CL on the Air in Portland
LettersAn Interview with Patrick from the Portland, OR Community: What started off as an informational session turned into a friendship and a chat about the charism.
An Interview with Patrick from the Portland, OR Community: What started off as an informational session turned into a friendship and a chat about the charism.
Returning back to CUA, exhausted from moving in and getting back into the rhythm of classes, my spirits were low...
My name is Pietro, I am seventeen, and I am writing to talk about a pretty big thing for me. I am Italian, but some years ago I moved here to the States. I've always been quite an athletic guy. I like almost every sport, but especially soccer...
Gary and I found ourselves in the saddle, on the road...
On Sunday, a group of us got together in the afternoon to pray a rosary in memory of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that occurred 15 years ago to the day...
Every year we organize an Annual Pig Roast Event in Washington, DC, during the Labor Day weekend. Everyone pays a little, eats good food, we chat and dance. I learned something simple, from many small miracles, about the mercy and creativity of God...
A "concentrated" vacation in one day with the Texas and Louisiana CL Community to start off the year...
A witness from an attendee of the Midwest CLU Spiritual Exercises.
How does all this that come together, you might ask? Through the joy of people wanting to celebrate Marcelo and Fr. José, back in Los Angeles to share our human path...
As the Leader of our GS group, I continually battle with the idea of “building three tents” (Matthew 17:4)...
The seagull with human breasts has soulless green eyes which continue to follow me whenever I pass during my commute...
Mark's beautiful piece on Fr. Hamel's death got me to thinking of what the nature of fatherhood is all about, and how I can live it as He does for me to my kids...
I had a very interesting experience recently at the Goodwill, where I work. I put a lot of effort out to live the richness of the CL proposal there, to be open, knowing Christ is with me in every detail of my moving about through the day...
This morning I woke up and I really desired an encounter. And I received it in the most unlikeliest of ways...
On Sunday I returned from a week with a group of American, Canadian, and Swiss students and teachers who were at the Meeting in Rimini, where we presented on the lives of certain American saints...
My fraternity got together this weekend, and I am continually struck by the way we stay together, even though we are spread out geographically throughout the US. Our “yes” has proven to be a powerful witness...
I've been trying to look at my residents in the nursing home with the promise the that, "reality has never betrayed me." Sometimes it is really hard to say that with my whole heart...
When I first read Father Jim Zimmer’s letter to his trainer and to all of us, his friends, I was convinced of a connection greater than I could ever understand...
“The world has been won over to Christianity in the end by this word that sums up everything: ‘mercy’” (Fr. Giussani). Who would have wagered on mercy to “win over” the world?
It’s a question for the despairing AND the hopeful alike: “What am I looking for?”
My days were filled with the expectation of Jesus day and night and with the hope that Jesus would show himself in all the events of the day in His great love and in His infinite intelligence and imagination...