The fourth Sunday before Lent
Sung Eucharist for the fourth 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 12 February at 10.00 am
Sung Eucharist for the third Sunday before Lent
Next Sunday 16 February at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
North-West corner refurbishment
As you may know, we are undertaking 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 has now started, 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!
Junior Choir
We have loved meeting on a Tuesday with our Junior Choir, and it is a joy to have some of them here to sing with us today. We are having a break for the rest of February, but will be back for another set of five rehearsals on 11, 18, and 25 March and 1 and 8 April. The Junior Choir will then join us in church (and in procession!) to sing with us at our Palm Sunday service on 13 April. Please tell anyone you know with children in Years 3 to 6 about the Junior Choir. We’d love to have some more members when we meet again.
Pancake Party
Tuesday 4 March at 5.30 pm
St Mary's Church Whitkirk Community Centre
Join us on Shrove Tuesday, for a pancake party! There will be pizza and pancakes, with toppings (syrup, chocolate sauce, squirty cream, sugar & lemon) provided – though you are also welcome to bring your own.
Games for the children, quizzes, hot and cold drinks, and loads of fun guaranteed. All free. Come and get ready for Lent in the traditional way!
The Church family
For your prayers
The sick
- Michael
- Mona
- Dominic
- Jean
- Tom
- Jean
- Billy
- Kim
- Michelle
- Shirley
Those in long-term care
- Margaret
- Jennifer
- George
- Ginny
Recently died
- Ben Webster
- Lily Trivunovic
- Jean Bedford
- Wendy Backhouse
Anniversary of death
- Elise Bethany Wood
- David Grice
- Doreen Culpan
- Fred Sandham
- Dennis Gudgeon
- Evelyn Austin