{"id":4190,"date":"2020-01-05T20:03:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2020-01-03T18:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:07:59","slug":"a-message-from-fr-simplicio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2020\/01\/05\/a-message-from-fr-simplicio\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message from Fr Simplicio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Blessed and Happy New Year 2020!\u00a0I hope you had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends and have ushered in the New Year with joy and hope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Permit me to write these few lines to inform you that I am going on a sabbatical.\u00a0As I leave the parish I wish to express my pro-found thanks to each of you. It has been wonderful to be among you and to work for and with you. I was blessed to share the experience and expertise of my fellow-clergy, Frs. Steve and Ashley, Deacon Sean and over the last few months Deacon Duncan. I am grateful to them for the kindness, love and concern shown to me. I am grateful to Barbara, Rosemary, Johnny, Rae and Ursula for all their goodness and kindness, and to Von, who has been so motherly towards me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I will treasure the fond memories of every one whom I have encountered. Thank you for your kind words, your concern and love which you have so warmly and generously bestowed upon me. St. Edmund&#8217;s was truly my home, away from home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If I may have wronged anyone in any way, I ask for your forgiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As I embark on my sabbatical, I am planning to take some time off and also to pursue some studies, God willing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If anyone wishes to contact me, I will be available on my email address sipu29@gmail.com.\u00a0God willing, I will sometimes return to St. Edmund&#8217;s during my sabbatical, as I will only be across the Channel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please keep me in your prayers as I promise to keep you in mine.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thank you for everything.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Till we meet again!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Simplicio D&#8217;Souza<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Blessed and Happy New Year 2020!\u00a0I hope you had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends and have ushered in the New Year with joy and hope. Permit me to write these few lines to inform you that I am going on a sabbatical.\u00a0As I leave the parish I wish to express my pro-found thanks to each of you. It has been wonderful to be among you and to work for and with you. I was blessed to share the experience and expertise of my fellow-clergy, Frs. Steve and Ashley, Deacon Sean and over the last few months Deacon Duncan. I am grateful to them for the kindness, love and concern shown to me. I am grateful to Barbara, Rosemary, Johnny, Rae and Ursula for all their goodness and kindness, and to Von, who has been so motherly towards me. I will treasure the fond memories of every one whom I have encountered. Thank you for your kind words, your concern and love which you have so warmly and generously bestowed upon me. St. Edmund&#8217;s was truly my home, away from home. If I may have wronged anyone in any way, I ask for your forgiveness. As I embark on my sabbatical, I am planning to take some time off and also to pursue some studies, God willing. If anyone wishes to contact me, I will be available on my email address sipu29@gmail.com.\u00a0God willing, I will sometimes return to St. Edmund&#8217;s during my sabbatical, as I will only be across the Channel. Please keep me in your prayers as I promise to keep you in mine. Thank you for everything. Till we meet again! Simplicio D&#8217;Souza<\/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-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","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=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}