The second Sunday before Lent
Sung Eucharist for the second Sunday before Lent
Today at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Other services
Messy Church
Today at 4.00 pm
Said Eucharist
This Wednesday 11 February at 10.00 am
Sanctuary
This Thursday 12 February at 6.30 pm
Sung Eucharist for the last Sunday before Lent
Next Sunday 15 February at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Confirmations 2026
In 2026 confirmations in the Leeds Episcopal Area are taking place by Deanery rather than in individual parish churches as was the case last year. The dates for the East Leeds Deanery for 2026 are 17 May at St Peter’s Thorner and 13 September at St James the Great Manston. If you are thinking about being confirmed, have a word with Claire about registering for one of these services.
Lent talks
Our series of Lent Talks this year will focus on the Lord’s Prayer. Explore in more depth the prayer that Jesus taught us, probably the first ‘formal’ prayer that most Christians learn, a prayer we say, perhaps without really stopping to think about what its words really mean to us. Each speaker will present a personal take on a line of the prayer, with time for questions or reflections. After Easter, there will be the opportunity to hear the Archbishop of York speak about the Lord’s Prayer at Wakefield Cathedral on 28 April. You might also want to buy the Archbishop’s book about the Lord’s Prayer, Praying by Heart: The Lord’s Prayer for Everyone. Each of our Lent talks will be followed by a short service of Compline.
- 25 February: Rev’d Brunel James (Project and Secretariat Manager for the Church of England’s Racial Justice Unit): ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven’
- 4 March: Rev’d Canon Jude Smith (Director of Mission and Revitalisation for the Diocese of Leeds): ‘Lead us not into temptation’
- 11 March: Rev’d Andy Muckle (Chaplain to St George’s Crypt & Bishop’s Chaplain to the Homeless in the Diocese of Leeds); ‘Give us this day our daily bread’
- 18 March: Very Rev’d Dr Philip Hobday (Dean of Wakefield): ‘Our Father’
- 25 March: Rev’d Linda Boon (Harrogate School of Theology and Mission): ‘Forgive us our trespasses’
The Leeds South & East Food Bank: What's Needed in February
The Leeds South & East Food Bank continues to be in urgent need of donations of food to help feed those in most need. In particular at the moment they are asking for UHT milk, biscuits, custard, cooking sauces and tinned or packet mashed potatoes.
If you are able, you can donate by picking one of these items up in your weekly shop and dropping it in the box at the back of the church. You can find other ways to help, including donating money or your time, on their website at wkrk.uk/fbd. If you need the help of a foodbank yourself, see wkrk.uk/fbh.
Racial Justice Sunday
Today has been designated as Racial Justice Sunday by the Church of England and other churches in the UK. The following prayer has been written by the ecumenical organisation, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, for the day. You might like to use it today and/or in the days ahead as you pray for racial justice, tolerance and understanding:
God of all creation, gather us in – stranger and friend, bring us into Your loving presence, that we might know that Your love for us never ends and has no terms or conditions.
God of love, on this Racial Justice Sunday, point us towards Your dream for all people, that we might work together in hope, for justice, peace and unity throughout Your world.
Give us grace, show us mercy, that we might live and love in Your name, now and forever. Amen
Pancake Social
Tuesday 17 February at 5.30 pm
St Mary's Church Whitkirk Community Centre
A date for your diary. Ash Wednesday this year is 18 February, which can mean only one thing… our famous Pancake Social will be on 17 February from 5.30 pm in the Community Centre. Pancake prayers, games and fun, and of course pancakes galore! Don’t miss it.
The Church family
For your prayers
The sick
- Pat
- Tom
- Katie
- David
- Christine
- Fran and family
- Lesley
- Steven
- David
- Dominic
- Jean
- Pat
- Roz
- Caroline
- Tricia
Those in long-term care
- Dennis
- Ginny
- Virginia
Recently died
- Jim Manson
- David Zandre
- Michael Galley
Anniversary of death
- David Grice
- Elise Bethany Wood
- Dennis Gudgeon
- Evelyn Austin