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Position vacant—Diocesan Youth Ministry Leader

Position vacant—Diocesan Youth Ministry Leader

Youth and Young Adults, Jobs - November 28, 2023

JOB TITLE: Diocesan Youth Ministry Leader EMPLOYER: Office of the Bishop (OOB) DEPARTMENT: Office of Renewal and Evangelisation (ORE) EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full time MANAGER:...

Position vacant—Safeguarding Support Officer

Position vacant—Safeguarding Support Officer

Professional standards and safeguarding, Jobs - November 1, 2023

JOB TITLE: Safeguarding Support Officer JOB TYPE: Full time EMPLOYER: Catholic Diocese of Wollongong DEPARTMENT: Office of the Bishop (OOB): Office of Professional...

Position vacant—Parish Secretary/Office Administrator (Bowral)

Position vacant—Parish Secretary/Office Administrator (Bowral)

Parish life, Jobs - October 11, 2023

JOB TITLE: Parish Secretary/Office Administrator EMPLOYER: Corpus Christi Catholic Parish, Mittagong/Bowral Corpus Christi Catholic Parish in Mittagong/Bowral is advertising for the position of secretary/office...

Prayers for Fr David Catterall

Prayers for Fr David Catterall

Clergy - September 10, 2023

This weekend at our parish Masses, Fr David Catterall (parish priest at St Mary MacKillop Catholic Parish, Oran Park) shared an update on his latest...

Join the 2023 Season of Creation

Join the 2023 Season of Creation

Liturgy - September 1, 2023

An Invitation to Join the 2023 Season of Creation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgAbavjkTik The Season of Creation is the annual Christian celebration to listen and respond together to...

Immaculate Heart of Mary – patronal feast day of the diocese this weekend

Immaculate Heart of Mary – patronal feast day of the diocese this weekend

diocesan feast day - June 14, 2023

Immaculate Heart I by Charles Bosseron Chambers (1880–1964) This weekend, 17–18 June 2023, the diocese celebrates the patronal feast of the solemnity of the Immaculate...

Fr Chris de Souza named general secretary of Bishops Conference

Fr Chris de Souza named general secretary of Bishops Conference

Clergy, Australian bishops - May 26, 2023

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has appointed Fr Chris de Souza, currently serving as one of two vicars general in the Diocese of Parramatta, as...

Bishop Ken Howell appointed seventh Bishop of Toowoomba

Bishop Ken Howell appointed seventh Bishop of Toowoomba

Australian bishops, Bishop Brian Mascord - May 25, 2023

Bishop Brian Mascord extends his congratulations and prayers to Bishop Ken Howell, who has been appointed by Pope Francis as the seventh Bishop of Toowoomba....

Ordination of Fr Joshua Whicker MGL

Ordination of Fr Joshua Whicker MGL

Ordination, Clergy, Vocations, Bishop Brian Mascord - May 5, 2023

Congratulations to Fr Joshua Whicker MGL who was ordained a priest by Archbishop Christopher Prowse at St Christopher's Cathedral (Manuka ACT) on Friday 28 April....

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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.