BULLETIN for the week beginning 27th May 2012 WHIT SUNDAY [PENTECOST]

This week we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the foundation of St Peter’s Primary School in 1812

9.15 am HOLY COMMUNION Church 10.30 am CHORAL FESTAL EUCHARIST of Pentecost Leeds Parish Church Preacher: The Rector of Leeds 12.00 noon STEWARDSHIP “BRING & SHARE” LUNCH Leeds Parish Church 10.30 am MORNING WORSHIP St Mary’s 6.30 pm CONGREGATIONAL Leeds Parish Church Preacher: The Reverend Sue Wallace, Vicar Choral

Church of England – and Leeds – Parish of Leeds City Rector of Leeds: The Reverend Canon Tony Bundock [0113] 245 2036 [office] The Rector is on leave for the months of June, July and August

Vicar Choral: The Reverend Sue Wallace [0113] 278 9339 [home] Lay Minister: Canon Ann Nicholl [0113] 245 2036 [office], [0113] 269 4045 [home]

Leeds Parish Church (St Peter at Leeds), Kirkgate, LS2 7DJ ~ Parish Office: [0113] 245 2036

Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, LS1 5HW Church Office: [0113] 245 4268 ~ Café at Holy Trinity: [0113] 246 8196

St Mary’s Church, Lincoln Green, LS9 7SG ~ Church Office: [0113] 240 7349

St Peter’s Church of England (Aided) Primary School, Cromwell Street, LS9 7SG Headteacher: Mrs. Elizabeth Holliday [0113] 293 4411 Chaplain: Canon Ann Nicholl [see above]

Happy 200th Birthday, St Peter’s Church of England Primary School!

www.leedsparishchurch.org.uk [email protected]

Monday, 28th Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Scholar, 1089 • Chubu (Japan) – : Peter Ichiro Shibusawa • Diocesan Advisor for Fresh Expressions: Karin Margaret Shaw 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Parish Church 5.30 pm Choral Evensong [Boys’ Voices] Leeds Parish Church Tuesday, 29th • Clogher (Armagh, Ireland) – Bishop: John McDowell • Director of Clergy Development 8.50 am Prayers St Peter’s School 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Parish Church 10.00 am Coffee Morning Lincoln Green Centre 1.05 pm Holy Communion Holy Trinity Wednesday, 30th Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Joan of Arc, Visionary, 1431 Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist in Central Africa, 1933 • Colombia (IX, The Episcopal Church) – Bishop: Francisco Duque • The Diocesan Board of Patronage 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Parish Church 5.30 pm Choral Evensong [Full Choir] Leeds Parish Church 6.00 pm Vestry Hour Leeds Parish Church Thursday, 31st THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY • Colombo (Ceylon) – Bishop: Dhiloraj Canagasabey • Stewardship – Paul Winstanley (Advisor) 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Parish Church 1.05 pm Holy Communion [BCP] Leeds Parish Church 2.00 pm Bicentenary Celebration St Peter’s School 5.30 pm Choral Evensong [Men’s Voices] Leeds Parish Church st Friday, 1 Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 • Colorado (VI, The Episcopal Church) – Bishop: Robert O’Neill • of Leeds: 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Parish Church 12.00 noon Midday Prayers Leeds Parish Church 12.30 pm Organ Recital [Dr Simon Lindley organist] Leeds Parish Church 1.05 pm Holy Communion Holy Trinity 6.00 pm Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee Service Leeds Parish Church Please be seated before 5.50 pm for this Service No 7.00 Evensong this evening. Saturday, 2nd • Connecticut (I, The Episcopal Church) – Bishop: Ian Douglas Suffragan : James Curry, Laura Ahrens • St John the Baptist Adel; St Paul Ireland Wood – Ian White, linda Ludkin (H for D); Liz Williams (R) June Powell (R) Jonathan Slater (R) • St John Baptist’s Church of England Primary School - Headteacher: Janice Turner 10.30 am Confirmation Class [West End of Church] Leeds Parish Church 7.30 pm Transcendence Mass Leeds Parish Church

Next Sunday, 3rd June – Trinity Sunday

9.15 am Holy Communion Leeds Parish Church N.B. There are no 10.30 am services at Leeds Parish Church and St Mary’s today. 10.30 am Parish Eucharist Holy Trinity 3.00 pm Choral Evensong Leeds Parish Church [Heritage Masterworks Chorale] Preacher: The Reverend Sue Wallace, Vicar Choral No Evening Services today – The Churches of the Parish are closed for Jubilee Bank Holiday Monday and Tuesday 4th & 5th June

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ST PETER’S SCHOOL! Our own parochial Primary School marks this week the 200th anniversary of its foundation in 1812. The stone commemorating the foundation with the date in Roman numerals can still be seen in the Eastern Car Park of the Parish Church precincts on the South external brick wall of the Victorian building that remains in its original place. DIAMOND JUBILEE DAY AT LEEDS PARISH CHURCH: All very warmly welcome for the day’s events on Friday this week: 9.45 am Morning Prayers; 12.30 pm Jubilee Lunchtime Organ Music played by Dr Lindley – the programme includes Elgar’s March Pomp and Circumstance No 4, Ronald Binge’s Elizabethan Serenade, music from Eric Coates’s Suite The Three Elizabeths, Delius’s Walk to the Paradise Gardens and Walton’s 1953 Coronation March Orb and Sceptre. The special Diamond Jubilee Civic Service is at 6.00 pm and members of the Congregation are asked to be seated by 5.50 pm at the very latest. GRATITUDE AND GENEROSITY: is the title of our Stewardship initiative during May, helping us to realise our responsibility to the mission of church and our ability to meet this responsibility. Have you received or obtained a Gratitude and Generosity leaflet yet from Church? Today’s Luncheon [see below] is the final session in the programme of events. Today’s Choral Eucharist of Pentecost is followed by a Stewardship Bring and Share Lunch. STEWARDSHIP ENVELOPES: Stewardship & Gift Aid Secretary, Hazel Ward will also be glad to help prospective new members of the Stewardship Scheme. ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC: Evensong on Saturday 9 June at 4.00 will be sung by Diocesan Choirs and includes the presentation of Dean’s and Bishop’s Awards to successful candidates at the recent examinations held in Leeds and Harrogate. FILM NIGHT: Our next Film Night will be on Sunday June 10 at 7.30 in the room when the film will be City of Angels.

BATTLE OF THE ORGANS: The 2012 Battle takes place on Wednesday evening 13 June at 7.30 pm. Is this date in your personal or family diary yet? The programme is now almost finalised and looks immensely appetising, including as it does such golden oldies as Handel’s Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, The Last Sleep of the Virgin by Massenet, Grainger’s Handel in the Strand, the Processional from Pines of Rome and, of course, the singing of Parry’s Jerusalem by all present. Also programmed is Edward Marsh’s stupendous arrangement of the Thunderbirds March and Toch’s hilarious Geographical Fugue will be rendered by the organists. There’s also music by Verdi, Nevin, Hollins, Whitlock and Vierne among others. CALLING ALL HOLIDAY MAKERS: It’s by no means too early to be thinking of bringing a gift home from your holiday for the Rector’s Gift Stall at this year’s Christmas Gift Fair at Church on Saturday 24 November! Your help will be very gratefully appreciated. ANNUAL SERVICE AT ST JOHN’S BRIGGATE: This year, Choral Evensong at St John’s is on Wednesday 20 June at 6.00 and all are warmly welcome to attend. Please put the date in your diary now and let your friends know about it! CONFIRMATION 2012: Meetings for those wishing to be confirmed are now taking place on ongoing Saturday mornings at 10.30 am. This year’s Parish Confirmation is at Leeds Parish Church on Sunday 24 June at 10.30 when the Diocesan Bishop celebrates and presides. PLEASE PRAY FOR: MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH COMMUNITY – in residential care Christine Caines, Maureen Coles, Alice Normington, Ted Marks, Peter Milner, Veronica Rutkowska, Sylvia Wilkinson, Susan Williams

THOSE WHO ASK OUR PRAYERS Albert Andrews, Joan Ball, Jean Bannister, Rose Beck, David Bywater, Sonia Bywater, John Cooper, Bridget Durkin, John Edmonds, Francesca Eyre, Catherine Mary Ladd; Logan Firth, Ivy Frampton, John Hardaker, Pauline Holladay, Kathleen Holway, Peter Holway [now on Dialysis], Peter Jackson, Priscilla Jackson, Joanne Lebor, Karen MacDonald, Marjorie Milner, Gordon Rees, Jack Robins, Cathryn Robinson, Iris Rutkowska, John Sheldrake, Pamela Sheldrake, Althea Shevill, Mavis Simpson, David Speck, Denis Stenning, Erik Thornton, Patricia Wagstaff, Hazel Ward, Ken Ward [formerly of City of Leeds School and father of singer Caroline Lenton-Ward], Geoff Wheat, Mavis Whitehead

YEAR’S MIND Victor Buck [27 May 1991], Mabel Robinson [28 May], Norman Charnock [30 May 1998], Trevor Ironside [30 May 2002], Eric Lord Empsall [1 June 2001]

FOCUS ON: CELEBRATION AND JUBILEE In May “the Birds do sing” and “Sweet lovers love the spring” as the text of the old “ballet” madrigal beginning Now is the month of maying has it.

Yet it is not only lovers that love the Spring. Within our own country, a nation fast approaching the time of Jubilee, significant links were established centuries ago, perhaps even as far back as the time of Saint Edward the Confessor, with the month of May and a great celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This connection has continued to the present day, with our contemporary liturgical calendar scheduling the feast of the Visitation [the visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth] for the very last day of the month, 31 May.

So devout were the Christian faithful of pre-Reformation Britain in their devotion to, and their great love for, the Mother of Our Lord that England was widely referred to as “Mary’s Dowry”. Shakespeare in King Henry V declares the rousing cry requesting succour from: Our Lady for her Dowry, Saint George and Saint Edward to our aid!

Thus it is that many May Festivals in honour of our Lady still flourish today and are celebrated within churches of both Roman and Anglican traditions.

Additionally, this year at the month and the beginning of the next we celebrate an earthly as well as a heavenly Queen by giving thanks for the Diamond Jubilee Year of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. The special service of thanksgiving here at Leeds Parish Church is this coming Friday at 6.00 and all are asked to be seated on the occasion for 5.50. May God richly bless our Queen and all involved in the celebrations next weekend.

Simon Lindley