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WASHINGTON (NC) "If you want peace, defend life," Pope Paul VI told the people of the world in his 10th annual" message to mark the World Day of Peace celebrated by Catholics on Jan. 1.

On that day the pontiff will celebrate Mass at the mother church of the Pauline Fathers in a suburb of Rome. The 9:30 a.m.

Mass will mark the ce"lebration of the Solemnity of the Mother

of God and New Year's Day as well as the World Day of Peace.

In the U.S., 20 to 30 American bishops are expected to meet in Baltimore Jan. 2 f'lr the first national celebration of the Day of Peace. A 4 p.m,.

Mass for Peace at the Basilica of the Assumption will highlight the celebration. Archbishop Jean Jadot, apostolic delegate in the U.S., will preside and Cardinal John Dearden of

In Diocese

Bicentennial 'Events Highlighted, Year As for the world and nation, 1976 was a memorable year in the Fall River diocese, where the Bicentennial provided the theme for the annual Bishop's Ball and was also celebrated at a Memorial Day Mass with Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen as homilist, at the annual convention of the Dioc.esan Council of

Catholic Women and at a Mass offered by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, honoring Mary as the Patroness of the United States.

Marking the third anniversary of the Jan. 22, 1973, Supreme Court decision removing aborTum to Page Thirteen

New Construction in '77 For New Bedford Parish Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, S.T.D., Bishop of the Diocese, has signed a contract initiating construction of a new parish center for Holy Name Parish in New Bedford.

The new parish center, to be erected on the comer of Mt. Pleasant and Penniman Streets adjacent to the church, will offer

a well equipped catechetical center and parish hall.

The contract was awarded to Owen F. Hackett" Jr. Associates of..,New Bedford. The General Contractor will be F. L. Collins Constructwn Co. of Fall River.

It is expected that the work on the new parish facility. will begin early in January.

New Year's Message As 'We begin a new year, I greet one and all with the worQS of the r,ord Himself: "Peace be with you." I pray that the year 1977 will bring the possibility of peace ever closer to our world. We know that the ways to peace are many, and the conditions for peace complex. However, our Holy Father, Pope Paul VI, in urging prayers for peace thIs New Year'S Day,路 reminds us that "If you want Peace, , efend Life," for Peace and LIfe are intimately related. "Every crime against life is a blow to Peace," the Holy Father teaches. These are words of wisdom, deserving our serious reflection. If nations in the midst of conflict would heed this teaching, peace would come to war-torn lands. If individuals everywhere would respect life, even from the first moment of conception, peace would prevail in our contemporary society. May the year ahead be a time when reverence for life becomes our way of life. Then, and only then, will we advance into paths of Peace. May the Lord's Peace be with us. A blessed New Year to all.

Detroit will be homilist. Archbishop William Borders of Baltimore will be principal concelebrant.

Participants will also attend a seminar on disarmament, sponsored by Pax Christi, a Catholic peace organization.

In his Peace Day message the Pope denounced "the false and dangerous program of the arms race, of the secret rivalry between peoples for military superiority," and called abortion a "crime against life" and "a blow at peace."

His message was made public here by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Pope Paul said that "if, in defiance of logic, peace and life can in practice be dissociated, there looms on the horizon of

the future a catastrophe that in our days could be immeasurable and irreparable for both peace and life." He added: "Hiroshima is a terribly eloquent proof and a frighteningly prophetic example of this."

If "peace were thought of in u'nnatural separation from its relationship with life, peace could be imposed as the sad triumph of death," the Pope said, quoting the words of the Roman historian Tacitus: "They make a desert and call it peace."

"Again, in the same hypothe: sis, the privileged life of some can be exalted, can be selfishly and almost idolatrously preferred, at the expense of the oppression or suppression of othTum to Page Three

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National Gatherings Sparked Church Year cial element in their bids for the Oval Office; -An unprecedented general absolution of more than 13,000 people in two ceremonies conducted by Bishop Carroll Dozier of Memphis, Tenn., in December.

The two services were part of a diocesan reconciliation effort aimed at attracting inactive Catholics back into the Church.

-The 41st International Eu-, charistic' Congress, an eight-day religious celebration which brought more than 1.2 million people from all over the world to Philadelphia Aug. 1-8 for Tum to Page Four

By Cliff Foster American Catholics' involvement in the life of their Church as well as in the political future of their country was highlighted by a number of events this year, including: - The Detroit "Call to Action" conference, the first Catholic representative assembly in which 1,300 delegates passed , wide-ranging resolutions urging radical changes in the Church and society: - The presidential campaign, in which both major party candidates vi,gorously courted the so-called "Catholic- vote," a cru路

Thirty-Eight Parishes To Send Presentees to Bishop's Ball Thirty-eight young ladies will be presented to the Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin at the 22nd an路 nual Bishop's Charity Ball on Friday, January 14 at the Lincoin Park Ballroom, North Dart-

and charitable event in New England.

The Ball is in honor of Bishop Cronin. This will be his seventh appearance as honored guest and he will be the main speaker at the gala winter event.

"These presentees represent parishes from the five areas of the diocese," said Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes, diocesan director of the Ball. "Every year, one third of the parishes, are given this honor. This enables every parish, once in three years, to participate in this impressive ceremony," continued Msgr.

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NEW CENTER: Bishop Cronin signs contract for construction of new parish center for Holy Name Parish, New Bedford. From left, standing, Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, chancellor; Rev. John J. Murphy, Holy Name pastor; Owen F. Hackett Jr., architect; Francis Collins, general contractor.

His Excellency, the Most Reverend Bishop, will celebrate a special New Year's Day Mass for Peace at St. Mary's Cathedral on Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. All are invited to

participate.

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Na.tional No Discrimination WASHINGTON- A top aide to Presidentelect Jimmy Carter says there路 is no discrimination against Catholics. Hisoanks or nersons OT)posed to abortion in hiring people to serve in the Carter Administration. The aide also said he had reprimanded a transition staff volunteer who had suggested a Hispanic Catholic woman, Graciela Oliverez, "should be thought about very carefully if she is being considered for a job that will in any way concern abortion and related subjects" because she is a "strong, active right-tolife supporter."

Couple Win Case ST. PAUL, Minn. - A district court judge has awarded childbirth expenses to a St. Paul couple who complained that a federally funded clinic pressured them to accept family planning advice conflicting with their religious beliefs.

Ramsey County District Court Judge E. Thomas Brennan ordered the County to pay Joyce and Michael McKee $876 in expenses even though their daughter was delivered at a private hospital instead of a free clinic for inner-city families and unwed mothers funded by the fe0eral government. The McKees, who are Catholic, complained that staff members of the Maternal Infant Care (MIC) clinic lectured the woman repeatedly on artificial birth control despite her obje:::tions that such family planning methods violated her religious beliefs.

'Best Senator' Dies

Accuses Prelate

WASHINGTON - Sen. Philip Hart (D-Mich.), often called the "conscience of the Senate," died of cancer in his Washington home Dec. 26. He was 64.

Hart is best known for his strong civil rights record, his support of consumer protection laws and his opposition to the concentrat;on of power in large corporations. He was a leading ppponent of the Vietnam War and worked for an unconditional amnesty for war. resisters.

The out-going Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield of Montana, once said of Hart, "He was the best (senator) of the last 25 years."

"He was a really good Catholic," said Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, auxiliary of Detroit. "Unlike some people who stood for the things he stood for, he didn't get disenchanted with the Church. I'm sure he disagreed with certain positions, but he was always, always loyal to the Church."

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ROME - A Canadian Jesuit exiled from Vietnam has accused Saigon's archbishop of collaboratingwith the Communists and causing scandal for confusion among Catholics. Father Andre Gelinas, expelled six months ago from South Vietnam, also strongly criticized the Vatican for not explicitly condemnin~ the "anti-religious pressure and the violations of huma~ rights" in Vietnam and Laos.

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Aid for Lebanon BEIRUT - Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the overseas aid agency of U.S. Catholics, has launched a $4 million路 program to distribute 12 000 tons of food and reconstruction materials in Lebanon. Msgr. Joseph Harnett, director of CRS Region I, which includes Lebanon, arrived in Beirut to begin the aid program, just one month after an uneasy truce and cease-fire .was imposed by a peace-keeping force made up largely of Syrian soldiers.

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ZURICH, Switzerland - A Soviet writer Vladimir Bukovsky, said on reaching the West from a Soviet prison in exchange for a Chilean Communist leader, that the Helsinki pact on human rights did little to improve his lot. In fact, he added, conditions at Vladimir prison "worsened consideraQly as soon as the Helsinki accord was signed." Bukovsky was exchanged for Luis Corvalan, head of the now banned Communist party in Chile who spent more than three years in jail as an enemy of the military junta there.

LONDON - A hitherto restricted book of Soviet laws governing religion has been leaked to the West, according to an article published by the Center for the Study 'of Religion and Communism at Keston College, Kent. The article, in the winter issue of the center's quarterly journal, Religion in Communist Lands, charged that the laws ought to have been made generally public by the Soviet government, even under its own rules that certain types of laws and decrees need not be published.

Necrology JAN. 7 Rev. Alfred R. Forni, 1970, Pastor, St. Francis of Assisi, New Bedford JAN. 8

Rev. Alfred J. Carrier, 1940, Founder, St. Ja~es, Taunton Rev. John Kelly, 1885, FOUllder, St. Patrick, Fall River Rev. Arthur C. Lenaghan, 1944, Chaplain, United States Army JAN. 10 Rev. Jourdain Charron, a.p., 1919, Dominican PriOt'y, Fall River Rev. George H. Flanagan.

1938, Pastor, Immaculate Conception, Fall River JA~. 13 Rev. Emile Plante, M. S., 1954, LaSalette Seminary, Attleboro

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Sibling Visiting At St. Anne's Christmas Day marked the inauguration of a new program in the Nursery and Maternity Department at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River. The program involves inviting young children under 14 years of age to visit their newborn brothers or sisters and is another step in developing a family-oriented concept of patient care at St. Anne's and promoting the values of family life.

St. Anne's - Christmas baby was visited by her older sister who personally welcomed her into the family. This process allows children, particularly young toddlers, to feel very much a part of this unique and important family event and lessens fear of separation from the mother.

Children will receive a bilingual personal invitation to visit the hospital, said officials who have drafted a set of guidelines' which include the child being accompanied by an adult member of the famiy, and stating the days and hours of visiting.

So far, response has been enthusiastic on the part of children, parents and hospital personnel. The Christmas festivities added a glow to the first visits and truly made the new program a celebration of life.

Peace - Life Continued from Page One ers," the Pope said. "Is that peace?"

Although peace and life "are supreme values in the civil order" and are "interdependent," they have often been in conflict in human history, the Pope noted. Even today this conflict "continues to desecrate and stain with blood many a page of human society," he said. "The key to truth in the matter can be found only by recognizing the primacy of life as a value and as a condition for peace.

It's Official: 1979 To Be Year of Child UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (NC) - The United Nations General Assembly has agreed to proclaim 1979 as the International Year of the Child.

The idea is to provide a framework for the advocacy on behalf of children and to promote recognition of the fact that programs for children should be an integral part of economic and social development plans.

Msgr. Giovanni Cheli, the Vatican's UN observer, had previously told the social committee that the Holy See opposes the idea of an International Year of the Child. It would distract funds and efforts from other childoriented programs, he said, and the frequency of UN-proclaimed "international years" is making them less meaningful.

Alien Reg'istration All non-citizens, incuding immigrants and non-immigrants, regardless of their age or present status, are required by law to report their addresses each January. Cards for this purpose are now available at all Post Offices and Immigration and Naturalization Service Offices.

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.YOUNG VISITOR: A new program at St. Anne's Hospital, Fall River, allows tots to visit newborn brothers and sisters in the hospital nursery. St. Anne's Christmas bahy is held by Mrs. Noreen Bird RN for the admiration of her sister; Anna Paula, and her parents, Mr. and路 Mrs. Edward Silva.

Various National Customs Salute Beginning of Year

By Elsa and Jeff Endrst

Whatever 1977 may bring, the myriad customs around the world marking the end of the old year and the start of the new are a testament to human hopes.

In India, the celebration of Divali, the festival of lights, is a combination of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year. Every home, however lowly, is decorated with twinkling clay lamps called "dipas." This is done to welcome Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. Unlit houses are supposedly overlooked by the goddess. The doorsteps are decorated with rice-f1ol,lr designs and banana leaves~ There are fireworks to scare away evil spirits. The new commercial year begins with Divali and businessmen start their new fiscal accounts.

For ChristiaI1s, of course, the new liturgical year begins with Advent and even though Becember is a time of penance, the month is marked with several joyful celebrations that brighten up the bleakness of winter, culminating in the celebrations of Christmas and the New Year.

While religious celebrations are discouraged in the Soviet Union, children there eagerly await the arrival of Ded Moroz and his companion Snegurochka on the last day of the year.

They are, of course, Father Frost and Snowgirl. Like American children, many Soviet youngsters had written letters to Ded Moroz for special gifts and sweets. There usually is a New Year's tree called Yelka, trimmed with candles, candy and straw ornaments. There are songs, a big family feast and a message by the first sec-

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Calendas is the Mexican New Year's Eve. The Zapotec Indians have a fiesta in which they break plates in the streets as in the old Aztec ceremonies.

Korean Traditions The Koreans go to the graves of their ancestors on New Year's Day to bow in respect and pray for the happiness of the departed souls. The traditional meal is barbecued beef with rice soup and rice cakes (duk-kuk) which are supposed to bring good luck.

The Yugoslavs slaughter a pig for New Year's. In Serbia they save the head for seven days before they eat it.

In Japan, the bells of the temples toll 108 times on the last night of the year, representing the Buddhist id~a that man . has 108 cares.

In some parts of West Africa, young people bathe in local streams -in the early hours of the morning of New Year's Day, symbolically washing away their sins. Colembians welcome the New Year by sending flaming

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WASHNGTON (NC)-Leaders of the March for Life predict the biggest pro-life turnout ever for a protest demonstration marking the fourth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Jan. 22, 1973, decisions which overturned most state abortion laws.

With Jan. 22, 1977, falling on a Saturday, pro-lifers who had been prevented by their work from attending previous marches will be able to attend this one, thus swelling the numbers from last year's estimated 65, 000, according to Nellie J. Gray, the organization's president.

March participants and other supporters will once again send roses symbolizing life to congressmen and senators. Roses will also be delivered to the White House, Miss Gray said.

This year's program will be-

gin with the rose deliveries on Jan. 21. That evening there will be a vigil at the Mayflower Hotel. Marchers will lobby in the House and Senate Office buildings the following morning, then assemble on the Capitol grounds and march to the White House.

Activities are scheduled to end at 5 p.m.

balloons into the night and wear their underpants inside out Jan. 1 for luck, while people in Spain consume 12 grapes at the stroke of twelve for good luck in the incoming year.

Some New Year's superstitions must have certainly been influenced by male cnauvinism.

Scotland has the First Footing - a traditional belief that for a happy New Year, the first to set foot into a home after midnight must be a dark-haired male, carrying a gift. As good luck insurance, farmers in the Highlands often tie a' piece of bread to a black tomcat and send it into the night in hopes that it will return at the appropriate time.

Ukrainians also believe that if the first visitor on New Year's day' is a man, success and good fortune will follow throughout the year, while a woman is an omen of sorrow and tears.

The Irish, however, do not discriminate against either sex.

They are only concerned that

the first visitor does not have red hair, which to them spells certain trouble.

But if you want GemuetIichkeit and gaiety at its best on New Year's Eve, you will find -it anywhere 路in Austria, but especially in Vienna. The delightful opera "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss has been performed at the world famous opera house for generations on New Year's Eve. Bleigiessen, a ritual of pouring melted lead into a bucket of cold water and reading good fortunes into the strange figures which emerge, is an absolute must for many Austrians. Waltzing at the Hofburg, the former residence of the emperor, at the annual ball, is typically Viennese.

Glueckschweinchen ("lucky piglet"), a little marzipan pig with a golden coin in its snout, as well as touching a passing chimmneysweep on the first day of the year, are said to bring good luck in the New Year.

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Peace or Surrender The Holy Father, in his New Year's Day Message, pleads for peace. He has drawn a dear distinction between peace and truce, an effort in defence of life and abandonment to the whims prevalent at anyone time.

The Holy Father has spoken clearly yet patiently; he has emphasized doctrine yet he has been pastorally sensi.tive.

Recently, a headline blurted out "Euthanasia Finds Growing Favor With Catholics." It was onlv after a second and more serious look that a pollster explained that such an acceptance was growing "among those C"'thol;r,~ who agree that artificial contraception is permissible and . . . who favor the legalizing of abortion:' The story is both expected and shocking. Expected because once one has trampled on the sacredness and value of life in one sphere all life is cheapened. Once a person's opinion is granted the pedestal of idolatry, scarcely can attention be returned to the One True God and His Word.

The shock comes from a supposedly learned scientist of the National Opinion Research Center able to easily disregard any difference between a Catholic who espouses his or her Church's doctrine and another who has abandoned his or her Church's teaching.

The doctrine itself has not changed; the Church has not ceased her preaching. But some, who still feel they are Catholics, have changed. They have abandoned and even ridiculed their Church's solicitous warning and yet are cast in the same mold as the faithful Catholic.

Furthermore, William McCready of NORC claims that since there is now confusion, an immediate truce should be proclaimed. "The scholars and moral guides in the Church," he demands, "must b.egin to respond to this confusion creatively or risk being closed out of the people's deliberative processes altogether."

The apparent demand is that since a growing number of Catholics cannot continue to accept the Church's doctrine because of an apparently newly felt concern for their rights as individuals and their consciences, the Church should change her doctrine or remain silent and give up her sphere of influence in such matters!

This is precisely the meaningless truce and lifeless desert the Pope shows is not peace.

The faulty headline and quick pointing of an accusing finger betray a dangerous misunderstanding - if not a deliberate error - of doctrine, conscience, Church, morality, etc.

One can imagine the blood beginning to boil in the prophets of the Old Testament and warnin8s jell on the trembling lips of the witnesses of God's Law. Because our religious leaders may be more patient and sensitive does not mean that doctrine is dissipating.

To suggest that Pope and Bishops abdicate or remaIn silent will not solve the problem. General abdication and the espousal of a purely personal, individualistic and sentimental position, devoid of any real reference to God, His Word 'and His Church, is no answer.

Maybe it is time again to depend less on numbers and the counting of proudly raised hands and to expect the often Scripturally described faithful remnant of God. It was not popular then either when governments and proud people demanded their way regardless of the prophets. Maybe it is time for less attention to numbers, statistics, feelings and self-idolatry.

May '77 find the Church ever more willing to expound and explain her doctrine, to relive the valiant witnessing and sacrifices of past centuries, to defend the Word of God before any and all human statistics.

Peace, oh yes,' peace but not abdication, surrender, comfortable unfaithfulness and a substitution of human idolatry for acceptance of the Word of God. McCready's appeal for an apparent peace is nothing more than the Pope's reference to Tacitus: "They make a desert (void of all life) and call it peace."

debate on the morality and legality of using "extraordinary means~' to prolong life.

As many as 21 state legislatures this year considered socalled "death with dignity" bills that would allow adults to end medical treatment administered solely to keep them alive when terminally ill. California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed the nation's first "right-to-die" measure Sept. 30. after reportedly consulting "health officials, religious leaders, mystics and philosophers."

A life and death question on a different kind was answered in July when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that' the death penalty does not in itself constitute 'cruel and unusual" punishment banned by the Constitution.

At the other end of the life cycle, the Supreme Court this year dealt the anti-abortion movement its most serious setback since a 1973 decision struck down most state laws restricting abortion.

In a challenge to a Missouri abortion law, the Supreme Court ruled in July that the state could not require the consent of a husband for his wife's abortion or the consent of a parent for an abortion of a minor.

Later the court blocked an attempt to permit enforcement of the Hyde Amendment, which would have stopped the use of federal funds for abortions except when the mother's life was endangered by the pregnancy.

OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER 'Call to Action' It was appropriate that in a Published weekly by The Catholic Press of the Diocese of Fall River bicentennial year American Ca410 Highland Avenue tholics took a prophetic look at Fall River Mass. 02722 675-7151 their future in the "Call to AcPUBLISHER tion" conference ,and reflected Most Rev. Daniel A. Cronin, D.O., S.T.D. on their reHgious heritage at the ACTING EDITOR FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR 41st International Eucharistic Rev. John R. Foister, S.T.l.

Rev. Msgr. Johl'l Regan Congress in Philadelphia, the ",Leary Presi-fall River birthplace of the Republic.

In Detroit 1,500 delegates from across the country, most of them appointed by' their local bishops as diocesan representaContinued from Page One Presidential Politics prayer and discussion on the Catholics of all backgrounds tives, drew on a two-year grasstheme "Hungers of the Human were a top priority in campaign roots consultation of Catholics Family." strategies of Gerald. Ford and to suggest to the U.S. hierarchy Some urgent hungers of the Jimmy Carter; also competing a program of Catholic social achuman family were eased by for the presidency during prim- tion for the next five years.

Concern for social justice and U.S. Catholics and others who aries was Ellen" McCormack, a donated aid and material to the political newcomer whose anti- expressions of' religious zeal victims of earthquakes in nor- abortion campaign gained na-' merged in the Eucharistic Conthern Italy and Guatemala, tional exposure when she quali- gress, a bicentennial spectacular where thousands were left fied for federal matching funds. that brought more than a milhomeless.

The 1976 political race was lion people to Philadelphia Aug. Upheavals of a different sort also marked by some major 1-8 for liturgies, conferences, rocked Rhodesia this year when Church firsts, including meetings seminars, exhibits and performa court sentenced Bishop Donal between a committee of bishops ing arts programs.

One of the single largest reLamont of Umtali to 10 years at and the two major party candidhard labor for failing to report ates, at the candidates' requests. ligious events in the nation's his' the presence of terrorists.

The bishops followed the meet- tory, and the first eucharistic Elsewhere on the international . ings by reaffirming their Febru- congress to be held here in 50 scene, individual Church mem- ary statement on political res- years, it stressed the social as bers were pivotal in the defense ponsibility and emphasizing tpat well as religious dimensions of of civil liberties and the prom'o- they did not take sides in parti- the Eucharist. tion of social justice causes in san politics.

- The Pontifical Biblical ComChile, Ecuador, Brazil, South As politicians debated a wide mission's finding that Scripture Korea, Northern Ireland, and range of issues, questions of life alone does not exclude women and lieath dominated headlines from the Catholic priesthood Eastern Europe. came to light three months beWhile the institutional Church for Catholic readers.

The case of Karen Quinlan fore the Episcopal Church's delocked horns with many governments this year, its struggles reached a historic climax March cision to allow women priests. were not all external. It was also 31 when the New Jersey Su- Both actions brought predictions preme Court allowed the coma- that the Catholic Church would attacked from within.

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre- tose young woman to be remov- ordain women by the end of the termed a "rebel" by Pope Paul ed from the respirator that had century. 'But Pope Paul reaffirm- challenged the papacy itself kept her alive for almost a ed the Church's ban on women in a series of dramatic confront- year. By year's end Miss Quinlan priests.

-The Church's traditional ationsstemming from his refusal continued living unconscious in to abandon the Tridentine Mass a nursing home in Morris Plains, teaching on sexual morality was restated by the Vatican in Janand to disband his outlawed tra- N.J., without the respirator.

In the wake of the Quinlan uary and by the U.S. bishops in ditionalist seminary in Econe, Turn to Page Six decision came a new round of Switzerland.

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Letters to the editor letters are welcomed, but should be no more than 200 words. The edilor reserves the right to condense or edit, if deemed ~ nacessary. All letters must be signed and include a home or business address.

'Discretionary Death' Dear Editor: Your statement, "All Life is Sacred" (December 16, 1976) was very well presented. Congratulations!

The moral issues involved in the matter of capital punishment are far more subtle and less popular than those in other "right to life" matters. Nonetheless, the moral issues are present, and the moral principles invoked in other "'right to life" matters must be invoked here as well.

I believe that no person ever has the right, duty or privilege to terminate the life of another person. The fact that persons are eager to voluteer to do so, or to have such a heinous action televised indicates to me the evil in our society ha!; very deep roots.

I hope that the voice of the Church, the whole community of believers, will be loud and clear in opposing any proposed executions, any legislation or movements supporting "discretionary death."

Rev. Kevin F. Tripp Coordinator of Catholic Ministry St. Luke's Hospital New Bedford

Protests Deletions Dear Editor: I do not question your right and the task that is yours to make editorial judgements and deletions on the material that goes into your diocesan paper, but in reference to the publishing of my letter on the Memphis service (Dec. 16 Anchor), I would point out that it must have been obvious that it was the kind of a letter that should have been printed in its entirety or not at all. It would not have taken that much more space.

I can be aware that just because it's my letter does not attach undue importance to its subject matter (win a few, lose a few!), but your omission of a paragraph or paragraphs ignores almost the entire thrust of what I, as an ordinary Catholic, seriously wanted to convey. The resultant blandness, though certainly innocuous, is hardly a presentation of my thoughts and convictions on this particular issue, and will in fact

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Fred McCracken Attleboro P. S. If there is a next time I can almost feel that the judgement will be "not at all." No hard feelings.

(We ask that letters be limited to 200 words. The unedited letter referred to above was 590 words; in the Christmas spirit, we nearly doubled our usual allowance and used excerpts amounting to 350 words. Editor)

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Says: Christmas reminds men that they "can and must be born again:' said Pope Paul VI at his weekly general audience.

RHODESIAN FUNERAL: Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood carry the casket of Mother Francis Van den Berg who was killed by a Rhodesian gunman along with a bishop and a priest. Another nun escaped by rolling Dear Editor: In light of a recent Massachu- under the bishop's vehicle and feigning death. (NC Photo)

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setts Supreme J~dicial Court decision, this seems an appropriate time to ask several questions.

The law says that it is wrong to kill. an innocent human being once he is outside of his mother's womb, but the same human being can be killed with impunity if the killing takes place inside the womb of his mother.

In the words of a Charles Dickens character, "If' the law supposes that, then the law is an ass, an idiot." For, what magic is there that takes place in the act of removing a baby from his mother's womb that somenow gives him a right to continue to live, which right the law I says he did not possess while in the 'womb?

Why isn't there a judge with the gumption to stand up and say that the seven members of the United States Supreme Court made an outrageous, biological blunder, when, on January 22, 1973, they said that the unborn do not possess "meaningful life" and, therefore.. have no right to life?

Why isn't there a senator from Massachusetts with the guts to take a leadership role in Congress in the fight for a Human Life Amendment, which will guarantee right to life protection to all human beings, bOrn and unborn?

Why do some persons who claim to be pro-life vote for candidates who are anti-life? lIs there anyone who can answer my questions?

Joan L. Carey Needham

Say Communion on Tongue Hazard to Heart Patients NEEDHAM, Mass. (NS) John and Alice Brennan, who have been trying since August to have the U.S. bishops pernlit Communion in the hand as a way of preventing the spread of swine flu and other infections, are now seeking to enlist the support of others in their effort.

The Brennans, who live here, have issued an appeal to Catholics in the United States who want Communion m the hand to speak to their pastors, write to their bishops and to Archbishop Joseph L. 'Bernardin of Cincinnati, president of the NaNonal Conference of Catholic Bishops(NCCB).

"We feel it is now up to Archbishop Bernardin to request a vote by mail from each bishop to allow Communion in the hand as a preventive health measure against the flu and other viral diseases," the Bren-

nans said. "We are confident that there would be few, if any, dissenting votes."

The Brennans said they had received many letters and phone calls since August from around the United States "urging us to carry on 'the fight for Communion in the hand.' Among the most compelling letters were those from people who have had open heart surgery and who had been instructed by their physicians to stay away from Communion when it is given on the tongue for fear of infection."

They added: "It is morally indefensible to allow this hazard to health to continue even during this current flu season."

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The Pope asserted that Christianity can reform even the most hardened of sinners.

"Some people say that the only cure for the路 Mafia is a strong police force or the prison system, which has become a school for making people worse:' the Pope said. . "But no, Christianity can do it. Remember that it was the Church which reformed the barbarians and made them into a new people." The Gospel is the cure for all social ills, the Pope declared. "How many criminals -and unfortunately their num路 bers are growing - today cor路 rode the social fabric in the many places where people have been beaten down by modern changes. They lack the lesson, the example, the comfort and the environment of a full, human life.

"For this reason every one of us must commit himself in a more aware and responsible fashion to help men find a new human and social uprightness and live by it," declared the Pontiff.

"There is no social disease that is resistant to the loving, patient and wise care of the Gospel."

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"How many saints," the Pope remarked, "started their lives over again - not only once, but two and three times."

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Dec. 30, 1976

p路ost-C,hristma's Musings Of M:om W,ho Lik,es Toys My kids are to the age when they appreciate clothes for Christmas. They've been getting clothes since they were infants, but in those days they much preferred toys.

Probably the reaSOn they got few toys for Christmas when ,they were young is that I'm a terrible toy shop- YO~,r daughter would just love per.

Humbug. I really wanted I would go through the' something for $2.98 that would aisles of the toy department survive being forgotten in the and open box covers. Any game that had more than three pieces was definitely out. That narrowed the selection to footballs,

rain.

Toys for Mom I had a penchant for certain toys. Etch-a-Sketch was always a favorite. It was all in one piece, lasted a long time, and provided a bit of a challenge. I spent an entire week after one Christmas trying to draw a circle with it.

By Generally, I picked out toys that I liked to play with. I was MARY paging through a toy catalog the other day. They have a suCARSON per Evil Knievel set that costs enough to buy a week's milk for the family. Apparently all you skates, and dolls with the do is "hand maneuver" his motor cycle and he jumps a clothes painted on.

I relented once. It could have ravine. So what. That ought to more than three pieces if the entertain a kid for about 20 pieces were small enough to be seconds ... and what fun is it vacuumed up without clogging for the mother?

I liked art supplies, and craft the vacuum cleaner. sets-things you could do things Dolls were an even bigger problem for me. Dolls came in with. But pre-assembled sets are 57 varieties-all having special often overpriced. So I bought attributes. They could repeat a a ball of monofilament string, brain-rattling phrase endlessly; a box of little nails, and a cork they could tap dance; they wore board ... instant string art.

One of my weaknesses was a wardrobe that cost $400.

THis year's special apparently Tinker Toys. Every year we had was a doll that sneezes. I have a Tinker Toy. My toy shopping was in such a real, live doll who was born a set pattern, the kids knew with her nose running, and it hasn't stopped for ten years. I what was coming for Christmas should bring a runny nose in long before I even went shopping. The shape of the packages this house deliberately? left no doubt.

When my girls were little I But they have outgrown those wanted to get them do1l9 ...days. nothing special ... just plain old I no longer badger clerks for dolls to be played with. The something "intelligent," I no stores had dolls that looked longer pore over the Sears toy like Bridget Bardot; dolls with catalog mumbling things like their own beauty salons; dolls "that's idiotic," "it'd break in that should have been behind two seconds," "that'd jam the locked glass in a collector's vacuum cleaner," "lose one showcase. piece and it's worthless," I finally got a clerk to listen My children ar,e no longer to me. "I want a plain old 'drag children. by the foot doll,' " But I still am.

"Madam ...We have the fiAnd how come there was no nest selection available. I'm sure Tinker Toy this Christmas?

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MOTHER TERESA: In an NC poll of Catholic editors, Mother Teresa of Calcutta , was voted the top Catholic newsmaker of the- year. She made major speeches at Habitat, the Eucharistic Congress, and the National Catholic Education Association meeting during the year while continuing her work among the poor in India.

New Beginnings Face Nation In New Year CINCINNATI (NC)-America is at a time of "new beginnings" as the nation starts its third century facing problems that call for "changes in our attitudes, values and .behavior," according to Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin of Cincinnati.

'In an interview in the January issue of the St. Anthony Messenger, Archbishop Bernardin, president of the National Conference 'bf Catholic Bishops, emphasized the need for "an across-the-board commitment to life as a precious gift of God," Entering, a new year and awaiting a new Administration, the nation also continues to be confronted with the problem of racism, said the archbishop.

Acknowledging the progress of legislatures and courts in recent -years toward correcting racial injustice, he said he is that nevertheless convinced much remains to be done "in such areas as equal access to jobs, schooling, health care, housing and the administration of justice," Looking beyond the nation's borders, Archbishop Bernard'in warned against isolationism and declared: "We must recognize that the unequal distribution of the world's goods is a challenge to our consciences and to our ingenuity in achieving a more equitable distribution. To put it bluntly, it is a scandal and a grave moral evil for a relative handful of people in the world to enjoy - if that is the word excessive affluence, while millions of human beings live in deprivation which we Americans can hardly imagine."

Discussing the role of women in .the Church, he said, "Everything God wants a woman to be, I want a woman to be. It's just a question of what God wants. I'm not against the ordination of women simply路 because I personally want to keep them out; I'm against it because I don't think it has been proved that Christ intended to admit women to the priesthood. The weight of nur tradition is on the side of not ordaining women. . .'

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It does not seem long ago that we were putting the garden to bed for the winter, but now we are ordering seeds and preparing for the new season which is only three monts away. In fact, it was only last week that we finished shredding leaves for the compost heap. Our first act in pre- Christmas and New Year's is, it can continue right up unparing for spring is to order that til the Feast of the Three Kings, a truckload of cow manure. January 6 or Epiphany as it is This is tIle perfect, time to receive it since it is solidly frozen and has no odor. We pack it in large plastic bags when it arrives so that any decomposition which takes place does so inside the bags. By doing this the manure is fairly well rotted by the time we use it in the spring.

One truckload goes a long way although it is difficult to come by now and is bringing a higher price each year. Regardless pf price, it is invaluable in the garden when mixed with compost and used as a mulch.

Pruning Time This is also an excellent time to prune large trees. We have one very old maple we have been cutting back gradually so that it provides shade but also lets in some sunlight. At the present time there are several branches which must be removed to complete the job.

They can be sawed off on a mild day and gradually cut up into fireplace-sized pieces for next winter's fires.

In the meantime we will have partially solved the problem of the dense shade cast by the tree.

The added advantage of doing the job now is that there is little in the garden' that can be damaged by falling branches .We tend to think that it is too cold now for outdoor work, but this is not really the case, especially for an active job like sawing wood.

For those who want to get an early start on the Spring, this is a good time to start begonias, especially if you have a set of fluorescent lights. I have already ordered seeds for begonias and gloxinias, but will not really produce bloom for at least eight months. Starting from tubers is far more expensive, but quicker, and blooms started from tubers will produce flowers in two to three months.

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In Country Continued from Page Four a moral values pastoral passed at their fall meeting in November.

In a controversial study written by Father Andrew Greeley and William McCready, the authors blamed the 1963 birth control encyclical Humanae Vitae for most of the decline in American Catholic practices in the last decade.

- In May, the Pope created 20 new cardinals in a colorful ceremony attended by more than 6,000 people. Among them was Cardinal William Baum of Washington, the only North American named in the .consistory.

called by many. Thi.s gives everyone 12 days to continue this lovely period of the year.

During these 12 days after Christmas, in many lands the nightly celebrations take place in front of the creche, where the Magi are coming to visit. In some homes the Wise Men are placed some distance from the crib and brought closer each day until their eventual arrival on the 6th.

In many homes an Epiphany cake is baked which contains three beans (or a dime, nickel and penny wrapped in foil) and those who find them are kings for th~ night.

Last year I attended an Epiphany dinner sponsored by Our area French Cultural Society and it was a memorable evening from its beginning (a delightful pea soup) to the finding of the beans in the cake and the crowning of the kings. I'm looking forward to attending it again this year.

Whichever way that you celebrate this extension of Christmas, it is a good day to pack away the Christmas ornaments and decorations and another year of lovely Christmas memories.

'I don't have a recipe fOf Epiphany cake but I do have a recipe for some of the most delicious Christmas cookies that are too good to keep for just the holiday season.

Coconut-Mint Cookies cups sugar cup butter or margarine eggs teaspoon vanilla cups all-purpose flour Y2 teaspoon salt Y2 teaspoon bakihg soda Y2 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup quick - cooking rolled oats Y2 cup chopped pecans 13Y2 ounce can flaked cocoput Mint jelly 1. In a large mixer bowl, cream together sugar, and butter or margarine. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

2. Stir together flour, salt, soda, and cream of tartar; add to creamed mixture and blend well. Stir in oats and pecans.

3. Cover and chilI dough 2 to 3 hours. Shape in 1 inch balls and roll in coconut. Place on greased cookie sheet. Make an indentation irr"'top of each cookie. Bake in 375 degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove and coolon wire rack.

4. Fill each with about JA teaspoon mint jelly.

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Absolute Surrender " 'My little way' is the way of the spiritual childhood, the way of trust and absol\lte selfsurrender." - St. Therese of Lisieux. '

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cese began the meeting by dis- pIe grow in faith." Because her stry, Father Mitchell said: "It cussing theit work and answer- field was music and liturgy, she seems to me that a decision" began by 'Working with the choir about women in (ordained) mining questions about it.

Josephite Sister Dennis Mic- and ha~ since found many other istries should be made on the basis .of present pastor.al· need, hael Flaherty, personnel direc- things site can do. not on the basis of SOme dubious Josephite Sister Carol crepeau tor for the Sisters of St. Joseph istoricat.: precedent." h of the archdiocsan permanent in LaGrang, Ill., said the entry To put 1t another way, Father of Sisters into pastor.al' work dioconate office said -she knows doesn't mean they are abandon- of women looking for wo~ in Mitchell -suggested the issue is ing education. Many, teachers pastoral ministry and would like not' one of admitting women to membership in an exclusively who are less effective in the to cooper.ate with the priests' male club, but rather,a chal· to place senate in fmding a way classroom than they once were lenge to develop a new approach • still have valuable skills, she them. / to the whole matter of ministry.

Sister Crepeau questioned the said.

"Should -we be seeking new, distinetion between women ReCharity Sister Martana Blaso· ligious and lay women in mini- as yet unexplored ways' to symvich, whose title is religious ed- steiy, and suggested lay women bolize the relation between God ucation coordinator at S1. Fer- not be excluded from the sen- and people?" hea,sked. The call din~d parish, said her job has ate's consideration. to recognize the role of women become much more than that. in ministry "is part of a larger, First Source

By Jo-ann Price ington. These actions were term· She said people talk to her about deeper call to broaden our un"ilTeguIar" by the Hous.e of their personal and spiritual ed NEW YORK (NC) - Wpen Benedictine Father Nathan derstanding of who God is," the Episcopal Churc~ starts or- Bish9PS, "which censured three problems when she visits their Mitchell, assistant professor of which' means "letting our vision homes for sacramental prepara- 40ctrinal theology and liturgy at of God expand beYond the famdaining women to. the priest- participating bishops.

Last September they weretion. hQQd after its new ordination S1. Meinrad School of Theology, ili~r ' masculine images," he canon takes effeetJan. I, one of happy when the' Episcopal St. Meinrad, Ind., discussed said. ' Help Them Grow } the largest groups of women General Convention in Minneapriesthood and ministry in a talk "Seen in this -light, the agita'priests will come. from the 10- polis voted to change Church She has an. office in the rec- to all the priests after the small tion for women in ministry is law to allow women to be or· tory. "People have come to talk county diocese of New York. group sessions. not. simply a Pastarial strategy ' - However, first woman na- dained. during ·the day because I am "We need to "de.sacerdotal~ for improving the church's funcOne of the most painful things tionally to cross the line into available," she said. "I often ize' our understan~ng of Christ- tion in the modem day, but a the formerly, all-male doptain Ms; Anderson said she has had think of myself as a listener, ian ministry," he said. 'The first serious call to continuing conwill be Midw~sterner Jacqueline to do is counsel CatholiC wom- and spend hours doing jqst that.- source of ministry' in the Church verision. We are being asked not Means, 40, of Indianapolis, to be en, who feel theY are called to If I were still committed to the is not ordination, but conver- simply to 'let women, come into ordained New Year's Day. She be- priests. They are torn be- classroom (where she spent 17 the club,' but to break down sion, faith and baptism." is now a deacon in an Indiana- tween leaving the Catholic ye~rs), I wouldn't' be able to do those barriers that keep us from or remaini!lg in the hope Church Ministry should not be reduc- seeing God as the infinitely rich polis church.

-this. But her previous classroom that women wijI be ordaiaed to experience is an asset, she ed to mere functionalism, Father and varied person He is," Father But 10 of an estimated' 25 its priesthood, she said.

Mitchell said. "For this reason I MitchelI said. ' added.

Scheduled 1;0 receive Holy Orthink we should be a bit more 'ders across the country in JanMercy" Sister Evangeline Mc- discerning in our attempts to uary will be attached to New Slay of St. Clotilde parish who discover or devise 'new' forms York, an Episcopal" strongholtl had been a novice mistress for of ministry." which has remaJned reladvely i3 years, said that when Msgr.

On the role of women in minicalm throughout the recentDaniel Cantwell offered her a storm over ordaining women. job in the parish, she had no An additionat three will be orDoane'/kal'AJDes' idea of what she would do. He INCOIPOIAfN dained later in the year. told her simply: "Help our peaD~ D. Wilfred C. swf~l~d' Controversy has FUNERAL around three of, them. But for Sullivan ' Driscoll SERVICE" the most part, the 13 women FUNERAL HOME now making ordination plans in "I will"say in the ceremony that since they were ordained , New. York have been quietly 2~ WINTER 5T-REEl Rob~lt l. Studley. Treas.

Gordon L. Homer Howard C. Doane Sr. workmg as deacons in parishes and now have been recognized FALL RIVER" MASS. Howard C, Doane Jr. Robert l,.. studley or at hospitals/or colleges. by the bishop and the standing 672-3381 HYANNIS '775-8114 committee, and since the Church "I'm sorry I had to wait .. said Soutll Y.rm8lltlt 311-2201 Harwlclt Port 432-0513 has given - pennission to ordain the Rev. Carol' Anderson ~f the women, they are now recogstaff of St. James Episcopal ~ . / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .~~# , .. nized '~s priests in good staridChurch, who was ordained a ing." he said. deacon to 1971.

Ms•. Anderson, a tall, athletic, woman, and Chaplain Julia SibINC. MRS. JACQUELINE MEANS . ley, 50, of the East Midtown , Protestant Chaplaincy were admitted to the diaconate at the In an interview with NC Moving & Stor.age Co. same time. They will' become the News,Episcopal Bishop Paul Attleboro, Ma•• first women to join the diocese's Moore of New York outlined his TEL 222..5353 440 priests when Ms. Anderson plans for Rev. Carter Heyward • Taunton, Mass. ,receives orders Jan. 3 at St. and Rev. Emily Hewitt, who TEL '823-2525 James and Chaplain Sibley on were ordained in 1974 in an "ir' Jan. 8.

Agent For regUlar" ceremony. Their Qrders . Ms. AndeBOn and Chaplain he said, would be "recognized': Sibley did not taIte part in the in a liturgical ceremony Jan. 9 ordinations of 15 women dea- ,at the Cathedral of St. John 363 SECOND ST. FALLRI'(ER, MASS. United Van Lines cons in Philadelphia and Wash- the Divine. der the sponsorship of the archBy Judy Edinnr diocesan priests' senate.

NILES, III. (NC) -, "How Responses were favorable, but would you feeI)f you got a letwith qualificatiOns. There ter from Cardinal Cody. informshoUld be prior consultation ing you that a woman Religious would be ~assigned to your par- with the parish on the need for such .- minister and some indic~ ish as an assoeiate pastor?" " Father Mederd Laz. asked -oth- ation of the person's training for. erChicago archdiocesan priests, the job should be given, priests this question during a discussion" said Sisters .now working in passession at the annual meeting of priests "at Niles Coll~gehe~ un- ~<3Tal ministry 'in the archdio- .

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national and" world events of tltis., bicentennial. year are pictured left to right, top to bottom: Bishop Cronin imposes hands on Bishop Daniel A. Hart at ordination of Boston auxiliary; Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr., Msgr. Gerard Chabot at 'Diocesan Council of Catholic Women bicentennial convention; Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen interviewed for television preceding Bi.centennial Mass at Bishop St8.llg High School; Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, named an officer of the Nati6nal Council of Catholic Women; Continental Army honor guard member at 1976 Bishop's Ball; Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes rejoices as 1976 Catholic Charities Appeal goes over $1 million for first time; bishops hold fall meeting, issue pastoral on moral value..s; worker loads rice for Bangladesh, paid for by "Rice Bowl" proceeds; Cardinal John Dearden, host for Detroit "Call to" Action" meeting; Rev. Barry W. Wall, Miss Frances Cullen demonstrate new nte of penance, introduced in diocese first weekend of Advent; among year's newsmakers: Pope Paul VI, Archbishop Joseph Bernardin,Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Karen Ann Quinlan, Mother Teresa; generostity of American Catholics enables Catholic Relief Services to aid earthquake victims throughout '_ world; Irish Peace People march for end 'to Northern Ireland strife; pro-life struggle continues on many fronts; Archbi~hop William Baum is named cardinal; offertory dance at one of many Masses for members of Charismatic Renewal; Bishop' Cronin receives Lantern Award from Massachusetts Knights of Columbus; with him, Joseph Arena, 'State Deputy, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros; "Catholic vote" is courted by politicians, including Jimmy Carter; youngsters carry' statue of Our Lady of Fatima at diocesan Columbus Day candlelight procession; Israeli soldiers patrol BethlehenYs Church'of the Nativity in ironic comment on Christmas message of peace on earth; additional .newsmakers: Ellen McCormack, Bishop Donal Lamont.

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Blessed John Neumann; Bishop Car~oll Dozier grants general absolution to hun. dreds at second Mass of ~e路 conciliation he celebrated in Memphis diocese; priest distributes communion at Eu:. charistic Congress Mass.

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Q. Don't you think we need counselors- in the women ~ Church? No matter how hard a priest may try to listen to a woman's problem, especially a marital· one, he will ultimately dismiss it as trivial ,becaust· he cannot understand the importanee 01 it .~o her.

A. The first important requisite for effective counselling "is at least some degree of compe-tence that is, the ability to identify a problem when one presents it, and to have some clear ic:!eas on how to treat the problem, or help the client to handle it. It .also includes an awareness of one's limitations in providing assistance or -therapy, and how and when to guide a client to appreciate further assistance.

Most priests today- are very much aware, perhaps far more than most lay PeQple, thatordination itself does not carry ,with it this kind of competence; es-. pecially for more complicated personal ot family pathologieswhich is why a large number of priests continue their studies to increase their ability in this phase of their work" Much depends on the individual you consult - his kindness and understanding, and your confidence in him. Perhaps 'your first mistake, therefore, was in failing to search for a priest - you would have reason to believe had some kind .of experience, competence, and wisdom you could trust.

While a qualified counsellor of either sex, married or unmarried, 9ught to have sufficient basic insights to help an 'individu!ll of the other sex, it can· easily be that for some individuals the the most help will come from a counsellor of the same sex, if for no other reason than that the client feels more comfortable with the arrangement.

At any rate, most counselling services including Catholic agencies, 'try to have both men and vromen staff members available.

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Q. I saw in the paper recently a reference to"passive euthanasia." -The article seemed to - say that this kind of euthanasia is morally permissible. If it's mercy killing, it's still wrong, isn't it?

A. Passive euthanasia' is a phrase used occasionally in medical and; moral literature to .(iesC,ri!>e a situation Jnwhich a person is allowed to die, rather than be provided with, treatment or 'medication that would keep him alive. Thus, it is opposed to • active euthanasia (euthanasia, or merCy killing, in the traditiona:! sense), in which death is brought about by some positive, deliberate action of a physician or other person.

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On Ute other hand,' it is not little pomp and cirCumstance to mark the 750th anniversary of his worldwide commualways"molally necessary to use nity. (NC Photo) every conceivable means to keep a sick person going~ a 'while longer. Treatment which would be extraordinary under the cir. curnstances, because of immense

By Joim Muthig , speaking visitors on a free tour idents and .visitors themselves. cost, extreme pain, little hope Many American, priests and ASSISI, Italy (NC~No fire- of the cathedral, which he unfor success, or other reason, worKs are being shot into the ashamed1y loves.

Sisters of the Franciscan tradi-' need not always be used. pitch-black Umbrian sky. Tour P~ of the cathedral bell tow- tion take sabbaticals of several A very old person might know, .buses arertt asphY:t.iating visit~ er is the remains of the city months in tlfe town to rediscover .for example, that his life could ors in Assisi's narr()w streets. their roots, and to breathe the be prolonged, by several months Grandiose liturgical celebrations , wall built by .the ancient Ro- air that made St. Francis one mans.

Some of the stones formeCl only by a very expensive' and ~ hard to find: a basin for collecting rainwater of historY"s few' really free men. exhausting operation. He ,would In short, the year-long com- in the ancient Roman city. And" 'There are also the bearded not be obliged to submit to that memoration of the 75OthanniCapuchins, some of whom live another section of the tower operation, nor woUld his doctor versary . of St. Francis of Assias hermits. I recently glimpsed be obliged to perform it against si's ~eath)s unfolding just as containS a niche where, Father one sitting in a patch of weeds Pierluca believes, the statue of the· patient's desires. the Little Poor Man would have .the Earthmoor goddess stood in and writing,some thoughts. He Dozens of additional examples, liked it-full of "peace and good what was an ancient temple. was wearing under his tattered concernirig other types 8f cases, things." habit a pair of pants .he had 'Good Things' Visitors to Assisi--4l hill town' could be suggested. . stitched together ~self. , I .

Obviously, such a decision can of about· 5,000 people which This Christmas season, the , He saluted passers-by with a hangs on Moullt Subasio like a 'be very complicated and difficult manger seene-a tradition be- beautiful, toothless smile. to mak~ What mi&ht be extraor- rose-colored necklace--know im- gun by St. Francis himself-is The Assisi diocese and thedinary, and !Jterefore not re- mediately that they are visiting set up within the bell tower, Franciscan communities here are a very holy place. quired, for·an aged grandmother, which is a "mini-museum"of the offering Franciscan Year pilGazing at the crucifix which is could be quite different for. a city's history. grims opportunities for group younger father who still has a said to have "talked" to St. The works of manl-the dis- Masses, retreats and Penance wife and family depending on Francis, one feels an awesome him Joe support. All aspects of presence not unlike that experi- tinctive architecture, the' fres- services. charity-to oneself, to others, enced at the Lincoln Memorial coes of Giotto and Cimabue, the For those desiriilg more (ranDella Robbia terra cottas, the quility than even peaCeful Assiand to God-must be carefully in Washington, D. C. A walk through Assisi's nar- cathedral's medieval facade-are si can offer, retreat facilities, are ;weighed in each instance to row, stepped streets is a medi- all incomparable treasUres.' make the decision prudently.' available at a handful of anCient, In ans:wer to your question, tation: But the most preCious "good remote Franciscan monasteries, And an hour spent in silence things" which St. Ftancis'city some found~ by Francis him, then, passive euthanasia is not always mercy killing in the im- at the rough-hewn stone coffin has to offer are oft~ the res- self, in the Assisi region. moral sense. Whether it is right of the saint can be a deep spiror wrong depends on the cir- itual experience. cumstam;es.

Thousands Vi~t Questions for .this column About 200,000 pilgrims visit sli9UId be, seat to Father' Dietzen in eare of The Anchor, P.,a the great Franciscan shrines here each year. Many stay at the B:o~ 7, FaiI1 River 02722.

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• THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Dec. 30; 1976

Baroni, Novak, Greeley Out: New Ethnics In

Wants Inaugural Prayers To Be Streamlined

Those who follow the career of Mr. Michael Novak will recollect that after he left behind his bead-wearing, hippie, revolutionary phase and became an ethnic, he promptly wrote a book in which he excluded the Irish from any legitimate use of the word "ethnic." One of my but it's' the first time for Mifriends and fellow Novak chael.

The whole business is absurd, watchers was led to com- of course. It's one of those ridicment, "Someday somebody's going to come along and do the same thing to Michael."

Well, sure enough, it's happened. An improbable character namer Father Stevens-Arroyo in a recent issue of "The Priest," has excluded not only the Irish but also the eastern and southern Europeans from any claim of being ethnic. He has reserved that title only to blacks and Hispanics, and, it would also appear, only to those blacks and Hispanics who buy the watered-down Marxism of liberation theology. Geno Baroni and I are surriarily ejected from the ranks of the ethnics, and so, too, is the hapless Mr. Novak.

I'm used to the experience,

Presentees Continued from Page One presentation committee, has announced that the presentees with their fathers are scheduled to meet Sunday, Jan. 9 at 2:30 p.m. in the Lincoln Park Ballroom for a rehearsal of the presentation ceremony.

This social and charitable event benefits the four Nazareth Hall Schools for exceptional children and the four modern diocesan summer camps for underprivileged and exceptional . children.

Names for the various categories of the Charity Ball Booklet arrive at headquarters daily and may be submitted until Jan. 7. Tickets for the Ball may be obtained at all Catholic rectories and at the door on Jan. 14.

List Presentees The presentees are: ATTLEBORO AREA: Jessica Sicard, Denise Fournier, Pauline Corriveau, Colleen Marie Murphy.

CAPE COD AND ISLANDS AREA: Danette K. Pendergast, Ruth Fougere, Susan Kenney, Margaret 'Butler, Mary E. Consoni, Maryanne Lake, Dorothy Mahoney.

FALL RIVER AREA: Denise Belanger, Karen Lynne Bender, Jo Ann Bentley, Claire Pauline Bouchard, Nancy Carpenter.

Deborah Carrier, Elizabeth Anne Creamer, Susan Guilmette, Deborah Anne Pacheco, Sheryl Ann Sypek, Susan E. Sullivan.

NEW BEDFORD AREA: Mary A. Beehan, Pamela Jean Ferreira, Claudette Menard, Doreen Cloutier, Angela Domagala.

Mary Kate Worden, Elizabeth Anne Ferreira, Michelle Guay, Joanne Sjlvia, Mary Margaret Cooney, Annette Marie Leduc.

TAUNTON AREA: Jocelyn .. Andrade, Nancy E. Briody, Lisa M. Pelletier, Salley Anne Santos, Cecilia Scott.

ulous games that intellectuals or quasi-intellectuals play, it is also the kind of game that has gone on for a long time in the church. You achieve power and prestige for yourself by reserving a 'special moral excellence for your own cause and by defining all kinds of groups out of that cause. Michael threw out the Irish to call attention to the injustices done to the eastern and southern Europeans and to the importances and excellence of his own claim to be a spokesFOUNDER: Bl. John Neman and leader of the "PIGS," as he called these folk. Now pomucene Neumann, fourth Father Stevens-Arroyo has done bishop of Philadelphia, who the same thing. will be canonized June 19, I don't know about me but I'm was the founder of the Sissure Monsignor Baroni is not going to back off just because ters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, who staff St. Mary's he's been told to.

U is also absurd for these lat- . Home, New Bedford. ter-day excommunicators to claim that they do in fact speak for everyone but themselves and what every other ethnic group their bands of friends. Mr. No- that has migrated to American vak may preside over something cities in the past has wantedcalled the Ethnic Millions for a bigger slice of the rich, gooey, Political Action Committee, but delicious capitalist pie, as well I very much doubt that a mil- as the respectability and status lion or even a hundred thou- that come with it. sand ethnics know who he is.

And Father Stevens-Arroyo's claim of identification with the cause of the Hispanics is ludicrous. Whoever elected him to anything? Where are the cre,dentials that certify him as the Complete Line legitimate spokesman for even Building Materials a small group of the Hispanc peoples in the United States.

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One man who claims to know what "ethnic" means, and what it means in particular for the Hispanics? Don't be silly.

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(At President Nixon's first inaugural in January, 1969, five prayers of varying length were recited. A few weeks thereafter I suggested that perhaps that was too much of a good thing. As we, approach another inauguration, I am still of that opinion. For this reason, I am reprinting a por- on an ad hoc basis. Needless to add, I am not opposed to public tion of the 1969 column for praying as such. Like any other whatever attention it may be ecclesiastical bureaucrat at the

worth in the Carter camp. In national level, I am called upon doing so, I speak only for myself, to do a lot of it at civic cernot for the U. S. Catholic Con- . emonies, and I am all in favor ference.) of it within sensible limits. 'My I would like to see the point is that we seem to be in churches of this nation take the danger of exceeding these limits. initiative in recommending that If we go on adding to the numthere be only one, or at the ber of public prayers at civic most, two prayers-let us say ceremonies, sooner or later we an invocation and a benediction are bound to reach the point at - at the inauguration of the which even those people who president. value the tradition of public I realize, of course, that this prayer will get tired of the would involve all sorts of del- whole business and begin to icate problems of ecclesiastical think that we ought to do away protocol. Nevertheless, I think with it completely. we ought to give it a try. It I may be wrong, but let me seems to me that under the cur- repeat that I would like to see rent arrangement we are faced the issue seriously debated by with the clear and present dan- aU of the major U. S. religious ger of making a mockery out groups while there is still time of religion by multiplying invo- to do something about it just cations and benedictions to the in case my own misgivings point where people will begin about the present trend should to think that the various reli- prove well founded. gious groups of the United States are, in reality, more concerned about their own image or their own ecclesiastical prerogatives than they are about the value of public prayers as WASHINGTON (NC) - Archsuch. bishop John Roach of St. PaulWe Could Do It Minneapolis will deliver the I don't know how we might benediction at President-elect resolve the protocol issue-but Jimmy Carter's inauguration I am fully confident that the Jan. 20. churches can come up with a He is one of only two miniworkable formula if they try. sters on the inauguration proThe mechanism for jointly tack- gram. The other is Methodist ling problems of this type al- Bishop William Cannon of ready exists in the Interreligious Georgia.

Committee made up of the genArchbishop Roach said in a eral secretaries of the National telephone interview that he Council of Churches, the Syna- thought he had been picked by gogue Council of America and Vice ·President-elect Walter the U. S. Catholic Conference. Mondale, a Dem'ocratic senator if this particular body isn't suf- from Minnesota and a personal ficiently inclusive to handle the friend. public prayer issue, there is no "I guess the President-elect reason why representatives of picked one and the Vice Presiother religious traditions couldn't dent-elect picked the other," he be brought i~to its deliberations said.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thurs. Dec. 30, 1976

KNOW YOUR FAITH . Unique Dimension of Jesus' Sacrifice

Simple but Symbolic Gestures

By Msgr. Joseph Champlin Those of us whose attitudes towards participation at Mass were formed prior to the Second Vatican Council tended to place a great emphasis on the offertory rite. We tried at that point to "offer" our lives with their recent ups and downs, successes arid failures as the priest "offered" the bread and wine.

There was nothing drastically wrong with such an approach.

But the practice did, however, seem to overemphasize this portion of the liturgy. Further, it distracted ,from the essential sacrifice and oblation of the Church which is performed later at the consecration and from the memorial offering immediately afterwards.

The new order of the Mass follows a middle course in its revision of the offertory. The rite has I1Qt been reduced to a mere preparation of bread and wine with only one prayer, an oration over the gifts at the conclusion. Yet neither has the ear-

lier version with many prayers • and a heavy "offering" motif been retained. A look at several portions of this section in the eucharistic liturgy should illustrate that compromise pattern.

The lengthy offering prayers which accompanied the elevation of bread and wine have been replaced by short statements of praise. These new texts are based .on ancient formulas, probably the very words used for the blessing of bread and wine at Jewish meals during our Lord's time. "Blessed are you, Lord 'God of all Creation.

Through your goodness we have this bread to offer, which earth has given and human hands have made. It will become for us the bread of lfe."

A similar prayer, of course, is employed for the wine.

Unfortunately, many celebrants today have on their own adopted a practice of combining the two

THE PASSOVER CELEBRATION was reflected in Jesus' own sacrifice of Himself at the Last Supper, Father John J. Castelot writes. In the Oberammergau Passion Play, Jesus offers the wine to the Apostles. (NC Photo)

By Father John J. Castelot

Jesus' sacrifice on the cross had a long prehistory and can be understood fully only against the background of that history.

It was offered with the context of the Passover celebration, when lambs were rightfully slain and eaten by those who shared When we are surrounded by the sacred meal. In itself this

By Deacon Steve Landregan all of' the accomplishments of was a family celebration, reOffer it up! space-age man, it is easy for us quiring no priest, no altar, and The expression was as com- to see .humanity as self-suffimon in our house as "dinner's cient, complete and perfect, los- the blood of the victim was ready," or "get up or you'll be ing sight of the fact that we are sprinkled on the doorpost to ward off evil, not to expiate sin. late for schooL" vessels of clay, created by, and' It recalled the whole Exodus Offer what up? Sometimes it destined to return to God. experience, wherein God delivwas a miserable cold, or· having What makes us important in to miss a special party, or per-. the plan of creation is that we ered His people from bondage in forming an intensely disliked ,are made in God's image and an- Egypt. And just as the father chore. Whatever it was, it was imated by His Spirit. All else is of the family explained the sigcertain to be something that nothing to the basic reality of nificance of the rite, especially the use of unleavened bread, was unpleasant, disappointing, our creatureliness. bitter herbs, and a roast lamb, or uncomfortable.

God Wants Us so Jesus, as head of the little What it meant was that the pafnful experience should be Basically, sacrifice is a con- flock, explained the meaning of accepted cheerfully, not grudg- fession of our faith in the reality the bread and wine. The former ingly, and offered to God as a of God as creator and ourselves was His body, "given"; the latter sacrifice. as creatures. It makes our inte- was His blood, "to be poured out"-unmistakable sacrificial Sound silly? Maybe so. Some rior sentiments visible. The anwould be quick to say that if cients would slay the choicest terminology. Thus' Jesus describes Him&"elf as a sacrifice, the there is a God, He certainly lamb or a dove and offer it to doesn't need to have offered to God by burning it. We could ultimate Passover lamp (see I Cor. 5, 7) whose death inauguHim the headachy, ache-all-over Turn to Page Sixteen rates the New Covenant prefeeling or' a cold, the loneliness figured by the Sinai covenant of his having to sit at home on Gives Light and foretold for the messianic prom night, or mopping the "Just as transparent substan- era (Jer. 31, 31-34). kitchen floor.

And, of course, they would ces, when subjected to light, • Sacrifice was the heart of Isbe right. God doesn't need any- themselves glitter and give off raelite ritual, and it took many thing. He is self-sufficient; He is light, so does the soul, illumin- forms: the holocaust, the comcomplete; He is perfect. He ated by the Holy Spirit, give munion sacrifice, various sacridoesn't need sacrifice ... but we light to others and itself become- fices of expiation. Besides anispirituaL" - St. Basil do! mals, cereal, bread, and incense were also offered in sacrifice. It was an elaborate system, with roots buried deep in the ancient Arabian and Canaan cultures.

699-4321 Interesting as this development is, far more interesting and important for us is the meaning u. s. Ro':'te 1, Plainville, _Mass. 02762 which sacrifice had for the people of God. What, positively, was the Is548-4266 raelite notion of sacrifice? The answer must begin with an appreciation of Israel's notion of Box 475, Route 28, East Falmouth, Mass. 02536 God. He was' unique, transcenPAUL GOULET, Prop. dent, all-powerful, supremely ##,##. . . #.""#,.##,##"."",.,##,#"""",."" .."" ..",,•

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The Eucharist as Sacrifice -By Father Paul F. Palmer, S.J. lIn defending the Eucharist as a true sacrifice, the Council of Trent stated that Christ commanded the Apostles and their successors in the priesthood to~ offer, "that He might leave to His beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice such as the nature of man demands . . ."

(Session XXII, Ch. 1).

That sacrifice is the natural response of man to 'a personal and loving God is graphically suggested by James Michener in his classic volume "The Source."

Ur, the' name Michener gives to primitive man, at the insistence of his wife, moved from the protective enclosure of the cave and built a dwelling of timber which, let in the sun, but which was more exposed to the elements. Ur remained the hunter but Ur's wife, who had been a food gatherer, decided to cultivate a garden.

All went well until the rains came. The river overflowed its banks and a huge wall of water threatened to destroy home, garden and their very lives. In panic Ur's wife rushed out to confront the flood. "Stop!" she cried. And it stopped. Reflecting but a moment, Ur's wife said quite simply, "Thank You." And to show her gratitude she selected . two sheaves of her finest wheat and placed them as a thank-offering or Eucharist in the receding waters.

The Book of Genesis or Beginnings tells us that Cain and Abel offered sacrifice by way of thanksgiving to God. Abel was a shepherd and offered the

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finest of his flock. Cain was a husbandman or farmer, but u~­ like Ur's wife, he offered the poorest of his cro·p. Abel's sacrifice was accepted by God, Cain's was rejected.

Sacramt}nt - Sacrifice On Calvary Jesus offered Himself in blood to the Father as man's most perfect gift. This offering He made once and for all and it cannot be repeated.

But at the Last Supper, Jesus instituted the Eucharist or Mass as the sacrament or sign of Calvary. And this sacramentsacrifice, a true but bloodless sacrifice, is celebrated "from the rising of the sun even to its going down" (Mal. 1:10).

The sacrificial' character of the rite of the Last Supper has been overlooked by a great many Protestants, a fact that does much to explain their refusal to see in the Mass, in which the rite of the Supper is reenacted, anything more than a commemoratiV4- meal or communion service. The Eucharist is a truly mystery. One of its aspects " this notion of sacrifice.

Through Moses God made a love-covenant with a particular people and to symbolize their union with God and with one another, the people were sprinkled with the blood of the victim. Through Christ God made a new covenant of love with all peoples, an alliance so intimate that it was symbolized by the very drinking of the blood of the Victim.

True, the blood of Christ was really shed' but once, yet to symbolize the unique sacrifice of Tum to Page Thirtee.n

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Continued from Page One tion restrictions, diocesan Catholics participated in both a Fall River and a Washington, D. C. March for Life; and through the year took part in pro-life workshops and other activities, including a unique right-to-life bicycle trip across the continent undertaken by Fall River seminarian Lawrence Lotz.

The retirement of Bishop James J. Gerrard was announced in February amid expressions of affection and appreciation for his years of devoted service to the people of God in the Fall River diocese.

Also in February, word was received of the appointment of Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, of Fall River, a longtime leader in the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, to a national post as chairman of the Organization Service Commission of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW). She was succeeded in her previous post as director of the Boston Province of the NCCW by Mrs. Richard M. Paulson of Taunton.

Diocesan observance of Le'nt was marked by Eucharistic Weekends of Prayer, presentation of workshops explaining the new rite of penance, to be introduced later in the year, and enthusiastic acceptance of the "Rice Bowl" and SIGN programs of self-denial and service.

March saw the commissioning of eight Dominican Sisters of' the Presentation' as extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist in the first such ceremony in the diocese.

On Patriots' Day, April 19, the Massachusetts Knights of Columbus honored Bishop Cronin with the Lantern Award, presented annually to an individual outstanding. in service of God and country.

Dr. Mildred Jefferson, president of the National Right to Life Committee, was among speakers at the annual Catholic Educati09 Convention at Bishop Feehan High School, held in May. And diocesan schools were tapped for national honors when bicentennial projects by children at Nazareth Hall and the Holy Union Primary School, both in Fall River, were chosen for exhibition at the Easter week convention in Chicago of the

The Eucharist Continued from Page Twelve Calvary, Christ instituted at the Last Supper a true rite of sacrifice that would prefigure His death on the morrow, just as that same rite of sacrifice celebrated by Christians today commemorates His death of yesterday This was the teaching of the Church of the East and the West for some 1500 years. Expressed in the classical words of the great Augustine, "This is the sacrifice of Christians: 'We the many are one body in Christ' (Rom. 12:5). And this also is the sac!rifice which the Church continually celebrates in the sacrament of the altarwhich is known to the faithful.

In it the Church learns that in the offering which she makes she herself is offered" ("The City of God," 10, 6). (© 1976 by NC News Service)

National Catholic Educational Association.

Change came to the Department of Education in November, with the announced resignation for reasons of health of Msgr.

Patrick J. O'Neill, director. His successor is being sought by an advisory committee.

With Richard C. Fontaine of New Bedford as lay chairman and Msgr. Anthonv M. Gomes as director, the May 1976 Catholic Charities Appeal topped $1 million for the first time.

Also in May, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros was in Fall River to found the Society of Our Lady of Czestochowa in the parish of St. Stanislaus. An August visitor was Cardinal Antonio Ribeiro, Patriarch of Lisbon, who attended several testimonials benefiting th~ Catholic University of Po"rtugal.

Portugal was honored too at the Eucharistic Congress, where Rev. John J. Oliviera, diocesan vice-chancellor, aided in arrangements for an nternational Heritage Eucharistic celebration attended by thousands of Portuguese Catholics.

Father Oliveira was also coordinator for Fall River Congress activities and during the year organized Eucharistic weekends throughout the diocese in spiritual preparation for the August event.

Throughout the year, too, preparations were made by Rev. John F. Moore for introduction of the Permanent Diaconate program in the diocese. A series of explanatory articles appeared in The Anchor and liaison arrangements were made with Stonehill College for academic training of candidates.

The Anchor was also a prime means of explaining the new rite of penance to readers, with articles and picture essays throughout the year designed to facilitate introduction of. the rite in all churches at the beginning of Advent.

Services inauguarated or expanded during the year included a Catholic Counseling Service and the Spanish' Apostolate, which broadened its scope to include the Attleboro area.

Seven diocesans, led by Rev. Peter N. Graziano, represented the area at the Detroit Call to Action conference, and through the year priests, religious and lay people were delegates to numerous regional and national conventions and other meetings covering a wide range of Catholic interests.

All year there were observances . marking the 75th anniversary of the dedication of St. Mary's Cathedral and it was fitting that at the close of 1976 the mother church should be the, scene of the awarding of the Marian Medal to 99 diocesans outstanding for unselfish service to their parishes or Churchoriented organizations.

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Jesus' Sacrifice

MSGR. JOSEPH CHAMPLIN explains the rite of "offering" the bread and wine during Mass. He says the prayers used are based on ancient formulas, "probably the very words used for the blessing of bread and wine at Jewish meals during our Lord's time." (NC Photo)

Simple But Symbolic ,Gestures Continued from Page Twelve It is regrettable how often blessing prayers and elevating either that symbolic cleansing the bread and wine together. has been omitted by the priest or performed almost invisibly.

Ancient Rite The mixing of a little water The washing of hands as a symwith the wine has been preserved -bol needs little explanation and, because of its extremely ancient accomplished with a large pitchtradition. However, the .compan- er and a basin in the clear view ion prayer is now reduced to es- of the congregation, can be efsential words. These ask that fective in an era bereft of many what began with the IncarnaI' . . . re IglOuS signs. tIon (God became man) may now be fulfilled in this sacrament.

The formula also requests that we might share in the divinity of Him, Jesus, who became man for us.

Hence, the water disappearing into and Iink!,!d inseparably with the wine symbolizes several mysteries: the intimate union of God and man achieved through Christ's coming into the world; the marvelous share in The Falmouth National Bank Jesus' divinity we are offered FALMOUTH. MASS through grace; the close link By the \Iilla~e Greeo Since 1821 between ourselves and the Lord's sacrifice.

The washing of the celebrant's hands had a very pragmatic function in early centuries. They would have been soiled by his receiving and disposing of the Ampex • Sony - Panasonic bread, wine, oil, candles and other gifts of the people brought 267 MAIN STREET forward following the homily.

FALMOUTH - 548-1918 In our day this normally is not ARMAND ORTlNS, Prop. the case. Nevertheless, the Church retains the gesture for its antiquity and symbolic value.

The General Instruction in article 52 notes: "The priest washes' his han~s as an expression or his desire for inward purification."

Continued from Page Twelve an efficacy unrelated to the interior dispositions of the offerer.

Not Simple Concept If sacrifice was not motivated by sincere interior dispositions, it was empty formalism, a mockery of the true divine-human relationship. Israelite sacrifice, then, especially when compared with pagan Sacrifices, was quite distinctive but still difficult to define. It was not a simple concept; it was not uniquely a gift to God to acknowledge His dominion, nor uniquely a means of achieving union with Him, nor uniquely an act of atonement. It was simultaneously all three - and a bit more.

As a gift it was the return of a part of God's property to Him, symbolically acknowledging His right to it all; thereby man acquired the right to use 't!- rest of it, under God, for his ",wn purposes. And since the offerings were staples by which people sustained their lives, the victims represented the' life and being of the offerer. In sacrificing them, he symbolically surrendered himself to God; and God, by accepting' them, bound Himself in some way. It was not a strict "give and take" proposition, since God had no need of the gift and there could br 10 proportion between the b Ct and God's favor.

The sacrifice as' gift expressed one's sense of dependence upon God, but it also indicated his desire for union with Him. This was especially true of the communion sacrifices, in which the offerers partook of part of the food they had offered to God. This sharing brought the two parties together in a spiritual communion. And implicit in every sacrifice was at least some notion of atonement, entailing self-denial and the maintenance of amicable relations with God. The sacrifice of Jesus embodied all of these rich notions, but it raised them to a transcendent level, adding a unique dimension. The fact that He, the incarnate Son -of God, was both offerer and victim, was the basis of this uniqueness.

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So many cards and letters this holiday season. So many requests, opinions, impressions, confessions. We seem to be drawn closer together. Our guards are down. We dare to say and express what we hold back during the year.

Bits and pieces of mail read and answered pass through my mind. The many who want to read more about Jesus, the Holy Spirit, our American values, loneliness at dawn,' and where do we go from here?

The "loneliness at dawn" stayed with me. I believe figures show that more people find themselves alone in the early morning hours, when they suffer from insomnia, protllems, fears.

"What do you do?" asked one wri ~r.

1 like to think that's a good time to meet Jesus. He is badly needed at that time. 'Remember the words in Matthew, "And in the fourth watch of the night He came to' them, walking on the sea." The fourth watch of the night sounds like before dawn, and if He came to them, He can come to you.

We don't live enough as did the witnesses in the time of the New Testament. Then they were charged with expectation of the Messiah. They were always waiting, always expecting. They accepted. Him in the most unlikely places, and we should, too. We should not wait for prime time to meet Him. He is not a program on TV, nor is he a lottery ticket with whom one takes chances.

Napoleon said, "3 a.m. courage is rarest in the world." So, if we are tossing and turning about during the fourth watch, we should have the faith to expect that He will be there, seeing us through the night. We should not despair (as many Turn to Page Sixteen

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FOLLOW ME: At the closing celebration of a retreat for the youth of St. Anne's parish, Fall River, at St. Dominic Savio Youth Center, Peacedale, R. I., are from left to right, St~ve Narciszin; Fr. Bill Drapeau, M.S., spiritual director; Lucille Tremblay, who had just shared her impressions of the weekend from the podium; Raymond Morin, of the retreat team; Father Pierre Lachance, a.p., oj St. Anne parish, spiritual director; and Gene Rauner, Rector of the retreat.

The weekend was part of an outgoing program of retreats and recollections inaugurated at St. Anne's last February with the help of Father Joseph Maguire and parishioners of St. Patrick's Church, Somerset. This retreat movement is . seen by priests .of St. Anne as the most promising means of effecting a deep spiritual renewal in the parish. Lasting effects are expected, thanks to a follow-up program. Twice a month "Fellowship Nights" bring together young people and adults who have shared a similar spiritual experience, enabling them to nourish and share their life in Christ. The success of the parish retreat programs as developed at St. Patrick in Somerset has inspired three other parishes in the Fall River area to follow suit: beside St. Anne there is St. Anthony of Padua in Fall River, and St. Louis de France in Swansea.

Need Community of Faith I'n Catholic Schools DAYTON, OHIO Bishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk, auxiliary of Cincinnati, said, the Catholic school principal ,is not only "t~e cornerstone of the school" but also "a builder of the Church."

Addressing a workshop of administrators and chaplains of Marianist high schools in the Cincinnati province at the Bergamo Center here, Bishop Pilarczyk said the administrator "is crucial for the faith dimension of any school." ' "To a very great extent, in my judgment, the Christian Catholicity of a school depends upon the Christian Catholicity of the principal and those he chooses to help him with his responsibilities."

Speaking of the school administrator's role in building a "community of faith:" the bishop, who is archdiocesan vicar for education, said that such a community "is or ought to be in a state of continual development."

"The faith, of high school people," he continued, "is a turbulent, changing, developing thing.

Their behavior is at best perhaps erratic, certainly unpredictable much of the time. The goals of high school people ai-

most by definition are fluctuating, unfirm, unclear in many cases.

"For that reason one might say that every Catholic school rather than being a community of faith is directed toward becoming a community of faith..."

"If the average mature Christian beHever needs community of faith," Bishop Pilarczyk said, "ten tinies, 20 times, 100 times more, the adolescent, the high school student" needs it.

There is special need for "mutual support in Christ in our time," the bishop added, because "Christian values by and large are being rejected by the society , in which we live" and because "the unrest in the Church is tempting a lot of people to a kind of me and Jesus approach.

The importance of the "community of faith dimension" in Catholic education is its role in "leading young people to become productive members of the People of God," the bishops said.

The administrator's role in developing a faith community includes "leadership in setting the tone of the school" and building a faculty "composed of persons of faith."

Hey everybody ••• yeah, Don't you feel that there's something People on the road are getting nowhere, . I'm on the road to see, If anything is anywhere awaiting, Just for me.

Everynight I walk around the city, Seems like I'll never know, That feeling of being together And I know, And it's a long way there, It's a long way to where I'm going, And it's a long way there, It's a long way to where I'm going.

Hey everybody, Don't you feel that there's something, Don't you know in a moment it is gone?

I live for the day when I can hear people say, That they know and they care for everyone, And I feel like I've been here for the whole of my life.

Never knowing home.

It's a long way, It's a long, long, long way there, Gonna keep on trying, It's a long way there, I'm gonna keep on trying, Gonna keep on trying, Gonna keep on trying.

(P) 1975 EMI (AUSTRALIA) Ltd. Performed by: Little River Band I just feel that there is so much more to life than what I've experienced." "I don't know what it is, but I feel dissatisfied about myself and life." "If I could only have some peace of mind and know what will bring fulfillment to my life ..." We hear and express these types of feelings which point to approaches to life. If you ,were asked to complete this sentence, "To me, life is ..." how would you respond?-· Sometimes we hear life imaged as a journey-we are on our way to something. But to what? To happiness? To fulfillment? To death? The roads along this journey take different directions and curves. Sometimes the roads are straight; sometimes we are unable to see around the bend.

The title "It's a Long Way There," gives us an insight into how the author views life. In the journey, he is on the road "so see if anything is anywhere awaiting just for me." ,While the search is certainly an open one, he has some idea what he is searching for-"that feeling of being together."

It's a yearning to be relieved of being alone, alienated from others and self; This search is not only his own, but he has a universal dream that there will be a day when people will say that they "know and care for everyone." He keeps calling out "Hey everybody, don't you feel that there's something?"

The ending of the song is powerful. In looking at the words, one feel the intensity of this person's yearning. His repeated words, "gonna keep on trying," says that -even "never knowing home" will not discourage him. He feels the journey is worth the effort. Even though it's a "long way there," the uncertainties, the risk, the feelings of emptiness, of' being alone, will all hopefully have meaning in . leading him to the "feeling of being togethet."

One can't help but be reminded of the call of Christ in aiding people on their journey of life, to be together. His invitation to accept Him as the "way, the truth, and the life" is a difficult offer to ignore. His promises of "complete joy" for those who love one another, of his "gift of peace," of having "life abundantly" and ultimately life everlasting-all must present themselves as enticing roads for those persons sincere in their journey of life.

Boishop Pilarczyk also spoke of the community of faith insoof the responsibility of the ad- far as he gives "a personal exministrator to see that religion ample of dedicated Christian programs "are directed toward . service." learning, understanding and "If building up a community sometimes at personal commit- of faith is part of being a ment."

Christian, as it is, then the role In addition, the administrator of principal in a school is a role "has a role in the development of authentic evangeli~ation."

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EL CENTRO (NC)-Many angels are Catholic-or at least many Blue Angels are.

IN THE DIOCESE In the U. S. Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron - the

By BILL MORRISSETTE "Blue Angels" who have thrilled millions around the country with their precision maneuvers in Navy A-4 Skyhawk jets-at least half the squadron members are Catholics.

The Bishop Comlolly High Cougars, hoping to break In interviews several of them into the win column in Division One Southeastern Mass. said their faith is an important Conference action, will play host to Attleboro in one of part of their life and their work.

When the Blue Angels come to two games scheduled in that divisiqn tonight. The other EI Centro Naval Air Base here game pits defending chamevery January to begin 10 weeks pion Durfee against Taunton and Friday night schedules. of intensive training, Cmdr. Anin the Bank Street Armory, In Division One play Tuesday thony A. Lees and several of his Fall River. In a shaky start, night, Holy Family is home to pilots regularly attend Sunday the Cougars lost their first two Bishop Stang, Bishop Connolly Mass. And when they are tourconference games to Barnstable is at Taunton, Barnstable at ing the country to appear at air and Durfee but coach Stan KU- Dartmouth and Durfee at New shows and othe'r major events, piec, who is in the process of re- Bedford. Stang and Holy Family on Sunday mornings they go to building the Connolly team with are also seeking their first con- a local base chapel or commuyoung talent is still optimistic ference wins. Bishop Feehan is nity church. that his boys will give a good scheduled to visit Seekonk, Fal· "I certainly feel that love of account of themselves despite mouth goes to Wareham, Old God prompts love of man and their lack of experience Rochester to Dennis-Yarmouth cauntry," said Cmdr. Lees. "I 'Bishop Feehan High enter- and Fairhaven to Somerset in love my fellowman and my t.ains Wareham and Somerset is Division Two games. country. 1 take a great deal of home to Dennis-Yarmouth in Division Three schools, at pride and satisfaction in going Division Two games tonight long last, it seems, swing into to Sunday Mass with my wife when non-league games list their conference schedule Tues- and four daughters, and all of us Westport at Seekonk, Diman day night with a full four-game going to Communion."

Yoke at Sandwich and Warren card. Westp_ort will entertain St. Strength From Mass at Case.

Anthony in one of the openers.

Cmdr. Lees, 38, attended St. Next week, when the Christ- The other games list Bourne at Patrick's grad~ school in Leemas and New Year holidays will Diman Yoke, New Bedford Yoke tonia, Ohio, as a child. After be history, the Conference re- at Case and Dighton-Rehoboth college graduation he joined the Navy in 1959, and he has led turns to its customary Tuesday at Norton. its most famous flight team for the past two years. He will be Hockomock League Also In Full Swing leaving the Blue Angels soon North Attleboro topped Foxboro, Franklin at Sharon and because he has been selected as Stoughton and Oliver Ames North Attleboro at Mansfield, an air wing commander in routed Mansfield as the Hocko- with Oliver Ames drawing the charge of several squadrons mock League opened its season bye. Tuesday night it will be Another veteran Blue Angel, a week ago today. Action in Franklin at Canton, Mansfield Lt. John Chehansky, has been that circuit continues with four- at Foxboro, Oliver Ames at with the squadron for three game cards tonight and Tues- North Attleboro and Sharon at years-as narrator of the show day night.

Stoughton. King Philip will in 1973, as left wing on the Blue In tonight's action Canton is play host to Blackstone-MiIl- Angel Diamond in 1974, and in at King Philip, Stoughton at ville in a non-league tilt. the number four or slot position in 1975.

Close Pennant Race Foreseen In Mayflower League "I know that 1 must get eight Defending co-champions Bris- games on tap tonight when Sa- hours of sleep and take care of toI-Plymouth Regional and West cred Heart will be home to myself physically and spiritually, Bridgewater High, despite being Southeastern Regional, Blue with the same care we give hit hard by graduation, are ex- Hills at Apponequet, Bristol. every aspect of our aircraft," pected to be in the thick of the Plymouth at Bristol Aggies and . Lt. Chehansky said. "We who 1976-77 pennant race with Sa- West Bridgewater at Avon. are Catholics draw our strength cred Heart of Kingston report- Tuesday night's schedule reads: from the Mass, the others from edly having the experience to Sacred Heart at Apponequet, their own religions. make its presence felt.

West Bridgewater at Southeastern Regional, Bristol at After Mass Sunday Brunch The league which opened its South Shore and Avon at Blue At season Tuesday night, has four Hills.

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Connolly Expected To Be Strong In Hockey The Bishop Connolly High hockey team, on the basis of pre season showing in exhibition games, looms up as a serious pennant contender in the Southeastern Mass. Conference's Division One. The Cougars take on Falmouth at six o'clock Monday night in a twin bill in the Driscoll Rink, Fall River, launching the conference's schedule.

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Iide at eight o'cock in the other half of the doubleheader.

Fairhaven is host to Durfee at six p.m. in the Hetland Rink, New Bedford, in a Division Two season opener and Bishop Feehan High. entertains Case, at 8:30, as Division Three launches its season. Tonight New Bedford and Durfee tangle in a nonleague game in the Driscoll Rink.

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Stang Girls Unbeaten In Basketball The Bishop Stang High girl!> basketball team, defending champion of the Southeastern Mass. Conference Girls Basketball League, will be after its fifth victory when it meets Bourne on the latter's court, at 10 o'clock this morning.

The Spartanettes, now 2-0, in conference arid 4-0 overall, share the conference lead with Fairhaven, 3-0 overall. Fairhaven is at Wareham, also at 10 o'clock, and,Dartmouth is at New Bedford Yoke at 10:30 in other games this morning. ~

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When we were children we didn't understand all that of course, but God didn't expect us to. We had the faith of the little ones which is so pure and so important. But, just as children grow to maturity, faith, must, Instead of outgrowing. "offering it up," we should grow into a mature Christian faith that recognizes that sacrifice is the gift of our whole self to God.

'ONLY LIGHTED HEARTS': Cardinal Luis Aponte of San Juan, Puerto Rico, kisses charred 19th-century statue of Our Lady of Providence, burned by vandals hours before it was to be crowned following its painstaking restoration in Spain. "The match that burned the statue only lighted the hearts of Mary's sons and daughters," he told huge crowd at crowning ceremony. (NC Photo) Continued from Page Fourteen one of Hitler's concentration c?mps. A. fe":,, months before tell me they do) but should hiS execution In 1943, he wrote grasp courage, from His awful nights of many, many watches, these remar.~able wor~s to. a and know that light cometh with loved one:, A deep, liberating ,the dawn. ' p e a c e encircles me ... I die with Stay close to the New Testa- an exultation that. does r,t0t tolment. Read between the lines. erate even tears-Just think not You are there! When the seas even tears. I stand face to face are heavy, the wind against you, with the world-at its cent~r, and it is 3 a.m.-that is one of and these last -hours are, In the best times to meet Jesus and truth the zenith of life - the to seek His help. The trouble is, zenith of life." people turn to reasonable facIf we really believe, we need similes or to tranquilizers to es- never be lame or blind again. cape, instead of meeting the problem and the Messiah together head on.

We Are the Blind Continued from Page Tweive We have all read of those 'hardly kill the favorite family brave people, those believing people, who .found peace in the pet and do the same thing. Besides the lamb or dove was a most unlikely places. They unsymbolic institute for the perderstood peace of mind within the sacrifice. God son making the perspective' of Christian diswants us to respond to Hi's love cipleship. External circumstances could not shake them because and to accept His forgiveness they knew and felt the depth of and our redemption.

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their relationship with Him who transcended the circumstance.

Ask Mother Teresa how much peace there is among the throngs of the dying poor in Calcutta. She will tell you that she sees not· sores or disgusting filth but the beauty of Christ. in the thin, pallid faces.

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Incense and chalk to be used for individual blessing of homes

on the feast of the Epiphany will he blessed at all Masses t.his weekend.

ST. JOSEPH, ATTLEBORO New officers for the parish Junior Corps are Scott Depot, president; Donald Courbron, vice-president; Robert Bianchi, secretary.

ST. THERESA, SOUTH ATTLEBORO The Confraternity of Christian Mothers will meet for 7:30 p.m. Mass Monday, Jan. 3, followed by a business meeting, bingo game and refreshments.

Bishpp's Charity Ball Honoring Most Reverend DANIEL A. CRONIN, S.T.D.

Offering up the little suffering and unpleasantness is a symbol of the fact that we are dedicating ourselves to God. We are offering Him a life of love and obedience in response to His love and forgiveness.

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