CLC Community

1) Description: from CLC Guiding Principles

CLC is a world-wide community composed of small groups of men and women, adults and youth, of all social conditions who want to follow Jesus Christ more closely and work with him for the building of the Kingdom, and who have recognized Christian Life Community as their particular vocation within the Church.

We aim to become committed Christians in bearing witness to those human and Gospel values within the Church and society which affect the dignity of the person, the welfare of the family, and the integrity of creation.

We are particularly aware of the pressing need to work for justice through a preferential option for the poor and a simple life style which expresses our freedom and solidarity … by opening our hearts to conversion and struggling to change oppressive structures.

To prepare our members more effectively for apostolic witness and service, especially in our daily environment, we assemble people in community who feel a more urgent need to unite their human life in all its dimensions with the fullness of their Christian faith according to our charism, rooted in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

We seek to achieve this unity of life in response to the call of Christ from within the world in which we live. The Lord invites us to intimacy with Him and to collaborate with Him in His mission of announcing the Good News and promoting God's Reign.

Thus, our life is essentially a calling that is personal, communal, and apostolic.

2) Seven distinctive characteristics of CLC community

• Ignatian Spirituality
• Cura Personalis: care for the whole person
• International
• Small groups
• Fun, welcoming
• Vocation discernment
• Apostolic: Build God’s kingdom of peace and justice