Diocesan Churches to Mark Holiday • Special' Mass Laity Evidences Keen Interest In Today, throughout the United States, a completely American Mass will be offered for a truly religious observance of Thanksgiving Day. The ceremonies, or form of the Mass, will not be different from any other Mass but the text, especially prepared by the Bishops of the United States wilJ, be completely American-orientated. All Mass texts, including a special ,Preface, speak not only of thanking God for the favors obta.ined from Him but put this appreciation in the American scene. We thank God for America, its great ideals, its hertiage, itself. The idea of thanks runs in all the laity responses. For instance, the Introit or Entrance Hymn reads: "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good: His love is everlasting. Give thanks to the God of gods; His love is everlasting. Give thanks to the Lord of lords; His love is everlasting. Give thanks to the God of heaven; his love is everlasting." The Epistle is St. Paul's prayer of thanks to Almighty God for the gift of generous and truly dedicated Christians (l Cor. 1:4-9). The Gospel stresses the thanks we owe to God for
PRAYER Of the New Mass for Thanksgiving Day Let 'us pray. -
o God, you have fulfilled our founding fathers' faith in your divine providence by, making and' keeping us a land 7'ich 'hi the abundance of your creation. ' Freedom, justice, and universal brotherhood are for us our precious heritage, but for countless men, in our midst and all over the world, they are still only a dream. May we be faithful to share this heritage with the living and transmit it to a people still unborn: through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.
New No. Dartmouth Church To Adjoin Stang Property The newly established St. Julie Billiart Church in North Dartmouth will be located on a five-acre plot adjoining Bishop Stang High School. This announcement was made today by Rev. John F. Hogan who will serve' as the first pastor of the, newest diocesan parish. The diocese parishes, will attend Mass in the regional diocesan high has already procured the school auditorium until the conparish rectory which will be templated church is constructed. located in the DeMello family homestead at 494 Slocum Road. The laity, comprising members of four different New Bedfor, Dartmouth and Westport
Emphasizes Need To Aid Stranded Czech Refug'ees WASHINGTON (NC) An emergency appeal for help in resettling 1,000 Czech and Slovak refugee families now living in Austrian refugee camps has been made by the chairman of the Department of International Affairs, United States Catholic Conference. "It is an emergency and time is of the essence," says Auxiliary Bishop Edward E. Swanstrom of Turn to Page Six
St. Julie's parish is now made up of some who attended St. Mary's Church, South Dartmouth; St. George's Church in Westport; Holy Name and St. Lawrence parishes in New Bedford. Father Hogan also announced today that four Masses will be celebrated each Sunday morning for the convenience of his parishioners. They will be said at 8, 9, 10 and 11. "I feel certain that we can amply serve our people most comfortably with the four Masses in· the spacious school auditorium," Father Hogan asserted.
.Postponement Due to sickness and a shortage of priests, the contemplated establishment of a new parish at Cathedral Camp, East Freetown, has been temporarily postponed.
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the abundant benefits of a zealous work, the riches of this world in relation to the richness of an intimate relationship with the all provident God. (Luke 12:15-21.) The successes of this life are due primarily to Our Father in heaven the Offertory verse teaches us: "My soul, give thanks to the Lord; all ~y being, bless His Holy Name. Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and forget not all His benefits; He pardons all your iniquities, He heals all your ills. He redeems _your life from destruction; He crowns yob with kindness and compassion, 'He fills your lifetime with good; your youth is renewed like the eagle's. Merciful and gracious is the Lord, slow to anger and abounding in kindness." Our American thanksgiving, to be truly religious, must be that which is reflected in the thanksgiving or post-communion prayer: "Thinking back on Your boundless generosity as we share this thanksgiving meal, 0 Lord, we cannot fail to be reminded of our shortcomings towards others. Let us share with generous hearts and open hands the fruits of the earth which you have given into our keeping, as we hope to share the fruits of eternal life. Through Christ our 'Lord. Amen."
New Mass Rites Will Blend Community, Private Prayer Pope Paul has been very alert to point out that the universal Mass rite is oriented toward both a sense of
community participation and an equal stress on private prayer. Price 10c $4.00 per Year So says Father John Rotelle, O.S.A., an American on the in© 1969 The Anchor ternational translation' team for liturgical texts as he discussed the new Mass and the process of Dioces~ translating the texts of the Mass, Sacraments and Breviary. There are five times in the new Mass where the congregation ceases participation to pray The intial reports on the an- privately. Yet, at the beginning nual Thanksgiving Clothing Drive of the Mass, the priest and people indicate that Catholics through- make their act of penance toout the Diocese do care for the gether; one lector reads the Episneedy in other parts of the tle, another the psalms, and anworld. other priest-beside the celeThe appeal opened last Sunday brant-reads the Gospel. These and will continue through the are all intended as involvement week. Parish collection points of the community. are open this week for the conThe offertory has been simvenience of donors planning on plified, the translator pointed giving children's clothing, work- out, as an offering of bread and men's clothes and shoes in good wine-the "fruit of man's handiwearable condition, blankets and ·work and, therefore, worthy warm clothing for the world's gifts of the community. needy: . The consecration remains as Clothes wilJ.. be taken by truck one of the four canons with to Long Island where they will which Americans are now familbe processed and baled for iar. The Holy Father has also shipment overseas. quoted the Vatican Council suggestion that duplication be deleted, that former practices of merit be reinstated and that the faithful be allowed greater participation. This accounts for the Vol. 13, No. 48, Nov. 27, 1969
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shorter offertory, the re-introduction of the handshake of peace and, in some countries, the taking of Communion in hand. Concerning the Communion practice, countries which requested the return to the ancient practice of having the communicant give himself Communion were allowed to do so. 1;he translations of the various texts for the Mass, the Sacraments and the Breviary are practically complete, the American priest observed. "The greatest job now lies with the respective episcopal conferences to take out texts for the liturgy and merge them into their cultures so that the most . benefit can be derived from them." He explained that the international translation commission does not make the changes but acts as a clearing house to receive the evaluations on proposed texts from the bishops, priests and laity from around the world. Father Rotelle further stressed that the commissiOn has followed the policy of working through the bishops to effectuate the best possible Latin text prior to any change in any of the Sacraments. "Once we arrive at an agreed text," Father Rotelle said, "then the episcopal conferences take over to accomplish two major tasks: The proper and acceptable Turn to Page Six
Catholic University The annual collection for the support of Catholic University of America in the nation's capital will be taken-
NORlH DARTMOUTH RECTORY: The DeMello home used as the rectory of the new St. Julie Brillart Parish.
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up at all Masses in the" Diocese of Fall River on Saturday evening and Sunday. The Pontifical university, which serves the laity as well as religious, is directed by the country's Catholic hierarchy. Bishop Connolly's letter, urging support for the District of Columbia university, is in the adjoining column.
Beloved in Chrnst, On the First Sunday in Advent, we of the Fall River Diocese, give to support the Catholic University in Washington. Eighty years ago, this school was founded for the higher education of the clergy. For that it had a promising amount of endowment. But with the demands of the years for training of teachers, school administrators, and specialists of various types great expansion in buildTurn to Page Six
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