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Calling All Cursillistas!
January 2012
Orange County Diocese Catholic Man of the Year Nominee
I am thrilled to introduce Orange County Cursillo’s 2012 Catholic Man of the Year nominee, Jim Carter. Jim lived his Cursillo #461 in January, 2007. Jim will represent our beloved Cursillo Movement during the Saint Joseph’s Radio sponsored ceremony which will be held, in Garden Grove’s Crown Plaza Resort Hotel, 7:00pm March 24th 2012, as the Cursillo nominee.
As many of you know, Jim Carter works in Anaheim at Servite High School as the Vice President of Finance and Operations. Jim volunteers within the Kairos Ministry at Servite and has spearheaded the Homeless Ministry, feeding the hungry in a local Anaheim park. Anyone fortunate enough to have listened to one of his fine Cursillo Rollos knows that Jim is truly the "tip of the spear." When I hear the familiar Cursillo phrase, "God and I make an overwhelming majority," I would say that in Jim’s case it is powerfully true!
Jim, thank you for all you do within the Cursillo and in your community. We were truly blessed to have you serve on team #541 as an auxiliary and again in March 2012, presenting the Environments Rollo in Dublin, Ireland, as part of the OC Dublin Team.
Cursillistas, please contact Nick Williams for tickets to this superb evening, $95 for dinner: NickWill@aol.com
De Colores!
Gary Gordon
The Deacon’s Beacon
January 2012
I’m sitting here on New Year’s Eve thinking about the past year and the year ahead. Tomorrow as we celebrate the new year, we fittingly do so with the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God. In 1969 this feast was transferred from October 11th to January 1st replacing the feast of the Circumcision. What a great role model for all of us in Cursillo. For her great journey, Mary had no road map with all of the details of her life any more than we have. Luke’s gospel contains only what Mary received from God before she said “yes”. No one warned her about:
- The long trip while pregnant to Bethlehem and no room in the inn.
- Simeon’s prophecy that a sword would pierce her heart.
- The confusion of losing Jesus for three days when he was only 12.
- Joseph’s death and her own difficulty as a single mother and widow.
- The struggles Jesus would face in his public ministry.
- The nightmare of his arrest and execution.
Yet Mary knew that God was in charge of her journey. The same is true for us in Cursillo as we face this new year. No matter what difficulty lies ahead, we know that God is in charge of the journey because we have his Son. Unlike our relatives that come at Christmas and then leave, Jesus came to us at Christmas and stayed here for the duration. That is why we call him Emmanuel, “God is with us”. Jesus came and has stayed with us, not simply for all of us, but for each of us individually. He came not to magically make everything a fairy tale, but to be with me and you when I’m facing my weaknesses, my failures, my problems, and my fears. That is why we have the strength to continue on the journey and why 2012 will be a great year. Happy New Year!!
De Colores!
Deacon Doug
Cursillo Schedule 2012
2012 ORANGE COUNTY TRI-CULTURAL CURSILLO SCHEDULE
