Cursillo 50th Year Anniversary

San Diego-   Bishop Robert H. Brom will celebrate Mass marking 50 years of the Cursillo Movement in San Diego on January 28, 2012. The 10:00 a.m. Mass and Grand Ultreya will be held at St. Thérèse, 6016 Camino Rico, SD 92120.  Refreshments will be served and all are invited.

As Pope John Paul II (2002) summarized,  “the Cursillo method transforms in a Christian way the milieus where people live and work through the involvement of "new men and women" who have encountered with Christ.  This is the goal of the three-day "little course" on Christianity: giving the fundamental truths of the Christian faith in an especially "living" way. “
The good Pope continued, “When presented in this way, the message of Christ almost always opens participants in a Cursillo to the gift of conversion and to a deeper awareness of the Baptism they have received and of their own mission in the Church.  They feel called to be the prophetic "leaven" which is kneaded into the dough so that the whole mass will rise (Mt 13: 33), to be the "salt of the earth" and the "light of the world" (Mt 5: 13-14), to proclaim to everyone they meet that only in Jesus Christ is there salvation (Acts 4: 12), and that it is "only in the mystery of the Word made flesh that the mystery of man truly becomes clear" (Gaudium et spes, n. 22). [see the full text at RC Cursillo Aberdeen, Scotland.]

In San Diego, over 6,000 Catholics have experienced Cursillo over the last 50 years.  Long time Cursillo friends and people new to Cursillo are all welcome to the January 28 10:00 am Mass and Grand Ultreya.

For more information Deacons and Priests go to: deaconmike@saintbrigidparish.org ; Musicians go to: Pat at patodanna@eirelink.com;  donations go to Mike at mhelkenn@cox.net ;  questions to Pat at jpobrien@cox.net. Or call  (619) 850-8549.

DeColores.