As an apostolic body  we need to train more “workers” for these other areas of the “harvest” and we need to have a way to support our ministries. And so we are proposing a special focus for our national ministry efforts and a CLC-USA ‘National Program Fund’.

Lightworks Ministry: Connecting Peoples’ Hearts to Christ

At the very core of social injustice is the lack of Christ’s presence. On three occasions Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI have invited the Church to develop a deeper relationship with God through prayer by way of Lectio Divina. At the international congress on “Sacred Scripture in the Life of the Church” in 2005, Pope Benedict said: If it is effectively promoted, this practice will bring to the Church – I am convinced of it – a new spiritual springtime. Lightworks is a 14-week Ignatian home retreat program with weekly group reflection focused on coming to know Christ through prayer. First introduced in 2000 through ĐHCLC, increasingly in the last three years people within the CLC community and beyond have found through Lightworks a new “springtime” in their relationship with God. Our present goal is to organize two training sessions during 2011–2012 for those who feel called to this ministry. A contribution to the National Program Fund will help cover the participants’ travel and lodging expenses in these training sessions. Supporting this Ignatian formation program will be one effective way for our CLC community to personally bring the news of Christ to peoples’ hearts.

Marriage Renewal Workshop: Strengthening the Nucleus of Society

Marriage is the nucleus of society, and it is under increasing strain. It needs to be renewed and strengthened. The Bishops have urged the Church to become “a community of hope and help for marriages and to join others in building a culture of marriage.” Since 2006 ĐHCLC has been ministering a program called Marriage Renewal Workshop.  This program has been making a great impact on the participants, and yet we are not content – we want “MRW” to be even far more reaching, training “workers” to bring this effective program to everywhere that we CLC-USA can be present. The program will be offered in English this September, from 23rd to 25th in Southern California, and we want to send at least 6 couples to the  MRW workshop, to learn how to bring the program to a wider group of people, in English and Spanish and Korean as well.  Please consider attending!

S.E.E.D. – Spirituality for Children

S.E.E.D. is the acronym for Search, Embark, Experience and Develop – an Ignatian weekend retreat program for children ages from 8 to15, accompanied by their parents, to find God in all things. It is actually a program for parents and children to find God together in all things, a way to unite parents and children into one family for Christ that will leave great impact on society. We need funds to cover the costs of training “workers” to organize S.E.E.D. programs across the USA. Our goal this year is to train 10 facilitators to bring the S.E.E.D. program to the regions and KCLC communities, to support the quality of family life in your community or your parish.... read more

Formation for Mission: Strategizing communal apostolic actions

We want to bring the Apostolic Action Team together with other CLC leaders to assist the CLC-USA national community in discerning and planning priorities for communal apostolic actions. Budget constraints have kept our apostolic action planning mainly to teleconferences and emails. We want to fund the planning meetings and a major gathering in which Our Way of Proceeding – DSSE – can guide a process of discerning, planning and implementing strategies for apostolic actions engaged in, not just by a few of us, but together as a national community.

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