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Dear Members and Friends of Christian Life Community-USA,
I am very excited to welcome you to the Christian Life Community-USA website updated with a visual refresh and improved navigation showcasing our national community as well as more engaging for all who visit it.
I believe that you will find the site helpful in learning more about CLC in USA: WHO we are and WHAT we do as members of a world-wide lay organization in the Church and the extended Ignatian family. It’s still a work in progress, so please bear with us as we continue to bring it up-to-date and expand the content.
As we continue to celebrate the Ignatian Year 2021-2022, the National Coordinating Council and the Executive Council, through our reimagining and visioning sessions, discerned prayerfully and identified a strategic plan which would guide priorities as well as focus on the life and health of our national community; by reflecting on our identity, vocation, and mission. We are grateful that we have an opportunity to journey together as we pursue these objectives:
Strengthening Our Foundation- Identify, expand, support and deepen our strengths including current offerings (e.g., Spiritual Exercises, Seed, Family CLC, University pre-CLC).
- Promote collaboration between our regions, cultural groups, and national community to act as one apostolic body.
- Encourage communities to live our CLC vocation more fully through practice of DSSE and communal discernment.
- Identify needs of both new and on-going communities at ALL stages of life.
- Actively discern our personal CLC vocation and commit to a communal and personal apostolic mission.
Expanding Our Outreach- Share the gifts of our charism with and across the Jesuit network and other faith organizations (e.g. parishes, retreat houses) to foster cooperation and expansion of our spirituality.
- Expand our work on the 4 frontiers, deepen our understanding of global challenges and increase participation and collaboration across communities.
- Engage and expand our work with youth and young adults by fostering an environment of meaningful relationships and intergenerational community.
I would like to express my gratitude to our members who are committed to our CLC vocation and who are journeying together as a national community. Let us move forward with renewed hope and joy in sharing our love of God and serving others.
With Gratitude,
Eunae Christina Kim
President,
Christian Life Community-USA