High School Fund
Passes Minimum
Goal By $100,000
The ANCHOR An Anchor of the Soul, S1tre amd Firm-ST.
Fall River, Mass.
Vol. 1, No. 35
PAUL
Thursday, Dec. 5, 1957 Second Closs Moil Privilegee Authorized ot Foil River, Moss.
The $1,500,000 goal of the· Catholic Memorial High School building fund campaign was over subscribed when the latest total reported by the volunteer solicitors reached $1,600,000. Nearly 1,400
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Pope Pius Says Firm 'No' Only Answer for Reds
RELIGIOUS STAMP: Re ligious freedom in America VATICAN CITY (NC) and the 300th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance Liberty can be retained in will be' commemorated Dec. free Europe and regained in 27 with issuance of a new the Red satellites only' if postage stamp, The stamp statesmen give a decisive "no" to the powers threatening free'will have a Bible for its cen dom. . '. tral subject; signifying ever Pope Pius XII mad~ this state lasting truth; a hat, symboli~ ' ment·to President Theodor Heuss of the people and the times, of Germany during his official and a quill, ,the mark of state visit to the Holy See. Spiritual Need man'·s, determination to The Holy Father also warned speak the truth through the that European freedom and cul written word. 'NC Photo. ture can only be preserved by
Dogma Declares Mary Conceived Without Sin By Rev. John P. Cronin
St. Patrick's Parish
Fall River
Satan' had been victorious over Eve in the ,Garden of Eden, yet hardly had the first sin been committed by FIRST CHRISTMAS HOME IN 14 YEARS: Rev. John Breen, M.M" of Fall River, (left) is welcomed upon his arrival in the See City by Rev. Raymond T. Considine, Diocesan Director of the Propagation of the Faith Society. Father Considine has a brother who is also a Maryknoller.
,Maryknoller Home on Visit From Guatemalan Mission By Patricia McGowan Father Breen looked thoughtfully at our chubby little girl, who was industriously filling his lap with every doll and stuffed animal in her extensive collection. "If she were one of my Indian babies in Guatemala," he said, "she'd be pitifully thin-except for her takes two days by horse to reach stomach. That would be the nearest road usable by a swollen and worm-infested. jeep. Father John Breen of Mary And malnutrition would have
given her a yellowish complex . knoll, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mi ion instead of those rosy cheeks." chael Breen, 71 Renwood Street, We shuddered. Never had we 'Fall River, and a graduate of heard the problems of a mission the 1941 class of Durfee High ary translated into such concrete School, has been a missionary terms. Yet here in our living to Guatemala for six and a half years, nearly all of that time room, in a city enjoying all the spent alone, in the- starting of eomforts of the twentieth cen tury, sat a priest who only days new parishes in various 'parts of before had been alone in a parish the department of ·Huehueten ango, an ,area corresponding to a of 14,000 souls in the interior of Turn to Page Nine Guatemala, country so wild it
Debt-free Church Greatest Joy of Jubilaria-n Pasto'r Growing old is not easy. Growing old in, the priesthood is not an easy thing either. As a priest approaches his fiftieth anniversary in the priesthood; he feels 'a sense of uselessness, a feeling of being ill the way and of not being wanted, Gone are his days of an
active,priesthood, tho~e days
of preaching, catechetical
elasses, visits to the-sick, 'of of
fice work. All this is now of. the
past. There are but two things
left for him, the Mass and his
br.eviary. ,
Yet is this not the most impor
tant .reaso~ of his priesthood?
"For every high priest," accord
ing to the epistle of the Hebrews,
"taken from among men is or
dained for men in the things
that appertain to God, that he
may offer up gifts and sacrifices
for sins." ,
so, regardless of age or activ
ity, as long as he offers the Sac
rifice of the Mass, the reason and
being of his priesthood are there
with all its meaning. So it is
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REV. ADRIEN A. GAUTHIER
man when God promised ulti mate victory of the woman and her offspring over the. would-be conqueror. To Satan He de clared: "I will put enmity be tween you and the woman, be tween your seed and her seed; He shall crush your head, and . you shall lie in wait for his heel." It was the offspring of Mary, Jesus Christ, God and Man, Who fulfilled .this prophecy, freeing Trun to Page Ten
Power of Youth
For ,Good Shown
At Convention
By Rev. Leo T. Sullivan
Diocesan Director
Catholic Youth Organization
"Self - disciplined Youth: America's Strength" was the theme of the~National Cath olic Youth Convention held in Philadelphia last week. There was recognition of the wave of juvenile delinquency in the Uni ted States. There always is where youth is concerned. The emphasis· of, the convention, however, was on the~sitive side. It was, concernea chiefly with the good that youth c:onti-i butes to the Country and to its own Community. The strength of self-disciplined youth was Turn to. Page Ten '
R~veal 'Buildirtg·
Progra~~ P~an At Sto~.~":il,1
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: The' Survey Committee of Stonehill College Development Fund . today announced the sources' from which. it will s<t~k the $5,000,000 necessary for con struction and furnishing of, sev eral buildings needed' at the College, Rev, ThOmas C. Duffy, C.S.S.~ ~director .of development, is now surveying 'community at titudes. . The survey committee broke down the development goal of $5,000,000 this way. It will seek corporate gifts in the amount of $1,500,000; memorial tributes, $1,500,000; foundations, $1,000, community campaigns, 000; $400,000; Easton campaign, $100, clubs, societies, labor 000; groups, $50,000;,Stonehill alumni, parents, faculty and'staff, $32li.,' 000. ' . , , Turn, to Page Twenty . ;
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Vigil Obligations Saturday, December 7, the vigil of ~he feast of the Immac ulate Conception, is a day of fast and abstinence. Catholics over 7 years of 'age may not eat meat on that day. Those betwe~n the ages of 21 and 59 are further restricted to but one full meal and no eating between meals. While'the Mass of .the Immac ulate Conception is to be offered on Monday, Dec. 9, there is no obligation tQ attend Mass on Monday.
men filled St. Joseph's hall to make their reports, and cheered as the $10,310 turned in by t~e host parish pushed the campaign over the goal. Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River, thanked the men for the sacrifice of their time and means, and for the ex cellent example they have given not only to others in greater New Bedford, but throughout the entire diocese. His Excel lency announced that when the new high school is ready for oce\lpancy in September of 1959, 500 children, comprising the freshman and sophomore classes, will be in attendance. Four more parishes exceeded their minimum goals at the meeting They are: St. John the Baptist, Sacred Heart, Our Lady of Purgatory, and St. Mary (South Dartmouth). Compli menting these parishes and urg ing all to continue their hard work for the final week of the campaign .were Rev. Hugh A. Gallagher, moderator, general chairman, ,Arthur' F. Buckley, M.D., and memorial gifts chair man, Joseph P. Duchaine. Fa ther Gallagher announced that all 30 parish committees met for the final time last night in St. Joseph's hall. . Mitchell '8. Janiak and John C. DeMello have announced that the friends and business com Turn to Page Two '
Bishop'5 Statement Our New Bedford Reg'ional High School Build ing Fund Campaign is p1'oving successful. We have . exceeded the minim1£m goal. We a1'e hea1'tened by the evidence of inC1'eased sympathy and S~£1)port that will, please God, assure us of a debt-f1'ee school. For myself and f01' the whole Diocese I write a c01'dial word of thanks to all, cZe1'gy and laity, who have so admirably shoulde1'ed the' B,ishop's burden, They have p1'oven beyond shadow of doubt their dete1'mina.tion to p1'ovide the best they can for OU1' Catholic boys and gi1'ls., May Our L01'd and Our Lady rewa1'd them for their g1'eat zeal and their spirit of sac1'ifice. May their splendid example be not alone praised, but imitated. MM'e and mM'e, it seems that the needs of the, . future are to be resolved by the st1'ength of our High Schools, Technologists tell us that any P1'O gramme for scientific advancement is only as good as the foundation laid in our seconda1'y schools, Not man?! rockets will be built of rock and roll. It would be fooli,~h to expect great things of young men and women who have neither enthusiasm nor the will to try. . If we a1'e to have a better tomM'row, we must have means to make it so. And these a1'e chiefly matte1'S of, moral and spiritual value. The·generous d1'eam's,the impulse to get the most out of life, must find expression in more than self-g1'q,tifica . tion, The will· to succeed must, not .be· limited to tlroughtsof pl31'sorial appea1'ance and material gain. There has been too much of th:at al1'eady, And men rich in everything but what' might :make them better d1',e at ci, loss what to dQ in times" of c1'isis such as ?ill;' face .today. : : " '.. Our young people;: on the High School level are (Lt (t tU1'ning point in life, The choices they make, for better :or worse, will affect not alone themselv.es, 'b1ti,'the future of the commun~ty and the natwn, We cannot be too conscientious in pro viding them' 'U{ith every assurance of making (t right choice. We must not fail to give them balance, ,pe1'spective, a sense of values, and a sense of service that will give us better men and women for a better day.. These m'e among the reasons why we wish to make Faith function in the course of education. This is why we attach such great imp01'tance to our Regional High School Prog1'amme. This is why we feel so deep a sense of gratitude to those who have done so ·well in the Greater New Bedford area.