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.
10 January 2025
This comment is a rather late start to the New Year, which is already 10 days old by the time you read it. I hope that you all enjoyed the festivities and managed a break from everyday working. I’m also wondering just how many of you made resolutions but have already fallen by the wayside on those promises that you valiantly made on the 1st January? I suppose it depends on the resolution.
03 January 2025
By the time you read this the mince pies will doubtless long be gone, the turkey a thankfully distant memory, and most (if not all) of the decorations taken down and packed away for another year.
20 December 2024
Well, we made it, almost. There are only a few more days to go before the big day. There are still some carol services to go and Christingle but I’ve done my last concerts of 2024 and the bass is now in its corner for the holiday.
20 December 2024
‘A great and mighty wonder,
a full and holy cure’
Those are the opening lines, as usually translated, of a German Christmas hymn, ‘Es ist ein Ros entsprungen’. As it happens the translation is not especially accurate, but it does capture a really important theme of Christmas which is sometimes overlooked.
19 December 2024
The Chapter – or Board of Trustees – of Wakefield Cathedral met on Wednesday December 04. A busy agenda focused on a ‘deep dive’ into the cathedral’s arrangements for safeguarding, and approval of the budget for 2025, as well as the regular reports received by Chapter.
13 December 2024
A bit of a cheat this week, but if it saves time and fits the bill, why not?
13 December 2024
You’ll probably miss it when we get to the Carol Service, there are too many frightened shepherds and blazing angels and full inns and shining stars, but St Luke tells us the first Christmas happened when Quirinus was governor of Syria.
06 December 2024
At the end of June I wrote an Eco Comment about Plastic-Free July. The headline report featuring the impact that this made has been published this week. The results are promising to say the least.
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