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.
01 March 2024
The other day the BBC News website posted photographs of a delightfully fiery sunrise over Bristol and the West Country. Those who had been on their way to work that morning had been treated to wonderfully glowing skies which coloured even the grimmest of inner cities glorious shades of pink and gold.
01 March 2024
Having returned home from working in Dubai at the latest COP, Hot Poets have been working on a new project: ‘We Feed the UK’, in collaboration with the Gaia Foundation, ‘photographers, and poets and some of the UK’s custodians of soil, sea and seed in order to showcase positive solutions to climate change, the biodiversity crisis and social justice.’
23 February 2024
This has been officially the first week of lent, Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of lent in which we held a service in the hospital chapel.
23 February 2024
The UK produces the highest amount of food waste in Europe.
Over 1/3 of all food produced globally goes to waste.
16 February 2024
Last week we held the inaugural meeting of the Cathedral Partners Forum. Some fifteen or sixteen people representing commercial, civic, educational, third and cultural sectors across our city and district enjoyed a tour of the cathedral conducted by our architect.
16 February 2024
For the next few weeks this Eco Comment is going to be food-based. This is not meant as a cruel added temptation of Lent, but will hopefully educate us all in different ways.
08 February 2024
Most of us struggle with praying and would like to feel better at it! So three short sessions this Lent will use different things in and around the cathedral building and services to help us focus on prayer together. Come to one or all!
08 February 2024
Did you know (I didn’t till I read an article about it this week) that Lent was abolished in many countries of the Reformation? Curiously, it survived in England.
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