{"id":748,"date":"2019-01-07T19:11:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/?p=748"},"modified":"2019-01-07T19:11:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T19:11:44","slug":"school-of-leaders-december-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"School of Leaders &#8211; December 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>As\nwe enter the New Year of our Lord 2019<\/strong>,\nlooking both forward and backwards from the present moment, I\u2019d like to take a\nminute to reflect on my personal Cursillo Journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To\nput it plainly, I am having an <em>absolute\nblast<\/em> chairing the School of Leaders!<\/strong>&nbsp; Since I was a kid, I have always wanted to be\na <strong>sincere, authentic, child of God.<\/strong>&nbsp; I had a hard time following the fad or fashion\nof the day, unless it was <strong>sincere.<\/strong> I\ncould not enjoy a friendship unless it was <strong>authentic.<\/strong>&nbsp; And I could not imagine my life without the <strong>love of God to guide me<\/strong>, to <strong>inspire<\/strong> me, to <strong>admonish<\/strong> me, to <strong>drive<\/strong> me\nforward, and to <strong>rein me in<\/strong> from time\nto time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The\nSchool of Leaders<\/strong> allows me to be that sincere,\nauthentic, child of God.&nbsp; Like an Olympic\nskier <strong>visualizing <\/strong>theturns and gates, before strapping on\nhis skis, I have spent my life <strong>\u201cinternalizing\u201d\n<\/strong>this opportunity to offer <strong>my\nwitness, my voice<\/strong>, <strong>my heart, and to\nopen my eyes and my ears<\/strong> in this <strong>service\nfor Christ and His Church<\/strong>.&nbsp; My goal\nis to make the <strong>School of Leaders<\/strong> a <strong>welcoming place<\/strong> where <strong><em>all\nCursillistas can offer up their sincere, authentic selves as children of God,\nto lead their environments to Christ.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our <strong>School of Leaders<\/strong> is on vacation during Formation, but we will meet\nagain, after the 2019 Weekends, on <strong>April\n9, 2019<\/strong>, at<strong> 7 p.m. <\/strong>in the Parish\nCenter of<strong> St. Joseph\u2019s Parish in\nFreeburg, IL. <\/strong>&nbsp;Please join your\nfellow Leaders!<strong>&nbsp; Happy New Year on your Journey!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Romans\n1: 12<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong> \u201c<em>What I mean is that both you and I will be helped at the same time, you\nby my faith and I by yours.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Colores and Peace!\n\nJohn I Schaberg\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we enter the New Year of our Lord 2019, looking both forward and backwards from the present moment, I\u2019d [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748"}],"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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellevillecursillo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}