BULLETIN for the week beginning 20th May 2012 The Sunday after Ascension Day SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Anglican Communion Sunday 9.15 am HOLY COMMUNION Leeds Parish Church 10.30 am CHORAL MATINS Leeds Parish Church Preacher: The Venerable Paul Hooper, Archdeacon of Leeds 10.30 am HOLY COMMUNION St Mary’s Preacher: The Reverend Sue Wallace, Vicar Choral 6.30 pm CHORAL EVENSONG Leeds Parish Church Preacher: Canon Ann Nicholl Church of England – Diocese of Ripon and Leeds – Parish of Leeds City Rector of Leeds: The Reverend Canon Tony Bundock [0113] 245 2036 [office], 278 6237 [home] The Rector is on Sabbatical leave for 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] www.leedsparishchurch.org.uk e-mail: [email protected] Monday, 21st Helena, Protector of the Holy Places, 330 • Chicago (V, The Episcopal Church) – Bishop: Jeffrey Lee • St Michael’s Hospice – Jonathan Bower 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Parish Church 5.30 pm Choral Evensong [Boys’ Voices] Leeds Parish Church Tuesday, 22nd • Chichester (Canterbury) – Bishop: vacant • Chichester – Horsham: Mark Sowerby; Chichester - Lewes: Wallace Benn • Army Foundation College 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, 23rd • Chile (Southern Cone) – Bishop: Hector Zavala Muaoz; • Suffragan Bishop of Chile: Abelino Manuel Apeleo • Harrogate Ladies College 9.00 am Wednesday Worship St Peter’s School 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Parish Church 5.30 pm Choral Evensong Leeds Parish Church 6.00 pm Vestry Hour Leeds Parish Church 7.00 pm Bible Study for Gratitude and Generosity Leeds Parish Church Thursday, 24th John and Charles Wesley, Evangelists, Hymn Writers, 1791 and 1788 • Chotanagpur (North India) – Bishop: B Baskey • Our Methodist Partners – York and Hull District, Stephen Burges, Chair 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Parish Church 1.05 pm Holy Communion [BCP] Leeds Parish Church 5.30 pm Choral Evensong [Men’s Voices] Leeds Parish Church~ Friday, 25th The Venerable Bede, Monk at Jarrow, Scholar, Historian, 735 Adhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, 709 • Christ the King (Southern Africa) – Bishop: Peter Lee • Chaplain for Readers (Harrogate): Sue Pearce 9.45 am Morning Prayers Leeds Parish Church 12.00 noon Midday Prayers Leeds Parish Church 12.30 pm Organ Recital [David Houlder organist] Leeds Parish Church 1.05 pm Holy Communion Holy Trinity 7.00 pm Choral Evensong [Full Choir] Leeds Parish Church Saturday, 26th Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 John Calvin, Reformer, 1564 Philip Neri, Founder of the Oratorians, Spiritual Guide, 1595 • Christchurch (Aotearoa NZ & Polynesia) – Bishop: Victoria Matthews • The Gathering of recently confirmed young people 11.00 am Holy Matrimony: Peter Mason & Mireille Beguin Leeds Parish Church 7.30 pm Choral Concert: The Glories of Venice Dewsbury Minster FRIDAY LUNCHTIMES IN JUNE – ORGAN CONCERTS by DR LINDLEY Diamond Jubilee Programme on the 1st – Basically Bach on all other Fridays Next Sunday, 27th May – WHIT SUNDAY [PENTECOST] 9.15 am Holy Communion Leeds Parish Church 10.30 am Choral Eucharist Leeds Parish Church Preacher: The Rector of Leeds 12.00 noon Stewardship “Bring and Share” Lunch Leeds Parish Church 10.30 am Morning Worship St Mary’s Preacher: The Reverend Sue Wallace, Vicar Choral 6.30 pm Congregational Evensong Leeds Parish Church Preacher: The Reverend Sue Wallace, Vicar Choral GRATITUDE AND GENEROSITY: is the title of our Stewardship initiative during May. On three Sundays May 13, 20 and 27 at the 10.30 Service at LPC we have two visiting preachers plus the Rector to focus and lead thoughts and prayer. Bible studies on Wednesdays 9, 16 and 23 May at 7.00 pm and Saturday May 19 at 10.30am. All these events help 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? STEWARDSHIP BRING AND SHARE LUNCH NEXT SUNDAY 27 MAY: Choral Eucharist of Pentecost next weekend will be followed by a Stewardship Bring and Share Lunch. Contributions will be much appreciated. Please let Ann Bainbridge know what you are able to bring! STEWARDSHIP ENVELOPES: Stewardship & Gift Aid Secretary, Hazel Ward will also be glad to help prospective new members of the Stewardship Scheme. WARM CONGRATULATIONS AND GRATEFUL THANKS: go to former Head Chorister Jacob Legese on his award in this year’s Rachel Carr Choristers’ Charity presentation, made after Choral Eucharist on Ascension Day. FILM NIGHT: Our next Film Night will be on Sunday June 10 at 7.30 in the City of Leeds room when the film will be City of Angels. 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. MUSIC NEWS: It has just been announced by the University of Huddersfield that an Honorary Doctorate of that university is to be conferred upon our Master of the Music in July in recognition of his contribution to music and choral singing, locally and internationally. 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 sung by the organists. There’s also repertoire by Verdi, Nevin, Hollins, Whitlock and Vierne among others. 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 Lily Wilkinson [21 May 2007], Alfred Melville Cook, Organist and Choirmaster, 1937 to 1956 [22 May 1993] FOCUS ON … THE ASCENSION The Easter faith of the Church is that Christ is risen, which means than he has broken the hold of death and corruption. But the Ascension takes things a step further. Theologically speaking, the Ascension means that that Christ is not only alive but, as the Orthodox Churches would say, Pantocrator, ruler of the cosmos. For by his Ascension into heaven, Christ was exalted that he might fill the universe with his divine activity as sovereign and governor. The Ascension, therefore, is a raising up of the relationship between Christ and his followers to a new and higher level. And in the theology of St. Luke’s Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, the Ascension is also presented as a prerequisite to the giving of the Holy Spirit; so that is therefore a watershed between the Mission of the Son and the Mission of the Spirit. Just as it was for the first disciples of Jesus, the personal encounter with the risen, ascended Christ today still transforms lives. Those who meet with the risen, ascended Christ, have a new perspective on all of the great questions of life and death and the meaning of our existence. And a deep prayerfulness enables God the Holy Spirit, the river within, to nurture us to our full potential and so we can therefore blossom in confidence and enthusiasm in our life of faith. God loves each one of us, individually and personally, whoever we are, wherever we have come from. Those who meet with the risen ascended Christ, as we do each week in the Eucharist do – in the deepest essence of their being – know that for themselves. Tony Bundock .