LENT 2013 COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS Give thanks and celebrate the good things in your life this Lent with our thought-provoking Count Your Blessings calendar enclosed in this edition of the Review. Each day from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, forty bite-sized reflections will inspire you to give thanks for the blessings in your life, and enable you to step out in prayer and action to help FKDQJH WKH OLYHV RI WKH ZRUOG·V SRRUHVW communities. To order more copies please ring 611 0801 or write to us at: Christian Aid, 17 Clanwilliam Terrace Dublin 2 8 9 9 6 Y H C www.christianaid.ie CHURCH OF IRE LAND UNITE D DIOCE S ES CHURCH REVIEW OF DUB LIN AND GLE NDALOUGH ISSN 0790-0384 The Most Reverend Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough, Church Review is published monthly Primate of Ireland and Metropolitan. and usually available by the first Sunday. Please order your copy from your Parish by annual sub scription. €40 for 2013 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. FEBRUARY 2013 The cost is the subscription and appropriate postage. I was struck early in the New Year, while leafing through a newspaper, to find the following statement: Happiness and vulnerability are often the same thing. It was not a religious paper and in COPY DEADLIINE no way did the sentiment it voiced set out to be theological. However, it got me thinking, as often All editorial material MUST be with the I find to be the case with certain things which say something from their own context into another Editor by 15th of the preceeding and quite different context, about something important to me. It is the tension and the resolution month, no matter what day of the between happiness and vulnerability, in the specifically Christian context in which we find week. Material should be sent by Email ourselves: Lent and Easter. Yes – already! Ash Wednesday this year is on February 13th. or Word attachment. We are not readily conditioned to hold together happiness and vulnerability. Much of our culture militates against this. However, towards the end of last year, I witnessed an unforgettable expression of both coming together. It was in the packed Cathedral of St Mark in Cairo, where I VIIEWS EXPRESSED had the opportunity to attend the enthronement of the new Coptic Orthodox Pope. He came in to the basilica dressed in the black garb of a monk. He sat alone, ahead of his formal Views expressed in the Church Review enthronement, with the God of Christian history and contemporary complexity, surrounded by are those of the contributor and are not thousands of fellow human beings. He sat on a chair. It might have come from any suburban or necessarily those of the Editor or rural dining-room and he wept – in public, on television. Not many ‘leaders’ do this, or can do this. Church Review Committee. It was an utterly counter-cultural thing to do. The interesting part is that all present took it in their stride. His happiness and his vulnerability flowed from his desire to serve the people of the world. EDITOR Happiness and vulnerability; laughter and woundedness; joy and pain – these EDITOR are not glib couplets. Long before the time when Jesus Christ lived on The Revd. Nigel Waugh, earth, ancient Greek poetry came up with the one word: bittersweet to The Rectory, Delgany, describe love. Christianity has found it very difficult to engage and Greystones, Co. Wicklow. integrate with this side of life and has spawned untold complexities for T: 01-287 4515. innumerable people across countless continents, in avoiding this real T: 086 1028888. issue. There are, of course, important distinctions between divine and E: [email protected] human love. There are also wonderful and blessed overlaps. We never should destroy the latter for the sake of the former. And this, I sense, is where Lent and Easter can and do help us in holding together, EDIITORIIAL ASSIISTANT lovingly and tearfully, happiness and vulnerability. This drama of salvation works itself through by people and by places. Noeleen Hogan Individuals who reflect characteristics which are very much like ours today find themselves meeting Jesus on the relentless, restless ADVERTIISIING road to Jerusalem. His journey spawns incomprehension and anger; it also spawns release and belonging. Action Advertising details and prices are and emotion intermingle as this journey culminates in Jerusalem itself. Christmas incarnation finds available by emailing new meaning and energy in challenging [email protected] or by phoning institutionalized holiness. It is the consistent, if Charlotte O’Brien on 086 026 5522. terrifying, conviction of Jesus Christ that Copy should be sent to physical death and spiritual life are what he [email protected] or by post to came to be and to do. For me, Good Friday Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, must always be held in tension with The The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow Road to Emmaus. Easter Day is the fulcrum. by 15th of the month. It enables both to have integrity. Let us, as the children of God, engage, both for ourselves and for others, with the CHIIEF REPORTER interacting of happiness and vulnerability. Lynn Glanville, Let us not be frightened to weep in the T: 087 2356472 service of either or, even better, both. E: [email protected] † Michael Single copies are available from: • The National Bible Society of Ireland, Dawson Street. • The Resource Centre, Holy Trinity COVER STORY: Church, Rathmines. The Archbishop-elect of Canterbury, Justin Welby with his wife Caroline. In an exclusive article PRIINTIING this month, Patrick Comerford traces the Archbishop’s Irish ancestors and Church Review is Printed in Ireland by finds the house in which his ancestors DCG Publications Ireland lived in Celbridge. Photo: © Lambeth T: 048-90551811. F: 048-90551812. Palace / Picture Partnership. E: [email protected] ChurCh review 3 DISCOVERING THE IRISH ANCESTORS OF THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Patrick Comerford THE BISHOP OF DURHAM, the Right Revd Justin Portal Welby, is due to be enthroned as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury on 21 March. I first met the new archbishop at the meeting of the Anglican Primates in Swords, Co Dublin, in 2011. I was the chaplain at the meeting, and the new archbishop, who was then Dean of Liverpool, was one of the facilitators. Later, he invited me to preach in Liverpool Cathedral, and we met again before he became Bishop of Durham. As Archbishop of Canterbury, he is the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, and he will probably crown the next British monarch. His Christmas sermon placed poverty at the heart of his priorities. He has been critical of Left: Archbishop Justin Welby… due to be enthroned next month (Photograph © the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, supported the Lambeth Palace/Picture Partnership). Right: Archbishop-elect Justin Welby and Occupy protests at Saint Paul’s Cathedral, and Caroline Welby with their children Peter (23), Hannah (17), Eleanor (20), Katherine has not been fooled by the smooth talking of (26), and Tim (28) with his wife Rachel (Photograph: Mercury Press and Media). bankers. He has asked whether companies can sin, and sits on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. He favours women bishops, but supports “the Church of England’s opposition to same- sex marriage.” However, he has spoken out strongly against homophobia and says he is “always averse to the language of exclusion, when what we are called to is to love in the same way as Jesus Christ loves us.” But, who is Justin Welby? Left: Lambeth Palace… the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury From oil to ministry (Photograph: Patrick Comerford). Centre: Trinity College Cambridge… Justin Justin Portal Welby was born in London on 6 Welby was an undergraduate while his uncle Rab Butler was Master (Photograph: January 1956, the son of Gavin Bramhall James Patrick Comerford). Right: Liverpool Cathedral… Justin Welby was Dean from 2007 Welby and Jane Gillian (née Portal). They to 2011 (Photograph: Patrick Comerford). divorced in 1959, when he was three, and he was brought up by his father. At Eton, his Caroline and myself,” he said later, “but in a In 2007, he became Dean of Liverpool, one of contemporaries included the Tory minister strange way it actually brought us closer to God.” England’s largest and most deprived cathedrals. Oliver Letwin, and Charles Moore and Dominic Back in London in 1984, he joined Enterprise He doubled attendances, abseiled from the Lawson, former editors of the Daily Telegraph Oil, with interests in West African and the roof, and allowed John Lennon’s Imagine to be and the Sunday Telegraph. North Sea, and started going to Holy Trinity played on the cathedral bells – despite the line “imagine there is no heaven.” He also From Eton, he went to Trinity College Church, Brompton. When he began considering encouraged a “Night of the Living Dead” Cambridge, where the Master was his mother’s ordination, the Bishop of Kensington, John uncle, ‘Rab’ Butler, a former Conservative deputy service on Halloween, when a man rose from a Hughes, told him: “There is no place for you in coffin to represent the Resurrection. prime minister. At Cambridge, he met Caroline the Church of England. I have interviewed a Eaton, later a classics teacher; they would marry He once fell into a fit of giggles during a thousand for ordination, and you don’t come in in 1979 and have six children. He was 21 when reading from Leviticus that mentions a badger.