STATION MASSES Wednesday 21th October at 8p.m. Kilbey and Ardmacarrig at Niall and Susan O'Driscoll's.  Friday 23rd October at 8p.m. Clancoolmore and Clancoolbeg at John and Catherine Twohig's.

MISSION SUNDAY COLLECTION The annual Mission Sunday Collection will be taken up at all masses this weekend.  Support for this collection in this parish has been outstanding over the years and despite the recession we know people will do their best again this year.

HOLY SOULS NOVENA The November Novena for Holy Souls will take place from Monday 2nd November to Tuesday 10th November inclusive.  Envelopes for the Novena are available at the Bulletin Tables this weekend.

JOURNEYING WITH LUKE An Introduction to Luke's Gospel over 4 Monday nights, from 8.00 to 9.30 pm each night, in Myross Wood Retreat Centre beginning on 9th November 2009.  Cost (for entire programme): :ElO.  Information and bookings from Fr.  Sean O'Sullivan, 021-7336053 or are@corkandross.org All are welcome.

CARBERY MACRA will host the Annual National Macra Rally next week-end from 23rd to 26th October in the Westlodge Hotel in Bantry.  There will be 3 great nights of Live Band entertainment with The Paddies, J90 & The Panoramics playing over the weekend.  The Road Safety Authority Interactive Shuttle will be on site Sat & Sun, a fancy dress with a theme of "When I was 5, 1 wanted to be a....... will be on Friday night.  A World record attempt will take place on Sunday afternoon of "the most people doing the conga dance while wearing a pair of wellies".  Please contact 087 67222537 or 086 3478903 for more details or check out www.carberymacra.com. All are welcome over the weekend.

CUMANN SEANCHAIS NA BANNDAN (Bandon Local History Association) "The Eucharistic congress 1932" This talk will take place on Wednesday 21st October at 8 pm in the Parish Centre at rear of St. Patrick's Church.  New members welcome to join on the evening.

CITIZENS INFORMATION MOBILE UNIT West Cork Citizens Information Service will have its Mobile Information Unit in Bandon from Monday, 19th October to Friday, 23rd October.  Staff on the Mobile Information Unit will be available to provide information and advice on a variety of topics including employment rights, redundancy, unemployment & other social welfare benefits, family matters, consumer issues, migration issues, and disability issues.

The mobile unit will be based in the car park of Riverview Shopping Centre.  It will be open from 10am - 4.30pm each day.

BANDON GAA DEVELOPMENT DRAW Thanks to the parents of underage players who have returned tickets.  A reminder to other parents to return the tickets as soon as possible.

BANDON FLOWER CLUB Presents a Gardening Talk by DJ.  Murphy of Bandon Garden Centre in the Munster Arms Hotel on Monday 19th at 8. Visitors welcome.

The late Archbishop Heider of Recipe in Brazil described mission as refusing to be locked into the problems of the little world in which we exist.

Mission is always looking outwards, reaching out beyond ourselves, our home, our community, our parish, our diocese, our nation.  Mission is opening oneself to others as brothers and sisters, discovering and Encountering them, sharing their joys and sufferings.  If to discover them and reach out to them, it is necessary to cross the seas and fly through the heavens, then mission is leaving for the ends of the earth.

The work of Irish missionaries is varied.  The Mission Sunday poster highlights the work of five typical missionaries as they reach out in different parts of the world.  It varies from working with children with mental and physical disabilities, working with lepers to give them a better quality of life, serving displaced people after the horrific civil war in Kenya, involvement in education, human development and primary health care, to pioneering an income generating scheme for women.  This is in addition to their direct life of prayer, dialogue, sacrifice, catechising and witness.

Over 1,950 Irish missionaries are currently reaching out in a variety of ways to serve the spiritual and human needs of the people whose lives they share.

Mission Sunday is about celebrating, uniting with, remembering and assisting missionaries on the front line, often in difficult and dangerous circumstances.  But as any missionary will tell you, they could not reach out or thrive without the generous support of the people in the home Church.  This support is threefold.  The first support is prayer.  Pray for missionaries.  The second support is the offering of suffering.  St Therese of Lisieux offered each painful step of her illness to assist a missionary.  The third support is a financial offering.  Every cent collected on Mission Sunday is sent to a Mission in great need.  Mission truly is breaking out of the shell of looking inwards; REACH OUT.