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We have recently welcomed some new volunteers to the shop rota but BISHOP’S LETTER
there’s always change and we’re always looking so if you have some spare
time, we’d love you to get involved. In particular we have a need for
someone to collect fruit and veg on a Wednesday morning from Dorchester On a recent visit to the island of
Market over the Summer. Guernsey, I discovered that parish
Thank you for continuing to support our Village shop. boundaries – usually invisible to us
apart from as lines on a map or for
To place an order please contact us on 01929 472000 during opening hours *Avocado 103; Aubergines 142 the influence they exert – are
and by email Briantspuddle.shop@gmail.com. You can collect or we’re prominently marked, being the
happy to deliver. principal local arrangement for
political, social, and spiritual life.
Ali Chorley When one crosses a parish
Chair, The friends of Briantspuddle post office and village shop boundary along a road, there is, by
the wayside a stone boundary
marker with a dividing line and the
names on either side of the parish one is crossing into. To my great interest,
SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH underneath most of these sits an abreuvoir or watering trough, originally for the
refreshment of horses en route.
BRIANTSPUDDLE SINGERS IN I rather like the idea of a boundary being a place of renewal, an oasis of some

BRIANTSPUDDLE VILLAGE HALL kind, because they are often perceived as the opposite, as points of tension and
conflict. While regularly abused, boundaries and divisions are a natural, perhaps
essential part of human living and affirmed by scripture at many points - including

Come and join us for an afternoon of Summer Music, cream tea and cake on this winsome reference in Psalm 16 verse 6: ‘The boundary lines have fallen for me
Sunday July 3 2022 at 3.30pm in Briantspuddle Village Hall. in pleasant places: I have a goodly heritage’ .Boundaries remind us that all
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created life has limits, which are a gift to us as well as a constraint. The task is to
Entry will be free, though donations would be welcome. use them for enabling encounters with God and neighbour, those who are both
alike and unlike ourselves.
Andrea Smith
The promise of the Holy Spirit, which we celebrate in this fruitful and beautiful
season of the year, brings with it an affirmation that our differences are no barrier
to God, but blessed by him and the very means by which his life can be
Did you Know? experienced as real and personal in every place. May they be for you a goodly
heritage.
You can have your parish magazine delivered to your door each month if With the assurance of my prayers,
you live within the parishes.
+Andrew.
We have a fantastic team of volunteer distributors who undertake the
delivery of this magazine, and for just £8 a year (which is £1 less than you
would pay at the retail price and no charge for delivery), you could be
included on one of these rounds.

Contact the Editor, for more information: Alison Debenham
alison@culverdell.co.uk or 01929 471780

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