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FORMATION
The following is from the book, The Fundamental Ideas of the Cursillo Movement:
In order to carry out their vocation and mission as lay faithful, the members of the School "must be formed according to the union which exists from their being members of the Church and citizens of human society."
Formation, then, is a response to "the call to growth and a continual process of maturation, of always bearing much fruit."
Formation is a basic necessity for making any spiritual progress for becoming a leader in the Church and in the Movement, and for dealing with all the various circumstances of persons, things, and duties one must incorporate into one's activities.
Formation is a time for cursillistas to get to know themselves better, so that they can come to understand God and the changing world in which they live, with a kind of dynamic knowledge that encompasses all of a person's life.
In order to be formed as a Christian, one must reform one's mentality, conform one's life to the pattern of Christ's life, and transform, by acting with full responsibility, the secular structures in which one is immersed. It is the entire person that must be formed "until Christ is formed in that person". It is by way of formation that the transformation, or conversion, of the entire person is achieved.
Formation classes are held at the Cursillo Center in Prairie Ronde approximately every other month for about a year and a half. |
