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CHURCH OF IRELAND The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE Member of the worldwide Anglican Communion Dec 2014/Jan 2015 | £1 / ¤1.10 Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Appeal 60 years serving with the Church Army Bishop in Australia on Remembrance Sunday Lord Carey addresses Clergy Conference www.clogher.anglican.org ARMSTRONG Funeral Directors & Memorials Grave Plot Services • A dignifed and personal 24hr service • Offering a caring and professional service Specialists In Quality Grave Care • Memorials supplied and erected • Large selection of headstones, vases open books • Cleaning of Headstones & Surrounds • Resetting Fallen or Leaning Headstones or Damaged Surrounds • Open books & chipping’s • Reconstruction of Sunken or Raised Graves • Also cleaning and renovations • Supply & Erection of Memorial Headstones & Grave Surrounds to existing memorials • Additional Inscriptions & Repairs to Lettering • Additional lettering • New Marble or Granite Chips in your Chosen Colour • Marble or Granite Chips Washed & Restored • Regular Maintenance Visits eg : Weekly, Monthly, or Special Dates Dromore Tel. • Floral Tributes(Anniversary or Special Dates) 028 8289 8424 Contractors to The Commonwealth Omagh Tel. 028 8224 0803 War Graves Commission Robert Mob. 077 9870 0793 A Quality Professional & Personal Service Derek Mob. www.graveimage.co.uk • [email protected] 079 0027 8633 Contact : Stuart Brooker Tel: 028 6634 1611 Mob: 07968 738 491 35 Kildrum Rd, Dromore, Cullen, Monea, Enniskillen BT93 7BR Co. Tyrone, BT78 3AS Tubrid Orange Lodge are holding a FLOWER FESTIVAL PILGRIMAGE TO Friday 15th May – Saturday 16th May – THE HOLY LAND Sunday 17th May 2015 in Tubrid Orange Hall To celebrate 150 years of the foundation of The Bishop of Clogher, the Lodge Major charities will be supported the Rt Revd John McDowell from the proceeds Coach parties catered for – Lunch or evening meal invites you to join with him For further details contact on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land Tel: 028 68628258 26th February - 4th March 2015 Email: [email protected] A. S. Oil Boiler and Cooker Services • Servicing, Commissioning, Repair & Installation of Oil Fired Boilers / Cookers (All models) • Out of Offce and 24 Emergency Service can be provided • An effcient and effective service using latest technology • A timely reminder sent out when your next service is due (12 months). • All harmful fumes eliminated i.e. Carbon monoxide (Computer printout given.) • Fires / chimneys cleaned and repaired • Special offers on all church properties For further details please contact:- • Qualifed OFTEC Te c h n i c i a n 101, 102, 105 & 600A Canon David Skuce at 028 677 21250 • Also, small plumbing jobs carried out or [email protected] Tel: (44) 02889521060 Mob: (44) 07712257156 www.clogher.anglican.org CONTENTS NOTE FROM THE BISHOP 4 MOTHERS’ UNION NEWS 10-11 ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS 5 YOUTH NEWS 12-13 CHURCH OF IRELAND NEWS 6-7 CHILDRENS SECTION 13-15 DIOCESAN NEWS 8 COMMUNITY NEWS 16 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 8-9 PARISH NOTES 16-65 NEWS FOR VESTRIES 10 The Clogher Diocesan Magazine is published monthly Next Magazine: except January and August. It is usually available from Deadline for submission of material Parish Churches and other selected outlets by the frst 15th January 2015. Content to be sent € Sunday of each month. Annual Subscription £10/ 11. to [email protected] Postal Subscription £20/€22. Views expressed in the magazine are those of the Front Cover Photos contributors and not necessarily those of the Magazine Top Left - Mrs Ruby Doherty and Mrs Hilda Dane from Committee, the Diocese of Clogher nor the Church of Lisbellaw Mothers’ Union pictured with Derek Abbott Ireland. and girls with just some of the parcels for Operation Christmas Child. The Magazine Committee reserves the right to Top Right - Capt. Deane Stewart celebrates 60 years decline any material without assigning a reason. No with the Church Army, pictured with his wife Anna, correspondence can be entered into regarding non- Dean Hall, and Church Army colleagues. publication of material or advertisements. Names Bottom Left - Mr Lieu Van Le, who is the Vietnamese- and addresses of contributors must be provided with born Governor of South Australia, and Bishop PILGRIMAGE TO material submitted and may then be published. The McDowell in St. Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide, Australia. Magazine Committee accepts no responsibility for Bottom Right - Monsignor Peter O’Reilly, Bishop THE HOLY LAND loss, damage or the return of material. McDowell, Lord Carey (former Archbishop of Canterbury), Lady Carey and Mr Bill Arnold (of Arnold’s Advertising rates are available upon request. Hotel, Dunfanaghy) at the Clogher Clergy Conference. If parishes wish to alter the number of magazines ordered each month please inform Mrs Barbara Ingram by telephoning 028 66 388306. Clogher Magazine Committee Chairperson: Mrs Eleanor Lynn Vice-Chairperson: Mrs Barbara Ingram Secretary: Mrs Prue Mahood Treasurer: Mrs Mabel Black The Revd Canon Desmond Kingston and Mrs Jean Stinson. 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 Offce: Diocesan Offce, St Macartin’s Cathedral Hall, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. BT74 7DR Telephone: 028 66 347879 Email: [email protected] For further details please contact:- Bishop McDowell preaching at the Remembrance Day Canon David Skuce at 028 677 21250 Service in St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide, Australia 3 The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE A NOTE FROM THE BISHOP Dear Friends, The Rt Revd John McDowell I am writing this letter The See House, 152a Ballagh Road, at the exact moment Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone. BT75 0QP when most of you will be attending Tel: 028 895 22461 Remembrance Day Email: [email protected] services in your parish church. It’s not that I am only way that we can stay together is through bonds December 2014/January 2015 December 2014/January at home in Fivemiletown of affection and friendship built up by these sorts of having a rest. Indeed I meetings. As always the most remarkable experience is have just walked back of worshipping together where any barriers of culture to where I am staying or language are overcome by a common spirit of in Adelaide, South prayer and devotion, especially at the service of Holy Australia after attending Communion. a very impressive As it happened our visit took place at a time when Hong Remembrance Day Kongers were absolutely preoccupied with and very service involving the concerned about the Occupy Movement. Although we Australian Armed Forces. Earlier this morning I had were very careful not to draw parallels with Northern the privilege of preaching at both the 8.00am and Ireland where none existed and not to patronise, the 10.30am services in St. Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide. clergy and people were genuinely interested to hear The Dean asked if I would speak about what happened from us about good relationships and reconciliation. in Enniskillen twenty seven years ago and perhaps also It was a very memorable trip and luckily some friends say a little about relationships since then. who know China well had forewarned us about the I hope that I was fair in what I said. I tried to intimate exchange of gifts which the Chinese take very seriously. that people are somewhere along the road between So we went out armed with many presentation copies heartbreak and healing but that much remains to be of the Book of Common Prayer, the recently published done. I also tried to underline the fact that faith was history of the Church of Ireland and some Diocesan a powerful factor in healing and remembering and plaques which were very graciously received. that many people continue to draw great strength from The Australian end of the journey was part break and their trust in God. I was very well received and the part work. My twin brother lives in Adelaide and I Archbishop and the Dean expressly asked me to bring have not had the opportunity of visiting him during their very good wishes to the diocese of Clogher and his twelve years there and I took the opportunity as I all it’s people, and to assure us of their prayers. was in the neighbourhood. When I let the Archbishop I am in Australia on the second leg of a shortish trip of Adelaide know that I was to be in his diocese, which was planned about a year ago. At that time the and especially when he heard about the Enniskillen Anglican Archbishop of Hong Kong, the Rt. Revd Paul connection he was keen that I should preach in the Kwong visited Ireland to strengthen the links which Cathedral, which I was very glad to do. had been forged with The Church of Ireland over one I have never been to Australia before and found it hundred years ago by the Dublin University Mission also fascinating. Tonight at the service the Governor to Fukien. During my time as a rector in Belfast I had of South Australia, as the Queen’s representative a Chinese ordinand work with me for a while and she in the State, had the place of honour. He came to made an excellent temporary member of the ministry Australia about thirty-fve years ago as a Vietnamese team. Boat Person. I cannot think of a more ftting testimony During Archbishop Paul’s visit I hosted a lunch for him to a policy of openness to people of every race and and the Dean of Hong Kong which the Secretary of nation and in some ways it puts our ancient quarrels State also attended and the Archbishop invite myself into perspective. It is a young country and full of very and the Dean to visit him in Hong Kong which we were vigorous young people.

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