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A PALESTINIAN woman appears to ignore Israeli border police frisking a Palestinianman. (CNS/ UPI-Reuters photo)

Life tragic under Israeli curfew

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part ofa traditional40-day mourn­ing period.

Salam's mother stood in her kit­chen, holding two-year-old Amira,who was sucking a lollipop andsaying something in Arabic.

"Amira says she wants to visitheaven - just her alone - and seeher brother," Mrs. Mutzlah said.

There is a hole in the double­paned kitchen window made by abullet from a high-velocity assaultrifle of the type issued by the mil­itary to many Israeli settlers.

Salam's mother said she wascooking supper when there was asudden crash behind her. Sheturned around and saw her onlyson lying dead on the floor, shot inthe head, still clutching a TVremote-control.

The family tried vainly to findmedical help, she said, but the cur­few was in force.

"He is a martyr," the family saysof Salam. They recalled how heloved sports and teased his mother.

His fate has left a mark on hiscousins. Mary N. said her own 14­year-old son Yousef was oncecaught in front of his house andbeaten by soldiers for breaking thecurfew.

Yousef said he dresses in greento blend into the Shepherds' Fields,where he secretly meets his friends.

His sister, 16-year-old Samira,resents missing teen-age fun.

"I've done nothing. I've juststayed at home," she said.

Mrs. N. worries about education.She said that when schools were

closed at the beginning of theuprising, she helped organize ahome school in her basement for89 children, but authorities closedit down.

Every facet ofdaily life is coloredby the occupation.

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For the Palestinian mother ofthree teen-agers, March 12 wasjust another day in the 24th year ofIsraeli military occupation.

For Israel, it was the second dayof U.S. Secretary of State JamesBaker's post-Gulfwar peace-build­ing tour. A few miles down theroad, in fact, Mrs. Baker was pay­ing a visit to the Church of theNativity in Bethlehem.

"It's my hometown, five min­utes away, and I'm not allowed togo there," said Mrs. N, who didnot want her last name used.

Like most Palestinians, hermovement in the occupied territo­ries is severely restricted.

"I don't have much hope for asolution. The Americans and theIsraelis don't want one," she saidsomberly. "They are not going togive up an inch of land."

She sat on a couch in her well­kept house, beneath a picture ofMary and Jesus. Like most resi­dents of Beit Sahour, her family isChristian. Their living room win­<low looks down on Shepherds'Field, where tradition says theangel appeared to shepherds thenight Jesus was born.

Since the beginning of the Gulfwar, Beit Sahour has lived under ablanket curfew that only recentlyhas been lifted sporadically duringthe day.

The curfew is like a prison, herchildren say. No going out to play,no school, no shopping, no social­izing. Outside, soldiers patrol con­stantly for curfew violators.

In February, when daily lifeappeared grimmest, things gotworse. A cousin, I4-year-old SalamMutzlah, who lived nearby, wasshot dead by a Jewish settler.

On this particular afternoon,three weeks after the killing, theMutzlah home was full of womenin black who had come to pray as

By John Thavis

BElT SAHOUR, Israeli-occu­pied West Bank (CNS) -In a hilltown south of Jerusalem, Mary N.watched the soldiers' jeeps pass onthe road that runs by her house,and listened to her children growrestive in the kitchen.

"For the last few months, all I'veseen is violence, which I hate," shesaid. "The curfew is on and thechildren are fed up in here. Theycan't concentrate. They say theydon't want to live anymore. Ithurts to hear these expressions."

Holy Thursday letterto world's priests

,.AT THE ANNU AL Diocesan Council of Catholic Women retreat, held this year at the

Family Life Center, North'Dartmouth, and themed "The Women around Jesus," from left,DCCW Church Communities chairman Alice Loew; president Madeline Wojcik; retreatmaster Father Mark R. Hession; recording secretary and retreat cochairman Theresa Lewis;retreat chairman Mary Galvin. They 'are looking at a retreat memento, a depiction of thewomen around Jesus at his crucifixion. (Lavoie photo)

"We simply need to love our priesthood"

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - alinefromlsaiah-"TheSpiritofConfusion about the meaning of the Lord is upon me" - whichthe priesthood is lessening as more Jesus quoted when speaking at thepeople experience the need for synagogue in Nazareth. .priests in their communities, Pope "I n their immed iate setting theseJohn Paul II said. words point to the prophetic mis-

"Lay people are seeing the in- sion of the Lord as the one whodispensable need for priests as a proclaims the Gospel. But we cancondition for their own authentic also apply them to the manifoldChristian life and their own apos- grace which he communicates totolate," the pope said in a letter to us," the pope told his fellow priests.priests worldwide for Holy Thurs- Archbishop Laghi said the popeday, 1991. chose the quote "to underline that

Pope John Paul said, "We simply it is not by an election of the com-need to love our priesthood, to munity, but by the imposition ofgive ourselves completely to it, so hands by the bishop that a man 'isthat the truth about the ministerial constituted for the good of men inpriesthood may thus become attract- things regarding God. '"

.ive to others." The pope said that following theIt was the 11th time that Pope Second Vatican Council an aware­

John Paul had written to priests ness of priestly identity "has infor Holy Thursday - the com- some quarters become less sure"memoration day ofthe Last Supper because of a misreading of counciland in many dioceses a day when documents.priests renew their priestly prom- The pope did not explain howises. the teachings were misinterpreted,

The pope said that the world but said that "a significant trans­Synod of Bishops on priestly for- formation" has begun to reverse

. mation last October brought "a the trend.new maturity in the way of looking The "need for priests - in someat priestly service in the church." ways a growing phenomenon -

"This maturity finds expression. should help to overcome the crisisin a more profound interpretation of priestly identity," he said.of the very essence of the sacra- "The experience of recent dec­mental priesthood, and thus also ades shows ever more clearly howof the personal life of each and much the priest is needed both inevery priest, that is to say, of each the church and in the world, not inpriest's participation in the saving some 'laicized' form, but in themystery of Christ," he said. form which is drawn from the

The pope opened his letter with Turn to Page II-

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Bishop Francis M. Zayek of thediocese of St. Maron presided,Bishop Daniel A. Cronin waspresent and Father Michael G.Thomas was principal celebrant ofthe Divine Liturgy of ChristianBurial at Our Lady of PurgatoryMaronite Church, New Bedford,for the parish's pastor emeritus,Rev. George I. Saad.

Father Saad, 81, died March 12.He was first administrator and

then pastor of Our Lady of Purga­tory from 1954 until he retired in1986. In retirement, he workedwith Msgr. Norman Ferris, pastorofSt. Anthony of the Desert Mar­onite Church, Fall River, on trans­lations of lives of St. SharbelMakhlouf, Blessed Rebecca (Raf­ka) Er-Ryiess and Father Nenatal­lah Kassab Hardini:

Born in Bkeseen, Lebanon, Fa­ther Saad was the son of the lateIbrahim and Martha A. (Afif)Saad.He studied for the priesthood inLebanon and Rome, earning adoctorate in philosophy and alicentiate in sacred theology.

He was ordained in 1933 inRome and for 20 years served inLebanon, first as secretary to theMaronite archbishop of Sidon,then as a theology professor forseminarians and a chaplain andteacher at the College de la Sagesse,Beirut.

He came to the United States in1953, serving in Connecticut beforebeing assigned to New Bedford.

Father Saad is survived by a sis­ter, Sister Germaine Saad, inLebanon, by a niece in Argentinaand by cousins in Assonet, West­port and Fall River and i~ Brecks­ville, Ohio.

For quincentennialWASHINGTON(CNS)-"Her­

itage and Hope: Evangelization inAmerica," a U.S. bishops~ pastoralletter on the 1991 observance ofthe 500th anniversary of Chris­tianity in the Americas has beenpublished by the U.S. CatholicConference's Office of Publishingand Promotion Services. Alsoavailable is a handbook to assistparish and diocesan leaders andeducators commemorate the an­niversary.

Peace work laudedMANILA, Philippines (CNS)

- The diocese of Kidapawan, Phil­ippines, and an Irish 'Columbanpriest who has worked the last 25years in the Philippines were amongrecipients of the Aurura AragonQuezon Peace Award given byConcerned Women of thePhilip­pines. Father Niall O'Brien washonored for peace advocacy andconflict resolution, particularlythrough books and a magazinewhich he edits.

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Likewise, Anderson's captors'''did not -take my brother becausethey hate Americans," she said."They hate what our policy.hasbeen doing in the Middle East."

Mrs. Say said that in the wakeof the Iran-contra arms-for­hostages scandal, the U.S .government turned a deaf ear toher - she called it her lowest pointin her six-year quest to free Ander­son. But, she said, diplomats fromArab nations continued to listento her concerns.

She said her faith has "beenabsolutely invaluable for my fam­ily and for me. There is some kindof design here. These things hap­pened for a reason."

Mrs: Say, who is virtually indaily contact with the StateDepartment from her home inKentucky, said the burden of beingin the forefront to press for herbrother's release has been "ex­.tremely difficult and extremely hard,on my husband and my family.'But I have had a moral charge todo this.

"What would my alternative beto witness this kind of thing andnot do anything about it ... as Ter­ry's sister, as a Christian, as anAmerican? This is a moral obliga­tion." .

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BISHOP DANIEL A. Cronin and Taunton area CatholicCharities Appeal heads·Rev. William L. Boffa (left) of S1.Joseph's parish, Taunton, area assistant director, and Rev.Gerald T. Shovelton, pastor of S1. Ann's Church, Raynham,area director. (Hickey photo)

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Peggy Say, sister of hostage TerryAnderson, who on March 16 mark­ed the sixth anniversary of his cap-'tivity in Lebanon, said that hisrelease would signal an improve­ment in relations between the Uni­ted States and the Arab world.

"It's always been my prayer thatthe release of the hostages wouldeffect some kind of reconciliationbetween the U.S. and the Arabnations," Mrs. Say, a Catholic,said in a telephone interview withCatholic News Service.

"That way, the past six yearswould have some meaning."

Anderson is one of six Ameri­cans held in Lebanon. Four Brit­ons - including Anglican Churchenvoy Terry Waite - two Ger­mans and an Italian are alsobelieved held by pro-Iranian Mus­lim extremists in Lebanon.

The hostages have been movedfrom Beirut, where they were kid­napped, to new hideouts in theBekaaValley of Lebanon, accord­ing to security sourc~s in Lebanon.

Conditions for release of And­erson, who was the chief MiddleEast correspondent for AssociatedPress at the time of his captureMarch 16, 1985, are the best they'have been in Anderson's six yearsin captivity, Mrs. Say said, noting'that the demand by Anderson'scaptors t,hat 17 political prisonersbe releasedfrom a Kuwaitijail hasbeen met, albeit in a roundaboutway.

After Iraqjnvaded Kuwait Aug.2, the political prisoners were freedby their jailers. "Some stayed hometo fight· in Kuwait" against theIraqis.

"I never had any animositytoward the Arab people at all,"Mrs. Say said. "It was a few peo­ple, not a nation, that committed,this."

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On Good Friday, March 29, the Celebration of theLord's Passion will be held at 3 p.m. Bishop Cronin willpreside and Father Travassos will be celebrant. Rev. Mr.Mathias and Permanent Deacon Thomas Bailey will beliturgical deacons. Deacon chaplains will be PermanentDeacons Richard M. Dresser and Frank W. Mis.

The Easter Vigil will be ce.lebrated at 'p.m. Satur­day, March 30.-l~ishopCronin will be principal celebrant,with Fathers Travassos and McMan'usascoric~lebrants;

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I'd like to have my mom winbecause my mother is an outstand­ing example of every Christianvirtue.

My mother never thinks of her­self. After attending daily Massand getting us (my two brothersand me) off to school, she takescare of my sick grandmother wholives in the next house. She cooksthe meals for her and my bacheloruncle. Come nighttime, my motheris there again (after having pre­pared two suppers) putting mygrandmother to bed.

In between times, my mom isactive in almost every organiza­tion in town. For 12 years she andmy father have been on the pre­Cana panel in the diocese of FallRiver. At these meetings they dis­cuss the joys and problems of mar­ried life and encourage those whoare about to enter the unknownworld of the sacrament of matri­mony.

My mother was president of theDiocesan Council of Catholic Wo­men for two'years; and s'erved assecretary of the Bishop Stang DayNursery Corporation and Boardof Directors. She is busy in theMothers' Club of our school, andis presently the vice-president ofthe Coyle (my brother's highschool) Mothers' ClUb.

She is active in the CatholicWoman's Club in the city, and forfour years has been chairman ofthe Family and Parent <EducationCommittee in the diocese. She has ­also found time to serve on theMarch of Dimes and other com­mittees which are not associatedwith the church.

During the hectic- days preced­ing' Christmas 'my mother spentseveral afternoons making wreathsto decorate ourchurch. New Year'sDay also found her in church pre­paring the altar for Fo'rty Hours'Devotion. I

Realizing her worth, [then)' Bish­op Connolly of the fall RiverDiocese chose my mother to serveon his' Advisory Board in 1966.This was followed by apother an­nouncement early this year - thebestowal of the Marian Medal (anew award for the laity'in the dio­cese) on her and my father at aceremony in St. Mary'scathedral.

Can I say more? Nothing ...except that I have the most SELF­LESS and the BEST mother in theWHOLE WORLD!

"No one could really believethat Gert had died," said BishopDaniel A. Cronin, with whom shehad worked in the chancery officesince 1974. Principal celebrant andhomilist at the cathedral Mass, thebishop pointed out that Mrs.O'Brien's wake began on the feastof St. Patrick and that her Masswas offered on the feast of St.Joseph, patron of a happy death.With her great devotion to bothsaints, he said, "It seems that prov­idence took her at this time."

Mrs. O'Brien was "a woman ofthe Second Vatican Council,"declared the bishop, quoting fromVatican II documents on the roleof the laity and the church in themodern world. The documents callfor Christian commitment in theworlds of civic, political, socialand family life, he said "and thatcommitment came to life in Gert.", "She was a friend and cou'nselorof bishops," he continued, notingthat Boston Cardinal Bernard Lawcalled upon hearing of Mrs.O'Brien's death, "to console me aswell as Gert's family.

"She could gently approve ordisapprove of things," he con­tinued. "Just by the way she said'Oh, Father: a priest knew howshe felt about a proposal.

"When did she fail with cards,telephone calls, or visits to com­fort the bereaved and disconso­late? She made the hea'ling love ofJesus operative in the lives of thepeople she touched.

"We will miss her," concludedthe bishop, his voice breaking,"but she has fulfilled her purposeon earth. And so, Gert, the timehas come to say goodbye.'"

Reflecting Mrs. O'Brien'sjoy inher Irish ancestry, the processional"hymn for her funeral Mass was·

. "T"e Breastplate of St. Patrick,"among other hymns was "An IrishBlessing" and the recessional' was"A Little Bit of Heaven." Greencarnations and mums predomin- .ated at her wake and the Irish flag'flew under ~Qe~Starsand Stripes at ..St. Patrick's cemetery as she waslaid to rest.

Over 50 priests concelebratedthe cathedral Mass with BishopCronin and delegations in the pewsincluded representatives of organ­izations with which she had beenactive and of all diocesan offices..Many students from' Coyle andCassidy High School, Taunton,where Mrs. O'Brien's sister, SisterEugenia Margaret Ready, SUSC,is a faculty member, were alsopresent.

In 1968, Mrs. O'Brien's daugh­ter Kathleen, then 13 and a sev-

A valiant woman is laid to rest

..GERTRUDE O'BRIEN in two of her many roles: at left as a dedicated member of the Diocesan Council of Catholic

Women planning a 1989 prayer service with (center and right) Madeline Wojcik and Claire McMahon; at right, as longtimepresentee committee chairman for the annual Bishop's Charity Ball, checking last-minute details with a young woman and herescort. (Lavoie and Hickey photos)

By Pat McGowan"Many are the women of proven

worth, but you, Mom, have excelledthem all."

Those words of Gertrude O'­Brien's daughter, Atty. KathleenM. Murphy, spoken at the end ofher mother's Mass of ChristianBurial'Tuesday at St. Mary'sCathedral,Fall River, drew tearsfrom the eyes of many in thepacked house .of worship.

They also drew silent assent.The reading at the Mass, from theOld Testament Book of Proverbs,began with the familiar words"Who shall find a valiant woman?Her value is far beyond pearls,"and continued with a descriptionof the many attributes of such awoman, including the words quotedby Atty. Murphy.

The reading could have beenwritten for Mrs. O'Brien. Like theoriginal valiant woman, she hadmany roles and excelled in all,working as a secretary at thechancery office of the Fall Riverdiocese until the week of her deathMarch 15 from a heart attack.

A native of Fall River, she wasthe daughter of the late Eugeneand Margaret Ready and the wifeof former Massachusetts StateRepresentative James A. O'Brien.

She was active on every level ofthe national, diocesan and districtCouncils of Catholic Women,serving on the board of directorsof the National Associates of theNational Council of CatholicWomen and as president at onetime or another of the diocesanang district councils and of herparish colincil at St. Mary'sCathedral, where sht: was also alector and special minister of theEucharist.

In other diocesan. undertakings,she was for decades chairman ofpresentees at the annual Bishop'sCharity Ball, was 1988 chairper­son of the Catholic CharitiesAppeal and was a volunteer for St.Vincent's Home and Bishop Con~

nolly High Scllool,. both in FallRiver, and Coyle and Cassidy HighSchool, Taunton.

She served on the diocesan pas­toral council and ecumenical com­mission and for many years workedwith her husband on the pre-CanaCommittee of the former FamilyLife Bureau. She also held mem­bership in the Friends ofSt. Anne'sHospital, the Corky' Row ClubAuxiliary, and the Fall RiverEmblem Club, and was a pastpresident. of the Sacred HeartsAcademy Alumnae Associationand Fall River Catholic Woman'sClub.

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"Who shall find a valiant woman? Her value is far beyond pearls."Prov.31:10

trustworthy source of human rightsdata" in EI Salvador.

The impact of the agency isillustrated by the opposition it hasgenerated. Both the Salvadoranmilitary and its financial backer,the U.S. government, have beenpublicly critical of Tutela Legal.

The well-known human rightsorganization Americas Watch usesTutela Legal's data, Quigley said,and as a result its findings "get intocongressional offices" as well as~

into the U.S. press.Why does Latin America seem

condemned to endure ongoinghuman rights abuse?

In an interview in the Winter1991 issue of New PerspectivesQuarterly, published by the LosAngeles-based Center for the Studyof Democratic Institutions, Chi­lean author Isabel Allende des­cribed the region as "the productof conq uest and colonization,authoritarian European monarch­ies and indigenous theocracies."

The combination, she said, pro­duced a "certain mentality, cultureand way of thinking politicallythat is very'authoritarian, hierar­chical and based on 'caudillos' orchieftains.

"During the independence wars,when our patriots tried to formwhat are now the republics theyattempted to imitate the republicsof Europe by imitating their con­stitutions and laws," she said.

"Unfortunately, when the timecame to apply these constitutionsto a people who had no demo­cratic tradition whatsoever, theefforts failed."

But Ms. Allende said she isoptimistic. "It may have taken us500 years but we now have democ­racies all over the continent, Theyare fragile and conditional, butthey are democracies all the same."

Vicariate of Solidarity, run by thearchdiocese ofSantiago, has closed'down its journal "Solidaridad"since the ending of the 17-year mil­itary regime headed by Gen. Augus­to Pinochet, but continues todemand that atrocities committedunder Pinochet be investigated andthat the names of persons whocommitted them be made public.

- In Peru, several regionalchurch-run human rights offices,modeled on the Chilean vicariatedocument abuses committed bySendero Luminoso, the violentPeruvian Maoist rebel group, andby the Peruvian military forces.

A high point of the church'sinvolvement in Latin Americanhuman rights efforts came in 1973in Brazil when the Brazilian bishopsissued a strong attack on humanrights .violations in that country inresponse to a continuous string' ofarrests, disappearances and torture.Within the next year strong state­ments tumbled out of diocesesthroughout Brazil.

More recently, Brazilian Cardi­nal Paulo Evaristo Arns of SaoPaulo made human rights his~ory

and shook his nation when excerptsof government records including2,700 pages of testimony that doc­umented 284 types of torture andnamed 444 individual torturerswere published in a book titled"Brasil Nunca Mais" in 1986.

The records were secretly pho­tocopied in a complex clandestineoperation under the direct spon­sorship of the cardinal. The pro­ject began in 1979 and ended inJuly 1985, the year Brazil's mil­itary regime was replaced by a civ­ilian government.

Quigley calls the archdiocese ofSan Salvador's Tutela Legal the~most

WASHINGTON(CNS)- LatinAmerica, all too frequently rockedby violent a<:ts of oppressive mil­itary dictatorships and antigov­ernment rebel movements, is alsoa region that has witnessed un­common acts of quiet heroism andcourage.

Latin America is the "home ofmodern-day human rights efforts,"contends Thomas Quigley, U.S.bishops' policy adviser on LatinAmerican affairs.

In case after case, the CatholicChurch - which continues to be adominant social force in the region'- has been at the forefront of suchefforts.

At great risk in the midst of sys­tematic campaigns of terror inBrazil, Chile and Paraguay in the1960s and 1970s, for example,church workers documented andspoke out against torture, disap­pearances and murders, notedQuigley in a recent interview.

Even today, such heroism con­tinues.

-In EI Salvador, Tutela Legal,the human rights office of thearchdiocese of San Salvador, runby laywoman Maria Julia Her­nandez, documents and decriesatrocities committed by the nation'smilitary as well as by the Fara­bundo Marti National LiberationFront, a Salvadoran rebel organ­ization.

- In Guatemala, a fledglinghuman rights project under theauspices of Archbishop ProsperoPenados del Barrio, publishesmonthly news reports denouncinghuman rights abuses. A recentissue detailed the Dec. 2 massacreof 13 townspeople in Santiago Ati­tlan by members of the Guatema­lan military.

- In Chile, the world-famous

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Our diocese lost a good friend in the passing of Gert O'Brien.Although firmly rooted in her beloved Fall River, she had aninsight and kindness that went far beyond local boundaries.

Her willing spirit was matched with an energy that accom­plished great tasks for the diocesan church; but it was her senseof humor that really made things work for her many causesand interests. Others may take her pl~ce in those areas, butthere was only one Gert O'Brien and she will indeed be missed.

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Working for Good LiturgyHoly Week provides a wonderful opportunity to look at our

parishes objectively. A parish can be measured by the careexpressed in its celebration of the mysteries of faith.

For too long many Catholics have had a tunnel visionapproach to parish and liturgy. Indeed, some churchgoersmeasure pastoral effectiveness by the clock. The shorter theMass and the quicker the sermon, the better the shepherdingsee'ms to be their attitude.

Many pastors seem to be ofthe same mind. Get them in, getthem out, get it over is apparently their prime liturgical rule.Then they wonder why people are not going to church.

But especially when it comes to Holy Week, the convenience'store approach is nothing more than a stifling of the Spirit,unworthy of the name of liturgy.

The opposite trend goes from the quickie to the ridiculous.One thinks of the parish where personal interpretation andwitnessing are the h~lImarksof liturgical expression, where inthe rush to be relevant the norms of church and common senseare thrown out the window.

In such cases, liturgy again gives way to expediency but thistime for the sake of self-expression. So often those walkingdown this aisle see themselves as holier than the church and asknowing much more than those who draw lIP boring guidelines.

The result is a carnival celebration such as a clown liturgy ora mime Mass. Some even espouse yoga liturgies in the searchfor mystical fulfillment.

This is deplorable at any time, but especially during theholiest week of the year, when the wonderful liturgies of theseason should be given the opportunity to influence the lives ofall in the church family.

No one who conducts the services of Holy Week should feelit is a burden in terms of time or involvement. Pastors are notpastors if they refuse to celebrate the week in the fashionenvisioned by the church. They must remember that they areacting in the name of the church, not on their own, and that it isthrough the liturgy that the work of redemption is ac-complishec:l. .

Holy Week is the time of times to bring the very best. inliturgy to parish communities. It is a time when many disen­franchised and disappointed Catholics give the church anotherchance;'in fact, more come for Easter than for Christmas, withthe Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults bringing many to fullmembership and others meeting the Lord in baptism at theEaster vigil.

It is a great time to put our best foot forward, but of course itinvolves planning and meeting with parish liturgy committees.Good liturgy doesn't just happen. One must work and plan forits success; and when doing this pastors fulfil one of the chiefduti~s of a faithful steward of the mysteries of God.

Gertrude K. O'Brien

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Tonga's 13,000 Catholics com­prise about 13.2 percent of thenation's 98,000 people. About 47percent of Tongans are membersof the Free Wesleyan Church.

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Tongan passports have beenpurch'ased by many Chinese hop-

High School and Middle School Education

The Solemn Vows of fonned Jesuits include a promise 'of special concern for the education,ofthe veryyoung I It is likely that down the years, worldwide, more Jesuits have given their lives 'to teachingschoolchildren than to any other workof theSociety. Lcirge numbers ofNew England

, Jesuits do so today, alongside their colleagues, religious and lay, women and men.New England Jesuits are working in education at Bishop Connolly High School (Fall River,

MA), Boston College High School, Campion College (Jamaica), Fairfield College PreparatorySchool (Fairfield,Cn,NativitySchool (Boston), and SaintGeorge's College (Jamaica).IndividualJesuits also work at Cathedral High School (Boston), Loyola Academy (Chicago), Monroe HighSchool (Fairbanks, Alaska), and Phillips Academy (Andover).

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nephew is capable and intelligentand from your letter it is obviousthat he is loved. He may have aproblem. but basically he is alucky child.

Tongans don't wanttoken citizens

NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (CNS)- Tongans recently took to thestreets to protest the tiny SouthPacific kingdom's decision to grantcitizenship to more than 400 for­eigners. including former Philip­pines first lady Imelda Marcos.

About 2,000 people, led byBishop Patelesio Punuo-Ki-HihifoFinau and opposition parliament­arians, marched through the capi­tal, Nuku'alofa, in what residentscalled the biggest protest inmemory.

Since' 1984, the island nationruled by King Taufa'ahau TupouIV has been selling passports forupwards of $10,000. Purchasersare mostly from southeast Asia,and include the widow of formerPhilippines dictator Ferdinand

HOLY WEEKSERVICES

By Dr. JAMES &MARY KENNY

"Don't tattle to teachers. It makesit worse," says my expert. How­ever kind and understanding adultsmight be, schoolchildren retain an"us against them" mentality.Children stick together. and intheir view, adults also sticktogether.'The child who tattles breaks thisstructure by crossing over to adults.If your nephew shows signs of tat­tling to adults, ignore it. Withouteven mentioning his tattling, askhim, "What do you think you cando about this problem?" or similarwords that encourage him to solvehis own problem.

"The teacher can help if she isvery understanding." No adult,including the teacher, can make aclass accept a child. Lecturing theclass wou.ld only antagonize theother children and probably makethe situation worse.

The teacher can ignore any tat-tlingjust as parents and friends dowhile taking an interest in what­ever special talents or interestsyour nephew pursues. In short,without turning him into a teacher'spet, the teacher can communicateto your nephew and the otherchildren that he is an OK, interest­ing person. Such modeling is apowerful influence on the class.

"It gets better," is my son's finalreassuring comment. By highschool, he says, students are mostconcerned about what kind of aperson you are, how you think andfeel, what your interests and dreamsare. As an intelligent and capableperson, your nephew stands torate highly in all these importantareas.

Very few child ren are highlypopular with everyone. Your

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• Confessions in theshrinefrom / / a.m. to /2 noon and / to 4 p.m.• Easter Vigil and First Mass of the Resurrection at 7:00 p.m.

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PALM SUNDAY

Dear Mary: I'm concerned aboutmy 7-year-old nephew. He is shyand hides from people. He is bigfor his age and overweight, so hegets teased by children. I am con­cerned about the harm done to hisself-esteem because of the rejec­tion he gets from schoolmates. Doyou have any suggestion? - Hawaii

Clearly some children are morepopular than others. And childrencan be very unkind to each other.How can adults help such a child?

I consulted an authority on be­havior of kids toward other kids- my own son. My expert saidnothing about focusing on theshyness and obesity, preferring toconcentrate on your nephew'sstrengths. Here are his ideas:

"You can't be lazy." Like olderpeople, kids respect those personswho can do things.

You say your nephew is quitebright, reads well and is good withnumbers. Family and friends canencourage him to pursue areaswhere he shows ability. Perhaps hecan begin to work with computers.Perhaps he can use his numberskills. Some children like to keepsports records and become veryknowledgeable.

Reading ability can lead yournephew into practically any field.You might introduce him to suchinteresting subjects as history., theculture of different peoples oranthropology. As my son com­mented, "People will be shocked(in a good sense) by what he cando." .

Help him develop,interests andskills rather than working on self­image and self-esteem in them­selves. I have always taken a dimview of "self-esteem" advice thatfocuses on repeating "I'm special,""I am somebody" and similarapproaches.

Help your nephew to develophis capabilities, and he will developself-respect and self-esteem in hisown view of himself and from theway others view him.

Q. In some Lenten prayers, Ihave seen referenc'es to the Re­proaches of Good Friday. I triedunsuccessfully to find out whatthey are and get a copy. Can youhelp? (Texas)

A. The Reproaches are part ofthe Good Friday liturgy and maybe sung during the veneration ofthe cross.

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They are addressed by Christto his people, proclaiming his loveand generosity and our lackof response to that love. Therefrain for many of them is theTrisagion, an ancient Greek prayer,

, "Holy God, Holy Strong One,Holy Immor~al One, have mers;yon us!"

The,: Latin title for the Rep­roaches is "I mproperia." You mayfind them under that title in somebooks.

Any edition of the current Sac­ramentary (missal) has them inEnglish. Ifyou do not find them inyour area, ask your pastor to.loanyou a parish copy and copy themfor your personal use. The Re­proaches can be a most fruitfulsource of reflection and prayerduring Holy Week.

Q. When a casket is broughtinto church for a funeral Mass, it iscovered with a white shroud.

In the case of veterans, theAmerican flag is removed and thewhite shroud is placed over thecasket.

!VIany veterans and veterans'organizations wish the flag toremain on the casket during thefuneral Mass.

Where should veterans' posts goto have this exception made offi­cial so deceased veterans will havethe American flag covering theircaskets at all times during the fun­eral process? (Pennsylvania)

A. The American (or othernational) flag may be placed overthe casket untifthe body enters thechurch, and at the time of burial,

when it would be folded and pres­ented to the family.

There is ~o provision, however,in our Catholic rituals for replac­ing the white pall with the flag dur­ing the liturgy in church.

When the pall is used (it is,optional in the funeral liturgy)

along with the sprinkling of water,it is a symbo'l of the water andwhite cloth used at baptism. Itexpresses the baptismal faith of

· the Christian who is being buriedand the faith of those present atthe liturgy.

As a Christian, the individualwho has died owed many loyal­ties: to God; to spouse, children,and others who depended uponhim or her for love and care; towork and profession; and to the

country's ideas of justice andfreedom,

It is indeed a virtuous act toser:ve one's nation with a goodconscience in whatever capacity,including militarily.

We express gratitude for thatpatriotism by appropriate honorsat the time of burial, but it wouldbe inappropriate to single out thatone aspect of Christian generosityas the primary focus of the funeralMass..

In designing the funeral liturgy,the church attempts to honor andremind us of all the ways we mustrespond to our Lord's command"to love God and neighbor.

Questions for this column shouldbe sent to Father John Dietzen,Holy Trinity Parish, 704 N. MainSt., Bloomington, III. 6170,1.

Another side.of suffering: hearts no longer hollow

I will never know why. What IA woman I work with was very do know is that in real life unplea-

upset one day. ·She and her family sant things happen to us no matterhad awakened to a cold house, no how much we try to prevent themheat and no hot water. and protect ourselves.

To make matters worse, the 'A few months ago, when myphone line.to her oil company was daughter Margee's two childrenout of order so she was not even were in an automobile accident --..:able' to put in a distress call for a. and, thank God, came through therepair visit. . trauma and are on the way to heal-

Habitat for Humanity builds homes a'nd hopes

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"'Inever thought we could own ahome,""the woman said, as sheproudly. showed, us. through hersimple but new home. "It'~a dr,eamcome true. God made it happen.'And these people, of course."

She gestured at the crowd at aHabitat for Humanity dedicationand picnic. 1 discovered that while

Underneath' the annoyance wasa different worry. Her childrenhad been ill the week before,one with flu and one with mono­nucleosis, and a cold house wasnot the place for either of them.

."I've had enough," she com­plained. "Why can't' things beeasier?"

bot~' she and her husband had~worked for almost 15 years, theywere never able to save for a downpayment.

Each earned little more thanminimum wage and they had fourchildren plus an elderly relative tosupport. "·We've paid, so muchrent,' it makes me sick to thinkabout it," she said, "Twice we'vehad landlords sell the house outfrom under us." She paused andadded, "You just feel differ­ent knowing you're in your ownhome ... more important, some­how,"

The Aplericandream of owninga home is dying for many coupleswho don't qualify for a mortgagebecause their,salaries are too low.

ing - she asked, "Why do we haveto suffer so much?"

All I know is thatuncomforta­ble, annoying, miserable, traumaticand tragic things happen.They arebuilt into human existence.

I remember reading a book byMsgr. Ronald Knox titled "ARetreat for Lay People" in whichhe talked about these inconven­iences and troubles. "Why do theyoccur?" he asked, and answeredwith another question, "Well, why.shouldn't they happen?"

In other words, why do we expectlife to come with some kind ofguarantee that every day will gosmoothly? We seem to be locked ina mode of "great expectations,"which stems from our human

So they pay more for reqt. thanthey would in mortgage p'aYlJ1ents..They get discouraged because theysee no -way out.

Habitat for Humanity, a coali­tion of churches, government,industry, labor, and private indi­viduals, offers a way out. Habitatis" an international, ecumenicil1,self-help housing organizationwhich uses contributions andvolunteer efforts to enable verylow-income families to build/ren­ovate and finance their ownhousing;'· . .•

Habitat homes are sold with no'profit and no interest. Mortgagepayments are recyled continuouslyto finance ongoing construction,Typical Habitat homeown,ers are

nature that wants the self and theego never· to be put out.

But the self and the ego have tobe jolted or we never coine fullyalive. That's the hard truth and themystery.

I remember about six years agointerviewing Tom J ones, the lyri­cist for the songs in the great musi­'cal"The Fantastiks."1 had alwaysbeen fascinated by the wisdom inhis prizewinning' song, "Try toRemember," especially the line thatsays, "Without a hurt, the heart is

· hollow." He had learned that truth ­from his own pain, he said, butadded that this truth made lifeworthwhile.

Withoui the dark side we wouldnever be able to appreciate the

·good, stable people who can't ll}akeenough money to obtain adeq'uatehousing.

A spokeswoman said, "We areable to build and sell homes be­cause many people volunteer theirtime, donate materials or givemoney on.. a regular basis.. Cur­rently Habitat can build or reno­vate a single family home in theRocky ~ountain region for ap­proximately $25,000.

"Skilled craftspersons help uson one home a year, and unskilledpersons join volunteer work teams.Those with management skills co­ordinate volunteer labor, solicitdonated materials and money, andnegotiate for land, water and sewertaps."

light; he said, paraphrasing whatsaints have preached through theages.

So the mystery remains thatthrough sorrow we can understandjoy; through failure we learn torecognize success. SomI~how, builtinto this mystery of life's duality isa blueprint for growth that has thepo.tential for .shaping us into thepeople God wants us to be.

It's not a blueprint for sissies. 1remember a priest once quipping,':There's nothing wrong with painexcept that it hurts." 1neyedounda way to contradict ~h'ai: .But 1have learned from e'4?erien'ce that,as Tom Jones said, tIle 'ones whocome through the hurts 'havesomething great in retu'rn - theirhearts are no longer hollow.

Each future homeowner must,agree to put in 500 hours of"sweat equity," Foreclosures arerare because families care deeplyabout homes that they have helpedbuild.

The feature I like most is thevoll,mteer labor from churches,

. families', and. individuals wJtodonate their "sweat" to make homeshappen for others. 1 talked to onefamily with a child sorting nailswhile the parents put up ~allboard."It's good for our family," the dad's;lid, "Sure beats walking the mall."

Churches, .youth groups and in­dividuals interested in'Habitat canwrite Habitat for Humanity, Hab­itat and Church Streets, Ameri­cus; GA 31709-3498.

Passion .narratives focus on Jesus' psychological sufferingBy Father Roger Karban

Sunday's readings: Is 50:4-7; Phil2:6-11; Mark 14:1-15:47

Our liturgical readings need res­tructuring. More time should bedevoted to the four Passion/ Re­surrection narratives. No onehomily can do justice to the Scrip­tures' most important verses. .

Rudolph Bultmann once said,"Gospels are nQthing but Passion/Resurrection Narratives with oneor two dozen introductory chap-ters!" "

Each passage contains deeptheology. Jesus' first followers spent·at least two generations reflectingon the meaning of his dying andrising before the 'evangelists putthem into gospel form, We onlyreflect on them one weekend ayear!

Yet Jesus would be the first to

encourage us to "work with whatyou've got. We cannot wait untilthings change before we studytoday's readings. 1 encourage youto read Mark 14 and 15 before theSunday Eucharist and carefullyreflect on the verses. While thepriest or deacon proclaims thechapters Qur,ing the liturgy, putdown your missalette and listen tothose words again.

. Obviously the sacred author isdescribing Jesus' suffering anddeath. But notice what kind of suf­fering he emphasizes. He says almost'nothing about the Lord's physicalsuffering. The first mention ofbodily pain does not come untilthe narrative is nearly half over,when he describes Jesus' treatmentby' Pilate's soldiers in the prae­torium.

Certainly Jesus suffered physi-

cally. But the anguish Mark choosesto point up is Jesus' psychologicalpain, the kind of pain which theLord's followers experience everyday.

Think again about the disciples'criticism ofthe woman who anointsthe Lord at Bethany, his. betraYll.lby one of his closest friends, Peter'sLast Supper boast that he . willnever desert him, Jesus' agonizingover God's will in the garden, allhis followers running away at hisarrest, the lies told about him dur­ing his trial, Peter denying he evenknows him, the crowd choosing torelease a murderer in his place,onlookers taunting him during hiscrucifixion and the painful expe­rience of looking up as he dies andseeing no one except a few womendisciples watching at a distance,

The misunderstandings, be-

trayals, lies and desertions are allpainful experiences with which wecan identify. But they are evenmore painful when they happenbecause we are sincerely trying tofollow Jesus. The temptation toback off is always present. Wewould have a lot less psychologicalpain if we were less faithful inimitating the Lord's lifestyle.

Mark gives his Passion narra­tive this unique form to encourageus not to give up our faith even'though it causes much pain.

Paul warns his community inPhilipi to go beyond the anguishand reach forthe prize, Like Mark,he is much more concerned thatwe have the faith of Jesus thanfaith in Jesus. "Your attitude," hewrites, "must be Christ's." We mustconstantly empty and humble our-

selves for others so that we mightshare in the Lord's exaltation.

Ifwe continue to think that Pas­sion narratives were written tohelp us feel sorry for Jesus, eitherwe have not read them carefullyenough or we have not reflecteddeeply enough on what happenswhen we imitate Jesus.

.Envoy to BulgariaVATlCAN CITY (CNS) - Pope

John ·Paul II named a Vaticanexpert on Eastern-rite churches,Msgr. Mario Rizzi, as the firstdiplomatic representative to Bul­garia since 1950. Bulgaria is thefourth former Soviet bloc nationto exchange ambassadors with theVatican since the collapse of com­mun'ist regimes in Eastern Europe.

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Many ofheradvanced place­ment calculus and physicsstudents at the Taunton highschool have received collegecredit in those subjects.

She is one of nine AP in­structors in New Englandselected for the honor amongnearly 180 nominees.

"Sister's selection is a tes­timony to the quality of herteaching," said Fred J. Wet­zel, director of academic sup­port services for the CollegeBoard.

Sister Burns, who has beenassociated with the formerBishop Cassidy High Schooland Coyle-Cassidy High

's~ying it allDear Editor:

After reading your editorial"Liberty for All" (Anchor, MarchI), I just had to congratulate youon saying it all.

You pulled out all the stops,from the lifestyle of the emir ofKuwait to the Americans who haveneither homes nor hope. "

In my opinion, it was the besteditorial or commentary in all therhetoric I've read since last August.

I am sending a copy to PresidentBush and hopefully someone willlet him read it.

Regina N. SeymourHarwich

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SISTER MARY CatherineBurns, SUSC, a Coyle-Cas.sidyHigh School math and scienceteacher, was honored yester­day at a College Board con­ference in Westford as an Ad­vanced Placement RecognitionAward winner.

About theHoly Land

For Father's Da However; we often neglect the~ importance ofthe Holy Land as a

Dear Editor: symbol that embodies the pres-Have you ever thought of giving ence of God. As a professional

God a gift oil Father's Day? He is archaeologist, I see people visitthe father of aU humankind. He archaeological and historical sites.deserves our tribute on Father's It appears th~t there is a desire toDay. As a matter of fact, he even link themselves to something largerasks for it, "Ifl am a father, where than themselves that is suggestiveis the honour due to me?" (MaJ.I:6) of a latent religious impulse, In a

I invite you to participate in my world increasingly dominated by9th "Father's Day Gift for God." secular interpretations of life, weAll you have to do is say two "Our must relearn the spirituality of pil­Fathers" a day from now until grimage and sacred places.June 16, just to express love for You can participate in this revi-God. .val in a number of ways. First,

Please send your name and ad- please give generously to the Gooddress and the date you begin the Friday Holy Land collection whichprayers to: supports the shrines of the Holy

Father's Day Gift for God Land and ·the native ChristianLucille A. Zimnotch population of the area. Second,

.. 60 I ancaster-Rd.Apt-;-32- - n-find--mrt mOle aboutthearea-oy- .Wethersfield, Ct. 06109 subscribing to the Francisan

magazine, The Holy Land. 1400Quincy St. NE, Washington, DC200 I7 and the Catholic Near EastWelfare Association publication,Catholic Near East. 101 I FirstAvenue, New York, NY 10022.

Finally and perhaps most im­portantly, plan to make Ii personalpilgrimage to the places whereGod revealed himselfand also visitthe Christian communities of theHoly Land who have maintainedthe faith in direct continuity withthe early Church.

Jack D. Elliott Jr.West Point, MS

Dear Editor:Christianity has always been a

religion of history in which Godhas revealed himself in particularevents at particular places. For thelast 2000. years Christianity hasmaintained a continuous presencein the Holy Land in the form ofboth Ii Cbristian community andshrines in Bethlehem, Nazareth,Jerusalem and other places.. ,

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or drug syndromes, after they leavehere?" she asked.

"This causes me to shed a lot oftears sometimes, because these kidsare unwanted by others for themost part," she continued. "In theshort time, of just days, that thesekids are here I begin to bond withthem ... and then they are gone. SoI've learned to just concentrate onthe kids while they are stayinghere:'

She said that the children whoarrive at the center have beenremoved from their own homeswhen investigators have suspectedabuse or neglect. Many are bornwith addictions to drugs and manyhave the HIV virus that can lead toAIDS, she said.

."The pain for me is that thesekids will have no person to reallylove them. The unfortunate part ofthe system is that these kids willface a future of being merelyshuffled from one foster-home toanother," she said.

In Illinois, foster homes are cer­tified for three-month periods only,she said. .

So, Sister Brenner has a dream- a home for AIDS chiidrenwhere all 'will live C together as afamily witbsurrogate parents anda sense of~ontiiiuity. '

Catholic Memorial Home, FanRiver, has added intravenous ther­apy to the health care servicesavailable to residents. It is expectedthat the service will avoid somehospitalizations, facility officialssaid.

Nursing, director Theresa Nien­timp, RN, said that hospitaliza­tion was formerly needed in manycases ofdehydration and infection.

The new capability also permitsCatholic Memorial Home to acceptor readmit hospital patients re­quiring intravenous therapy.

The facility received state per­mission to offer the service afternursing staff members were trainedin using intravenous equipment.

.Memoriaillomeoffers IV.tberapy

Sister is "grandmother"to neglected kids

h ..3( " SALUTINGtheanc OI\Y S'ENJORS

'.II,SISTER FRANCES Brenner cuddles one of her infant

charges at the Columbus-Maryville Medical and Child Recep­tion Center in Chicago. (CNS photo)

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CASSERLY

easy to grip handrails on eitherside from top to bottom?

Throw rugs. Are they removedfrom stairways and landings?

Floors. Rugs with deep pile orbusy floor patterns make it diffi­cult to see where you are going.

Tubs and showers. Are well­secured grip bars and non-skidmats in place?

If you smoke, do you:-use deep, wide ashtrays with

grooves so that cigarettes don't fallout?

-always check ashtrays beforeleaving the house or going to bed?

Good Safety HabitsPersonal safety habits are also

important in preventing injury.- Wear comfortable, low-heeled

shoes with good traction.-Rise from a sitting or lying

position slowly to avoid dizziness.-Carry only small loads. Make

extra trips if necessary.-Wear a seatbelt every time

you are in a car.- Reduce the impact of a fall by

letting your muscles go limp androlling as you fall.

- Wear only short or close fit­ting sleeves when cooking.

Booklets on "The Do-ableRenewable Home," about adapt­ing homes for special physicalneeds, and "In Good Health withEnergy," about making your homeenergy efficient, are available fromthe American Association of Re­tired Persons (AARP), ParkSquare Building, 31 St. JamesAve., Boston 02116.

From Elder Health Alert. ajointpublication of the Division ofElder(y Health Promotion of theMassachusetts Department ofPublic Health and the Massachu­setts Health and Long Term CareAction Team of AARP.

Carpets. Are they in good con­dition with no worn or frayedareas?

Light switches. Are they withinimmediate reach as you enter each •room? .

Walking space in rooms. Areroom well lighted with paths freefrom clutter and furniture?

Electrical extension cords. Arethey in good condition, or do someneed replacement? Are -they re­moved from walkways and fromunderneath rugs? Should you shiftplugs because outlets or extensioncords are overloaded?

Smoke detectors. Do you havethem on each floor? Do you testthem monthly? Do you replacebatteries each year?

Stairways. Are they well lightedand clutter free? Are there sturdy,

Friday an opportunity for ecu­menical experimentation. ManyMinnesota churches now share the"Seven Last Words" in churchesof different faiths. stating "Abortion Kills," "I Was a CHICAGO (CNS) - To Sister

The hymns area marvelous mix. Fetus Once," "Adoption _ Not Frances Brenner, 60, supervisor at"The Old Rugged Cross" vies with a center that cares for childrenAbortion" and other slogans. I"Were _You There?" "Amazing . d who are neglected or born withtook a turn carrymg a woo enGrace" and "Behold the Wood of cross with the help of others. addictions, the philosophy ofdeal-the Cross." Priests and ministers . db' ing with children is quite simple.Shoppers scurne past eanngexchange pulpits to share the loss bags and boxes, eyes averted. Unr- "I love spoiling kids and I don'tthat occurred at Calvary almost f d did h believe for a minute thilt you canorme guar s ounge at t e2,000 years ago. entrance of the human slaughter- really love a child too much," said

The old-style stations of the house, smoking and playing a por- the home supervisor for the Colum-cross, which packed churches table radio loudly. Passersby joined bus-Maryville Medical and Childdecades ago, draws few worship- up, marched, sang, then left, hav- Reception Center in Chicago.ers today. It has been replaced by ing made their statement. "After being called 'sister' for 40many new forms of the stations Wh HIS d . t years, I feel more like a 'grand-en 0 y atur ay arnves a h'" dd d S' Bb th I f 'l t tt t . . . mot er now, a e Ister renn-

ut ese a so al 0 a rac la~t,"!'ebeheve the ResurrectIOn IS er, a member- of the School Sistersworshipers ,,- n - wtthiD--OUf-grasp...Ihese.40.da¥s- --r-S1--Fl--~- n______----

Some do attract TV coverage, will end in the glorious Easter vigil 0 Tht. rantCIS. f b 2 500h h . II h th" ta . . e cen er cares or a out ,t oug ,espeCla y w en e s - - not at noon as they dId m our b d d ltd Ill' .

tions" are munitions plants or childhood long ago. a .use an neg ec e mOlsT · I . . ' . . chtldren annually.

poverty scenes. helT goa IS pro- The kItchens oft~oseChnstlans "Most of our youngsters comepaganda. not devotion,\ and their who fasted, abst~med and ga.ve from parents with AIDS or withnarrow focus has given them a alms to the I?oor WIll have a speCIal drug addictions, main~y heroinshort life. glow. In Pohsh homes, food baskets d ." 'th 'd Sh

. . d f . f ' an cocame, e nun sal. eI marched m another km 0 are readIed or the pastor s bless- h b t th t . 1987stations several years ago. The ing. Ukrainians put the final fas eefnf.a. I e fcen ertshmceIll' . '

" a ter 0 ICla s rom e mOlSservice was in front of a major touches on theIr multlcolore(i eggs. D t t fCh'ld d Fabortion mill run by Plan.ned Par- We help the Easter bunny hide . epar ~en 0 I ren an am-enthood in St. Paul, Minn. About straw baskets with jelly beans, t1y Ser~lces asked that Columbus30 of us"members of maRy faiths, chocolate chicks and pastel-hued MaryvIlle .take over mana~eme~tcircled the sidewalk in the after- t f th E t of the malO emergency chIldren s

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noon sunshine singing, praying un ay reasure un. . ' ..and meditating on the 14 stations. And as the Easter triduum leads She saId that the county faclhtyCars cruised by, some drivers to the day of glory, we ask our- ~ad been under ~iticis~for h~~s-honking'support, a few jeering and selves: Have we merited the Re- mg up to 60 chIldren 1ft a faclhtygesturing. surrection? I pray the answer is a built for only 25 and for not ade-

We carried the pro-life signs resounding !'yes." quately supervising t~e children.The Columbus-Maryville center

is a 100-bed structure with floorshousing boys' and girls' quarters, acafeteria. offices, a nursery, and amedical and dental clinic. It alsooffers recreational, therapeutic andeducational services, Sister Brennersaid.

The center includes the "Brennerhome" for toddlers - an area dec­orated with signs bearing suchmessages as "Welcome to Pee WeeParadise," and "Welcome toScooterland."

"One of my most painful con­cerns is what kind of home thesechildren will have after their shortstay here," she said. The shelter isused as only a temporary havenfor the children, who are subse­quently placed in foster homes bythe state. "Will someone really beable to love and care for thesechildren, who have the AIDS virus

Home safety: preventi~g falls, fires

THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-'----Fri., Mar. 22,J991, '

Rose, at 89, loved her home and the fact that she was able tolive independently. One day, however, she suffered a fall whiletidying her living room. She was hospitalized for s~ver'alweekswith a fractured hip, and when she returned home needed helpwith cleaning and shopping. Determined to prevent anotherinjury, shedid a safety check of her home and was surprised atthe hazards she found.

Like Rose, we all want to believeour homes are safe and secure. Fortoo many elders, however, unsafeconditions lead to falls and other'·preventable injuries.

Falls and FiresFalls are the ICading cause of

injury in the home foe people 65and over. Up to one third of allelders living in their own homesfatl each year.

Factors that increase risk offal­ling include physical changes whichaccompany aging, such as sightand hearing difficulties. slowerreaction times, and muscle weak­ness; or diseases such as Alzhei­mer's or osteoporosis, which affectmainly older people. Alcohol useand medication side effects canincrease chances of falling for per­sons of all ages.

Elders who have fallen, espe­cially if they were injured, maydevelop fear of further falls andavoid activities like walking andhousecleaning. Such lack of exer­cise can make them weaker, lead­ing to more falls.

Some of the same problemswhich contribute to falls can leadto accidental setting of fires, theother leading cause of injury in thehome. Fire hazards include smok­ing, faulty electrical equipment andcareless cooking.

Here is a checklist of homehazards:

Scatter rugs and runners. If theyare necessary, are they taped downand slip resistant?

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The Easter TriduumDon't bother looking for "tri­

duum" in your dictionary unlessit's about a foot thick. The wordrefers to three days of prayer andpreparation for a major churchfeast. In this season, ifs the Resur­rection, the most glorious feast inthe church year.

Parish practices during the tri­duum, which starts Holy Thurs­day, the vigil of Good Friday, andends on Easter, have been chang­ing so often that parishioners oftendon't know what's expected ofthem.

Good Friday and Holy Satur­day seem to have become majorshopping days, with more peoplein specialty shops and department

, _n -StOJ'eStbancllurch One I! S .bishopcalled Good Friday shopping a"grave scandal."

"Good Friday afternoon is oneof the heaviest shopping days,according to ... retail merchants,"said Bishop James Griffin of Col­umbus, 0 H. "Can we Christiansnot cease buying and selling forthree hours as a sign to the worldofan event that changed the courseof history?"

Lacking the common link oftheMass, Good Friday liturgies nowvary widely. reflecting many richtraditions. Practices range fromconcerts like the "Seven LastWords," the "Three Ho~rs Agony"of song and meditation" and a var­iely of stations of the cross.

This flexibility has made Good

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WARM WELCOME: Friends and family of more than100 members of the i60th Air. Refueling Group offered avariety of personalized welcomes when the soldiers returnedthis month to Columbus, Ohio, from duty in Operation DesertStorm. (CNS photo) .

Israeli curfewContinued from Page One ing more stomach wounds. Now

thorities, she said, pulling torn the soldiers sometimes aim forenvelopes from her purse. heads, he said.

House searches are common, Mary N. said the Gulf war tight-_ she said, and men. are frequently ened .the Israeli mi'litary's grip on

humiliated in front oftheirfamilies. their community and even with thewar over, many restrictions remain.

Het husband, a doctor in a local "I donot'defend the occu~ation. hospital, said he has treated many of Kuwait [by the Iraqis]," sheof the uprising~svictims - mostly said, "but we wonder why the Uni-:­

. young boys shot by soldiers during , ted States vetoes V.N. resolutionssione-throwing defOonstrations. when it ,comes to the Palestinian

. He said that at first the soldiers ,issue;," shesai~. "~an anyone" aimed for legs, then ht< began treat~. 'answer ine why?" .. . ~ :

Independence"It is easy in the world'to live

after the world's opinion; it is easyin solitude to live after our own.But the great person is one who inthe midst of th'e crowd keeps 'withperfect sweetness the independenceof solitude." 'Ralph WaldoEmerson

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deacons in the world, but some9,500 of them are in the VnitedStates.

In 1957 Pope Pius XII estab­lished a volunteer program among •diocesan clergy with the aim ofhelping dioceses that had too fewpriests. The program continueswith 2,500 priests from NorthAmerican Europe working in LatinAmerica, the archbishop said.

But the program needs to con­centrate on "the areas of greatestneed" and should have morepriests, as well as some changes intraining and support, the workinggroup said.

Archbishop Laghi mentioned.specific concerns about the isola­tion of priests sent alone to a for­eign country. The new proposalcalls for "teams of priests" fromthe same country or diocese work­ing together wi~h greater supportfrom their home dioceses.

As for long-term prospects fornative vocations, parish life andseminary programs must bestrengthened and vocations pro­motion programs must be put inplace, the report said.

The report also suggested givingspecific responsibility for certain

,regions or programs, such asseminaries, to religious orders.

Archbishop Laghi said that par­ticipants in these efforts would be"priests ofthe new evangelization"which Pope John Paul has calledfor to mark the anniversary of 500years of Christianity in the Amer­icas.

Mar. 271918, Rev. James W. Conlin,

Pastor, St. Patrick, Somerset1964, Rt. Rev. Antonio P. Vieira,

Pastor, O.L. Mt. Carmel, NewBedford

Mar. 281960, Rev. Alfred J. Levesque,

Pastor, St. James, Taunton1972, Rev. Bernard A. Lavoie,

Catholic Memorial Home, FallRiver

1983, Rev. Dieudonne Masse,OFM, Retired, Montreal, Canada

1985, Rev. Howard A. Waldron,Pastor Emeritus, S1. Thomas More,Somerset

Mar. 291923, Rev. James H. ,Carr,

S.T.L., Assistant, St. Patrick, FallRiver '

1951, Rt. Rev. Msgr. EdwardJ.. 'Moriarty, Pastor, St. Patrick, Fall

River

Mar. 25: Is 42:1-7; 'Ps 27:1·3,13~14;Jh 12:1·11 ;'Mar; 26: Is 49:1-6; Ps 71:1­

6,15,'17;:Jn 13:21·33,36-38Mar. 27: Is 50:4·9; Ps 69:8­

10,21-22,31;33-34; Mt 26:14­25Holy Thursday: Is :61:1·3,

6,8·9; Ps 89:21·22,25,27; Rv1:5·8; Lk 4:16-21Holy Thursday Evening: Ex

12:1·8,11-14; Ps 116:12·13,15·18; 1 Cor. 11:23-26; In13:1·15Good Friday: Is 52: 13-53:12;

Ps 31:2,6,12·13,15·17,25; Heb4:14·16:5:7·9; In 18:1·19:42

Easter Vigil: (1) Gn 1:1-2:2,Ps 104:1-2,5·6,10,12·14,24,35;(2) Gn 22:1-18; Ps 16:5,8·11;(3) Ex 14:15-15:1; Ex 15:1·6,17-18; (4) Is 54:5·14;Ps30:2,4·6,11-13; (5) Is55:1·11,Is 12:2·6;(6) Bar 3:9-15,32-.4:4; Ps 19:8·11; (7) Ez 36:16·28; Pss 42:3,5; 43:3-4; (8)Rom 6:3-11; Ps 118:1·2,16­17,22-23; (9) Mk 16:1·8Easter Sunday: Acts 10:34,

37-43; Ps 118:1-2,16-17,22­23; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20: 1-9

Continued from Page One nuncio to the V nited States, saidGospel and from the rich tradition Cardinal John J. O'Connor ofof the church." New York has offered to help, and

The pope said the synod also several other V.S. dioceses couldpointed out the unequal distribu- be tapped.tion of priests in the world. "There He said among V.S. diocesesare places with one priest for sev- with good seminaries and ordina-eral hundred Catholics, and others tion rates, Arlington, Va., andwhere there is one priest for 10,000 Scranton and Allentown, Pa., wereCatholics or even more." some that came to mind.

The 'Second Vatican Council The most dramatic shortage oftaught that priests are prepared priests is in Latin America, wherefor "the most universal and all- more than 88 percent of the popu-embracing mission of salvation," lation professes Catholicism, thethe pope said. archbishop said. Almost 43 per-

He asked priests and dioceses to cent of the world's Catholics livethink and pray about those words, there, ministered to by only 13and be as generous as possible in percent of the world's priests.helping dioceses with severe shor- The Catholics of Europe andtages of priests. North America constitute less than

Archbishop Pio Laghi, head of 39 percent of the world's Catholicthe Vatican· Congregation for popullition, but are served by moreCatholic Education, later outlined than 73' percent of the world'sa pilot program ,being considered priests, he said..by the Vatican which would facili- The unequal distribution oftate the sending of priests from priests was repeatedly mentionedwell-staffed dioceses to those in during the October world Synodneed. of Bishops on priestly formation,

The pope told priests that "the he added, saying that two daysmore overwhelmed we feel by our after the synod ended, the popemission, the more open we must be appointed several Vatican offiCialsto the action of the Holy Spirit." to form a working group to address

"The. liturgy of Holy Thursday the distribution problem.is a special moment during the The group's,preliminary reportyear in which we -can' and must called for "emergency inter­renew and rekindle in ourselves ventions" with better staffed dio­the sacramental grace of the ceses sending'priests to those morepriesthood." , in need.

Priest-Sharing Program It also called for measures toDiscussing the Vatican pilot address the shortage "at th~ root"

program and calling, the unequal with better vocations programs,distribution of priesis a "pastoral improved seminaries and the de-

.·injustice:" Archbishop Laghi said velopment of the permanent diac-a plan is developing in which dio- onate and lay ministries.,ceses in the V nited States. and The.vatican will be a facilitatorelsewhere could' )k as.ked. share and a. "catalyst" for diocesanclergy with understaffed regions. exchanges and·for;.<:hanges at the

\' - :phe; aT~hbish'op said . .the;plan' h>l,:aIJevel, ~rchbishop.Laghi said.would include "emergency" priest '.' .... The wo.rkl~~ group su~gested asharing as.well as systematic efforts '. pIlot project ID t~e 22 dIOceses ofto recruit priests in areas where northeaste-rn Bra~11 to tes~ the newthere is a'shortage: proposals. There IS one pnest there

The archbishop. former pro- for .every 18,000 people,. whereasr--------'----.... !n the V nited States the ratio is onepriest for about), 100, the archbi-

, shop said. ,"The neediest diocese in the region

is diocese of llheus where there is,one, priest for every 44, 140 Cathol­ics, he said.

In the pilot project region,there,are 37 permanent deacons., 30 ofwhom work in the archdiocese ofSao Salvador da Bahia.

Archbishop Laghi said priest­short dioceses. in ,other? regionshave not made serious efforts totrain. permanent deacons: Thereare more than 15,000 permanent

F~therHaringin hot water

The Other Heroes"Too much has been said of the

heroes of history - the strongmen, the troublesome men; too lit­tle of the amiable, the kindly, thetolerant." - Stephen Leacock

the zone controlled by the rebelSudanese People's LiberationMovement.

CRS is among aid organizationsworking under United Nationsauspices to aid the needy on bothsides of the battle line.

In rebel-held southern Sudan,the diocese of Torit has played amajor role in distributing emer­gency food aid and in pressingefforts to build up agriculturalproduction.

Slightly more than 7 percent ofSudan's 24 million population isCatholic.

Added to the needs of its ownpeople, Sudan has also experiencedpressure from Ethiopian refugeesfleeing a similar set of circumstan­ces in their neighboring country.

Sudan's commissioner for refu­gees said, however, that the num­ber of refugees has decreased inrecent days.

The commissioner, retired armyBrig. Gen. Abdel-Rahman Sir al­Khatim, attributed the decrease toimproved food aid distribution inthe regions of Ethiopia from whichmost refugees come.

schools. Authority can be usedpermissively as well as restric­tively."

- The magisterium should beon guard against efforts of anygiven school or party to gain offi­cial endorsement for its own theo­logical positions. Before issuingbinding statements of doctrine,the pope and bishop would do wellto consult widely with theologiansof different schools."

- "The hierarchy, before itspeaks, should anticipate objectionsand seek to obviate them. Thisgoal can more easily by achieved ifpreliminary drafts are publishedand subjected to open criticism."

- "Those who speak on behalfof the universal church must besensitive to the variety of situa­tions and cultures in different partsof the world" because differentcultural contexts can mean differ­ent interpretations of what is said.

Commenting on the number ofauthoritative church statements,Father Dulles said, "U ntil the 20thcentury, ecumencial councils anddogmatic decrees were rare. Popesissued relatively few doctrinal de­cisions, and then only at the end ofa long process of theological dis­cussion.

"But with the recent multiplica­tion of encyclicals, conciliar doc­uments, decisions of Roman con­gregations and pastorals comingfrom bishops," he said, "Catholicscan easily feel overwhelmed by themultitude of views they are expect­ed to profess, even on issues whereScripture and apostolic traditionappear to be silent.

"Wherever diversity seems to betolerable," he added, "theologiansshould be given freedom to usetheir own good judgement."

He cited the example of therenowned 19th-century Britishtheologian, Cardinal John HenryNewman, and of Pope John XXllI- both of whom, he said, "werefond of the ancient dictum, 'Innecessariis unitas, in dubiis liber­tas, in omnibus caritas....

The Latin saying calls for "unityin essentials, freedom in doubtfulmatters, charity in everything."

Pope gives $50,000 for Sudan relief

Theologian suggests fewerchurch teaching documents-

VA11CAN CITY(CNS)- PopeJohn Paul 11 has donated $50,000for church-sponsored relief effortsin Sudan, the Vatican announced.

Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, pres-­ident of the Pontifical Council"Cor Unum," left for Sudan lastweek with the donation. He willalso help coordinate internationalCatholic aid programs, said theVatican.

A seven-year civil war has beenraging in Sudan pitting rebels inthe mainly black Christian andanimist south against the largelyMuslim, Arab population of thenorth which controls the govern­ment.

Added to this has been spread­ing famine caused by prolongeddrought.

In Febru~ry, Catholic ReliefServices, overseas aid agency ofthe U.S. bishops, said between 8million and II million people inSudan are at risk of starvation in1991 unless there is massive inter­national aid.

Aid agencies have charged thatthe Sudanese government is ignor­ing the pending disaster, which issaid to be more threatening in thegovernment~controlledareas than

STEUBENVILLE,Ohio(CNS)- Jesuit Father Avery Dulles hassuggested that the church's magis­terium, or teaching authority, maybe strained by the sheer number ofteaching statements coming out ofRome and bishops' conferences.

"The whole church, includingthe theologian community, dependson the hierarchical magisterium topreserve and defend" the faith, thetheologian said. But at the sametime church officials should "avoidany abuse of authority," he said ina speech last month at the Francis­can University of Steubenville. '

Father Dulles devoted most ofhis talk, titled "The Magisterium,Theology and Dissent," to discuss­ing the interdependence of theol­ogy and the magisterium, the dif­ferent levels of authority of churchteachings, the responsibility oftheologians toward church teach­ing authority and the limits ontheological dissent in that context.He described last year's Vaticaninstruction on the role oftheologi­ans as generally covering thoseissues well.

In speaking about theologians'responsibilities and dissent, henoted that church authority has aright, and at times a responsibility,to impose certain kinds of controls"to assure the faithful transmis­sion of its official teaching."

But at the same time, he said,"there is a need for further clarifi­cation of the measures that canhelp to avoid any abuse of author­ity on the part of the ecclesiasticalmagisterium."

He offered "five ground rules"for the future to help avoid repeti­tion of past "sufferings unjustlyinflicted on creative theologianswho have eventually been vindi­cated":

- "The magisterium can avoidissuing too many statements, espe­cially statements that appear tocarry with them an obligation toassent."

- "The hierarchical teacherscan use their influence to protectlegitimate freedom and to moder­ate charges and counterchargesamong theologians of different

just society" and a "truly equitablesociety," he said.

"You must find the point ofconvergence of a series of natural,technical, civil and, finally, moraland Gospel laws," he said.

Strive "to develop the best rela­tions among all the personnel ofyour company, with the users ofyour products or services, with thedifferent social sectors and withauthorities responsible for thecommon good," he said. -

The major artists and sculptorsof the era studied and worked inFlorence, filling churches andpalaces with paintings and statuesof Mary, biblical scenes, Christand the saints.

"Everywhere Tuscany is knownas the center of a humanism whichvisibly carries the imprint of Chris-tian faith," he said. .

The pope praised the "perennialvalues of the spirit incarnated inliterature and in the arts."

"Your works of art constitute aformidable instrument of religiousinstruction," he said.

This should stimulate a moralrenewal based on the Christianvalues "which intimately penetratethe cultural and social fabric of thepeople consigned to your pastoralcare," he said.

Currently in Tuscany, Massattendance is at its lowest level,civil marraige is increasing, "secula­rism and consumerism have cutdeeply into your culture," andreligious indifference has growninto "practical atheism," he said.

The pope also complained of arise in Satanic cults and "the prac­tice of esoteric rites."

Avoid evil enterprises, warns popeVATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope

John Paul II told Christian busi­ness leaders to spurn harmful buthighly profitable enterprises, suchas supplying arms and peddlingillegal drugs, and to help build justsocieties.

"To preserve morality in eco"nomic activity, you have need oflucid thinking and the courageouswill to remain faithful to the cleardemands of the word of God andthe teachings of the church," PopeJohn Paul said earlier this monthto the International ChristianUnion of Busines~Leaders.

"I am thinking of everythingagainst human life and nature,from degrading the environmentto developing murderous weaponsor marketing equally murderousdrugs," he added.

The primary aim of Christianbusinessmen is "the bulding of a

Faith's in art, not inhearts, says pope

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -'­Italy's religious heritage is ensh­rined more in its artistic master­pieces than in the hearts and mindsof its people, Pope John Paul 11told bishops from the Florenceregion, cradle of the Renaissance.

The pope called the bishops"pastors of the church of the illus­trations past" and complaine-d ofsharp declines in religious practi­ces and values.

"M odern saints are needed tooversee the new evangelization toprolong in your land the marve­lous flowering of persons that pro­vidence forged in masterpieces ofsupernatural beauty," the pope saidMarch II to bishops for Italy'scentral Tuscany region.

Florence is the main city in Tus­cany. The bishops were at the Vat­ican for their "ad limina" visits,required every five years to reporton the status of their dioceses.

The 15th-16th century Renais­sance started in Florence and wasa golden age of art, literature andlearning that marked the transi­tion from the medieval to the

, modern world.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) '­L'Osservatore Romano, the Vati­can newspaper, reprinted a criti­cism of German moral theologianRedemptorist Father Bernard Ha­ring by U.S. theologian William E.•May following an "authoritativerequest" from an unnamed Vati­can official.

The newspaper acknowledgedthe "authoritative request" in itsintroduction to an Italian transla­tion of "The Evolving Thought ofBernard Haring, CSSR," by May,a Catholic University of Americatheology professor.

May, in a telephone interviewwith Catholic News Service, saidhe did not know who at the Vati­can made the request, but thatArchbishop Agostino Cacciavillan,the U.S. papal pronuncio, hadasked him whether it was "per­missible" for L'Osservatore Ro­mano to reprint the article.

Vatican officials frequentlysuggest articles for publication inL'Osservatore Romano, and allarticles on matters of theology andmorality are approved by the Vat­ican Secretariat of State prior topublication.

May's article first appeared inthe December 1990 issue of theFellowship of Catholic ScholarsNewsletter, a 14-year-old, 3,000­circulation quarterly publicationbased at St. John's University,Jamaica, N.Y.

Father Haring, a German moraltheologian,who wa~ an adviser atthe Second Vatican Council, hasoften received notice for makingproposals Vatican officials saidwould be at odds with churchteaching.

In a 1984 talk in Wisconsin, Fa­ther Haring said he favored ordi­nation of women. In 1989, heurged in an Italian newspaperinterview that Pope John Paul IIreopen the birth control debate.

Last year, Father Haring toldan Italian magazine that the pope,should allow Catholics to use arti­ficial contraception if they cannotin conscience accept church birthcontrol teaching.

He wrote that among "the mostharmful aspects of his work" wereFather Haring's views that:

- Jesus' teaching on the indis­solubility of marriage is a "goal­command" and not "a truth" asthe church und'erstands it.

:- Eastern Orthodox principlesbe adopted that allow a divorcedperson to remarry when, after aperiod of pastoral counseling, the

'person decides "it would be betterfor him, his children, and others to·remarry....

L'Osservatore Romano has crit­isized Father Haring's views in thepast. One month after the priestasked the pope to reopen the birthcontrol debate, the paper attackedtheologians who publicely challengethe church's artificial contracep­tion ban and in July 1976, attackedhis statement in Italy's largestmagazine, that couples in special.circumstances could use contacep­tives "in good conscience and with­out fault."~------

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- 92 percent said they encour­aged class discussions of conscien­tious objection and nonviolentalternatives to war.

- 27 percent said the amount ofclassroom attention devoted to form­ation of conscience on war andmilitary service was "probably notadequate" but all that the studentswould accept.

- Asked to rank six influencingfactors on formation of a youngperson's conscience on war-relatedissues, the family was ranked first;then peer group and TV and enter­tainment; high school religious in­structors; community values; andlast the local parish.

- Sixteen percent said theirstudents were not instructed onthe church's just war teaching,including conditions that must bemet for a war to be just as stated inthe V.S. bishops' 1983 pastoralletter.

The report quotes one respond­ent who wrote on the surveyresponse form that teachers "areworking with youth already con­vinced of their duty to kill all ene­mies of our flag and country ... it'sa tough crowd to play to."

The reports says there is a feel­ing among teachers that "it is safeto teach the immorality of drugabuse and teen-age sexual promis­cuity" but could be "da'1$erous" toteach about the "immorality ofcivilian bombings or quote a pope'sreaction to the V.S. bombings of

. Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The report's authors say that theV .S. bishops should protect vulner­able teachers and anxious admin­istrators from critics who object todiscussion of issues of war andpeace at the high schoolleveI.

plus a $5 yearly membership fee,coming to a daily cost of less than.35.

Mrs. Tousignant, who has fourchildren and four grandchildren ofher own, can write to her fosterchildren, although as a bare-bonesoperation with no social workersor interpreters, the Mission Clubcannot promise return correspon­dence. However, the youngstersdo appreciate mail, which is trans­lated for them if at all possible;and they are told there is someonefar away who cares about them.They repay their foster parents byremembering them in their dailyprayers.

Presently, about 5,000 young­sters. are aided by the club.Hundreds of other needy childrenfrom Myanmar, Brazil, Bangla­desh, India, Thailand and WestAfrica remain on waiting lists.Complete information about theprogram will be furnished onrequest to the Foster Parents Mis­sion Club, 35750 Moravian Dr.,Fraser, Mich. 48026.

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A goal of the survey, the reportsays, was to determine how well.high schools have responded tothe 1983 appeal by the V.S. bishopsin their pastoral letter on war andpeace that "all the models ofCatholic education creatively riseto the challenge of peace."

The survey found that:- 68 percent of respondents

said war and peace issues were"absolutely essential"; 10 percentconsidered them "useful, but notof high priority"; and 6 percentsaid they were "probably tooadvanced for high school students."

Christi VSA, a Catholic peaceorganization.

Six of the responding schools. had Junior ROTC programs.

Mrs. Theresa Tousignant of St.Joseph parish, New Beford, is the"spiritual parent" of three needyyoungsters, two in Myanmar, form­erly known as Burma, and one inBangladesh.

S he learned of them through theFoster Parents Mission Cluborganized by priests of the Pontif­ical Institute for Foreign Missionsto aid destitute children in ThirdWorld nations.

A club member for over 27years, M rs. Tousignant's youngestand most recent "spiritual child" isBambina Po Me, 4, who is caredfor by sisters at St. Gerosa's Con­vent in Loikaw, Myanmar.

Shortly after Bambina's birth,her mother, insane as' a result ofmalarial fevers, was about to stabthe baby. She was rescued by herfather who, in desperation, beggedthe sisters to take her in. With thehelp of Mrs. Tousignant the littlegirl is now fed, clothed and has thehope of a good education..

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WASHINGTON (CNS) - Arecent report on a survey ofCatholic high schools by the Bos­ton-based Center on Conscienceand War says that the church's"fundamental teachings related towar and peace" are not "widelyknown or recognized."

The report does not place theblame solely on high school teach­ers, noting that many are "deeplytroubled and frustrated by theobstacles they encounter" in tryingto teach about war and peace.

It cites an "almost universalassumption" among students that"in time of war the citizen must beprepared to render unquestioningobedience to the nation's politicaland military leaders."

Such a belief is reinforced by thecommunity at large, parents, andparish and diocesan leaders, itsays, adding that opposition fromparents and the community is likelyto influence "justifiably anxiousadministrators" and affect schoolpolicy.

"Taunts of 'make my day' cou­pled with actual military adventuresin Grenada, Panama, CentralAmerica and the Persian Gulf helpconvince young people"~hatresort­ing to violence is the "sociallyapproved and expected method ofconflict resolution," the report says.

Written by Michael W. Hoveyand Gordon C. Zahn of the Centeron Conscience and War, the reportis based on 96 responses to a ques­tionaire sent to religious studiesdirectors of 267 Catholic highschools in 188 V.S. dioceses.

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.', .Most of us can identify withthis person's sense of disillu­sionment. We are aware ofthe pain. 'suffering and escala­tion of violence within ourhuman famiiy. Like theindi­vidual in the song. sometimeswe feel that we can only waitand pray.

Holy Week reminds us thatGod understands the suffering.even the despair. that at timeswe feeI.The stories of this weektell of the inner struggle Jesusfaced. Jesus was not just fakingit as he encountered the immi­nent loss of his life. In·deed. heprayed for courage and direc­tion on the night before his cru­cifixion. If we were to paraph­rase the Go'spel account, wemight easily hear Jesus cry outto his Father, "Show me'·theway,"

Holy Week teaches that wecan choo'se to act e~en 'th6ughwe remain unsure of'the worthof our actions,

For exa":lJlle·. we might re'achoutto a parent or friend. know­ingthat hurts exist betweenboth of us, yet trusting that agesture of caring will beginhealing the shared pain. Or VIemight continue donating to anorganization working to alle­viate world hUQger. even thoughwe wonder how our few dollarswill make.any differ~nce:

All of us e.nter this HolyWeek in prayer. Like Jesus. wecan place ourselves before theFa~her and ask him to "washour illusions away." SpiriqJallycleansed. we can find the way totransform our world. even a lit­tle. with lov~.

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SHOW ME THE WAYEvery night I say a prayer in the hopes there's a heavenBut every day I'm more confused as the saints turn into sinnersAll the heroes and legends that I knew as a childHave fallen to idols of clayAnd I feel this empty place insideSo I'm afraid I've lost my faithShow me the wayShow me the wayTake me to the river tonight and wash my illusions awayPlease show me the wayAs I slowly drift to sleepFor a moment dreams are sacredClose my eyes and know there's peaceIn a world so filled with hatredBut I wake up each morning and turn on the newsAnd find that we have so far to goAnd I keep on hoping for a signSo I wait, I just do.... 't knowShow me the wayShow me the wayGive me the strength and the courage to believe 111 get theresomedayAnd please show me the way

Written by Dennis De Young. Sung by Styx (c) 1990 'byA&M Records, Inc.

SOMETIMES A' SONG afraid that'''l've lost my faith."comes along that. makes me He can only look forward tothink about a specific time in, sleep when he closes his eyesthe year. As we enter into Holy and know there's peace. Yet, he .Week. Styx's new hit "Show wakes up each morning. andMe the Way" strikes me as a turns on the news. rediscover-prayerto guide our way through ing "a world so filled withthese special days. hatred." He keeps "on hoping

The person in the. song feels for a sign." and asks God."this empty place inside." He is "Please show me the way." .

A kids' car wash how-toBy Hilda Young

How to wash the car if you are 8and need some spending money:Say, "Mom. how about if I washthe car and then you can give mesome money for the video arcade?"

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used to predict the course of worldevents. Never. The Bible is aboutour salvation and about God'slove for us and our love for himand our neighbor.

No human being knows whenthe end of the world is coming.Jesus himself said he did not know.

Furthermore. there is nothing inthe Bible to contradict the ideathat perhaps the world will go onfor tens of thousands of yearsmore.

Indeed, if I were forced at gun­point to wager $10.000 on whenthe world will end. I would bet thatit will go on for many. many cen-turies yet. .

Why? I think God still has much,much work for us Christians to do.In the long years ahead. all of usmust work hard' to bring God'sword and his love to all naiions,'toall peoples:

We have to strive to bring abouta world of justice and~ peace. aworld free of poverty. oppressionand hatred.

We also have much work·todowithin our·selves. We have toworkto eliminate sin totally from ourpersonalities and bring about-thereign of Christ in our hearts. That'sa way of saying we have to becomesaints.

Jesus said he has come to castfire upon the earth. Christiansbelieve he was speaking in a poeticmanner of the fire of his love. .

If I had ,to bet on the future. Iwould bet that tens of thousandsof years from now the fire ofChrist's love will· fill the earth,which will be peopled with count­less saints.

Then our beautiful planet willbe ready for Christ's coming.

But for now it would be far bet­ter if Christians would forget aboutthe world's end and concentrateon building a world of justice,,peace and love. .

14 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Mar. 22, 1991'0",

By Tom Lennon"Dad. do you think the end of

the world is coming soon?""N o. What makes you ask?""Jerry. He told me the 'preacher

at his church said that what ishappening in the Middle East isthe start of the end of the world."

My neighbor told me about thisconversation he had with his son.He was not sure what to tell hisson. other than that his gut instinctwas that the world was going onfor a while yet.

I told my neighbor' I've been'hearing quite a few people. someof them teenagers. talk about theapproaching end of the· world:They ate usually fundamentalistChristians. and they think you canuse the Bible to predict the futurecourse of world events.

Just last wee.k a young preacherat my health club invited me to'come to his church that evening tosee a movie titled "The Coming'Third World' War," That war. ofcourse, would. be followed' by theend of the world. I 'told him thatI'd rather see amovie about build­ing a world of justice and peace.

But what did I tell my neighbor?Is the end of the· world comingsoon?

It's possible. Nobody knows the'future. But the early ChI:istiansthought the second coming' ofChrist would take place in theirlifetime- and it didn't. Almost2.000 years have gone by and hestill hasn't come. The early Chris­tians were dead wrong.

Today some Christians thinkevents in the. Middle East are' theprelude to the battle of Armaged­don mentioned iri the Book ofRevelation. 16: 16. This wiII signalthe great day of God, the secondcoming. .

But ifthere is one thingCatholicbiblical expert,s are'agreed on, it isthis: the Bible should never be

UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON students Amy Novy ofColumbus, Ohio, and Gina Rossi of Middletown, Ohio, par­ticipate i~ a pne-night sle~pout in the university plaza-as part ofthe4niversity's.ann·ual Week in Solidarity with the Homeless.(CNS photo) . .

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DANIEL HAYDEN, left, and Jason Santos of St. JeanBaptiste School, Fall River, were honorable mention winnersin the recent Region III Science Fair at Bristol CommunityCollege.

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The AnchorFriday, March 22, 1991

Inner Space"Do not seek God in outer space

- your heart is the only place inwhich you meet him face to face."·- Angelius Silesius

12 diocesan applicants to theclass of 1995 'at Bishop ConnollyHigh School, Fall River, werehonored as Langguth Scholars ata March 12 awards ceremony andreception.

The award, established this yearby Connolly principal Rev. JohnP. Murray, SJ, recognizes incom­ing freshman for academic achieve­ment in grade school and scores inthe 90th percentile o'n the ..Con­nolly entrance examination. It isn~med for Rev. Laurence C. Lang­guth, SJ, who supervised con­struction of the Coqnolly buildingand taught mathematics and sci­ences at the school from 1~68 to1987. '. ~

River: Rebecca Hancock, Paulina:Pacheco," Melanie Poisson, Patri- ::~'

cia Rego, Megan Silvia and Ben- -,J'amin Waddicor. "

~Westport: Craig Leonardo, J odie ~

Pietruska, Jennifer Rezendes,Bryan Stubbert,

Also, Matt Machado, Somerset;and Sarah Raedel, Wareham.

Catelli, Nathan Nowotpy, AaronSimrnons.

Grade 8: Chris Cunningham,Tony Tuffile, Elder Escobar, Matt,Thielker.

For girls: grades 5 and 6: Chris­tine Pacheco, Renee Jacques, TaliaBourque.

Grade 7: Nancy Cardoza, LoriShanko, Kerri Robbins, Julie Hunt,Kelly Wilbur.

Grade 8: Carrie Richards, Dan­ielle Rusconi, Nikki Bourque,Alyssa Burgess.

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Taunton CatholicMiddle School

Taunton Catholic Middle Schoolrecently held its annual sciencefair. Student participants wereselected by science teachers RobertaSchneller, Rhonda MacLeod andAndrew MacLeod. Judging wasdone by area teachers, businesspersons and religious.

Winners, listed in order of firstto third place, were, for grade 5:Jodi Harrington, "Swedish Ivy;"Jason Tallafuss, "Erosion;" JosephBrabants, "Land Hermit Crabs.",Honorable mention: Renee Jac- Notre Dame Schoolques, Lucas Rosen.

Grade 6: Lori Shanko, "Fric-. Third graders at Notre Dametion;" Angela Gauthier, "Global School, Fall River, celebrated St.Warming;" Carll' Giovanoni, "Pol- Patrick's Day with a Green Potlucklution and Seasonal Changes in Lunch. Third grade parents servedPlants." Honorable mention: students, teachers and staff andAlyssa Bator, Timothy Zuba. the students wore shamrock hats

,Grade 7: Christina Danforth, they decorated themselves in addi­"Water Pollution;" Laura Pugatch, tion to green attire. The students"Beach Erosion;" Kelly Wilbur, also created "Leprechaun Traps"

for the occasion."Worms Ate My Garbage." Honor- ,able mention: Lori Ferreira, Mat- Third grade teacher Claire Allardthew Kravitz. got the idea for the Green Potluck

Grade 8: Laurel Goj, "Rust and fromthe class's Writing Pal~:.third

PreventatiYe~;",JoseEnriqu~s,".The graders 'at Rancho School in Liv-,Greenhouse Effect;" John Halpin, er'more, Calif. '"Food Preferences,in Turtles.", For th~past five years, Ms.Honor-able mention: Ke'Vin Mar- Allard has had her class corres-condes, Kate Tenney. _.:" p~)Jld with' ~heir Calif?~nia 'coun-

Principal.'s, Aw~rd: 'Geoffrey terp'~r.ts, ,StUdents. ~nte mO'!thl.y.P I , , d' '7' "I: d :'H "t, ,to their pals ,and send them duph~au , gra e '"an erml" _ ' . "- . , - ' ... ,Crabs." .' :' . ' ., .' . . '.' ,cat~o.f ..cl~s_~room .. cra(ts;_; ,Many

, Diabetes Association of Fat!" ,~tudeQt~;.~av_:, contln!lect·.-t,? '.cor­River savings bond a~a~d:"Kate,', resp.o~9,by;~lette( ~r :ph'one:a_fterT d 8 "T '11' . DO' - leavlJlg grade 3. , -'enney, gra e , , ype !a- , T.h W' .', . P I '(1 - ',' '.betes." . : .,' . - . .:. ,e. ntlng. a S:,I ea was 1Jl~

All seventh and eighth grade . trod\.!ced by a<:~lIdren.s newsp.aper,, , , '. '," Weekly Reader which matchesstudents who pla<:ed winners In the, '. '.'" -" ..

h I, .' '.,. ' '; t d'" 'th' , classes from ,dlfferen,t· pafts .of thesc 00 sCience ,all' compe e 'In e ' -'., Th,'- N ,', . . ' .- " 'd'R . III S . F' t B . t I country, e otre Dame aneglOn clence all' a ns 0 R 'h'" '.' - ' ,d dCommunity College. There, Kate ancdlo .c~assfeSlhave~or~~sh~on. e, ~-T J E · es Matt Kra regal' ess.o c ass slzes"t ,IS yearenney, ose nnqu , - ',." ..'t' d 'L' P gatch placed each Notre Dame third grader hasVI z an aura u . , , . " ,

f· t L . F '1' and Kelly WI'I two pen pals because the Cahfor~,Irs' on errel a - '. ". ', . Ch" ma class IS ,much larger. " ,

bur placed second, and nstlna M I\ll d . " d h R ' h"Danforth placed third. Kevin s. ar vlslte t e a~c. 0

Marcondes earned honorable men- School last year and made a Video't' of the class to show her NotreIOn. Dam t d t - ' .

All TCMS winners were honored e s u en s: ' .at a March 14 maroon and gold Jerem~CornYeau, grade 7,.and 'spirit day at the school, receiving Janet DlOn, grade 8, receivedribbons and prizes. seco.nd place ~wards a.t the recent

• • * * RegIOn III SCience Fall'.Winners in a schoolwide bas­

ketball free throw contest were,for boys: grades 5 and 6: StevenSousa, Ryan Nunes, Chris Carrand Jonathan DeAguiar.

Grade 7: Joseph Fellone, Brian

planning to participate shouldrespond by April 5.

• • • •Senior Ryan Doyle and junior

Greg Czarkowski participated inthe March 13 southeast regiondelegate workshop for Massachu­setts Student Government bay.They were welcomed by StateSenator Erving Wall of Taunton,given a tour of the State House,and attended hearings on healthcare bills. In mock proceedings onStudent Government Day. April6, they will be members of the stateHouse of Representatives.

* • * •More than 40 donors partici­

pated in the, March 18 NationalHonor Society blood drive, ex­ceeding the goal set by societymembers.

The girls' soccer team will par­ticipate in a cleanup effort at FallRiver's Bicentennial Park tomor­row.

The freshman and sophomoreclasses will sponsor a dance thisevening.

Winter season athletes will behonored at a potluck supper andawards ceremony March 27.

Practice has begun for springsports.

llishop CO'nnolly"Four students from Bishop

Connolly High School, Fall River, .received honors' in the 1991' Bos­ton Globe AII-Scolastic Art Awards'competition. Senior Eril: Hatfield'of Newport received two blue rib­bons and a judges' distinctionaward. Seniors Brigitte Rubano ofSomerset and Jamie Borges ofBerkley both received judges' dis­tinctions, and junior Jason Quar­termouse of Newport received twogold ribbons.

Hatfield's blue ribbon works willbe entered in the National Scho­lastic AI:t Awards Competition inNew York this spring.

A Connolly Art Show will beheld May 5 through 8. Students atparochial and public middle schoolshave been invited to submit worksto be exhibited in a Young Artistsdivision of the show. Schools

* * * *On Sunday Bishop Feehan host­

ed it New England majorette com­petition for local elementary, jun­ior high and high school girls.

Previously the Feehan varsity'majorette squad placed second andthird in two recent competitions.The junior varsity squad, wh'ichinCludeS students from St. JohnEvan'getist SchooJ, Attlebo'ro,'placed six and fourth in recentcompetitions, while ari dementarysquad of students from St. John'sand St. Mary-Sacred Heart School, 'North Attleboro, placed fifth in itslast two, contests.

Vocal/ dance department stu­dents Rachel Pad011, Kerri Simo­neau, Raymond Martel;Kate Barryand Patricia McLaughlin wereaccepted into the 1991 SoutheastDistrict Choral Festival. FreshmanElizabeth Hartmann was acceptedinto the Junior Southeast DistrictChoral Festival. '

Instrumental department stu-, dents Vanessa Cesarz (flute), Erinn

Hoagg (viola) and Jennifer Wilson(viola) were accepted to the Sou­theast District Music Festival andreceived all-state recommendation.

Department head Joseph Tay­lor is forming a string ensemble forstudents in grades 7 through 12who play the violin, viola, celloand bass. It will debut at Fine ArtsNight.

sented on Eastern Athletic Con­ference's winter all-star teams. Fourmembers of the Warrior hockeyteam, all seniors, were nominatedto the all-conference team: RobertMacDonald and Garett Tardifffor offense; Sean Gaffney for de­fense; and Shawn Grenier for goal­tending. '

Senior Christina Pinto and jun­ior Tara Emond represented theLady Warriors on the girls' bas­ketball conference team, and seniorMike Simpson earned all-confer~

ence honors for boys' basketball.'

Bishop' FeehanThe foreign language department

at Bishop Feehan High School,Attleboro, recently sponsored aFrench Honor Society performanceof Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Lit­tle Red Riding Hood). Mrs. Lind"Ausiello adapted the play from the'17th century fairy tale.

The National Spanish Exam wa'soffered March I~ and a schoolwid'etranslation contest with prizes washeld the week of March 1.1.

Students are also par-ticipatingin a poster;contest promoting studyof foreign languages aS'a means ofachieving global harmony.

An after-school reception ceIe­braling ethnic'_diversity was held,_yesterday, offe'ring French, Span­ish and' Italian dishes prepared by ,students.

Also, 'students, are' researchingthe influence of ~oreign lariguagesand cultur'es on the English lan-,guage and American cuiiure. Eachclass will vie.w "T.he World Wel- ,comes," a video on career oppor­tunities for those (luent in a second ..language..

, A multilinguaf-Mass is plannedfor Monday. " ., , ' ... . .. '

The art departm~nt is spo,nsor­ing an Art Honor Society contest

,for junior high school students. 70area junior high's principals havebeen invited to -participate andwinning entries will be displayedat a Fine Arts Night May 3.

Feehan students Lisa Rowe,,Ronald Diggett and Tracey Busshave been nominated to Art All­State, and the art department hasadded Art V to its curriculum fornext year.

Jeffrey' Tenney, son ofMr. andMrs. John Tenney of Taunton,has' the distinction of being the,first high, schooL student in the'world to be accepted,as a memberof the International Society ofChrono~iology. " - .. -

Chronobiology is, the,stJ,ldy ofbiorhythms and biological clocksin living beings. Tenney recentlywon the school science fair with aproject on. ,circadian rhythm,S in:drosophila and kalanchoes.

, .•• .',*Students o,apd, parents packed

the Coyle-Cassidy gynin~siuin on.March 9 for the first annual Na­tional Honor Society J;~.leni Show, ;­which benefited the society's schol­arship fund.

Entries rangedJrom rock bandsto rap to classical dance numbers.Also of note were a piano videoand a video tribute to 'soldiers whoserved in Opera'tion Desert Storm.

• • • •Junior Laura Watson was among

1,000 participants in the recent1991 world indoor rowing machinechampionships at the Massachu­setts Institute of Technology inCambridge.

She placed second in the 2,500­meter junior women's coinpetitionwith a time of9:50.4, sevensecondsbehind the winner.

Coyle-Cassidy was well-repre-

• • '. *

Coyle-CassidyThree students from Coyle­

Cassidy High School, Taunton,were top winners in the regionalcompetition of a national historycontest. Themed "Rights in His­tory," the regional round was heldMarch 2 at Bridgewater College.

Anne and Katie Giovanoni,, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Richard

Giovanoni of East Taunton, wonfirst pla~e in the group media cate­

, gory for their project on the rightsof combatants.

Margaret Barton, daughter ofMr. and Mrs. Charles Barton ofMiddleboro, placed fir~t in theindividual project category for apaper on the right to live in a cleanenvironment.' , ,

The winning projects now ad­vance to state competition.

Other Coyle-Cassidy winnerswere Jeffrey Tenney, who tooksecond place for a paper on work­ers' rights, and Ben Mackiewicz,who placed third for a project onthe Salem witch trials.

Supervising teachers were DavidCassavant, Hollene Mansfield,William Tranter, Howard Wal­dron, and Brian Dickinson, anexecutive board member of SouthShore Council of Social Studies,which sponsors the event. Dickin­son was also a judge for juniorhigh' projects..' . . .

Seniors Cathal O'Brien and PaulGomes and juniors Julie Poyant,Kristen Greene and Neil Morrisonare enrolled in a Harvard Univer­sity Extension School physicscourse, "Wayes, Particles and theStructure of Matter." . '

This is the seventh spring thatthe Cambridge extension schoolhas opened a science course toarea high school students. Througha bequest from the Lowell Insti­tute, the students receive full tui-tion scholarships. '

The course continues throughMay 16..

ST. MARY'S PARISHNEW BEDFORD, MASS.

Holy Saturday: March 3012 NOON Traditional Blessing Of Easter Food

3:00 to 4:30 P.M. Confessions.

7:00 P.M. Solemn Easter Vigil; Blessing of the New Fire, Paschal Candle, Renewal of Baptismal Promises.Please note: This Vigil is the most important Uturgical Service of the year. It is the only Mass offered on this day.

Easter Sunday: March 31Mass will be offered at 8:30, 10:00 and 11:30 AM.

Missal revisionWASHINGTON (CNS) - The

International Commission onEnglish in th,e Liturgy has sentbishops' conferences a secondprogress report on a 12-year pro­ject to revise and refine the Englishversion of the Roman Missal. Thereport gives examples of succes­sive English-language revisions ofthe various Mass prayers in themissal, .plus examples of originalprayers in English which are notpart of it.

ST. PATRICK, WAREHAMPersons wishing to pray for con­

firmation candidates may draw namecards from bulletin board near maindoor of church. 8th grade Mass 10a.m. Sunday.LaSALETTE SHRINE,ATTLEBORO

"Remember Me," a dramatic pre­sentation told in the person of a ser­vant preparing the upper room forthe Last Supper, will be performedby Margaret Anderson 2 p.m. Sun­day, People's Chapel.

Sacrament of reconciliation avail­able I to 5 p.m. Sunday; I to 2:30p.m. and 4:30 to 6 p.m. Mondaythrough Wednesday. No confessionsHoly Thursday through Easter Sun­day. Communal celebration of re­conciliation 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,People's Chapel. Solemn Mass ofthe Lord's Supper 6:30 p.m. HolyThursday. Way of the Cross 3 p.m.and celebration of Lord's Passion6:30 p.m. Good Friday. Easter Vigil8 p.m. March 30.

Information: 222-5410 weekdays.BREAD OF LIFE PRAYERCOMMUNITY, FR

. Catholic Charismatic prayer meet­ing and Mass 7:30 p.m. Fridays,Blessed Sacrament Church, 2492 S.Main St. Inclement weather cancel­lations announced on local radiobetween 5 and 6 p.m. Fridays.LaSALETTE CENTER,ATTLEBORO

"Wisdom in Your Heart," six-daysilent guided retreat for laypersons,religious and priests, April 13 to 19.Rev. Paul Rainville, MS, Mrs.Kathryn Wrobel and Sister PatriciaCocozza, SND, will direct the pro­gram, which will include daily Eu­charist, conferences and opportun­ity for quiet prayer.

Six-day silent directed retreat,open to laypersons, religious andpriests, April 13 to 19; includes timefor personal reflection and daily,opportunity to meet with retreatdirectors Rev. Gilles Genest, MS,and Sister Cocozza.

Information: 222-8530.ST. MARY, NORTON

Blessing of palms and procession4 p.m. tomorrow. Grade 6 CCD willvisit a synagogue on Tuesday.SACRED HEART, FR

Women's Guild potluck supperand meeting 6:30 p.m. April 2, par­ish hall; chairpersons are ClaireCantin and Amelia Soares. Presi­dent Phyllis Peck will conduct a bus­iness meeting at which a report ofnominating committee, headed byMeg Murphy, will be given. "LivingPictures," a history of the guild from1948 to present, was presented atMarch meeting by historian FernWhite. Portraying events were ClaireCantin, Rita Caouette, MargaretO'Hearn, Peg O'Shaughnessey, Ros­ann Patota, Stella Pavao, LouisePoole and Rita Roberts. Mary LouHarnett provided piano music.

LIFE CHAIN, SWANSEAParticipants will display signs

reading "Abortion kills children" ina Life Chain on Rt. 6 in Swanseatomorrow. Registration will begin atI p.m. in the parking lot of St.Dominic's Church on Rt. 6, a shortdistance west of Swansea'Mall. In­formation: Armand Courchaine,676-0213.CHRIST THE KING, MASHPEE

Youth group movie/ pizza party 5to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, parish hall. Allnight adoration 8 p.m. Holy Thurs­day to 9 a.m. Good Friday. Sign-upbook in parish office.

WIDOWED SUPPORT,CAPE COD

Monthly meeting 2 to 4 p.m. Sun­day, Christ the King parish library,Mashpee. Topic: "The Family."Information: 428-7078, evenings.SS. PETE.R AND PAUL, FR

Students will compete with schoolfaculty in "Jeopardy" 7 p.m. March26.ST. STANISLAUS, FR

Palm Sunday procession begin­ning with blessing of palms 10: 15a.m. Sunday; schoolchildren willgather in the school at 10 a.m.CATHEDRAL, FR

Bishop Daniel A. Cronin will cele­brate 4 p.m. Mass tomorrow, pre­ceded by blessing of palm branches \and procession. Cathedral choir willsing. Other weekend Masses will beheld as usual.ST. ANTHONY of theDESERT, FR

All night exposition of BlessedSacrament 8 p.m. Thursday to 8a.m. Friday, St. Sharbel Chapel, 300North Eastern Ave. No expositionduring April.HOLY NAME, FR

Holy Name School grade 3 willbegin participation in a handicap

. and disability awareness programon Thursday. School faculty willattend NCEA convention April I to3.

ST. PATRICK, SOMERSETSt. Patrick's Fellowship meeting 7

to 9 p.m. Sunday, parish center. Allwelcome..CATHOLIC WOMAN'SCLUB,NB

Executive board meeting 7:30 p.m.March 27, St. Lawrence rectory, 110Summer St., NB.SEPARATED/DIVORCEDCATHOLICS

FR area Mass 7 p.m. March 27,O.L. Grace Church, Westport, fol­lowed by potluck supper in parishcenter.ST. ANNE, FR

Special Palm Sunday liturgy 10a.m. Sunday.CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH

Penance service 7 p.m. Monday;several priests will be available forindividual confessions. Confessionsat parish center and St. TheresaChapel 10 to I I a.m. March 30.Youth group "meager meal" 5 to 7tonight, parish center; all invited.Lectors' Passion reading rehearsal7:30 tonight, center. Catholic Daugh­ters of America meeting 9 a.m. Mon­day, parish center; Delia O'Riordanwill. present a talk and video onMedjugorje.ST. ANTHONY,MATTAPOISETT

5th grade bread project 10 a.m. toI p.m. tomorrow, church hall.ST. JOHN EVANGELIST, .POCASSET

Saints and Singers Easter Can­tata, "Now I See You," 3 p.m. Sun­day, church.ST. MARY, FAIRHAVEN

. Youth group living stations ofcross 7 p.m. Sunday.

ECUMENICAL SERVICES,ATTLEBORO

Noontime services sponsored byChristian Unity Task .Force-Attle­boro Area Council of Churches, willbe held March 25 through 29 atEvangelical Covenant Church, 841N. Main St. (Rt. 152), Attleboro.Lunch will follow and will be spon­sored on March 26 by St. Mary'sparish, N. Attleboro. .ST. MARY, N. ATTLEBORO

Solemn blessing and processionof palms 4 p.m. Saturday. Lententriduum with Rev. Leonard P.Hindsley, OP, of Providence Col­lege with Mass, sermon and oppor­tunity for confession 7 p.m. Mondaythrough Wednesday. Holy Thurs­day: noon Mass, confessions 5:45 to6:45 p.m., 7 p.m. Mass followedadoration until 10 p.m. Good Fri­day: stations of cross followed byconfessions, noon and 3 p.m.; "HisLast Days" r-ecording r ·p.m.; "TheHoly Shroud" filmstrip 2 p.m.;liturgy 7 p.m. Confessions 3 to 5p~m. Holy Saturday.

CATHEDRAL CAMP,E. FREETOWN·

Office of Youth Ministry YESretreat today through Sunday. Officeof Youth Ministry training program9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. tomorrow.SACRED HEART,N.ATTLEBORO

Palm Sunday solemn entrance andblessing of palms 4 p.m. tomorrow;blessing of palms and procession10:30 a.m. Sunday. Holy ThursdayMass, Good Friday Passion, EasterVigil all at 7 p.m. Adoration afterHoly Thursday Mass until midnight.Penance 3 to 3:45 p.m. tomorrow; 3to 4 p.m. Holy Saturday. NorthAttleboro Knights of Columbus cor­porate communion 8:30 a.m. MassSunday. Youth group sponsoredEaster egg hunt after 10:30 a.m.Mass Sunday.'ST. ANNE'S HOSPITAL, FR

Applications are being acceptedfrom persons interested in an oncol­ogy clinic companionship programto aid cancer patients. Oncologystaff will provide training, supervi­sion and support for volunteers.Information: Sister Cecilia Down­ing, St. Anne's Hospital, 674-574 I.

O.L. VICTORY, CENTERVILLEGrade 7 will sponsor paper bag

supper following 6 p.m. Mass Mon-day. .ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, NB

Ladies' League monthly meeting7:30 p.m. Tuesday, church hall. Aseder meal conducted by Mr. andMrs. Arnold E. Gellman will follow.MASS IN PORTUGUESE,HYANNIS

Mass in Portuguese for Brazilian .community of Cape Cod will becelebrated by Father Jose Sousa at6:30 p.m. Sunday, St. Francis Xav­ier Church, Hyannis. Confessions inPortuguese 6 p.m.

ST. THERESA,S. ATTLEBOROBlessing of palms and procession

beginning in church hall II a.m.Sunday. Pack 24 monthly meeting Ip.m. Sunday, church basement..

Good Friday: March 293:00 P.M. The Liturgical'celebrationof the Passion and Death of the Lord.

It will include the distribution ofHoly Communion and Veneration of the Cross.

7:00 P.M. Stafions of the Cross.

This is a day of Abstinence and Fast

Holy Thursday:' March 287:00 P.M. Concelebration of the Lord's Supper.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacramentwill follow until midnight.

Week Schedule

CATHOLIC WOMAN'SCLUB, FR

Mass for deceased members 8:30a.m. April 21, Holy Rosary Church,FR, followed by communion break­fast. Speaker will be Dorothy J.Levesque. April 15 is deadline forreservation with Celia Corcoran orLorena Pacheco. Transportationmay be arranged and elevator serv­ice is available at church.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTONMothers' Group will meet with

Sister Beth Mahoney 9:30 a.m. to­morrow, rectory, to complete ar­rangements for March 30 Easter egghunt.ST. LOUIS de FRANCE,SWANSEA

Youth group will sponsor brunch8 a.m. to noon Sunday. Holy Thurs­day Mass of the Lord's Supper 7p.m; adoration follows until II p.m.Good Friday stations of cross 3p.m.; Passion 7 p.m. Confessions 3t04 p.m. Holy Thursday; 2 to 3 p.m.and after celebration of Passion until8:30 p.m. Good Friday; 3 to 4 p.m.Holy Saturday.

ST. JOSEPH, NBPrayer meeting 7 p.m. March 27.

ST. MARY, NBPrayer for' women on retreat 8

a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow, memorialchapel; recitation of rosary and Biblereadings every hour. Penance ser­vice 7 p.m. Monday. Reconciliationmeal 6 p.m. Wednesday. Celebra­tion of Lord's supper 7 p.m. Thurs­day followed by adoration untilmidnight. Good Friday Passion 3p.m.; youth group leads stations ofcross 7 p.m.

Holy

Monday: March 257:00 AM. and 12:10 P.M. Mass

. 7:15 P.M. Parish Penance Service

Palm Sunday: March 23-24The Solemn Blessing of Palms will take place

at the 4:00 P.M. Vigil Mass.

Palms will be distributed at all the weekend Masses.

Tuesday and Wednesday:March 26, 27

Masses will be offered at 7:00 AM. and 12:10 P.M.

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ST. PATRICK, FRMass of the Lord's Supper with

washing of the feet ceremony, 7 p.m.March 28, upper church; followedby adoration of Blessed Sacramentuntil II p.m. Good Friday celebra­tion of Passion 3 p.m.; way of thecross 7 p.m. Beginning with 4:30p.m. vigil Mass tomorrow, weekendliturgies will be held in upper church.Evening prayer led by Father RichardBeaulieu followed by confessions 7p.m. Monday through Wednesday.NOTRE DAME de LOURDES, FR

Sweet bread will be blessed at 7 .p.m. Mass Thursday.

16 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Mar. 22,1991