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Fermanagh BT92 0NE Tel: 028 89531679 Home: (44) 02889521060 Mobile: 07713357156 CLOGHER MAGAZINE COMMITTEE CONTENTS Chairperson: Mrs Eleanor Lynn Vice-Chairperson: Mrs Barbara Ingram A Note from the Bishop .............................. 4-9 Secretary: Mrs Margaret Porter Parish News ................................................10-51 Mrs Maud Shaw Treasurer: First World War remembered ...............52-55 Committee Members: The Revd Canon Desmond Kingston, Mrs Jean Stinson, Mrs Mabel Black and Mr Glenn Moore Youth Page ...................................................... 56 Packing Team: Mrs Margaret Porter, Mrs Muriel Henderson, Mrs Children’s Pages ......................................58-59 Barbara Ingram, Mrs Sadie Kane, Mrs Joyce Kerr, Mrs Eleanor Lynn, Mrs Maureen Robinson, Mrs Jean Stinson, Miss Hilda Mothers’ Union News ..............................60-61 Lucy, Mrs Ann Graham and Mr Robert Robinson Girls’ Friendly Society ....................................62 Editor: Mr. Brian Donaldson Diocesan News ........................................64-68 Designer: Miss Corinna Power Missionary & Charitable News ................... 69 The Clogher Diocesan Magazine is published monthly except News for Vestries ...........................................70 January and August. It is usually available from Parish Churches and Church of Ireland News .......................... 71-72 other selected outlets by the first Sunday of each month. Annual Subscription £10/€11. Postal Subscription £20/€22. Community News ...........................................73 Views expressed in the magazine are those of the contributors and Dates for Your Diary .................................74-75 not necessarily those of the Magazine Committee, the Diocese of Clogher nor the Church of Ireland. The Magazine Committee reserves the right to decline any material without assigning a reason. No correspondence can be entered into WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ YOUR MAGAZINE ONLINE? regarding non-publication of material or advertisements. 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As well as reading through the Tel 02866347879 online magazine, page by page, adapting the size of text to suit, there are other interesting features readers can choose such as Next Magazine in December searching for details of past events from past editions or using a Deadline for submission of material strictly 15th November 2018. clipping tool to download photographs or text from past editions. Content to be sent to [email protected] In addition, readers will be able to read through an archive of past editions in recent years. Advertising rates are available upon request. To launch the new e-magazine, why not buy a year’s Advertising charges for material submitted in addition to the routine subscription for a relative or friend as a Christmas gift. Please diocesan and parish submissions will apply. contact the Magazine Editor, Brian Donaldson at the Clogher Diocesan Office Tel 028 66347879 or email; clogherdco@ Ordering your magazine btinternet.com for more details. If parishes wish to alter the number of magazines ordered each month, please inform Mrs. Eleanor Lynn on 028 66 324603. New subscription rate for 2019 The Magazine Committee which oversees the production of the Front Cover Clogher Diocesan Magazine has reluctantly had to increase the Local historian, David Keys at Authuille Cemetery on subscription rate of the monthly magazine. the Somme where Privates William McBride and David The magazine has kept its cover price static for many years but this Johnston are buried together after being killed together has not been sufficient to meet increasing costs. in a battlefield incident. They will be remembered among From February 2019, the price of the magazine will be £1.50 (1.65 tens of thousands of others who were killed in the First Euro) for each edition or £15 (16.50 Euro) for the 10 issues in the World War at the 100th anniversary of the ending of the calendar year. The magazine has expanded its coverage of parish and diocesan War on 11th November 1918. See full story of First World events and the Committee will continue to ensure readers get good War remembered in Clogher Diocese on Pages 52-55. value for money. 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] disciples of Jesus being “all together on me very forcibly that, even given in one place”. So far as we can tell, the enormous advances of modern all of those who had committed medicine, I had far more of my life themselves to Jesus and His Fathers behind me than I had in front of me. Kingdom were in that one place Because my initial academic training together. Of course that cannot be was in history I had an inclination to the case anywhere any more. There look backwards even when I was are simply too many of us, disciples looking for inspiration for the present. of Jesus. Perhaps the nearest we But for the Church in particular it is come to that in the life of our little rural absolutely central to recognise that it is diocese is in our Diocesan Synod when much more important to have a future representatives from every parish and than to have had a past. ministry come together and we are As you may know next year will be the joined by disciples from other traditions one hundred and fiftieth anniversary who are followers of Jesus and bearers of the Disestablishment of the Church of his Kingdom. And whenever of Ireland. By 1869 we had been the Diocesan Synod 2018 disciples come together, whether it is Established Church for over 300 years Brothers and sisters in Christ, for a service of worship or any other and therefore part of the administrative gathering, at least part of the purpose Believe it or not I am standing before apparatus of the State. For instance is for mutual encouragement. So that you for the eighth time to give a church wardens were responsible for is my first wish this evening that we will Presidential Address at the Diocesan the state of the roads within the parish encourage one another. Synod of this diocese. boundary and they collected a tax However, as I have said often in called a “cess” to pay for it. Clergy Any one who has the privilege and the the past that should not prevent were paid by the state in much the duty of having to preach regularly will us from being realistic. We should same way as civil servants are today probably tell you that there is the odd acknowledge our limitations as a and we owned large tracts of land as moment of panic when one is faced diocese- limited resources, limited well as exacting tithe from the whole with a blank page and a deadline. understanding perhaps even limited population. However at no time in He or she will also tell you about the faith. Yet we should avoid putting too our history since the Reformation did almost miraculous fact that as soon as many of our problems into the “too we exceed 12% of the population of one begins reading the passages of difficult” box. With God nothing is Ireland and we cheerfully persecuted Scripture set for the week ahead that unthinkable so we have nothing to be the spiritual forbears of all our guests (no matter how familiar the passage timid about, but we do have to decide seated at that table. Judging by their might be) something new breaks out what it is we are aiming to achieve.