DeColores!!
November 19, 2011
A “Call for Pescadores”
from the
School of Leaders
Dear
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
At the
Fourth Day Reunion on Saturday, November 12th, we had our first
breakout
session to discuss our plans for expanding the focus of our
As you may
know, we (Michael Willems and John Edmead) are the Secretariat Members
responsible for
In the past
our movement has had its ups and downs.
Our movement was devastated by hurricanes, saw declining numbers
of
candidates (both before and after the hurricanes), some ultreyas
stopped
meeting and, in some areas of the diocese, the movement was barely
alive. We are starting to fill our
weekends again
and we want that to continue as we seek to evangelize our environments. We need for our movement to be the best it can
be in our diocese. We want our Ultreyas
to be strong and for all our babe chicks to be given the best
opportunity to
experience real group reunion.
The School
of Leaders concept was originally based, in large part, upon the need
for
leaders in our Fourth Day Community to join forces to serve the needs
of the
movement in order to bring Cursillo to a diocese in the first place (in
some
instances), to give it life, to sustain it, and to make it all that the
Cursillo movement can be in that particular diocese.
Part of this includes education in the
methods and fundamentals of Cursillo, but only part.
A significant portion of what the
We are
expanding the
If you are a
“geek” with some spare time we invite you to assist us in updating and
improving our records in our database, or in improving communications
through
email or “workgroups.” We need “geeks”
to assist with website management and enhancement.
If you are a
“study” person, we need help with improving the way we provide books to
our
candidates on weekends, including developing good lists of the “best
books” as
reading lists to be given to candidates.
If you are a
“Piety” person, we need prayer warriors, who will do palanca for
movements
throughout the world, and we need to expand our prayer request
capabilities.
If you want
our candidates to come to our weekends fully prepared and armed with
pillows,
sheets, towels and other essentials and if you want to make sure that
the
sponsors really do what they are supposed to do as a sponsor, we need a
service
group to work with our Pre-Cursillo person.
Bringing a person to Cursillo and helping that person walk the
initial
phase of his or her Fourth Day is an important task that we cannot
leave to
chance.
If you are a
chef, a handyperson, an organizer, or the like, we need help with
service
groups in the area of kitchen, facilities liaison, storage shed,
archiving that
will help support our men’s and women’s teams and in some areas support
secretariat members.
If you feel
our Ultreyas need to share ideas and “cross-pollinate,” we would love
to have
you involved in assisting our Fourth Day secretariat members in making
our
Ultreyas strong and lively and in opening new Ultreyas in new parishes.
If you feel
writing or reporting is your thing, we would love to make a regular
newsletter,
sent out electronically, a tool to make Cursillo in our diocese even
better. If you are into audiovisual
things, we have some ideas that could become a reality, if you want to
get
involved.
Music is a
part of Cursillo, a very important part.
Whether you are actively involved in music in Cursillo or would
someday
like to be involved in this area, the music service group can be for
you.
If you would
like to be involved in putting on days of reflection or information
session as
part of the spiritual or educational function of the
If you have
given a number of talks in Cursillo and want to help develop other
leaders to
become speakers on weekends, we need help in our talk mentor service
group. We already have a group going
through our current set of sample talks to make sure that our speakers
get
really good samples to work from. We
need to update and improve manuals used on the weekend by the heads of
setup,
kitchen, and music.
These are
some of the real needs that we see.
We know that not everything can be done at once.
We need to move deliberately and do this
well. If we are all truly are open to
the Holy Spirit and are willing to be his instruments, many of you may
hear the
call to be involved in one or more areas of the
At our
breakout session, we had many people who enthusiastically responded and
indicated that they would be willing to become involved.
We want to extend this invitation to all the
Leaders in our movement. We were all
called
out as leaders on Saturday night. Your
leadership role may or may not involve participating in a service group
with
the
Here are the
current service groups that we would like to form (in no particular
order), if
there is sufficient interest:
1.
Books
for Cursillo Weekend
2.
Facilities
Liaison
3.
Kitchen
Support
4.
Database
5.
Website
6.
Applications
(Pre-Cursillo)/Sponsor and Candidate Support and Communication
7.
Music
8.
Prayer
Warriors/Palanca
9.
Days
of Reflection/Information Sessions
10.
Ultreya
Interaction and Support
11.
Talk
Mentors
12.
Manual
Revisions
How do you
get involved? Just drop us an email with
your current contact information: full
name, mailing address, parish, preferable email address, and phone
numbers. We need to know what area or
areas you would be willing to serve.
We plan to
follow up shortly after we get our initial responses to establish and
organize
the various service groups. You will be
contacted, whether or not we will be activating a service group
immediately in
your area of interest. It may be that
the response for certain service groups overwhelms the need. We don’t want to waste people’s valuable
time, so each service group will have a practical limit to its size. Your call to serve in an area is something
that you can accept or decline. If your
available time is changed dramatically, you can withdraw.
All this is
voluntary. You do not serve on a
service group to “qualify” to serve on team.
In other words, you can still serve on Cursillo teams, even if
you never
become part of the
Pray about
this now and when you have discerned and are ready we want to hear from
you
(the sooner the better)!
Yours in
Christ,
Michael
Willems (mwillems@cfl.rr.com) and John Edmead (jedmead@cfl.rr.com)
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