Fargo Diocese Cursillo Good News Dispatch June Volume 3, Issue 6 2013 http://www.cursillond.org Ultreya Schedule June 20 Belcourt Queen of Peace 6:00 PM School of Leaders Schedule September 14 Fargo Sts Anne & Joachim Church 2:30 PM Be a Friend, Make a Friend, Bring a Friend to Christ! Fargo Sts Anne & Joachim Men s Group 1st and 3rd Tuesday/month at 7:30 PM Sts Anne & Joachim Parish POC: Cory Jones (701) 293-0515 Sts Anne & Joachim Women s Group 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 7:30 PM Sts Anne & Joachim Parish POC: Barb Jones (701) 293-0515 Grand Forks Grand Forks Women s Group Fridays 8 AM Perkins 13th & Columbia Road POC: Annette Noehre at lanoe@midco.net Devil s Lake St. Joseph's Mixed Group Thursday's @ 6:00 AM Church basement POC: Patty Cote (701) 351-7726 Thursday s @6:00 PM Church basement POC: Ken Severinson (701) 351-0658 Jamestown Basilica of St James Community Room Jamestown Men s Group Sunday mornings @ 9:40 AM Jamestown Women s Group 1st & 3rd Wednesday @ 7:00 PM Small Group Locator Valley City Tuesday evening Men s Group Tuesdays 7 pm St. Catherine Church basement POC: Deacon Carl Orthman (701) 845-6271 Friday morning Men s Group Fridays 6 am St, Catherine Church basement POC: Deacon Joe Leitner (701) 845-0817 Tuesday Afternoon Women s Group Tuesdays 3:30 pm St. Catherine Parish Office POC: Deb Didier (701)-845-5317 Thursday morning Women s Group Thursday 6 am St. Catherine Parish Office POC: Liz Chandler (701) 840-0746 Minto Area Men's Group Meets Monthly usually First Wednesday Sacred Heart Church, Minto, ND POC: Keith Zikmund at 701-520-9751 Women's Group Meets monthly usually 3rd Thursday Sacred Heart Church, Minto, ND POC: Joan Schanilec at 701-360-2499 Mixed Group Meets monthly usually 2nd Sunday in homes POC: Joan Schanilec at 701-360-2499 Edgeley Women's Group Thursday 5:00 pm Transfiguration Adoration Chapel POC: Sandi Horsager (701) 320-5251 LaMoure Women's and Men's Group Tuesday's 6:00 am Norm & Sue Goehring s residence POC: Sue Goehring (701) 883-5724 Women s Group Wednesday 7:30 PM Holy Rosary Church POC: Sheila Hanson (701)-883-4460 Rugby Mixed Group 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 8:15 PM Little Flower Church basement POC: Ed Pfeifer (701) 208-0519 Harwood Women s Group 1st Monday at 7 PM at Joy Olson's home Mixed Group 2nd Sunday after 8AM Mass at St Williams Parish POC Norm Olson (701) 261-2250 Belcourt Men s & Women s 3rd Thursday 6PM Queen of Peace Retreat Center POC: Denise Keplin Please send information about your small group or upcoming Ultreyas so that it can be added to the newsletter next month to: benseitz@cableone.net. Please include the following: Name of Group Where/When the Group meets Men or Women or mixed? Contact info for group leader
Cursillo Weekend Dates The schedule for 2014 Cursillo Weekends Maryvale Men s January 23-26, 2014 Maryvale Women s January 30 February 2, 2014 Hankinson Men s March 6-9, 2014 Hankinson Women s March 20-23, 2014 Belcourt Men s Belcourt Women s TBD TBD Applications will available on the Cursillo website www.cursillond.org and attached to the monthly newsletter soon. Cursillo Regional Encounter Hankinson ND April 25-27, 2014 Mark your calendars for a Cursillo Regional Encounter right here in North Dakota. This is a rare opportunity more infor- School of Leaders Cursillo de Cursillo The School of Leaders (SCOL) next meeting (scheduled for September 14) has been replaced with a Cursillo de Cursillo which will be held on September 12-15, 2013 in Hankinson, ND at the St Francis Retreat Center. Read more about the CDC on the next page. The purpose of the SCOL is to develop Cursillistas into Leaders within the Cursillo Movement. The meetings last two hours and include presentations on Church Doctrine and Cursillo Techniques. SCOL meetings include Group Reunion & meetings of the Pre Cursillo, Cursillo, Post Cursillo and SCOL s sections. Videos of the presentations are available on compact disc. It is never too late to register for the SCOL. Registration Forms are available online and attached to this newsletter. Family Rosary Prayer Mixed Group Meets Every Friday Come and join the Family Rosary Prayer Group on Fridays nights for fellowship, prayer and mixed small grouping. The group meets on Friday nights at 7:00PM with Rosary starting at 7:30 and small grouping from 8-9 PM. All are welcome including families with small children. The Family Rosary Prayer Group meets at 3025 37th Ave South in Fargo. For directions contact Jennine Seitz at (701) 540-8668. Interested in starting a SCOL in your area? All is takes if four dedicated Cursillistas dedicated to evangelization. One person will represent each section of the SCOL. Video presentations of the Doctrinal and Technique talks are available. Call Ben Seitz at (701) 540-8248 for more information. Page 2 G OOD NEWS DI SPATC H
Website Updated: Cursillo Prayer Chain added! The Cursillo website at www.cursillond.org has added a Cursillo Prayer Chain link! There are two ways to participate in the prayer chain: Sign up to be a member of the prayer chain by simply typing in your name and email address. Then whenever anyone enters a prayer request you will receive an email with the prayer intention. Enter a prayer request simply click on the prayer request link which will open an email. Fill in your prayer request and it will be forwarded to all members of the prayer chain. Other updates to the website: Secretariat Minutes from previous meetings are now available under the Secretariat Tab so you can keep upon the latest information from the Cursillo s Governing body. Copies of previous newsletters are also available. Summer Cursillo Mass, Picnic & Campout Scheduled in Lamoure June 8-9 There will be a Cursillo Mass, Picnic & Campout for all Cursillistas and families at the La Moure County Memorial Park located 2 miles north of Grand Rapids, ND on June 8-9 2013 (Saturday and Sunday). It will begin with a gathering on Saturday at 5:00 P.M. for Mass (Sunday Mass), followed by a cookout. Hamburgers, brats, hot dogs and buns will be provided. Water, Lemonade and coffee will also be provided. Please bring a dish to pass, camping equipment, lawn chairs and musical instruments (if you are so inclined) for singing around the campfire. Camping is available for those who wish to spend the night. Camp sites cost $15 per night. Breakfast will also be provided Sunday morning for those who wish to camp overnight. Contact Sue Goehring at sgoeh@drtel.net if you have any questions or would like to help out. Cursillo de Cursillo Sign-up Today A Cursillo De Cursillo (CDC) will be conducted September 12-15, 2013 (Thursday evening through Sunday afternoon) at the Retreat Center in Hankinson, ND. The CDC will be conducted by members of the Region 6 Cursillo Team, including Ceferino (Cef) Aguillon, the Coordinator for English Cursillos in the U.S and Jim Wells, our Region 6 Coordinator. Cursillo de Cursillo is a special form of Cursillo intended for anyone who has already made a Cursillo. The intent of Cursillo de Cursillo is to deepen our understanding of the cursillo method and spirituality, so that we might live our 4th Day with greater fervor. During this Cursillo de Cursillo the regional team will also spend time explaining, in detail, all of the sections of the School of Leaders and authentic Cursillos. For those already in the School of Leaders, a CDC is equivalent to two-years worth of Technique Talks and covers much of the same material that would normally be covered during SCOL meetings. For that reason it is imperative for members of the SCOL to attend the CDC! The CDC is open to all Cursillistas you need not be a member of the SCOL to attend. You can pay for the weekend at the door, but register today! An application form is attached. Seeking Adult to Provide Childcare During Fargo Ultreyas The Fargo Ultreya team is seeking an adult volunteer to provide childcare during the Group Sharing and Witness talk portion of Ultreyas. This service will be a way of providing Palanca to fellow Cursillistas with small children who might not otherwise be able to attend Ultreyas. Adults interested in providing this service would need to be certified by the Fargo Diocese through its Safe Environment training. Information on this training is available on the Fargo Diocese website at: http://www.fargodiocese.org/safeenvironment If you have questions contact Jennine Seitz at (701) 540-8668 or jseitz@cableone.net
Notes from the Regional Encounter: Dodge City, KS Ben Seitz and Fr. Cote attended this Spring Regional Encounter in Dodge City, KS April 19-21. It began on Friday evening at 7:30 with night prayer, a meditation and time for Reconciliation with 3 or 4 priests available and concluded with Mass and breakfast on Sunday morning. The main portion of the Encounter took place on Saturday. It began with Morning Prayer and Mass at 7:00 AM followed by breakfast. Beginning at 9:00AM there was three talks presented on Precursillo, with adequate time for discussion and questions, after each talk, directed to the regional team member who gave these talks. After noon lunch there was a spiritual talk given by the acting regional spiritual advisor, Fr. Mark Seiger, who gave his presentation on the Vatican II Council document on Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity. It had to do with the Church s call to leadership of the laity in the Church after Vatican II, which fits in perfectly with the lay leadership called for in the Cursillo Movement. After his presentation there was time for small group discussion on his talk. At 2:30PM the schedule called for a meeting of the diocesan lay directors, but it was decided that all the English speaking participants stay together instead for a general discussion session, which proved to be very interesting and informative. It was also a great opportunity for the group to share questions and concerns we have in our respective dioceses. At 5:00 o clock we had an anticipated Sunday Mass followed by supper. That evening the English and Spanish participants came together for small group sharing, a witness talk and an Ultreya. The evening concluded with a fiesta. Below is a brief recap of the Precursillo Workshop we attended. As we know the three great parts of the Cursillo Movement are: Precursillo, Cursillo and Postcursillo, which constitute an organic unity in the Movement. It is important to remember the consequences that result when one of these elements is weakened or does not function well. Likewise, any improper adaptations of these parts can stagnate or bring about the demise of the Cursillo Movement in a diocese, because these three parts are interrelated. To better understand the relationship between these three parts, consider the definition of Precursillo. Precursillo is the study of environments and searching of influential persons with those environments. Precursillo is also responsible for the preparation of the candidates who will attend the Cursillo, with a view toward a personal living-out of the Cursillo in the Postcursillo. Unfortunately, the Precursillo is probably the LEAST understood part of the Cursillo Method, but in terms of evangelizing environments, it the MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT of the method. Hopefully, this presentation will assist us in obtaining a deeper understanding and appreciation of this very important element of the method. In the early 1940 s in Spain the founders of the Cursillo Movement perceived a grim reality in society, namely a world that was turned away from God, from Christ and His Church. Life was no longer Christian in spite of the external manifestations of Christianity. Christian influence even in Catholic circles was barely evident. The founders believed the only solution was to restore and transform the world from its foundation by means of the Cursillo Movement. Today s society has a similar situation; there is a divorce between the Gospel and the culture of today. Today our society is focused on materialism, secularism, consumerism and agnosticism. The Cursillo Movement once again appears to be the best answer, namely the transformation of society into a living Christianity. The Cursillo Movement seeks to Christianize or evangelize those people responsible for creating or influencing structures already in existence so as to give a Christian backbone to the world. We must strive to live and share what is fundamental to being Christian loving of God and love of neighbor. The Cursillo Movement seeks the living out of the Kingdom of God, as Christ mentions in Matthew 6:33: Seek first the Kingdom of God and his justice, and all these other things will be given you besides. Consequently, the Cursillo places its emphasis on three great truths of what is fundamental to being a Christian Christ, grace, faith, Church and Sacraments. The living out of basic Christianity is realized in the Cursillo Movement in these 4 areas: an encounter with God, friendship with Christ, community with one s brothers and sisters and apostolic responsibility make a friend, be a friend and bring that friend to Christ. The purpose of Cursillo is twofold: the immediate one - to provide a foundation to live out what is fundamental to being a Christian, through the three encounters: the encounter with self, with Christ and others: the ultimate purpose: to vertebrae Christianity in society with those who live what is fundamental with being a Christian (love of God and love of neighbor), while strengthening the 3 encounters. Once again to summarize: The Precursillo element of Cursillo is the study of environments and searching out of influential persons within those environments. Precursillo must also be responsible for the preparation of the candidates, who will make the three-day Cursillo, with a view toward helping them achieve a perennial living out of the Cursillo in the Post Cursillo. Thus, we see how the three elements of the Cursillo Movement are intimately related and inseparable from one another. We need to keep emphasizing this idea in our School of Leaders. Fr. Duaine Cote, Spiritual Advisor
SCHOOL OF LEADERS APPLICATION FORM Cursillo Movement for the Diocese of Fargo A Cursillo School of Leaders is a core group of Christians who come together to pray, study and build a Christian community of service to the cursillo by living the cursillo method in the environment in which they live. Name: Parish Address Phone City State Zip Birth date E-Mail Occupation Marital status: (circle one) Single Married Separated Divorced Widowed Why do you wish to apply for the School of Leaders? Activities you are currently involved in: (church, cursillo, civic, professional) Are you currently participating in cursillo follow-up programs? Group Reunion Ultreya Signature Date
Cursillo de Cursillo Application Form September 12-15, 2013 Last Name: First Name: Street: State: Zip Email: Your Cursillo Date: Location: I am active in: (Circle all that apply) > Small Grouping Ultreya School of Leaders Signature: Cost for the weekend will be $125. Please forward payment along with a copy of this application to: Ben Seitz 3025 37 th Ave S Fargo ND 58104