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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Dardanup-Boyanup
Wednesday: 9am
Saturday: 6pm Vigil
1st Sat of Month: 9am
Sunday: 9am
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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.
2025 JUBILEE PRAYER
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Father in heaven, may the faith you have given us in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother, and the flame of charity enkindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope for the coming of your Kingdom.
May your grace transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel. May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos in the sure expectation of a new heaven and a new earth, when, with the powers of evil vanquished, your glory will shine eternally.
May the grace of the Jubilee reawaken in us,
Pilgrims of Hope, a yearning for the treasures of heaven.
May that same grace spread the joy and peace of our
Redeemer throughout the earth. To you our God, eternally blessed, be glory and praise for ever. Amen.
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P P C P O S T
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by Helen Brown, Chairperson - Parish Pastoral Council
SAFEGUARDING OFFICERS
This week we officially welcomed our new PPC members with an induction session before the Parish Pastoral Council meeting. It was a truly invigorating experience to revisit the Parish Vision and Mission, our stewardship pillars and recall the elements of the Parish Pastoral Plan.
The PPC invites all parishioners to celebrate the Solemnity of our Lord, Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, at the 10am Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral on 23 November. As part of this Mass, we will pray for and bless all who have been called to serve in the service of others. Parishioners are asked to bring a plate of food to share and enjoy a sausage sizzle.
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
FAITH EDUCATION
by Sr. Christine Clarke, PBVM
Advent: waiting, expecting
All human lives and cultures are marked by rhythms of waiting and celebrating.
This pattern is part of nature’s larger rhythms, such as sowing and reaping. The Church calendar echoes this pattern.
The heart of faith lies in God’s love for us shown by Jesus’ dying and rising from the dead. That feast has five weeks of prayer (Lent), followed by weeks of celebration (the Easter season).
The four weeks of Advent look forward to Christmas, which continues until the feast of the Baptism of Jesus. Underneath this season is the deeper Christian vision of life as a period of waiting and of preparing with Christ for the joyful celebration of eternal life with him in heaven.
Advent is a period of promise and of hope that might sustain us in even the hardest of times. The readings in Advent draw on the Book of Isaiah, where the passages are full of hope: images of peace, flowing waters, green fields, tree covered hills, abundant harvests, peace and of a God who is with the people.
Yet in Isaiah’s time, there was darkness. The people had been overrun in war, sent into exile, and had lost their temple, their land and their confidence in their God.
Advent today encourages us to enter the experience of people in our own world who are exiled from their home, wait on the kindness of strangers for survival, and survive as best they can.
During Advent let us keep these people in our hearts.
Read the full article at https://www.pray.com.au/the-repeating-pattern/
Introducing, Luce, the official mascot of the 2025 Jubilee Year. Luce means ‘light’ in Italian; also from Latin derivate of ‘lux’ which also means light.
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