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.
03 May 2024
Those of you who were in the cathedral last weekend might have noticed the pull up banners that we borrowed from the diocese. ‘Good news for All Creation’ is a diocesan message and Eco Church is an organisation specifically encouraging churches from all denominations throughout the UK to work towards awards demonstrating the drive to net zero and/or sustainability.
03 May 2024
Each year during my time as an undergraduate, and for many of the years I spent as a graduate student, I set my alarm early on 1st May so that I would wake up in time to go down to Magdalen Bridge to hear the Choir of Magdalen College singing from the tower to welcome in the month of May.
30 April 2024
Wakefield Cathedral welcomed a group of people from different parts of the diocese to pray, sing the meditative music of Taizé, and find peace through stillness and silence.
26 April 2024
Do you have a cupboard or drawer in the kitchen for plastic containers? Most people do. I’m not sure where the mentality comes from but it’s probably down to age and the ‘don’t throw it away, it might be useful?’ thought that encourages so many of us to keep these receptacles.
26 April 2024
Its’ been my birthday this week! By the time you read this, it will have come and gone. Again! Now I’m closer to seventy than sixty, they seem to come round even faster.
23 April 2024
We may struggle with believing ourselves, or if we do believe find it hard when others have difficult questions.
19 April 2024
When you see organisations and companies ranging from the Radio Times to charities desperate for your money referencing Earth Day as part of their marketing strategies, you know that someone, somewhere has taken note of an event that started very small in 1970 and has now become a date that is noticed and acted upon.
19 April 2024
The other day I came across a news article about bumblebees. Researchers in Canada had been studying queen bumblebees in their dormant state but, in a laboratory experiment gone wrong, they had accidentally drowned them.
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