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Several members of the Steering Committee met with Bishop Loverde on August 26 to exchange hugs and De Coloreses and to offer our support. The bishop indicated that one of his concerns was unity, and this stimulated these reflections. As a minority Catholic growing up in the South, I remember how happy we were just to discover that another person was Catholic. I think I knew every Catholic in my neighborhood, even the fallen away ones. We weren't concerned with adjectives before the word Catholic, we were just happy to be able to identify with another member of the family. Although not an official Cursillo song, DeColores makes the same point. God's love does come in many bright colors, and we are moved to tears when we finally realize it. Our unity is not threatened by diversity, but strengthened and beautified by it. Sometimes we are not moved to tears of joy, but to tears of anger, when we encounter another Catholic, or even a Cursillista, who does not see things exactly our way. We attach adjectives; we withdraw. Often we are ready to excommunicate, and our standards for excommunication are much less stringent than those of the Church. It is our differences that motivate us to grow; it is our differences that help us to discover the deeper truth; it is our differences that sometimes present just one more opportunity to love. I enjoy watching my grandchildren play. Most of the time they are perfect (of course!); but some of the time they fight, and when they fight, they know exactly which buttons they need to push to get the maximum reaction from each other. They deeply love each other, but they sure know how to fight. I sometimes think that we in the church are like my grandchildren perfect sometimes, but what we really know how to do is push each other's buttons. In the future, when I have a potentially negative encounter, I promise to envision Pete Roth at the Cursillo Evangelization Workshop, standing there with his arms outstretched telling us all to behold the image and likeness of God. I will try to remember that I am as well, and I will try to behold that image and likeness in the other person(s). After all, if they really are an image and likeness of God, it is only a matter of time until they come around to seeing things my way anyway, or I will discover a deeper truth. De. Jack Ligon |
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