They spoke boldly about the Lord, who proved that their message about his grace was true by giving them power to perform miracles and wonders. The crowd in the city was divided: Some were for Jews, Other for apostles. Act 14:3-4

These words of scripture may be said to represent the genesis of Tres Dias, for they were the first words my eyes fell upon after I had prayed for some kind of guidance about what I should do with this powerful tool of God that I was experiencing. It was Saturday, the second day of my Cursillo weekend. After years as a nominal Christian - Sunday school teacher, deacon, financial secretary and willing worker ? I had finally experienced Christianity. I had met, and talked with, and walked with, and loved my Lord for the first time in my life, and I was overwhelmed!

This thing called Cursillo was too beautiful to keep to myself, but how could I share it? I was a protestant on a Roman Catholic retreat. Wouldn’t that immediately alienate my views from both Roman Catholics and Protestants alike? If I tried to explain what was happening, who would believe me? The fact that I was the only Protestant candidate on the weekend must mean something. In fact, the whole thing seemed hopeless; yet I was somehow filled with boundless, joyful, and completely unreasonable hope.

Not knowing what else to do, I prayed. Not just the recited kind of prayer that I was accustomed to but a realm heart-to-heart talk with Jesus, my Brother. Of course, this was a new experience, and I didn’t know how to listen for an answer; so I asked one of the other candidates at my table, a priest named Nick Canning, how he would go about listening. Father Nick introduced me to “scripture roulette”. He said that, “God answers prayer, if we only know how to hear the answer”. His most reliable source of answers, he said, was the Bible. If I prayed earnestly for guidance and believed wholeheartedly that God would give it, I could open the Bible and the answer would be there. Well, I tried I t, and the first thing I read was:

They spoke boldly about the Lord, who proved that their message about his grace was true by giving them the power to perform miracles and wonders. Act 14:3.

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