Advent Sunday
Sung Eucharist for Advent Sunday
Today at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Other services
Said Eucharist
This Wednesday 3 December at 10.00 am
Compline by Candlelight
This Wednesday 3 December at 8.30 pm
Sung Eucharist for the second Sunday of Advent
Next Sunday 7 December at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Advent Carol Service: "The one who is to come…"
Next Sunday 7 December at 6.00 pm · Watch the service · View the order of service
The Leeds South & East Food Bank: What's Needed in November
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 UHT milk, biscuits, custard, cooking sauces and tinned or packet mashed potatoes.
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.
Advent and Christmas at St Mary's
- December 7th, 6pm: Advent Carol Service, ‘The one who is to come…’
- December 13th, 7pm: Svitoch Ukrainian Choir, an Advent concert
- December 14th, 4pm: Messy Christingle: Messy Church for Christmas, with a short Christingle service
- December 18th, 6pm: The Longest Night: a chance to reflect and remember
- December 19th, 7pm: Carol Singalong in the Brown Cow with Altofts and Normanton Brass Band
- December 21st, 7pm: Festival of Lessons and Carols
- Christmas Eve, 5pm: Crib Service
- Christmas Eve, 11pm: Midnight Mass
Thank you!
A huge thank you to everyone who contributed in any way to yesterday’s Christmas Fair, whether by running a stall, providing prizes, baking cakes, helping in the kitchen, setting up, clearing away, attending and spending your money, or simply telling people about it. It takes effort from everyone to make this event a success! Thank you all so much!
Advent Course 2025
A reminder that the Tuesday session of our Advent course will take place _in the church _this week, due to the pantomime which is taking place in the Community Centre.
Pilgrims in the Park
Pilgrims in the Park is taking a winter break (partly due to the weather and partly due to clashes with other activities such as the Christmas Fair). It will be back in March as the weather hopefully starts to improve again. Watch this space for more details in due course.
Experience Church
Children from our local primary schools will be taking part in Experience Church in the church from Wednesday 3 December until Friday 5 December. Only those helping with these sessions will be able to access the church on Wednesday afternoon, all day Thursday, and Friday morning. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Bible discussion group
Due to clashes with other Christmas and Advent activities, the Bible Discussion Group will take a break in December. It will restart on Friday 9 January, 6.00 pm until 7.00 pm as usual.
Advent Carol Service: "The one who is to come…"
Next Sunday 7 December at 6.00 pm
We would love you to join us next Sunday at 6.00 pm (in the usual Choral Evensong slot) for our Advent Carol Service. As the church moves from darkness to light, we will sing Advent hymns and will hear a series of readings that point us to Jesus as ‘the one who is to come’, as the choir sings Advent anthems. Come for a multi-sensory experience to help us focus not just on Christmas but on this time of waiting and anticipation.
The Church family
For your prayers
The sick
- Christine
- Dominic
- David
- Katie
- Stephen
- Joan
- Caroline
- Drew
- Dennis
- Fran and family
- Tom
Those in long-term care
- Ginny
- Virginia
- Margaret
Recently died
- Michael Higgott
- Sheila Thompson
- Terry Foster
Anniversary of death
- Bette Ward
- John Simm
- Doreen Lowther
- Pamela D Hart
- Ann Taylor