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Parishes should contact Ethne McCord from the Clogher Diocesan Music Bursary Committee in advance of the meeting by email; david.ethne@ Front Cover btinternet.com with the name/s of those representatives attending. Front Page photo; David Moses and Lindsey Farrell who will be ordained as Deacons in St. Macartan’s Cathedral, Clogher, on Sunday, 3rd September at 7pm. David will serve as Intern Deacon in the Monaghan Group of parishes and Lindsey will spend her year as Intern Deacon in Rossorry Parish. 3 BISHOP’S LETTER Dear Friends The Rt Revd John McDowell I hope that you The See House, 152a Ballagh Road, Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone. BT75 0QP have had a Tel: 028 895 22461 good summer Email: [email protected] and that whatever you had planned to that we are become very ine§ective in the matter if its egg blowing or motocross) and do worked out present age. As one Christian thinker once think it will consume us for the rest of our well. said; “Aim at heaven and you will get earth days but, good and all as it is, it doesn’t thrown in: aim at earth and you will get stop the restlessness. The sentence above was about as far as I neither”. So we either move on to the next thing or got when I first sat down to write this piece simply say that the final satisfaction of our for the September Issue of the Diocesan And that rule applies in other areas of deepest desires or yearnings simply doesn’t Magazine. It has been a while since I our experience. Try to get to sleep by exist. That it was all an adolescent dream looked at a blank piece of paper with so thinking about sleeping and you will be in not fit to be entertained by mature men and little of an idea what about I should write; for a sleepless night. Try to be healthy by women. Or we can express our cynicism in (the O Level Physics Paper in 1972 I think). thinking about your health at every minute polished intellectual terms and condemn and trying out the latest health fad and outmoded world views as myths only However inspiration came when I looked you may well find yourself becoming a suitable for our unenlightened ancestors. over that solitary sentence and noticed hypochondriac. my use of the word “hope”. In the context Or we can understand this restless of the sentence it means something like However we find it very dicult to want yearning in the way that Christian thought “although I don’t know what sort of a “Heaven” except perhaps as the time has down the ages. Which is to say that we summer you have had I assume there is at when we will meet again those who we are not born with desires unless something least a 50:50 chance that it went well”. In have loved and who have died. Partly that exists to satisfy those desires. A baby feels that sense “hope” is a rather weak word. is because everything around us screams hunger and there is food to satisfy that We look at the world around us, particularly “look at me, I’m the most important thing desire. Although born away from the water the world of local and international a§airs there is.” We are surrounded by a political a duck must swim and soon finds some. So and “hope” that things will take a turn for and commercial world which holds itself out if I find myself having a desire that nothing the better, or will work out all right. And as more important than anything else and in this world can satisfy, is it not reasonable we “hope” so because that is not what a with a greater claim on our attention and to assume that it does exist but in another rational assessment of the circumstances allegiance. That is how we have allowed our world. lead us to expect. minds and our desires to be trained and it is a very dicult habit to break.