Year of Change at Aghavea Parish, Near Brookeborough
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Member of the worldwide Anglican Communion February 2020 £1.50/€1.65 Also Inside: NEW RECTOR YEAR OF APPOINTED NEW YEAR'S CHANGE AT HONOURS CHARITIES AGHAVEA INFO EVENING Check out our website www.clogher.anglican.org ARMSTRONG Funeral Directors & Memorials Grave Plot Services • A dignified and personal 24hr service • Offering a caring and professional service Specialists In Quality Grave Care • Memorials supplied and erected • Large selection of headstones, vases open books • Cleaning of Headstones & Surrounds • Resetting Fallen or Leaning Headstones or Damaged Surrounds • Open books & chipping’s • Reconstruction of Sunken or Raised Graves • Also cleaning and renovations • Supply & Erection of Memorial Headstones & Grave Surrounds to existing memorials • Additional Inscriptions & Repairs to Lettering • Additional lettering • New Marble or Granite Chips in your Chosen Colour • Marble or Granite Chips Washed & Restored • Regular Maintenance Visits eg : Weekly, Monthly, or Special Dates Dromore Tel. • Floral Tributes(Anniversary or Special Dates) 028 8289 8424 Contractors to The Commonwealth Omagh Tel. 028 8224 0803 War Graves Commission Robert Mob. 077 9870 0793 A Quality Professional & Personal Service Derek Mob. www.graveimage.co.uk • [email protected] 079 0027 8633 Contact : Stuart Brooker Tel: 028 6634 1611 Mob: 07968 738 491 35 Kildrum Rd, Dromore, Cullen, Monea, Enniskillen BT93 7BR Co. 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Front Cover Revd Johnny McLoughlin, Rector of Aghavea Parish with A representative from CCNI has kindly agreed Blayney Cartwright from the Building Committee, putting the to attend and to give a presentation. finishing touches to the renovation project to the church before (Please see information in “News for Vestries” moving back on Sunday, 26 January. See Page 62 for full story. on Page 66) 3 A NOTE FROM THE BISHOP The Rt Revd John McDowell The See House, 152a Ballagh Road, Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone. BT75 0QP Tel: 028 895 22461 Email: [email protected] Nor can civility in and of itself provide But we have in our Universities academics the sort of inspired leadership which who are very practised and willing to be involves the courage, technical skill and engaged in the public sphere and whose wisdom which is needed to break out of expertise is woefully underused. the weary maze which has been the daily, Academics follow the evidence and push monthly and yearly round of political life forward new ideas, many of which can in Northern Ireland for the past umpteen be rather discombobulating to practising years. But it can provide the political politicians and civil servants, not to atmosphere which will allow arguments to mention churches. And many new ideas slowly mature and fructify. And by a focus do indeed turn out to be vainly faddish on the argument, not on the person, (or or out of proportion to other truths. But the “tradition” from which they come) a the only way to separate the gold from path to such leadership can be found. the dross is through civil engagement. To Something momentous is happening, throw the ideas onto the table and for the for good or ill, across Europe and within debate to take place. Robust and maybe the UK. This island will catch some of the even a bit bruising but such debate all , down draught. We are at a time between comes within the terms of civility. Dear Friends times. And if the times into which we are THE ART OF BEING CIVIL The churches have a great deal to learn moving aren't to become either a simple from civic engagement and debate, not “Civility costs nothing and is easily carried,” facsimile of the pages of recent history my father used to say. He was talking least where we are to locate ourselves or descend into something even worse, within the public space. But just maybe about ordinary politeness in everyday then some fundamental ingredient in our we have one or two small things of our life-at work, in company and in the home. political culture needs to change and to be own to contribute. Perhaps one of these Perhaps primarily in the home and with changed intentionally. Civility is an active is the practice which goes under the the family. But civility as a civic and virtue and needs to be cultivated. Unlike uncatchy title of “receptive ecumenism”. political virtue goes a lot deeper than sloth or folly it cannot simply be caught. This does not seek to persuade the other mere politeness and has been in rather Think of the gargantuan efforts made by tradition that they are wrong and that short supply for the past three years in Abraham Lincoln to entrench civility in you are right. Instead it is much more like the politics of Great Britain and (with few American political life after the American showing one another an album of family exceptions) in the politics of Northern Civil War. Or closer to home, the heroic photographs - an explanation of heritage Ireland since 1921. It will be interesting to reticence of someone like Sean Lemass in and a demonstration of love and common see if the anti-civility pathogen has spread relation to the death of his brother. human experience. It is natural to love south when the extended Fianna Fail/Fine Civility deepens and enriches human one’s own family more than another’s and Gael hand fasting comes to an end in the their own photograph album more than 2020 election. engagement across all sorts of divides, because it carries with it an assurance of another family’s. Yet oddly enough it is As a political virtue, civility doesn't mean respect. Northern Ireland is a very small because of this that we might appreciate being nice all the time, although at heart place with limited human capital. In order the love which someone else has for their it is animated by the conviction that your for it to prosper it needs to encourage own family. And in that understanding lies opponent is not your enemy. In fact civility a dialectic of ideas across the whole repeat and openness. is very robust in its approach because it spectrum of society and an openness In Ireland, North and south we have a won’t take refuge in easy ad hominem to throw ideas into a melting pot and facility for language. It is easy for us to arguments. Even when your opponent’s to seriously debate them. That will be use, so perhaps it is not unexpected that it motives might easily be challenged, civility an essential element in moving beyond should sometimes become facile. Just too will first address his or her arguments. peace as an absence of violence into easy to think of and express the cutting something which is potent and fertile.