{"id":691,"date":"2018-10-01T17:24:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/?p=691"},"modified":"2018-10-01T17:24:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:24:37","slug":"school-of-leaders-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}