Cursillo

Cursillos de Cristiandad is a movement of Spanish origin in the Roman Catholic Church.

Origin

It was created on Mallorca as part of the spiritual preparation for a pilgrimage to the grave of the apostle James, which was organized by the youth of Catholic Action during the Holy Year of Santiago de Compostela in 1948. The first Cursillo de Cristiandad took place from 7 to 10 January 1949 Sanctuary of Sant Honorat Monastery held on Mount Randa ( Mallorca).

Cursillo as a course of evangelization

Cursillo is Spanish for small course ( Cursillo de Cristiandad = small course of Christianity ). This faith course lasts three days. It usually includes up to 20 participants / inside, which are of varying age, occupation and education. It is run by a volunteer staff team of laity and priests. Run in keynote presentations and through their life and witness of faith in the " experience of the essence " a. Small table rounds deepen open dialogue is heard with the personal experience of the participants / inside. For Cursillo include Eucharist and prayer, shared vocals as well as periods of silence.

Initiators

In the group of initiators of Cursillos is primarily Eduardo Bonnin Aguiló (1917-2008) should be mentioned as well as some ministers, including the then Bishop of Mallorca, SE Mons. Juan Hervás y Benet (1905-1982), who accompanied the rise of the movement with " fatherly concern ", and HH Mons. Sebastián Gayá Riera ( 1913-2007 ).

Episcopal and papal recognition

A number of diocesan bishops are the movement of Cursillos connected as closely. This also applies to several popes, including Paul VI. , In the Apostolic Letter Viget salubriter from December 14, 1963 proclaimed the Apostle Paul, the patron saint of the movement. Even John Paul II tried the movement in its concern to motivate, by occasion of the third World Ultreya of Cursillo movement to the participants, he began to talk in the jubilee year 2000: Beloved brothers and sisters, be courageous witnesses of the diakonia of the truth and works tirelessly in the power of unity ( communion ). As you draw on the rich treasure of your spiritual experiences, take fear the challenges that our time of the new evangelization, and finds an answer ( speech of 29 July 2000).

Organization

National ( Germany )

In every diocese there is a Cursillo Secretariat. Women or men clergy active offer themselves as contact and focal point for the Cursillo activities. Another important part of the structure of the staff teams are in the dioceses. They are the bearers and leaders of the Cursillo Movement of the Diocese, including the local bishop over, and represented the Cursillo in public. At the federal level, the Cursillo Association represents Germany ( CAD), the Cursillo Movement. It is represented by the head of the National Secretariat Claudia and Henningfeld tree, Constance, as well as through its spokesman Prof. Joseph Vilsmeier, Bad Aibling. The CAD has no authority to issue - the Cursillo movement of each diocese is fully autonomous - but it is an important subsidiary office in the full sense of the word. The CAD represents the Cursillo movement at the level of the Episcopal Conference of all inter-diocesan institutions and events, such as Catholics in days.

National ( Austria )

The Cursillo was introduced in Austria by the Spanish Claretian Father Joseph García- Cascales, in the Archdiocese of Vienna the first German-speaking Cursillo offered at Pentecost 1960. Since then, in Austria, around 100,000 people have attended a Cursillo.

The Cursillo movement is basically the same in Austria organized as described for Germany. The national coordinating and governing body is the ADC ( = Association of Diocesan Secretariats of the Cursillo movement). As a spokesperson of the management team of the ADC is 2015 Christine Koptík, Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna, was elected. As a clergyman 's companion Franz P. Büttner SAC, Pallottiner Salzburg, "on the road " with the Cursillo Austria.

Internationally

At continental level, four working groups have been formed over the past 20 years who also see themselves as pure coordination and services:

• GECC Grupo Europeo Cursillo de Cristiandad ( European Working Group ), headquartered at present ( 2014-2017 ) in Spain.
• NA / CG North America / CARIBIC Group ( North America / Caribbean Working Group ), based in St. Lucia.
• GLCC Grupo Latinoamericano de Cursillos de Cristiandad ( Latin American Working Group) headquarters is currently in Venezuela.
• A / PG Asia Pacific Group, headquartered currently in Korea.
• OMCC Organismo Mundial de Cursillo Cristiandad (World Organisation of the Cursillo movement). The seat rotates every four years in another continental group. This Continental Group selects its ranks from the National Secretariat, in which the seat of the OMCC should be, currently (2014-2017), it is Portugal.