Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Was Jesus just exaggerating when he said be perfect as my father is perfect. How about loving our neighbors as ourselves. He couldn’t be serious, could he? How can we possibly love as God loves or forgive as God forgives? Jesus did not deliver an impossible command. Rather he Read more…
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In today’s Gospel, Matthew 7:7-12, Jesus says ““Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who Read more…
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org One on the three disciplines of Lent is prayer along with fasting and alms giving. So why should I pray ? I don’t pray to flatter God, or to try to talk him into something. I pray because prayer affects me. It sets me in the right direction toward Read more…
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Humility is like underwear; we have to have it, but we should never show it. Pride is what we think ourselves to be. Humility is the truth we know about ourselves, not in the eyes of our neighbor, but in the eyes of God. With God Read more…
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In today’s gospel, Jesus teaches his apostles and us how to pray. As we complete our first week of Lent let us reflect on how we are doing. Jesus tells them that as they forgive, so the father will forgive them. If we do not forgive, neither Read more…
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In our gospel today, Matthew 25: 31-40, is the final judgment, where Jesus comes back, and judges us on how we lived our lives. He says “Come, you who are blessed by my father, you will inherit the kingdom prepared for you, for whatever you Read more…
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Have you noticed in the gospels that the only times we see Jesus tempted by the devil is when he is alone in prayer or doing penance. It’s when he is in prayer or fasting that he is assailed by the devil, as in today’s Read more…
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Bishop Fulton J. Sheen writes; prayer opens possibilities. House plants cannot live without water. They will blossom only if we water them. Windows will let in light, if we clean them. Our hearts will let in God, if we purify them. Blessings come to those who put themselves in an Read more…
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Our gospel today Matthew 9: 14-15, Jesus is asked why his disciples don’t fast like everyone else. Jesus then says “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from Read more…
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In our gospel today, Jesus doesn’t just say to take up our cross and follow him. He says we are to take up our cross DAILY and follow him. I don’t know about you, but I was hoping to get at least one day a week off. Read more…