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
Messy Church
Today at 4.00 pm
Bears and Prayers
This Tuesday 10 March at 9.30 am
Said Eucharist
This Wednesday 11 March at 10.00 am
Colton Lodges (service of hymns and prayers)
This Thursday 12 March at 10.30 am
Sanctuary
This Thursday 12 March at 6.30 pm
Sung Eucharist for Mothering Sunday
Next Sunday 15 March at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
The Leeds South & East Food Bank: What's Needed in March
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.
Lent talks
Our series of Lent Talks this year is focusing on the Lord’s Prayer and continues this week with a talk by Rev’d Andy Muckle, Chaplain to St George’s Crypt and Bishop’s Chaplain to the Homeless in the Diocese of Leeds. 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. Recordings of the talks will be made available online for those not able to attend in person.
- 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’
Marmalade and more
Jessie Pickersgill will be holding a sale of marmalade and Easter things in the Community Centre after today’s service. All proceeds for church funds. She would be grateful to receive any empty jam jars with lids. These can be left in the box at the back of the church. Thank you.
Renewal of the prayer list
Praying for those who are sick and in long-term care, or in any other kind of need, is central to our mission and it happens daily at Morning and Evening Prayer, and also at our Sunday Eucharists. In order to ensure that the prayer list remains up-to-date and manageable, however, we decided last summer that it would be renewed twice a year. This will happen on the first Sunday of September and on Easter Sunday. A list is now available at the back of church for you to add the names (first names only, please, for data protection reasons) of anyone for whom you would like us to pray for. It is of course fine to add names at any time by contacting Claire or leaving a prayer on one of the cards that are always available at the back of the church, but please do also remember to ask for names to be removed if the person is recovering or a moment of crisis has passed. As well as those remembered by name, we always also pray for any others who are in need of our prayers, so please be assured that no-one will be left out. God knows our needs and the needs of those who are on our hearts, even when we do not articulate them in so many words. There is no need to renew the list of those whose year’s mind we remember (unless you would like a new name to be added): this will continue as usual.
Thank you
A huge thank you to all the amazing volunteers who gave up their time this week to help with Experience Easter. Over 120 children from Year 5 in three of our local primary schools were able to hear the story of Easter thanks to your support. Your work is so appreciated. Thank you!
Community Centre Spring Clean
Saturday 21 March at 9.00 am
21 March is the first day of spring. Could you spare a little bit of time to help us spring-clean the Community Centre? We will be there from 9.30 am, all equipment provided, all help appreciated. Come for half an hour or for the whole morning, do as much or as little as you are able. Every little helps! Help us keep the Centre spick and span ahead of the busy summer season for bookings. Thank you!