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BISHOP SEAN will celebrate the Mass of Christmas at 4 p.m. Christmas Eve at St. Mary's Church, New Bedford. The Mass will J:>e telecast on WLNE Channel 6 from II :35 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Christmas Eve and Day and from 8 to 9 a.m. Christmas Day.
Below we begin a Christmas feature which runs throughout this issue. All photos with this border are part ofthe feature and should be read consecutive/yo
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Papal honors to be conferred Bishop Sean O'Malley will be celebrant of a vespers ~e.rvice at 5 p. m. Dec. 28 at St. Mary's Cathedral, at which he will formally present diplomas conferring papal honors on three pri:ests of the Fall River diocese. The rank of Protonotary Apostolic has been conferred upon Msgr. HenryT. Munroe and Msgr. John J. Oliveira; Very Rev. George'
Coleman ·receives .the rank of Domestic Prelate, Tl).eranks ate honorary,' dating back to the early church. Protonotaries form one of the chief colleges of prelates of the Roman Curia. A Domestic Prelate is an honorary member of the papal household. Vespers, the evening prayer of the church, is part of the Liturgy of the Hours prayed every day by priests, deacons and religious. •• ' ~
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A Joyful Christmas Season and A Blessed New Year
To All ~ From the Parish Family of St. Francis of Assisi
Come, 0 long-expected Jesus; excite in us wonder at the wisdom and power of your Father and ours. Come', 0 long-expected Jesus; excite in us a hunger for peace: peace in the world, peace in our homes, peace within ourselves. Come, 0 long-expected Jesus; excite in us a joy responsive to our Father's joy. ~ome, ,0 long-expected Jesus; excite in us the joy, love; and peace with which it is' right ·to come to the manger of our Lord. Raise in us, too, sober reverence for the God who acted there, a hearty gratitude for the life begun there, and spirited resolution to serve.
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The Friends of Poland of New Bedford, Inc. thank the students of Bi~~9P.F~eh.a~ High Scho'ol ~nd·Bishop Stang HighSchoolfor over2,OOO good usedsweaters they donated to needy students in WarsaV\, and Krakow. ~
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Christmas Prayer
Do you not know? Have you not heard? it not foretold you from the beginning?
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Boze Narodzenie 1994 - StoIat!!