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| The following are full reports from events attended by CLC members. To submit a report of an event, please email it to the webmaster.
CLC National AssemblyA full report from this years National Assembly will be included here when it is made available. However a copy of the presentation from Veronica is now available for download.
CLC North West Region NewsletterAttached is a copy of the CLC North West Region newsletter available for download.
Live Simply, sustainably and in solidarityAttached is a full version of the report from the North West region's World CLC Day held at Loyola Hall in March 2007.
The Role of Mary in CLCAttached is a full version of the report from the Midland region's World CLC Day held at on 24th March 2007.
Report from the Southern Regional Day (21st October 2006)In the end much to our (pleasant) surprise we realised how inspiring and providential it was that full 6 weeks before Advent we had this wonderful opportunity to listen to Anand Chitnis’ enthusiastic presentations on the rich themes in the lectionary readings for Advent. The wonder was even more enhanced when he rooted the same themes in the meditation on the incarnation that St Ignatius suggests at the start of the Second week of the Spiritual Exercises – the invitation to contemplate the Trinity looking down lovingly at the state of the world and its people and decreeing that the Second Person should become human and save the human race. The day was held at the Centre for Spirituality at the Jesuits’ residence in Mount Street, London. It was organised around two presentations by Anand, who is also one of the cluster chaplains. After each presentation there was time for personal reflection and then small group sharing. Anand’s presentations were based closely on the readings for Advent (from the three cycle years). We reflected on “how God looks at us” and then on “how we see and respond to God”. We dwelt on the invitation that the readings gave us to consider “how it became necessary for the Second Person of the Trinity to be sent”. “They’ll respect my Son” says the owner of the vineyard about the tenant-farmers (Matthew 21: 33-42). They had not listened to the Prophets trying to convince them of God’s immeasurable love, compassion, and forgiveness that he offers to Israel (=us) and that the Israelites (=we) often ignore. Anand mined a rich seam of quotations from the prophetic readings used during Advent all in the same vein: how God loves, how we can respond, how the impossible becomes possible, the lamb sleeps with the lion, the weapons are changed into ploughshares, death transformed into life. We were reminded how we are invited to see, to touch and to “come and see” all this and how we shall discover it in our neighbour. In the final whole group sharing we all reflected that the day had provided us with a new understanding and perspective for Advent, we all appreciated that we now had ample time to prepare for it, and that the messages of the readings provide a beautiful counterbalance to the discomfort we feel in the presence of the glitzy and manic commercial Christmas around us. A preparation that is however no less exciting or joy-inspiring! _______ Before the Eucharist celebrated by Fr Tony Nye, there was a short informal AGM. Anne Shelley went through the activities over the last year, introduced Maria as the new Regional Representative and Shola who is replacing Siobhan as the representative of the Young Adults groups and finally remarked on the ‘graces’ of the day not least that we were joined by three of the French speaking CLC group that meets in South West London. The Eucharist was offered in thanksgiving for Anne’s work, for a blessing for Maria and for Fr Tony Horan’s continued convalescence.
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