{"id":12522,"date":"2025-09-16T14:42:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leedsjp.org.uk\/?p=12522"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:46:17","slug":"16-sep-happy-birthday-to-mgr-peter-rosser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/2025\/09\/16\/16-sep-happy-birthday-to-mgr-peter-rosser\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Sep &#8211; Happy Birthday to Mgr Peter Rosser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\nHappy Birthday!<br><br>Mgr. Peter Rosser recently celebrated his 80th birthday. Fr Peter was a member of the J&amp;P Commission for many years and spent several years as episcopal vicar covering J&amp;P issues.<br><br>In the early days of J&amp;P in the 1970s he would regularly say a monthly mass at the J&amp;P office, which at the time was in the basement of a convent on Burley Road in Leeds. In the 1980s he spent several years in Peru and his interest and work for the people there still continues.<br><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_133139-scaled-1.jpg\" title=\"20250905_133139\" alt=\"20250905_133139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_133139-scaled-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_133139-scaled-1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_133139-scaled-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_133139-scaled-1.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_133139-scaled-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>\nIn \u2018retirement\u2019 he has been assisting at St Benedict\u2019s parish in Garforth. People there have taken him to their hearts and put on a surprise party for him in a packed parish hall after Sunday mass on 31 August. It included this celebration banner \u2013 as well as a substantial financial gift.<br><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250824_115056-1-scaled-1.jpg\" title=\"20250824_115056 (1)\" alt=\"20250824_115056 (1)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250824_115056-1-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250824_115056-1-scaled-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250824_115056-1-scaled-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250824_115056-1-scaled-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250824_115056-1-scaled-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250824_115056-1-scaled-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[468],"class_list":["post-12522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catholic-social-thought","tag-birthday"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19915,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12522\/revisions\/19915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c4652100.myzen.co.uk\/jp2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}