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Marian Medals will go to 103 Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will present the Marian Medal to 103 persons in ceremonies at 3 p.m.

Sunday at St. Mary's Cathedral.

The award honors persons outstanding for service within their parishes.

Among the 1988 medal recipients is Dona Celeste Pimentel of the Greater Attleboro Spanish Apostolate, which is based in St. Joseph's parish in that city.

Father Paul E. Canuel, St. Joseph's pastor and Spanish Apostolate director for the Attle.boro area, wrote of her: "Celeste came to our parish about four years ago from the Dominican Republic. From the very beginning she has entered wholeheartedly into the life of the Spanish community, bringing with her a spirit of enthusiasm that has uplifted the spirits of many of our needy.

"She teaches religious education for first graders; she is a commentator at Mass; she is the director of our Spanish prayer group; she takes an active part in the Passion Play which the Spanish community portrays every Good Friday.

She has organized and directed folkloric presentations at some of our family celebrations. She is most deserving of this award."

This list of other medalists and their parishes follows:

F ALL RIVER AREA: Leo Barboza, St. John of God, Somerset; Mrs. Antoinette (Louis) Bernier, St. Mathieu, Fall River; Antonio Bettencourt, Our Lady of Health, Fall River; Miss Agnes Inez Braga, St. Louis, Fall River; Mrs. Eunice (John) Burke, Sacred Heart, Fall River.

Miss Maria Cabral, St. Anthony of Padua, Fall River; Miss Patricia Ann Cabral, O.L. Angels, Fall River; Wilfred A. Courville, St. Dominic, Swansea; Miss Helene Demers, St. Anne's, Fall River; Mrs. Florence (John) Deveney, St. Stanislaus, Fall River.

John J. Donnelly, Holy Name, . Fall River; Mrs. Therese B. (Francisco) Escobar, St. Louis de France, Swansea; Mrs. Laura Fedele, St. Michael, Fall River; Rene Andre Forand, St. William, Fall River; Romeo A. Fortin, Our Lady of Grace, Westport.

Eugene Gagnon, St. Jean Baptiste, Fall·River; Mrs. Helen (Americo) Gasperini, Holy Rosary, Fall River; Mrs. Doris (Raymond) Gaudreau, St. Michael, Swansea, Miss Mary T. Hurley, St. Mary's Cathedral, Fall River; Ernest' LaRue, Blessed Sacrament, Fall River.

Mrs. Therese Macedo, St. Thomas More, Somerset; Joseph Matthews, St. Patrick, Somerset; Raymond A. Morrissette, Notre Dame, Fall River; Mrs. Isabel J. Parent,

Our Lady of Fatima, Swansea; Miss Gladys Pickup, SS. Pe.ter and Paul, Fall River.

Antonio Duarte Raposo, Espirito Santo, Fall River; Joseph. Sabat, Holy Cross, Fall River; Antone Silvia, St. Elizabeth, Fall River; Mrs. Dorothy E. (Walter) Sliwa, Immaculate Conception, Fall River; Stanley J. Wineta, St. Patrick, Fall River.

ATTLEBORO AREA: Joseph R. Daley, St. Mary, Norton; Mrs. Margaret (Thomas) Giblin, St. Mary, Seekonk; George T. Lamarre, St. Joseph, Attleboro; James P. Lennox, Holy Ghost, Attleboro; Miss Margaret Elizabeth Mahoney, St. Mary, Mansfield.

Mrs. Rejeanne (Julien) Marquis, St. Stephen, Attleboro; John A. Mellen, O.L. Mt. Carmel, Seekonk; Alvaro Oliveira, St. John Evangelist, Attleboro; William A. Sharples, St. Theresa, Attleboro; Mrs. Solange (Saulnier) Sullivan, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro; Mrs. Mary Z. (Fre'derick) Thorpe, St. Mary, North Attleboro; Mrs. Ann (William) Walton, St. Mark, Attleboro.

CAPE, ISLANDS AREA: Mrs. Mary (Robert) Banziger, Holy Redeemer, Chatham; James M. Boles, Corpus Christi, Sandwich, Mrs. Lorrain Aresta Cambra, St. Pius X, South Yarmouth; Mrs. Joanne (James) Cleary, Sacred Heart, Oak Bluffs; Mrs. Mary Lorimer Coates, p.L. Isle, Nantucket.

Mrs. Lorraine Kmiec, O.L. Lourdes, Wellfleet; Joseph N. Lema, St. Peter Apostle, Provincetown; Mrs. Rita (James) Lopes, St. Margaret, Buzzards Bay; Mrs. Kathleen Roche Maddison, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis; Leo P. McCarty, St. Elizabeth Seton, North Falmouth.

John F. McGrath, Holy Trinity, West Harwich; Mrs. Margaret (Sam) Mullin, O.L. of Assumption, Osterville; Barry O'Neil, St. Joseph, Woods Hole; Mrs. Rita (Carl) O'Neill; St. Joan of Are, Orleans; John J. Pendergast, Jr., O.L. Victory, Centerville.

Mrs. Judith Dexter Robbins, St. Patrick, Falmouth; Miss Margaret W. Sonnenberg, O.L. Cape, Brewster; Mrs. Eleanor C. Tracy, St. John Evangelist, Pocasset; George S. Wyatt, Christ the King, Cotuit/ Mashpee. '

NEW BEDFORD AREA: Mrs. Mildred (James) Almeida, O.L. Mt. Carmel, New Bedford; Mrs. Helen (Norman) Aubertine, St. Mary, South Dartmouth, Manuel Baptista, Immaculate Conception, New Bedford; Thomas J. Beedem, St. Julie Billiart, North Dartmouth; Ms. Yvonne Blais, Saint Kilian, New Bedford.

Mrs. Carol (Joseph) Borges, St. Joseph, Fairhaven; David L. Buckley, Jr., St. John Baptist, Westport; Mrs. Cecelia (Leon) Copach, St. Casimir, New Bedford; Mrs. Laura Debrosse, St. Anne, New Bedford; DonTurn to Page Six .

SISTERS OF ST. DOROTHY Margaret Mary Walsh, left, and Adelaid Furtado, both former teachers and principals at New Bedford's Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, are typical of the retired religious who will benefit from the first annual Retirement Fund for Religious collectIon, to be held at Masses nationwide Dec. to and II. See story beginning page 8.

Church authorities clarify definition of abortion VATICAN CITY (NC) Church authorities have clarified the legal definition of abortion to include new drugs and surgical procedures.

"In light of what's happened in abortion lately, and in light of what we know about conception, and in light of the church's teaching of the sacredness of human life, the question arose!' whether the "legal definition used by the church is something more encompassing" than the traditional legal understanding of what is meant by abortion, said Dominican Father Joseph Fox, a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law. The commission said any method used to terminate a human life from the moment of conception until birth is an abortion and therefore an excommunicable offense.

Father Fox said it was his opinion that the ruling includes all abortifacients, including intrauterine devices and certain types of birth control pills. He also said the term "fetus" was used to include all life from the moment of conceptio'n until birth.

Scientifically speaking, the term fetus is applied to unborn human life from the end of the third month until birth.

The canon law commission made the ruling last January, but it was not announced at the Vatican until Nov. 24.

The ruling clarified Canon 1398,

which says that "a person who procures a completed abortion incurs an automatic excommunication."

The Nov. 24 statement said

abortion is not only the "expulsion of the immature fetus" but is "the killing fo the same fetus in any way and at any time from the moment of conception."

Father Fox said the traditional understanding ofabortion has been the ejection of a "living but nonviable fetus" from the uterus.

New technologies have eclipsed this traditional understanding, he said. The recently released Frenchdeveloped drug R U-486, called the abortion pill, provokes miscarriages by blocking progesterone in the first weeks of pregnancy. Progesterone is a hormone necessary for a pregnancy t~ succeed.

In addition, doctors have developed new surgical procedures to kill some fetuses in the case of multiple pregnancies. This procedure, in which doctors insert a needle through a woman's abdomen and inject potassium chloride into the hearts of selected fetuses, was designed to increase the chances of a successful pregnancy for one fetus.

Abortifacients include the IUD, which prevents the implantation of the fertilized egg, as well as socalled "morning after" pills and certain birth control pills that prevent implantation or stimulate uterine contractions to reject the fertilized egg.

However, for an excommunication penalty to go into effect, one must know there is a pregnancy, and there must be a free choice to Turn to Page Three

"'NCCW speaker'urges chall~~ge SEATTLE (NC) - Catholic women must reflect on ways that they can "support, nurture and challenge" themselves and the rest of the church, said the keynotespeaker at the Nov. 9-13 general assembly of the National Council of Catholic Women.

The speaker, Joyce Stewart, from Issaquah, Wash., former director ofthe Faith and Community Developml;nt Department of the archdiocese of Seattle, told the more than 400 women attending the Seattle meeting that "women of faith are the greatest force in the church today, a sign of meaning and light in the church."

The Fall River Diocesan Council of Catholic Women was represented at the assembly by president Dorothy Curry, diocesan moderator Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, past president Claudette Armstrong, first vice-president Madeline Wojcik, member Mary Geary and Claire McMahon, pres-

ident ofNCCW Associates, a group that provides financial assistance to the national council.

Ms. Stewart said women offaith can help the church see that it "must practice justice, love, mercy, before it tells others to do it." .

The council, which has 8,000 affiliated organizations in 123 U.S. dioceses, chose as the assembly theme the call of Jesus to "Come and See." "Christ responded to real human needs," Ms. Stewart said. "And as women working as volunteers, in schools, churches and service c1ubsthe same kinds of places where Jesus dwelt - we can find and serve needs."

Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen of Seattle welcomed the assembly's delegates and told them, "You can be significant agents of change in the church and society."

The national council has drafted a mission statement, "Moving Together to the 21 st Century," which

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will be voted on at its 1989 fall meeting in Atlanta.

The organizations's long~range plan calls for increasing membership, broadening multicultural representation, raising awareness of the council and "polishing its image," said Annette Kane, the council's executive director.

Mary Ann Kramer, national president, .said Catholic women need to let people know that they are members of the National Council of Catholic Women as they engage in service projects at food banks, hospitals and in other volunteer capacities "so that word of our activities spreads."

The council sponsors a national drug and alcohol abuse awareness program, and more than 4,000 members nationwide are involved in providing respite care to home bound people so their full-time caretakers, most often family members, can have a break.

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SISTER MICHAELINDA Plante, RSM, a Diocesan Departm'ent of Education associate superintendent of schools, was keynote speaker for the New England Association of Catholic Scbool Development Directors at a conference at Holy Cross College, Worcester. .

She discussed funding a school program for an audience of some 200 administrators and finance officers.

Father Richard W. Beaulieu, education department director, discussed the role of the central office in helping schools with development programs and Michael J. Donly and Michael J. Tabak, respectively headmaster.and development director at Coyle and Cassidy High School, Taunton, gave workshops on long range planning, anImal giving campaigns and alumni contributions.

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Support sailors' rights, maritime ministers told HOUSTON (NC) - Chaplains, must help humanize the conditions of seafarers, who are often victims of abusive business practices, an advocate of seamen's rights told the North American Maritime Ministries Conference, held recently in· Houston.

Sailors are often victims of a "common thread of disregard for the law among sea operators," said Paul Chapman, director of the Center for Seafarers' Rights in New York; thus chaplains should commit themselves to "humanize the seafarer's condition."

As port chaplains, "our accountability is to the seafarers under God and not to unions or owners," Chapman said.

Loyalty to God might. demand involvement on the political level, Chapman continued, because "we live on the nasty, grubby waterfront, not on a hiI!."

"The seafarer often has little opportunity to appeal to a higher authority" for ~is rights, Chapman said. Because of "an immense enforcement vacuum," the seafarer has to depend on the good will of the operator which ofter! is lacking.

and that he learned about the priesthood from Msgr. Furtado, whose never-failing encouragement supported him as a seminarian and young priest.

Church building St. John of God's parishioners saw the mortgage torn on a church that gracefully blends tribute to the parish's proud heritage of Portugal with adherence to present liturgical requirements.

First to catch the eye of the worshiper approaching the building is " its soaring bell tower, inlaid with five panels of multicolored glass . mosaic, each bearing the Cross of Christ, traditionally seen on the sailing ships of Portugal. .

The tower connects the two elements of the building, the square THE ST. JOHN of God church mo·rtgage gets a happy rip shaped church and the rectangular from Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, center, and pastor Father parish center.

Daniel L. Freitas. Parochial vicar Father Joseph M. Costa is at left. (Torchia photo)

Somerset church marks achievements On Sunday, Somerset's St. John of God parish celebrated its 60th anniversary and said a happy goodby to its church and parish center mortgage.

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin was principal celebrant at the Mass, . that began the festivities. A banquet followed at Swansea's Venus de Milo restaurant.

St. John of God's church, now home to about 1,300 families, was dedicated by Bishop Cronin on May 29, i978. The bishop blessed the parish center the same day.

The Mass/banquet this weekend also celebrated the 10th anniversary of the two buildings.

Parish history .

Records show that St. John of God had its beginnings in the late .1920s when the late Msgr. Augusto L. Furtado celebrated Mass in a Somerset garage and also at the town's Old Town Hall. Construction of the building replaced by the present church began in 1929 and it was dedicated by the late Bishop Cassidy in 1930.

In 1927, St.. John's first first communion class numbered 22 children and in the following year Msgr. Furtado officiated at five marriages and 33 baptisms. The first funeral did not come until . 1929 and the sacrament of confirmation was administered for the firsttime in 1930 to 147 youngsters.

In 1956 a new rectory was constructed and in 1974 it was moved to its present location at 996 Brayton Avenue.

Msgr. Furtado remained with the parish until his retirement in 1969, with the exception of a short

period in 1944 when he was transferred to St. Michael's parish, Fall River, and Father John Rezendes took his place.

Msgr. Luiz G. Mendonca, now diocesan vicar general, succeeded Father Furtado, serving until February, 1974, when Father Daniel L. Freitas, the present pastor, was named to the post.

The parish's first curate, the late Cardinal Humberto S. Medeiros, was on hand for the 1978 dedication. In a letter to parishioners, he noted that St. John of God was his first assignment after ordination

Clarification Continued from Page One abort, Father Fox said. He acknowledged that in the case of the IUD as well as abortifacient drugs, one might not know if an abortion has occurred.

Procuring, or helping someone to procure, an abortion is one of only seven offenses explicitly punished by excommunication under canon law. It is an automatic punishment, which means there need not be any official church declaration of the fact.

While normally only a bishop or certain church authorities have the authority to remove the penalty of automatic excommunication, in some dioceses this authority can be delegated to local confessors.

Father Fox said Catholics seeking to have an excommunication penalty removed should first go to a local confessor to find out what the procedure is in their diocese.

Priest is probation director AUSTIN, Texas (NC) - A Dominican priest has been appointed executive director of the Texas Adult Probation Commission. a state post with responsibility for more than 100 adult probation departments. more than 250.000

probationers and an annual budget. of nearly $51 million. Dominican Father James McDonough, who has nearly two decades of experience in the corrections field. was chosen to fill the position vacated in mid-July. "

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Parish memories Father Freitas was serving at the parish when the rectory was moved to its present location at the rate of six feet a day. Parish· staffers lived in the building during the move, which took four months. Father Freitas remembers that the dwelling finally got to the right street number on Christmas Eve and that running water, for a long time n<)t a part of rectory life, was considered a fine Christmas gift.

The pastor said the rectory was the first place he slept in America after he arrived from the Azores in 1947.

Dinero needed LOS ALTOS, CALIF. (NC) Hispanic Catholic leaders working to carry out a national Hispanic pastoral plan approved by the U.S. bishops in 1987 said lack of a budget is a stumbling block.

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THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Dec. 2, 1988

themooril19..-, Give Yourself as Gift Amid the commercial crassness of Christmas, which seemingly begins in July, Advent takes on special meaning for those who wish really to celebrate what the season is all about and indeed what life is all about. In the hustle and bustle of mad modernism, the Church wishes to help each of us focus on what is real, not just for now but for eternity.

Our problem is that we are so caught up in the pragmatic of living, we hardly have time for the true realities of this fragile _and scary world. This is more than evident in our addicted society which tries so hard to run away, to escape far too often to drugs or booze or a deadly combination thereof.

We glibly employ the expression "overdose" with an attitude which seems to say "it can never happen to me." Yet daily we read the obitul}ries and they include more and more names of the young. They fail to understand that although drugs can . remove. fears, too often their chilling price is death.

Immersed in such reality, Advent is a challenge to hope. It's a time to tell people to raise their heads and look up, that their salvation is at hand. So many church people simply do not celebrate this fact. Their attitude seems to be that hope is for church; it has meaning in the marketplace only if it makes a, profit. Our failure to proclaim our hopefulness casts gloom over many a family and home. â&#x20AC;˘ "Let us joyfully sing !o God our saviour." Ps. 94:1 But Advent tells us that life has possibilities, that it is worth liVing and that it can be free from fear.

The yearnings of man are made real in Advent. It is a season that helps us see that the Lord is truly the center of history.

The cry of the human heart begins with Adam as he looks for the Lord's coming in mercy. So too with Jacob, Juda, Moses,

By Father Kevin J. Harrington As a parish priest, I never cease food but the fellowship. Enjoying David, Malachias and above all Isaiah. In the new dispensato be amazed at the willingness of a good meal, surrounded by loved A few days before Thanksgiving tion we have the voice of John the Baptist, the affirming parishioners to share generously ones, we can be grateflll that life actions of Joseph and .of course the fullness of all hope in the I was in a convenience store already of their bounty. Cynics may carp .brings us delight as well as sorrow filled with Christmas decorations. person of Mary. They express the attitude of 'psychological Recognizing the clerical collar, the that one meal does not affect the and pain. ; We can also be grateful that t!J!e and spiritual hope which sustains the whole person. clerk said with an apologetic smile: . root causes of social injustice, but It is precisely to this proc~ssthat Advent brings assurance "We certainly make a mess of your such arguments are usually put gift Of food and fellowship is cortforward by people who take their tagious, making us more willing tb and confirmation. The computerization of man can, if allowed, friend's birthday!" be both gracious and grateful.

I was to~ched by the simplicity next meal for granted. render -him helpless and defenseless. In such a world, people Maybe, as we look back upon Thanksgiving Day at its best is of her observation. It also chalare numbers, statistics and fac~s. They have no heart and no lenged me to see Jesus as a friend. I . Thanksgiving 1988, we can resolve graced opportunity to thank God hope. They can no longer dream. All is a nightmare. imagine Jesus would tell me not to for the future to curb some of our for his never failing gifts.

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excesses and improve our spirit of celebration.

The ancient Romans ha'd no word for Thanksgiving. They would not "give" thanks but they "did" thanks in a manner somewhat akin to the attitude expressed by the modern saying: "Let's do lunch together."

The Romans would have called our holiday Thanksdoing Day and that would not be altogether a change for the worse. In traffic, when someone politely surrenders his or her right of way out of empathy with your inability to move, you are in your turn more likely to empathize with someone else in a similar situation.

Gratitude is contagious because it makes givers out of receivers.

Genuine emotions cry out to be embodied in practical deeds and the language ofthe ancient Romans seemed to express this reality betwho would think back over the ter than does ours.

The Editor past year and send a' thank you In good times it seems easy to be note at a time when one's mailbox is not filled with Christmas cards. grateful but even if one is religious From the moment of concep- it is very difficult to be grateful in tion each of us is on the receiving bad times. But Jesus gave thanks end of countless gifts. For a .at the Last Supper as he was facing thoughtful person, gratitude is as an agonizing death. Recalling a natural as breathing and can be as difficult time in his life, UN Secre. . tary General Dag Hammarskjold life-giving.

The United States and Canada wrote: "Cry. Cry if you must. But are the only two nations that cele- do not complain. The path chose you. And in the end, you shall say brate the Thanksgiving holiday. thank you." .

The experience of survival in a The saddest of Thanksgivings is hostile New World led to profound gratitude. It would be tragic that without a loved one, whether if we ever became so complacent in the separation has been caused by our prosperity that we forgot our death, disagreement or distance. . humble roots onhe fact that many We all know that what makes people slill struggle tp~survive:.E ..... L Thanksgiving special is' not the

put celebrating his birthday ahead But Advent, if preached and lived, tells us that there is more of the wonderful American custo life than a printout, and that a worthwhile goal is more than tom of Thanksgiving Day. a dividend, it is a blessing. We too can be ani'ong those who Unfortunately, we can also make bless. Advent is the season that prepares all of us baptized into a mess of Thanksgiving Day. Too the Lord, to receive him not only as the infant of Bethlehem many people use it as an excuse to and become the proverbut as the Redeemer who will come again in glory. During this overdrink bial couch potato hypnotized by season, the church brings before us the two comings, so that .the passivity of televised football. each of us may anticipate both with the same confidence and Nevertheless, however messy our celebrations, there is a measure of hope. truth in the adage: "If a thing is I[ we really celebrate Advent we can indeed be filled with doing, it's worth doing hope, for if the Lord came to earth in answer to the prayer of worth poorly." When it comes to giving our Old Testament ancestors, how much more does he come to . thanks there is more than a meaus at the Christmas feast! sure of truth in the saying: "GratiSo, as you put up your tree, as you decorate your house and tude is the least of the virtues; its you buy gifts for relatives and friends, remember why you do lack is the worst of the vices."

I have friends who send me this: to celebrate the fullness of light and life.

Thanksgiving cards instead of Give yourself a chance. 'Celebrate Advent and you'll have a Christmas cards. It is interesting great Christmas, not merely a casual if happy holiday. Such a that in the English language the Christmas will be a gift beyond all measure, because you will word "thank" coines from the word "think." It is a thoughtful friend give the gift of yourself.

December 3 1926, Rev. John W. McCarthy, P.R., Pastor, Sacred Heart, Fall River December 4 1945, Rev. Charles Ouellette, Assistant, St. James, Taunton December 5 1986, Rev. Eugene J. Boutin, Manchester Diocese December 6 1959, Rev. Joseph L. Cabral, Pastor, Our Lady of Angels, Fall River 1966, Rev. Msgr. John H. Hackett, Chancellor of Fall River Diocese, June-December, 1966 1971, Rev. Joseph Welch, Retired Pastor, Our Lady of Victory, Centerville 1985, Rev. John T. Higgins, Pastor Emeritus, St. Mary, Mansfield December 7 1977, Rev. Ambrose Bowen, Retired Pastor, St. Joseph, Taunton 1976, Rev. Thomas F. Daly, Retired Pastor, St. James, New Bedford December 8 1940, Rev. John F. Broderick, Pastor, St. Mary, South Dartmouth December 9 1983, Rev. Rene Patenaude, O.P., Retired Associate Pastor, St. Anne's, Fall River, Director of Youth Activities

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A couple of years ago, a New Jersey priest gave an unusual holiday sermon. From the pulpit he informed kids there wasn't any Santa Claus, that it was a parent fib and that the birth of Jesus is the only reason to celebrate Christmas.

He was right, of course, and would have won his case in court but the uproar he caused reverberated far beyond the disillusioned children and angry parents in the pew. His sermon hit the national news and the media pounced on it with glee.

Within a few days the priest was. publicly chastized by his bishop and he apologized to parents for usurping their right to decide if and when· children should believe in Santa Claus.

While I agree that his judgment was faulty, he did bring up a subject .that bothers parents. How do we give children the joy of Santa without teaching them to distrust us in the future?

As psychologist Vivian Friedman put it, "I think the task of childhood is to sort out .fantasy from reality. When the parent confuses the child, it makes it that much harder· on the child. If there can be the spirit of Santa Claus, there can also be monsters under the bed."

There seems to be general agree-

About the Shroud of Turin Q. My question is triggered by the recent investigations of the Shroud of Turin and the ongoing investigations of various reported apparitions such as the ones at Medjugorje. I realize the church always is cautious about these things but why? (Ohio) A. We believe, Ofcourse, that God can do anything he wants and speak to us anywhere and anytime , he wishes. As you say, however, the church is extremely cautious and generally slow to conclude that an apparition or other "miraculous" phenomenon has a supernatural explanation.

One reason is that some people are deluded easily about such things, especially when a lot of emotion is involved.

Another is that such events, even when proven to be of supernatural origin, do not change anything essential in our faith. Whenever the church approves such messages or events, all it says is that nothing in.them is contrary to Catholic faith or morals and that following the suggestions in these messages can be helpful in our efforts toward holiness.

It is helpful to remember, therefore, that the church never imposes .the new or special beliefs or practices contained in these revelations as obligations for all Catholics.

Thus the church has a'pproved some revelations or other phenomena (Lourdes is perhaps the most famous), while some, such as the alleged appearances of Our I..:ady at Nededah, Wis., in the 1950's and currently at Bayside, N.Y., it has formally rejected:' 'J,,, ;,JJI,.

ment among child psychologists, educators and social workers, how- DOLORES ever, that the myth of Santa is not harmful as long as parents do not CURRAN lie to children when they begin to question. This skepticism usually begins at five or six.

Parent-educators suggest that We can have both Santa and parents wait until the child brings up the subject. "When a child does Jesus but par.ents must helpchilask, 'Is there a Santa Claus'?' ask dren sort out the secular from the him what he thinks first," says sacred at Christmas. I suggest they Jacquelyn Mize, child therapist. make a point of balancing the two "If he still believes, let him go on always implying that bir'th of Jesus believing. If he says he does not is the real reason we celebrate believe, say, 'You're right. You · while Santa is a figure who reprefigured it out, didn't you'?' Then sents love.

When we decorate cookies, let's tell him you played Santa all these decorate some of the Baby Jesus. years out of love."

I've always found it disturbing Another child psychologist sugthat there are few religious symbol 'gests that as the children get older . and can think more abstractly, we cookie cutters at Christmas, but the gingerbread boy can become tell them Santa is a symbol of love Jesus and the gingerbread house and giving - that he is the Christthe manger with a bit of ingenuity. mas spirit.

For every visit to Santa, let's But is he? If he is, where does have a visit to a creche. For every that leave Jesus? And ifthe task of Rudolph tale, let's read one of the childhood lies in distinguishing ,little religious Christmas stories fantasy from reality, how do we which abound in church good help children realize Santa is fanstores. Every time children talk of tasy and Jesus is reality? · Santa and his largesse, we can I believe this is the issue the listen and then talk of the gifts of priest was addressing. Parents are the Magi. familiar with the dilemma. We . My heart went out to that priest know that younger children con- because he meant well. He,like us, fuse Santa with Jesus. They also deplores the secularization of our put Rudolph in the nativity scene. religious season but we can have Fantasy and reality become both if we put some thought and blurred. effort into it.

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About many, such as those at San Damiano, Italy; Madero, Mexico; Quebec; Wollongong, Australia; Medjugorje, Yugoslavia; Limpios, S'pain; Canton; Ohio; Rwanda; Thornton, Calif., and dozens more, it has made no decision one way or another.

-Q. How old must an elderly person be to be excused from Sunday Mass? This person is.69 ' years old, has stomach and intestinal problems and never knows if she can stay for an entire Mass.

She gets nervous and embarrassed about her condition when she is with a lot of people close together.

(Delaware) A. There is no actual age limit on the Sunday Mass obligation for a Catholic, once that individual has reached the age of reason.

Many older people, however, may be so handicapped or otherwise unable to get to Mass that they often, perhaps always, would be excused from that obligation.

Participation in Sunday Mass is a serious church law, but one is excused from that law for a serious reason.

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Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, St. Mary's Cathedral parish, Fall River, will head the hospitality committee for the 34th annual Bishop's Charity Ball of the diocese of Fall River, according to OUt' Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, PA, the ball's diocesan director. The Largest ReligiOus Display of charitable and social event w'ill be Christmas Lights in the Country held at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13 at White's of Westport.

OPEN EVERY EVENING Mrs. Richard M. Paulson, Immaculate Conception parish, November 24 thru January 2 Taunton, will assist Mrs. McWeekdays: 5:00 - 9:00 PM Mahon.

Ball proceeds benefit diocesan Weekends: 5:00 - 10:00 PM summer camps for underprivileged and exceptional children of all FREE ADMISSION & PARKING . races, colors and creeds, and other diocesan charitable apostolates.

The largest selection ofReligious Gifts Hospitality committee members are Mrs. Raymond Boulay, Mrs. VISIT THE SHRINE GIFT SHOP! Eugene Gagnon, Mrs. Anthony J. Geary, Mrs. Raymond Lavoie, Mrs. Manuel Nogueira, Mrs. Roger Dube, Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong and Mrs. Bertrand Patenaude, Fall River area; Theresa Lewis and Rout. 118 Rita Rock, New Bedford area.

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and Mrs. Albert G. Moitoza, memorative booklet may contact Taunton area; Mrs. George Bauza, ball committee members, VincenMrs. Albert Jackson and Mrs. tians or members of the Diocesan David Sellmayer, Attleboro area. Council of Catholic Women. listMsgr. Gomes named as ushers ings may also be sent to the Bishop's Michael Arruda, Raymond Bou- Charity Ball Headquarters, 410 lay, Henry Desmond, Arthur Gau- Highland Avenue, P.O. Box 1470, thier, Joseph Gromada, Raymond Fall River, MA 02722, Telephone Lavoie, Antone Pacheco, Honore 676-8943; 676-3200.

Vaillancourt, Roger Vezina, Fred Vitullo and John E. Sullivan, Fall River area.

V. Vincent Gerardi, Manuel A. Gomes and George Mendonca, New Bedford area; Horace Costa, BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Paul Ouellette and Richard M. Bank (N C) - The town governPaulson, Taunton area; and Rusment of Bethlehem, where Christ sell April, Attleboro area. . was born, has canceled traditional Persons or organizations wishChristmas celebrations because of ing to be listed in the ball comthe yearlong revolt against Israeli occupation.

The usually brightly lit Manger Square will remain. dark, and· its 40-foot Christmas tree will not be Continued from Page One decorated, said Bethlehem Mayor aid J. B. Dufour, S't. Joseph, New Hanna Nasser.

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"We don't see. any reason to Mrs. Elizabeth M. (Robert A. ) Gingras, St.Anthony, Mattapoisett; celebrate Christmas," Nasser said Gaston L. Laverdiere, St. Anthony Nov. 28. "We have to show conof Padua, New Bedford; Mrs. An- cernfor ourdead and for ourdetainees," Last December, Palestinian nette R. LeBlanc, St. Francis XavArabs began protesting Israel's ier, Acushnet; Raoul LeBlanc, St. Theresa, New Bedford; Mrs. Jean- occupation of the West Bank and nette M. (Preston)LeBoeuf, Sacred the Gaza Strip, captured from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967, Heart, New Bedford.

Mrs. Mary P. MacLean, St. Rita, Middle East War. In the last year, Marion; Miss Cecelia Majocha, O.L. . more than 300 Palestirtia:ns - inPerpetual Help, New Bedford; Mrs. cluding six from the Bethlehem Tina J. (William) McDonald, St. area -and II Israelis have been Patrick, Wareha'in; Mrs. Ezma(Her-' kilied, and '5,000 Paiestiriiims have mengel) Medeiros, 'St. Mary, New· been arrested. ", Bedforo;' FredericThomas M'organ:' Hundreds 'of Palestinians from 3rd, St. ·Mary, Fairhaven',· Bethlehem and the surrounding Robert M. Muir",::·St: John 'Neu- area are among the more than mann, East 'Freetown; Mrs. Jane 7,000 people wounded in the (Henry E. Jr.) Parkin"St. Law'rence, vielern:e.,.· ~. "l " .

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On Nov. 15, the Palestine bert) Rebello,. O.L.. Fatima, New, Bedford;" ,Mrs.· Maureen D. Riley,: Nation~l Council, a leglslature-inHoly Name,. New Bedford; ~rs., exile for the Palestine Liberation Melinda. (Charles) Santos, O. L.. Organizatioil; 'p~oC1aimed an inAssumption, New,Bedford .. ; . dependent Palestinian state in the Jos~ph O. Silva, St. John J3aptist, West Bank and Gaia'Strip. Israel New 'Bedford; Le'o J. Strahoska'-St., refiJsed: to recognize the inHedwig, New Bedford; Miss Patri- dependence . cia SuUival1. St. James, New B~dford.

'Catholic Church officials said TAUNTON AREA: Arthur Christmas Mass will be celebrated Andrade, O.L. Lourdes, Taunton; as usual in Manger Square, but a Joseph A. Bettencourt Sr., St. Ann, d"ecision had not been made on Raynham; Robert A. Calvey, St. whether Latin-rite Patriarch Michel Mary, Taunton; Miss Henrietta Car- Sabbah of Jerusalem would lead a valho, St. Anthony, Taunton; Horace procession through the square.

J. Costa, Sacred Heart, Taunton.

The annual Boy Scout parade Mrs. Margaret M. Courcy, Imma- and a Christmas Eve reception for culate Conception, Taunton; Mrs. dignitaries have been canceled.

Laurette (Camille) Denis, St. Last year, the town canceled the Jacques, Taunton; Raldo Giovanelli, Christmas Eve reception. Manger St. Paul, Taunton; Mrs. Ololia(John) Gonsalves, Immaculate Conception, Square was lit, and the Boy Scout North Easton; Mrs. Mary C. (Frank) parade was smaller.

However, only 2,500 visitorsKullas, Holy Rosary, Taunton.

Mrs. Mary Silvia, Holy Family, 75 percent fewer than in 1986 Taunton; Mrs. Julieann (Walter) visited Bethlehem for tl1e ChristSmith, Holy Cross, South Easton; mas celebrations.

Bethlehem is four miles south of Mrs. Margaret (George) White, St. Jerusalem.

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Commends stories Dear Editor: Your article and photos in the Nov. II issue ofThe Anchor regarding the operating room renovations at St. Anne's Hospital are to be commended as a magnificent tribute to the facility, the staff and the quality of care which is given to surgical patients at St. Anne's Hospital.

The new facility is truly a "stateof-the-art" surgical department which is on par with any modern and ~p-to-date hospital in the state.

Your coverage has surely brought thiS fact to the attention of the general public and for _~his we are grateful. For how often'do many of our greatest assets go unnoticed?

In view of the severe competition between hospitals, it was very important that the diocesan paper has given us such extensive coverage.

I also wish to mention that Ms. Pat McGowan's segment on "A Deacon and A Doctor" was very kind. Both she and Sister Gaudette have done a very fine job.

Deacon Andre P. Nasser, M.D. Chief of anesthesia department St. Anne's Hospital Fall River

Likes Dietzen Dear Editor: What happened to Father Dietzen's article in The Anchor?

I learned more from him about the Catholic Church than I have in my first 85 years!

Fred Lindahl W. Yarmouth Some regular features, Father Dietzen's column included, aren't , used when we have a special issue or a particularly busy news week.

His column, though, is still very much a part of The Anchor.

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hope anyone reading this letter will join us and write to the Donahue show to protest.

As community affairs chair for St. Pius X Women's Guild with a membership of -over 450 women on Cape Cod, I am writing to express our total disgust at Phil Donahue shows and especially. at the show aired at 4 p.m. on Nov. 2 about bachelor party sexual exploits.

The show featured among others a prostitute discussing ·the "services" she performs as well as male and female erotic dancers whose pelvic gyrations, bu'mps and grinds practically in the laps of the audience were totally out of place at four in the afternoon.

This is the time most latchkey children are home alone and glued to their television sets. No wonder we have such a high teenage pregnancy rate.

These youngsters are not prepared to handle this type of "Media Abuse."

This type of show if aired at all should a't least be on late at night for mature audiences.

If this type of programming continues, we will boycott your sponsors as well as your show.

We belong to a national group of women with over 10,000 members and have written to them to do the same.

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Fatber Hayes remembered A sharp-eyed reader noted . that mention of Father John J. .Hayes, later named a monsignor, was omitted in ,the Nov. IS 'special Anehor section on the new St. Mary's Church, New Bedford. The' description of Father Hayes' eontribution to the parish is induded in a history ofSt. Mary's prepared as a dedieation banquet souvenir by Marie-Anne Sullivan. It follows: The winds of change were stirring on Tarkiln Hill Road in 1952; Father John J. Hayes, a New Bedford native. was named administrator to oversee constructionof it 'church on the "formetsi " , Mary·s. Father ,' ry Hughes ishion:fitst

parish established bYliis~?p:/ James Connolly in thedioce~e.i Surro un4edby a lar8~co' ent ofpriests,acolytes\ fo degree Knights of Co!vmbli ",; and laity, the liis!lo!, laid t~~ "', cornerstone and blessed the foundatiOn upon whiCh the, " superstructure would be built: in the not-too...<fistant future.

Meetings were held intne sacristy to form a women's guild and Father Hayes chose the first officers. Later meetings were held in various lOCal halls, the hospitality committee hauling coffee and pastries through snow, rain, fog and rnire.~i,.,: cated members'organize4wl\i~t:i parties, minstrel shoWS ' rnaSSa2;aars, <lane sales, cake $alesllnd ~le$wbil~

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They've been generous The first of what are expected to be 10 annual collections to benefit retired religious will be taken up in diocesan parishes the weekend of Dec. 10 and It. Sister Mary Noel Blute, RSM, diocesan Representative for Religious, . and the national appeal's local coordinator, prepared the following information on the fund drive, augmented by NC News reports. She said it is expected that the fund will offset current retirement costs and allow congregations to invest money for future needs, thus making it possible to phase out the program in or before 10 years.

Th~ Catholic Church in America is facing a serious crisis. Religious congregations have a dramatic shortfall of retirement funds. Nationwide, that retirement liability stands at $3 billion. A special appeal will be made at most of this country's churches on the weekend of December IOJ II to assist relig, ious congregations in caring for their elderly and infirm members.

Churches in the diocese of Fall River will participate in this collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious.

The financial crisis first came to the public's attention when the results of a "Retirement Needs Survey of United States Religious" were released in 1986.

"There was little doubt that the problem had reached crisis proportions, and that was the stimulus for action," said Sister Mary

Oliver Hudon, SSND, director of the Tri-Conference Retirement Project, which originated the collection.

The project was created in 1985 by three major Catholic 'Organizations: the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men. Armed with survey results, its first step was to increase awareness of the problem among both religious congregations and groups of lay Catholics.

Over the past two years, the conference has done just that.

Parish ministry, religious education, counseling and day-care programs for children and adults, visits and telephone calls to the sick and elderly and companionship for the sorrowful and the lonely - these are also among the ministries of today's religious men and women in this diocese. But the number of active religious engaged in these works has greatly diminished.

As a group, men and women religious are "greying" faster than most Americans. The median age for priests and brothers is 56 and for sisters, who, like all American women, live longer then men, is 64: What is most astounding is that 2.4% of American sisters are over the age of 90.

In 1968, there were 176,341 sisters; by 1988 there were 106,912, a 39 percent drop. With the number of younger, active sisters declining, the financial base for el~ers

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gets smaller each year. Most congregations depend primarily on the earnings of their active members to support their retired and infirm. Because of this shift in numbers, the stipends of active brothers and sisters can no longer meet the growing financial burden of providing for older members'.

As late as 1966, the average sister's stipend in the parochial school system was less than $100 per month. Nevertheless, low stipends and no benefits were in keeping with a tradition of generous service, and as long as membership continued to increase, religious communities'could compensate for physical and financial loss from a relatively low number of elderly members. The average annual cost of caring for a retired (religious today is about $10,000. It is estimated that this year religious communities will have spent $400 million for care.

Beginning this year and continuing for up to a total of 10 years, the nationwide appeal for retired religious will be made on the second Sunday in December.

With the steady increase in stip~nds in recent years, and the oftseen addition of benefits for retirement and health, congregations are better able to plan for the future of presently active religious.

The retirement fund appeal will contribute to the retirement needs of the religious who have served the. church for 40, 50 and 60 or more years and now are living in congregational retirement centers or being supported by their congregations in local.convents.

"Religious are not just sitting and waiting for help to solve their financial problems," said Sister Hudon. "They are -taking some pretty drastic steps themselves. Diverting resources from ministry to maintenance is a painful decision for any of them to make."

By engaging the expertise and energy of men and women religious across the nation, the conference 'has created a wide variety of activities to analyze the underlying causes of the problem and to change the systems and practices that created the situation. One such measure is to address the retirement needs of religious presently active in ministry.

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DOMINICAN SISTERS of St. Catherine of Siena, from left, Vincent Bernier, M. Thomas- Halloran and Imelda Martineau, have offered many years of service to the Fall River diocese in the area of education and as church sacristans. " of planning services for the retirement project, new compensation models, which will include cash benefits for retirement, have been developed. Financial planning and management assistance programs are being promoted. .

The conference is also offering seminars to leaders of religious congregations on collaborative planning to reduce health care costs. It will continue to work on reversing the trends that have caused the financial crisis and on providing financial assistance to congregations.

Diocesan education, heaith care and social services administered by religious have developed during the past 125 years throughout the Fall River diocese. Care of the poor, the orphan, the physically, academically and emotionally handicapped and of the lonely and the elderly are among the services of religious to the people of southeastern Massachusetts.

Today, religious congregations still pay their own way. They continue to bear the expenses of their members, active and retired, and the cost of their ministries, now expanded to include service to the new poor and neglected of our day.

Whether or not men and women religious will be able to continue serving the needs of the poor in the next century depends on how successfully the church can solve their financial crisis during the next decade.

National response U.S. Catholics and pastors seem very receptive to the collection, said the coordinator of the national appeal.

"This is a cause people have a great feeling for," said Sister Hudon, the School Sister of Notre Dame who is director of the retirement project and its fund.

Diocesan coordinators, including Sister Blute, were appointed by their bishops to promote the appeal and have reported a good response, she said.

ference th~t weights the grant an order receives in favor of the age and years of service of all its me.mbers over 50 years old.

The remaining 10 percent, up to a maximum of $2 million each year, is to be kept aside to help congregations that are facing a . current cris.is in funding.

Sister Hudon said a Gallup Poll commissioned by the tri-conference in the summer of 1987 showed that two out of three Catholics said they were likely to contribute to a collection if they were a ware of it.

Three out of 10 said they were aware of the problem faced by men and women religious.

A few dioceses have chosen another weekend for the collection, and other dioceses have held their own such collection for several years.

When a diocese has its own appeal, Sister Hudon said, local church officials tell.her office how they disbursed the money to avoid any overlap when the tri-conference disburses its funds.

"The awareness level has increased tremendously in the last two years and it is an issue 'that is on the agenda of every major congregation," Sister Hudon said.

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The tri-conference has two other major ways to assist congregations to increase their income and reduce their costs, Sister Hudon said .

'One is to apply one of three compensation models developed by the tri-conference to change the way men and women religious are paid for their services to dioceses and their own congregations.

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To reduce costs - especially health care costs - the tri-conference is showing orders how they can share facilities and take different approaches to health care.

Financial consulting for religious orders is being done through the tri-conference on a strictly volunteer basis by about 40 men and women religious already trained in the field.

Many congregations also have opened development offices and started to pool resources, insurance and investments and outline longterm financial plans.

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As usual, the prayer. meeting room was arranged with four rows of chairs on each side of the room, facing each other. As I entered the room this night, only chairs on the front row of each side were still empty. I chose a seat somewhat in the middle of the aisle. Little did I realize what my choice of a seat would come to mean.

The meeting began with some lively songs, followed by prayer tongues and individual prayers of praise. Halfway through the meeting, I began to experience these words going around in my head. I knew that they were not from me, for they were not just "my thinking" or even "my prayer." They seemed to be given to me, but I didn't know what to do with them.

Suddenly, the person sitting across from me spoke a prophetic word, "Speak the words that are in your mind, for they come from me." There were about 120 people in the room, yet I knew that those words were meant for me. The person speaking them didn't know for whom they were meant. However, when he spoke them, he was looking right at me. .So, I spoke the words that were "in my mind," the first time I ever used the gift of prophecy. The cir-

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we have been che'cking you out and the' gift is a true one."

This "checking out the gift" is important. Charisms used alone become dangerous, when subject to no one's discernment. Prophecy The following Tuesday, Brother is best used in a group.

Pancratius, the founder of the Paul writes, "Set your hearts on ~harismati: re~ewal here, organspiritual gifts - above all, the gift Ized a speCial six-week leadership of prophecy" (I Cor. 14: I). He training session. This smaller group wants this gift to flourish because was attended by people who used "he who prophesies"builds' up the the charisms regularly. Ijoined the Church" (verse 4). He also writes, group and found that this pro-. "X ou can all speak your prophephetic gift grew even stronger. Cies, one by one, so that all may be After a few weeks, I went to Brother instructed and encouraged" (verse and asked about my use of the gift. 31).

He replied, "Don't worry, Father, Each month, I gather leaders in the charismatic renewal whom I have chosen to help in making -"~. decisions. We discuss the organizational questions (as any committee does) concerning even.ts, dates, speakers or opportunities.

After our discussion, we move into charismatic prayer and specifically the use of prophecy. As God's word comes, we discern as best we can and make our decisions in light of that prophetic gift. We have lived and acted under this gift for the past 15 years.

Certainly, the prophetic gift can be misused. Some stories, for example recent headlines about television evangelists, call into question use of prophecy. However, a group which actively seeks God's guidance will certainly be blessed.

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As I walked into the kitchen I How has it survived this long after caught sight of it on top of the being stuffed in with Christmas garbage can: an old green board, covered 'with a fir bough turned decorations every year? .

I remembered the evening we let brown, makeshift candleholders the kids spray paint the pine cones and bright red pine cones.

"I think the Advent candle board and how we had to refinish part of has seen its last days," myhusband the dining room floor when they said, looking up from his news- were done. I could see their faces lit by i!s candlelight as we lay paper.

It on the floor one Christaround He was probably right. We've mas and read a nativity story by its had itjury-rigged with rubber bands and coat hangers for the past two light.

"It's my turn to light the candles or three years to keep the thing this year," beamed Mikey as he serviceable at all. Then the candles still wouldn't stay straight and the came into the kitchen. "Can I kids would spend as much atten- practice now?"

"Dad says we have to get a new tion on watching the wax drip one," tattled daughter. onto the table as they did concenFive-year-old Mikey's eyes trating on the words of the "Our started to filt with tears. "But it Father." was my turn this year," he proOldest daughter walked in and tested sadly. saw it perched on the sack. "You're "You can light the candles on a not throwing out the Advent new one," spouse said. wreath, are you?" she asked ob"But that won't count," Mikey viously stunned. ' answered. His father nodded slowI pullied it out and sat it on the ly. Sometimes the logic of a 5counter. If only that old board year-old .defies explaining. But could talk. somehow he was right.

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FOLKS WERE on fire with excitement recently at Holy Rosary parish, Taunton, when, after paying off a $694,000 parish center mortgage in five years, they celebrated with a mortgage burning party which included dinner.

From left: Father Sebastian M. Slesinski, OFM' Conv., former pastor, who started the parish center project, now pastor of S1. Hedwig parish, New Bedford; building committee cochairman Kazemer Machnik; pastor Father Bonaventure Jezierski, OFM Conv. (Kearns photo)

PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR: FIRST PRIOR.ITY AT SISTERS OF CHARITY CHAPTER At the recent Chapter of the Sisters of Charity of Quebec (Grey Nuns) that set priorities for the next five-year period, the preferential option for the poor emerged as the primary concern. Sister Yolande Bonner who was re-elected to a second term as Superior General, states that "it is the Congregation's wish to reaffirm what has always stood at the very heart of their mission. By selecting it as top priority, we wish to express Christ's preferential love for the poor wherever we are called to serve."

Sister Bonner indicated that the Sisters of Gharity of Q~ebec held their General Chapter in July; the three-week session assembled 45 delegates coming from the eastern sector of Quebec, South America, the United States and Japan. The Chapter focused on the mission of the Sisters of Charity.

Sister Bonner stated that participation in a General Chapter constitutes a deeply spiritual and community experience since each delegate stands on equal footing with the others and shares responsibility for the Congregation's future. It is at Chapter that the planning and broad inspirations for the movement of the Community are outlined for the immediate future. She underscored how the preferential option for the poor included everyone, for Christ's salvation message is addressed to all. She acknowledged that poverty takes various forms: spiritual as well as psychological, social as well as material.

Sister Bonner points to the fact that "it is within that context that we decided' to路 care for Aids victims. They seem to us to be human beings in dire need of help and rejected by society-at-large." She added: "This option for the poor also invites us to attend very specially to broken families and to youth in trouble. We are already serving these elements of the general population, but we wish to do more for them."

EVANGELICAL RADICALISM

NOAH'S ARK floated through the Silver City recently when Taunton had its annual Christmas parade and the city's S1. Joseph parish was represented by this float, constructed by religious education students cind parents under direction of religious education coordinator Margaret Travis. Parish Vincentians had a holiday-decorated truck and S1. Joseph's Scout Troop 40 entered a float depicting Scouts toasting marshmallows over a campfire.

Another priority of the Sister delegates at their Chapter is a commitment to live the Gospel messag~ in its radical form.

According to Sister Bonner, it implies living a very sober lifestyle in view of a greater freedom to serve the marginalized and needy about us. She readily acknowledges that a radical living of the Gospel is not an easy task when immersed in a consumer society, ':but we must strive for a personally poor life-style."

- , . _. _ SPIRITUALITY The delegates ofth~.Sisie~s-of Charity of Quebec at the Ge"eral Chapter set a third priority for themselves bearing specifically on "the. spiritual heritage of the Sisters of Charity.

The Superior Genera) explains i'We wish to find Love precisely where it is, that is, in th~ heartof Christ. We can then spread this love, especially. among the poor. We are hoping that this spirit of merciful s~rvice' inh~rited from our revered foundress, Mother Mallet, be rekindled."

VOCATIONS A fourth Chapter priority came in t!'Je-jorm of a ~. " courageous recruitment program. "Young people are still called to religious life, but we must find the means of attracting them in their generosity," commented Sister Bonner. "We firmly believe that recruitment of vocations is intimately related to the meaning we give o~r own vocation. A functional love of the poor and greater evangelical radicalism will hold a great appeal for today's youth and they will.respond to their personal calling. "

PARTICIPANTS IN the recently-held annual Bishop's Night of the diocesan permanent diaconate program included, from left, Deacon Michael E. Murray, who serves at Immaculate Conception parish, Taunton; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin; Deacons Francis J. Camacho, Ou," Lady of the Cape, Brewster; Robert G. L. Normandin, S1. Louis de France, Swansea; and Paul J. Macedo, Our Lady of Mt..Carmel, New Bedford. Father John F. Moore is deacon director. (Rosa photo)

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He'sjust a spontaneous guy VATI CAN CITY (N C) - Pope John Paul II, overcome with emotion when he saw armless Tony Melendez play the guitar with his toes, jumped off his chair, strode over to the musician and planted a kiss on his cheek.

The inCident in Los Angeles during the pope's 1987 U.S. visit is indicative of'the spontaneity and uninhibitedness that marks the 10, year reign of history's first Polish pope.

In New Zealand, the pope rubbed noses with a Maori tribal leader.

In Australia, he joined hands with youths and kicked up his heels to pop music. At his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, he smiled at the pop of a wine cork, 'then sipped a glass of spumante, Italy's version of champagne, during a reception for journalists.

Pope John Paul's spontaneity has not路 been limited to joy.

In Nicaragua, he angri1'Y waved both index fingers at Father Ernesto Cardenal, who refused church instructions to' leave his post as 'Nicaraguan culture minister.

The pope has demonstrated that the papal office is not a place of aloofness to the surrounding world; nor has he been shy to shed his white papal robes for windbreakers and slacks more suitable to skiing and hiking, his preferred outdoor exercises.

These images show a pope who is also a human being. The responsibilities as head of the Catholic Church and as a world moral leader have not blotted out the man filling the shoes of the fisherman.

Instead, this humanizing of the papacy is part of the pastoralapproach of ~ pope who wants to get to know his people. It is an extension of his extroverted ministerial activities as a priest, bishop and cardinal in Poland.

Pope John Paul has traveled throughout the world. And there is a daily parade of people and groups from around the globe visiting him a1' his headquarters in Vatican City.

He has literally made the world his parish.

Such activity does not surprise church leaders or ,the cardinals who elected him.

Cardinal Kar'ol Wojtyla of Krakow was chosen pope Oct. 16, 1978, at a time when cardinals were looking for a pastorally oriented man to lead the church, in

a break with the tendency of electing Italian cardinals who were veterans of the Roman Curia with little or no pastoral experience.

In the new pope, the cardinals also got a few extras. -He is a man of great physical vigor, allowing him to keep up a strenuous pace, even now that he is 68 years old and despite serious bullet wounds that nearly caused his death in lQ!lI.

Perhaps most important, he is a linguist, capable of speaking and listening to people in their own

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closer together," the pope said. He cited the leading role U.S. experts have played in ecumenical dialogue since the Second Vatican Council.

"An excellent climate has been created for the continuation of a fruitful dialogue between competent experts. Their efforts to find what is held in common' and to formulate the controversial points in terms which render them more exact and more intelligible even to those who do not agree upon them are highly commendable," he said.

The pope said the ecumenical successes reflect the overall fruitfulness of the church in the United States, "it society which from its origins has been pluralistic and open to all men and women.

"An important aspect of this vigor of Catholicism is found in the union of truth and freedom," he said.

In the universal church, the ideal of unity also implies a "necessary climate of freedom," he said.

"This principle sustains the common patrimony of faith and moral teaching while leaving options in theological studies, spirituality, means of evangelization and ways of infusing the Christian spirit into the temporal order," he said.

He said that in the church "there will always be room for a variety of ministries and for the development of associations, groups and movements of different types.

"As pastors of God's people we must 路love legitimate diversity in the Catholic Church," he said.

The pope urged the bishops to promote clarity among all Christians on concrete ecumenical points such as common worship. Local priests, he said, should use weddings and funerals as occasions to' explain the conditions under which shared communion can occur.

Shared communion is a crucial and controversial ecumenical issue.

Currently, church rules prevent Catholics from taking the Eucharist from ministers of other Christian churches who have not been validly ordained to the priesthood.

Other Christians are, under limited conditions, permitted to accept Communion in Catholic services.

The pope also cautioned that "any progress which the Catholic Church makes along the path of ecumenism must always be in keeping with the organic development of doctri!le." The essential content of salvation proclaimed by the church "must remain intact," he said.

VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II said the church in the United States has done excellent ecumenical work, while demonstrating an internal vigor based ,on "the union of truth and freedom."

Speaking to a group of New Jersey and Pennsylvania bishops d uring their recent ad limina vis~ts, the pope emphasized that ecumenical dialogue must continue to be tied closely to church unity and doctrine.

"Much has been done in the United States to bring Christians

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'hinguag'e: -B'esides 'his native' Pol, "By being a' iingui'st 'the' pop~ allows for "real two-way communish, the pope has spoken seven other major modern languages in' ication," said U.S. Archbishop his pastoral voyages.

John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Americans hear him in English, Communications.

Latin Americans in Spanish or "He communicates directly and Portuguese, Belgians in Flemish and the Swiss in French, Italian understands what people are say,ing to him," the archbishop said. and'German.

In addition, he often sprinkles This helps people see that "the in a few words of a local dialect or pope on a personal level is charismatic, warm and direct." , native tongue.

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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (NC)- Because "suffering and pain remain an inevitable part of the earthly experience," medical personnel should reject "the pleas of those who clamor for the so-called compassionate solution of euthanasia," saiq Pope John Paul II. "No doctor, no nurse, no medical technician. indeed no human being, is the final arbiter of human life, either of one's own life or that of another," he said. , The pope spoke recently to participants at a European Congress of Anesthetists held in ROme. Anesthesiology is concerned with medical means of easing pain and suffering caused by injuries and illness or by medical operations.

"Some of our contemporaries are advocating the termination of human life through euthanasia as a supposedly compassionate solution to the problem of human suffering," the pope said. But euthanasia is an "act of killing, which will always be in itself something to be rejected," the pope added.

It must also be rejected when patients make the request, he said.

"The pleas of gravely ill people who sometimes ask for death are not to be understood as implying a true desire for euthansasia; in fact it is almost always a case of an anguished plea for help and for love," he said.

"While being sympathetic to the subjective feelings which may prompt these pleas for euthanasia, you must not lose sight of the objective facts and ultimate truths which necessarily enter into the question," the pope said.

Anesthetists must maintain "high moral standards and courageous ethical condu,ct" when faced witp the option ofeuthanasia "in instances of intense and prolonged suffering:~,Jl~ S'l.ip~_ ~ ... __ .~4_"",-

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DENVER (NC) - Father C.B. Woodrich, 65, associate publisher of The Denver Catholic Register, newspaper of the archdiocese of Denver, has been named a monsignor.

Long active in the Catholic press, he was named associate publisher of the newspaper in 1987 following 15 years as its editor. He was also archdiocesan director of information.

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SAINT MARY'S Primary School, Taunton,' recently Q. My friend and I are always to see how we were hurting the celebrated completion of the National Catholic Educational annoyed with each other, but some- other person. It was a form of Association's "Verifying the Vision" self-evaluation process. times we are really good friends. blindness. .' At the school's accreditation ceremony were, from left Father What can we do not to get on each At times one or more of u s ' , would arrive at work not having Paul G. Connolly, St. Mary's pastor; Sister Michaelinda other's nerves?

'A. Some years ago I worked in ,had a good night's sleep and feel- Plante, RSM, a Diocesan Department of Education associate an office where my co-workers irig irritable as a consequence or superintendent of schools; Bishop Daniel A. Cronin, leader of . , 102 Shawomet Avenue the prayer service that highlighted the evening; Edmund and I from time to time would get even downright mean.

Somerset, Mass. on each others' nerves.

Do you and your friend at any Borges, St. Mary's principal; and Father Richard W. Beaulieu, time exhibit the flaws that occa.

I look back on that time with Tel. 674-4881 certain regrets.. All of us were· sionally afflicted me and my co- DlO~esan Department of Education director. (Kearns photo) workers?

3Vz room Apartment young and a bit clumsy about getIf so, perhaps you could work at 4Vz room Apartment ting along 'with people. All of us improving yourself in these areas. made some mistakes in our daily Includes heat, hot water, stove reo You might at night before you go , dealings with one another. friprator and maintenance service. to sleep examine the way you have Here are some of the things we treated your friend that day. did wrong.

Were you considerate of his feelAt times we were too intent on ings? Were you careful about how getting our own way and on imposyou phrased your part of convering our own viewpoint on other AWIDE CHOICE OF SAVINGS , people. sations with him? Were you sensi& INVESTMENT PLANS tive to his needs? Remember that At times we spoke thoughtlessly you are to examine mainly your . and with a lack of sensitivity and behavior, not his. , even, on occasion, cruelly.

Could you have a talk with him At times we brooded over real about how the two of you someor imagined injuries and thought times seem to get on each other's about ways of getting even. Some nerves? Tell him you are eager to would strike back in petty or notmake your friendship work better. so-petty ways.

By Robert Doolittle up. maybe calmed down. maybe and invite him to read this column.

At times we were totally incapstrengthened. maybe straightened The church makes enormous If both of you regularly review able of seeing the other person's WITIl CON\'ENIEJ\JT OFFICES out. '. viewpoint. how your friendship is going and claims about the Eucharist. But TIlROUGHOUf SOUfHEA..'ifERN ~'lS, Some of you reading this wonder strive to correct mistakes, it is are they valid? Is Jesus really there.

At times we couldn't even begin if I'm right, if it's possible some likely that years from now you will alive and speaking and helping? adults you, know also feel they Most teens listen respectfully to not have regrets about your prescome into real contact with Jesus ent friendship. It may be a long these claims and continue to find at Mass. Why have you never the Mass a barely tolerable expeand rewarding one. heard anything aboJ.lt it? "Real FOR ALL A final suggestion: Could you rience of the same old words and presence" a's a doctrine maybe. but from time to 'time pray about your actions week after week. ,YOUR PHARMACY nothing about an actual encounter.

This gap between lofty claims friendship and ponder the words We're dealing here with a strange NEEDS of Jesus, "Love one another as I and actual experience began to contradiction among adult Amerbother Melissa during her freshhave loved you." ican Catholics. The real presence man year. One of her gifts is to be • Prescriptions Sends questions and comments of Christ is both our proudest tracandid and feisty in situations • Health & Beauty Aids to Tom Lennon, 1312 Mass. Ave. dition and our best kept secret. A where most teens would hold back.

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A consecrated host was Then in thy mercy grant us a safe this key point. The personal reality exposed to view up on the altar MON.-FRI. 8:30-7 SAT.9·5 SUN. 9-12 i lodging and a holy rest and peace of communion with Christ is left and people were free to move at the last." - Cardinal ~ewman out. This essential bit of the Good around and pray with one another.

News. which can be delivered onlv Melissa chose to sit on the floor by people you love, often elude's part way up the aisle and stare at your grasp. the little round object on the altar.

I offer a simple piece of advice.

She later told us her prayer.

Get brave. like my friend Melissa. ,"Lord, is that really you? I'd like Go first to the parents. youth leadto helieve it. but I don't. It's just ers. priests and teachers who press too strange to think you're up there in that little white thing. I you to get to Mass each week and ask them to open up their expefeel left out of something but what rience to you. can I do? I can't just believe what I Be gentle. You will startle them don't believe." .

And then she wept. tears of and challenge them with your questions - as younger children do anger and sadness. when they ask about "the (acts of Suddenly. a wave of peace rushed life." But be persistent. It will be over her. coming. she felt. from the good forthem to break out of their host at the altar. Her doubts were habit of silence on this subject. swept from her and her tears were And it will be good for'you to changed. Nowshe wept from relief bear - not that you will believe and happiness at her discovery. suddenly just on the basis of their "He convinced me," she reported. witness. But rather you will now "The Eucharist is really him." have the support you need to take Melissa's breakthrough - spethe big step, to become feisty spircial as it was to her - is by no itually. to seek him yourself. means unique. Many adult CathoNo one can do that venturinI! lics meet Jesus in the Eucharist. out for you. But surely it will Maybe even the great majority encourage you to know. from peotalk to him and listen to him and ple whose word you trust. that get close to him.

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General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-I3-parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted, unsuitable for children or young teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved . for adults and adolescents; A3approved for adults on.ly; A4-separate classification (given films not morally offensive which, however, require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

Catholic ratings for television movies are those of the movie house versions of the.tilms.

New Films "BAT 2f" (Tri-Star) - Compassionate characterizations by Gene Hackman and Danny Glover increase the power of this real-life based film about an officer who must face the horrific reality of war for the first time. Intense but non-gratuitous fire-bombings and individual rubouts. Some lockerroom language. A3, R "Child's Play" (United Artists) - A talking doll possessed by the soul of a psychopath goes on a murderous rampage. Graphic violence. 0, R "U2: Rattle and Hum" (Paramount) - A feature-length concert documentary focusing on U2, the popular Irish rock band with a political conscience. Will not enlighten those unfamiliar with the group's strong political and social . concerns. Mild rough ·Ianguage.

A2, PG 13 "Feds" (Warner Bros.) - The saga of two women (Rebecca DeMornay and Mary Gross) who against all odds are determined to graduate from the male-dominated FBI training acadefTIY in Washington. Much locker roo.1ll language, some of a sexually vulgar nature.

A3, PG 13.

"Cocoon: The Return"(Fox)This disappointing sequel to the 1985 hit sees the temporary return to Earth of the original cast of senior citizens and Antarean aliens.

Debunks aging stereotypes. Some locker-room language laced with mild sexual innuendo. A2, PG "Ernest Saves Christmas" (Touchstone) - The rubbermouthed comic (Jim Varney) helps Santa find a younger man to pass his torch on to. A holiday hoot.

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"Mystic Pizza" (Goldwyn) The coming-of-age of three young Portuguese-American women (Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish and Lili Taylor) living and working in the tourist seaport town of Mystic, Conn. at the Mystic Pizza parlor.

Although frowned upon by their parents and church, ill-advised sexual liasons are a part of the girls' lives. Much explicit sex banter and off-camera sex. 0, R

"Fresh Horses" (Columbia) A bright, level-headed coIlege senior (Andrew McCarthy) breaks . off with his wealthy fiancee for an affair with a poor rural girl (Molly Ringwald) too young, uneducated and married to give him anything but grief. A mood piece about obsession: Some minimal rough language, a brief incidence of vio-' lence and off-camera illicit sexual cohabitation. A3, PG 13 "Iron Eagle II" (Tri-Star) This sequel to the 1986 film tracks the troubled efforts of U.S. and Soviet brass to unite a small band of misfit American and Soviet' pilots in a joint secret mission to knock out a hot nuclear warhead being tested in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. Cartoon violence and some locker-room language. A2, PG "A Cry in the Dark" (Warner Bros.) - The grim true story of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain (Meryl Streep and Sam Neill), A ustralians unjustly accused and convicted of killing their 9-weekold daughter in 1980. Graphic recreation of the brutal killing of a baby by a wild dog. A3, PG 13.

"Everybody's All-American" (Warner Bros.) - The romantic 25-year saga of the rise and fall of a Louisiana football hero (Dennis Quaid) and his Southern belle wife (Jessica Lange). Splendidly acted.

Two brief sexually explicit scenes. a flash of nudity and marital infidelity. brief bloody violence and some vulgar language. A3, R "Madame Sousatzka" (Universal) - Well past middle age and a tad seedy, a music teacher (Shirley Mac Laine) focuses her life on her talented piano students, in this case a virtuoso 15-year-old Indian boy (Navin Chowdhry) who becomes her obsession. Miss MacLaine is terrific. An off-camera adulterous affair, the boy's implied loss of virginity to a young adult and some rough language. A3, PG 13.

"They Live" (Universal) - An alien race disguised as Yuppies secretly infiltrates U.S. cities and lulls Americans into submission through subliminal media advertising. Mindless violence and much . profanity. 0, R

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A3, PG "The Land Before Time" (Universal) - A delightful animated feature highlighting the exploits of five young dinosaurs of differing species who band together for survival when they are separated from their parents. A brief but nicely handled mother's death scene and realistic mourning sequence. A I, G TV Programs Thursday, Dec. 15, 10-11 p.m.

EST (PBS) "A Continent Crucified." - In a rebroadcast of a program in the 1985 Australian series, "South American Journey," journalist Jack Pizzey looks at the Catholic Church in Latin America and argues that the differences between .church leaders who side with the poor and others who back those in power is less important than the rapid growth of Protestant evangelism.

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ST. JOSEPH, NB Seniors' Christmas party at Thad's restaurant Dec. 8. Prayer group Christmas party Dec. 14. School Song Fest 6 p.m.. Dec. 21, church hall. Vincentians 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

ST. STANISLAUS, FR Blood pressure checks after Masses Sunday, lower chapel. Holy Rosary Sodality Advent meeting I: 15 p.m.

Sunday. Youth Mass (grades 7 through 12) 10:30 a.m. Dec. II. Stanley and Helen Korzeniowski are thanked for patching up a hole in the parking lot. St. Nicholas look-alike contest in parish school Tuesday.

ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN Parish school Advent service 9 a.m. Monday.

CATHEDRAL, FR Mass for deceased parishioners and friends 9 a.m. tomorrow. Confessions 3:15 p.m. Saturdays. Women's Guild Christmas party Dec. 6, school; information: Ruth Lackey, 679-2676.

EMMAUS Emmaus 76 closing 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Neumann Hall at Cathedral Camp retreat center, E. Freetown; families and friends of candidates welcome.

HOLY TRINITY, W. HARWICH Saints and Singers' Christmas concert 4 p.m. Sunday, church hall.

ORDER OF THE ALHAMBRA Fall River's Leon Caravan will participate in a region one council meeting at 8 tonight at Our Lady of Grace Hall, Chelsea.

VINCENTIANS, TAUNTON Society of St. Vincent de Paul Taunton district council meeting Dec. 5 hosted by Holy Family Conference, East Taunton; 8: 15 p.m. church hall meeting follows 7:30 p.m. Mass for intention of beatification of society founder Frederic Ozanam; meeting to include nomination of officers.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN Emmaus retreat tonight through Sunday.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR Parishioners are welcome to pro-' vide the gifts for needy persons that are detailed on the parish Giving Tree's tags; Spiritual Life Committee members will distribute them.

Vincentian meeting 7 p.m. Thursday, rectory.

ST. MARY, N: ATTLEBORO Exposition of Blessed Sacrament begins 7 p.m. Wednesdays, ends with 4 p.m. Benediction, chapel.

Mass and prayer meeting 7 p.m.

Thursdays, parish center. Choir practice 7 p.m. Wednesdays, parish center.

ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN Family Mass 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

First Friday Mass 7 tonight~ Ladies of the Sacred Hearts Association meeting and Christmas party follows, rectory. Adoration before 5 p.m. Immaculate Conception Vigil Mass Wednesday.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET Women's Guild Christmas party Tuesday, J. T.'s restaurant, Somerset; information: Mary Simons, 6722847. Advent evening of p~ay.er and pot luck supper Dec. 5 for CCD teachers and helpers. Parish childrens' trip to view LaSalette Shrine lights Dec. 12.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM Babysitting and preschool during 10 a.m. Mass Sundays resumes Dec. 4. CYOgeneral meeting Tuesday.

SACRED HEART, N. ATTLEBORO First Friday holy hour 7:30 tonight. Liturgy committee-sponsored Advent events: evening prayer with parish choir 7 p.m. Dec. 14; Mass with reconciliation opportunities 7 p.m. Dec. 20. St. Mary-Sacred Heart School Jesse Tree service 10:30 a.m.

Dec. 21.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH Gifts for children in need e~plained on religious education program grade one through four-sponsored Giving Tree; parishioners welcome to take ornament and leave unwrapped gift . under tree. Women's Guild meeting 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Father Clinton Hall; Christmas program; Mel Simons will speak; bring layette gift for Birthright.

O.L. CAPE, BREWSTER ST. ANTHONY, MATTAPOISETT Gifts may be placed under the tree Recently welcomed altar servers: for distribution to the needy; home- William Bender, Michael Costa, made ornaments may be placed on Brendan Dahill, Shawn 'Hanks, the. tree. Christmas Day dinner at Gregory Hickey, Christopher Mcparish hall I to 3 p.m.; anyone who Carthy, Michael McCarthy and would otherwise be alone for dinner . Gerald McCra. Children of Mary welcome; information: rectory, 385- members will be formally enrolled in 3252. the Miraculous Medal of Our Lady at the 9:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. PasST. DOMINIC, SWANSEA tor Father Barry W. Wall will celeConfirmation student-planned brate this Sunday's TV Mass, to be Christmas dinner for seniors 6 p.m. broadcast at.8 a.m. on Channel 6.

Dec. II, parish center; reservations: Judy Cabral, 379-9651. Children's .Mass 10 a.m. Dec. 18.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON Ladies' Guild Christmas dinner O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLE Dec. 6. Young mothers' group-sponMeeting for prospective altar boys sored Advent recollection and reflec(grade four and older) II a.m. to- tion on Mary 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, morrow, church. church hall; all mothers welcome.

Parish education apostolate-sponST. JAMES, NB sored "Ministry" workshop with New altar boys meeting II a.m.

Felicia McKnight of the LaSalette tomorrow, church. CYO council Center for Spirituality 7:30 p.m. meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday, parish center.

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Three brothers of the Taize community will conduct an evening of Advent pra.yer and reflection Dec. 12 at Holy Cross Church, South Easton. The 7:30 to 9 p.m. event will follow a 7 p.m. video presentation explaining the history and spirit of Taize.

All are welcome to the parish Religious Education Commission-sponsored evening.

According to Joe Moore of Holy Cross, "the group will be lead by Brother John Castaldi, an American residing with a small community of brothers in Hell's Kitcben in New York City. Brother John is well known for retreat work and his published works.

"Taite is the name of a tiny town in~he rural Burgandy region of France, where, in 1940, Brother Roger founded an ecumenical religious community of brothers from various Christian denominations inclUding Roman Catholic.

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about a hundred, living in 20 countries aro.und the world among the poorest of the poor.

At the main monastery in Taite, over the years a tremendous following of young people has developed and grown. This great interest in the spirituality of Taize by the youth ofthe world is due in large part to the brothers' authenticity of lifestyle and their constant connection of a contemplative spirituality with the social justice needs of our world.

"On any given day one can find a couple ofthousand young people camping in tents around the monastery in Order to join in the prayer of the brothers and the international discussion groups which they lead. A constant prayer of the Taizecoml'I1unity is for the reconciliation of all Christian churches. The group's simple Christian mantras, or repeated prayer songs, have beCOme very popular in liturgical celebrations throughout the United States." .

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