The third Sunday of Lent
Sung Eucharist for the third Sunday of Lent
Today at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Other services
Said Eucharist
This Wednesday 26 March at 10.00 am
Sacred Space
This Thursday 27 March at 6.00 pm
Sung Eucharist for Mothering Sunday
Next Sunday 30 March at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
North-West corner refurbishment
The work on the North-West corner is proceeding well and the first phase is still on track to 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. Daily Prayer will also continue at 8.30 am and 5.30 pm Tuesday to Saturday. 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.
The Leeds South & East Food Bank: What's Needed?
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 tinned potatoes, tinned fruit, UHT milk, tinned vegetables and biscuits.
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, or see the poster and leaflets available in the Community Centre about their Lent ’40p for 40 days’ appeal. If you need the help of a foodbank yourself, see wkrk.uk/fbh.
Parish electoral roll revision
The Church Representation Rules require a new parish electoral roll to be made every six years. This means that all names currently on the electoral roll will be removed, and you will need to re-apply for inclusion.
You can do this either by using one of the paper forms available at the back of the church, or online using the form on our website at wkrk.uk/erf. The deadline for applications to be on the new electoral roll is Sunday 27 April 2025.
For more information on the process please see our website at whitkirkchurch.org.uk/electoral-roll, or ask one of our Churchwardens.
Tots' Corner has moved!
To allow building work to take place in the south-west corner of church, we have temporarily moved Tots’ Corner to the area near the font. Please feel free to sit in this area or to collect toys and activities from there to take back to your pew. This area is not covered by our streaming cameras, and does not appear on the live-stream. Please do not worry if your child makes a noise or needs to move around in that area. We rejoice at children’s presence in church and we love it when they remind us that they are with us.
Experience Easter
We are delighted that children from Year 5 at both Colton and Whitkirk Primary Schools will be joining us this week for ‘Experience Easter’, an interactive walk through the last days of Jesus’s life. Thank you to everyone who has agreed to help with this. Please bear with us: in preparation for these sessions, various ‘props’ will appear around the church. They will be cleared away before next weekend.
Lent Talks 2025: The Very Reverend Simon Cowling (Dean of Wakefield), "Begotten not made"
This Wednesday 26 March at 7.00 pm
St Mary's Church, Whitkirk
The third of our 2025 Lent talks focussing 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 the church at 7.00 pm and will be followed by a service of Compline, which will end at about 8.15 pm.
This evening’s talk is led by the Very Reverend Simon Cowling, Dean of Wakefield.
The Church family
For your prayers
The sick
- Katie
- Michael
- Marian
- Len
- Faye
- Mona
- Tom
- Jean
- Michelle
- George
- William
- Doreen
- Dominic
- Shirley
- Mary
- Kath
- Billy
- Jill
Those in long-term care
- Jean
- George
- Ginny
- Margaret
- Jennifer
Recently died
- Les Benn
- Gina Naismith
- Angela Trevaskis