The fifth Sunday after Trinity
Sung Eucharist for the fifth Sunday after Trinity
Today at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Other services
Choral Evensong
Today at 6.00 pm · Watch the service · View the order of service
Said Eucharist
This Wednesday 8 July at 10.00 am
Colton Lodges (service of hymns and prayers)
This Thursday 9 July at 10.30 am
Sanctuary
This Thursday 9 July at 6.30 pm
Sung Eucharist for the sixth Sunday after Trinity
Next Sunday 12 July at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Messy Church
Next Sunday 12 July at 4.00 pm
Open Church and Summer Concert Series
Our beautiful church will be open to the public every Saturday afternoon, 2.00 pm until 4.00 pm throughout the summer from Easter through to the end of September. Please do tell your friends and neighbours about this and encourage them to come and have a look around their church. Our final spring-summer concert will be on 11 July, by our very own Giles Taylor. Not to be missed!
Confirmations: 13 September 2026
Confirmations for the East Leeds Deanery will be taking place at St James the Great Manston on 13 September. I am aware of two potential candidates for confirmation at that service. If you are considering being confirmed, or if you would like to know more, please contact Rev’d Claire. It would be good to have a joyful Whitkirk contingent at this service.
Sue Butcher is walking to raise money for research into Parkinson's Disease
On Saturday 11 July, Sue Butcher is walking six miles at Temple Newsam to raise money for research into Parkinson’s Disease. If you would like to sponsor her in aid of this worthy cause, please see her, or follow this link to sponsor her. Any donation you can make would be hugely appreciated. You can donate online at wkrk.uk/sbpw.
Summer Fair: Thank you!
A huge thank you to everyone who helped make yesterday’s Summer Fair a great success. It would be invidious to name names, and, in any case, the list would be so long that we’d need a bigger notice sheet! You know who you are! Your incredible hard work is so appreciated and valued. Thank you!
The Leeds South & East Food Bank: What's Needed in July
The Leeds South & East Food Bank continues to be in urgent need of donations to help those in most need. In particular at the moment they are asking for UHT milk, tea and coffee, rice pudding, packet custard, cooking sauces, tinned potatoes and tinned fish.
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.
Intercessions and GDPR
We have been asked to clarify the reasons why, in our intercessions, we use only first names for those for who are unwell or in long-term care. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), with which, by law, we have to comply, places strict restrictions on sharing personal information, including information about someone’s health. This is particularly important in our case, because our services are live-streamed and the recording made available after the service via our website and YouTube, meaning that a lasting record of the names of those prayed for is available online.
The only basis on which we could share someone’s full name as part of our prayers for the sick is with their explicit, informed consent. This consent would need to be obtained directly from the sick person themselves (a friend or family member cannot give consent on their behalf) and a record of this would need to be kept. In practice, most prayer requests do not come from the individual concerned but from a friend or family member (or they are received anonymously via the cards left at the back of church). In these cases, it is not possible to share the person’s surname. The PCC has given this very careful consideration, and believes that it is better to be consistent and to treat all those prayed for equally (as we are all equal before God), using first names only. Please rest assured that God will know who we mean.
While our intercessions are addressed to God, who knows all our needs, it is true that as a Church we ought also to care for those who are sick or in any kind of need. Although I know that this is a church where people show their love for their neighbours in many ways, caring for, visiting, and supporting one another in many ways, there is always scope for us to do better in this respect. A team of volunteers is being set up to follow up any specific pastoral needs and provide support. A separate process by which individuals or their friends or family members can flag up the need for this sort of support will be put in place, completely separately from the intercessions. If you would be interested in being part of this team, do contact Claire.
National Emergency Briefing
Friday 31 July at 7.00 pm
St Mary's Church, Whitkirk
On Friday 31 July, St. Mary’s Church is hosting a screening called the National Emergency Briefing. This important film has been shown across the country, and uses up to date scientific evidence to show how serious the climate and nature crisis is. We at St Mary’s are already trying our best to become carbon neutral by 2030, and have come a long way. Come along and see how we all have a role to play.