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Marian Medalsfor 101 Dec. 6

101 persons will receive thediocesan Marian Medal in cere­monies at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6,at St. Mary's Cathedral...

The award recognizes outstand­ing service within the recipient'sparish.

This year's oldest medal recip­ient, who will coincidentally be thefirst to receiv.e the award fromBishop Daniel A. Cronin is Mrs.Blanche (Albert) Archambault, 84,of St. Mathieu's parish, Fall River.She owes the number one positionto the fact that she is first on thealphabetical list of Fall River areamedalists, the first geographicalgroup that will be honored onDec. 6.

She has lived in St. Mathieu'sparish, of which her father. Wil­frid Boulay, was a founding mem­ber. all her life, said her pastor,Father Adrien E. Bernier. Shegraduated from St. Mathieu'sgrammar school and brought upher children within the parishboundaries.

Still active in St. Mathieu'sCouncil ofCatholic Women, FatherBernier said Mrs. Archambaulthandcrafts items for bazaars andother occasions and is a reliablehelper at council functions.

"She's known for her sense ofhumor," he chuckled.

The list of other medalists andtheir parishes follows:

FALL RIVER DEANERY:George J. Burns, St. Mary Cathe­dral, Fall River; LeonE. Cote, OurLady of Grace, Fall River; GeorgeDoucette, St. Anne, Fall River; Mrs.Elizabeth F. (James) Duffy, HolyName, Fall River; Philippe Durette,St. Michael, Swansea.

Mrs. Gertrude M. (Stanley) Fugiel,St. Thomas More, Somerset; MissEvangeline Furtado, St. Elizabeth,Fall River; Mrs. Laura (John) SoaresFurtado, St. John of God, Somerset;Francis L. Gragnani, O.L. HolyRosary, Fall River; Raymond Hal­bardier, St. Patrick, Fall River.

Vincent Henry. St. Louis, FallRiver; Andrew Jenkins, Jr., St.Patrick, Somerset; Paul W. Klaege,St. Stanislaus, Fall River; RogerA.J. LaBonte, Notre Dame -d'eLourdes. Fall River; Raymond La­Ferriere, Blessed Sacrament, FallRiver.

Mrs. Desneiges (Oscar) Lagace,St. Jean Baptiste. Fall River; Mrs.Martha (Thomas) McVey, SacredHeart, Fall River; Joseph Leo Moris­sette, O.L. Fatima. Swansea; JohnPenacho, O.L. .Health, Fall River;Mrs. Nora (John) Piekos, HolyCross. Fall River.

Henry Jordan Raposa. St. Wil­liam, Fall River; Mrs. Lucille St.Pierre, Immaculate Conception,Fall River; Joseph Sardinha, St.Anthony of Padua, Fall River; Mrs.Hilda B. (Gilbert) Tavares, EspiritoSanto, Fall River; Leopold H. Thi-

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AT ANNUAL Feast of Christ the King presentation of youth awards. held this year at St.Mary's Cathedral, Bishop Daniel A. Cronin and Rev. Martin L. Buote, diocesan director ofCatholic Scouting program, stand with leaders and award winners. From left, front row,Kathryn Lynch, Theresa Watson, Shane Sullivan, Frederick LaBrecque, Bryan Talbot; rear,William B. Stoddard, Pat Adams, Ray Layton. The awards recognize work by Boy and GirlScouts in the area of Catholic doctrine and service. (Torchia photo)

Two diocesan women get NCCW posts

Honors to be conferred

At the biennial convention ofthe National Council of CatholicWomen, held earlier this month inMinneapolis and attended by over2.500 women, Mrs. Michael .I.McMahon of St. Mary's Cathe­dral parish. Fall River. long activeon the organization's national. re­gional and diocesan levels. waselected president of the associatesof the National Council of Catho­lic Women.

With some 300 members. theAssocjates. founded in 1970. arewomen who. like Mrs. McMahon.have served nationally and locally.Their purpose is the support andencouragement of religious. 'edu­cational and civic projects initiatedby the Parent organization.

Also at the Minneapolis meet­ing. Mrs. Aubrey Armstrong ofSt. Louis de France parish. Swan­sea. immediate past president ofthc Diocesan Council of CatholicWomen. was elected to thc NCCWnominating committee of whichMrs . .lames A. O'Brien .Ir. of theCathedral parish is outgoing chair­man.

Twenty womcn represented theFall River diocese at the conven­tion. led by Miss Dorothy Curry.

DCCW president. They reportedthat all convention resolutions werepassed unanimously with the ex­ception of one concerning the feas-

The Most Reverend DanielA. Cronin, Bishop of Fall River,will be the celebrant of AdventVespers at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov.29, at St.· Mary's Cathedral.Prior to celebrating Vespers,the bishop will formally pre­sent diplomas conferring papalhonors on three priests of theDiocese of Fall River.

Bishop Cronin expressed de­light that Pope John Paul IIhas honored the Diocese andour priests by conferral of thesehonors. He further stated thathe hoped the clergy, reli~ious;

and laity would through thisgesture become more closelyunited with the Holy Father.

The rank of ProtonotaryApostolic has been conferred

. upon Reverend Monsignor An­thony M. Gomes, and the rankof Prelate of Honor has been

ibilitv of chemicai-free agriculture.It w,;s determined that the subjectre4uired further study.

Resolutions adopted concerned

conferred upon Reverend Mon­signor John J. Oliveira andVery Reverend John J. Smith.These ranks are honorary, dat­ing back to the early Church.

November 29 is the first Sun- .day of Advent, the beginnin~

of the liturgical year for Catho­lics. It be~ins four weeks ofpreparation through prayer andsacrifice for celebration of thecoming of Christ at Christmas.The readings and prayers of theseason unite the Church to thehistorical period of awaitin~

the Messiah.

Vespers, the evenin~ prayerof the Church, is part of theLiturgy of the Hours prayedevery day by priests, deacons.and reli~ious. In some parishescelebration of the Hours hasbecome a daily devotion.

assistance to the hungry. homelessand/ or jobless: encouragement ofecumenism; family ministry; aid toelderly religious: support programsfor AIDS victims and their fami­lies; support of family-orientedlegislation; and advocacy of medi­cal care for all and communityprograms for the terminally ill.

Mary Ann Kramer of the dio­cese of Ne\'" Ulm. Minn .. waselected NCCW president. to servefor two years. She succeeds ToniBischoff of Columbus. O.

Other officers are Carroll Quinn,diocese of Savannah, first vice­president; Beverly Medved, dio­cese of Helena, second vice-presi­dent; Rita Greenwald; diocese ofSpringfield, Ill.. third vice-presi­dent; Betty Miller, archdiocese ofHartford. secretary; and ClariceBrown, archdiocese of Chicago,treasurer.

The next biennial convention isscheduled for Sept. 2X-Oct. 2. 1989.in Atlanta.

"Bag Lady" SpeaksIn other convention activity.

delegates heard an address by Val­erie Dillon. family life director ofthe archdiocese of Indianapolis.

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If you think God is calling you to be a Priest ...Come to our Information Day on the Diocesan Priesthood

AN INVITATIONTO THE

YOUNG MEN OF OUR DIOCESE

Patrick McCarrick

number of vocations today. Hesaid a compa·rative study of threemajor surveys of Catholics overthe past two decades provides noevidence to bear out the theorythat women are now less likely toencourage a son to be a priest.because they are angry over church'treatment of women.

M9thers today are still moresupportive than fathers of the ideaof having a son become a priest, hesaid, and "on no relevant surveyquestion did Catholic women comeout more .angry than men.... Weconclude that some Catholic wo­men are are no doubt angry, but amother's revenge cannot be held toaccount for the downward trend invocations to the priesthood."

Another category of optionsHoge explored involved changingthe eligibility criteria for ordina­tion: ordaining married men, or­daining women, restoring someresigned priests to active ministry,or instituting a term of ministry ora practice of accepting resigna­tions from ministry without a senseof disapproval.

He said sociological studies indi­cate that ordination of marriedmen would have a high impact onthe number and quality of candi­'dates for the priesthood.

Ordination of women or institu­tion of a limited-term priesthoodwould entail "serious theologicaldifficulties," he admitted, but henoted that the celibacy require­ment is acknowledged by the churchas a disciplinary decision, not adoctrinal rule, and a change wouldinvolve no major theological issues.

The Mass of Christian Burialwas offered Nov. 21 at Immacu­late Conception Church. Revere.for the repose of the soul of PatrickH. McCarrick, father of Rev. PaulF. McCarriCk. pastor ofSt. Josephparish. Fall River. McCarrick diedNov. 18.

His son was principal celebrantof the funeral Mass. Bishop DanielA. Cronin presided and manydiocesan pdests concelebrated.

McCarrick was a member ofRevere's -Knights of Columbus'Council 179 and the TelephonePioneers of America.

He is also survived by his wife.Mary A. (Kilroy) McCarrick. twodaughters. Mary H. Wood andEileen A. Cahill. a brother. EdwardMcCarrick. a sister. Ellen Tier­nan. 15 grandchildren and sixgreat-grandchild reno

- Recruiting more seminarians.- Expanding the permanent

diaconate.- Changing church rules on

ordination of women, on the per­manency of active ministry, or onthe reactivation of men who haveleft the priesthood.

The most "radical and danger­ous" approach, he said, would beto concentrate on expanded layministries and do nothing aboutthe clergy shortage itself, becausethat could lead to a non-sacramen­tal or congregationalist church.

The church could become non­sacramental, he said, because Cath­

. olics lacking weekly Mass maybecome accustomed to living with­out it.

Congregationalism is a danger,he said, because without initiativesfrom the hierarchy Catholics maystart to ignore bishops and them­selves provide the ministers theyfeel they need for their parishes.

.Hoge's book,. "The Future ofCatholic Leadership: Responsesto the Priest Shortage," publishedby Sheed and Ward, is the productof three years of research by Hoge.

Pope John Paul II argued in1981 that the vocations shortage is"part of the spiritual crisis whichexists in the whole of modern civil­ization." During his SeptemberU.S. visit he called on priests andbishops to resist the "prophets ofdoom" and find the resolution tothe vocation crisis in prayer andrenewed faith in "the power of theLord of the harvest."

Hoge rejected the "spiritual cri­sis" argument, saying that a 1983study showed "that all the middle­class Protestant denominations [inthe United States] have a surplus

.of clergy. The Catholic Churchalone has a shortage. Yet bothmainline Protestants and Catho­lics live in the midst of the samemainstream American culture.Their young men attend many ofthe same colleges, watch the sametelevision shows, participate in thesame youth culture, and emergewilh similar self-eonceptions.

"The reason for the low enroll­ment in Catholic seminaries can­not be due to any putative culturalfactor which distinguishes Catho­lics from mainline Protestants inAmerica," he concluded. "It mustbe due to differences in institu­tional rules concerning clergy."

In discussing recruitment ofsem­inarians Hoge discounted the "mo­ther's revenge" theory advancedby some to account for the low

Sociologist explores priest shortageWASHINGTON (NC) - The

growing shortage of Catholicpriests in America "is an institu­tional problem, .not a spiritualproblem," according to a new bookby Catholic University of Americasociolgist Dean R. Hoge.

Institutional changes Hogedescribed as having the most poten­tial for alleviating the priest shor­tage were acceptance' of marriedmen for ordination and continuedexpansion oflay ministries, alreadygrowing rapidly across the country.

Among .other possible institu­tional changes that he spelled out,but with less anticipated impact onthe priest shortage, were:

- Redistribution of priests.

L.EFT, .~UGHT AND CENTER are Sister Mary Martin Delahanty, OP, principal ofSt.FranCIS XavIer School, Acushnet; Rev. Paul Price, SS. Ce., pastor of St. Francis Xavierparish; a~d Bishop Daniel A. Cronin. Everyone else in the picture was also involved one way oranother 10 the school's qualifying for a Verifying the Vision certificate upon completion of an18-month self-study program. (Rosa photo) .

Education Date

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to call the rectory of the parishwhere they will attend.

The education office has alsoprepared material on the theology.of Mary of which copies are beingsent to diocesan priests.

High school upperclassmen. col­lege students and those of collegeor postcollege age interested inexploring the possibility of a voca­tion to the diocesan priesthood areinvited to attend an InformationDay from 2 to 8 p.m. Dec. 6 atHoly Name parish center, 121 Mt.Pleasant St., New Bedford.

Attendees will participate in aprogram prepar~d by diocesanpriests and seminarians. Presenta­tions. discussions and a questionand answer period will be included.

Father William H. O'Reilly. aretired diocesan priest, will discusshis priestly experience.

A vesper service will be held anddinner will be served.

Men wishing to attend are askedto contact Rev. Msgr. John J.Smith. V.E .• diocesan director ofvocations. at St. John the Evange­list rectory. 155 N. Main St.. Attle­boro 02703. tel. 2"22-1206. byMonday. Nov. 30.

Light-Giving"The unfolding of thy words

gives light." - Ps. 119: 130

IF YOU ARE GIVING THOUGHT TO A VOCATION TO THE DIOCESAN PRIEST­

HOOD, YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AN INFORMATION DAY ON

THE'DIOCESAN PRIESTHOOD, TO BE HELD FROM 2 TO 8 P.M., ON

SUNDAY DECEMBER 6, AT THE HOLY N AME PARISH CENTER, 121 MOUNT

PLEASANT STREET, NEW BEDFORD.

THE PROGRAM WILL CONSIST OF PRESENTATIONS, DISCUSSIONS AND

QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIODS· ALL CENTERED AROUND THE THEME OF

VOCATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD. THE PRIESTS ENGAGED IN THE-VOCATION

ApOSTOLATE WILL BE ASSISTED BY DIOCESAN SEMINARIANS. THE DAY

WILL INCLUDE ALSO THE CELEBRATION OF ADVENT VESPERS, FOLLOWED

BY THE SHARING OF AN EVENING MEAL.

IN THE JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEARS OF HIGH SCHOOL, AS WELL AS MEN

CURRENTLY ATTENDING COLLEGE OR RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM

COLLEGE, WHO ARE PONDERING A VOCATION TO THE DIOCESAN PRIEST­

HOOD.

REGISTRATIONDEADLINE:NOVEMBER 30

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Workshops have already beenheld on Martha's Vineyard andNantucket. Upcoming sessions willbe hosted Dec. 2 by Our Lady ofVictory parish, Centerville; Dec. 9by Holy Name parish, New Bed­ford; Dec. 11 by St. Thomas Moreparish, Somerset; and Dec. 16 bySt. Paul parish, Taunton.

The workshops will be offeredfrom to a.m. to noon and againfrom 7 to 9 p.m. on those days.

Sister Heffernan opens theworkshops with prayer and, saysFather Oliveira, "sets the evening'squestion, 'What's Your Theologyof Ma~y?' "

Father Oliveira follows with in­formation on the theology of Marypromulgated by the Second Vati­can Council, on Pope Paul VI'sdocument, "Marialis Cultus" andon Pope John Paul II's encyclical,",Redemptoris Mater" (Mother ofthe Redeemer).

Sister Brady offers reflectionson Mary's prayer, the Magnificat.

All are welcome and are asked

Marian workshops set

2 THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Nov. 27, 1987

The Diocesan Department ofEducation is holding workshopson Marian theology in response toPope John Paul II's Marian yearinvitation to teach more about theBlessed Mother.

Resource people for the project·are Father Robert A. Oliveira, the

- department's director of Continu­ing Formation of Clergy and Laity,and Sisters Elaine Heffernan, RSM,and Eugenia Brady, SJC, asso­ciate directors of religious ed­ucation.

routes and a very grave state ofcivil war," said Lorenzo Natali,development commissioner for theEuropean Community. "We havedecided the only immediate solu­tion to make the aid arrive in timeis to transport it by air."

In Washington, Archibishop Ed­ward T. O'Meara of Indianapolis,chairman of the CRS board, toldthe U.S. bishops Nov. 17 thatEthiopian drought and famine prob­lems would "take to the end of thecentury" to solve. Catholic ReliefServices is the U.S. bishops' over­seas aid and development agency.

Archbishop O'Meara describedEthiopia as a barren land.

"There is not a bush or a twig ora tree - everything is used forfirewood," he said.

Only Go~' ."St. Dominic spoke only of God

or to God." - Anon.

He made a "special appeal" tothe Ethiopian government and therebels to grant "free passage to thefood supplies intended for the peo­ple who are suffering from hunger."

The same day in Geneva, theU.N. Children's Fund appealed

. for $22 million worth of medicine,food and other aid for Ethiopia.

In separate announcements Nov.18 and 19, the U.N. Disaster ReliefOrganization and the EuropeanCommunity said they would airliftfood supplies to Ethiopia the weekof Nov. 23.

International aid officials havewarned that 5.2 million to 6.5 mil­lion Ethiopians face starvation,especially in the northern provin­ces of Eritrea and Tigre, wheredrought caused loss of 80 percentto 100 percent of the harvests.

"The regions are doubly isolatedbecause of inadequate transport

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Pope John Paul II and interna­tional agencies have appealed forrenewed efforts to fight a famine illEthiopia that could affect morethan 5 million people.

In the United States, the chair­man of the board of CatholicRelief Services said the agencyfaces "the large challenge" of mak­ing the world aware of the famine.A CRS spokeswoman said Nov.20 that the agency was "cautiouslyoptimistic" that Ethiopians wouldbe better offthan in 1984-85, whenas many as I million people died.

Speaking to pilgrims and tour­ists at his general audience Nov.18, Pope John Paul invited"everyone to participate in theinitiatives which aid organizations,especially those Catholic ones, havebegun to implement to urgentlyavoid the threat" offamine..

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VERY REV. Pierre E. Lachance, prior of the DO'minicancommunity at St. Anne's parish, Fall River, Bishop Daniel A.Cronin and Very Rev. Richard Guimond, Dominican provin­cial superior, from left, before Mass marking centenary ofcommunity presence in St. Anne's parish, Fall River; center,priests concelebrate Mass; bottom, Dominican Sisters of St.C.atherine of Siena bring gifts of food for parish needy topre-Thanksgiving Mass celebrated by Rev. Martin Dionne,OP. (Gaudette photos)

4 THE ANCHOR - Diocese of Fall River - Fri., Nov. 27, 1987

In Sight of Land"The nearer 1 approach death.

the more I feel like one who is insight ofland and is about to anchor'in his home port after a longvoyage." - Cicero

and inexperience, no one dares toraise the driving age to 18., Treating youngsters as adults is

as absurd as treating adults asyoungsters. In my opinion, capitalpunishment makes little sense foradults and none for kids.

Hopefully the 31 convicts await­ing death for crimes committed asjuveniles will be spared.

In September. Pope .John Paul11 joined two million Italians insigning a petition for clemency forPaula Cooper. an 18-year-old blackgirl from Indiana who at age 15murdered an elderlv Sundav schoolteacher. . .

Western Europeans united indemonstrations against the execu­tion and were outraged that Indi­ana at that time had on the books aminimum age of execution of 10.

The'United States stands almostalone among nations in its supportof capital punishment.

tion 15 or more veal's after a crimecommitted as a :iuvenile'!

The only possible justificationfor capital punishment is deter­rence. But juveniles usually act onimpulse, rarely considering the out­come of their actions. Executionsof teenagers are unlikely to detertheir fellows, most of whom barelyunderstand the finality of death.

For many juvenile convicts ondeath row the experience of deathhas' been filtered through themovies, television and books. Theyare genuinely surprised that theirvictims are dead forever.

The same uncomprehending at­titude toward death is reflected inother juvenile behavior, often rein­forced by the media. Teens oftenexperiment with alcohol and drugs,take unnecessary chances whiledriving and fight without full under­standing of the lethal impact ofweapons such as guns or knives.

In.a nation that values freedomfor consenting adults, we seem ret­icent to protect our youngstersagainst their own'proclivities. Howmany years did it take to increasethe legal drinking age to 2l?

In spite of the carnage on ourroads due to driver immaturity

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the Iivingword

By Father Kevin J, HarringtonThe Supreme Court is expected

to decide before July whether theexecution of teenagers convictedofcapital crimes should be declaredconstitutional.

It will be a sad day in U.S. his­tory if the Supreme Court sanc­tions such executions.

There are presently 31 people ondeath row who were juveniles when

, they committed their crimes. Ifexecution of teenage killers is notclassified as cruel and unusualpunishment, then I do not knowwhat could be. _

Because thejourney towards exe­cution is slowed by appeals, acrime committed by a juvenilemay not be avenged before theperpetrator is w'ell out of his or herteens.,

Crimes committed before theage of 18 should not, in my opin­ion, be considered in the samelight as those committed by adults.It is untenable to give no protec­tion to children against adult pun­ishment.

It rna\' he easier on the con­science t~) strap a 30-year-old wo­man ,into an electric chair than a15-year-old girl. But is it fair tohegin the grim procedure of execu-

the moorin&.-,Advent: A Time of Personal Peace

Here we are again with Advent upon us. Where has the yearfled? Time is certainly an enigma. Perhaps the speed level ofour social order has pulled us into a vortex!

Most of us are dumbfounded to reflect that Christmas isfour weeks from today. But despite the constraints it puts uponus, time must be seen not as our master but as a gift.

There are those who bewail the fact that they have no time todo anything. For them, time becomes a personal scapegoat buttheir, use of it as an excuse to escape responsibility and chal­lenge is truly an abuse of time.

Advent challenges us to review our use of time. It is aliturgical season that tries to tell us that some things are muchmore important than running around like a dervish., For many, Thanksgiving is less a celebration than an indica­tion that we'd better get on the move and complete ourChristmas shopping. The social order tells us to hurry up, rush,get things done. We respond accordingly. When Christmasdoes arrive, it is often a non-event for us. So exhausted andspent are we that we are unable to focus on its true meaning.

Beca'use of this', Advent should gain added meaning in ourhectic lives. It says to ,all who listen, slow down, make time foryourself.

This message can change your life, it can let you take con­trol, a control desperately needed in our world.

So many people have handed themselves'over to other per­sons and things. Their lives are comparable to those of robots.The difference is that when a machine breaks down it canusually be repaired. If not, it can be replaced. But Advent tellsus that no one and nothing can replace us.

The Word was not made flesh for a group- but for individu­als. The Incarnation reveals to us that each baby, each child,each adult is important. The whole Advent mystery can lead usto a personal awareness of who we are in the whole plan ofcreation and t,he realization that in the divine mind we docount and we are important.

So many of us in today's milieu of social striving have beenmade to feel worthless. All the decisions of life are made byothers. My voice does not count, my vote means nothing.

But believers should reflect that the good Lord gives up onno one. If he had, there never would have been a Christmas.

We so often spend ourselves running around to buy presentsto keep everyone happy. So many parents are determined togive their child everything they never had in their own child­hood. People buy and vie with one another, but somehow'Yhen it's all over all we have are the bills and an emptil)ess thattells us somehow things could be better. And they can.

We may feel that gifts and presents will secure our relation­ships. We fail to appreciate that the most precious gift we cangive is that of ourselves.

But to come to this realization'takes time, time to get intouch with ourselves, our persons, our feelings.

Advent is the time to take this time. During this blessedseason the Church gives us the opportunity to hope. But noone can hope unless he or she first believes in a God who caresand in the fact that each of us is important not only in his eyesbut to ourselves. Such self-faith flows from the confidence thatBethlehem still has meaning in a world that remains in .many ,ways as crass and cold as on that first Christmas Day.

The peace of Christ is personal and individual. It's notoffered as an immunization against all problems and difficul­ties but as a gift he gives to us that we might in turn become giftto other~. Advent is the peaceful time to realize this.

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Please talk to the priest in yourparish church and ask his adviceon the steps you and he mighttake.

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Questionsabout

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Q. I am 71 years of age andhave been married for 17 years to aProtestant woman. This is a goodmarriage. We were married in theMethodist Church and since thattime we have been churchgoers inour respective churches.

We both were married previous­ly. Although I always have attendedthe Catholic Church I have notreceived Communion in all theseyears. This I have always regret­ted. What must I do to make thatpossible? (Louisiana)

A. I wish I could help you moredirectly and personally. But theonly practical adyice I can give isthat you go to your parish priest.or another priest you may knowand have confidence in, explainthe situation and follow his instruc­tions.

I hope you will do that, eventhough it may be inconvenient andperhaps somewhat difficult.

Through this column I am happyto shed whatever light I can on thechurch's laws and procedures re­garding matters like these. But atleast two reasons make it impossi­ble for me to go further than that.

First. almost always more detailsthan can be included in a simpleletter are required even for a pre­liminary judgment on what mightbe possible. Only personal discus­sion would uncover those facts.

Most practically. any marriageinvolving a Catholic. when a pre­vious spouse of either partner isstill living. almost always requiresaction of the diocesan marriagetribunal in which that Catholiclives.

My advice is t he same [or you asfor the hundreds of others who­write with a similar question. Infor­mation I can give. For action youmust talk with a priest in yourcommunity or diocese and ask hisassistance.

Q. I grew up in a family thatreally had no religion. I had neverbeen baptized until I wanted to getmarried in a church wedding. Youhad to be a member of that churchso I was baptized, but for thewrong reasons.

My husband tortured me men­tally and physically and was un­faithful several times. We had nochildren. I wanted to get counsel­ing to see if we could stay married,but eventually we divorced. /

Six years later I met a wonderfulCatholic man and married him.We went to church together for thepast seven years; only last yearcould I go without crying.

I consider myself Catholic. Wehave two children· who have beenbaptized and I want to be a memberof the Catholic Church too.

This weighs heavily on my heart.I know religion is now in my heartand I want it in my life as well. Is itpossible for me to join the Catho­lic Church and have our marriageblessed? Perhaps you should knowalso my first husband was marriedbefore our wedding.

A. The final fact you mentionedcertainly is significant. It suggestsanother of two or three possibili­ties which could open the way for

. you.

FATHER

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and used it for a family Thanksgiv­ing dinner. my sister said. "HowdId you get. The Pan'?" I wish Icould say I was generous andpassed it on to her but I just gaveher a smug smile..

My own kids tell me that theywill r~member my homemade soup'sand Christmas candy when theythink of The Pan. I wonder whatmemorable meals it will supply inthe next generation.

I suspect most families havetheir equivalent of The Pan -c­

some special utensil that holdsmemories of more than food. Theutensil becomes a symbol of fam­ily warmth. odors of kitchens pastand times when one's greatest in­terest and security centers aroundwhat's for supper.

Lots of these utensils will bebrought out at Thanksgiving butthey'll never make it to the table.They're too ugly. But we won'tconfuse ugliness with value. We allknow that pans, like families. takeseasoning. The nicks and stainsare a part of family life and ThePan reminds me of that wheneverwe gather around to stir things upa little.

religion more meaningful? At atime when meditation cults attractmillions of people. how much doour students really know about theinner depths and peace they canreach through spiritual exercisesand a true sense of worship'? Dothey realize that meditation andprayer are powerful means of get­ting at life's meaning?

Is there an effort to foster asense of community among the.students in the class'? Are studentsencouraged to form relationshipswith each other and to help eachother grow?

On the parish level. is there aneffort to create a definite commu­nity spirit so that young people donot feel like anonymous parish­ioners? Are they made to feel thatthey are a real part of parish lifewith contributions to make andbenefits to receive?

Are students expected to giveservice to others, recognizing thatthis is part of being a churchmember? Does the curriculum·designate time for the sole purposeof providing some type of com­munity service?

We live in an age Which offersmany exciting things for youngpeople to learn. They are givenmany reasons not to pursue relig­ion seriously.

To be effective today religiouseducators need to know who they

_are teaching and use a more inte­grated approach.

These two principles of teachingare winners wherever they are prac­ticed.

CURRAN

December 21917•. Rev. Arthur' Savoie, Pas­

tor, St. Hyacinth. New Bedford1958, Rev. Dennis W. Harring­

ton, Assistant. St. -Mary, TauntonDecember 3

1926, Rev. John W. McCarthy,P. R., Pastor. Sacred Heart, FallRiver

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1964. Rev. Edward J. Gorman.Pastor Emeritus. 5t. Patrick. Som­erset

What approaches are educatorsemplOying to lJ1ake religious edu­cation a total learning experiencerather than just an exercise of themind in a classroom setting? Howoften are students given tile opporc

tunity during a semester to medi­tate and pray as means of making

December 41945, Rev. Charles Ouellette. As­sistant, St. James. Taunton

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of two memorable favorites, myheart leaped. Homemade maca­roni and cheese. Not the tiny boxkind I give my children but richbubbling macaroni married tosharp Wisconsin cheddar cheese.The smell alone was worth a freez­ing cold day.

The possibility of macaroni andcheese made me love the fish-on­Friday law because it was so much

.tastier (to kids) than boring roastbeef. When we had this dish, no­body had to ask us to set the table.

The second memory sends shud­ders through a conscientious dieter:warm from-scratch chocolate pud­ding. five quarts or so of it. Again.this being Wisconsin. it was con­structed with rich cream and neverany lumps.

When I occasionally open a lit­tle box of chocolate I]udding mixfor my family 1suffer from nostal­gia and guilt. "The lumps are goodfor you." 1 tell my family. happythey never tasted my mother's un­forgettable pudding.

How did I obtain the pan? WhenI was visiting my mother 20 yearsago in her apartment I spied ThePan sitting way back in a storagecabinet. "Mom. someday I'd liketo have that pan." I said, addinghow many memories it held forme.

Without hesitation. she replied."Well. take it now. I never use itanymore and I need the space." Iwas delighted' but when I got back

Last Thanksgiving when mygrown daughter was home andhelping prepare our dinner, Igot out a familiar pan fordressing. "I always liked it when Icame home from school and thatpan was on the stove." she said. "Itmeant we were going to have some­thing good for dinner."

I laughed because I experiencedthe same thing as a child with thesame pan. The Pa"n would win noprize in a gourmet magazine sweep­stakes. It is a large six-quart castiron pot calred a Dutch Oven inshops. It's black on the hottomand. like most 50 vear-olds. is a bitpocked and mottied on the exter­ior. The interior is multihued fromthe diversitv of foods it has con­tained in th; past half-century. ButI would give up any expensi~eandshiny copper pot I own before I~ould gi\e up The Pan.

I came from a large farm familyof seven children. all of whomliked to eat. so The Pan was useddaily: I suspect my mother didn'teven store it between meals. Sheprobably just cleaned it and put ithack on the range. food prepara­tion being a length) process inthose days.

Sometimes I was disappointedin The Pan's contents. When I sawit steaming on the stove and liftedthe cover to find potatoes boiling.I shrugged. But when I found one

Effective education

My wonderful Pan

Way of Escape"God is faithful and he will not

let you be tempted beyo.nd yourstrength. but with the temptationwill also provide the way of escape.that you may be able to endure it."- I Cor. 10: 13

Religion may be a hot topicin the news right now, but tomany you~g people it is dryand meaningless. As we passthe mid-point in the first semesterof this school vear. no doubt manvreligious educ'ators will agree withthat statement.

Some may be wondering whatmore might be done to capture theattention of teenagers in these timeswhen so much else competes fortheir attention. To answer thisquestio~ two other questions firstneed to be asked.

On a scale of one to nine. howwell do religion programs integrate·the elements that are essential formaking religion more than a class­room exercise: presenting the mes­sage clearly and connecting it toworship. service and community?

Using the same scale.. how ori­ented are religion programs to thestudents themselves and the reali­ties of their lives?

Do religious educators attemptto relate their efforts to the ·Iifeexperiences of the students? Dothey take into consideration thestudents' psychological stage ofdevelopment and the needs ofyoung people at tlieir particularage?

Religiou~ educators need to askwhat emotions plague students andwhether students have concernsthat they yearn to have addressed.What role models most attractyouth? Is the content of religionpresented to students with a feel­ing for their world?

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Marian Medals for 101 Dec. 6

Ball proceeds benefit summercamps for underprivileged and ex­ceptional children and other dioce­san apostolates.

A ball highlight will be presen­tation of 36 young women repre­senting diocesan parishes to theball's honored guest, Bishop DanielA. Cronin. Names of such youngwomen should be submitted toMrs. James A. O'Brien Jr.• 488H.igh St.. Fall River 02720. asquickly as possible.

Ball tickets may be obtainedfrom members of sponsoring or­ganizations.. the ball committee orat any diocesan rectory. '

In preparation for the ball. com­mittee members will meet at 5:30p.m. Sunday. Jan. 10. at LincolnPark Ballroom to dec'orate andmake final arrangements. Presen­tees will rehearse aft the ballroomat 6:30 p.m. the same day.

Sweetest Things"Do not grasp at the stars but do

life's plain common work as itcomes, certain that daily dutiesand daily bread are the sweetestthings in life." - Robert LouisStevenson

up' and then began to cry. Thetears apparently reached the otherwoman. who dropped the knifeand put her arms around her.

The convention opened with akeynote address by Dolores R.Leckey. executive director of theU.S. bishops' Committee on theLaity. anq a Mass celebrated byArchbishop Pio Laghi. apostolicpronuncio to the United States.

Mrs. Leckey. who was an adviserto the U.S. delegation to the worldSynod of Bishops on the role ofthe laity. said that practical stepswere outlined to include women inthe heart of ministry and that U.S.bishops were joined by others.including Canada and Ireland. todisprove the suggestion by somethat the issue was merely "radicalrhetoric from the United States."

The church in the United Statesis shaping a pastoral plan to includewomen in-as many roles as possi­ble. Mrs. Leckey said. because thebishops know that the church needswomen for "wholeness."

Archbishop Laghi told the wo­men that for too long the lay statewas viewed as "the absence of a

,vocation" rather than as a truevocation in the church and theworld.

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Speaking on "t.oving and Liv­ing: The Stages of Family." shesaid statistics on divorce. childabuse. runaways. poverty or sui­cide "tell only part of the story."

Single-parent families can alsobe nurturing homes for children.she said.

Citing the rapid changes of earlymarried life. Mrs. Dillon said 50percent of all divorces occur ill thefirst seven years of marriage and64 percent in the first 10.

"We need a ministry to the newlymarried," she said. and. whendivorce does occur. be "compas­sionate Christians" and do notbrand the children of these failedmarriages by labeling them.

At the other end .of the spectrumshe said the church also needs to·be supportive of couples in the"empty nest" stage since it often isa time of declining health. pinch­ing pennies. scattered children and.the death of a spouse.

Among convention workshops.the best-attended was given byBeulah Lund. a 50-year-old house­wife from Deer Park. Wash.. wholived as a bag lady on the streets ofWashington. D.C.. to learn theplight of the homeless.

An overflow crowd'gasped whenshe told of awakening in a Wash­ington shelter to find "a knife atmy jugular." • .

She was sure she would be killed.she said. because "cold steel isconvincing" and the woman wield­ing the knife had been drinking.

She said she deCIded she dldn'twant to die lying down. so she sat

NCCW posts for 2 women

TAUNTON AREA members of the Bishop's Ball com­mittee include, from left, Mrs. Leo Plouffe; Richard Paulson;Mrs. Aristides Andrade; Miss Adrienne Lemieux.

Ball listings requestedThe souvenir booklet for the

33rd annual Bishop's Charity Ballis rapidly filling with names ofbenefactors of the social and char~

itable event.The ball will take place Friday,

Jan. 15, at Lincoln Park Ballroom.North Dartmouth.

The booklet has seven catego­ries with inclusion in any of themqualifying donors to receive balltickets at no additional cost. Namesof donors are being received bymembers of the Diocesan Councilof Catholic Women and the Societyof St. Vincent de Paul. honoraryball cosponsors.

Msgr. Anthony M. Gomes. PA.diocesan ball director. asks thatnames be reported to ball head­quarters. 410·Highland Ave.. P.O.Box 1470. Fall River. 02722. withinthe next two weeks.

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dlin, St. Elizabeth, Edgartown.Mrs. Kathleen (John) Denahy,

O.L. Victory, Centerville; Mrs. Dor­othy (Alphonse) DesRochers, HolyTrinity, West Harwich; Chester A.Dolan, St. Margaret, Buzzards Bay;William T. Dowling, O.L. Cape,Brewster; Mrs. Alyce B. Durning,St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis.

Mrs. Bertha (Charles E., Sr.)Meads, St. Joan of Arc, Orleans;Robert A. Noonan, St. ElizabethSeton, North Falmouth; John O'Don­nell, O.L. Assumption, Osterville;Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Ortiz, St. Aug­ustine, Vineyard Haven; Mrs. Cath­erine E: Pierce, St. Peter Apostle,Provincetown.

Frank M. Raftery, Christ the King,Cotuit; James R. Sawyer, St. Patrick,Falmouth; Joseph Francis Sullivan,St. John Evangelist, Pocasset; Mrs.Elsie (Joseph) Teixeira, St. Anthony,East Falmouth. •

ATTLEBORO DEANERY: Arth­ur Stanley Cate, St. Stephen, Attle­boro; Mrs. Mary E. (Herbert) Clegg,St. John Evangelist, Attleboro; Vin­cent Cobb, St. Mark, Attleboro Falls;Louis C. Emond, Jr., St. Mary, See­konk; Herbert H. Hunter, St. Mary,Norton..

Mrs. Loretta Moskalski, St. Ther­esa, Attleboro, Mrs. Marion Conant(Eugene) Muller, St. Mary, Mans­field; Mrs. Epifania (Pedro) Ortiz,St. Joseph Spanish apostolate, Attle­boro; Mrs. Alice Perry, Holy Ghost,Attleboro; Manuel Pestana, St.Mary, No. Attleboro; Mrs. Renee(Oscar) Soulard, St. Joseph, Attle­boro.

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tos, St. Patrick, Wareham; Mrs.Margaret (George) Souza, O.L. Mt.Carmel, New Bedford; Everett F.Sowle, St. Mary, New Bedford;Tadeusz Joseph Szelag, St. Hedwig,New Bedford.

Manuel Tavares, St. John theBaptist, New Bedford; Miss DorisThibault, St. John Neumann, E.Freetown; Mrs. Caroline (Henry)Zyskowski, St. Casimir, New Bed-ford. '

TAUNTON DEANERY': ErnestA. Anacone, St. Ann, Raynham;Mrs. Mary(AIfred) Araujo,O.L. Lourdes,Taunton; Mrs. Jennie (Walter) S.Cwiek, O.L. Holy Rosary, Taunton;Vincent Galvin, Immaculate Con­ception, North Easton; Mrs. Shirley(Kendall) Higgins, St. Paul, Taunton.,

Miss Yvonne T. Labonte, St.Jacques, Taunton; Mrs. Mary (An­tonio) Leite, St. Anthony's, Taun­ton, Manuel J. Mello, St. Joseph,Taunton; Joseph F. Pavao; St. Peter,Dighton; Mrs. Josephine (Arthur)Peterson, Holy Cross, South Easton.

Joseph I. Quinn, St. Mary, Taun­ton; Mrs. Rose C. (Adam) Ralko,Immaculate Conception, Taunton;Mrs. Barbara (Galen) Rheaume, Sa­cred Heart, Taunton; Mrs. AnnaSherrington, St. Joseph, No. Digh­ton; Mrs~ Maria Torres, St. MarySpanish Apostolate, Taunton.

CAPE& ISLANDS DEANERY:John F. Bernard, Corpus Christi,Sandwich; Donald Billings, SacredHeart, Oak Bluffs; John VincentCallahan, St. Pius X, South Yar­mouth; Robert Edward Campbell,St. Mary, Nantucket; Ralph Con:

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Archdiocese of Los Angeles has itshighest enrollment of seminariansin 15 years, according to FatherDan Laner, vocation director. Thearchdiocese also has the secondhighest enrollment since 1972 highschool seminary.

As the academic year began, thethree archdiocesan seminaries ofthe archdiocese had 117 studentsin the theologate (post-collegetheology studies), 86 in the collegeseminary, and 152 in high school.

Father Laner attributed theincrease primarily to a call forprayers for religious vocations byArchbishop Roger M. Mahony ofLos Angeles.

The second factor is a Called byName program begun over a yearago, Father Laner said. Under theprogram, parishioners are askedto identify young people theybelieve would make good priests,sisters or brothers.

It's Better"It is better to suffer wrong than

to do it and happier to be some­times cheated than not to trust."- Samuel Johnson

It's insufficientWASHINGTON (NC) ­

Refugees are offered insufficientprotection under prop6sed federalrules for political asylum, the U.S.Catholic Conference has told fed­eral immigration officials.

Carlos Ortiz Miranda. USCCassistant gen~ral counsel, said theUSCC objects to: elimination ofimmigration judges to accept andreview asylum applications: use ofU.S. State Department countryreports on human rights practicesas the primary source of informa­tion on conditions in the nationsof origin of asylum-seekers; therule saying a motion to reconsideran asylum application that hasbeen denied should be grantedonly if new evidence is submitted.

BROTHER HATHAWAY

Brother Hathawaymarks jubilee

Brother Harold F. Hathaway,CSc. a Taunton native, observedhis 25th anniversary as a Brotherof Holy Cross at a Mass, receptionand dinner held Nov. 15 in Con­necticut.

The son of Madeline Motta­Hathaway and the late Harold F.Hathaway. he attended Immacu­late .Conception grammar schooland graduated from Msgr. CoyleHigh School in that city.

He is a graduate ofSt. Edward'sUniversity, Austin. Texas, andholds master's degrees in biologyfrom Wesleyan University. Mid­dletown. Conn.. and in businessadministration from Notre DameUniversity. He has done additionalgraduate study at Yale University.Fairfield University, and St. Jo­seph's College. Denver.

He taught high school in Bethle­hem. Pa .. and Flushing. N.Y ..before being assigned to Holy CrossHigh School. Waterbury. Conn...in 1969.

At Holy Cross since that time.he taught science and religioncourses. was religious superior anddirector of his community from1976 to 1979 and since 1980 hasbeen principal of the school.

At various times he has moder­ated the sophomore and juniorclasses, coached and moderated'tennis, skiing and racquetball andmoderated the school yearbook.

He has engaged in Hispanicministry'. in· Tucson, Ariz.. andworked in missions of his com­munity in Uganda and Kenya; andhas participated in workshops andconferences on substance abuse,~uicide.AIOS and emotional prob­lems.

Brother Hathaway is involvedin many professional educationalassociations on the local andregional level.

The Best Things"The best things are nearest:

breath in your nostrils; light inyour eyes; flowers at your feet;duti'es at your hand; the path ofright just before you." - RobertLouis Stevenson

WASHINGTON (NC) - Ser­vite Father Lawrence Martin Jenco,who spent 19 months in captivityin Lebanon, is to join the staff of aMarian shrine in Portland, Ore.,where he plans to write about hisexperience as a hostage.

In a telephone interview Nov. 17from his office at Catholic ReliefServices in New York, Father Jencosaid he plans in late January tojoin the staff of the Nationa,l Sanc­tuary of Our Sorrowful Mother,which is staffed by the Serviteorder. His job description is stillunsettled, he said.

The assignment to the 60-acreshrine "just came up about a monthago" after he told his provincialsuperior he'd "like to get away," hesaid.

Father Jenco was Catholic ReliefServices director in Lebanon whenhe was taken hostage Jan. 8, 1985.He was released July 26, 1986.

Father Jenco in the interviewsaid he wanted "some space towrite a book about what happenedto' me in captivity."

The idea for a book came·to himwhile he was being held by radicalShiite Moslems, he said. He envi­sioned coauthoring it with a friend.Servite Father Neal Flanagan. aScripture scholar.

"But Neal died of a massiveheart attack while I was in captiv­ity," he said. When he learned ofthe death, he put aside book plans.

Recently, however, a copy ofAlbert Camus's "The Plague,"which he read while in captivity,caught his attention and made himthink again about writing.

"The Plague." which is about "acity held hostage," captures "lotsof the feelings" he felt, he said.

The Encyclopedia Britannica de­scribes the modern French novelas "an allegory of the Resistance"set in a plague epidemic, which"raises the problems of responsi­bility and commitment for thebeliever and the unbeliever."

Father Jenco said he survivedhis captivity because ofthe Eucha­rist, Scripture, and - when he wasfinally permitted out of isolation- "being with another person, asense ofcommunity," first with theRev. Benjamin Weir, a formerhostage, and later with other cap­tives.

He voiced discouragement thattwo of his hostage friends, TerryA. Anderson and Thomas M. Suth­erland, soon will mark their I,OOOthday in captivity.

Anderson, chief Middle Eastcorrespondent for The AssociatedPress, was -taken hostage March16,1985. Sutherland, dean ofagri­culture at American University inBeirut, was taken hostage threemonths later. June 9, 1985.

"The whole hostage situationstill remains with all of us" whileAnderson and Sutherland are notfree, Father Jenco said.

"We made a commitment towork for the release" of whoeverwas not freed. he said.

"We promised that whoever gotout would help the others·get outand that they would not be forgot­ten."

~ew post forFather Jenco

..said the ordination of nearly 8,000permanent deacons in the UnitedStates in 20 years "is a greatencouragement."

Taub said the papal endorse­ment came against a history ofVatican wariness over the rapidgrowth of the diaconate in theUnited States, which has three­fifths of the world's total of per­manent deacons.

As recently as last year. he said,Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer,prefect of the Vatican Congrega­tion for the Sacraments, whichoversees church rules on the per­manent diaconate, asked U.S.church officials how they couldaccount for the large number ofpermanent deacon ordinations intheir country. '

Taub said the permanent dea­cons who met with Pope JohnPaul were particularly encouragedby the recognition the pope gaveto the role of married deacons'wives as collaborators in the min­istry of their husbands.

The papal references to collabo­ration and spiritual growth of thewives of deacons affirmed andreinforced U.S, permanent diaco­nate policies, Taub said. He saidthe policies emphasize the spirit­ual formation of the wives as wellas the deacons. and they call forscreening the wives of potentialdeacons as carefully as the candi­date~ themselves.

"It's evident to us that there's anew appreciation" in the Vaticanof the need for "the spiritual de­velopment of both the deacon andhis wife." Taub said.

The Detroit meeting was thefirst the pope had ever devotedexclusively to permanent deaconsand their wives in his 36 tripsabroad as pope. It was also one ofthe few occasions in his pontificatethat he spoke at all. let aloneextensively. on the permanentdiaconate.

Taub said. "A question we (per­manent diaconate officials) areoften asked - often in a pejorativeway - is. 'What has the HolvFather said about permanent de';­consT We have had to say. 'Verylittle.' " With the Detroit talk. hesaid. the pope has now clearlyexpressed his thoughts on a numberof the key issues affecting thediaconate.

He said the pope's accent on aministry of charity as the deacon'smost basic service may help cor­rect an imbalance in public per­ceptions of permanent deacons.

"The problem is that the aver­age Catholic only sees. the deaconin his liturgical ministry." he said,"They don't see him in his one-on­one ministry or his ministry in themarketplace" despite the fact.thatU.S. guidelines on permanent dea-cons stress those roles. ,

The fact that the pope empha­sized the deacon's service 'role "givesit an affirmation that could not bemade by anyone else," Taub said.

Living saintsCHICAGO (NC) - More than

80 percent of readers polled by anational Catholic magazine saidthey feel they have met someone intheir lifetime whom they would .consider a saint. Of saints theywould most like to imitate in theirown lives St. Francis of Assisi ledthe list. U.S, Catholic. a monthlymagazine published in Chicago bythe C1aretian Fathers and Broth­ers, polled 1,000 of its readers tofind out what thev believe aboutsaints. Eighty-two percent said they"firmly believe that someone Iknow personally - living or dead- is a saint."

way that went heyond previousVatican statements on that issue.

Those developments strongly af­firmed the approaches taken in the

. U.S. permanent diaconate pro­gram. Taub said in an early No­\'emher interview with NationalCatholic News Service.

The special role of permanentdeacons in secular life was "im­plicit" in the 1967 document bywhich Pope Paul VI re-establishedthe permanent diaconate. Taubsaid. but in his Detroit speechPope .Iohn Paul made it "explicit."

In· his talk the pope said thatdeacons' "ministrv of charitv" re­quires them "to he a positive 'influ­ence for change in the world inwhich' we live. that is. to be aleaven _. to be the soul of humansociety - so that society may berenewed by Christ and transformedinto the family of God."

The "temporal order" that dea­cons must deal with in their minis­try. the pope added. "includes mar­riage and the family. the world ofculture. economic and social life.the trades and professions. politi­cal institutions, the solidaritv ofpeoples and issues of justice 'andpeace." .

Taub sa"id those words markedthe first time that'a pope hadexplicitly tied the deacon's m'inis­try of charity to service by the dea­con as an agent or advocate ofsocial change. .

"I suspect this represents a de­velopment in his own thinking inthe past five years," Taub said.

The pope stressed that while adeacon shares in the "sacramentalgrace" of ordination and is there­fore part of the clergy, "his secularoccupation gives him entry intothe temporal sphere in a way thatis normally not appropriate forother members of the clergy,"

In the Detroit meeting the pope

Diaconate leader pleasedwith papal affirmation

BRIGHT LIGHTS and snowflakes create an air of cele­bration and peace in Our Lady's Garden at LaSalette Shrine,Attleboro, during the shrine's 35th annual Festival of Lights.The largest display of outdoor Christmas lights in the country,the free-admission festival will be held through Jan. 3 and willbe illuminated 5 to 9 p.m. weekdays and 5 to 10 p.m. weekends.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Pope.Iohn Pa.ul II made some signifi­cant advances in spelling out theHoly See's position on permanentdeacons during his visit to the lJni­ted States. said Samuel Tauh. di­rectorofthe U.S. hishops' nationaloffice for the permanent diaconate.

Tauh. a deacon himsclf. saidthat when thc pope met with per-_manent deacons in Detroit Sept.19 he:

Emphasized. for thcfirst time.the primacy of the deacon's serviceof charity and social justice.

Spoke approvingly for thefirst timc of the 'Iarge number ofpermanent deacons ordained inthe United States.

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DALLAS (NC) - A group ofTexas Catholics is pushing for thebeatification ofa Franciscan priestwho evangelized Mexican Indians .in the 16oos. The Spanish mis­sionary priest, Father AntonioMargiJ de Jesus, spent 43 yearstraveling by foot through roughterrain from as far south as Panamanorthward to Texas and Louisi­ana. ,Father Margil is credited withhaving helped develop three mis­sionary colleges of the Propaga­tion of the Faith in Mexico andestablishing a chain of missionsthroughout that country, Texasand Louisiana. Retired BishopJohn L. Morkovsky of Galveston­Houston recently sent a letter to

. various Texas parishes and news­papers asking that Catholics worktogether to spread Father MargiJ'sstory to '~bring about [beatifica­tion] for the Franciscan apostle ofTexas."

BEVERLY Carroll, since1980 executive director of theBaltimore ArchdiocesaR Ur­ban Commission, has been'named first director of theU.S. bishops' Secretariat forBlack Catholics. The secreta­riat will be a liaison betweenthe bishops and national blackCatholic groups and will assistthe new NCCB Committee onBlack Catholics to implementa 3-year pastoral plan for theblack community. (NC photo)

DR. W. FELTON Ross,medical director of the Amer­ican leprosy Missions, Elm­wood, NJ, has received theannual Damien-Dutton Awardfor significant contributionstoward§ the conquest of lep­rosy.

Dr. Ross, a native of Eng­land, has worked as a leprol­ogist in Nigeria and as a pro­fessorofmedicineand leprosyrehabilitation in Ethiopia.

The award, presented bythe Damien-Dutton Societyfor Leprosy Aid, memorial­izes Father Damien de Vues­ter and Brother Joseph Dut­ton, both famous for' theirwork with lepers on Hawaii'sMolokai Island.

, Mexican challengeMONTERREY, Mexico (NC) ing a general assembly, three

- The proliferation of Protestant bishops described the work of theand other non-Catholic sects pre- sects as culturally and spirituallysents the Catholic Church with a "alienating" for Mexicans and saidchallenge in Mexico, where some the Catholic Church is taking steps87 percent of the population is at to combat their growing influence.least nominally Catholic, say mem- One bishop charged that somebers of the Mexican bishops' con- sects pay poor rural Catholics toference. In a press conference dur- convert.

High courtasked to hearUSCCappeal

WASHINGTON (NC) - TheNational Council of Churches andother major religious organizationshave asked the U.S. Supreme Courtto hear the Catholic bish'ops' highcourt appeal in the Abortion Rights

. Mobilization case.The religious groups, in a friend­

of-the-court brief, joined the bish­ops in asking the Supreme Courtto reverse lower court decisionsdenying the bishops a chance tofight subpoenas in Abortion RightsMobilization's challenge to thetax-exempt status of the CatholicChurch.

Those challenging the church'stax status are third parties whoshould have-.,po standing to sue,and if the high court allows themto carryon their suit it would givealmost anyone "the use of federalcourts for religion-bashing," thereligious organizations said in their

.brief filed in late October.In 1986 a U.S. district court

levied daily fines of $100,000 onthe National Conference of Catho­lic Bishopsand U.S. Catholic Con­ference, the bishops' nati.onal agen­cies, for refusing to turn over docu­ments which Abortion Rights Mo­bilization claims it needs to pursueits case. The fines have been delayedpending appeal.

The abortion rights organiza­ti.on has been fighting since 1980 toforce the Internal Revenue Serviceto remove the tax exemption from'the NCCB-USCC and some 28,000Catholic parishes, schools, hospi­tals, diocesan agencies and Catho­lic organizations which gain theirtax-exempt certification throughthe NCCB-USCe. The abortiongroup alleges that the CatholicChurch has violated IRS rules oninvolvement in political campaignsby tax-exempt groups.

The friend-of-the-court briefargued that the district court andfederal appeals court erred both inruling that Abortion Rights Mobil­ization had standing to sue and inruling that the NCCB-USCC, calledinto the case only as a witness, didnot have standing to challengesubpoenas to produce extensivechurch documents.

The rules for standing used bythe lower courts departed from'binding Supreme Co,:\rt precedentsin that field and "could easily openup the floodgates to litigationagainst churches by those hostileto their mission or ideas," the briefsaid. "

The NCCB-USCC asked the Su­preme Court to hear its appeal inthe case Sept. 23 after exhaustingavailable appeals in ~he lowercourts.

The IRS also opposes the law­suit, arguing that the lower courtshave infringed on the discretion­ary powers of the executive branch

. by assuming authority over thecase.

The Supreme Court was notexpected to announce whether itwould accept the case immedi­ately.

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What went on at the bishops" meeting

DURING THEIR fall meeting, the bishops celebrate a Marian year Mass in Washington'sNational Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (Nc photo)

WITH ONLY one audible voteof dissent, the U.S. bishops Nov.19approved a policy paper that termsU.S. military aid to Nicaraguanrebels "legally doubtful and mor­ally wrong" but also repudiateshuman' rights abuses from what­ever source and endorses regionalpeace initiatives. Approval of the"Statement on Central America"occurred by voice vote. It was notimmediately clear which bishopcast the sole "no" vote.·'..

A BISHOPS' committee set upto evaluate the morality of nucleardeterrence will report next springon defensive systems and the new,meanings of the spiraling cost ofthe arms race. says Cardinal JosephL. Bernardin of Chicago. The adhoc Committee on the Moral Eva­luation of Deterrence will reporton U.S. defense policy develop­ments since the bishops' 1983 pas­toral letter. "The ChaIlenge ofPeace: God's Promise and OurResponse."

• • •THENCCB Administrative Com­

mittee, a governing panel of 50bishops, approved a statement onAIDS, which will be sent to thehierarchy s%n and made pubHc"as soon as we can print it,"Arch~bishop John L. May announced.

• • •THE BISHOPS objected. on

both moral and practical grounds.to proyiding birth control servicesat school-based health clinics andcalled for federal and state laws aswell as local school board policiesto be amended to exclude suchservices from public schools.

• • •THE VISIT of Pope John Paul

II and the response to it made itclear that the U.S. church is not "achurch in the church," said Arch­bishop Pio Laghi, apostolic pro­nuncio to the United States, inaddressing the bishops. Rather, hesaid, quoting Chicago CardinalJoseph L. Bernardin, "the churchis a communio - 'a communionof particular churches in whichand from which exists the one andunique Catholic Church; a com­munion which is not fully the

,church unless united with thebishop of Rome.' "

• • •A FULL FIRST DRAFT of the

U.S. bishops' proposed pastoralletter on the concerns of womenshould' be ready for the U.S.bishops' Administrative Commit­tee by March 1988. said BishopJoseph L. Imsech of Joliet. III..writing committee chairman. Thecommittee's tentative target datefor completing the pastoral is Nov­ember 1989.

• • •THE BISHOPS approved a new

marriage rite for ecumenical wed­dings celebrated outside Mass by a

vote of 195-7.Ifapproved by the Holy See, the

rite will become an option along­side existing rites for marriagebetween a Catholic and a non­Catholic Christian.

Included in the new documentare optional opening rites that res­tore ritual elements used previouslyin Catholic rites and still commonin' non- Ca thoHc c hurc hes.

Bishop Joseph P. Delaney ofFort Worth, Texas, is chairman ofthe Bishops' Committee on the Lit­urgy which proposed the new rite.

• • •THE BISHOPS approved norms

for priests' retirement years th,atcall on bishops to recognize the"value and dignity" of aging priestsand their ministry.

The norms. proposed by thebishops' Committee on I?riestlyLife and Ministry. ask bishops tohelp priests plan for their retire­ment, discern what ministries theywish to continue after retiring.promote wellness programs andprovide adequate housing optionsand pension plans.

• • •THE CHURCH could lose "as

many as 50 percent" of its His­panic members if Catholics do notget out and knock on doors, Bish­op Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cru­ces, N.M. warned. He said thatProtestant fundamentalist sects areproselytizing Hispanic Catholics.

• • •THE BISHOPS voted to ele­

vate the memorial of Our Lady ofGuadalupe. Dec. 12. to the rank offeast. The move gives Our Lady ofGuadalupe special prominence butdoes not make the date a holy dayof obligation. Dec. 12 is the date'that Our Lady of Guadalupe ap­peared in Mexico in 1531. Therecommendation was introducedby Fort Worth Bishop Joseph P.Delaney.

• • •THE BISHOPS strongly sup­

port their Campaign for HumanDevelopment despite observationsby some that the anti-poverty pro­gram should be more "Catholic,"results of a survey reveal. The sur­vey of bishops' attitudes toward

the 17-year-old program - com­monlv known as CHD - waspresented at the bishops' meeting.The USCC is the public policytwin of the 'NCCB. CHD fundsgroups of poor people, helpingthem gain political and economicpower and thus overcome poverty.It also provides educational pro­grams to help Americans under­stand and fight poverty.

• • •THE BISHOPS pledged in­

creased effort by Catholic agenciesto help the Christian communityand the wider population in war­torn Lebanon with food. medicineand other humanitarian aid. Theyalso urged the federal government"to take a fresh look" at the needsof the Lebanese people and "torespond with generosity."

• • *DESPITE strong opposition

from a few, the bishops over­whelmingly approved by voice votethe formation of a mixed commis­sion of the NCCB, LeadershipConference of Women Religiousand Conference of Major Super­iors of Men to share concerns onreligious life in the United States.They also voted, without audibledissent, to establish a five-bishopNCCB Committee on ReligiousLife and Ministry, which will formthe NCCB representation on thecommission. The men and women'sreligious conferences are to pro­vide five representatives each, giv­ing the commission 15 members.

• * •CARDINAL John .I. Krol of

Philadelphia told the bishops thatfor the first time' the financiallystrapped Vatican will release anannual statement on its bud'getand finances. The cardinal alsoannounced preliminary plans toestablish some form of U.S. foun­dation orendowment fund to pro­vide an ongoing source of incomefor the Holy See to help reduce agrowing yearly operating deficit.The cardinal said administrationof the Holy See's operations is"good but not perfect."

He said that after years of effortone operation that "I consider ascandal" was being changed dra­maticaIly. That was the printing

a~d publishing operations of theHoly See in the Vatican news­paper. L'Osservatore Romano. and

. the book publishing organization,Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana (theVatican Polyglot Press). Two out­moded and expensive typesettingsystems used by those agencies"will be liquidated." bringing sub­stant'ial savings in operations. hesaid.

• • •THE BISHOPS voted to increase

their per-Catholic diocesan assess­ment for national operations in1989 but to study whether there isa better way to tax dioceses whichmight be based on ability to pay.They also approved a 1988 budgetof nearly $29.5 million for thework of the National Conferenceof Catholic Bishops and lJ .S. Cath­olic Conference. The figure was up$3 million from the 1987 budget.The per capita a..,sessment approvedfor 1989 was 15.7 cents, up 2.4cents from the 13.3 cents per cap­ita that dioceses have been assessedsince 1986.

* * *OCTOBER'S stock market gy­

rations cost the national confer­ences of the U.S. bishops $6.7 mil­lion on paper'. nearly 10 percent of

- their investment portfolio. Bishop.Iohn R. McGann of RockvilleCentre. N.V .. outgoing NCCB/USCC treasurer. emphasized thatthe loss was only on paper. He saidthe cost value of the NCCB-USCCinvestment portfolio at the start ofOctober was $69.7 million. Netpaper profits. he said. declinedduring the month from some $7.4million to $700.000.

• • •REVERSING the decision of

one of their top committees, thebishops voted to reinstate a full­time youth,and young adult minis­try staff position which was to beabolished. The move came despiteassurances by conference officersthat abolishing the position wouldnot mean downgrading the impor­tance of youth ministry and warn­ings that restoring the positionwould 'upset the balance of thebishops' 198.8 budget.

• • •

ARCHBISHOP Daniel W. Ku­cera of Dubuque. Iowa. was electedNCCB treasurer. defeating BishopAnthony M. Pilla of Cleveland bya vote of 141-122 for a three-yearterm.

FaIl River native Bishop JosephP. Delaney of Fort Worth. Texas.was elected chairman of the Com­mittee on Liturgy. defeating Aux­iliary Bishop Patrick Cooney ofDetroit by 178 to 84.

• • •ARCHBISHOP James A. Hic­

key of Washington told the bishopsthat ongoing dialogue with Catholicscientists and the wider U.S. scien­tific community would put bishopsin needed contact with the worldof science. Reporting on activitiesof the bishops' Committee on Hu­man Values, which he heads, h~

noted that the committee is "a lis­tening post for American scienceand culture" and a "point of con­tact between the NCCB and thescience community."

• • •DIOCESES that use seminaries

of other dioceses to educate theirfuture priests will have to startproviding more priests to staffthose institutions. Archbishop JohnR. Roach ofSt. Paul-Minneapolistold the U.S. bishops. Withoutsuch help. he said. "frankly. ourseminaries are going to find them­selves severely lacking in priestlyrole models."

• • •BECA lISE they lacked a quo­

rum as their meeting drew to anend, the bishops suspended actionon a document aimed at improv­ing relations. and helping settledisputes between bishops andtheologians. A quorum call camefrom Bishop Daniel A. Cronin asthe votes were being tabulated ona motion by Archbishop J. Fran­cis Stafford of Denver to returnthe document to the bishops' doc-

, trine committee for extensive revi­sion. The 'archbishop said he sawserious theological problems in it.The bishops still present voted 92­80 against Archbishop Stafford'smotion. But the total of votes ­172 - was short of the 195 bishopsneeded for a quorum.

* • •AT THE REQUEST of Arch­

bishop .Iohn F. Whealon of Hart­ford. Conn.. the executive com­mittee of the National Conferenceof Catholic Bishops has agreed toconsider whether to cancel thescheduled June 1988 general meet­ing of the bishops in CollegeviIle.Minn. The archbishop cited theheavy schedule the bishops have in1988. when all are due to travel toRome for their required visits everyfive years to report to the pope onthe state of their dioceses.

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Dear Mary: I am a grandmothergetting ready to shop for Christ­mas toys for my grandchildren.Some of the toys in the stores arecute, but many are poorly made,shoddy or downright ugly. I altl;looking for ways to please mygrandchildren without gettingeverything straight offthe TV ads.Suggestions welcome. - Illinois

You have touched a subject dearto my heart. There are few activi­ties I enjoy more than finding andpurchasing a toy "treasure:' a toythat is beautiful and enduring. onethat will be enjoyed long after theholidays.

My least favorite toys are gunsand similar war toys. Other toyswhich I can easily pass up includefigures or games fashioned afterthe latest movie or TV personality,someone who is popular this win­ter and will have faded into obliv­ion before spring arrives.

Here are some ideas which youmay not have considered. For chil­dren with winter birthdays, planyear-round. Since t~ey have nooccasion for spring and summergifts, be sure to consider summer

items for Christmas or their winterbirthday. Swimsuits and sunglasses,tennis rackets and camping gearare gifts that winterborn childrenrarely receive.

Preschool and early elementaryschoolchildren enjoy costumes allyear long. Buy good quality or,better yet, make them. Patternsare available, and materials suchas fake fur can produce sturdy,comfortable and fun costumes.

Start a set or collection whichyou add to over the years. A goodset of blocks in natural wood fin­ish is a welcome but somewhatexpensive toy. Buy a starter setand add to it on various occasions.Some families like to acquire amodel train or road set in the sameway. An older child interested indolls or stamps will welcome addi­tions to his or her collection.

Many fine toys are not found intoy departments. Consider a flash­light or a backpack. Buy accesso­ries for a bicycle such as baskets, aluggage carrier, a light, disk coversfor the spokes, or even a new seator handlegrips.

Magazine subscriptions andbooks make excellent gifts if thechild likes to read and is interested

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A time for moral outrage at greedFortune magazine earlier thismonth listing the 400 wealthiestpeople in the country. And if youmissed the magazine, USA Todayreprinted the names so we could besure to know who's worthy ofhav­ing their names in the paper.

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He cleared his throat. to inter­rupt me. "You know, Hilda," hesaid, smiling and not moving hislips. ~'I should do a homily on yoursarcasm."

"I shouldn't tease you," I said. "Iknow you put a'l6t of work intoyour sermons. Just typing andbinding all those pages must be abackbreaker."

Funny how this vein in FatherKevin's forehead becomes pro­nounced and pulses when he isamused. He veiled his laughter byforcing his voice to snarl. "In theseminary, people like you werecalled armchair homily quacks.You wouldn't know a meaningfulanecdote from an allusion to theVulgate."

I nodded. "Neither did the cou­ple in front of me. Several times Ioverheard her ask him if you wereinto a meaningful anecdote or al­luding to the Vulgate. I told themto wait ,until the end where youread your footnotes and then they'dknow."

I took on my poverty as I wouldhave taken on tonsillitis. I was dis­eased momentarily.

Fortunately, the church always, has valued the poor, from ,Christto the many great saints to peoplelike Mother Teresa and the priests,religious and lay people today whowork in soup kitchens and'sheltersand who try to raise funds to helpthe poor.

The Catholic Church witnessesto the value of persons, not wealth.But our ability' to hold on to Chris­tian values is threatened when allaround us we are bombarded byimages that glamorize the wealthy.

If this attraction to the glitz ofmoney and power pervades societyto the point that a supermarketclerk thinks nothing of symboli­cally spraying away a poor man,we are a society in great trouble.

Perhaps it is 'time to expressmoral outrage over the age ofgreed that is descending upon us asa country.

By Antoinette Bosco

Something unsettling is happen­ing in the United States now. Thereis so much talk of money andwealth that many people don'twant to acknowledge the povertythat exists in their own nation.Though people talk about thehomeless and raise m,oney for thehungry, their concern is a distantone.

Most of us don't brush shoulderswith poor people. If they come tooclose, we send them off to an

~ agency, a soup kitchen, a shelter orotherwise get rid of them.

Someone recently related an in­cident in Manhattan where ahomeless, middle-aged man wasredeeming cans and bottles quietlyat a local supermarket. He wascourteous and careful to bring,bottles that had been cleaned so asnot to offend the store clerks.

After waiting his turn patiently,he held his hand out to receive thenickels to which he was entitled.Just then the young clerk reachedbehind her back for, disinfectantspray and proceeded to humiliatehim. Her colleagues laughed up-roariously., ,By Hilda Young

Hearing this account and oth- "You think the homily was tooers, such as teenagers who set fire long?" my brother-in-law the priestto the homeiess as they sleep in asked me after Mass last Sunday.streets and parks, I ask: What is We were visiting his parish.there about the poor that causes "Not at all," I said. "As a mattersuch disrespect and brutal be- of fact, the man behind us enjoyedhavior? the second 20 minutes so much he

I think it has something to do made up a'iittle tune to pr~vide

with the fact that as a society we background music for it. It was ahave come to love wealth and its pleasant little ditty that almostpackaging so much that those out- sounded like heavy breathing andside this framework are discarda- he kept time with these little snortsble beings. now and then."

All around us are signs of wealth. " It's not easy, you know, pullingShould anyone question this, just full meaning out of Sunday read­turn on the TV set. The program- ings and condensing it into a 30­ming, including commercials, second commercial, Hilda:'hesaidshows wealth in most ,of what is 'ffl. ,Stl y.aired, not only on "Lifestyles of _the Rich and Famous." "You don't have to be defen- -

Or pick up a magazine or news- - sive," I told him. "A number ofpaper. Again, everything we see o-r people seemed to enjoy it. I countedread speaks of the "good life," them on my left hand. There wasfrom clothes, food and furniture the man sticking needles throughto daily investment tips. his upper lip. There was the woman

Who's important? Only t he next to me who finished an afghan.wealthy - wit,ness the spread in There was...

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Protestants "while honoringMary as a model' of faith andChristian life, do not invoke herdirectly, believing that this wouldobscure the unique redemptive'mediating role of Christ," it said.

At the same time. Mary forms abond among Catholics, Orthodoxand Anglicans, said the letter, whichencouraged study of Mary's role inthe historv of salvation. "Themother of Christ ... should not bethe cause of division and discordamong his brethren." it said.

"It will be a' courageous contri­bution to unity if ecumenical gath­erings to celebrate the Word ofGod take place with a certain fre­quency in Marian shrines," the let­ter added. It also said Marianshrines should promote religiousvocations and dedicated marriedlife.

Christ is wisdomVATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope

John Paul II has called Jesus Christ"the full revelation of divine wis- .dom" whose death revealed theplan of God.

Speaking at a recent regulargeneral audience to pilgrims andvisitors in St. Peter's Square, the"pope also said the wisdom of thecross is different from "the wis­dom of the world."

Because of the identification ofJesus with divine wisdom, his deathon the cross reveals the "mercifulplan of God, the God who lovesand forgives his sinful people," thepope said. The cross shows thatthe wisdom of God is not the sameas the wisdom of the world, headded, "a wisdom which refuses toopen itself to God and which isdoomed to pass away."

But through "faith in Christ, thewisdom of God," one find~ "com­plete knowledge of God's will," thepope said.

of the elderly and the homeless.the Vatican said in a letter to theworld's bishops which includedthe health care call. The messagewas signed by Cardinal Luigi Dad­aglio. president of the VaticanMarian vear celebration committee.

The letter also asks that Marianshrines promote ecumenical work­shops. prayer services and pil­grimages during the Marian year.

"The sick should feel themselvesat home at Marian shrines." saidthe letter. It noted that many Mar­ian shrines maintain charitableoperations such as hospitals. homesfor needy children and residencesfor the elderly. .

"It would. however. be especiallydesirable in this year, and for thefuture, that every'shrine ... createnew. adequa~e structures. or mod­ify those already existing in orderto meet the new problems of con­temporary society," such as acquir­ed immune deficieny syndrome.drug abuse. the difficulties of oldage and the plight of the homeless.the letter sa id ..

It asked bishops to give thecommittee "a report of such initia­

. tives adopted" to document howcharity has been applied duringthe Marian year.

The letter follows a call by thepope during his September visit tothe United States that Catholichospitals and health care institu­tions provide medical and spirit­ual care to AIDS victims.

In Phoenix, Ariz.. the pope toldCatholic health workers they hada moral obligation to extend their"skills and their "human sensitivi­ties" to victims of AIDS.

It was the first time he had men­tioned AIDS in a speech. Severaldays before, at an informal pressconference with journalists aboardthe flight to the United States, thepope said homosexuals, especiallyAIDS victims, are not "outcasts."Their place is "in the heart of thechurch," he said.

Regardingecumenism, the Mar­ian committee letter said Marianshrines should be prayer and studycenters for all Christians. But it .noted that Catholics should exer­cise "great delicacy" when invitingProtestants to ecumenical eventsat Marian shrines.

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'Her dinner, ready to be micro­waved, and her own family awaither. And she'll do it all againtomorrow.

5:57 p.m."There's one thing I do miss,"

Mrs. Corvese says. "Teaching. Ilove teaching and I love to workwith children."

She smiles when she talks aboutthe times she subs for teachers whocan't make a class .

Mrs. Corvese spends a few min­utes with the girl's mother. Theydiscuss program basics.

"If you have any questions,"Mrs. Corvese says. "call me any­time."

Mrs. Corvese loves working withthe I?OO-family parish's approxi­mately 950 students.

"I'm very fortunate," she says."that I have a very good familyand a staff that's very supportive. Iwork with wonderful teachers."

The word "family" often sur­faces in her conversation when shetalks about St. Mark's. She saysthat she and Father Caron "havethe same philosophy. .

"We both like to keep thingsorganized. simple, controlled,"sh'esays. \

Mrs. Corvese works a Sundaythrough Thursday week. There areno classes on Thursday, a "catch­up day" for paperwork.

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ELAINE CORVESE addresses religious education stu­dents before classes begin. (Motta photo)

Like Flowers"Hearts are like flowers: they

remain open to the softly fallingdew but shut up in the violentdownpour of rain." - Jean PaulRichter

5:02 p.m..Mrs. Corvese and Father Caron

walk upstairs to the church, Wherecatechist Martha Guillette is ask­ing her fifth-graders to identifychurch furnishings associated withthe sacraments.

"Where is the tabernacle?" Mrs.Guillette asks.

A boy locates it. The class iscomfortable with their director andcoordinator present. No one fidgets.

"What is it?" continues the'teacher.

"A tabern?" a little girl guesses.. Mrs. Guillette shares a quick

smile with Father Caron and Mrs.Corvese.

"No," she says. "It's like a littlehouse, a little enclosure. Who can·tell me what's in there?"

5:30 p.m.A bell rings and students begin

to leave the center. Mrs. Corveseaccompanies them outside andwaits in the cold until their parentspick them up.

Mrs. Corvese is still waitingwith two fourth-grade boys whoserides haven't come as classes forseventh-graders are set to begin.

She instructs the boys to waitinside the church and heads inready to face the seventh grade.

5:43 p.m.Again there are hellos from

teachers and students and a phonethat takes seriously its responsibil­ity to riOg.

Another pre-class meeting is heldafter the hand bell rings.

A youngster arrives with her'mom, is registered into the pro­gram, welcomed and shown to aclassroom.

was her job interview, but shedidn't know it.

"Father Gagne thought it wouldbe better that way," Mrs. Corvesesmiled. ''I'd be ~yself, I wouldn'tbe nervous."

And so ElaineCorvese becameSt. Mark's religious education co­ordinator.

"I hate to use trite phrases butshe's very dedicated," says FatherCaron, noting that Mrs. Corvesehandles day-to-day challenges welland that "in the midst of it all shehas unbridled enthusiasm."

He says the fact that Mrs. Cor­vese left a higher-paying job forthe coordinator's slot "speaksvolumes about her faith."

By Joseph MottaI

Elaine Corveseis into her fourthyear as religious educ'ation coor­dinator (RECl at St. Mark parish.Attleboro Falls. A petite dynamo,she loves her work and the kidsand catechists who are a majorpart of it.

The Anchor met with Mrs. Cor­vese on a recent Monday eveningin the church basement cum relig­ious education center. Betweenphone rings. visitors to the smallteachers' room she works out ofduring class sessions and the com­ings and goings offourth to eighthgraders. she spoke about her workand how she came to it.

4:15 p.m.Mrs. Corvese is beginning work

for the second time today. She'salready spent four morning andearly afternoon hours at her officein the parish rectory.

Teachers begin arriving forclasses. which begin at 4:30. Thereare many hellos and a lot oflaughsand the teachers' room is filledwith the aroma offresh hot coffee.

And then the children begin toarrive.

"Do you have scissors?""Tell Michael not to run; He's

going to hind on his head.""I forgot my book."

4:28 p.m.Mrs. Corvese walks briskly into

a large open area, the heart of theparish center. She is ringing a largehand bell. Within 90 seconds theroom fills with dozens of young­sters and their teachers. Gradesfour through six are in session.

Guided by Mrs. Corvese. a stu­dent volunteer leads the group inprayer. Then Mrs. Corvese takesthe floor.

"Study," she commands in afriendly but authoritative voice."Behave. Have a good class andI'll see you all at 5:30."

* * *David and Elaine Corvese joined

St. Mark's parish 12 years agowith their two daughters, now sev­enth and twelfth graders. Becauseof her daughters, Mrs. Corvesebecame involved with the parishreligious education program.

She taught classrooms of first,second, third, fourth, fifth andseventh graders for eight years andwas chairperson for grades one,two and three. Then she took ayearlong sabbatical, intending toteach again afterwards.

Instead, she found herselfcoor­dinating the entire program. Sheexplains that Mary MacGillivrary,her predecessor, left the positionto teach full time at a Catholicschool. Ms. MacGillivrary hadsuggested to the late Very Rev.Roger L. Gagne, then pastor, thatMrs. Corvese take over the job.And then she told Mrs. Corvesewhat she had done.

"I just thought, 'She's kidding,' "Mrs. Corvese remembered. "I wasvery surprised."

Mrs'. Corvese and her husbanddiscussed the idea and he con­vinced her, she said, that since shehad loved teaching so much sheshould look into the position.

So Mrs. Corvese met with FatherGagne and Father Paul A. Caron,St. Mark's parochial vicar and re­ligious education program direc­tor, to find out what. the workwould entail.

The informal gathering, she said,

·'.seconds. There:1I ,likely be· somestart-and-stops, a few thuds maybeand then, gradually, modest suc­cess.

If you have some moments offailure, don't despair. Pick your­self up and start all over again.

Bishop FeehanPatricia DeGrinney, a health

education teacher at Bishop Fee­han High School, Attleboro, at­tended a recent New HampshireAcademy of Family Physiciansseminar, "Practical Smoking Ces­sation Techniques" at the SheratonWayfarer Inn, Bedford, NH. -

Five of her students; Ann-MarieBlood, Anna Bousquet, Lisa Gag­non, Mark Galeone and JasonTausek, attended a recent South­eastern Massachusetts Youth Con­ference at Lakeville Hospital. Oneoffour held statewide, the meetingaimed to increase youth participa­tion in substance abuse preventionprograms.

Bishop Connolly32 students at Bishop Connolly

High School, Fall River. were re­cently inducted into the NationalHonor Society in an eveningceremony.

Chapter officers Jim 'Fasy, Jon­athan Lowenstein, Amy O'Con­nell and Lori Raposa spoke onrequisites for admission to thesociety: character, leadership,

. scholarship and service.Connolly principal Father Ste­

phen F. Dawber, SJ, spoke andcongratulated inductees. A recep­tion followed.

Carol Woodhouse is advisor tothe Connolly chapier.

situation for what it is. Honestyhelps people realistically assesswhat needs to be done if there isto be a chance to succeed. In thewords of the song. we "need aplan" to reach a dream.

For example, consider the de­cis·ion to take achallenging coursein school. Perhaps ·the course isneeded as a prerequisite for reaCh­ing a greater goal - getting intoa certain college, for example.One might honestly recognizethat this area of study is notwhere his or her best talents lie.However. by developing a step­by-step plan that includes tutor­ing,.advice from the teacher anda personal commitment of extrastudy time, one can prepare togive the course the best possibleeffort.· ..

The song also suggests that we"plan to win." So much of whatwe attain in life depends on 0\.11attitude. A winning attitude com­bines the belief that a goal isattainable with a willingness towork hard.

One. may need to sacrifice forthe sake of the new goal. Onemight have to cut back on so­cializing'in order to study more,for example. Being committed tomeet the challenge is a key factorin creating the op,?ortunity forsuccess.

Even with a well-defined planand a commitment for success,we sometimes cannot overcomelong odds. However, much lsgained in the process of trying.What we learn becomes an addedstrength for.the next big challengethat comes along.

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You may find it useful beforethe party to si~ down for more thana few minutes and actually ~rite

down not only topics for conversa­tion but even some actual remarksyou can make to break the ice.

They might deal with such itemsas a recent sporting event. an at­tractive article of clothing the otherperson has, a new course you'retaking at school or even some ofthe food at the party. .

bn your way to the party.. reviewsituations in your family. yourneighborhood. your city and yourschool for possible topics of con­versation.

Also go over your activities ofthe past month to see if there areany happenings to talk about.

All this fuel for conversationmay be used to put others at ease.As you make that effort. you maymore readily forget your own dis­comfort. go outside of yourself.really meet other people and begin.litl'le by little. to have the goodtime you've always dreamed ofhaving at parties. '

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on yourmind?

Usten, we don't call ,the shots hereWe don't make the rulesWe take what we getGet what we can ,It'sleaming the hard wilYHere on the streetsYou can't build a dream without a plan.PassjQn speaks, let them hear you speakPlay for keeps, we play to w.inWe play for keepsIt's not over till it's overIt's not over till we get it right.Tlte odds are against us,

o They say we don't have a chanceThere's no giving up, no giving in .When push comes to shove .You got to fight for what you loveYou do what you must, do what you can.The odds are against usYou know we still stand a chance

_There's no giving up, no giving in;

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THINK OF A SITUATION is life on the streets where peoplewhen the odds· were against you. are "learning the hard way" andPerhaps others even questioned ..take what we can get." Un­your ability to succeed, What fortunately some young peoplewere your reactions in this situa- experience such genuinely harshtion? How did you feel? environments.

Starship's recent hit "It's Not . .... Anyone who faces and wantsOver Tillifs Over" descdbesl?lry to come to terms with longsuch occasions. The song's setti,ng .odds in life needs to recognize the

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Q. I have a new friend who goesto another school. She has invitedme to a party where I won't know alot of the people who will be there.This scares me because I am veryshy about meeting strangers. How,can I deal with this kind of fearand overcome it an~ enjoy theparty? (Ohio)

A. You can be almost 100 per­cent sure of this: There will beother boys and girls at that party(perhaps many others) who havethe· same fear you do.

They will be wondering aboutwhat kind of people they are goingto meet. what they are going totalk about and what they are goingto do.

Shyness. as you probably knowwell. is not uncommon' amongteens and there are going to besome teens at that party who alsoare struggling with shyness.

Could you focus your thoughtson putting these other shy peopleat ease? If you can, this will helpheal your own sense of unease.

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STUDENTS MICHELLE Koziel, a member of Sacredl;Ieart parish, Taunton, and Timothy Diamantoni eat a ThirdWorld lunch at Bristol Community College, Fall River, during.a recent Hunger Banquet to benefit Oxfam America, an organ­ization that supports self-help projects in poor countries. Sis­ter Suzanne Beaudoin, SSCh, campus minister, discussedworld poverty with participants"who ate a turkey dinner, asubstantial soup or a watery concoction, depending on whicheconomic sector of the world's population they represented.She also spoke about the potential her listeners had for helpingarea needy. Sister Beaudoin said $689.50 was collected forOxfam. BCC's Campus Ministry and Student Activities offi­ces sponsored the banquet with student senators and the Cath­olic Student Ministry Asso~iation. (Motta photo)

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O.L ANGELS, FRReception for Msgr. Anthony M.

Gomes. PA, pastor. to congratulatehim on his protonotary apostolichonors. recently bestowed by PopeJohn Paul II. I to 4 p.m. Dec. 13.parish hall. Altar boys (grades threethrough five) and lectors needed;information: rectory. 676-8883.

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Evening of prayer and praise 7:30p.m. Thursdays. St. Jude's Chapel.Cotuit. Novena to St. Jude after 8a.m. Mass Thursdays. St. Jude'sChapel. Unconfirmed adults wish­ing to receive the sacrament shouldcontact Father Ronald A. Tosti.pastor. 428-0166. Choir rehearsal7:30 p.m. Tuesdays. St. Jude'sChapel. A children's choir. gradesfour through ten. is forming and willdebut at Christmas: rehearsals 4p.m. Wednesdays. St. Jude's Chapel.Saints and Singers Chorus Soundsof Christmas concert 8 p.m. Dec. 3.Our Lady. Queen of All SaintsChapel. Mashpee: a free-will offer­ing will be taken: program spon­sored by Mashpee Arts Council.hosted by parish.

ST. DOMINIC, SWANSEAMary. Q'ueen of Peace prayer

group meetings 7 p.m. Wednesdaysinclude "Jesus Rosarv:" all welcome:Religious education students' Christ­mas meal for senior citizens (age 60and over) 6 p.m. Dec. 8. parish cen­ter; information and reservations:Judy Cabral. 379-9651. Women'sGuild Christmas party 6:30 p.m.Dec. 8. Venus de Milo Restaurant.Swansea: information: Judy Cabral.379-9651.O.L CAPE, BREWSTER

Prayer line for emergency pray­ers: Mary Farrell, 896-3309.

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ST. MARY, SEEKONKAdult Bible discussions 7 p.m.

Dec. 9 and 9:45 a.m. Dec. 10. Ray­mond and Catherine Macomber andPeter and Stacia Schabowski arecelebrating 50th wedding anniver­saries. Women's Guild Christmasparty Dec. I replaces monthly meet­ing. Children's Mass II :30 a.m. Sun­day. Junior B CYO basketball game3: 15 p.m. Sunday. Father BarryCenter. Pawtucket. RI.

LEGION OF MARYLegion of Mary annual reunion 2

p.m. Sunday. St. Mary's Church.Fairhaven; program includes rosary.legion prayers and Benediction ofthe Blessed Sacrament in church andsocial gathering in church basement:all welcome.CAMP FIRE VACATION CAMP,FR

"School's Out Vacation Camp"for schoolage children of workingparents. operated by the AlgonquianCamp Fire Council. 6:45 a.m. to5:15'p.m. Dec. 21 t024and 28t031.Sacred Heart Church parish center.Fall River. Information: Camp FireOffice. 674-2157. 9 a.m. to I p.m.weekdays.ST. PATRICK, SOMERSET

New folk group members welcome;rehearsals 5:45 p.m. Wednesdays:performances at 10:30 a.m. MassSundays: information: Father HoraceJ. Travassos. parochial vicar. 672­1523. Rosary prayed 3:25 p.m.Thursdays. church.

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St. Patrick parish. Fall River.women's retreat tomorrow and Sun­day.

BLUE ARMYFall River diocesan division of the

Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatimafive-hour vigil in honor of the SacredHeart of Jesus and the ImmaculateHeart of Mary begIns 7:30 p.m. Dec.4. St. Rita parish. Marion: refresh­ments: all welcome: information: AnnLevasseur. 822-6866.ST.GEORGE,WESTPORT

Parish school students who earnedhigh honors for the first quarter ofthe 1987-88 academic year: Marietta

, Knox, C. Jay Martin, Justin Ramut.Katie Ritz and Courtney Smith.grade two; Nicholas Lacey andAmanda O·Gara. grade three: AndreaSantos. grade five: Anne Desrosiers.Kerri Ritz and Jeffrey Roberts. gradesix: Jennifer Borden, grade sevenand Celeste Castonguay and AnaLima. grade eight; 51 students mer­ited honors. Advent (week one)events: Advent wreath blessing 7p.m. Sunday. church: penance serv- .ice 7 p.m. Thursday. church.ECUMENICAL SERVICE

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Adult choir rehearsal Dec. 3.ST. LOUIS de FRANCE,SWANSEA

Coffee hour and blood pressurescreenings follows. morning MassesSunday. .ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, NB

Parish school seventh graders re­cently decided to contribute to 'UNICEF and raised $134.50 for theorganization; students AnthonyNunes. Paulo DeBastosand RebeccaAndre made "outstanding" contri­butions to the collection, notes sev­e!1th grade teacher Yvette P. Desmar­ais.

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School parents' meeting 7 p.m.Monday. school hall: special presen­tation on the Family Life EducationCurriculum. Youth group trip toLaSalette Shrine. Attleboro. 6 p.m.Sunday. Women's Guild meetingwith dinner and entertainment Dec.I. school hall.ST. JULIE, N. DARTMOUTH

Prayer meetings 7:30 p.m. Mon­days. parish hall. Choir rehearses6:30 p.m. Thursdays. church: newmembers welcome. Appreciationdinner Dec. I. Hawthorne CountryClub.ST. PATRICK, WAREHAM

Confirmation retreat for secondyear candidates Dec. 19. CathedralCamp. E. Freetown. Advent retreats9 to II a.m. and 7 to 8:30 p.m. pec.I. 8. 15 and 22.ST. THOMAS MORE,SOMERSET

Open house to congratulate par­ish Marian Medalist Gertrude Fugiel5 to 7 p.m. Dec. 6. rectory. Women'sGuild Christmas party Dec. 13. JTsRestaurant, Somerset.

ST. JAMES, NBMarian year rosary before 9 a.m.

Mass Fridays. Boy Scout troop or­ganizational meeting 7:30 tonight.parish center: boys II to 17 and theirparents welcome. CYO Councilmeeting 7 p.m. Dec. I. parish center.

ST. ANNE, FRGirl and Boy Scout-sponsored

blood drive 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 3.school cafeteria. Exposition of theBlessed Sacrament after II :30 a.m.Mass today. shrine: hour of Adora­tion 2 p.m.ST. STANISLAUS, FR

Advent-Christmas candles will besolemnly blessed at a family Mass4:30 p.m. tomorrow. Bible classespostponed to after New Year's. Ad­ve'nt penitential service 3 p.m. Dec.20. Father Robert S. Kaszynski.pastor. will be a concelebrant at aWoonsocket. R.1.. Mass marking1.000 years of Christianity in theUkraine..ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST,POCASSET

Parishioner Paul Bonin was acandidate at a recent ECHO retreat;Father James W. Clark. pastor.Father Francis Connors. D.J. Gre­goire and Mike Haskell were amongteam members. Parishioner BetteSonger was rectora of a women'scursillo last weekend: Janet Traviswas a team member. Arlene Lima acandidate. First Friday Masses Dec.4 at 7:30 and 9 a.m.NOTRE DAME, FR

Youth Council meets third Sun­day of each month. church hall. Par­ish School students grades onethrough four are participating in thePizza Hut "Book It!" reading­motivation program. New YouthCouncil members: Father MarcTremblay. parochial vicar: RickScholaro. Collette Turcotte. TammyDeschenes. Michael Dion. AlbertVaillancourt. Pauline Dumais. GertGendreau. Jennifer D'Alio. DavidLatessa and Claire Amiot. Councilof Catholic Women Mass for de­ceased members 7 p.m. Monday.chapel: meeting follows with speakerBert Latessa; information on thecouncil's Dec. 14 Christmas partywill be available at the meeting.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICHParishioners Robert Dinan and

Christopher Cote were team membersat a rece'nt ECHO retreat. Women'sGuild meeting 7:30 p.m. Wednes­day. Father Clinton Hall; guestspeaker: Neal Simon. ,SACRED HEART,OAK BLUFFS

Guild meetin&6 p.m. Dec. 7 pre­ceded by potluck supper for members.spouses and guests; Santa Claus willdeliver gift!i---after ,the meeting andthere will be Christmas caroling underthe direction 'of Claudia Metell.

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The center's Good News newslet­ter has made its debut. Supportgroupfordivorced.separatedand widowedmeets 7 p.m. first and third Mon­days of each month. Advent retreatand retreat for divorced. separatedand/ or widowed persons both Dec.II to 13; information: 222-8530.

CATHOLIC NURSES, NBCommunion breakfast 9:30 a.m.

Dec. 5. Sacred Heart Home, NewBedford; information and reserva­tions: 996-6751, ext. 60 before 4:30p.m.

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Holy hour. with celebrant FatherClement E. Dufour, pastor of St.George parish, Westport. 7 p.m.Monday, St. Theresa's Church, NewBedford; refreshments follow. churchhall; all welcome. Exposition of theBlessed Sacrament at St. Theresa'severy Friday after 9 a.m. Mass to 7p.m. Benediction; all welcome; infor­mation on holy hour program:Angelo DeBortoli, 996-0332.DCCW, NB

New Bedford district council ofthe Diocesan Council of CatholicWomen presidents' meeting 7:30 p.m.Dec. 3, Our Lady of Perpetual HelpChurch hall. New Bedford.

SS. PETER & PAUL, FRWomen's Club Christmas social

and concert 7 p.m. Dec. 3; FatherCoady Center; information: MaryTyrrell: 672-0227. The parish schoolhas begun a "~tar Search" program;one student from each classroomwho exemplifies qualities of peaceand justice and obeys classroom andschoolyard rules is chosen to "star"on the school bulletin board; Octob­er's stars were, kindergarten throughgrade eight: Jessica Silva, MichaelSantos, Jillian Collard, ChristinePelletier, Louis Vieira, Kelly Gor­man, Nicole Boudria, Jennifer Silvaand Michelle Pereira! Eight studentsgrades four through eight earned all"As" for the first quarter of the 1987­88 academic year; 31 other young­sters in those grades merited a placeon the honor roll.

ST. ANNE, NBThe pastor announced in last

week's Qulletin that he would per­sonally· double any contributionsmade to the Campaign for HumanDevelopment by non-budget usingparishioners. "The Messiah" will beperformed at the parish by theGreater New Bedford Choral Society7:30 p.m. Dec. 13. Day of Recollec­tion for confirmation candidates andsponsors Dec. 12, parish hall.

ELIZA Roderick, in wheel­chair, a resident of Our Lady'sHaven, Fairhaven, celebratedher 100th birthday Nov. 6.Father Lucien Jusseaume,haven chaplain, offered a Massof thanksgiving for her. Herdaughters Gertrude Lopez,left, and Marie Pereira were'among attendees.

The previous Sunday, over100 relatives and friendsgathered for a birthday partyfor the centenarian, who re­ceived greetings from BishopDaniel A. Cronin l GovernorMichael Dukakis and Presi­dent and Mrs. Reagan, amongothers.

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HOLY GHOST, ATTLEBOROThe parish thanks Natalie Ty for

preparing the altar Thanksgivingdecorations and John Viveiros,.Christine Bridges and Patricia Ket­tle for their contributions to the re­ligious education program.

ST. ANTHONY OF THEDESERT, FR

Healing service and Mass withFather William T. Babbitt. paroch­ial vicar of SI. Mary parish, N.Attleboro, 2 p.m. Nov. 29. church;all welcome. Exposition of the Bless­ed Sacrament noon to 6 p.m. Dec. 6with 5 p.m. holy hour, St. SharbelChapel.

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St. Margaret's and St. Mary'sGuild Christmas party I p.m. Dec. 3.Wagon Wheel restaurant. Wareham.

DOMINICAN ACADEMY, FRThe school. seeks a piano accom­

panist for their 2:30 to 3:45 p.m.Wednesday chorus rehearsals; infor­mation: school office. 674-6100.

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CATHEDRAL, FRParochial vicar Father Richard

G. Andrade has awarded rosaries tograde five religious education stu­dents for their good attendance.Volunteers to help' Women's Guildmembers and Vincentians expandtheir visitation of parishioners con­fined to nursing homes wanted; in­formation: rectory, 673-2833.

.SACRED HEART, FRWomen's Guild Christmas party

6:30 p.m. Dec. 7, parish hall; enter­tainment: Christmas selections bythe Allegro Glee Club; former presi­dent Vivian Cleary is the evening'schairperson; she will be assisted by acommittee offormer guild presidents.The women's sewing group needs­white cloth sheeting for the RoseHawthorne Lathrop cancer home;donations may be left at rectory.After an absence of eight years. theparish is again represented in theFall River area CYO basketballleague; players are led by coachesJohn O'Neil and B.J. McDonald.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FRJ ljnior choir· special rehearsal 2

p.m. Sunday; senior choir 3 p.m.Prayer meeting 7:30 p.m. Fridays,small chapel; all welcome. Women'sGuild Christmas party Dec. 9. White'sRestaurant. Westport.LaSALETTE SHRINE,ATTLEBORO

35th annual Festival of Lights,themed "The Word Among Us,"open every evening through Jan. 3;weekdays 5 to 9 p.m.; weekends 5 to10 p.m.; free admission and parking;information on Mass schedules. con­fessions. Christmas concerts. Mar­ian year devotions and special events:shrine office; 222-5410.

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ST. JOSEPH, FAIRHAVENBoy Scouts' spaghetti dinner 4

p.m. Dec: 5, church hall. Informa­tion on joining junior youth group(grade eight); Norma Motta, 994­6426; Ms. Motta and group membersare thanked for cleaning the church.New Jerusalem prayer group meet-

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