My Dear Fellow Cursillistas,

I would like to thank God for giving me the blessing to serve Him and His Church as the Executive Director of the National Cursillo Movement. I humbly welcome the opportunity to work with Bishop James A. Tamayo, National Episcopal Advisor, all Spiritual Advisors, Lay Directors, National Secretariat and National Staff, in serving Cursillistas through the Cursillo Movement.

The Cursillo Movement was and continues to be a Foundational Charism; a gift of the Holy Spirit, through the Founder of the Cursillos of Christianity, Eduardo Bonnin. We are encouraged to continue to improve the Movement in its obedience to the purpose, method and mentality of our heavenly charge.

The purpose of the Cursillo Movement in the United States is to help all Cursillistas and non-Cursillistas to discover the personal and intimate relationship that exists between themselves, our Father in Heaven, and their brothers and sisters; and to help Cursillistas and non-Cursillistas progress in their journey towards God.

All Cursillistas - laity and clergy – are prayerfully encouraged to constantly and continually rekindle their intimate relationship with self, Christ and others. Through our free will, we place ourselves in the proper attitude and disposition that allows the Holy Spirit to guide our daily decisions, with conviction, in order to do God’s will everywhere as servants and brothers and sisters of Christ and children of God.

It is critical to our purpose in the Cursillo Movement that we maintain constancy in our relationships and our awareness of where we are and where we should be in our progressive conversion. We are encouraged to promote our Christianity by example of an authentic pursuit of life in a state of Grace. Life in a state of Grace equips us to better accomplish and promote the evangelization of our respective environments, beginning with one’s self – the person who is collectively the most important creation of God – the very persons to whom God has entrusted His plan for salvation.

As Catholic Christians and as Cursillistas we are to live a life that mirrors Christ in all of our acts. It is not necessary for one to be a member of the school of leaders or the secretariat in order to proclaim the Good News that God loves us, and to share our intimate friendship with Jesus Christ with our brothers and sisters.

The essence of the Cursillo Movement is to make real the truth that a human being can have a relationship with God and that he or she can be a transparent image of the love of God to all persons that he or she encounters. The Movement has its own method, which articulates this reality. This method is a means to place the person in the proper disposition for God to transform the person into a conscious and ever growing Grace. Through this transformation, the person can enter God’s will and make decisions constantly with conviction, and consistently in love, so as to have an intimate friendship relationship with themselves, with God, and with others.

I call upon you, my sisters and brothers in the Lord, to encourage all Cursillistas to join the National Cursillo Movement of the United States in offering palanca for the following intentions: On Mondays for all Secretariats – national, regional and diocesan; Tuesdays for all School of Leaders; Wednesdays for all Cursillistas in the United States; Thursdays for the Cursillo Movement’s Apostolic actions; and Fridays for all 3-Day Cursillo Weekends.

Let us go forth in our continuous pilgrimage for Christ, towards the Father, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, with the intercession of our Mother Mary and all the Saints, taking our brothers and sisters along with us, as we work to build the Kingdom of God.

De Colores and God Bless You!