Remembrance a Nation in Silence
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Member of the worldwide Anglican Communion November 2020 £1.50/€1.65 REMEMBRANCE A NATION IN SILENCE Check out our website 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 • [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 THIS SPACE COULD BE PROMOTING PROMOTEFor KEEN, COMPETITIVE YOUR ADVERTISING BUSINESS! RATES, from one-eighth of a page to full page please contact by YOUR BUSINESS! email; [email protected] or by telephoning For KEEN, COMPETITIVE ADVERTISING RATES, from the Clogher Diocesan Office; Tel. 028 66347879 one-eighth of a page to full page please contact by followed by Pressing 3 for Brian when prompted. email; [email protected] or by telephoning the Clogher Diocesan Office; Tel. 028 66347879 followed by Pressing 3 for Brian when prompted. IAN MCELROY JOINERY For all your joinery, carpentry, roofing and tiling needs Tel: 02866385226 or 07811397429 Home: (44) 02889521060 Mobile: 07713357156 CLOGHER MAGAZINE COMMITTEE CONTENTS Chairperson: Mrs Eleanor Lynn Vice-Chairperson: Mrs Barbara Ingram Message from Archdeacon ............... 4 Secretary: Mrs Margaret Porter 5-49 Treasurer: Mrs Maud Shaw Parish News ..................................... Committee Members: The Revd Canon Desmond Kingston, 50-51 Mrs Jean Stinson, Mrs Mabel Black and Mr Glenn Moore Children’s Pages ........................... Packing Team: Mrs Margaret Porter, Mrs Muriel Henderson, Mrs Barbara Ingram, Mrs Joyce Kerr, Mrs Eleanor Lynn, Mrs Maureen Puzzle Page for Adults ......................52 Robinson, Mrs Jean Stinson, Miss Hilda Lucy, Mrs Ann Graham and Mr Robert Robinson Mothers' Union ....................................53 Editor: Mr. Brian Donaldson Designer: Miss Corinna Power (Bluebell Art & Design) Girls Friendly Society ........................54 Diocesan News ............................ 55-59 YOUR MAGAZINE IN NOVEMBER 2020 Church of Ireland News ..............60-61 The Clogher Diocesan Magazine is published monthly Community News ...............................62 except January and August. It is usually available from Parish Churches and other selected outlets by Puzzle Page Answers ........................63 the first Sunday of each month. Annual Subscription £15/€16.50. Postal Subscription £32/€47.50. Views expressed in the magazine are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the Magazine Committee, the Diocese CALLING ALL FELLOW of Clogher nor the Church of Ireland. The Magazine Committee reserves the right to decline any material without assigning a PARISHIONERS reason. No correspondence can be entered into regarding non- publication of material or advertisements. Names and addresses of contributors must be provided with material submitted and may then be published. The Magazine Committee accepts no responsibility for loss, damage or the return of material. Diocesan Office Clogher Diocesan Office, St.Macartin’s Cathedral Hall, Hall’s Lane, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. N.I. BT74 7DR Tel 02866347879 Next Magazine in December 2020 Can you spare €5 or more to assist this congregation of Christ Deadline for submission of material Sunday, 15th November 2020. Church, Aughnamullen in Clogher Diocese to re-roof and Content to be sent to [email protected] install an interpretative centre in memory of the Late Billy Fox Advertising rates are available upon request. (senator and TD) who lost his life during the troubles. He was the only member of Dail Eireann to suffer death as a result and Advertising charges for material submitted in addition to the routine he was a member of our Church and is buried in Christ Church, diocesan and parish submissions will apply. Aughnamullen, Church of Ireland. Order your magazine For ordering additional copies or amending orders for parishes, Our congregation consists of 12-15 people, all elderly. We have contact Mrs Eleanor Lynn Tel. 028 66 324603. set up a Go Fund Me page to assist us in fundraising during the Covid-19 pandemic for our project, as normal fundraising methods are not possible during the current times. The web Front Cover address for our Go Fund Me page is: gf.me/u/xczcr7 Stuart Brooker, from the firm, Grave Image, maintaining the We appreciate any help you can afford to give to our project. Commonwealth War Graves Commission plot at Derryvullen North Churchyard in Irvinestown. See story on Pages 56/57. Parishioners of Aughnamullen, Co, Monaghan 3 A Message from Archdeacon Brian Harper, Archbishop’s Commissary We have a tendency to get as close to the Some have assessed the issues and remain edge of what is permitted. If two metres closed. Some have reopened and then separation is advised but one metre is the have been obliged to close again under the minimum, then we will stand 99cms. For second wave of regulations. everyone’s health, we need to use common sense and stay back from the edge. Some Our congregations have complied with all regulations are difficult and may not seem the requirements and the online provision logical but we need to be thinking of others of services has continued. (Online provision as well as ourselves. can be time-consuming and difficult so do appreciate the work that the rector is doing Many of our parishioners are involved in in this new way of preaching!) the hospitality sector and will be finding it difficult at the moment. If you can support And so we encourage one another at every them, please do order the occasional opportunity because encouragement builds take away and maybe get one for your us up in the Body of Christ. Paul concludes neighbour as well. Help one another. Last his letter to the Corinthians with these spring, we showed our support for all in appropriate words; health care by clapping and bagpiping “Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive and singing in the street. This time, let our for full restoration, encourage one another, support be shown with encouraging words, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God a smile and avoiding any activity that might of love and peace will be with you.” encourage the virus to spread. He also adds; “Greet one another with a I want to thank the many parishes which holy kiss.” have carefully considered the re-opening of their churches. In most cases, this has been But we can save that advice until later and done professionally and with consideration. make do with a smile and an elbow bump! As this magazine is being published, we are once again back in the throes of a “lockdown” albeit much lighter than that which we experienced in the spring. It is important that we both observe the regulations and also give support to those who will be struggling either personally or in business because of them. I have a Tufty school calendar from 1993 which features a young boy (my eldest son) balancing on the kerb of a busy road. There is a pedestrian (me) in the background walking the dog (Sally). Anyway, the message of the month was to stay away from the edge of the footpath. That is good advice but often ignored with COVID-19. 4 CHURCH OF IRELAND PARISH NOTES Aghadrumsee, Clogh & Drumsnatt Church Army Officer Captain David Hamilton The Rectory, Drummadarainy, Stonebridge, Clones, Co. Monaghan. T: 047 20826 Sunday 29th November Group each week. If you would like to be E: [email protected] Aghadrumsee 12.05pm Morning Prayer added to this group please contact Moira. Clogh 10.45am Morning Prayer Clogh had planned to have a socially distanced prizegiving combined with a Services Harvest Services forest walk but unfortunately due to a Sunday 1st November Due to Covid restrictions our Harvest tightening of restrictions this has had to be Services were very different this year and postponed until further notice. Aghadrumsee 12.05pm Morning Prayer consisted of one Sunday service in all three Clogh 10.45am Morning Prayer churches on Sunday 4th October. Our Remembrance Services Sunday 8th November thanks to our preacher Dean Raymond Services of Remembrance will take place Aghadrumsee 12.05pm Service of Ferguson and to Sarah Elliott for her in Aghadrumsee and Clogh on Sunday 8th Rembrance beautiful solo in Aghadrumsee. November when we pause to remember all Clogh 10.45am Service of Rembrance who gave the supreme sacrifice. Sunday 15th November Sunday School Aghadrumsee 12.05pm Morning Prayer Our Sunday Schools are trying to adapt Sympathy Clogh 10.45am Morning Prayer to the current situation in various ways. Sympathy is extended to the