{"id":691,"date":"2018-10-01T17:24:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/?p=691"},"modified":"2026-09-06T16:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:26:30","slug":"school-of-leaders-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"School of Leaders &#8211; September 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lead your Environments to Christ!\u00a0 <\/strong>This is what Cursillo is all about, and the School of Leaders is where<strong> we learn from each other<\/strong> to achieve that Ideal.\u00a0 <strong>In September, we talked about the challenge<\/strong> we have been suffering for decades \u2013 the <strong>sins of a small minority of priests and hierarchy<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>\u201c<em>Why do we remain Catholic?\u201d<\/em><\/strong> is what our Environments ask of us<em>.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To whom shall we turn?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 The <strong>Church is the Body of Christ<\/strong>, offered to us for the <strong>forgiveness of sins, and for the promise of eternal life<\/strong>.\u00a0 If only we forgive as we are forgiven, and love as we are loved.\u00a0 It is our responsibility to <strong>love and<\/strong> <strong>minister to those children<\/strong> who were abused, and to <strong>minister to the sinners<\/strong> who preyed on them.\u00a0 But their sins do not deprive the Church of God\u2019s love.\u00a0 God is asking us<strong> to love <em>even more<\/em>! \u00a0This is a job for the 4<sup>th<\/sup> Day and the friends they make!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do not hide your faces, Cursillistas<\/strong>!\u00a0 This is Christ\u2019s Church, and we receive the <strong>Grace of God<\/strong> and the <strong>prayers of Mary<\/strong> on behalf of the Church.\u00a0 The sins of certain individuals cannot take that away.\u00a0 <strong>We must continue to bring that message to our Environments and to our friends.<\/strong>\u00a0 Make a friend, be a friend . . .\u00a0 The Church will prevail against the Gates of Hell.\u00a0 I want to be a part of that &#8211; &#8211; I can\u2019t wait to see <strong>what God has in store for his children<\/strong>.\u00a0 How can I do my part?<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>School of Leaders<\/strong> will meet on <strong>October 9<sup>th<\/sup>, November 13<sup>th<\/sup> and December 11th at 7:00 pm in the Parish Center of St. Joseph\u2019s Parish in Freeburg, IL. <\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Please join your fellow Leaders!\u00a0 <u>And pray for all of our Priests and Bishops!<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Romans 1: 12<\/u><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> \u201c<em>What I mean is that both you and I will be helped at the same time, you by my faith and I by yours.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>De Colores and Peace!<\/p>\n<p>John I Schaberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lead your Environments to Christ!\u00a0 This is what Cursillo is all about, and the School of Leaders is where we learn from each other to achieve that Ideal.\u00a0 In September, we talked about the challenge we have been suffering for decades \u2013 the sins of a small minority of priests and hierarchy.\u00a0 \u201cWhy do we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-of-leaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}