We are Cursillo! Let’s use it, Let’s share it

From Our Spiritual Advisor:

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,  

May the Lord bless you hugely with His peace.  In this jubilee year of HOPE, we tap our many blessings received from the powerful gift of Cursillo.  We need to claim those blessings because we need them.  In many situations, whether in our own lives or in the lives of our loved ones or in the lives of strangers to us, we find a definite challenge to the new life our Lord calls us to live.  We might find unrest in our own souls, minds and bodies, little areas of darkness that nag at us and whisper that we are on the wrong path.  We might experience sadness related to our own struggles and apparent losses or are sad because these struggles are in the lives of our loved ones.  No matter the source, we can experience challenges, sufferings, struggles that can seem to make us want to give up, just quit the journey of Faith, or make us, briefly, ponder, “Is my Cursillo connection not real?”  This is when we wake up and realize, “No, I am on this journey of the Jubilee Year of Hope, and I am going to imitate St. Paul who told his friends, ‘I add my sufferings to fulfill those of Christ.’”  We are Cursillo!  We are a people of Hope; let’s use it; let’s share it.  

As we walk this Jubilee path of hope I offer some tidbits from St. Luke’s Gospel on the Sundays of August.  These words of Jesus really struck me as a Cursillista called to live a life full of HOPE.  May they touch you deeply. 

August 3 - One’s life does not consist of possessions.  Do not store up treasures for yourselves; rather, be rich in what matters to God.   

August 10 - An inexhaustible treasure in heaven where no thief can reach nor moth destroy is waiting for you.  Be careful; where your treasure is there also will your heart be.   

August 17 - Jesus said, “I have come to set the earth on fire and how I wish it were already blazing!  Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?  No, I tell you, but rather division.” 

August 24 - Jesus said, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.”  You will stand outside the door knocking and saying, “Lord, open the door for us.”  He will say to you in reply, “I do not know where you are from.  Depart from Me…” 

August 31 - Jesus told the crowd, “When you hold a party or have a special meal, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you.”  Sisters and brothers, we are called to hope in the One who is extravagant and generous in love.  Let’s cling to Him and follow His example.   

De Colores!  

Fr. Jim Morman