October 2025

The Birth of THE CURSILLO METHOD
I learned from my sources that the birth pangs of the Cursillos in Christianity movement developed after that Holy Week in 1943, when Bonnín put together this profound experience in the Course for Pilgrim Leaders with his deep personal interest and concern for catalyzing the environments due to his experience of living in a de-Christianized environment among his companions in the barracks. He concluded that something similar, but at the same time different from the Course for Advanced Pilgrim Leaders, could work in different ways. It could inject new Christian energy not only into a predetermined task, like the pilgrimage to Santiago, but also into the concrete realities of everyday life. (click here for more)

August 2025

Pilgrimage to ROME
Fortunately, God granted me the great gift of going to Rome this Jubilee Year 2025 with a very appropriate theme, “Pilgrims of Hope,” and on that pilgrimage I experienced moments that I had been eagerly looking forward to. During every minute of my pilgrimage, God’s love was quick to manifest itself, as the highlight was when we had the opportunity to see Pope Leo XIV up close on three different occasions in St. Peter’s Square. These were moments very close to Christ, a dream that, by the grace of God, came true. (click here for more)

June 2025

Spirituality - Eduardo Bonnin
To be holy is the first call and the first duty of every Christian person. To ensure that the Cursillista gets into the sphere of God, and more precisely, gets to the very point in this sphere where their talents will bear the best fruit, that's all that should matter. (click here for more)

April 2025

Learning to Listen
The revision and approval of the 2022 OMCC Statutes, along with Pope Francis' Call to Synodality, have given the NACG a sense of hope. It has opened the door to accepting the vital reality that finding unity in our diversity requires everyone to listen to one another respectfully. (click here for more)

February 2025

What are the OMCC's Expectations & Hopes?
Expectation is awaiting, based on experience, what we believe will happen, while Hope is awaiting, despite experience, what we wish would happen. Frequently, the difference between Expectation and Hope is our actions. (click here for more)

December 2024

The 5th Conversations
To celebrate 80 years of the 1st Cursillo in 1944 at Cala Figuera, the 5th Conversations of Cala Figuera was held on October 24-27, 2024 in Mallorca, Spain. (click here for more)

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)

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