The first Sunday of Lent
Sung Eucharist for the first Sunday of Lent
Today at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Other services
Bears and Prayers
This Tuesday 24 February at 9.30 am
Said Eucharist
This Wednesday 25 February at 10.00 am
Sacred Space
This Thursday 26 February at 6.00 pm
Sung Eucharist for the second Sunday of Lent
Next Sunday 1 March at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Choral Evensong
Next Sunday 1 March at 6.00 pm · Watch the service · View the order of service
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.
Bible discussion group
If you are wondering about renewing your focus on reading the Bible as a Lenten discipline, why not come along to our friendly Bible Discussion Group which meets every Friday at 6.00 pm in the Smeaton Room? We focus on the readings for the following Sunday’s Eucharist, but there are plenty of chances to ask questions (including about other passages or issues), all in a supportive atmosphere where there’s no such thing as a ‘silly question’. All are welcome; no previous knowledge or experience is expected.
Stations of the Lord's Prayer
As you came in today, you should have been given a leaflet about the Lord’s Prayer, inviting you to pause to reflect on this familiar prayer. You can do this at any time when the church is open – before or after a service, after Morning Prayer (when the church normally remains open for about half an hour), before one or more of the Lent talks – but we will be opening specifically for reflection on the Lord’s Prayer on the afternoon of Palm Sunday, when the church will be open from 2.00 pm until 5.00 pm for quiet prayer and reflection. Alternatively, feel free to use the leaflet in your own prayer time in the comfort of your own homes, imagining yourself journeying around the church rather than doing so physically.
Deanery Evensong
Today at 5.00 pm
St Saviour's Church, Ellerby Road
Please join us for a special service of Evensong for the East Leeds Deanery tonight at 5.00 pm at St Saviour’s, Richmond Hill. The Deanery Evensong which we hosted in July was very well attended, so it would be nice for Whitkirk folk to show their support for this service too. Rev’d Claire will be the preacher at this service, led by Fr Jonathan Fleury.
Bears and Prayers
This Tuesday 24 February at 9.30 am
St Mary's Church, Whitkirk
Rev’d Claire and her trusty assistant Rev’d Bear will be launching ‘Bears and Prayers’ this Tuesday. ‘Bears and Prayers’ is a new initiative for pre-schoolers and the adults who look after them. A short service, featuring songs, stories, prayers and, of course, bears, will be followed by refreshments for adults and children and a chance to chat and play together. The service takes place on Tuesdays in term-time from 9.30 am until 10.30 am. All are welcome. Bring your own bears!
The Church family
For your prayers
The sick
- Tricia
- Pat
- Steven
- Pat
- Tom
- David
- Janice
- Zoe A
- Christine
- Fran and family
- Roz
- Jean
- Dominic
- Katie
- Caroline
- Lesley
- Zoe
- David
- Tony
Those in long-term care
- Ginny
- Virginia
Recently died
- David Zandre
- Dennis Raper
Anniversary of death
- Margaret Conroy
- Eric Bull
- Peter Bickerdike
- Ethel Wood
- Jessie Rutherford
- Keith Williams