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March 2014

Please pray for all those preparing for the National Assembly, May 29 -June 1

'Rooted in Blessed History - Sent to the Frontiers'

Given that the cost of flights booked close to an event are much more costly, communities making arrangements for their delegate beyond April 1st must take responsibility for the entire cost of their flight.
(no national reimbursement for costs over the $420.00 travel solidarity.)

In consideration of the Registration Committee and the Retreat House staff, ALL other registrations are to filed by
April 15th.
National Assembly Organizing Committee

In This Issue

POPE FRANCIS' FIRST YEAR IN 90 SECONDS

PRAYER REQUEST

PRAIRE REGION HIGHLIGHTED

SAINT JOHN ASSEMBLY PRAYER

GROUP PHOTOS NEEDED!!!

LENT RESOURCES

GLOBAL YOUTH ACCOMPANYING COMMUNITIES

Quick Links

Canadian Jesuits International

Ignatian Spirituality

Loyola Press

The Tablet

World CVX-CLC

NATIONAL seeks a SECRETARY for April 2014!! and TREASURER to serve as of December 2014.

POPE FRANCIS

Pope Francis' first year in 90 seconds

'PRAYERS'

PLEASE pray for Central Region's insertion trip March 17 - March 24th. Insertion participants will celebrate World CLC Day in Port au Prince on March 23rd with CVX YA members, their guides and E.A. And for D.R. CVX members and CVX Port au Prince YA's.

Jesuits respond to statelessness problem in the Dominican Republ

'MEMORIUM'

Alistair Crawford

Prayers to Kathleen Crawford, Rooted in Christ-Mississauga, Central Region as she mourns the death of her husband, Alistair. May he rest in peace

WORLD
CLC

DAY 2014

ATLANTIC REGION

4:00 AM - 9:00 AM

CENTRAL REGION

8:00 AM- 1:00 PM

PRAIRIE REGION

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

ROCKIE REGION

4:00 PM - 12:00 AM

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CANADA'S GROWTH IMAGE

The Kaleidoscope was the image chosen by the World Assembly Team to represent CLC Canada's past five year journey. Can you see the Spiritual transformation?

CLC CANADA MEMBERS on MISSION

PRAIRIE REGION

BUILDING THE KINGDOM
A Personal Reflection on Community
by P. MacRae, Kairos Community, Prairie Region

In CLC Canada, we are currently reviewing our National Mission Statement, which begins with this strong assertion. This has been a big feature in my prayer life recently, as my local community prepares for the National Assembly, and as our region recently held a retreat focused on this review.

Another strong feature of my prayer life is, as always, the Daily Examen. I am sure that, like me, all CLC members are involved in many, many things in their daily lives, and that, like me, they review them in this daily prayer. In parish meetings, I talk and labour with others over 'community building.' In my work and study as an E+SL/EAL teacher, I reflect on integrating newcomers into the Canadian community. In Prairie Region, where our Common Mission asks us to work to come into community with First Nations---to end the Two Solitudes, as it were, of First Nations and 'Canadian' community---I attend a workshop on the treaties. I begin charitable work in service to the marginalized, and realize that while they may be helped in some small way by what I provide, I am purely transformed by what I receive. And in my daily Examen, I constantly process and re-process it all.

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SAINT JOHN ASSEMBLY PRAYER

"As for the seed that fell on good soil it is the one who hears the word and understands it: it bears fruit and produces a hundred, or sixty or thirty times more."

Loving creator God, we give You all thanks and praise for Your unending love. Help us O Lord, in our Assembly preparations to welcome the Magis and deepen our vocational call to be committed members of our CLC lay apostolic community.

We recall our CLC roots and those who came before us; those who planted seeds in the good soil; those who listened well to Your voice; those who labored freely on the fertile ground of our formation for mission.

Jesus, we too want to be free to hear Your voice and so we pray with grateful hearts to the One who eternally listens with compassion to our petitions.

Grant us the grace we beg O Lord, to hear well with You as we prepare for our National Assembly. We pray as well that the Blessed Trinity be with us in each of our frontiers and guide us to become one with You as we discern well our missions.

We ask this in Christ Our Lord.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, patron of the Americas-Pray for us.

St. Ignatius - Pray for us.

Fr. John English, sj - Pray for us.

Fr. Jim Profit, sj - Pray for us,

Amen May 29-June 1,2014 (download or print here)

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE NEEDS A PHOTO OF YOUR COMMUNITY!!!

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GERRI TINGLEY

Share Lent

Share Lent is Development and Peace's annual fundraising campaign.

As the Canadian member of Caritas Internationalis, Development and Peace is participating in its global anti-hunger campaign, One Human Family, Food for All, which seeks to bring an end to world hunger. We have made it the central theme of our 2014 Share Lent campaign.

Through your generous donations to Development and Peace, you are helping to build a more just world. read more

GLOBAL YOUTH ACCOMPANYING COMMUNITIES

A culture of management: Securing access to safe drinking water in Timor Leste

In different parts of the world, young people are asking questions and reflecting about themselves, the future they want, the quality of human development, at the same time learning about development and environmental and social concerns from communities.

LENT RESOURCES

A Lenten Bookshelf: A Six-Fold Path

'By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert.'

In this six-part series, Kevin Burns selects a book for each week of Lent. Each book speaks to one of the great traditions within Catholic culture.

NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS HERE

Update Editor Gerri Tingley