Christian Life Community

Celebration of World CLC Day 2010 in Victoria by Joe Delaney

Thirty five people gathered at Jesuit Theological College on Sunday March 28 to celebrate World CLC Day. Projects 144 set the theme for the Day: Option for the poor in CLC identity”. We started the day with quiet time reflecting on God’s call to Mary at the Annunciation and Gods call to us today. And we celebrated the Palm Sunday procession, with Andy Hamilton’s reminder ‘the poor of the world are sinners and we are all sinners’.…Read More

 

God’s Preferential Option for the Poor Talk by Tony French for World CLC Day 2010

The person principally responsible for giving us a contemporary explanation of the Preferential Option is Gustavo Gutierrez the Peruvian priest and theologian. In 2008 I was fortunate to meet Gustavo and hear him lecture.  He spoke of the Church of the Poor. My talk at World CLC Day is a reflection of the great debt I owe him in aiding my own understanding and acting out of the Preferential Option...Read More

 

In Search of Healing and Freedom by Susie Hii

The text of the talk that Susie gave at the Anglesea weekend

First of all, I must say that I am not an expert in this area.  Rather I am a seeker, a searcher, a wounded person in need of healing.  Healing is a theme very close to my heart because it is my calling in life and because I am in need of healing at all levels – physical, mental and spiritual.  The seeds of faith and hope in the healing power of God’s love were sown at Christian Life Community Anglesea weekend in 2008.  ‘Then Jesus called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases’...Read More

 

Ignatian Discernment: A Gift from God by Tony French

This was the second talk in an instructional series entitled “An Afternoon of Reflection”. It was held at JTC on the 5^th September 2009 and was open to CLC members and friends.

If you were to take only the “things of the world” as your guide to living, what kind of distorted reality would be the result?  Your life experience would reflect a world lacking human freedom, healing or hope.  It is through the process of Discernment that we are able to discover God both in the world and in our hearts, which when examined together in the context of Gospel provides our lives with meaning, not purposelessness, hope and not despair...Read More

 

On the Emmaus Road to the Examen: May 16th Afternoon of reflection by Tony French

It is easy to think our prayer and active worldly lives are separate.   The Examen, however, says Fr Andy Hamilton is one way to overcome such “compartmentalization” and instead integrate faith with living our lives….Read More

 

 

‘This is a time to wait on

God in the silence.

Be still & know that

I am God.’ (Ps 46:10)

GOD’S PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR

Text of Tony French’s introduction to World CLC Day 2010...Read Here.

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