This forward view will be refreshed for each edition of New Directions, looking a year ahead each time and
focusing on national events. Further details of each event will be contained on the lead organisation’s website. If you would like to add or amend any items, then please email: director@forwardinfaith.com. Thank you.
December 2022
25 Sunday Christmas Day
January 2023
6 Friday The Epiphany
7 Saturday Guild of the Servants of the Sanctuary: Epiphanytide Festival at Holy Trinity, Hoxton in
London
30 Monday Annual Commemoration of Charles, King & Martyr, at All Saints, Margaret Street in London
February 2023
2 Thursday Consecration of the Bishop of Oswestry in Canterbury Cathedral
6 – 10 Monday – Friday Shrine of Our Lady of
Walsingham: Priests’ & Deacons’ Retreat Pilgrimage
22 Wednesday Ash Wednesday
March 2023
3 – 5 Friday – Sunday Shrine of Our Lady of
Walsingham: Children’s Pilgrimage
13 – 16 Monday – Thursday Shrine of Our Lady of
Walsingham: Lent Retreat
15 Wednesday Guild of All Souls: 150th Anniversary at St Stephen, Gloucester Road in London
April 2023
9 Sunday Easter Day
15 Saturday Guild of the Servants of the Sanctuary: Easter Festival at St Stephen’s, Gloucester Road in
London
May 2023
6 Saturday Coronation of King Charles III
8 Monday Additional bank holiday to mark the
Coronation
11 Thursday Guild of All Souls: Day Conference at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
13 Saturday Society of Mary: May Devotion at St Silas, Kentish Town in London
18 Thursday Ascension Day
20 Saturday Forward in Faith: National Festival at St Alban, Holborn in London
20 Saturday Our Lady of Egmanton: May Devotion
28 Sunday Pentecost Sunday
29 Monday Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham:
National Pilgrimage
June 2023
17 Saturday Society of the Maintenance of the Faith:
Annual Festival at St Magnus the Martyr, City of
London
29 Thursday Ss Peter & Paul
July 2023
8 Saturday Glastonbury Pilgrimage
31 July – 4 August Monday – Friday Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham: Youth Pilgrimage
August 2023
5 Saturday Our Lady of Egmanton: Assumptiontide Mass
7 – 11 Monday – Friday Society of Mary: Pilgrimage to Lourdes
15 Tuesday The Assumption
28 Monday Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham:
Pilgrimage of Healing & Renewal
September 2023
21 Thursday Guild of All Souls: Day Conference at St Wilfrid, Cantley in Doncaster
22 Friday Church Union: Catholic Evangelism Lecture to be delivered by the Bishop of Lewes at St Matthew, Carver Street in Sheffield
October 2023
7 Saturday Society of Mary: October Devotion at St George the Martyr, Preston
14 Saturday Guild of the Servants of the Sanctuary:
Autumn Festival at All Saints, North Street in York
23 – 26 Monday – Thursday Shrine of Our Lady of
Walsingham: Family Pilgrimage
November 2023
1 Wednesday All Saints’ Day
3 – 5 Friday – Sunday Shrine of Our Lady of
Walsingham: Bible Weekend
4 Saturday Our Lady of Egmanton: Annual Requiem Mass
13 – 20 Monday – Monday Shrine of Our Lady of
Walsingham: Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
24 – 26 Friday – Sunday Shrine of Our Lady of
Walsingham: Adoremus
December 2023
1 – 3 Friday – Sunday Shrine of Our Lady of
Walsingham: Advent Retreat
3 Sunday Advent Sunday
25 Monday Christmas Day
N.B. The three Egmanton dates changed just after the Christmas 2022 edition of Together went to print and so the Egmanton dates listed here are the correct ones.