Article: Very simply put, the ultreyas are for the reunion of permanent
spiritual groups outside of the ultreyas. They gather as these
ultreyas(which means move forward) to do just that. This is done
in the format which has never really changed. By going over in
the pilgrims the format given. In fact, the pilgrims guide did
not have the added areas that are presently there. Adding this
some time ago did not take away from the purpose(effect) of the
spiritual grouping. We had the regular list of masses attended,
rosaries, spiritual direction... Then we went right into apostolic failures, successes, close moments, etc.. We had nothing in between as we do today. These two pages are really the
only ones the groups have to cover. This is due to the time
limit of the ultreya. The real spiritual meat of the permanent
is the last page of the grouping. A person who just came out
of a cursillo would be invited by any of the groups to be with
them. One could call it floating. How a new cursillista came
into a permament group was simply by two ways. They were invited
in one or stayed there until they sponsored others to form a group. The ideal cursillista went back into their parish and
sponsored others and in turn taught them about grouping. It is
not neccessary for permanent spiritual group member to be from
same parish. Attending the ultreyas is THE school of spiritual
grouping. That is where a great deal of spiritual learning takes
place at. Let us continue to pray and sacrifice.
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Replying to Original Article:
Lou Robbio says our ultreya format should go by "his" book. I will post the details on it later.