Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. In today’s Gospel reading from John 17, Jesus’ prayer before his Passion begins isn’t a litany of the number of followers he amassed or the number of people he fed, healed,… Continue reading It’s the Quality, Not the Quantity
Category: Cursillo
Courage and Faith in Staying Put
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Today’s lectionary first reading from Acts 16 tells us of Paul and Silas, praying and singing in prison, when an earthquake rattles the place to its foundation, throwing open the doors… Continue reading Courage and Faith in Staying Put
Recharging Our Spiritual Batteries
Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Luke’s Acts of the Apostles is, as one might infer from the title, full of action. It’s almost like an action-adventure movie as the disciples go from one place to another,… Continue reading Recharging Our Spiritual Batteries
Being Christ in Our Lives: Monica McBrady
“Never see a need without doing something about it,” Australia’s first saint, Mary of the Cross MacKillop liked to say. Mary would have loved Monica McBrady. Monica made her Cursillo Weekend in New Jersey, and when she and her husband moved to Northern Virginia, they were both struck by just how much the Cursillo teams… Continue reading Being Christ in Our Lives: Monica McBrady