October 2024

My Spiritual Testament - The Founder's Legacy Continues...
Eduardo Bonnin was a meticulous record keeper, keeping copies of his correspondence, meetings, conversations, rollos, and articles, both his and those he received. (click here for more)

August 2024

Synodality in the Cursillos in Christianity Movement
“Synodality” is genuinely one of the “words of the moment” in our Church. We are still fully immersed in the process of the Synod of Synodality, in its second phase, and next October 2024, the second part of the assembly of Bishops will take place. And we continue to receive multiple references to this synodal process, in which the whole Church, including ecclesial movements and associations, are immersed. Because if we understand well the proposal that is being made to us, ALL of us, both at the personal level and at the level of the MCC, are called to rediscover a new way of being Church, a new way of walking in the Church and as Church, in which the community dimension is absolutely essential. “Walking together” is the most common translation of “synodality”. And this is what it is all about, that in the MCC, in the light of this ecclesial orientation, we rediscover new ways of walking together, accepting that it is the Spirit of the Lord who, in the Church, is pushing us to this process of searching, reflection, discernment, to concretize today, in all our spaces and all our structures, new ways of being connected, of sharing, of participating, of keeping us united and in movement, walking. (click here for more)

June 2024

Friendship in Cursillo
The ESSENCE of Cursillo is CHRIST, the PERSON, & FRIENDSHIP.
Friendship is the ESSENCE within all phases of Cursillo: Precursillo, Cursillo Weekend, and the Postcursillo. This talk will focus on FRIENDSHIP IN THE CURSILLO WEEKEND. And particularly how we bring an atmosphere of friendship on the weekend. (click here for more)

April 2024

To Live Cursillo is to live the Gospel taught by the Catholic Church
Good morning, my name is Fr. Jacob Carlin; I am a priest for the Diocese of Wichita in Kansas. I have been ordained for six years, and I currently serve as the priest assistant to Bishop Kemme. However, more directly related, I serve as the spiritual advisor for the Cursillo Movement in the Diocese of Wichita in English and Spanish. I am honored to speak to you today and to promote the authentic living out of the Cursillo movement. I am passionate about this topic because I have witnessed how the Cursillo movement has made an incredible positive impact on myself and many people in the Diocese of Wichita in helping them to live out the Gospel message taught by the Catholic Church. In fact, the purpose of my talk is to illustrate that the living out of the Cursillo movement is, in fact, to live out the Gospel. (click here for more)

February 2024

Signs of HOPE - An Interview with Eduardo Bonin, Final
Eduardo Bonnín: Even though they are obscure, I do not want to doubt the good intentions of those who always use the personal generosity of new converts by giving them an
orientation, not towards the world in which they are living, but into the internal affairs of the
Church. This is manifested in teaching catechism or visiting senior citizens, etc. since there is a whole range of activities where good people are needed. Is there something better for these people converted in Cursillo? If the result is that this task pleases them, they have a sense of satisfaction, and they believe they have made it. The dynamics of their conversion, which was supposed to continue, are turned in on themselves, and they are very pleased with the good they are doing. They feel satisfied. (click here for more)

December 2023

Signs of HOPE - An Interview with Eduardo Bonin, Part 4
Eduardo Bonnín: Since the beginning, the Cursillo Movement proposes that the Good News be addressed to all people of the world without distinction. The Charism of Cursillo is for all, but we also say that if these persons that we qualify as locomotives [engines], in Cursillo terminology, come first, it would be much easier for the other railcars to follow. Wherever and whenever the Charism of the Cursillo has manifested itself, the priests and the laity understood it. There is always a beneficial encounter for both, and the most urgent and pressing preoccupation for all who are called to follow the Cursillo method will succeed in knowing the grace of God and living it. This will encourage sincere friendship and will help to eliminate prejudices and misunderstandings. What makes Cursillo different or most unique is that diverse people participate and follow it when only the essentials, the fundamental points, of Christianity are explained. (click here for more)

October 2023

Signs of HOPE - An Interview with Eduardo Bonin, Part 3
Eduardo Bonnín: It has always been evident to me that God has never abandoned His Church. In His infinite providence, He makes sure that all through history, the love He has for men will always manifest itself one way or the other. The ways He utilizes to touch man’s conscience and open it to the unbelievable, but possible, friendship with Him is always different and varies, depending on the person. Sometimes, to obtain a man’s attention and will, God will use another person, an event, or an idea, a community, an institution, a behavior, etc.
(click here for more)

August 2023

Signs of HOPE - An Interview with Eduardo Bonin, Part 2
Eduardo Bonnín: All this, and mostly my contacts with people, made me realize in direct contact withreality, that when the message of the Gospel is accepted with personalized faith, and it reaches the specific singularity, the originality and creativity of each person, it reinforces the human qualities of the person. These qualities, as soon as the life of Grace starts to grow and becomes conscious, bring each human being – in the Christological process, through the logic that Christ uses, to grow in his or her desire to live in thanksgiving for the gift of life and to experience the joy that results fromtransmitting it to the broadest number possible. (click here for more)

June 2023

Signs of HOPE - An Interview with Eduardo Bonin, Part 1
Eduardo Bonnín: I sincerely believe that the Lord, using many circumstances, has manifested his will, little by little, throughout my life. Although my confidence in Providence is radical, I have never realized the ideal that I had chosen for my life in my youth. Leading me by other paths, the Lord has proven in many circumstances, I should say in all circumstances, that he has better taste than I do. (click here for more)

April 2023

100 YEARS Part 18 - Biography and Mentality - ESSENCE AND PURPOSE
God is a reality evident in everybody, in its clarity or ambiguity, in its presence or absence, on the surfaceor in depth. All religions, in one way or another, manifest what man has done and does, to approach God. (click here for more)

February 2023

100 YEARS Part 17 - Biography and Mentality - THE GOSPEL - TO EVANGELIZE
The Gospel is a divine world in motion. It is the re-creation of the whole universe in Christ, who lives, dies, and rises in each of us daily and continuously. (click here for more)

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