Pastoral Plan: 1
1 Introduction
1.1 AIMS OF CURSILLO
1.1.1 The purpose (or goal) of the Cursillo Movement is to make
Christian community possible in neighbourhoods, parishes, work
situations and other places where people live the greater part
of their lives. It attempts to make it possible for anyone in the
world to live a Christian life in a natural way.
1.1.2 The immediate purpose of the Cursillo Movement is to provide
an understanding and conviction concerning what is fundamental
for being a Christian, and to strengthen individuals to live out
that understanding supported by Christian community life.
1.1.3 The Cursillo Movement is a movement of the Church which,
with its own method, makes it possible to live what is fundamental
for being a Christian, in order to create nuclei of Christians
who engage in leavening their environments (life settings) with
the Gospel, helping them to discover and achieve their personal
vocations (apostolates). (Quoted from The Fundamental Ideas
of the Cursillo Movement, Page 34. National Ultreya Publications,
U.S.A.)
1.1.4 0perating in each of the seven dioceses under the direct
authority and discipline of the appropriate Bishop, it aims to
revive the spiritual life of lay people in partnership with the
ordained ministry. The Cursillo Method seeks to identify, train
and support Christian leaders, and in so doing can offer a proven
strategy to encourage Christian witness and apostolic action.
1.1.5 There are three equally important parts of the Cursillo
method:
1.1.5.1 Identification of potential environments or situations
to he influenced by the Gospel, and the identification of leaders
or potential leaders within these environments.
1.1.5.2 The three-day Cursillo weekend.
1.1.5.3 The follow-up support system which focuses attention
on Christian action.
1.2 ORIGINS AND LICENCE
Cursillo (the name means "a short course" - course as
in a race) originated within the Spanish Roman Catholic Church,
and has come to Scotland via the Episcopal Church (U.S.A.) and
the Diocese of Bangor (Wales). It operates under licence from the
National Secretariat of the Roman Catholic Church (U.S.A.) and
is presently affiliated with the British Anglican Cursillo Council.
It accepts the content and method as laid down by the founders
of Cursillo, including Pre-Cursillo preparation, the Three-Day
Course (Weekend) of fifteen talks and five meditations, group discussions
and daily worship; Post-Cursillo support, and the call for men
and women to restructure their lives according to the Christian
ideal. This ideal contains the following fundamental parts:
1.2.1 To make a real commitment to Jesus Christ as one's Lord
and Saviour,
1.2.2 To decide to direct one's whole life to a closer union with
God;
1.2.3 To grow in apostolic effectiveness within one's own life-settings;
1.2.4 To work toward drawing others throughout God's creation
to Him in Christ.
1.2.5 The Cursillo Movement is undergirded by an awareness of
God's love and grace.
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