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Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In our Gospel today, Mark 4:13-20, Jesus tells us the parable of the sower and the seed that falls on different kinds of soil. The different kinds of soil are the path, the rocks, the thorns, Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Jesus asks his disciples a question completely out of the blue. “Who do people say that I am ?” That question they all have and answer for. Then he asks them a question that requires a lot Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Do you remember what you were doing 20 years ago today ? I can picture the day so clearly as I was in an underground bunker with the executives of my company.  I spent a lot of Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In today’s Gospel Luke 6:39-42, Jesus chastised his disciples saying, “Why do you notice a splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own”. He uses this exaggerated comparison of Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Happy birthday today to my wife Sheila !   One of the most difficult things for me is to love my enemies ! I try not to hate them, but to go beyond that and actually love Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Happy Birthday Momma Mary !!   Mary is the only child of Saints Joachim and Anne. She is the only person who knew Jesus from womb to tomb. She was faithfully there in all the great moments Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org When Jesus began his ministry he chose twelve men to be his friends and apostles. I like to think of them as his “groupies”. I’m sure they spent time each week talking about their piety, study and Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In today’s Gospel Luke 6:6-11, Jesus finds himself once again in a synagogue in front of the Pharisees on the Sabbath, where they were “watching him closely”. There happens to be a man there with a Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Another great scene from today’s Gospel. Jesus is walking through a field of grain with his closest friends and I imagine they were laughing, joking, and talking about the towns they had just visited. As they Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In our Gospel today Luke22: 24-30, an argument breaks out among the disciples of which one of them is the greatest. Jesus had just made it clear to them that this was their last meal together Read more