{"id":34999,"date":"2012-10-08T21:16:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T21:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/worshipers_offer_heartfelt_goodbye_as_western_mass-_episcopal_bishop_gordon\/"},"modified":"2012-10-08T21:16:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T21:16:13","slug":"worshipers_offer_heartfelt_goodbye_as_western_mass-_episcopal_bishop_gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34999","title":{"rendered":"Worshipers offer heartfelt goodbye as Western Mass. Episcopal Bishop Gordon P. Scruton retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his final service at Christ Church Cathedral, retiring Episcopal Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Gordon P. Scruton, told worshipers it had been a privilege to serve as their pastoral leader for the past 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>Worshipers from Episcopal churches across the state gathered for Scruton\u2019s last mass at the cathedral as the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, the bishop and his wife, Rebecca, greeted each member of the church for a heartfelt goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a joy to share with people who we came to love and share our life and ministry,\u201d\u009d Scruton said. \u201cIt was a joy to be able to say \u201d\u02dcThank you.\u2019\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2012\/10\/worshipers_offer_heartfelt_goo.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his final service at Christ Church Cathedral, retiring Episcopal Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Gordon P. Scruton, told worshipers it had been a privilege to serve as their pastoral leader for the past 16 years. Worshipers from Episcopal churches across<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34999\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,66,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}