as a result ofthe then bulging Whittendom Dam. The problem and the dam have happily both been fIxed.

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an abortion. That opinion came as a minority dissent in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a landmark case contesting Pennsylvania's 1989 Abortion Control Act. The Supreme Court in 1992 upheld most of the Pennsylvania law but agreed with the appeals court majority' in striking down the spousal notifIcation provision.

In the Supreme Court's ruling the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist quoted Alito in his dissent against striking down the spousal notifIcation portion ofthe law.

In a case of church-state interest, Alito wrote the majority opinion of the appellate court in ACLU v. Schundler, upholding a New Jersey city's holiday display that included a Nativity scene and menorah on the grounds that it HIQ,DEN HEROINES - Making Comfort Pillows for wounded U.S. military in Iraq are also displayed secular symbols these members of Swansea's St. Louis de France Parish's Women's Ministry. From left, Rita including Frosty the Snowman.

Pelissier, Jackie Spoffard, Yvonne Coppinger, Vivian Belanger, Judy Lachance, Denise Silvia, If confIrmed, Alito would be Denise Berube, Ruth Dionne, and Dolores Caron. (Photos by Louise Guglielmo) the lIth Catholic in U.S. history to sit on the Supreme Court and would become the fIfth Catholic Continued/rom page one justice on the current cour~, forming for the fIrst time a ma''We made up a poster board jority of Catholics on the nineThe fabric was provided by blue fIeld, while others, who had member court.

Swan Finishing in Fall River, brought in portable sewing ma- with photos of the fIrst session Other Catholics currently on "which generously donated bolts chines, began to sew and as- and will place it in the foyer of the nation's highest bench are re- ' of red, white and blue cloth. We semble the pillow covers," she the church. More people will get to see what we're doing and cently appointed Chief Justice were very fortunate. So what we added.

Other workers hand wrote in- hopefully more will sign up to help John Roberts and Justices give is our time," she commented.

Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy When completed, the pillows dividual messages, which will be and we can make twice as many placed inside each pillow. pillows next time," Lachance and Clarence Thomas. measure 20 by 12 inches.

"Every pillow that we make opined.

Past Catholics on the Supreme While the local parish makes Does she feel it's World War II Court included two other chief the covers, the pillows themselves will carry something ofa personal justices, Roger Taney, 1836-64, are being provided byUnited Air- message to each soldier about deja vu when women's groups in and Edward White, ajustice from lines. Catholic Family Life why we stitched the pillow," the 1940s met to roll bandages for servicemen overseas?

1894 to 1910 and chief justice, handles the processing and ships Lachance said.

"Most of our little letters tell "I don't know, because I wasn't 1910-21. Other former Catholic the pillows to the wounded them that what we did, we did around then," the 44-ye'ar old justices were Joseph McKenna, American soldiers. ' Pierce Butler, Frank Murphy and On October 24, the Women's with love; and because of all the Lachance said laughing.

"But this is nice. Because we William Brennan Jr. Ministry met for the fIrst time and sacrifIces 'the soldiers have made the work session in the parish hall allows us at home - the entire see all the news about the Iraqi "was a great success," said nation ~ to sleep peacefully at war on TV and we feel so helpLachance. ''We met for two hours.. night. We tell them that hopefully less. We have parishioners who It was fun and we had a good time. the little pillows will offer them currently have children serving in And we completed 25 pillow cov- some peaceful rest, some comfort; the military abroad and we feel ers!" to rest a weary head or support a this is something we can do. A "We'had placed a notice in our wounded limb perhaps. And we pillow might not go to one of our FOR ALLDAY parish bulleting asking for volun- tell them we pray for them and we parishioners, but to somebody's . child. And it doesn't matter to WALKING COMFORT teers too. We had 15 show up. We encourage them." broke up into teams, with some More pillow making is whom it goes, but that it is sent in women cutting the stripes and the planned. loving en~uragement."

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Cardinal Dulles discusses Pope Benedict XVI's views on Vatican II

By CLAUDIA McDoNNELL CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE BRONX, N.Y. - Cardinal Avery Dulles said Oct. 25 that Pope Benedict XVI differs in significant ways from Pope John Paul II in his view of the Second Vatican Council, but added that both would agree that it has been "seriously misinterpreted."

The council, he said, "needs to be understood in conformity with the constant teaching of the church."

"The true spirit of the council is to be found in, and not apart from, the letter" of the council texts, Cardinal Dulles said. "When rightly interpreted, the documents of Vatican II can still be a powerful source of re'newal for the church." , Cardinal Dulles made the CONGREGATION OF the Holy Cross Father Ted Hesburgh is the topic of a documentary comments in his annual movie that will appear on the Hallmark Channel Sunday at noon. Father Hesburgh is shown McGinley lecture, which took place this year at Fordham Preduring an interview session from the movie with several Notre Dame University students. paratory School in the Bronx.

The cardinal is the Laurence J. McGinley professor of religion and society at Jesuit-run Fordham University.

In his lecture he traced the

By DAVE JOLIVET, EDITOR Notre Dame's storied history, Fa- five and 10 years removed from development of Pope Benedict's HOLLYWOOD - One would ther Hesburgh served on 16 the university still attend Mass." thoughts on the council and its Father Raymond tqld The An- documents. The cardinal said the think that the man who spent 35 presidential commissions. "Peryears of his life as president of haps one of Father Ted's great- chor the movie will appeal to ev- pope changed some of his posione of the most prestigious uni- est achievements was his craft- eryone, notjust Catholics. "Many tions over time, while remainversities in the world would have ing the legislation that went to non-Catholic students attend ing firmly committed to the aulittle time for anything else. But Congress as the 1964 Omnibus Notre Dame University," he said. thentic interpretation of the for Congregation of the Holy Civil Rights Bill and the 1965 "There are many Chinese and council's teaching.

Popes Benedict and John Paul Cross Father Ted Hesburgh that Voting Rights Act," said Father Muslim students, yet many of was just one of the many things Raymond. "President Lyndon them talk about how Father Ted participated in Vatican II in difJohnson used his power and in- and the university have influ- ferent ways, the cardinal noted. he did and did well.

Father Hes burgh, retired fluence to ensure the bills were enced their lives for the better." When the council opened in The film is narrated by several 1962, Pope John Paul was president of Notre Dame Uni- passed.

"In fact, shortly after Dr. Mar- of the university's outstanding Bishop Karol Wojtyla, an auxilversity, will be the subject of a documentary movie, "God, tin Luther King's 'I Have a alumnus, including TV personal- iary of Krakow, Poland. (He was Country, Notre Dame: The Story Dream' speech, he traveled to ity Regis Philbin and actors Sean named archbishop of Krakow in of Father Ted Hesburgh, Notre Dame University to per- Astin and Clarence Gilyard. Also 1964, a year before the council C.S.C.," to air Sunday, Novem- sonally thank Father Ted for his included are interviews with ended.) Pope Benedict attended ,_ former U.S. presidents George as Father Joseph Ratzinger, a ber 6 on. the Hallmark Channel, efforts." ' Father Raymond said a major nw. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald theological expert. a special presentation of Faith Cardinal Dulles noted that Fareason why the film was made Ford and Bill Clinton. "Each of and Values Media.

Executive producer of the 56- was "to show that one man's life the former presidents were eager ther Ratzinger "belonged' to the minute film is Congregation of can make a difference in the to share observations of Father inner circle of theologians Ted," said Father Raymond. whose thinking prevailed at the Holy Cross Father Wilfred Church and in the world."

The film will air Sunday at Vatican II." "In this film, we trying to Raymond, national director of He also described him as "a Family Theater Productions, a show several dimensions of Fa- noon, following live coverage of branch of Holy Cross Family ther Ted; that of a public servant; a Mass celebrated by Father member of the progressive wing of the council," noting that he Ministries in North Easton. Fa- a bold and innovative leader in Hesburgh at the university.

The film, on DVD which in- joined the editorial board of ther Raymond, a Maine native, Catholic education; and as a is a graduate of Stonehill College priest, the man who was most cludes 38 minutes of bonus ma- Concilium, a progressive interand served there in a number of proud ofcelebrating Mass every- terial, is available at Holy Cross I national theological journal day but two of his 62-year priest- Family Ministries, 518 Washing- founded in 1965. But in 1972, capacities from 1979 to 1992.

"Father Ted was a great inno- hood. The two days were because ton Street, North Easton; at he became a founding editor of www.hcfm.org; or by calling 1- Communio, which describes itvative leader in Catholic educa- of illness." self as being committed to a Many people in this country 800-404-8350. tion in this country, and he was Family Theater Productions is "program of renewal through also a very influential public ser- immediately think football and vant in the United States," Fa- "Touchdown Jesus" when they a member of Holy Cross Family return to the sources of the auther Raymond told The Anchor hear Notre Dame. "But Father Ministries, North Easton, which thentic tradition."

"His theological orientation in a telephone interview from Ted upheld the spirit of the Notre seeks to promote and support the his headquarters in Hollywood. Dame founders by maintaining spiritual well-being of the fam- seemed to be shifting," Cardi"In this film, we feature a qtan the university's Catholic identity ily. Sponsored by the Congrega- nal Dulles said. now looking back on a long, ex- throughout his tenure," said Fa- tion of Holy Cross, other mem-The cardinal also said there traordinary life. He is now 88 ' ther Raymond. "Many people ber ministries are Family Rosary, is a "striking contrast" between years old and we wanted to don't know that the South Bend, which Father Peyton founded in the two popes. He described make this film while Father Ted Ind. University has 58 chapels 1942, Family Rosary Intema- Pope John Paul as "a social ethican provide his insights and across the campus. Every resi- tional with offices in 17 coun- cist" who wanted to "involve the dence hall has a chapel, and tries, and the Father Peyton Fam- church in shaping a world orideas."

In addition to his having the many students attend Mass. In ily Institute, in North Easton, and der of peace, justice and fraternallove," while Pope Benedict longest tenure of any president in fact, 75 to 80 percent of students in Lima, Peru.

Hallmark Channel to air Family Theater Productions film on Father Hesburgh

"expects the church to maintain a posture of prayer and worship," and "is suspicious of social activism and of human claims to be building the kingdom of God." Cardinal Dulles discussed Pope Benedict's early commentaries on council documents and later reflections on how the council was received. As a young theologian, he interpreted the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation ("Dei Verbum") "as giving a certain priority to-Scripture over tradition," but as Cardinal Ratzinger he has said the document "is misread as though it taught that all revelation is contained in Scripture."

"For (Cardinal) Ratzinger, revelation, as a living reality, is incapable of being enclosed in a text," said Cardinal Dulles, noting that the current pope has said that the "neglect of living tradition ... was one of the most serious errors" of modem interpretation of council documents.

Discussing church teaching on Mary, Cardinal Dulles said that then-Father Ratzinger, "unlike Bishop Wojtyla," was "wary of Marian maximalism and apparently averse to new titles such as 'mother of the Church.'"

But as Cardinal Ratzinger he stated that the council should have given rise to "new research rather than to neglect" of Mary, and has said that "it is imperative to tum to Mary in order to learn the truth about Jesus Christ that is to be proclaimed," Cardinal Dulles said.

He also suggested that Pope Benedict's role in the church affected his theology because of his growing responsibility for the church's public life.

Cardinal Dulles stated, ly>wever, that Pope Benedict "has shown a fundamental consistency" in his theology.

In response to a question, Cardinal Dulles made several observations about the new pope.

He said the pope "did an admirable job" as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and "was very restrained" in his dealings with theologians.

"In spite of what you read in newspapers, he was really very respectful of the rights", of the theologians he had to question, he added.

Cardinal Dulles also noted that in the pope's early months as pontiff he was "loving and joyful" in his public appearances, particularly at World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany.

The cardinal said the pope's homilies are "very doctrinal, very profound, yet very simple," and added, "He has a great knack for putting profound truths in simple language."

"I'm very optimistic about his papacy," he said.

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DVD/video reviews NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are capsule reviews of this week's DVD and video releases from the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Theatrical movies on video have a USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting Classification and Motion . Picture Association of America , rating. These classifications refer only to the theatrical version of the films路below, anddo not'take into account DVD releases' extra content.

"The Bridge of San Luis R~y" (2005) Visually sumptuous remake of Thornton Wilder's 1927 Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the efforts of a clergyman (Gabriel Byrne) to piece together the lives of five strangers who perished when a bridge collapsed in 18thcentury Peru at the time of the Inquisition, so he can determine whether the accident was pure chance or God's predetermined plan. Writer-director Mary McGuckian has assembled an Alevel- though wildly unevencast (including F. Murray Abraham, Robert DiNiro, Kathy Bates, Geraldine Chaplin and Harvey Keitel), but despite the compelling story, moral themes and fine production values, the results are dramatically static. The letterboxed DVD looks great, and at least provides a visual feast.

Some adult thematic material makes this suitable for adults and older adolescents. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III - adults.

The Motion Picture Association ofAmerica rating is PG - parental guidance suggested. (New Line) "Kicking & Screaming" (2005) Mostly funny, if formulaic, comedy about a timid suburban soccer dad (Will Ferrell), who seeks to redeem his unathletic childhood by coaching his son's last-place team and fmds himseJf in the championship game going head-to-head with his own supercompetitive father (Robert Duvall), who coaches the rival squad. Directed by Jesse Dylan and dominated by Ferrell's manic presence, this farce imparts a humorous critique of, our hypercompetitive culture, but a crass running gag makes it questionable fare for very young viewers. Some comic violence, a minor same-sex-parent theme, as well as mildly crude language and humor, including some ethnically insensitive remarks. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting

classification is A-II - adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of AIDerica rating is PG - parental. guidance suggested. (Universal) "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005) .

Sweeping, ifbloody and revisionist, Crusades drama about a disillusioned blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) elevated to knighthood who journeys to Jerusalem in search of redemption. He becomes embroiled in the power struggle between a Latin king who advocates tolerance and a warmongering would-be usurper, who threatens to disrupt the tenuous truce between the Christian and Muslim forces. Spectacularly directed by Ridley Scott and full of grand-scale battle scenes and period detail, the' film takes historica:I license, but overall portrays both sides as a combination of vice and virtue (though in its skewed telling of the events, Christians come off as the prime villains) and imparts a timely message ofpeaceful coexistence, as well as a strong condemnation of violence, ideological hatred and war. Recurring intense battlefield violence and associated gore, including decapitations, hacked limbs and flaming bodies, as well as a brief adulterous sexual encounter. The glossy two-disc DVD is available in either full- or wide-screen format. With an epic like this, the Jetterboxed version is probably preferable. Disc one contains the movie (gorgeously transferred), along with an optional "Pilgrim's Guide," offering a running text commentary路that flashes historical and production factoids over each scene (sometimes partially obscuring the image). In place of director's commentary, disc two contains an innovative "interactive grid" that allows viewers to follow the making of the ' movie from scriptwriting through final editing, enabling them to choose from key cast and crew perspectives. Disc two also contains two documentaries - A&E's "Movie Real: Kingdom ofHeaven" and the History Channel's more scholarly "History vs. Hollywood: Kingdom of Heaven" - which examines the historical accuracy ofthe film, as well as four original behind-the-scenes minidocumentaries and. 'theatrical trailers. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is L -limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion ,Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted. (Fox)

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ANTONIO BANDERAS stars in "The Legend of Zorro." For a brief review of this film, see CNS Movie Capsules below. (CNS photo from Columbia Pictures)

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CCll>illlei NEW YORK (CNS) - The following are capsule reviews of movies recently reviewed by the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" (Warner Bros.)

Stylish but problematic retronoir satire set in Los Angeles about a petty thief posing as an aCtor (Robert Downey Jr.) and the gay gumshoe (Val Kilmer) hired to prepare him for a role as a private eye, who become entangled in a real-life murder mystery, involving two seerninglY'unrelated cases. Blending the hard-boiled detective genre with black comedy, writer-director Shane Black's pulp-fla7 vored parody is, admittedly, witty and Downey and Kilmer have good chemistry, but with its bawdy brand of humor, graphic violence and obscenityriddled dialogue, many may choose to "kiss, kiss" it off. Recurring violence, including bloody gunplay, torture, sexual situations and humor, partial female nudity, some kinky images, a running sight gag involving a severed finger, heavy doses of rough and crude language, as well as some profanity. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is L - limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture As-

sociation of America rating is R - restricted.

"The Legend of Zorro" (Columbia) Rip-roaring action-adventure sequel to 1998 's "The Mask of Zorro." It picks up the story 10 years later as the masked swordsman (played as before

by Antonio Banderas) finds himself tom between family responsibilities to his wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and young son, and his destiny as defender of the poor and oppressed of Old California, whose bid for statehood is threatened by the sinister plot of a secret Masonic-like fraternity. Directed by Martin Campbell, the film lacks the freshness of the original, but its swashbuckling stunt pieces reminiscent of old-time serials - touches of romance and comedy, and the spirited chemistry between its leads earn it a ~'Z" rating for "zestfully" entertaining. Much stylized violence, peril, some mildly crude expressions and sexual innuendo. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is AIl - adults and adolescents.

The Motion Picture Association o( America rating is PG - parental guidance suggested.

"Prime" (Universal) Amusing, ifmorally problematic, New York-based story of , a 37-year-old divorcee (Uma Thurman) who falls in love with a 23-year-old Jewish aspiring artist (Bryan Greenberg). Neither aware that he is the son of her psychiatrist (Meryl Streep) - who is determined her son will marry within his faith, but finds herself with the ethical dilemma of helping her client or protecting her son. Ben Younger's directorial debut is well-acted, and has moments of charm, but is far too casual

about the premarital affair, though the affair is at least grounded by real love and affection, and the ending is admirably realistic. Scattered profanity, crude language and expressions, frank sexual talk, several nonexplicit sex scenes, strongly permissive view of premarital sex, and infidelity. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is L - limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 - parents are strongly cautioned.

Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

"The Weather Man" (Paramount) Cheerless dramedyabout a melancholy Chicago TV weatherman (Nicolas Cage) who, while mulling a career move, struggles to salvage his relationships with his ailing father (Michael Caine), his soon-to-beremarried ex-wife (Hope Davis), and their two emotionally disconnected children. Directed by Gore Verbinski with an oddly sympathetic performance by Cage, the film's message that life, like the weather, is highly unpredictable, is weighed down by excessive profanity, a shapeless script and an insufferably gloomy tone. Pervasive rough and sexually explicit language, a sexual encounter with partial nudity, brief violence, an路 ongoing vulgar gag, a subplot involving abuse of a minor, as well as underage smoking. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is L -limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R - restricted.

The 40th anniversary of

Vatican II u.s. experts at路Vatican II recall history-making years Editor's Note: This is a continuation ofa ,,",jor series ofarticles this fall to mark the 40th anniversary ofthe end ofthe Second Vatican Council. The stories are meant to show that the implementation of the Council and their effects are ongoing.

the impact of the council in telephone interviews with Catholic News Service.

The perili were the 450-plus priests from around the world, including about 50 from the United States, who assisted the bishops gathered in Rome to decide what was needed to renew the Church internally, engage it with the world in new ways and enter into a new era offriendship and dialogue with other Christian churches and other religions.

Some experts helped draft council documents while others helped write or translate speeches for bishops, research issues and explain the council to the media.

Cardinal Keeler and Msgr. Trisco, for example, were part of the American press panel that met daily

moments in the council came Nov. 8,1963, when German Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne called the procedures of the Holy Office - later renamed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - outdated, harmful and scandalous. Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, secretary of the Holy

By JERRY FILn:AU Office - which in those days was CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE headed by the pope himself "was obviously angry and upset" WASHINGTON - Cardinal WilliamH. Keeler ofBaltimore says and later in the same session dethe Second Vatican Council translivered an emotional protest against formed his understanding of what the criticism, Msgr. Trisco said.

"That was a very dramatic it means to break open the word morning," Msgr. Trisco said, beof God in preaching. cause before that "no one had ever Retired Bishop Raymond W. Lessard of Savannah, Ga., says it dared criticize the Holy Office that was the council's ecumenical diway in public, and least of all a mension, even in the preparatory cardinal in the council."

Bishop Lessard - who has phase, that he found most striking.

For retired Bishop John taught theology at St. Vincent S. Cummins of Oakland, de Paul Seminary in Boynton Calif., the council's accent The council's teaching on the Beach, Fla., since chronic back problems forced him to on Scripture challenged him to preach better and Church as a community and as the retire as bishop of Savannah "changed the way we pray." people of God meant a new empha- in 1995, called the establishMsgr. Robert Trisco, a sis on the importance of baptism, the ment of the world Synod of noted Church historian, need for consultation and the impor- Bishops a "pioneering step" in says the 1962-65 council tance of public opinion in the. bringing the voice of the world's bishops to bear on is"was such a long and comChurch, he said. sues facing the Church. He prehensive experience that it's hard to sum it up. It called the issue of collegiality an "ongoing question" in the was the part of my life that has been the most unforgettable." with journalists. They were also interplay of universal Church and What these four churchmen part of the team that produced local Church.

As a teacher of ecclesiology, have in common is that they are "Council Digest," an English-lanamong the few Americans stillliv- guage summary of the day's pro- the theology of the Church, he ing who attended Vatican II as ceedings that was mimeographed said, "I'm enamored with 'Lumen councilperiti, or scholarly experts, each evening and distributed to Gentium' (the council's Dogmatic Constitution on the Church) and sitting in on the sessions as some English-speaking bishops.

Msgr. Trisco, now professor the genius ofthat document. I can't 2,000 bishops from around the world met in St. Peter's Basilica. emeritus of Church history at The get over how rich it is."

One of the most important As the 40th anniversary of the Catholic University ofAmerica and council's closing approached, they editor of The Catholic Historical points was the council's recovery talked about their experiences and Review, said one of the tensest of the early Christian understanding of the Church as koinonia, or a communion or fellowship ofdisciples, he said - and not in just an intellectual sense, but "how it is felt and lived."

Cardinal Keeler said when he looks back at the council "one of the things that struck me very emphatically" was when Cardinal Augustin Bea, first head of what is now the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, "made his address ... regarding the Jews."

Cardinal Keeler said that talk, introducing what would eventually become a council declaration condemning anti-Semitism and recognizing God's continuing covenant with the Jews, was one ofthe turning points of the council.

Cardinal Keeler said he recalls u.s. CONGREGATIONALIST Douglas Horton, second the importance the bishops placed from left, is pictured with observers from other religious de- on praying before the Blessed Sacnominations at the Second Vatican Council in 1963. Around rament in St. Peter's Basilica ev60 representatives from most of the major Christian denomi- ery morning before the meeting started. nations attended the council sessions. (CNS file photo)

"Then the next thing was the procession of the Gospel book.

The Gospel book was carned up the main aisle and opened on the altar. The idea was that the Gospel book was presiding" over the council, he said.

For his own ministry, ''what I found, that I could translate into practice, was this understanding that we were breaking open the word of God when we preached.

It was a revolution in thinking at that time, and I know it's made an impact on me ever since," Cardinal Keeler said.

When asked about the council's greatest accomplishments, Bishop Cummins immediately ticked off a list: "liturgy, Church, Scripture, religious liberty, ecumenism."

He called the active involvement of people in the liturgy a major shift from before the council.

The council's teaching on ~e

Church as a community and as the people of God meant a new emphasis on the importance of baptism, the need for consultation and the importance of public opinion in the Church, he said.

Bishop Cummins said' the council's focus on the centrality of Scripture in theology, in the liturgy and in prayer ''was for me a radical change." There had not been much emphasis on biblical studies in his seminary formation, he said, and it was a struggle for him to learn to preach daily on the Scriptures.

Cardinal Keeler said part ofthe unfinished agenda is "really absorbing the main message" of the council's constitution on the Church. "It's not yet fully absorbed by the people. It's a constant task to try and invite people to take a more active role in the Church," he said.

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Friday, November 4, 2005 she said. Sadly, she added, "there was none in Alabama" at the time of the Montgomery bus boycott.

Parks received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, in 1996 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. Other honors bestowed on her included the

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DURING,A RECENT visit to the Henry Ford museum near Detroit, people look at the Montgomery, Ala., bus where Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give her seat to a white man. The bus is draped in black to commemorate Parks' death October 24 at age 92. (eNS photo by Jim West)

'Rosa· Parks, hailed as 'prophet' of equality, justice, dead at 92 DETROIT (CNS) - Rosa· Parks, the civil rights pioneer who died October 24 at the age of 92, "changed the history of our nation" and "forced us to recognize the dignity of every person," said Cardinal Adam 1. Maida of Detroit.

"She was a prophet - a common instrument of God inviting us and challenging us to a new vision of solidarity, equality and justice," the cardinal said of Parks, who prompted a morethan-yearlong bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., after her arrest on Dec. 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.

Parks, a member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church for her entire life and a resident ofDetroit since 1957, attended an interfaith prayer service in St. Louis led by Pope John Paul II at

the Cathedral Basilica ofSt. Louis in 1999. She met the pope privately afterward, rising from her wheelchair to shake the pope's hand.

But it was "in her own simple way," as Cardinal Maida put it, that Parks sparked the boycott that led to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1956 order integrating Montgomery buse~ and gave impetus to the civil rights movement in the South.

In her 1992 autobiography, "Rosa Parks: My Story," she said many believe she did not give up her seat because she was tired from working, but that was not true. ' "I was not tired'physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end ofa working day," Parks wrote. "I was not old, although some people have an image ofme as being old then. I was 42. No, the tired I was, was tired of giv-

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ing in."

Born Rosa Louise McCauley on Feb.. 4, 191.3, in Tuskegee, Ala., s~~ twice q~It school to care for aIhng relatIves but eventually earned her lY-gh school diploma in 1933, a year after marryin~ b~ber Raymond Parks. He dIed m 1977.

After. her arrest and paym~nt of a $14 fine, Parks lost her Job as a seamstress at a Montgomery de~art~~nt store. ~er husband qUIt hIS Job after his employer banned any talk of Rosa Parks' ~ase in the ,:"orkplace. The f~Ily moved 10 1957 to DetrOIt. Parks worked there as a seamstress and then, from 1965 .to 1988, she worked as a staffasSIStant ~o U.S. Re~. Jo~ Conyers, D-MIch. She retired m 1988.

In a 1993 interview with C:atholic News ~ervice, .Parks cIted two DetrOIt Cathohcs Father William Cunningham, co~o.under of~ocus: Hope, and AuxI.hary BIshop Thomas J. Gumbleton - as among those carrying on the civil rights struggle for.a new ·generation.

"Th~se are two outstandin~ (Cathohc) people that! know of,

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lic school. It's a wonderful evening."

Nicholas M. Christ, master of ceremonies, was grateful that so many came to White's in support Catholic education and told the crowd "I'm honored to chair this . event. We had 960 applications for need-based scholarships and we are working at fulfilling that need."

The gathering included dinner and a video presentation focusing on students in Catholic schools and the education they receive. It was created by Diocesan Director ofcotnnluoications John Keams Jr. and John Methia of the creative services department ofWLNE-TV, ABC 6.

Children from St. Stanis'laus School, Fall River gave a musical presentation and Aubrey Hartnett of Bishop -Stang High School served as the reception pianist. Students from the diocesan high schools assisted at the event and all said they have benefited from their Catholic educa. tion. ' "There is a great sense ofcommunity there," said Coyle and Cassidy Senior Alexandra Hill.

"They really care about you."

Her friend Kevin Bolduc was also helping out and s~id, "there is a great learning environment at the school."

Principal Denise M. Peixoto ofSt. Mary-Sacred Heart School in North Attleboro said the Fund helps students at her school and is especially important with the rising cost of living. ·"It makes a big impact," said Peixoto. "It enables parents to send students to our school especially larger families. They receive moral formation from a Catholic education and we can bring Jesus Christ into the classroom. That's a great thing for our students."

Peixoto said her children received a Catholic education and it's given them a great foundation. "I see them making better

PRACTICE THE DEVOTION OF THE FIRST SATURDAYS, AS REQUESTED BY OUR LADY OF FATIMA.

"Little children, believe, pray and love, and God will be near you. He will give you the gift of all the graces you seek from Him. I am a gift to you, because, from day to day, God permits me to be with you and to love each ofyou with immeasurable love. Therefore, little children, in prayer and humility, open your hearts and be witnesses of my presence.

"Thank you for having responded to my call."

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On December 10, 1925, Our Lady appeared 'to Sister Lucia (seer of Fatima) and spoke these words: "Announce in my name that I promise to OS$ist at the hour ofdeath with the grace$ nece$$aryfor the $alvation oftheir souls, all those who on the first Saturday of jive consecutive months shall: 1. GrJ to confession; 2. Receive Holy Communion; 3. Recite the Rosary (5 decades); and 4. Keep me companyfor 15 minutes while meditating on the 15 mysteries ofthe Rosary, with the intention of nuiking reparation to me. "

In a spirit of reparation, the above conditions are each to be preceded by the words: "In reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary."

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choices because of their Catholic education."

Lisa DePillo attended the event with her daughter Rebekah, a seventh-grader at St. Mary's School, Mansfield. Both her daughters are receiving a Catholic education thanks to the St. Mary's Education Fund.

"I received a Catholic education gro~ing up and I consider that a gift. I wanted to give that gift to my daughters."

Guest speaker was Jesuit Father Joseph M. O'Keefe, dean of the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. He is an internationally recognized expert on Catholic schools and has authored numerous books on the subject. As part of his novitiate training he taught at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River.

"We~re very happy to have Father O'Keefe with us," said Donly. "He's done so much for Catholic schools."

In his talk about Catholic edu'cation and the state it's in, today, Father O'Keefe said he "appreciated the joy ofbeing a teacher," and thanked "the Church of Fall River for getting me started on my path of education."

Father O'Keefe said, "Catholic education gives "our young people fullness of life, of purpose and hope." He noted that with so many schools closing in the United States, Catholic educators must continue to make mission matter because "the need for Catholic education has - never been as important as it is today."

Four awards were presented during the event to people who have impacted Catholic schools in a positive way.

The Distinguished Alumnus Award was given to State Rep. Elizabeth A. Poirier of North Attleboro. The Timothy J. Cotter Friend of Catholic Education Award was presented to Paul A Duchaine of Marion.

Michael Cote of Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, earned an Outstanding Teacher Award as did Susan Massoud of Holy Family-Holy Name School, New Bedford. The teacher awards were presented at the schools prior to the event.

Bishop George W. Coleman said he was grateful for all those who support Catholic education in the diocese. "This check indicates the generosity of so many strong supporters of Catholic. education. With your support and prayers we can provide a wonderful education to our students."

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Steering Points EUCHARISTIC ADORATION FALL RIVER - First Saturday devotion will be held Saturday at St. Mary's Cathedral. Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will follow until Benediction at noon.

owed will be held Saturday at Sl Luke's School. For more information call the diocesan Office of Family Ministry at 508-999-6420.

MISCELLANEOUS

FALL RIVER - St. Anthony of the Desert Maronite Parish will hold its annual Christmas bazaar HEALING MASSES and Food Faire November 20 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will ATTLEBORO-A healing ser- be crafters, Lebanese food and vice in Spanish will be held Sun- desserts. There will also be a day at 2:30 p.m. at the National number of activities for children Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette. including cookie decoratirig, orLa Salette Father John P. nament coloring and photos with Sullivan will lead it and music will the Snowflake Princess. For be provided by the St. Charles' more information call Claudette Music Ministry. For more infor- Azar at 508-992-8383. mation call 508-222-5410.

FALMOUTH - The St. FALL RIVER - A healing Patrick's Council of Catholic Mass will be celebrated Novem- Women will meet November 7 at ber 10 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Anne's 6 p.m. Msgr. John A. Perry will Church. Rosary will be recited celebrate Mass in the church hall at 6 p.m. Benediction of the in memory of deceased memBlessed Sacrament will follow bers. Refres.hments will follow.

Mass. For more information call Members ar~ asked to bring 508-674-5651. items for gift bags.

MIDDLETOWN, R.I. - La Salette Father Andre Patenaude will lead a healing service November 14 at 7 p.m. at St. Lucy Church, 909 West Main Road. For more information call 401-849-9764.

Advent Contemplative Retreat will be given by Father Robert J. Powell November 12 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cathedral Camp Retreat Center. Registration is required by November 7. For more information call 508-7610746.

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EAST FREETOWN - A Yes Retreat, for post confirmation youth, will be held November 1820 at Cathedral Camp. Interested young people should contact their parish priest or youth minister for an application. For more information call Frank Lucca at 508-324-4576.

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tion will host its annual Communion Brunch Sunday. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. at St. Anne Church and the brunch will follow at McGovern's Family Restaurant,' 310 Shove Street. For more information call Geraldine saucier at 508-674-8387.

FAlMOUTH - A choral concert with Peter Lea-Cox will be held Saturday at 8 p.m. at St. Patrick's Church, 511 East Main Street A choral workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in preparation. For more information call 508-566-4045.

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Anthony of Padua Church, 1359 LECTURESIPRESENTATIONS NEW BEDFORD - The la- Acushnet Avenue. For more inFALL RIVER - Father James dies Guild of Our Lady of Fatima formation call 508-993-1691.

Walling, CPM, will lead a mission Parish will sponsor its annual baSANDWICH - The Catholic at Holy Name Parish November zaarSunday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 7-10 beginning at 7 p.rn. Each p.m. The church is located at rock band Crosspollen will permission will.begin with a holy hour 4256 Acushnet Avenue. For form saturday at 7 p.m. at the and Father Walling will address more information call 508-995- Parish Center of Corpus Christi JOYCE B. WHln: MARK A. QUINTAl. CFP Church, 324 Quaker Meeting topics related to the Eucharist. 7351.

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For more information . FALL RIVER - Grief educa- Anthony of Padua Church. They ~Ion programs for those sUffe~- are preceded by Eucharistic call 508-888-0209.

Ing the loss of a loved one Will Adoration at 4:15 p.m. Mass is be he.ld November 5 from 5-6:30 . celebrated at 5:15 p.m. For more p.m. In the conference room at information call 508-993-1691.

Good Shepherd Parish, 1598 Website: cssdioc.org South Main Street. For more inTAUNTON - Coyle and formation call 508-972-0971.

CAPE COD FALL RIVER Cassidy High School will hold an TAUNTON NEW BEDFORD ATTLEBORO 261 SOUTH ST. open house for prospective stu1600 BAY ST. 78 BROADWAY 238 BONNEY ST. 10 MAPLE ST. NEW BEDFORD - The ecu~ dents on November 10 from 6-9 HYANNIS P.O. BOX M - SO. STA. 508-824-3264 508-997-7337 508-226-4780 menical event, "Kristallnacht p.m. at the school, 2 Hamilton 508-771-6771 508-674-4681 Memorial Prayer Service," will be Street. Students and parents • COMMUNITY ORGANIZING • ABUSE PREVENTION held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the can tour the school and meet ·ADOPTIONS: • COUNSELING Ahavach Achim Synagogue. It is members of the faculty, adminINFANT • HOUSING COUNSELING sponsored by the Interfaith istration and coaching staff. For INTERNATIONAL • IMMIGRATION, LEGAL EDUCATION Council of Greater Fall River and more information call 508-823· AND ADVOCACY PROJECT SPECIAL NEEDS the Jewish Federation.

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ST. CLARE'S/ST. FRANCES' • CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT will be November 11-13 at the • BASIC NEEDS Craigville Conference Center.

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Bishop Feehan High School announces AP Scholars ATTLEBORO - Twenty-four Bishop Feehan High School students have been designated 2005 AP Scholars in recognition of their exceptional achievement on the college level Advanced Placementexams.

The College Board recognizes 路several levels of achievement based upon a student's performance on a minimum of three exams which are reported on a five point scale.

Qualifying for AP Scholar with Distinction were Daniel Beksha, John Callahan, Jonathan .Cardosi, Matthew Cardosi, Kristen Granchelli, Matthew Hall and Miles Miller. Each ~arned an average grade of three and a half or better on a five point scale on all exams taken, and

grades of three or higher on at least five exams.

AP Scholars with Honor were John Avila, Victoria Broderick, Mallory Dion, Patrick Doran, David Libardoni and Kerri Murray. They earned average grades of at least "3 .25 on all AP exams taken and grades of three or higher on a minimum of four exams.

Eleven students earned AP Scholar status for completing a minimum of three exams with grades ofthree or better. They are: Meredith Bickford, Sandra Chaisson, Meghan Doherty, Katherine Fiore, Sara Horan, Meghan Moynihan, Michael Roncarati, Kevin Shanahan, Matthew Smith, Joseph Webb and Kathryn Wiiliams.

BRENT NOTARANGELO, Gregory Wolf, and Conner Reilly of St. MarY-Sacred Heart School were among many students to learn about the universe when the Mobile Productions' Star Lab Planetarium visited the North Attleboro school. Each class spent 45 minutes learning about nebulas, galaxies, planets and constellations.

FIFTH- AND SIXTH-GRADERS from the religious education program at St. Kilian Parish, New Bedford, receive a history and catechesis on the rosary dUring a recent lesson.

MEMBERS OF the Immaculate Art Ministries Group recently performed at the Diocesan Gathering for Youth at Bishop Stang High School. Their shows are aimed at helping teens through difficult times. From left are: Kristen Jezak, Tracey Bento, Amanda Blancette, Sara Proulx, Andrew Arruda and Nate Jezak. (Anchor/Gordon photo)

SENIOR MICHAEL Savaria and Junior Lauren Charbonneau of Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, take a break from volunteer duties at the annual St. Mary's Education Fund Fall dinner. They said they have received a great dea路' from a Catholic education and Charbonneau added, "It has given me insight into the . Catholic faith."

ED POIRIER, Youth Athletic Director for the YMCA, was at St. John the Evangelist School, Attleboro, recently to speak about the importance of exercise. He is pictured with participants second-graders Paige Morel, center, and Rachel Brunelle.

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Vocation exploration programs at Catholic colleges get Lilly grants INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) ~ Eleven Catholic colleges and universities received grants of about $500,000 each to extend programs that encourage college students, faculty and staff to engage in theological reflection on the purposes and character of their lives and work.

The grants by the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment extended for an additional three years the schools' participation in Lilly's Programs for the Theological Exploration ofVocation initiative. In all, 37 Church-related liberal arts colleges and universities received $17.8 million in the latest round of grants.

Since the vocation initiative began making grants in 2000, 88 U.S. colleges and universities have received support totaling $176.8 million.

"These schools have integrated programs and 路projects that are advancing the initiative's aims: to encourage young people to explore Christian ministry as their possible life's work, to help all students draw on their faith traditions in making vocational choices, and to enhance the capacity of each school's faculty and staff to teach and mentor students effectively in these areas," said Craig Dykstra, senior vice president for religion at Lilly Endowment.

Grants of $500,000 went to Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.; Fairfield University in Connecticut; Loyola University of Chicago; Marquette University, Milwaukee; St. John's University, Collegeville, Minn.; St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wis.;

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Program components have included lecture series, class retreats, travel experiences, internships with congregations and faith-based organizations, chapel programming, fellowships to explore ministry, collegewide convocations and summer theology institutes.

"The schools are noting significant increases in the number of their graduates enrolling in seminaries," Dykstra said in a statement. "They describe how their vocational exploration activities are working as catalysts in helping the schools reclaim their fundamental educational mission. They say their programs are leading them to build fresh connections with congregations and denominational bodies."

At Marquette, for example, the Manresa Project sponsors retreats, programs and workshops on vocation discernment; faculty workshops on how to incorporate self-reflection, readings and assignments in classes; and national academic conferences that encourage interreligious dialogue and scholarship, as well as discussion of vocation as it relates to faith and justice.

The University of Dayton's Program for Christian Leadership includes the Chaminade Scholars program, a summer workshop in leadership and vocation, a faculty fund for vocational exploration and a minicourse in liturgical music ministry required for all cam-. pus music ministers.

By CHARLIE MARTIN - CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE sound and talented vocal abilities. particular, notice small suc~esses.

SHINE ON Getting lots ofairplay offthe Ifa friend is having a tough time Given every moment I had new disc is "Shine On." The song with a class, keep watch on that Still I can never seem to presents a person's reflection on challenge. Sometimes just making keep up with you it through a difficult course is a how a romantic relationship is You're done with one mile and true victory and one that should be ending. This individual realizes onto another 1,000 that "I can never seem to keep up acknowledged by someone - in Still I can never seem to with you" for ''you're done with this case, you! keep up with you Share your time, especially with I know you'll be better off without one mile and onto another 1,000." others who might appreciate some Yet these words are not said in me when I'm gone anger or even chagrin. He tells her added attention. Begin with your You know you're beautiful family. Do you have a younger You're beautiful brother or sister who would love to Refrain: be taken to a local amusement park Shine on or zoo? Would your grandparents You were made to be uplifted by a phone call? Such Shine on acts ofcaring help people see their And you know I love you "shine."

And even if we can or Be there through tough times. can't be friends Some situations cannot be fixed.

I'll be with you until the very end Yet loving support can still make a So shine on, you were made to positive difference. Do not It's keeping me awake minimize another person's hurt, every night but walk with friends or family as But I can never seem to they face loss or grief. Be the give up on you pathway that brings God's healing I send a p~yer and I'm onto into their lives. he does not know if another 1,000 Surround others with your "we can or can't be friends," but I can never seem to prayers. They may never know he wants her to know: "You're give up on you how you are praying for them, but I know you'll be better off without beautiful! Shine on, you were made to; shine on, and you know I doing so provides a genuine gift of me when I'm gone love. In prayer, the one praying and You know you're, you're beautiful love you." the one prayed for are connected .

You're beaUtiful His positive approach blesses with the energy ofGod's love. This the other person. He is wise to see (Repeat refrain) is the energy where miracles are that the intensity ofa romance Nobody's wrong, nobody's right bom and the "shine" ofGod's sometiIDes makes transitioning to Keep moving on presence is found friendship difficult His caring Shine on, yeah Be spontaneous and funacceptance ofthe other maintains a You were made to shine on genuine, heart-to-heart connection. oriented in interacting with others.

(Repeat refrain) For instance, leave swprise, The song speaks well ofhow You're gonna be just fine anonymous gifts for someone.

Oh, you're gonna be all right love we can help others recognize their Send affirming, 'just thinking of natural "shine." Too often, others You're gonna be just fine you" E-mails. See how much fun Oh, you're gonna be all right love fail to see how they are made in you can have telling others that the image and likeness ofthe Sung by Ryan Cabrera you value who they are. creator. They don't realize how Copyright (c) 2005 byAtlantic We make a lasting difference Just out this September is Ryan the beauty ofGod's presence in this world by lifting up the lives "shines" from within them.

Cabrera's disc "You Stand of others. Let your kind actions You can help others recognize Watching." The new CD is a toward others mirror back to them this beautiful spiritual energy. follow-up to his most successful, Consider these suggestions to help . how they "shine" with the light platinum-selling ''Take It All of God. Away." Several 2004 hits from this others see how they "shine:" chmarlin@swindiana.net Give positive messages. In album introduced us to Cabrera's

Your faith is yours'

By KAsE JOHNSTUN CATHOUC NEWS SERVICE

On the winding streets, songs brought

me back home, music filled my insides with a yeaming for family and friends Don't be fooled. They are not there to be your friends. They are not there to have who, the last time I listened to those tunes, were with me. an open discussion. They are not there to In the distance I saw two young men hang out. They are not truly interested in . in suits, ties and badges your daily life. Don't be fooled. . walking down the road.

I walked down the winding Dublin streets, listening to my MP3 player and Being from Utah and feeling loneliness along with excitement. I recognizing their religious affiliation, I felt the crisp Irish fall air along with the crossed the street to heat under my jacket from my walking. I focused on the downtown skyline, using it say hello.

"Hey, where are you as a target, turning left, then right, allowguys from?" I asked, ing it to guide me. hoping to talk about home, hoping to I had left the United States a couple bring up restaurants we all may have months earlier, visited a friend in Gerfrequented, guessing they would like to many and then headed to Dublin to begin talk to someone who grew up near them writing. I had been there a week, sleeping too, as the majority of Utah's population and reading quietly in a room at a hostel converted from a convent, but coinciden- lives in one northern area along the Wasatch front. They told me that they tally still operated by nuns.

grew up less than 15 miles from where I grew up. ''That's great! What do you guys miss about it?" I asked, expecting to talk about the mountains or the fishing or the mountain biking.

They responded, "Have you ever been introduced to the LDS faith?" This shocked me. I thought, like me, they would be happy to meet somebody from home.

"Yeah, yeah I have," I disappointedly responded. ''Would you like to leam more? We would like to set up a moment to discuss it further with you when you find an apartment."

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Your faith is yours. Your beliefs are yours. If missionaries from other faiths try to make you doubt your faith, that is their way in.

Missionaries of any faith tend to be kind, good-hearted people. But there are some whose only goal is to convert you away from your faith to theirs. Don't be fooled by friendly inquiring on their part.

There are very few things that I am downright pessimistic about, but this is one of them.

It's OK to have doubts, to have questions and to seek answers. But if you have doubts, talk to your parents, priest, teachers, but not to someone with an ulterior motive - not one whose aim is to find a hole in your faith and to fill it in with something quite different.

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Fall River parish hosts seminar on total consecration to Mary FALL RIVER - Holy Name Church will host a series of talks "In Preparation for Total Consecration according to Saint Louis Marie de Montfort."

St. Louis de Montfort tells us that "those who desire to take up this special devotion" should empty themselves of the spirit of the world, which is opposed to the spirit of Jesus, As a guide, each person participating will be given, a book on True devotion to Mal)' using the simplified version by Msgr, Vincent M. Walsh., This total consecration, or perfect renewal of baptismal vows' with and through Mary, is not to be taken lightly. The late Pope John Paul II said that "Reading this book (St. Louis de Montfort's True Devotion to Mary) was to be a turning point in my life.This Marian devotion has since remained a part of me.

It is an integral part of my interior life and of my spiritual, theology."

The seminar at Holy Name

Church, 709 Hanover Street, Fall River, will run each Tuesday during November, and the frrst Tuesday in December. Participants will meet at 7 p.m for Benediction, the rosary, and talks based on the book in preparation for the Total Consecration.

On November 8 Father James Walling will speak on the Eucharist, preparing for Consecration to the Blessed Mother.

The consecration will take place on December 7; at the close of the 7' p.m. vigil Mass on the feast of the Immaculate Conception.

The spiritual bond between this countl)' and the Blessed Virgin Mary goes back as far as 1847 when Pope Pius IX entrusted America ,to her protection, proclaiming Mary patroness of the United States under the title of her Immaculate Conception, This will be a great opportunity for individuals and' families to make this beautiful .Consecration, All are welcome.

In honor of Sister Lucia dos Santos, seer of Fatima, who died February 13, 2005, age 97.

Lucia pray for us.

St. Anne's Prayer "Good St. Anne, Mother of Mary, and Grandmother of Jesus, Intercede for me and my. petitions. Amen."

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SEVERAL ST. VINCENT'S Home employees were· recently honored by Bishop George W. Coleman at the home's annual Mission Awards ceremony. Seated, from left: Allison Garside, Mary Plouffe, Melvin Brooks, and Fred Pearson. Standing: the bishop, Tom Michael, Jay Douglass, Bob Senechal, David·Daniel, Manny Abrantes, Carlton Rodrigues, George Schmidt, Dave Hafey, and Agency Director John T. Weldon.

, St. Vincent' Home honors employees FALL RIVER - Employees, friends and family of St. Vmcent's Home gathered in celebration with Bishop George W Coleman recently for the home's eighth annual Mission Awards. Five individuals along with a team ofnine maintenance and janitorial staff were recognized for their devotion to St. Vmcent's mission of ''Giving Children in Need What They Need Most."

Honored during the ceremony were David Hafey, Carlton Rodriguez, Allison Garside, Fred Pearson, Mary Plouffe, and a team of maintenance and custodial staff including Tom Michael, Manny Abrantes, Todd Amarantes, Melvin Brooks, David Danie~ Jay Douglass, Bob ·Senechal, Tony Simas, and

George Schmidt.

Each award recipient was nominated by one or more of their coworkers; Nominations were then reviewed by a panel oftheir peers who selected the award recipi~ts. The individuals were recognized for their individual contributions to the agency in presentations by co-workers .

Bishop Coleman acknowledged and thanked the recipients for their faithfulness to the social services ofthe diocese. He thanked all staff for their commitment to St. Vmcent's Home and the tremendous work that is done to care for children and their families. 'Additionally, the bishop commended the management stafffor their leader-

ship and dedication.

St. Vmcent's Home is the largest special education and residential treatment center in southeastern Massachusetts. The agency helps children and families with a wide range ofchallenges to heal and grow.

It is sponsored by the Diocese ofFall River and is part ofthe diocesan network of social services.

The home welcomes young people from all races, religions, and backgrounds, and provides services ranging from crisis stabilization and diagnostic assessment to a variety of residential treatment programs, special education, life skills training, and after-care planning.

For more information, can 508679-8511. .

Cape church to host Mass for Father Kapaun, veterans

By DAVE JoUVET, EDITOR CENTERVILLE - Bishop Francis X. Roque, retired auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of the Military Services, U.SA, will be the principal celebrantofaVeteran's Day Mass at Our Lady of Victory Church, 230 South Main Street, on November 15 at 2 p.m.

The Mass will honormilitary vet'erans and will be celebrated for the intention of the sainthood cause of Korean War Chaplain Emil 1.

Kapaun. AI Makkay ofCenterville, an army veteran and Commanderof the Cape and Islands Korean War Veterans Association, is hosting the event Bishop Roque served as an Army chaplain from 1961 to 1983, serving in South Korea and Vietnam. For his Vietn~ service, Bishop Roque was awarded the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Distinguished Service Medal.

Terence Cardinal Cooke, then Military Vicar and Archbishop of New York ordained him a bishop at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on May 10,1983.

Bishop Roque is the Bishop Pr0tector ofCatholic War Veterans and has been dedicated to Father Kapaun's cause for many years.

Father Kapaun was serving as an Army chaplain when Chinese forces overran him and others from the Third Battalion, Eighth Regiment, First Calvary Division, on All Saints Day, 1950. Fornearly 24 hours, Father Kapaun crisscrossed the dangerladen battlefield to aid wounded American soldiers. On November 2, Kapaun and hundreds of his compatriots were captured and brought to Camp No. 5 in Pyoktong, North Korea. It was there that Father Kapaun routinely performed extraordinary acts of humanism.

Starvation, exposure and dysentery were prevalent among the POWs,yetFatherKapaun nursed the sick and dying, while becoming· physically weaker himself.

'The Chinese soldiers were afraid ofhim because he was a man ofthe cloth, and beCause all the men had tremendous respect for him," the late Retired Colonel Filmore A. McAbee told The Anchor in a 2002 interview.

McAbee was a friend ofand fellow POW with Father Kapaun at Camp No.5. ''They didn't want to kill him, but they did nothing for him when he fell ill. Father Kapaun died in May of 1951, but with medicine and care he wouldn't have."

The Diocese ofWichita officially opened Father Kapaun's sainthood ' cause in 2003. The Church now officially recognizes him as a''Servant of God." Bishop Roque wrote a prayer in honor ofthe Korean War hero: "Lord, Jesus, in the midst of the , folly ofwar, your servant Emil gave himself in total service to you through his service and care of his fellow soldiers. We now ask you, Lord Jesus, to manifest to the world the glory ofhis sacrifices by signs of miracles and peace. In your name, Lord, we ask for you are the source ofour peace, the strength ofour service to others, and our fmal hope. In your name, Lord Jesus, we ask. , ' .

Am en. " The public, and in particular all war veterans, are welcome to attend the Mass and gathering following.