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help is appreciated. I wonder, why are we surprised? Out of the most difficult of circumstances come
problems, conflicts, shortages and challenges. We learn more about ourselves.
It’s a good time to mention the youngsters who work in the shop. We have 4 We learn more about reality and about the human condition.
young people who share between them the Saturday and Sunday shifts. It’s a
great opportunity for your first experience of work and really helps to develop And yet, we also learn that we have the power to provide vaccinations, we have
confidence. The relationships built during this time last way beyond the time they the power to fund recovery, we have the power to change our communities, we
work in the shop. We also have 4 youngsters who between them deliver the even have the power to blunt aggression. Its’s all about choices.
papers on Saturdays and Sundays. We employ young people up to the age of 18
– when they can then choose to volunteer which I’m pleased to say some do What a powerful thing to have choice. So many people in our world do not have
when their work, college, life allows. If you know someone who might be that. We have choice in the Diocese of Salisbury.
interested please let us know. As your Bishop, I am not prepared to preside over petty differences in the name
The shop is thrilled to have been able to support the of choice. We have a privilege, and we need to use it for the common good. It is
selling of the parish jubilee mug. If you haven’t got yours a shared responsibility. It is what the Gospel of Jesus Christ calls us to. As someone
yet we will be selling until “limited” stocks are gone. At always said to me (and they were from this diocese), with privilege, comes
£10 each these are a unique memento of this unique responsibility.
jubilee celebration. We cannot deny in this country that we are privileged. The scandal is when
Thank you for continuing to support our Village shop. people fall through that net. Too many of our brothers and sisters in our society are
struggling. And yet, just look at the poverty and still the glorious witness of our
To place an order please contact us on 01929 472000 brothers and sisters in the Sudans. We have much to live up to.
d u r i n g o p e n i n g h o u r s a n d b y e m a i l
Briantspuddle.shop@gmail.com. You can collect or we’re Our sometimes-petty differences give me concern. Whose work are they? When I
happy to deliver. received the call to be your Bishop, my first thought (after blind panic) was ‘What
is really important?’
Ali Chorley, Chair, The friends of Briantspuddle post office and village shop
What is really important is our faith. Faith that God in Christ has our back. The only
problem that gets in the way of his love, is when we turn our back on Him in the
name of our own failures.
JUBILEE CELEBRATION NEWS God is love, and those who live in love, live in God, and God lives in them. 1 John
4.16
Bishop Stephen
The Parish of Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle (Including
Briantspuddle, Throop, Waddock Cross and Pallington
Heath) celebrate Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee.

And didn’t we do it well!
Starting on Thursday 2 June with the lighting of the beacon. Around 100 people
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gathered in the garden of Throop House (cutesy of Vivi and Alec) for a BBQ.
Campbell de Burgh and his bagpipes led the procession from the garden through
Throop across the road and up the hill where our beacon, made by Mike Menzies
was lit. Conjuring up an atmosphere that could have been medieval. From where
our beacon was, we could see the Beacons that had been lit in the distance.
Celebrations continued on Friday with a Ceilidh in the village hall. Many partook
in the dancing which was led by Rainbarrow. A great supper was provided by

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