Our Lady of Mount Carmel & St Wilfrid Church12 Church Road, Selsey, PO20 0LS
You are warmly invited to join us for Mass and other activities at Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Wilfrid's Church. Sunday Mass: 11am Weekday Mass: Monday, 10am Please see the Mass Times page for full details.
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The Dedication of our Church
Our Church is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Wilfrid.
St Wilfrid, in about 681, founded in Selsey a monastery dedicated to Our Lady which now lies beneath the sea, due to coastal erosion. This may have been in the minds of those who chose to dedicate the Church to Our Lady and it may have been the Carmelite Monastery near Hunston (now closed) that suggested the dedication of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
The choice of St Wilfrid as co-patron would have been obvious – for it was Wilfrid who first brought the Christian Faith to Selsey, landing on the Peninsula and establishing a base from which to preach the Gospel to the South Saxons. He also taught the local population the skill of fishing in the sea: fishing has been a thriving local industry ever since.
St Wilfrid, in about 681, founded in Selsey a monastery dedicated to Our Lady which now lies beneath the sea, due to coastal erosion. This may have been in the minds of those who chose to dedicate the Church to Our Lady and it may have been the Carmelite Monastery near Hunston (now closed) that suggested the dedication of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
The choice of St Wilfrid as co-patron would have been obvious – for it was Wilfrid who first brought the Christian Faith to Selsey, landing on the Peninsula and establishing a base from which to preach the Gospel to the South Saxons. He also taught the local population the skill of fishing in the sea: fishing has been a thriving local industry ever since.
