GUADALAHARA '90

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GUADALAHARA '90
147 delegates and observers
from 51 countries
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GUADALAJARA '90
August 30 September 7, 1990 Guadalajara, Mexico
CLC AT THE SERVICE OF THE KINGDOM I choose
you,
and I commission you to go out
and bear fruit, fruit that
will last. (Jn 1516)

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Grace of Guadalajara 90 We have experienced a
grace of knowing ourselves as moved by the desire
to serve with Christ in the work of the Kingdom,
and we have been confirmed in this call at the
same time, we have come to know ourselves as
still in need of greater unity and spiritual
freedom as a community of disciples.
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Approval of the revised the General Principles
and the General Norms by the World Assembly
Canonical Approval by the Pontifical Council for
the Laity on Dec. 3, 1990, feast of St. Francis
Xavier.
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HONG KONG '94
160 delegates and observers from 59 countries
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HONG KONG '94
July 20 30, 1994
Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
CLC COMMUNITY IN MISSION I have come to
bring fire to the earth and how I wish it were
blazing already.
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Grace of Hong Kong 94
The call to a deep ongoing conversion with regard
our MISSION This conversion asked for magis in
-- the integration of social realities into our
life and action -- the awareness of our being a
community called to be with Christ and sent by
HIM -- the reading of the signs of the times and
translating our spiritual experience as a service
for building justice and peace
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ITAICI '98
Delegates and Observers from 54 Countries
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ITAICI '98
July 22 31, 1998 Villa Kostka, Itaici, Brazil
Deepening Our Identity as an Apostolic Body
Clarifying our Common Mission CLC, a letter from
Christ, written by the
Spirit, sent to todays world. (Cf 2Cor. 33)
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Grace of Itaici 98
We discovered three areas of mission First, we
want to bring the freeing power of Christ to our
social reality. Secondly, we want to find Christ
in all our varied cultures and to let His grace
illuminate all that needs transformation. Thirdly,
we want to live Christ so as to bring him to
every aspect of our daily life in the world.
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Necessary means for this mission The Spiritual
Exercises as spiritual source which nourishes
and empowers us for mission
Formation for mission, so that our community may
ever become a more effective instrument of
service.
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NAIROBI '03
An Apostolic Community that shares responsibility
for mission Discerning Sending Supporting
Evaluating
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At the origins of the CLC is a grace God called
by the name IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA.
His secret is no longer a secret to us
it is the infinite love of God a fire, gently
burning, discreet and prudent, but irresistibly
conquering
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SENT BY CHRIST
MEMBERS OF ONE BODY
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The WORDS woven together in this
presentation were lifted from the following
sources
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Louis Paulussen, SJ, God Works Like That,
Progressio, June 1979 Emile Villaret, SJ,
Abridged History of the Sodalities of Our Lady,
Missouri, 1957 Progressio, Winter
1968 Progressio, Autumn 1969 Progressio, Summer
1970 Progressio, Autumn 1970 Progressio, May
1971 Progressio, September 1973 Progressio,
September-November 1976
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Progressio, September-November 1979 Roma 79
(Acts of the Assembly), December
1979 Progressio, January-March 1983 Progressio,
July 1986 Progressio, September-November
1986 Projects, no. 86, 27th September
1990 Progressio, Nos. 2 3 4 1994 Progressio,
Nos. 1 2 3 4 1998 Notes of Frau Ingeborg von
Grafenstein The Report of the Vice
Assistant to the Nairobi Assembly
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The PICTURES were extracted from the archives
of CLC Germany and CLC Philippines and from the
World Wide Web.
AMDG