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The Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena, Bishop José Manuel Lorca Planes, presided on Saturday September 3 the act of blessing the church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Bullas, popularly known as the "church in New Town."
In this Eucharist accompanied by the parish choir, concelebrated by the Bishop's Vicar-Mula Zone Caravaca, D.
Jesus Aguilar, the parish priest, D.
José Antonio Ibáñez and several priests of the diocese.
The day before, held a ceremony to transfer the Holy to this new church.
In his homily, the bishop noted its presence in three events in Bullas.
First, on the Anniversary of the Coronation of the Virgin of Rosario.
Plans Lorca Bishop recalled the guarantee is the devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary to meet her Son Jesus.
In addition, our blessed Pastor Caritas House in this area.
In this sense, the bishop explained that our faith is embodied in the charity.
He spoke of charity and how can Christians help alleviate pain, not only from an economic perspective, but from the heart.
In this third occasion, Bishop Lorca came to bless a church, emphasizing its call to worship and union with Christ.
The bishop referred to the World Youth Day, encouraging the faithful to live "in the faith."
Thus, the bishop said that these could be the three pillars on which rests a Christian love for Mary, the virtue of charity and faith in the church.
In this celebration, he was presented to the bishop of a donation to help rebuild the temples of Lorca, severely affected by earthquakes unleashed on 11 May.
Plans Lorca Bishop thanked to the generous gesture of this parish.
Now called The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was built in the mid 60's, in the context of development of the neighborhood that had begun in the previous decade to settle as the new urban expansion in the noise of the time, there name.
The then pastor D.
José Escribano Garcia proceeded to the sale of land that were once the ancient cemetery of Paradise in order to acquire D.
Santos Escámez the lot where the new temple would be raised.
The architect behind the project was Luis Fernández-Hontoria Pidal, Marquis of Pidal IV, ie, the Carrascalejo.
The initial idea sought to build not only a local church but also a functioning social as well as film and theater.
Both occupy the whole space is now the Garden in New Town, that is all land that the parish had acquired.
Although the foundations were laid for the two buildings (which are now under the floor of the park) and finally just picked up a ship, designed to accommodate the social, since the lack of resources prevented build the temple and that is why so the only existing building served for many years both as a religious place for the realization of cultural and social activities.
The church in New Town acquired its official name in 2004, with Pastor D.
Prior José Campillo.
The temple was well placed under the patronage of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which incidentally had been declared in 1893 Pattern of Bullas, a situation virtually unknown among the locals to be the principal patroness Our Lady of the Rosary.
At that 2004 was formed the Brotherhood of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, led by a volunteer group of neighborhood women whose work has been essential when carrying out works that have completely renovated the temple, inside and out, culminating in 2011.
A temple is a sacred place, so that both its decor and layout of the images that shelter must encourage the encounter with God, must serve to catechize the Christian people.
For this purpose he has placed the windows of the Church, that those saints who contributed to the devotion of the Sacred Heart to all who come to this place we enter into the mysteries of love contained therein.
Thus, through its windows you can see scenes that are represented the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and figures such as the Beato Bernardo de Hoyos, St. Claude de la Colombière, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Santa Maravillas de Jesús St. John Vianney, and Blessed John Paul II
Source: Obispado de Cartagena
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