Any info on Tres Dias?

[sk32900]

I’m trying to get some info on Tres Dias, which I understand is a kind of “retreat” ministry that is active in Catholic and non-Catholic churches. I was wanting to know if Tres Dias is sanctioned by the Catholic Church, and if the local groups are under the supervision of either the parish priest or the bishop. A friend of mine was asking questions about it, but the Tres Dias web sites I found aren’t very detailed. Thanks for any info you can provide, and God bless!

 

[ProudArmyWife]

I’m not sure of all Tres Dias groups, but the one that I am familiar with is VERY protestant. The original one in the area was Catholic and they splintered off from it because, well, it was Catholic. When I asked my priest about it he mentioned, in a nutshell, that he wasn’t necessarily against it, but a Catholic one would be best.

 

[Guar_Fan]

The Cursillo movement was confined to Spain until the late 1950’s when a group of men from the Spanish Air Force who were training in Texas and in a Reunion Group, conducted the first Cursillo in the United States. Among the Spanish-speaking people the movement began to spread across the United States. The first English-speaking Cursillo was not held until the early 1960’s.

When Protestants began attending weekends, Roman Catholics saw the need to make the experience available to Protestants which led to the development of the ecumenical Tres Dias Movement.

mhtd.org/history.shtml

So if I understand that correctly, the Cursillo movement is Catholic and the Tres Dias is ecumenical.

 

[otm]

mhtd.org/history.shtml

So if I understand that correctly, the Cursillo movement is Catholic and the Tres Dias is ecumenical.

Perhaps now, however, I made my Cursillo through the Episcopalian church. It was not called by another name.

 

[Le_Cracquere]

Tres Dias is indeed an offshoot of Cursillo; its participants are predominantly Evangelical and Pentecostal, but it’s open to Catholics and other Protestants; one can find a fair number of both at TD.

There are several Cursillo-derived movements; most of them are loosely connected to one denomination or another, but none that I know of insists on membership in said denomination: Road to Emmaus is mostly Lutherans, I believe; there’s Via de Cristo, whose affiliations I forget–Methodist, maybe?

There’s also Kairos, a Cursillo-type movement in prisons, and Vida Nueva, a sort of two-day Cursillo Lite for teenagers.

 

[sk32900]

Thanks to all of you for the info. It was all very helpful!

God bless!

 

[otm]

I also attended an Emmaeus Weekend. I don’t recal that it was called Road to Emmaeus. As I understand, it was started in the US in the Florida area by Catholics, and I am not aware of it being anything but Catholic. I am also not sure how wide spread it is at this point.

 

[sk32900]

otm:

I also attended an Emmaeus Weekend. I don’t recal that it was called Road to Emmaeus. As I understand, it was started in the US in the Florida area by Catholics, and I am not aware of it being anything but Catholic. I am also not sure how wide spread it is at this point.

I did attend one of these at a Methodist weekend college retreat in 1986.