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The spiritual advisor for the movement in the United States is Rev. Alex Waraksa from the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1980, the Cursillo Movement established a worldwide international office, the OMCC (Organismo Mundial de Cursillos de Cristiandad). The international office is located in Portugal for the 2014–2017 term. [3]
Sustained by secular clergy, the laity, and other previous participants, the movement is associated with a retreat spanning three days. Some adherents proclaim the life of an attendee transforms on the fourth day. Such retreats began as an apostolic movement on the island of Mallorca, where a group of Catholic laity first developed the Cursillo ...
During this period they attended a Cursillo, and were given two books which describe the experience of baptism in the Holy Spirit: The Cross and the Switchblade and They Speak With Other Tongues. In February 1967, Keifer and Storey were themselves baptized in the Holy Spirit at an Episcopalian charismatic prayer group. [ 2 ]
Father David G. Russell, who was pastor at that time, saw the need for, and envisioned, a parish-based retreat that enabled lay women to minister to lay women. He approached the secretariat of the Cursillo movement and asked if they would allow a parish-based Cursillo to be held at St. Louis. This request was denied.
After some success bringing the Cursillo movement to a network of college groups, Clark and Martin experienced the charismatic renewal, which they began to write and teach about. [ 6 ] Cardinal Leo Joseph Suenens was a supporter of Clark, Martin, and other early leaders of the Catholic charismatic renewal. [ 7 ]
He also began working with the Cursillo movement which had just come to Brazil in 1962, and became its spiritual director. [17] In 1967 he and lay collaborators created a kind of cursillo for youth. In 1965 he founded the President Kennedy Social Center to train people for professional certification as typists, seamstresses, bricklayers, and ...
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In the early days of the renewal, as influenced by the Cursillo movement, several Catholic covenant communities were formed. Along with The Word of God, a sibling major community from among them is the People of Praise and the True House communities, both formed in South Bend, Indiana , in 1971. [ 4 ]