Pre-Cursillo

The Pre-Cursillo is the first of three stages of the Cursillo movement. This stage relies primarily on evangelization to achieve its purpose – which is bringing candidates into the Cursillo.

As a worldwide movement, the Pre-Cursillo focuses on several areas:

• Studying and selecting environments in need of evangelization. This is done both collectively as a movement, as well as individually.
• Searching out, selecting, and preparing candidates to have maximum evangelical effectiveness.
• Preparing for the Cursillo by preparing all the spiritual, personal, and material elements involved.
• Making plans to accompany new Cursillistas into the Post-Cursillo to help them mature in their faith, deepen their Christian commitment, and take their apostolic place in the world.

Locally, the Cursillo Movement in the Diocese of Memphis has a vibrant Pre-Cursillo program that includes:

• Parish Cursillo Representatives
• Active Priests, Deacons, and Religious who are Cursillistas
• Two by Two (2×2) Evangelization
• Select group reunions that act as recruiting points for the Pre-Cursillo, as well as the Ultreya
• Community Meetings before Clausura
• Sponsor Education

For more information on making a Cursillo 3-Day weekend or to find a sponsor, please contact Gene Mangiante, III, Pre-Cursillo Chairperson (2011-2013) on the Secretariat for the Cursillo Movement in the Catholic Diocese of Memphis at (901) 849-6555 or e-mail precursillo@memphiscursillo.com.

You may download an application on this website under the “Pre-Cursillo” tab under “Applications.” Completed applications may be scanned and sent via e-mail to precursillo@memphiscursillo.com, faxed to (901) 684-1881, or mailed to:

Pre-Cursillo Applications
Attn: Gene Mangiante
PO Box 771811
Memphis, TN 38177-1811

“You transform the world by becoming new men and women.
I am therefore delighted to join in your thanksgiving to the
Lord for all he has done and never ceases to do in the
Church through the Cursillos de Cristiandad.”
- Pope John Paul II