LECTIO DIVINA In Lectio Divina one reads the Gospel passage, slowly, One makes the connection between the text in the past and our life today. - One is moved to pray - Next meeting of Lectio September 7th.

RECENT BAPTISMS Viktoria Gazsiova Oliver Plunkett Street.  Olivia Jane Morgan 8 The Grove, Wetherton.

MORNING MASS IN THE CONVENT CHAPEL There will be no 8.00 a.m. Mass in the Convent Chapel on Saturday mornings until further notice.

STATION MASS for Monarone and Clashafree will be held on Saturday, 4th July at 10-30 a.m. at Michael and Bridie Twomey-McGraths.

ST.  PATRICK'S CEMETERY MASS The annual Mass for all those buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery, Bandon will take place in the Parish Church on Tuesday next 30th June at 7.30p.m. Prayers will be recited in the Cemetery afterwards.

PETER'S PENCE COLLECTION will be taken up at all masses this weekend.

SUMMER CAMP: Bandon Athletic Club Monday 6th - Friday 10th July 10a.m. - 2p.m. :E50.00 fee.  Open to all children 5 - 12 years.  Wide range of sports skills.  Venue: Bandon Grammar School Sports Complex.  Contact Catherine 086 - 2399665 Ann 086 - 2597961 Denise 085 1066366 or Sharon 085 7325281

GORTA BANDON are looking for good quality clean Clothes, B/B, Books etc., Your support was greatly appreciated over the years.

BANDON AND SURROUNDING AREAS, LADIES FOOTBALL CLUB A meeting will take place on the 6th of July at 8.00p.m. in the GAA pavilion to form a club everybody welcome.  Players interested, please register your name with John Desmond 086 -344147 

"A CHARITY GARDEN WALK & COFFEE DAY will take place on the 4th and 5th July between 12 and 6 p.m. at Mich6al and Helen Sexton's, Grangemore, Timoleague.  All proceeds from this event will go to Br6 Columbanus - Br6 Columbanus is a charity that provides home from home accommodation for relatives of seriously ill patients in Cork Hospitals and the Hospice.  If you require any further details please do not hesitate to contact me Tel 021 - 4345754 or 087 - 2787074"

GAGGIN I.C.A. ANNUAL OUTING is on Thursday 2nd July Contact Margaret @ 8839906 or Margaret at 8842126

BANDON OPINION July issue out on Thursday next, July 2nd.

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".

For the second Sunday in a row, Jesus leads us out of fear into faith.  His words to jairus, 'Do not be afraid, only have faith", recall his words to the disciples in the boat during the storm: 'Why are you so frightened?  How is it that you have no faith?' The Gospel draws us into a struggle that we know all too well, the struggle between our fears and our longing to be able to trust in God.

Jesus goes into that most human of struggles.  In the Gospel's view of things, the source of our fear is death.  The disciples in the boat feared imminent death; jairus feared the death of his daughter; the woman with the haemorrhage feared the forces of death already at work in her body.  Death casts its shadow across all that we are and do; it is the ultimate force of destruction; everything that is life is destined for death.  We experience that destructive force in many ways.  In our lives it manifests itself as failure, illness, loss, change, betrayal, hurt and death itself And that's where our fears lie, and because the shadow of death casts itself across the things in life that are most important to us, we can easily find that our lives are dominated by fear.

jairus and the woman with the haemorrhage reach out to Christ in their fear, and Christ calls this faith.  And somehow that allows him to act and to overcome the forces of death at work in their lives.  We will never be able to do what jairus and the woman could do; we will never be able to approach a flesh and blood Jesus and ask him to use his awesome power to remove the destructive force of death from our bodies and lives.  But their stories are told so that we might know that faith will lead us out of fear.