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"Being in the
image of God the human individual possesses the dignity of a person,
who is not just something, but someone."
Catechism of the Catholic Church, Section 357 |
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Patronal Feast Celebrations 2004
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Click
here to see images from the celebrations.
The story goes that Bishop Cyril Cowderoy wanted the first parish priest, Father Redding, to dedicate the new church being built in Tolworth to an English Saint. Fr Redding would have none of this and the dedication was to Our Lady Immaculate. The Church was opened and the first mass celebrated on 25th March, 1958. That day was exactly 100 years after Our Lady appeared to the girl Bernadette at Lourdes in France and told her, during the 16th apparition, "I am the Immaculate Conception". This year's celebrations coincide with the 150th Anniversary of the Definition of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception, proclaimed on December 8th 1854, by Pius IX in the Papal Bull Ineffabilis Deus "From the first moment of her conception, the Blessed Virgin Mary was, by the singular grace and privilege of Almighty God, and in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of humankind, kept free from all stain of original sin". |
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