After many years of conducting grace filled weekends at the Josephite Seminary, the Washington Cursillo Movement will be changing its venue for holding Three Day Cursillo Weekends from the Josephite Seminary to the Washington Retreat Center. The first weekend to be held at the Washington Retreat Center will be coordinated by Ms. Phyllis Winston and is scheduled for May 19th through 22nd, 2011. The last two weekends to be held at the Josephite Center will be the Women's 202nd weekend coordinated by Ms. Rosemary Reeves, which is scheduled for October 7-10, 2010, and the Men's 203rd weekend coordinated by Mr. Pete Abresch, which is scheduled for November 4-7, 2010. We are gladdened that God has been so gracious to our Movement to find for us a new location for us to hold weekends.
Of course, we are saddened that we will no longer be holding weekends at the Josephite Seminary. It is almost like home to us, we have been there so long and made so many friends. We are having to move the venue for our weekends because the Seminary in 2011 is taking in guests from another seminary and many of the rooms that we formerly used to house new brothers and sisters and team members will be used to temporarily house seminarians from the other seminary while their seminary is being renovated.
We ask your prayers of Thanksgiving for the gift of the Washington Retreat Center. Moving venues for the weekends is never easy. As you may remember a few years ago we had to do something similar when the Josephite Seminary was renovated. Please keep the Josephites in your prayers and now add the Franciscan Sisters of Atonement.
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Cursillo is a worldwide movement of the Roman Catholic Church. Using the tools of piety, study and action, it provides for a three day encounter with self, Christ and each other to become Christian leaders in our environments. Cursillo offers a method to grow in Christian community by sustained sharing, prayer and study in small friendship groups. Friendship groups enrich our lives with piety, grow our understanding of faith in study, and take action to bring others to Christ.
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"As we follow Christ in this mission to be fishers of men, we must bring men and women out of the sea that is salted with so many forms of alienation and onto the land of life, into the light of God, It really is so: The purpose of our lives is to reveal God to man."
Jacquelyn DeMesme-Gray, Lay Director
- Pope Benedict's First Papal Homily