{"id":34080,"date":"2025-08-07T22:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34080"},"modified":"2025-08-07T22:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T21:56:51","slug":"a-feast-of-flowers-and-clergy-changes-at-abingdon-on-thames-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34080","title":{"rendered":"A Feast of Flowers and Clergy Changes at Abingdon-on-Thames Parish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025080701.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe front garden of St Helen\u2019s Church Office is a joy to pass in any season. Its colourful, carefully tended flowers reflect the care and dedication found within the parish.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025080702.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThere are changes ahead for the clergy team. The Rev Dr Jennifer Brown, currently Associate Priest at St Helen\u2019s, has been appointed Rector of Abingdon-on-Thames and will be licensed on Tuesday 21st October at 7 pm in St Helen\u2019s Church.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev Paul Smith will be retiring, with his final service on Wednesday 9th October at 7 pm in St Michael\u2019s Church. We wish him the very best and are sorry to see him go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The front garden of St Helen\u2019s Church Office is a joy to pass in any season. Its colourful, carefully tended flowers reflect the care and dedication found within the parish. There are changes ahead for the clergy team. The Rev Dr Jennifer Brown, currently Associate Priest at St Helen\u2019s, has been appointed Rector of Abingdon-on-Thames [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}