EasterSteph Forman2020-10-31T09:39:09+00:00

Holy Week in the Dorchester Team

Opportunities for reflection, prayer and worship from Palm Sunday to Easter Day

Easter Sunday

It was amazing to see so many people joining us from their homes in the Dorchester Team and beyond to celebrate Easter Day! If you missed it and would like to catch up with the service it is below:

We followed this service sheet and the readings on this pew sheet. Please bring with you (if you wish)
– Some water in a bowl (to sign yourself with the sign of the cross at the renewal of Baptism vows)
– A small candle to light as the Easter Candle is lit, after you have renewed your vows or as a sign of your spiritual communion.

Rebecca Hind Eclipsis II 2015

Good Friday

12 noon – 3pm
Stations of the Cross reflections with images and music by Dorchester Team clergy will be published here every 30mins starting at 12noon. These will also be posted on the Facebook page half hourly.

12noon – Stations of the cross 1 & 2 with Canon Sue Booys

12.30 – Stations of the cross 3, 4 & 5 with Revd Teresa

1pm – Stations of the cross 6&7 with Revd Caroline

1.30pm – Stations of the cross 8&9 with Revd Jennifer

2pm – Stations of the cross 10&11 with Revd Catherine

2.30pm – Stations of the cross 12&13 with Revd Rachel and closing reading and Prayer

Music and images connected with Jesus’ life and passion

1. Preparation – Days in Jerusalem

2. Last Supper

3. In the garden of Gethsemane

4. Betrayed and Denied

You will find more formal, live-streamed Sunday services on the BBC at 10.45 or the Diocesan Sunday service at 10 am on the Diocese of Oxford website

In March we said our farewells to Canon Sue Booys as she retired after 23 years’ service to the churches and parishes in the Team. The process is now under way to appoint her successor as Dorchester Team Rector. The Team is comprised of two benefices, the Benefice of Dorchester and the Benefice of Warborough (held in plurality), and covers 10 parishes, namely: Berinsfield, Clifton Hampden, Culham, Dorchester, Drayton St Leonard, Long Wittenham with Little Wittenham, Marsh Baldon with Toot Baldon and Nuneham Courtenay, Newington, Stadhampton with Chiselhampton, and Warborough.

An open morning, to look at the future together, is being held on Saturday 14^th May in the Dorchester Village Hall, 7 Queen St, Street, OX10 7HR starting at 10am and finishing by 1.00 pm and we would be delighted if you could join us.

As we are meeting in the season of Easter, we shall begin by considering together what is it that is good and creative that we want to thank God for concerning the life of the churches in these benefices.

We shall spend time discerning the specific issues and challenges that we believe need time, attention, and prayer in order that the next chapter of the story of the Dorchester Team may flourish.

We shall then divide into two groups with one group looking in more detail at families, children, young people, and schools and the other considering any other specific items that emerge from our discussions.

In our final session we shall discuss the role of the next Team Rector what gifts and skills, experience, and expertise we should be looking for in those who apply for this important post.

The morning will be facilitated for us by the Reverend Canon Charles Chadwick who has been ordained for over 30 years and who has been the Parish Development Adviser since 2014, and Mrs Yvonne Morris Discipleship Enabler and Diocesan Children’s and Families Ministry Adviser.

The details for the meeting are below.