The Benefits of Friendship School of Leaders Having Moved Around a Lot a Word of Advice Or Encourage- Better Friends
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Central Indiana Cursillo Community Fall 2014 The Benefits of Friendship School of Leaders Having moved around a lot a word of advice or encourage- better friends. In group reun- from stat to state and commu- ment, or help in moving some ions - friendship is discovered, Matthew 7:7 tells us to “Ask and it nity to community due to job furniture. It is good to know achieved, realized, deepened will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be transfers, my husband and I we can rely on a bunch of peo- and sustained within the group. opened to you.” experienced firsthand the im- ple like that which makes life The deepest form of living I would like to thank all of you who portance of friends. together is friendship. prayed for guidance for the School Friends make life more enjoy- of Leaders! I truly believe it was the Group Reunion makes it possi- Holy Spirit who provided the idea able and happier. ble to live what is fundamental for our School of Leaders Book Friends are important in our for being a Christian - authen- Club. And it was definitely the Holy Spirit who directed me to the book, lives. It cannot be overstated. tically, continuously, progres- “Whom Shall I Send? Discerning Friends make life fuller, richer, sively, and naturally. Where an the Will of God” since my original more fun and more comfort- authentic human and Christian proposal was for a different book ing. We do need our friends or community exists, there exists all together. we feel lonely, depressed, or alsoa progressive community I have handed out over 80 copies of physically ill. of good works. It is amazing the book and with the additional people who already had it, I think Friendship has its benefits - to try to grasp all the wonder we have over 100 people participat- there is deeper connection. and effectiveness of Christian- ing! That is an amazing response. I Our Cursillo friends have Jesus ity in Action and develop a also just completed preparing for better understanding of the gift our first conference call by reading Christ, our best friend as our the prologue and Chapter 1 and I connection to give our lives of God. can already feel the Holy Spirit substance, stability, core values, better and gives us more confi- The weekly reunion of the speaking to me through those 6 dence to go for what we want pages. and unity of Spirit. This bond group give continuity to the gives life more purpose. and need in life. development of friendship, It’s not too late to join us! With each chapter only being 3 – 6 pages Cursillo friends make you feel Grasping the importance of which must grow and deepen this is a very easy book to read and appreciated and worthy of friendship is essential not only when the Cursillistas each per- I found the writing style to be very appreciation. We do not feel to realizing the importance of severes in the process of pro- engaging. Please contact me if you gressive conversion. would like to get started and I’ll tell the need to impress them and Grouping and attending Ultre- you how to get the book and how they can always be themselves yas but also toward building an The reunion process helps us to join the conference calls. around us. overall better life, in which we all to be friends, better Chris- “For everyone who asks, receives; are happier and more success- Interacting with friends is ex- tians, better parents, spouses, and the one who seeks, finds; and ful as an individual. A group tremely fun. The people, our works, associates, and citizens. to the one who knocks, the door Reunion is a group of individu- will be opened.” Matthew 7:8. friends, make the experience a De Colores, als who are friends because lot more interesting then the De Colores!! they are Christians; and who Your Friend in Christ, Ellen Sanders, Ellen- things we talk about. wish to become better friends Beth Doran, S a n d e r s 3 @ y a h o o . c o m , Friends are there for us in to be better Christians, and be 317.797.2157 good times, times of need, for better Christians to become CICC Lay Director A Thought on Piety by Fr. Mike McKinney One of the three pillars of our piety more in our faith ships with others. Having an Cursillo is piety. Living our life community. experience of prayer with one with Christ with a sense of For married people, spend- or more people on an occa- intention usually results in a ing time in prayer as a couple sional basis could be a goal for more vibrant relationship with could be another goal in the your piety. Even if you share a the Lord. That, in turn, moti- area of piety. Most couples I couple of moments praying for vates us to deeper study and to know want to do more prayer a friend over the phone, you be more enthused to live out together but do not ever seem can add another dimension to our faith in action. to incorporate it into their on- your growth in holiness. One aspect of piety that can going routines. Cursillo can The next time you meet in often be overlooked is how it give the impetus and excuse to your group and you are cover- is done beyond the purely per- live more deeply the grace of ing the area of piety, make sure sonal realm. The most obvious the Sacrament of Marriage. An you encourage each other to example is attending Mass, extension of this naturally leads expand beyond just the indi- which is always a communal into more family prayer time, vidual experiences of prayer or experience of our shared life yet another rich source of spiri- spirituality. It seems this would with Jesus. Many parishes offer tual blessing. easily fall under the notion that other spiritual and liturgical If you are a Cursillista, you “the best things in life are opportunities that could also already have faith-based friend- shared.” lend themselves to exercising The St. Bernadette’s Crucifix by Barb Bunnell Jesus has spoken to many through a painting of the cruci- her paint brush as He really of us as we sat in the sanctuary fix with all the lives who sat know how the painting ap- at St. Bernadette during one of before it represented in the peared to all who had seen it in our Cursillo weekends over the many tiles. So we set out to St. Bernadette’s Church. many years we were meeting commission an artist to do the Chuck and I hope that all of there. While I was working on painting. our fellow Cursillistas will be team 100, the last women’s We described what we inspired by the painting as it is team to work at St. Berna- wanted, how it would be used used on future Cursillo week- dette’s, the idea came to me to and asked if she could od it. In ends. This was our gift to have the sanctuary crucifix a little over a month she sent CICC as celebrated 50 years of painted. Our rectora, Kerry the first piece of her painting. Cursillo in central Indiana. Schlimgen, shared a story with I quickly told her what needed Copies of the painting can us that confirmed the idea. changed and she made notes, Each of the tiles behinds the be purchased through artist’s but continued to paint it as she Etsy account. A portion of the crucifix represented all the saw it in the photos we had people who had sat before sales will be donated to CICC given her. During one of our by the artist. Jesus at some time during a conversation, I realized that I visit to St. Bernadette Church. was asking www.etsy.com/shop/VividlyTranslucent When I got home from our her to formation meeting, I shared paint as I the idea with my husband, saw it not Chuck, who has also sat in as it actu- front of this crucifix on week- ally ap- ends when he was on team. peared in We both agreed we needed to the photos. find a way to take a piece of St. So, I let go Bernadette’s with us to Sonrise and let Center and what a great way God lead 2 God’s Masterpieces by Fr. Glenn O’Connor The month of October is Many thanks to all of the Monty and your whole family. dedicated to Respect Life. team, Curstillistas and prayer Truly a masterpiece in God’s This year’s theme is “We are all partners who served the men, on going creation story. masterpieces of God’s crea- women, and Latino Cursillistas. May we all continue to pray tion”. Pope Francis reminds God’s plan is always a master- and to support one another, us all that we are all master- pieces. We are privileged to and to continue to thank God pieces of God’s creation - eve- serve in God’s vineyard, and each day for the privilege of ryone is to be respected in we pray always for His will, working in His Vineyard. particular the old, unborn, and and what we do is truly for those most vulnerable in our Jesus. society. Special prayers to the Cursillo is one of the key Monty Mountcastle family as ways for all of us to be the we have celebrated his final masterpiece God has called us journey.