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CHURCH OF IRELAND The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE Member of the worldwide Anglican Communion July and August 2015 | £1/€1.10 Sallaghy Parish Celebrates 175th Anniversary Maguiresbridge & Derrybrusk Picnic Ardess Parish Walk of Prayer www.clogher.anglican.org ARMSTRONG Funeral Directors & Memorials Grave Plot Services • A dignified 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 • info@graveimage.co.uk 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 IAN MCELROY JOINERY For all your joinery, carpentry, roofing and tiling needs Tel: 02866385226 or 07811397429 www.clogher.anglican.org CONTENTS Grave Plot Services NOTE FROM THE BISHOP 4 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 8-9 Specialists In Quality Grave Care ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS 5-6 MOTHERS’ UNION NEWS 10 • Cleaning of Headstones & Surrounds • Resetting Fallen or Leaning Headstones or Damaged Surrounds CHURCH OF IRELAND NEWS 6 CHILDRENS SECTION 13-14 • Reconstruction of Sunken or Raised Graves • Supply & Erection of Memorial Headstones & Grave Surrounds DIOCESAN NEWS 7 COMMUNITY NEWS 15 • Additional Inscriptions & Repairs to Lettering • New Marble or Granite Chips in your Chosen Colour Clogher Magazine Committee PARISH NOTES 15-50 • Marble or Granite Chips Washed & Restored Chairperson: Mrs Eleanor Lynn • Regular Maintenance Visits eg : Weekly, Monthly, or Special Dates Vice-Chairperson: Mrs Barbara Ingram • Floral Tributes(Anniversary or Special Dates) Secretary: Mrs Prue Mahood Views expressed in the magazine are those of Treasurer: Mrs Mabel Black the contributors and not necessarily those of the Magazine Committee, the Diocese of Clogher nor the Contractors to The Commonwealth The Revd Canon Desmond Kingston Church of Ireland. 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Postal Subscription £20/€22. Advertising rates are available upon request. If parishes wish to alter the number of magazines ordered each month please inform Mrs Barbara Ingram on 028 66 388306. Diocesan Office: Diocesan Office, St Macartin’s Cathedral Hall, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. BT74 7DR T: 028 66 347879 E: secretary@clogher.anglican.org Next Magazine: Deadline for submission of material 15th August 2015. Content to be sent to editor@clogher.anglican.org IAN MCELROY JOINERY For all your joinery, carpentry, roofing and tiling needs Front Cover Photos Tel: 02866385226 or 07811397429 Top - Bishop John McDowell, the Revd Anita Kerr, Mildred Crawford (Rector’s Churchwarden), Richard Clingan, Hannah Frazer, Charles Crawford (Diocesan Reader), Joyce Clingan (Organist), George Little (People’s Churchwarden) celebrating 175th Anniversary of Sallaghy Parish Church. Bottom Left - Parishioners’ of Maguiresbridge and Derrybrusk enjoying a picnic at Belle Isle. Bottom Right - Group of Parishioners from Ardess Parish taking part in a Walk of Prayer around Kesh. 3 The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE A NOTE FROM THE BISHOP Dear Friends, The Rt Revd John McDowell In April I wrote a piece The See House, 152a Ballagh Road, in this magazine about Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone. BT75 0QP July & August 2015 August & July some of the difficulties which the Church has Tel: 028 895 22461 had, in the course of its Email: bishop@clogher.anglican.org long history, in living with the State. There Certainly if we take seriously the biblical account of the was also a long period falleness and corruption of human nature then the idea in the history of most of of a perfect society is a delusion. Often there will be Western Europe (what times when the Church and individual Christians must we sometimes call protest against both the State and the Market. But we “Christendom”) when need also to remember that death was not simply the the Church and the result of his rebellion against both secular and religious State were very closely authority. It was much more than that. tied together. Indeed up Jesus died as the beloved Son of the Father: the same until 1871 the Church Father who gives authority to the powers that killed of Ireland was the church “by law established” and his Son. Jesus himself recognised that fact in his trial there was a time not long before that when most people before Pilate. However what he achieved in his death in any position of power or influence had to conform to was to expose the corruption to which all political and the Church of Ireland. economic power is prone, and in doing so robbed every Those days are long gone for any Church in Ireland or power ever since of its claim to absolute authority. The in most of Europe and we are now in a position where State did not know what to do when confronted with we have to continually work out for ourselves how absolute goodness and chose to attempt to destroy it. to be both true to the Gospel and to be constructive, Jesus exercised his goodness in a number of ways; active citizens. healing, forgiving, teaching, and serving. In relation It may take me a few months to do so, but I thought I to the political authorities of his day he exercised his would try to explore in general terms what that might authority by “bearing witness to the truth”. By doing so mean for us in the twenty-first century; how we might he set a standard by which all political power is to be approach the task of being the Church in the modern judged. world. In the Gospels one of the first recorded reactions to the And I want to begin by looking at what the Church death of Jesus was a tragic event; the death of Judas by should be. The Church is the body of people who his own hand. And if the Cross had been the end of the announce to every nation the kingdom or reign of God. story that would have been a justified reaction. But of The Church calls men and women to repent of their course it was not. The resurrection is the revelation to loyalty to false powers and to become followers and chosen witnesses that the man who died on the cross servants of the one true King. When men and women is indeed the king, the conqueror of death and sin and respond to this call they come fully into the fellowship Lord and Saviour of all. of the Church which is a sign, an instrument and a And it is interesting to note that when they asked “Lord, foretaste of the kingship of the one, true and living God. will you now restore the kingdom to Israel” those The Gospel is not meant to call people out of the world chosen witnesses thought that Jesus victory was to have into a safe and sealed haven. We are called out in order immediate political consequences. They thought that to be sent back as the bearers of God’s kingdom. In our after the resurrection God himself would come and rule case we are sent back into a world which is saturated as king displacing all other forms of political power. with a culture of individualism and convinced that men But Jesus response to their question shows that they were and women are completely self-sufficient and able to mistaken. “It is not for you to know times or seasons shape their lives unaided or unencumbered by the which the Father has fixed by his own authority”. They obedience required by God. had wanted to see the uncontested rule of God (not The Jesus who said some words which are so familiar to unlike the Islamic ideal of a worldwide sharia) but were us “Come unto me all who travail and are heavy laden told simply that they must bide God’s time. and I will give you rest” also says “as the Father sent me, so I send you”. However they also received the promise of the Spirit One possible response to those sent back into a world who will, among other things, was to equip them when dominated by a very powerful State which, along addressing political life and structures of power. with The Market, lays claim to every aspect of life, is And I would hope to look at how the church addresses to become a protest movement.