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2 CHURCH REVIEW CHURCH OF IRELAND UNITED DIOCESES CHURCH REVIEW OF DUBLIN AND GLENDALOUGH ISSN 0790-0384 The Most Reverend Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough, Church Review is published monthly and Primate of Ireland and Metropolitan. usually available by the first Sunday. Please order your copy from your Parish by annual sub scription. €40 for 2012 AD. POSTAL SUBSCRIIPTIIONS//CIIRCULATIION Archbishop’s Lette r Copies by post are available from: Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. E: [email protected] T: 086 026 5522. JANUARY 2012 The cost is the subscription and appropriate postage. A New Year gives us the opportunity to grapple with two things which, by and large, are not the easiest of soul-mates. The two things to which I refer are realism and COPY DEADLIINE idealism. Often people make New Year Resolutions which, like Lenten Abstinences, fall at the first hurdle, like an unfortunate steed at a Seasonal Steeplechase. It is surely far All editorial material MUST be with the better not to set yourself up to fail and, instead, to build up piece by piece, and perhaps Editor by 15th of the preceeding month, over a period of time, a number of things which you can do and which will give you a no matter what day of the week. Material greater and stronger sense of self-worth. Too often and too instinctively Christianity should be sent by Email or Word goes in the opposite direction and gives the clear impression that a sense of attachment. unworthiness is what we should be cultivating and that anyone who advocates this approach is doing everyone else a good turn. This is a deep and a dangerous mistake and, VIIEWS EXPRESSED sadly, quite a lot of the responsibility for it can be laid at the feet of St Paul whose glorious conversion we celebrate later in this month of January annually. 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However, a new light is already [email protected] or by post to playing over the landscape, even if it still Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, looks rather like the old light. The The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow by daylight hours will lengthen. Even if the 15th of the month. new Resolutions have gone out with the bin by the end of the month, there will be many more opportunities to CHIIEF REPORTER make fresh and realistic Resolutions Lynn Glanville, during the rest of the year. T: 087 2356472 Inez and Camilla join me in wishing E: [email protected] each of you a very Happy 2012. Single copies are available from: † Michael • The National Bible Society of Ireland, Dawson Street. • The Resource Centre, Holy Trinity Church, Rathmines. COVER STORY: Noelene Scott and Gladys Williamson lead the Delgany Parish PRIINTIING Thursday Club – an outing group for senior members of the parish. 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As we begin a new year, and look forward to the next 12 months, we should also be aware that we are facing into a decade of anniversaries, when we will be faced with the commemorations of events a centenary ago, recalling the tumultuous events between 1912 and 1922 that shaped not only Irish identity Looking down the Liffey towards Liberty but also shaped the map of Europe. Hall… would the key players in the It is the decade that was marked by the events 100 years ago recognise the Ireland of today? demise of Chinese imperial dynasties, World The Rotunda in Dublin… a venue for War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Gallipoli many of the political meetings and landings, the Battle of the Somme, the Russian heated debates on all sides in the Revolution, the Balfour Declaration, the defeat decade between 1912 and 1922. of Germany, the fall of the Hapsburgs, the creation of the Weimar Republic and the Soviet Union, the first non-stop transatlantic flight, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the winning of women’s voting rights, and the rise of Communism and Fascism. But it was the decade too that brought us the modern zipper, stainless steel, and the pop- up toaster. It was a decade that saw the Dublin Castle… the seat of Government publication of Einstein’s theory of relativity, the until 1922. first US feature film, the debut of Charlie Chaplin, the publication of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, DH Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers and Women in Love and TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. For Irish people, this was the decade that saw the death of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, who was born into a Dublin Church of Ireland family. It was a decade that saw the publication of James Joyce’s Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses, and of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. And it was a decade too that was marked by the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Left: The Abbey Theatre contributed to ‘The centre cannot hold’ the cultural expressions of Irish The world was so changed and transformed nationalism. Right: Jim Larkin… “The WB Yeats could open his poem The Second great appear great because we are on Charles Stewart Parnell, founder of the Coming with these lines about Europe in the our knees: Let us rise.” aftermath of World War I: Irish Parliamentary Party, influenced a Turning and turning in the widening gyre later generation of nationalists. The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Irish. But the myths that have been created by Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, those who have a blinkered vision of what it is The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere to be Irish betray the truths of history. The ceremony of innocence is drowned; Who remembers today that Pádraig Pearse The best lack all conviction, while the worst was born Patrick Henry Pearse, the son of a Are full of passionate intensity. Birmingham Unitarian who had come to Dublin Towards the end of that decade, the Church from England as part of the Victorian arts-and- of Ireland was living with the consequences of a crafts movement? There are other myths half century of disestablishment. But the Church surrounding Pearse, including one that he was was more concerned with social political “President of the Provisional Government,” a upheaval on this island, and the way we were post that may have been held instead by Thomas Clarke. There is no manuscript version tearing ourselves apart as a people. Irish identity James Connolly was born in Scotland was changed violently over that ten-year period, of the 1916 Proclamation, but on all printed and married a member of the Church of versions, the leaders’ names are not printed in so that the lines by Yeats about the leaders of Ireland. the Easter Rising in 1916 could be applied to the alphabetical order, so that Pearse’s name is whole island and the whole population: Church of Ireland rector, and Dr Eleanor Hull listed fourth, after Thomas Clarke, Sean Mac All changed, changed utterly: in hymns such as Be thou my vision (643). Diarmada and Thomas MacDonagh. Ironically, Clarke was not born in Ireland but A terrible beauty is born. The artistic expressions of the new in an army barracks on the Isle of Wight in It was a decade that saw the reconstruction nationalism were found in the Abbey Theatre, of Irish identity through the creation of myths England, where his father was a soldier in the founded by Lady Gregory, WB Yeats and British army. Thomas MacDonagh had a middle that by-passed the facts, even as the main George Russell (AE), the poetry of Yeats and actors in those myths were still alive. class education in Rockwell College, Co the plays of Sean O’Casey – all members of the Tipperary, and was a lecturer in English in UCD. Language and identity Church of Ireland. In 1912, he married Muriel Gifford, a member It is forgotten that modern Irish nationalism Since 1916, the leaders of the Easter Rising in of a well-known Church of Ireland family in had its incubation and gestation in the revival of Dublin have been transformed into either Dublin. Éamonn Ceannt, an accountant, was the Irish language – a revival in which the main working class heroes or the personifications of born Edward Thomas Kent, the son of an officer players included Dr Douglas Hyde, the son of a what it is to be Green, Gaelic, Catholic and in the Royal Irish Constabulary.

4 CHUrCH revIew Photographs by Patrick Comerford

From left: Sean O’Casey, the playwright of the left, was born into the Church of Ireland; The General Post Office in Dublin… but the Easter Rising is not the only important anniversary to remember; The Garden of Remembrance treats the 1916 leaders as martyrs… but their backgrounds were diverse; Dr Kathleen Lynn took command of the rebel position in City Hall; The Mansion House in Dublin, where the First Dáil held most of its meetings.

The Luas in Abbey Street… have we moved on is shaping a modern Irish The War Memorial Park in Islandbridge, Dublin, recalls the Irish dead of two world wars. identity? men by the sight of the suffering of their wives and the hunger of their children.” A year after the Dublin lockout, members of the Church of Ireland were among the most prominent organisers of the Howth gun- running. Erskine Childers, a cousin of the Bartons of Glendalough House, sailed into Howth on the Asgard and landed 2,500 guns. Much of O’Connell Street, Dublin, was The organisers included his wife Molly Childers, destroyed during the 1916 Rising. The Four Courts… burned in the Sir Roger Casement, Alice Stopford Green and clashes of the Civil War in 1922. Mary Spring Rice – all Church of Ireland James Connolly was born in Edinburgh, and parishioners, as were many of those waiting for spoke with a Scottish accent all his life. After Church of Ireland: Countess Markievicz, the them on the pier, including Countess joining the British Army at the age of 14, he spent suffragette and a leader of the Irish Citizens’ Markievicz, Douglas Hyde and Darrell Figgis. seven years with the army in Ireland. In 1890, he Army, was born Constance Georgine Gore- Written in or written out? married Lillie Reynolds, a member of the Church Booth in Buckingham Gate, London, the The myths that have accumulated over the of Ireland, who was born in Co Wicklow. daughter of Sir Henry Gore-Booth of Lissadell past century have written members of the Joseph Mary Plunkett was the son of Count House, Co Sligo. She and her younger sister, Eva Church of Ireland, their consciences and their George Noble Plunkett, and his distant cousin, Sir Gore-Booth, were childhood friends of Yeats, role out of the shared history of this island. Horace Curzon Plunkett, was a prominent lay who frequently visited their home and In these coming years, we must remember member of the Church of Ireland and a Home described them in one poem as “two girls in silk that more Irish soldiers – Catholic and Rule MP. The poet was born into a privileged kimonos, both beautiful, one a gazelle.” Protestant – died at the Gallipoli landings in family in Fitzwilliam Square, then an affluent Dr Kathleen Lynn, a founding member of the 1915 or at the Somme in 1916 than died in the suburb of Dublin, and was educated by the Jesuits Irish Citizen’s Army too, took command of the Easter Rising. Nor should we forget that more at Belvedere and Stonyhurst, a public school in rebel garrison in City Hall in Easter Week 1916. than 400,000 people on this island, including Lancashire. Hours before his execution, he She remained a pious member of the Church of five bishops of the Church of Ireland, signed the married Grace Gifford, who, like her sister Muriel Ireland until her death in 1955. Ulster Covenant, and in doing so were led by MacDonagh, had been born into a prosperous Alongside James Connolly, Jim Larkin Sir Edward Carson, who was born in Harcourt Dublin Church of Ireland family. In other words, two of the seven signatories Countess Markievicz and Kathleen Lynn, the Street, Dublin. were not born in Ireland, one was the son of an founding members of the Irish Citizens’ Army in In 1922, after many Protestants were forced Englishman, one had served in the British army, 1913, included Captain Jack White, a to leave their homes because of threats and one was the son of an RIC officer, one was born Presbyterian from Broughshane, Co Antrim, and some had been murdered in Co Cork, a in a British army barracks, one was a titled the son of Sir George Stuart White. delegation of southern members of the aristocrat, and at least three married women Indeed, the first informal meeting to form the General Synod met Michael Collins and WT who were born into the Church of Ireland. Irish Citizens’ Army was held in Trinity College Cosgrave, and asked whether the government These backgrounds were similar to those of Dublin in the rooms of the Revd Robert of the new Free State was “desirous of many prominent figures on the Republican side Malcolm Gwynn. He was a communicant at St retaining” the Protestant community. The new in 1916. For example, Liam Mellows, later Bartholomew’s until his death in 1962, and is government readily gave the assurances sought. executed in 1922 at the height of the Civil War, buried in Whitechurch Churchyard in Co Over the next ten years, it is important that was born William Joseph Mellows in an army Dublin. One of his brothers, Brian Gwynn, was one single event should not dominate all the barracks in Manchester, and his father was born the father-in-law of the late Archbishop George other centenaries and the memory of what has in a British army barracks in India. Simms. Through their mother, the Gwynns were made the Ireland we know today. We should It should be remembered too in the coming grandsons of William Smith O’Brien, the exiled remember Ulster Covenant, the lockouts, years that while the 1916 Rising was being 1848 revolutionary whose statue in O’Connell Gallipoli, the Somme, the men who rallied to Redmond’s call, and the poetry of Tom Kettle. planned, Arthur Griffith’s Sinn Féin still favoured Street is close to the GPO and the statue of Nor should we forget the diversity of establishing a form of dual monarchy linking Jim Larkin. Ireland and Britain, similar to the dual monarchy contributions made by members of the Church In a letter of protest during the Dublin of Ireland in those ten years. in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and that Sinn lockout, George Russell (AE) accused the Féin did not take part in the 1916 Rising. employers of “refusing to consider any solution Canon Patrick Comerford is Lecturer in Voices for the oppressed except that fixed by their pride” and he accused Anglicanism and Liturgy, the Church of Many of the women who took prominent them of seeking “in cold anger to starve one- Ireland Theological Institute. roles in the Rising were members of the third of this city, to break the manhood of the http://revpatrickcomerford.blogspot.com

CHUrCH revIew 5 From the desk(s) of 3Rock Youth… as reported by Susie Keane

Family Services in St. Andrews, Malahide and St. Johns, Tullow We could say that in one day we spanned nearly the length of our diocese but that would be stretching it. Instead, we got close; we were invited by Tom Tate, Youth Officer in St. Andrews Church and Rev. Norman Gamble to participate in their family service. Greg was asked to give the message and I filled the parish in on what 3Rock Youth was up to and to thank them for having Aisling Glover, our intern do her placement there. The day was beautiful and the sunlight spilled into the gorgeous church. Greg spoke about those days “when everything changes” in our own lives and very evidently shown by the coming of Jesus, a moment that truly changed everything. Ferg Breen & Luke Sweetman lead music at Essential. After tea and chats with parishioners we made our way south side to Rev. John Tanner, After the awesome “Fire Guys” fire who packed his church with families, the Girls performance, just over 450 people seated brigade and scouts. Ferg Breen came and led themselves around the stage, which took pride the church in contemporary worship songs as of place again in the center. As the Cathedral Greg spoke. It was lovely to be welcomed into lights went down 6 individual candles were lit as the church body full of families and for them to each person with a candle said confidently that engage with what 3Rock Youth strive to do 'Nothing Separates us from the Love of God'. along side them. The Discovery Gospel Choir then got the When can we visit your church? Cathedrals hips moving and filled the room with joyous song, along side the DJing skills of Essential at Christ Church Cathedral Sam Stott and the brilliant music of Ferg Breen I think there's always a feeling of anxiety and & Luke Sweetman all mixed by the excellent Greg Speaking at Essential. apprehension when one of the biggest youth engineering of Paul Donnan. Greg enthralled us live lost and wrapped up in ourselves and that events in your calendar doesn't go ahead the all with curiosity as he spoke about the Prodigal the Father embraces us, like the Prodigal Son year before because we've all been snowed in; Son while being restrained in a strait jacket on his return home. That God’s desire is to and all you have been doing in the week leading (yes, you heard right!), which was covered with embrace us and lavish grace on our lives. To up to Essential this year is praying that the the words 'LOST'. He then went on to talk respond to this wonderful talk, we like to do an weather remains at a suitable temperature and about one of the most important and beautiful offering to the community gathered. Greg climate in order for it to go ahead! It did go actions that can happen to anyone...to embrace challenged us all to rise up if we wanted to “be ahead and Christ Church Cathedral filled with and to be embraced. Greg then shook off the the embrace” to others, and with that hundreds teenagers from around the United Diocese. strait jacket to illustrate that we don't have to in the Cathedral rose to their feet and we all spread out to offer them orange wristbands with the words 'Embrace' on them as a reminder that they are not only embraced but need to remember to embrace others. The evening was closed by the MC (Susie Keane) introducing Archbishop Jackson for the final word and blessing, encouraging us to be with God and do for others. Everyone then furthered the event by filling the crypt for tea/coffee and Christmas treats sponsored and hosted by Urban Soul. Archbishop Jackson speaking at Essential. Essential. We would love to thank Dean Dunne and his brilliant Staff at Christ Church Cathedral for being so patient and allowing us to work alongside them within such a beautiful space. To the volunteer team that gave up their time and energy to help us selflessly over the day, THANK YOU. Thank you again for your continued prayers and support as we endeavour to see Jesus active in the lives of this generation. Greg Fromholz, United Diocesan Youth Officer Upcoming Dates Watch this space for soon to be announced dates for Confirmation Days, Family Sports Days and Transition Year Schools Days. Or visit at www.3rock.net and download the The Fire Guys at Essential, Christ Church Cathedral. 3Rock Youth App.

6 CHUrCH revIew NEWS Everyone is Equal at Open Heart House

The perception that HIV is “the other person’s problem” still prevails in Ireland, the Archbishop of Dublin was told at a recent visit to Open Heart House in the city. The Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson was given a guided tour of the centre, which caters for over 1,500 people living with HIV and AIDS. He met staff, volunteers and members of the facility. The Open Heart Centre was established in 1997 and started with just 18 members. Now almost 2,000 members from all walks of life use the facilities at the former Christian Brothers building. The centre, which aims to empower and enhance the lives of people living with AIDS and HIV is run on a low budget with few full time staff. Most people working at L-R Volunteer Coordinator Anne Hederman, CEO Paula Gilmore, board member Open Heart are volunteers whether in the representing Church of Ireland Celia Dunne, Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson and busy dining room where 18,000 meals a year Regional Development Manager James O’Connor. are served or in the therapy rooms where qualified therapists offer massage, acupuncture “Everyone is equal here,” explained Paula counterparts in the Boston Living Centre, on among others free of charge. Gilmore, CEO of Open Heart. “The centre has which the Dublin centre is modelled. “I The centre also houses a fully equipped gym, an ethos of warm, welcome acceptance.” She attribute the younger age here to the lack of library, meditation and quiet rooms, a clothes said the profile of their members has changed education. Younger people are also more exchange and a space in which members can over the past decade. Initially people coming to sexually expressive,” Paula told the Archbishop. them would have been actively using drugs or hang out and play pool and chat. A youth “The area not being addressed is the young service was established this year and staff also members of the gay community. Now a lot of carry out prison visits, hospital visits and street younger women are coming in. heterosexual community,” she added. outreach services – they go anywhere their With an average age of between 25 and 35, While HIV and AIDS were hardly out of the members might need support. Open Heart’s members are younger than their headlines in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the illness has fallen off the radar in recent years. Open Heart’s regional development manager, James O’Connor, says it is now coming back It’s a Dog’s Life into focus but “HIV is still the other person’s problem, the other person’s disease. No one thinks it would happen to them”. As members at the Pepper of Open Heart come from as far away as Portlaoise, he is working towards establishing a centre in the midlands. Cannister Archbishop Jackson said one of the most Murray and Clive get along famously. Murray, a young important things about Open Heart was its Dublin man, feeds and lavishes attention on Clive, a Golden simplicity. “Built on that simplicity is a sense of Doodle. In return Clive, a highly trained assistance dog, has membership and community which enables transformed Murray’s life. The pair attended the annual everyone who comes through the door feel a service of thanksgiving for the Irish Guide Dogs for the sense of welcome and belonging. The level of Blind Association in St Stephen’s Church on Mount Street support and sensitivity that is offered by the staff Crescent in Dublin recently. 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Eight new Parish Readers from all over the great work the eight had put into their United Diocese have been commissioned. The preparations and commended them to prayer. new readers were commissioned recently in St The service was devised and led by the eight John the Baptist Church in Clontarf by the candidates in conjunction with the director of Archbishop, the Most Revd Dr Michael Jackson. Lay Ministries, Revd John Tanner and his They bring to their new positions a variety of assistant, Uta Raab. In her sermon, Ms Raab said gifts and come from different traditions. Some it was fitting that the service should have taken now plan to continue on their journey to place in Clontarf where another member of the become Diocesan Readers. trainee group, Mark Atchinson, was already an After two years’ of study and preparation, established Parish Reader. Gillian Dean from St George and St Thomas; She outlined the role of a Parish Reader. She Alan French of Glenageary; James Kilbey of St explained that they could lead Morning and Uta Raab preaches at the Patrick’s Cathedral Group of Parishes; Jon Kirby Evening Prayer services and Services of the commissioning of new Parish Readers at of Donoughmore, Donard and Dunlavin; David Word as well as many parts in a Holy St. John the Baptist Church in Clontarf. O’Halloran from Crumlin and Chapelizod, Communion service. They do not have licence Victoria O. Osigbade-Oso from Tallaght, Shona to preach but they can read their rector’s component of worship in a parish, in an active, Rusk of Crumlin and Chapelizod and Brendan sermons or deliver their own if approved by leading role,” she said. Sheahan from Celbridge and Straffan with their rector. “Parish Readers are not meant to Referring to the readings, Ms Raab said both Newcastle-Lyons were all made Parish Readers. robe, despite the different customs that I know New Testament passages spoke about acts of Dr Jackson welcomed the candidates and exist around our United Diocese. The office of ministry and discipleship. She said ministry and those who had travelled to support them from Parish Reader is therefore in the main a discipleship had already been evidenced in the all over Dublin and Wicklow. He praised the liturgical one, and intended to enrich the vital lives of the eight men and women before they embarked on their training. They had lived out their faith by carrying out important ministries that do not receive official recognition serving as church wardens, readers of lessons, Sunday Club leaders, Diocesan Synods people and more. “These eight people before you represent not only a variety of skills and gifts, but also different traditions within our Church. Furthermore, considering that both the Isaiah text and the passage from Acts refer to other nations or nationalities, and that, to my knowledge, at least two of our eight candidates aren’t Irish, you can imagine that it pleases me greatly that one does not even have to be Irish to train for lay ministry within the Church of Ireland,” she commented. “By a lucky coincidence of the calendar, we are able to celebrate the Parish Reader commissioning of Alan, Brendan, David, Gillian, Eight new Parish Readers from the United Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough – Jimmy, Jon, Shona and Victoria on this eve of Gillian Dean, Alan French, James Kolbe, Jon Kirby, David O’Halloran, Victoria Advent, the start of a new Church Year, which ties Osigbade-Oso, Shona Rusk and Brendan Sheahan. They are pictured with the in beautifully with the beginning of a new stage Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Michael Jackson, Rev John Tanner and Uta Raab. for each of them in their ministry,” she stated. BISHOPS’ APPEAL The response to the Horn of Africa appeal within the Church of Ireland has seen a substantial sum of money released to Christian Aid and their partners working on the ground in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Over €92,000 and £32,500 has been raised in parishes around the country to combat the devastating effects of the drought. It has been noted that this is approximately two thirds of the amount released by the Irish Government to Christian Aid. To date, nearly 14 million people have been affected by the failed rains in the region. Entire river beds have dried up, and many communities have been displaced in their search for water. The provision of emergency water tanks and boreholes has enabled families to feed their livestock, which in turn has provided them with milk for their children, who are battling malnutrition. A community member in Northern Kenya, Botu Utani, commented that the provision of a water point has kept them alive: ‘Without the water… most of us would have died, especially the pregnant women and feeding mothers. Even our camels are dying. And when the animals collapse, we as people also collapse. We are so grateful for the water. We can drink the water and cook with it. But we haven't washed for weeks.’

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History journal includes paper by CITI lecturer Canon Patrick Comerford of the Church of Ireland Theological Institute is one of the SCÉALA principal contributors to the latest edition of the Journal of the Wexford Historical Society. The NA nGAEL 2011-2012 edition (Number 23) is edited by Ms Celestine Rafferty and was launched in the TRÍ SHEIRBHÍS GHAEILGE a bheidh Greenacres Art Gallery in Wexford by Professor againn an mhí seo agus iad go léir in Kevin Whelan of the Keough Naughton Notre ArdTeampall Críost (Christ Church Dame Centre, Dublin. Cathedral) i lár na cathrach. (1) Seirbhís Canon Comerford’s paper, ‘James Comerford (1817-1902): rediscovering a Wexford-born Éacúimineach (i gcomhar le Pobal an Aifrinn) Victorian stuccodore’s art,’ is the first paper in Dé hAoine, 20 Eanáir, ar a hocht ac chlog the Journal, and looks at the work and career of tráthnóna. Is é an tAth. Alan Mac Eochagáin a his great-grandfather, James Comerford who thabharfas an seanmóin agus beidh daltaí began his career working with the architects Ghaelscoil na Cille ó Chill Dheagláin, Co. Na Richard Pierce, AWN Pugin and JJ McCarthy on Mí inár dteannta. (2) An Chomaoineach Naofa their Wexford churches. ar a cúig a chlog tráthnóna an 22 Eanáir After Pugin’s death, he moved from Wexford (Ceathrú Domhnach). (3) An Eocairist um Am to Dublin, where his artistic and architectural Canon Patrick Comerford with Bernard Lóin (Lunchtime Eucharist) ar 12.45 an 23 work included the now-demolished ‘Irish Browne of Mill Quarter, Old Ross, at the Eanáir (Ceathrú Luan). House’ on the corner of Wintetavern Street launch of the Journal of the Wexford and Wood Quay, below Christ Church DEA-RÚIN DON BHLIAIN ÚIR: Sonas Historical Society (Photograph: Barbara Cathedral, and the Oarsman, a public house still Comerford). oraibh sa Bhliain Úir! Bkeidh sibh níos sona fós, standing in Ringsend. mar a mheasaim, má dhéanann sibh trí cinn de Canon Comerford is Lecturer in Anglicanism Lorenzo Dow (1777-1834), an American dhea-rúin: (a) am breise a chaitheamh le hurnaí; and Liturgy in CITI. His paper is illustrated with Methodist preacher in Wexford, Mr David Ian (b) tuilleadh staidéir a dhéanamh ar an mBíobla photographs telling the life story of this Hamilton, who traces the story of the Sutton – i nGaeilge, i mBéarla nó i do rogha teanga; (c) Wexford-born artist and trade unionist, who family of Longraigue; and Mrs Eithne Scallan, iarracht níos láidre a dhéanamh chun an méid a began his life as a stuccordore and ended his who has written a short biography of Dr fhoghlaimíonn tú ó do chuid staidéir ar an career as an architect and civil servant. George Hadden (1882-1973), the Methodist Scrioptúr a chur i bhfeidhm i do shaol laethúil “I’m just the editor,” Ms Rafferty said at the missionary and founder of the Wexford – rud a thugann ar ais chun na hurnaí sinn, mar launch. “The real kudos should go to the 13 Historical Society. contributors: without them there wouldn’t be The attendance at launch included Alderman beidh gá agat le bheith ag guí má tá tú le neart a journal.” Joe Ryan, former Mayor of Wexford, and Mr a fháil ó Dhia lena thoil a chur i ngníomh. The other contributors to the Journal Jarlath Glynn, President of the Wexford STAIDÉAR AR AN mBÍOBLA – include Mr Bernard Browne, who writes on Historical Society. SEANFHOCAIL NA GAEILGE: Is dócha nach bhfuil teanga san Eoraip gan rian fágtha ag an mBíobla uirthi – go háirithe sna seanfhocail agus i gcora cainte traidisiúnta eile. Mar CITI Advent Carol Service shampla, nuair a dhiúltaigh muintir Nasair (Nazareth) glacadh le teagasc Íosa, dúirt Sé: “Ní ghlactar le fáidh ar bith ina thír dhúchais féin.” (Lúcás/Luke 4:24). Nach é sin is bun lenár seanfhocal Gaeilge féin: “Ní bhíonn meas ar an bhfáidh ina dhúiche féin.”? Agus ní gá duit ach féachaint ar an gcuntas faoin mbean a dtángthas aniar aduaidh uirthi san adhaltranas (Eoin/John 8:2-11) leis an seanfhocal Gaeilge sin a thuiscint: “An té atá saor, caitheadh sé cloch.” COMÓRTAS NA BLIANA ÚIRE 2012: Críochnaigh an véarsa seo ón Tiomna Nua Gaeilge: “Mar níor tháinig Mac an duine le seirbhís a fháil...” Éarlais Leabhar (book token) ar €10 (deich n-euro) don chéad fhreagra ceart as an mála. Freagraí (faoi 31 Eanáir) chuig: COMÓRTAS NA BLIANA ÚIRE 2012, 23 Cúirt Bhrabazon, 2 Br. Gilford, Baile Átha Cliath 4. BÍGÍ AG GUÍ don MheánOirthear – go háirithe faoin mbaol mórchogaidh agus faoi shaoirse creidimh do Chríostaithe. Agus guígí d’Éirinn freisin! BEANNACHT DÉ ORAIBH GO LÉIR SAN At the Church of Ireland Theologival Institute Advent Carol Service in Saint ATHBHLIAIN! Nahi's Church, Dundrum (from left): the Revd Dr Maurice Elliott, Director of R. SEATHRÚN MAC ÉIN CITI, the Right Revd Samuel Poyntz, retured Bishop of Connor, the Revd Berne Daly, former Lecturer in the Church of Ireland Theological College and a former curate in the parish, and Canon Patrick Comerford, lecturer in Anglicanism and Liturgy, CITI, who led the service.

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Education is one of the key drivers to getting Ireland back on its feet, the president of the INTO, Noreen Flynn, has stated. Speaking at the graduation ceremony for the B.Ed class of 2011 at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Ms Flynn told the newly qualified teachers: “We have dealt with recession before and we will deal with it today. We will fight to preserve the standard of education”. Ms Flynn was presenting the Vere Foster Medal for excellence to graduate Amanda Sullivan. Outlining the life of Vere Foster, who was the first president of the Irish National Teachers Organisation, she said he made a remarkable contribution to several areas in Irish Society, particularly mass education. He Archbishop Michael Jackson presents supported over 2,000 schools from his own Jean Louise McCarthy with the personal resources; his copybooks became the Governors' Prize for contribution to the standard method of practicing handwriting in INTO president, Noreen Flynn, addresses life of the College at the Church of schools; and he was convinced that improving the B.Ed. graduates of 2011 at the Ireland College of Education B.Ed the lot of teachers was the only way of Church of Ireland College of Education. graduation 2011. improving education. She said that had she been speaking at a graduation ceremony four years ago at a time of plenty, she would have contrasted the day of Vere Foster with the present day. “But as we’re all aware over the last four years all of these certainties have come tumbling down. Poverty is on the rise. Emigration is on the rise particularly among young people… One of the key drivers to get this country out of the situation in which we find ourselves will be education,” she stated. Ms Flynn said Amanda Sullivan was a very worthy recipient of the Vere Foster medal having achieved the highest overall marks with 13 first class honours out of 18 subject areas. The Governors’ Prize for contribution to the life of the college was awarded to Jean Louise McCarthy. Presenting the award, chair of the board of governors, Archbishop Michael Jackson, talked about what it meant to be a teacher. He said it sounded simple – teachers were in charge of the welfare and the flourishing of the children in their trust. “The children are with you for a major part of their day and that is a responsibility… You have a tremendous opportunity to shape the lives of Hats off the the B.Ed class of 2011 at the Church of Ireland College of Education. children,” he said adding that “the welfare of the child lies at the heart of your commitment”. “The gentleman of the society would never Dr Hislop issued a challenge to the graduates The Carlisle and Blake Award was presented have spoken of a child’s right to education – of 2011. He urged them to maintain a sense of to Stacey McNutt by Dr Harold Hislop, the that language was not in their discourse – but discovery and imagination in the young people chief inspector at the Department of Education that right was what they established,” Dr they taught. “Make sure you look at them and and Skills. In his key note speech, he addressed Hislop stated. “Excellence of teaching and say ‘why not’… When you are asking ‘why not’ the theme ‘Discovery consists of looking at the learning were at the heart of what they did. you will really being doing your job to enrich same thing as everyone else and seeing This excellence of teaching has been the lives of your students,” he concluded. something different’. In the Dublin of 200 years maintained and fostered for 200 years this College of Education principal, Dr Anne ago mass education was non-existent.. Lodge, congratulated all 29 graduates and told “Education for all seemed like an impossible year. You, the graduates of 2011, can be proud. them she, the staff and the governors were all dream,” he stated. A group of Dublin The creativity of the Kildare Place Founders proud of them. She acknowledged that the B.Ed businessmen gathered together in the Liberties has served this country well. Their ability to was a demanding programme but said it had to to look at these challenges and they looked at look at something differently was the key to be because “teaching isn’t just a job, it’s a them in a different way, Dr Hislop said. The their ability to change the world. Irish vocation”. She observed that the nation was Kildare Place Society, as the men were known, education is facing challenges and we need entering very difficult times which would make pioneered all the key features of a national people to looking differently at the challenges teachers’ jobs harder. But she said the graduates education system. and challenge the assumptions,” he said. gave hope for the future of the country.

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2012, Thursday 15th March 2012, Thursday 22nd March 2012 and BOOTERSTOWN, CARYSFORT Thursday 29th March 2012. AND MOUNT MERRION Again, in this Lenten Study Programme, there will be a variety of speakers from differing backgrounds. The Rev. Gillian Wharton. Tel: 01-2887118. Mobile: 087-2300767 All are very welcome to these talks. Email: [email protected] The details will be on the parish website www.booterstown.org and The Rev. Suzanne Harris. Tel: 087-9354869 will be available from the Parish Office as they come to hand. Email: [email protected] PJT1 Youth Club Diocesan Lay Reader: Ms Uta Raab PJT1 (4th, 5th or 6th Classes) re-opened following a year-long gap, in Parish Office: St. Thomas’ Rectory, Foster Avenue, Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin. September 2011. Tel: 2835873. Mon-Fri 9.00-12.00 This term, we have had a Games Night including very enthusiastic Email: [email protected] uni-hoc(!), a messy Halloween Party, a DVD night, Singstar and Table Review Distribution: St. Philip & St. James: Yvonne Laycock Tennis interspersed with making pizza and edible top hats, and a trip St. Thomas: Denis Beare ice-skating followed by McDonalds’. Parish Website: www.booterstown.dublin.anglican.org We meet 20.00-21.30, usually in the Carysfort Hall in St Philip and St James’ Parish Centre, but this can sometimes change. Services for January We are also exploring re-starting PJT2 which would be for See the parish website at www.booterstown.dublin.anglican.org or parishioners and their friends who are 1st, 2nd and 3rd Years collect a schedule of all the services from either of our churches. (Secondary School). If you would be interested, please contact Gillian by 10th January 2012. If there is a feasible number of people In Harmony – Unexpected Songs interested, then we will look at having PJT2 in 2012. We had a wonderful concert on Friday 2nd December 2011 in aid of We next meet at the Family Fun Evening in the Monk Gibbon Hall on St Philip and St James’ Church Roof. In Harmony, under the baton of Friday 20th January 2012 at 8pm, and on Friday 3rd February 2012, we John Harris and accompanied by Derek Verso and our own Charles meet in Carysfort Hall of Booterstown Parish Centre. Pearson, gave us wonderful singing, great story-telling through the songs and a little fancy footwork!! Barbara Harris was the M.C. and gave us Christian Meditation Group a little background to the various musicals as well as being the The Wednesday evening Christian Meditation Group continues on a organiser of the choir. During the interval, we had non-alcoholic mulled Wednesday night in the Canon Osborne Barr Room of Booterstown wine and minced pies and thank you to those who looked after the Parish Centre at 8pm. But now, in addition to this, a Tuesday afternoon catering. Thank you too to those who stewarded, helped with the group will commence on Tuesday 10th January 2012 at 3.30pm and is raffle, and who supported the concert. Over €2,200 was raised which being led by Irene Reid. For further information, please contact means another bit of the roof is paid for! Thank you particularly to In Andreas at 087-672943 or Irene on 087-2755423. Harmony for all the work that they put into giving such an entertaining and professional performance. Holy Baptism Erin Lough, the daughter of Monoosh (née Davis) and Scott Lough Parish Women’s Fellowship Lunch was baptised in St Philip and St James’ Church on Advent Sunday, 27th Thank you to all who cooked, baked and made a wonderful lunch for November 2011 at the United Family Service. Erin lives in Glasgow, and some of our older parishioners on Tuesday 6th December 2011. As usual, she, and her Mum and Dad came to Dublin for her special day, joining it was delicious. Thank you too to Santa and his helper, who managed to with family from Limerick, Cork and Dublin, and the parishioners of find time in their busy schedule to drop in with gifts for everyone. Booterstown and Mount Merrion to welcome her into the family of God. Her godparents are Caroline Wharton and Enda Kelleher. We Vi’s Coffee Morning wish Erin every blessing as she journeys through life. Thank you to all who supported Vi’s Coffee Morning in aid of St Philip A Happy Christmas and New Year to you! and St James’ Church Roof, and particular thanks to Vi who opened her home to us. A sum of just over €1,000 was raised. Family Fun Evening at St Thomas’ On Friday 20th January 2012, at 8pm, we are having a Family Fun BRAY Evening with a Beetle Drive and Supper. As well as a prize for the The Revd. Baden Stanley. Mobile: (087) 948 4407 highest score, there will be prizes for the most attractive beetles!!! This Youth Pastor: Kirsty Lynch is not a fundraiser but just an opportunity for parishioners of all ages Parish Office: (01) 286 2968. Email: [email protected] to come together from both of our parishes and beyond. €5 per adult. Review Distributor: Mr. Mulligan. Tel: 2863511 €3 per child. €15 for a family for 2 adults and any number of bona 8.30 am: Holy Communion fide(!) children! 11.00 am: 1st and 3rd Sunday – Holy Communion; 1940’s Dance 2nd Sunday – Morning Prayer; 4th Sunday – Family Service; On Friday 10th February 2012, at 8pm, we are going to kick up our 5th Sunday – Healing Service heels and bop the night away in the Carysfort Hall of Booterstown Parish Centre, 1940’s style. Mark O’Callaghan and friends are providing From the Rectory – Let there be light! the music and it promises to be a great night. So, brush up on your A man sits, alone, engulfed by the darkness. He is shivering, not so Lindy-hop and away we go! much because of the cold, though it is cold, but because of the fear. It is so dark; not even a glimmer of light seems to permeate his dark Churches Together – Justice Issues – Ecumenical Lenten world. And with the darkness comes fear, and fear provokes Study Project imagination. He imagines every rustle, every scratch, every whisper as The positive response to the Ecumenical Lenten Study Project over monstrous. The floor he sits upon is damp and cold and he hunches up the past two years, has led the Rev. Denis Campbell from St. Andrew’s his knees to rest his head upon, but sleep escapes him. In the distance Presbyterian Church, Monsignor Seamus Conway from the Church of there is a recurring noise, a swish-hisshh that echoes faintly, but it is the the Assumption and the Rev. Gillian Wharton, to organising another nearer noises that frighten him most. such project for 2012. As he cautiously extends his hand onto the floor in front of him, he This year, we are looking at issues of Justice, such as homelessness, feels warm soft fur slip away from his fingertips. He jumps. Rats. He mental health care and the health service, marginalisation of the most hates them. Tears start to slide silently down his face as he hardly dares vulnerable, etc. Given how Jesus cared for those who were struggling breathe. “O God!” he whispers. “Help me.” Once more he extends and the outcasts of society, can we as Christians, sit back and allow his hand, this time he reaches the stone floor and his fingers touch a these issues to go unnoticed, unvoiced and unchanged? long cylinder – it is hard and damp, and yet his heart leaps. Could it be? Again there will be four evenings and they sessions will take place in He quickly pulls the thing to him, finding its end, nothing! the other end, the Stillorgan Park Hotel. The four evenings are: Thursday 8th March yes! There is the wick! He holds the candle in front of him as an ancient

28 CHURCH REVIEW warrior might hold his sword, and yet there is no comfort there. His hand returns to the floor greedily searching for more, and soon he CASTLEKNOCK AND MULHUDDART holds in his hand a single match; he strikes it off the stone. His eyes WITH CLONSILLA hurt with the sudden surge of light. In that instant he glimpses the long corridor in which he is sitting. Carefully he introduces the match to the Rev Paul Houston. Tel: 8200040 candle; a stronger light emerges, just in time, as the match spits and dies. Curate: Rev. Victor Fitzpatrick. Tel: 8212218 Again he holds the candle aloft. This time he sees for the first time the Reader: Stella Obe. Tel: 087 2237402 ground around him. A small mouse dashes away. Larger eyes loom in Parish Website: www.castleknock.dublin.anglican.org the distance, but for now the light is enough. He has sat so long he Parish Office: Jennifer McGrath (Mon- Fri 9.30am-1pm - 8200040). cannot yet move and so he moves his candle around and identifies the Email: [email protected] sources of the noises that captured him earlier - the open vent where Review Distribution: Beatrice Richards (8382590). the breeze blew a sapling against the wall; the bars that rattled in the Castleknock National School: Principal Mrs Sandra Moloney (8202611). grate in the floor when the gurgling water rushed by underneath. In the distance he hears again the ‘swish-hisshh’ but the light of the Sunday Services in January candle doesn’t quite reach its source. “Another candle” he mutters “would Castleknock: 8.30am, 11.30am. Clonsilla: 10.00am give me light enough to see beyond the shadow” And there it is, on the Mulhuddart: 3rd Sunday of the Month Night Prayer 8pm. floor in front of him, strong and firm. His hands introduce the two candles and the flaming light spreads… to a huddled shape, sitting on the stone Wednesdays floor, shoulders shaking as tears fall silently down a face, past a nose that Castleknock Parish Centre: 10.30a.m. HC followed by coffee. threatens to drip until a swish-hisshh draws the mucus back up. The man The Journey scrambles to his knees and with both candles held before him he My Dear Parishioners, approaches the huddled shape. “Friend.” he calls, “Don’t be afraid anymore! In all the great religions, the idea of pilgrimage has played an You’re not alone! See, there is light enough here for two!” The tear stained important part. Alongside it, there has often been this idea of the face of a young man looks up in amazement at the approaching light. “O Spiritual journey. sir.” he says, “Thank God you’ve come. The dark and the noise near drove Both of these ideas meet, it seems to me in the journey of the Wise me made. Tell me, can you hear a noise down there for I’m afeared I can Men and the manger at Bethlehem, which is celebrated on the Feast hear a terrible beast come yonder?” And there, in the distance, beyond the of the Epiphany (6th January). All this was the subject of one of the shadow, they hear faintly a swish-hisshh. The first man smiles, holds out his best known poems of T.S. Eliot, which he published as a kind of hand to the young man. “Come my friend; take hold of that candle that is ‘pamphlet of Christmas’ on the floor in front of you. Introduce it to mine, we have work to do! At the beginning very appropriately for this time of year – with these Happy New Year, five lines:- Baden. A Cold coming we had of it, Thank you Just the worst time of the year So much thanks to everyone who worked so hard over our Christmas For a journey, and such a long journey; celebrations - to our Flower Team, Choirs, decorators, readers, catering The ways deep and the weather sharp, team and all who joined us in preparation for and celebration of The very dead of winter. Christmas. Thanks especially to Frances and Sheelagh Harte who What many people did not notice, was that those first five lines had organized the beautiful Classics by Candlelight Concert with the help of a quotation marks around them, unaltered form a seventeen century great support team and to Joe Whitten and George Wilkin, and again their sermon of Lancelot Andrewes. It had in fact been preached on team, who raised over €800 from the Christmas Tree sale for charities. Christmas Day 1622, before the court of King James, when Andrewes was Dean of Westminster Abbey. There is no doubt that Eliot thought Congratulations that these words were amongst the finest in the English language, not To Rachel Alexandra and Rose who were christened on Sunday, 20th only of that time but any time. It greatly affected him personally. November; to Harry Brown who was christened on Sunday, 27th The journey of the magi is a poem about the painful necessity of November; to Noel and Roma Brasil whose marriage was blessed on rebirth for us all – which is itself a journey from Death to life. Eliot felt Thursday, 1st December. this deeply. It was a journey Eliot felt he had made himself. Our Sympathy In this New year of 2012, perhaps those first five lines of Eliot’s poem We express our heartfelt sympathy and sorrow to the family of baby may serve to remind us of that spiritual journey we all have to make – Jamie McCarthy, to his parents Brian and Jeni and his older brother, which is often quite painful – though ‘Journey’s end in lovers’ meeting , Daniel, in this time of deep loss. every wise mans’ son doth know’. Can I take this opportunity to wish you and your families a Very Dates for your Diary Happy and Peaceful New Year! Sunday, 1st January – 8.30am Holy Communion 1; 11.00am Holy Yours sincerely, Communion 2. Rev. Paul Houston Sunday, 8th January – 8.30am Holy Communion 2; 11.00am Morning Prayer. Christmas Fair Sunday, 15th January – 8.30am Holy Communion 1; 11.00am Holy We would like to thank all those who worked so hard for the fair Communion 2. which grossed over €14,000.00. Particularly we would like to thank Wednesday, 18th January – 8.00pm Select Vestry meeting. Evelyn Pender and Ada Lawson for heading up the Christmas fair Sunday 22nd January – 8.30am Holy Communion 2; 11.00am Family committee. The weather remained fine this year. Thanks you to all who Service. contributed and supported this event. P.H. Tuesday, 24th January – Saturday, 28th January – One Act Drama Festival at the Mermaid Theatre. Sunday 29th January – 8.30am Holy Communion 2; 11.00am Christingle Service. Mothers’ Union Notes Members and friends enjoyed our annual Christmas Dinner n Sunday, 11th December; good food, good chat and great singing of Carols. Gifts donated by members for Nursing Home residents will be distributed before Christmas. Thank you to Helen, Hilary and Nicola who have finished their time on the Committee. We welcome Ann Mulligan as our new Enrolling Member and Esther and June to the Committee. Wishing a very happy Christmas to all and hoping to see you on Monday, Left: The Cake stall at this years Christmas Fair. Right: Christmas Fair Co-ordinators 9th January 2012 for the first meeting of the year, weather permitting. visiting Santa - Evelyn Pender & Ada Lawson.

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Mothers’ Union The Annual Branch Dinner will be held on Monday 9th January in the Red Cow Hotel. Members should contact Barbara for details. The “Little Grey Cells challenge” which should have taken place at our December meeting unfortunately didn't happen because so few members turned up, Those that did enjoyed Ann's mince pies. The Annual Carol singing at Cherry Orchard Hospital in December. We were joined by Alan & Barbara Melbourne and also by the Rector. Twenty Two shoe boxes were filling and passed on to the Darndale Crèche Project. The February meeting will have as our guest speaker, Sylvia Graham, the Diocesan Overseas Rep who will talk to us about Overseas Projects. This will be followed by a Bring & Buy Sale in aid of Overseas Relief Fund on Tuesday 14th at 7.30 in 80 Castleview Road. Please give Castleknock & Clonsilla Mothers Union carol singing in Blanchardstown Hospital. this event your support by coming along.

Castleknock National School & Black Santa Remembrance Sunday Christmastime was a very busy time as always for the staff and The sum of €180 was sent to the Earl Haig Fund being the proceeds students of Castleknock National School, with their Carol Service, of the sale of poppies in November. school plays and the constant demands of the curriculum. However, Thanks that didn't stand in the way of the school's outreach to the less Each year at this time we thank those who work behind the scenes fortunate in our society. Despite already having given so much time and to make the Parish tick, the people who decorate our churches each energy to filling many hampers of food, and buying presents for the St week and on special occasions with flowers, those who keep our Vincent de Paul appeal, the staff and students once again rose to the churches and Parish Hall looking well inside and out, those who run our challenge and made a huge contribution to the 'Black Santa' charity sit Parish organisations and those who read the lessons Sunday by Sunday. out at St Ann's, Dawson Street. On Monday, 19th December, the boys If you would like to become involved in any of the above please talk to and girls of 6th Class along with Miss Kidney, Mrs. Moloney and Rev. the Rector/Church Wardens. Sadly there is no longer tea/coffee Victor, braved the cold and bad weather and sang on the steps of St provided after the service in St John's and offers of help to reintroduce Ann's Church during the hectic lunchtime period. A very, very big thank this would be much appreciated. Contact the Church Wardens. you to all the other members of staff, the students, and their parents who helped make the day such a success. Also a very warm thank you And Finally to the many parishioners who came along to support us, especially Just in case your New Year's resolutions involve dieting here is some those who popped along to Fixx Coffee Shop to keep us supplied with words of help: warm drinks! Did you hear about the gourmet who avoids unfashionable Rev. Victor Fitzpatrick restaurants because he doesn't want to gain weight in the wrong places? Is it true that a number of jokes about dieting can be referred to as Tiny Tots ‘a binge of jokes’? Would like to thank you all for the great donations of Toys for the A funny thing with a diet, the second day of a diet is always easier Parish Sale, we had lots of fun on the day. Tiny Tots will be back after than the first. By the second day you're off it. Jackie Gleason the Christmas break in the Parish Center on Friday January 13th. Do you call a person who has abandoned their diet a desserter? Happy New Year to you all. Roz Never go back for seconds... get it all the first time. A great way to lose weight is to eat while you are naked and standing Girls Brigade Notes in front of a mirror. Restaurants will always throw you out before you Our Explorers finished up with their Christmas Party on the 10th can eat too much. December and the Juniors, Seniors & Brigaders had their usual “Sausage After listening to some bedtime stories, Alex, a little boy, said to his Night” on the 14th Dec. Well done to Grace Lynch who came 1st in the father, 'Snow White was poisoned by an apple, Jack found a giant on a Girls Brigade Feis and to Jordan Ozatlar who was Highly Commended. beanstalk, and just look what happened to Alice when she ate the They were in the 6 years and under category. mushroom. And you wonder why I won't eat fruit and vegetables.' Ros Garrett 'My tummy is so big I'm embarrassed by it,' commented Will. 'Have you tried to diet?' From the Registers – Holy Baptism 'Yes, but whatever colour I use, it still sticks out.' 4th December: Zach Bobby Simpson Gorey & Alex Jade Oliver, St. Happy New Year to all no matter what shape you are. Brigid’s. Our best wishes go to all their parents and Godparents. “Let the children come to me.” CRINKEN CHURCH CLONDALKIN & RATHCOOLE Rev Canon Trevor Stevenson. Tel: 01 2820150 Email: [email protected] Rector: Rev Alan Rufli. Tel: 087 9972401 Lay Reader: Stephen Gardiner Email: [email protected] Youth Worker: Neil Douglas. Mob: 087 6465281 Readers: Mrs Sylvia Armstrong, Mr Bill King and Mrs Barbara O’Callaghan. Email: [email protected] Services: Sunday – St John’s 8.30 am. H.C. and 11.15; Rathcoole 10 am Website www.crinken.com Wednesday – St John’s 11 am. Holy Communion Dear Friends Advent Services At our recent Church weekend away our theme was connections. The Advent service in St John's had a twist to it. During the service We looked at how we need to be connected to Jesus, to each other members of the National School handed out trays, oranges, tape, and to the community. The passage we majored on was from John candles and marshmallows on sticks which, on the instruction of the chapter fifteen where Jesus states “I am the true Vine”. The words Rector, we assembled into a Christingle. Sadly no Blue Peter badges remain and fruit kept coming up several times in the chapter. As we were awarded to those who succeeded in making one. begin a New Year let us keep verse five of John chapter fifteen foremost The services on the 4th took the form of a Blue Christmas Service in our minds in everything we do throughout this year of 2012. Jesus with Holy Communion. During the services we remembered those says, “I am the vine, you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I who are no longer with us and who we will miss this Christmas. in him, he will bear much fruit. Apart from me you can do nothing.” Parishioners who wished had the opportunity of taking home a A very happy and blessed 2012 to all our readers. Remembrance Candle. Trevor Stevenson

30 CHURCH REVIEW Church Weekend Away And indeed it is that knowledge of her faith that will bring so much On Friday evening November 25th the outside of Avoca Manor was comfort to her sons David and Trevor (our rector) and daughter like a bustling holiday camp as the Crinken family ascended the long (Rosalind) and their families. This loss is not without pain and her winding driveway up to the house for our church weekend away. It was children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren remain in our prayers. with much excitement and anticipation that one hundred and thirty We miss Elsie; we miss her hugs, her warmth, her love. We are brothers and sisters of all ages, 8 to 80 and even younger (and older!), grateful for her life, for her example and for the knowledge that she is arrived at the manor for a weekend of relaxation, fellowship, praise and now rejoicing with her maker whom she loved so much and honoured family fun. Scripture Union’s Avoca Manor had recently undergone a with her life. significant refurbishment with wonderful new facilities and accommodation. Children and young families played games as some Young@Heart relaxed in the manor over tea and coffee. The first evening ended with Saturday 3 December, around 30 of our Young@Heart group and Trevor Stevenson leading an inspiring and entertaining “on the couch” friends gathered in the hall for our annual Christmas dinner with all the interview with fellow church members David and Pamela Wilson of trimmings! It was a great opportunity to catch with friends and judging Agape. Crinken youth and children’s leaders Neil and Chloe had by the conversation level there was plenty to talk about! The evening extensive programmes for the younger members of our church family. ended with music and singing from Scott Slate along with Kate Buggy & Saturday we had some wonderful teaching, and explored our church’s Ray Eakins. future mission and purpose. Over the weekend children played in many Sincere thanks to all those who made the evening possible. of the outdoor adventure attractions while some folk went for various Congratulations walks exploring the extensive grounds, visited Avoca hand weavers and Congratulations and best wishes go to Kieron and Esther on the generally enjoyed a relaxed time socialising. There was a lovely sense birth of a Jonah Samuel, Saturday 26 November, a baby brother for Finn. of connection across the generations. The children, the young, the not Congratulations also go to Bas & Glynis on becoming Grandparents for as young but thought they were, and the young at heart, made all the first time, and to Eddie & Marjorie on becoming Great manner of wonderful newspaper hats for Saturday’s dinner. After the Grandparents following the birth of Sam to Heidi and Omar. We delicious meal more all age games followed. The sense of relaxed celebrate the birth of new life with these our friends. togetherness and church family was a blessing. Trevor undertook another “on the couch” interview with newly engaged Crinken couple, “Jonathan and Chloe”. The evening finished with a screening of the challenging but inspiring movie “58” which calls Christians to fight CRUMLIN AND CHAPELIZOD against global poverty and injustice. A late night tea and coffee chat by the fire was enjoyed before the house retired for the night. Rev Adrienne Galligan. Tel: 405 9708. On Sunday morning with great sadness and love for the Stevenson Email: [email protected] family we heard the news that our dear sister Elsie Stevenson had Reader: Mrs. Joan Condell passed away during the night in hospital with her family by her side, but Review: Mr. R. L. Noblett (Crumlin). Tel: 496 8657 also with joy in the knowledge that she had gone on ahead to be with Mrs. A. West (Chapelizod). Tel: 626 7699 her Lord and Saviour. In life Elsie had “walked the walk” and radiated Services: St. Mary’s Sunday 10am. St. Laurence’s Sunday 11.30am. the love of our Saviour. As David Wilson preached later that morning in Avoca Manor on “Fruit of the Vine”, and the children of our church A note from the Rector and Select Vestries family read the scriptures, one could not but help feeling, here IS the We thank God for the many expressions of generosity that fruit of a life lived faithfully in Christ, it was a palpable living testimony. parishioners made over the Christmas as hampers, shoe boxes, knitted The church weekend had been a blessing, a time of fellowship and items and carol singing voices were made available to relieve some of friendship, of fun, praise, learning and thanksgiving. Thank you to all the the needs that people had in the wider community. Given the reality wonderful volunteers who organised a memorable weekend. “And now of belt tightening that many face now, the response to appeals locally these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is was tremendous and we thank all who donated/contributed to the love.” 1 Cor 13:13. parish efforts. Time and again recipients expressed their deep gratitude which it is only right to pass on to all who were involved. As most of the donations were anonymous and it is not possible to thank everyone personally, we hope by acknowledging them through the Review notes that all will be assured everything donated was channelled in the right direction. We hope your new year has started off well and pray you know much blessing in 2012. A Busy December Yes there was THE BIG BIRTHDAY on 25th Dec but there was also a very significant one in St Mary’s as our Organist, Joy Elliott, shared her big day with us. Another opportunity for after church coffee and cake!! And who better to give us Church Weekend away. Joy's birthday celebrations with some the right note on which to sing choir members. Elsie Stevenson – In gratitude ‘Happy Birthday’? At least one definition of loss is defined as “the state of being deprived Our Parish Readers, David O’Halloran and Shona Rusk, were of or of being without something that one has had: the loss of old friends”. commissioned too at a special service in Clontarf Parish and have since As usual words appear to be a clumsy vehicle in attempting to express that sense of loss we experienced at the passing of Elsie on 27th November. She was the longest serving member of Crinken and very much the heartbeat of the congregation. Her welcoming disposition was legendary and many a fine Sunday lunch did this scribe and many others enjoy at her dinner table. Involved as she was in Bowls, Young @ Heart and many other activities in Crinken her legacy is not primarily one of duty but of faith. Her belief in a living Saviour was strong, unequivocal and undiluted by the transitory fashion of the day. She was forthright in her beliefs and age and sickness did not deter this enthusiasm as many Blackrock Clinic staff members can testify. David and Shona and Lee with St Laurence’s Parishioners.

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shared in the leading of services. At Christingle Service & Christmas Gifts their inaugural service in St Our annual Christingle Service took place in mid December. It was Laurence’s, parishioners joined with well attended and very uplifting. Our young people brought gifts which them in marking the occasion. A were given to children in Miss Carr’s Home. week previously in Christ Church Cathedral, Lee MacCurtain was Christmas Worship presented with her 3rd year Much thought and effort goes into preparing suitable music for our certificate in Organ Music where Christmas worship and we are especially grateful to Ken Shellard and Lee attained a Distinction. Our the choir for their energy, enthusiasm and expertise. Grateful thanks team goes from strength to are also due to those who decorated the church for our celebration. Mothers’ Union at crafts. strength thank God! Christmas Fair Another ‘hands on’ event was the Mothers’ Union Christmas Craft The annual Wednesday Club Christmas Fair was held in the afternoon. The theme for the crafts was introduced by Karen Northover Hall at the beginning of December. It was well supported Mawhinney, the invited craftsperson, with the words sung: and raised an increased amount on the previous year. It was also very ‘What can I give him, poor as I am? successful from a social and recreational point of view. If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb. If I were a wise man, I would do my part; St. Patrick’s Dramatic Society Yet what I can I give him, give my heart.’ The recent production of Same Old Moon by Geraldine Aron at the And so we decorated Christmas tree hearts and also ‘made’ pine Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, was another outstanding success. Well trees that produced sweets!!! done to all concerned! If you would like more information about the We look forward to starting back with all the clubs soon, ever activities of this friendly and talented group you might like to visit their thankful that the weather this year made it possible for all activities to website on www.stpatsdramsoc.com run right up to the end of their winter schedules. Long may it last. St Patrick’s National School The new Board of Management is as follows: Rev. Canon Ben Neill (Chairman), Mr. Robert Maharry, Ms. Dawn Galbraith, Mr. Philip Salter, DALKEY Ms. Dara McClatchie, Mr. Ian Mangan, Ms. Caitriona Kelly, Mr. Brian Evans. We were pleased to welcome Mrs. Rhoda Tutty to the school as The Reverend Canon Ben Neill substitute teacher of junior and senior infants during Mrs. Jennifer Parish Office: Dermot Deverell 284 5941 (Tues – Thurs 10am-2pm) Kirwan’s maternity leave. Parish Web Address: www.dalkey.dublin.anglican.org Great credit is due to Mr Philip Salter and the whole school Email:[email protected] community for another happy and fruitful year. Review Distribution: Dr. Sam Clarke. Tel: 272 2399 You can check out more information about our parish school on www.stpatricksnsdalkey.ie Looking forward… Powerful Words A Year of Time Words, however colourful, however powerful, are nothing if they are As we look into 2012 we look at a block of time: 12 months, 52 not words that encourage, uplift, heal and restore." weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes, 31,536,000 seconds. Robert H. Schuller And all is a gift from God. We have done nothing to deserve it or earn it. Like the air we breathe, time comes to us as a part of life. It is given equally to each person: rich and poor, strong and weak. There is no way to slow it down, turn it off, or adjust it. And you cannot bring back time. DONNYBROOK AND IRISHTOWN Yesterday is lost forever and tomorrow is uncertain. We can waste Rector: Rev. Canon Ted Ardis. Tel: 2692090. Mobile 087 4196071. time, worry over it, spend it on ourselves, or we can invest it in the Email [email protected] kingdom of God. Readers: Miss Joyce Phair (diocesan), Epiphany Celebration Mrs Hilary Ardis (diocesan reader / lay minister). We have been invited to join with our friends in the Church of the Review: Miss V. Darling, Donnybrook, Mr Pat St Leger, Irishtown. Assumption at 7pm on 6th January for an Ecumenical Service of praise, C. of I. Gazette: Mr Ken James, Donnybrook, Mrs Ethel St Leger, Irishtown. thanksgiving and commitment. Sunday Services: St Mary’s Donnybrook 10am; St Matthew’s Irishtown 11.15am. Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Our annual Ecumenical Service in connection with the Week of Thank you to those who decorated the churches for Christmas, who Prayer for Christian Unity will be held in St. Patrick’s Church on read at Carol Services, who provided welcome and refreshments. Thursday 19th January at 7.30pm. Our special guest and preacher will be the Most Reverend Diarmuid Martin, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Carols in the Street in aid of the Dublin Simon Community Dublin. We also look forward to welcoming our neighbours and friends Thank you to all those who took part and to those who contributed. from the Church of the Assumption to this Service at which we will At the time of writing (with two days remaining), €6,600 have been raised. pray for greater unity and renewal in the Church of Christ. The baptism of brothers Toby Britnell and of Oscar Felix Britnell took place in St Matthew’s on Sunday 20th November. Our AML Concert congratulations and prayer for their parents Erica and Tim Britnell and The Vogler String Quartet (Germany) with Michael Collins – Clarinet godparents: (Catherine Scott - godmother of both -, Steve Tam and (England) will perform in St. Patrick’s Church on Tuesday 24th January Rosetta Beaugendre godparents of Toby, Chris Adams and Hazel Jacob at 8pm. Tickets €20 are available from Dalkey News or Parish Office. godparents of Oscar), for grandparents and all the family. May these Killiney new Christians be blessed more and more by our loving Lord. We extend our prayerful good wishes to the Rev. Niall Sloane on his Thank you to Terry O’Malley for preaching on behalf of SAFE in St appointment to the Incumbency of Holy Trinity, Killiney. Matthew’s at their Missionary Gift Day on Sunday 27th November. On Sunday 29th January there is a joint service for the two churches Looking back… at 11am in St Matthew’s where our guests will be Rev. Trevor Johnston, Ross Mungavin and Richard Balmer from Crosslinks. Beetle Drive On Saturday 19th November, 19 tables of all ages took part in a The Friendship Hour gruelling contest in the Northover Hall. To see the hall full with It was lovely to have Orla Tighe visit us on 6th December to talk parishioners and visitors of all age-groups was fantastic. Many thanks to about the work of Barnardo’s. She gave us a passionate view of this Gary Jermyn, our Chief Beetle, for making this such a memorable tremendous work started by Dr Barnardo in the 1800’s – he was born event – a night definitely to be repeated. in Dame Street and educated in St Patrick’s Cathedral School. Dr

32 CHURCH REVIEW Barnardo went to England to train as a doctor with a view to working ecumenical activities as we meet regularly in connection with civic in China but saw such a great need in England that he opened homes occasions in the borough. for children there instead. Sympathy is expressed to Tim Rooney and his family on the death In 1962 the first home was opened in Ireland and that work is now of his mother in Sligo. being entirely funded here. The Ill Orla told us of 90,000 children in poverty, neglect and isolation in Our thoughts are with all who are ill in hospital, nursing homes or at need of care. Barnardo’s seek to provide children with a hot breakfast home at this festive time. before they go to school, and also a hot dinner, at the 42 project centres throughout the country. These projects cater for children 0-18 yrs. They have 6 shops, 410 staff and 257 volunteers The projects also focus on the educational and emotional well-being of the children, as GLENAGEARY well as a bereavement counselling service. Twenty-six million yearly is required to run the work, with funding Rector: The Rev. Gary Dowd. Tel: 2801616. Email: [email protected] from the state, businesses and the public in various ways.” Curate Assistant: The Rev. Paul Arbuthnot. Tel: 2805478. Email: [email protected] Youth Worker: Ms Tanya Chapple. Tel: 086 3994852. Parish Centre Co-ordinator and bookings: Cynthia Gray. Tel: 087 9637008. Review Secretary: Mrs Deborah Burke. Tel: 2855486. DRUMCONDRA, NORTH STRAND Sunday Services: 8.15 a.m., 10.30 a.m., and 7.00 p.m. AND ST. BARNABAS Website: www.glenageary.dublin.anglican.org

Rector: The Revd Roy H Byrne. Telephone: 01 8372505. Holy Baptism Assistant priest: The Revd Canon Aisling Shine. Telephone: 01 8201797. 20th November: Ronan Franck Deasy, son of Lizzie and Niall, Barnhill Parish emergency mobile: 086 346 7920. Road, Dalkey. e-mail: [email protected] 11th December: Kate Rebecca Peirce, daughter of Judith and Michael, Services: Drumcondra 10:00 Sunday and 10:15 Friday Myrtle Park, Dun Laoghaire. North Strand 11:30 Sunday and 10:30 Wednesday We welcome Ronan and Kate into the family of the church. Girls Brigade and Boys Brigade Funeral The enrolment ceremony took place on Sunday 20 November when Gwen Robertson died after a long illness in the care of St Joseph’s a large number of members from both organisations came to make Centre, Shankill. Her funeral service took place in St Paul’s on Saturday their commitment to service promises. We wish both the Boys Brigade 10th December followed by cremation at Mt Jerome. We extend our and Girls Brigade continued success in their respective ministries to sympathy to her husband Fred, sons Ken and Stuart, daughter Joy and young people. to her extended family, relatives and friends. Table Quiz Mother’s Union The fund raising committee held a most enjoyable table quiz in Our parish branch met for their Annual Advent service, followed by North Strand hall on Friday 25 November. Alas it was very poorly seasonal refreshments, at the Rectory on Thursday 8th December. This supported but was thoroughly enjoyed by those who attended. was an occasion tinged with sadness following the decision taken at their recent annual general meeting to close the branch at the end of Carol Service 2011. There a number of reasons for this, chiefly the failure to attract Members of the choir and congregation of North Strand were new, younger members and an inability to find people willing to take on delighted to attend and take part in the ecumenical carol service held the various posts of responsibility. This marks the end of an era in the in the lovely surroundings of St Agatha’s church, North William Street life of this parish, a branch of the Mother’s Union having been on Sunday 11 December. established here in 1903. There will be a dinner in January and a liturgical closing of the branch at the main morning service on Sunday New Year 12th February. We wish all our parishioners and readers a very happy New Year. Christingle Our worship and wedges service for December took the form of a Christingle Service. It had been some time since these decorated DUN LAOGHAIRE oranges had been seen in St Paul’s and there was a marvellous response The Rev. Canon Victor G. Stacey. Tel: 2809537. in terms of numbers present. It was very moving to see such a large Review: Mrs. Stella Henderson. Tel: 2807168. circle of lit Christingles around the church. Somehow, the sausages and Services: Sunday 9am and 10.30am; Thursday 11.30am. wedges tasted even better afterwards in the parish centre. Presents for the National Children’s Hospital Holy Baptism In a break with tradition we had our gift day early this year so that Milo and Luke, twin sons of Stephen and Deirdre Swift were baptised the hospital could have the donated toys before Christmas thereby on Sunday 18th December, in the presence of family and friends. We enabling these to be given to children in their care over the festive wish them well in the years ahead. season. We had our tree up by 11th December to receive the presents Maritime Museum hosted a concert by Firhouse choir on Friday and we had a great response. The following day several black sacks of 16th.December. Funds raised were given to the ongoing work of toys were delivered to the hospital. restoration. We look forward to the re-opening of the museum in the new year. Essential Lifeboat casualties from 1895 were remembered on Christmas eve Many of those recently confirmed in St Paul’s attended the Essential along with the continuing work of all who volunteer for this essential Service in Christchurch Cathedral on Friday 2nd December. For most service. of us this was our first experience of this Christmas event with a twist. Well done to all concerned. Our young people are now expecting Thanks to all who helped create a festive atmosphere for the bright lights, flat screens and video clips every week! As an extra treat, Christmas season. especially for the Rector and Curate-assistant, we stopped off at The Rural Deanery dinner for serving Clergy members will take McDonald’s on the way home, for a salad of course! place on Friday 6th.January. A Parish Lunch will be provided on Sunday 15th.January following Lecture series morning worship. In January there will be a series of three lectures exploring aspects Church Unity Week will be marked by the four churches of the of the history and heritage of the Church of Ireland. These lectures will town on Sunday 22nd January. This is merely an extension of our take place in the Parish Centre of St Paul’s.

CHURCH REVIEW 33 Bevd Bill Heney (Chaplain) and Mrs Joan Heney at the reception following the Mageough Chapel Carol Service.

Jack Boothman, a Past President of the GAA joins with Caleb Powell, a Past President of the IRFU at the King’s Hospital Charter Day. Both are past pupils of KH (actually both were in the same class).

Jean Mitchell, Pauline Folkes, Revd Jane Walker, Revd Trish Bancroft & Jenny Folkes all from All Saints, Alton welcoming The Revd. Paul Barlow to St. John the Evangelist.

Councillor Paddy McCartan, Lucinda Creighton TD, and Alyson Gavin, St. John’s at the institution of The Revd Paul Barlow as Chaplain in St. John the Evangelist, Sandymount.

Alyson Gavin and John Brownlee following the institution of The Revd Paul Barlow Welcoming The Rev. Paul Barlow to St. John the Evangelist are Ann & Don Cazzini as Chaplain in St. John the Evangelist, Sandymount. from St Bartholomew’s with Maureen Chamney & Seb Stevenson of St John’s.

62 CHURCH REVIEW Dodie Walsh and family at the service of dedication of a stained glass window in memory of Brian Walsh at Rathfarnham Parish Church.

Ann Bourke, Des Campbell Jean Campbell at Christ Church Cathedral Auction launch.

Athy Boys’ Brigade following their enrolment service on 13th November.

Thelma Mansfield, Very Revd Dermot Dunne, Donal Robinson-Ryan, Most Revd Michael Jackson at Christ Church Cathedral Auction launch.

Some members of Discovery family with the Archbishop.

Misses Tania and Victoria Campbell with Mrs Jean Campbell enjoying the Auction launch at Christ Church Cathedral. Officiating ministers at the Discovery Thanksgiving Service.

CHURCH REVIEW 63 Eco-Congregation ministers, environmentalist Gavin Harte and conductor of Wesley College Choir Helen Doyle at the ecumenical prayer service for climate change in Balally.

Karen Duffy with Basil after the annual service of thanksgiving for the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind Association at St Stephen’s Church on Mount Street Crescent. Gillian Armstrong of the Religious Society of Friends; Mgr Dermot Lane, president of the Mater Dei Institute and Parish Priest of Balally; Robert Cochrane, Methodist representative; Sir Catherine Brennan, chairperson of Eco-Congregation; environmentalist Gavin Harte; Helen Shiel, Methodist representative; Rev Lorrain Kennedy-Ritchie, Minister of Clontarf Scotts Presbyterians; and Fiona Murdoch, communications officer of Eco-Congregation Ireland.

Clare Stassen and Tycho and Irish Therapy Dog attending the annual service of Fr Paul Barlow with Vicar’s Warden, Ann Cuffe and People’s Church Warden, thanksgiving for the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind Association at St Stephen’s Sebastien Stevenson, at St John’s Sandymount. Church on Mount Street Crescent.

Very Revd Dermot Dunne and members of Peata with their dogs following the blessing of the dogs at the Christ Church Cathedral Charity Carol Service in aid Marie Staup and Killian Farrell, substitute organist, at the celebration following of Peata – providing a petherapy service to caring institutions in Dublin. the introduction of Fr Paul Barlow as Chaplain to St John’s Sandymount.

64 CHURCH REVIEW Members of the JAM and TOAST Clubs at their Carol Service in All Saints’ Raheny.

Pupils of Finglas Parochial School sing at the service of blessing for their new extension.

Unity Gospel Choir perform at Essential 2011 in Christ Church Cathedral.

Above: The B.Ed graduates of 2011 at the Church of Ireland College of Education.

Right: Dr Harold Hislop, Chief Inspector at the Department of Education and Skills, presenting the Carlisle and Blake Award to Stacey McNutt at the 2011 B.Ed graduation at the Church of Ireland Clergy and some Choir members at the Christmas Carol of the Church of South College of Education. India (Malayalam) Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough.

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they are told by a family member or the rector or if the patient makes a personal request as hospitals are increasingly bound by data restrictions. Holy Baptism Anakin and Saskia the children of Suki Stuart and Laurent Mellet were baptised in St John’s on the Sunday next before Advent. May the Holy Spirit be stirred up in them and we wish them well on their move to France. Sympathy Robert Naidoo was a regularly visitor to St Saviour’s when on holidays with his in-laws the Griffin family. His death in England is mourned by his wife Sue and their family as well as by Charlotte Griffin and Sue’s siblings. We pray they will feel the comfort of the promise of a joyful re-union in the heavenly places. Our sympathy is also extended to Dick Mahon and Margaret Armstrong and their families on the sudden death of their brother Hugh. Hugh’s funeral took place in Preban where the rector assisted Canon L-R: Stephen Newel (Architect), Mark Orr (Contractor), Rector, Elizabeth Rountree, Richard Heaney. We continue to uphold Hugh’s daughter Sarah in our prayers. Bird (Project Co-ordinator) at the handing over of keys at Powerscourt New Rectory. Confirmation Gospel Eucharist The first meeting of the confirmation group for 2012 will take place The first Gospel Eucharist of the New Year will take place in in Kilbride Church in the Arklow group on Friday 27 January at 6.30pm. Powerscourt Church on Sunday 2nd January at 11.30am. Mindful of the Archbishop’s encouragement to involve parents the clergy are devising an inclusive programme for candidates and parents including Archbishop a service for parents and godparents to pass on the light of Christ, We send our very best wishes to Archbishop and Mrs Neill as the symbolised by the baptismal candle, to the candidates themselves. Archbishop celebrates the 25th anniversary of his consecration as a bishop on 25th in the Cathedral. This will also be the occasion for the Advent carols diocese as a whole to mark his impending retirement at the end of the As these notes are written the various Christmas services are in month and to say thank you to him and Mrs Neill for eight wonderful planning. Already there has been a very well attended Advent Carol years in our United Dioceses. service followed by wonderful refreshments in Laragh. The rector is torn between his duty to sample and praise all the baking and the good Lyric FM Concert in Powerscourt Church manners of not talking to parishioners and visitors with a mouthful of On February 3rd 2011, Lyric FM will host a delicious cream sponge but then Advent is a penitential season. The concert in Powerscourt Church at 7pm. The “Blue Christmas” service in Glenealy is a quiet and reflective time and programme will consist of music by Ina Boyle, who the lighting of candles to commemorate loss has become a significant lived all her life at Bushy Park, Enniskerry. Ina was a and moving moment. The lady who normally presides at the organ is prolific composer, writing music for operas, ballets, temporarily hors de combat and we are grateful to Paddy Mulligan, Jean quartets, song cycles, and choral works. She wrote Woolmington and Florence Binons who have played at some services. a symphony called “Glencree” and one of her We wish Ruth a speedy recovery as John’s nursing abilities are limited. hymns, is titled “Enniskerry.” Her work has been neglected in recent times, but she was once well respected in musical circles, and not just Concert in Ireland. In the Carnegie Collection of British Music, set up in 1917 to St Cecilia’s Singers under the guiding hands of Sandra Ganley again encourage young musicians, she is the only female composer opened the Christmas season by their concert in Glenealy Church. represented. It will be excellent to be able to hear her music again. Their poignant dedication of the concert to the memory Ruth McDaniels was wonderfully thoughtful. The Church as always was beautifully decorated and the option of non-alcoholic mulled wine to accompany the mince pies was availed by many. Hilary Bradshaw’s RATHDRUM & DERRALOSSARY recipe for the wine is to be recommended: perhaps the first item for a WITH GLENEALY future book of helpful hints and tasty recipes. Canon John McCullagh. Tel: 0404-43814 Email: [email protected] WICKLOW AND KILLISKEY

The Fifteenth of the Month Rector: Canon John Clarke. Tel: 0404 67132. This day strikes horror into those who scribe parochial notes Associate Vicar: The Revd. Ken Rue. Parish Phone: 087 2766590. sending us scrabbling for information, names and even an apposite Review Distributors: Mrs. Frances Douglas. Tel: 0404 67137 (Wicklow). word. Imagine however our weary editor who must toil to get the Mrs. Vera Webster. Tel: 0404 40299 (Killiskey). Review out by the beginning of the following month in the midst of his parochial duties. Thinking of the balancing act he must undertake in the The Year of the Volunteer midst of this festive season reminds us how much we owe to the Rev The year passed was designated as the Year of the Volunteer. Rightly, Nigel Waugh and his staff. So many thanks for the patient editorial hand it was intended to highlight the vital need for volunteers in every aspect of community life and to express appreciation for those who give their and even the heavenly forbearance when we stray across the deadline. time, talents and hard work in a variety of valuable ways. I would like Another wonder is that despite the budget the price remains the to pay tribute to the very many people in the Parish who have given of same for 2012 so encourage your neighbours to get their own copy and themselves in church based activities during this last year and who, as a not await the arrival of your well thumbed second or third hand Review. result, have enriched the lives of others. Some – but not all – will be Chaplains mentioned in notes below. With a number of parishioners and a family member in hospital “The Hub” recently it is wonderful to hear expressions of appreciation for the On 8th December, Ashford Gift and Book Shop was opened in “The encouraging support and spiritual comfort given by our hospital Hub”, our new parish centre in Ashford Village. It is being managed by a chaplains. As the vast majority have parochial duties as well their team of volunteers, headed up by Sandra Hart as Shop Manager. Stocks assiduous care to the patients is all the more remarkable. It is important include books and CDs from Scripture Union and Veritas, greeting cards, to stress that frequently they will only be aware of a patient’s presence if craftwork and gift items. The shop will order any books, which are not

66 CHURCH REVIEW sail for the Antarctic in January. We look forward to hearing stories of his adventures when he returns in February. Service of Light in Wicklow Church The guest speaker at the Advent Service of Lighton 27th November was Bishop Jered Kalimba, Bishop of Shyogwe Diocese, Rwanda. He gave a challenging address on the topic of peace and reconciliation based on his experiences during the genocide and its aftermath. The Unity Gospel choir sang a number of pieces at this service, which were greatly appreciated. The choir also presented a concert on Friday, 9th December in aid of the County Wicklow Playbus Project. This Project is a new initiative for the County: a double decker bus that has been refurbished from head to toe and offers pre-school aged children play opportunities across County Wicklow. Baptisms in Wicklow On 4th December, our gospel reading centred on John the Baptist. So it was appropriate that John, the Rector baptised four children that morning: Ariel Rose Smith, Jason Henry John Dale, Sadie Peggy Mac Iver and Stanley Hall Hudson Cox. It was a lovely family occasion with a full Church as we welcomed these children into the fellowship of Christ’s Church. Girls’ Brigade Enrolment Above: Inside the Another full church greeted the Girls’ Brigade as they marched in for new Christian Book their enrolment service on 11th December. The girls delighted us with Shop in Ashford. their singing and whole-hearted involvement. The Company has almost Right: Outside the seventy members and is a great credit to the Captain and leaders. We new Christian Book wish the leaders and girls every blessing in their various activities. Shop in Ashford. Various Christmas carol services are planned for late December including Carols by Candlelight organised by East Glendalough School currently stocked, on request. The shop is situated between Jim Hanley and the Children’s Service organised by the Glebe School. Farm Machinery and McDonnell Properties. Please do call in whenever Killiskey Church you are in the area as your support would be most welcome! It was wonderful to join with the parents, godparents and family of We are grateful for the hard work put in by our new Parochial Samuel Somerset Morrell Butler on his baptismal day on Sunday, 11th Administrator, Sandra Fitzpatrick. She was particularly busy laying out December. We pray that God will bless his life and help him to grow in the carol and other services for Advent and Christmas. the Christian faith. The meeting room at the Hub is proving to be an asset as it provides A carol service was held in the evening of 11th December. It followed a focus for people to gather and share, either formally or informally. It is the traditional format of nine carols and lessons, with some special also being used for private meetings with the Rector and Associate Vicar. pieces sung beautifully by the Unity Gospel Choir. We were delighted Youth Club to welcome Father Kevin Rowan of Ashford and Glenealy parishes who At the time of writing, four youth club evenings have taken place. The read a lesson. After the service, mince pies and non-alcoholic mulled most recent was a highly enjoyable night of bowling and pizza in the wine were served. Thanks are due to Lesley Rue, Bernadette Glover, Diamond Bowl, Wicklow. Forty-two enthusiastic young people were Stephanie McDonald and Janet Herman for organising this. present. On other evenings, the club has used the excellent facilities Nuns’ Cross National School was busy practicing and performing available at Rathmore Holiday Village, for which we thank Belinda Cullen. during December. We look forward to the Nativity play on 18th We are grateful for the wholehearted support being given by Heather, December and a Christmas concert on Wednesday, 21st December. Jean, Audrey and Dave. Any other volunteer offers? – Contact Iain. Thank you boys and girls (and teachers)! The festivities have been A Youth-led service is planned to take place in Wicklow Church on slightly dampened by the news that the school Principal, Stephanie Sunday 15th January at 10.00am. We expect that it will be lively, McDonald, has announced her retirement with effect from the end of especially if the music will be supplied by “The Worship Warriors”! February 2012. Stephanie has been a wonderful principal during the last Children’s Choirs 18 years. More will be said, but we will miss her! The Children’s Choir sang for the first time in Killiskey on 11 New Service Times in Killiskey December. After only four weeks of practice, they performed brilliantly. On 1st January, we begin an experimental period with new times for Thanks are due to Felisity Cullen-Molloy and Neville Cox for getting services – 9am Holy Communion on the 1st and 3rd Sundays and 11am the choir up and running and for achieving a high standard in such a each week for the main service. short space of time. Thank you to Selina Lennox who has been training a choir of Glebe Bereavement School children. They will be singing at the Community Service of We were saddened to learn of the untimely death of the well-known Music and Readings for Christmas in Wicklow. local businessman, Seán Flood. He and his family are held in high- Church 21 esteem throughout the town of Wicklow. We extend our deepest Plans are being made for two further meetings in January and sympathy to his family and especially to Joan and Gary Morton. February with our Church 21 facilitator, the Revd. Paul Hoey. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity steering group is currently drafting an identity statement for circulation The 2012 Week of prayer service will be held in Wicklow church, and feedback, based on contributions made at the last Church 21 probably at 7.00pm. We look forward to further participation by the meeting. We are also revising our communication policy using email, Unity Gospel Choir and to joining with our friends from the Methodist, Twitter and Facebook. Roman Catholic and other Churches. We wish every blessing and safe journeying to the Church 21 chairman, Canon Peter Norton, as he heads for New Zealand and sets A very happy and blessed New Year to all!

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