Letters - 2016 - Page 3

CL on the Air in Portland

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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.

What I Really Need

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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...

A Simple Presence

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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...

Annual Pig Roast

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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...

Let the Year Begin!

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A "concentrated" vacation in one day with the Texas and Louisiana CL Community to start off the year...

Music, Giotto, Mercy and Paella?

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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...

A Child Will Take the Lead

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As the Leader of our GS group, I continually battle with the idea of “building three tents” (Matthew 17:4)...

A Protagonist in History

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The seagull with human breasts has soulless green eyes which continue to follow me whenever I pass during my commute...

Regarding Parenthood

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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...

Those Faces

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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...

In Rome and In Need

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This morning I woke up and I really desired an encounter. And I received it in the most unlikeliest of ways...

Rimini Meeting: The Dream Continues

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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...

Understanding My Need For More

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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...

Reality Does Not Betray

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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...

Along for The Ride

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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...

Fr. Carrón's Message to WYD Pilgrims

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“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?

Summer of Mercy

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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...