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Bishop’s Blog: Ask the Bishop
Catholic Appeal The 80th Catholic Appeal, “Time to Gather, Time to Heal, Time to Love,” has closed with tremendous results. After an extraordinarily challenging time, more than 18,000 individual...
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Diocese Encourages Wearing of Masks at Mass Following Updated CDC Guidance
August 1, 2021 As most of you know, on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a change to its mask-wearing guidance and now advises that fully...
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Bishop’s Blog: The Call to Be a Parish Priest
Today is the feast day for the Patron Saint of Parish Priests, Jean-Baptiste-Marie (John) Vianney. At the age of 17, John Vianney felt the call to the priesthood. “If I am to be a priest,” he said,...
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FACE Celebrates 30 Years of Scholarships
FALL RIVER – Since the opening of the first Catholic school in the Diocese of Fall River, it has been a goal to make Catholic schools accessible to all families who wish to provide a Catholic education...
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Five Priests to Retire This Month
FALL RIVER — Five priests will retire from parish ministry in the Fall River Diocese this month after offering decades of service in the Fall River Diocese. To retire are Reverend Paul A. Caron, who is...
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Bishop’s Blog: Examples of Charity
FACE Summer Gala Last week it was my pleasure to gather with some 200 persons for the annual Summer Gala in Falmouth to support the Foundation to Advance Catholic Education (FACE) in our Diocese....
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Bishop’s Blog: Catholic Youth Day 2021
On Saturday, August 14th, I joined over 250 teens and youth ministers in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard for the celebration of Catholic Youth Day 2021. I was very pleased to see participants in...
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Diocese to Hold Special Collection to Support Relief Efforts in Haiti
FALL RIVER ̶ Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., has authorized a special collection in the Fall River Diocese to support the people of Haiti and recovery efforts in the Caribbean country following...
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Bishop’s Blog: End of Summer Retreat and Fall Preparations
Region I Bishops’ Retreat Once a year, usually in August, the Bishops of the New England area go on retreat together. Typically, it is held at the Franciscan House in Kennebunk, Maine. After missing a...
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Bishop da Cunha Issues Letter to Priests on Vaccine Exemptions
Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., issued the following letter to priests of the Fall River Diocese on August 25, 2021 in response to questions on letters of support for a religious exemption from...
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Diocese of Fall River Catholic Schools to Implement Mask Mandate
FALL RIVER – With the recent increase in COVID-19 cases specifically in children, the Diocese of Fall River Catholic Schools Office has issued guidelines to school leaders of the 19 Catholic schools...
View ArticleDecree Issued for St. Mary, St. Joseph-St. Therese and Our Lady of Fatima...
FALL RIVER – Bishop Edgar M. da Cunha, S.D.V., D.D., has decreed that, effective October 11, 2021, the Parishes of St. Mary, Our Lady of Fatima and St. Joseph-St. Therese, all located in New Bedford,...
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New Staff Join Secretariat for the New Evangelization
FALL RIVER — The Fall River Diocesan Secretariat for the New Evangelization has announced the recent hirings of two persons to lead efforts in two key areas, joining existing staff who transitioned...
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Bishop’s Blog: A Special Invitation and Welcoming Students Back Safely
On Sunday, August 29, I was honored to ordain five Congregation of Holy Cross seminarians to the Transitional Diaconate. The Congregation of Holy Cross has two important entities located in our...
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CSS Offering ‘Give Back’ Fridays
FALL RIVER — Catholic Social Services or CSS is hosting a series of ‘Give Back’ Fridays over the next five weeks in locations across the Fall River Diocese. Susan Mazzarella, who is CSS Chief Executive...
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Bishop’s Blog: Remembering 9/11
Remember, Honor, and Pray This week, I unite my prayers with the entire country as we recall the horrendous events of September 11, 2001. How strange to contemplate that this year marks the...
View ArticleOn 9/11, Recalling the Prayer of Two Popes at Ground Zero
Each year, Patriot Day is observed on September 11th in the United States as the National Day of Service and Remembrance in memory of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks in...
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Consecration to St. Joseph — Day 32
Consecration to St. Joseph ~ Prayers Week Five ESSENTIAL THREE Prayer for the Year of St. Joseph Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To you God entrusted his only Son;...
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Bishop’s Blog: Catechetical Sunday and Sharing the Faith
Secretariat for the New Evangelization In my August 18th blog, I shared the July 1st establishment of The Secretariat for the New Evangelization— restructuring the Office of Faith Formation, Campus...
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Diocesan Red Mass Makes Return in October
FALL RIVER — While the COVID-19 pandemic precluded its taking place in 2020, the Red Mass planning committee is pleased to announce that the annual fall celebration will return to the Fall River...
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