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Santa at the Christmas Fayre B B B B B B of Canterbur B B B B BB B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B ISSUE 4 2012 B B £2.00 In TouchB ● OUR PARISH MAGAZINE ● B B B For back issues of InTouch go to B B myintouch.co.uk Woodford Green Essex Woodford y Santa at the Christmas Fayre B B B B B B of Canterbur B B B B BB B BSt Thomas B B B B B B BB ISSUE 4 2012 In Touch is the parish magazine of the parish of St Thomas of Canterbury, 8 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 Heaven is not solely populated by Catholics, but hell...? Probate and Trusts Buckhurst Hill. Patriarch Gregory III Laham of Antioch EDITOR 4 The Melkite Church, leaven to all faiths and cultures. For a no obligation chat call James McMullan on Leon Menzies Racionzer By Leon Menzies Racionzer. 020 8559 1617 [email protected] A Sticky Situation: By Ann Farmer. 7 A scientific paper; in a nutshell, the evolution theory of 020 8418 3222 sticky tape in sticky situations. 10 We do home and hospital visits if required DeSIGN Ranjika De Silva 8 Lenten Lunches: By Sheelagh Hunter and Illustrations Diana Turpin. Law Chambers, Adrian Whitehall Raising funds for Mary’s Meals. [email protected] 258 High Road, Loughton, Essex, IG10 1RB Cranberries: By Mary Knights. 10 PROOF READERS The bouncing berries. Patricia Donald Humour: By Jo King www.lmjsolicitors.co.uk [email protected] Coleen Carlile 13 Paraprosdokians, Know what they are? EDITORIAL AND Monopoly. LETTERS TO 14 Find Piccadilly to get out of jail. The Editor Idvies Local Catholic History. By Peter Walsh 72 Malvern Drive 14 Tales of Monsignor O’Grady DON’T GET BURGLED!!!! Woodford Green IG8 0JP 20 [email protected] 15 Poetry corner. 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A 24 General Assembly of Lay Associates – Martillac 28 Report by Kathy Howes. JBPP FOR ALL YOUR HOME ELECTRICAL PROJECTS,UPGRADES, AND REPAIRS. An angle on Lourdes. By Paul Chrichton This is issue 75 of In Touch 29 So what is the Lourdes effect? First published July 1992 WE ALSO INSTALL WIRELESS HOME ALARMS FROM JUST £320. Includes full product training & support. Embarrassing Moments. By Coleen Carlile. 30 Tale of a slithery experience. 28 IN TOUch 2012 ISSUE 4 3 FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK Patriarch Gregory III Laham of Catholic Church was the true way; ‘it must be firmly believed that “the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, Y is necessary for salvation: the one Antioch The Melkite Church, leaven Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation’. Well, at least that is how the other churches and other faiths to all faiths and cultures by Leon Menzies Racionzer read it! But perhaps all was forgiven when the same Cardinal, now is Beatitude Gregorios and Syria, although large communi- languages of worship are Arabic or but one of giving, for Christianity is as Pope Benedict XVI, in the first III, Patriarch of Antioch ties live outside of the Middle East Greek, but today, as in the West, the leaven that can unite the Islamic encyclical of his pontificate in 2005, and All the East, of region, particularly in Europe, the services are held in the vernacular world. The Melkite Church, without Writing on the 1st day of December, surely the most beautiful encyclical Alexandria and of United States and Canada, and also of the country where the Church is borders, (although minute in terms the last day of the Church’s year, ever, expresses a God of Love that H Jerusalem, having just left the significant communities in Argentina located. of numbers, of the 360million Arabs I steal myself from a tendency to extends equally to all mankind. first assembly of European and Brazil. Gregory III was elected Gregorios III spoke of a different only 16 million are Christian), must prophesy. It is difficult not to sound So it is that we see at last an ever Melkites which was held from patriarch on November 29, 2000, ecumenism than that which we are remain present in the region to give prophetic having regard to the increasing tendency toward living 1st to 3rd November 2012 in and might be considered one of accustomed to hearing. There is no testimony by living with and for those events of 2012 in the UK, in the interfaith, as opposed to Interfaith Saint Stephen’s convent at the most important Christian lead- doubt that the problems in Syria who are not Christian. Christians Church and in the wider Universe. It Dialogue; a term I have chosen to Aubazine in Corrèze (France), on ers in Syria, the Middle East and and the whole of the Levant have celebrating the Islamic feasts with is the eclectic nature of the contents avoid since it has been reduced to the 6th November gave a talk in the Catholic Church. He Muslims and Muslims of this issue that have drawn me to merely drinking tea with those of at Heythrop College, University jokingly told of how on his celebrating the Christian muse on the changing face of the ‘other’ faiths, in the witness of such of London, titled ‘The Melkite election he banned all emi- feast with Christians is Church, of society and indeed of as His Beatitude Gregorios III see Church: living with and for oth- gration of Christians from a dialogue of living that mankind in an ever-shrinking world. right. ers: dialogue of civilizations, dia- the Middle East but was does not require the less I doubt if anybody can honestly And if the Holy Family Sisters can logue of life.’ aware that such a ban was effective verbal dialogue say there is not something for every- be regarded as witnessing to the Gregorios III, Patriarch of the larg- futile. However a ban that that can lead to discord. one in this issue and indeed I hope Church’s changing stance on the est Christian community in Israel has not been futile and This dialogue of life is that could be said of all issues. The role of humanity in the Universe, and all the Middle East, whose title effective is his ban against being lived out now in the highbrow scientific articles of the Kathy Howes’ report of their General was not conferred by Rome but by Christians bearing arms. If recently opened three past issues have been both derided Assembly of Lay Associates on the Sultan, unlike the Patriarchs of the Christians were to bear faiths centre, ‘Encounter’, and praised; they can be read by page 28 is something of a revela- other Eastern Rite Oriental churches arms it would be the end of in Lebanon that the those who wish to read them or tion for in it we hear the voice of who have fled to the West with hun- Christianity in the region. Patriarch has been instru- ignored. The letters’ page again cov- the Vedic/Hindu traditions that pre- dreds of thousands of their flock, is He gave an account of mental in setting up. The ers a wide range of comment about date Christianity, ‘When we look at based and is determined to remain the Melkite Catholic Church, centre has been fully this magazine as well as about the Cosmology related to God we see in Damascus, Syria, the birthplace of its Byzantine roots and funded by the Sultan of Church and society at large. that all are interrelated, God, Earth, liturgical practices rooted in Oman in which celebra- of Christianity according to Bashar Beatitude Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch October 11th marked fifty years creatures, everything…all evolving Hafez al-Assad the besieged Syrian those of Eastern Orthodoxy tions, meetings and confer- since the opening of the Second and changing. A new way of seeing president who said as much to the and explained his own identity as more to do with the warring dif- ences by and between the three Vatican Council, a Council that all as interconnected, interrelated Patriarch. Arab but not Muslim, Catholic but ferent Islamic factions, Sunni, Shia Abrahamic faiths are taking place brought the church, eventually I and interdependent.’ The Sanskrit Of the 265 recognised Popes, not Latin i.e. Roman, and Oriental and Wah-ha-bi, to mention only the and the Patriarch hopes will continue might say, screaming and kicking word for this expression of oneness no fewer than 9 were Arab from but not Orthodox and in full com- better known ones, than it has to to take place and to prosper.
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