Parish Office
841 Shore Road
Post Office Box 1558
Pocasset, MA 02559-1558

July 18, 2010 Bulletin

Family Fun Fair Information

Reverend Arnold R. Medeiros, Pastor

Reverend David C. Frederici, Parochial Vicar

       Fr. David Frederici was raised in Harwich, MA and attended Holy Trinity Parish in West Harwich.  Fr. David attended Worcester State College, graduating with a B.A. in History in 1993.  Following college, he entered the seminary and earned a Certificate in Philosophical Studies from Seton Hall University, but left soon afterwards.  He worked for the YMCA Cape Cod and the May Institute.  In 1998, Fr. David returned to the Seminary and was ordained by Bishop Sean O’Malley on

June 9, 2001.

     He has served as Parochial Vicar at Our Lady of Victory in Centerville and then for five years as Chaplain to Cape Cod Hospital.  In June 2010, Bishop Coleman assigned Fr. David as the Parochial Vicar to St. John the Evangelist Parish in Pocasset and St. Elizabeth Seton Parish in North Falmouth.

      In addition to these assignments, Fr. David is currently the Diocesan Scout Chaplain, serves as the Region I Chaplain for the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, and is the Chaplain to CARITAS, a student organization at Cape Cod Community College.  He also is a member of the Barnstable County Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Team.

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Deacon William A Martin, Pastoral Assistant

     Deacon Bill was raised in Taunton, MA. After high school he joined the Army and was trained in the Military Police. In 1962 he married Judith Cusick. They have four children and nine grandchildren. Bill worked at Raytheon in various positions in the security department until his retirement in 1998.

      Before being ordained to the Permanent Diaconate by Bishop Daniel A. Cronin in 1982, Bill and Judy served the Diocese in the Family Life Ministries, working with married couples and in Marriage Preparation. Bill and Judy introduced Engaged Encounter into the Diocese at that time.

      After his ordination, Deacon Bill was assigned by the bishop to St. Patrick parish in Wareham, where he served for 17 years. While serving at St. Patrick parish, he and his wife were also assigned to the Divine Worship Committee in the Diocese.

      In 1999 Bishop Sean O’Malley, OFM, Cap., Assigned Deacon Bill to St. Elizabeth Seton Parish as a Pastoral Assistant, where he happily serves today.

Peter Guresh, Deacon

Peter M. Guresh, a native of Taunton, Massachusetts, was educated in the Taunton Catholic schools. Studied at Alfred University, Alfred N.Y. where he received a Masters degree in 1982 and at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts where he received a B.S. degree with the class of 1977.

     In 1985, married the former Jane Yenulivich, of Carver, Massachusetts. Together they have raised two sons, Matthew and Andrew. Deacon Guresh, has been in healthcare for more then thirty years. He began and completed his studies for the Permanent Deaconate for the Diocese of Fall River and was ordained by Bishop Sean O'Malley on May 18, 2002. He has been assigned to Elizabeth Seton Parish in North Falmouth since his ordination.

    Deacon Guresh enjoys music, travel, an avid interest in golf and long distance running.

deaconpmg@yahoo.com

Vincent Coates, Jr. Deacon

      Deacon Vinnie served as a special agent in the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps in the mid-1950s, after which he joined the former Avco Everett Research Laboratory as manager of the security department. With his promotion to director of public and government relations in 1959 he began a thirty-year career in the profession. When Avco disappeared with a merger, he began a new career as Vice President of a Washington D.C.-based public & government relations firm, from which he retired in 2009.

        Deacon Coates was ordained for the Archdiocese of Washington at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. in 1994. His pastoral assignment was at St. Joseph Church on Capitol Hill, established at the end of the civil war, one of the oldest churches in D. C. When Deacon Vin arrived in 1994, the expansion of government buildings and an increase in crime left fewer than 800 families. With only one priest, Deacon Vinnie’s duties ranged from visiting the elderly homebound, and preparing couples for marriage, to Baptism preparations, and officiating at marriage ceremonies and convalidations. He also directed RCIA and was Legion of Mary chaplain. He also served at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington as director, where he was chaplain to an assistant living & hospice residence, reporting to the Cathedral rector.

       In 2000 Deacon Vin retired from the Diaconate in Washington, and his family moved to Cape Cod, where he was granted Faculties by the Diocese of Fall river and assigned to St. Elizabeth Seton parish in Falmouth. Deacon Vin and his wife Jane live in Falmouth. They have two children and three grandchildren.

David E. Pierce, Deacon