February 2014 edition: As we start a new year, I am highly aware of starting a new adventure with you as the new Diocesan Spiritual Director, I have long held that life is an adventure and that part of living life is enjoying and discovering the adventure. Life is indeed more of that because we are called to know God’s love and forgiveness and to know those who go on adventure with us.
Knowing who is on that adventure with us I think is one of the strengths of the Cursillo movement. It is in knowing those who go the adventure with us, those who encourage us on the journey that gives us strength. This is why Group Reunions are so important, that we are sharing life with each other and encouraging each other to make a friend, be a friend, bring a friend to Jesus. It is interesting to ask yourself when was the last time someone asked how you were going with that task, when was the last time someone prayed with you about your success, your failures in seeking to answer this call. All of these things and more happen when we attend a Group Reunion.
I believe that in being part of a Group Reunion we might be able to answer St. Pauls prayer in 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 for us:
“To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God will make you worthy of his call and will fulfill by his power every good resolve and work of faith, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
De Colores
Rev. Stephen – Diocesan Spiritual Director
