DIOCESAN SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR'S LETTER

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Dear Friends,

Ultreya! Ultreya!

I want to say to you Ultreya! and to urge you to persevere in promoting Cursillo. It is not always easy to keep up our enthusiasm when perhaps we only see what is happening or not happening in our own small corner. But we live in exciting times for Chester Anglican Cursillo. There are signs of new growth in all sorts of ways, and I can sense God's hands upon us. For example, when I went to see Bishop Peter recently he expressed great interest in what Cursillo stood for and what we were doing in the diocese and has booked for a weekend in 1998. Bishop Peter has also said he would like to officiate at our tenth birthday celebrations. 'Happening' is coming to the diocese, and numbers continue to attend weekends.

You can help this work by telling people about the Cursillo and inviting them to attend a weekend. Don't be down hearted by lack of response but pray for those you are thinking of asking that God will prepare the way for you. If they say no, so be---it keep them in your prayers and ask them again later, but don't give up talking to people about Cursillo. Next year is our tenth birthday and I hope that you will come to the service in the Cathedral on May the 9th 1998. I also hope you will bring a non Cursillo friend with you.

It might be that at one time you were very involved in Cursillo but have for all sorts of reasons become disillusioned and separated from cell groups or ultreyas. I do urge you to recapture your 'first love' for Cursillo, to regain the dream you had and the experience you felt on your weekend. Your friends in Cursillo need you now.

The cry Ultreya! comes to us, as it did for the many pilgrims on the way to the shrine, at the steepest part of the climb. For them it came in the heat of the day long before they could see before them the shrine of St James. For us it comes at the beginning of new growth before we see and share the glory. But believe me God is with us! He will bring the growth! and he wants to bless us! all he asks is that we remain faithful and continue to work for the coming of the kingdom.

So my brothers and sisters the cry I give you at this time is Ultreya! Ultreya because we are pilgrims on the way and Cursillo can be means of great blessing to many who will only hear if we tell them.

Every blessing, Stephen

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