The Malta Anglican

The magazine of the Anglican Church in Malta and Gozo

February 2017
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Dear Friends,

Those of you who follow the fortunes of our Chaplaincy around the globe will no
doubt have seen the article in the London Sunday Times on 29th January entitled
Queens Maltese Church is Crumbling and heard the article on the Today
Programme on BBC Radio 4 on Friday 3rd February covering the British Prime
Ministers visit to Malta and the launch of the Cathedral Restoration Appeal. I write
this magazine article just before our Feast of Title, The Shipwreck of St. Paul
when in the presence of Bishop David Hamid, our Lead Bishop, Archdeacon
Vickie Sims, the Diocesan Secretary and many invited guests we will launch our
Appeal for three million euros. Prior to the 12 th February launch press and
television crews will gather in the Cathedral on 9th February for a Press
Conference and Presentation as the Appeal Website goes live:
savethecathedral.com. In the Sunday Times article Hazel Shearing writes
Guillaume Dreyfuss, a heritage specialist working with Architectural Projects, the
firm that produced the report, said that there were two areas of concern that
require attention over the next few months. Maltese politicians have signed up to
support the historic building. Among them is President Marie-Louise Coleiro
Preca, who will present the restoration project to the public at a fund-raising gala
reception in the next few weeks. The Sunday Times article has been followed by
a deluge of interest both from Maltese, British and European journalists and from
innumerable broadcasting companies. The two joint chairmen, Sir Martin Laing
and Mr Martin Scicluna have formed a group of Patrons, an Appeals Committee
and a Fund-raising Events Committee to undergird the appeal and to raise further
the profile following the launch. A handsome booklet has been printed with the
strapline Save Vallettas Skyline containing all details and costs in a Summary
of the Case for Support, copies of which are available to interested contributors.
This is the first major restoration work to take place since the Second World War
and it is hoped to complete the necessary works by 1st November 2019, the 175th
Anniversary of the Consecration of the building and represents a wonderful
coming together of the passion and energy of many hearts and minds of
individuals concerned for the future of the Chaplaincy. The booklet states The
Urgent Need for Action, The Purpose of the Appeal, The Financial Situation,
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The Challenge, The Achievable Plan, The Restoration Appeal and The
Cathedrals Role in Maltas History. Succinctly put in the Appeals booklet is the
description of the Chaplaincy in the 21st Century: The Cathedral pays homage to
St. Paul, considered to be the spiritual father of the Maltese, and is deeply
symbolic of two centuries of close Anglo-Maltese relations. Its unique and historic
identity is complementary to and in harmony with the Archdiocese of Malta
walking together in Faith. The Cathedral and its Chancellor enjoy close
ecumenical ties with the Maltese Catholic Church and other denominations in
Malta. The Cathedrals memorials bear important testimony to the sacrifice and
valour of countless Allied Servicemen who fought to defend Malta during the first
and second World Wars. In the Chaplaincy we will be praying this prayer for the
next two or three years God our Father, you have given us a fine heritage with
which to witness to the saving acts of Our Lord Jesus Christ. May we use our
resources and imagination to Your glory so that our Pro-Cathedral may continue
to shine as an icon of faithfulness in these islands under the watchful protection
of the Blessd Virgin Mary and St. Paul. Amen

The Reverend Canon Simon Godfrey, Chancellor and Senior Chaplain

Starting Next Month

a 3 Part Series on the Bishop Knights Crozier
entitled Going into Details

What is a Crozier and a detailed description

Of Bishop Knights Crozier

Bishop Knight and the Corpus Connection

Omar Ramsden and Alwyn Carr:

the silversmiths
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Imagineyou are a fisherman on a boat sailing towards the Island of Rhodes in

1475. Its getting dark and you want to reach land as soon as possible. Wait a minute!
Theres something out there! It looks like a globe of light! No, its not possible. Must be
a reflection of the moon. Hmm, cant be a reflection because it seems to be upright.
You talk to the other two fishermen on the boat and decide to go investigate. Your
fishing boat gets closer and closer. Thats strange. It still looks
like a globe of light when you reach it. But wait, there is
something floating in the water. You lean over to haul it in and
your fellow fishermen hold on to you so that you dont fall into
the sea. Youve hauled it into the boat and the three of you
bend down to get a better look at what you found.
Imaginethat what you found was a Holy Icon of the Madonna
and Child today known as the Lady of Damascus.1
Well, it seems that this is what happened in 1475. And do you know what? Today she
is just a few minutes away from us at The Church of Our Lady of Damascus on
Archbishop Street!
According to tradition, the fishermen continued on their way to the island of Rhodes and
immediately brought it over to Grand Master Giovanni Battista Orsini who placed it in the
Conventual Church of the Order. A number of Knights recognized it as being the
Theotokos Damaskinis which they had last seen at the Syrian Monastery in Damascus.
We could, of course, write all this off as pure legend. Maybe there is an amount of legend
surrounding the story. But then how are you going to deal with the following note dated
1587 found in the archives of the Order?
The sacred icon of the Virgin Mary of Damascus, painted (as said) by Saint Luke, came
alone by sea from the city taken by the unfaithful, no one carried it, she came alone with
a lamp lightening its way and arrived at the shore of Rhodes, where the Knights of Saint
John put it in a church with another Eleusa type icon called the Eleimonitria.
You would think that the icon had, after a very eventful existence, finally found peace and
quiet and maybe even be half forgotten. Well, no, thats not the case as you will see.
1480 The icon is transferred to a new church especially built for her.
1523 After 6 months of siege the Knights of St. John are defeated by Suleman I and
the island of Rhodes falls.
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Between 1523 and 1530 the Knights of St. John become the original boat people and
the icon travels with them.
1530 King Charles V of Spain gives them the islands of Malta . The icon goes ashore.
1565 The Great Siege is in full swing and the Knights are losing hope. Jean Parisot de
Vallette goes down on his knees before the icon pleading for help and protection
from heaven. On the Feast of the Virgins birth (7th September) help finally arrives.
1587 Our Lady of Damascus is transferred from Borgo di Castello to Valletta.
1760 Luigi Buhagiar is commissioned to restore the icon but ends up repainting it.
1821 Another restauration is commissioned. The results are even worse!.
1930 the Pope decides he wants to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival
of the icon in Malta. Vincenzo Bonello , a knight, is commissioned to restore the
painting but because he has no time he only restores the frame and a small area
near the hands.
1931 the icon is crowned by the Vatican Chapter on 25th October.
1941 WW2. The icon is transferred to a shelter. This proves to be a wise decision as
the Church of Our Lady of Damascus is completely destroyed.
1963 1966 the icon goes to Italy for a complete restoration financed by the Italian
government. This time the restoration is done properly and the original image
resurfaced from beneath the layers of paint.
1968 As of 1968 people from all over the world begin to visit the icon and in 1972 and
2009 the Magisterial Post of the Order of the Knights of Malta issue stamps
commemorating it.
So, what are you going to do? Arent you curious to see what she really looks like? Why
not follow the fishermens lead and sail your boat closer to see the sacred icon of the
Virgin Mary of Damascus? She is only a few minutes away.
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1 Theres a 37 page book available for download on www.dimarcomezzojuso.it.
Its an Italian website but the book is in English. Click on AUTORI; go down to
Paps Vito Borgia under B and click on it. You will be directed to a picture of
the Icon and the word Visualizza is below it. Click on the word and you will be
directly connected to the book. Mary DeGruttola
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OPEN OUR EYES TO SEE YOUR GLORY

FUNERAL REQUIEM FOR FR HOWARD LEVETTT,

ST MARYS, ROTHERHITHE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4th, 2017

Jesus said to [the two disciples] What do you seek? They said to him, Teacher,
where are you staying? He said to them, Come and see. They came and saw where
he was staying, and they stayed with him. (John 1.38-39)

How right and appropriate this Gospel, appointed for today, is for the funeral
of a faithful priest, and for this faithful priest, our beloved brother, Howard,
who for almost fifty years served God and his people, inviting them like the two
disciples, Andrew and one other, to follow Jesus, and to come and see. The
Gospel is a story of discovery and recognition. John the Baptist, the Forerunner,
points to Jesus with the words Behold the Lamb of God!, words which Fr
Howard like every priest would have uttered time and again In holding up the
Blessed Sacrament and inviting the people of God to behold the mystery of
themselves, and to come to share in that mystery by receiving the life of Christ
to transform them into his likeness, as we shall do today in communion with
the whole people of God living and departed. Behold the Lamb of God
behold the one who comes among us in sacrificial love. The pricking straw of
the manger St Bernard saw as prefiguring the piercing crown of thorns, and
Matthias Grunewald when he painted the great Isenheim altar-piece put John
the Baptist at the foot of the cross with a lamb by his feet insistently pointing
to the agonised suffering Christ, the cost and reality of Loves Redeeming Work.
The ARCIC Agreement on the Eucharist speaks of the eucharistic sacrifice as our
being drawn into the movement of the Lords self-offering, and the priest who
presides at that sacrifice has from his ordination a deep and special sharing in
that mystery of love. As a member of the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) Fr
Howard recognised the centrality of that costly, serving love.
The two disciples hear John speak of who Jesus is, and this starts them on their
journey. Jesus then turns and asks them, What do you seek? What is the
hunger in your heart? What is the eternal, thirsting longing for which you were
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made? It is a question which every priest must know for himself, and which
over and over again he must learn to ask of those for whom he cares. What is
that you truly long for? And the disciples know this is something that is not to
be answered in a moment, in a casual exchange; they need to go to be with
Jesus; so they ask, Rabbi, where are you staying? In St Johns Gospel the word
for staying and abiding has a deep meaning, for the Son abides in the Father
and the Father in the Son, and disciples are to abide in him as he does in them.
They are to abide in his love, that his joy may be in them, and that their joy
might be full. His gift to them and to us is life in all its full abundance. As St John
again says, Of his glory we have all received, grace upon grace. So Jesus tells
his disciples to Come and see; and they go; and they stay. The priests ministry
is rooted in a coming to see, and in an abiding with Jesus, returning over and
over again to the mystery of the divine love, until at the end his own baptism
into the death of Christ, and living in the hope of the resurrection is fulfilled, as
it is for all Christians, in the dying which we believe is but the gate to life
immortal.
Each one of us is unique in who we are, in our gifts and our talents. Each one
of us is called to become by the transfiguring grace of the Holy Spirit a diagram
of Christs glory. Our diagrams will be different, but the glory will be the same.
And so, as we come in sorrow and in thanksgiving to commend our beloved
Howard to the eternal life of heaven, in the hope of resurrection, and to the
communion and fellowship of the saints, we rejoice in his many gifts which
touched so many lives. And in so many places from his student days at Kings
College, London; here in Rotherhithe; in St Johns, Walworth; in Egypt, in
Alexandria, as parish priest and Archdeacon; at St Albans, Holborn; and finally
in Venice and Trieste, whereas bishop having persuaded him to go he stayed
rather longer than he had envisaged; and a host of other places besides. A
sense of early vocation, grew into a strong and deep spirituality, appreciated
by many whom he encountered as preacher and counsellor. A wonderfully
human, and humane person, with deep compassion, an enviable capacity for
conversation ( particularly when enjoyed with a glass of gin or scotch); his
laughter of pure joy; a musician singing at the piano at Caister conferences
and elsewhere; an accomplished dancer, and, I am told, a performer on the
accordion. [I checked on Google whether there were accordions in heaven, but
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found only a retail outlet of that name in Chicago, and a suggestion that there
were harps in heaven but accordions in hell!]. At St Albans, as surely earlier at
Walworth, he believed in a Catholic ministry with sleeves rolled-up
ministering to the whole community. A leader of pilgrimage to open eyes and
widen Christian horizons. In Egypt he endeared himself to the church in a
different continent and a different place, and he earned the trust of his own
diocese as well as pioneering the friendships from which all deep ecumenical
relations spring. The same was true in Venice, where I value my own
introduction by Howard to Cardinal Scola, with whom he clearly had a warm
relationship. Don Raffaele, parish priest of S Maria del Rosario, Gesuati, with
whom Fr Howard worked closely, wrote of him after his death as a good and
gentle man of God. Unity, Holiness, Catholicity, Apostolicity these four marks
of the Church were printed on Howards life and ministry. And we give thanks
for all of these today, as we pray that God will comfort us and especially
Howards sister Sonia, and all his closest friends in our loss.
Come and see, said Jesus to the two disciples, and in the verses which follow
the Gospel we heard, we read how Philip in turn says to the sceptical Nathanael
Come and see, and he brings him to Jesus, who tells Nathanael that he will see
heaven opened and the angels of God, ascending and descending upon the Son
of man for Jesus himself is Bethel the house of God and the gate of
heaven. In his ministry Howard invited us to come and see, in his care and
compassion, in his words and in worship the barest alphabet of reverence
for so divine a mystery as Fr Mackonochie said of the celebration of the
Eucharist at St Albans.
There is a poem by the poet-priest David Scott on the East window of Lanercost
Priory in which he writes.
If we could only see through glass Then the eye within the heart
(so even sweet George Herbert Will see things as they are;
disappears) And ,well supplied from there,
and then persist in looking, Returns (as good George Herbert did)
till the eye can pass through stone With only praise identified.
and then through air.
We pray that Howard will indeed now see things as they are, for the Lord has
called him Come and see, come and share in the banquet and joy of heaven,
the music and the dancing, the dance of the coruscating love of the Blessed
Trinity, for which and for whom he and we were made. Where indeed there is
only praise.

Gozo News
January has been a quiet month on Gozo. The highlight was the Service of
Christian Unity which was held in St Augustine's church. It was pleasing to see
so many Anglicans at the service, as well as Father Clem whose homily, totally
unprepared as he was unaware he was going to give one, was very fitting. The
service this year was composed by the Evangelical church in Germany with the
theme 'Crossing Barriers'. This was illustrated by the building of a symbolic
wall with each brick representing a sin of devision for which we asked
forgiveness. The words,'lack of love', 'discrimination', 'persecution',
'intolerance' etc were written on the bricks. Once the wall was completed we
had scripture readings and a message from Bishop Mario followed by our
response in faith as the wall was dismantled and the bricks used to form a cross.
This highly significant and relevant action of reconciliation represents a symbol
of hope where division among Christians seems insurmountable. 2017 marks
the 500th Anniversary of Martin Luther's 95 Thesis which He made public in
1517 and which started the reformation movements across Europe. It is fitting,
therefore, that the Reformation, which marked the beginning of division
among Christians was remembered after 500 years by a worldwide Service
which brought Christians of all denominations together in the week of Prayer
for Christian Unity. Many thanks to Alison Rutland and Susan Warner for taking
part.

At the end of the month we say goodbye to Fr Clem and Liz who we have got
to know and appreciate. We thank them and wish them God speed.

Judith Pugh
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Services and Liturgical Dates for February

Wednesday 01 Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525
Gozo 11:00 Mass

Thursday 02 The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas)

Friday 03 Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary in Denmark and Sweden,

865
Holy Trinity 09:30 Mass

Saturday 04 Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189

Sunday 05 Fourth Sunday before Lent

Holy Trinity 09:30 Sung Mass
Pro-Cathedral 11:00 Sung Mass

Monday 06 The Martyrs of Japan, 1597

Pro-Cathedral 11:00 Mass

Wednesday 08 Gozo 11:00 Mass

Friday 10 Scholastica, sister of Benedict, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543

Holy Trinity 09:30 Mass

Sunday 12 St Paul Shipwreck

Third Sunday before Lent
Pro-Cathedral 11:00 Sung Mass

Monday 13 Pro-Cathedral 11:00 Mass

Tuesday 14 Cyril and Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 and 885

Wednesday 15 Sigfrid, Bishop, Apostle of Sweden, 1045

Gozo 11:00 Mass

Friday 17 Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr,1977

Holy Trinity 09:30 Mass

Sunday 19 Second Sunday before Lent

Holy Trinity 09:30 Sung Mass
Pro-Cathedral 11:00 Sung Mass
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Monday 20 Pro-Cathedral 11:00 Mass

Wednesday 22 Gozo 11:00 Mass

Thursday 23 Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155

Friday 24 Holy Trinity 09:30 Mass

Sunday 26 Sunday next before Lent

Holy Trinity 09:30 Sung Mass
Pro-Cathedral 11:00 Sung Mass

Monday 27 George Herbert, Priest, Poet,1633

Pro-Cathedral 11:00 Mass
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A Journey (of a Lifetime) through Africa. Chris Linskill

Chapter 4

So we crossed into Rwanda at Goma ,where an active volcano smoked sullenly on the
nearby horizon.
We somehow managed to squeeze in four members of an African family, who needed a
lift to the capital, Kigali. Earlier we had to decline to help a woman with a goat; we could
see no way of transporting it inside, and on the roof rack it would have suffered torture
on the rough roads!
Whilst in Rwanda my brother caught malaria from one of the numerous mosquitoes,
despite our preventive medicines. Very unpleasant. Medical help was at some distance,
but fortunately he recovered quite rapidly.
Now near Mwanza, on the south coast of Lake Victoria, we often could not sleep for the
noisy cigalas, howler monkeys, shrieking parrots, and honking cranes in the palm trees
of an early morning.
Soon we were into the famous Serengeti National Park, with its big herds of zebras and
antelopes of all kinds- some seemed to leap along at more than 40mph!After this we
entered the Tanzan-Kenyan Lakeland, and to the south east the unmistakeable bulk of
Mount Kilimanjaro dominated the landscape. We debated as to whether to stop off to
climb this icon of mountaineering, little realising what a feat reaching its summit of 5,895
feet is. But anxious to get on to Uganda, we decided to head straight for Nairobi.
There we replenished supplies and moved towards the Ugandan border. Rumours and
reports were rife about the tyrannical activity of Idi Amins army and unofficial
supporters. We went to a frontier post and asked the guards if it was safe to enter with
our vehicle. In a manner little convincing, they said it was. A Kenyan policeman on his
side said If you believe that youll believe anything. I said I didnt - and we left the
Landrover with a friendly French missionary. I offered him the French classic novels I had
with me, but he had read them all! We decided to enter on the train with only minimum
property.
After waiting all night at the station, the train came up from Mombasa early in the morning
of the following day! We boarded and crossed the border at Bungoma. Soon two soldiers
got on the train and started to take money off all the passengers, including us. I hid a
quantity in my underpants to avoid confiscation.
After a long and rather crowded journey we reached the Ugandan capital, Kampala. My
aunts convent was some distance from the centre, and was on the shore of Lake Victoria.
We took a taxi-massively packed, as usual here. The children were passed in horizontally
though the windows after the adults had already monopolised all possible seating space!
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The taxi only went to a fixed point in a nearby village, so we walked the last distance
carrying nothing but a bottle of water.
We arrived, to a joyful and effusive welcome from our Aunt Margaret and her
companions, and to very comfortable accommodation overlooking the lake. We visited a
local school, recounting some of the adventures of our passage, to humorous cheers
from the school girls- a teacher also translated into Bantu,(if that is the majority
language!)
The many evils of Idi Amins dark reign were beginning-lootings (including the
convent),murders and atrocious imprisonments. A few years later the outspoken critic of
Amin, the Anglican archbishop Joseph Mubiru, as fierce a denouncer of Amins vile
conduct as John The Baptist was of King Herods, was martyred for his impassioned
defence of Ugandans. Many say this was done by Amin himself.
A tragic parallel exists with the martyrdom of James Hannington in October 1885.He was
the first ordained bishop of Equatorial Africa, killed on the orders of the Islamic king
Mwanga. James last words were Go tell Mwanga I have purchased the road to Uganda
with my blood. Lake Hannington was named after him; we camped near it on our journey.
There is a memorial shrine in Kampala cathedral.
From being called The Pearl of Africa Uganda under Idi Amin deteriorated into a horror
that took over 300,000 lives before Amin fled before the Tanzanian invasion.
We can only praise the courage and grace of the nuns who continued their merciful work
for the lepers and others through such terrible times.
After a most peaceful and uplifting week we tried to extend our visas, but this was
aggressively refused, so we had to leave to begin our considerable return journey. With
profuse thanks, and receiving some beautiful souvenirs, we bid goodbye and went in the
convent Landrover (rather older than ours!) driven by my brother, to the station. Without
mishap we left Uganda on the train and arrived safely to the mission in Kenya where we
had left our vehicle.
Leaving a donation for the Franciscans at a nearby Kenyan convent, a long, but different
return route home now lay before us, no doubt with different problems to be encountered.
In no way had the trip so far been easy, but the ethic of such poor peoples, outside of
tribal and other political antagonisms, was friendly and helpful in general. I never ceased
to be amazed at how anyone could live in these clearly very minimally productive
environments, beautiful as they were. The challenge to the missions of today must still
be very great.
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Got Me Thinking!

Many of my ideas for articles come while I am working on the Pew Sheets. The other
day the phone rang as I was copying and pasting the Psalm. It was someone asking to
be taken off the sick list and saying she had felt it as we were praying for her and that
she knew it had helped her to get better.

Got me to thinking.

Got me to thinking about all the people who say that praying is at best useless and at
the worse superstition. These people often say that they are basing their opinions on
science and scientists and therefore know what they are talking about.

What they are saying is that Scientists dont believe that prayers work and dont believe
in God. But thats a wrong assumption. Its like saying cars run on petrol and forgetting
to mention that just as many cars run on diesel.

www.beliefnet.com tells us that: There is a common misconception that all scientists

are atheists but that couldnt be further from the truth. While studies have found that
scientists tend to be much less religious than the general public, a survey conducted
by the Pew Research Center for the People & The Press found that just over half of
scientists (51%) believe in some form of deity or higher power; specifically, 33% of
scientists say they believe in God. Some of the greatest Nobel laureates and pioneers
in science believed in God.

My favourite scientist---and also the one that die-hard atheists keep saying he is proof
that not only are prayers useless but that there is no God is the E=mc2 man himself-----
-EINSTEIN!

He once got a letter from a little girl named Phyllis. Its on www.Christianpost.com and
so is his answer:

"My dear Mr. Einstein, We have brought up the question: Do scientists pray? In our
Sunday school class. It began by asking whether we could believe in both science and
religion. We are writing to scientists and other important men to try and have our own
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question answered. We will feel greatly honored if you will answer our question: Do
scientists pray, and what do they pray for? We are in the sixth grade, Miss Ellis's class.
Respectfully yours, Phyllis,"

And here is his answer:

"Dear Phyllis, I will attempt to reply to your question as simply as I can. Here is my
answer: Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings,
is due to the laws of nature. Therefore, a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the
course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested
wish. However, we must concede that our actual knowledge of these forces is imperfect,
so that in the end the belief in the existence of a final, ultimate spirit rests on a kind of
faith. Such belief remains widespread even with the current achievements in science.
But also, everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes
convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly
superior to that of man. In this way, the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of
a special sort, which is surely quite different from the religiosity of someone more nave."

My second favourite scientist is Leonard Leibovici, an Israeli professor of internal

medicine in Israel and expert on hospital acquired infections, who made a study in 2001
using the records of 3,393 patients who had developed blood infections at the Rabin
Medical Center (not all at the same time).

His studies proved beyond a doubt that intercessory prayers do work. Many groups
tried to discredit him and Wikipedia even announced that he had refuted his results
saying that his study was intended light-heartedly to illustrate the importance of asking
research questions that fit with scientific models.

Therefore, many atheist scientists and groups purposely ignored the fact that he had set
up a very strict protocol right from day one. He had used, a random number generator
to randomize the participants into two groups, only one of which would be prayed for,
and throughout the study maintained impeccable blinding. In fact, in order not to
influence anyone neither the patients nor the hospital staff were allowed to know exactly
why he was carrying out this study in the first place---until after the results came in.
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Now, some would say, that Leonard Leobovici probably believed in prayers so much
that he might have inadvertently misinterpreted the results. Well, according to Lynne
McTaggart who is the author of "The Intention Experiment" that is not even a remote
possibility because -----He wasn't so much for studying prayer in medical science, on
the contrary he wanted to disprove it, but something different emerged from it.

Now, that should get people thinking!

Mothers Union
The Mothers Union met for its
usual branch meeting on Monday 16th January at the PBH. This month we had
speakers from Hospice Malta. Anna and Kenneth from Hospice Malta outlined
the various supports offered via hospice Malta free of charge on Malta and
Gozo for people with life limiting illnesses. This was well received by members
who agreed we could have listened for much longer. Anyone wishing to find
out about the work of the hospice can go to www.hospicemalta.com for full
information.

The next meeting is a PBH on 20th February.

Editors Word
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Dates for your Diary

Upcoming Cathedral events

12 February 2017 St Pauls Shipwreck

15 April 2017 Holy Saturday Summer Field School Choir
07 May 2017 EU Christian Forum
09 May 2017 EU Christian Forum 18.00 Choral recital by Capella
Sanctae Catherinea
02 December 2017 Christmas Fayre

Chaplaincy dates
26 March 2017 Mothering Sunday
01 March 2017 Ash Wednesday, First day of Lent
13 April 2017 Last day of Lent
09 April 2017 Palm Sunday
14 April 2017 Good Friday
16 April 2017 Easter Sunday

Events not yet finalised

Spring/Summer Fayre
Summer Barbecue
Chaplaincy Drinks Party British High Commission

Holy Trinity
28 February Shrove Tuesday
Pancake morning in Bishops House 13:00

April Strawberry Tea tbc

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Notices
Chaplaincy Address book 2017

The chaplaincy address book for 2017 is now being produced. If you have not
yet submitted your form, please see the Churchwardens at any of the three
churches and a form will be provided or contact Aileen on aileen@go.net.mt.
It is imperative that a form is submitted to enable you to be included.

>>>>>>

Recently I received a round-robin from Fr. Peter Wolfenden and he wrote:

Give my best to all the troops please, Peter

As I cannot remember who was around when Fr. Peter and Elaine were at Holy
Trinity, the best way to pass on his greetings is through the magazine, Gill Doe

>>>>>>

Lent 2017 in the Chaplaincy

Ash Wednesday this year begins on the 1st March and therefore gives
us plenty of time after the Feast of Candlemas which closes
Christmastide to think of and prepare for Lent. This Lent we will be
studying Abraham A journey through Lent by Meg Warner.
'With honesty and compassion, Meg Warner leads the reader through Abraham's story.
She interweaves Abraham's journeying with her own and creates a space in which her
readers can do the same. Full of accessible scholarly insight and pastoral wisdom, this
book will be a valuable, comforting and challenging resource for Christians looking for
a fresh perspective on Lenten journeying.'

As usual we will be holding a series of Lent lunches. Please contact Elizabeth

Lochhead if you would be willing to host a lunch in your home.
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Chancellor of St Pauls Pro Cathedral

The Reverend Canon Simon Godfrey, SSC

The Lodge, Independence Square, Valletta VLT1535
21225714 79913561 Anglican@onvol.net
Chaplain based at Holy Trinity Church
Locum Chaplain The Reverend Clem Upton SSC
Bishops House 27335231
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St Pauls Pro-Cathedral
Chaplaincy Warden Mr Clive Bennington 2133 6769
Churchwarden Mrs Bernice Caruana 2147 0630
Organist Dr Hugo Agius Muscat 2141 1995
Sec. Friends of St Pauls Mr Simon Walker 2141 5887
Holy Trinity Church
Chaplaincy Warden Mrs Maureen Fava 7921 0116
Churchwarden Mrs Ursula Smith 9926 3572
Organist Mr Tony Camilleri 2180 2096
Sec. Friends of HT Mrs Mary De Gruttola 9921 0620
Our Lady of St George, Gozo
Chaplaincy Warden *Mrs Judith Pugh 7986 6367
Archdeaconry Representatives marked * and including Mrs Judith Buttigieg and Ms Kyoko Zhang
Chaplaincy Council:
Vice Chairman Mr Clive Bennington 2133 6769
Hon. Secretary Mr Paul Tillbrook* 9906 5616
Hon. Treasurer Mr Dean Bucknell 9980 7653
Electoral Role Officer Mrs Aileen Grech 7904 8509
Safeguarding Officer Mrs Margaret Weaver 2138 1773
Magazine Editor Mrs Aileen Grech 7904 8509

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