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The Deacon’s Beacon

February 2012

The church is currently in a period of time between the Christmas Season and Lent referred to as “Ordinary Time”. The reason why the Church has a liturgical year is to mark the sanctification of time. Many ancient cultures saw time as “cyclical” and we certainly can understand this with our 4 seasons. The Christian view of time is “linear”, that is constantly moving ahead and going somewhere. The liturgical seasons and holy days recur year after year, but they are like a spiral staircase – always going upward, not around in a circle. That is why for us in the Cursillo this season is anything but “ordinary”. Let us continue to ask the Lord to lead us on the path that he calls each of us to walk. I also call ALL Cursillistas to pray together each night at 10:00 pm for whoever the Holy Spirit sends as our new Bishop of Orange and for Bishop Tod’s retirement. I specifically ask you to pray that our new bishop have the same love for Cursillo as all of our three bishops currently have. Also we need to pray for Bishop Cirilo as he transitions to San Diego and for the transition of our Cursillo from Marywood to perhaps the Crystal Cathedral. Let us all vow to make our prayer time anything but ordinary.

De Colores!

Deacon Doug

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