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ONE of the oldest men to be ordained into the Roman Catholic Church returned
\nto the Merrie City to celebrate his first mass at a Wakefield church.<\/p>\n
Fr Don Forsythe, 71, jetted over from America to celebrate his ordination ONE of the oldest men to be ordained into the Roman Catholic Church returned to the Merrie City to celebrate his first mass at a Wakefield church. Fr Don Forsythe,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand read mass in the home city of his late wife and the place where he lived
\nfor 12 years.
\nA congregation at St Austin’s RC Church on Wentworth Terrace heard Fr Don deliver
\nmass on Sunday morning, just two weeks after he was ordained.
\nThe grandfather, from Londonderry in Northern Ireland, told the Express how
\nWakefield held a special place in his heart because it was where he met his
\nwife, Ann Dwyer.
\n"
\nI wanted to come back to Wakefield because it holds some lovely memories for
\nme", he said. "I met my wife, Ann, here and I was very happily married
\nfor 38 years.
\n" She died six years ago from bone leukaemia. I had suffered a stroke after
\nshe was diagnosed but she held on until I recovered because that was the sort
\nof
\nwoman she was. She didn’t want to go until she knew I would be okay to look
\nafter the family."<\/span>
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