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Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️.   Who deserves credit for successes I may have achieved in my life? This question was hotly debated at the time of the Protestant Reformation. The reformers emphasized that it was all Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org John’s Gospel tells the story of a man who had been sitting at the Pool of Bethesda awaiting healing for 38 years. And I thought the wait in my doctor’s office was long ! According to ancient Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In today’s Gospel, John 4: 43-54, a royal official comes to Jesus and wants him to rush to Capernaum to heal his child who is dying. The official is in a panic because his child Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org There are many people who encountered Christ that we read about in scripture. There were encounters between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, the man born blind, the crippled man at Bethesda, and today Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Today, Jesus shows us a contrast in two ways of praying. He holds up the tax collectors’ prayers as a model for us to follow. The tax collector is justified not because he has done all the Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In today’s Gospel, Mark 12:28-34, Jesus is asked by one of the scribes which is the greatest commandment. He responds with not one but two commandments – Love God with all you heart, soul, mind, Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Well it’s been one year since the Coronavirus was declared a worldwide pandemic. What a journey this has been.   Today I begin a more familiar journey as I drive back to California from Arizona. It’s a Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org During Lent one of the things I try to do weekly is the Stations of the Cross. Most parishes have “live” stations or you can do them with Cursillo via Zoom. One of the reasons I love Read more