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Faithful Appreciate Active Mass Role Parishes of the Diocese of Fall River have already put into practice the directives dealing with lay participation in Divine Worship. THE ANCHOR, in recent weeks, has pictured two different laymen reading the Epistle and the. Gospel in English. Following the Instruction of'the Congregation of Sacred Rites, one of the last publications of the pontificate of Pope Pius dialogue Mass no one is to recite interior devotion that is XII, great interest has been aloud the prayers that properly so The necessary at Mass is stressed shown by pastors and par belong to the priest. The collect, by the order of "sacred silence" the offertory prayers, the canon, that is to be observed during ishioners in the more wide spread participation by the con gregation in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. This Instruction of the Holy See has elevated the dialogue Mass to an act of public worship. It is, in fact, the most ,erfect form of low Mass, and its intro duction is the first change in the form of the Mass since the re
form of 'th~ ,R,omflq l,\fiss~l by St.
Pius V in 1570. , Celebra'nt's ',Place Despite, 'the emphasis placed upon, the role of. the laity, no one usurps the place of the cel
ebrant or exercises his powers. Thus, at Mass it is the celebrant, and not the ministers or the people, who consecrates the Eucharist. Furthermore, in the
Advent Wreath Prepares, 'Home ,For Christmas The custom of the Advent Wreath has spread so rapid ly 'in the United' States that 'it has already' become a
SEASON OF PREPARATION: Making an Advent Wreath are, left to right, Carol Emerson, Barbara Cross and Patricia Devlin, all of St. Mary's Parish, Taunton.
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First Sunday of Advent Begins New Year of Christ and Chur~h .
Sunday, the First Sunday of Advent, is the beginning ef a new year of Christ and His Church.. The life of Jesus Christ is too rich to be summed up or eaptured by His followers in a single feast ,or in several feasts. And so the Church re ment of His Church being re lives the life of Christ lived.' ' throughout an entire year, Each Catholic, who received beginning with the Advent the first. measure of the Christ
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Missionary' Cenacle Apostolate Plans Conference at Wareham The New England Regional Conference of the Mis sionary Cenacle Apostolate will take place in St., Patrick's Auditorium, Wareham, on Sunday. The Missionary Cenacle Apostolate is a Lay Apostolate movement under the direc "The Need of a Lay Apostolate." tion of the Missionary Serv Sister Mary Consolata, M.S.B.T'., ants of the Most Blessed of Cambridge, will speak on "The Trinity. These Sisters do why, what, where and how of
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parish missionary work in St. Patrick's . Parish, Wareham, Our Lady of the Assumption Parish, Osterville, St. Francis Xavier Parish, Hyannis, St. Pat rick's Parish, 'Falmouth, and Holy Ghost Parish, Attleboro. The Lay A: 'stolate aims at ,,4howing members of the laity their role in the life of the Church and the opportunities they have to bring their families and friends closer to Christ. Dr. Margaret Healy, General eustodian of the Apostolate, will address the general meeting on
the Missionary Cenacle Aposto late." Workshops on the "Prob lems and Methods of the Aposto late" will be held. These work shops will be divided into Sen iors A, Seniors B, Juniors-First and Second Years of High School, Juniors - Third and Fourth Years of High School, and Boys. The result of the workshops will be summarized by Dr. Healy after reports, are submitted from the various groups. The meeting will close with a sermon and Benediction in St. Turn to Page Eighteen
cherished part of Advent in the home. The Advent Wreath is a wreath
made 'of evergreens that is either
suspended 'from the ceiling or
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Suggests Family Members Attend Mass Toget~er WINNIPEG (NC) - The "spiritual apartheid" ·exist ing between many parents and their children has been strongly denounced by Bishop Malcolm 'A. MacEachern of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, here in Canada. He la
beled as "pernicious dichotomy"
any program which separates
parents from children in attend
ance at church services.
Scores Separation
"This spiritual apartheid-this
segregation-is too often encour
aged in ~he early years," the
Bishop stated. "Witness, for ex
ample, the tendency to separate
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are reserved to the celebrant alone. No one else is to recite them aloud, whethltr in Latin or in English. ' The commentator must not' read them aloud, either, in explaining the Mass.
certain parts of the Mass, espe cially from the Consecration to the Pater Noster. Even the organ should be silent at these times st» that no distraction will divert Turn to Page Eighteen
Flood of 'Hate Literature Incites Church Bombings WASHINGTON (NC)-In less than two years there have been bomb attacks on eight synagogues, four Christ ian churches, six school buildings and the homes of more than 20 negroes.
Hundreds of bombing threats have been made and, in
most cases, motivation for is, in most cases, apparently the the bombings and threats product Of unbalanced minds. It has been clear: racial and attacks its favorite targets Negroes, Jews and Catholics religious hatreds. More diffi cult to isolate has been the'irn JDediate 'cause of the increased Violence. Observers agree, however; that it has been no coincidence that the increase~.violenceof the past few months has been paralleled by an increase in the amount of '~llate" literature flooding the mails. The hate literature on file in the U. S. PO!;t Office Department
with vituperative fanaticism. High Arm,. Officer Most of it, one postal official remarked, follows a pattern. An isolated fact is seized on~in the case of the Catholic Church, often its remarkable rate of growth in this country-and this is woven in and out of a seriel of unfounded claims and charges. , A typical anti-Catholic dia Turn to Page Sixteen
Vatican Newspaper Editor Cites Problems Facing Pope John' VATICAN CITY (NC)The major problems facrng His Holiness Pope John XXIII at the beginning of his reign are communism, socialism, the threat of a useless war and racism. This is the appraisal given death of Pius XII, were moti by Count Giuseppe Dalla vated because their governments persuaded to do so by the Torre, editor of L'Osserva were people, who felt that the Roman tore Romano, Vatican City Pontificate was their ally in the
daily, in answer to questions struggle for liberty and democ asked him by the N.C.W.C. News racy." Service. Socialism That the new Pope may be Discussing socialism first, he expected to have a decisive voice said that "socialism, considered in the solution of these problems, as a political movement and a Count Dalla Torre said, is par trade union movement, cannot tially indicated by the growing , be denied the right to its own prestige of the papacy as shown defense . . . if it is sincerely by world reaction to the death faithful to the principle and of Pius XII and the election of method of liberty and democ his successor. The Count said: racy ... "I am convinced that the c'on "We are living in exceptional dolences of the' political men of times and in crisis. Times must Turn to Page Sixteen
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Give Thanks
In Rome'
ROME (NC) Thanks ,giving Day is being cele brated with a solemn Mass of. Thanksgiving at Santa Susanna, church for American
Catholics in Rome.
Celebrant of the Mass is Paul
ist Father James Cunningham,
rector of the church. Msgr.
Joseph Emmenegger, rector of
the graduate school of the North
American College, IS preacher.
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SHOES FOR NEEDY CHILDREN: Mrs. Josepfl Murphy of St. Mary's Parish, Mansfield, explains plight of other children ;when her daughter Teresa hesitates to surrender pair of shoes she has outgrown.
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