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Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Do you know who your ancestors were or where they came from? Many people today use Ancestry.com or another tool to trace their past. Genealogies are very important to many. They give us our roots and help Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Let me ask you, as we approach the last week of Advent, does your Christmas depend on anyone or anything other than Jesus ? If you ask many Christians today, they will respond that a wonderful Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Jesus tells us a story today about two sons. The one said no to his father but later changed his mind and obeyed him. This son highlights the way of Jesus who wants total conversion in our Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In our gospel today, Luke 14: 25-33, Jesus is traveling with a crowd, and he tells them that if they want to be his disciple, but do so without hating their family, they cannot be Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Today is the Third Sunday of Advent or Gaudete Sunday. It is the day we light the pink candle on our Advent Wreath. It’s a day for rejoicing because the birth of Jesus is near. John the Baptist Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Though Franciscan missionaries had been laboring in Mexico for twenty years, they had made little progress. Within ten years of the appearance of Mary to Juan Diego practically the entire Mexican people, nine million strong, Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In our gospel today Matthew 11:16-19, Jesus is accused of being a glutton and a drunkard, and hanging out with sinners. Jesus was being judged by people that obviously didn’t understand his mission on earth. What was Read more

Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org One of God’s greatest gifts to the people of Israel in the past had been freedom. As a result they believed that the trade mark of the long-awaited Messiah would also be freedom. When John the Baptist Read more