Columbus Cursillo at 641 Cusseta Hwy, Box Springs, GA 31801 US - Candidate & Sponsor Applications

 

 

The sponsor’s responsibility can be summarized as “Make a friend, Be a friend, Bring that friend to Christ”. This is greatly expanded upon in the Sponsor’s Booklet. Anyone considering sponsoring someone for a weekend should obtain and read it.

 

The sponsor should know his candidate and the candidate’s family very well – to the point that the sponsor would be able to complete most of the information on the candidate application form. The sponsor must be willing to make the commitment to prepare the candidate for the weekend, get the candidate to the weekend and lead the candidate into his fourth day. The sponsor must be grouping and, preferably, be attending Ultreya regularly. If this is not the case, the sponsor will not be able to properly introduce the candidate to the fourth day.

 

 

The pastor’s responsibility is to verify that the candidate is indeed a member of his parish in good standing and is eligible to receive the Sacraments.

 

 

The Ultreya Leader’s responsibility is to approve not the candidate, but the sponsor. The Ultreya Leader may well never have met the candidate, but he must know the sponsor and be able to verify that the sponsor is grouping and attending Ultreya. If the prospective sponsor does not, or cannot, attend Ultreya regularly, the Ultreya leader should suggest a co-sponsor who will be able to properly attend to that part of the candidates fourth day.