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CHARISMATIC Confer­ence feedback. See page 5.

last year. They have enthusias­tically endorsed her coming tothe Fall River Diocese.

In a letter to the clergy of thediocese, Bishop Cronin has invi­ted their participation in the day,together with members of par­ish staffs and parish leaders. Heannounced the day not only asa preparation for the diocesanjubilee, but also as an opportun­ity for developing better under­standing of the work to whichChrist has called church leaders.

Pre-registration forms havebeen sent to clergy, religious edu­cation coordinators and schoolprincipals. They should be re­turned to the Education Officeby Dec. 4. Participants from in­dividual parishes should registertogether. The fee is $5, with amaximum of $20 for four ormore. Participants should bringtheir own lunches. Coffee anddessert will be provided at noadditional charge.

SR. MARJORIE TUITE

Sr. Marjorie TuiteAt Leadership Day

Advent BookletsAdd to Season

Where has the time gone?Saturday night is the officialtime to light the first candle onthe Advent wreath and mostdiocesans are already deep intothe annual pre-Christmas scram­ble.

Amid shopping, baking, dec­orating and other holiday prepa­rations, it's easy to forget thereal meaning of Christmas ­but this year, help is at hand.Excellent Advent booklets havebeen issued by the diocesan de­partment of education and byFather Joseph Viveiros and Mi­chael Cote of Sacred Heart par­ish, Fall River.

The diocesan booklets, pre­pared by Sister Theresa Sparrow,RSM, now religious educationcoordinator at St. Michael's par­ish, Ocean Grove, are priced at.25 and .30.

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Sister Marjorie Tuite, OP, amember of the ministerial teamof the Jesuit School of Theologyin Chicago, will direct a Leader­ship Conference for parish lead­ers from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fri­day, Dec. 15 at Holy Name par­ish center, New Bedford.

Sponsored by the diocesanoffice of education through itsreligious education department,the day has been designed as aprelude to the 75th anniversaryof the Fall River diocese. Itstheme will be "Working To­gether to Restore All Things inChrist." .

Sister Tuite has conductedtraining sessions throughout thecountry in leadership develop­ment, organizational skills, needsassessment and strategies forchange.

For 10 years she was involvedin school administration andcommunity development in Har·lem. She received the 1976award from the Catholic Com­mittee for Urban Ministry forcommitment to a ministry forjustice.

Presently she is working withthe Area Church in South Bronx.A candidate for the director ofministry degree at MundeleinSeminary in Chicago, she is aconsultant for the National -Fed­eration of Priests' Councils, andthe National Association ofWomen Religious.

Members of the Fall RiverPriests' Council heard a presen­tation she gave at New EnglandConference of Priests' Senates

AROUND THE DIOCESE: Top, 61 youngsters received religious youth awards in cere­monies at St. John of God Church, Somerset. Among them, Cub Scout David Parente,Girl Scout Sharon Mello, Camp Fire Girl Cindy Dawicki, Boy Scout Kyle Kraska. Cen­ter, mijsicians rehearse for Jubilee Concert at 8 p.m. Sunday at St. Patrick's, Fall River.Jubilee year kickoff event is open to the public and admission is free. Bottom, perman­ent deacon candidates welcome Bishop Cronin at traditional Bishop's Night. From left,Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Walsh, Harwich; bishop; Mr. and Mrs. Leo Racine, New Bedford;Mr. and Mrs. Al Gallant, Attleboro Falls.

2 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Foil River-Thur.• Nov. 3{). 1978

ill People -Places-Events-NC News Briefs ill

LONG ABSENT from television,Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will beseen next week as a gue$t of HugilDowns in "Over Easy," a PBS showfor older Americans.

AN INSTANT collectors' item isthis "sede vacante" Vatican coinmarking the period between thedeath of John Paul I and the electionof his successor.

JEAN GARTON, Lutheran pro-lifeactivist, says characterizing abortionas a Catholic issue "appeals tolatent bigotry."

Pope As Mediator?BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-As direct

negotiations between Argentina and Chileover a border dispute remained at animpasse, the press of both countriesechoed private comments by diplomatsthat Pope John Paul II migl}t be soughtas mediator. In Santiago, Chile, a spokes­man for the papal nunciature was quotedby the newspaper, El Cronista, as sayingthe pope could use his influence to securepeace.

Celibacy QuestionedDALLAS-"The time has arrived for

some serious dialogue to begin in thechurch concerning the ordination of mar­ried men to the priesthood," said SteveLandregan, editor of The Texas Catholic,diocesan newspaper of Dallas and FortWorth. In a signed column Landregan,a married deacon, asked, "Is celibacy anessential part of the priesthood?" Heresponded, "History and theology seemto answer 'no.' ..

TV Ad BanNEW YORK-Fifteen Catholic priests

and nuns have joined with representa­tives of several Protestant denominationsin support of the proposed ban on tele­vision advertising aimed at young chil­dren. The proposed Federal Trade Com­mission ban would ban all advertising tochildren "to young to understand the sell­ing purpose" and severely restrict the ad­vertisement of sugared food products.

Poor PreferredROME-Leaders of nuns' congrega­

tions meeting in Rome agreed to stressministry to women, to youth and to out­casts and the oppressed," said the presi­dent of the International Union of Su­periors General. The superiors generalemphasized "preference for the poor,"said Sister Regina Casey, union president,in an interview.

Chilean BishopsSANTIAGO, Chile-Reacting to a de­

cree of the military junta barring activ­ists from trade union leadership and sup­pressing hundreds of trade unions, thebishops of Chile said no economic lawcan justify the enslavement of workers.The bishops said the government meas­ures "appear to workers as an attack onthemselves and their families." Toignore this reaction "would mean to be­tray our mission," added the bishops.

Vcetnam ReportNEW, YORK-Members of a Catholic

Relief Services delegation have returnedfrom their first visit to Vietnam since theAmericans pulled out in 1975 with cau­tious praise for advances being made bythe communist government there. Butthey expressed concern about the foodshortage facing the Vietnamese and the"ragged" conditions of Cambodians inVietnamese refugee camps.

'Momen'i' of Freedom'MILWAUKEE-Chaplains and pastoral

care associates working with the termi­nally ill should place greater emphasis onthe positive aspects of death, a moraltheologian said in Milwaukee. FatherAnthony Kosnick, professor of moraltheology at St. Mary's Seminary in Or­chard Lake, Mich., urged clergy and Reli­gious attending a pastoral institute torecognize death as "that moment offreedom" releasing souls to the transcen­dent life of God.

".Best SellerMILAN, Italy - "Segno di Contraddi­

zione," Italian for sign of contradition,a book containing the spiritual exercisespreached by the then Cardinal KarolWojtyla of Krakow, Poland, to Pope PaulVI and members of the Roman Curia in1976, was a big hit at the Frankfurt,West Germany, book fair.

Another ViewLONDON - The western view that

human rights are violated in the SovietUnion by the lack of religious freedomwas criticized by the Rev. Dr. EdwardNorman, Anglican church historian. MostSoviet religious dissidents obey state'laws, .but some disobey laws and aresometimes prosecuted and imprisoned,said Dr. Norman. "The opinions of somedissidents are such that they would belikely to face prosecutions in mostcountries."

RomanDan HarassmentNEW YORK-Religious believers and

political dissidents are being subjected topsychiatric repression, persecution andforced labor in Romania, according to a45-page report released by Amnesty In­ternational.

Stevens BoycottNEW YORK-Representatives of sev­

eral national religious bodies have urgedthe president of Allied Stores Corp. todiscontinue carrying products manufac­tured by J. P. Stevens Co. until the tex­tile firm's employees "win recognition ...of their right to union representation."

Chief StewardDENVER-Paul A. Ryan, development

director in the Denver Archdiocese since1970, has been elected the first lay presi­:lent in the 16-year history of the Nation­al Catholic Stewardship Council. Ryanhas been acting president of the Washing­ton-based group since June.

Teen PregnanciesATLANTA - More teen-agers under

age 15 had abortions than gave birth in1976, but older teen-agers (aged 15-19)were more likely to have their babies,according to statistics released Nov. 17by the National Center for Disease Con­trol in Atlanta. The figures showed acontinued increase in the rate of abor­tions for teen-agers and a decline in thebirth rate in that age group.

Cities of GodROCKFORD, Ill.-"Our cities, as cor­

rupt and decaying as they seem to be arealso the scene of possible action that cantransform them into cities of God,"Father Rollins E. Lambert told about 200people attending the third annual St.Martin DePorres dinner in Rockford. Heis adviser for African affairs at the U.S.Catholic Conference.

Don't Even Ask'TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The president

of the National Association of StateCatholic Conference Directors criticizedan Internal Revenue Service ruling onvoter education activities by non-profitorganizations and urged the CatholicPress Association not to petition the IRSfor clarification. "Even asking for such aclarification implies that "the Internal

"Revenue Service has the right to tell youwhat you can publish, an implicationwhich should not be acceded to," saidThomas A. Horkan Jr.

MARIA TERESA GASTON, Mil­waukee, was among members of theNational Hispanic Youth Task Forcemeeting in Washington this month.

KIDS, like this small Virgin Mary,are natural actors and letting themact out Bible stories is a sure wayof teaching them about God, saysDorinda Clark, whose book, "JesusPlays" has just been published byJohn Twenty-Third Publications.

SISTER ROSAUE BERTELL, aGrey Nun of the Sacred Heart and acancer researcher, warns that radia­tions from nuclear materials, TVsets and microwave ovens are an in­creasing public health hazard, andalso cautions against routine medicalX-rays.

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serve victims of tuberculosis andmalnutrition, as well as India'smany "street people," who haveno home but the sidewalks andstreets.

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All but two of the years sincehis ordination, Father Shanahanhas been a summer assistant atHoly Trinity and a parish jokeis that his return is among theCape Cod signs of spring.

At the parish departure cere­mony, the new missioner re­ceived his mission cross fromFather William Davis, SacredHearts provincial superior and aformer Holy Trinity pastor.

He will work with Father Pet­rie .at Shantinagar (City ofPeace), a haven for lepers found­ed by Mother Teresa of Cal­cutta. The two priests will also

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If you want your gift credited in tax-year '78, besure it's postmarked by Dec. 31. Here are threegifts of lasting value:TRAIN A NATIVE PRIEST. It costs only $15.00 amonth ($180 a year, $1,080 for the entire six year

HINTS course), he will write to you regularly, and prayFOR for you. (A $3,000 Burse trains a seminarian in

CATHOLIC perpetuity.)'SHOPPERS TRAIN A NATIVE SISTER. We'll send you her

photo, and she'll write to you. Make thepayments at your own convenience ($12.50 amonth, $150 a year, $300 for the entire two-yearcourse).BUILD A MISSION CHURCH, NAME IT FORYOUR FAVORITE SAINT, IN MEMORY OR YOURLOVED ONES. We can tell you where it'sneeded, its size and location will determine thecost (from $4,000 up), and the Bishop overseaswill keep you informed. ($10,000 helps build anentire parish 'plant'-church, school, rectoryand convent.)

.'THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Nov. 30, 1978 3

'THE HOLY FATHER'S MISSiON AID TO THE ORIENTAL CHURCH

This Christmas you'll be remembered in theMidnight Mass in Bethlehem. The celebrant,Archbishop James J. Beltritti, will offer the Massfor the members and benefactors of thisAssociation ... How beller can we say thank

OUR you? In 18 mission countries (where Catholics,GIFT. though few, are mostly of the Eastern Rites) the

TO Holy Father helps millions because you read thisYOU column. Blind boys in the Gaza Strip (not one of

them a Christian) are learning rug making,basketwork, the ABCs, at the Pontifical MissionCenter for the Blind. Lepers in India are cared forby native priests and Sisters. The poor have theGospel preached to them in Egypt, Iraq, Iran,Lebanon and Ethiopia This seasonespecially, won't you remember the missions inyour prayers? Our priests and Sisters depend onyou. They ask the Christ Child to bless youalways!

THIS FOUR FOOT Ma­donna and Child statue isone of eight art works do­nated by the late Pope PaulVI to Stonehill College,North Easton, for its newchapel. The gift, made twodays prior to the pope'sdeath, is believed to be hislast to any institution. Itcomprises, in addition to thestatue, a ceramic by AngeloBiancini, oil paintings de­picting Christ crucified andrisen and four bronze basreliefs symbolizing the fourevangelists.

Departure Riteat Holy Trinity

Mission departure ceremoniesusually take place at the mother­houses of religious communities,but parishioners of Holy TrinityChurch, West Harwich, had theirown such rite recently as theybade farewell to Father MichaelShanahan, SS.CC., a longtimesummer assistant at the CapeCod church, who will be work­

. ing among victims of leprosy inIndia.

This Bronx, N.Y. man beganstudies for the priesthood in1951 at Sacred Hearts Seminary,Wareham. Upon ordination in1962, he taught in California,then was stationed for 10 yearsat Sacred Hearts ProvincialHouse, Fairhaven, while doingvocation work.

Damien House, Dorchester,was his next assignment. Whilethere, he attended various Bos­ton area universities.

In 1975, Father Shanahanvisited India, where he saw thework of another member of hiscommunity, Father William Pet­rie. Coming back to the UnitedStates, he was then stationedon the island of Abaco in theBahamas, during which time hecompleted arrangements for hisown return to India.

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MSGR. MUNROE

Known as one of the hardest­working priests in the diocese,Msgr. Munroe enjoys boating,skimobiling, fishing and huntingduring his hours of relaxation.

Parishioners will congratulatehim after 5 p.m. Mass Sunday,at which he will be homilist, andwill also be present in force ata jubilee banquet to follow inHyannis.

minister of the sacrament of con­firmation.

As a member of the Board ofConsultors, he works closelywith the bishop in certain mat­ters, such as determination ofparish boundaries.

He was named a domestic pre-late in 1974. .

for Christmas toys, according toAlternatives, the toy industryspent over $109 million in tele­vision programming during the1977 Christmas season and chil­dren in major cities saw as manyas 80 TV commercials for someindividual product lines.

Alternatives, Inc. also pub­lishes the Alternative catalogueand estimates that it has inspiredpeople to divert $1 million ayear since 1973 from holidayspending to hunger and humanwelfare caus~s.

Mississippian Bob Kochitzkylaunched Alternatives in 1973"to help persons interested involuntary simplicity take chargeof their own lives, with specialemphasis on celebrations."

In addition to simplifyingChristmas, Alternatives advo­cates simpler celebration ofbirthdays, weddings, graduationsand suggests joining a memorialsociety instead of buying an ex­pensive funeral.

"We're not against givinggifts, we're successfully helpingpeople realize that spendingmore and more year after yearon gifts is not the way to buildfamily unity," Kochitzky said.

The national headquarters forAlternatives is 4274 OaklawnDr., Jackson, Miss. 39206. TheAlternatives catalogue is avail­able at 1924 East Third St.,Bloomington, Ind. 47401.

Marking 25 years of priest­hood today is Msgr. Henry T.Munroe, pastor of St. Pius XChurch, Yarmouth, Officialis ofthe Diocesan Tribunal EpiscopalVicar for Cape Cod and the Is­lands and a member of theBoard of Diocesan Consultors.

The jubilarian was born inFall River Nov. 21, 1928, the sonof the late (Kathryn Bums) andthe late Henry T. Munroe. Hegraduated from St. Joseph'sgrammar school, Fall River andCoyle High School, Taunton, andattended Providence College fortwo years before entering St.John's Seminary, Brighton.

He was ordained 25 years agotoday by retired Bishop JamesL. Connolly.

His first parish assignmentwas to Holy Name Church, NewBedford, where he remained 19years before assuming the pas­torate of St. John the Evangel­ist Church in Attleboro in 1972.He remained in that post until1975, when he was appointed tohis present parish.

Over the years, Msgr. Munroeserved as notary and secretaryto the Tribunal before beingnamed Officialis in 1971. In thisposition he is chief judge andadministrative offcer of thecourt which handles all diocesancases involving marriage.

As an Episcopal Vicar, Msgr.Munroe aids Bishop Cronin inthe pastoral government of thediocese.

He is also an extraordinary

JACKSON, Miss. (NC) - It'sbeginning to look a lot likeChristmas, but a lot of peopledon't like the way Christmasis looking of late. Alternatives,Inc., a non-profit group based inJackson, Miss., wants to dosomething about the commerciallook Christmas has taken on.

Alternatives' campaign isunderway to bring celebrationscloser to their original mean­ings and to find ways to cele­brate that "further values suchas global peace and justice."The "Alternative Santa" advo­cates spending less money atChristmas by encouragingpeople to make their own giftsor give gifts of time, buyinggifts from low-income ·craft co­operatives or donating money topeople and earth-oriented groups.

This year Alternatives hopesto see people divert $10 millionfrom holiday over-consumption.To provide incentive, it launchedAlternative Celebrations Cam­paign, 1978. More than 300study action groups have beenorganized in the national reli­gious comunity to examine cele­bration patterns and simplifythem. Alternatives' goal is to see1,000 such groups formed byChristmas 1978.

A youth campaign is also un­derway to reach young peoplebombarded with commercials

Msgr. Munroe Marks 25thOrdination Anniversary

Yes, Virginia, ThereAn (Alternative)

Editors l1it Voter Education Rulingpaper's non-profit, tax-freestatus.

A.E.P. Wall, editor of TheChicago Catholic, Chicago arch­diocesan paper, said in an edi­torial the IRS ruling "wouldhave an inhibiting effect on pub­lications ranging from theChristian Science Monitor to theChristian Century, from the Chic­ago Catholic to Muslim World.

"How's that for a repeal ofthe First Amendment by the In­ternal Revenue Service?" heasked. "We'll bet that you,thought the IRS was in the busi­ness of collecting taxes.

"It is now in the business ofsuppressing dissent, which maybe called bias, and of censoringreligious publications in advanceunder the threat of painful legalaction. It is time to remove theIRS from politics.

December 11Rev. Edward L. Killigrew,

1959, Pastor, St. Kilian, NewBedford

December 13Rev. Reginald Theriault, O.P.,

1972, St. Anne's DominicanPriory, Fall River

December 14Rev. Msgr. John J. Hayes,

1970, Pastor, Holy Name, NewBedford

Necrology

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~l'I was delighted every day, playing before him at all times, playing in

the world.' Prov. 8:30-31

By Jim Castelli Msgr. Peters ran an eight-Catholic diocesan editors column headline and the first

across the country have used the few paragraphs of the story butNovember elections to renew blocked out the names with atheir criticism of an Internal stamp that said "Censored!"Revenue Service ruling limiting According to current regulationsvoter education efforts by tax- of the Internal Revenue Ser­exempt, non-profit charitable or- vice (not any law passed byganizations which are not poli- Congress) The Catholic Post, astical action agencies. a non-profit newspaper, is pro-

The ruling concerned was is- hibited from publishing this vot­sued last June. It said organiza- ing record information for itstions exempted from taxes under readers.Section 501 (c) (3) of the tax But other Catholic news­code cannot print voting records papers in New York, Pennsyl­of office holders or surveys of vania, Iowa and elsewhere rancandidates' views on single is- detailed candidates' replies tosues or on a broad range of is- questionnaires on a variety ofsues if the questions involved issues.show "bias" dr the organization Emile Comar, executive editoreditorializes on the issues in- of the Clarion Herald, New Or­volved. _ leans archdiocesan paper, tried

An IRS spokesman has said an unusual twist. He waited un­the ruling covers diocesan til after the election and thenpapers, which are generally 501 asked each of his state's cong­(c) (3) organizations. The Cath- ressmen to give an opinion onolic Press Association has asked the IRS ruling.IRS for a formal ruling on the Charles Carruth, editor of theimpact of its original ruling on Catholic 'Herald, Arlington, Va.,the Catholic Press, but has not diocesan paper, said "While Iyet received a reply. greatly sympathize with their de-

The CPA has advised editors cisions, I was disappointed at theto be cautious about their elec- number of editors who were

.tion coverage, while the U.S. intimidated into silence concern­Catholic Conference has advised ing candidates' positions on taxthat the First Amendment guar- - credits and respect life.antee of freedom of the press Carruth ran local candidates'protects the diocesan papers. views on tuition tax credits, an

The most dramatic protest anti-abortion constitutionalcame from Msgr. Robert Peters, amendment and public abortioneditor of the Catholic Post, funding.Peoria, Ill., in his treatment of a He said in an editorial thatreport on voting records issued under the IRS ruling "To expressby the Leadership Conference a Catholic viewpoint, or even tofor Civil Rights, a civil rights state the fact of a candidate'scoalition which includes major .position on a particular issue"Catholic organization. might mean forfeiture of a

Another quote: "I am sure the majority of legislatorshad Sisters in school. Until they get to know me, they'llr1espect me just for being· 'the nun.'''

Somewhat differing from this Sister of Mercy's state­ments are those of the Holy Father. In an address to 600mother superiors of religious orders and congregations, thepope urged them "to reflect on the importance of thereligious habit."

Women religious should, he said, wear some simpleand suitable habit as the "exterior- sign of consecration toGod." "This," he insisted, "is the means for you to remindyourselves of your duty, which contrasts with the spiritof the world. It is a silent but eloquent testimony. It isa sign which our secularized world must find on its path."

The Holy Father closed his remarks to the nunswith a rather important statement. Warning the superiorsagainst being overwhelmed by "public opinion, even anecclesiastical one," the pontiff said nuns should not permitany feminist claims to overshadow their call to a chaste,poor and obedient life.

This later reflection is the heart of the matter. It isnot just the sign value of a habit that the pope offers forconsideration. It is the reality of a life dedicated to Godand the Church, with all that implies.

There is a new vision rapidly developing in the Churchthat, without compromise or confusion, is bringing ourCatholic traditions into the marketplace. Most Catholicsonce more realize that they must be Catholics as they casttheir ballots, as they confront personal religious discrimina­tilon and as they continue to heal and help a weary world.

They realize they can no longer hide their faith andthat there is only one way to live the gospel, the way ofthe Lord Jesus.

The grassroots movements spreading like wildfire inthe Church - the charismatic renewal, cursillo, MarriageEncounter and the permanent diaconate - all bear witnessto the reality that Catholics are no longer willing to livelives of compensation and concession in a secular worldthat seeks to dominate them.

In this light, one must say that the statement of thenewly-elected nun-representative leaves much to be desired.If taken at face value, it certainly cannot be considered instep with the current times or with the journey of thepeople of God towards the Father.

This is indeed unfortunate.

themoorin~Sign of Confusion

A recent news story.out of Providence, R.I. told of thefirst Catholic nun elected to public office in that state.Interviewed by the press she described herself as one ofa "new generation of nuns who are very progressive."

Continuing, she said, "I am not going to let the boys inthe State House know that every stand I take is my wayof living the gospel. I am going to try to keep my religiousbeliefs very hush-hush."

Concerning the wearing of a habit she said that "thechurch is moving in the right direction now. We shouldrelax the rules."

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How humiliating it must be fOI"him to recognize that his priest­hood receives its effectivenessbecause and only because it isin union with one of those Stll­pid bishops . . . a successor ofthe Apostles . . . one who isresponsible - under the gui­dance of the Holy Spirit, fororthodoxy in God's Church. I'venever heard a Bishop give sud:advice as ,Father Greeley.

And so, if you don't mind.Father Greeley, I'll stick withmy bishop and thank God thatthe magisterium of His Churehis in his and their hands, andnot in yours. And so, a rosaTyfor the poor, defenseless, meekvictims of the hierarchy tha'~

they may have a resurrectionafter their brutal crucifixtion bythese erring bishops ...

A rosary for Father Greeley asa reminder of Our Lord's wore.s:"The mouth speaks of the abun­dance of the heart." His penwrites of the fullness of a vitri­olic heart when he preemptsGod's judgment . . . acts asGrand Inquisitor of all episco­pal wrongdoings, uses the daggerof his pen to cut these danger­ous, ignorant, deceitful sue··cessars of the Apostles.

"Let us declare the usce;NCCB vitandus, to be avoidedby all decent men and women."

CAVEAT, PONTIFIX MAXI­MUS . . . (Be careful, SupremePontiff). Father Greeley is in hiswatchtower.

Msgr. Henri HamelNew Bedford

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How brave, how Christlike,how priestly of Greeley to givesuch high sounding guidance.

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THE OLD TESTAMENT Feast of Tabernacles is cele­brated by religion students of St. Anthony's parish, EastFalmouth. With the aid of Carolyn and Larry Silva (stand­irig left and fourth left) they constructed the traditionaloutdoor shelter still erected by Jewish families.

archy, this time Monsignor Hig- CHEAP, SHODDY DISGUST­gins: "Every time I start feel- ING BUNCH OF PEOPLE" . . .ing positive about the NATION- He adds a threat for good meas­AL HIERAROHY THEY COME ure: an ultimatum. "I think thatUP WITH A NEW STUPIDITY" everyone who has ever worked. . . so what advice do we re- in any capacity for the Unitedceive from this Giant of Ortho- States... National Conferencedoxy, this self-appointed Defend- of Catholic Bishops ... shoulder of Leadership, Culture, Jus- make it clear that he or she willtice, etc. . . NOT SERVE AGAIN UNLESS"

Dear Editor:At regular and frequent inter­

vals, Father Greeley spoutsforth a vitriolic barrage of con­demnations against his favoritepigeons; the Bishops. For in­stance, in April 1978 (The An­chor): "Rome can dispose ofHans Kung by throwing him tothe WOLVES OF GERMANHIERARCHY, dominated bysuch VINDINCTIVE REACTION­ARIES AS CARDINALS DOE­PFNER AND RATZINGER" and... "The German hierarchy has

a fair number of theologianswho are furious at the popular­ity of Kung."

Bully for Greeley: not only thebad, bad bishops in Germany· .. but a couple of clay pigeons: ,Two reactionaries . . . two vin­dictive "Cardinals." What agreat trophy for the Greeley col­lection. And poor little meek,defenseless, lily white orthodoxKung! How can Bishops andCardinals be so ugly, so un­Christlike ... How far they havestrayed from the Greeley guide­lines!

,But Americ~ bishops are ofthe same low caliber leadership· . . quite unworthy of suPPOrt· . . sometimes hiding behindthe anonymity of a committeeto cover their "stupidity," etc.

Note to this effect his recentdiatribe in defense of anothervictim of the American hier-

Father Greeley

group in the procession up to theSanctuary and to. the Eucharis­tic Table. A standard also leda group of priests to their manystations at Communion.

As the saying goes: one pic­ture is worth a thousand words.The picture on the front pagerates an A plus.

Look at it again please. Kind­ly note that the young womanis not putting on an act. She isjoyful (Joy and Love are thekey ingredients.) She is relaxedand happily praising God!

C. T. Neal SpillaneOrleans

Can't CompareDear Editor:

I am sure many of the goodsouls in the Diocese of FallRiver, who attended the Charis­matic Conference in Providence,R. I., were disappointed, or per­haps even hurt, at the style ofcoverage given to the Confer­ence in The Anchor. It couldhardly compare with the rever­ent style of coverage given byother Catholic Newspapers, suchas The Pilot and The HartfordTranscript.

Fr. Allan Foran, OFMOur Lady's. ChapelNew Bedford

I usually do not comment onletters to the editor. Howeverthese letters reflect some of thefeelings aroused by our coverageof the Providence meeting. Toooften personal sensitivity eradi­cates and overshadows objec­tive reflection. This editor haslong been a supporter of thevarious grassroots movementswithin the Church family. I didnot write the featured article,but I did offer last week's editor­ial. I hope all members of therenewal read it as a statementnot only from the heart but also.in the Spirit. Ed.

Dear Editor:May I offer some reflections

on your Charismatic Report inthe Anchor Nov. 16, 1978?

Your writer must have hadsome preconceived notions aboutthe Charismatic Movement. Itseems that he (actually, it's ashe. Ed.) is an outsider whowore the wrong colored glasses.

If I knew very little about themovement, your first paragraphswould have turned me off.

"Political trappings, bannersgalore, etc." gives the reader thewrong impression. Of coursethere is always one "straw hat"among 14,000.

To start with, they were notbanners with clever sayings orquotations. They were the stan-

Pope Is AuthorOf Three Books

NEW YORK (NC) - Threebooks by Cardinal Karol Woy­tyla, now Pope John Paul 11, willbe published by Seabury Press.

"Sign of Contradiction," de­scribed by the publisher as "abiblically based book of spirit­ual renewal in the modernworld," will be published inFebruary, 1979. It was origin­ally published in Italy earlierthis year.

Two other books by Pope JohnPaul II are in preparation forpublication by Seabury. They are"Love and Responsibility," pre­viously published in Italy, and apreviously unpublished book ti­tled "Joy and Hope."

In addition, Seabury Press willpublish p biography of Pope JohnPaul in the spring of 1979. It isbeing completed by Father Mie­czyslaw Malinski, chaplain at theUniversity of Cracow.

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dards of a people gathered to­gether in Joy and Love to re­concile themselves to Our Heav­enly Father and his beloved Sonin union with the Holy Spiritwho is present and dwells with­in us.

The standards were gold­colored cloth with one or morecrosses, the emblem of Jesus,sewed on them. No two wereexactly alike. The work of loveby a woman dying of cancer.We prayed for her.

The standards conducted each

letters are welcomed, but should be noIIlore than 200 words. The editor reserveslIle right to condense or edit, if deemednecessary. All letters must be signed andInclUlle a home or business address.

6 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Nov. 30, 1978

Guerrilla Warfare Between Hierarchy and Staff

How Elections May Affect Issues of Church Concern

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REV:

ANDREW M.

GREELEY

The George Higgins·· casereveals a fundamental flawin the structure of the Am­erican church. The hierarchyand its national staff really donot trust one another. Cuttingstaff "down to size" is an acti­vity which makes lots of bishopsfeel very happy.

Tension between staff and

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MARY

CARSON

Some years ago I saw anitem on the difference in ourselection of words dependingon the "person" of the verb.For example: I am a gourmet.You tend to overeat. He's gotboth feet in the trough. Or, Iam fastidious. You pay close at­tention to detail. He's picky,picky, picky!

The relationship is amusing ­how diplomatic we are in de­scribing ourselves and how harsh

By

JIM

CASTELLI

Here is a rundown of howseveral issues of concern tothe church are likely to beaffected by the 1978 elec­tions:

- ABOR1'ION: Two-thirds of:he House seems to oppose fed­eral funding for abortion, somebelieve the defeat of Sen. Ed­ward Brooke and several othersenators will soften the sen-

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MARILYN

RODERICK

I don't believe I have evergone out to buy a Christ­mas tree that the old Cana­dian wind wasn't causing a<:hill factor of 10 below, andtoday was no exception. Thisyear we found a charmingnursery that lets you pick out

membership is common in na­tional organizations, but it rare­ly reaches the guerilla warfarelevel that seems to plague theCatholic hierarchy. To an out­sider the following observationsseem in order:

1) Bishops have the right andduty to establish a competentnational staff. Sometimes theyhave been served extremely wellby the stafrs professionalismin matters of eucemism, labor re­lations, technology and values.Sometimes they have been servedvery badly - communications(including especially the presentleadership of the NC News Ser-

regarding others. There seems arelated problem today . . . thedifference in describing men andwomen in the same circum­stances. It may stem from thosewho feel threatened by thechanging role of. women.

Listen to comments, particu­larly in offices. Listen to womenas well as men, how they des­cribe . similar situations depend­ing on whether it's a man or awoman they are talking about.

He's aggressive. She's pushy.He analyzes all facets of a

problem before making a decis­ion. She drags her heels.

He's a leader. "Who died andleft her in charge?"

He has the ability to changecourse when a plan is· no longerfeasible. She's fickle.

ate's traditional strong supportfor abortion funding.

Observers think the majoritysupport for a constitutionalamendment has been strength.ened in the House and severalvotes added in the Senate.

- SALT: White House spokes­man Jody Powell has estimateda net loss of two votes for aSALT treaty in the recent elec­tions, but he still predicted vic­tory by a narrow margin. SALTsupporters se&-the loss of twosenators Dick Clark (D-Iowa)and Thomas MoIntyre (D-N.H.),as serious because they wereamong the most articulate andinfluential SALT supporters in

your own live tree early in theChristmas season and then re­turn to have it chopped downon the day you want to put itup. Joe and I found a lovelyblue spruce that we tagged asours.

I get as much fun, if not more,out of preparing for Christmasas the younger members of myhousehold. Each year, since thechildren were babies, we havecelebrated the lovely Adventperiod of waiting with a wreath,a special calendar and our ownpersonal prayer period. In theevening, when we light the Ad­vent wreath, we set one of our

vice), peace and justice, educa­tion and youth.

2) The bishops do not trusttheir staff. One hears, off therecord of course, nothing butcomplaints about the bad state­ments that emanate from thePeace and Justice Office, aboutthe ludicrous national catecheti­cal directory and about the Callto Action tent show. Indeed, thelatter was an attempted coup bylocal and national bureaucratsin the name of the ordinary laity(who weren't represented) to im­pose their agenda on the bishops.

3) However, in most cases,the bishops have only themselves

He's a fluent conversational­ist. She's gabby.

He likes "comfortable" cloth­ing. She's sloppy.

He needs time to relax and re­charge his batteries. She's lazy.

He keeps track of innumer~ble

projects on his desk all at 'thesame time. She's disorganized.

He is incisive. She has a shortfuse.

He thinks through his prob­lems slowly and carefully. She'sdumb.

He takes care of his appear­ance. Her hair is right out of abottle.

He's put on a bit of weight.She's fat.

He observes every little de­tail. She's a crabby old woman.

He's willing to blaze a new

the Senate.

- AID TO CITIES: HouseSpeaker Thomas P. "Tip" 0'Neill believes the cities will behurt the most by the shift inthe House. Most Congressmencampaigned for tighter budgetsand are likely to oppose new ef­forts such as the National De­velopment Bank proposed bythe Carter administration.

- NATIONAL HEALTH IN­SURANCE: A New York Times­CBS poll found that 44 percentof new House members supportcomprehensive national healthinsurance. Max Fine, director ofthe Committee for National

creche pieces in place. until all20 pieces form their tableau,waiting for the final piece, thebabe.

It wasn't until I had childrenof my own that I realized Ad­vent could become a part ofyour home celebrations, and thewhole time before Christmastook on a very special meaning.

If your children are small,there is no better time to takesome of the Advent customs,such as the wreath and the cal­endar and make them a part ofyour pre-Christmas celebration.You'll enjoy it ·as much as thechildren!

to blame when staff activity getsout of line. They could easilystop the unpopular activity butthey are fearful of offending theperson who happens to be thechairman of the particular com­mittee.

4) Turnover of presidents andgeneral secretaries occurs sorapidly that there is neither con­sistent policy nor consistentleadership for recruitment of ad­ministrators.

According to one account,more than 100 priests havemoved in and out of the USCC/NCCB offices in the last decadeor so. That is no way to de-

trail. She's a rebel.He expresses righteous indig­

nation at situations that shouldbe corrected. She's angry.

He drives hard to get ahead.She's vicious.

He's constantly exploring newfrontiers. She meddles in thingsthat are none of her business.

He's inquisitive. She's nosey.And so it goes. A new junior

executive can be well-educated,full of new ideas just learned incollege, or still wet behind theears . . . depending on whichsex the new boss happens to be.

Oddly, the harsh analysis ofwomen doesn't come entirelyfrom men. From what I've beenable to observe it seems thatmany people were comfortable

Health Insurance, said thathealth insurance supporters faceroughly the same uphill fight inthe new Congress they faced inthe old.

-- WELFARE REFORM:While welfare reform itself wasnot a major campaign issue, thelarge number of winning candi­dates who supported across-the­board spending cuts make pass­age _of a· comprehensive pro­gram unlikely. At most, Cong­ress may pass a partial revision.

- LABOR LAW REFORM:Labor law reform failed by twovotes to win the 60 votes neededto break a Senate filibuster in

On the first Sunday of Adventwe are told to get busy: "Stirup Thy power, we beseech Thee,o Lord, and come." This year,however, because of the unbe­lievable price of dried fruits andnuts, I have decided that Stir-UpSunday, the first Sunday of Ad­vent, will not be observed by themixing of a $10 fruitcake butwith a much simpler recipe Ifirst printed in 1972, when itwas given to me by the lateMrs. Aldina Cabeceiras Mello ofSt. Michael's parish, Fall !{iver.

Pumpkin Fruit Cake3 cups flour2 cups sugar

velop an experienced, compe­tent corps of professionals.

One could also talk about theunpredictable financial policiesand the unstable leadership ofthe various episcopal committeeswhich oversee the· staff activi­ties (policy can and does changeevery time a new chairman iselected). While I have no desireto make any case in defense ofmuch of the conference staff, Iam forced to conclude that thereal problem does not lie withthe ideologues and incompetentson Massachusetts Avenue, butwith the hierarchical leadershiparound the country.

with an image of women thatwas built from the lyrics of "TheGirl That I Marry." A womanwho is not a timid homemakerfrightens them; a woman "grow­ing" faster than they threatensthem.

When threatened or afraid,people move into the "fight orflight" pattern. Since it's vir­tually impossible to completelyrun away from women, the onlvalternative is fight. Physicai vi~­lence would be somewhat un­acceptable, so the alternative isderogatory remarks.

Shallow, isn't it?

But then, I'm sure there werethose who said that Joan ofArc was out of her mind, Cath­erine of Siena was pushy, andMonica was a meddler.

the 95th Congress, and it doesnot appear that labor picked upthe votes it needs to break an·other filibuster. At the sametime, the Times-CBS poll foundHouse support for the bill drop­ping from 56 to 51 percent.

In terms of voter affiliation,an Associated Press-NBC pollfound that 60 percent of Cath­olic voters and 68 of Jewishvoters went Democratic in Houseelections, with Protestant voterssplit 49-49 percent for the twomajor parties.

The poll said 85' percent ofblacks, 78 percent of Hispanicsand 51 percent of whites votedDemocratic.

1 cup chopped nuts1 cup chopped raisinsY2 teaspoon saltY2 teaspoon cinnamon1 tablespoon baking soda1 cup cherries cut up1 can pumpkin pie filling4 eggs1Y2 cups cooking oil1) In a very large bowl mix

all ingredients very well with ahand beater.

2) Pour into a greased panand bake in a 350 degree ovenfor 1 hour and 15 minutes. Whilethis recipe isn't inexpensive, itis certainly cheaper than afruit cake.

LUl .AM' I:

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AdventContinued from Page One

"Prepare for the Coming ofthe Lord" explains Advent cus··toms such as the wreath, themanger of good deeds, the Jessetree and the Advent tower; while"Wait-Watchers" is an attractive4 x 5 Y2 inch pad with a scripturequote, a thought and a suggestedaction for each day of the pre..Christmas season.

"Come Lord Jesus," offeredby Sacred Heart parish at clcharge of .50 for non- parishion··ers, is geared for parents ofsmall children and its 42 page~;

are crammed with great thingsto do to prepare the family fOI'Christmas.

Don't worry if you've nevercelebrated Advent before; thisbook takes you by the hand andexplains exactly how to make itmemorable for everyone. Warn..ing: once you start the custom~;

described, you'll repeat them forall the Advents to come. Yourchildren will see to that!

"Come Lord Jesus" can be ob··tained at the back of Sacrec.Heart Church at Masses thisweekend or at the rectory atother times.

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celibacy to calls for priests andnuns to wear distinctive garb, istaken by observers as a signalof strength. 'But they cautionagainst easy labeling of the popeas a conservative or liberal.

They note that the pope hasnot issued any major documentswhich would clearly express histhinking on central church prob­lems.

Father KolasaTo Holy Trinity

Father. Stanley Kolasa, SS.CC.has been appointed associatepastor of Holy Trinity Church,West Harwich, by the Most Rev­erend Bishop Daniel Croninupon the nomination of VeryReverend William B. Davis,.sS.CC., Provincial of the Fathersof the Sacred Hearts.

Father Kolasa was ordained in1970. He then entered CatholicUniversity, obtained a master ofarts degree and subsequentlytaught at St. Mary's College,Winona, Minnesota.

He served three years as asso­ciate pastor of Holy Redeemerparish, Chatham, after which hereturned to Notre Dame Univer­sity for graduate work. He hasbeen active in church renewalworkshops during the past twoyears. His appointment to HolyTrinity was effective Nov. 24.

Mrs. Michael J. McMahon, St.Mary's Cathedral parish, FallRiver, heads the hospitality com­mittee for the 24th annual Bish­op's Charity Ball to be held Fri­day evening, January 12 at Lin­coln Park Ballroom, North Dart­mouth. Mrs. Richard M. Paul­son, Immaculate Conceptionparish, Taunton, will assist her.

Other committee membersare: Fall River area - Mrs. Au­brey Armstrong, Mrs. RaymondBoulay, Mrs. 'Eugene Gagnon,Mrs. Anthony J. Geary, Mrs. Ru­dolph Ouellette, Mrs. Arthur Pa­vao, Mrs. Roger Vezina, Mrs.Fred G. Vitullo, Miss Jean Drzal,Raymond 'Boulay, Antone Pache­co, Henry Desmond, Arthur Gau­thier, -Frederick Vitullo, DanielGrace, Joseph Gromada, RogerVezina.

•CAPE COD WORKERS for the Bishop's Ball include, from left, Mrs. Gilbert J. Noo-nan, St. Patrick's parish, Falmouth; Mrs. James H. Quirk, St. Pius X, South Yarmouth;Father John F. Andrews, St. Francis Xavier, Hyannis; Miss Ethel M. Crowley, St. PiusK .

I Mystery Pop'e'Puzzles Many

VATICAN CITY (NC)Pope John Paul II remainssomething of a mystery to Vati­can watchers after his firstmonth and a half in office.

The pope has shown strongbacking for the policies of PopePaul VI in dealing with internalchurch issues, in the church'srelations with other churchesand with the world at large. Butthere are few signs of what per­sonal stamp he will put on thepapacy.

Speaking to the members ofthe Secretariat for PromotingChristian Unity, he expressedthe fervent desire for reunion ex­pressed by Pope Paul, calling theseparation of Christians an "in­tolerable scandal" and urgingintensified efforts to resolve thedivisions. At the same time, asPaul did, he firmly rejected in­tercommunion without doctrinalunity and warned against "su­perficiality" or "imprudentzeal."

On internal issues he recon­firmed Pope Paul's policies onthe need for first confession be­fore first Communion/and on theneed for individual confession,stressing that general absolutionis to be used only in exception­al cases.

Pope John Paul likes to travel,and there are indications that hemay become another "pilgrimpope" in the manner of PopePaul's early yearS. During hisfirst five weeks in office he leftthe Vatican six times to visitvarious people and sites in Romeand Italy.

The new pope, who frequent­ly refers to himself as "the bish­op of Rome," stresses that he ispope by virtue of being head ofthe Rome Diocese. He has in­dicated several times that hewould like to play a far moreactive role in the affairs of hisown diocese than recent popeshave done. It is said that hewould like to visit at least O1JeRome parish every other week­end.

Facing the massive adminis­trative problems of the papacy,Pope John Paul has shown self­assurance and seems comfort­able about using his power. Vati­can sources call him decisive andsay that he asks aides for back­ground material but personallycasts the form of his speeches.In public he seems equally atease embracing his close friend,Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski ofWarsaw, Poland, and the com­munist mayor of Rome, GiulioArgan.

Out of the public eye, he alsoseems to move deliberately andcarefully, but also knowledge­ably and firmly.

He met privately with sus­pended Archbishop Marcel Lefe­bvre, the lading figure in thedissident traditionalist move­ment, at the request of the arch­bishop. Sources say the popebrought no aides into the meet­ing. Pope Paul VI refused tomeet with the archbishop with­out at least one top aide present.

"The pope's willingness tospeak qut early. and strongly ona num~er of delicate issues ofchurch discipline, ~nging fromthe sjJcraments and priestly

tiff, known for his devotion toMary, with a porcelain sculpture,"Madonna, House of Gold," byBoleslaw Cybis, a noted Polishartist who escaped to the UnitedStates during the Nazi era.

After the audience, Dechantcommented that among thestriking characteristics of JohnPaul II is his penetrating gaze,expressive of his intense inter­est in each person to whom hespeaks.

"He gives the impression ofa man who has weathered manycrises and has been tempered bythem. This experience appearsto have created a man of bothtender kindness and firm deter­mination, who seems to knowwhat he wants and will seek itunswervingly, but with consum­mate diplomacy.

"Another distinctive qualityis his disarming charm whichcaptivates the visitor. He alsoexudes confidence which createsa feeling of trust in the listener."

"I do not think that a 1,900­year-old tradition can be over­turned by a simple majority voteat perhaps a single meeting ofthe governing body of one partof the church," he said.

"But this having been said andclearly said the Secretariat forPromoting Christian Unity wouldwish to associate itself firmlywith the hopefulness and thecommitment to continued searchfor reconciliation which wasclearly apparent in the Holy'Father's letters and has charac­terized Anglican and RomanCatholic confrontation on this'new and grave obstacle'."

In many of the speeches dur­ing the hearing there was de­tectable a misgiving over the waythe Anglican communion hadhandled the question of ordain­ing women. Canon John Mac­quarrie, Lady Margaret's pro­fessor of divinity at Oxford,said, "It would surely have beenwise if individual churches haddeferred action untl this Lam­beth Conference of 1978 hadgiven some guidance in the nameof the whole Anglican commun-

'ion, following on the study andreflection recommended by theLambeth Conference of 10 yearsago."

Virgil C. Dechant, supremeknight of the 1.3 million-memberKnights of Columbus, wasamong the first American Cath­olics to greet Pope John PaulII at the beginning of his ponti­ficate.

At a private audience he pled­ged the support of the Knightsto the pontiff and briefed himon programs of the organization,including those aimed at foster­ing vocations, strengtheningfamily life, using the media forevangelization and spreading de­votion to Mary.

In response, the pope said hehad become personally acquaint­ed with the work of theKnights of Columbus during hisvisits to the United States. Heexpressed his appreciation inparticular for the society'sfunding of papal telecasts viasatelite, including his own andPope John Paul l's installationMasses.

Dechant presented the pon-

Clarification on Ordination

K of C Head Meets Pontiff

POPE JOHN PAUL II gestures expressively as he meetsVirgil C. Dechant, supreme knight of the Knights of Col­umbus.

CANTERBURY (NC) - Bish­op Cawal Daly of Ardagh 'and'Clonmacnois told Anglican bis­hops at a Lambeth Conferencehearing that the Catholic Churchis as firm as ever in opposingordination of women to thepriesthood.

"The tradition of which theCatholic church takes her standis unbroken and universal inEast and West,"said Bishop Da­ly, who leads a team of threeCatholic observers at the con­ference to 400 Anglican bishops."It is not an inert one, but oneso firm and decisive as not tohave needed formulation or de­fense. The onus of defens,e is onthose who depart from so long apractice founded on Christ'sown example and considered toconform to God's plan for HisChurch.

"The Secretariat for }>romo­ting Christian Unity," BishopDaly went on, "on whose behalfI speak and of which I am amember, feels and wishes to ex­press anxiety about what seemsa prevailing tendency, aggrava­ted by some press reports, to re­gard the Roman Catholicchurch's position on the ordina­tion of women to the priest­hood as unclear and somehowprovisional.

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Nobel NomineeIs Abp. Romero

LONDON (NC) - ArchbishopOscar Arnulfo Romero of SanSalvador, El Salvador, has beennominated for the 1979 NobelPeace Prize by 118 British mem­bers of Parliament and membersof the House of Lords.

The nomination of a CentralAmerican archbishop by Britishpoliticians was a result of the,British government's decisionlast January to abandon its planto sell second-hand armored cars·worth 850,000 pounds sterling(approximately $438,000) to thegovernment of El Salvador.

Protests of the proposed saleby a number of sources, iIlclud­ing Cardinal George ,Basil Humeof Westminster, alerted politi­cians to the key role ArchbishopRomero was playing in the strug­gle for human rights in hiscountry.

"He has consistently and un­compromisingly denounced thenumerous arrests, detentions,tortures, disappearances and kill­ings taking place in EI Salvadortoday," said the politicians intheir letter to the Nobel com­mittee in Oslo, 1\orway. "As acommitted man of peace, he hasrejected violence from whateverquarter and has advocated socialand economic reforms to removethe injustices of El Salvador'spoverty-ridden feudal society.

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In general, the bishops reallyshould continue their efforts tomake their meetings reflect theproblems and concerns of theAmerican church.

They must offer solutions andnot hide from the realities oflife that face their people. Norshould they reduce their meet·ings to mere reflections of pointsof canon law. The Church in thiscountry needs their collectiveleadership. United, they can bea force that will inspire the laityto be truly alive. They shouldalways realize the truth of thebromide, that you cannot givewhat you do not have.

are too important to go unno­ticed or to be given just a tokentime spot on a conventionschedule.

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Cardinal Cooke of New York,Chairman of the Committee forPro-Life Activities, was asked ina press conference if the bishopsas a body were going to com­ment on the United Fund. It washis feeling that this matter willbe handled on the diocesan level.

The question proposed by thepress is one that many bishopshave had to face, namely, can aCatholic who knows that hismoney may go to a pro-abortionagency donate to the UnitedFund? It was suggested in thereply that each United Fundshould be asked by the localchurch it it did in fact supportpro-abortion agencies. Then anappropriate response could begiven for that area. To sweepaside the United Fund as a wholewould be wrong.

CARD. KROL

The delightful friendly rivalryof the two American Colleges inEurope is evident at the bishops'meeting. Both the North Ameri­can College in Rome and theAmerican College of Louvainseek greater episcopal support.

At this time, however, onemust say that the Roman collegehas the upper hand, with a great­er number of bishop-graduates.When it comes to support, this iswhat really counts!

The new president of CatholicUniversity also was given a timeslot to thank the bishops fortheir support. It would seem thatthese institutions are the bigthree as far as this meeting iscOJ;lcerned.

Too bad. Local seminaries thatlack bishops' special favor arestill the mainstay of vocationsfor the American church. Keepthe home fires burning!

broader base of input for thesegatherings. The people of agiven area look to their bishopsto act not only individual1y bydiocese, but also col1ectively onarea issues. Regional meetings

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Iy, little is known as to whatgoes on in these meetings sincethey are executive sessions, orat least newly arrived editors donot know if they are welcome.

Aside from this, would it notbe a good idea to suggest a

BP. McNICHOLAS

During the semi-annual meet­ing, bishops of each region. ofthe United States hold sessions.Thus the New England bishopsspend time together discussingcommon problems. Unfortunate-

Seemingly all the Bishops agreethat the church must get into theelectronic media field. However,when it comes to a national col­Iction for this work, everythingseems to come to a grinding halt.One viewpoint that seems to per­meate the body of bishops is thatattempts should be made to con­solidate all national collections.I am sure many pastors wouldagree.

As usual, however, alternatesources of revenue would haveto be sought. When it came tothis issue, as well as to budgetitems for the conference itself,it was obvious that Proposition13 mentality had affected the or­ganization.

Unfortunately, with a financialsword always hanging over pro­jects, it could be that nothingwill be done to promote effortsto use the media for evangeliza­tion. This would be unfortunatefor the mission of the Church.As a religious body we mustutilize the effectiveness of themedia in spreading the "goodnews." If the bishops truly be­lieve this, they must act accord­ingly.

to have a wide spectrum of sup­port.

This, however, does not meanthat consideration should not begiven to those ministries that·

. are and can be available to wom­en in the Church. It just reflectsthat there are actual1y very fewwho consider their ordination inthe area of possibility. Interest·ing.

which the Orthodox have pre­served, the role of administrationand service."He continued: "We are perhaps

missing the point by makingpermanent deacons into semi­priests whose primary role isliturgical. The Orthodox havepreserved the New Testamentrole of deacon, whose primaryrole was organization."

"Perhaps we should have dea­cons as editors, chancellors,family life directors, school w·perintendents, Catholic Charitiesadministrators, religious educa­tion planners, bishops' mastersof ceremonies and secretariesand diocesan comptrollers andfundraisers. The priest could bepriest and deacons could be dea­cons without being a threat toeach other's roles."

To me this is one of the bestsuggestions that has come downthe turnpike in a long time. Per­haps the day will come whensuch an identification processwill be a reality. In the mean­time, our diocesan programstrives for this goal.

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During· the meeting, time wasgiven to the Spanish-speakingbishops to plead for help fromthe entire American church. Allwell and good. However, therewas a sense of separatism intheir presentations.

By way of comment, this edi­tor would hate to see a return tothe mentality that permeated thechurch in this country in the mid­19th century, when there was amove to establish separate na­tional diocese.

Any notion that divides oridea that impedes the unity ofthe church can only in the longrun cause grief and frustration.

It would be well for those His­panics who foster such a spiritto take a long hard look at thepresent situation in Canada tosee what ethnic division can doto a nation.

The church in this countrymust help all people to be athome in our churches. It mustnever encourage separatism.

Some words should be devotedto the women who came alongwith their television cameras tolobby for ordination of women.It is estimated that there are 20million women in the Catholicchurch in the United States. Thisgroup thusly represented a ratioof lout of 200,000, not a signi­ficant minority by any stretchof the imagination.

The Baltimore Conference re­ported attendance of 2,000 wom­en. Futher statistics indicate that62% were nuns. Of this group,65% were over 35, according toa local estimate. The facts thenthemselves indicate that thismovement cannot be considered

While at the bishops' meetingI also had the opportunity of do­ing some groundwork for thepermanent diaconate program.Msgr. Bud Fiedler, head of theBishops' Committee on the Per­manent Diaconate and FatherRocky Kearns, president of theNational Association of Perman­ent Deacon Directors, were bothavailable for consultations. Withthe former, it was agreed that aschema of our diocesan familyprogram for permanent deaconcandidates would be publishedin the Diaconal Quarterly. Withthe latter, I was requested to

address the national PermanentDeacon convention in Dallas thisMarch on the subject of com­munications and the diaconate.Our diocesan program has al­ready been responsible for put­ting together a communicationsguidelines booklet for associa-tion members. .

While at the bishops' meetingI encountered the editor of theCatholic Register, diocesanpaper of Altoon-Johnstown, Pa.He showed me some of his edi­torials and the fol1owing pointconcerning the permanent dia­conate made a mark. In con­versation with Metropolitan Phil­ip, Primate of the AntiochianOrthodox Archdiocese of NorthAmerican, comment was madeconcerning the archbishop's sec­retary, a permanent deacon.

The editor, Msgr. Philip Say­lor, reflected editorial1y, "It oc­curred to me that this was theancient role of the deacon,

ABP. QUINN

By Father John F. Moore

Last week I offered a few in­formal comments on the bishops'fal1 meeting in Washington. Somuch material is presentedabout these meetings in objec­tive journalistic style that Iwould prefer a more informal ap­proach; and a continuation ofmy random notes and reflectionsfollows:

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ROUTE 6':""between Fall River and New Bedfordpectations let your daughterknow where she stands.

Support your daughter. Thir­teen is an age of tremendousuncertainty. A girl often feelsshe has no friends, she is notpopular, no one likes her, eventhough there is no evidence tosupport her fears. Emphasize thethings she does well. Sympathizewhen she hurts, but don't tellher she is wrong or silly. Forher the problems are real.

Finally, allow room for moodi­ness, outbursts and backtalk.Thirteen can be an explosive, up­and-down age. If you forbid allexpressions of feelings, you areapt to develop a ~een-ager whostays in her room and never com­municates anything to you. Beclear and firm about what shemust do, but be tolerant of whatshe says.

Admire what she does wellwhether in school, sports, hob­bies or at home. Be flexibleenough to realize that disciplin­ing a teen-ager requires growthon your part as well as hers. Andwhen you must punish, use adulttasks rather than direct physi­cal control which can be demean­ing.

Reader questions on familyliving and child care ¥8 invited.Address to The Kennys, c/o TheAnchor, P.O. Box 7, Fall River,Mass. 02722.

Laity's RoleWASHINGTON - The laity's

role in the church must extendto evangelization, said the presi­dent of Catholics United.for theFaith, who pledged his organiza­tion's continued support for thereforms of the Second VaticanCouncil. H. Lyman Stebbins ofNew York, V\o(ho helped foundthe group, spoke at a Washing­ton meeting.

Image of God"It is in the mind that God

has made man to his image andlikeness . . . If the mind is notto be fathomed even by itselfthat is because it is the image ofGod." - St. Augustine

has been locked off from thevery purpose for which Godmade him. We are love machines.We were made to love and thealcoholic can't.

.To love you have to :be freeand he's not. He's shackled tohimself by the very chemistry ofhis body. He drinks alcohol com­pulsively. All of his functions isnot for the well-being of othersbut for obtaining and consumingthe chemical without which hecannot function. And the ulti­mate end is death unless some­one helps him."

Professional help is available,Father Martin said. Alcoholism,he added, explains more absen­teeism and poor production thananything else. "The best time to~pproach an alcoholic is whenhe is in pain. The underlying .principle is that when you hurtbad enough, you'll want to dosomething about it."

Make rules that are clear andfair. Be specific about such mat­ters as to where she may go andhow late she may stay out onschool nights, on non-schoolnights. What time is bedtime?What jobs is she responsible for?What are the consequences ofbreaking these rules? Clear ex-

the discipline of a child. Thatwise father and fine writer, Eu­gene Geissler, notes that Christwent off from his parents atthe age of 12. He suggests thataround this age children mustbegin to move away from home,to do things on their own, totake the first steps toward in­dependence and adulthood. Asparents we must make the deli­cate judgment of when to re­strain and when to let go.

If your daughter needs discip­line all the time, perhaps you arestill treating her with the re­straint needed for a young child.·Perhaps you need to allow hermore room to do things on herown and to make her own de­cisions. Look around you forfriends who have teens and Whoseem to discipline them in away which you admire. Talk tothem frankly about handling al3-year-old. They will probablybe flattered that you admiretheir judgment and eager toshare their views.

FATHER MARTIN

room knows an alcoholic. Infact, most of you have an alco­holic somewhere in your family.If you do not know an alcoholic,you are ejther blind or simplyignorant," said Father Martin.

He estimated that there are36 million alcoholics in the Uni­ted States. The reason alcoholicsremain undiagnosed is because ofpreconceptions of what an al­coholic is, he said.

"What is an alcoholic? I seethe alcoholic to be someone who

him in industry and the military.Mistakes, he said, occur be­

cause of ignorance. One majormistake is to let alcoholism goundiagnosed arid untreated. Thishappens because the alcoholicapparently continues to func­tion.

"My friends, everyone in this

By Dr. Jim and Mary Kenny

Dear Mary:My husband and I disagree

about the discipline of our chil­dren, particularly the oldest, a13-year-old girL He spanks herwhen she does something wrong.I think she is too old for this.What do you think?

A. I agree with you thatspanking is inappropriate for 13­year-old girls. Spanking is de­meaning. It treats your daughteras a young child at the verytime she is beginning to realizeshe is growing up. Second, othermeans of discipline are more ef­fective for adolescents.

The most effective punish­ments for older children and ad­olescents are extra work andloss of privileges. nepending onthe offense, a l3-year-old can beassigned to washing windows,washing woodwork, cleaning thebasement or garage or similartasks. Such jobs are real andnecessary work. They are with­·in the capability of the child,lmd they are fairly unpleasantfor most people, which putsthem in the category of punish­ment.

Loss of privileges can meanno movie on the weekend or noovernight at a friend's house.

Thirteen, the beginning of theteens, marks a new period in

Disciplining Younger Teenagers

Alcoholism Is Treatable: He KnowsNEWPORT BEACH, Calif.

(NC) - "I believe passionatelythat an alcoholic can be treated~uccessfully: You're looking atone who has been," says FatherJoseph Martin.

The Baltimore priest is notedfor the advice he gives fellowalcoholics in the film, "ChalkTalk," made by the Departmentof Defense, for which he travelsextensively.

"You can order an alcoholicto get treatment," he said. "It'sa myth that you cannot help analcoholic unless he wants it.That's a myth.

"See, on this side of mymouth I say alcoholism is asickness of body, mind, emotionand soul.

"And on this side of mymouth I say I'm not going to'help him until he makes a ra­tional decision to get help . . .

"Yes, you can order an alco­holic into treatment. You justcan't order his response to it.But if the treatment is proper,60 to 80 percent get well.

"Do you know why? IBecauseit was the most marvelous thingin the world to find out I wassick instead of evil and thatthere was an answer to it.

Father Martin said employersshould establish alcoholism pro­grams for their employees.

"We pay for alcoholism any­way. Why not pay for it at thefront end instead of at the tailend and save lives in the mid­dle?"

The white-haired priest hasa pointed sense of humor heuses "to make benevolent" thefrequently hostile audiencessometimes ordered to listen to

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Couples' League HasFirst Nat'ional Meet

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founder John Kippley plans tohave married couples teachingnatural family planning in all2,700 of the nation's countiessome day, but meanwhile, the166 couples who teach it nowcan get pretty lonely. So he con­vened the league's first nationalmeeting in Fort Mitchell. Ky.

Participants from 23 states in­cluded close to 100 couples, pluspriests and Religious involved infamily service programs.

The purpose of CCL, Kippleysaid, is to provide adequate in­struction in natural family plan­ning "in a value-oriented set­ting." Couples are trained toteach other couples "the practiceof spacing pregnancies accord­ing to an informed awareness ofa woman's fertility."

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bishops of Chile are complainingthat the government is notkeeping its promise to investi­gate cases of people who havedisappeared after being arrested.The bishops have asked themilitary government for reportson 372 cases they say they c~n

document, but no informationhas been forthcoming.

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Niketan (2) Byculla, Bombay400008, India, requests usedgreeting cards and light cloth­ing for use in his work amongthe poor. Parcels of four to .sixpounds should be marked "ToAid Social Projects."

properly respects the needs andrights of one's own friends andfamily who are left behind.

Several larger questions overwhich the individual usually haslittle control, but which are ur­gent concerns in this matter, arecontinually under study and eval­uation by scientists and moraltheologians. Such questions cen­ter on the exact time of death,in other words, at. preciselywhat point may a doctor removean organ for transplant to an­other; the proper treatment ofthe corpse of a human being sothat it is not unnaturally dealtwith as simply a thing or an ani­mal; and even social concernssuch as the not unheard-of will­ingness of some institutions andindividuals to sell organs of adeceased person for profit.

I point out these factors onlyto emphasize that the questionis a lot more complicated thanyou may realize. If you wish todo so, and your family has noreasonable objections, givingpart of your body to someonewho needs it is permissible andcharitable.

Questions for this columnshould be sent to Father Diet·zen, c/o The Anchor, P.O. Box 7,Fall River, Mass. 02722.

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Q. Why all the furor aboutArehblshop Lefebvre, the tradi·tionallst prelate who wants touse Latin, when the funeralMass for the pope was In Latin?Why wasn't it in Italian? (La.)

A. The announcer on at leastone television network answer­ed your question during the latepope's funeral liturgy. WhileMass is nomally offered in thelanguage of the country, Latinremains the international lang­uage of the church.

.Attending the funeral wererepresentatives from numerousnations, with numerous lang­uages. It was certainly appropri­ate, therefore, that the lang­uage of anyone country not beused, but that the ceremonies bein Latin, as they often are insimilar international circum­stances.

Your comment about Arch­bishop Lefvebre seems to reflecta misconception held by a num­ber of Catholics. His problemwith the church is not simplythat he wants Latin Masses. Hedoes not want to follow the or­der of the Mass based on Vati­can II decisions, which providein certain instances for Massesin Latin. Far' more serious andcritical is his rejection of theauthority of the popes and of theecumenical councils to establishdirections and statements of re­lief and worship that bind allCatholic people.

He argues, of course, that thepope and the other bishops areall wrong, and that he and hisfollowers are the only "real"Catholics - an argument, bythe way, that is used by certainother smaller and Jesser knowngroups today. 'By now, as youprobably know, in major defi­ance of the pope, he has ordain­ed his own priests and estab­lished his own seminaries.

Q. What is the position of theCatholic Church on donatingvital organs after death? (pa.)

A. One certainly may donateone's organs for use by anotherperson after death, provided one

I Was HungryI was hungry and you formed a humanities club anddiscussed my hunger. Thank you.I was imprisoned and you crept off quietly to yourchapel and prayed for my release.I was naked and in your mind you debated the moral­ity of my appearance.I was sick and you knelt and thanked God for yourhealth.I was homeless and you preached to me of the spirit­ual shelter of the love of God.I was lonely and you left me alone to pray for me.You seem so holy, so close to God. But I'm still veryhungry and lonely and cold.

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KNOW YOUR FAITHNC NEWS

The Spirituality of Patriarch Athenagoras

How Can IFind Meaningful Religious Experience?

Well-Kept Secret

For ChildrenBy Janaan Manternach

One day Jesus was returningto his home in Capernaum, atown near Cana, in Galilee. Jesushad been living there since heleft Nazareth.

As he entered Capernaum,an officer in the Roman armycame up to him. He was not onofficial business. He needed help.He had heard how Jesus helpedthe sick and suffering. As a Ro­man, he did not believe in Godthe way Jews did. But he be-

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pipeline. They paid 42 percentof the cost of this project.

Now they have pure water anda five-grade school, but littleelse. Their products and pur­chases leave and arrive by thesame method on the backs of

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'Running - physically or metaphorically is stillthe soundest way to meet the living God.'

By Father Joseph Champlin

"The best kept secret of thechurch in the United States."Thus has been labeled the workof Catholic Relief Services, over­seas aid agency of U.S. Cath­olics.

Are the initials CRS or the ti­tle, Catholic Relief Services,familiar to yOt",?

Possibly not, but 600 inhabi­tants of Kaboud, a poor villageon Jordan's West Bank, do rec­ognize the title, and would tellyou what they have accom­plished together with CRS.

The villagers, all Moslems,grow grapes, wheat, barley andlentils; they raise a bit of live­stock; a few work in Israel andnearby Hebron town. But the im­poverished hamlet is, practicallyspeaking, cut off from civiliza­tion.

Three years ago, the citizens,aided by CRS, constructed awater delivery system whichlinked Raboud with a central

gion is grounded in what is, notin what is wished for in orderto avoid what is.

It is more dramatic to thinkthat religious experience onMonday morning is more like anurge to go forth like the sunthan to struggle out of bed andinto lines of harassing traffic.

It would be easier to haveGod say some word of super­human understanding when afriend's child dies of cancerthan to feel the universe fallsilent in the face of what seemssenseless, innocent suffering.

It must be nice, too, to feelgood about driving a car with abumper sticker "I found It"when, for many of us, not hav­ing found "it" is precisely ourclaim to faith in the raggy sec­ond half of the 20th century. Itmust be clear that we are givengrace to make us not romanticsnor realists, but humans.

/Religious experience is not amatter of picking up points ofself-gratification. As we seekmany of us are learning, as myfriend has, that running - physi­cally or metaphorically - is stillthe soundest way to meet theliving God. ~

uality," we easily forget thatthis word applies differently toeach of us according to our ownnatures, graces and offices. Abishop must reveal a spiritual-

, ity grounded in the very struc­ture and meaning of Christen­dom. In a famous letter to PaulVI, Athenagoras gave beautifultestimony to this.

"We hasten to confirm to you,elderbrother, that, according tothe will of the Lord who wisheshis church to be one, visible tothe whole world, in order thatthe entire world may come to it,we submit ourselves continuallyand without any deflection tothe inspiration of. the HolySpirit . . . This work is to makevisible and manifest to the worldthe one, holy, catholic and apos­tolic church of Christ . . .

"Actually, even if the Easternand Western churches are sep­arated, for eauses known to theLord, they are not divided, how­ever, in the substance of com­munion in the mystery of Jesus,God made man, and of his div­ine-human church."

It is easy to understand someof the affection and hope thisOrthodox bishop inspired. Andwhen we ask why was he soprovidential, y/e can only con­clude that here was a man whobelieved in Christ's truth andloved us all in God. It is enoughfor any bishop to bequeath to usthe reminder that we should beunited in truth and in love.

pedantic and lacking in drama.But it offers us more than theboring repitition compulsion forwhich many of us settle.

We think we would like to in­vite God in, give him somethingspectacular in our lives to workwith - like the utterly tragic orthe truly estatic. How often weequate religious experience withfeeling good, being at peace withothers, losing our need to strug­gle with our tendencies to doharm and to be vulnerable. Wewant religious experience to bemore like a Linus Blanket tocarry for comfort than the cloth­ing which is the shape of ourhuman lives.

My friend runs around Wash­ington. He also counsels minis­ters, writes books, speaks allover the nation on how minis­ters need ministering to as wellas anybody else. He is success­ful in reconciling parishes afterhard events have rocked them.He stresses the essential human­ness of grace action.

It is interesting to note that afew modern novelists, amongthem John Gardner, John Chee­ver, Margaret Atwood, havedwelt on the same theme: Reli-

robed, black-hooded man, quiet­ly strolling through these lovelyprecincts. This man who cameto symbolize in his life what apark should be, a place whereindivisions and struggles amongmen are overcome and leftaside. All parks, in a way, aremeant to recall Eden and thisOrthodox archbishop seemed toreflect this.

Pope Paul VI and Athena­"goras were close and goodfriends. They met three timesofficially - in Rome, Jerusalemand Istanbul. Both were acutelyaware of the origins of the div­isions in Christianity, yet bothwanted to respect what was dis­tinctive in the Latin and Greektraditions.

Msgr. John Nolan of the Cath­olic Near East Welfare Associa­tion wrote of him in 1969: "Arewe big enough for this old man'sdream?" Athenagoras said toMsgr. Nolan: "Is not our masterthe same Christ? Then we areservants of the same household.We are already one. Let theolo­gians work out the details. Butyou and I know that unity is al­ready a fact, because we loveone another."

Such simplicity 'and earnest­ness may seem too pat at times.But this patriarch was not un­aware of the historical complexi- .ties, and he even seemed to beunder some criticism in his ownchurch for his zeal.

Yet, when we think of "spirit-

Love Alone"Merit consists in the virtue

of love alone, flavored with thelight of true discretion, withoutwhich the soul is worth nothing."- St. Catherine of Siena

By Father James Schall

After Greek Orthodox Patri­arch Athenagoras died in Instan­bul, Turkey, in 1972, FatherGeorge Maloney wrote that heleft no monuments or writings orpolitical documents. His bequestto us was rather the realization"that men were meant by Godto live in a unity of truth andlove." ·All three elements werenecessary - unity, truth, andlove.

We who are used to thinkingof Christianity as divided intoProtestants and Catholics' easilyforget that the various Ortho­dox churches stemming fromEgypt, Asia Minor, Greece, East­ern Europe and Russia bear wit­ness to a liturgy, theology andspirit as old and wise as our ownways of living the faith. We areoften surprised by the depth andwisdom of this tradition unfami­liar to us.

This patriarch was no ordinaryman. He was Greek by birth butlived for many years in NewYork, across from Central Park,a place where he loved to walkand converse with the people hemet, especially the children. Itis nice to picture this tall, black-

By Mary Maher

A Lutheran minister I knowhas been running for years. Heruns and meditates, runs andsolves problems, runs and getsin touch with the ch:ld withinhimself, runs and experiencesthe pilgrimage pattern of adult­hood. Running unites him to God,the world of nature and to allthe people he knows.

Setting out to find religiousexperience is almost inevitablyto be led away from its possibil­ity. Within our human lives, theordinary events are where wemeet God.

Grace is not a second storybuilt upon the first: nature. Itis the gift of relatedness of Godwith people and people witheach other. It is not a magicwand that transports us intotranscendental pastures wherelove is easy and defeat and vic­tory are clear-cut realities.Neither is grace like the oldtheatrical device, deus ex ma­china, in which the god is drop­ped onto the stage to resolveimpossible human entangle­ments.

At first glance, this under­standing of grace may seem

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The Roman officer started forhome. Along the way he metother servants of his runningout to tell him the sick boy wasgetting well. He began to im­prove at the very moment Jesushad said, "Your servant will getwei!." .

Word of the man's faith inJesus spread. He became an ex­ample of trust. Christians stilluse his words to express theirown faith in Jesus. At Mass wesay, "Lord, I am not worthy toreceive you, but only say theword and I shall be healed."

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animals or the heads of women.,Even very sick people or deliver­ing women must travel to theoutside world over a bumpy, badroad on a donkey or be carriedon a litter.

This soon will change. CRS,with help from the U.S. govern­ment, has sponsored a projectto construct a paved access roadfrom the nearest major high­way. Villagers are performingmost of the actual labor.

The benefits. are obvious.Public transportation will be athand. Village prOducts, reachingmarkets in better condition andgreater quantity, will generatemore income. Medical treatmentwill be swifter to obtain. In aword, the people of rural Raboudwill have a more bearable wayof living.

The road to Raboud is but oneexample of over 1,000 CRS pro­jects underway this year in some57 countries.

Jesus healed the centurion'sslave by a word from his mouth.American Catholics have foryears been healing countlesspersons by donations to CRS.

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Iieved Jesus would help him."Sir," he said, "my serving

boy, who is like my own son, isat home in bed terribly sick. Heis paralyzed and suffers pain­fully."

Jesus was deeply touched bythe officer's manner. Withouthesitation, he told the soldier, "Iwill come and cure him." Theman was taken aback. This wasmore than he expected. He knewthat Jesus, a Jew, was forbiddenby Jewish law to enter the houseof a Roman.

"Sir," he said to Jesus, "I amnot worthy to have you in myhouse. Just give an order andthe boy will get better."

The officer knew from hisown experience the power ofhis commands. One word fromhim and what he wanted donewas done. "I, too, am a man ofauthority," he said to Jesus. "IfI say to a soldier, 'Come here,'he comes. Or if I say to another,'Do this,' he does it." He be­lieved Jesus had even greaterpower.

Jesus was amazed at what thesoldier said. Here was a Roman,who did not share the faith ofthe Jewish people but who be­lieved in him even more strong­ly. Jesus turned to his followersand said, "I assure you, I havenever found such deep faithamong my own people."

The man stood there in si­lence, believeing Jesus. could healhis sick servant, with just asingle powerful healing word.People were standing around tosee what would happen. Theywere amazed that the man putsuch faith and trust in Jesus.

Jesus turned back to the offi­cer.. "Go back home," he toldhim. "Because of your faith, itwill be done as you ask. Yourservant will get wei!."

A Verdade E A VidaDirigida pelo Rev. Edmond Rego

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A ALEGRIA CRISTA

o homem e um animal simbo1ico. Muitasvezes cria, em sfmbo10s, aqui10 que n~o podea1can,ar na rea1idade. Projecta para 0 futu­ro 0 que n~o pode a1can)ar no presentee Re­veste de veros{mi1 0 inveros{mi1, e depoispermanece dependente e em tensao peranteessas cria~~es. A essas tensoes da 0 nome deesperanJa. Esta esperan~a, porem, nao esta10nge da a1ienna,ao, nada rea1iza, faz-se in­util, ainda que sirva de estupefaciente parao seu cora)ao. Este modo de esperar nuncapode ser 0 modo de esperar crist~o, pois nas­ce em nos por obra e graya de nos mesmos. De­pende das nossas ideias, dos nossos fracassoscamuf1ados, do nosso querer e nao poder.

Longe desta, a esperan1a crista, que evirtude teo10ga1. E1a e um dom inefave1 deDeus que nos faz ane1ar pe10 incompreens!ve1da nossa fee Como esta, assenta em aconteci­mentos que nunca se nos reve1am p1enamente.I1umina-nos a rea1idade ern seu caminho para aplenitude e deixa-nos ane1antesdessa pleni­tude.

Esperan)a, no fundo, reve1a-nos uma ca­r~ncia de nos mesmos. Torna-se em confian.ade que os outros nos rea1izem e de que "0 Ou­tro" (Deus) nos exp1ique por inteiro. Mas tam­bem aqui ha risco e urna encruzi1hada para oshomens: remirem-se para Deus pe1a esperan~a

que 1hes faz compreender toda a cruel rea1i­dade ou atirarem-se cegamente contra 0 pare­dao que os 1imita. Vem i1uminar esta encruzi­1hada a'Sagrada Escritura.

Ouvimos frequentamente, "sede pacientesate a vinda do Senhor." A paci~ncia evange1i­ca nao ~ aguentar e conformar-se. Exige umaconstru)ao que sabemos ser 1enta e uma con-

• d' • f"testa~ao e mU1ta coisa. Esta perto da e e evizinha da esperanca. Eter e nao ter ainda., .,,;",E sofrer para nao sofrer. E tambem uma atitu-de de Advento.

A raz~o da nossa paci~ncia ~ que 0 Senhol, ,. P' . desta prox1mo. or 1SS0, prec1samos e urn co-

ra~ao forte que n~o adormeJa na primeira vi­gilia e que n~o esbarre na primeira barrica­da.

Paci~ncia que ate nos pode 1evar a con­fiar contra toda a esperan~a intramundana.Quem espera contra toda a esperan~a, esperada me1hor maneira. Por iSBO, ~~6s temos porbem-aventurados aque1es que s~1reram."

Paci~ncia que nos faz compreender 0 sen­~ido das coisas e da historia dos homens quee, ao mesmo tempo, hist6ria das coisas e in­ten~~es de Deus. 0 que poderiamos chamar 0"Grande Advento" do mundo. As guerras e revo­1u~oes nao terao side tambem como "grm,s detrigo" que morrem para dar vida? E 0 mundo em

f - w ,trans orma~ao nao estara em advento de Resur-.y 'i' 1"re1Jao, sempre prox ma e, S1mu taneamente,

sempre distante?Pacienia que nos situa ao nosso n{ve1

de humanos: entre 0 ter e 0 nao ter ainda,entre a espera e 0 desespero, entre 0 quevai e 0 que fica. Ao situar-nosno nosso lu­gar, a paci~ncia e geradora de a1egria.

Os que vo1tavam do desterro vinham coro­ados de urna a1egria eterna: repletos de gozoe a1egria.(Is.) Tamb'em a solid~o da nossaterra f10rescer~ e exu1tara de j~bi10. E

oMporque Deus vem sa1var-nos, nao podemos re-cear.

Por outra parte, somos uma mu1tidro quevem chegando e estamos sempre partindo. 0nosso caminho vai ficando para tras, 1ajeadocom peda10s da nossa.dor e dos nossos triun-fos. E, no entanto, confiamos.

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'Life in its fullness cannot ignore nature.'

focus on youth

By Charlie Martin

Controlled by Hope

"Hope is some extraordinaryspiritual grace that God givesus to control our fears, not tooust them." - Vincent McNabb,O.P.

thony High School Glee Club.To be featured is the Triple Trio,a group of nine Holy Familygirls who recently performed at"Tri-Works." At the concertthey will appear with the chorusand a Junior Folk Group, alsonewly organized.

Earlier this month the annualfall play was presented by HolyFamily students. Chosen was"Spotlights and Haloes," acomedy.

Holy FamilyThe newly formed Holy Fam­

ily Glee Club is preparing for itsfirst Christmas concert, to bepresented Dec. 15, 16 and 17under direction of Arthur Buck­ley, former director of St. An-

and English departments willsponsor a schoolwide spellingcontest, with awards given tothe top three winners.

New officers of the Key Clubare Jeanne Lynch, president;Jo-Anne Chaput, vice-president;Stephen Healey, treasurer; LisaValade, secretary. The club,sponsored by the Attleboro Ki­wanis Club, aims to develop ini­tiative, leadership and goodcitizenship among members.

Recorded by Billy Joel, (c) 1977, 1978 by Joelsongs

Billy Joel's "Only The Good Die Young" did little to endear himto Catholic audiences. Yet his music is some of the most popularon the rock charts. His current release is the fourth single to makethe top 40 from his album "The Stranger."

It offers two points for Qur reflection. The first concerns thedifference between a person's behavior and the person's worth. Toooften we confuse these two. We can make the mistake of passingnegative judgments on the whole person when in reality it is theperson's behavior we dislike. If we fail to see the needs and painbehind actions, we can easily write off a person as not deserving ofour time and friendship.

The second point r~flects on how we see others as they in­teract with us. If we "look" with love, we can empower another togrow past current limitations in behavior. As followers of Jesus,our challenge is to see others with such an expansive vision thatthey can grow to become their best selves.

SHE'S ALWAYS A WOMANShe can kill with a smileShe can wound with her eyesShe can ruin yOUl' faith with her casual liesAnd she only reveals what she wants you to seeShe hides like a childBut she's always a woman to me.She can lead you to loveShe can take you or leave youShe can ask for the truthBut she'll never believe youAnd she'll take what you give her as long as it's freeYeah she steals like a thiefBut she's always a woman to me.Oh, she takes care of herselfShe can wait if she wantsShe's ahead of her timeOh, and she never gives outAnd she never gives inShe just changes her mind.She will promise you moreThan the Garden of EdenThen she'll carelessly cut youAnd laugh while you're bleedin'But she'll bring out the bestAnd the worst you can beBlame it all on yourself'Cause she's always a woman to me.She is frequently kindAnd she's suddenly cruelShe can do as-she pleasesShe's nobody's foolBut she can't be convictedShe's earned her degreeAnd the most she will doIs throw shadows at youBut she's always a woman to me.

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Bishop FeehanA college financial aid work­

shop for seniors and their par­ents from Feehan, Attleboro,North Attleboro and Nortonhigh schools will be held at Fee­han at 7:30 p.m. Monday.

Varsity cheerleaders will entercompetition Saturday, Dec. 9 atNorton High School. Also onDec. 9 prospective 'Feehaniteswill take a placement exam, be­ginning at 8 a.m.

Monday, Dec. 11, the business

If we' are to understand Ad­vent, we must think upon thesethings right now. We must lookupon our natural environmentwith deep love. Life in its full­ness cannot ignore nature.

Advent, to me, means a newway of responding to those lessfortunate than we. There is animperialism even in our fullfill­ing of social responsibility. Ad­vent tells me this is wrong. Ad­vent tells me to see power in thepowerless, richness residing withthe poor, for in meeting themwe are met by Jesus Christ.

Advent is reciprocity, our senseof mutual need. Even our Lordhad need of a place to be born.Advent confronts us with thatChild in the manger. We needthe ministration and compassionof that Child. We forget hiswords, how he tells us that heis always with us in the midstof what seems to be hidden.

Advent reminds us that manythings have gone wrong in ourlives. Our high standard of liv­ing, once a model to the world,has become grotesque opulenceand ugly extravagance. We needmore life gospel-style.

True Advent will be here whenwe really understand and liveup to the words: "We are allmembers of one another, so thatif one member suffers we allsuffer together, and if one mem­ber is honored, we are all hon­ored together."

Placement ExamAll Catholic high schools in

the diocese will accept appli­cants and administer a place­ment examination for new stu­dents at 8:15 a.m. Saturday,Dee. 9. Students wishing to en­ter one of the diocesan schoolsin September should report tothe one of their choice at thattime. The examination and ap­plication procedure will last un­til 12:30 p.m.

A $3 application fee will bepayable Ilt Bishop Gerrard andBishop Connolly high schools inFall River, Holy Family HighSchool, New Bedford, and Bish­op Stang High SchOOl, NorthDartmouth. The charge will be$5 at Bishop Feehan HighSchool, Attleboro, and Coyle andCassidy High School, Taunton.

Students need bring no rec­ords, nor need parents accom­pany them. Complete informa­tion as to each school's courses,activities and financial andscholarship aid available will begiven at the time of the exam­ination.

beheld his glory, the glory as ofthe only begotten of the Father,full of g'race and truth."

In Christ, eternity invadedtime. History was being touchedin a way never touched beforeor since. There was true Light inthe world!

I see the church this Adventgoing along in its pilgrimage ex­periencing many changing per­ceptions. Today we are recover­ing a dimension that tells us welive on a finite planet, withgrowth limits.

We forget in our greed that"The earth is the Lord's," notours. Our stewardship has leftmuch to be desired. The survivalof vast portions of the humanfamily lies in question while wethrow enough food into our gar­bage cans to feed a country ofstarving people.

••••By Cecilia Belanger

Does Advent creat a differentlifestyle? A new way of think­ing and acting? Does it last, andfor how long? Is it emotional ordeep-rooted?

Advent has to be differentfrom other parts of the year. It'sas if "the last days" had endedand a new beginning in JesusChrist is upon us. We alreadybegin to feel the newness andthe hope. We are in constantexpectation. We know our ex­pectations will be fulfilled.

A grand climax on this earthbegan with our Lord in his ad­vent when "The word becameflesh and dealt among us and we

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"Christmas Eve on Sesam~

Street," (PBS), 8-9 p.m. Dec. 3The festivities of Big Bird andhis friends, including some newChristmas songs. The programwill be rebroadcast at 8 p.m.Dec. 21 and 7 p.m. ChristmasEve.

Friday, Dec. 8, 10-11 p.m.(NBC) "Marijuana." This newsdocumentary reported by EdwinNewman focuses on the dramaticincrease in the smoking of mari­juana by teen-agers and thedrastic consequences it is havingon their lives.

PortsmouthPortsmouth Abbey School,

Portsmouth, R.I., attended bymany boys from the FallRiver diocese, will be the sub­ject of "In the Lord's Ser­vice," a CBS television docu­mentary to be shown at 10:30a.m. Sunday on New BedfordChannel 6.

Portsmouth is a collegepreparatory boarding schoolfor boys, founded by a com­munity of Benedictine monkswho form part of its faculty.The camera follows its 250students into the classroom,at student activities, during

. sports and recreation.Both students and faculty

answer such questions as:What impact does a religiousatmosphere have on educa­tion? How do Portsmouth'sboys respond to a challengingcurriculum? What advantages,if any, does the boardingschool experience offer?

On RadioSunday, Dec. 3 - "Guideline"

(NBC) presents the first of twointeryiews with Alba Zizzamia,director of the Office for WorldJustice and Peace, Archdioceseof New York. Ms. Zizzamiawill discuss the United NationsDeclaration on Human Rightswhich will be 30 years old next·Sunday. Interviewer is FatherThaddeus Morgan, a Graymoorfriar who is co-director of theGraymoor Ecumenical Institute(Check local listings for time.)

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PORTSMOUTH ABBEY BOYS PLAY LACROSSE

Symbols following film reviews indicateboth general and Catholic Film Officeratings, which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for gen­eral viewing; PG-parental guidance sug­gested; R-restricted, unsuitable forchildren or younger teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved forchildren and adults; A2-approved foradults and adolescents; A3-approved foradults only; B-objectionable in part foreveryone; A4-separate classification(given to films not morally offensivewhich, however, require some analysisand explanation); C-condemned.

"Lord of the Rings" (UnitedArtists) is a film treatment,blending cartoon and live fig­ures, of the famous J. R. R. Tol­kien saga of Middle Earth. Ittakes its hero, the hobbit Frodo,accompanied by his friend Sam,on a long and perilous journeyto Mount Doom, where theymust destroy the magic ring theybear. Essentially the story is aconfrontation of the forces ofgood and evil; however, the fan­tastic creatures in which itabounds are frighteningly depic­ted, which makes this not anentertainment for young child­ren. PG, A2

"Once in Paris": An Americanwriter (Wayne Rogers) comes toParis to minister to an ailingfilm script. He makes friendswith a worldly wise chauffeur(Jack Lenoir) employed by thestudio, has an affair with asophisticated Englishwoman(Gayle Hunnicut) and is aJmostready to abandon his wife andchildren for her sake. The filmis insipid and banal and its com­placent attitude towards adult­ery is morally offensive. 'B

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"Joey and Redhawk," (CBS),4-4:30 p.m. Dec. 4 through Dec.8. This is the first network week­day miniseries for young peopleand is an excellent story of two14-year-old boys, Joey on acamping trip from Ohio, Red­hawk a runaway, who meet inthe wilderness after Joey'sfather has broken his leg. In cop­ing with the situation they learn

IN THE DIOCESE

Whitefield, North Attleboro; jun­ior fullback Elaine Kaleta, Mans­field.

Girls' All.Jiockomock cross­country has Kathy Sullivan andAlynne MacLean, Oliver Ames;Gabrielle Lessard, Franklin;Kelley Boyle, Sharon; KarenHierpe, North Attleboro; AndreaKershaw of co-champion Canton;Susie Shurmer of co-championKing Philip; Laurie Cooney, Fox­boro.

Champion Foxboro dominatesboys' all-Hockomock cross-coun­try with Ed Marcotte, PatrickMullally and Jack Tisdale. Theaggregation also includes RobertMcCormack and John Loiselle,Sharon; Leon Wilson, Stoughton;Vin Brennan, North Attleboro;Frank McLean, Oliver Ames.McCormack is all-star captain.

Falmouth, the girls entertainFairhaven Dec. 15, will be atBourne Dec. 20 and at FairhavenDec. 22. They return home Dec.27 against Falmouth and Dec. 29against Martha's Vineyard.

Then they go into their confer­ence schedUle: Jan. 2, at Coyle-­Cassidy; 5, Old Rochester; 10,Case; 15, Westport; 18, at BishopGerrard; 23, at Voke-Tech; 25,Coyle-Cassidy; 29, at Case; Feb.I, at Old Rochester; 8, at West­port; 13, Voke-Tech; 15, Gerrard.They host Bourne Feb. 20 andvisit New Bedford Feb. 22 innon-league games to end theirseason.

All boys' games will be playedin the Kennedy Youth Center,377 County Street, New Bedford.Jayvee games are 90 minutes be­fore varsity games. Girls' gameswill he played at the old NewBedford Vocational High School,Hillman and Chancery Streets.Holy Family does not have agirls' jayvee team.

sion over Fall River North.Rochester defeated Taunton, 6-2.

Next Sunday night's three­game program, starting at 9, hasRochester vs. New Bedford,Taunton vs. Somerset-Freetown,and South vs. North. In thepresent standings South has 17points, New Bedford 11, Somer­set-Freetown 10, Taunton 9,Rochester 7, North 6.

From Haiti, Bahamasrefugees are in the Diocese ofBrooklyn and the Archdioceseof Miami, McCarthy said, addingthat the U.S. Catholic Confer­ence has helped thousands ofHaitian refugees over the yearsand wiIl do all it can for thenew group from the Bahamas."We're concerned about doingeverything possible to help ­legally, technically and material­ly," he said.

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olic agencies are "deeply invol­ved" in aiding a new batch of"boat people" - this time re­fugees from Haiti and the Ba­hamas y.oho are fleeing difficultpolitical and economic situationsin thos~ countries, accl1rding toJohn MpCarthy, director of theU.S. b~shops' Migration andRefugee Services.

The largest number of Haitian

Holy Family High of New Bed­ford will open boys' and girls'basketball on Dec. 12.

The boys will open at home toCoyle-Cassidy, the girls at Fal­mouth in non-league games. Theboys will be host to Bishop Con­nolly High on Dec. 14, meet analumni quintet on Dec. 22, visitCoyle-Cassidy the day afterChristmas and will entertainMartha's Vineyard for two after­noon games on Dec. 30 beforeopening their conference sched­ule which is: Jan. 3, at BishopFeehan; 5, at Bishop Stang; 9,Seekonk; 12, Old Rochester; 16,Dennis-Yarmouth; 19, at NewBedford Voke-Tech; 23, at Ware­ham; 26, Feehan; 30, at Seekonk;Feb. 2, Stang; 6, at Dennis-Yar­mouth; 9, at Old Rochester; 13,Wareham; 16, Voke-Tech.

They wind up their seasonwith a non-league game at Con­nolly on Feb. 19 and an after­noon doubleheader at Martha'sVineyard on Feb. 21.

After their season opener at

Hockomock All Stars

Holy Family Hoop Schedule

The Hockomock League hasannounced its All-Hockomockteams in field hockey and boys'and girls' cross-country.

Canton field hockey is repre­sented by left halfback LisaSmith, left inner Terry McNeiland goalie Jane Malloy. Frank­lin's "stellars" at the sport arecenter halfback Patti Socci,goalie Janet Vignone and centerforward Bernadette Corbett.Miss Smith and Miss Socci areall-star co-captains.

Others on the team are centerforward Maria Allen and centerhalfback Joanne Camara, OliverAmes; halfback Vicki Wenzel,King Philip; right inner CindyMcKay, Foxboro; center half­back Karen Wurtzer, Sharon;center halfback Denise Fraser,Stoughton; halfback-link Karen

,Fall River South blanked NewBedford, 4-0, last Sunday andstretched its lead over theWhale towners to six points inthe Bristol County .CatholicHockey League. Despite the loss,New Bedford retained the run­nerup spot, one point ahead ofSomerset-Freetown, which tookover third place with a 4-3 deci-

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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION,TAUNtON

The Women's Guild Christmasparty will be held Thursday, Dec.5.

Girl Scout uniforms for anyage level are needed by membersof the parish troops. Those hav­ing any to donate are asked tocontact Mrs. Mary Powers,824-4452.

ST. PATRICK,FALL RIVER

The pubUc is invited and ad­missioh will be free to the Jubi­lee Choir concert to be held at8 p.m. Sunday at St. Patrick'sChurch. In addition to an orig­inal composition by Father Wil­liam G. Campbell of Holy NameChurch, Fall River, the programwill feature music by Mozart,Haydn and PachelbeI.

FIRST FRIDAY CLUB,FALL RIVER

Father William J. Cullen, S.J.,will speak to the Fall River FirstFriday Club at its meeting to­morrow night.

Chairman of the religion de­partment at Bishop ConnollyHigh School, Father Cullen willtake for his subject: "The MoralCommitment of Today's Youth:'

Members will attend the 6p.m. Mass in Sacred HeartChurch and the supper-meetingwill follow in the parish hall.

SS. PETER AND PAUL,FALL RIVER

The parish spiritual life com­mittee has implemented a newprogram for baptism, involvinga "host couple" who will pre·pare parents for the significantstep of their child's reception ofthe sacrament and a representa­tive parish gathering in attend­ance at each baptism ceremony.The gathering, including organ­ization members and any parish­ioners able to be present, will"demonstrate the concern of theChurch for new Christians."

The SIGN folk group will prac­tice at 7:30 tonight in the choirroom.

The annual Women's ClubChristmas party will be held at7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12 inFather Coady Center. Mary Tyr­rell (672-0227) is in cliarge ofreservations.

ST. ANTHONY,TAUNTON

Thirty-two members of St.St. Anthony's Guild have volun­teered to visit all shut-ins in theparish during December. A giftwill be presented to each.

Donations of money and babyclothes has been made to Birth­right of Taunton.

The annual Christmas guildparty will be held at the 1882House in North Easton on Tues­day, Dec. 5. Guests are welcome.

FIVE HOUR VIGIL,ST. BERNARD,ASSONET

A five-hour First Friday vigilof reparation will be held from8 p.m. to 1 a.m. tomorrow at St.Bernard Church, Assonet. It willinclude a Mass at its beginningand conclusion, and a rosary and

, holy hour service. Refreshmentswill be served at 10 p.m. All areinvited to attend.

SACRED HEARTS,FAIRHAVEN

A monthly Mass for the in­tentions of all participants in aholy hour program at SacredHearts will be celebrated today.The Blessed Sacrament will beexposed at the church tomorrowand Friday, Dec. 8.

HOLY TRINITY,WEST HARWICH

'Father Horace Travassos, as­sistant chancellor, will speak ata Ladies' Association commun­ion breakfast to be held in thechurch hall Friday, Dec. 8, fol­lowing 9 a.m. Mass. Reserva­tions will close Sunday.

SACRED HEART,FALL RIVER

A family Advent booklet,"Come, Lord Jesus" is availableto parish families for use inhome celebrations of the Adventseason.

The choir meets at 9 a.m. eachSunday for rehearsals, directedby Mrs. Collette Waring.

The parish council will meetat 7:30 tonight in the rectory.

ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL,FALL RIVER

The Women's Guild will holda Christmas party at 6:30 p.m.Tuesday in the parish hall. Adinner will be followed by enter-

, tainment from the choral groupof Case High School, directed byH. James LaFlame. Mrs. RogerVezina and Mrs. Michael Arrudaare hostesses.

Music for the 10 a.m. liturgythis Sunday will feature the Mar­ier Penitential Rite and the Bachchorale "Wachet Auf."

LA SALETTE SHRINE,ATTLEBORO

Christmas illuminations wilfcontinue nightly through Jan. 1.Displays will include a cribscene with live animals and aspecial children's manger.

ULTREYA GR()UP,CENTERVILLE

The December ultreya will beheld at 8 p.m. tomorrow at OurLady of Victory church hall inCenterville.--'fhe theme will be"Giving Is Receiving" and Masswill' be celebrated by FatherJack Fitzgerald. Gift exchangeand dancing will follow.

ST. MARY,SEEKONK

The annual collection will takeplace from noon to 2 p.m. Sun­day, Dec. 3.

New Women's Guild officersfor 1979 will be Barbara Lynch,president; Joan Faria, vice-presi­dent; Katherine Tennien, treas­urer; Marilyn Leddy and MaySitko, secretaries.

The guild's Christmas partywill be held at 6:45 p.m. Mon­day, Dec. 4 at the CCD center,at which time the new officerswill be installed. All women ofthe parish and their guests arcinvited and songs by ClaireBeauregard will be heard.

THIRD ORDER OFST. DOMINIC,FALL RIVER

Members of the Third Orderof St. Dominic will meet at 7:30p.m. Friday, Dec. 8' for Massand a meeting. Father GilesDimock, OP, chaplain, will leada discussion on the Eucharisticliturgy.

ST. THERESA,SOUTH ATTLEBORO

The Confraternity of Christ­ian Mothers will be host unitfor District 4 of the DiocesanCouncil of Catholic Women at aMass at 7:30 p.m. Monday. Ameeting and Christmas partywill folio. at 8.

ST. STANISLAUS,FALL RIVER

A solemn candlelight Euchar­ist and blessing of adventwreaths will be held at 4:30 p.m.Saturday. Wreaths for home usemay be brought to the churchfor this ceremony.

The Youth Ministry group willmeet at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10in the lower church.

FEITElBERG INSURANCE AGENCY GEORGE O'HARA CHEVROlET-GLOBE MANUFACTURING CO. CADILLACINTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS

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ST. JOHN OF GOD,SOMERSET

There will be a general meet­ing for all CCD teachers at 7:30p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7 in theCCD center.

For The Benefit Of ,The Exceptional And UnderprivilegedChildren Of Every Race, Color And Creed

Twenty-Fourth Annual

Bishop's Charity Ball

F'RIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12~ 1979

LINCOLN PARK BALLROOM

Dance Music By. MANNY SILVIA'S TOP HATTERSIn Cocktail Lounge8 P'.M. tc) 1 A.M.

AND

FeaturingVINCENT LOPEZ ORCHESTRAUNDER THE DIRECTION OF DANNY LEROY

IN THE BALLROOM9 P.M. to 1 A.M.

Auspices of ST. VINCENT DE PAUL andTHE DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC WOMEN

COMMEMORATING THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OFTHE FOUNDING OF THEDIOCESE OF FALL RIVER

PAUL G. CLEARY & CO., INC.EDGAR'S FALL RIVERTOM ELLISON QUALITY MEN'S APPAREL

ST. ANNE,FALL RIVER

-Brownies will meet at 2:30p.m. today and a fellowshipmeeting will be held in theschool cafeteria at 7:30 p.m.

16 THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Thur., Nov. 30, 1978