Read on to discover all the latest news, updates and information from Wakefield Cathedral, including upcoming events, important information and weekly reflections from our clergy.
07 March 2025
I do hope your pancakes on Tuesday did not resemble the ashes you may have seen and had marked on your forehead on Wednesday.
28 February 2025
I had a great weekend last weekend. It is not often I get to say that – also because in English culture, I have discovered, people are rather reluctant to admit that something might have been really good.
28 February 2025
It’s ok, there isn’t really a TV competition about gardening but maybe there should be?
28 February 2025
Next week Megan Nerlich will join the cathedral team for eight weeks on a full-time placement. Megan lives and studies in Munich, and her course of study involves a period living and volunteering abroad.
27 February 2025
You will have seen the news that our Dean is to retire at the end of July.
27 February 2025
Lent begins this week, a season of spiritual focus in preparation for Easter.
27 February 2025
The Chapter – or Board of Trustees – of Wakefield Cathedral held their latest meeting on Wednesday February 26. Key agenda items included a ‘deep dive’ into mission and outreach, discussions of how we manage risk, as well as the usual in-depth discussions on finance and safeguarding, and review of regular reports from various committees and the senior management team.
21 February 2025
Many years ago, while at a conference in Salisbury, I was lucky enough to take a trip to Bemerton, a small village just outside the city. We sang in the small church and were shown round the Rectory where the early sixteenth century Welsh poet and priest, George Herbert, had served and lived for three years until his death in 1633 at the age of forty.
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