Normality

1. To confront the difficulties that one finds along the way in normal every day life and to reaffirm oneself in this ordinariness helps to verify that what really matters is the meaning that a person consciously gives to his/ her life.

2. To be able to see everyday things with new eyes.

3. What is Christian always tends to be served-up on the tray of the heroic.

4. What is “common” is to use religion as a refuge, as a parking spot or as a couch; what is normal is something else.

5. Only someone who is fully a person understands the difficult art of learning to see the wonders that are present in the ordinary, the simple, the things of everyday and always.

6. Love reveals that life is a gift that can be gradually opened and cherished at every moment of one’s life.

7. What is relative and even what is incidental unconsciously and inevitably reveal in each specific circumstance of life the degree to which the Absolute is intended.

8. The lay person has an effect in the world when exercising the qualities that distinguish one as a person in that concrete place where one finds oneself.

9. Life is no more and no less than what we do and what happens to us. What is important is to delve more deeply into the causes for everyday circumstances, for what is normal and what is ordinary.

10. When we move forward toward what we want to achieve and put into it a sincere and committed effort, we typically begin to experience peace and joy as we gradually achieve our goal in the realm of what is natural, normal and human.


Reflection Questions


Before you made your Cursillo, did you see religion and religious persons as normal? Why “yes” or why “no”?



What has allowed you to see ordinary, simple and everyday things and circumstances with “new eyes”? What effect has this had in your life and the life of others around you?