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Part of the Church of Ireland (Anglican) Diocese of Derry and Raphoe, belonging to the Glendermott and Newbuildings grouping.
Main Historical Events
1622
Construction of the Ivy Church by the Goldsmiths' Company in place of the older, possibly monastic church at Clondermot.
1641
The Ivy Church destroyed in the rebellion of 1641 but soon rebuilt.
1649
During the Commonwealth period, a Presbyterian minister (Rev John Will) and the congregation became established at the parish church.
1660
Established church restored. Rev John Will vacates church in 1665
1667
Rev William Kerr begins his ministry as curate of Clondermot.
1689
Ivy Church burned by retreating Jacobite army after the Siege of Derry
1693
Ivy Church rebuilt by parishioners, assisted by the Bishop and Dean
1753
New church built on its present site at Altnagelvin to seat 330 people.
1789
Three-stage battlemented tower added to the new church.
1794
Copper-over-wood spire added by Bishop Hervey but in blew down in 1831.
1821
Glendermott Parish constituted a perpetual curacy.
1822
Dwelling house purchased at Clooney and rented to curate. (First Rectory)
1848
Death of the Rev Anthony Grayson Cary, the first perpetual curate.
1860
Glendermott Parish becomes a separate incumbency and the Rev David Babington (perpetual curate from 1848) becomes its first Rector.
1861
New wing (north aisle) added to the church, increasing capacity to 500
1863
Clooney Parish separated from Glendermott and established 3 June.
1867
New church bell presented by The Honorable The Irish Society.
1893
Babington Hall is opened and dedicated as a memorial to our first Rector.
1900
New church bell installed - the gift of many contributors.
1909
New pipe organ installed - dedicated on 27 February 1910.
1915
New lighting system, by acetylene gas, is installed in church.
1918
The New Cemetery is opened.
1922
Solid fuel heating system is installed in church.
1922
"The Last Post" memorial (in the churchyard) dedicated on 1 January
1930
Rev David Kelly instituted as Rector on 6 February
1956
A Sunday School is opened in New Buildings
1967
Rectory and glebe at Limavady Road sold to Corporation for £28,600
1968
Work starts on construction of a new Rectory. Completed late 1969.
1969
Canon SW Johnston instituted as Rector on 25 September.
1973
Canon David Kelly Memorial Hall officially opened on 1 March.
1976
Canon RN Moore instituted as Rector on 2 June.
1976
Church listed as a building of special architectural and historic interest.
1982
Church porch extended. Dedicated on 21 September.
1983
New Minor Hall officially opened on 22 September.
1988
Church of Ireland Centre, Newbuildings opens. Consecrated 28 September.
1994
External floodlighting of the church installed. Dedicated on 20 November.
1995
"The Last Post" repaired and refurbished. Rededicated on 14 May.
2000
Rev Derek Creighton instituted as Rector on 24 August.
2003
Glendermott Church celebrated 250th anniversary. Service of Thanksgiving 30 November.
2004
Memorial for the Fallen dedicated on Sunday 8 February.
An interesting newbuild with nods in the direction of the Portuguese 16th century Manueline style of architecture.
One of a selection of photo's I have captured over the past few weeks , catching up with my archive and posting a few that are worthy for my Flickr account.
I always enjoy viewing a new vessel arrive in to the harbour , I visited today to capture this beauty.
Launched in May 2018 this is the first time I have captured this beauty arriving into the harbour.
VOS PATRIOT (IMO: 9742091) is a Offshore Tug/Supply Ship registered and sailing under the flag of Netherlands.
Her gross tonnage is 3638 and deadweight is 4116. VOS PATRIOT was built in 2018 by COSCO GUANGDONG. VOS PATRIOT length overall (LOA) is 83.4 m, beam is 18 m and maximum draught is 6.7 m.
Her container capacity is 0 TEU. The ship is operated by VROON OFFSHORE SERVICES BV.
Newbuild Betton grange's first day in service at the Gloucs and Warks at Toddington tuned out to be a day of full sunshine. Not every day in 2024 you get to see a brand new steam locomotive.
I loaded my Nikon D750 and travelled north to Macduff a fishing village 40 miles or so from Aberdeen Scotland, a thriving Ship Building harbour that is always exciting to visit .
I walked along the pier and harbour, I noticed this vessel bobbing away in the water , Scotia Ayr Pilot , a young employee fellow approached and boarded the vessel, I asked him why a Pilot Boat from AYR In scotland would be berthed at Macduff, he informed
me that the boat was a new build , built at Macduff Shipyards with only trial sailings behind her to ensure she is fit for purpose .
October 2017, The "SCOTIA" a 12.75m Pilot boat built for ABP Ayr Harbour has been launched and has undergone trials performing as expected.
She has been accepted by her owners and is now on her way to begin working duties at her home port.
"The company rebuilding a historic city centre block that had to be pulled down two years ago says the building will look exactly as it once did – apart from an extra floor on top."
The newbuild station at Furnace Sidings on the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway is taking shape. Seen here from the Coity Coal Tip that looms over the area.
November 2011.
RD14855. Components for the new Double Fairlie locomotive to be built at 2ft gauge Ffestiniog Railway's Boston Lodge Works.
It has been provisionally named JAMES SPOONER, but other possible names have also been suggested.
Sunday, 30th April, 2017. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Spirit of Discovery is SAGA's first ever newbuild cruise ship. Built by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany, she was ordered on 01/10/2015, laid down on 28/06/2018 and launched on 12/05/2019. She was sponsored by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, now Queen Consort of England as the wife of King Charles III. She became queen consort on 08/09/2022, upon the accession of her husband following the death of his mother, the late HRH Queen Elizabeth II. Spirit of Discovery was Christened on 05/07/2019 at the Port of Dover making her the first ship to be christened in Dover in more than a decade. Her maiden voyage was on 10/07/2019 which circumnavigated the United Kingdom and included calls in Ireland. She has a GTW58,250, has ten passenger decks and can carry 987 passengers and 540 crew. She is seen here departing from Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, on 13/09/2022. Having departed from Dover on 07/09/2022, she had called at Malaga, Spain, on 11/09, and Barcelona on this day, 13/09. She would then call at Salerno, Italy, on 15/09, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, on 16/09, La Goulette(Port of Tunis), Tunisia, North Africa, on 17/09, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, on 18/09, and Cadiz, Spain, on 21/09, prior to returning to Dover on 25/09.
This photo was taken from P&O Cruises - MV Britannia - IMO: 9614036 which stayed here in Barcelona for two days.
MV Britannia was completed on 26/02/2015 by Fincantieri, Monfalcone, Italy. She was laid down on 15/05/2013, launched on 14/02/2014 and Christened by the late HRH Queen Elizabeth II, on 10/03/2015 with her maiden voyage on the 14/03/2015. She is from the Royal Class of cruise ships and is British registered in Southampton. She has a GTW of 143,730, has seventeen decks of which fourteen are passenger accessible giving a maximum passenger capacity of 3,647 and 1,398 crew. She is powered by Wärtsilä 12V46F x 2 & Wärtsilä 14V46F x 2 & propulsion electric motors - 2 x VEM Sachsenwerk GMBH and is capable of 21.9 knots and a cruising speed of around 19 knots.
MV Britannia had departed from Ocean Cruise Terminal, Southampton, on 04/09/2022 for a lovely 14-night Mediterranean Cruise; Southampton - A Coruña, Spain - Valencia, Spain - La Seyne-sur-Mer(Toulon), France - Barcelona, Spain - Cadiz, Spain - Southampton. She had departed from Valencia, on 11/09/2022. Awaiting departure from Barcelona, her next port of call was Cadiz, Spain, on 15/09/2022. © Peter Steel 2022.
Woman passes the wall which has this written in Urdu: 'When ALLAH is One, Religion is one and Prophet is one, why then differences on language?'
The Diocese of Derry and Raphoe has a new priest following Sunday evening’s ordination of the Rev Iain McAleavey at a Service in Glendermott Parish Church in Londonderry.
The 26–year–old County Down man was ordained by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Andrew Forster, and will serve as Curate in the Parish of Glendermott and Newbuildings.
The service was dramatically different to most ordinations in the Diocese because of the restrictions in place to limit the spread of the Covid–19 virus.
The much smaller than usual congregation was obvious evidence of the virus’s impact, although perhaps the most poignant effect was seen near the end of the ordination when – instead of the usual mass laying–on of hands by clergy – Bishop Andrew led individual clergy in performing the ritual, after each had cleansed their hands with sanitiser.
Bishop Andrew referred to the changed circumstances for an ordination. “We would usually expect the church to be packed,” he said, “and lots of singing and a good bun–fight afterwards, and so on, and there’s an awful lot that we can’t do this evening because of the Covid–19 restrictions. But, what did we say, as we began this service? ‘The Lord be with you, and also with you.’ God is here. His spirit is with us. His presence is with us. And he comes to bless us by His presence and by His grace.”
Also lending his presence to the occasion was the the Rt Rev Darren McCartney, former Suffragan Bishop of the Arctic and Rector of Clonallon & Warrenpoint with Kilbroney. Among those in church to watch Mr McAleavey being priested were the new curate’s girlfriend, Danni deKeizer, who delivered the second reading, and his parents Colin and Irene. The first reading was read by the Rev Joanne Megarrell, the Rector of Moira, where Iain first discerned a call to ministry, and the Gospel was read by the Rev Arthur Burns, Curate in NSM at Glendermott.
Bishop Andrew was assisted in the Service by the Rector of Glendermott, the Rev Canon Robert Boyd; the Archdeacon of Derry, the Ven Robert Miller; and the Archdeacon of Raphoe, the Ven David Huss, who preached the sermon. Archdeacon Huss said Iain was a Lisburn man – “and that’s a very good sign right there, at the beginning.” But what was this ordained ministry that Iain was being sent to do?
“When I left work as a schoolteacher,” the preacher said, “to go off to Theological College to train, one of my colleagues said, ‘David, from now on you’ll be drinking tea and opening garden fetes all day long.’” That was the perception, Archdeacon Huss said. But what does a minister of the Gospel really do? Was it just to vaguely float around opening things and being there occasionally for people when the minister might be needed?
“Well, there’s no better place to turn to,” the preacher said, “than [today’s] Gospel reading [John, 20: 19–23] , where the Lord Jesus Christ sent his apostles out on their mission and ministry in the world. And it shows us here that the ministry of the Gospel, the ministry of those who inherit that mantle from the apostles – the ministry of the priests or elders or presbyters in the Church of God – is not like any other work or calling.”
Archdeacon Huss said ministry had a number of features that were very striking, very wonderful and very odd in today’s world: it was a ministry grounded in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the peace that flowed from it; it was a ministry empowered by the Holy Spirit – “The resurrection of Christ is the bedrock of our faith and of our ministry, showing that this is not some airy–fairy idea, it’s not some vague notion dreamed up in some cloistered, quiet place, but it’s a solid fact: public, historical, undeniable.” – and it was a ministry to do with the forgiveness of sins.
“This is the strange part, isn’t it? I said at the beginning that ministry is strange in the eyes of people today, maybe in the wider world, and here’s a very strange part about it: Jesus says, ‘If you forgive the sins of any they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any they are retained.’ What a strange way to sum up the ministry that he was sending the apostles to do. You might be expecting him to say, ‘Receive the `Holy Spirit, now go and preach the Word,’ or ‘Receive the Holy Spirit, now go and build up my Church.’ But he says a strange thing about the forgiveness of sins. And here is a place where the Christian ministry departs from secular ideas and understanding of what’s really most needed in our world.
“If you were to go out and do an opinion poll: what are the biggest problems in our world, what are the biggest needs? Well, at the minute, Coronavirus, climate change, economic problems, inequality, the migration crisis, and so many other things. But, of course, the Lord teaches us that there’s something much deeper, there’s a problem which goes below the surface of all of those other things, and it is the problem that’s summed up in the simple word ‘sin’. The reality of sin is something which the Lord Jesus Christ doesn’t shy away from, and which those called to ministry need also to hold to.
“There is a deep problem in our world and in every human heart. As the Russian dissident and prisoner of conscience, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, said after years in the Gulag, in the prison camp, he said, he discovered that the line between good and evil runs through every human heart. And the Lord says not good people and bad people, there are people made in the image of God – wonderfully, fearfully made – but who are broken because of sin, the reality of sin, but also, of course, there’s the remedy for sin.
“Here’s the wonderful news,“ Archdeacon Huss said, “that there is an answer to this deepest human problem – which is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, He sends the apostles to this task of the forgiveness of sins. Of course, we’re well aware that it’s God alone who forgives sins, but He gives to the apostles and He gives to the preachers of the Gospel the task of declaring the way in which sins can be forgiven, and of assuring people who repent and believe that their sins are forgiven. He sends the apostles, in other words, into the ministry of absolution.
“As the old words of the Morning and Evening Prayer Service said, ‘He hath given power and commandment to His ministers to declare and pronounce to His people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins. This is a wonderful privilege that you will now have to declare to God’s people as they repent that their sins are forgiven through Christ.
“So, don’t shy away, Iain, from this key aspect of ministry, that it has to do with the forgiveness of sins; with leading people to the place where they find that forgiveness; leading them to the cross, in your preaching, in your presiding at the Lord’s table where you will present before the people the body and blood of Christ, broken and poured out for them – for their forgiveness, for their healing, for their salvation.
“Whatever you do, lead them to the Lord Jesus. This ministry is based on His resurrection, it’s empowered by His spirit and it releases that wonderful gift of the forgiveness of sins.
Archdeacon Huss said making Jesus known, turning people from sin to the Saviour and bringing enlightenment were things the new Curate could not do but God could do through him, by the power of the Holy Spirit. “So, continue to pray day by day that you will be enlarged and enlightened in your understanding, and not only understanding but in your love for these truths, to be able to share them and proclaim them.”
Lastly, the preacher asked the Lord to bless Mr McAleavey as he embarked on this greatest possible privilege.
Carmet Tug Company's newbuild, Multirole Easyworker 2080 "CT Barnston", does some anchor handling and chain work at Woodside Ferry Terminal as the tide ebbs.
Local lads doing amazing work yet again!
The weather went from raining to cloudy to sunny and back to raining so on and so forth. Typical lol
You can see how much the tide drops during the series of photos. In such a short amount of time, the time drops dramatically and at such a speed as it usually does on high springs.
Source of info: PDF from their website
CT Barnston multirole/multicat workboat
IMO: 9967938
MMSI: 232043206
Call Sign: MLZU5
Registered owner: CARMET TUG CO LTD
Vessel type: Easyworker 2080
Built: Groeneveldt Marine Construction B.V. 2022, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands
Classification: Bureau Veritas, MCA Workboat Code Cat 2/60
Length: 20.08 meters
Beam: 8.00 meters
Draft: 1.60 meters
Gross tonnage: 70.60
Bollard pull: 15.0 tons
Speed: 9.0 knots
Main engines: 2 x Volvo Penta D 16 MH IMO 3
Total power: 1200 bhp
Gearboxes: Twin Disc MGX 516 DC
Propellers: 2 x 4 blade fixed pitch in nozzles @ 1350 mm
Generator sets: 1 x John Deere 135kVA and 1 x John Deere 65kVA
Electrical system: 24v DC and 220/415V connections
Fuel: 16,000 litres
Water: 7,000 litres
Deck crane: Fassi F800 RA (15,770kg @ 4.25m)
Deck winch: 18t SWL 8m/min
Tugger winch: 5t SWL, 9m/min
Deck capacity: 60 tonnes
Tesco PLC is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. It is the third largest retailer in the world measured by profits and second-largest retailer in the world measured by revenues. It has stores in 12 countries across Asia and Europe and is the grocery market leader in the UK (where it has a market share of around 28.4%), Ireland, Hungary, Malaysia, and Thailand.
Tesco was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen as a group of market stalls. The Tesco name first appeared in 1924, after Cohen purchased a shipment of tea from T. E. Stockwell and combined those initials with the first two letters of his surname, and the first Tesco store opened in 1929 in Burnt Oak, Barnet. His business expanded rapidly, and by 1939 he had over 100 Tesco stores across the country.
The Diocese of Derry and Raphoe has a new priest following Sunday evening’s ordination of the Rev Iain McAleavey at a Service in Glendermott Parish Church in Londonderry.
The 26–year–old County Down man was ordained by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Andrew Forster, and will serve as Curate in the Parish of Glendermott and Newbuildings.
The service was dramatically different to most ordinations in the Diocese because of the restrictions in place to limit the spread of the Covid–19 virus.
The much smaller than usual congregation was obvious evidence of the virus’s impact, although perhaps the most poignant effect was seen near the end of the ordination when – instead of the usual mass laying–on of hands by clergy – Bishop Andrew led individual clergy in performing the ritual, after each had cleansed their hands with sanitiser.
Bishop Andrew referred to the changed circumstances for an ordination. “We would usually expect the church to be packed,” he said, “and lots of singing and a good bun–fight afterwards, and so on, and there’s an awful lot that we can’t do this evening because of the Covid–19 restrictions. But, what did we say, as we began this service? ‘The Lord be with you, and also with you.’ God is here. His spirit is with us. His presence is with us. And he comes to bless us by His presence and by His grace.”
Also lending his presence to the occasion was the the Rt Rev Darren McCartney, former Suffragan Bishop of the Arctic and Rector of Clonallon & Warrenpoint with Kilbroney. Among those in church to watch Mr McAleavey being priested were the new curate’s girlfriend, Danni deKeizer, who delivered the second reading, and his parents Colin and Irene. The first reading was read by the Rev Joanne Megarrell, the Rector of Moira, where Iain first discerned a call to ministry, and the Gospel was read by the Rev Arthur Burns, Curate in NSM at Glendermott.
Bishop Andrew was assisted in the Service by the Rector of Glendermott, the Rev Canon Robert Boyd; the Archdeacon of Derry, the Ven Robert Miller; and the Archdeacon of Raphoe, the Ven David Huss, who preached the sermon. Archdeacon Huss said Iain was a Lisburn man – “and that’s a very good sign right there, at the beginning.” But what was this ordained ministry that Iain was being sent to do?
“When I left work as a schoolteacher,” the preacher said, “to go off to Theological College to train, one of my colleagues said, ‘David, from now on you’ll be drinking tea and opening garden fetes all day long.’” That was the perception, Archdeacon Huss said. But what does a minister of the Gospel really do? Was it just to vaguely float around opening things and being there occasionally for people when the minister might be needed?
“Well, there’s no better place to turn to,” the preacher said, “than [today’s] Gospel reading [John, 20: 19–23] , where the Lord Jesus Christ sent his apostles out on their mission and ministry in the world. And it shows us here that the ministry of the Gospel, the ministry of those who inherit that mantle from the apostles – the ministry of the priests or elders or presbyters in the Church of God – is not like any other work or calling.”
Archdeacon Huss said ministry had a number of features that were very striking, very wonderful and very odd in today’s world: it was a ministry grounded in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the peace that flowed from it; it was a ministry empowered by the Holy Spirit – “The resurrection of Christ is the bedrock of our faith and of our ministry, showing that this is not some airy–fairy idea, it’s not some vague notion dreamed up in some cloistered, quiet place, but it’s a solid fact: public, historical, undeniable.” – and it was a ministry to do with the forgiveness of sins.
“This is the strange part, isn’t it? I said at the beginning that ministry is strange in the eyes of people today, maybe in the wider world, and here’s a very strange part about it: Jesus says, ‘If you forgive the sins of any they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any they are retained.’ What a strange way to sum up the ministry that he was sending the apostles to do. You might be expecting him to say, ‘Receive the `Holy Spirit, now go and preach the Word,’ or ‘Receive the Holy Spirit, now go and build up my Church.’ But he says a strange thing about the forgiveness of sins. And here is a place where the Christian ministry departs from secular ideas and understanding of what’s really most needed in our world.
“If you were to go out and do an opinion poll: what are the biggest problems in our world, what are the biggest needs? Well, at the minute, Coronavirus, climate change, economic problems, inequality, the migration crisis, and so many other things. But, of course, the Lord teaches us that there’s something much deeper, there’s a problem which goes below the surface of all of those other things, and it is the problem that’s summed up in the simple word ‘sin’. The reality of sin is something which the Lord Jesus Christ doesn’t shy away from, and which those called to ministry need also to hold to.
“There is a deep problem in our world and in every human heart. As the Russian dissident and prisoner of conscience, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, said after years in the Gulag, in the prison camp, he said, he discovered that the line between good and evil runs through every human heart. And the Lord says not good people and bad people, there are people made in the image of God – wonderfully, fearfully made – but who are broken because of sin, the reality of sin, but also, of course, there’s the remedy for sin.
“Here’s the wonderful news,“ Archdeacon Huss said, “that there is an answer to this deepest human problem – which is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, He sends the apostles to this task of the forgiveness of sins. Of course, we’re well aware that it’s God alone who forgives sins, but He gives to the apostles and He gives to the preachers of the Gospel the task of declaring the way in which sins can be forgiven, and of assuring people who repent and believe that their sins are forgiven. He sends the apostles, in other words, into the ministry of absolution.
“As the old words of the Morning and Evening Prayer Service said, ‘He hath given power and commandment to His ministers to declare and pronounce to His people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins. This is a wonderful privilege that you will now have to declare to God’s people as they repent that their sins are forgiven through Christ.
“So, don’t shy away, Iain, from this key aspect of ministry, that it has to do with the forgiveness of sins; with leading people to the place where they find that forgiveness; leading them to the cross, in your preaching, in your presiding at the Lord’s table where you will present before the people the body and blood of Christ, broken and poured out for them – for their forgiveness, for their healing, for their salvation.
“Whatever you do, lead them to the Lord Jesus. This ministry is based on His resurrection, it’s empowered by His spirit and it releases that wonderful gift of the forgiveness of sins.
Archdeacon Huss said making Jesus known, turning people from sin to the Saviour and bringing enlightenment were things the new Curate could not do but God could do through him, by the power of the Holy Spirit. “So, continue to pray day by day that you will be enlarged and enlightened in your understanding, and not only understanding but in your love for these truths, to be able to share them and proclaim them.”
Lastly, the preacher asked the Lord to bless Mr McAleavey as he embarked on this greatest possible privilege.
Me shooting a Glock 27 on an ATVing trip this past weekend. We also shot my dad's Smith and Wesson .380 Bodyguard.
Albert Armendariz, Sr. United States Court House El Paso Texas building in downtown El Paso. This photo also appears in: rubenkings.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/el-paso-texas-downtow...
See our blog post MERA is now watching Site 12 in English Street
The Council's website clearly states the following
Scaffolding and hoarding licence
When carrying out any building work, maintenance, or removing part of a property next to a public road, pavement or rear lane, the safety of people on the road is paramount.
You must provide safe areas at ground level or a platform at high levels. When it is necessary to place hoardings on the road/pavement around the place of work or scaffolding, you need to obtain permission from the council by completing a form together with a sketch. If you get permission, please read it carefully and make sure you adhere to all the conditions of the licence.
Basic requirements
Hoardings:
* Must be a minimum of 2.5 metres high and able to withstand high winds
* Must have illumination
* Must have a smooth finish with no protruding parts
* Must have pedestrian walkways of satisfactory width maintained or provided, and regularly inspected by the contractor
Lighting:
* Baulk timbers must be illuminated along their upper surfaces by red lights set at intervals no greater than 3 metres.
* A hoarding that is on the carriageway – or is 45cm or less from the kerb face – shall be illuminated by red lights set at intervals no greater than 3 metres. The lights shall be positioned at a height of approximately 1.8 metres.
* A hoarding which forms one side of a temporary walkway or one side of a stretch of unenclosed footway shall be illuminated by white lights set at intervals no greater than 3 metres.
The Diocese of Derry and Raphoe has a new priest following Sunday evening’s ordination of the Rev Iain McAleavey at a Service in Glendermott Parish Church in Londonderry.
The 26–year–old County Down man was ordained by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Andrew Forster, and will serve as Curate in the Parish of Glendermott and Newbuildings.
The service was dramatically different to most ordinations in the Diocese because of the restrictions in place to limit the spread of the Covid–19 virus.
The much smaller than usual congregation was obvious evidence of the virus’s impact, although perhaps the most poignant effect was seen near the end of the ordination when – instead of the usual mass laying–on of hands by clergy – Bishop Andrew led individual clergy in performing the ritual, after each had cleansed their hands with sanitiser.
Bishop Andrew referred to the changed circumstances for an ordination. “We would usually expect the church to be packed,” he said, “and lots of singing and a good bun–fight afterwards, and so on, and there’s an awful lot that we can’t do this evening because of the Covid–19 restrictions. But, what did we say, as we began this service? ‘The Lord be with you, and also with you.’ God is here. His spirit is with us. His presence is with us. And he comes to bless us by His presence and by His grace.”
Also lending his presence to the occasion was the the Rt Rev Darren McCartney, former Suffragan Bishop of the Arctic and Rector of Clonallon & Warrenpoint with Kilbroney. Among those in church to watch Mr McAleavey being priested were the new curate’s girlfriend, Danni deKeizer, who delivered the second reading, and his parents Colin and Irene. The first reading was read by the Rev Joanne Megarrell, the Rector of Moira, where Iain first discerned a call to ministry, and the Gospel was read by the Rev Arthur Burns, Curate in NSM at Glendermott.
Bishop Andrew was assisted in the Service by the Rector of Glendermott, the Rev Canon Robert Boyd; the Archdeacon of Derry, the Ven Robert Miller; and the Archdeacon of Raphoe, the Ven David Huss, who preached the sermon. Archdeacon Huss said Iain was a Lisburn man – “and that’s a very good sign right there, at the beginning.” But what was this ordained ministry that Iain was being sent to do?
“When I left work as a schoolteacher,” the preacher said, “to go off to Theological College to train, one of my colleagues said, ‘David, from now on you’ll be drinking tea and opening garden fetes all day long.’” That was the perception, Archdeacon Huss said. But what does a minister of the Gospel really do? Was it just to vaguely float around opening things and being there occasionally for people when the minister might be needed?
“Well, there’s no better place to turn to,” the preacher said, “than [today’s] Gospel reading [John, 20: 19–23] , where the Lord Jesus Christ sent his apostles out on their mission and ministry in the world. And it shows us here that the ministry of the Gospel, the ministry of those who inherit that mantle from the apostles – the ministry of the priests or elders or presbyters in the Church of God – is not like any other work or calling.”
Archdeacon Huss said ministry had a number of features that were very striking, very wonderful and very odd in today’s world: it was a ministry grounded in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the peace that flowed from it; it was a ministry empowered by the Holy Spirit – “The resurrection of Christ is the bedrock of our faith and of our ministry, showing that this is not some airy–fairy idea, it’s not some vague notion dreamed up in some cloistered, quiet place, but it’s a solid fact: public, historical, undeniable.” – and it was a ministry to do with the forgiveness of sins.
“This is the strange part, isn’t it? I said at the beginning that ministry is strange in the eyes of people today, maybe in the wider world, and here’s a very strange part about it: Jesus says, ‘If you forgive the sins of any they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any they are retained.’ What a strange way to sum up the ministry that he was sending the apostles to do. You might be expecting him to say, ‘Receive the `Holy Spirit, now go and preach the Word,’ or ‘Receive the Holy Spirit, now go and build up my Church.’ But he says a strange thing about the forgiveness of sins. And here is a place where the Christian ministry departs from secular ideas and understanding of what’s really most needed in our world.
“If you were to go out and do an opinion poll: what are the biggest problems in our world, what are the biggest needs? Well, at the minute, Coronavirus, climate change, economic problems, inequality, the migration crisis, and so many other things. But, of course, the Lord teaches us that there’s something much deeper, there’s a problem which goes below the surface of all of those other things, and it is the problem that’s summed up in the simple word ‘sin’. The reality of sin is something which the Lord Jesus Christ doesn’t shy away from, and which those called to ministry need also to hold to.
“There is a deep problem in our world and in every human heart. As the Russian dissident and prisoner of conscience, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, said after years in the Gulag, in the prison camp, he said, he discovered that the line between good and evil runs through every human heart. And the Lord says not good people and bad people, there are people made in the image of God – wonderfully, fearfully made – but who are broken because of sin, the reality of sin, but also, of course, there’s the remedy for sin.
“Here’s the wonderful news,“ Archdeacon Huss said, “that there is an answer to this deepest human problem – which is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, He sends the apostles to this task of the forgiveness of sins. Of course, we’re well aware that it’s God alone who forgives sins, but He gives to the apostles and He gives to the preachers of the Gospel the task of declaring the way in which sins can be forgiven, and of assuring people who repent and believe that their sins are forgiven. He sends the apostles, in other words, into the ministry of absolution.
“As the old words of the Morning and Evening Prayer Service said, ‘He hath given power and commandment to His ministers to declare and pronounce to His people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins. This is a wonderful privilege that you will now have to declare to God’s people as they repent that their sins are forgiven through Christ.
“So, don’t shy away, Iain, from this key aspect of ministry, that it has to do with the forgiveness of sins; with leading people to the place where they find that forgiveness; leading them to the cross, in your preaching, in your presiding at the Lord’s table where you will present before the people the body and blood of Christ, broken and poured out for them – for their forgiveness, for their healing, for their salvation.
“Whatever you do, lead them to the Lord Jesus. This ministry is based on His resurrection, it’s empowered by His spirit and it releases that wonderful gift of the forgiveness of sins.
Archdeacon Huss said making Jesus known, turning people from sin to the Saviour and bringing enlightenment were things the new Curate could not do but God could do through him, by the power of the Holy Spirit. “So, continue to pray day by day that you will be enlarged and enlightened in your understanding, and not only understanding but in your love for these truths, to be able to share them and proclaim them.”
Lastly, the preacher asked the Lord to bless Mr McAleavey as he embarked on this greatest possible privilege.
The Diocese of Derry and Raphoe has a new priest following Sunday evening’s ordination of the Rev Iain McAleavey at a Service in Glendermott Parish Church in Londonderry.
The 26–year–old County Down man was ordained by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Andrew Forster, and will serve as Curate in the Parish of Glendermott and Newbuildings.
The service was dramatically different to most ordinations in the Diocese because of the restrictions in place to limit the spread of the Covid–19 virus.
The much smaller than usual congregation was obvious evidence of the virus’s impact, although perhaps the most poignant effect was seen near the end of the ordination when – instead of the usual mass laying–on of hands by clergy – Bishop Andrew led individual clergy in performing the ritual, after each had cleansed their hands with sanitiser.
Bishop Andrew referred to the changed circumstances for an ordination. “We would usually expect the church to be packed,” he said, “and lots of singing and a good bun–fight afterwards, and so on, and there’s an awful lot that we can’t do this evening because of the Covid–19 restrictions. But, what did we say, as we began this service? ‘The Lord be with you, and also with you.’ God is here. His spirit is with us. His presence is with us. And he comes to bless us by His presence and by His grace.”
Also lending his presence to the occasion was the the Rt Rev Darren McCartney, former Suffragan Bishop of the Arctic and Rector of Clonallon & Warrenpoint with Kilbroney. Among those in church to watch Mr McAleavey being priested were the new curate’s girlfriend, Danni deKeizer, who delivered the second reading, and his parents Colin and Irene. The first reading was read by the Rev Joanne Megarrell, the Rector of Moira, where Iain first discerned a call to ministry, and the Gospel was read by the Rev Arthur Burns, Curate in NSM at Glendermott.
Bishop Andrew was assisted in the Service by the Rector of Glendermott, the Rev Canon Robert Boyd; the Archdeacon of Derry, the Ven Robert Miller; and the Archdeacon of Raphoe, the Ven David Huss, who preached the sermon. Archdeacon Huss said Iain was a Lisburn man – “and that’s a very good sign right there, at the beginning.” But what was this ordained ministry that Iain was being sent to do?
“When I left work as a schoolteacher,” the preacher said, “to go off to Theological College to train, one of my colleagues said, ‘David, from now on you’ll be drinking tea and opening garden fetes all day long.’” That was the perception, Archdeacon Huss said. But what does a minister of the Gospel really do? Was it just to vaguely float around opening things and being there occasionally for people when the minister might be needed?
“Well, there’s no better place to turn to,” the preacher said, “than [today’s] Gospel reading [John, 20: 19–23] , where the Lord Jesus Christ sent his apostles out on their mission and ministry in the world. And it shows us here that the ministry of the Gospel, the ministry of those who inherit that mantle from the apostles – the ministry of the priests or elders or presbyters in the Church of God – is not like any other work or calling.”
Archdeacon Huss said ministry had a number of features that were very striking, very wonderful and very odd in today’s world: it was a ministry grounded in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the peace that flowed from it; it was a ministry empowered by the Holy Spirit – “The resurrection of Christ is the bedrock of our faith and of our ministry, showing that this is not some airy–fairy idea, it’s not some vague notion dreamed up in some cloistered, quiet place, but it’s a solid fact: public, historical, undeniable.” – and it was a ministry to do with the forgiveness of sins.
“This is the strange part, isn’t it? I said at the beginning that ministry is strange in the eyes of people today, maybe in the wider world, and here’s a very strange part about it: Jesus says, ‘If you forgive the sins of any they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any they are retained.’ What a strange way to sum up the ministry that he was sending the apostles to do. You might be expecting him to say, ‘Receive the `Holy Spirit, now go and preach the Word,’ or ‘Receive the Holy Spirit, now go and build up my Church.’ But he says a strange thing about the forgiveness of sins. And here is a place where the Christian ministry departs from secular ideas and understanding of what’s really most needed in our world.
“If you were to go out and do an opinion poll: what are the biggest problems in our world, what are the biggest needs? Well, at the minute, Coronavirus, climate change, economic problems, inequality, the migration crisis, and so many other things. But, of course, the Lord teaches us that there’s something much deeper, there’s a problem which goes below the surface of all of those other things, and it is the problem that’s summed up in the simple word ‘sin’. The reality of sin is something which the Lord Jesus Christ doesn’t shy away from, and which those called to ministry need also to hold to.
“There is a deep problem in our world and in every human heart. As the Russian dissident and prisoner of conscience, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, said after years in the Gulag, in the prison camp, he said, he discovered that the line between good and evil runs through every human heart. And the Lord says not good people and bad people, there are people made in the image of God – wonderfully, fearfully made – but who are broken because of sin, the reality of sin, but also, of course, there’s the remedy for sin.
“Here’s the wonderful news,“ Archdeacon Huss said, “that there is an answer to this deepest human problem – which is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, He sends the apostles to this task of the forgiveness of sins. Of course, we’re well aware that it’s God alone who forgives sins, but He gives to the apostles and He gives to the preachers of the Gospel the task of declaring the way in which sins can be forgiven, and of assuring people who repent and believe that their sins are forgiven. He sends the apostles, in other words, into the ministry of absolution.
“As the old words of the Morning and Evening Prayer Service said, ‘He hath given power and commandment to His ministers to declare and pronounce to His people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins. This is a wonderful privilege that you will now have to declare to God’s people as they repent that their sins are forgiven through Christ.
“So, don’t shy away, Iain, from this key aspect of ministry, that it has to do with the forgiveness of sins; with leading people to the place where they find that forgiveness; leading them to the cross, in your preaching, in your presiding at the Lord’s table where you will present before the people the body and blood of Christ, broken and poured out for them – for their forgiveness, for their healing, for their salvation.
“Whatever you do, lead them to the Lord Jesus. This ministry is based on His resurrection, it’s empowered by His spirit and it releases that wonderful gift of the forgiveness of sins.
Archdeacon Huss said making Jesus known, turning people from sin to the Saviour and bringing enlightenment were things the new Curate could not do but God could do through him, by the power of the Holy Spirit. “So, continue to pray day by day that you will be enlarged and enlightened in your understanding, and not only understanding but in your love for these truths, to be able to share them and proclaim them.”
Lastly, the preacher asked the Lord to bless Mr McAleavey as he embarked on this greatest possible privilege.
This image from the building phase of a new campus, to the east of the existing campus, shows the render and cladding panels which have been installed on to the steel framed construction base.
Gilbert Boucher, Andrew Stewart, David Austin, Gerry Skipwith, Harry Zarek, Ken Goessaert, Greg Larnder, Michael Charter
The Diocese of Derry and Raphoe has a new priest following Sunday evening’s ordination of the Rev Iain McAleavey at a Service in Glendermott Parish Church in Londonderry.
The 26–year–old County Down man was ordained by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Andrew Forster, and will serve as Curate in the Parish of Glendermott and Newbuildings.
The service was dramatically different to most ordinations in the Diocese because of the restrictions in place to limit the spread of the Covid–19 virus.
The much smaller than usual congregation was obvious evidence of the virus’s impact, although perhaps the most poignant effect was seen near the end of the ordination when – instead of the usual mass laying–on of hands by clergy – Bishop Andrew led individual clergy in performing the ritual, after each had cleansed their hands with sanitiser.
Bishop Andrew referred to the changed circumstances for an ordination. “We would usually expect the church to be packed,” he said, “and lots of singing and a good bun–fight afterwards, and so on, and there’s an awful lot that we can’t do this evening because of the Covid–19 restrictions. But, what did we say, as we began this service? ‘The Lord be with you, and also with you.’ God is here. His spirit is with us. His presence is with us. And he comes to bless us by His presence and by His grace.”
Also lending his presence to the occasion was the the Rt Rev Darren McCartney, former Suffragan Bishop of the Arctic and Rector of Clonallon & Warrenpoint with Kilbroney. Among those in church to watch Mr McAleavey being priested were the new curate’s girlfriend, Danni deKeizer, who delivered the second reading, and his parents Colin and Irene. The first reading was read by the Rev Joanne Megarrell, the Rector of Moira, where Iain first discerned a call to ministry, and the Gospel was read by the Rev Arthur Burns, Curate in NSM at Glendermott.
Bishop Andrew was assisted in the Service by the Rector of Glendermott, the Rev Canon Robert Boyd; the Archdeacon of Derry, the Ven Robert Miller; and the Archdeacon of Raphoe, the Ven David Huss, who preached the sermon. Archdeacon Huss said Iain was a Lisburn man – “and that’s a very good sign right there, at the beginning.” But what was this ordained ministry that Iain was being sent to do?
“When I left work as a schoolteacher,” the preacher said, “to go off to Theological College to train, one of my colleagues said, ‘David, from now on you’ll be drinking tea and opening garden fetes all day long.’” That was the perception, Archdeacon Huss said. But what does a minister of the Gospel really do? Was it just to vaguely float around opening things and being there occasionally for people when the minister might be needed?
“Well, there’s no better place to turn to,” the preacher said, “than [today’s] Gospel reading [John, 20: 19–23] , where the Lord Jesus Christ sent his apostles out on their mission and ministry in the world. And it shows us here that the ministry of the Gospel, the ministry of those who inherit that mantle from the apostles – the ministry of the priests or elders or presbyters in the Church of God – is not like any other work or calling.”
Archdeacon Huss said ministry had a number of features that were very striking, very wonderful and very odd in today’s world: it was a ministry grounded in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the peace that flowed from it; it was a ministry empowered by the Holy Spirit – “The resurrection of Christ is the bedrock of our faith and of our ministry, showing that this is not some airy–fairy idea, it’s not some vague notion dreamed up in some cloistered, quiet place, but it’s a solid fact: public, historical, undeniable.” – and it was a ministry to do with the forgiveness of sins.
“This is the strange part, isn’t it? I said at the beginning that ministry is strange in the eyes of people today, maybe in the wider world, and here’s a very strange part about it: Jesus says, ‘If you forgive the sins of any they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any they are retained.’ What a strange way to sum up the ministry that he was sending the apostles to do. You might be expecting him to say, ‘Receive the `Holy Spirit, now go and preach the Word,’ or ‘Receive the Holy Spirit, now go and build up my Church.’ But he says a strange thing about the forgiveness of sins. And here is a place where the Christian ministry departs from secular ideas and understanding of what’s really most needed in our world.
“If you were to go out and do an opinion poll: what are the biggest problems in our world, what are the biggest needs? Well, at the minute, Coronavirus, climate change, economic problems, inequality, the migration crisis, and so many other things. But, of course, the Lord teaches us that there’s something much deeper, there’s a problem which goes below the surface of all of those other things, and it is the problem that’s summed up in the simple word ‘sin’. The reality of sin is something which the Lord Jesus Christ doesn’t shy away from, and which those called to ministry need also to hold to.
“There is a deep problem in our world and in every human heart. As the Russian dissident and prisoner of conscience, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, said after years in the Gulag, in the prison camp, he said, he discovered that the line between good and evil runs through every human heart. And the Lord says not good people and bad people, there are people made in the image of God – wonderfully, fearfully made – but who are broken because of sin, the reality of sin, but also, of course, there’s the remedy for sin.
“Here’s the wonderful news,“ Archdeacon Huss said, “that there is an answer to this deepest human problem – which is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, He sends the apostles to this task of the forgiveness of sins. Of course, we’re well aware that it’s God alone who forgives sins, but He gives to the apostles and He gives to the preachers of the Gospel the task of declaring the way in which sins can be forgiven, and of assuring people who repent and believe that their sins are forgiven. He sends the apostles, in other words, into the ministry of absolution.
“As the old words of the Morning and Evening Prayer Service said, ‘He hath given power and commandment to His ministers to declare and pronounce to His people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins. This is a wonderful privilege that you will now have to declare to God’s people as they repent that their sins are forgiven through Christ.
“So, don’t shy away, Iain, from this key aspect of ministry, that it has to do with the forgiveness of sins; with leading people to the place where they find that forgiveness; leading them to the cross, in your preaching, in your presiding at the Lord’s table where you will present before the people the body and blood of Christ, broken and poured out for them – for their forgiveness, for their healing, for their salvation.
“Whatever you do, lead them to the Lord Jesus. This ministry is based on His resurrection, it’s empowered by His spirit and it releases that wonderful gift of the forgiveness of sins.
Archdeacon Huss said making Jesus known, turning people from sin to the Saviour and bringing enlightenment were things the new Curate could not do but God could do through him, by the power of the Holy Spirit. “So, continue to pray day by day that you will be enlarged and enlightened in your understanding, and not only understanding but in your love for these truths, to be able to share them and proclaim them.”
Lastly, the preacher asked the Lord to bless Mr McAleavey as he embarked on this greatest possible privilege.
Spirit of Discovery is SAGA's first ever newbuild cruise ship. Built by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany, she was ordered on 01/10/2015, laid down on 28/06/2018 and launched on 12/05/2019. She was sponsored by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, now Queen Consort of England as the wife of King Charles III. She became queen consort on 08/09/2022, upon the accession of her husband following the death of his mother, the late HRH Queen Elizabeth II. Spirit of Discovery was Christened on 05/07/2019 at the Port of Dover making her the first ship to be christened in Dover in more than a decade. Her maiden voyage was on 10/07/2019 which circumnavigated the United Kingdom and included calls in Ireland. She has a GTW58,250, has ten passenger decks and can carry 987 passengers and 540 crew. She is seen here departing from Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, on 13/09/2022. Having departed from Dover on 07/09/2022, she had called at Malaga, Spain, on 11/09, and Barcelona on this day, 13/09. She would then call at Salerno, Italy, on 15/09, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, on 16/09, La Goulette(Port of Tunis), Tunisia, North Africa, on 17/09, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, on 18/09, and Cadiz, Spain, on 21/09, prior to returning to Dover on 25/09.
This photo was taken from P&O Cruises - MV Britannia - IMO: 9614036 which stayed here in Barcelona for two days.
MV Britannia was completed on 26/02/2015 by Fincantieri, Monfalcone, Italy. She was laid down on 15/05/2013, launched on 14/02/2014 and Christened by the late HRH Queen Elizabeth II, on 10/03/2015 with her maiden voyage on the 14/03/2015. She is from the Royal Class of cruise ships and is British registered in Southampton. She has a GTW of 143,730, has seventeen decks of which fourteen are passenger accessible giving a maximum passenger capacity of 3,647 and 1,398 crew. She is powered by Wärtsilä 12V46F x 2 & Wärtsilä 14V46F x 2 & propulsion electric motors - 2 x VEM Sachsenwerk GMBH and is capable of 21.9 knots and a cruising speed of around 19 knots.
MV Britannia had departed from Ocean Cruise Terminal, Southampton, on 04/09/2022 for a lovely 14-night Mediterranean Cruise; Southampton - A Coruña, Spain - Valencia, Spain - La Seyne-sur-Mer(Toulon), France - Barcelona, Spain - Cadiz, Spain - Southampton. She had departed from Valencia, on 11/09/2022. Awaiting departure from Barcelona, her next port of call was Cadiz, Spain, on 15/09/2022. © Peter Steel 2022.
The Diocese of Derry and Raphoe has a new priest following Sunday evening’s ordination of the Rev Iain McAleavey at a Service in Glendermott Parish Church in Londonderry.
The 26–year–old County Down man was ordained by the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, the Rt Rev Andrew Forster, and will serve as Curate in the Parish of Glendermott and Newbuildings.
The service was dramatically different to most ordinations in the Diocese because of the restrictions in place to limit the spread of the Covid–19 virus.
The much smaller than usual congregation was obvious evidence of the virus’s impact, although perhaps the most poignant effect was seen near the end of the ordination when – instead of the usual mass laying–on of hands by clergy – Bishop Andrew led individual clergy in performing the ritual, after each had cleansed their hands with sanitiser.
Bishop Andrew referred to the changed circumstances for an ordination. “We would usually expect the church to be packed,” he said, “and lots of singing and a good bun–fight afterwards, and so on, and there’s an awful lot that we can’t do this evening because of the Covid–19 restrictions. But, what did we say, as we began this service? ‘The Lord be with you, and also with you.’ God is here. His spirit is with us. His presence is with us. And he comes to bless us by His presence and by His grace.”
Also lending his presence to the occasion was the the Rt Rev Darren McCartney, former Suffragan Bishop of the Arctic and Rector of Clonallon & Warrenpoint with Kilbroney. Among those in church to watch Mr McAleavey being priested were the new curate’s girlfriend, Danni deKeizer, who delivered the second reading, and his parents Colin and Irene. The first reading was read by the Rev Joanne Megarrell, the Rector of Moira, where Iain first discerned a call to ministry, and the Gospel was read by the Rev Arthur Burns, Curate in NSM at Glendermott.
Bishop Andrew was assisted in the Service by the Rector of Glendermott, the Rev Canon Robert Boyd; the Archdeacon of Derry, the Ven Robert Miller; and the Archdeacon of Raphoe, the Ven David Huss, who preached the sermon. Archdeacon Huss said Iain was a Lisburn man – “and that’s a very good sign right there, at the beginning.” But what was this ordained ministry that Iain was being sent to do?
“When I left work as a schoolteacher,” the preacher said, “to go off to Theological College to train, one of my colleagues said, ‘David, from now on you’ll be drinking tea and opening garden fetes all day long.’” That was the perception, Archdeacon Huss said. But what does a minister of the Gospel really do? Was it just to vaguely float around opening things and being there occasionally for people when the minister might be needed?
“Well, there’s no better place to turn to,” the preacher said, “than [today’s] Gospel reading [John, 20: 19–23] , where the Lord Jesus Christ sent his apostles out on their mission and ministry in the world. And it shows us here that the ministry of the Gospel, the ministry of those who inherit that mantle from the apostles – the ministry of the priests or elders or presbyters in the Church of God – is not like any other work or calling.”
Archdeacon Huss said ministry had a number of features that were very striking, very wonderful and very odd in today’s world: it was a ministry grounded in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the peace that flowed from it; it was a ministry empowered by the Holy Spirit – “The resurrection of Christ is the bedrock of our faith and of our ministry, showing that this is not some airy–fairy idea, it’s not some vague notion dreamed up in some cloistered, quiet place, but it’s a solid fact: public, historical, undeniable.” – and it was a ministry to do with the forgiveness of sins.
“This is the strange part, isn’t it? I said at the beginning that ministry is strange in the eyes of people today, maybe in the wider world, and here’s a very strange part about it: Jesus says, ‘If you forgive the sins of any they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any they are retained.’ What a strange way to sum up the ministry that he was sending the apostles to do. You might be expecting him to say, ‘Receive the `Holy Spirit, now go and preach the Word,’ or ‘Receive the Holy Spirit, now go and build up my Church.’ But he says a strange thing about the forgiveness of sins. And here is a place where the Christian ministry departs from secular ideas and understanding of what’s really most needed in our world.
“If you were to go out and do an opinion poll: what are the biggest problems in our world, what are the biggest needs? Well, at the minute, Coronavirus, climate change, economic problems, inequality, the migration crisis, and so many other things. But, of course, the Lord teaches us that there’s something much deeper, there’s a problem which goes below the surface of all of those other things, and it is the problem that’s summed up in the simple word ‘sin’. The reality of sin is something which the Lord Jesus Christ doesn’t shy away from, and which those called to ministry need also to hold to.
“There is a deep problem in our world and in every human heart. As the Russian dissident and prisoner of conscience, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, said after years in the Gulag, in the prison camp, he said, he discovered that the line between good and evil runs through every human heart. And the Lord says not good people and bad people, there are people made in the image of God – wonderfully, fearfully made – but who are broken because of sin, the reality of sin, but also, of course, there’s the remedy for sin.
“Here’s the wonderful news,“ Archdeacon Huss said, “that there is an answer to this deepest human problem – which is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so, He sends the apostles to this task of the forgiveness of sins. Of course, we’re well aware that it’s God alone who forgives sins, but He gives to the apostles and He gives to the preachers of the Gospel the task of declaring the way in which sins can be forgiven, and of assuring people who repent and believe that their sins are forgiven. He sends the apostles, in other words, into the ministry of absolution.
“As the old words of the Morning and Evening Prayer Service said, ‘He hath given power and commandment to His ministers to declare and pronounce to His people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins. This is a wonderful privilege that you will now have to declare to God’s people as they repent that their sins are forgiven through Christ.
“So, don’t shy away, Iain, from this key aspect of ministry, that it has to do with the forgiveness of sins; with leading people to the place where they find that forgiveness; leading them to the cross, in your preaching, in your presiding at the Lord’s table where you will present before the people the body and blood of Christ, broken and poured out for them – for their forgiveness, for their healing, for their salvation.
“Whatever you do, lead them to the Lord Jesus. This ministry is based on His resurrection, it’s empowered by His spirit and it releases that wonderful gift of the forgiveness of sins.
Archdeacon Huss said making Jesus known, turning people from sin to the Saviour and bringing enlightenment were things the new Curate could not do but God could do through him, by the power of the Holy Spirit. “So, continue to pray day by day that you will be enlarged and enlightened in your understanding, and not only understanding but in your love for these truths, to be able to share them and proclaim them.”
Lastly, the preacher asked the Lord to bless Mr McAleavey as he embarked on this greatest possible privilege.
KAEMSA members provided generous donations for the new library's conference room. From left to right: Carolyn Humphrey, John Estes, Mike Legoudes and West Ficken.
Shaking all that aside, a trip up to Brough led me onto one of the newbuild housing estates in the town home to British Aerospace - with the amount of houses and industry cropping up in the area, is Brough turning into the new Northstowe at this rate? In light of these developments, on 8 April 2024, East Yorkshire launched Monday to Saturday Brough town service...er, 558, linking Elloughton, Brough town centre and the newbuild estates on a circular service. Despite an E200MMC apparently being transferred down to Elloughton depot to run the service, the 558 has run using this JustGo Sprinter nearly every day. Suppose that's one Sprinter to be pleased to see this week.
Seen on the approach to Brough's new Aldi on Bluebird Way, East Yorkshire's 'JustGo North Lincolnshire'-branded 403, a 2017 City45-bodied Mercedes-Benz Sprinter new to MB dealer EvoBus before eventually being sold to Go-Ahead London for use on the GoSutton service, takes a turn out of North Lincolnshire around a roundabout with hoardings for newbuild developments on Brough Town Service 558.
Spirit of Discovery is SAGA's first ever newbuild cruise ship. Built by Meyer Werft, Papenburg, Germany, she was ordered on 01/10/2015, laid down on 28/06/2018 and launched on 12/05/2019. She was sponsored by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, now Queen Consort of England as the wife of King Charles III. She became queen consort on 08/09/2022, upon the accession of her husband following the death of his mother, the late HRH Queen Elizabeth II. Spirit of Discovery was Christened on 05/07/2019 at the Port of Dover making her the first ship to be christened in Dover in more than a decade. Her maiden voyage was on 10/07/2019 which circumnavigated the United Kingdom and included calls in Ireland. She has a GTW58,250, has ten passenger decks and can carry 987 passengers and 540 crew. She is seen here departing from Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, on 13/09/2022. Having departed from Dover on 07/09/2022, she had called at Malaga, Spain, on 11/09, and Barcelona on this day, 13/09. She would then call at Salerno, Italy, on 15/09, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, on 16/09, La Goulette(Port of Tunis), Tunisia, North Africa, on 17/09, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, on 18/09, and Cadiz, Spain, on 21/09, prior to returning to Dover on 25/09.
This photo was taken from P&O Cruises - MV Britannia - IMO: 9614036 which stayed here in Barcelona for two days.
MV Britannia was completed on 26/02/2015 by Fincantieri, Monfalcone, Italy. She was laid down on 15/05/2013, launched on 14/02/2014 and Christened by the late HRH Queen Elizabeth II, on 10/03/2015 with her maiden voyage on the 14/03/2015. She is from the Royal Class of cruise ships and is British registered in Southampton. She has a GTW of 143,730, has seventeen decks of which fourteen are passenger accessible giving a maximum passenger capacity of 3,647 and 1,398 crew. She is powered by Wärtsilä 12V46F x 2 & Wärtsilä 14V46F x 2 & propulsion electric motors - 2 x VEM Sachsenwerk GMBH and is capable of 21.9 knots and a cruising speed of around 19 knots.
MV Britannia had departed from Ocean Cruise Terminal, Southampton, on 04/09/2022 for a lovely 14-night Mediterranean Cruise; Southampton - A Coruña, Spain - Valencia, Spain - La Seyne-sur-Mer(Toulon), France - Barcelona, Spain - Cadiz, Spain - Southampton. She had departed from Valencia, on 11/09/2022. Awaiting departure from Barcelona, her next port of call was Cadiz, Spain, on 15/09/2022. © Peter Steel 2022.