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 4 February at 10.00 am
Compline by Candlelight
This Wednesday 4 February at 8.30 pm
Sung Eucharist for the second Sunday before Lent
Next Sunday 8 February at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Messy Church
Next Sunday 8 February at 4.00 pm
Confirmations 2026
In 2026 confirmations in the Leeds Episcopal Area are taking place by Deanery rather than in individual parish churches as was the case last year. The dates for the East Leeds Deanery for 2026 are 17 May at St Peter’s Thorner and 13 September at St James the Great Manston. If you are thinking about being confirmed, have a word with Claire about registering for one of these services.
Lent talks
Our series of Lent Talks this year will focus on the Lord’s Prayer. Explore in more depth the prayer that Jesus taught us, probably the first ‘formal’ prayer that most Christians learn, a prayer we say, perhaps without really stopping to think about what its words really mean to us. Each speaker will present a personal take on a line of the prayer, with time for questions or reflections. After Easter, there will be the opportunity to hear the Archbishop of York speak about the Lord’s Prayer at Wakefield Cathedral on 28 April. You might also want to buy the Archbishop’s book about the Lord’s Prayer, Praying by Heart: The Lord’s Prayer for Everyone. Each of our Lent talks will be followed by a short service of Compline.
- 25 February: Rev’d Brunel James (Project and Secretariat Manager for the Church of England’s Racial Justice Unit): ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven’
- 4 March: Rev’d Canon Jude Smith (Director of Mission and Revitalisation for the Diocese of Leeds): ‘Lead us not into temptation’
- 11 March: Rev’d Andy Muckle (Chaplain to St George’s Crypt & Bishop’s Chaplain to the Homeless in the Diocese of Leeds); ‘Give us this day our daily bread’
- 18 March: Very Rev’d Dr Philip Hobday (Dean of Wakefield): ‘Our Father’
- 25 March: Rev’d Linda Boon (Harrogate School of Theology and Mission): ‘Forgive us our trespasses’
Pancake Social
Tuesday 17 February at 5.30 pm
St Mary's Church Whitkirk Community Centre
A date for your diary. Ash Wednesday this year is 18 February, which can mean only one thing… our famous Pancake Social will be on 17 February from 5.30 pm in the Community Centre. Pancake prayers, games and fun, and of course pancakes galore! Don’t miss it.
The Church family
For your prayers
The sick
- Caroline
- Tricia
- Katie
- Steven
- Pat
- David
- Dominic
- Jean
- Roz
- Fran and family
- Lesley
- David
- Christine
- Pat
- Tom
Those in long-term care
- Ginny
- Virginia
- Dennis
Recently died
- Kenneth Joy
- Ron Carter
- Michael Galley
Anniversary of death
- Harriet Cooper
- William Blair
- Raymond Burton
- Sheila Mills
- Geoffrey Thorndike
- Kenneth Stark