Women's Weekend 2011 is October 20, 2011 to October 23, 20112011 Women's Weekend Coordinator - Joan Cushin
Lists of Team and Candidates names will be provided here when available.
“Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.”
- John 15:4-5
Palanca
What is Palanca?
“Palanca” is a Spanish word which means "lever." A lever is normally used to move something which one could not move by normal strength. Palanca then, helps us achieve something not possible without the grace of God. As Jesus states in the Gospel of John, without Him we can do nothing.
Palanca in the context of Cursillo is the same. All of our efforts to bring others to Christ can be of no avail without the prayers, sacrifices and spiritual works that are done with the help of the Holy Spirit which brings us the grace to be used to serve God.
We are to do Palanca constantly, in the form of morning offerings, personal prayer periods, Masses, visits to the Blessed Sacrament, Rosaries, Stations of the Cross, and Spiritual Reading done solely for the success of Candidates, Team Members and the Cursillo Movement in general.
The Palanca that we are familiar with from our own weekends is merely letting the people on the weekends know what we have done for them, and to encourage them in their spiritual journey.
“The “Fundamental Ideas of the Cursillo Movement” (FICM) strongly recognizes grace as principle and foundation of our Movement and considers Palanca as one of the basic elements of the Cursillo Strategy, known as the Mystery of the Palanca…Cursillo strategy has always given, as its most important characteristic, to Palanca (prayer, sacrifice, and works of mercy). Dependence on this has to be real, sincere and permanent, individual and communal, to guarantee the efficacy of any other steps one
takes.”
Palanca will be needed for our Diocese of Venice Cursillo Weekend. There a few ways to get your Palanca to a candidate. Have them brought up by the Sponsor on Thursday or you can drop them off in the Palanca Box in the kitchen of St Katharine Drexel Parish Hall, Cape Coral by the Tuesday before the weekend.
