From the heart of Deacon Doug.
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 a splinter and a beam to make a point. Why are 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 them. Wow that’s hard. When someone I consider my enemy or a 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 in Jesus’ life. Was this providence or accident ? All we 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 action. In his choice of the twelve, we see 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 withered hand, which to the Pharisees meant he was “unclean”. This 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 walked along they snacked on the ripe grain, for 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 before he suffers and dies, and this is what concerns Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org After teaching the crowd from the boat, why did Jesus perform the miracle of the great catch of fish ? No doubt the great crowd had something to do with it for they were probably hungry. But Jesus also used this occasion to teach his disciples an Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Happy September everyone ! Is it just me, or does the miracle of Jesus healing Simon’s mother-in-law seem unusual to you ? There is no fanfare, no reaction from the people, no special words or signs from Jesus, and no one saying “thank you” to Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org One of my favorite places in the Holy Land is Capernaum. It’s located in a beautiful setting on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee. It was a very large city in its time and was a major thoroughfare open to travelers. It was quite different from Read more