Our Mission

Spiritual Advisor

Dear Sister and Brother Cursillistas,

As I’m writing this, it is COLD outside, but to greet you all is a warm experience. I really treasure our Cursillo Movement in my life. Probably many of you know that I lived my weekend a month after I was ordained in 1969. Fr. Charlie Ritter got me to Toledo Cursillo #16, and it’s been a favored continuing gift in my life! I added it to being a Knight of Columbus which started for me through my dad and was affirmed while in seminary, and it has taught me how precious sharing faith in close and intense company with friends helps me be the kind of person who can know, love and bring friends to Christ.

Our January 2025 ARK has affirmed and deepened in me the value of being able to ponder and even meditate on our faith as we start a new year in our lives. 2025 brings to mind 12/25/25 this coming Christmas – so I’m tuned in to a deeper way to meditate on my faith in the person of Jesus and The Body of Christ that we are in our families and parishes = our Church! I’m trying to follow up on Deacon Jerry’s beautiful sharing last month on how deep and precious our faith can be as we really let it be central to our lives and not just something we “get to do.” When we have that meditative blessing all and every day, we actually become great instruments in the hands of the Holy Spirit to build up, treasure and share the grace that flows to and through us for a better world…..

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!

Toledo Diocesan Cursillo Mission Statement: Cursillo is a Catholic Lay Movement embraced by the Diocese of Toledo to bring hearts closer to Jesus Christ in order to transform society and be of service to the whole church. It is our mission to form small Christian Communities to deepen Spirituality in ourselves and in others.

February 2025

So, let’s get a bunch of guys and gals to the coming weekends where and when all this faith can be taught, enthused, shared and celebrated – and the Spirit thanked for….!

De Colores & Happy Valentine's Day!

Fr Skip