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Mark 10:27

“Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.’

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A Cross Rises in the South

The historic first Mass in Dunsborough’s new Catholic church, ‘Our Lady of the Southern Cross’, was celebrated at 6.30 pm on Christmas Eve, 1990. It was a Mass for children. Together with their parents and many holiday-makers, four hundred attended.

The decision to build a church to hold four hundred, with an overflow area for many more, in a small village where the permanent Catholic community numbered only about fifty, had been justified. Bishop Quinn had foreseen the needs, not only of the permanent community, but of the rapidly increasing number of visitors from Perth and elsewhere seeking solace in the tranquil South-West.

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