261-Benfice Mag 10.qxp_text page 23/03/2020 09:17 Page 2 Sunday Services 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 St Mary the Virgin, Dorchester, DT1 2HL Every Sun 8am Holy Eucharist (said) St Mary, Winterbourne Abbas, DT2 9LP Every Sun 9.45am Holy Eucharist (sung) 1st, 3rd Sun 10am Holy Communion 5th Sun 9.45am Eucharist for Healing 1st Sun 6pm Taize Service St Michael, Winterbourne Steepleton, DT2 9LG 2nd Sun 11am Holy Communion St Peter, Dorchester, DT1 1XA Every Sun 9am Holy Communion (BCP) St Thomas a Beckett, Compton Valence, DT2 9ER Every Sun 10.30am Sung Eucharist 2nd Sun 9.30am Holy Communion St Andrew, West Stafford, DT2 8AB 1st Sun 11.15am Said Holy Communion 2nd and 4th Sun 11.15am Sung Holy Communion For mid-week services and more information 3rd Sun As we 11.15amgoplaced to press Said on Mattins various– Services activities have been most cancelled of which andabouthave restrictions worshipbeen cancelledsee church have pages. been 5th Sun No Service The Benefice Network Office Secretary St Andrew June Jenkins 250719 St Mary [email protected] Verger Cynthia Fry 573076 Organist Benefice Website Organist Geoff Greenhough 267723 Flowers Jill Shepherd 264222 www.dorchesteranglican.info - Flowers Margaret Morrissey 250366 Church Committee Secretary [email protected] Church Committee Secretary Felicity Murray Dorchester PCC Secretary Janet Cooper Robert Potter 262041 Treasurer Kaye Kerridge 268641 260259 [email protected] Treasurer John Heath 07802 527757 Envelopes Kaye Kerridge 268641 Dorchester PCC Treasurer Envelopes Electoral Roll Jill Shepherd 264222 Beryl Shuttleworth 266616 Electoral Roll Trudy Tabone 246126 Magazine Editor Servers Peter Vojak 265994 St Simon & St Jude Margaret Morrissey 250366 Safeguarding Peter Vojak 265994 Organist Duncan Honeybourne 761881 [email protected] Social Groups Flowers Rota of PCC members Magazine Advertising Olive Branch Joyce Potter 262041 Church Committee Secretary c/o Margaret Morrissey 250366 Monday Club Rosemary Bassett 262615 Wendy Grassby 263762 [email protected] Hall Bookings Treasurer Hilary Hoskin 251085 Email [email protected] and John Williams [email protected] your message will be sent to someone from Electoral Roll Wendy Frost 889510 Magazine Circulation Cynthia Fry the Magazine, Pews News, the Parish Safeguarding Peter Vojak 265994 office or the Team Website. 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Advertising Manager: the Editor at Father Barry Hallett (RC) Chaplain [email protected] [email protected] Contactable via Ron or Richard Printed by Sherrens of Weymouth 3 261-Benfice Mag 10.qxp_text page 23/03/2020 09:17 Page 4 The Bishop of Ramsbury, the Rt Revd Dr Andrew Rumsey Perhaps it was growing up in the power cuts of the early beam of the dynamo. seventies, but I tend to collect lamps and torches of all John’s Gospel reassures us that the light of life is kinds – and am always ready to be persuaded of the generated by God’s work, not ours – and powered by need to buy another. The least satisfactory I’ve ever his glory. Glory is our one inexhaustible energy owned, however, was the dynamo light fitted to my supply: an eternal current that anyone must connect bicycle as a boy. The basic problem was that this to if they really want to live. It shines from the depended on you to keep pedalling – so along a flat relationship between Jesus and his heavenly father, road, the light would shine nicely, but grew dimmer empowered by the Holy Spirit. This divine dynamo, climbing a hill and became a sad glow by the time you we learn, charges most powerfully at the points where reached the top. Its crucial flaw, however, became human resources give out – when the wine runs dry evident as soon as you had to stop at a junction. Then, at the wedding, or the well is deep and you don’t at the very point when you most needed to be seen by have a bucket. Where this glory shines most brightly, other road users, the light would desert you. we find, is the cross of Christ, that fatal junction For those serving the local church, it can be all too where all else turns to darkness. easy to think that, if we just pedal a bit harder, the None of us is especially luminous on our own: we light will shine a bit brighter. The trouble is that, are the light of the world only with Christ shining when the road gets rough and steep, or a crossroads is through us. May he renew our strength and our hope reached, our energies and hope can fade, like the as we turn to him.