Candlemas

Sung Eucharist for Candlemas

Today at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service

Other services

Festal Evensong for Candlemas
Today at 6.00 pm · Watch the service · View the order of service

Said Eucharist
This Wednesday 5 February at 10.00 am

Compline by Candlelight
This Wednesday 5 February at 8.30 pm

Sung Eucharist for the fourth Sunday before Lent
Next Sunday 9 February at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service

Messy Church
Next Sunday 9 February at 4.00 pm


Where could God be calling you in 2025?

New year, new you? Is God calling you to deepen your faith or to serve in a new way in 2025?

We have received some information about the 2025 training programme for Licensed Lay Ministers (Readers). If you feel that God might be calling you to this sort of ministry, please do contact Claire and she can talk you through the process.

If you have not been confirmed and would like to explore confirmation, or if you (or your children) have not been baptised and would like to consider this, please also contact Claire to explore your options.

There will be a diocesan confirmation service on 1 June in Ripon Cathedral. If you would like to be confirmed at that service, please let Claire know as soon as possible.

Advance notice: Trip to the National Memorial Arboretum

As part of a series of events to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, we are planning a trip to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. All details are still to be confirmed, but we would anticipate going in late May or early June and the cost would only be that of the coach hire (free entry; bring your own picnic or use the on-site cafe). In order to have an idea of numbers so that we can book the coach, please could you sign up to express an interest (no commitment at this stage) either in the church or in the Community Centre after the service today or in the next couple of weeks. More details will follow very soon.

North-West corner refurbishment

As you may know, we are about to undertake essential work in the North-West corner of the church (the area where the tech desk currently sits) to replace plasterwork on the walls, to improve the tech desk, and to create an accessible area for pushchairs and wheelchairs. This work will be starting this week and the first phase will be completed before Easter. Our contractors will keep disturbance to services to a minimum; Wednesday morning and Sunday services will run as usual and we will be able to continue to hold funerals and other occasional services as usual. Daily Prayer will also continue as usual.

If you want to have a more detailed overview of the work planned do have a look at the relevant page on our website at wkrk.uk/nwc.

Lent talks: "We believe…"

Lent begins on 5 March this year. Look out for information about our Ash Wednesday services and our Pancake Social coming soon! 2025 also marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, a meeting of Christian bishops, convened by the Emperor Constantine, which took place in the town of Nicaea (now Iznik in Turkey) between May and July 385 CE. Its aim was to obtain consensus about core Christian beliefs, and one of its products was a first version of the Nicene Creed, which we say almost every week in this church and which is said in Christian churches throughout the world. Our series of Lent talks this year will focus on aspects of the Creed, offering an opportunity to think more deeply about the words that we repeat each week, which encapsulate what it means to be a Christian.

All the talks will take place in church at 7.00 pm and will be followed by Compline, which will end at about 8.15 pm. 

  • 12 March – The Right Reverend Arun Arora, Bishop of Kirkstall: We believe in the Holy Spirit
  • 19 March – The Very Reverend Andew Nunn, former Dean of Southwark: For us and for our salvation
  • 26 March – The Very Reverend Simon Cowling, Dean of Wakefield: Begotten not made
  • 2 April – The Reverend Dr Janet Williams, Vice-Principal, St Hild College: He will come again in glory
  • 9 April – The Reverend Dr Claire Honess, Vicar of Whitkirk: We believe in one […] Church

All are welcome!


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