Growth Beyond the First Year

Jen Horan, CLC-USA National Formation Team

Faith-Sharing Group

Journey of Faith (Growing…)

Community Discerning for Mission

Support Group

Deeper Check-in’sExterior events Interior movements

Grace: God’s Dream … Deepest Desire … Personal Vocation

External Experience

“Inner Movements”: consolation & desolation

Inner Activity: Affect

Top River

Under-current

Check-in’sExterior events Interior movements

Faith-Sharing Group

Journey of Faith (Growing…)

Community Discerning for Mission

Support Group

What did I see, feel react?Travel-log; Activity-logWhat am I feeling?What do I need to do?

Personal prayer life as a priorityDesire to understand inner movementsHow are you inviting me to grow?What do you ask of me?

Community Spirituality Mission

Community

Spirituality

Mission / Service

Integration (wholeness)

Community(To foster trusting relationships)

1.Trust

2.Acceptance

3.Care and Empowerment

Welcoming Stage

1. To share openly. (Ref 54 and 51)

3. Assume certain responsibilities for the group. (Ref 54) 

4. To become friends in the Lord. (Ref 51)

2. To feel welcome and accepted. (Ref 54)

Community

Preparation for Discernment of Vocation

Stage Community

1. To get to the heart of the matter. 2. To accept one another’s lights and shadows. 3. To affirm and bring out one another’s gifts. 4. To share with depth and clarity.5. To appreciate the sacredness of our uniqueness and communion.

Welcoming Stage

Human/ Personal1.To be willing to be vulnerable.

2. To get to know oneself.  (Ref 51)

3. To begin to see CLC as a response to one's individual desires and aspirations. (Ref 54)

4. To seek something more in oneself and in society.  (Ref 49)

Preparation for Discernment of Vocation Stage

Human/ Personal

1. To know that we are capable of loving and being loved.  (Ref 71)

2. Recognition limits and flaws.

Spirituality(To find trusting relationships)

1.Prayer (Personal & Communal)

2.Discernment

3.Ignatius Spirituality

Welcoming Stage

Spirituality

1. To practice Ignatian Prayer and to be exposed to the Exercises.  (Ref 54)

2. To be attentive to how God invites us to grow closer to Him in our spiritual restlessness. (Ref

50) 

3. To seek an intimate relationship with Christ and begin to look at one's faith history.  (Ref 54)

Spirituality

Preparation for Discernment of Vocation Stage

1. To develop a prayerful way of life that includes personal prayer, spiritual direction, Scripture, & deeper participation in the Sacraments. (Rev 70 & 80)

2. To develop a felt knowledge of God (to purify images of God. Understand sin & forgiveness, accept God’s unconditional love). (Ref 71)

3. To be aware of the movements of the spirit (consolations & desolations).

4. To develop a discerning heart that explores one’s personal vocation.

5. To develop creative fidelity by living the Gospel in a way that speaks to our society today, passionately and freely.

Mission(To discover one’s greatest gifts and the world’s genuine needs)

1.Service (Spiritual & Material Poverty)

2.Social Justice

3.Focus Passion

Mission Welcoming Stage

1. To experience various forms of service. (Ref 49 & 50)

2. To reflect on one’s experiences of service. (Ref 54)

3. To identify what one is passionate about. (Ref 49)

Preparation for Discernment of Vocation Stage

Mission

1. To immerse oneself in the world’s spiritual and material poverty.

2. To engage in social analysis in light of Church social teachings.

3. To integrate studies, relationships, and service into a way of life.

Wider Connection

1.Church (Local & Global)

2.CLC (Regional, National, & World)

Wider Connection

Welcoming Stage

1.To be aware of our graced history in the Church.

2. To learn basic CLC history and mission.

Preparation for Discernment of Vocation

Stage Wider Connection

1.To develop a love of the Church and grow in solidarity with the Church as

community of faith.

2. To examine the General Principles and Charisms of CLC.