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Tel:01-2755800 enquiries welcome to Gus nichols Mobile:087-2576094 tel: 677 0665 Fax 671 3461 e-mail: [email protected] email: [email protected] 2 CHURCH REVIEW CHURCH OF IRELAND UNITED DIOCESES CHURCH REVIEW OF DUBLIN AND GLENDALOUGH ISSN 0790-0384 The Most Reverend Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough, Church Review is published monthly and Primate of Ireland and Metropolitan. usually available by the first Sunday. Please order your copy from your Parish by annual sub scription. €40 for 2012 AD. POSTAL SUBSCRIIPTIIONS//CIIRCULATIION Archbishop’s Lette r Copies by post are available from: Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. E: [email protected] T: 086 026 5522. FEBRUARY 2012 The cost is the subscription and appropriate postage. One of the wonderful things about Epiphany, which will just have come to a close as you receive this February edition of The Church Review, is that it is a Season in its own COPY DEADLIINE right. Sometimes we tend to see it as no more than something tagged on at the end of Christmas. And so, in a sense, it is lost on us because schools have started again and all All editorial material MUST be with the the signs of normality are there to stay for another year – and there is nothing that we Editor by 15th of the preceeding month, can do to get off this runaway train until Christmas next year. Because of the fluid way no matter what day of the week. Material in which we calculate Easter in the Western Christian tradition, we never know exactly should be sent by Email or Word how many Sundays we will have in the Season of Epiphany in any given year. And then, attachment. all of a sudden, the focus of spiritual imagination and liturgical vocabulary shift to Candlemas and the preparation for the Season of Lent. We are now, at the beginning of VIIEWS EXPRESSED February, already in another little Season, one which I still like to refer to as Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinqagesima, the Three Sundays before Lent. Views expressed in the Church Review are Let us not lose sight of a number of important aspects of Epiphany as it slips from our those of the contributor and are not necessarily those of the Editor or Church consciousness. The Epiphany itself is the epiphany of God who, in the words of the Review Committee. Collect, manifested his only Son to the peoples of the earth. This is a wide and a bold claim and breathes into a dark time of year the confidence of witness and presence. In a talkative culture, like the church, we should always be careful about EDIITOR witnessing and not being present. The Epiphany draws all of us The Revd. Nigel Waugh, together into the ever-widening circle of salvation, offered by God The Rectory, Delgany, as a gift to the Gentiles. It culminates in the Song of Simeon at Greystones, Co. Wicklow. Candlemas, when a faithful servant of the Temple gives voice to T: 01-287 4515. the proclamation that the light of Christ will bring epiphany to T: 086 1028888. the Gentiles and glory to God’s people Israel. Fulfilment is E: [email protected] something urgent to the witness and presence of the aged Simeon because it gives him God’s gift of peace as earthly life makes way for heavenly life for him. The Epiphany Collect gives EDIITORIIAL ASSIISTANT voice to the continuity between present faith and future seeing. This, of course, is a gradual epiphany, a disclosure in Noeleen Hogan which we co-operate with God and God co-operates with us, guiding us in the following of the star and ADVERTIISIING the walking in the light. The Seasons of the Church’s Year give Advertising details and prices are available focus and flavour to our belief and to our by emailing [email protected] or by worship. Each of them concentrates for phoning Charlotte O’Brien on 086 026 us an insight which might simply get lost 5522. Copy should be sent to as we put our ecclesiastical rubbish into [email protected] or by post to the bin. That should not be the case. We Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, can do better than that. We ought to The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow by carry with us a word or a phrase from 15th of the month. one Season to the next and to let that sentiment infuse our sense of CHIEF REPORTER belonging to God as things change, as CHIEF REPORTER indeed they must, imperceptibly or Lynn Glanville, suddenly, we know not. Using a T: 087 2356472 Collect out of its own Season is often E: [email protected] a good way to do this – and it only takes a few seconds. Why not give it Single copies are available from: a try in 2012? • The National Bible Society of Ireland, Dawson Street. • The Resource Centre, Holy Trinity † Michael Church, Rathmines. PRIINTIING COVER STORY: Archbishop Diarmuid Martin gives his Church Review is Printed in Ireland by sermon at the ecumenical service to DCG Publications Ireland mark the Week of Prayer for Christian T: 048-90551811. F: 048-90551812. Unity in St Patrick's E: [email protected] Church in Dalkey. ChurCh rEviEw 3 DOWNTON ABBEY IS FINE IN ENGLAND, BUT WHAT ABOUT IRELAND? Patrick Comerford In the dark, cold evenings immediately after Christmas and the New Year, I spent time in front of the television watching the box set of Downton Abbey. The series is the creation of Julian Fellowes and has attracted many awards and nominations. With over 10 million viewers for each episode, it is the most successful British costume drama since Brideshead ‘Downton Abbey’ shows that snobbery Revisited in 1981 and the Guinness Book of Records describes it as the “most exists at every level. critically acclaimed television show.” Downton Abbey is set in the early 20th century on a fictional North Yorkshire estate that is home to the Earl and Countess of Grantham. Highclere Castle in Hampshire ‘Downton Abbey’ has become the most provides the location for Downton Abbey, with successful British costume drama since other filming in the Ealing Studios and the ‘Brideshead Revisited’. village of Bampton in Oxfordshire. The story follows the lives of the Crawley family and their servants. The first series, at the end of 2010, begins with news of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The second series last Women taking part in an otter hunt at autumn runs from the Battle of the Somme Curraghmore, the Co Waterford home (1916) to the Spanish ’flu pandemic (1919). The of the Beresford family, in 1901. 2011 Christmas Special is set in December 1919 and January 1920. ITV has commissioned a third series for next September. Following the storyline A house party in 1901 at Oak Park, the The first series tells of the need for a male Co Carlow home of the Breun family. heir to the Grantham estate, and Lady Mary House parties were a significant feature Crawley’s troubled love life as she searches for of ‘Big House’ life. a suitable husband. The estate is entailed, so that Downton Abbey is inherited with the title of Earl of Grantham. The estate was saved from near-ruin when the present earl married a rich American heiress. Lord Grantham, who has three daughters but no son, arranges for his eldest daughter, Lady Mary, to marry her cousin to keep both the title Castle Leslie, home of Sir John Leslie and the estate in the immediate family. But the who married Leonie Jerome, one of the heir dies on the Titanic, and a third cousin once three Jerome sisters. removed, a young solicitor from Manchester, stands to inherit both the title and the estate, and England, when marrying American heiresses to the exclusion of the three daughters. Imogene Wolseley has charted the story helped many to save their indebted and entailed The second series deals with social divisions of American heiresses marrying Irish and estates.