YCT Advent Formation Meeting

Dearest friends,
As Christmas draws ever nearer, we ask ourselves how best to prepare our hearts and minds - what does it mean to wait for Christ's arrival in today's world? Come to the YCT Advent Formation Meeting to share your thoughts, questions and reflections on Thursday 12th December at 7:30pm @ Uni Chaplaincy!

December Community Mass for CLCers and Friends

Dearest friends,

Once again we'd like to invite you to join us in our celebration of the Eucharist with CLCers and friends of CLC, on Sunday 15th December at 6:30pm @Uni Chaplaincy - animation by Supernova.

Retreat in Ireland

This year the annual retreat of RODS was rather special. For the first time, we went beyond these shores, as a community, to the Cistercian Monastery at Mount Melleray on the slopes of the Knockmealdown mountains in Ireland. We were at the Abbey from September 8th to September 13th and during this time we were invited to share in the liturgy and the times of prayer of the monks, while enjoying the serene beauty and profound silence of the monastery and the surrounding countryside. This formed the perfect setting for our retreat, guided by Fr. Paul Zammit S.J. who travelled with us. The following are some impressions from different members of RODS.

Are you ready to commit to God through CLC?

“The Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.”
- Pope Francis

Initial Commitment 2014
As we thank God for yet another meaningful year in which our faith was celebrated, we take this opportunity to renew the annual call for CLC members to undertake a deeper commitment to God

Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation ‘The Joy of the Gospel’

The official Vatican summary of Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation ‘Evangelii Gaudium’, provides a synthesis of the document, which is over 52,000 words long.

World CLC ExCo Projects 158

CLC ExCo: The newly-elected World CLC Executive Council (ExCo) has sent to all CLC national communities the latest edition of its regular communication ‘Projects’ (no 158). In it, the ExCo offers a few suggestions for reflection and sharing regarding the theme of the next World CLC Day on 25 March 2014 - ‘From our Roots to Mission at the Frontiers’, based on the rich buffet of offerings at the World Assembly in Lebanon.

The Annual National Assembly – Some Reflections

Our Annual National Assembly (18-20 October 2013) has come and gone. As with every assembly, I always feel blessed and privileged to be part of the CLC national community. This year was no exception and all the more so since we had our Slovakian friends present, thus extending the assembly into an international community as well.

Globalisation and Poverty Focus Group

Apart from myself, six CLCers signed up to form part of the group on globalisation and poverty. So far we have circulated some resources through email. These included the presentation by Mr Joseph FX Zahra and a background paper by Leonel Matar, as well as Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Caritas in Veritate.

Monthly Mass for All CLCers

For the last couple of years, the Young Communities Team (YCT) has been looking for opportunities that could help the Young Communities widen their experience of the national community, extending beyond their individual communities’ weekly meetings. The YCT has been trying to provide young communities a sense of the younger CLC and – more importantly – a belonging to the national CLC. But how to do this without adding more meetings to our already-packed schedules?

CLC Children Seminar - October 2013

Between the 18th and 20th October, 2013 the annual CLC children’s seminar was held at Mt. St. Joseph, concurrent with the adult’s seminar. In keeping with the theme of the adult’s seminar, From Roots to Frontiers, the main focus of this year’s children’s seminar was living out our faith on a day-to-day basis. To develop this theme, ways in which the children could be active participants in issues involving poverty and the environment were explored.