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BISHOP’S LETTER
BERE REGIS
From the Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Revd SURGERY NEWS
Stephen Lake
Your kingdom come … Flu vaccinations

The season of Advent begins on Sunday the 27 Any patient aged over 50 years old, those
November. Like Lent, it is a penitential season when the who have a long term condition (e.g.
liturgical colour is purple and a time of preparation to diabetes), are pregnant or children aged 2
celebrate the feast of the Incarnation without which – 3 years old are eligible for a flu vaccination.
there would be no feast of the Resurrection. Advent is not
as long as Lent and it seems to be more about feasting We currently still have some flu vaccinations in our fridges. Please contact
than fasting! In a way it’s ‘Lent-lite’ but for many of us Reception on 01929 471268 if you would like to take up the offer of a vaccination.
one of our favourite seasons of the year as we watch and We thank you for choosing to have your flu vaccination at the Practice. The little
wait in anticipation of the joy and excitement of the profit we make from your vaccination goes back into the services we provide
celebration of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem and also you.
contemplate the realisation of God’s eternal Kingdom at the end of time. It is
becoming something of a cliché to list the crises that presently beset us: climate,
war, recession, refugees etc in a world already feeling unsettlingly different post- Dispensary
Covid. At times we can begin to feel overwhelmed and turn in on ourselves
rather than remaining outward facing as is the Christian’s orientation. God in We are now contacting patients to advise when repeat medication is ready to
Christ became a human being not to be served but to serve. Christ the King is collect. Please ensure we have your current phone number to enable us to
with us still – here and now. His kingship is not based on human power but on provide this service
serving and loving others. We are called to exhibit those Kingdom values in their
lives until at last our prayer will be answered and God’s Kingdom will ‘come on
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earth as it is in heaven.’ Thursday 22 and Friday 23 December 2022
As part of our on-going discernment of a new vision and strategy for the diocese, We are extending our dispensary opening hours on these days as we appreciate
the Dean, the Very Revd Nicholas Papadopulos, has kindly written some prayers everyone is very busy and some may be travelling to spend Christmas outside the
for us all to use as a Diocese this Advent in our personal prayer time and when we immediate area.
meet together in church or on other occasions [see www.salisbury.anglican.org/ Thursday 22 Dispensary will be open from 09.30 – 18.30
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Advent]. They are beautiful and I commend them to you most warmly. They
recognise the situation in which we find ourselves but remind us that we are never Friday 23 Dispensary will be open from 09.30 – 16.30
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alone and that our calling is to join in where God is already at work in his world.
May the God of peace make you completely holy, ready for the coming of our We will be closed …
Lord Jesus Christ.
Protected learning time

We have a protected learning time session on Thursday 15 December from 13.30
– 15.30. The Surgery will re-open at 15.30
Please phone the surgery number (01929 471268) if you need medical attention
whilst we are closed. You will receive guidance on how you can be helped.

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