THE E UROP E AN A NGLICAN B ISHOP ’ S VI E WS ON PAPAL VISIT F ROM A TV STUDIO Y OUNG ARTIST ’ S S E ASONAL GI F T C HRISTMAS CARD D E SIGNS L I fe SAV E R IN F LOR E NC E A WARD F OR PARAM E DIC A NGOLAN ADV E NTUR E G OSP E L SHARING IN L UANDA C OP E NHAG E N TW E LV E MONTHS ON E NVIRONM E NTAL R E VI E W FREE N o . 4 8 WI nter 2 0 1 0 E N COU R AGI N G Y O U N G 2 T AL ent S I N N A P L E S THE E UROP E AN A NGLICA N I T ’ S ALL A B OUT HIGH SP ee D The Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe The Rt Revd Geoffrey Rowell Bishop’s Lodge, Church Road, Worth, Crawley RH10 7RT Tel: +44 (0) 1293 883051 COMMUNICATION Fax: +44 (0) 1293 884479 Email: [email protected] The Suffragan Bishop in Europe The Rt Revd David Hamid Postal address: Diocesan Office Tel: +44 (0) 207 898 1160 Email: [email protected] The Diocesan Office 14 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QZ Tel: +44 (0) 207 898 1155 Fax: +44 (0) 207 898 1166 Email: diocesan.office@europe. c-of-e.org.uk Diocesan Secretary I am an unreformed fan of rail travel and This edition of the European Anglican Mr Adrian Mumford so it did not take me long to accept a includes personal stories – of a Good Assistant Diocesan Secretary challenge from my local English newspaper Samaritan´s life saving skills in Italy, of a Mrs Jeanne French in Spain to try the journey from London young boy´s enthusiasm for art which has Finance Officer to Tarragona by train in a day. Four trains found a wider audience in the diocesan Mr Nick Wraight and three Metro journeys later I succeeded Christmas card or of a Paris priest´s gospel and learned how the ever improving high sharing visit to Angola. Diocesan Website speed rail network is making journeys, Personal communication is at the heart www.europe.anglican.org which could previously only be done by air, of Christmas when we rejoice at the arrival Editor and Diocesan possible by train – and considerably more of the Word into our world. St John´s Communications Officer carbon efficient at that! special term for Jesus reminds us that he The Revd. Paul Needle Communications get ever faster and was the Word in action. In the Gospels we Postal address: Diocesan Office the world seems to get smaller. A recent find a multitude of personal stories involving Email: [email protected] Tel: 0034 662 482 944 survey of churchgoers showed that the Our Lord which in turn point us back to most effective communication to get God. Puzzles and Word Searches are not Friends of the Diocese people to worship was not elaborate a feature of The European Anglican but as Secretary: advertising campaigns or sudden bursts you read about our lively diocese we trust Vacancy of mission activity. It was the personal you will find the Christ of Christmas involved invitation “Would you like to come to in every page. Design Adept Design, Norwich church with me?” linked to the host´s On behalf of our Bishops and their faith story. staffs, the Diocesan Office and myself we Printer wish you a blessed Christmas. Norwich Colour Print Paul Needle Distribution Editor, The European Anglican CoDEStorm plc Cover photo: Brian Levi was just 9 years old when he showed some of his paintings to Bishop Geoffrey when he visited Naples in November last year. He was commissioned to produce a Christmas scene suitable for the diocesan Christmas card and submitted 5 designs. You can see some of the others with more of Brian’s story on these pages. G O O D S A M A R I T A N O R 3 A N A N G E L I N D I S G U I S E ? S WINGING SH E PH E RDS AND WIZ E N E D WIS E M E N Christmas scenes from Brian’s “igloo” studio Brian Levi is a “Leap Year baby” as critic while elder brother Kenneth he was born on February 29th 2000 Samuel insists his approval is needed in the Indian city of Madras. In for everything his sibling produces! September 2008 Brian´s family arrived It is not surprising then that when in Naples. He worships at Christ Bishop Geoffrey visited the church in Church and is a member of the Southern Italy last November that he Sunday school there. was impressed by the youngster´s There is never a dull moment in artwork. Within a few weeks Brian Brian´s life. He is interested in had sent a sample of his unique artistry drawing, painting, making models of depicting scenes from the Christmas animals, birds & toys out of flour, story. The rear view of the Three writing short stories, playing the guitar Kings has been used for the diocesan & piano, and reading books. Twit and Christmas card this year and the Titty the hamsters are his pets. others form part of a display in Class Peering through his microscope in the Four of Brian´s primary school, Russo hope of ‘discovering’ something new Froebeliano. and becoming an Einstein is his dream. At home, he spends most of his time in his ‘igloo’ (filled with boxes of paint, unfinished manuscripts, models he’s created, & soft toys - all of whom are real to him!) which he calls his ‘office’. Brian´s father Easter Selvan, a researcher at the National Research Company, is his inspiration. He says that his mother Shyamala Magdalene assists as his typist, proof-reader & M ee TING ANG E LS UNAWAR E S A prison officer in the Italian city of Florence has been honoured with a special award for his prompt action which almost certainly helped to save the life of an Anglican bishop. The Rt Rev Martin Warner, Bishop of Whitby, was in his recovery in England sent a message of greeting and Florence where he was acting as a locum priest while Fr thanks to Antonangelo and the whole community of St. Lawrence MacLean was on holiday. At about 9 am on Mark’s for their unstinting help and hospitality. Monday 23rd August he was sightseeing in the city Antonangelo told the congregation he was pleased to when he suffered a cardiac arrest. Antonangelo Corsi receive the award. He said; “I think that in every was nearby and saw what had happened and went to important moment in our lives, there exists a Bishop Martin´s assistance. He had been taught reason for everything and that the presence of life saving and resuscitation skills and put his God is always there to be seen and interpreted. training into practice for 5 vital minutes before On this occasion, the meeting between paramedics arrived. Bishop Martin and I was meant to be and In early October Antonangelo and his wife subsequently has become a friendship, Sylvia were invited to St. Mark’s English which I hope will grow and be Church in Florence to receive the gift of a long lasting.” cross sent by the Bishop of Gibraltar in He also joked that the Europe as a thanksgiving for Antonangelo’s encounter had acted as a spur for heroic action. him to resume his studies to At the service Fr. Lawrence preached improve his English and thanked about the importance of entertaining the Police Corps “who gave me angels and never neglecting to entertain the ability to help in that moment the stranger. Bishop Martin who continues of need.” Le ADI N G K I N D L Y L I G ht I N 4 CO ft O N P A R K T H E P OP E ’ S VISIT TO B RITAIN - AS S ee N ON T E L E VISION Bishop Geoffrey reflects on John Henry Newman and coverage of the Papal visit Ever since I was a boy growing up in the Hampshire Newman led a semi-monastic life of prayer market town of Alton famous for the beer brewed from before discerning that he should make the move from the local hops, I have been fascinated by John Henry the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church. Newman, whose family came to live there when he was Dr Pusey wrote when this happened in 1845 that he a teenager because his father had to take a job in the saw it as a transplanting from one part of the Lord’s local brewery after his bank had collapsed. A plaque on a vineyard to another – a remarkable statement in very house in the main street noted that John Henry, Cardinal unecumenical days. Newman, had lived there. Coming from a church in the There were many anxieties before the Papal visit – with catholic tradition of the Church of England Newman’s noisy protests from hostile secularists, and the Roman memory was venerated, along with that of John Keble and Catholic bishops wondering how the scholarly and rather Edward Pusey. It is Hardly surprising that when I later shy Benedict could attract the crowds that John Paul II became chaplain of Keble College, Oxford, I found myself did on his earlier visit, of which the enduring image that exploring the history of the Oxford Movement, I have is of the Pope and Archbishop Runcie kneeling and teaching Newman’s creative theology with Roman in prayer at the site of Thomas à Becket’s martyrdom Catholic colleagues.