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CHURCH OF IRELAND The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE Member of the worldwide Anglican Communion June 2014 | £1 Bishop Bahati and Bishop John visit Devenish Island Maguiresbridge MU Celebrate 60 Years Youth Vigil in St Macartin’s Cathedral www.clogher.anglican.org COFFEE MORNING Grave Plot Services Sat 21st June 2014 9.30am - 2.00pm Specialists In Quality Grave Care Enjoy TEA, COFFEE, • Cleaning of Headstones & Surrounds • Resetting Fallen or Leaning Headstones or Damaged Surrounds CHAT and FRIENDSHIP at • Reconstruction of Sunken or Raised Graves Colin & Sharon’s House. • Supply & Erection of Memorial Headstones & Grave Surrounds as well as advice from • Additional Inscriptions & Repairs to Lettering Malcolm Conn, on • New Marble or Granite Chips in your Chosen Colour Gardening Tips, • Marble or Granite Chips Washed & Restored Landscaping, Trees, • Regular Maintenance Visits eg : Weekly, Monthly, or Special Dates Shrubs, Hedges etc... • Floral Tributes(Anniversary or Special Dates) Contractors to The Commonwealth Proceeds in AID of War Graves Commission Missionary Trip to Burkina Faso A Quality Professional & Personal Service 2014 www.graveimage.co.uk • [email protected] Contact : Stuart Brooker THE VENUE Home of Colin & Sharon Slack Tel: 028 6634 1611 Mob: 07968 738 491 213 Clabby Road, Clabby, Fivemiletown, BT75 0RD T: 078 999 74681 Cullen, Monea, Enniskillen BT93 7BR PILGRIMAGE TO Books Magazines Graphic Design THE HOLY LAND Producing a The Bishop of Clogher, BOOK the Rt Revd John McDowell MAGAZINE or invites you to join with him NEWSLETTER? on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land 26th February - 4th March 2015 We create publications that are Unique & Engaging for Schools, Churches, Community & Historical Groups and Individuals. 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T: 028 8954 5032 For further details please contact:- M: 078 5407 3520 E: [email protected] Canon David Skuce at 028 677 21250 www.csgwd.com or [email protected] www.clogher.anglican.org CONTENTS Grave Plot Services NOTE FROM THE BISHOP 4 - 5 YOUTH NEWS 12 - 14 Specialists In Quality Grave Care ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS 5 - 6 CHILDRENS SECTION 14 - 16 • Cleaning of Headstones & Surrounds • Resetting Fallen or Leaning Headstones or Damaged Surrounds CHURCH OF IRELAND NEWS 6 - 8 COMMUNITY NEWS 17 • Reconstruction of Sunken or Raised Graves • Supply & Erection of Memorial Headstones & Grave Surrounds DIOCESAN NEWS 9 - 10 PARISH NOTES 18 - 55 • Additional Inscriptions & Repairs to Lettering • New Marble or Granite Chips in your Chosen Colour DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 10 - 12 MOTHERS’ UNION 56 - 57 • Marble or Granite Chips Washed & Restored • Regular Maintenance Visits eg : Weekly, Monthly, or Special Dates The Clogher Diocesan Magazine is published monthly Front Cover Photos • Floral Tributes(Anniversary or Special Dates) except January and August. It is usually available from Top Image - Bishop John and Bishop Bahati, who is Parish Churches and other selected outlets by the fi rst from the Democratic Republic of Congo, on their way Contractors to The Commonwealth Sunday of each month. Annual Subscription £10/€11. to visit Devenish Island. War Graves Commission Postal Subscription £20/€22. Bottom Left Image - Sandra Kettyle, Margaret Dillon, Dorothy Armstrong and Betty Beacom at Views expressed in the magazine are those of the contributors Maguiresbridge Mothers Union 60th Anniversary A Quality Professional & Personal Service and not necessarily those of the Magazine Committee, the Celebrations. Diocese of Clogher nor the Church of Ireland. Bottom Right Image - Holy Week Mission 2014, www.graveimage.co.uk • [email protected] St Macartin’s Cathedral ‘Vigil’ youth event. The Magazine Committee reserves the right to Contact : Stuart Brooker decline any material without assigning a reason. 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Packing Team: Mrs Muriel Henderson, Mrs Barbara Ingram, Mrs Sadie Kane, Mrs Joyce Kerr, Mrs Eleanor Lynn, Mrs Maureen Robinson, Mrs Jean Stinson and Mr Andy Wray. Diocesan Offi ce: Diocesan Offi ce, St Macartin’s Cathedral Hall, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. BT74 7DR Sunday 8th June at St. Telephone: 028 66 347879 Email: [email protected] Macartan’s Cathedral Next Magazine: Clogher at 3.00pm. Deadline for submission of material 15th June 2014. Content to be sent to [email protected] For further details please contact:- Led by the Bishops of Clogher, Canon David Skuce at 028 677 21250 The Most Revd Dr Liam MacDaid or [email protected] and the Rt Revd John McDowell The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE 3 A NOTE FROM THE BISHOP June 2014 June Dear Friends, The Rt Revd John McDowell The See House, 152a Ballagh Road, If someone was to ask Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone. BT75 0QP you the question “What Tel: 028 895 22461 are you”? what would your frst reaction be? Email: [email protected] A word which we now hear a great deal identifed himself as a Jew- “a Hebrew of Hebrews” as in today’s world is he once wrote. “identity”. People try to Yet in the end he rejected all of these “identities” categorise us by what and substituted for them the single identity of being they think our identity what he described as “in Christ”, a new creation. Of might be. In some course he couldn’t unremember all he had learned as cases people are quite a Pharisee and he certainly couldn’t unravel his own willing to embrace DNA as though he had inherited nothing of what he these categorisations; was from his parents and ancestors. for instance Protestant/ However St. Paul was nothing if not thorough and he Unionist/Loyalist(PUL) or Nationalist/Republican. obviously spent a great deal of the time he had on Others might prefer Irish or British or perhaps feel more his hands tramping around the towns and cities of comfortable with more precise defnitions like Church the eastern Mediterranean thinking about how being of Ireland or Methodist. Or vegetarian or pacifst or in Christ affected all of his previous thoughts and feminist or just a man or a woman...the list is endless. convictions. What would yours be? What should his attitude be to the Jewish nation and I suppose “identity” is a short word which we use the Jewish religion of his birth which he quite clearly to signify all the things which have come together loved. What should his attitude be to the Roman to make us what we are as individuals and as Empire and local Roman authorities. How did being communities. In fact the identity of any one person or in Christ affect his relations with pagan religions - the any one community is so complex that it can be almost cults of Isis and Mithras which had been imported from impossible to put into words. Perhaps that is the reason the East and were very modish in his day. that certain symbols are used as a kind of shorthand While St. Paul was in the process of working these summary of our identity. Symbols (like a fag or a questions out and many others like them, another group badge) can say a great deal without using any words. of believers had already made up their mind about Many scholars have argued (scholars argue a lot) that some of them. The writer of the Book of Revelation had the important symbols for Jews in Jesus’ time were the no doubt about the Roman Empire and the worship Temple, the Law and the Sabbath. They would say that of the Emperor that went with it; it was demonic. He if you had asked an ordinary Jew what were the things couldn’t quite come right out and say it so he used a that best summed up his identity- what he was- he sort of coded language but the meaning is fairly clear. would have said these three things. They were things Don’t have anything to do with it! that he didn’t like people messing about with. Both St. Paul and the writer of Revelation hoped for and Of course Jesus said and did rather far reaching things expected the Lord to return fairly soon and they were about and with each of them. He not only cleansed probably convinced that any answers to how believers the Temple but he predicted its destruction. He said should live in the world were short term measures. that he himself was the end of the Law- not in the Two thousand years later our answers should perhaps sense that it was fnished, but that it now was to be be for the longer term. very differently understood. And (with the exception To some degree that is something which we must work of a small number of Jewish-Christian communities) out for ourselves as individuals. The Bible and the long the followers of the Risen Jesus kept the frst day of tradition of what other Christians have thought about it the week as a celebration of the Resurrection and over the ages can be very helpful but they don’t relieve discarded Saturday observance.