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Tyrone, BT78 3AS Tubrid Orange Lodge are holding a Evening Service FLOWER FESTIVAL in St Macartin’s Cathedral Friday 15th May – Saturday 16th May – Sunday 17th May 2015 in Tubrid Orange Hall Thursday 16th April, Enniskillen at 7.30pm To celebrate 150 years of the foundation of the Lodge Major charities will be supported from the proceeds Coach parties catered for – Lunch or evening meal SPECIAL SPEAKER For further details contact The Revd Canon Tel: 028 68628258 Andrew White, Email: [email protected] Vicar of Baghdad invites you to meet IAN MCELROY JOINERY For all your joinery, carpentry, roofng and tiling needs Tel: 02866385226 or 07811397429 www.clogher.anglican.org CONTENTS NOTE FROM THE BISHOP 4 MOTHERS’ UNION NEWS 17 ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS 5 MISSIONARY & CHARITABLE NEWS 17 CHURCH OF IRELAND NEWS 6-9 YOUTH NEWS 17-18 DIOCESAN NEWS 10-13 CHILDRENS SECTION 18-19 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 14-16 COMMUNITY NEWS 20 NEWS FOR VESTRIES 16 PARISH NOTES 20-57 The Clogher Diocesan Magazine is published monthly Next Magazine: except January and August. 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BT75 0QP letter since coming to Clogher, the Tel: 028 895 22461 Resurrection of Jesus Email: [email protected] Christ from the dead is at the core of the It is for these and other reasons that I would encourage proclamation of as many people as possible to come to hear Canon the Gospel. It was Andrew White as he comes to be with us at a service following his encounter in Enniskillen Cathedral on Thursday 16th April at with the Risen and 7.30pm. And bring your friends. Andrew has had a Glorifed Christ that remarkable ministry in the Middle East, particularly St. Paul began his in Iraq, where he has ministered for over 20 years and travels around the where he is the sole remaining Anglican priest. peoples of the eastern Not long ago we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day and Mediterranean telling marvelled that a young man who had been kidnapped them that they could share in Jesus’ Resurrection and held in slavery for many years in Ireland chose to life, which was nothing less than the same life that return after he had escaped from his slavery. In many Jesus himself shared with his Father. However, very ways Andrew White has had a parallel experience. early on in his ministry he had also to remind the Living under constant threat he returns again and church in Corinth not to abandon this understanding again to places of great danger, as an ambassador of and experience of Resurrection regardless of how reconciliation in the name of a Jesus. attractive the alternatives may be: “if it is only for this He maintains strong relationships with mainstream life we have hope, we are more to be pitied than all Islamic leaders as well as the Christian communities people ......” who he helps. He is constantly on the move in the Believers will only experience Resurrection life in all Middle East but also in frequent journeys to the West its fullness in the age to come, but in the meantime to remind the church here of what is happening in the we have been given what St. Paul called a “down lands that were the cradle of Judaism and Christianity payment” of that life, in the form of the Holy Spirit - from where Abraham, the man of faith, set out at living in us. We can experience some anticipations God’s bidding to a strange land to be the forefather of Resurrection here and now although they are very of all believers. incomplete, still impeded by our resistance to the Andrew has had to struggle under all sorts of Spirit and the imperfect condition in which we still diffculties. He was diagnosed with MS many years live. ago and undergoes regular treatment to slow down In this world, at least in Paul’s experience and the progress of the disease. He needs many body thinking, our sharing in the Cross can be much more guards when he travels. After years of diplomatic and prominent than our sharing in the Resurrection. But military activity there seems to be no resolution to the that sharing is not only for St. Paul. At the present time massive problems of the region where he works; in Christians from those ancient churches in the Middle fact things seem to be getting worse. Yet he has been East which I wrote about last month are carrying a faithful to his calling, just as Patrick was to his. very heavy cross indeed. And it is our calling, in the Andrew White has a ministry of apostolic character Body of Christ, to help them bear what looks like an and it is only rarely that we have an opportunity to unbearable load. hear from someone who has been so closely involved The Middle East is very far away and it is a place which in events which are signifcant on a world scale. relatively few of us know well. The places which we I do hope you will be able to come and meet this people from the West visit on holiday (places like dedicated servant of the Kingdom of God. Dubai) are very unlike the reality of life in most of +John the region. It is tempting to shrug our shoulders and look away from a place which seems to have known nothing but war and heartache for hundreds of years. The causes of confict are too deep and the nature of the quarrel too complex for us to readily understand.