[Magdalen] Please pray

[Marilyn Cepeda]

Congratulations on your retirement. I hope your day is wonderful!

Marilyn

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 2:38 AM Michael Bishop <rev at michaelbishop.name>
wrote:

> Dear All
> I am quietly waiting to go across to church for my final celebration of
> the Eucharist as a rector in my parishes as I retire from stipendiary
> ministry this coming Thursday which is my 70th birthday. The service
> will be a very special one - the congregations of my 8 parishes will be
> coming together for this service and the numbers seem likely to be very
> large as people who I would not have expected have been saying they will
> be here.
> The last few weeks have made me feel like Frank Sinatra - with lots of
> farewell visits and events.
> .It will be hard to go - I have been here for almost 21 very happy years
> -living here longer than anywhere else in my life - but the time is
> unquestionably right. Please pray for me as I seek to settle into new
> ways in my retirement home in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire and for the
> parishes I will be leaving. They have a time of uncertainty as they
> await the Bishop's decision on what the future will bring for them. It
> seems almost certain that there will be a long inter-regnum as the
> diocese seems to see vacancies as an opportunity to save  money from the
> budget. People find it difficult to understand why there is as yet not
> even the beginnings of a search for a new parish priest.
> God bless us all.
>
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> ....
> ....
> God bless
>
> Michael Bishop
> rev at michaelbishop.name
>
> Rector of Boylestone, Church Broughton, Dalbury, Longford, Long Lane,
> Sutton-on-the-Hill & Trusley
>
> Diocese of Derby, England
>
> --
Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda