23rd July 2023 Deacon Al was ordained to the permanent diaconate in 1992. He has served the people of our parish and the deanery selflessly for more than three decades. As he retired officially from active parish ministry, the parish met for a...
24.07.2023
17th March 2019 The Tolworth Trekkers embarked on an epic walk from OLI Church over the Surrey Hills to Worth Abbey, near Crawley. The 31 mile (69,000 step) walk took 11.5 hours (with no stops) and Worth Abbey was reached at 6.30pm, just...
17.03.2019
7th December 2018 What a wonderful sight: a full church, and a hall fit to bursting! People of every age taking part from members of OLI School to the more senior members of our community, and everyone in between. Fr...
07.12.2018
17th November 2018 Fr Tom Lynch, curate at OLI from 2013 – 2015, was inducted as parish priest of The English Martyr’s, Strood, by The Most Reverend Peter Smith, Archbishop of Southwark. The Ceremony of Induction is an occasion when a new...
17.11.2018
19th October 2018 On Friday evening 19 October, the Parish gathered to say farewell and Godspeed to Canon Edward Perera, who returned from his new parish at Welling for the occasion. Father Edward con-celebrated Mass with eight priests from...
19.10.2018
24th – 26th February 2017 The afternoon of 24th February was, unlike the first weekend, dry and quite pleasant (apart from the wind)! So, 18 young people, and 4 not so young people, boarded the coach for the Diocesan Youth Centre in...
24.02.2017
3rd – 5th February 2017 The afternoon of 3rd February was wet and dismal, but that did not dampen the spirits of the 21 young people, and 4 not so young people, as they boarded the coach for the Diocesan Youth Centre in Whitstable,...
03.02.2017
5th – 7th February 2016 The afternoon of 5th February was wet and dismal, but that did not dampen the spirits of the 18 young people, and 5 not so young people, and they boarded the coach for the Diocesan Youth Centre in Whitstable,...
04.02.2016
27th – 29th November 2015 It was a great pleasure to spend the first weekend of Advent at the Diocesan Youth Centre in Whitstable with some of this year’s confirmation candidates – 20 young people in all (and 4 nearly young people). The...
27.11.2015
30th October – 1st November 2015 It would be nice to say that the morning of Friday 30th October dawned bright and sunny in preparation for our pilgrimage: it didn’t. It was dark and pouring with rain as we boarded the coach outside...
30.10.2015