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Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Happy Fourth of July 🇺🇸 to you all !!   Today we celebrate our birth as a nation and celebrate the freedom won for us by our forefathers. Let us pray that this freedom, especially the Read more…

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Jesus said to Thomas; “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.” My friends, that’s all of us !!   We live in a Read more…

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org The paralytic and his companions show up looking for Jesus with concern for the man’s physical health. This, however, was not first on Jesus’ priority list. His first priority is the condition of the man’s soul. For God Read more…

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org We know from the Catholic Catechism that mortal sin takes away Sanctifying Grace and cuts us off from God. Today’s gospel illustrates that separation, as the two possessed men keep their distance from Christ and want Read more…

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Today we celebrate the feast day of the two great pillars of our Catholic faith in Sts. Peter and Paul. The New Testament is full of stories of how these two devoted themselves to spreading the Read more…

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In todays Gospel, John 17: 20-26, we find Jesus saying “Righteous Father, the world also does not know you. I made it known to them that the love with which you loved me may be Read more…

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Our readings today beg the question: do we approach the Lord Jesus with expectant hope or with skeptical doubt ? What did the hemorrhaging woman and Jairus expect from Jesus ? Obviously they expected Jesus could heal. But Read more…