Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Highlight of my holiday... I saw an otter in the wild. (This is even sweeter because I am always that person who misses the amazing thing that everyone else sees, even when they are pointing at it excitedly, but today I was not that person!) 021
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It has been a busy year so far for weddings at @whitkirkchurch.org.uk. Our warmest congratulations go to all these fabulous couples (photos shared with permission). Thinking of planning a wedding? Find out more on our website at: whitkirkchurch.org.uk/weddings/ @leeds.anglican.org 000
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Not sure if this is @headlineoftheday.bsky.social -worthy, but it's a fab (see what I did there?) story. That Paul was on the phone to Ringo at the time is just the icing on the cake! 👌🏼 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukFans on Beatles tour spot Sir Paul McCartney at traffic lightsBeatles fans are thrilled to see Sir Paul McCartney as their bus pulls up next to him in Liverpool. 120
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Stayed up late writing a sermon last night, and then couldn't sleep because my head was buzzing with thoughts about the Trinity. This is normal, right? 200
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Happy @whitkirkchurch.org.uk -versary to me! Two years ago today I was interviewed for my post here. Showing me around the church, one of my wise Wardens said "Just stand behind the altar and see how it feels...". Reader, it felt GOOD. There are no words for how much I have come to love this view! 240
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Receiving an email from @mthrjo.bsky.social apologising for my having been accidentally registered for a(n unspecified) module, makes me *really* want to sign up for a module... any module. 100
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Belatedly sharing some pics of Holy Week and Easter at @whitkirkchurch.org.uk. What an amazing week! Alleluia! Christ is risen indeed! @churchofengland.org @leeds.anglican.org 021
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Very much enjoyed Judith Tutin's Stations of the Cross in Truro Cathedral today. 000
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Our beautiful Altar of Repose at @whitkirkchurch.org.uk. All local garden flowers and not a piece of oasis in sight. @leeds.anglican.org @churchofengland.org #sustainableflowers 053
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 30/03/2026What an amazing Palm Sunday at @whitkirkchurch.org.uk! Donkeys, water, and a great reading of the Passion Gospel by our friends at @whitkirkartsguild.com. @leeds.anglican.org 111
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 18/03/2026This Quiet Day, will give participants space to reflect and explore, it will encourage them to recognise the blessings that God pours out upon them and simultaneously to recognise themselves as bearers of that blessing to others and the world. All welcome! @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 000
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Gool Peran Lowen! The @churchofengland.org may not include it in its calendar (why not? 😢), but I am praying for my home county today, and for Cornish folk at home, up-country, and abroad. Happy St Piran's Day, my lovers! 000
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Come and hang out at that little bit of the Anglican venn diagram where catholic, charismatic, sacramental, inclusive, and probably a few other things I can't think of right now intersect joyfully... 010
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Freezing on the outside but warm on the inside from many wonderful conversations as we offered "Ashes to Go" at Temple Newsam this afternoon. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 120
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Putting our alleluias away for Lent today... @whitkirkchurch.org.uk 021
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Assembly Bangers at St Mary's Whitkirk. Safe to say that a lot of fun was had by all!! @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Look out Whitkirk! The vicar's star word for 2026 (drawn entirely at random with no cheating) is... 🥁🥁🥁 ... IMAGINATION! Literally anything could happen. Mwahaha! 🤣 011
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 25/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar, 2025: Day 25. Happy Christmas! On the last day of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a reminder of a fun-packed Advent. Wishing all our followers joy on this most special of days. 010
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Raising a glass to any members of #clergymaltclub still standing. (First tasting of this year's sloe gin...!) 3140
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 24/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 24. It's Christmas Eve. Mary and Joseph are approaching Bethlehem. The time for her baby to be born is drawing near. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 022
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 23/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 23. An image of Sunday's Festival of Lessons and Carols. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Yesterday we lit the fourth candle on our Advent wreath, as we remembered the Blessed Virgin Mary. Christmas is nearly here. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 21/12/2025The Festival of Lessons and Carols at @whitkirkchurch.org.uk was absolutely awesome. I am a very proud and happy (and a tiny bit exhausted) vicar. 011
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 21/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 21. O morning star! We explored the great 'O' antiphons of Advent at our Sanctuary service on Thursday. Today's antiphon is 'O oriens' or 'O morning star'. Today is the shortest day. Now the light returns. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 20/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 20. A fun night was had by all last night at the Brown Cow, singing carols with our friends from Altofts and Normanton Brass Band. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 021
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 19/12/2025I have four sermons to write, so obviously what I'm doing is decanting my sloe gin... 200
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 19/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 19. Candles glow and stars are placed on the tree to remember loved ones at our Longest Night service. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 011
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 18/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 18. On Saturday, members of St Mary's church choir were delighted to sing 3 carols at the concert by Svitoch Ukrainian Chamber choir. You can hear the choir again at our Festival of Lessons and Carols on Sunday 21st at 7pm. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 011
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 17/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 17. Yesterday the Silver Lining Luncheon Club members enjoyed their Christmas party, with a visit from Santa.... @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 011
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 16/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 16. We had a lot of fun at our Messy Christingle service on Sunday. Everyone built a Christingle in the hall and then brought it into church where we thought about Jesus, the light of the world. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025The path to Whamhalla! Thank you Seacroft Hospital... 120
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 15/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 15. Yesterday we lit the third candle on our Advent wreath, remembering John the Baptist, the precursor. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 14/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 14. Rejoice! The third Sunday of Advent, or "Gaudete Sunday", is a time of rejoicing in the anticipation of the one who is to come, as a mark of which we wear pink vestments and light the pink candle on our Advent wreath, in which some pink flowers have appeared. 000
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 13/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 13 Yesterday we had the joy of welcoming Years 5 and 6 from Templenewsam-Halton Primary School for a carol service, in the course of which the Knit-ivity made its first appearance of the season. 000
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 12/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 12. Yesterday a small group of parishioners and choristers, with Giles, our director of music, went to Colton Lodges care home for their Christmas Carol Service. Sharing the good news of Christmas, in church and out. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 011
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 11/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 11. A real treat today. Last night we were privileged to host the choir of Colton Primary School for their Christmas concert, and there was some pretty funky headgear on show... as well as some amazing singing. 🎵 🎶 @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 012
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 10/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 10. An angel tells Mary that she has been chosen to bear Gods own son. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 09/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 9. On Sunday evening we held our Advent Carol Service, watching and waiting with singing and readings as the light gradually returned. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 08/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 8. Yesterday was the second Sunday of Advent, and we lit the second candle on our Advent wreath, thinking of the prophets, whose words point to Jesus. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 07/12/2025The Christmas story is the story of an unmarried mother; of a couple with nowhere to sleep, dependent on the goodwill of strangers; of a family forced to flee to a foreign land because of terrible, politically-motivated violence; it is good news for all outsiders... and for all, without exception. 000
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 07/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 7. At the end of our Experience Christmas activities, the children laid their gifts before the Christ-child in the manger. Today we will present and bless them at the altar. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 06/12/2025St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 6. Just as the wise men considered what gifts to give the new baby king for whom they were searching, so the children who visited us this week thought about what they would give the new baby. @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 05/12/2025@whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org St Mary's Advent Calendar: Day 5. "You are the salt of the earth". Thinking about God's invitation to Mary, the children who come to Experience Christmas considered how God can take something ordinary and make it into something extraordinary. 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 04/12/2025@whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org This week we are welcoming children from all our primary schools into church for "Experience Christmas" activities. In this activity they think about how we can prepare our hearts, as well as our homes, to meet Jesus. 001
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Oh my heart! ❤️ "What gift would you give Baby Jesus?" This from a Year 3 child at Experience Christmas today... 030
Claire Honess @revclaireh.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Oops! Forgot to share this yesterday! @whitkirkchurch.org.uk @leeds.anglican.org 001