As per the NSW Government COVID-19 lockdown, all churches in the diocese will be closed to the public until further notice.

Parish life

Updated parish directives (1 JULY 2020) as a result of coronavirus (COVID–19)

Updated parish directives (1 JULY 2020) as a result of coronavirus (COVID–19)

COVID-19, Parish life, Bishop Brian Mascord - July 1, 2020

The Church is the people of God Updated parish directives as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19) AS OF 1 JULY 2020 From Wednesday 1...

Updated parish directives (3 JUNE 2020) as a result of coronavirus (COVID–19)

Updated parish directives (3 JUNE 2020) as a result of coronavirus (COVID–19)

COVID-19, Parish life, Bishop Brian Mascord - June 4, 2020

The Church is the people of God Updated parish directives as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19) AS OF 3 JUNE 2020 From Wednesday 3...

Pastoral statement by Bishop Brian on temporary Mass changes as a result of the increasing risk of coronavirus

Pastoral statement by Bishop Brian on temporary Mass changes as a result of the increasing risk of coronavirus

COVID-19 archive, COVID-19, Parish life, Bishop Brian Mascord - March 4, 2020

My Sisters and Brothers in Christ As you are aware, the spread of coronavirus, COVID–19, continues to present challenges to health authorities around the world,...

A call to deeper conversion—Bishop Brian’s Lenten message 2020

A call to deeper conversion—Bishop Brian’s Lenten message 2020

Lent 2020, Bushfire crisis, Parish life, Bishop Brian Mascord - February 28, 2020

My Sisters and Brothers in Christ I can’t help but think back on what we have experienced over these last few months—fires, dust storms, torrential...

A message from Bishop Brian on the blessing of Ash Wednesday Ashes

A message from Bishop Brian on the blessing of Ash Wednesday Ashes

Lent 2020, Bushfire crisis, Parish life, Bishop Brian Mascord - February 19, 2020

My Sisters and Brothers in Christ In early January, I wrote to the faithful of the diocese at a time when many within our communities...

Diocese responds to the bushfire crisis

Diocese responds to the bushfire crisis

Bushfire crisis, Parish life, Bishop Brian Mascord - January 8, 2020

Bishop Brian Mascord travelled to St Mary Star of Sea Parish in Milton this morning to see first-hand the devastation of the recent bushfires. Bishop...

Bishop Brian’s letter to bushfire affected parishes in the diocese

Bishop Brian’s letter to bushfire affected parishes in the diocese

Bushfire crisis, Parish life, Bishop Brian Mascord - January 3, 2020

My Dear Brothers and Sisters I write these words at a time when many within your communities have lost so much and many grieve the...

A prayer for the Shoalhaven

A prayer for the Shoalhaven

Bushfire crisis, Parish life - January 3, 2020

We continue to pray for the Shoalhaven region that encompasses the parishes of St Michael's Nowra (including the church communities of Vincentia, Culburra Beach, Bombaderry,...

Milton church saved in fire

Milton church saved in fire

Bushfire crisis, Parish life - December 31, 2019

Please keep your prayers going for those in the Shoalhaven region of our diocese. There have been reports that our St Mary Star of Sea...

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Service Agreement

Definitions

Account means the account held at your financial institution from which we are authorised to arrange for funds to be debited.

Agreement means this Direct Debit Request Service Agreement between you and us, including the direct debit request.

Business day means a day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a listed public holiday.

Debit day means the day that payment is due.

Debit payment means a particular transaction where a debit is made, according to your direct debit request.

Direct debit request means the Direct Debit Request between us and you.

Us and we and our means the Catholic Development Fund.

You means the customer(s) who signed the direct debit request. Your financial institution is the financial institution where you hold the account that you have authorised us to arrange to debit.

Debiting your account

By submitting a direct debit request, you have authorised us to arrange for funds to be debited from your account according to the agreement we have with you.

We will only arrange for funds to be debited from your account:

As authorised in the direct debit request; if the debit day falls on a day that is not a business day, we may direct your financial institution to debit your account on the following or previous business day. If you are unsure about which day your account has or will be debited, please check with your financial

Changes by you

If you wish to stop or defer a debit payment you must write to us at least 5 business days before the next debit day.

This notice should be given to us in the first instance.

Your obligations

It is your responsibility to ensure that there are sufficient clear funds available in your account to allow a debit payment to be made.

If there are insufficient clear funds available in your account to meet a debit payment:

you or your account may be charged a fee and/or interest by your financial institution;
you or your account may be charged a fee to reimburse us for charges we have incurred for the failed transaction;
you must arrange for the payment to be made by another method

Please check your account statement to verify that the amounts debited from your account are correct.

Dispute

If you believe that there has been an error in debiting your account you should call us on 1800 047 703 and confirm the details in writing with us as soon as possible so that we can resolve your query quickly.

Accounts

You should check:

with your financial institution whether direct debiting is available from your accounts offered by financial
your account details which you have provided to us are correct by checking them against a recent account statement; and
with your financial institution before completing the direct debit request if you have any queries about how to complete the direct debit

Warning: if the account number you have quoted is incorrect, you may be charged a fee to reimburse our costs in correcting any deductions from:

an account you do not have authority to operate; or
an account you do not

Confidentiality

We will keep any information (including your account details) in your direct debit request confidential.

We will make reasonable efforts to keep any such information that we have about you secure and to ensure that any of our employees or agents who have access to information about you, do not make any unauthorised use, modification, reproduction or disclosure of that information.

However, we may use your contact details to provide information about the fund. Should you wish this not to be the case, please advise the fund in writing.

Our diocesan logo is theologically rich and very succinct. As a hand, it depicts our mission as a diocese and as individuals within the diocese, of bearing (bringing, carrying) Christ’s love to one another and to the world around us. In this, we are the hand of Jesus Christ, and we are offering ourselves to him so that he might work through us.

We can be the bearers of his love only as a response to his call and in the strength of his grace. We are reminded of this in two ways—through the symbol of the dove (the Holy Spirit) also present in the logo, and by the incorporation of the cross that segments the logo. The presence of the cross is a reminder that bearing the love of Christ will inevitably cost us if we live it authentically. However, in the way that the Cross is the portent of redemption and life—an echo of the tree of life in the book of Genesis—so becoming bearers of the love of Christ will also bring us to life.

The four fingers of the hand also represent the four regions of our diocese. The first is blue representing the beautiful water of the Shoalhaven. The second is a blue and green combination representing the waters and escarpment of the Illawarra. The third is green depicting the hills and plains of the Macarthur. The fourth is dark green illustrating the forests of the Southern Highlands.