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2 ISSUE 3 2012 In Touch £2.00 ● OUR PariSH MAGAZINE ● For back issues of InTouch go to myintouch.co.uk Alan Mair at 5,642 metres on the summit of Mount Elbrus Woodford Green Essex Woodford y of Canterbur FIVE OF THE DeaCONS THE RIVer 40M annual visitors MattHEW IVES PAGEANT directed St Thomas to Orlando and Tony Collins with by Rosanna Machado Bishop Thomas ISSUE 3 2012 In Touch is the parish magazine of the parish of St Thomas of Canterbury, Woodford Green, Essex (Served by the Order of In Touch Friars Minor). The parish We specialise in all Property related matters, includes Chigwell Convent Mass Centre & a Mass CONTENTS Centre at Landlord and Tenant, Family Law, Wills, From the Editor’s Desk St James, Palmerston Road, 4 Written, publishable abuse is preferred to Probate and Trusts Buckhurst Hill. verbal abuse. EDITOR The Jubilee River Pageant. 4 For a no obligation chat call James McMullan on Leon Menzies Racionzer 4 Our In Touch roving reporter meets with Rosanna 020 8559 1617 Michado, the lady who made it happen. [email protected] Easter in Orlando. 7 020 8418 3222 7 By Andreas Menzies. The discovery of a shrine where DeSIGN 2,000 worshippers at a time can attend Mass. Only the We do home and hospital visits if required Ranjika De Silva underground chapel in Lourdes can accommodate this Illustrations many. Adrian Whitehall Law Chambers, The Journey to the Diaconate. 258 High Road, Loughton, Essex, IG10 1RB [email protected] 8 A profile of Matthew Ives. PROOF READERS A Stuttering Response to Nazi persecution 8 Patricia Donald 12 of the Jews. www.lmjsolicitors.co.uk [email protected] Coleen Carlile By Jerry Crowley. A weak response from the Catholic Church but equally so from other Christian EDITORIAL AND denominations. LETTERS TO The Editor 15 Humour. By Jo King. Idvies Priests playing golf and rural justice. Try not to laugh. 72 Malvern Drive Woodford Green IG8 0JP Elbrus for Altzheimer’s By Alan Mair 16 Dr Alan Mair leads a group of cancer sufferers to the [email protected] summit and opens a new route down the North Face. ADVERTISING MANAGER Chronicle of parish events By P A Nash. Jerry Crowley 20 A banquet of barbecues. 20 020 8505 1689 advertising@myintouch. 22 co.uk Clove Power - The Health benefits 22 of Garlic. By Mary Knights. PRINTED BY Not just a contraceptive. Promoworx Ltd 28 High Road, Letter to the editor. South Woodford, 24 From Canada and from Scotland, poetry and prose. London, E18 2QL 020 8530 1500 26 A Baker’s Daughter. www.promoworx.co.uk By Lesley Beerli. The life and times of Eileen Beerli. 29 Words, Words, Words. By Coleen Carlile. Coleen flies the flag for the Olympics in 26 a last ditch effort to bow out of her regular Words slot. Peru Could Change Your Life. 30 Reiko Jordan reports on her life changing journey to the Benedictine mission among the most impoverished Peruvian people. This is issue 74 of In Touch First published July 1992 30 IN TOUch 2012 ISSUE 3 3 FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK In this issue once again we have an interesting mix of Thames Diamond Jubilee River Pageant articles from both new and old writers. I am continually amazed each quarter when I start off wondering what I 03 June 2012 am going to put into the next issue, thinking the cupboard he Project Director for the River Pageant is bare, only to find that when the deadline arrives I have articles for which I have insufficient space. Long may it to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee remain so! Twas 36-year-old Rosanna Machado, an What a marvellous summer this has been for the ex- Parishioner of St. Thomas’s, and ex-pupil of UK, with the Diamond Jubilee (see Rosanna Michado’s St. Antony’s School and Bancroft’s School, in article, right) and the Olympics. I am hopeful that some of Woodford Green. She was responsible for the the volunteers from Trinity School will give us something smooth running of everything to do with an event, on their experience at the games. the like of which has probably never been seen Although there are only two letters referring to the before and is unlikely to be seen again. 1,000 ‘Proving God’ article in the last issue it did inspire a great boats on the river, a festival in Battersea Park, deal of verbal comment made to me personally, some of over a million spectators many dependent on 40 which was verging on abuse. It is such a pity that these comments were not committed to paper; they would have massive screens and the entire Royal family afloat. made good reading and would also be a written record Such a massive event requires nerves of steel on that I could refer to when the photon theory, the theory of the part of the person ultimately responsible to light, is released later this year. see that everything goes exactly as planned even I have spent a great deal of time with Osman Özter to the extent of the Royal barge docking on the in the past six years and more intensely in the past six raised platform at the second it was planned to do months, working with him on editing his papers and so. All had to be done within the privately raised bringing his theories to the scientific world. The more budget. When an In Touch reporter caught up with negative comments I hear the more I am reminded of the Rosanna shortly after the event she gave credit to Church’s treatment of Galileo whose theory threatened the team taking little credit for herself. Church doctrine in his time; and of Darwin’s evolution theory, which incidentally, due to scientific evidence, has evolved to become a basic biological principle. From the mid 19th century to the first decade of the 20th century Darwin’s theory was almost unanimously rejected by theologians and some declared it to be heretical and completely contrary to scripture and faith but in 1989 Pope John Paul II asked ‘Does an evolution- ary perspective bring any light to bear upon theological anthropology, the meaning of the human person as ima- gio Dei, the problem of Christology – and even upon the IT: So, Rosanna, that was a spectacu- to Dunkirk little ships and these were selected through an Commercial organizations, the Palace and with all the development of doctrine itself?’ Here we are a century and a half on since the first pronouncement that Homo lar show on the River. How do you feel open application process via our website last year. boat owners. Sapiens may not have been derived from a single pair now that it’s all happened? We also had 10 music herald barges which we commis- Through meticulous planning we talked through every and the Church is only now beginning to look again at its sioned to punctuate the flotilla and add colour throughout eventuality and contingency plans although we couldn’t doctrines in the light of scientific proof that they did not. RM: I am so proud of what we achieved, the procession. The first of these was the floating belfry control the weather on the day! It will take another century for the Church to get to grips both in the run up and on the day. It and the last was the London Philharmonic Orchestra that with evolution and in the meantime the photon theory took a lot of hard work from a very dedi- ended the Pageant by saluting Her Majesty with Land of IT: You’ve been very busy. How long have you been will explode onto the theological and philosophical world. cated team so it was very satisfying to Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia and, of course, God Save involved with the Project? The theory that what was created was the photon i.e. see it all come together on the day. I was delighted that the the Queen. the unit of light from which all mass is evolved, will be rainy weather did not dampen the enthusiasm of the spec- The centre of attraction was, of course, the Royal Barge RM: I started on the project in April 2011, although oth- much more difficult to reconcile with accepted theology tators on the day…the sea of red, white and blue along the which conveyed Her Majesty, Prince Phillip and other mem- ers were involved for a year before that. When I was first and Church doctrine. But I have quizzed Osman Özter on the most intrinsic theological questions such as our belief River banks, and on the bridges, was a testament to that. bers of the Royal Family. The Royal Barge was dressed with approached, it sounded so exciting that I immediately in the duality of the human person, body and soul. To One paper spoke of ‘a Carnival in the Rain’. That’s what we the most wonderful, exquisite, detailed adornments by jumped at the chance to get involved. My role was to sit my astonishment he shows how this duality exists in the had…a real joyous celebration of The Queen’s 60 years on some of our most talented artists and craftsmen, includ- across all the departments of the project and ensure that photon. On the idea of retaining individuality, personality, the throne. ing the superb prow sculpt made by City and Guilds. operationally we delivered the best event that we could. after death he has a theory on that too.