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
This Week's Parish News
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
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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.
Pastoral Letter from The Most Reverence Timothy Costelloe, SDB DD
Apostolic Administrator
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PPC Post
The Parish Pastoral Council acknowledges all women and those who have nurtured and cared for children this Sunday. We pray for you and ask Mary our Mother to intercede on your behalf.
The new Nativity set has arrived, and the PPC is designing and creating a crib that will house it. A subcommittee has been formed to investigate possible designs to present to the PPC.
A Parish Pastoral Planning team has been formed and will commence formation and discernment. Please keep them in your prayers as they begin this important task.
Parishes grow or decline to the extent that their members take on the mission of Jesus.
A parish community, needs to keep asking the question:
· ‘How effectively are we proclaiming the Gospel of Christ through our Parish life?’
· ‘How effectively are we reaching out in friendship to others, inviting them to belong, especially to the sick and in others in need, and to those who have given up practising the faith?’
· ‘How effectively is our Parish calling others to change their lives and turn to God?’
· ‘How well celebrated are our liturgies, especially the Eucharist, and how strong is our love for God and each other as a Christian community?’
· ‘How committed are we to continuing the mission of Jesus within our city, calling others to Christ and promoting a more just society?’
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
The Ascension of the Lord
What is the meaning of the ascension? If Jesus really was “taken up”, where did he go? To heaven? And where is heaven? Fundamentally, heaven is about is our definitive relationship with God, just as hell is the ending of that relationship.
‘Heaven’ is where God is; and to be with God is to be ‘in heaven’. Jesus is totally and forever reunited with the Father. The actual words of Acts today are that “a cloud took him from their sight”. In scripture a cloud is very often a symbol for God, so the expression means that God the Father took his incarnate Son back to himself.
And so the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
The descent/coming of the Spirit began the ministry of the apostles, as it did that of Jesus. They set out to preach the Gospel to the whole world.
What is this mission which Jesus gives in today’s Gospel?
1. It is the duty of the Christian community to evangelise – to communicate the life vision of Jesus. It is also the duty of every single Christian, part of being a disciple.
2. The church has the task of healing. The whole person needs to experience the effects of salvation. Jesus himself spent much time healing the sick, often linked with the healing of the soul and heart, and the reconciliation of the sinner.
3. Jesus promises that the Spirit will give power to his disciples, with a heart that can give people strength in difficult times.
4. The Christian community does not do this alone. Jesus promised, “I am with you always, to the end of the age”. Jesus continues to work with and through his people - in every one of us.
Read more detail at the Living Space site. https://livingspace.sacredspace.ie/eb071/
Compiled by Sr Christine Clarke PBVM
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