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https://d2y1pz2y630308.cloudfront.net/14125/slideshows/homeCustom1440x756/eCatholic-stock-photo-154.jpg The whole world is our meeting place with God. CLC Charism

https://d2y1pz2y630308.cloudfront.net/14125/slideshows/homeCustom1440x756/IMG_0892.JPG The spirituality of our Community is centered on Christ and on participation in the Paschal Mystery. CLC General Principles

https://d2y1pz2y630308.cloudfront.net/14125/slideshows/homeCustom1440x756/IMG_1075.JPG All individual members are called to an active participation in the vast field of apostolic service. CLC General Principles

https://d2y1pz2y630308.cloudfront.net/14125/slideshows/homeCustom1440x756/IMG_0896.JPG We are especially aware of the pressing need to work for justice through a preferential option for the poor and a simple life style. CLC General Principles

https://d2y1pz2y630308.cloudfront.net/14125/slideshows/homeCustom1440x756/IMG_1374.JPG To preserve inner apostolic freedom, our mission also demands simplicity in all aspects of life. CLC General Principles

Ignatian spirituality is a spirituality for everyday life. It insists that God is present in our world and active in our lives. It is a pathway to deeper prayer, good decisions guided by keen discernment, and an active life of service to others.

St. Ignatius of Loyola

Christian Life Community (CLC)

Christian Life Community (CLC) is an international association of lay Christians who have adopted an Ignatian model of spiritual life. The 'Community' of over 25,000 members is present in over sixty countries around the world.

CLC draws its inspiration from the teachings of Ignatius of Loyola, and receives spiritual guidance from the Jesuits. The experience of making the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius is foundational to the members of CLC, not simply as a retreat but as a way of life. Members are encouraged to adhere to a lifestyle which is gospel-based and simple, to serve the poor and to integrate contemplation and action.

As Ignatian spirituality has an essential apostolic dimension, members of CLC seek to bring Gospel values into all aspects of life in today’s world.
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- Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
  
  Reading 1 Jas 2:1-9
  Responsorial Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
  Gospel Mk 8:27-33

- Former World CLC President Mauricio Lopez's Commentary in National Catholic Reporter
  
  February 14
  
  Former CLC World President Mauricio Lopez writes passionately about the Pope's new apostolic exhortation: Querida Amazonia. Mauricio was named by Pope Francis as the only layperson among the 18 members of the pre-synodal council that helped draft the gathering's eventual working document, and was later a participant at the synod.
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- CLC-USA Communities Prepare to Celebrate our Youth on World CLC Day 2020 - March 25th
  
  January 15
  
  CLC is with and for young people. Youth are an indispensable part of the apostolic body. Youth is not just a nice topic for the 2020 World CLC Day (March 25th), but it is a major concern and challenge for all of us in CLC. We are inviting you to launch a long-term effort! Regional CLC teams, National ExCo’s, National formation teams and leaders of local communities, should design concrete plans to communicate and offer the gift of CLC to young people in this new context. In general, all the members of local CLC should review how to share our gifts with the younger people.
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  Klobuchar has underscored her abortion-rights support, and she's signed onto legislation that would limit states' efforts to constrain abortion access, such as the multiple state-level anti-abortion...
- ‘We are in human misery,’ Franciscan in northern Syria tells pope
  
  Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. human rights chief, called on Syria and its allies to permit safe humanitarian corridors to be set up in the conflict areas.
- I was at the Amazon synod. Here are its 3 significant lessons (and challenges) for the church
  
  The Amazon synod wrought three significant changes in the Catholic Church's way of proceeding.
- Podcast: An Intergenerational Conversation on ‘Querida Amazonia’
  
  This week on the “Inside the Vatican” podcast, the hosts take a deep dive into “Querida Amazonia.”
- Finding God in cosmological things: Remembering George Coyne, S.J.
  
  I could list all his scientific work, his writings on faith and science, his honors and degrees. But none of those are George.
- We’re all tied to the Amazon through globalization. Can the synod help us listen to its cry?
  
  The apostolic exhortation “Querida Amazonia,” conveys the suffering of the Amazon and its people in stark terms, writes Vincent J. Miller. We must not be distracted from its message.
- A Not-So-Radical Proposal for Your Lenten Season: Do Nothing
  
  Ash Wednesday is just one week away. Before you decide to give up candy or french fries or even Facebook, I encourage you to take some advice: do nothing.
- An Overview of “Querida Amazonia”
  
  A summary of Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation on the “Amazon Synod” or the Synod for Bishops of the Pan-Amazonian Region.
- Pope Francis Says It’s Time for a More Amazonian Church, but That Doesn’t Mean Married Priests or Women Deacons
  
  The Holy Father discerned that the Holy Spirit was not calling him to weigh in on the two controversial proposals.

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