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The School Of Leaders

What is the School of Leaders? If we remember the last talk on the Saturday of our Cursillo weekend, we were told that we are already leaders. Leaders who have been identified and invited by our sponsors to live a Cursillo weekend and then use the Cursillo method to live out our Fourth Day. We are all leaders and at the School of Leaders, we get together in a group to learn more about the Cursillo movement, how it works, what its place is in the Church, and especially what its role is in our diocese.

Join Assistant Lay Director, Pat Martucci, for the monthly School of Leaders. Each School of Leaders, Pat will guide us through:

- A Technique Talk
- A Doctrinal Talk
- Grouping on the Leaders' Card
- Praying the Leaders' Prayer
- Fellowship

The Leaders' Card

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

1. Leader’s Holiness

A. What spiritual aids helped me grow as a Cursilto leader this week?
B. As a Cursillo leader, what was my moment most aware of Christ?

2. Leader’s Formation

A. What official Cursillo literature am I studying?
B. Doctrine? Cursillo technique? Other?

3. Leader’s Evangelization (Apostolic successes & failures)

  1. In Precursillo:

      2. 1. What environment am I studying?
      2. Have I identified key people in these environments?
      3. How am I preparing them for Cursillo?
      4. What have I done to bring others to a better understanding of Precursillo?

  2. On The Cursillo Weekend

1. How am I living the Cursillo talks?
2. What am I doing to improve myself?
3.     Am I able to give witness?

a) to being in a friendship group?
b) in transforming my environment?
c) of my group transforming environments?

    C. In Postcursillo - What have I done:

    1. in personal contact with others?
    2. to form and sustain groups?
    3. to prepare for and energize the Ultreyas?

    D. In Leaders’ School - How was I faithful:

    1. to my obligations as a leader?
    2. to my assignments?
    3. in offering palanca and getting others to do so?

4. Plans -

What plans do I have next week for:

  1. Precursillo?
  2. Cursillo?
  3. Postcursillo?
  4. Leader’s School?

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

The Leaders' Prayer

Lord, grant that we may understand the necessity for depth in our movement, rather than surface glory.  Convince us of the truth that colourful programs do not constitute success.

My God, give us a spirit of self sacrifice so that we may offer everything for your cause:   our time, our abilities, our health and even our lives if necessary.

Instill in us courage in our initiatives, good judgment in our choice of the right means, and that determination which in spite of failures assures victory.

Move away from us the tiny rivalries, sensitivities, discourtesies, pride, everything which distracts from You, everything which divides or discourages.

Help us to maintain at a high level a meaningful supernatural and mutual charity among ourselves, so that each one will seek by preference the most humble tasks and will rejoice at the good performed by others so that all our spirits united in a common purpose will have one single sprit, Yours Jesus, and that this spirit may let us see Your attractive goodness marked in all our faces, Your warm accents in all our words, and in our lives something superior to the world, something that proclaims Your Living Presence among us.

Amen

St. Paul, Patron of Cursillo - Pray for us.

Our Lady of Guadelupe, Patron of the Americas - Pray for us.