FRIENDSHIP

1. Friendship is the most intense way to live life together.

2. To be a friend is to be able to think one’s life aloud with another.

3. The relationship of friendship is the most genuinely human and genuinely gospel way of entering in communion with another. It consists in communicating with another human being as a person, not because of his concrete qualities or social standing, but because he exists – because he is somebody.

4. Friendship could be summed up in the twofold affirmation:

“I am happy that you exist.”
“The world is more beautiful because you are alive.”

5. Friendship develops by means of a process.

6. Friendship can produce a powerful energy that can move men and women to change their reality.

7. Christian is the simple and definite pleasure of being a friend to the one who is next to me.

8. If a person does not have someone to bear with him, he will not be able to bear life, and he will become unbearable.

9. In order to make friends: first see; make others see; and then get them to look.

10. Cursillo is the vehicle for an experience of identity; a song to life; and a homage to friendship.

11. The key (to friendship) is in a relationship of friendship with oneself.

12. Friendship is creative but never close ended if its natural dynamic to generate more friendship is not excluded.

Group Dynamic: Divide into groups & discuss the members’ understanding of these fundamental notions of Cursillos charism.

Discussion Question: How is (or should) this fundamental aspect of Cursillo’s Charism be reflected during the 3-day weekend, the pre-cursillo and the post-cursillo?