Witness Speaker: _____________________
Spiritual Director(s):___________________
Leader(s):____________________________
Music:_______________________________
Church:______________________________
Set-up:______________________________

6:00 PM Set up chairs, beverages and munchies. Put out name badges

6:45 PM Greet weekenders and sponsors and others as they arrive

7:15 PM Pray with witness speaker and spiritual director

7:30 Welcome everyone; say gathering prayer that includes (1) Christ as our purpose and (2) Prayer for all members of Christ's community.

Gracious God, we thank you for this loving community centered and led by the Christ in our midst. We treasure your presence among those gathered here and those who are with us in Spirit as we strive, in community, to live a life of grace and continuing transformation and as we try, with prayer and your help to live and act according to your will. In Jesus' name, we ask only to live and work to your glory and for your purposes. Amen

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Almighty God, we thank you for bringing us together in this community, with Christ in our midst and as our center. Bless those gathered here and those absent. Clothe us in the Spirit that we may reach out in love to deepen our union with you and to bring others who do not yet know you to the knowledge and love of you. We ask this in the name of your son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Ask our newest Cursillistas to stand in the circle to be welcomed by the Cursillo Community of the Diocese of Newark. Have friends introduce guests or other new persons; ask for any new unaccompanied people to please stand to be welcomed.

Welcome to ULTREYA! This evening's Ultreya will be the same as all other Ultreyas, except that we will explain, briefly, the purpose of each activity that makes up a "primitive Ultreya", primative meaning simple and unadorned.

We offer an instructional Ultreya for two reasons; for our newest Cursillistas this is an introduction and explanation of what we do at Ultreya, how and why we do it; for Cursillistas who have been in the community for a while, it's a refresher opportunity to help re-aquaint them with what Ultreya is, how it works and why we do it.

You may remember that the word Ultreya is used to mean "Onward, Upward, and Forward!" It translates loosely into "perservere". The intent of the Ultreya this meeting is to "root the results of the 3-day weekend in the soil of perserverance." The goal is to be an effective movement, the Cursillo method at work, not just a weekend high. "The purpose is to foster the atmosphere of unity which diocesan, parish and Christian communities must have if they are to be dynamic and radiate their fervor and zeal."

Ultreyas together with weekly group reunion provide fellowship, relationship, support, and encouragement so that we can be sustained in our growing or renewed relationship with God and Christ and our apostolic action in the world, in all our many environments.

Ultreya is meant to be a community made up of our group reunion community coming together with other group reunion communities. Ultreyas are designed as a part of the fourth day in order for us to encourage one another by our unity in Christ.

In this diocese, Ultreya is offered:

(fill in the current schedule)

Ultreyas begin promptly at 7:30 PM and last about an hour. Tonight's Ultreya will be just a little longer because of its instructional nature.

7:40 PM Introduce the Spiritual Director(s) for the evening. They will be available during floating group reunion to discuss with anyone how and why to seek Spiritual Direction.

We will be breaking into reunion groups now. Floating group reunions, the group reunions at Ultreya, are different from the ones that you develop and are a part of each week, away from Ultreya. Over a period of time, those reunion groups develop a depth of relationship and sharing that is only possible in a caring and continuous community. Floating groups at Ultreya are an opportunity to share our apostolic journey, with less depth, in a broader community of caring. They are called floating because they are random groupings that change with each Ultreya.

Will the table leaders to step to the side of the room. The new Cursillistas from NewArk # __ will join them and you will share your group reunion with your table. Table leaders, please take your groups. We will give you some extra time while we divide up. You will be given a five minute warning before we end the reunion time, which will be about 20 minutes.

(while sending off the tables, have someone count the remaining people and divide by 4 for count-off) We will now attempt to count off by __ to form the rest of the reunion groups. The time allowed will be 20 minutes and we will give a 5 minute warning. Please return promptly!

8:10 PM Remind folks to reassemble

8:15 PM begin singing to gather. When all have returned, ask for any announcements, but first introduce the Coordinator of the next weekend and offer him/her an opportunity to speak briefly. Also introduce any members of secretariat, Lay Leader, Diocesan Spiritual Director, or any other leader and offer a few minutes for remarks.

8:30 PM Next we will have a witness talk from a member of the community. The purpose of this talk is to share and encourage one another in our Christian Life and Witness. The talk describes how Christ is woking in the speaker's life and an apostolic action or plan on their part. Please know that you will never be asked to do a witness talk on the spur of the moment. The witness speaker was invited to give this talk and has had time to prepare the talk and to seek spiritual direction, if desired.

After a period of silent meditation on what we have just heard, we will have a response from the Spiritual Director. The Spiritual Director will relate what we have heard to the Gospel and our lives. After some meditation on the Spiritual Director's response, we are all welome to afirm the speaker's witness or to thank him/her for sharing.

We will now stand and sing ____________________(talk song).

8:35 PM Introduce the speaker with this passage from Hebrews:

"Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good. Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead let us encourage one another all the more, since you see that the day of the Lord is coming near."

Will you please join me in welcoming our witness speaker for this evening _______________.

8:45 PM After the witness talk, keep silence for about one minute and then signal the Spiritual Director to begin the response. Again, wait a minute and then begin responses from the rest of the community. When everyone has finished,

8:55 PM Ask everyone to stand and form a circle of prayer to offer up our petitions, thanksgivings and praise. Begin the group prayer and then allow others to add on as they feel moved. When everyone has spoken, close the prayer, "We ask all these things in the name of your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen."

Begin the Lord's Prayer.

9:15 PM Close with "Go in Peace to love and serve the Lord. Ultreya! Ultreya!"

Follow with music and fellowship, if desired. Ask for help to clean up!