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 Community Centre
Sunday: 6pm
Carmelite Monastery
Daily: 9am
This Week's Parish News
Parish Council
Pastoral Letter from The Most Reverence Timothy Costelloe, SDB DD
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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.
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PPC Post
Did you know that we have parishioners who have received the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St Gregory the Great? The honour is bestowed upon Catholic men and women (and certain notable non-Catholics) in recognition of their personal service to the Holy See and to the Catholic Church, through their unusual labours, their support of the Holy See, and the examples they set in their communities and their countries. Thank you for your love of God and service to others.
We, as a Parish Council, are entrusted with a sacred responsibility, that of contributing to the discernment of how Christ is guiding the Bunbury parish to continue his mission.
We are being formed to understand more fully that Christ is within each one of us and that we need to allow the Spirit to influence our thoughts, words and actions. Our spiritual growth is reliant on prayer, nourishment and living as Jesus taught.
We are working towards being listeners as well as speakers, working together throught the consultation process to make decisions for the greater good.
The PPC is always evaluating what is happening in the parish according to the four elements of Jesus’ mission in the Gospels.
Let it be our prayer that the PPC cooperates with our Cathedral Priests to renew our parish and enhance it as a place of Christian hope.
Helen Brown—PPC Chairperson on behalf of the Bunbury Parish Pastoral Council
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
Faith Education Corner
Jesus as the bread of life
The gospels over the next five weeks offer an opportunity to reflect on the gift of the Eucharist. While this is the year of hearing the gospel of Mark, for these weeks we turn to John.
John 6 tells of the multiplication of the loaves (1-15), and the next four weeks recount a long reflection from Jesus on the Bread of Life. The main focus of the reflection is on Jesus as the One sent from heaven to be the life-giving revelation of God.
The “Bread of Life” sequence contains a pattern seen in several of the long discourses in the Fourth Gospel. Helping to remedy a human need – usually through a miracle – shows the person of Jesus himself.
The miraculous provision of bread for the hungry crowd shows that Jesus is the “Bread of Life”. As the manna was sent down from heaven to feed the Israelites in their time of wandering in the desert, Jesus is now the life-giving Bread sent by the Father.
The First Reading, 2 Kings 2:42-44, recalls the similar miracle of the prophet Elisha many years before. The context for today’s miracle is the Jewish feast of Passover, a feast celebrating the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
“Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?” remains an economic and a political question.
Taken from the notes of Fr Brendan Byrne SJ in the Parish Life Newsletter 21 July 2024
Compiled by Sr Christine Clarke PBVM
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