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.
19 April 2022
Hundreds of thousands of prayer cards have been delivered to churches and cathedrals in England and Wales – including Wakefield Cathedral – to help people find ‘comfort and hope in a world of uncertainty’.
14 April 2022
We are delighted to share the news that our wonderful volunteer Chris Haigh will today be attending the Royal Maundy Service at Windsor Palace, receiving the Maundy Money in recognition for her contribution to Wakefield Cathedral over the past six decades.
14 April 2022
Forth he came at Easter, like the risen grain,
he that for three days in the grave had lain.
Quick from the dead my risen Lord is seen:
love is come again, like wheat that springeth green.
07 April 2022
The other day I read a news story about the war in Ukraine which happened to mention that some Ukrainian and indeed Russian soldiers carry the text of Psalm 91 (known as the ‘Soldier’s Psalm’) tucked into their army fatigues.
01 April 2022
On Friday 01 April the Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer paid a visit to Wakefield Cathedral.
01 April 2022
Canon Derek
A few weeks before I was born, the BBC famously broadcast an episode of Panorama purporting to show the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. Apparently hundreds of people rang the BBC to ask where they could buy some spaghetti trees…
24 March 2022
On Friday, the Church celebrates the Annunciation of the Lord, which was the announcement of the Angel Gabriel to the virgin Mary, that she is favoured and would conceive a son by the power of the Holy Spirit. The whole episode is surrounded in perplexity and impossibility.
18 March 2022
Every morning in the cathedral a group of clergy and laity gather to say Morning Prayer together. A central element of the service is the saying of the psalms, a wonderful collection of sacred hymns written over 2500 years ago for use in worship by the Jewish people.
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