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BISHOP DANIEL A. CRONIN greets Sister M. Lourdette; Sister Mary Noel, provincial administrator; and Sister Mary Cecile at benefit banquet for retired Sisters of Mercy.

ON SUNDAY some 1200 Greater Fall River Catholics will. attend the last in a series of area Masses and dinner dances in celebration of Jubilee 75. Following a 3 p.m. Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral with Bishop Daniel A. Cronin as principal .concelebrant, a banquet will be served at Venus de Milo restaurant and dancing will follow.

With a theme of Religious Growth through the Family, the Mass entrance procession will include natural, parish and diocesan family units, while the offertory procession will highlight ethnic contributions to diocesan growth. Clad in national costumes, representatives will offer such gifts as Irish Waterford glass, Portuguese sweet bread, Italian wine, French meat pies, a Polish Bible signed by Pope John Paul II and a memento of St. Sharbel, a Lebanese holy man. Banners will depict the spiritual family of the Trinity and the earthly family of humanity.

The banquet, with Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong as general chairman, will be attended by representatives of federal, state and city governments. Msgr. Daniel F. Shalloo, area dean, will give a welcome and Mrs. Michael J. McMahon will be toastmistress~

AN ISLAND DAY for anointing of the aged and infirm of Martha's Vineyard will be held at St. Augustine's Church, Vineyard Haven, at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30.

Father James F. Greene, pastor of Sacred Heart parUlh, Oak Bluffs, will be principal Mass concelebrant, assisted by Father Roger J. Levesque, St.路 Elizabeth's, Edgartown, and Father James F. Buckley, St. Augustine's. Women's Guild presidents of the participating parishes will be lectors and hostesses for the refreshments that will follow the ceremony. Reservations for the meal should be made by No~. 23.

CHRISTMAS ILLUMINATIONS at La Salette Shrine, Attleboro, will begin at 4:15 p.m. Sunday, continuing through Jan. 1. 11he theme, "U's a Small, Small World," will honor the Year of the Child-and displays, -illuminated by thousands of lights, will include a 16 foot glabe surrounded by handpainted figures of people from all nations.

Sunday's program will begin with a pageant featuring live animals. The Fall River Festival Singers accompanied by a trumpet quintet and directed by Denis Tetrault, will provide music.

VETERAN CUB AND BOY SCOUT UNnS honored at the annual Moby Dick Council recognition dinner included Troop 18, ,Immaculate Conception, Fall River, one of two troops in existence for 60 years. Forty year units included Troop and Pack 17, St. John IBaptist; Troop 11, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel; Troop 24, St. Joseph, all of New Bedford; and Troop IS, Notre Dame and Troop 50, St. Ann, both Fall River.

Thirty-five years: Pack IS, Notre Dame, Fall River; Troop 5, Sacred Heart, New Bedford; Troop 56, St. Joseph, Fairhaven.

Thirty years: Pack 56, St. Joseph, Fairhaven; Troop 16, St.' Louis de France, Swansea. Twenty-five years: Pack 24, St. Joseph, New Bedford; Troop 39, St. Patrick, Wareham.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The Catholic Church in the United States, which has sometimes been regarded as the source of a partial solution to the Vatican's financial deficit, will not be asked .to send a specific amount to lower the deficit, said Cardinal John Krol of Philadelphia during a news conference. "You can't impose anything on anybody," Cardinal Krol said after being asked whether the U.S. church would be told to help trim the Vatican deficit.

\ NEW DELHI, India (NC) - In an address to a United Nations conference in New Delhi, Mother Teresa of Calcutta called abortion the root of evil and suffering. "Abortion is nothing but murder in the mother's womb," said Mother Teresa, winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. "If a mother can destroy her child, then how can you stop people from killing one another?" she asked.

ABSECON, N.J. ~NC) - A 17-year-old participant in Ku Klux Klan affairs has been denied his high school diploma by Holy Spirit High School because of his activities with the white supremacist organization. Aaron Morrison, the former Holy Spirit student, and his parents were told !by the priest-principal of the high school that because the youngster had not met the behavior standards of the school he would not be awarded a diploma.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - More than 1,000 of the 3,000 Vatican employees have joined a new organization which is as close to a union as allowed under Vatican law.

The Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Vatican Employees was reportedly formed with the consent of Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state, after two meetings between the cardinal and disgruntled employees.

PE~ENT DEACON candidates begin pastoral care training at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. From left, Father Edmund Fitzgerald and Dorothy:Robinson, RN, brief candidates Frank Mis and AI Gallant.

CORBEIL, Onto (NC) - Oliva !Dionne, 76, father of the Dionne quintuplets, was buried in Corbeil Nov. 16 after a simple ceremony in Sacred Heart of Jesus Church.

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CONVENTION PRINCIPALS: From left, Father George W. Coleman, Rev. John F. Meyers, Sister Laurita Hand, Msgr. Francis X. Barrett. Msgr.

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Educators Are Challenged

"No one will have a greater la and uses of' technology in VATICAN CITY (NC)-Pope John Paul II will visit three role in changing society than education.

Liturgical music and dance Turkish cities at the en<;l of No- Catholic educators," declared Rev. John during F. Meyers, president the four-day parley vember in a major effort to promote Christian unity with the of the National Catholic Educa- were offered by groups from tional Association, at a meeting Our Lady of the Assumption Orthodox Church.

Vatican spokesman Father Ro~ last week in Hyannis of top di- parish and Holy Family High meo Panciroli who a few days ocesan educators from across earlier denie(l the trip was being the nation. planned, said the pope will be in "Our goal is to help students Turkey Nov. 28-Dec. 1. criticize and eventually to The trip ;will include stops in change society," he said. "We Ankara, the Turkish capital, need people tb teach youth GosWASHINGTON (NC) - Durwhere the pope will meet with pel values and to help them see ing a busy third day of their officials of the predominantly if society measures up to those fall meeting, Nov. 14, the U.S. Moslem nation; Istanbul, where values. bishops overwhelmingly approvhe will visit Orthodox Patriarch Father Meyers spoke at a ed a pastoral letter condemning Dimitrios I and participate in meeting of the NCEA Supercelebrating the feast of St. An- vision, Personnel and Curricu- racism as a sin, approved the drew; and Ephesus, site of an lum Section. Termed the largest 1980 budget for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops ancient Marian shrine. such section meeting since the and the U.S. Catholic ConferSt. Andrew, whose feast day gatherings began in 1972, it atence, and turned down an effort is celebrated Nov. 30, is the tracted 150 participants. . to remove exclusively male refbrother of St. Peter and patron "We are entering into an age erences from liturgical language. of the Orthodox Church. EpheThe bishops voted also to rein the 80's which will be for us sus was the site of the Third Ecumenical Council which be- one of responsibility, of accept- turn to the format of one gengan in· 431 and which formally ing our responsibility. Cath- eral meeting a year instead of gave Mary the title of Mother olic education will be what we the spring and fall meetings Catholic educators make of it. now being held, but, because of God. Turkey, a secular republic of it is up to us to have schools of they had already scheduled a about 40 million people, will be such quality that people know spring meeting in Chicago next that change is not immedithe first country not having a how good they are and are at- year, ate. . , to them "he said. tracted predominantly Christian popuTurn to Page Six "If our schools are to be diflation visited by Pope John Paul.

The pope has been to Mexico, ferent and Catholic then our the Dominican Republic, Poland, curriculum must be different andTHE ANCHOR Ireland and the United States , Catholic. It is time to design a (USPS-S4S-D20) the 80's." curriculum for during his 13-month papacy.

Second Class Postage Paid at Fall River, Roman Catholics number about With the general theme of Mass. Published every Thursday at 410 30,000 in Turkey, where 98 per "Empowerment for Leadership," Highland Avenue, Fall River, Mass. 02722 cent of the population professes delegates also attended sessions by the Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River. Subscription price by mail, postpaid Islam. on leadership skills, justice and $6.00 per year. Postmasters send address Pope John Paul will be the the student, humanistic curricu- changes to The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, Fill River, MA 02722 second Roman Catholic pontiff to visit the country in 12 centUries. Pope Paul VI went to Pope John Paul II has spoken I Istanbul and Ephesus in 1967.

Here's Ilelpl \ Meanwhile, UPI reported from Rome that a formal announceThe Art of Natural Family Planning ment on Pope John Paul's trip to Is the finest, most complete book on natural the Philippines will be made birth control. How to use the 99% effective before the end of November. It sympto-thermal method ... How to achieve quoted Vatican sources who said pregnancy ...

How to avoid pregnancy. ~<fO~~ the visit will take place in February 1980.

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School, both New Bedford. Sister Barbara Walsh, SUSC, principal of Holy Name School, Fall River, was among directors of congregational song. ,The meeting was hosted by the diocesan department of education, directed by, Father George W. Coleman.

Arrangements were handled by Sister Mary Laurita, PBVM, assistant schools superintendent and NCEA executive board member.

The Albany Alternative AI.;BANY, N.Y. (NC) - The Albany diocesan Peace and Justice Commission has launched a campaign against the commercialization of holidays and to encourage alternatives to materialistic attitudes.

The commission said the campaign will "challenge the commercial pillaging of celebrations, with their stress on frenzy, with Turn to Page Six

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Thanksgiving - The Command of Christ It might be difficult to eat dinner today, after looking at the front page of this edition of The Anchor. But the facts and faces of Cambodia and Vietnam should be before us this Thanksgiving as we munch on the turkey leftovers.

Despite the growing difficulty we think we have in maintalning our usual standard of living, our own concerns and -worries surely shrink as we face the realities of today's L

genoc~de.

A few short years ago when this same genocide was taking place on the continent of Europe, Americans truly believed they were dying to rid the world of such horror, In truth, the wars of this century have never ended.

Man's inhumanity to man is as real this Thanksgiving as ever in history. But the American mind, haunted by the visions of the past, somehow does not want to face the realities of the present.

Frightened by a changing life style, forced to"realize that manna is not forever and fighting to continue the so-called good life, we resent to some extent the call of our conscience and the demands of our soul when today's atrocities intrude on our comfortable lives. Somehow, we would like, to avoid-the evident, bury the real and dismiss the pain.

However, the words addressed to us by' our Holy Father must sound in our ears as we celebrate our abundance. In his address last month at Yankee Stadium, he said: "The parable of the rich man and Lazarus must be present in our memory: it must form our conscience; Christ demands openness to our brothers and sisters in need.,..... openness from the affluent and rich, the economically advanced; openness to the poor, the underdeveloped and the disadvantaged."

'Pope John went on to make a statement that has even more meaning today. He said "We cannot stand idly by enjoying our own riches and freedoms if, at any place, the Lazarus of the twentieth century stands at our doors.

I again proclaim the dignity of every human person: the rich man and Lazarus are both human beings, both equally created and in the image and likeness of God." It is in this spirit, this Gospel message that all men have been redeemed in. tile blood of Christ, that we as an affluent Catholic community must reach out to those who seek a crumb from our bountiful tables. Th,e bonds of trivial material comforts that chain and keep, us captive must. be brok~n as are the bodies of so many of our suffering brothers and sisters.

It is not just a matter of taking up another collection for the poor, thereby pacifying our 'CUilt. We must try to reach beyond the fear of the shrinking dollar and expand our hearts and minds, reaching out to affect the world rather than allowing ourselves to be affected by it.

May this Thanksgiving season be a time when we return to the basic purpose of the Pilgrims: when we rededicate our hearts and minds to God in gratitude for the abundance of our lives.

May it also be a time when we listen once more to the words of John Paul to the farmers of the midwest.

The pontiff recalled the occasion when Jesus saw the hungry crowds on the hillside. He did not attempt to satisfy them with nothing more than flowery words. He ordered his disciples to; give the~ food. May we obey that same command.

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IOWA CORN OVERFLOWS GRAIN ELEVATORS IN BEST CROP IN HALF A CENTURY

'Good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom.' Luke 6:38

Year of Jubilee

By Father Kevin Harrington

I was recently asked by a parochial school student about the history of several parishes in the Fall River diocese.

A rediscovery of our proud history has been one of the finest results of the Diocesan Jubilee Year. Each ethnic group in tum experienced the intolerant attitude of groups more firmly planted in the American soil.

The Roman Catholic religion was adhered to faithfully as the one link to their Western European heritage. The great sacrifices made to duplicate the art and architecture of the finest churches and cathedrals of Europe are evident throughout the diocese. Fortunately, the intolerance encountered by our ancestors served only to strengthen their faith.

Besides a series of lovely churches, our ancestors left a far greater heritage, the experience of their faith as encompassed uniquely in their lang-. uage and culture. They overcame the greatest pressure to conform and found room to develop their own sense of identity. Wi.thout this' uniqueness our heritage would indeed be impoverished. With it the sense of "otherness" is preserved.

This is all the more important when we realize that the most complete love is an expression of our care for the preciousness of another being.

A love capable only of loving its own kind is not true love at all. Such a misdirected love makes man a kind of black hole, collapsing into himself.

This does not, of course, deny the need for self-love. To love oneself is to love what is good

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in oneself as a gift from God and others. When we recognize God and our neighbor as shaping us into lovable bejilgs, our selflove has its needed outward focus.

Pride in our ethnic heritage and our Roman Catholicism is exhibited through tolerance, not intolerance. Intolerance is most apparent today in the rank bigotry of the lower classes and the subtle elitism of the upper classes. If we truly believe that it is by leaving intact this precious otherness that love becomes a reality, then we must learn tolerance. The intolerant will

never find serenity until they can see every human being as equally worthy of respect and consideration and accept that everyone has different values.

Tolerance is what Jesus taught in the parable of the good Samaritan. Jesus depicts the Samaritan, as opposed to the more socially acceptable others, who passed by, as showing great kindness to the man who was mugged.

The lawyer knew that his question: "Who is my neighbor?" had been answered, but he refused to mention the despised Samaritan by name. His answer proved sufficient: "The one who was neighbor was the one who treated him with compassion."

There are many forces still shaping us into the individuals that we are. Some of these forces shape us into less than what we are called to be. Parts of our heritage are good and . parts are bad.

That part of our history which we are rediscovering through our Jubilee celebration and in which we can take pride includes our sense of identity preserved despite persecution, our willingness to make great sacrifices to preserve that identity and our hope to keep alive our Roman Catholic faitl;1, the greatest gift of our heritage.

If we keep that heritage alive as we enter our next 75 years, we will truly have benefited from this year of Jubilee.

'Operation Menu' the "human rights" administration to press the B52s intohumanitarian service. We didn't mind letting the Seventh Fleet pick up boat people. But we opening, illegal, secret gambit of can't do everything comparable the Nixon-Kissinger quest for for the land peopl~. "a generation of peace," the exThe difference is, it seems, that ercise was called "Operation in order to be humane on the Menu." seas, we did not have to deal Over a period of 14 months, with Hanoi. We are willing to do 3,638 raids were flown. They anything to avoid speaki~g to were dubbed, with gruesome them, including voting for Polwhimsy, "Breakfast," "Lunch," Pot, the butcher of Cambodia, in "Dinner," "Dessert" and "Snack." the United Nations.

Now when the Cambodians Jimmy Carter is timid about literally are dying for a genuestablishing diplomatic relations ine "Operation Menu," it can't with our former enemy in a be done.

Why? Well, you see, they ex- campaign year. It is why few plain patiently at the White people in the administration will House and the State Depart- acknowledge the lunacy of try.ment, there are MIGs, and be- ing to stop a famine in a counsides, soldiers would grab the try without dealing with the food. The peasants, who hold"' people in charge.

Instead, we are told the calskeletal babies with black circles under their eyes and flies lous North Vietnamese are tryon their faces, would be held ing to blackmail us into recognition. We will not yield, we say off at gunpoint.

Is that so? That isn't what self-righteously, even if it might they used to say about our air mean averting another holooperations when we were en- caust. gaged in bringing the great soWe prefer to blame the Rusciety to Vietnam. Lyndon John- . sians. Nobody would dream, in son used to brag about "pin- this Peking-struck administrapoint bombing" and "surgical tion, -of asking - the Chinese to strikes" which took out power tell their loathseme friend, Pol plants and supply dumps and Pot, to pack it in, stop the fightmiraculously spared the human ing which produces more refubeings in their path. gees and more starvation.

It is hopeless- to try to shame If we could promise then not . to hit peasants, could we not the North Vietnamese into letting us save two million lives. promise now to hit them with blankets, medicine, rice While angels of deliverance and pots to cook it in? We might compared to the murderous Pol save some lives. It's worth a Pot, they do not pretend to care if all die. Oxfam, one of the inchance.

But there is no disposition in ternational relief groups allowed

If you're looking for ironies, you have only to recall that when we bombed the Cambodians in 1969, in the

Well, you can see it's a big pro1;>lem, especially since the bishops are using terms like family ministry, shared ministries, lay miriistry and ordained ministry in every document. I suppose I could try to improve upon their phraseology but somehow the same meaning doesn't come through on "family priesthood," and "shared priesthood." A lot of those who object to the use of "lay ministry" object even more to the use of "the priesthood of the laity," so that's out.

The only other word I can come up with is serve but a server is an altar boy in Cath..olicese and service isn't something millions of Catholic men are going to rush to join.

A bigger problem with omitting ministry from our ecclesiastical litany is that pri~st is not a 'verb like minister. We know what it means to minister but what is it to priest? How do you priest? I can minister to I

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to operate, had to sign an agreement pledging to withhold food not oilly from Pol Pot's forces but from civilians living in areas under his control.

We have to swamp them, use every form of diplomatic, financial, logistical pressure we can think of. Otherwise, as the leader of the Western world said when he at last announced $69 million in aid for relief, we will again be guilty of "a moral lapse whose enormity still numbs the human mind."

But he seems half-hearted about what he has finally done.

He is sponsoring only the authorization of the $39 million that is in addition to the $30 million proposed by Congress, not the appropriation. He seems less mindful of OMB when he strews grants around the primary states.

Cambodian relief may become a' political issue. Edward Kennedy faults Carter for giving "too little, too late." B.ut Cambodians are dying by the thousands, and can't wait for the re.sults of the caucuses in Iowa, where the wheat is brimming over the granaries.

We need to' update "Operation 'Menu," that shameful and ruinous bombing that contributed to today's horrors.

If we need a new name, let's remember "Rolling Thunder" and call it "Rolling Manna."

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Iss,ue Well gentle. persons, it's there exists a very substantial' official. We're going back to literature to show that Catholic sex lives are no better and the CoUnter-reformation, no worse than non-Catholic sex back to the days of Pius XII lives - neither being spectacu-

and even Pius X. The' National Catholic Reporter has said so and everyone knows how careful it is regarding both truth and facts.

The first-string NCR Vaticanologist in residence, ex-Jesuit Peter Hebblethwaite, has said that the administration of John Paul II will be an administration of "restoration." It is not especially clear from Mr. Helllethwaite's lead article in the "pope" issue of the NCR what is going to be restored. The Latin Mass? The Tridentine seminary? The Inquistion? The old opposition to evolution? The denunciation of all modern scripture studies? Thomism as the only tolerable philosophy for Catholics?

It is much to be feared that exJesuit Hebblethwaite, like most of the other writers in the issue, has heen carried away by his emotions. Before American readers take his analysis seriously, they may want to read his book "The year of the Three Popes" and ponder the change in his position since. he wrote that book. How can a man who was so positive about John Paul II in his book turn so negative about him in such a brief period of time? More importantly, when he was so wrong in By his book, how come he is so someone in the pew, perhaps, right now? but how do I priest to the same DOLORES person? !Mr. Hebblethwaite made two I asked this of a listener who major contributions to study of objected to my challenge of turn- . CURRAN the two conclaves. The first was ing laity into family ministers his prediction in the English in the parish simply because of newspapers that Paolo Bertoli my use of the word ministry. He was going to be elected pope. was stumped.

The second was bringing his Another parishioner comment- praying with one another, and children to the English press ed that Christ ministered in the caring for one another as mem- briefings in the basement of the gospels and the objector shot bers of the same parish family. USO building, where the two back, "Are we trying to be If we must make a distinction' wailing infants drove the radio between ministers we can say and TV sound men wild.

Christ?" lay ministry versus ordained Well . . . you get an idea of Second-string Vatican expert, the level of the discussion at ministry, but why should that the Reverend Francis X. Murphy, be necessary when everyone is that particular moment. I was is the one who spread all around tempted to say yes but the hour called to minister? story of the threewas late and there was enough Bishop Raymond Lucker of the world the ballot Luciani election only to obvious division in that parish New Ulm, Minnesota, put it have it <:ompletely refuted (he without getting into another more cogently: "Lay people and withdrew it in a non-apologetic hassle. priests and bishops have long We have lots. of people, rem- been accustomed to placing min- one line buried in the nliddle of nants of past conditioning, who istry in the hands of the clerics an NCR article). are turned off by use of words - and to call people to minisMatching the Hebblethwaite previously unused by Catholics, ter when they've been excluded piece of gratuitous' nastiness was but they better get used to the from it for so long presents real another commentary by NCR's word ministry because that's problems. Lay people still view former editor, Robert Hoyt, who what we're all about and there church as a place to go to be. found a survey made in a small isn't a better word. Christ did It's not realistic to expect things population showing that Cathcall us to be ministers. to change overnight. But I do olic women are less likely to We can minister in many think that the bottom line of have sexual orgasms than Proways: setting up chairs for a church membership is ministry, testant women. Somehow Mr. meeting, teaching, driving an and that we're all called to min- Hoyt managed to blame the pope elderly 'person to the doctor, ister." for that - though he did have listening, absorbing after school So we'd better get used to the the decency to admit he wasn't progeny of a single parent, help- word ministry even if we didn't sure how valid. the survey was. ing another parent through the find it first. I, for one, don't inWell, the. survey had no repdrug or teen alienation process, tend to rub it out of my column. resentational validity at -all, and

It's 路Nol-A Verb Lately I've been getting flak from readers and listeners for using the words "mfnistry" and "minister." It seems to them ministry has no place in the Catholic lexicon. AS one reader put it, "Join another church if you want ministers. I'm Catholic and I want priests."

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larly good. Mr. Hoyt isn't really interested in serious research in human sexuality. He was interested, like most of the other contributors in the NCR symposium, in kicking the pope.

In their manic enthusiasm to resurrect the Tridentine church, the National Catholic Reporter observers showed total innocense of any careful analysis of the papal texts. It was not so much that they took the pope's words out路 of context as that they simply ignored his words, as well as the context. They also totally ignored the context of the pope's personality and of his own philosophical, theological and literary writings.

Some authors were so eager to jump on the "kick the pope" bandwagon that what they wrote was barely coherent (in this they differed from commentator Colman McCarthy whose overblown prose is always incoherent.)

In particuiar, I was dismayed

by F.ather Charles Curran, who doesn't seem capable of grasping that the failure of his theological colleagues to develop a positive theory of human intimacy, which both preserves traditional values and takes into account social and demographic changes, leaves the pope and other church leaders totally unequipped to address themselves to problems of human' intimacy.

I guess the theologians have been too busy issuing statements and abolishing sin to prepare any positive and constructive theory that might be useful to the chuch.

It would be foolish to try to argue with and refute each of the manic NC~ commentators point by point, for we are dealing not with rational arguments but with collective neurosis.

Facts and truths have long since ceased to be important for the National Catholic Reporter (and editor Arthur Jones' much heralded departure can't come a moment too soon.) The NCR has stopped being a newspaper and has become an occasion for collective psychotherapeutic release, a sounding board for a raw,' primal scream of rage.

John Paul II is the latest NCR inkblot, someone who loses all his rights under the eighth commandment (Thou shalt not bear false witness' against your neighbor) so that he may become an object for the release of the emotional frustration of the paper, its writers and its readers.

Welcome into the club, Holy 'Father.

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Cost To Rise

(necrolo9.YJ December 7 Rev. Ambrose Bowen, 1977, Retired Pastor, St. Joseph, Taunton Rev. Thomas F. Daly, 1976, Retired Pastor, St. James, New Bedford .

December 8 Rev. John F. Broderick, 1940, Pastor, - St. Mary, South Dartmouth

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They approved an additional assessment on their dioceses of two-thirds of one cent per Catholic to meet a $250,000 expense incurred by the NCCB in providing press facilities in the papal' visit cities. Archdioceses and dioceses the pope visited were exempted from the special assessment.

The bishops were urged not to give special help to the U.S. Census Bureau in its efforts to count illegal aliens as part of the 1980 census.

For Christmas, Kochtitzky The question arose unexpecand his children make gifts for tedly after a report on.Hispanone another, then on Christmas eve they go over a' catalogue of ics delivered by Archbishop human service agencies to de- Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe, N.M. In response to a question, cide how to distribute the money he agreed that census officials saved. had a valid point about needing As another example of an an accurate count, but said the alternative celebration, for his church jeopardizes its reputason's fifth birthday, Kochtitzky tion among Hispanics if it helps said he had taken. his son on a the census count illegal aliens weekepd camping trip. and then finds that its informa"Ask any ll-year-old what he tion has been used to arrest and got for his fifth birthday and he . deport them. won't be able to tell you, but my son can," 'he said.

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Continued from Page Three In approving the budget, the bishops approved also a 25 percent increase in assessments on dioceses for' support of the NCCB-USCC. The increase is needed, officials said, to cover inflation, slow the use of investment earnings in paying for NCCB-USCC programs, and make up for the loss of other sources of income.

It will be obtained by raisingfrom eight to 10 cents per reported Catholic the amount dioceses are taxed for support of NCCB-USCC. .

Racism is a sin: a sin that divides the human family, blots out the image of God among the specific members of that family, and violates the fundamental human dignity of those called to be children of the same Father," the bishops said in their pastoral letter.

Several bishops agreed ...that the document could be improved, but argued that it was needed now at a time when racismin forms such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups seems to be making a comeback.

In the votes on liturgical language changes, a majority of the bishops favored deleting maleonly references, but because those favoring change were not a two-thirds majority of the conference's membership, no change 'will be made now..

Immediately after the vote was announced, six protesters carrying signs attacking racism and wearing blue armbands stood in. front of the hotel where the bishops were meeting.

During the budget discussion, the call for the special study of NCCB-USCC programs came in response to concerns expressed by some bishops that the conference needs a clearer outline of its priorities.

That's the Trouble "Most people would recognize an opportunity if it didn't look so much like work." - Mark Twain

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PARTICIPANTS IN prayer program backing up "We Care/We Share" pilot visit ation project conduct service at Our Lady of Fatima Church, Swansea. (Gilbert· Phpto) erset, assisted by Lenny Camara, Ann ·Monteiro, Lucia Gagnon, -Bella Nogueira, Mary Thomas, Mary Bernard, Catherine Quental, David Motta, Irene Pereira.

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Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong is coordinator for St. Louis de France parish, Swansea. Her committee members are Mrs. Leo LeComte, Daniel Berthiaume, Mrs. Muriel Patenaude, Mrs. Anita Boulanger, Felice Luzon, Vivi~n Belanger, Raymond Leduc.

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During a concentrated campaign ending Dec. 16, volunteers are expected to contact over 10 thousand Somerset and Swansea families, inviting those with no church affiliation to various parish programs and asking Catholics for statistics with which to update parish records.

At Our Lady of Fatima parish, Swansea, Russell Cochrane is coordinator. Serving with him are Mrs. Dorothy Flynn, Sister Mary Denisita, RSM, Mrs. Linda Soares, Mrs. Dorothy Sullivan, Mrs. Louise MacDonald, Miss Mona Kennedy.

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SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador (NC) - In a pastoral letter, Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador' has accused the few rich people of EI Salvador, in their determination to keep labor cheap, of suppressing all efforts of peasants and workers to organize. The archbishop said also that a subservient military class, invoking national security, has unleashed a violent repression with a mounting toll of death, arrests, torture, exiles and missing prisoners.

Somerset and Swansea parishes participating in "We Carel We Share" have announced names of their planning committee members. All are currently conducting home visitor training sessions, together with a supportive prayer program.

Gilbert Lowney heads the committee for St. Thomas More parish, Somerset, aided by John Moynagh, Mrs. Leo Guertin, Mrs. Marge Botelho, Raymond J. McDonald, Mrs. Linda Marcoux, Vincent A. Coady.

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In the diocese of Fall River, there are many such consecrated grounds, including many parish cemeteries.

Pee>ple speak of "purchasing a lot" at a cemetery, but in fact they buy "right of burial," not the property itself. The physical earth is owned by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Fall River; its use is in the hands of the grantor.

Most cemetery work is unseen by the public - opening and closing graves, maintaining records, caring for grounds and so forth; but officials are glad to become visible in encouraging Catholics to make pre-need cemetery arrangements. They point out that it is far easier to make such plans when there is no sense of u~gency or grief, and range of burial arrangements

available really require thought· ful consideration.

In general there are three choices of burial: - in-ground burial anywhere in a cemetery in ~ one to sUI grave lot; - shrine burial, with lots ir specially designated cemetery sections; - mausoleum burial, with caskets in ,above-ground crypts.

All purchases of grave lots in diocesan cemeteries il)c1ude endowed care, meaning that grass will be cut and other grounds maintenance will be performed as needed.

Actual burial ceremonies are traditionally performed at graveside but may be conducted in cemetery chapels, a convenience in inclement weather or for the elderly or infirm.

Burial costs, in addition to the fee for the grave lot, include vault, monument or marker, and grave opening and closing expenses. Mausoleum costs include an entombment fee and a charge for crypt lettering. .

But the most rewarding aspect of cemetery work, say those involved in it, is the contact it affords with people. "We are helping them at a very special time in their lives," they say, "and we have a sacred task unequalled by any in the church."

AMONG TAUNTON AREA committee members planning the annual Bishop's Ball to be held Friday, Jan. 11, with the music of Lester Lanin orchestra, are, seated, Mrs; Harold Rogers, Father Walter A. Sullivan, Mrs. Albert Moitoza; standing, Mrs. William Grover, Richard . ... .. .Paulson, ' . Mrs. Aristides Andrade. .. ~-,.......

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DIOCESAN STUDENTS· at Bridgewater State College meet at Catholic Center with Father Joseph McNamara, OMI. From left, James Calnan, New Bedford; Elizabeth Reeves" Attleboro; Lynn Libby, Falmouth. (Murphy Photo)

Campus Ministry Vital Force there is the personal involve- amid the tensions and confusions ment of service to others and a of academic life.

Father McNamara' is chaplain .search for community.

In all of this we are reminded of the Catholic Center at Bridgeof our identity with Christ in at These characteristics are water State College, where he his paschal mystery because it ministers to many students the same time the concerns of is in dying and rising ourselves the church, which sees personal from the Fall River diocese.. growth and th~ dignity of the and in serving others that we One of the most interesting, individual as indistinguishable validate our commitment to the rewarding and fastest growing from spiritual growth. More- risen Saviour. ministries in today's church is over, it is a gospel spirituality The church, through its cam,that of campus ministry. It is a that says the mark of genuine pus ministry, supports and enrather recent develop~ent in asceticism is found in service to cQurages academic excellence. It Roman Catholicism and as found one another. speaks out against mediocrity, at state and private colleges and the greatest temptation of all.

The challenge presented to It provides insight into those universities is an outgrowth of the former Newman Center those in this phase of the issues beyond the campus, such church's mission is to develop as Salt II, the draft, the right to movement.

At Newman Centers Catholic a . campus climate where wor- life and world hunger, thereby students met and found in each ship services, lectures, seminars, making the gospel ~el?sage releother a support for their faith retreats and social functions vant to student concerns.

The mission of the church on which their school could not will attract students and build . provide. While continuing to a faith community· to sustain campus is much broader than provide such support, the cam- their growth ~hrough this stage the work of the priest alone. It pus ministry concept, through of their Christian life. is the work of a: community: its presence and through a rich Nurturing this community, students, faculty,' staff and diversity of programs, attempts with its focus on intellectual ex- friends. The faith· of this comto be an int,egral and respected cellence and intense identifica- munity gives its campus prespart of higher education, reach- tion with personal growth, de- ence a quality that enables it to ing out to faculty members and mands a worship where all" are promote hope, personal self-reall students, not solely to the called to remember God's fideli- spect and loxing service to one Catholic population. ty to his people; a celebration another.

Student life on most campuses that tells us there is sacred Such a community continues . today is characterized by a power in common activities per- the mission of Christ and givt;ls strong emphasis on personal formed with uncommon gener- the church a respected place in growth' and a deep awareness osity; a liturgy where faith is this most influential segment of of individual dignity. In addition, rediscovered and reinforced .our culture.

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2. Gifts. Sometimes parents child is playing nicely, join. him promise a bicycle, special hriefly, building, coloring or clothes _ or other large much- playing a game. "I don't have desired gifts to motivate. a child. the time," thinks mother. Yet a A child may have to work long small child's interest changes so and hard over a period of time quickly that a few minutes is all to improve grades or observe he needs. In five minutes you curfew, for example. A large can communicate that mother gift can be a strong incentive to notices and cares. 'When you take your little one shopping, and he overcome a difficult problem.

Since a long-range goal is behaves well on what is for him often difficult for the child to a very boring trip, notice. Take ,keep in mind, use a chart on a few minutes to look at books the refrigerator or in his room or toys that interest him. to provide a daily reward. Use Sharing your time and grantsmile faces, check marks or ting a privilege can be comstars to keep track of his daily bined for older children. One progress. family assigns jobs and keeps If you promise a large re- track of how well they are ward, however, you must de- done. At. regular intervals when liver when the child earns it. To jobs have been done well, dad go back on your. word destroys and mom take the whole famyour own trustworthiness in the ily to a movie, to the roller rink eyes of your child. or out to dinner, whatever the Small gifts can be used just children choose. Elementary and middle school children love to to say, "Y.ou are fine."

"Here, Sally, I got you this go out with their parents. Perpaperback book today. You haps one of the reasons teen,were so sweet to put your little , agers do not is that they have brother to bed last night." Such too few such pleasant memories a reward is not required by a from childhood. previous promise, but is merely Recognize the good things a thoughtful way for mom to your children do. You may find say she appreciates her daugh- that by looking for the good ter. things they do, you will dis3. Privileges. Having a friend cover what great kids they realstay overnight, staying out an ly are. Perhaps the most reward,extra hour on Saturday night, ed ones of all will be you, the use of the family car, there is parents. no end 'of privileges which parents can extend as rewards. If Questions on family living and you know your child at all well, child care are invited. Address you can find privileges he or to The Kennys c/o The Anchor, she would like.

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"Are you a Christmas freak?" asked a friend.

My strong affinnative reminded me that I had better start getting this particular Christ· mas into focus.

Even though two of our three children are away at college, we don't plan to abandon our family pre-Christmas traditions, including the lighting of the Advent wreath, the nightly opening of another window in our Advent calendar and the reading of a few passages of scripture.

These customs and others I have described in this column over the years have helped a little to counteract the crass commercialism of the Yuletide season.

Oh, many a busy evening goes by without the wreath getting lit, but we try to compensate for the omission at another time. Friends started us on the Advent wreath when our children were mere babies and I strongly , s~est it: and the Ad"

vent calendar as important ways of teaching children that Christmas is more than Barbie dolls and walking robots.

So this year again I've bought my Advent calendar and am planning our annual St. Nicholas celebration. This day is the traditional occasion for giftgiving in many countries, with Christmas celebrated as a spiritual feast. We mark it with a small gift.

My fondest hope is that when our children leave the nest they will carry with them many of the customs we enjoyed as a family, while adding their own.

This is one of the easiest and most delicious chocolate pie recipe that J have come across in my 15 years of recipe-hunting. I had misplaced the recipe and wheri a reader requested it I went back to my original source, Mrs. Lillian Ainsworth, who had obtained· the recipe originally from her mother-inlaw, Mrs. Raymol1d Ainsworth of the Union United Methodist Churc;h in Fall River. This pie is served by an area restaurant as its outstanding desert.

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Superiors Urged To Aid Justice ATCHISON, Kan. (NC) - One of the five .black Catholic bishops in the United States has challenged the superiors of the nation's religious orders of men to become "commited, effective and credible advocates of jus-' tice, truly believing that it is blessed to be persecu'ted for your efforts to be just."

Bishop Francis also said he could not agree with church leaders who said the social justice recommendations coming from the Call to Action conference of the bishops' bicentennial program in 1976 were "a bad dream or unrepresentative of the concerns of American Catholics. " :.

.uestlon·corner .l\~c, Q. During the last few years I have seen Mass intentions in Q. My husband and I oppose our parish bulletin for people wakes for the dead. When we who are not Catholic. It was my die we'd like our caskets closed, understanding in the past that with no wake and a service at such' Masses were not allowed. the funeral home by a priest.

Has there been a change in this Sometime after the funeral, regulation? Could I have Masses our loved ones would go· -to offered for the intention of Mass and offer it for the one non-Catholic friends who have who has died. Would such a died? (Calif.) funeral arrangement be permitA. The church's Code of Canted by the church? (Mass.) on Law has· always' allowed the A. Such a funeral arrange- private celebration of Mass for ment is certainly permitted. The a non-Catholic Christian. "Primore important question is: vate" in this context was genWhat does your family think erally interpreted to mean a about it?

Mass that was not announced, I realize you are simply doing for example, in the bulletin. some preliminary exploratory Three 'years ago, however, in thinking. Remember, however, June 1976 the Vatican Congrethat the funeral ceremony is not ,gation for the -Doctrine of the primarily for the dead but for Faith liberalized that regulation those who are left behind. a good deal. Recognizing that Prayers for the deceased individ- many Protestants hold the Cathual and for all the dead are in- olic religion and its liturgy in cluded in the funeral rite. But . considerable honor, and that much more significant is the many non-Catholics who hold aid that the funeral liturgy gives public office have served everyto those who are still alive to one in that community regardevaluate their own lives. We can less of their religious beliefs, confront again the priorities of public celebrations of the Mass which death reminds us and al- for Protestant Christians who low our grief over the loss of a have died are permitted on two loved one to be worked out in conditions: a Christian context.

1. The request for the celeAll this may not he important . bration of Mass must be made to you after you have died, but explicitly by the friends or relait may be extremely significant tives of the person who has to your children, grandchildren died, and this request must and friends who will be remind- come from a genuine religious ed of some very important motive.

2. There should be no scantruths by their. encounter with the death of one of their loved dal involved for either Catholics ones. or those of other faiths.

Assuming these two requireI urge you not to make any ments are met, the practice you such preparations without consulting your family. The ritual have noticed in your parish is you wish to avoid may (excuse entirely proper.

Questions for this column the expression) leave you cold.

It may also be the richest and should be sent to Father Dietmost . valuable final gift you zen c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7, leave to your family.

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CCL Offers Planning Aid "The Pope's message on birth control rings true," says John Kippley, president of the (::ouple to Couple League, "but why . ~idn't any commentators mention natural family planning? To watch TV one would think that Catholics had no choice between the pill and a family of unlimited size. It's ridiculous!

Natural family plannirg is so effective that the most important plirt of the papal message may have been the· Pope's call to generosity in the service of life."

for couples of marginal fertility in achieving pregnancy.

The usual method of instrution is by a series of classes, but couples can also study the eCL manual, "The Art of Natural Family Planning."

The Couple to Couple League was established in 1971 to provide practical help with natural family planning. It has grown . to over: 250 couples providing services in 41 states. The program is endorsed by the U.S. Bishops Pro-Life Committee and eCL is the largest single NFP provider in the nation.

,LOUISVILLE, Ky. (NC) Roman Catholics and Protestant demnominations in the Louisville area are planriing a sevenweek; coordinated interfaith .evangelistic effort aimed at renewing their present· members and reaching out to others. The campaign, called United Christian Witness; will ibegin next Easter Sunday, April 6, and con-' clude on Pentecost Sunday, May

WITH HER pro-life rose Members say the NFP method and her somber message, can be used by a well instruc13-month-old Elizabeth Mai- ted couple at the 99% level of nolfi attracted much atten- effectiveness to avoid pregtion at an anti-abortion nancy, and that it is effective demonstration in Baltimore.

Her mother is president of the Northeast Life Coalition. (NC Photo)

Further information about the Couple to Couple League may be obtained by writini its national office, P.O. Box 11084, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211.

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Self-Discipline

II Song of Songs II

By Mitchel B. Finley

By Father John J. Castelot

"Character is life dominated . principle," intoned Sister Bonav~nture for at least the hundreth time that year. Everyone in tter. class could repeat this phrase on cue.

For her the Christian life was primarily a matter of will power.

By sheer force of the will one could be most human and Christian. '.But with maturity I have learned that there is much more involved in self-discipline than will . power and abstract principles. God created us with emotions, imagination, intellect and will. In addition, we must acknowledge the subtle ways we are shaped by early influences..

Authentic self-discipline involves the ongoing attempt to live in ways that bring our complex beings into harmony.

There is unquestionably a sacred dimension to the union of man and woman. But it should not be allowed to obscure the fact that this rel~tionship involves human beings, not disembodied spirits.

We are the heirs of a long, complex and none too happy . bistory of attitudes toward sexuality which have their roots almost' as deeply in pagan cults which favored sexual renunciation as in an exaggerated Christian asceticism. Unfortunately the proponents of these views exercised so powerful an influence in the early centuri~s of the church, that they still color our' outlook.

One such personality was the third-century scholar, Origen, whose heavily allegorical. commentaries on Scripture were. highly prized and imitat~d in varying degrees by men like Jerome, Ambrose and Augustine, whose writings were to dominate Western Christian thought for almost a millenium.

Like many other geniuses, Origen was an extremist, and not altogether consistent. Far from giving on allegorical interpretation to Jesus' words about cutting off bodily organs which' might prove occasions of sin, he took them literally and mutilated himself.

With the Greek philosopher Plato he distinguished earthly physical love from the heavenly, spiritual type, and took a dim view of the former.

The 'in' philosophy of his day was Gnosticism, which was characterized by a disdain for the natural, the physical. Sexual love was abhorrent, and a mixture of路 Gnosticism and Christianity gave rise to some bizarre notions of holiness. Origen was not unaffected by this philosophy. In spite of the church's official repudiation of Gnosticism, it seems clearly to have influenced churchmen whose .writings had a lasting impact on popular thinking. The result was the fostering of an unwholesome attitude to human sexuality which still haunt,S us.

It was this frame of mind which led to the bewildering diverse interpretations of the book of the Bible called the Song of Songs or Canticle of Canticles. A great Jewish scholar, Saadia, once wrote: "Know my brother, that you will find great differences in interpret2r- , tion of the Song of Songs. In truth they differ because the Song of Songs resembles locks to which the keys have been lost." Unquestionably, the book represents many problems, literary and other, but it is safe to say that most of the locks were forged by people who refused to take the composition in its obvious sense. The opening line sets the tone: "Let him kiss me with. his mouth's kisses!"

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Life should not be dominated merely by principle, for such a life is likely to be legalistic.

Rather, life should De guided by the intricate network of the whole human person in dialogue, as it were, with the principles given by tradition. Compassion, for instance, is as 'important as iron-willed obedience to regulations for philosophical principles.

Self-discipline, then, refers to the need to strive for I personal wholeness and balance. A modern way of saying it is "getting it all together." The individual who has it "all together" knows and values himself and can adjust to situations with flexibility and good sense.

When two people marry, each should have already learned .~elf-discipline. That is not to say they should have completely, mastered this art. Dealing with difficult situations never comes easily.

We have all experienced disgust with ourselves because of something we have discovered within us. Our goal is to get rid of it. An individual deals with it because he cares about himself. And one must, care about oneself in order to care about another. Marriage is all about caring for another and caring about oneself as well.

The day a couple promises to. love one another until "death do us part," they are publicly expressing their love before the community and God. Their love is young. It has the potential to grow to maturity and full beauty. Love is not tangible; it is something one feels. God is not, for us on earth, tangible.

We cannot see nor touch him, but we can feel his presence.

And if we try to explain what God is like, perhaps "love" would be our most adequate word. .With the firm' base of love behind a union, God is present.

A covenant has been m;lde between a man and woman and God. Their relationship is' meant to be an experience of growth, and of faithfulness to each other for as long as they live~ .,~

know your faIth This Thing Called Sex be' yours from the beginning of creation. You will rescue her I knew a man once who had, and she will go with you to so to speak, saved himself for your home. You and Sarah will marriage. He married a woman have many children, whom you who had done the same. Their will love very much." Tobias first total exposure to sex was listened carefully to what Rapwith each other and their first hael said, and "he began to fall act of sexual intercourse was - in love with Sarah and looked an expression of a life of faith- forward to marrying her." fulness to each other.

Raphael also told Tobias that Today that seems an ideal difficult to understand and far removed from the minds of many. Yet, after many years of marriage, this same man told me that sexual love had got

By JaDaan Manternach better through the years, and what he and his wife had at Once upon a time a handfirst, good and beautiful though some young prince fell in love it was, had grown into somewith a lovely princess.' They thing still more beautiful. could think of nothing but one There is a secret expressed another. They promised to love here, which the ancients knew, one another always. that a woman has a special reThen one day the king sent the gard for the first man who prince away on an important comes to her in love. Ideally, it is a special regard she should mission. The prince and his have for her husband, a regard princess were sad. They felt they that would always reinforce could not stand being separated. love for each other rather than To ease their pain they promcome between them. {In pre- ised to write each other every feminist times it didn't say any- day. thing about the man.)

The prince set off the next Let me tell you about another day. As soon as he left, the couple. The angel Raphael said princess rushed to her room.' to Tobias: "Sarah was meant to She began to write, "I love you

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before consummating his marriage to Sarah, they should pray for the Lord to be merciful to' them and protect them. After the marriage ceremony, when they were alone behind the closed door of their bedroom, Tobias invited Sarah to pray with him. Part of Tobias' prayer was: "Lord, I have chosen SarTurn to Page Thirteen

For Children so much. Your love is more delightful t~ me than any thing in the world. I long for you to draw me close to you, to hold me tight. I love to be near you.'

How much I love you." She kissed the paper, folded it carefully and sent it off to the prince.

When the prince reached the city to which the king had sent him he sat down and wrote his princess: "You are' the most beautiful of women. I want you near me so much. Rise up, my beloved, my beautiful one, and come to me. Here the winter is past, the rains are over.

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A Verdade E A Vida Dirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo, Rei do Universo A experiencia da monarquia de Israel fracas sou, e foi interrompida bruscamente pelo ex{lio de Babilonia. Entao, 0 Senhor conforta 0 Povo Escolhido, anunciando-lhe pelos Profetas', outro 'Reino futuro, .obra de Seu Amor e da Sua Gra~a. Ele mesmo sera 6 Pastor do Seu Povo, cuidando de todos com desvelo e solicitude.

Para u~ povo de origem nomada, como eram os Israelitas, a imagem do born Pastor, era muito sugestiva. Jesus ha-de retoma-la nas Suas pregasoes. A luz do Novo Testamento este Reino e a Igreja, e 0 seu Pastor Jesus Cristo Rei. o Reino. "Cristo para cumprir a vontade do Pai, inaugurou na terra 0 Reino dos Ceus, cujo misterio nos revelou e, pela Sua obediencia, consumou a redensao. A Igreja, reino de Cristo ja presente em misterio, cresce visivelmente no mundo pelo poder de Deus."

Fora deste reino de paz, de justi~a, de verdade e de amor nao ha salva~ao. E por isso que "todos os homens slo chamados a esta unHro com Cri sto, 1uz do mundo."

Ela n!e urn rebanho do qual 0 proprio Deus anunciou haver de ser 0 Pastor, e cujas ovelhas, governadas embora por pastores humanos, sao incessantemente conduzidos e alimentadas pelo mesmo Cristo, Born Pastor e Pr{ncipe dos pastores que deu a vida pelas ovelhas."

A, Igreja, familia dos filhos de Deus, "tern por cabe~a Cristo •.. porcondi~ao a dignidade e liberdade do? filhos de Deus ••. e por lei '0 mandamento novo ... tem por fim o reino de Deus."

E uma familia peregrina:comesa na terra para continuar eternamente no Ceu. , o Rei. Jesus Cristo governa a Sua Igreja. Todas as pessoas que a exercem, na terra nao s~o mais do que instrumentos do Seu amor. t a Sua vontade fundacional que the determina a missao, os chefes e as condi~oes para a ela pertencer. As leis desta sociedade humana e divina n~o se fazem de bra~o 1evant ado , como as de qualquer outra comunidade humana.

Todos os homens pertencem a Jesus Cristo Rei. E a Jesus Cristo que 0 Pat diz: Pedeme, e Eu Te darei as nayoes em heran~a.

Os desvelos do Pastor. Como Pastor, Deus , ," cuidara de nos. A luz do Novo Testamento e da hist6ria da Igreja, constantemente se confirma esta verdade. N~o so levou a Sua generosidade ate dar a vida pelos homens, como continua a prodigalizar-nos tudo aquilo de que necessitamos.

E a nossa experi~ricia humana e pessoal diz-nos que muitas vezes os silvos do born Pastor nos chamam aOs caminhos da salva~ao pela Palavra de Deus, pelos remorsos da consci~ncia, pelos'b.ons exemplos recebidos, etc.

S~o muitos 'os perigos'que ameasam 0 rebanho, em nossos dias: A desuni~o, come~ada na Fe e terminada na Vida. o aburguesamento. Tal como as ovelhas se cansam e veo ficando para tras, desligando-se do rebanho, assim tambem nos assalta a tibieza, 0 desleixo, 0 cansa~o na Lei do Amor.

Os assaltos do lobo e das outras feras.

Hoje ameasam ~ homem uma vaga alterosa de odio e outra de imoralidade. ' Mas Jesus Cristo Rei esta connosco. E o born Pastor que nunca nos desampara.

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Continued from Page Twelve ah because it is right, not because I lusted after her. Please be merciful to us and grant that we may grow old together."

After praying, "they went to bed for the night."

What is the difference between these two couples' "com·ing together," and so many couples "having sex" today?

Just to have sex, or more euphemistically, to go to bed or sleep with someone, is a rather easy thing to' do. It has become ,so easy and casual that for many today sexual intercourse has become a commonplace. For these, sexual intercourse has lost its profoundest meaning. The saddest part is that they don't know they stand as paupers before one of life's richest treasures..

The real meaning of sexual intercourse is bound up, as indicated 'in the story of Tobias and Sarah, with consummating marriage, with rightness rather than with lust, with being in love and with growing old together, with children, and with being in tune with creation.

Sexual intercourse is a very fleshly thing, to be sure - full of fun, frolic and pleasure, and nobody wants to change that but it is also profoundly spiritual because it is God's good creation, having its beginning

F'or Children Continued from Page Twelve and 'the air is filled with the songs of the birds: Come to me my beloved, my beautiful one.

Let me see you. Let. me hear your voice. your voice is sweet and you are lovely."

The princess wrote back. "I belong to you, my love. Come back to me. We will spend our lives together. I give you my love. Set me as a seal on your heart. Deep waters cannot quench my love for you. Flood waters cannot sweep it aw~y.

Be quick, my beloved, to come back to me."

Each letter became more passionate. The prince and princess grew in love for one another during the time they were apart. Soon the king allowed the prince to return. The princess saw him coming back and ran out to meet him. They kissed and promised never to be apart again.

• Soon they were married. They lived together for many years until they both died. People 'everywhere heard of their great love.

After they died, people found their love letters. They read them over and over. Someone picked out the most beautiful parts and made them into songs.

Years later someone else collected these songs and put them in a Ibook called the Song of Songs.

This book later became part of the Bible. We can still read the love songs of this romantic prince and princess. Their songs continue to sing to us, saying, "How precious is love. How beautiful is the love between a woman and a man. Nothing on earth is more like God's passionate love for us."

and end in him. To have meaning, sex, like so many other human things human beings dO, mU!;lt be related to something higher. In tune with God's purpose, it is meant to lead to God. Sexual intercourse expresses and builds the conjugal bond. It is the envelope of flesh for the message of love.

The man I spoke' of at the beginning of this article marvelled at God's goodness and wisdom in providing such a joyful and quite clever way for a couple to make love to each other. It was not difficult, he said, to utter praise and thanks to God and to rejoice with him at what he had wrought.

It was easy to be carried away those early years, he said, to be lifted up, and for sex to be splendid. The years have dimmed some aspects a little and enhanced others, but the marvel of what God has done continues, because the search for meaning continues. In the compelling experience of total exposure and giving, God reveals his presence more and more.

What God made and situated in marriage, he also saw to be "very good."

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Continued from Page Twelve songs. But a mind which cannot distinguish the erotic from the pornographic has to find a deeper, more "spiritual" meaning and substitute that meaning for the "objectionable" original.

As a result, "in proportion to i~ size, no book of the Bible -has received so much attention and certainly none has had so many divergent interpretations imposed on its every word." (Marvin Pope, "Song of Songs," The Anchor Bible, 7C P. 89).

As one might suspect, most oJ the interpretations have been of the allegorical type. The song simply cannot mean what it obviously says, so it must have to do with the relationship between Yahweh and Israel, or Christ and the church, or God and the individual soul, or God and the Blessed Virgin, etc., etc. The fact is that God isn't mentioned once in the' whole book.

In recent times there has been a tendency to appreciate the • poems for what they originally were: love songs celebrating the frustrations and ectasies of human sexual love. This does not rule out the possibility of using them to express human-divine love, but not at the expense of negating the delight of the erotic man-woman relationship.

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A-l Appr~ved for Children and Adults

All Things Bright and Beautiful The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again Battlestar Galactica The Black Stallion

Bugs Bunny Road Runner Danny The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family The Glacier Fox Jesus

Mountain Family Robinson The Muppet Movie North Avenue Irregulars Return from Witch .

Mountain Unidentified Flying Oddball

A-2 Approved for Adults and Adolescents The American Game Avalanche Express Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Breaking Away Buck Rogers Capricorn One The Champ The China Syndrome The Europeans

C.H.O.M,P.S. The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh Just You and Me, Kid The In-laws A little Romance lord of the Rings Matilda Message from Space The Mouse and His Child

Movie, Movie Operation Thunderbolt The Prisoner of Zenda Sunburn Superman Take Down Tree of Wooden Clogs Uncle Joe Shannon Warlords of Atlantis The Wiz

A-3 Approved for Adults Only Agatha Alien The Amityville Horror Another Man, Another Chance .

The Big Fix The Battle of Chile Bobby Deerfield Born Again Brass Target The Buddy Holly Story Burnt Offerings Butch and Sundance: The Early Days By the Blood of Others California Suite Caravans City on Fire Comes A Horseman Coup de Grace Crimebusters Days of Heaven Death On The Nile A Dream of Passion Dreamer Escape from Alcatraz EscapEl to Athena Fast Break Fast Charlie Fedora The Fifth Musketeer

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Good Guys Wear Black Go Tell The Spartans

Gray Eagle The Great Hoax The Great Train Robbery Harper Valley PTA Head over Heels Hot Stuff House Calls I Wanna Hold Your Hand Jaws Jaws II Jennifer The Kids Are Alright laGrande Bourgeoise The last Waltz The last Wave The late Great Planet Earth lifeguard A little Night Music lost and Found Madame Rosa The Main Event A Man, A Woman and a Bank Meatballs The Medusa Touch Meteor Moonraker More American Graffiti Murder by Decree Newsfront Nightwing Norma Rae The Norseman Nosferatu, the Vampire Obsession Old Boyfriends Olivers Story On the Yard Opening Night

The Other Side of the Mountain, Part II Our Winning Season The Outfit Patrick A Perfect Couple Picnic at Hanging Rock The Promise Prophecy Real life Remember My Name Rich Kids Rocky Rocky II Renaldo Clara Roseland The Runner Stumbles Running The Seduction of Joe Tynan Seven-Per-Cent Solution Sextette The Shootist , Shout At The Devil Somebody Killed Her Husband Something Short of Paradjse Starship Invasions Starting Over Stroszek Telefon Time After Time The Villain Voices Walk Proud Wanda Nevada When A Stranger Calls Who'll Stop The Rain Yanks.

B - Obiectionable in Part for Everyone Americathon Firepower ' An Almost Perfect Affair French Postcards And Justice for All Girlfriends Avalanche Goldengirl The Bell Jar Grease Big Wednesday Halloween Bloodbrothers Hanover Street Boulevard Nights Hooper The Boys in Company C Hurricane Circle of Iron Ice Castles The Class of Miss Invasion of the MacMichael Body Snatchers Coming Home It lives Again The Concorde King of the Gypsies Airport '79 legacy Convoy love at First Bite .

Corvette Summer Marathon Man Damien-Omen II Magic.. .

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Network Nunzio Once in Paris_ Players Quintet Ruby Saint Jack Same Time, Next Year Scalpel Soldier of Orange Straight Time .

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By Cecilia Belanger The SOl,lth African novelist and Christian, Alan Paton, begins one of his novels: "Perhaps I could have saved him with only a word, two words out of my mouth. Perhaps I could have saved us all. But I never spoke them . . . for he spoke hard and bitter words to me, and shut the' door of his soul to me, and I withdrew. But I should have hammered on it; I should have broken it down with my naked hands; I should have cried out there, not ceasing, for behind it was a man in danger, the bravest and gentlest of all."

We give up too easily when people say hard and bitter things to us. We should stand our ground because the one rebuff· ing us probably needs help more than we realize. Sometimes we have a chance to save someone, but we withhold the words for fear we are intruding and per· haps it is too painful for us to speak, but we must brush that aside and speak. There is' no place in our lives for these cost· ly omissions, when people are drowning in our presence and we withhold the lifeline.

It happens every day, every

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The annual senior dance was held Wednesday in the school hall, while juniors have received their class rings. A blessing cere· mony will be held at a later date, while a buffet and ring dance are scheduled for tomorrow at Gaudette's Pavilion.

minute, somewhere. The sui- -overcrowding, unsanitary concides, the drugs, the alcohol, the ditions, ostentation and luxury, running away. There is a brutal- the grinding down of some while ity in silence. People wear others are idle, the spirit of buttons with "I love" something class prejudice, favoritism, vio· or other. What do they mean lence, is to forget both the exby it? Often it stops there with ample and the teachings of the button. Have they ever Christ. reached for the lost whom The church should .be the others' have ignored and cast swiftest to awaken people, the aside? J:lave they played a part bravest to speak, the strongest 'in the casting aside? Have they to rally the' moral forces of a ever struggled with someone or community. If it holds back it for someone? Have they suffered loses the' respect of its youth. for someone?

Christian hearts should be as wide as God's universe. Never Girls' volleyball concluded its before has the church had such need for people who can deal season with a 13·2 win fe.cord wisely with social questions. and a first place finish in the The church should be the first Southeastern Mass. Division II. to awaken conscience, to de· Sociology students recently fend its Founder. travele,d to the annual Wide To say that the church should World celebration at Boston's not interest itself in injustice, Hynes Auditorium.

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Keep Habits, Says Pope VATICAN CITY {NC) - Nuns must give witness to their voca· tion by a, total fidelity to the church, by living in community and esp~cially by wearing the religious habit, Pope John Paul II told 630 participants in the annual assembly of the Interna· tional Union of Superiors General.

Pope John Paul said'distinc· tive religious garb provides a "particular witness" and serves as "a sign . . . indicative of the choice you have made to conse· crate yourselves totally to the ideals of the kingdom of heaven; the choice of poverty, gladly lived and loved in trustful abandonment to the provident action of God; the choice of detachment from every compromise with secularism; the choice of

witness before the brothers and sisters of the world." .

A person attending the annual assembly'tNov. 12·15) said about 75 percent of the partici· pants wore religious habits.

Mercy Sister Theresa Kane, president of the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious, who called on the pope to consider including women in all ministries of the Catholic Church during the pope's visit to Wash· ington in October, was not present at the audience.

She had been in Rome for a meeting of councilors and dele· gates to the International Union of Superiors General but reo turned to the United States to serve as official LCWR observer to the U.S. bishops' meeting in Washington.

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Apocalypse Now Hair High Anxiety Interiors

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Promises in the Dark

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The Passage Phantasm Satan's Brew Secrets The Silent Partner The Stud Up in Smoke.

The Warriors When You COOlin' Back Red Ryder?

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- JOHN GIDORSE, television meteorologist, speaks on Christian commitment at Fall River area youth rally, held Sunday at St. Anthony of Padua parish, Fall River.

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ty, movie news ter films that give the theme force enough to strike echoing chords in the heart of mature Christian viewers.

"Avalanche Express" (Fox): This lackluster intrigue melodrama has to do with the CIA's spiriting the defecting head of Soviet intelligence (the late Robert .shaw in his last role) out of Italy where he has gone into hiding. Some conventional violence. PG, A2 "The Fish That Saved Pitts· burg!) _ (United Artists): This dreadful comedy about the reNew Films juvenation of a basketball franTwo current movies, "The chise through applied astrology Rose" and "Natural Enemies," has a lot of loud music and fast for example, despite many flaws, basketball which at least dismake extremely concrete and tract the viewer from the rest of Christian' truism: the movie. A bit of vulgar langvivid a the most extraordinary worldly uage. PG, A2 success is unsatisfying without Film on 1V a significant degree of religious Sunday, Nov. 25, 9 P.M. (CBS) faith. In "The Rose" Bette Mid- - "Oh, God!" (1977) - God, ler plays a rock star whose life looking just like George Burns, disintegrates as her career grows chooses a California super more spectacular. In "Natural market manager, who looks Enemies," Hal Holbrook plays a just like John Denver, to tell the liberal intellectual who has world that he is alive and well. achieved everything he set out This gentle comedy has Its heart to achieve and, mocked by the in the right place, and it has emptiness of his success, decides some effective moments. A to kill himself and his wife and special problem occurs, howchildren. ("The Rose is rated R, ever, for younger viewers, since A4 and "Natural Enemies" this God denies original sin,R,B). does not know the future, says If there is any religious trend that Jesus is his son only in in American filmmaking, it is' the sense that everyone is his this kind of negative one. Our son, and pronounces morality to best serious movies verify Aug- be entirely subjective. The film, ustine's famous cry from the moreover, while it spares other heart: "You have made us for religious groups, makes a Billy ourself, 0 God, and our hearts Graham-style evangelist into a are restless until they rest in gross caricature. PG, A3 you."

On Television Sunday, Nov. 25 (ABC) 1·1:30 Naturally all sorts of qualifications are in' order. The mess- P.M. - "Directions" "The Phil· age about the night side of the ippines: Human Rights ControAmerican dream is often presen- versy" - A documentary on huted in so flawed a fashion that man rights under the martial law it could do more harm than government of President Fergood to younger viewers. Blake dinand Marcos in the PhilipEdward's recent "10," which de- pines.

News correspondent plores sexual excess but gives Roger Grimsby interviews Bisha rather too-fond guided tour of op Francisco Claver, Jesuit some pertinent examples of it, Father James Reuter and other is a case in point. "Natural En- critics of the martial law govemies" suffers, to a lesser ex- ernment. President Marcos is aftent, in the same fashion, and forded the opportunity to reone can recommend "The Rose," spond to these criticisms. Prowith its hair-raising language duced by Daryl Griffin in' coand its depiction of drug abuse, operation with the U.S. Cathonly to adult viewers. But there olic Conference's Office for Film are elements in both these lat- and Broadcasting.

Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Film Office ratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for gen· eral viewing; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or younger. teens.

Catholic ratings: Al-approved for. children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3-approved for adults only; B-objectionable in part for everyone; A4-separate classification (given to films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanationl: C-condemned.

extra point spelled "WIN" for the Spartans.

Feehan finished 2-4-0 in Division Two of the Southeastern Mass. Conference and 4-5-1 overall. Stang finished 1-5-0 in conference, 1-8-1, overall.

Voke-Tech's gridders bade farewell to coach Riley with a 40-6 rout of the Old Rochester Bulldogs in a non-league game.

Seniors Jesse and John Montigny each scored two touchdowns in the victory. Commenting on the glorious finish to his In the ejirly stages of the, coaching career, Riley recalled game, things didn't look good that he began that career with for the Spartans as Feehan took a 49-6 loss to Durfee, adding a 6-0 lead in the first quart'er on ,that with the victory over Old Mike DiPietro's touchdown on Rochester he was "going out a one-yard plunge. In the sec- on the other end of the scoreond period; co-captain John L-e- board." Riley resigned as coach coste scored for Sfang on a two- to devote more time to his duyard run and Gil Lloyd' kicked ties as the school's athletic dithe extra point . .'. and that rector.

Bishop Stang High's first victory of the season and the resignation of Jeff Riley as head coach of football at Greater' New Bedford's Vocational High ,School dominated the last weekend of scholastic football.

Going into last Saturday's season finale, coach Bill Hart's Spartans were winless in nine outings - eight losses and one tie and coach John O'Boy's Feehan Shamrocks were 4-4-1 (won, lost( tied.)

Close Race In New Bedford has now run its win streak in the Bristol County CYO Hockey League to seven gaFles but it took a goal by Paul King with only 15 seconds re-

eya Hockey maining in the game for the pace-setters to eke out a 1-0 victory over Taunton last Sunday night in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River and keep the win

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In other games last Sunday, Somerset-Freetown was a 5-3, winner over defending champion Fall River South, and, Rochester blanked Fall River North, 2-0. Runnerup Somerset-Freetown thus tightened its grip on the runnerup spot, only one point back of New Bedford.

Somerset-Freetown and New Bedford are scheduled to meet at 11 P.M. next Sunday in the nightcap of the loop's usual three-game card. South and Rochester will meet at 9 P.M., North and Taunton at 10.

Parolee Admits To Chicago Fire CHICAGO (NC) - A 32-yearold man reported to be on parole for' convictions of murder and arson in two fires during the 1960s said on a television !broadcast in Chicago that he started the fire in December, in 1958 at Our Lady of Angels School in which 92 children and three nuns died.

Alex Burkholder, WGN-1V producer and one of those who conducJed the TV interview, said the man's name was npt being made public because of a promise to him to withhold it. Burkholder said also that the man was 11 years old in 1958 and a student at a training school in the Chicago area.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur. Nov; 22, 1979

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN There will be a SHOP meeting 'i at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29.

Speakers will discuss drugs and alcohol.'

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ANNE, ) FALL RIVER Altar boys will be commissioned for their duties in a' cere· PUBLICITY CHAIRMEN ST. MARY, . mony at 10 a.m. Sunday,. Dec. are asked to submit news Items for this SEEKONK' ~ column to The Anchor, P. O. Box 7, Fall 2.

River, 02722. Name of city or town should The Women's Guild ChristThose knowing of parishioners be included. as well as full dates of all mas party will be held Monday activities. Please send news of future rather in nursing homes are asked to than past events. Note: We do not carry night, Dec. 3 in the CCD social news of fundraising activities such as notify the rectory so that they bingos, whists, dances, suppers and bazaars. room, wfth entertainment by the may be visited during the We are happy to carry notices of spiritual choir of St. Paul's Church, programs, club meeti",!s, youth projects and Christmas season. similar nonprofit activities.

Edgewood, R.I. Reservations Fundralsing projects may be advertised at our regular rates, obtainable from The close Sunday.

ST. PATRICK, Anchor business office. telephone 675·7151.

FALMOUTH ST. JOHN OF GOD, NAVY CHORISTERS, The Women's Guild rememSOMERSET NEWPORT The Holy Name Society will brance committee has donated The choristers will perform, meet Sunday in the parish cen- "Streets" by Margaret Budenz a benefit concert" for the Rose ter following 8:30 ,a.m. Mass. to· the Falmouth Public Library.

Hawthorne Lathrop' Home, Diocesan officers of the St. The gift memorializes the late '~Christmas in Song:; at 4 p.m.

Vincent de Paul Society will Ethel Ignos.. ~Presentation of Sunday, Dec: 2 at the First Bapmeet Wednesday at the center memorial volumes, in honor of tist Church, 228 North Main St., to plan a northeast regional con- deceased guild members and to Fall River. further general understanding of vention set for June. ' ' 'SS. PETER AND PAUL, FALL RIVER A coach is needed for the Junior CYO basketball team (grades 6-8). .

A thI:ee-evening enrichment program for married couples will be held Dec. 2 through 4.

The Senior CYO executive PRESENTS board will meet at 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday. Members will meet at 7 p.m.

A permanent diaconate information night will be held at 7:45 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3 in the Kol· be room. Present deacon candidates will explain the program.

Interested men and their wives are invited.

Catholicism is a longstanding tradition. Over the years 59 books hllve been donated.

'Canned goods may be -brought to Mass each Sunday until Christmas, when they will be distributed to the needy. Any parishioner knowing of a family in ne'ed may notify one of the priests.

The annual Bishops' Clothing Drive will conclude Sunday, with Frank Flynn in charge of collections.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NEW BEDFORD The parish council will hold an open meeting at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2. j\genda items may be submitted to Bill Whelan, president, or Anita Belliveau, secretary.

MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER, FALL RIVER DIOCESE Marriage Encounters will take place the weekends of Dec. 7, Jan. 4 and Jan. 18. Further information is available from Ed and Jan Ma1hews, Brockton, telephone 584-1996.

ST. JOHN BAPTIST, NEW BEDFORD Those. interested in joining the Couples Club may contact the rectory. Prospective members of the Forever Young Senior Citizens Group may call Agnes Espinola, 992-1903.

ST. STANISLAUS, FALL RIVER The Secret Christmas wafers :(oplatki) are "Success is getting what· you available at the convent, and' orders for Advent wreaths are want. Happiriess is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie being accepted.

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JOSEPH, NEW BEDFORD The Legion of Mary will hold a communion breakfast following.

8:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. The Mass will be offered for deceased members and all are' welcome to attend it and the breakfast, for which there is no' charge.

SACRED HEART, FALL RIVER Parents of candidates for First Penance are asked to meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the school cafeteria.

Home Advent wreaths will be blessed at 10 a.m. Mass Sunday, Dec. 2. Directions for making wreaths are available at the rear of the church and will be distributed at all CCD classes. . , Women's Guild members' will hold their annual Christmas party Monday, Dec. 3 at Independence Harbor, Assonet.. Busses will leave from the church at 6:30, p.m.

S.enior citizens will participate' in a Christmas shopping bus trip to Burlington MliIll Monday at 9 a.m.

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, NEWBEDFQ~ Officers of Men of the' Sacred Hear:ts will be installed at ceremonies to begin at 2 p.m. Sunday with exposition of, the Blessed Sacrament and a holy hour. Mass will be offered at· 5 p.m., refreshments will be served and the program will close at 7 p.m. with recitation of the rosary in Portuguese and E~glish Benediction.

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