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Fr. Duffy Central Vil'loge Administrator Establishment of a new North. Dartmouth parish together with the designation of its first pastor was an-
FR. JOHN F. HOGAN
No. Dartmouth Pastor
nounced today by Most Rev. James L. Connolly, Bishop of Fall River, who also appointed a new parish, administrator. The North Dartmouth parish will be known as St. Julie Billiart in honor of the foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur who teach at Bishop Stang High· School. St. Julie's parish church is planned in the immediate vicinity of Stang High which will be used for services until a church is constructed. St. Julie was canonized this year.
Rev. John F. Hogan, present administrator at St. John the Evangelist Church in Central Village, has been appointed by the diocesan Ordinary to head the North Dartmouth parish. Rev. Edward C. Duffy, assistant all St. James' Church ;n New Bedford, will succeed Father Hogan as administrator at the Westport parish. Father Hogan Son of Mary (McMahon) Hogan and the late John Hogan, Father Hogan was born in FAil River on Aug. 29, 1918. He attended the Davenport elementary, BMC Durfee High School in Fall River and Coyle High
Eyes of those conce'rned about the survival of the Catholic school system of the Diocese are on the State House these days as legislators are catching the urgency of the Catholic school crisis. For several years, educators and administrators of the Catholic school system have city of Fall River by $46.20, in New Bedford by $25.50, in Taunbeen talking of the plight of ton by $39.70, in Swansea by their schools but it is only $34.60, in Westport by $29.60.
Compose WASHINGTON (NC) U. S. Catholics who attend church on Thanksgiving Day this year will hear, for the first time, a Mass constructed by liturgists especially for this national civil holiday. The National Conference of Catholic Bisnops has approved the new Mass for Thanksgiving Day for use in the more than 150 dioceses in the United States. The themes of thanksgiving to God for His blessings on our land as "a place of promise and hope," as well as an appreciation or our responsibility to our fellowman, are expressed prayers,' suggested, through hymns and a choice of readings from the Old and New Testaments. Through the ages, the Church has not hesitated to adapt existing festive days to liturgical needs. The Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Liturgy tells how "the Church studies with sympathy and preserves intact" elements of a people's way of life in the liturgy, "so long as they harmonize
And there would be less money for other needs in communities because of the education needs. Already many area legislators have made known their support of any reasonable legislation, including some form of financial help, to insure the survival of the Catholic schools. Rev. Patrick J. O'Neill, Ed. D., Superintendent of Schools of the Fall River Diocese, has indicated that interested persons should let their State representatives and senators know by letter that they favor action immediately to assist the Catholic school system in this very real and present crisis.
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Westport Administrator
Bishops, Reach Decisions On Mass, Sacraments
Urge Legislative Action In Catholic School Crisis,
recently that the full reality of the crisis is beginning to be appreciated. It has taken the c1os·· ing of schools and the elimination and cut-back in grades to make the situation clear. State Senate President Maurice A. Donahue has asked a study committee working on the problem to come up with a short-term report, hopefully by' January, while it continues an in-depth study which may take as long as two years. By then, it is feared, time will have run out for the Catholic schools. The burden that their failing will place on cities and towns of the area would see the tax rate skyrocketing - in the case of the
in Taunton, and Providence College. The new pastor prepared for the Priesthood at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore and was ordained a priest on Feb. 24, 1945 by Bishop James E. Cassidy. Father Hogan has served at St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford; St.Mary's Home, New Bedford; and St. John the Baptist Church, Westport. The founding pastor of St. Julie Billiart Church also served the Diocese in many cap.acities: Director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau, New Bedford; Director of the Television Mass for WTEV, Channel 6; Diocesan Director of the Thanksgiving Cloth· ing Appeal. Turn to Page Seventeen
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By a two-thirds 1Jote of the B-ishops of the United States, the tmnslation and 1'ites of the "new" Mass have been accepted f01' the United States. The bishops also 1'eached imp01'tant decisions as 1'ega1'd,s to the ad ministmtion of the Sacmments. The "new" Mass may be used throughout, the U. S. as of Palm Sunday, Ma1'ch 22, 1970. The daff1 is not mandatory, howeve'l', and individual bishops may 1)ostpone the. int1'od'Uction of the new 1'ites depending on the education '.wd p1'epamtion of the people, The mandatory date, established by Pope Paul VI, 'is the Pi1'st 8'tmday of Adt1ent, 1971, . The structure and form of the new "Ordo Missae" has been approved for use in the Western Church by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship as part of its work of extensive reform and revision of the Church's official liturgical books, initiated by the Second Vatitan Council (1962-65). The Our Father The Bishops did not approve """""""":"I""""""""""",.",,,IH"''''''""""""""""""""
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Senate Asks School 'Aid The Senate of Priests of the Diocese, meeting last week, heard reports of the successful priests' study day at which noted author and sociologist Father John Thomas Turn to Page Two
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non-Christian feasts with Christian fulfillment by instituting its own liturgical festivals, Christmas, for example, replaced the Roman Winter solstice festival. The texts of the Mass, besides expressing thanksgiving, are also appropriate to the liturgical action they accompany. The entrance song· is a psalm of entrance into the thanksgiving sacrifice. The prayer recal:s the Protestant notion of America populated by a covenanted soci_ ety. In accord with the new Ordinary of the Mass, provision is made for three Scriptural reading~-13 selections, six from the Old Testament; four from the epistles of St. Paul; three from the Gospels - suitable to the theme of thanksgiving are given in the text. Variants are proposed for both offertory and communion songs. The postcommunion recalls our appreciation for God's goodness and our responsibility to our fellowman. Gifts of clothing and food for the poor, as suggested in the re-
vised Order' of the Mass, may suitably be brought to the church at this Thanksgiving Mass and carried to the altar in the offertory procession. This gesture will serve as a reminder to the faithful of our obligation to share tile goods of our stewardship. The text for. the Mass supplies antiphons and psalms for the entrance, offertory and commun· ion songs, but,iny appropriate hymn, psalm or other sacred song may be sung at these times. Moreover, the texts of the Simple Mass Gradual and of other psalm collections may be employed with the Thanksgiving Mass, This provides considerable flexibility in -the choice of additional antiphons and psalms, as long as they correspond to the spirit of this Mass. A variety of responsorial psalms for use between the first and second readings and a selection of alleluia verses before the Gospel are also included in the text. Neither the revised Ordinary of the Mass nor the text of this Thanksgiving Mass envisTurn to Page Five