DIARY

March 2024


15th –  Red Nose Day

17th –  The Fifth Sunday of Lent.

17th –  St Patrick
Bishop, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460

19th –  St Joseph of Nazareth

19th –  Spring Equinox

20th –  Cuthbert
Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687

21st –  World Poetry Day
Celebrating one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity.
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/poetry

22nd –  World Water Day
https://www.worldwaterday.org/

24th –  Palm Sunday

27th – Visit from Chaucer Infant and Nursery School and their parents
An Easter event in the morning and afternoon.
(Volunteers to help welcome and serve refreshments would be appreciated)

28th – Maundy Thursday Service at 7:00pm
NB. Usual Thursday morning service cancelled today

29th – Good Friday Walk of Witness
The Ilkeston Churches’ Good Friday walk of witness will leave St Mary’s around 10:30am, ready for a service at Ilkeston Methodist Church on Wilmot Street at 11:00am, followed by refreshments, including hot cross buns.

29th – Last Hour at the Cross
The Good Friday Last Hour at the Cross will take place at St Mary’s at 2:00pm

30th – Holy Saturday
Volunteers would be appreciated to help decorate St Mary’s for Easter from 10:00am

31st –  Easter Day Dawn Service
The Ilkeston Churches’ Easter Sunday Dawn Service will be at 6:30am this year at the Dale Abbey arch, with refreshments afterwards. Access is via Abbey House driveway.
Followed by the usual 8:00am and 10:00am services at St Mary’s.

31st –  British Summertime commences
Clocks are turned forward1 hour.
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