The first Sunday after Trinity
Sung Eucharist
Today at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Other services
Choral Evensong
Today at 6.00 pm · Watch the service · View the order of service
Said Eucharist
This Wednesday 10 June at 10.00 am
Colton Lodges (service of hymns and prayers)
This Thursday 11 June at 10.30 am
Sanctuary
This Thursday 11 June at 6.30 pm
Sung Eucharist
Next Sunday 14 June at 10.00 am · Watch the service · View the order of service
Messy Church
Next Sunday 14 June at 4.00 pm
Open Church and Summer Concert Series
Our beautiful church will be open to the public every Saturday afternoon, 2.00 pm until 4.00 pm throughout the summer from Easter through to the end of September. Please do tell your friends and neighbours about this and encourage them to come and have a look around their church, and perhaps come along to one of our Concert Season performances:
- 13 June: Altofts and Normanton Brass Band
- 11 July: Giles Taylor, organ
Confirmations: 13 September 2026
Confirmations for the East Leeds Deanery will be taking place at St James the Great Manston on 13 September. I am aware of two potential candidates for confirmation at that service. If you are considering being confirmed, or if you would like to know more, please contact Rev’d Claire. It would be good to have a joyful Whitkirk contingent at this service.
The Hook Memorial Lectures 2026
The Hook Memorial Lectures 2026 will be taking place at All Souls’ (Hook Memorial) Church, Blackman Lane on Mondays through June at 7.00 pm. This year’s lectures focus on the four Gospels and some of the speakers may be familiar to you. The lectures are free and open to all interested parties.
- 8 June: The Gospel of Matthew (Rev’d Dr Jo Logan)
- 15 June: The Gospel of Luke (Very Rev’d Andrew Nunn)
- 22 June: The Gospel of John (Rev’d Dr Claire Honess)
- 29 June: The ‘fifth Gospel’ (Canon Ann Nicholl)
The Leeds South & East Food Bank: What's Needed in June
The Leeds South & East Food Bank continues to be in urgent need of donations to help those in most need. In particular at the moment they are asking for UHT milk, tea and coffee, rice pudding, packet custard, cooking sauces, tinned potatoes and tinned fish.
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.
Rock Mass!
Sunday 21 June
Our friends at Holy Nativity church in Mixenden (near Halifax) run a monthly Rock Mass (strapline: ‘For those who like to worship LOUD’). Claire will be attending on 21 June and is happy to take anyone else from Whitkirk who would like to experience ‘something completely different’, in the form of a Eucharist but with a very different musical accompaniment… If more people want to come than can fit in Claire’s car, we can try to arrange shared lifts. Please contact Claire directly if you’d like to attend.
Concert: Rothwell Temperance Band
Saturday 27 June at 7.00 pm
St Mary's Church, Whitkirk
Join us for a concert by the award-winning Rothwell Temperance Band. Tickets £10, under 16s free. Lynne will be selling tickets in the Community Centre after church today.
The Church family
For your prayers
The sick
- Jade
- Edward
- Dominic
- Mary
- Lesley
- Tom
- Christine
- Josie
- David
- Caroline
- Katie
- Fran and family
Those in long-term care
- Margaret
- Ginny
- Jennifer
Recently died
- Marjorie Godson
- Shirley Thompson
Anniversary of death
- Clifford Jones
- Ada Simm