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.
09 June 2023
Colour is one of the ways we know what’s going on during the church’s year. The colours of clergy robes, and in many churches the colour of altar frontals, is a physical demonstration of where we are in the story.
08 June 2023
I noticed a message on my phone today telling me how much my carbon breakdown was for the past year due to my taking the train instead of travelling by car.
02 June 2023
“I could never do your job!” I hear this statement quite often. “It must get you down.” Well actually, I see my job or vocation as a privilege, to come alongside a person in their last moments of life and accompany them into death and beyond.
01 June 2023
A few weeks ago, we in the Eco Group were thinking about the land around the cathedral and if it might be possible to do something to make it somewhere special to be. The initial idea came about because we’d discovered the following …
26 May 2023
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
26 May 2023
Don’t miss out on our free half term activities!
24 May 2023
I was reading this month’s Cathedral Book Club choice ‘The Daughter of Time’ by Josephine Tey and was struck by a situation quite early on in the book.
19 May 2023
As a child I spent many weekends watching those famous Second World War films – ‘Guns of Navarone’, ‘A Bridge Too Far’, ‘The Cruel Sea’, and so on. Now, one of the great things about my job is you get to meet all sorts of amazing people and be involved in all sorts of unusual things. This Saturday, Wakefield commemorates another war scene made into a famous film as we mark the eightieth anniversary of the Dambusters Raid in May 1943.
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