In Touch – March 2025
Drogheda, Ardee & Kilsaran Groups of Parishes
(9th March 2025)
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Lent:
Lent “calls us back to God , back
to basics, back to the spiritual
realities of life. It calls us to put
to death the sin and indifference
we have in our hearts toward
God and our fellow persons.
And it beckons us to enter once
again into the joy of the Lord-
the joy of a new life born out of
a death of the old life.”
Robert E. Webber
Select Vestry Meetings
Drogheda Group
7pm, 12th March in the Blue School.
Ardee Group
7pm, 13th March in St. Mary’s Abbey
Lent Evening Service
Lent Evening Service, Late Evening Office
8pm, 12th March in St. Peter’s, Drogheda
St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day, Holy Communion
- 9:30am St. Peter’s, Drogheda
- 10am St. Mary’s, Castlebellingham
Liturgical Dates
- Palm Sunday 13th April
- Easter Day 20th April
- Ascension 29th May
- Pentecost 28th May
Clocks
Sunday, 30 March 2025, 01:00:00 clocks are turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, 30 March 2025, 02:00:00 local daylight time instead.
Sunrise and sunset will be about 1hour later on 30 Mar 2025 than the day before. There will be more light in the evening and less light in the morning.
Confirmation
St. Nicholas’, Dundalk Sunday 6th April at 3:30pm
Drogheda Classical
ConTempo Quartet and Friends
Friday, 28th March
Katya Apekisheva
Friday, 11th April
Parish Fete
The annual Parish Fete will be held in St. Peter’s on Saturday 28th June.
Fifth Sundays in Month
- 30th March – Mothering Sunday
- 29th June
- 31st August
Friends of Collon
A concert will take place on Sunday 25th May at 7pm in Collon Church
Collect
First Sunday in Lent
Almighty God,
whose Son Jesus Christ fasted forty days in the wilderness,
and was tempted as we are,
yet without sin:
Give us grace to discipline ourselves
in obedience to your Spirit;
and, as you know our weakness,
so may we know your power to save;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Prayer
– Pray that we may know the Lord’s plans and purposes
for our parishes and the communities in which we live.
– Pray for the candidates who are preparing to be
confirmed in April.
– Pray for our young people, that they may know the
Lord’s revelation to their hearts.
Services in March

Clergy
Brian M. O’Reilly
Landline: (041) 987 0073
Mobile: (086) 223 0271
Email: bmgor@icloud.com
Joyce Moore
Mobile: (087) 746 8866
David Murphy
Mobile: (087) 608 5780