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At $3.4M, Annual Catholic Appeal in final stretch; still time to...
FALL RIVER — The 81st Annual Catholic Appeal has raised $3.4 million of its $4.8 million goal to date, with less than one week...
Inaugural Lumen Christi Gala to support Cathedral a big success
WESTPORT — With a showing of faith and energy at White’s of Westport on June 8, more than 260 people gathered to raise funds...
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Celebrating the ‘food for our journey, Bishop opens Eucharistic Revival in...
Bishop da Cunha incenses the Blessed Sacrament during Benediction following a Mass and procession to open the Eucharistic Revival in diocese, June 18 at Bishop Connolly High School. (Photo by Deacon Alan Thadeu)
My Brother’s Keeper holds 12th annual Family Walk
EASTON — More than 700 pairs of laces were tied on June 11 as walkers and volunteers assembled for the My Brother’s Keeper 12th...
Raynham Faith Formation class assists in making beds for children in...
RAYNHAM — This past year, the Faith Formation classes of St. Ann’s Parish in Raynham worked with the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless on...
Fall River St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store reopens after two...
A colorful window display at the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store in Fall River tells people the store is again open for business. Below, volunteers are ready to help customers.
Four diocesan seminarians ordained transitional deacons
Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., asks the candidates to declare their willingness to accept the duties and responsibilities of the diaconate at the May 21 transitional deacon ordination at St. Mary's Cathedral in Fall River. From left: Rev. Mr. Brian Connors; Rev. Mr. John Garabedian; Rev. Mr. Christopher Hughes; and Rev. Mr. Thiago Menezes Santos. (Photo by Deacon Alan Thadeu)
Bishop da Cunha celebrates Mass for diocesan eighth-graders
Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha accepts the gifts from Trinity Welter from St. Mary-Sacred Heart School in North Attleboro and Christopher Parillo from St. Michael School in Fall River.
Father Roger LandryPutting into the Deep
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The fitting response to Christ’s Sacrament of Love
Today, June 24, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is particularly special this year, for two reasons.
First, June...
Guarding sacramental integrity, Church Communion, and the salvation of souls
On May 20, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco sent a letter to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and...
The most beautiful church in the world
Pope Benedict XVI has often said that the most effective apologetic for Christianity are the lives of the saints and the art that the...
Dave JolivetMy View from the stands
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The news comes, and goes too quickly at times
I was seven years old, a first-grader at St. Anne School in Fall River, when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed. We were...
June is for summer, daughters, iced coffees and Tommy
There’s not a June that goes by without my thinking of certain things: my eldest daughter’s birthday, the beginning of summer and the longest...
One is never too old to too young
I’m still living in the afterglow of reading the books by Muscogee Creek caretaker of sacred ways, Native American Bear Heart and his wife...
Dr. Helen FlavinWrestling with god
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Surrender: Seeds grow
As an adolescent, I never understood Jesus’ words, “I have more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when He comes,...
The light beyond: Responding to the Face of God
A second-grader wailed in tears. What hurt more than the skinned knee was his friends laughing at him as well. Cardinal Van Thuan expressed it...
Love your enemies
The senior screamed, “I will grind him into the dust of the earth.” He pointed to the blackboard behind me as he continued, “And...
David CarvalhoAs For Me and My House
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One at a time
One at a time. It’s a common phrase I have to use with my kids, whether it’s when they grab all their toys at...
Acceptance is the first step
Often times when I become frustrated or make mistakes it is usually because I am stuck in the same, self-serving mindset. It is only...
What is the end of all this anyway?
One of the key lessons I learned when I started working as a high school teacher was to begin planning the year with the...
Youth ColumnBe Not Afraid
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Supporting our spiritual fathers
Time moves fast, but hopefully not too fast to remember last Sunday. It was Father’s Day! And since no edition of The Anchor was...
The summer of 1987: Baby don’t hurt me
I remember my very first encounter with love. I was about seven years old at a wedding, and completely enamored by one of the bridesmaids....
Let no one look down upon you because you are young!
One of the great privileges that I have had is working in the diocese in various youth programs that are near and dear to...
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Choosing the flag underneath to stand
In St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises, the training manual of authentic Jesuit spirituality and the most influential retreat program in the history of...
Responding adequately and effectively to mass killings
The list of deadly mass shootings continues to grow. The names of Tulsa, Uvalde, Buffalo, Boulder, El Paso, Virginia Beach, Thousand Oaks, Pittsburgh, Santa...
Daring to do all we can
In the epic Lauda Sion Salvatorem Gospel Sequence he wrote for the inaugural celebration of Corpus Christi in 1264, and still used today, St....
Year of St. Joseph
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St. Joseph knocks at the door … Open your heart to...
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. All of Creation proclaims the coming of Christ! As the bright stars in the Heavens...
St. Joseph — The saint of silence
This month, in preparation for the Liturgical season of Advent, the Church reflects upon Christ’s coming in history, in mystery in the Holy Eucharist...
St. Joseph, powerful intercessor for the Holy Souls in purgatory
November has traditionally been the month to pray for the dead, particularly for the holy souls in purgatory. The “Catechism of the Catholic Church”...
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