https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/42465/archive/files/b4090870cbbb55fab0c06f464323c420.pdf?Expires=1781740800&Signature=CvdOZSdwkUQ7rym%7E10Ni4rDkmcWjdmeVOdJXIvDuZSh-0YiN-oNqICFB6dvDh9DjU3LE5KILRI8x6uEWry-HjkTfr6cN6zhRv77LC-2Tb%7EJbfhgTYlWwvbUr9Va7IU%7E7uyllitGcO2RWcZ-2Sut%7EVRJAioUzgodZJDrUd%7Ek7q-YizadoGCMgwmJJGypWmkYqZET2BVyIon%7EJXxj6aeuNPrQ7rOtfz-0niUbNSC8L7GxJxS-HXy5nX-GdHQJ1hAlMVKgl3JhKZ7XjGBKPYSlZsuP7YVmjzdCDqg2jmXq-JYi641ycKpIRaUnEdHYzvvb84M5T9qLUEqRw9rLPTOjeog__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM ef4746570114875b89140beae4e0cc8d PDF Text Text March 2, 2004 Dear Rev . Glynn, Rev. Lamoureux, Rev. Kempa, Rev. Hollywood, Rev. Kulwiec OMI, Rev. Taggart, Rev. Lozier, Rev. Euvrard, Rev. Domurat, Rev. Capone, Rev. Cornell, Rev. Magni, Rev. Clifford, and Rev. McMillan, We, the parishioners of St. Anthony's Parish in Lowell, Massachusetts, write to you to express our concern regarding the consolidation plan for the Lowell Parishes, specifically the proposal for the consolidation of St. Anthony's Parish, which would change our parish from a national/ethnic parish to a territorial parish. Over the last 100 years, St. Anthony's Parish has been the spiritual enclave for thousands of Portuguese immigrants who made Lowell their home. Our ancestors built this parish, and our parish families continue to celebrate the traditions set forth by our ancestors. At St. Anthony's, we have been able to celebrate mass in Portuguese and in English, teach religious education in both languages, and we continue with our traditions such as St. Anthony's Feast, Our Lady of Loreto Feast, Our Lady of Fatima Feast, Holy Ghost Feast, Trinity Feast, our processions, and many other celebrations that are integral to our spiritual growth, and to our culture. Today, our parish community has spread from the surrounding neighborhood into the Greater-Lowell suburbs including, but not limited to, Tewksbury, Dracut, Tyngsboro, Chelmsford, Billerica, and even into southern New Hampshire. Our parish still has a significant number of parishioners whose primary language is Portuguese and speak/ worship only in the Portuguese language. St. Anthony's Parish is the second largest Portuguese national parish in the Archdiocese of Boston. We are second to St. Anthony's Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts; however, our sacramental index is not much lower than theirs. In 2001-2002, we celebrated more baptisms and weddings in our parish than Cambridge; however, they celebrated more funerals, thus their index was higher. Based on the pastoral statistics for 2001-2002, St. Anthony's also has the highest sacramental index out of the seven national parishes in the city of Lowell. We are a vibrant community, which continues to grow. For the past 8 years, many of our parishioners have felt that the Archdiocese abandoned our Portuguese speaking population when it failed to provide us with a priest who not only spoke the Portuguese language fluently, but also shared our Portuguese ancestry and understood our culture. We recognize that finding a fluent Portuguesespeaking priest who also shares our ancestry may be difficult, but we know that it is not impossible, and we are willing to help you in this matter. We are also open to having other parish communities join St. Anthony's; however, we know that the needs of our parish community will only be met if St. Anthony's remains as a national parish serving the Portuguese speaking community of Greater-Lowell. This has been the mission of our parish, and must continue to be the mission of St. Anthony's Parish. As we face the very difficult decision of addressing the consolidation of the parishes in Lowell, we want to ensure that the interests of St. Anthony's Parish community are heard and that our needs are addressed. The needs of this Parish Community are: 1) to maintain St. Anthony's Parish as a national parish serving the Pagelof2 �.... needs of the Portuguese-American community as it has been for over 100 years; and 2) to provide our parish community with a fluent Portuguese-speaking priest who shares our ancestry and understands our culture. For decades, with the hard work and dedication of its many parishioners and benefactors, St. Anthony's Parish has been able to stay financially solvent and with the same dedication and hard work, we pledge to continue that tradition. We request that you or a representative of the Archdiocese of Boston contact us at your earliest convenience to discuss our concerns. Please contact me at (603) 898-8962 x180 (mailing address: 396 Andover St., Lowell, MA, 01852; email: esaab@advpoly.com). Sincerely, l,l.nc _)/4 lc-c- b--:.----- Elisia Saab Representative of the Voice of St. Anthony's Parish We, the parishioners of St. Anthony's Parish in Lowell, Massachusetts, respectfully submit this request to you as signed here within. Enclosures: Signatures of Parishioners of St. Anthony's Parish Lowell, Massachusetts who support this request. We received a total of 2016 signatures from our parishioners for this request. # Parishioners Location Lowell 1574 Tewksbury 145 Dracut 143 Southern New 94 Hampshire Other Towns 25 Tyngsboro 19 Chelmsford 16 CC: Most Rev. Emilio Allue Most Rev. Richard Lennon Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley OPY Page 2 of 2 �, ,. 2 de Marco 2004 Estimados. Rev. Glynn, Rev.Lamoureux, Rev. Kempa, Rev.Hollywood, Rev. Kulwiec OMI, Rev. Taggard , Rev. Lozier, Rev. Euvrard,Rev. Domurat, Rev. Capone, Rev. Cornell, Rev . Magni, Rev. Clifford, e Rev McMillan: Por meio da presente carta, nós os paroquianos da igreja de Santo António em Lowell desejamos expressar as nossas preocupações sobre o plano de consolidação para as paroquias de Lowell. A nossa preocupação é especificamente sobre a proposta para a consolidação de Santo António, reorganização que transformará a nossa paróquia duma paróquia nacional para urna territorial. Durante os últimos cem anos, a paróquia de Santo Antonio tem sido o centro espiritual para milhares de imigrantes que se estabeleceram em Lowell. Os nossos antepassados edificaram a igreja e as famílias paroquianas continuam a celebrar as tradições dos nossos antepassados. Em Santo António, celebramos a liturgia em Português e Inglês, temos a educação religiosa dos nossos filhos em Portugues e Ingles. e continuamos com as nossas celebrações em honra de Nossa Senhora do Loreto, Nossa Senhora de Fatirna ,Divino Espírito Santo, Santissirna Trindade, e a Santo Antonio, com as nossas procissões e muitas outras celebrações que fazem parte da nossa cultura e do nosso crescimento espiritual. Hoje, a nossa comunidade paroquial estende-se as Vilas de Greater Lowell incluindo mas nao limitada a Dracut, Tewksbury, Tyngsboro, Chelrnsford, Billerica e ate ao Sul de New Hampshire. A nossa paroquia tem um numero elevado de paroquianos cujo idioma principal e o Portugues e a sua participacao na missa e celebracoes e somente em Portugues. A Paroquia de Santo Antonio em Lowell ocupa o segundo lugar das igrejas nacionais Portuguesas na Arquidiciose de Boston, estando em primeiro lugar a Igreja de Santo Antonio em Cambridge, informacao essa baseada nas fixas sacramentais. Durante o periodo 2001-2002, a Paroquia de Santo Antonio em Lowell celebrou mais bautismos e matrimonios e a Igreja de Santo Antonio em Cambridge mais funerais por isso , aparece em primeiro lugar. Tambem baseado nas estatísticas pastorais para o ano 20012002, a Paroquia de Santo Antonio ocupa o primeior lugar das sete paroquias nacionais em Lowell com maior numero de sacramentos. Somos uma comunidade vibrante que continua a crescer. Muitos dos nossos paroquianos se sentiram abandonados pela Arquidiocese nos ultimos oito anos com a falta dum pastor que domina o idioma Portugúes e compreende a nossa cultura e descendencia. Reconhecemos que sera dificil encontrar um padre que fale o Português, e conhece a nossa descendencia , mas não é impossível, e estamos prontos a prestar a nossa aj"uda nesta iniciativa. Também estamos abertos á união com outras comunidades paroquiais mas sabemos que as necessidades da nossa paróquia só serão conseguidas se a paróquia de Santo António rnantem a designação de paroquia nacional. Isto tem sido a missao da nossa paroquia e deve continuar a ser a missa da Paroquia de Santo Antonio. A decisão que tem que ser feita sobre a consolidação das paroquias de Lowell é muito difícil, mas nós os paroquianos, queremos esclarecer e queremos que sejam ouvidos os interesses e necessidades da nossa comunidade pastoral: 1) manter a Paroquia de Santo Antonio urna paroquia nacional continuando a servir a comunidade luso-americana como tem sido feita durante os ultirnos cem anos: 2) enviar a nossa comunidade paroquial um Paroco que conhece e partilha a nossa cultura . Por decadas, com o trabalho e dedicação de muitos dos seus paroquianos e benfeitores, a paróquia de Santo António tem mantido �solvencia financeira e com essa mesma dedicação e trabalho prometemos continuar com essa tradição. Queremos pedir-lhes que um representante da Arquidiocese nos contacte quanto mais pronto possível para que possamos discutir as nossas preocupações. Por favor, chame a representante do nosso movimento, a senhora Elisia Saab pelo numero (603) 898-8962 xl80 (endereço: 396 Andover St., Lowell, MA 01852; email: esaab@advpoly.com). Sinceramente, Elisia Saab, Representante da Voz da Paroquia de Santo Antonio. Nós, os paroquianos da paróquia de Santo Antonio em Lowell, respeitavelmente enviamos o pedido acima feito com as nossas assinaturas. Junto foi enviado as assinaturas dos paroquianos da Igreja de Santo Antonio em Lowell, Massachusetts . Recebemos um total de 2016 assinaturas. Localidade # de paroquianos Lowell Tewksbury Dracut Sul de New Hampshire Tyngsboro Chelmsford Outras vilas 1574 145 143 94 19 16 25 CC: Most Reverend Emilio Allue Most Reverend Richard Lennon Most Reverend Richard O'Malley � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dimas Espinola Collection [1923-2009] Description An account of the resource These items, collected over time by Dimas Espinola, detail the Portuguese community in Lowell from the 1920s through the 2000s. Items include Holy Ghost Society documents, newspaper articles, photographs, and event posters. Biographical Note Born on the Azorean island of Terceira, in the village of Biscoitos, in 1950; Dimas Espinola immigrated with his family to the United States in the late 1960s, settling in Lowell’s “Back Central” (predominately Portuguese) neighborhood; his father, formerly a furniture maker in Biscoitos, obtained a job as a loom fixer in the Wannalancit Mills; his mother worked in a shoe factory; Mr. Espinola received his formal education in schools on Terceira and, upon arriving in Lowell, he secured a work permit and, at nearly 17 years of age, he was employed in a manufacturing job in the Paris shoe factory on Bridge Street; at the same time Mr. Espinola, a communicant at St. Anthony’s Church, began working closely with the pastor, Rev. John F. deSilva; among his activities was translating English for Portuguese members of the community, which included various issues affecting the neighborhood, including a state proposed extension of the Lowell Connector highway that threatened many homes and businesses in the “Back Central” neighborhood; in addition to his community activism and work with the church, Mr. Espinola also became involved with the Portuguese-American Center (and its soccer team), as well as the Holy Ghost Society; he remained in the shoe industry for many years, becoming a foreman and factory manager. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). No Copyright - United States: The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. Language A language of the resource English Portuguese Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1923-2009 Subject The topic of the resource Catholic Church--Societies, etc. Music--Portuguese influences Wedding photography Wedding attendants Portuguese American women United States. Navy. First Confession and Communion Immigrants--Cultural Assimilation--United States United States. Army. Fasts and Feasts Dictators Mills and mill-work Processions, Religious--Catholic Church Veterans United States. Navy. 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Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG PDF Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Image Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Items were donated by Dimas Espinola in 2022. Relation A related resource <a href="https://umlportuguesearchives.omeka.net/items/show/34">Dimas Espinola Oral History</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Items were donated by Dimas Espinola in 2022. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Title A name given to the resource Letter of Petition from Parishioners of Saint Anthony's Church Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2004-03-02 Description An account of the resource Letter to express concern about the consolidation plan of the Lowell Parishes. The parishioners write that it would change their parish from a national/ethnic parish to a territorial parish. Subject The topic of the resource Catholic Church--Dioceses Portuguese American women Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Lowell (Mass.) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Portuguese Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Anon_Portuguese_119