All Saints, Souls, and Thanksgiving!

From Our Spiritual Advisor:

Dear Sister and Brother Cursillistas,

Wow! November is quite a celebrational month each year with the beautiful autumn weather changes, the colorful leaves in rising and setting sun. WE have the great spiritual feast days of All Saints and All Souls and Thanksgiving. We can add our birthdays (like mine) and anniversaries to augment the celebrational atmosphere and give God thanks for all the blessings that inspire our lives.

WE can encourage love, faithfulness, honesty, respect, value of human life unborn, justice and education so that we can support and celebrate God’s love in and through one another in freedom and fun! Let’s share these ideas, challenges and hopefully successes, as much as we can and support one another in doing so in all our precious meetings and gatherings!,

OH Something I mentioned in the February ARK is still pertinent…Our present political situation (along with the information that currently only about 20% of baptized Catholics are present at Mass on Sundays) gives us the call to ponder who we can be in a nation (or world) that is conflicted in the human condition alone. The Faith and Hope and Love that we share in Christ are so needed, they can’t be only thought about, mentioned and sometimes struggled with. They need to be lived! They need to be prayed about, shared through invitations of companionship, pondered together (as well as individually), trusted, affirmed and joyfully celebrated as the Holy Spirit will lead us to and we can REJOICE IN. Read the Bible daily (at least a little) and try to do that with others as the Spirit gives you chances!

De Colores,

Fr Skip