Pathways - CLC for Young Adults in their 20s and 30s
 

St Ignatius sees spirituality as a “pathway to God” guided by the Spirit.

Following this inspiration, CLC has created a set of materials for young adults to help cultivate a continuous process of growth, conversation, and listening to the Spirit, both personally and in community. 

Pathways was created for Christian Life Community (CLC), but we offer these resources to any group wanting to follow God through Ignatian spirituality.

While these meetings were developed for new young adult groups in their 20s and 30s, they can be easily adapted to fit the needs of older or existing groups. In CLC, we are an international association of men and women who are drawn by a common desire to follow Christ, to make God’s love visible, and to build a world grounded in justice and compassion. Formed by the Spiritual Exercises and shaped by our General Principles, we strive to integrate the values of community, spirituality and mission in our everyday life.

You can access the materials below:

About Pathways

Following the inspiration of St. Ignatius, we hope that these meetings will help cultivate a continuous process of growth, conversation, and listening to the Spirit.

How To Use This Resources

If you’re new to CLC or facilitating a small group, consider beginning your journey here.

Parts of a Meeting

The components of a CLC meeting help create space to share & grow together.

Facilitating a Meeting

As group leaders or facilitators, we are called to help create a safe space where our groups can share honestly and openly.

Living Out the CLC Way of Life

“Our Community is made up of Christians: men and women, adults and youth…” – CLC General Principles #4

Ignatian Prayer Helps

Articles & videos to help you along your path in an Ignatian way…

1.01 Meet and Greet

What are you and your group looking for?

1.02 Creating a Sense of Home

With whom do you experience a sense of home?

1.03 Listen - Just Listen

Do you ever simply listen? How often do you just “be”?

1.04 Dreaming With God - Personal Vocation

Do you have a dream for you life?…Does God?

1.05 Christian Life Community (CLC)

What is the story and purpose behind CLC?

2.01 Journeying Together- Listening & Loving

How can better listen to create a safer space to share & grow together?

2.02 Sharing Our Stories (TEMPLATE)

What is your story? What steps did you take to grow in your faith and love for God?

2.02 Personal Prayer Outside the Group

How can we continue to grow together inside and outside of our meetings while sharing our stories?

2.03 Looking Back on the Journey

What are some of the graces we’ve received during this time of listening and sharing?

2.04 Our Common Foundation- The CLC Pillars

What connects us to the wider CLC family?

3.01 Be…

How do you encounter each new day or experience? Are you open to discovery?

3.02 Be Still…

How can a deepened sense of gratitude help you to discover God more openly?

3.03 Be Still and Know…

How do you imagine and relate to God? Who is God to you?

3.04 Be Still and Know I Am God…

Is your God the God of Love?…

3.05 Laying a Solid Foundation

What grounds and shapes your life?

3.06 Listening to the Spirit

What voices are at play in your heart? In which directions do they lead you?

3.07 Discovering God- Further Resources

Articles & videos to help you continue to discover…

4.01 Communion of Love

What might the Trinity reveal about the nature of Christ and our own human nature?

4.02 Jesus- God with Us

How do you experience & relate to the mystery of God-become-human?

4.03 Being the Beloved

What does it mean to allow God to truly love you?

4.04 Your Kingdom Come

How do your dreams and God’s dreams for the world align?

4.05 Love & the Cross

What does the cross reveal to you about the love of God?

4.06 The Way of Love

Are you more worried about doing things right or doing the right things?

4.07 Looking Back

What has your journey along this path held for you? Where are you being led from here?

5.01 Discovering Personal Vocation – Vocation Uniquely Unfolding

What are you naturally good at?

5.02 Love & Fear – Interior Freedom

What does freedom mean to you?

5.03 Love & Sexuality I – Two Fires, One Source

Will you accept Christ’s offer of redemption and freedom?

5.04 Love & Sexuality II – Two Fires, One Source

Do your expressions of intimacy, sexuality, or sex truly image God’s free, full, faithful, and fruitful love?

5.05 Love and Its 10,000 Imitations I – Genuine & Inauthentic Loves

When you are just being yourself, what valuable gifts do you have to offer?

5.06 Love and Its 10,000 Imitations II – Loving Deeply and Freely

Are you open to love and being loved?

5.07 Review of Life – Open Sharing on Experiences of Prayer & Service

Where or how are you being led? Where are you heading towards?

5.08 Gifts Inventory I

Do you use the gifts, talents, and strengths that God has given to you?

5.09 Gifts Inventory II

Where is God inviting you at this moment in time?