Easter Services
There will be a 10am Easter Service in each of our six churches on Easter Sunday.
Stations of the Cross Painting Exhibition
St. Peter’s, Eype and the Eype Centre for the Arts were very honoured to present an Exhibition of the Bridport paintings of the Stations of the Cross during Lent and Holy Week 2018 (Easter). It was open to visitors 2-5pm daily. Donations were made for Churches Together in Bridport and Eype Centre for the Arts. …
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Big Sing day at Milton Abbey
Come and fill Milton Abbey with Praise! An opportunity to learn new Christian songs and hymns on a Big Sing day at Milton Abbey on Saturday 18 November 2017 from 10am – 3.30pm with Noel Tredinnick, conductor of the All Souls Orchestra. Suitable for anyone aged 9 to 99 who enjoys singing! Whatever your church …
Autumn Preaching Series – St Mary’s South St
RENEWING HOPE What do you PRAY for? Whom do you SERVE? How will you GROW? These questions posed by the vision for the Diocese of Salisbury will be explored in Evensong sermons at 4 p.m. on: 3rd September 1st October 5th November.
Christian Aid Coffee Morning – Bradpole Church
Thursday, 18th May, 10am-12noon to include music (& maybe songs) with Angelica Kennard. Stalls include plants, books, bric-a-brac, cakes and raffle – and not forgetting delicious refreshments. We would love to see you there, and why not bring a friend. Lyn (01308 425804)
Gospel Choir Workshop St John’s West Bay
Return visit of Jo Sercombe on Saturday 17 June, 2017 at St John’s Church, West Bay, 10am-4.00pm. Under18’s/students free. Donations £10. Buy-your-own Lunch (or buy Fish & Chips) – drinks provided. All Welcome. Please book via elfsavigear@btinternet.com
Movement in worship
Churches Together Bridport & District are excited to be hosting a Movement in Worship foundation course, which is suitable for everyone:- beginners, folk with restricted movement, even those who think they can’t dance! The uniqueness in which you have been created is a gift that you can give back to God in your worship. This workshop is designed …
Unaccompanied Bach, in 41 different places
Wendy Staal, first violinist of Extreme Baroque, details of their last concert can be found at https://sladersyard.wordpress.com/tag/extreme-baroque/ is embarking on a project – ‘Bach 41’. It is a very simple idea – to play one movement of unaccompanied Bach, in 41 different places. The project is in aid of the Richard Ely Trust for Young …
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Despair can only turn to hope
Perhaps like me you had never heard of Buncrana in Ireland, let alone its pier before yesterday. Yet also like me you may have been horrified and distressed to hear how a day out turned to tragedy when a family car slid into Lough Swilly and five of the six people inside drowned. Davitt Walsh …
Angel by name but not nature
Very early in my teaching career in the early 1980’s the school where I worked in Sussex was shocked when, one lunchtime, one pupil stabbed another. It was almost fatal, but not quite. The quick thinking of teaching returned from lunch and who was first on the scene stopped the pupil bleeding out. The perpetrator …
The Cassocked Crusader
I was always more of a ‘Victor’ reader than one for Marvel and DC comics. Alf Tupps, ‘the Tough of the Track’ who trained on fish and chips, ran barefoot and yet still won his races was my Saturday comic hero. That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy the odd superhero story or two. …
Beware the spin …
In the story of the ‘Man with the twisted lip’ the great detective Sherlock Holmes uncovers a great fraud. A seemingly rich and prosperous man, with good connections and a fine lifestyle has been paying for it all by becoming a profession beggar on the streets of London. His unmasking comes as rather a shock …
What history teaches….
I am an historian and so tend to rationalise and understand the present through the prism of the past. The study of history at its most exciting enables us to see how we are where we are and can so clearly help to chart choices which effect the future. So it is through the prism …
Public Art Brings Easter to Life
In conjunction with the Bridport Arts Society, Churches Together in Bridport and District plan to display fourteen ‘Stations of the Cross’ at various locations throughout the town of Bridport and West Bay in West Dorset this coming Holy Week and Easter. The Stations of the Cross depict various interactions Jesus has along his final journey …
The jewel in the crown …
About eight miles from where I was born in South Wales is a small town called Tredegar. The iron works have gone as have the mines, but its history has left a lasting legacy to the British nation: Tredegar was the birthplace of the National Health Service. Local boy Aneurin Bevan used the Miners Hospital …
Where is the vision of civic life?
I am thoroughly enjoying watching ‘Dickensian’ at the moment. A murder mystery involving some of the better known characters from Dickens’s novels and set in late Victorian London is great fun. We shall have to wait and see who it was that murdered Jacob Marley! The Victorian era has a mixed press. It was an …
Not counting the calories
‘Dad’ said my eldest daughter just after Christmas ‘we must spend more quality time together next year.’ So in January we kept the promise we had made to each other and I took up her invitation to join her at sessions of a slimming franchise. We do seem to be rather at war with our …
Life on the Edge
On Wednesday 10th February 2016 (11.30am – Bridport United Church) Rezwana Islam, a Christian Aid Support Officer, working in Bangladesh, will share stories of the families she has met who have been affected by climate change and by the destructive powers of the Brahmaputra River – and who are living on the edge of survival! …
Paintings to feature in sermons
Famous paintings will feature in sermons for the Spring season of Choral Evensongs at St Mary’s Parish Church, Bridport. The theme is “The power of passion and resurrection in three paintings.” The first at 4 p.m. on Sunday 7th February is “Christ after the flagellation” by Diego Valáquez, the second on Sunday 6th March is …
Christmastide at St Mary’s
Although the north aisle of Bridport Parish Church had to be closed after the ceiling collapsed just before Advent, St Mary’s Church sustained a large, varied and well attended programme of Christmastide services and activities. These ranged from quiet candlelit reflection at Compline to children’s excitement on Christmas Eve at the Crib Service with the …
Not another death star?
We all age and as the years roll by waistlines expand and other bits sag. There’s little point worrying about it, it’s just the way it is. Like turning grey its best done gracefully. I will admit to being rather shocked though by the passage of years and their effect on some folks who I …
You Muppet!
We all have our traditions at this time of year and one of mine is sometime in December to watch my favourite Christmas movie. It is based on one of literature’s great books and the cast is studded with huge stars of stage and screen. It can only be ‘The Muppet Christmas Carol’. I am …
Rubbish!
I am just about getting my mind around the new bin rota. So far I have forgotten to put food waste out twice and got the week’s the wrong way round for recycling and general rubbish. Things must improve otherwise I shall have to drive my diesel car to the landfill myself at who knows …
End times?
I can remember sandwich-board men on the streets of Cardiff with the message: ‘Repent for the end is nigh.’ You don’t see them so much these days although one does see ‘Jn. 3.3’ around, which is a different but related message for those who know their bibles. All three of the world’s religions which share …
Measured tone chills the heart
I had just settled into my seat and was looking forward to reading my book. Robert Harris’ ‘Lustrum’ his novel of Cicero which the blurb on the back promised to ‘deliver thrilling yet timeless games of power, sex, fame and Rome…’. Perfect holiday read for a vicar, I thought. Then the captain’s measured tones came …
Jennings and Darbishire
I used to love to read the ‘Jennings’ series of novels of life set in the fictional Linbury Prep School written by Anthony Buckeridge. Jennings and friend Darbishire got into all sorts of scrapes in a school which seemed a place of endless sport, midnight feasts in the dorm and crazy teachers like ‘Old Wilkie’. …
Bags of bags
It is surely one of the saddest tasks in life to go to ones parents home for that final clear-out after they have died. Almost everything one touches has a memory attached to it. It’s over three years now that that task had to be undertaken and there are still several boxes in the garage …
Beware an unexploded marrow!
This is the time of year of ‘mellow fruitfulness’ when our local churches will be doing a lot of ‘ploughing and scattering’. Folks still like a ‘traditional’ harvest service, but the celebration itself is a Victorian invention, the first being held in 1843 in the parish of Revd Stephen Hawker who was known locally for …
Turning the other cheek
Revenge, it is said, ‘is a dish best eaten cold’. There seems to be some disagreement as to exactly when this proverb was first written but it was certainly widely in circulation by the late 1780’s. When one has suffered a slight or been humiliated it is only too human to feel angry and vindictive …
Strangers at the gate
I was born a mile from a village called Fleur-dy-lys, an unusual French name for a place in one of the eastern valleys of Wales. The village came into being because of a group who might be classed as amongst Britain’s first refugees. The Huguenots were French protestant followers of the teachings of John Calvin …