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
Our Parish congratulates our young people from St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School and the After School Sacramental Program on receiving the Precious Body and Blood of Christ for the first time. May this special day deepen your friendship with Jesus and fill your hearts with His love, peace, and blessings as you continue your faith journey. To all family, friends, teachers and catechists, thank you for walking alongside these young people as they experience God’s love in the reception Holy Eucharist and deepen their relationship with him.
The PPC extends its deepest sympathies to the loved ones of members our faith community who were called home to their maker in recent weeks. Grant unto the eternal rest O Lord and may perpetual light shine upon them.
This weekend marks the end of commentaries at parish masses. We hope that parishioners will embrace this change, becoming responsible for welcoming and including all we encounter in the Church.
We continue to work towards an audio solution to meet the needs of parish and diocese. Please pray for a solution that is beneficial for all without placing significant financial burden on its people.
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
Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters – 250 years
This year is being marked by various gatherings and celebrations for the founding of the Presentation Sisters in Ireland in 1775.
Nano (full name, Honora) Nagle was born in County Cork in 1718, and was educated at home, at the local hedge school and in France. She returned to live in Cork in the 1750s and was shocked by the deprivation and poverty that she encountered. To help the poor of Cork, she opened her first school – in secret because of the Penal laws.
She gradually increased the number of schools, and employed women to teach the children, while she did the rounds of the schools to give religion lessons.
She went through various negotiations to bring a religious order to continue the work, but when the Ursulines came, they were unable to leave their convent grounds to teach in the little schools or visit the sick in their homes.
So, in 1775, Nano began the Presentation Order. The first name for the group was ‘Sisters of the Charitable Instruction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus’. She had tried to be clear about the main aim of their work. They would teach so that children would grow up with the means of making a decent living, and would visit the sick poor in their homes. To do this evening work, Nano went about carrying a lantern to see the way.
This lantern has become an enduring symbol of the work of Presentation Sisters and Presentation schools.
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