{"id":8164,"date":"2026-09-26T19:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/2026\/09\/mpho-becomes-sr-m-patricia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T19:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T17:23:39","slug":"mpho-becomes-sr-m-patricia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/2026\/09\/mpho-becomes-sr-m-patricia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mpho becomes Sr. M. Patricia &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today in South Africa, we celebrated Mpho\u2019s religious profession. From now on, she will go by the religious name Sr. M. Patricia.<br\/><br\/>In a moving ceremony, her mother symbolically entrusted her to the Congregation by washing her feet. After the investiture, Mpho returned her lay clothes to her family\u2014just as St. Francis did.<br\/><br\/>We wish Sr. M. Patricia God\u2019s abundant blessings, much joy, and strength on her journey as a Franciscan of Sie\u00dfen!<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siessen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_20260926_1812235167884141377309859-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siessen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_20260926_1812235167884141377309859-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siessen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_20260926_1812235167884141377309859-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/siessen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_20260926_1812235167884141377309859-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/siessen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_20260926_1812235167884141377309859.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in South Africa, we celebrated Mpho\u2019s religious profession. From now on, she will go by the religious name Sr. M. Patricia. In a moving ceremony, her mother symbolically entrusted her to the Congregation by washing her feet. After the investiture, Mpho returned her lay clothes to her family\u2014just as St. Francis did. We wish&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-8164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unkategorisiert","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8166,"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8164\/revisions\/8166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8164"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siessen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=8164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}