MEN’S CURSILLO #293 HELD AT DEDEAUX
Men’s Cursillo #293 Weekend, an event focused on spiritual enrichment, took place at Sacred Heart Retreat Center with 36 participants. The event helped individuals deepen their relationship with faith and offered them a faith-sharing community. Details were also given for future women’s and men’s weekends, with online applications now being accepted.
Thirty-six men made the Men’s Cursillo #293 Weekend, at Sacred Heart Retreat Center at Dedeaux, on September 21 – 24, 2023. The new Cursillistas are: Steven Acocella, St. Joseph, Gulfport/St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; John “Charlie” Adams, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; David Ames, St. John the Evangelist, Gulfport; Benjamin Baker, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Timothy Baker, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Alejandro Barquero, Sacred Heart, Hattiesburg; Zeb “Zeke” Baucum, Sacred Heart, Hattiesburg; Larry Bellipanni, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; James Bobo, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Gary “Lee” Boyette, Sacred Heart, Hattiesburg; Darwin Bufkin, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Nathan Claret, Saint Thomas the Apostle, Long Beach; Brian Corr, Jr., Our Lady of the Gulf, Bay St. Louis; Anthony Distefano, St. James, Gulfport; Paul Dunbar, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; John Erhard, St. John the Evangelist, Gulfport; Jeremy Goulet, St. James, Gulfport; David Graf, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Max Greenough, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Conner Goff, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; James Hahn, St. James, Gulfport; Joshua Hahn, St. James, Gulfport; Paul Harrington, St. Peter, Bassfield; William Gardner Hewes IV; St. James, Gulfport; Ken Knopp, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Quitman Lockley, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Robert Maynard, Most Holy Trinity, Pass Christian; Frank McCool, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; John McGee, St. Hedwig, Rossmoor, CA; Thomas “Aaron” McGill, St. Joseph, Gulfport; Jason Quigley, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Merritt Rambin, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Clay Thames, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Mark Torii, St. Hedwig, Los Alamitos, CA; Justin Westervelt, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; and David Williams, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg.
Team members were: Joe Miserendino, Rector (Cursillo #244), St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; James Bryant, Co-Rector (Cursillo #258), Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Lumberton; Mark Acocella (Cursillo #286), St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Felix Diaz (Cursillo #270), St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Ivan Deroche (Cursillo #264), St. Mary, Woolmarket; Frank Easter (Cursillo #100), St. Elizabeth Seton, Ocean Springs; David Ford (Cursillo #104), St. James, Gulfport; Al Gombos (Cursillo # 114), St. Michael, Biloxi; Glyn Guidry (Cursillo #256), St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Travis Hall (Cursillo #288), St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Ray Lacy (Cursillo #216), St. Thomas the Apostle, Long Beach; Bryan Shaver (Cursillo #113), St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; Chris Thaggard (Cursillo #226), St. Fabian, Hattiesburg; and Chris Vineyard (Cursillo #290), Sacred Heart, Hattiesburg.
Spiritual Advisors for the weekend were: Fr. Mark Ropel, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hattiesburg; and Deacon Calvin Authement, Sacred Heart, Hattiesburg.
The next Women’s weekend will be December 7th – 10th, 2023 and the next men’s weekend will be April 4-7, 2024 at Dedeaux. Applications for the weekend are now being accepted. Applications are available online at www.biloxicursillo.org or in your church or church office. Do you want to experience your faith more deeply and live it in your daily life? To enrich your relationship with God, no matter how strong it may be right now? Are you looking for a community with which to share your faith journey? Do you want to become more confident in and enthusiastic about your faith and in sharing it in the secular world? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then Cursillo is for you.
