Rollos

Rollos are talks given during the weekend that convey the faith and ideals of the Cursillo movement. The very meaning of the word Cursillo is a "short course in Christianity". These talks are meant to inspire and strengthen the faith of the candidates making the weekend.

First Day - Day of Faith

1. Ideal Rollo
2. Grace Rollo
3. Laity Rollo
4. Faith Rollo
5. Holiness Rollo

Second Day - Day of Love

1. Formation Rollo
2. Sacraments Rollo
3. Evangelization Rollo
4. Obstacles Rollo
5. Leaders Rollo

Third Day - Day of Hope

1. Environments Rollo
2. Christian Community Rollo
3. Christian Life Rollo
4. Group Reunion and Ultreya Rolla
5. Fourth Day Rollo

• The need to have goals and objectives in life.
• The call to be fully human.

This talk asks the question, what is it to be fully human? It holds out the key to happiness as living to fully developed one's God-given talents and points out that in order to do so, it is necessary to live for a unified ideal. It considers what an ideal does for a person's life. It points to our current ideal by asking the question "where do you spend your time, money, and what do you think about most?"

• Presents the insight that grace is a call to a personal relationship with God.
• The call to be a Christian human person.

This talk presents a new ideal. The only truly human ideal, the life of grace, is "the pearl of great price", the most valuable possession a person can have. It emphasizes the good this life can have when we have a personal relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is the key to happiness for us and for the world.

• A call to the Christian to be a member of the People of God.

This talk draws us into the community of believers, the Church, the continuation of Christ's message and mission to the world. The Church is not a "safe haven" but rather it exists to transform the world.

• We must accept God's call freely and make it fruitful with the aid of God and with the aid of our Christian friends.

This talk outlines the simple theme that this mission is possible because God wills it and His help is always available. You saw that you are not alone when you glimpsed the community praying and working for you through their palanaca. You now know that you are not alone.

• It is not impossible to respond. The call can be lived.
• The witness of the speaker inspires us to want to live as Christians.

The talk presents the valid response to God's offer of a share in His life. Committing yourself to live the life of grace by BEING Christian, not just doing Christian things. You develop your own relationship with God by directing your mind, heart and will to Him. You may be starting to think that becoming fully Christian involves developing a life of prayer and working to bring others to Christ.

• Calls for change in mentality.
• Christian truth is given not only that we may know it, but also that we may live it.

The talk presents the direction of one's life to God as a progressive conversion, a metanoia. This metanoia is ongoing and never ending. We were challenged to use our mind to develop a consciousness of God and His presence in this life and to discern His will in all things.

• Encounters with Christ in the Church make possible a fullness of Christian Life.
• It makes possible a relationship with God that is real and personal

The talk focuses not on the mechanics of each but on the personal encounter with Christ and the encounter with the community each sacrament offers. The sacraments create an atmosphere, an environment, in which communion between man and God and between man and his brothers and sisters are fostered. The emphasis was and is on the presence of Christ in the Sacraments, especially in the Eucharist.

• The Christian Life must be lived and shared.
• All our powers are used to make a friend, be a friend and bring a friend to Christ.

This is the "how to" talk. It presents, like apostolic action as a result and consequence of being a Christian. Our personal relationship with God in Christ must influence all our relationships with other humans. Without apostolic action, piety is sterile and cannot remain alive. Just as a tree must grow or die, we must have action or we too will wither. We speak to God about man before speaking to man about God, then make a friend, be a friend and bring that friend to Christ.

• The conversion process means the giving of all aspects of life to God.
• We must be prepared for difficulties.

This talk shows us how we can overcome sin. This includes Prayer, Sacrament of Reconcilation, mortification, spiritual direction and Christian friendship.

• The world may not seek to change, but we must.
• We must be prepared to return as Christians into the same world in which we came.

This talk is a clear call to form yourself as apostles by developing your leadership around the Christian virtues of faith, hope, value and humility to call others to their potential as the children of God. Look at the world not as a place of evil from which we should retreat and hide out but rather as a world redeemed by Christ in which we can live out our Baptism in our environments.

• Our goal is the transformation of the world for Christ.
• Our environments will be Christian only if those who influence them are Christian.

This talk brings the message that we cannot be satisified with the change in our own lives, but that we must be called to build Christian community in the world. The message is that people spend their lives as members of groups that effect their lives. The leaders of these groups are influential and we must seek them out, apply the method of personal contact and form these leaders into a group. This handful of Christians can by their witness and word transform their environment from savage to human, from human to divine. The need to belong to a group is alive in us.

• The communal aspect of God's saving plan.
• We cannot and should not "go it alone".

This talk shows the need for Christian Community as the radical solution the world needs badly. Community is the basis of Christianity. It is essential to the community and the world. Christian Community binds together groups of men and women who can be Church in the world. We are challanged to give our individualism, self-surrender, and spirit of charity by becoming friends in order to reach out to others to foster the growth of Christian life in the world. We are again reminded "I can overcome the world".

• A truly Christian life of prayer, study and action fosters and promotes a love of God, other persons and our world

This talk brings out the lay plan for the progressive conversion in living out what is fundamental for being a Christian. Christian life allows that Piety, Study and Action are all necessary, but stresses the practices of piety and commitment to these as a means to deepen our union with Christ.

• A concrete program for our own progressive conversion and for the progressive Christian influence of our society.

This talk points out the danger of "going it alone". The Group Reunion ("Grouping") is offered as a means to provide the Christian Community so vital to maintain the personal relationship with Christ through Piety, Study and Actions and grow as deeper friends with our brothers and sisters. From a larger scope, the Group Reunion is the means to form the groups of Christians who begin the process of evangelizing in their environments. You should now be able to see yourself as a part of a movement for the Christian renewal of the world.

• It is not all a fantasy - some do live this vision.
• An honest sharing of the experiences of a Christian leader.

This talk deals with the means of maintaining the groups - a reunion of Group Reunions. The Ultreya makes the Cursillo a movement by linking and binding the groups into a backbone for Christian life in society and installs a sense of being a people called to evangelize. We are all at different points in our spiritual journey. The Ultreya gives us the opportunity to learn and be motivated and energized by more mature Cursillistas while we provide nourishment to those less mature than we are.

Last Updated: June 6, 2005