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The West Dorset Magazine, July 29, 2022
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Be prepared to be turned upside-down By Canon Deb Smith, Team Rector of Bridport Stories are so beguiling. Real life has messy edges and is unresolved. But making little patchworks of stories helps us see drops of life in focus for a moment. This week I remembered a story a parishioner from long ago shared with me of her life. She was a lovely woman in her eighties. She hailed from Yorkshire. She was the archetypal sweet old
Services Sunday, July 31 Sherborne Abbey 8am Holy Communion 9.30am Parish Eucharist 6pm Evensong St Martin of Tours, Lillington 10am Morning Service St James the Great, Longburton 6pm Songs of Praise St Paul’s at The Gryphon 10.30am All Age Worship St Mary Magdalene, Castleton 11.15am Communion Roman Catholic Mass is held each week in Beaminster and Chideock. Saturday in Beaminster at 6pm Sunday 8.30am in Chideock and 10am in Bridport St Mary’s Church in Litton Cheney has Wi-Fi and every Sunday, organist and lay worship leader Paul Cheater, leads the Morning Prayer which is broadcast to St Gregory’s Church in
lady; kind, thoughtful and selfless. As a young woman she set off on a journey to New Zealand to be married. Her fiancé had sailed out ahead of her to find a home for them and they planned to have the wedding soon after she arrived. She was full of trepidation for the journey alone – three weeks at sea. But she felt confident of the life she was travelling towards. On the ship she met a young man. By the time she arrived in New Zealand
everything had changed. She knew without question the man she would spend the rest of her life with was not her fiancé, but the young man on the ship. All she expected her life to be was turned upside down. When I met her she was a widow, but she had spent her life with her young man, her husband for over 50 years. Why have I been thinking of Peggy and her story this week? Maybe her experience describes waking up to life, a theme of this strange time
when life is so uncertain and for so many, turned upside down. The act of paying attention helps us to see our own stories and the stories of our community. The things that turn our world upside down can sometimes be the very things that make life precious.
Boca Raton, Florida, every week. You can join him: facebook.com/SaintGregory s Beaminster – St Mary of the Annunciation 8am Eucharist 9.30am Eucharist Broadwindsor - The Nativity of St John the Baptist 3.30pm Tea Church St Juthware and St Mary’s, Halstock 9.30am Breakfast Church Maiden Newton 8am Morning Service Dorchester United Church 10.30am Morning Worship and Junior Church Bridport Catholic Church 10am Mass Little Bredy 11am The churches of the Bride Valley Benefice will join with Langton, Portesham and Abbotsbury for a service at St Michael and All Angels in Littlebredy followed by a picnic next to the lake. Melbury Bubb 11am team Service and picnic
Cerne Abbas 11.15am Sung Matins Melbury Bubb 11am Team Service & Picnic Maiden Newton 8am Holy Communion
9.30am Prayer Meeting at Thomas Hardye School 10am Sunday Service at Thomas Hardye School Toller Percorum 3.30pm Tea Church Sherborne Abbey Burton Bradstock 8am Holy Communion 10.30 Songs of Praise Swyre 6.30pm Songs of Praise Punchknowle 9.30am Holy Communion Litton Cheney 9.30am Morning Worship Long Bredy 11am Holy Communion Corscombe 10am Holy Communion East Chelborough 11.15am Holy Communion Melbury Osmund 6.30pm Evening Prayer Wraxall 11am Holy Communion Maiden Newton 9.30am Family Communion
Sunday, August 7 Sherborne Abbey 8am Holy Communion 9.30am Parish Eucharist 6pm Evensong St Martin Of Tours, Lillington 10.30am All Age Worship St James The Great, Longburton 11am Village Communion St Paul’s at The Gryphon 10.30am Holy Communion St Mary Magdalene, Castleton 11am Mattins Toller Percorum 11am Eucharist South Perrott 11am Eucharist Bridport St Mary 8am Service 11am Holy Communion Swyre 6pm Songs of Praise Dorchester Family Church
Tuesday, August 9 Sherborne Abbey 5pm Service with Bishop Isaac, Ezo (Sudan)
