Cursillo is a three-day learning, sharing, inspirational
experience of living in a Christian community. Its purpose is to
help those in the church understand their individual callings to be
Christian Leaders. The leadership may be exercised in work
situations, in the family and social life, in leisure activities,
and within the Church environment. Leadership, in Cursillo, does
not mean power over others, but influence on others; all of us need
to be aware that we can exert a positive influence on those around
us.
The objective of the Cursillo movement is to make Christian
community possible in neighborhoods, parishes, work situations and
other places where people live the greater part of their lives. It
attempts to make it possible for anyone in the world to live a
Christian life in a natural way.
Cursillo is patterened on Jesus' own example. He searched out
and called a small group of potential leaders (pre-Cursillo); He
trained them by word and example and inspired them with a vision
(Cursillo Three-Day Weekend); He linked them together and sent them
out into the world to bring the world to Him (post-Cursillo or the
Fourth day).
The Cursillo Weekend is not an end to itself. It is a starting
point that lasts the rest of your life. It is a springboard to a
long-range practice of the Baptismal Covenant in the life of the
Church called Fourth Day.