CLC (Christian Life community) is a worldwide community with 25000 members worldwide and 16 000 in Europe. During the first lockdown the Euroteam, the team which promotes and coordinates international activities for CLC members from all over Europe, initiated “Online sharing groups”. The first round started in March 2020, the second one in November 2020 and a third round is planned after Easter 2021

Members in all the National communities from Malta to Sweden and from the Netherlands to Latvia are invited to join “online sharing groups”. The groups are matched according to the languages the members choose at the registration process.

Each group is free to choose the day and the frequency of their meetings. They receive inspirations for the first six meetings – and after this period they are invited to discern if the group wants to continue the regular meetings or if they decide to stop.

So far about 120 members of nearly all the National communities in Europe have joined one of the groups in several languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian). Some of the groups just met several times during the first lockdown, others have been meeting regularly for a year now.  The sharing and the community are very fruitful experiences for many CLC companions.

Participants of a group with a Pole, a Lithuanian and a Flemish write:
-The experience is like Fratelli Tutti: connected from different countries, being a part of the community in the world. We feel we are the same people with the same longings.

-On macro level this meetings are widening my prospective of CLC in my own country, but also  of the (catholic) Church I am knowing till now. I am entering now in a European level.
On micro level we experience a small intimacy of the little group: we share our individual lifes with each other.
We are very grateful!

If you are interested to join one of the sharing groups starting after Easter, you can register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejS_Ka87_9sL-psfa89yf8GTJ0HnfY5Ezkr1dwU1moEmVjGQ/viewform?usp=sf_link until March 28^th 2021.

Everybody interested in this international Ignatian experience is invited  –you don’t have to be a CLC member.

Angelika Scholz, CLC in Germany, Euroteam coordinator