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WILSON’S HOSPITAL SCHOOL CO-EDUCATIONAL BOARDING AND DAY SECONDARY SCHOOL Under the patronage of Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of Ireland t Convenient yet rural location set on t Five day teaching week – extensive 200 acres, just o M4/N4, less than 10 weekend recreational programme for Celebrating 250 years minutes west of Mullingar. pupils remaining at weekends 1761-2011 t One and a quarter hours from Dublin t Outstanding academic record (A1s in 12 t 400 pupils (250 Boarders) ensuring Leaving Certi cate subjects in 2010) happy, caring, wholesome and tranquil t Choice of 20 subjects to Leaving environment Certi cate level t Pastoral care, school nurses and doctor, 24 t Sta supervise all study. Strong emphasis hour supervision including active night time on career guidance. Academic focus care – on duty sta – Wilson’s never sleeps t Wide range of recreational activities, team t Bedrooms containing 3 or 4 beds and individual sports, indoor and outdoor t School Chaplain, Sunday night Chapel t Seven day boarding fee: €7767 service, Morning Assembly (level of maximum grant) t Award winning Choir t Extensive programme of grants, bursaries t Lifelong friendships established and scholarships For further information and prospectus, please contact e Headmaster, Mr Adrian G Oughton B.A., HDip. Ed.,D.E.M. Gunda Marl, Head Girl 2010 / 2011,Wilson’s Hospital School MULTYFARNHAM, CO. WESTMEATH www.whs.ie TEL: 044 9371115 FAX: 044 9371563 EMAIL: WILSONSHWHS.IE Friends of the Royal Hospital Donnybrook CChhrriissttmmaass SSaallee Saturday 12th November 2011 10.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. in our Concert Hall Monster Raffle Come and grab a bargain at this fun day *Household *Jewellery *Toys *Books *Cakes *Vegetables *Bric-a-Brac *Cards & Gifts ~ Refreshments Available ~ Buses 46a & 46b to bottom of road Car parking available 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 2011 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. NOVEMBER 2011 The cost is the subscription and appropriate postage. We last met John the Baptist at the mid-point of the calendar year, when on COPY DEADLIINE June 24th we celebrated his birthday. On Advent Sunday, this same John will come to meet us as we approach the River Jordan. What we will notice first is his All editorial material MUST be with the voice. He is, of course, a voice crying in the wilderness but it is not a voice of Editor by 15th of the preceeding month, despair or defeat. It is a voice of challenge and a voice of commitment. John is no matter what day of the week. Material crying: Prepare and make straight the way of the Lord. should be sent by Email or Word As I write this letter, I understand that there is going to be a significant period of time attachment. during which parts of the Phoenix Park will be closed to traffic for road works. History marches on and my guess is that this may not entirely be unconnected with the prospect of VIIEWS EXPRESSED a new and in-coming President of Ireland. History is so unpredictable that by the time each of you reads this letter, we will be in the thick of a presidential election, the outcome of Views expressed in the Church Review are which we cannot foresee. I should, however, like to thank President McAleese for the those of the contributor and are not leadership which she has offered in a most even-handed way within our nation and on behalf necessarily those of the Editor or Church of our nation for a period of fourteen years. Not only did everyone feel they knew her, and Review Committee. her husband Dr Martin McAleese, but they learned quickly to hear and to heed her voice and to listen intently. EDIITOR As we approach Advent Sunday, preparation and making straight are at the core of who we are and of the life’s work of John the Baptist. The cry which John makes comes from deep The Revd. Nigel Waugh, The Rectory, Delgany, within the prophetic tradition and challenges each one of us to live the life of prophecy day Greystones, Co. Wicklow. by day and hour to hour until God’s kingdom comes. The cry comes from deep within what T: 01-287 4515. we have become accustomed to speak of as The Old Testament. I can understand why we do T: 086 1028888. so, but I must caution each and every one of us to remain respectful of a tradition of World E: [email protected] Faith which still awaits the coming of Messiah, by which I mean Judaism. Too easy is it for Christians to sway and swing into festive triumphalism at Christmas- tide. The cry comes from deep within the plea for consistency of EDIITORIIAL ASSIISTANT thought and action in the spirit of justice which John lived in his life and in his death. John tirelessly swept aside the undergrowth Noeleen Hogan of privilege and self-indulgence in preparing and in making straight – so must we. John looked ahead always to one greater than ADVERTIISIING himself – so must we. John gathered a community of people, odd-seeming to themselves and undoubtedly to others, as the Advertising details and prices are available people of expectancy – so must we. by emailing [email protected] or by November and December are among the months of greatest phoning Charlotte O’Brien on 086 026 dis-ease in our society. Some are partying while others are facing 5522. Copy should be sent to the prospect of having the electricity cut off. Let us remember with [email protected] or by post to gratitude and generosity the agencies and the individuals who go Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, the extra mile with those for whom the road is far from straight The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow by and who simply are not in a position to make preparations – 15th of the month. and let us contribute to them as open-handedly as we possibly can. God finds God’s self within them and among them – and so must we. CHIIEF REPORTER Vacant † Michael Single copies are available from: • The National Bible Society of Ireland, Dawson Street. COVER STORY: • The Resource Centre, Holy Trinity Our front cover is by professional Church, Rathmines. photographer Nigel Gillis. Taken at the Ploughing Match in Athy, it shows Archbishop Michael Jackson PRIINTIING with Anna Mae McHugh MD NPA, Revd Ian Henderson, President of Church Review is Printed in Ireland by Methodist Church and Archbishop DCG Publications Ireland Diarmuid Martin as they ring the T: 048-90551811. F: 048-90551812. International Eucharistic E: [email protected] Congress Bell. ChurCh review 3 A GLIMPSE OF PARADISE ON THE MOST ISOLATED AND REMOTE ISLAND IN GREECE Patrick Comerford In Paradise I have marked out an island akin to you and a house by the sea. – Odysseus Elytis, The Monogram Is everything in Greece up for sale? At the height of the tourist season this summer, the Greek Culture and Tourism Minister, Pavlos Garoulas, insisted in Kastellórizo lies only a few minutes south of the Turkish coast. Istanbul: “No Greek islands are for sale, unless they are already private property.” There are over 6,000 Greek islands, but only 227 are inhabited, and only 78 of those have more than 100 residents year-round. The largest and one of the most-visited is Crete, while one of the smallest and one of the most remote is Kastellórizo. This year, I visited Kastellórizo for the first time, but only after two or three failed efforts to travel from Turkey to the Dodecanese islands. The Dodecanese literally means “twelve islands.” But this is a group of 12 larger Aegean islands, including Rhodes, and another 150 islands, of which only 26 are inhabited. The Faros Bar, once the Italian Kastellórizo is known officially in Greece as governor’s office, and the former Megísti and in neighbouring Turkey as Meis. It is mosque, now a museum, are the first the smallest inhabited Dodecanese island and buildings on the harbour front to greet the most remote Greek island. new arrivals. Unlike the other Dodecanese islands, however, Kastellórizo is not in the Aegean – it is not even close to the rest of Greece. It is the The former castle of the Knights of most easterly and the most isolated part of Rhodes dominates the approach to the Greece, a rocky outpost in the south-east Mediterranean, 570 km south-east of Athens, harbour of Kastellórizo. but only a mile or two off the south coast of Turkey. The nearest Turkish town, Ka ş, is a mere 20 or 30 minutes away in a small caique, while the nearest Greek island, Rhodes, is 130 km to the west and three or four hours away by ferry. A plucky piece of bravado The official name Megísti means “biggest” or “greatest.” But this name is more a plucky piece of bravado than a statement of fact, for this tiny island is only 6 km long and 3 km wide. The population is now 430, and most people live in the town of Megísti, with handfuls on The harbour water is clear with plenty of two tiny offshore islets, Rho (15) and Strongilí marine life, including turtles.