Services at the date of this magazine going to press; otherwise please contact a church warden (contact details page 3) St George, Fordington, Dorchester, DT1 1LB St Simon & St Jude, Winterborne Monkton, DT2 9PT 1st and 3rd Sunday; 8am BCP Communion Rogation Sunday 2 May at 11.15am (Including Farm Tour) Each Sunday 9.45am CW Communion The church will be open for private prayer every Saturday Track and Trace contact details taken at entrance and Sunday 10am-4pm Wednesday; Church will be open 8.30am to 4pm for private prayer and reflection T H E W I N T E R B O U R N E S St Mary the Virgin, Dorchester, DT1 2HL St Martin, Winterborne St Martin, DT2 9JR Holy Eucharist every Sunday at 9.45am. Please book your 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th Sundays – 11am – CW Communion seat by emailing Trudy on [email protected] St Mary, Winterbourne Abbas, DT2 9LP Wednesday midweek Eucharist 9.30am 1st and 3rd Sundays – 10am – CW Communion Contemplative prayer group meets on Wednesday 5pm. St Michael, Winterbourne Steepleton, DT2 9LG St Peter, Dorchester, DT1 1XA 2nd Sunday – 11am – CW Communion’ Sunday – Eucharist, at 9am and 10.30am St Thomas a Beckett, Compton Valence, DT2 9ER Thursday – Eucharist 10am 2nd Sunday – 9.30am – CW Communion Monday and Thursday – Morning Prayer 9.15am We will continue to be open for personal prayer from There is a 30-minute Zoom Service on the 1st, 3rd and 5th 10am to 4pm each day Sundays at 10am; please contact the Revd Jean Saddington (01305 889992) if you would like to join. St Andrew, West Stafford, DT2 8AB There are currently no evening services. 1st and 3rd Sunday – Matins 11.15am 2nd and 4th Sunday – Eucharist 11.15am Please book your seat by telephoning a Churchwarden – Open for Private Prayer on Wednesdays from 10am to 4pm. their numbers are listed opposite. 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 Church Committee Secretary www.dorchesteranglican.info - Flowers Margaret Morrissey 250366 Felicity Murray [email protected] Church Committee Secretary Dorchester PCC Secretary Janet Cooper Treasurer Kaye Kerridge 268641 Robert Potter 262041 Envelopes Kaye Kerridge 268641 260259 [email protected] Treasurer John Heath 07802 527757 Dorchester PCC Treasurer Electoral Roll Jill Shepherd 264222 Envelopes Beryl Shuttleworth 266616 Magazine Editor Electoral Roll Trudy Tabone 246126 St Simon & St Jude Margaret Morrissey 250366 Servers Peter Vojak 265994 Organist Duncan Honeybourne 761881 [email protected] Safeguarding Peter Vojak 265994 Flowers Rota of PCC members Magazine Advertising Social Groups Church Committee Secretary c/o Margaret Morrissey 250366 Olive Branch Joyce Potter 262041 Wendy Grassby 263762 Email [email protected] and Monday Club Rosemary Bassett 262615 Treasurer Hilary Hoskin 251085 your message will be sent to someone from Hall Bookings Electoral Roll Wendy Frost 889510 the Magazine, Pews News, the Parish John Williams [email protected] Safeguarding Peter Vojak 265994 office or the Team Website. Magazine Circulation Cynthia Fry St George Benefice House/Prayer Groups Verger Tony Archer 07484 257612 St Peter Friday Prayer Group Meets at St Peter’s Friday 10.30am Penny Blaby 753556 Organist Verger Val Potter 264416 Dorcas MU Bible Study Group Meets on St George’s Dragons Maggie Carter 266072 Organist Weds 10am Janet Cooper 260259 Bellringers Tony Spiller 262442 Bellringers Will Haydock 07976 276066 St Peter’s MU Penny Blaby 753556 Flowers Helen Pickard Flowers Rosalind Thorpe 259659 Emmaus House Group Meets on 3rd Church Committee Secretary Church Committee Secretary Monday of the month. Cheryl Taylor 269564 Christine Buffrey, 778765. Christian Meditation Group Treasurer Michael Neely 262869 Treasurer David Elliott 259236 Wednesdays, 5pm at St. Mary’s. Envelopes Envelopes David Elliott 259236 Rosemary Bassett 262615 Electoral Roll Dorothy Maggs 262436 Electoral Roll Jim Mclean 260126 Home Bible Study Group Monday 7.30pm Social Events Maggie Carter 266072 30 Grosvenor Rd Celia Robertson 257621 Social Events Vacancy Servers Brownies Becki Munro 457181 Safeguarding Sara Adams 07900 243689 Safeguarding Jane Pryce 269937 Rangers Lisa Upward 265574 Hall Bookings Helen & David Pickard Hall Bookings Pat Davies 267745 [email protected] [email protected] Please check if the above groups are Magazine Circulation Val Scriven Magazine Circulation Mark Dyer meeting during Covid 19 2 Revd Reji Raj-Singh Associate Priest Colours and Seasons The Team Team Rector he Church is immersed in colours! I have been asked after services why Revd Keith Magee I have been wearing a certain colour of stole and is there a meaning with responsibility for St Peter’s Tbehind it. This I have found a good teaching opportunity to tell the and St Simon & St Jude questioner about the Church’s cycle of seasons and their colours. The colours 07766 645135 we know are white or gold, followed by green, then red and purple, followed Team Vicars by gold or white, ending with purple. Let me explain how these colours work. Revd Cora Yarrien with responsibilty for Red is easy to deal with, as red is the colour of fire or blood. In the Church’s St George and St Andrew calendar there are many saints who gave their lives for their faith. When we 01305 262421 remember them we wear a red stole and chasuble. On St George’s day we wear St Mary’s red, as George gave his life as a Christian martyr. We wear red on the Day of Vacant contact church wardens Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came down in tongues of flame on the disciples St Simon & St Jude Vacant contact church wardens heads. When we remember the proto martyr of England, St Alban, again we Revd Jean Saddington wear red. with responsibility for We have two periods in the year, Advent and Lent, when we wear purple. The Winterbournes & Compton Valence 01305 889992 Advent is a reflective and solemn time when we prepare ourselves for Christmas. That is even more the case in the season of forty or so days leading Associate Clergy Revd Joanna Lacy-Smith up to Good Friday that we call Lent. It is a time when we prepare to accompany 01305 889476 Our Lord on his journey towards his death on the cross. Clearly this is a time Revd Reji Raj-Singh of great solemnity and purple is the appropriate colour. 07983 430050 Green is the everyday colour. It reminds of growth, life, everyday living, the Licensed Lay Ministers colour of Nature. It is used for those times when we are being everyday David Bowen 01305 263584 Allen Knott 01305 267217 Christians. Most Sundays from Trinity Sunday to the end of October have Caroline McMeiken 07555 967387 green as their colour. Robert Potter 01305 262041 Now we come to the colours of white and gold. These colours represent Churchwardens rejoicing and celebration, most importantly when we remember Our Lord Jesus St George Christ – his birth at Christmas, his revelation to the world in the Sundays of Caroline Taylor 01305 269564 vacant Epiphany and, most importantly, in the central event of our faith, his St Mary the Virgin resurrection on Easter Day and in the 50 days leading up to Whitsun. Trudy Tabone 01305 246126 Ellie Stephens 01305 263391 Over the coming months we have an array of days when we recall important St Peter figures in the history of our faith. Let me introduce you to one example in the Val Potter 01305 264416 month of July. Helen Lange 01305 561410 St Andrew On 22nd July we remember St Mary Magdalene, an important figure in vacant Jesus’ ministry, who watched with the other women at the foot of the cross St Simon & St Jude and was the first person to see the risen Christ. She ran to tell the disciples of Charles Norman 01305 262719 Judy Norman 01305 262719 this wonderful news, thus earning the title of Apostle to the Apostles. For all St Martin of us this is a joyful day – the colour has to be gold or white. I served in the Dick Corbett-Winder 01305 889410 parish of Mary Magdalene in Paddington, where in spite of a small St Mary congregation there was always an atmosphere of joy and serenity, with an almost Joy Parsons 01305 889611 life-sized statue of Mary Magdalene looking down on us. We all need people St Michael Ellie Sturrock 07980 089470 like Mary Magdalene in our lives, friends who go the extra mile to encourage Roddy Kilpatrick 01305 889238 and support us, such as I have found in St George’s. St Thomas Peter Steel 01308 482782 There are other colours some churches use, such as blue, pink and black. I Jeremy Russell 01308 482227 shall leave those for another time. I hope that I have shown you why we use Chaplaincy at Dorset County Hospital colour to enrich our worship and give it added meaning. Reverend Ron Martin (CofE) Lead Hospital Chaplain email [email protected] Dorchester Benefice Magazine Revd Jean Saddington (CofE) Chaplain Please submit copy for the September issue by 17th August at the latest. [email protected] All new articles please submit by Father Barry Hallett (RC) Chaplain Contactable via Ron 14th August or give notice of intention to [email protected] Printed by Sherrens of Weymouth 3 Volcanic Eruption in Democratic Republic of Congo Rev. Mike Stear, Eagle’s Wings Ministries UK (based in Poundbury) he eruption of Mt. Nyiragongo immediately north of the city of Goma, has had enormous Tconsequences for both the Anglican Dioceses of Goma and Bukavu. 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