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.
18 May 2023
Writing this weekly comment is fascinating. I am learning so much and I hope the information I find is giving you something interesting to read each week.
10 May 2023
As the dust settles on the Coronation, the media are inevitably keen to look for further newsworthy aspects of all that happened last weekend. One of the more controversial themes has been the lavish cost of the occasion. That is for others to debate, but it reminded me of something else.
05 May 2023
Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed king
Tomorrow, for the first time in seventy years, we will see a coronation; and for the first time in nearly a century, a King and Queen will be crowned in Westminster Abbey, where every English and British sovereign has been crowned for just shy of a thousand years.
26 April 2023
Can you still buy a hot cross bun or an Easter egg in your local supermarket? Or are they selling barbecues for summer, or even minced pies, already?
The rhythm of the church’s year and the retail calendar aren’t always quite in sync. Whether it’s Christmas or Easter, it seems that you can buy seasonal stuff for weeks (months?) before the big day, but then immediately afterwards the display changes and the world’s moved on to the next thing.
21 April 2023
The cathedral received news last week that we have been awarded a Bronze Award by Eco Church. This scheme is run by A Rocha UK which inspires and resources Churches and Cathedrals to become greener. Part of the scheme invites users to complete surveys on 5 key areas; Worship and Teaching, Management of Building, Management of Land, Community and Global Engagement and Lifestyle.
19 April 2023
We look forward to welcoming you to the cathedral and celebrating the coronation with us. There is something for everyone, so don’t miss out on this special occasion!
13 April 2023
It is Easter week, and yet in Horbury there is ‘no rest for the wicked’, as my attention has now turned to a big community occasion which is taking place at the end of the month, namely a weekend celebrating the 300th birthday of John Carr, architect of such beautiful neoclassical masterpieces such as Harewood House, Buxton Crescent and Wentworth Woodhouse… and St Peter’s Church in Horbury!
06 April 2023
I got me flowers to straw thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought’st thy sweets along with thee.
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