{"id":11703,"date":"2023-11-19T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=11703"},"modified":"2023-11-20T23:08:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T23:08:16","slug":"st-marks-west-wickham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/st-marks-west-wickham\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr Ashley and St Mark&#8217;s West Wickham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p>It has been announced today that Father Ray Brennan is retiring as Parish Priest of our neighbouring\u00a0parish of West Wickham after many years of faithful service. He has been on our prayer list \u2013 please pray for him as he begins his retirement. The archbishop has asked me to become Parochial Administrator of St Mark\u2019s parish with effect from Advent Sunday in two weeks\u2019 time. The focus of my pastoral ministry will shift to West Wickham, where the archbishop wants me to maintain\u00a0a \u2018daily presence\u2019\u00a0in St Mark\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>My teaching responsibilities will remain unchanged in the diaconate formation programme\u00a0at St Mary\u2019s University\u00a0and Allen Hall Seminary in Chelsea. St Mark\u2019s\u00a0is\u00a0a feeder parish for St Mary\u2019s school\u00a0and I will remain part of the school chaplaincy team, and I will still be part of the chaplaincy team at our local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your support to me over the last twenty-seven years, which I hope will continue, and please pray for me and my family at this time; and for the parish of West Wickham.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Fr Ashley\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_appendonsend\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been announced today that Father Ray Brennan is retiring as Parish Priest of our neighbouring\u00a0parish of West Wickham after many years of faithful service. He has been on our prayer list \u2013 please pray for him as he begins his retirement. The archbishop has asked me to become Parochial Administrator of St Mark\u2019s parish with effect from Advent Sunday in two weeks\u2019 time. The focus of my pastoral ministry will shift to West Wickham, where the archbishop wants me to maintain\u00a0a \u2018daily presence\u2019\u00a0in St Mark\u2019s. My teaching responsibilities will remain unchanged in the diaconate formation programme\u00a0at St Mary\u2019s University\u00a0and Allen Hall Seminary in Chelsea. St Mark\u2019s\u00a0is\u00a0a feeder parish for St Mary\u2019s school\u00a0and I will remain part of the school chaplaincy team, and I will still be part of the chaplaincy team at our local hospital. Thank you for your support to me over the last twenty-seven years, which I hope will continue, and please pray for me and my family at this time; and for the parish of West Wickham. Fr Ashley\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11708,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703\/revisions\/11708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}