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July 15, 2022Source: Cursillos in Christianity National Newsletter – October 2013
The Group Reunion
The reunion is a natural instinct of every person, since we are a social people. All persons seek company for any act or activity whether the activity is simple or profound, positive or negative. All persons seek to relate with one another in some form or fashion, given that the world offers a wide range of relationships. However, it is difficult to find an authentic or lasting relationship amongst the values of the world. Jesus Christ offers the world the relationship of friendship and invites us to relate to one another as social people in friendship.“For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Mt 18:20)
The Method of Cursillo is based on this relationship of friendship in order to bring to life the essence and purpose of its Charism. The reference is to a friendship so pure that it always reaches great depths and acquires its most crucial dimension in the Group Reunion. The Group Reunion, for this purpose and this motivation, becomes the nerve of the Post-Cursillo.
In Cursillo, the group does not gather to do, but to be. It does not aspire that its members have the same opinion on any subject, nor does it seek people from the same walks of life, or with similar feelings or reactions to anything that happens and it especially, does not seek to have them undertake any actions or projects together other than their normal everyday responsibilities.
The aim and purpose of the Group is nothing more, but also nothing less, than to allow the friends who comprise the Group, to relive or share together on a weekly basis what they have each lived separately in their own environments throughout the week. The intent is not that they live together but simply share what is being lived. This simple fact is often overlooked, making way for internal leadership and common projects and missions to occur as well as imposed or selected reflections used for discussion, meditation, etc., all of which go against the fundamental purpose and intent of the Cursillo method.
Because every member of the Group is in the process of becoming Christian, it is normal and natural for them to want to incarnate the joyful mystery of the Communion of Saints and become part of the Mystical Body of Christ on a normal, natural, practical, and realistic scale. These transcendent truths make it clear that the key to this process is the coming together of the different individuals each with their own gifts, and uniqueness freely shared and accepted — the De Colores that enriches the Group makes the whole, greater than the sum of its parts. When you add to the fact that they are all, not only in the conversion process, but friends, then their individual yet shared evangelical experiences make the entire process, real, attractive, joyful, and efficient.
De ColoresLet us introduce to you Margie Maldonado, Tucson's Post-Cursillo Chair who is in charge of helping to identify these 4th Day Groups. Margie is in the process of identifying the existing 4th Day Groups, therefore we are asking that if you belong to a 4th Day Group to please contact Margie Maldonado at 520-850-9533 and give her the information needed to add your group to the 4th Day Groupings list. If you are looking to join a 4th Day Group, whether or not you have lived your Cursillo, you can also contact Margie so that she can assist you in finding a group or helping to create a new group. Margie can also be contact by email at [email protected].