Our Ladys Church in Chiswick was packed to the rafters for the hostoric visit of Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor to Mass this Sunday.

The Cardinal had insisted on coming to the 9.45 family service and Parish Priest, Fr. Michael Johnson had been concerned about a low turnout because of the half term holiday. In fact it was standing room only as a congregation estimated to be in excess of 1,000 packed into the Church.

In his sermon Cardinal Murphy O'Connor said that in his two year's of visiting parishes since becoming a Cardinal he had never been to a Mass where so many families with children were in attendance.