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 -

Syria and Turkey today, in Ukraine, there are many who this day do worry about what they will eat, what they will drink, what they will wear… This is another level of worry. We’ve all been reading, watching and listening to the news.

I heard the brilliant reporter Lyse Doucet describing the joy of a new-born baby girl rescued from the rubble – still with umbilical cord attached –tempered by the knowledge that her mum, dad, brothers and sisters all perished. And of the relief offered to those doing the gruelling, heart-breaking work of looking for survivors in the rubble heaps by volunteers bringing hot soup. Such an ordinary everyday kindness which can make all the difference. Even in the terror and loss of places of great suffering,

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

Sunday, March 12

Sherborne Abbey: 8am Holy Communion, 9.30am parish

Eucharist, 6pm Choral Evensong

Martin of Tours, Lillington: 10am

Holy Communion

James the Great, Longburton: 10am Family Communion

St Paul’s at The Gryphon: 10.30am Holy Communion

St Mary Magdalene, Castleton: 11.15am Holy Communion

Sunday, March 19

Sherborne Abbey: 8am Holy Communion, 9.30am Parish

Eucharist, 6pm Choral Evensong

St James the Great, Longburton: 10am Family Communion

Martin of Tours, Lillington

10am Morning Service people often are filled with hope. When kindness and courage are seen, when weary people have the strength to carry on, to care, to share the little they have, to be lights in the darkness, Worry is of course relative. Our lives are less precarious, but we too face loss, uncertainty, and sadness. And we too can raise our eyes and find hope, even when worries surround us. So let me share this lovely poem by the wonderful Mary Oliver and her message of encouragement in our worrying days, a reminder of Jesus’ words to let go of our worries long enough to see the hope around us, wherever it is.

I Worried Mary

Oliver

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers

St Paul’s at The Gryphon: 10am

All Age Worship

St Mary Magdalene, Castleton: 11.15am Mattins

Burton Bradstock: 8am Holy Communion, 9.30am Café Church

Shipton Gorge: 11am Mothering

Sunday Service

Swyre: 11am Morning Worship

Puncknowle: 11am All Age Holy Communion

Litton Cheney: 9.30am Morning Prayer

Long Bredy: 9.30am Morning Worship

Sunday, March 26 8am Holy Communion 9.30am Parish Eucharist

6pm Choral Evensong

St James the Great, Longburton: 10am Said Holy Communion

Martin of Tours, Lillington: 10am Morning Service

St Paul’s at The Gryphon: 10.30am flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it?

Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better?

Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am, well, hopeless. Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia? Finally, I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

Morning Worship

St Mary Magdalene, Castleton: 11.15am Mattins

St Saviours, Dottery: 9.30am Holy Communion

St John the Baptist, Symondsbury: 11am Benefice Eucharist

St Michael & All Angels, Askerswell: 6.30pm Evensong

St Mary Magdalene, North Poorton: 6.30pm Evensong

Sunday, April 2

St Mary the Virgin, Powerstock: 9.30am Celtic Worship

St Mary Magdalene, Loders: 11am Benefice Eucharist

Burton Bradstock: 11am Holy Communion

Shipton Gorge: 11am Holy Communion

Swyre: 9.30am Breakfast Church

Litton Cheney: 9.30am Holy Communion

Littlebredy: 11am Morning Prayer

Vittles (food & drink)

It is sometimes a bit of a faff cooking different meals for an individual in your family that has a different diet, whether this is by choice or by design. Looking at our locality, how easy is it to cater for the vegetarian in our family?

Vegetarianism isn’t a new trend; it’s been with us for decades and perhaps it’s time our locality addresses this trend with quality food choices. It’s not just a load of vegetables, if available. Our supermarkets have a huge array of vegan and vegetarian food; producers have certainly become inventive. However, prices and quality are questionable. Plant-based foods are laboratory created, mass produced and an additive overload. There is a dark side to many of these meat substitute foods grown from fungi it is a mycoprotein. Highly processed, it needs ‘fertiliser’ to grow a specific sugar that the mycoprotein feeds on, causing high