Palm Sunday
Sung Eucharist for Palm Sunday
Today at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Other services
Palm Sunday Procession
Today at 9.30 am
Messy Easter
Today at 4.00 pm
Stations of the Cross
This Monday 14 April at 7.30 pm
Contemplative Eucharist for Holy Week
This Tuesday 15 April at 7.30 pm
Said Eucharist (Judas)
This Wednesday 16 April at 10.00 am
Tenebrae
This Wednesday 16 April at 7.30 pm · Watch the service · View the order of service
Maundy Thursday Eucharist followed by the Watch
This Thursday 17 April at 7.30 pm · Watch the service · View the order of service
The Liturgy of Good Friday
This Friday 18 April at 2.00 pm · Watch the service · View the order of service
Easter Vigil
Next Sunday 20 April at 6.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Sung Eucharist for Easter Day
Next Sunday 20 April at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
West end refurbishment
The work on the north-west and south-west corners is well underway and on track to be completed shortly after 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.
Trip to the National Memorial Arboretum
Just a reminder that if you have paid your deposit for the trip to the National Memorial Arboretum, the balance is due by 20 April at the latest. If you are able to pay the balance today, please see Joan Williams in the Community Centre after today’s service.
Lent Talks 2025 and more on 'We believe…'
A huge thank you to everyone who attended our series of Lent Talks this year, marking the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea by looking at the Nicene Creed. Not only did we have some excellent speakers, but we also had a great audience every week and some very interesting, challenging, and erudite questions. If you want to continue to think more deeply about the Creeds, watch this space. We will be running a course that will allow you to probe more deeply and ask your own questions after Easter.
Future hopes…
Today we remember how Jesus rode into Jerusalem and the crowds pinned all their hopes for the future on him. As part of our Experience Easter workshops with Whitkirk and Colton Primary Schools, the children were asked to write their hopes for the future on palm leaves. You can look at these ‘future hopes’ in church today in the Trinity Chapel. They are inspiring and hopeful. Our future is in safe hands…!
Donkeys!
A huge thank you is due to Home Farm at Temple Newsam who generously agreed to bring their donkeys, Cassie and Blue, to take part in our service today. Special thanks to Vikki, the Farm Chargehand, who has been in charge of bringing them down to us and looking after them while they are here.
Junior Choir
A final thank-you for today goes to the members of our Junior Choir who have worked very hard to learn and practice some donkey-related songs for today’s service. We hope you will enjoy their singing. Junior Choir will be meeting fortnightly after Easter, culminating in a performance for a music-themed Messy Church on 13 July. Rehearsals will be on the following Tuesdays at 4pm in the Community Centre and all are welcome (up to Year 6):
- Tuesday 6 May
- Tuesday 20 May
- Tuesday 3 June
- Tuesday 17 June
- Tuesday 1 July
Sung Eucharist for Palm Sunday
Today at 10.00 am
St Mary's Church, Whitkirk
Gather at the vicarage from 9.30 am to process to the church with Blue and Cassie – the donkeys from Home Farm at Temple Newsam – or meet us at the church for a 10.00 am start.
Service of Remembrance to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day
Thursday 8 May at 7.00 pm
St Mary's Church, Whitkirk
There will be a service to commemorate the end of the Second World War on Thursday 8 May at 7.00 pm. There will also be an exhibition of WW2 memorabilia in church over the weekend of 10–11 May. If you have anything that you’d like to contribute to the exhibition, please have a word with Marsha Thorndike.
The Church family
For your prayers
The sick
- Brandon
- Billy
- Faye
- Katie
- Len
- Kelly
- Michael
- Michelle
- Jill
- Tom
- Marian
- Shirley
- Mary
- Dominic
- Mona
- Jean
Those in long-term care
- Jennifer
- Ginny
- George
- Margaret
- Jean
Recently died
- Doreen Wray
- Mick Wray
- Kath Clark
- George Hornung
- Sheila Peat
Anniversary of death
- Joseph Mark Hughes
- Michael Monaghan
- Michelle Monaghan
- Margaret Barlow