Sunday Services Revd Canon Chris Savage St George, Fordington, Dorchester, DT1 1LB St Simon & St Jude, Winterborne Monkton, DT2 9PT Every Sun 8am Holy Communion (said) 1st Sun 11.15am Holy Communion 1st, 3rd, 4th, St Martin, Winterborne St Martin, DT2 9JR and 5th Sun 9.45am Holy Communion (sung) 2nd Sun 9.45am All Age Communion (sung) 2nd Sun 8am Holy Communion (BCP) 1st, 3rd, and 4th Sun 11am Holy Communion The Team St Mary the Virgin, Dorchester, DT1 2HL Where is God in all this? St Mary, Winterbourne Abbas, DT2 9LP Team Rector Every Sun 8am Holy Eucharist (said) Vacant – contact church wardens Ten years ago I led a team of workplace chaplains in Every Sun 9.45am Holy Eucharist (sung) 1st, 3rd Sun 10am Holy Communion with responsibility for St Mary the Virgin Cambridgeshire and regularly visited the staff at Cambridge 5th Sun 9.45am Eucharist for Healing St Michael, Winterbourne Steepleton, DT2 9LG and St Simon & St Jude Crown Courts. On several occasions I took round the Courts 1st Sun 6pm Taize Service a group of local ordinands. I asked them to visit staff and 2nd Sun 11am Holy Communion Team Vicars defendants with their families who sat outside the courts St Peter, Dorchester, DT1 1XA Vacant – contact church wardens anxiously waiting to be called in. When reporting back they Every Sun 9am Holy Communion (BCP) St Thomas a Beckett, Compton Valence, DT2 9ER with responsibilty for St George Every Sun 10.30am Sung Eucharist 2nd Sun 9.30am Holy Communion and St Andrew were asked to answer a short question, “Where is God in all Vacant – contact church wardens this”. There were many responses such as “Christ was St Andrew, West Stafford, DT2 8AB with responsibility for St Peter’s suffering with them”. They also felt a conversation with a 1st Sun 11.15am Said Holy Communion Revd Jean Saddington Christian helped those who sometimes were terrified of what 2nd and 4th Sun 11.15am Sung Holy Communion For mid-week services and more information with responsibility for might happen, to feel calm. 3rd Sun 11.15am Said Mattins about worship see church pages. The Winterbournes & Compton Valence “Where is God in all this” must have passed through our 5th SunAt the present No Service time all Services and our various activities have been cancelled 01305 889992 minds as we have suffered the unexpected Lockdown since March 23rd because of Covid 19. We are made in the image Associate Clergy of God and are social creatures, but we have been restricted Revd Joanna Lacy-Smith in our movements for reasons that have to date been accepted 01305 889476 by the public. Yet we have missed our friends and especially Licensed Lay Ministers our parents and grandchildren. 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Looking for Hope Amongst the Clutter Jane Brocklehurst on the value of going through our ‘sentimental’ stuff…and finding some wonderful memories. 2020 – We just have to stay in for a couple of months. WW II – I’m not going out just in case a bomb drops WW II – You have to leave your loved ones and might so I will stay in listening to some music quietly In this strange locked down season, because of the the past may be an unwelcome prospect. It makes us never see them again. because the air raid siren might go off. coronavirus pandemic, I’ve noticed a change in the type face uncomfortable questions. Projects we may never 2020 – But my kids need some fresh air so we’re all 2020 – Netflix needs to sort the streaming out. I can’t of pictures posted on social media. In place of the look- finish, equipment we cannot use any more, objects of going to the park. even watch a series without it crashing. here-at-me selfies are snapshots of buds opening to attachment from people we’ve lost. Isn’t that like what WW II – Your kids have to be evacuated and live with WW II – We are sitting in the dark around a candle display the colours of spring. we’re doing as a nation in these unprecedented times? random good samaritans for their safety. playing cards keeping as much light in as possible so Such hopeful images counterbalance gloomy statistics Issues we have been avoiding are suddenly highlighted the warplanes don't see us from above. in the news media. There are also more memory through unfamiliar circumstances. 2020 – I can only Facetime my family and friends I pictures – this is what I was doing on this day years ago There is much talk about how we’re looking can’t see them. 2020 – Every man for themselves, so I’m going to with people I love – I wish we could be together now. forward to getting back to normal on the other side of WW II – I have written letters, I’m hoping they're stock-pile as much as I can because we are more While we’re not allowed to make the kind of this international crisis. Some people say they hope received and I get a response this year. important than anyone else, never mind the elderly memories depicted in those pictures, we find comfort things will have changed, that normal will not look 2020 – I am trying to order my food shop online, it’s that gave us this freedom. in memories we already have.