The next meeting will be at the Forest Gate (i.e., the Toby Carvery on Forest Road) on Friday 24th March. We start between 8pm and 8:15pm. All men of working age are welcome to join us over a drink and friendly discussions about work, St. Mary’s, local issues, and people’s interests. Please contact the Parish Admin office for further details: admin@stmaryincharnwood.org.uk.

Please see this week's notices for details of our Mothering Sunday services. We hope to see you there. Please invite friends too!

Please join us at 10am for an All-Age celebration of Mothering in its many forms. We’ll be talking about how a mother’s love is soft and nurturing but sometimes it must be tough too when there are difficult decisions to be made! Please invite friends and family to come along. It will be a shortish service, followed by refreshments, and with a gift to take home. In the evening, the 6pm service will be more reflective with opportunity to acknowledge the loss and sadness some people experience on this day. This is a Worship with a Classical Flavour service at which there is the usual break for refreshments followed by a short half hour concert of music for Lent.

Holy Communion at 10am and Holy Communion at 6pm. Please note, we have made a change to our usual pattern of services in order to accommodate Mothering Sunday on March 19th, so this week Communion will be offered at both services. At the 10am service there will be a children’s group. Weather permitting, they are hoping to go in the woodland for part of the session, so please bring warm clothes and suitable footwear!

This week we are looking at God performing miracles, and us being generous. We will also being doing some seed planting and chocolate egg-based generosity! Obviously followed by hot chocolate and
marshmallows!

As we agreed at our last meeting, the next meeting of St Mary’s Ladies Group will take place on Tuesday, 7th March at Bawdon Lodge Farm Coffee shop. We will meet there at 10:30am. The current list of most needed items for the Food Bank includes Washing Up Liquid, Spray Deodorant, Jams/Spreads, Tomato Tins, Crisps/Snacks/Chocolate Bars, and Cordial-500ml bottles but anything is welcome and gratefully received.

Please join us for All-Age Holy Communion at 10am and Book of Common Prayer at 6pm. All are welcome as we continue our journey through Lent, thinking this week about the stories of Abraham and Nicodemus and ‘Starting Over’.

This first Sunday of Lent we will be considering the theme of ‘Temptation’. There will be a children’s group during the 10am service and an update from our advocate for ‘Hope against Cancer’ at both services. We will also be joining many other churches in a prayer to mark the 1st anniversary of the war in
Ukraine. Apologies that we will be unable to livestream the service this week.

All are welcome to this traditional service of Holy Communion for Ash Wednesday with the option of receiving the sign of the cross in ashes – a symbol of penitence to mark the start of Lent.

From last month, the two previous groups called Ladies who Lunch and Table Talk, amalgamated to make one group. The new lunch group has kept the name “Table Talk.” Previously for ladies and gents who lived alone, the group now warmly invites anyone who would welcome some company whether they live alone or not. It is a lovely opportunity to meet together to share lunch and chat. The meetings take place on the last Wednesday of each month at the Toby Carvery, Forest Road at 12 noon. Please contact admin@stmaryincharnwood.org.uk if you would like any more details.