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Tyrone, BT78 3AS Tubrid Orange Lodge are holding a FLOWER FESTIVAL Friday 15th May – Saturday 16th May – Sunday 17th May 2015 in Tubrid Orange Hall To celebrate 150 years of the foundation of CLOGHER CATHEDRAL FRIENDS’ SERVICE the Lodge Major charities will be supported from the proceeds Coach parties catered for – Lunch or evening meal Sunday 31st May at 7.00pm in the Cathedral For further details contact Tel: 028 68628258 Email: [email protected] www.clogher.anglican.org CONTENTS NOTE FROM THE BISHOP 4-6 NEWS FOR VESTRIES 13 ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS 6-7 YOUTH NEWS 13-15 CHURCH OF IRELAND NEWS 8-9 COMMUNITY NEWS 15 DIOCESAN NEWS 9 CHILDRENS SECTION 16-17 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 10-12 PARISH NOTES 18-55 The Clogher Diocesan Magazine is published monthly MOTHERS’ UNION NEWS 12 except January and August. It is usually available from Parish Churches and other selected outlets by the frst Sunday of each month. Annual Subscription £10/€11. Postal Subscription £20/€22. 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A NIGHT OF FAVOURITE HYMNS Sunday 10th May, 7.00pm in Christ Church, Maguiresbridge Clogher Magazine Committee Everyone Welcome Chairperson: Mrs Eleanor Lynn Vice-Chairperson: Mrs Barbara Ingram Secretary: Mrs Prue Mahood Treasurer: Mrs Mabel Black CLOGHER CATHEDRAL FRIENDS’ SERVICE The Revd Canon Desmond Kingston and Mrs Jean Stinson. and ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Packing Team: Mrs Muriel Henderson, Mrs Barbara Ingram, Mrs Sadie Kane, Mrs Joyce Sunday 31st May at 7.00pm in the Cathedral Kerr, Mrs Eleanor Lynn, Mrs Maureen Robinson, Preacher: Very Rev Dr William Mrs Jean Stinson and Mr Andy Wray. Morton, Dean of Derry Diocesan Offce: Diocesan Offce, St Macartin’s Cathedral Hall, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh. BT74 7DR T: 028 66 347879 E: [email protected] PENTECOST SUNDAY Next Magazine: Ecumenical Gathering Deadline for submission of material 15th May 2015. Sunday 24th May Content to be sent to [email protected] Pentecost Sunday Ecumenical Gathering Front Cover Photos at The Round Tower, Clones at 3.30pm Top - Donagh Parish Choir with their conductor Mrs Ethne McCord and the Very Revd Dr Phillip Knowles. Led by the Bishops of Clogher, Bottom Left - Dr Margaret Knox, Diocesan MU The Most Revd Dr Liam MacDaid and the Rt Revd John McDowell President, and Bishop Ken Clarke. Bottom Right - Mrs Linda Corrigan, Dean Hall, Canon Andrew White, Bishop McDowell and Mr Jack Spratt. IAN MCELROY JOINERY For all your joinery, carpentry, roofng and tiling needs Tel: 02866385226 or 07811397429 3 The Clogher Diocesan MAGAZINE A NOTE FROM THE BISHOP May 2015 May Dear Friends, The Rt Revd John McDowell In the parish where The See House, 152a Ballagh Road, I grew up the rector Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone. BT75 0QP decided to have a service of Holy Tel: 028 895 22461 Communion at 8.30am Email: [email protected] each Sunday, which was rather unusual in fact they felt that they were the first members of a those days (this was new race, living a new type of community life, to in the 1960s!). As a which all people were called. bit of a joke some In that sense they were unusually inclusive, parishioners called welcoming people who would not normally mix those who regularly together or who were usually opposed to one attended the service another: Jews and Gentiles, men and women, “The Early Christians”. Greeks and barbarians, slaves and free people; and This month I want all given equal status. to say a word or two Next, perhaps you would have noticed that they about the real early Christians, the first believers were a socially very unimportant group; they had in the Resurrection, because I think they may no influence whatsoever on political or economic have something to teach us about our attitude to affairs. They probably would never have dreamed discipleship in the present. that in a few hundred years the whole West would From the very beginning of its existence the have become Christian and that the emperor Christian Church has had to try to work out how to himself would be one of their number. But the first live in relation to the world around it. For those first believers were powerless and without any prospect Christians the task was in some ways more difficult of power. and in other ways less difficult than ours. And yet they had a dynamism which was It was more difficult because they were the first unmistakable. They believed that they had some of communities of the Holy Spirit and were pioneers, the power of”the age to come”which meant that although they drew a great deal of inspiration although their morality was very austere it was from how God had guided Israel by the law and also joyful and deeply attractive. They were for the the prophets. It was less difficult because they most part simple and uneducated people, yet had were not in a position to get involved in power or incredibly active and perceptive minds. Although politics, which the church has done since, and not contemptible to many clever people in their own always wisely. Sometimes since those early days day, they understood and treasured the long and we believers have been more politicised than we difficult letters from Paul and the other apostles have been Christianised. which circulated among them, and which have However, like Christians in all ages we have to proved such a puzzle to many scholars since. decide, maybe on a daily basis, how we are to An acute observer could hardly have failed to render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to notice the intense liveliness and hopefulness that God the things that are God’s. they had was in sharp contrast to the dullness and If you had stumbled across one of those early weariness of the world around them. Christian communities what would you have Last of all you might have noticed that these early noticed? Christians were both quite authoritarian but also Possibly first, that like the Jews, the Christians were quite free.”Obey”and”obedience”were words they exclusive. They did not mix much in society and used often and it was not unusual for them to talk certainly did not take part in the popular games about themselves as servants or even slaves. They or festivals which were so important to public life were people under authority. in the ancient world. They would not even pay the They went out of their way to honour the authority conventional homage to the Emperor, even though of civil government and continued to do so even it only involved casting a pinch of salt before a when it began to persecute them. And yet they statue. It was one of the things that men of the spoke of their experience as people who had been world found rather odd and sometimes shocking set free from all oppressions, both from within and about the Church. without. No doubt if you had asked them, they In those days each Christian community was a would have had no theory about how authority small isolated unit, meeting privately in an upstairs and freedom were reconciled, but it was how they room in an out-of-the way street. Although they experienced life, rather like Paul when he said seemed cut off from the rest of society, at the same about Jesus”Whose service is perfect freedom”. time there was a great deal of coming and going That is not to say that such communities were between them, from one city to another, and all the perfect. A quick reading of any of the Letters in members felt that they belonged to one family.