The Cursillo How S Your 4th Day

De Colores! See in color and in light; bring an end to the darkness and to the night. Change your perception, get out of your detention, and remember to the Good News the Lord has mentioned. The Cursillo is a short course in Christianity founded by Roman Catholic laymen in 1944 in Majorca, Spain, with the goal of improving ways to train Christian leaders. The primary objective of the three-day session to ask the Cursillo participants, or cursillistas, to go back into the world and practice what they have learned; this is called their fourth day. The Cursillo: How’s Your Fourth Day? presents a collection of hip-hop poetry inspired by author Ryan Lee Nevins’s experience with the Cursillo in 2006, an event that helped restore his faith and radically changed the course of his life. Taking forty topics explored during his session, he spins them out into verses designed to connect with believers and encourage them in their journey.

The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or "short course in Christianity," founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasizing how American Christians have privileged the individual religious experience and downplayed denominational and theological differences in favor of a common identity as renewed people of faith, Kristy Nabhan-Warren focuses on cursillistas--those who have completed a Cursillo weekend--to show how their experiences are a touchstone for understanding these trends in post-1960s American Christianity. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork as well as historical research, Nabhan-Warren shows the importance of Latino Catholics in the spread of the Cursillo movement. Cursillistas' stories, she argues, guide us toward a new understanding of contemporary Christian identities, inside and outside U.S. borders, and of the importance of globalizing American religious boundaries.

Eduardo Bonnín. An Apprentice Christian ( USA spelling) Over ten million people have discovered the love of God through the experience lived in Cursillo, a Movement founded by the Spanish layman Eduardo Bonnín. Through these pages, Bonnín accurately and concisely uncovers the meaning of Cursillo and the “Secret” of the methodology of this mature Charism that has changed the lives of so many. The founder explains the origins of this spirituality directed to today’s people and its expansion throughout the world, as well as outlining the pedagogy of the Cursillo.

Since its inception in Roman Catholic Spain in the 1940s, the Cursillo movement has been a steadily-growing phenomenon and has spread into many Protestant churches worldwide under various names. The weekend initiation is often a deeply-felt experience that boasts of many conversions and recommitments. Yet in this comprehensive analysis of Cursillo the author finds theological concerns, questions about the propriety of the methods, and complications such as disaffection from the local church, transfer of loyalty to the Cursillo community, and a significant drop-out rate, raising implications for similar, spiritual movements. Interviews with former Cursillo participants confirmed many of these conclusions but also raised a challenge to the church: many Cursillo participants do not perceive vital faith in their local church. The author suggests that the Cursillo attempts to imitate the work of the church in an extraordinary form and that this might initiate some of the unhelpful results. The church would be better served by seeking to revitalize its ordinary ministries of Word and sacrament, prayer, community, and Sabbath observance.

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