wow, it's lovely so much good response, praise the LORD!
so i think it is good to tell interested christian's in the forum about their weekend. and i tell you from the 'other side', from a cursillo leader and organiser to invite you for the most enjoyable, but important 3 days of your life.
cursillo is mostly a long weekend for you, that means your sponsor drop you of at the cursillo location thursday evening, you will be warmly welcome, members even carry your suitcase, you pay your accomotation, and then get to know other new canditates by good food and glas of wine or beer.
the cursillo director will tell you then what it is all about, tell you we can forget about time and the outer world and focus our thoughts about the weekend, and go quitly to bed. while you sleep your team works quite a little longer to make your following days very joyful, but also spiritual for you.
i won't go in the exact details here it would take to long, but there will be chapel visit and prayers, very interesting talks important to our missionary church, like how we can change our surrounding for CHRIST, what we can do, also our christian living is very important and so on. in between talks we can discuss what we think about it, even put our thoughts to paper.
i asure you of a great community and believe me when we have to go home sunday evening some great friendship have formed, some forever and some tears are shed.
of course there is much more and some lovely suprises, it would be to long to mentioned here, but it is important to let you know the cursillo weekend also have mostly two clergy for the whole weekend with you and there is time set apart were you all on your own and very private can talk with them. they are good listeners and can help with some good direction.
you will not forget this weekend for a very long time in your life, and maybe you are even called for training to help others in a great weekend.
maybe it's good to mention that the catholic cursillo is mixed, man and woman together, but the anglican is man and woman a different weekend, mostly 2 weeks apart. we feel that if man or woman on their own, without spouse people talk more freely and form a great friendship.
so you see cursillo is not a secret society, but christian people who wan't to follow JESUS call, to like to have more knowledge how to, and to get more involved in their own parishes.
i hope this helps a little, but please ask more questions if you not clear on something.
your brother in CHRIST, norbie