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Member of the worldwide Anglican Communion May 2020 EMPTY CHURCHES BUT THOUSANDS VIEW ONLINE SERVICES Inside: ARCHBISHOP JOHN BEGINS NEW ROLE AFTER FAREWELL TO CLOGHER Check out our website www.clogher.anglican.org ARMSTRONG Funeral Directors & Memorials Grave Plot Services • A dignified and personal 24hr service • Offering a caring and professional service Specialists In Quality Grave Care • Memorials supplied and erected • Large selection of headstones, vases open books • Cleaning of Headstones & Surrounds • Resetting Fallen or Leaning Headstones or Damaged Surrounds • Open books & chipping’s • Reconstruction of Sunken or Raised Graves • Also cleaning and renovations • Supply & Erection of Memorial Headstones & Grave Surrounds to existing memorials • Additional Inscriptions & Repairs to Lettering • Additional lettering • New Marble or Granite Chips in your Chosen Colour • Marble or Granite Chips Washed & Restored • Regular Maintenance Visits eg : Weekly, Monthly, or Special Dates Dromore Tel. • Floral Tributes(Anniversary or Special Dates) 028 8289 8424 Contractors to The Commonwealth Omagh Tel. 028 8224 0803 War Graves Commission Robert Mob. 077 9870 0793 A Quality Professional & Personal Service Derek Mob. www.graveimage.co.uk • [email protected] 079 0027 8633 Contact : Stuart Brooker Tel: 028 6634 1611 Mob: 07968 738 491 35 Kildrum Rd, Dromore, Cullen, Monea, Enniskillen BT93 7BR Co. Tyrone, BT78 3AS THIS SPACE COULD BE PROMOTING PROMOTEFor KEEN, COMPETITIVE YOUR ADVERTISING BUSINESS! RATES, from one-eighth of a page to full page please contact by YOUR BUSINESS! email; [email protected] or by telephoning For KEEN, COMPETITIVE ADVERTISING RATES, from the Clogher Diocesan Office; Tel. 028 66347879 one-eighth of a page to full page please contact by followed by Pressing 3 for Brian when prompted. email; [email protected] or by telephoning the Clogher Diocesan Office; Tel. 028 66347879 followed by Pressing 3 for Brian when prompted. IAN MCELROY JOINERY For all your joinery, carpentry, roofing and tiling needs Tel: 02866385226 or 07811397429 Home: (44) 02889521060 Mobile: 07713357156 CLOGHER MAGAZINE COMMITTEE CONTENTS Chairperson: Mrs Eleanor Lynn 4-5 Vice-Chairperson: Mrs Barbara Ingram A Note from the Bishop .................. Secretary: Mrs Margaret Porter Parish News ......................................6-41 Treasurer: Mrs Maud Shaw Committee Members: The Revd Canon Desmond Kingston, Dates for Your Diary ...........................42 Mrs Jean Stinson, Mrs Mabel Black and Mr Glenn Moore Packing Team: Mrs Margaret Porter, Mrs Muriel Henderson, Mrs Mothers’ Union News ........................43 Barbara Ingram, Mrs Joyce Kerr, Mrs Eleanor Lynn, Mrs Maureen Robinson, Mrs Jean Stinson, Miss Hilda Lucy, Mrs Ann Graham Children’s Pages .......................... 44-46 and Mr Robert Robinson Editor: Mr. Brian Donaldson Puzzle Page for Adults ......................47 Designer: Miss Corinna Power Diocesan News ............................ 48-53 YOUR MAGAZINE ONLINE Church of Ireland News ............. 54-57 Due to the restrictions enforcing social distancing and restrictions Community News ........................ 58-60 on people’s movements because of the spread of the Coronavirus (Covid-19), it has not been possible to print this edition of the Clogher Diocesan Magazine in the normal way and instead is available free for everyone to read online. The magazine is published on the Clogher Diocese website and will be shared on parish websites and Facebook pages. If you know someone who cannot access the magazine this way, perhaps encourage a family member to share it with them or even print sections of the magazine for them. For those who have taken out a subscription for the printed copy or those with a postal subscription, your payment will be frozen and will begin again once normal circumstances resume. Views expressed in the magazine are those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the Magazine Committee, the Diocese of Clogher nor the Church of Ireland. The Magazine Committee reserves the right to decline any material without assigning a reason. No correspondence can be entered into regarding nonpublication of material or advertisements. Names and addresses of contributors must be provided with material submitted and may then be published. The Magazine Committee accepts no responsibility for loss, damage or the return of material.. AS THIS ONLINE MAGAZINE IS PUBLISHED, THE RESTRICTIONS IN PLACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND REMAIN UNTIL Diocesan Office REVIEWS OF THE LOCKDOWNS HAVE TAKEN PLACE. Clogher Diocesan Office, The Republic of Ireland’s cabinet is due to make an announcement St.Macartin’s Cathedral Hall, Hall’s Lane, Enniskillen, by Tuesday, 5th May with some easing of the measures expected. Co. Fermanagh. N.I. BT74 7DR The Northern Ireland Executive is due to make an announcement Tel 02866347879 following a review by the end of the week beginning 4th May. IN THE MEANTIME, UNTIL THERE A CHANGE IN Next Magazine in June 2020 CIRCUMSTANCES, EVERYONE IS REMINDED TO; Deadline for submission of material Friday, 22nd May 2020. Content to be sent to [email protected] STAY AT HOME Advertising rates are available upon request. Advertising charges for material submitted in addition to the routine WASH YOUR HANDS REGULARLY diocesan and parish submissions will apply. KEEP YOUR DISTANCE FROM OTHERS Front Cover Dean Kenneth Hall in an empty St. Macartin’s Cathedral, SEEK HELP IF YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SYMPTOMS Enniskillen, leading an online service for worshippers. The Cathedral will be live streaming the Sunday morning service at 11am every week. Photo courtesy; The Impartial Reporter. ONLY LEAVE HOME FOR ESSENTIAL JOURNEYS 3 A NOTE FROM THE BISHOP The Rt Revd John McDowell The See House, 152a Ballagh Road, Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone. BT75 0QP Tel: 028 895 22461 Email: [email protected] placed us. This is being written on Ardess and the Ballybay Group) arrive 20 March when things are relatively the diocese will be as “full” as it has calm and measured. It may well be been for a very long time. Of course that circumstances will have changed things can change quickly but I hope by the time you are reading this, and I have the Diocese in good shape in probably not for the better. I pray not. every sense to face into the future. I’ve written a good deal about The second was to try to create coronavirus for the Diocesan website a strong team of both clergy and and no doubt will have to write some laity working for the Djocese. In the more as the situation develops. So, modern world, but particularly in the I hope you will forgive me if I say a Church, it is impossible to fulfil all the few words now about my election as tasks which are laid on us, except Archbishop of Armagh, which office by teamwork. Anything which I have I will take up on 28 April. One of the achieved has been the result of minor inconveniences of the present being extraordinarily blessed in the Dear Friends restrictions on large gatherings is colleagues I have had the pleasure of that I will not have an opportunity at working with. I am writing this letter under very a farewell service to say goodbye When I came to the Diocese in 2011, strange circumstances. The strangest personally. Or indeed to say hello I was blessed with the friendship of and most perplexing of these is the either to my new diocese as the Archdeacon Cecil Pringle, without spread of the coronavirus and the service of enthronement will not whose counsel and assistance I could difference it is making to all our lives. happen until everything settles down. It is the dominant fact in our world not have survived, much less achieved at present. I have no doubt that, if The Diocese of Clogher, and the anything. Now of course ably replaced we all take our duties as citizens people of Clogher have been good by Archdeacon Harper who has (never mind as Christians) seriously, to me. You were patient with me as been a help and an encourager then we will emerge as a different I learned to be a Bishop and I have over the past number of years. And but not necessarily a broken society never felt other than welcomed of course Mr Glenn Moore and Mrs afterwards. I hope that each of us wherever I have gone in the Diocese. Ashley Brown in the Diocesan Office. will try our best, not only to follow No doubt I have said and done things No diocese is more fortunate than the public health advice that is being which some of you have not agreed Clogher in its administrative and offered, but that we will also live out with. I hope you will forgive me for financial staff. those occasions when inadvertently our calling as disciples of Jesus Christ, Since coming to the Diocese, the and unknowingly or otherwise I have especially in his command to love our central staff has been strengthened sinned against any of you. neighbour. by an extraordinary group of very That may simply involve doing what It was my intention (I’m not a great experienced and dedicated lay people everyone else, believer and non- believer in strategies) to try to achieve ,who I won't mention by name, but believer, is being asked to do. But it a number of priorities during my whose contribution has made a huge may also involve some special task time here. The first was to provide difference to our effectiveness as a for which we have been equipped. appropriate ministry in every parish. Diocese. I think that has been largely, if not Our discipleship of Jesus Christ will I need also to say a thank you to my wholly achieved. It can be difficult definitely require us to be constantly clerical colleagues who, along with to persuade clergy and others to alert to the needs of others and Readers and DPAs provide the day to “come West” but when our three new of the community where God has day ministry in the Diocese.