A Thousand Words – Lynn McChlery

Lynn McChlery has a special interest in how the various Christian churches select ministers, and especially in how they discern that mysterious commodity, ‘calling’. Lynn is herself a Church of Scotland minister, so can speak from personal experience of sensing that God is asking something of you. This is the images that she came to talk to Anne about, and you can hear their conversation at about 19’59 minutes in to March’s podcast.

‘Fiat’ An Annunciation by Fr Rory Geoghegan

Fr Rory Geoghegan has lived as a Jesuit in various pastoral roles of priestly ministry for over sixty years and is currently engaged in retreat works and sculpture as part of his ministry at St Beuno’s Jesuit Spirituality Centre, North Wales. Born in Shipley in 1931, Rory joined the Jesuits in 1949 and was ordained in 1962. He later studied at Oxford Tech and Sunderland College of Art (1964-68) before returning to chaplaincy work in Bristol where he was also engaged as a sculpture technician at Bristol College of Art (1972-77). He did further chaplaincy work in Leeds, Sheffield and the Shetland Isles before moving to St Beuno’s in 1998 where he returned seriously to sculpture. Most of Rory’s sculptures are now at St Beuno’s itself but he has also exhibited in locations as varied as Bradford Cathedral (1998-2011), the St Asaph Music Festival, the Old Palace, Wells, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, Trinity College Leeds and various schools and churches in north Wales.