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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