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BISHOP’S LETTER class is £5
No need to book in advance. Just come along and join in our fun and very
Now the green blade riseth friendly class, where you will be guaranteed a very warm welcome.

A century ago, the great journalist and Catholic If you would like more information, please email Lucy Cruickshank at
provocateur G.K.Chesterton wrote a wonderful essay lucy.cruickshank7@hotmail.co.uk or telephone Lyn Simmonds on 01929 471528
entitled ‘The Priest of Spring’ in which he considered the
integration of the Christian seasons with the natural year
– and referred to the “armies of the intellect who will Pop In Place Community Café at Bere Regis Village Hall
fight to the end on whether Easter is to be
congratulated on fitting in with the spring or the spring Every Friday morning from 10 am until 12 noon we run a Community Café at the
on fitting in with Easter”. Village Hall North Street.

It’s a familiar theme, often replayed in the media at this We offer a warm welcome, to everyone who walks through the door.
time of year – if (to my mind) a fairly pointless one. For We also welcome new volunteers to help on our team serving the drinks and
the authenticity of the Christian celebration of Easter helping at events. Also and very importantly to chat to the people who attend
does not pivot on its historical priority to pagan or other the café’s.
celebrations of the natural year, but rather on its - far
bolder - claim to fulfil them. Would you like to make a difference in your community? Then call the Team
Leader Alison Bennett 01929 472023 for more details about how the Pop In Place
The Biblical account of resurrection is not that Easter merely recapitulates a changes people’s lives.
universal theme, but that it marks an entirely new creative act, pointing to
nature’s ultimate liberation from the cycle of growth and decay. We can believe
it or not, but the New Testament appears to claim nothing less, St Paul Pop In Place Food Crisis Support
concluding that: ‘if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation”.
The Pop In Place have a Food Crisis Project, if you are struggling and you need
The eggs and lambs and green blades that now rise to greet the spring are no food please get in touch we have gained funding to provide crisis packs for
less joyous in that light, but – I suggest – even more so, and I pray you will share in people in the Parish in a difficult situation.
their praise.
If you need this service please email in confidence popinplace@gmail.com and
+Andrew Ramsbury we will help. Thank you to Gareth Lynam who is running this project for us.

Did you Know? Pop In Place Work shop

We are a small group meeting on Friday mornings and do some wood work,
Would you like to have the parish magazine delivered to your door each month making bird boxes, bug hotels and planters etc we also do a lot of talking and
if you live within the parishes? drinking coffee. We have completed and refurbished the table tennis table and
that is available for people to play a game.
We have a fantastic team of volunteer distributors who undertake the
delivery of this magazine, and for just £10 a year (which is £2 less than you If you are interested in coming along and doing any of the above or your own
would pay at the retail price and no charge for delivery), you could be included small project, call in and see us you will be very welcome.
on one of these rounds.
Contact the Editor, for more information: Alison Debenham Have you checked out our Pop In Place website popinplace.org
alison@culverdell.co.uk or 01929 471780 For More information call Alison Bennett 01929 472023

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