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Diocesan Holy Year Preparation Concludes With Pilgrimages

The ANCHOR An Anchor 0/ Ihe Soul, Sure and Firm-St. Paul

His Excellency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, has designated regional "Pilgrimage Churches" to serve as special focal points for the Faithful of the Diocese in the coming final phase of the time of preparation for Holy Year 1975, the coming Advent Season,

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Pope Says Essential Concept Is Renewal In his very announcement of the coming Holy Year 1975, His Holiness Pope Paul' VI spoke at some length on the basic aim and goal of the Jubilee: "It is. necessary to stress what is the essential concept of this Holy Year. It is the interior renewal of man': of the man who thinks and who in his thought has lost the certainty of truth; of the man who works and who in his work has realized that he is so extroverted that he no longer fully possesses communication with himself; of the man who enjoys life and who so assumes himself and has so many excitig ways to gain pleasurable experience that he soon feels bored and disillusioned. Man must be renewed from within, This is what the Gospel calls conversion, penance and a

Rome Pilgrimage N'ext Februa ry When the Holy Father Pope Paul VI formally opens the Holy Year on Christmas eve, December 24, 1974, the thrust of the Jubilee observance of the People of God will shift from local, diocesan scenes to Rome itself, the Eternal City. The year-long time of preparation in dioceses throughout the Universal Church will then have ended. The focal point for the reconciliation and renewal of God's People 'Qvill be in the very heart of Christendom. During 1975, as the pastoral document published by the Central Commission for the Holy Year notes, the Faithful will, in great numbers, undertake "the quest for a new meeting with God in the experience of contact with the Tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul (who sum up also the memories of the other Apostles) whose bodies rest in their Turn to Page Twelve

change of heart. It is the process of self-rebirth. It is simple, like a clear courageous act of conscience, and at the same time complex, like a long, instructive and reforming apprenticeship. It is also a moment of grace, and one usually does not obtain grace without bowing one's head. And we do not think we err in detecting in modern man profound dissatisfaction, satiety coupled with insufficiency, unhappiness produced by false formulas for 'happiness, with which he is intoxicated, and dismay at not knowing how to "enjoy the thousand and one pleasures that Turn to Page Fifteen

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Cathedral, Fan River "Pilgrimage . churches" will, during the month of December, be the sites for special religious observances at which participants may gain ·th.e Gift of the Indulgence. Designated as "pilgrimage churches," in addition to the Cathedral of Saint Mary

esan preparatory observance. It is the season of acute longing for salvation and redemption. It is the season of liturgical preparation for the coming of the Savior. The concepts which the Holy Father has designated as Turn to Page Two

St. Mary, Taunton

Community Observances Involve Several Areas

Nursing Homes Have Programs His Exce1lency, the Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River, has made special arrangements for the intimate participation of the elderly and sickly residents of a number of Diocesan facilities in the final preparation for Holy Year 1975 during the coming Advent Season. Recognizing that many of the good people residing in Diocesan homes for the elderly would. be impeded from participating in local pilgrimages to speciallydesignated churches in the various geographic regions of the Diocese, Bishop Cronin has arranged for Holy Year Servi·ces at whiCh the Gift of the Indlligence may be gained in accord with' the following schedule: First Sunday of Advent, December 1st-Our Lady's Haven, Fairhaven Second Sunday of Advent, December 8th --.: Marian Manor, Taunton Third Sunday of Advent, December 15th-Madonna Manor, North Attleboro; Rose Hawthorne Home, Fall River Turn to Page Four

of the Assumption in Fall River, are: 'Saint Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis Saint Lawrence Church in New Bedford Saint Mary's Ohurch in Taunton Saint Mary's Church in North Attleboro The Shrine of Our Lady of LaSalette in Attleboro Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in New Bedford The coming Season of Advent will be the culmination of local, diocesan preparation for the Holy Year. On Christmas Eve, His Holiness Pope Paul VI will preside at the solemn opening of the Jubilee Year door at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican and from that time on the particular emphasis of the Holy Year will be centered in Rome. 'Dhe special themes ·of the time of preparation of the Faithful for the Holy Year, reconciliation and renewal, will be emphasized in the local observances which will be scheduled at all "pilgrimage churches." Weekly devotions will be planned in each regional site. Residents of the various geographic areas will thus have an opportunny to participate in the formal prepartion of the People of God for the Holy Year and to gain the Indulgence associated with the Jubilee. The Advent Season is especially appropriate for the final thrust and climax of the Dioc-

St. Mary, No. Attleboro

To coordinate and facilitate arrangements announced by His ExcelIency, the Most Reverend 'Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of FalI River, whereby regional "Pilgrimage Churches" in various sections of the Diocese will serve as special centers for the Faith-

Liturgical Readin·gs Give Reconciliation Themes The coming Advent Season will be the final period of local, Diocesan preparation for Holy Year 1975. The public worship of tbe Church, the liturgy, of this Season is.' especially appropriate for the climax of a year's anticipation of the People of God for the Jubilee Year. Advent, 1974, will coincide, in the United States, with the defin-

Gratitude Most Reverend James L. Connolly, D.D., Retired Bishop of Fall River, expresses sincere gratitude to one and all for the outpouring of greetings and prayerful wishes sent to him on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

itive introduction of the revised Sacramentary, the official book of prayers for the celebration of Mass, Whereas up to now, the use of the revised prayers at Mass has been optional, on Dec. 1, celebrants are required to utilize the official translations in English of the Sacramentary. New formulations are now to be used for the three special prayers or "orations'" of the Mass, the Opening Prayer, which cpmes at the beginning of Mass, just after the Penitential Rite, the Prayer Over the Gifts, which immediately precedes the solemn Eucharistic Prayers themselves, and the Prayer after Communion, which in a sense summarizes alI which has preceded and which seeks the final seal of God's blessing upon the congregation as it de· Turn to Page Thirteen

ful to share in the final phase of t>he Diocesan preparation for Holy Year 1975, a special com· mittee of clergy will assist pastors and priests of the designated churches in planning and conducting appropriate devotions. The Diocesan Holy Year Commission has announced that Father Barry W. Wall of Saint Mary's Cathedral will coordinate Turn to Page Fourteen

St. Lawrence, New Bedford


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