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
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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.
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 Parish Pastoral Council extends a warm and heartfelt welcome to our priests as they return from their retreat. We hope this time of prayer, reflection and renewal has been a source of grace, refreshment and spiritual nourishment as they continue their ministry among us. We are grateful for their presence, pastoral care and generous service to our parish community.
We also warmly congratulate the candidates who have recently been welcomed into the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). This is a significant step in their journey of faith as they explore, discern and deepen their relationship with God and the Catholic community.
To our candidates, their sponsors, spiritual advisers and families: please know that you do not walk this journey alone. As a faith community, we hold you in our prayers and accompany you with love, encouragement and hope. May this time of discernment and growth open your hearts to recognise God’s presence and call in your lives.
We look forward to walking alongside you throughout this journey and celebrating the many blessings and discoveries that lie ahead.
Please keep coordinators, volunteers and recipients of St Patrick’s outreach initiatives in your prayers. I encourage you to reflect on this verse from Matthew ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these sisters and brothers of mine, you did it to me.’ And ask how you can be the words, hands, feet and heart of Christ in our parish and community today.
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
Of Angels and Saints
This coming week we have a number of feast days of angels and saints!
We celebrate the first Filipino martyr, St Lorenzo Ruiz, on Mon 28 Sept. He was canonised by Pope John Paul II in1987, along with 10 others: Asians and Europeans, men and women, who spread the faith in the Philippines, Formosa, and Japan. They were arrested and tortured, suffering greatly for their efforts to spread the faith.
Angels—messengers from God—appear frequently in Scripture, but only Michael, Gabriel and Raphael are named. Each of the archangels performs a different mission in Scripture: Michael protects (in Daniel’s vision in the OT, and leads God’s armies - Revelation in the NT); Gabriel announces (appears in Daniel’s vision, and most known for announcing the message to Mary in NT); and Raphael guides (OT story of guiding Tobias in the Book of Tobit).
St Jerome (30 Sept) was above all a Scripture scholar, translating most of the Old Testament from the Hebrew. Jerome also wrote commentaries which were a great source of scriptural inspiration. He was an avid student, a thorough scholar, a prodigious letter-writer and a consultant to monk, bishop, and pope.
St Therese of the Child Jesus (1 Oct) was a Carmelite Sister in France in the late 1800s. When writing about her life, she made it a song of gratitude to Jesus Christ, who she saw present with her in every experience. She helped people understand that sanctity/holiness was not for a limited few, but for all the baptised.
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