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CHURCH OF IRELAND The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE Member of the worldwide Anglican Communion September 2013 | £1 New Rector of Garrison, Slavin, Belleek & Kiltyclogher www.clogher.anglican.org Children’s Ministry CertifiCate Where: Rossorry Church Hall, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh Who is delivering the course: When: Members of the Church of Ireland Children’s Saturdays 9.45 – 1.00pm Ministry Network who are all experienced trainers and practitioners in children’s ministry 19th October 2013 in local parishes. This exciting course seeks to Child Development. resource all those who work with children in their parish church. The material is creative and interactive, and is designed for all children’s 16th November 2013 leaders. During each session there will be Building Blocks conference, Ballymena. an opportunity to look at current resources in prayer, music, courses, story-telling, games 14th December 2013 & craft. The course is under the auspices of Programme Planning. the Church of Ireland Theological Institute. 18th January 2014 Further information available from Wendy Children and Communication. Houston c/o Rossorry Parish Office rossorryoffi[email protected] 22nd February 2014 Pastoral Awareness/ Leadership Skills (Full day 9.45-4.00pm). 22nd March 2014 Spirituality and the Bible. To book a place contact Lynda Levis 01 4923506 / 003531 4923506 or lyndalevis@ theologicalinstitute.ie Cost £80 / €95 www.clogher.anglican.org CoNtENtS The Clogher Diocesan Magazine is published monthly NotE FRoM thE BIShoP 4 except January and August. It is usually available from Parish Churches and other selected outlets by the frst Sunday of each month. Annual Subscription £10/€11. ANGlICAN CoMMuNIoN NEwS 5 Postal Subscription £20/€22. Views expressed in the magazine are those of the contributors ChuRCh oF IRElAND NEwS 6 - 8 and not necessarily those of the Magazine Committee, the Diocese of Clogher nor the Church of Ireland. The Magazine Committee reserves the right to DIoCESAN NEwS 9 - 12 decline any material without assigning a reason. No correspondence can be entered into regarding non- publication of material or advertisements. Names Youth NEwS 13 and addresses of contributors must be provided with material submitted and may then be published. The Magazine Committee accepts no responsibility for ChIlDRENS SECtIoN 14 - 15 loss, damage or the return of material. Advertising rates are available upon request CoMMuNItY NEwS 16 If parishes wish to alter the number of magazines ordered each month please inform Mrs Barbara Ingram by telephoning 028 66 388306. PARISh NotES 17 - 62 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 and Mrs Jean Stinson. Diocesan offce: Diocesan Offce, St Macartin’s Cathedral Hall, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. BT74 7DR telephone: 028 66 347879 Email: [email protected] Next Magazine: Deadline for submission of material 15th September. Content to be sent to [email protected] Front Cover Photo: Revd Richard Howlett, Revd Ngozi Njoku, Bishop John McDowell, Revd Augustine Nwaekwe, and Canon Glenn West. IAN MCELROY JOINERY For all your joinery, carpentry, roofng and tiling needs Tel: 02866385226 or 07811397429 3 The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE A NotE FRoM thE BIShoP the Rt Revd John McDowell September 2013 The See House, 152a Ballagh Road, Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone. BT75 0QP tel: 028 895 22461 Email: [email protected] famous people and great events At the time of the Reformation and in Parliament. Since then there for the century thereafter popular has been a tremendous effort by religious books and most preachers historians to try to recover what life emphasised that prayer was the most Dear Friends was like for ordinary people both readily available means of grace to in normal times (if there is such a believers. For them not to pray was Well here we are again, at the frst thing as a normal time) and during virtually the same as not to believe. letter of what amounts to a new times of great upheaval, such as “term” after the summer break; but the Reformation. Perhaps there is something we can this time in a new look Diocesan learn from that. Just like us they did Magazine. I hope that you will fnd People’s lives then were very not fnd prayer at all easy. They were it interesting and attractive. different from our own and so was just as likely as we are to be distracted their outlook on life. Of course or to fnd it diffcult to get into a It has been quite a summer in there was virtually no technology routine of prayer. The same problems terms of weather, and after a very and sickness or even pregnancy about the usefulness of prayer disappointing Spring, I hope that were very worrying times. At that occurred to them as occur to us. Why the farming community have been time people who took their religion bother asking when God already able both to make use of and enjoy seriously very often kept journals knows what we want? Why do my the tremendous spell of weather in in which they recorded things like prayers seem to go unanswered? July and part of August. how they prayed and what their Am I praying for the right things? But anxieties were, and it was a very nevertheless they perservered. One of the things I always do during anxious age. the holidays is to try and catch up Above all else they learned very on reading which I haven’t had Reading through what many of quickly that they must not presume time to do during the rest of the them had written I was struck by on God and that the great issue in year. There are some books which just how much they lived on the prayer as in life was “Whose will is to take pretty concentrated effort over edge. Probably most people in be done - Yours or mine”. a number of days to read and I the modern world would fnd our usually have one or two set aside ancestors a bit morbid and neurotic, In a sermon quoted in the book, for summer reading. but they had a lot to cope with. Hugh Latimer one of the greatest of the frst generation of Reformers, This year I concentrated on a A great deal of the book is taken argued that those who guaranteed book called, “Being Protestant in up with the subject of prayer - what that God would act in a particular Reformation Britain”. It was written people prayed about; how often way (say in healing a sickness in by a Professor of History at Durham they prayed; where they prayed response to prayer) might seem to University called Alec Ryrie, who, and how vital they felt prayer to be showing great faith. In fact it was as well as being a teacher at the be. Perhaps that is not surprising the opposite. They were saying, in University, is also a Lay Reader in given how much emphasis the effect “He shall be no more my God, the Church of England. That is a Reformers placed on the idea of the except He come”. pretty rare combination, a bit like individual’s direct access to God Professor Stephen Ellis, who teaches and the work of the Holy Spirit on Like us, our ancestors found that History at University College, the individual soul. to be a hard lesson; that there is Galway and who is a Lay Reader someone who knows better than in the Church of Ireland, and who In those days, and indeed until quite we do what we really need. Prayer preached last year in Enniskillen recently, most people both read and is one of the ways, and in many Cathedral on the Anniversary of the prayed aloud (libraries were very respects the simplest way for us to Book of Common Prayer. noisy places) so we also have the bring ourselves into the presence of testimony of others about how their that person and to learn from Him. When I was studying history at family or neighbours prayed. University most books were about +John 4 ChuRCh oF IRElAND www.clogher.anglican.org ANGlICAN CoMMuNIoN NEwS Jerusalem bishop outlines plans 2007. Bishop Suheil has visited Clogher Diocese twice, most recently in 2011 when he preached at for diocesan development the consecration of Bishop McDowell in Enniskillen The Bishop of Jerusalem, the Rt Revd Suheil Dawani, Cathedral. The Diocese of Clogher has supported has outlined a development plan for his diocese and is a number of initiatives in the Diocese of Jerusalem seeking the views of the wider Anglican Communion through the Holy Land Medical Relief Fund and also as the proposals take shape. directly to the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza. The diocese has 7,000 members in 24 parishes across fve political regions; and runs two hospitals with 200 beds, two health clinics, 13 schools (including a school Nigerian archbishop receives for children who are deaf and blind), two rehabilitation Anglican Communion award and vocational centres and an orphanage. It also runs a college for pilgrims and students, four guest houses in Jerusalem, Nazareth, Jordan and Palestine; and employs 1,500 individuals. It has now drawn up a programme for development covering fve key areas: healthcare, education, building a church on the River Jordan, clergy pensions and guest house upgrades. The diocese says that its top priority is to ensure the continued provision of medical treatment to the most vulnerable people of Gaza at its Al Ahli Hospital; and expanding its services to treat cancer.