DIOCESAN SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR'S LETTER

Dear Friends,

I know Cursillo has a world wide membership, but just how close this membership is was brought home for me when the telephone rang one Sunday afternoon. The call was from a Fr. George Morris a priest in Canada who had seen our details on the internet and realised that he and I would be Spiritual Directors on a Weekend at the same time. He just wanted to assure me of their prayers and to give me some encouragement for the future. What a tremendous blessing and what a wonderful act of love to take the time to ring round the world to let us know we were being prayed for.

One of the burdens that has been on my heart recently is the way we finance our weekends and our work in Cursillo. If we are to continue to grow and spread it is important that we get this right. At the moment we are almost living from hand to mouth and we have to struggle to provide the deposit for each weekend we book in advance. I am also concerned that no one should be put off, either as participants or staff, from going on a weekend because they would find it difficult to afford.

Because of these concerns I am challenging those of us who are committed to the Cursillo method to pledge a regular amount each month to the work of Cursillo. If each of us who have been on a weekend could pledge £5 a month we would be able to gift each weekend and increase the profile of Cursillo in the Chester Diocese.

I know that there are many demands on our finance and that we have to make difficult choices about our giving but I do believe that if we as a committed group of Christians can do this not only will Cursillo grow but we ourselves will be blessed.

Thank you to those Ultreyas who have invited me to visit them. I will always try to accept such invitations and I will always try to make myself available to Cursillistas on a one to one basis either for Spiritual Direction or just for a chat. If you have any suggestions, comments or complaints please feel free to make them to me, otherwise the danger is that our commitment to Cursillo might suffer because of misunderstanding, or because the secretariat are not aware of any problems.

All love, prayer and every blessing,

Fr Stephen Waters

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