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Purpose of the School

1-2-08 

No matter what we call it – a school of leaders, a leader’s school, a leader’s community, or whatever, a local movement cannot be considered fully Cursillo unless it has one. In this diocese, in the years when the school did not exist, our movement was not “fully Cursillo” there was something incomplete. This makes so much sense when you consider this fact.  The movement itself (Cursillo) was born and received its form and impulse from such a group called a school of leaders.  When a Diocese has a core group of Cursillo Leaders (like us), committed to being a community of service to the movement, especially to the post Cursillo needs of the Cursillistas, then we have a movement that is fully Cursillo. 

So now we know that the school has to exist and be functional for our movement to be fully Cursillo but is that the only reason for us to do this apostolate. 

No!  The purpose of the school is to provide a place where we and any other Cursillistas who are called to work in the movement can focus our energy, that inner calling, toward progressive personal conversion and to help sustain and encourage all the group reunions; prepare and perfect the ultreyas; train leaders and to start them off; and conduct the three day weekends. 

The School of Leaders is not established to do things but to be something – a community of service to the Cursillistas, especially those in the fourth day, the post-cursillo.  The School of Leaders is a group reunion of leaders.  The School of Leaders is meant to give the movement a team of leaders who: 

1.     Live and understand the method so they can lead others;

2.     Are in a state of progressive conversion so that their holiness attracts others;

3.     Are developing their knowledge and practical experience of the Cursillo’s purpose and method so that they acquire the Cursillo mentality and communicate it to others;

4.     Are learning the technique of the Cursillo and its methodology, especially the work of personal contact;

5.     Know and live the talks of the weekend;

6.     Develop the sense of being church leaders with the mind of the Church;

7.     Are keeping the pulse of the whole movement in its three phases, especially in the environments, promoting and giving life to the work of evangelization;

8.     Are providing and giving life to the perseverance forms of the Cursillo method (i.e., the groups and the ultreyas)

School of Leaders – Mark Krahe 

The School of Leaders continues to meet on the first Wednesday of each month at Mary Queen of Heaven.  We pray, visit the Blessed Sacrament, group, and hear talks on Cursillo techniques and Christian Doctrine all for the purpose of bringing more people to Christ and living our lives in Christian Community using the Cursillo Method.  Through the work of the schools section, Pre-Cursillo, Cursillo, and Post Cursillo, we strive to guide the movement in our diocese to better serve the mission of the movement and the Church.

The topics that we will be studying in the upcoming year will be presented at the September meeting.  If you are a cursillista interested in immersing yourself deeper into the movement and would like to become part of the school please call me at 859- 331-8924 or e-mail me at makrahe@fuse.net.

An Ultreya is held at St. Pius in Edgewood on the fourth Thursday of each month starting at 7:00 PM in the school cafeteria. 

An Ultreya is held at St. Thomas in Ft. Thomas on the third Thursday of each month starting at 8:00 PM in the parish activity center. 

The School of Leaders meets on the first Wednesday of each month at Mary Queen of Heaven in Erlanger starting at 7:00 PM in the school library.

For additional information call Mark Krahe at 859- 331-8924

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