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He continued, “I think it is … Tutu was once asked nonsense to suggest that we can somehow begin “What do Anglicans “reality” with ourselves. The real gift is surely to do?” His answer recognise the shaping that we have received by was “We meet”. our past (for better or worse), to interrogate it, And that is true of and to decide upon how this may and should our own part of the infuence our future, so that we in our generation Anglican Communion. may contribute to the shaping of a wider future”. We love to get together in our parishes The Archbishop said, “This is as true in the life of and our dioceses and as a whole Church. the Church as in the life of a nation. We as the And our get-togethers are not quiet. Church of Ireland have been shaped by previous A number of years ago, when I was a rector in generations, by events both inside and outside the the Diocese of Down, the Bishop of Cashel and life of the Church, and by the infuence of others I were asked to attend a meeting of the members upon us”. Archbishop Clarke also described how Churches of the Porvoo Communion. The meeting he plans to join with Archbishop Eamon Martin in was to take place in big retreat centre owned by late June in leading a group of young people from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden at across the island and from Church of Ireland and a place called Sigtuna, just outside Stockholm. Roman Catholic community backgrounds on a three– Our fight was delayed and we arrived late at the day journey starting at the new memorial wall in snow covered destination. All was silence. Glasnevin cemetery and on to the visit the battlefelds It was a very large building and our frst task was to of the Somme and the Irish Peace Park in Messines. fnd where the meeting was taking place. It took us As it happens I will be joining the two Archbishops on about half an hour to fnd the room where about 35 that trip along with two young adults from the diocese people were talking respectfully to one another. If the (one from Fermanagh and another from Monaghan) meeting had been in a Church of Ireland equivalent, and I am greatly looking forward to the experience it would have taken about thirty seconds, given which should be full of insight and interest. the noise that thirty-fve people from the Church Concerning the upcoming British referendum on of Ireland can make in ordinary conversation. Europe, the Archbishop said, “As in every election And so it was when this years General Synod met and referendum, all citizens have a duty to consider in the lovely sea-side suburb of Dun Laoghaire with carefully the consequences of their decision–making its Royal Yacht Club and its extraordinarily long for the whole community, while also ensuring pier. The weather was good and those who didn’t that they do not neglect the privilege they have feel the need to stay in the meeting for the entire been given as voters in a democratic system of period could be seen ambling along the sea front, government”. Members of the Synod had also the ice cream in hand and looking as though they had opportunity to pick up a little background booklet been let out of a cave for the frst time in a year. on the Referendum prepared by the European Affairs The General Synod has more than six hundred Committee of the Irish Council of Churches. members although it is very rare for more than Archbishop Clarke also focused on refugees to about four hundred and ffty to turn up for its Europe and said that “we must all face up to the three day meeting. This year the Synod Service responsibilities we have been given for those who took place in Glenageary Parish Church and was have come to western Europe, in the hope of fnding not especially well attended, presumably because safety and security, as they fee from violence and Synod members found it diffcult enough to get to destruction in their own countries. It can never be south Dublin for the noon start time of the meeting permissible for Christians to imagine that refugees without breaking their journey on the way. should not be “our problem”.’He continued, “…we One of the most important elements of any need to recall that Christ himself was always more at General Synod is the Primate’s address which home with those who were suffering and outside the is given just before the opening session. This realm of social or religious respectability than with year Archbishop Clarke said how in this year of the comfortable and complacent insiders.