Above Photo: CLC member Carol Gonzalez volunteers at Ballfield Farm (BFF) community is a neighborhood project collectively growing organic food on city-owned land (an abandoned baseball field) in Pittsburgh’s Northside in Pennsylvania, USA.


Below Video:  CLC-USA West Casa Building Mission

Our Apostolic Mission

"It is the love of God, which prompts us, as members of CLC, to transform the world so that all God's children can live with dignity. We should try to see Jesus in every man and woman, because Jesus identified himself with each, especially with those most in need. Commitment to the cause of freedom and justice makes sense for us only so long as the Spirit of Christ motivates it, as an expression of faith and love."  

The CLC Charism, 93

“Our life in Christian Life Community is essentially apostolic: it extends both to the Church and the world, in order to bring the gospel of salvation to all people and to serve individual persons and society by opening hearts to conversion and struggling to change oppressive structures.” (GP-8)
 
The field of CLC mission is unlimited.  For each CLC member, the different contexts of their life: family, politics, profession, community, local Church, are the main fields of action.  We should try to see Jesus in every man and woman, because Jesus identified Himself with each, especially with those most in need. “Our life finds its permanent inspiration in the Gospel of the poor and humble Christ.”
 
Within Christian Life Community we have the opportunity to share our mission.  This does not mean that the community has the same mission, but that they share their experience of mission.  This is the apostolic dimension of CLC.  Through the CLC process of sharing and discernment a community of individual apostles becomes an apostolic community. “We try to give an apostolic sense to even the most humble realities of daily life.”    
 
 
Quotes from CLC General Principles #8