RECENT BAPTISMS Rhys Eoin Hurley 17 Castlewoods, Old Chapel.  Ryan Christopher

O'Callaghan An Tostal Terrace, Convent Hill.  Niamh Muireann O'Regan Cois Inbhir Cloghane.

Roslan Volkov 7 Quayside Bandon.  Daniel Volkov Johnson 7 Quayside Bandon

REMEMBERING OUR DEAD The annual mass for all buried in our local cemetery will take place on Tuesday 30th June at 7.30pm. It will be followed by prayers in the cemetery and blessing of Graves.

SECOND COLLECTION The Annual Peter's Pence Colletion will be taken up at all masses next weekend

DUES ENVELOPES FOR SPRING '09 have now been delivered throughout the parish.  If you have not received one you may obtain same in the Sacristy.

SOME FACTS REGARDING THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS 2012 The first international Eucharistic congress was held in Lille France in 1881.  Up to the 1920's the Eucharistic congresses focused primarily on the Eucharist itself (liturgy, adoration, real presence, frequent communion etc).  From 1920 on there was a change on empasis.  While the Sacrament of the Eucharist and the Sacrifice of the Mass remained central to the congress, there was also a growing emphasis on what it meant to be Eucharistic people in the particular context of place & time.  The theme of the 1932 Dublin Congress was: The Eucbarist & Ireland.  The last 2 congresses were held in , 2004 - Guadalahara (Mexico) - The Eucharist: Light & Life of the New Millen ium. , 2008 - Quebec City (Canada) The Eucharist: Gi of God for the Life of the World.  The 2012 congress in Dublin will be the 50th international congress and will mark the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the second Vatican Council.

COFFEE MORNING FOR INDEPENDENT AGE Gateway Bandon Monday 29th June 10-30 12.30 plants & cakes on sale.

BANDON FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP would like to remind the residents of Deerpark and Clancool to urgently return completed surveys to the centre at 47 Deerpark so that we can start planning future events and activities.  Thanks in advance for this.  Rita Kearney, Coordinator.

BANDON TIDY TOWNS WORK NIGHTS.  Meet at 7pm every Tuesday at Hartes car park. (weather permitting) More volunteers most welcome "Many hands make light work".

STAGE STARS STAGE CAMP FUN ART & GAMES Gaggin Hall 10 - 2.30pm Monday - Friday Wk I 13th - 17th July Wk 2 20 - 24 July.  Contact Pam Golden 087 2465118/ 023 8843759.

CASTLALACK NS PARENT ASSOC. is holding a summer bazaar/plant & cake sale from 9.3012.30 on Monday 22nd June at the Social Centre, Castlelack.  A Monster Raffle will be held & refreshments will be available.  All proceeds go towards school building fund.

GRAMOPHONE CIRCLE Monday 22nd June 8pm Gateway Hall proceeds in aid of Cope Everybody welcome.

job was a man who asked the question 'Why?' When his world fell apart, he had only his questions: Why is this happening to me?  Why does God allow this?  Why do good people suffer?  His friends tried to console him, but their arguments only added to job's pain, because they tried to convince him that somehow he had deserved his suffering.  Eventually, God comes in a storm to answer job.  But God's speeches surprise us because they too are questions: Who established the earth on its foundations?  Who pent up the sea behind closed doors?  God's questions coax job away from his questions and offer a vision of God's amazing and wonderful work in creation.  In the storm of doubt and pain and anger that is blowing around him, job wonders at 'who' is behind the mystery of creation with all its wonders and contradictions.  Somehow this brings him consolation.

The disciples of Jesus also ask, 'Who is this?' The storm blowing around them is a metaphor for the storm of fear and uncertainty that is raging through their minds and hearts.  In that storm they discover the one who calms the wind and the sea, the forces of chaos that threaten to overwhelm and destroy.

Today we are being invited to recognise God in the storm.  When the storms of fear, doubt, uncertainty, confusion threaten to overwhelm us, and when God seems to be asleep, we are called to place our trust in the God who is present in the storm and who assures us that he is master of the forces of chaos.  The words of Christ- 'Why are you so frightened?  How is it that you have no faith?' - are both a challenge and a consolation to us: they challenge our lack of faith in his presence with us, but they also assure us that faith in his presence will conquer fear.