The Immaculate Conception of the BVM and the Development of Doctrine
Posted by esbvm on December 9th, 2007
The latest in the series of ‘Our Lady on Saturday’ ESBVM talks on Our Lady took place at St Mary-the-Virgin, Kenton on Saturday December 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, given by Dr Desmond Miller, a Catholic layman, retired GP, and writer and speaker on Our Lady.
A weekend of unpleasant weather may have dissuaded some who might otherwise have come, but those who braved the elements were well-rewarded with an excellent talk and discussion in which the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, and the development of doctrine in the Catholic Church each served as a case-study for the other – demonstrating on the one hand the process by which the Catholic Church discerns and receives doctrine, and on the other hand that the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the BVM has been properly and fully discerned and received over a significant period in the life of the Church, originating long before the divisions between Christians which we currently experience, and is not the nineteenth-century innovation as which it is sometimes misrepresented.
The next ‘Our Lady on Saturday’ talk will take place on Saturday April 5th at 1.30pm at St Mary-the-Virgin, Kenton. The speaker will be Fr Geoffrey Kirk, Vicar of St Stephen’s, Lewisham. His talk will be entitled ‘Mary: Image of Woman’.
Enquiries should be directed to Fr Giles Pinnock SSC, St Mary-the-Virgin, Kenton – 020 8907 2914.