BUNBURY CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL PARISH
Stewardship - A way of life!
Contact Details
The Parish Office is open weekdays
Monday - Friday 9am to 3pm
​
Phone: (08) 9721 2141
Fax: (08) 9791 3257
E-mail: parishadmin1@bunburycatholic.org.au
Physical Address: 11 Money Street, Bunbury, Western Australia, 6230
Postal Address: P.O. Box 2005, Bunbury, Western Australia, 6231
Mass Times
​
Cathedral
Weekdays: 7am
​Saturday: 8am and 6pm Vigil
​Sunday: 8am, 10am and 6pm
​
Reconciliation: Saturday's 5:00pm to 5:40pm or book an appointment by ringing the parish office (97212141)
​
Dalyellup
Dalyellup Catholic Community Sunday Mass is now held at St John of God Bunbury Hospital
Sunday: 10am
​
Carmelite Monastery
Mon-Sat: 9am
Sunday Mass: 8:30am
​
Dardanup-Boyanup
Wednesday: 9am
Saturday: 6pm Vigil
1st Sat of Month: 9am
Sunday: 9am
This Week's Parish News
Parish Council
Register with our Parish on Flocknote
and keep up to date with
all the latest news and happenings!
Our Mission
Our Mission is to continue growing as a community where people can meet Jesus Christ and grow in his life and mission in the Catholic Faith.
The spirituality our parish mission is expressed best in the parish prayer of St Therese of Avila.
Christ has no body on earth but yours;
no hands but yours;
no feet but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which he is to look out-
Christ's compassion to the world.
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good.
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless others now.
​
​
OUR VISION
To be a Parish that is open and transparent, nurturing, united and inclusive.
To be a community that is welcoming, embracing and caring for families, youth and valuing cultural diversity.
To be a Parish that brings those who do not know Christ into relationship with him.
P P C P O S T
​
by Helen Brown, Chairperson - Parish Pastoral Council
Community Christmas Lunch 2025
​
Our parish is grateful to the following for assisting us run our Community Christmas Lunch last 14 December. May God be your reward: Lonsdale Events, Bunbury Farmers Market, Buckingham’s Butcher, The Vietnamese Bakery, Greater Bunbury Rotary, Piacentini and Sons, Bunbury Red Rooster, Spotlight Bunbury, Catholic Development Fund, St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, St Mary’s Catholic Primary, The Soup Makers, Support Agencies, The Collector of heating equipment, Bunbury Intown Centre, Dardanup Josephite Companions, Individuals who donated gifts, soft drinks and Christmas hams, Bunbury Parish Clergy - A heartfelt thank you! Furthermore, we’d like to offer a vote of thanks to Helen Brown for her organisation and dedication to our parish mission. Please enjoy more photos from the event. (Please note that in respect to their privacy, we don’t take photos of attendees. But we can guarantee you that their eyes were twinkling, their lips were smiling and their hearts were joyous for the Christmas treat that they enjoyed
FAITH EDUCATION
by Sr. Christine Clarke, PBVM
Fourth Sunday of Advent
We are now on the eve of the birth of Jesus. In today’s Gospel, Matthew tells us how this came about. His account is quite different from that of Luke. The only thing in common with both accounts are the central ideas that: 1) Jesus is conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, and 2) Joseph and Mary are the parents of Jesus.
Eleven times in his Gospel, Matthew notes how events in the life of Jesus are fulfilments of Old Testament promises. Here he quotes the prophet Isaiah.
The child will be called Emmanuel, explained as meaning “God with us”. Jesus will be the very presence of God the Father in our world.
God is with us and is one of us. And this presence does not end with the Resurrection.
Before Jesus leaves his disciples at the Ascension, his last words in Matthew’s Gospel are:
… I am with you always, to the end of the age. (Matt 28:20)
Today, Jesus continues to be Emmanuel. We continue to celebrate the birth of Jesus today. Through his Body, the Church, the Christian community, Jesus continues to be visibly present in word and action. This Eucharist is our sacramental celebration of that presence, a presence in every single one of us here.
The effectiveness of that presence depends on our conscious union with Jesus and with the vision of his gospel lived out in our daily lives. Let Jesus be really re-born in each one of us this Christmas.
Read more detail at https://livingspace.sacredspace.ie/aa041/
SAFEGUARDING OFFICERS
Feel free to talk to any of these officers about any queries/concerns that you may have about the safeguarding of children or the vulnerable in our parish.
​
Doreen Wijekoon bunburysgo1@gmail.com
Pauline Harling bunburysgo2@gmail.com
Alexis Woolhead
Ruth Dunne bunburysgo4@gmail.com
Kath Fenton
Helenmary Sykes
FAITH EDUCATION
by Sr. Christine Clarke, PBVM
Epiphany of the Lord
​
The Jubilee Year of Hope will conclude on 6 January with the solemn sealing of the Holy Doors of the major basilicas in Rome. The year began on 24 December 2024 with Pope Francis opening the Holy Door of St Peter’s Basilica.
All through this past year there have been gatherings, Masses and audiences with the Pope in Rome for a range of people and groups in the church, as well as various gatherings and prayer reflection opportunities in the dioceses.
In the Bunbury diocese a number of churches were designated as pilgrimage sites, and people from various parishes went on pilgrimage. This was an opportunity to experience God’s grace and the call to live in hope. The theme for the Jubilee Year was ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.
The bishop and priests of the diocese walked from the Carmelite convent in Gelorup to the cathedral some months ago, and to conclude the Jubilee in the diocese, parishioners participated in a short walk to the cathedral to join Bishop George and priests for a Jubilee Mass on Saturday 13 December. A special feature of this Mass was a group of young people reporting on their positive experience of the recent Australian Catholic Youth Festival in Melbourne. Check the diocese of Bunbury Facebook page for details and photos.
The conclusion of the Jubilee Year reinforces the theme ‘Pilgrims of Hope’, encouraging all to carry forward the strengthened hope and faith experienced during the year.
FAITH EDUCATION
by Sr. Christine Clarke, PBVM
Holy Family
This Sunday we celebrate the feast of the Holy Family.
We all belong to families: our immediate family, those who have become part of our circle of family or friends, and groups or communities that we have become part of.
Familial love gives us the strength to forgive ourselves and others, and to welcome one another with acceptance, and to be peacemakers in our world.
Jesus lived a human family life, from which he learned to work, be obedient, learn customs and rules of the community, to know the stories of his ancestors, and to pray.
The family is the model given to us to help us live together: with other Christians and all other people. Jesus teaches us to be brothers and sisters, members of one family of God. Many of the challenges we face today are similar to those faced by the family of Jesus.
Our family of the Church faces challenges in its responsibilities. We also find joy in living out our responsibilities together in the light of Christ. We can become holy as we look to the example of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. We grow in faith and love when we look to follow God’s law, and help each other to make Christ the centre of our lives.
SCROLL DOWN