Twenty people attended the Pittsburgh Cursillo Sponsor’s workshop held on Saturday, September 17, 2011, at Mt. Nazareth Center. The workshop was presented to regain the true focus and meaning of our “commitment to infuse our environment with authentic Christianity”. Lately, our focus has been narrowed to “just willing participants to attend a weekend so our numbers can grow, so good people can have an enjoyable spiritual retreat, and we can continue to exist as a movement”.
The workshop emphasized a re-examination and understanding of why we sponsor candidates, and the guidelines and mandates that oversee the Pre-Cursillo phase so that they are understood and more readily accepted by the community at large without controversy to invigorate our movement by presenting an authentic, productive weekend.
Andrea Zientara, Pre-Cursillo Chairperson, was the moderator. Fr. Tom Galvin, Patty Joyce, and Mary K. Fleckenstein assisted with the presentation, and discussed the following issues of sponsorship:
1. Personal contact – know your candidate one on one. No wide net casting.
2. The fallibility of multiple sponsorships for a single weekend.
3. Sponsor’s responsibility before, during, and especially after a weekend.
4. Who should go, who can go, and who should not attend.
5. Respect for the application process and the document itself…why certain questions are there, the purpose they serve, and why proper signatures are necessary.
6. Make a friend, be a friend, bring a friend to Christ…and MAYBE to Cursillo. What Cursillo is NOT.
7. Approaching married couples about making a weekend…positive and negative outcomes.
8. Authentic Palanca and responsibilities by each individual Ultreya.
There is consideration for a presenting the Sponsor's Workshop again in the spring. It will be posted on the calendar and also on the blog whenever plans are finalized.
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