From the heart of Deacon Doug.
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Jesus is reminding me that because the age of the Messiah has dawned, when I fast, I fast with a joyful heart. That should be true with everything I do. Everything has a new spirit because of the coming of the Messiah. Jesus Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org We begin Lent (Ash Wednesday) and conclude (Good Friday) with a required fast. In the between it’s up to us as mature Catholics as to how we are going to fast. If I fast or do penance for the rest of Lent, I do it Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In our gospel, Matthew 23: 8-12, we hear “The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” Jesus taught them this in the sermon on the mount, in his teachings and parables, and his Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In today’s Gospel, Luke 6: 36-38, Jesus tells us to “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven”. He is telling us we should Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org During his ministry, Jesus did some pretty amazing things. He healed the sick, cured lepers and even brought people back from the dead. Today however as he was transfigured, his three disciples got to see him in all his glory. They heard the Father say that this is Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Was Jesus just exaggerating when he said be perfect as my father is perfect. How about loving our neighbors as ourselves. He couldn’t be serious, could he? How can we possibly love as God loves or forgive as God forgives? Jesus did not deliver an impossible command. Rather he Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In today’s Gospel, Matthew 7:7-12, Jesus says ““Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org One on the three disciplines of Lent is prayer along with fasting and alms giving. So why should I pray ? I don’t pray to flatter God, or to try to talk him into something. I pray because prayer affects me. It sets me in the right direction toward Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org Humility is like underwear; we have to have it, but we should never show it. Pride is what we think ourselves to be. Humility is the truth we know about ourselves, not in the eyes of our neighbor, but in the eyes of God. With God Read more
Orange County Cursillo | communications@occursillo.org | occursillo.org In today’s gospel, Jesus teaches his apostles and us how to pray. As we complete our first week of Lent let us reflect on how we are doing. Jesus tells them that as they forgive, so the father will forgive them. If we do not forgive, neither Read more