BUNBURY CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL PARISH
Stewardship - A way of life!
Contact Details
The Parish Office is open weekdays
Monday - Friday 9am to 3pm
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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
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Cathedral
Weekdays: 7am
​Saturday: 8am and 6pm Vigil
​Sunday: 8am, 10am and 6pm
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Reconciliation: Saturday's 5:00pm to 5:40pm or book an appointment by ringing the parish office (97212141)
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Dalyellup
Dalyellup Catholic Community Sunday Mass is now held at St John of God Bunbury Hospital
Sunday: 10am
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Carmelite Monastery
Mon-Sat: 9am
Sunday Mass: 8:30am
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This Week's Parish Bulletin
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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.
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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.
PPC POST
by Helen Brown, PPC Chairperson
FAITH EDUCATION
by Sr. Christine Clarke, PBVM
SAFEGUARDING OFFICERS
The Bunbury Parish Pastoral Council thanks all parishioners who gave of their time to participate in one of the Conversations in the Spirit held over the past three weekends. The group summary reports will be collated and a parish report written and sent to Kerrie Merritt, Chancellor of the Bunbury Diocese. A heartfelt acknowledgement of our Parish facilitators who prayerfully led each session, sharing their stories. guiding spirit filled conversations and skilfully drawing threads together.
Finally, we’d like to thank Father Pierre for his leadership in this process. Time and again Father places the needs of his flock above his own. We are truly thankful for your ministry and commitment to the Bunbury Parish.
Progress is being made towards the purchase and installation of screens for the Cathedral.
The PPC invites and encourages parishioners to come together for a cuppa after offering Mass. By sharing a plate of food, prepared with love, we open ourselves to be known and to know others. Who have we been truly present for this week?
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.
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Doreen Wijekoon bunburysgo1@gmail.com
Pauline Harling bunburysgo2@gmail.com
Alexis Woolhead
Ruth Dunne bunburysgo4@gmail.com
Kath Fenton
Helenmary Sykes
Pope Leo’s Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas
Pope Leo presented his first encyclical recently at the Vatican. The Latin name is Magnifica humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), and its purpose is to safeguard “the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.”
An encyclical is addressed to “all the Catholic faithful, to all Christians and to all men and women of goodwill” (MH 16).
This encyclical traces the development of the Social Doctrine of the Church beginning with Rerum Novarum (1891). The basic foundations are the dignity of the person, the common good, the universal destination of goods, subsidiarity, solidarity and social justice. It presents a choice between a new Tower of Babel or the rebuilt Jerusalem of the Book of Nehemiah (MH 7 to 10).
Magnifica Humanitas is not hostile to technology. The text says the opposite: it is not “a force antagonistic to humanity”; nor is it “inherently evil” (MH 4, MH 9).
Pope Leo writes on shared human governance of AI, on integral ecology, on structures of sin, and on the rejection of war.
This encyclical is in the tradition that produced documents like Rerum Novarum, Quadragesima Anno, Laborem Exercens, Centesimus Annus, Caritas in Veritate, Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti – all described in paragraphs 28 to 44.
Pope Leo writes that humanity is “magnificent” even in its woundedness, and that human limits, including illness, ageing and vulnerability, are not defects to be eliminated by upgrades but the very places where relationship, care and openness to God mature (MH 118).
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