CONVICTION

Definition: A strong persuasion or belief; the state of being convinced. (Merriam-Webster)

1. We are called to perform tasks that require conviction; and what everyone does is push – coerce – to achieve a decision.

2. Some do not believe in the Gospel and others do not believe that it is effective: who disappoints God more?

3. Actually utilized, the ability to be surprised, combined with the capacity for conviction and the ability for decision convey and reveal the measure of the person.

4. Human conviction is centered, unified and intertwined with what is most essential when (one can say): “God loves me in a personal, singular and unique way.”

5. For human beings authentic conviction is not a passing, burdensome or crushing human value.

6. Between those who believe they know and those who know how to believe, the latter are the ones that progress to the complete and thorough fullness of their personhood.

7. The human person yearns for what is fundamental, not so as to dissipate his/her efforts in nonessential behavior, but to sustain and drive daily goals, starting from a firm conviction that is rooted in what is real and what is true.

8. Conviction is the backbone of the clearly articulated knowledge possessed, which allows us to be rooted in reality and to fulfill ourselves in it as a person.

9. Ignorance is a resounding invitation to be light.

10. Truth is what makes one’s motives more profound, more coherent and more alive.


REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1. What do you personally understand it means to be “a person of conviction”?

2. What are we convinced of as Christians?
Based on the ideas listed above: How should our Christian convictions be reflected in the way we live our lives in the “Fourth Day” (Postcursillo) as well as our behavior in the other two phases of the Cursillo Movement – Precursillo and Cursillo?