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.
02 February 2024
A year and a half ago I was writing what I thought would be my final ‘Catch-up’ reflection. It was a meditation on endings and beginnings and the joy of finding beginnings in endings and appreciating afresh the starting point of one’s journey.
31 January 2024
Last week’s Eco Comment prompted me to research further into how our lifestyle impacts or creates our carbon footprint. The keyword in this is ‘research’.
29 January 2024
REQUIEM was one of the highest new entries in the Classic FM Hall of Fame 2023, with presenter Alexander Armstrong also choosing it as his Album of the Week, and dubbing the composer “a great force for good in the choral world”.
26 January 2024
Last All Saints’ Day at Horbury we sang a hymn about the saints of the Anglo-Saxon period – people like Paulinus, Columba, Cuthbert and Hilda. The hymn appealed to me for two reasons.
26 January 2024
I recently booked a flight to Berlin and for the first time was asked if I wanted to pay extra to ‘offset’ the emissions. As chance would have it, I also saw a post from a friend who was ‘feeling perplexed’ about a flight that she had to take.
19 January 2024
“Once I knew there was a love divine,
Then came a time I thought it knew me not.
Who can forgive forgiveness where forgiveness is not?
Only the lamb as white as snow.”
12 January 2024
‘Our Voices Heard’ is a creative songwriting and art project led by Jenna Fan, local musician and Director of Go Pop CIC, musician Tsungai Tsikirai and artist Ruth Fones. Through a series of 12 workshops, women originally from Syria, Sudan and Botswana, now living in the Wakefield District, turned parts of their life stories into songs and artwork.
12 January 2024
This quote is attributed to Albert Einstein, but is fairly similar to one by Aristotle: ‘The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.’ I am definitely in this situation.
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