A call to Action!
Good day to you all Cursillistas! Deacon Doug has requested that we submit palanca for the Cursillo that will be held on Sept. 3-6! Though we haven’t been able to hold a weekend for quite some time, we can continue to support and pray for other movements that are continuing Read more…
De Colores Fellow Cursillistas! Please see the information below. It is a memo from the National Cursillo Service Administrator, Nadia Lopez Valladolid, regarding the month of June and the Day of Prayer National Palanca Intentions. Please note: If you would rather read the memo in PDF format, please click on the Read more…
This July feels a bit strange to me in the Cursillo community. Normally at this time we are in the final stages of preparing for our July weekends – heat and all – at Marywood. However, this year we are “dark”, to use theatre parlance, partly because of scheduling difficulties Read more…
My Fellow Cursillistas, I am writing June’s “Calling All Cursillistas” a little early this month in conjunction with Deacon Doug, and we would like to encourage you to attend the upcoming National Cursillo Encounter. There is also a deadline for signing up for a reduced price. This year’s Encounter will Read more…
We have just wrapped up another amazing pair of weekends at Divine Word which reminds me (yet again!) just how important our Movement is in transforming lives and environments. Our next weekends will not be until October, however. This unusual gap was caused partly by a lack of dates at Read more…
Well… It happened again… Another Cursillista was selected, last Saturday night, as The Catholic Man of the Year 2014. Greg Weiler, a long time Cursillista, celebrated his twenty-year anniversary of being a Cursillista by hearing his name called out during the Saint Joseph’s Radio annual event. Fifteen men were honored Read more…
On April 1st 2014, Nick Williams will become the eighth Lay Director of Orange County Cursillo since the inception of our diocese in 1976. He was unanimously elected by our hard working Cursillo Secretariat and approved by Bishop Kevin Vann to a three year term. The next time you see Read more…
This Summer our National Cursillo Movement has chosen Chapman University in Orange to hold the National Encounter. During the encounter, participants listen to talks covering a myriad of subjects probing the essence of our beautiful movement and edification of all Cursillistas.
The Orange County Cursillo Community has been truly blessed by National Cursillo and has been entrusted to host the 2014 National Encounter at Chapman University in Orange. We