Services

Sherborne Abbey

Weekday Services

Monday to Saturday at 8.30am, Morning Prayer - The Sepulchre Chapel

Every Monday at 9am, Holy Communion - The Lady Chapel

Every Tuesday at 12noon, Holy Communion - The Lady Chapel

Every Wednesday at 10.30am, Holy Communion with Homily – The Lady Chapel

Every Thursday at 12noon, BCP Holy Communion - The Lady Chapel

Every Friday at 9am, Ecumenical Holy Communion - The Lady Chapel The first Friday of the month at 9am, Requiem Holy

Communion - The Sepulchre Chapel -

Every Saturday at 9am, Holy Communion - The Sepulchre Chapel

Saturday, February 11 always walking past the church. A couple of hours later I was still thinking of the gift, and so wandered back to church, hoping it was still there. But it had gone.

I wonder if I will see someone walking around Bridport wearing the heart, having received the gift I didn’t. It brightened up my day, nonetheless, and it makes me smile to think of the joy it gave the giver and the receiver of that little woollen heart, a token of random generosity. We are coming up to that time when many give tokens, often in the shape of a love-heart, to celebrate Valentine’s Day. The day gets its name from St Valentine, a priest who lived under the reign of Roman Emperor Claudius II. When the emperor passed a law that all young men must remain single, in order to

Sherborne Abbey 5pm Choral Evensong

Sunday, February 12

Sherborne Abbey 8am Holy Communion

9.30am Parish Eucharist 6pm

Choral Evensong

St Paul’s at The Gryphon 10.30am Holy Communion

St John the Baptist, Symondsbury

9.30am Celtic Worship

St Mary Magdalene, North Poorton

9.30am Eucharist

St Saviour’s, Dottery 11am Morning Prayer

St Michael & All Angels, Askerswell

11am Benefice Eucharist

St Swithun’s, Allington 9.30am Holy Trinity

Bradpole 9.30am alternating Holy Communion and Morning Praise

St Mary’s Bridport 11am Holy Communion alternating Morning Praise

Sunday, February 19

Sherborne Abbey 8am Holy Communion

9.30am Parish Eucharist 6pm make them better soldiers, Valentine supposedly broke the emperor’s order by secretly performing marriages. The legend also says that while he was imprisoned for this crime, people would slip him notes written on folded pieces of paper that they would hide in the cracks of the rocks around his cell.

These days cynics (like me...) might say that Valentine’s Day has become a commercial conspiracy by those selling chocolate, greeting cards and flowers. But seeing that gift, given freely and left for anyone to find in the door of a church, has set me thinking. It’s not the lavish gesture that really means the most, even on Valentine’s Day, but the open-hearted manner in which we give and receive. Valentine’s Day is associated with romantic

Choral Evensong

St Paul’s at the Gryphon 10.30am

All Age Worship

St Mary Magdalene, Loders 9.30am Celtic Worship

St Mary the Virgin, Powerstock

11am Benefice Eucharist Baptism

St Paul’s Broadoak 6.30pm Evening Prayer

St Swithun’s, Allington 9.30am Holy Trinity

Bradpole 9.30am alternating Holy Communion and Morning Praise

St Mary’s Bridport 11am Holy Communion alternating Morning Praise

Wednesday, February 22 Sherborne Abbey 7pm Holy Communion with Ashing

Sunday, February 26

8am Holy Communion 9.30am

Parish Eucharist 6pm Choral Evensong

St Paul’s at the Gryphon 10.30am Morning Worship

St Saviour’s Dottery 9.30am Holy Communion, love, a time for lovers, a time of hearts and flowers. But love, freely given, is much more everyday than that, and even more remarkable too.

So as one who never receives a Valentine card (being married to one who resists the commercial conspiracy) and who never gives a card either (what can I say?) – I want to thank that secret gift giver, who brightened up my day, and surely the day of the person wearing the heart brooch. And thank you too, to all who today show love by being a good neighbour, by caring, by being generous, by seeing the good and by being open-hearted.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

St John the Baptist, Symondsbury

11am Benefice Eucharist

St Mary Magdalene, North Poorton

6.30pm Evensong

St Michael & All Angels, Askerswell

6.30pm Evensong

St Swithun’s, Allington 9.30am Holy Trinity Bradpole 9.30am alternating Holy Communion and Morning Praise

St Mary’s Bridport 11am Holy Communion alternating Morning Praise

Sunday March 5

St Mary the Virgin, Powerstock

9.30am Morning Prayer

St Mary Magdalene, Loders 11am Benefice Eucharist

St Mary’s, Bridport 8am Book of Common Prayer and Holy Communion

St Swithun’s, Allington 9.30am Holy Trinity Bradpole 9.30am alternating Holy Communion and Morning Praise

St Mary’s Bridport 11am Holy Communion alternating Morning Praise