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MARK’S, AUGHER Check out our website www.clogher.anglican.org ARMSTRONG Funeral Directors & Memorials CLOGHER MAGAZINE COMMITTEE CONTENTS Grave Plot Services Chairperson: Mrs Eleanor Lynn • A dignified and personal 24hr service Vice-Chairperson: Mrs Barbara Ingram A Note from the Bishop .................................. 4 • Offering a caring and professional service Secretary: Mrs Margaret Porter Specialists In Quality Grave Care Parish News .................................................5-47 • Memorials supplied and erected Treasurer: Mrs Maud Shaw • Cleaning of Headstones & Surrounds • Large selection of headstones, vases open books Committee Members: The Revd Canon Desmond Kingston, Youth Page .......................................................49 • Resetting Fallen or Leaning Headstones or Damaged Surrounds Mrs Jean Stinson, Mrs Mabel Black and Mr Glenn Moore • Open books & chipping’s Children’s Pages ....................................... • Reconstruction of Sunken or Raised Graves Packing Team: Mrs Margaret Porter, Mrs Muriel Henderson, Mrs 50-51 • Also cleaning and renovations • Supply & Erection of Memorial Headstones & Grave Surrounds Barbara Ingram, Mrs Sadie Kane, Mrs Joyce Kerr, Mrs Eleanor Mothers’ Union News ....................................52 to existing memorials • Additional Inscriptions & Repairs to Lettering Lynn, Mrs Maureen Robinson, Mrs Jean Stinson, Miss Hilda • Additional lettering • New Marble or Granite Chips in your Chosen Colour Lucy, Mrs Ann Graham and Mr Robert Robinson Diocesan News ........................................53-58 Editor: Mr. Brian Donaldson • Marble or Granite Chips Washed & Restored News for Vestries .......................................... 59 • Regular Maintenance Visits eg : Weekly, Monthly, or Special Dates Designer: Miss Corinna Power Dromore Tel. • Floral Tributes(Anniversary or Special Dates) Church of Ireland News .........................60-62 028 8289 8424 The Clogher Diocesan Magazine is published monthly except Contractors to The Commonwealth January and August. 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The magazine has kept its cover price static for many years but this has not been sufficient to meet increasing costs. Front Cover From February 2019, the price of the magazine will be £1.50 (1.65 Wrought Iron Gates, Railings & Revd Olivia Downey and Norman McFarland with Euro) for each edition or £15 (16.50 Euro) for the 10 issues in the Victorian Style Outdoor Lighting Cindy the donkey and children from the Sunday calendar year. School of St. Mark’s Parish, Augher, preparing The magazine has expanded its coverage of parish and diocesan for their Outdoor Nativity. See Page 58. events and the Committee will continue to ensure readers get good Kenneth Hall value for money. 43 Abbey Road Lisnaskea Co. Fermanagh BT92 0NE Tel: 028 89531679 Home: (44) 02889521060 Mobile: 07713357156 3 A NOTE FROM PARISH NOTES Drumsnatt 9.30am Morning Prayer 15th December 5pm and in Aghadrumsee Aghadrumsee, Sunday 20th January on Friday 21st December at 7.30pm, when THE BISHOP Aghadrumsee 12.05pm Morning Prayer we are expecting Santa to take time out of Clogh & Clogh 10.45am Morning Prayer his busy schedule to visit us. Drumsnatt 9.30am Morning Prayer Drumsnatt The Rt Revd John McDowell Sunday 27th January Christmas Services The See House, 152a Ballagh Road, Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone. BT75 0QP Aghadrumsee 12.05pm Morning Prayer Sunday 16th December – Children’s Carol Tel: 028 895 22461 Clogh 10.45am Morning Prayer Services in Aghadrumsee and Clogh at Email: [email protected] Drumsnatt 9.30am Morning Prayer normal time Church Army Officer Sunday 23rd December – Traditional Carol Captain David Mothers’ Union Services 10.45 am in Clogh and 7.00 pm in Hamilton The Mothers’ Union Autumn Council was Aghadrumsee less to do with the gilded lifestyle did he criticise more severely than held in Clogh recently. The service was led Monday 24th December – Crib Service in of the rich and famous (or even the those who hankered after more by Captain Hamilton and the address given Clogh at 3.00 pm average Clogher parishioner). and more possessions and were by Dean Ferguson. A number of members Christmas Day – Service of Holy preoccupied with money. took part; these were Elizabeth Egerton, Communion in Clogh at 10.30 am That little passage from St John Florence Egerton, Florence Graham, Hazel Sunday 30th December – Combined talks of it being “full of grace and The worth of a person’s life, he The Rectory, Drummadarainy, Stonebridge, Clones, Co. Monaghan. Doonan, Margaret Nelson and Maud Service in Drumsnatt at 10.30 am truth”. Gracious in that he is given insisted, does not consist of T: 047 20826 Nicholl. Supper was provided in the hall as a gift and truthful in that his possessions, for piling things up E: [email protected] afterwards and the evening concluded Ladies Guild words and deeds are not only does not increase worth. People with a talk from Mrs Irene Boyd, Diocesan A meeting of Aghadrumsee Ladies Guild will President. The next meeting will be on take place Thursday 17th January at 8pm. trustworthy but express the very matter more than things because Services Monday 7th January at 8.00 pm nature of God. To use another people have an eternal destiny”. Sunday 2nd December Fellowship phrase of Michael Ramsey’s “God Aghadrumsee 12.05pm Holy Communion How did Christ become poor? By Christmas Concert Jonathan Graham of Child Evangelism is like Christ and in him is no Clogh 10.45am Holy Communion Clogh are hosting a Christmas Concert on Fellowship will once again join with us in coming to share in the limitations, unchristlikeness at all”. Drumsnatt 9.30am Holy Communion Saturday 8th December at 8.00 pm with Clogh and Aghadrumsee on Sunday 27th frustrations and hard realities of our Sunday 9th December Rebecca Burns, the Muckno Singers and January for an All Age Family Service. Dear Friends, So,although God’s own glory can human life, our pains, our sorrows Aghadrumsee 12.05pm Morning Prayer David Linton who will also act as compere. Clogh 10.45am Morning Prayer Tickets are available at £10. Everyone Parish Register If I had to choose one word which, be seen in every phase of Jesus and even our death. This has a life, and the same Gospel writer moral message to learn and to Drumsnatt 9.30am Morning Prayer welcome The Baptism of Zara Grace, daughter of in a religious sense, is most closely Sunday 16th December goes on to associate that glory live by too.