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THE BISHOP OF DURHAM, the Right Revd Justin Portal Welby, is due to be enthroned as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury on 21 March. I first met the new archbishop at the meeting of the Anglican Primates in Swords, Co Dublin, in 2011. I was the chaplain at the meeting, and the new archbishop, who was then Dean of Liverpool, was one of the facilitators. Later, he invited me to preach in Liverpool Cathedral, and we met again before he became Bishop of Durham. As Archbishop of Canterbury, he is the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, and he will probably crown the next British monarch. His Christmas sermon placed poverty at the heart of his priorities. He has been critical of Left: Archbishop Justin Welby… due to be enthroned next month (Photograph © the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, supported the Lambeth Palace/Picture Partnership). Right: Archbishop-elect Justin Welby and Occupy protests at Saint Paul’s Cathedral, and Caroline Welby with their children Peter (23), Hannah (17), Eleanor (20), Katherine has not been fooled by the smooth talking of (26), and Tim (28) with his wife Rachel (Photograph: Mercury Press and Media). bankers. He has asked whether companies can sin, and sits on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. He favours women bishops, but supports “the Church of England’s opposition to same- sex marriage.” However, he has spoken out strongly against homophobia and says he is “always averse to the language of exclusion, when what we are called to is to love in the same way as Jesus Christ loves us.” But, who is Justin Welby? Left: Lambeth Palace… the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury From oil to ministry (Photograph: Patrick Comerford). Centre: Trinity College Cambridge… Justin Justin Portal Welby was born in London on 6 Welby was an undergraduate while his uncle Rab Butler was Master (Photograph: January 1956, the son of Gavin Bramhall James Patrick Comerford). Right: Liverpool Cathedral… Justin Welby was Dean from 2007 Welby and Jane Gillian (née Portal). They to 2011 (Photograph: Patrick Comerford). divorced in 1959, when he was three, and he was brought up by his father. At Eton, his Caroline and myself,” he said later, “but in a In 2007, he became Dean of Liverpool, one of contemporaries included the Tory minister strange way it actually brought us closer to God.” England’s largest and most deprived cathedrals. Oliver Letwin, and Charles Moore and Dominic Back in London in 1984, he joined Enterprise He doubled attendances, abseiled from the Lawson, former editors of the Daily Telegraph Oil, with interests in West African and the roof, and allowed John Lennon’s Imagine to be and the Sunday Telegraph. North Sea, and started going to Holy Trinity played on the cathedral bells – despite the line “imagine there is no heaven.” He also From Eton, he went to Trinity College Church, Brompton. When he began considering encouraged a “Night of the Living Dead” Cambridge, where the Master was his mother’s ordination, the Bishop of Kensington, John uncle, ‘Rab’ Butler, a former Conservative deputy service on Halloween, when a man rose from a Hughes, told him: “There is no place for you in coffin to represent the Resurrection. prime minister. At Cambridge, he met Caroline the Church of England. I have interviewed a Eaton, later a classics teacher; they would marry He once fell into a fit of giggles during a thousand for ordination, and you don’t come in in 1979 and have six children. He was 21 when reading from Leviticus that mentions a badger. the top thousand.” his father died in 1977. He graduated a year later As a mark of affection, Liverpool Cathedral with a BA in history and law, and then worked in He received a BA in theology in Durham and gave him a small carved rock badger that he placed on the tip of his bishop’s crook when he the oil industry for 11 years. was ordained in 1992. After 10 years in parish became Bishop of Durham in 2011. During five years in Paris with Elf Aquitaine, he ministry in Warwickshire, he became a canon in became fluent in French and a Francophile. Coventry Cathedral in 2002 and co-director German Jewish roots Tragedy struck in 1983 when his seven-month- for International Ministry. His peace work at Archbishop Welby’s father, Gavin Bramhall old daughter, Johanna, died in a car crash in Coventry saw him shake hands with warlords James Welby, was born Bernard Gavin Weiler in France. “It was a very dark time for my wife and being held at gunpoint in Africa. Ruislip, northwest London, in 1910, the son of a

From left: Gavin Welby… the archbishop’s elusive father; The town of Osterode am Harz in Hanover, ancestral home of Archbishop Justin Welby’s father; The Weiler family shop in Osterode the late 1800s; Celbridge House, Co Kildare… birthplace of Sir William Napier (Photograph: Patrick Comerford); Castletown House, Co Kildare… the Napier family sought refuge in 1798 (Photograph: Patrick Comerford).

4 ChurCh review Photographs of Celbridge House by Patrick Comerford. Photographs of Archbishop of Canterbury © Lambeth Palace/Picture Partnership

After Christmas, I visited Celbridge, Co Kildare, the home over 200 years ago of the three Lennox sisters. They were the daughters of Charles Lennox (1701-1750), 2nd Duke of Richmond and a grandson of King Charles II, and the heroines of Stella Tillyard’s book Aristocrats. • Lady Emily Lennox (1731-1814) married James FitzGerald (1722-1773), 1st Duke of Leinster, who lived at Carton House and built Leinster House, Dublin. They were the parents of Lord Edward FitzGerald. From left: Lady Sarah Napier of Celbridge by Joshua Reynolds… a direct ancestor of • Lady Louisa Lennox (1743-1803) married the new Archbishop of Canterbury; Colonel George Napier… moved into Celbridge Thomas Conolly (1738-1803). He inherited House in 1785; Lady Emily Lennox... married the Duke of Leinster; Sir William Castletown House, Co Kildare, from his Napier (1785-1860)… born in a house built by an Archbishop of Cashel. great-uncle, William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons; German-born Jewish immigrant, Bernard he married Doris Sturzenegger. But the • Lady Sarah Lennox (1745-1826) married Weiler, who moved to London in the late childless marriage soon ended in divorce, and Colonel George Napier (1753-1804). ‘Donnie’ 1880s. But Justin Welby did not learn about his Gavin kept their marriage a secret for the rest father’s background until English newspapers of his life. and Sarah Napier moved into Celbridge delved into his background. Back in London, he established “Gavin House in 1785; a few months later, their son, While Gavin Welby was making his fortune in Distillers,” exporting whisky to America, and Sir William Francis Patrick Napier (1785- New York selling whisky, his cousins faced selling his own blend, “Gavin’s Gold Label.” He 1860), was born there on 17 December 1785. persecution in Nazi Germany. The Weiler family stood as a Conservative in Coventry East in Celbridge House, now known as Oakley can be traced back to Simon Weiler, who 1951, but was defeated by Labour’s Richard Park, was built in 1724 by the Vicar of became a citizen of Havover in 1836 and Crossman. His sister Peggy married the Labour Celbridge, the Revd Dr Arthur Price, later started a department store in Osterode am MP Lester Hutchinson (1904-1983) who Bishop of Clonfert, Bishop of Ferns and Harz. The business was inherited by his son opposed the NATO treaty. Leighlin, Bishop of Meath and Archbishop of Herman Weiler. Gavin Welby married Jane Gillian Portal in Cashel. In 1785, the house became home to the When Herman died a wealthy merchant in 1955, but they divorced in 1959. He was Napier family, and in 1798 they sought safety 1884, his sons sold the shop and four of them – engaged briefly to the actress Vanessa Redgrave, with their neighbours and cousins, the Conollys Siegfried, Max, Ernest and the archbishop’s then 23. But she ended the engagement after of Castletown House. grandfather, Bernard Weiler – moved to London her parents, Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Sir William Napier’s daughter, Elizabeth, with their mother, Amalie, and set up Weiler Kempson, warned that Gavin wanted her to married Philip Gore, 4th Earl of Arran, an uncle Brothers, importing ostrich and osprey feathers. become a stay-at-home mother for his son, of Bishop Charles Gore, editor of Lux Mundi Amalie died in Hampstead in 1914 and was Justin (then 4). and founder of the Community of the buried in the Jewish cemetery in Golders Green. Irish ancestors Resurrection. Elizabeth’s descendants include A fifth brother, Dr Julius Weiler (1861-1937), Archbishop Welby’s mother, Jane Portal, was the Duke of Devonshire, who owns Lismore remained in Germany and founded a leading once a personal secretary to Winston Churchill. Castle, Co Waterford. psychiatric clinic in Berlin. His family villa was In 1975, she married Charles Williams, a senior Sir William Napier’s granddaughter, Rose filled with Louis XV furniture, French tapestries oil executive and banker. He became a Labour Leslie Napier, married Edward Portal, and their and Old Master paintings. life peer in 1985 as Baron Williams of Elvel. granddaughter is the mother of Archbishop Julius Weiler’s son, Dr Gerhard Weiler, The Portal family are of French Huguenot Justin Welby. pioneered techniques in microscopic analysis; descent and can be traced to mid-15th century Oakley House is now part of the Saint his wife, Dr Grita Thoemke, was an expert in France. Lady Williams is a niece of the late Rab Raphael centre run by the Saint John of God anaesthetics. When Hitler seized power in Butler (Baron Butler of Saffron Walden), and I order. I wonder whether the new Archbishop 1933, Gerhard fled to England and worked in a thought the new archbishop might have Irish of Canterbury will return to Ireland to visit his laboratory at Oxford University. He stayed with ancestry through her grandfather, Sir Montagu ancestral home in Celbridge. his uncle Siegfried, the last surviving Weiler Butler. brother to leave Germany, before the whole Canon Patrick Comerford lectures in I traced these Butlers back through the Very family, including Gerhard’s wife and father, then Anglicanism, Church History and Liturgy Revd George Butler (1774-1853), a headmaster fled Nazi Germany. in the Church of Ireland Theological of Harrow and Dean of Peterborough. That family In a twist of irony, when World War II broke Institute and is a canon of Christ Church provided another interesting link with Liverpool: out, Gerhard was classified as an “enemy alien” Cathedral, Dublin. Dean Butler’s eldest son, Canon George Butler and spent several months in an internment camp www.revpatrickcomerford.blogspot.com (1819-1890), was a headmaster in Liverpool for near Liverpool. After the war, he ran a private many generations and his wife was the saintly forensic laboratory in Oxford. When Gerhard social reformer Josephine Butler (1828-1906). died in 1995, he left much of his art collection to But I could only trace these Butlers to a the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and funded a family in Worcestershire in the mid-16th language prize at Roehampton University. century, and found no connections with the Meanwhile, the archbishop’s grandfather, Kilkenny Butlers. If the new archbishop had Bernard Weiler, saw his business collapse Irish links, I had to search elsewhere. “27 years designing houses, rectories, church / when the fashion for ostrich feathers faded community facilities and commercial premises.” with World War I. Faced with discrimination, Celbridge connections he hid his German-Jewish roots and changed I returned to the story of the Portal family, his name to Welby. His son, born Bernard and found that the archbishop’s maternal Gavin Weiler in 1910, became Gavin Bramhall grandmother was Rose Leslie Napier. I was James Welby in 1914. familiar with the story of Sir Charles James Gavin Welby was a teenager when his Napier, an Irish general who was Governor of mother Edith (James) lost her small fortune in Kephalonia and who played a role in the Greek the 1929 Wall Street Crash. She gave him £5 War of Independence. He was a first cousin of and put him on a boat to New York. There he the 1798 leader Lord Edward FitzGerald, and I The Maltings, Bray, Co wicklow and made his fortune supplying leading Manhattan wondered whether Rose was descended from Ballycorus, Kilternan, Dublin 18. hotels with whisky during prohibition. In 1934, the same family. 01 286 4791 [email protected] www.sna.ie

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8 ChurCh review NEWS Church of Ireland Position on Abortion Stated at Oireachtas Committee Hearings

The Church of Ireland opposes abortion in • The Church of Ireland opposes abortion but principle but recognises that there are acknowledges that there are exceptional exceptional cases of ‘strict and undeniable cases of ‘strict and undeniable medical medical necessity’ where it is and should be an necessity’ where it is and should be an option, Archbishop Michael Jackson stated in a option.There is a variety of opinion within submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee the Church of Ireland on what constitutes on Health. The Archbishop and Samuel Harper, ‘exceptional cases’ but agreement that it Lay Honorary Secretary of the General Synod includes circumstances where the of the Church of Ireland made the submission continuation of the pregnancy poses a real as part of three days of public hearings on the and substantial risk to the life of the mother. implementation of the Government decision • In the context of the Church of Ireland’s following the publication of the Expert Group previous comments on abortion about the Report into matters relating to AB & C v. need for legal clarity, it is agreed that the Ireland. Submissions on the moral issues position in the State at present is very surrounding abortion were made to the unclear and unsatisfactory, and unfair to Oireachtas committee on behalf of a number pregnant women and medical professionals of other faith groups including the Irish who deserve to be able to make critical, Catholic Bishops’ Conference, the Methodist clinical decisions in a secure and well Church in Ireland, the Presbyterian Church and regulated medical framework. Accordingly, the Jewish and Muslim communities as well as the decision by the Government to seek to by Atheist Ireland. During two previous days of provide clarity on the issue is welcome. hearings, submissions were made by legal and • It is agreed that where there is a strict and medical experts. undeniable medical necessity requiring the The Archbishop said that there were a wide ending of a pregnancy at a later stage, where variety of sincerely held and conscientious possible, this should be done in a manner views within the Church of Ireland as to what Arcbishop Michael Jackson and Samuel that preserves the life of the unborn, without constituted the ‘exceptional cases’ in which Harper, Honoray Lay Secretary of the compromising the life of the woman. This abortion would be acceptable. But he General Synod of the Church of Ireland diagnosis should be made expeditiously and continued that there would be agreement that outside Dail Eireann following the should be formally notified to the woman. these included cases where the continuation of Oireacthas Hearings on abortion. This will require legislation as medical council the pregnancy posed a risk to the life of the guidelines on their own will not necessarily mother. He said that the Church of Ireland had mother’ and as such the Expert Group report have this effect. welcomed the Supreme Court judgement in and the Government’s decision to provide a • Special provision should be made for the X Case which held that an abortion was legislative and regulatory framework are emergency situations where the continuation constitutionally permissible where the overdue and welcome,” he stated. of the pregnancy occasions a risk to the continuation of the pregnancy poses a ‘real and The submission stated that the issue was one mother’s life that it real, substantial and substantial risk’ to the life of the mother. of exceptional human complexity and imminent. However, he said that the legal situation had sensitivity and that the Church of Ireland was a • The clauses of the 1861 Act requires not been clarified since and statutory Synodical Church which developed policy amendment or repeal in the light of the provisions (particularly sections 58 and 59 of guided by the prayerful consideration and present situation. the Offences Against the Person Act 1861) discussion of bishops, clergy and laity. Drawing the presentation to a close, remained in effect providing for criminal Therefore, because of the limited time-scale Archbishop Jackson read from a statement sanctions of women who have abortions and involved in providing a written response, the from the Mother’s Union as he said he was those who assist abortions. document presented at the hearing could only conscious that they were two men “Without entering into the issue of whether be considered a preliminary response, the representing the whole Church. “For the abortion should be available in circumstances Archbishop and Mr Harper said. The main moment we must continue to keep the lines of beyond those outlined in the X-case (on which points raised in their submission were: communication open and listen, really listen, as there are a variety of opinions within the • The Church of Ireland emphasises the right well as talk, inform as well as undertake to be Church of Ireland), we agree that legal clarity is to life and this includes the equal right to life as informed as we can be from as many required to enable women and medical of the mother and of the unborn child. The professionals to make informed decisions Church of Ireland further honours the different sources and view points as possible. where the continuation of a pregnancy poses a natural human desire to celebrate and to We must trust in the medics and trained ‘real and substantial risk to the life of the protect new life. professionals and as we try to pick our way through the maze, recognise that one size doesn’t necessarily fit all and that any discussions and way forward may have to be New diocesan directory regularly reviewed as the world continues to The 2013 edition of the Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan evolve around us,” the statement read. Directory has now been published. A number will be circulated Following the hearing, the Archbishop and Mr Harper said: ‘We were grateful for the free of charge to every parish in the diocese. These are intended opportunity to participate in today’s public to go to the Rector, readers, parish treasurers, secretaries and hearings… We expressed our appreciation of members of the select vestry. Copies are available for any the open approach adopted by the Joint member of the diocese who requests one. They are available Committee in today’s hearings and also, our free of charge from the Diocesan Office in Rathmines or by post commitment to the process of ongoing from the editor, 8 Elsinore, Delgany, Greystones, Co Wicklow, structured dialogue between the Churches and for the cost for the cost of postage, €2. the State.’

ChurCh review 9 Invitation and Mission Vital to Bring New People to Church – Dublin Seminar Hears

Left: the Revd Ric Thorpe giving his presentation at the church planting seminar at The Exchange, Gardiner Street. Centre: Sean Mullen addresses the church planting seminar in The Exchange. Right: The organisers of the church planting seminar Andrew McNeile and Sean Mullen with Ric Thorp, the Bishop of London’s church plant advisor, in The Exchange in Gardiner Street.

Over 50 people from various parts of Ireland faith, people who had no faith and people who the rest moved there. Since 2004, St Paul’s has gathered in The Exchange in Gardiner Street were drifting through Ireland who came from planted two other churches and are about to for a seminar on church planting in the new other parts of the world for work. Mr Jones plant a third. Each time they send about 20 year. There were many present from Dublin and said they now had between 100 and 150 people people to the new church. Glendalough, including people who had planted coming and had 10 small groups operating in “It is very costly doing church plants. You churches themselves. But the event was also the parish. In the Holy Trinity context, he said have to give your best away and you are leading, attended people from the west of Ireland and they had tried to mix the old and the new. preaching training and bringing in people all the Northern Ireland including the Bishop of Tuam, Simon Kirkpatrick told the story of Urban time. But for the church plant to survive you the Right Revd Patrick Rooke and the Bishop of Junction in Blackrock which started 15 years need to give away your best,” Ric explained. Derry and Raphoe, the Right Revd Ken Good. ago. Based in a Methodist Church in Blackrock, “Obviously with 25 people going our income All had gathered to find out more about church a group of people decided to start a dance club [at St Paul’s] is going to go down but you can’t planting and to explore new opportunities. for teenagers. The majority of young people outgrow God.” He said that when they plant a The seminar was organised by Andrew attending came from two local authority new church, they aim to honour the past and McNeile of the Diocesan Growth Committee housing estates in the area. “There were scary try to keep the existing service going for the and Sean Mullen who runs Third Space, a place times when the police and ambulance were existing community to help them navigate the where people can gather and talk in Smithfield. called. There were fights and underage change for the present and build for the future. It was addressed by the Bishop of London’s drinking,” Mark recalled. Over time the age St Paul’s is in a “very challenging missional advisor on church planting, Ric Thorpe. He range involved grew. The teenagers came first, environment” but there is a lot of opportunity, focused on a wide range of topics which were then the younger sisters and brothers and then Ric said. Within seven months of arriving, they raised by the audience. These included: how to the parents. “We didn’t really have an aim. We took the pews out of the church and made the start a church plant, how to reach young people just wanted people to know Jesus that wouldn’t inside much lighter. “We wanted to create an and bring church in the 21st century, the make go to [conventional] church. We’re 15 years old environment where people could feel welcome,” up of a church plant, church planting in now and we’ve started a Sunday evening service he said. The new interior was also more flexible industrial or workplace settings, how much of but our goal was always the Saturday night and could be used for different purposes. the original denomination must be held on to in dance club and not the Sunday night,” he the church plant, partnership, discipleship, explained. They have recently started a Sunday INVITATION AND MISSION crossing cultural boundaries, the characteristics morning service and have a number of other He then spoke about getting people to come of a church planter or leadership team, small groups for example computer classes, to church and pointed out that only a certain diocesan support, the transition from church homework clubs and drop in groups. percentage of people would respond to an plant to mature plant and the theological basis invitation to come. It was necessary to find for church planting. LONDON EXPIERIENCE many different ways of inviting people. These Opening the seminar, Ric Thorpe Ric Thorpe told the gathering that he came could include courses, parties, services and acknowledged that he was an Englishman who from a marketing background. Having become a leaflet drops. However, Ric said it was not had started a large church plant in London. Christian in university, he eventually left the enough simply to try to attract people to the People said that could never happen in Ireland, huge company he worked for to work in a church. The next step was to get small groups he said, but added that he could tell them the bookshop at Holy Trinity Brompton in London’s together to become missional. “When you live principles that were transferrable as they were wealthy Knightsbridge where he later became a in the community you have to bring the word Biblical principles. curate. In 2004 the opportunity arose to plant of God to people,” he said adding that they a church for the Bishop of London in St Paul’s were now planning to go into the housing LOCAL STORIES in Shadwell in the Borough of Tower Hamlets in estates and start prayer groups or coffee To provide an example of church planting in east London – an area near the docks which mornings – anything to gather people together. Dublin, the Revd Rob Jones told of his had been heavily bombed in the Blitz and which Taking questions from the floor, Ric said that experience of starting a new church community was home to several deprived housing estates. it was possible to merge an old and new service within the existing parish of Holy Trinity, There had been three churches in the area, in a church plant setting but he suggested that Rathmines, with rector, Canon Neil McEndoo. all with congregations of about 10 people. Ric it was a slower and more painful process than He said they started by gathering 40 or 50 was given St Paul’s and the other two were to maintaining the original service in a church and people who met each Sunday in a closed close. He took 100 people from Holy Trinity starting a new one. “For me, I feel driven by the context before launching at Easter 2011. He Brompton (which had a community of about large numbers of the lost. I want to find other said that people who came to the new 2,500 people at the time) to the new church – ways of reaching them and I don’t believe the community were people who had drifted from 80 of those already lived in east London while service is the way to do that. Some people find

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their Christian faith in small groups and never go to a service,” he commented. The most important thing when planting a ARCHBISHOP LAUNCHES BACI new church is to get a team together, he said. The leadership team should be made of: LENT BIBLE STUDY RESOURCE • A leader who needs to know they are a leader and take responsibility. This, he said was a spiritual gift which needed to be recognised. “You’ll know they are a leader because people will follow them,” he explained. • An assistant leader who can keep things going if the leader is on holidays. • A worship leader who is responsible for half the service as music is important if young people are to be involved. • Someone whose focus is on youth and children as the most successful long term plants have families in them and if children are not looked after in church then families will go elsewhere. • An administrator who can take care of operational matters and plan for the future. The members of the team may not Members of the Biblical Association for the Church of Ireland with the necessarily be paid staff but once the team is organisation’s patron, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson formed then they can gather people. at the launch of the organisation’s 2013 Lenten Bible Study Resource in the Church When asked how the strategy would work in of Ireland Theological Institute. Pictured are the Revd Canon Dr Ginnie Kennerley, rural Ireland where it could be too much of a Dr David Hutchinson Edgar, Archbishop Michael Jackson, Dr Katie Hefflefinger, Judy culture shock for disaffected Roman Catholics Wilkinson and the Revd Dr William Olhausen. to come to the Church of Ireland, Ric said that they should ask people how they would like to express their Christian faith and “how would The Biblical Association for the Church of beginning of modelling communities in which we need to be for you to come to worship with Ireland launched its Lent 2013 Bible Study justice between the genders is a reality. We have us?” “Go to them and say ‘how can we help Resource on Gender Justice at the Church of a long way to go before we have even started, I you’. It’s not an easy thing but the evangelist can Ireland Theological Institute, Braemor Park, suggest,” he added. do this. The evangelist doesn’t think about the Dublin 6. Commending the resource, the This set of five Bible Studies pairs passages institution,” he explained. “Most people who organisation’s patron, Archbishop Michael related to the theme of gender justice from the don’t come to church don’t trust the church. Jackson said: "These Bible Studies on Gender Old Testament and the New Testament each We need to stop thinking institutionally and Justice emerge in the Season of Epiphany for week, offering reflections, notes and questions parochially and say how can I help you to find use in the Season of Lent. They are most helpful for group discussion. It is hoped that each one faith in God?” in our human grappling with light and darkness, will help participants consider how these texts Ric said that an individual could only do a glory and suffering in biblical and theological of scripture may challenge and inspire us today. certain amount and it was important to release ways. It is early enough in 2013 for parishes and The particular themes for each week are as mission. He said that this meant training communities to embrace them”. follows: missional leaders or discipling others who “The studies take a positive trajectory which 1) Pushing social boundaries would in turn disciple more people as St Paul leads us through from Genesis 1: 27 to 2) Sin, responsibility and justice did. He said that any leadership role that Galatians 3:28. They are nonetheless far from 3) Gentile women in Nehemiah and Acts existed within the church should have an naïve about a bigger and brutal picture; and I 4) Power, abuse, victimhood and mutuality apprentice which was being trained up so that quote: ‘It would be to deny the complexity of 5) Destitution, determination and inspiration they can then carry out that role. He said it was human existence if we did not take the time to A selection of prayers on the theme and a also important to have a network for leaders to explore more fully the problematic and painful bibliography are included for use throughout provide support and to create a learning experiences of why gender relations go wrong.’ the series; also a questionnaire which community. The planter also had to ensure that … The imperative is laid down for us to hold participants are asked to return as requested he or she was accountable, he added. together intellectual engagement and the by the ACC’s Bible in the Life of the Church project, which has asked member churches to reflect on this theme as well as on Economic Justice, which was our subject last Lent. KEITH GRAHAM PAINTER & These materials were written and compiled for BACI by Dr Katie Heffelfinger, Dr David architects Hutchinson Edgar, Revd Canon Dr Ginnie 36, Munster Street, DECORATOR Kennerley, Revd Dr William Olhausen, Dr Jason Dublin 7 Silverman, Revd Canon Helene Steed, and Ms City & Guilds Qualified Jacqui Wilkinson. registered Architect Apprenticeship served The Bible Study Resource was also formally Conservation Architect Grade iii launched in the Good Book Shop in Belfast by Fully Insured the Rt Revd Harold Miller. Domestic Design, Extensions, Energy BACI is pleased to announce that the Specialist in Hanging Wallpaper Archbishop of Armagh, the Most Revd Dr Upgrades & Conservation Works Richard Clarke, has graciously agreed to act as t: 01 8117891 David J. Gibson co-patron of BACI with Archbishop Jackson. m: 087 2377589 Tel: (01) 452 4404 The resource is available both in printed form (€2.50 per copy through the Bible Society, R E e: [email protected] 086 101 8860 Resource Centre or Good Book Shop) and on f: www.facebook.com/ FOrMarchitecture line (free from ).

ChurCh review 11 New Focus for Social Action Committee Aims to Combat Social Exclusion in Rural Areas

The Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan need in Dublin and Glendalough continues to be Committee for Social Action has taken on a new important. The means of conveying this focus in the last year. Last year the committee information are to be updated with a new page divided into two strands. The new Community devoted to the Social Action Committee being Action Group wing of the committee is focused rolled out on the diocesan website on urban issues with a particular emphasis on (www.dublin.anglican.org). The page will contain the Solas Project with operates in Dublin’s inner information and contact details for a wide range city. The other, reflecting the make up of the of support organisations. Hard and digital copies dioceses, is focusing on the rural perspective. The of the list will be will circulated to all parishes rural committee provides an element of and the committee also intends to produce a continuity from previous years but it also aims to poster for church notice boards with the highlight issues facing the rural communities in contact details of the principal support agencies the dioceses. Two meetings have been organised available to people in times of crisis. this month in East and West Glendalough at The committee is very aware that many which people will be able to bring issues affecting parishes are engaged in social action initiatives them to the attention of the committee. within the parish, the wider community, The National Economic and Social Forum has nationally and even internationally. A identified a number of groups as being at an questionnaire was distributed to parishes last increased risk of poverty in rural areas. These year inviting them to outline the social action include unemployed people, women, people The Revd Isaac Delamere, Chairperson initiatives that they are involved in. The with disabilities, older people, migrants, local of the Social Action Committee. information provided will give a picture of what authority tenants, and lone parents. Rural two people to come with them but there is also is happening throughout the dioceses. communities are also threatened with the an open invitation to anyone interested in It is hoped that the information can be used closure of small schools, post offices and Garda highlighting rural issues to attend. It is hoped that to develop a directory of parish based social stations. “Much of what forms the fabric of rural senior members of the diocese will be present action initiatives which will be featured on the communities is under threat,” explains the to take the issues on board and a report will be new social action web page so that people chairman of the committee, the Revd Isaac presented to Diocesan Councils afterwards. looking for a mother and toddler group or Delamere. “The price of petrol and diesel is so “This will be an exercise in listening on the senior citizens activities in their area would be high and event the pub is under threat, part of the Church and will provide able to access this information easily. The goal is removing a key place were people in rural opportunities for round table discussion where to create an online resource that will be communities meet. All of that erodes rural life.” people can identify the issues affecting them in available to clergy and the people of the their communities and consider how the dioceses. Canon Ardis has also contributed RURAL MEETINGS work he has carried out providing a theological The committee has organised two meetings – Church might address these issues,” Isaac says. “We hope to address the disconnect that exists and spiritual basis for social action based on a one in East Glendalough and one in West series of Biblical reflections. Glendalough with the aim of bringing people between rural parts of the dioceses and Dublin from rural communities together. The East and provide a broad understanding of rural COMMITEE issues. The different issues from each side of Glendalough meeting takes place on Thursday Apart from the chairman, the committee is Glendalough will be reflected by the people February 7 in East Glendalough School in made up of Mildred Beresford (Honorary attending the meetings.” Wicklow town at 8.00 pm. The West Secretary), Canon Ted Ardis, Marjorie Glendalough meeting takes place on February INFORMATION DISSEMINATION McClatchie, Ruby Morrow, David Whyte, Nigel 28 in the Jonathan Swift National School in Traditionally, the dissemination of information Warburton and Judith Lee. Dunlavin at 8.00 pm. Alan Gillis will introduce was the core operation of the committee and “We want to urge everyone to work both meetings and they will be facilitated by for many, despite the age of Google, having together as church in combating social Ruth Handy. information on where to turn for help in times exclusion and give to people facing multiple Each rector has been invited to attend the of crisis is vital. 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12 ChurCh review Readers Rota DELGANY There has been a great response to the appeal for volunteers to read lessons on Sunday mornings. Readers have been appointed from now The Revd. Nigel Waugh. Tel. 2874515 until the month of June. If you would like to put your name on the list. Assisting Clergy: The Revd. Harry Lew. Tel. 087 6288049 Please contact Brian Glanville [email protected]. Email: [email protected] Review Distributor: Peter Harrison. Tel. 2874270 Sunday services: 8.30am, 10.30am, 7pm. DONOUGHMORE, DONARD Christmas Services WITH DUNLAVIN Christmas is but a dim memory at this time of year. However it is nice to reflect on the full church, lovely flowers and warm services of Rector: Revd Olive E. Henderson Tel: 045 404631 the Christmas period. The children’s carol service was standing room Lay Minister: Ernest Mackey only. The traditional carol service, which this year was an ecumenical Parish Readers: Myra Moody, Edward Allen, Jon Kirby service, was also well supported. We welcomed Father Liam Belton, the local parish priest, who took part in the service. The Christmas Eve Christmas 2012 Holy Communion and the main services on Christmas Day had very Christmas was very well celebrated in all ends of the parish with large numbers also. The junior choir, the main choir and the singing excellent attendances at all services. The Children’s Carol service in group Reflections all took part in the Christmas services and added Donoughmore was especially moving with the children acting out the greatly to our enjoyment. crib story, unrehearsed. Thanks to the parents for your help in dressing Holy Baptism your children for the service. On Sunday 30th December Eric Michael, son of Andrew Colhoun and Christmas in the Country Dagmara Wieloch, was baptised. At the same service Harry Luke, son This event was an excellent evening of music, song, verse and of Ciaran and Jackie Campion was also baptised. readings, followed by refreshments in the hall. The excellent attendance On Saturday 5th January George John, son of Niall and Lois made the occasion very special. Thank you to Adrienne and all who McCartan was baptised in church. This service was conducted by Lois’s helped in any way. uncle, the Reverend Noel Battye. On Sunday 13th January Harriet Dorothy O’Connor Wortley, daughter Santa Wonderland of Ian Wortley and Lynne O’Connor was baptised at the 10.30am service. Santa came on his annual visit to Donard again this year. Many children came to visit him. Thanks to all the organisers for two wonderful Funeral afternoons, both for the children and adults. The funeral of Elspeth Gailey took place in church on Wednesday 9th January at 12pm. Elspeth was not a parishioner but almost 200 people Confirmation 2013 attended her funeral as she was very well known in equestrian circles. Confirmation preparation continues for our young adults. The next For many years she was the equestrian correspondent of the Irish Press preparation classes take place on Saturday 9th and 23rd February. The and was a senior show jumping judge. Our sympathies go to her candidates are preparing for and will be leading the service in brother, her sister and her great friend, Eleanor Fox. Donoughmore Church on Sunday 24th February at 11.30 a.m. The class planned for 9th March is cancelled due to the entrance exam in Confirmation Baltinglass secondary school being held on the same day. Please Our parish Confirmation has been postponed until next year. It will remember Allen, Owen, Conor, Amy, Alex, Daniel, Aaron, Elly, James, David, now take place in the spring of 2014. Rowan, and Dean in your prayers as they prepare for their confirmation. The number of parishioners who are interested in confirmation this Sick year is small and, for some of these, the date of the confirmation service We continue to remember and pray for all who are sick. Especially Lily was proving difficult for various reasons. Crampton, Irene Moody and Canon Mervyn McCullagh who in hospital. A number of other children, who do not currently attend church, expressed interest in taking part. By postponing for a year it will give Engagement these families an opportunity to participate in church life if they wish Congratulations to three couples who announced their engagement to do so and this will make the confirmation more meaningful. over the Christmas season. Sharleen Moody and Gordon Warren, Niall Children currently in 6th class will be in first-year secondary school Moody and Irene Patterson, David Murphy and Denise McNamara. next year and will not be too old for confirmation. Combined with next Cupid sure was busy and I hear he was busy in another household too! year's 6th class, this should give us a useful number for confirmation Birth classes and other youth events next year. Congratulations to George and Olive Finlay on the birth of their Crèche granddaughter, and to Mrs Kathleen Finlay a great granddaughter, a little The crèche began on the 13th January. This is for younger children girl to Pamela and her husband in Meath. and is to allow parents to attend church without their young children Congratulations if they choose to do so. We had a crèche some years ago, which closed Jon Kirby, our parish reader, celebrated his BIG birthday on Christmas when the numbers of young children dropped, has now been restarted eve. Rosemary Mills is also celebrating a BIG birthday this month. as we have large numbers of young children at present. There is a rota Congratulations to them both. Happy Birthday also to Lily Crampton of volunteers at the moment but if you would like to take part please who is celebrating her 88th birthday on 3rd February. contact Meg Elliott. Whist Drives Coffee Dunlavin whist drive will be held in the parish hall on Thursday 7th We always have coffee after the family service on the 3rd Sunday of February at 8.30 pm. The next whist drive is on 7th March. Everyone the month. welcome. We now have Coffee after church on the 1st Sunday of the month as Donoughmore whist drive will be held in the old school hall on well. It is a nice opportunity to meet our fellow parishioners, and, Friday 22nd February at 8.30 p.m. Everyone welcome. particularly to greet newcomers. Youth Group – ‘dclub’ Churchyard Lights The ‘dclub’ is for all young adults aged 11 to 16 (6th class to Junior The new lights for the churchyard car park are now installed and in cert years) and takes place on the second Saturday of the month and is use. These are an important safety feature and a great help for anyone held in Donoughmore Hall from 8 – 10 pm. The next meeting will be parking their car in the churchyard in the dark evenings. on 9th February.

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Ash Wednesday – 13th February the Christmas period and especially for the very generous collections There will be a service of Holy Communion in Donoughmore Church which were given to St. Vincent de Paul, Protestant Aid, Pact and the at 8 pm Leprosy Mission. Lenten Services There will be a service every Wednesday evening at 8 p.m during Lent, using the following rota – Ash Wed 13th Feb – Donoughmore; Wed 20th GREYSTONES Feb – Donard; Wed 27th Feb Dunlavin; Wed 6th March – Donoughmore; Wed 13th March – Donard; Wed 20th March – Dunlavin. Clergy: Rev. David Mungavin. Tel: 287 4077. Lay Minister: Frank Connolly. Tel: 087 121 1575. Review Secretary: Mrs. Carolyn Gray. Tel: 2874412. Website: www.stpatricksgreystones.ie DUNGANSTOWN, REDCROSS Parish Office: Tel: 201 0648. Email: [email protected] & CONARY Sunday Services: 8.30am; 10.30am, followed by coffee; 5.00pm. Wednesday: Holy Communion at 10.30am, followed by coffee. Rev. Roland Heaney. Tel: 0404-41637. E-mail: [email protected] Youth Worker: Alan Breen. Tel: 0404-41864 The New Year began with the Epiphany of our Lord falling on a Parish Administrator: Mrs Deirdre O’Callaghan. Tel: 0404-41864 Sunday which is almost as welcome as Christmas falling on a Sunday. We Review: Mrs Phyllis Mates. Tel: 0404-41715 face a number of challenges in the coming year : the first sods will be Parish Email: [email protected] dug in the building of Temple Carrig School. The Interim Board, chaired Parish Websites: www.redcrosschurch.ie www.stkevinsdunganstown.ie by Garrett Fennell have made very good progress , one of the main www.saintbartholomews.ie priorities is to appoint the Principal in the coming year as it is perceived vital that this crucial role is filled while so many ongoing decisions are being made. The Parish Centre continues to be a busy place hosting two Spring Time pre schools and various groups ; we are fortunate to have a really good With February comes the stretch in the evenings and the signs of team to keep things ticking over nicely. new life in the countryside. Buds appear on the trees, first flowers push Greystones is a growing town and the National Schools are presently through the ground and new lambs arrive in the fields. Farmers are over subscribed which is why extra class rooms are in the process of getting the ground ready to plant the seed as the work begins on being planned to accommodate the growth in the community. producing another harvest. We naturally expect it to happen this way In the parish we hope to continue being a welcoming place to the because after all that is the way the seasons work. Winter is past and faithful, the seeker and the new comer alike. Our worship is the summer is approaching. Yet in church life, we go through the different foundation of parish life , around this we build our busy lives finding seasons of the church but do we expect things to change? During time for the right things ; the people who need us and those whom we February we will be entering into the season of Lent but are we need. By this our community is hopefully nurtured and sustained. expecting a harvest from it? The church must be in the business of The Select Vestry facilitated the sale of a church property in early spiritual harvesting and therefore we should be doing everything we December which will benefit our financial planning in the coming year. can to ensure that the harvest is brought in – people’s lives transformed We also plan to continue to consider outreach and stewardship in the by the love and salvation of Jesus Christ. The ground needs to be made parish as an ongoing theme. ready and the best place to begin is in our own hearts. We are grateful to those who work with children and youth week by Ash Wednesday week. The confirmation group met first on the Epiphany and continue to There will be a short penitential service in Conary Church on meet until the Confirmation on 3rd March. The programme will be led Wednesday, 13th February at 7.30pm. by Kirsty Lynch , youth worker in Christ Church, Bray and we also look forward to the input from 3Rock ; the Fun Day and post confirmation Prayer week end away in June. The Bugle Club and Sunday Seekers are also If we really want to see God at work we need to pray. Although many central to our encouragement of fellowship and faith in the young. people pray privately, and this is great , there is something very The Choir, so ably led by Jacqueline & Paul Mullen, produced a great powerful about corporate prayer ,when a group of people meet variety of music and carols over Advent and Christmas : we look together with a real purpose in prayer. A prayer meeting takes place in forward to more in the new year. Redcross Church on Wednesday morning at 9.30am and a Men’s prayer We look forward to ordinand Kevin Conroy joining us on placement meeting takes place on Thursday morning between 7.00 and 8.00am. for the coming months and later in the year we welcome (home) Ian Horner to be our Intern Deacon for the coming academic year Healing beginning in August/September. Trinity Hall is open every Thursday evening from 7.00pm to 8.30pm for anyone who wants to come and receive prayer for healing or for Carol Service any other personal need. Everyone is welcome. We had our lessons and carol service on Sunday 16th December and it was a beautiful candle lit service. The choir and congregation sang Christian Burial each carol with such clarity. After the service, Rev. David Mungavin and The parish was deeply saddened to hear the news that Mrs Kathleen Robert Mowatt jointly presented Ms. Diane Carroll from the Bray Bradshaw of Shroughmore House had passed away peacefully, but Lakers with a cheque for €4,000. This was our donation towards this totally unexpectedly on Christmas morning. Kathleen was a faithful well known local charity from the proceeds of the Parish Fair, held in member of Conary Church and very seldom missed attending Sunday October. This is a central feature of our annual charity work. services and helping at the parish sales etc. Her family are well known in the farming community and this was reflected by the large numbers Soup and Sandwiches Lunch attending the funeral service on Friday, 28th December at St. The next Soup and Sandwiches Lunch to be held in St. Patrick’s Bartholomew’s Church, Conary with the burial in the adjoining Worship and Recreation Centre will be on Tuesday 19th March 2013 graveyard. Our thoughts and prayers are with her friends and family, from 12.30 pm until 2 pm. Do come and join in the fellowship and enjoy especially her children Mervyn, Robert, Gillian and Jennifer, their some home made soup, and sandwiches. spouses, all the grandchildren and extended family. Parish Register – Funeral Marriage 5th December 2012: Derek Smyth. Congratulations to Ian Bradshaw who was married to Julie Corcoran Our sympathy to his family and friends. on Monday, 31st December in Avoca. We wish them every blessing and happiness in their future life together. Baptisms 9th December 2012: Jamie Marshall Winstanley. Carol Services 9th December 2012: Ruby Anna Felton. It probably now seems a very long time since Christmas but we 30th December 2012: Logan Eoin Dunn McCauley would like to thank everyone who took part in our Carol Services over We welcome these little ones into the fellowship of Christ’s Church.

54 CHURCH REVIEW Mothers Union LEIXLIP AND LUCAN Meets 19th February in Ann Hendys Home. Topic: “Care of your eyes.” The Rev. Scott Peoples. Tel: 01-624 9147. Mobile: 083-1357 328. World Day of Prayer Service Email: [email protected] Friday 1st March at 8:00pm in Crookstown church. The theme of the Lay Readers: Rosemary Fair, Joe Haughton, Irene Young service is “ I was a stranger and you welcomed me”. The service was Parish Office: 01-6240976. Fax: 01-6240846. prepared by the Christian women of France. Everyone welcome. Rector’s day off: Monday. Tidy Towns Cake sale: On Sunday the 10th of February following the ten o’clock service in Timolin after which we have tea in the hall there Good news will be a cake sale to raise funds for tidy towns. There will also be a cake Just before Christmas Bord Pleanala gave the go ahead for the new sale following twelve o’clock mass in Moone. All support would be school at St.Edmunsbury. It has been a challenging time for the school greatly appreciated. Castledermot Local History Group invite you to a talk by community waiting for the decision to be taken. The tendering process author and historian David Ryan on "John St Leger and the will begin soon with the hope of being in the new school before year Grangemellon Hellfire Club" to be held at 8pm on Tuesday 26th end or early 2014. We rejoice in this great news and acknowledge the February in Castledermot Community Centre. Entry 2 euro (members long journey of persuasion, coaxing, meeting and most of all praying has free). Membership fees for 2013 are now due (10euro). come to this positive conclusion. Team Hope Christmas On behalf of "Team Hope Christmas Shoe Box Appeal" I would like It was great to see full churches for carol services and other to say "Thank You" to all who helped: covering boxes, filling boxes and celebrations over Christmas. It was particularly good to renew contacts giving generously of money, toys, hats, gloves, buckets of tennis balls and with former parishioners visiting from a distance. lots more. Although we are suffering from recession, this year was the Our two school carol services were full to overflowing and next year best yet; 78 boxes plus money for transport were delivered to the we may need three occasions to include children and parents. To all depot on the Curragh. All of our boxes went to Eastern Europe this who worked so hard to bring each service alive sincere thanks. year. Thank you very much. Panto! Rowan Stanley Yes it was and now it is behind us! The panto 'Three Musketeers' Messy Church Training Day & Introduction played out to full houses each performance and it was terrific to see Messy church is an opportunity to learn about the Christian faith in junior members from years past taking leading roles. Particular thanks a family friendly fun environment. It involves looking at a story from the is due to Laura Erskine and Patricia Pasley who directed and produced bible through a selection of messy crafts which children, parents , the performance. grandparents and teenagers can make together. This is followed by a short time of worship followed by a meal together. A training and Baptisms introduction day is being organised by the Athy Union of parishes on We welcomed Donnchadh Buttner in St.mary's on the 6th January, the 23rd of February in Athy Parish centre from 10:00am – 3:00pm. It Kym Copperthwaite there on 30th December, and Chisom Nwaejim would be great to have some representatives (adults and teenagers) and Seren McCaffrey in St Andrew's on 23rd December and the 2nd from the parish attend this day. If you are interested in going please let December repectively. We welcome them all and assure them of our the Rector know asap. prayer support in this community of faith. Whist Drive Parish Supper Dance We welcome Avril Maher and Gladys Neill as the new co-ordinators This takes place on 16th February and details about tickets etc can of whist. It is an important source of funding for the parish as well as be got for the parish office. providing an opportunity for people to meet socially. We wish them Attendance well and assure them of our help and support. Whist will take place in It is heartening to see the increase in attendance and giving towards Timolin Hall on Saturday the 9th February at 8:30pm. the end of the year. Many have made commitments of time and Weddings resources and others have reassessed their commitment as well. To all We congratulate Ross Ashmore and Brid Fogarthy who were married who give of presence and resources we express our appreciation. on the 5th of January 2013 at St. Michael’s Church Killenard Co Laois. We wish them both every happiness and joy for the future. We also look forward to the marriage of Heather Thompson, Ballyraggan, Rathvilly to NARRAGHMORE AND TIMOLIN Philip Rothwell on the 23rd of February in St James Church Castledermot. Engagement WITH CASTLEDERMOT Congratulations to Matthew Hendy and Claire Turner who announced AND KINNEAGH their engagement at Christmas. Rector: Rev. Isaac Delamere. Tel: 059 8624278 Bereavements Readers: Mr. Philip Hendy. Tel: 059 8636518 We extend our sympathy to Lawrence Coogan on the passing of his Mrs. Avril Gillatt. Tel: 059 8624974 father, to Jennifer Glynn on the recent loss of her mother and to Edel Review Distribution: Mrs. Beatrice Hendy. Tel: 059 8636518 O’Neill on the loss of her father. Within the parish Audrey Dawes from Mrs. Charlotte Glynn. Tel: 059 8623167 Prumplestown House, Castledermot died on the 15th of December. Mrs. Elsie Ubank. Tel: 059 9144176 The following reflection was written by her daughter Gethyn and to Parish Website: www.narraghmoretimolincastledermotkinneagh.com her and the family we extend our deepest sympathy. The funeral of Audrey Dawes took place at St. James’ Church, Bible Reflection Group Castledermot on 22nd December, 2012. The service, befitting to the A meeting for those who follow the daily bible reading notes will take status of the lady herself, was enlivened by a spirited recollection of her place in the rectory on the 25th of February at 8:00pm. If you would life by Mr. Herbie Brennan which was enjoyed by all. like to receive daily bible reading notes please let Avril Gillatt know. Audrey both started and ended her life within the walls of Prumplestown House, Castledermot and those grey stone walls were Pastoral Council the bookends to her life. Although she travelled the world with her Meets 18th February at 8:00pm in St. James School hall. Everyone husband, Dick, a serving officer, she remained centered on Castledermot welcome. At this meeting we will be organising St. Patricks day, Mothering and Prumplestown and the open front door of Prumplestown which Sunday as well as our easter services and discussing parish renewal. If was always the home that she came back to. there is anything else you would like included on the agenda please let When Audrey and Dick started their family they were living in the Rector or Avril Gillatt know. Prumplestown Mill and that was where their daughter Gethyn was

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born. When Dick retired, and having lived for some time near Roscrea, the organisers of table tennis and bowls clubs, those who have taken on Audrey again found herself back in Castledermot, this time living in the very much appreciated and important role of visiting and Prumplestown gatelodge. This was a good time for Audrey. She loved befriending the elderly, those who ensure that there is a healthy social to entertain and did it well while Dick could spend time walking and life and fellowship in providing the opportunities for friendship at the riding the farm. There they stayed happily until the death of her father Tuesday drop in for coffee and Thursday lunches in the Cottage, and of in 1980. At that time, she and Dick moved up to the “Big House” where course we also have that bunch of unpredictables in the drama group Audrey took care of her mother until her mother’s death and she and who are brave enough to give their punters a laugh even if it is when Dick continued to administer the house and farm. lines are forgotten! The list could go on but I want to say a very big Dick died in 1998 and Audrey continued to live alone at thank you to all who encourage by word or deed and who use your Prumplestown. She was devoted to the house and the place, saying that gifts for the benefit of these parishes and for God's glory. she was looking after it “for the family”. An avid gardener, her garden This has been a very different year for me than I would ever have was her pride and joy and there she found enormous pleasure and expected. Lying in a hospital bed in March, being forced to abandon you comfort. Prior to her illness she was a familiar figure in Castledermot, in the Parishes with no access to a phone, but I realized I did not have a great character, somewhat firm in her opinions! another option. During the early days, when things were very uncertain Audrey was a generous but discrete benefactor of St. James’ Church. and visitors were not allowed, I had plenty of time to think. It was then The past two years have been a struggle as Audrey fought increasingly that I really valued being able to trust in God no matter what the poor health. The joy in her life was having her grand daughter close by outcome. For me the truth of Scripture in the promises of God became and the frequent visits of her two little great grandsons. She slipped very real and the 'Peace of God which transcends all understanding' away gently from sleep on the evening of Saturday, December 15th. As was a very strong reality. As I look back on the experience I see it as a a final tribute her family were able to meet her long-time wish that she very positive one in a number of ways. For me personally I proved the be carried out of Prumplestown feet first, just like her father before her. reality of the presence of God no matter what the future held, but the response of people was a real source of encouragement. Under the Hospital watchful eye of Canon Fred Appleby the parishioners took up the We remember in our prayers Helen Condell, Elsie Ubank and Dorothy baton and ensured that ministry, at all levels, continued and developed. Leonard who are in hospital at the time of writing. We are delighted that I count myself very privileged to be your Rector. As we leave one year Pearl Stanley is home from hospital and making good progress. behind and embark on new challenges my hope and prayer is that our experience of faith will grow deeper, that our fellowship together will February Services grow closer, that our vision for the future will rise higher and that our 3rd Feb. 10:00am Kinneagh MP/ Ark meets light from the Gospel will shine brighter! I wish you all a very happy and 10:00am Castledermot MP followed by tea peaceful 2013. 11:30am Narraghmore HC God Bless, 9th Feb. 8:00pm Kinneagh HC William 10th Feb. 10:00am Timolin HC followed by tea & cake sale in support of Tidy Towns Calary 11:30am Castledermot HC 13th Feb. 11:00am Timolin HC with prayers for Healing Carol Service 8:00pm Narraghmore Ash Wednesday service The parishioners at Calary would like to thank all of their friends and 17th Feb. 9:00am Narraghmore HC neighbours for joining them at the annual Carol Service on Sunday 23 10:10am Kinneagh family service followed by tea December and to let them know that the collection amounted to over 11:30am Timolin family service €1,200, and was sent to Simon. 24th Feb. 10:00am Narraghmore (traditional) MP followed Christening by tea Lucy, daughter of Karen and Micheal Guiney and granddaughter of 11:30am Timolin MP Jean and Patrick Wall was christened in Calary on Sunday 6th January. 11:30am Castledermot HC Karen, Micheal and Lucy live in the UK and it was lovely to see them 1st March 8:00pm Crookstown Church World Day of back in Calary again. Prayer service 3rd March 10:00am Kinneagh MP/Ark meets World Day of Prayer 10:00am Castledermot MP followed by tea This event will be held in Kilbride Church at 8pm on Friday 1st March. 11:30am Narraghmore HC Newcastle and Newtownmountkennedy Memorial Service Trix Fox of Ballyvolan, Newcastle passed away peacefully in NEWCASTLE AND Greystones Nursing Home. A service of thanksgiving was held in NEWTOWNMOUNTKENNEDY Newcastle on Saturday 24th November. Our sympathy to all her family WITH CALARY and friends and particularly to Jackie and Mark. Wedding Rev. W. Bennett. Tel. 2819300; 087 9480317 Dermot Ryan and Catherine McElwain tied the knot on the 3rd of Email: [email protected] November. Congratulations to them both. Lay Readers: Mrs. C. Tindal, Mr. Michael Crowly Christmas Cottage Outing Parish Administrator: Ms Karen Reynolds. Tel. 087 2866889 According to reports afterwards, a great day was had by all, the Review Circulation: Mrs. C. Valentine (Newcastle); highlight being the horse and gig ride around the sights of Dublin. This Mrs. J. O’Herlihy (St. Matthew’s); Mrs. E. Seymour (Calary) was followed by mulled wine and afternoon tea in the Westbury. Lots Review Notes: Ms L. Stringer of satisfied customers! Parish Websites: www.newcastleparish.org, www.newtownmountkennedyparish.org / www.calaryparish.org Congratulations Congratulations to Pat Milligan who will celebrate his 90th birthday in January and who remains as charming as ever! Happy birthday Pat! Message from the Rector’s Desk It always amazes me to realise how many people are regularly Clubs & Organisations involved in the daily, weekly or monthly running of our parishes. These The Creche is open in the Rectory Cottage during all morning include all the organisations from creche, parent and toddler, Sunday services in Newcastle church. All pre-schoolers welcome. The Parent school, summer camp, youth club, confirmation classes, building and Toddler Group meet every Monday morning from 10.30am. in the committee, select vestries, organists, choir members, the volunteers Rectory Cottage. Information from Wendy at 086 8478415. The Youth who clean and put flowers in the churches, the choosing of readers for Club will meet on the first and third Fridays of the month. Information Sunday and Wednesday worship, our two loyal and faithful lay readers, from Paul at 085 7871541. Time Out continues to meet on Tuesday

56 CHURCH REVIEW evenings at 8pm. in the Rectory Cottage. The Bowls Club continue to Mustard Seed, Sunday Children’s Ministry, are meeting again since meet every Thursday at 8pm. in the school and Table Tennis continues Sunday 20th January and meet in the School Hall each Sunday at on Mondays at 8pm. in the McLean Room. 11.30am, except for the Family Service day on the 2nd Sunday of the month. Children attend church for Junior Church at 11.30 and then Newcastle Choir The choir will begin rehearsals again in February for the season of move to the Hall for their special activity and then the adults join them Lent and for Easter. New members are always welcome. for coffee following the morning service in Powerscourt Church. Kilbride Church will hold a fund-raising Table Quiz on Saturday And finally 9th February at 8.00pm in Bray Sailing Club. Tables of 4 at €40 ( €10 per A word of thanks to all for the efforts made for our Christmas person) are invited to participate for a first prize of €200 & second prize worship including the Sunday School Children, Parish Choir, Organists, of €100. There will be a raffle and a supper will be served. The quiz will Lay Readers, Church decorators and the very busy Church Wardens. be limited to 12 tables, so book early by phoning Rory at 086 2544482. All of the services were special in their own way and the Christmas Ash Wednesday service will be held in Kilbride Church at 8.00pm message was carefully carried on for another year. on Wednesday, 13th February. Parish Registers – Holy Baptism 23rd December: Harvey Dermot Ward; Iveagh Wren Slazenger. POWERSCOURT WITH KILBRIDE Rector: The Venerable Ricky Rountree. Tel: 2863534 Email: [email protected] Curate Asst: Rev Terry Lilburn. Tel: 086 8865361 RATHDRUM & DERRALOSSARY email: [email protected] WITH GLENEALY Website: www.powerscourt.glendalough.anglican.org Parish Office: (Secretary, Hazel Thompson) Canon John McCullagh. Tel 0404 43814 Tel/Fax 2863862 Email: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Review Circulation: Mrs Joyce Roe. Tel: 2862645 Review notes: Heather Sheane Congratulations to Jimmy Echlin, parishioner of Powerscourt who celebrated his 100th birthday on Sunday 30th December. A special Carols in the Monastic City gathering of relatives and friends met with Jimmy in the Glenview Hotel It may or may not have been St Augustine of Hippo who said he who that day to enjoy each other’s company and cut the special cake. Jimmy sings prays twice but the saying had a special resonance when the lives independently in his own apartment in Bray supported by his nephew communities gathered in the cathedral ruins in Glendalough for the and close friends. We wish him many more years of active health. now annual carol singing. We had permission to sing from the Thank you to everyone who helped make Christmas special in the authorities but prayer was specifically precluded. This curiosity arises parish, especially those who prepared and decorated the churches, the from the Irish Church Act passed some 150 years ago. music and assisted with the services. It was wonderful to see so many A special crib who had returned home for the holiday period and to have the children The children in St Saviour’s under the guidance of their teacher Mrs and young families so involved. The Gospel Choirs have returned for rehearsals during January Doyle made a special set of clay crib figures for the porch in St Saviour’s and the junior and teen choirs will sing at the next Family Sizzle service for display on the day of the school Nativity Service. They were so on Sunday 17th February at 5.00pm in Powerscourt Church. The admired that they remained in situ until the feast of the Epiphany was senior choir have gathered together and await the appointment of a over. Santa made an appearance both in the school where his rapport new musical director. with the children was noted and again in the Rectory where he greeted a large number of pre-school children. The fact that his girth differed between visits and that one pre-schooler greeted him as grandpa merely added to the general gaiety. Turas Gleann Dá Loch Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise kindly invited the rector to participate in their evening reflection following their pilgrimage to Glendalough and (according to the Rector himself) with even greater courtesy they didn’t comment on his execrable pronunciation. It is always a privilege to welcome visitors to this holy place. Christmas decoration Each of our churches seemed to reach a new standard as the decorative skills of the ladies brought a sense of beauty and wonder to the adornment of the buildings. In St John’s, the oil lamps were electrified, thanks to the generosity of a parishioner and the first Eucharist of Christmas had a very special glow of warmth and welcome. Father Oliver brought not only greetings from our neighbours in St Kevin’s but a lantern of peace which had originated from a light lit by Israeli and Palestinian scouts. The Rector had brought our greetings to St Kevin’s earlier in the evening when Christiana Delamere was one of the children who placed the baby in the crib. Dick Mahon made a special stand for the paschal candle using his metalworking skills and we thank him for recognising the need and undertaking the task so it wasn’t until it was in place that we realised what had been done. Baptisms There were two baptisms in Glenealy Church, one on the Sunday immediately before Christmas and the second on the Sunday after Christmas. One of the traditions is that the congregation reaches out like Anna and Simeon to touch the newly christened infant as the baby Jimmy Echlin’s 100th birthday cake. is paraded by the rector. We welcome Isobel Chloe Codd, daughter of

CHURCH REVIEW 57 Members of 24th Company Coolock Girls’ Brigade following their Enrolment in St. John’s on 16th December 2012.

Above: Jimmy Echlin, of Powerscourt Parish, at his 100th birthday party. Right: Mr. Frank Luce celebrated his 90th Birthday with Canon Fred Appelbe in Rathmichael Church in December.

58 CHURCH REVIEW Members of Wicklow and Killiskey Parishes’ Church 21 Committee with the Mayor of Wicklow, Cllr Mervyn Morrison, at the launch of the parishes’ ‘A Church for All’ brochure in Wicklow Parish Church.

Jack Daley (formerly 1st Company Boys’ Brigade), Cynthia Daley (past Girls’ Brigade member) and Willie Clarke (formerly 2nd Company Boys’ Brigade) attended the Stedfast Association’s New Year Bible Class in St Brigid’s Church, Castleknock. Charlie and Stanley Nangle, formerly of Third Company Boys’ Brigade, outside St Brigid’s Church, Castleknock, following the Stedfast Association’s New Year Bible Class.

Reg Darby, Arthur Vincent, George Woods and Philip Daley following the Stedfast Association’s New Year Bible Class which took place in St Brigid’s Jenny Grindle and her son, Alex, with Mary Wilson, Christine O'Connor and Church, Castleknock. Chuck Ugwu at the first united service in St Ann’s.

CHURCH REVIEW 59 RTE Children’s Christmas Service with Rathfarnham parish children.

Vicar of St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street, the Revd David Gillespie, carries on collecting at the Black Santa Sit Out despite the media scrum behind him surrounding the presence of the two Archbishops of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson and Dr Diarmuid Martin, who had arrived to help with the collection for the appeal which ran for nine days up to Christmas Eve.

60 CHURCH REVIEW The rectory family with volunteers Keith Connaughton and Alan Murphy with the dragon during the construction of the sets for the Narnia Festival which runs in Christ Church Bray during Lent.

Church Music student Matthew Breen from Taney; organist Barbara Hall from Killarney; organ student Inga Hutchinson from Killeigh and Gaeshill; and organist Helen O’Toole, deputy organist at Kilternan; Jonathan Wilson a student on the Rachel Pike from Tuam; with the Revd Dr Stanley Monkhouse at Church Music Archbishop’s Course; and Margaret Leonard, organist from Chapelizod at Church Dublin’s Living Worship Course which took place in the Mageough Hall. Music Dublin’s Living Worship Course in the Mageough Hall in Rathmines.

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Sarah Jane and Ian and Anna Lilian Meredith, daughter of Jennifer and need of dialysis for some years. He had just undergone a kidney Ian into the fellowship of Christ’s church. transplant when he sadly died in hospital. Our deepest sympathy is with his wife Ruth, son Alasdair and to his sister-in-law Margaret Bloomer. Bereavement Vera Inglis, nee Webster, grew up in Ballyknocken in Glenealy and Women and friends loved to return to visit the home place with her family. Her passing was The World Day of Prayer Service is likely to be on Friday, 1st March. not only a cause of grief for her family in Castleknock and for her The service has been drawn up by women from France and is being brothers George and Albert in this parish but to her other siblings and hosted in Wicklow this year by the Roman Catholic Church. We plan many friends and former neighbours. to hold services for the schools as well. Review notes Mothers’ Union If you wish to order or cancel the Church Review for 2013 please let Look out for details of our Annual Birthday lunch in mid March. All John Armstrong or Lin Ryan know in good time. welcome. 108 and counting….! Reminder re new times for Church services Fashion Show The new times for Sunday morning services are as set out below. This This is to be held on March 8th, at Clermont. Tickets will be available new schedule, which was introduced on Sunday 6 January 2013, will soon. operate for six months. At the end of that period there will be the Confirmation opportunity to review the pattern. The Confirmation classes have started – we expect to have over The monthly evening service will continue and normally will be on twenty candidates once more! The Confirmation Service will be held the second Sunday of the month at 7pm with the venue rotating among on Sunday 24th March at 3.30 pm. the three churches. Sunday Clubs Times of Morning Worship from Sunday January 6, 2013 We are very grateful Michelle Hasler for organising the Sunday Club St John’s Church, Laragh 9am in Wicklow. St Saviour’s Church, Rathdrum 10.15am Glenealy Parish Church 11.30am Tiglin Centre We look forward to having a visit from members of the Teen Challenge Pattern of Worship to our churches. The service pattern will remain unchanged with Laragh and Glenealy having celebrations of Holy Communion on 1st and 3rd Sundays and Coffee Mornings at the Hub Rathdrum on 2nd and 4th. The alternate Sundays will take the form of Coffee mornings for local projects. continue on a monthly basis on Morning Prayer. Service of the Word will normally be used on the fifth the last Monday of each month. Sunday. Christmas Special services – dates for your diary It seems a long time since the beautifully decorated churches, Lenten services will commence on Ash Wednesday in Glenealy at children’s singing, and full congregations! As ever we are indebted to a 7.30 pm and the World Day of Prayer will be marked in St John's on large number of people for ready help and quiet behind-the-scenes Friday 1st March. There may be a service in Rathdrum on Thursday work. Thank you everyone – as they say “You know who you are!” evening 28th February. Lent Lent begins with services on Ash Wednesday: 10.30am Holy Communion in Wicklow and Evening Prayers in Killiskey at 7.30pm. WICKLOW AND KILLISKEY Rector: Canon John Clarke. Tel: 0404 67132. Associate Vicar: The Revd. Ken Rue. Tel: 087 2766590. Review Distributors: Mrs. Frances Douglas. Tel: 0404 67137 (Wicklow). Mrs. Vera Webster. Tel: 0404 40299 (Killiskey).

Geoffry Tottenham The death of Geoffry Tottenham, after a long illness courageously born, was a cause of great sadness to us all. Geoffry was only fifty years of age. For the last twenty years he was involved in every aspect of Parish life in Killiskey. He was a member of the Nuns Cross School Board of Management, of the Select Vestry. and he took on extra responsibilities as Chairperson of the Finance Committee and of the Social Committee. He took an active role on the highly successful Church Windows Committee which steered the Restoration Project to such a successful conclusion. As a farmer and landowner he was known for his care of woodlands, and as a fisherman he competed in and won many competitions. Geoffry had a gift of steering committees in the right direction, through thoughtful analyses and wide ranging ability to see others points of view. He will be sorely missed. The overflowing congregation in Nuns Cross Church for his funeral on Saturday 12th January was a tribute to his wide range of friendships and to the admiration in which he was held. To every member of his family we offer our deepest sympathy at this time: to his mother, Alicia Lucy, his brother Charles, sisters Mick and Clare, and most especially to his wife Lucy and his children, Joanna and Edward. Every member of the family has been supportive during Geoffry’s long illness and our prayers are with them now and into the future. Alastair Scott Farnes (“Mac”) Alastair Scott Farnes died on the second of January. He had with humour and patience been dealing with ill-health and with the continuous

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