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Growth Beyond the First Year

Growth Beyond the First Year. Jen Horan, CLC-USA National Formation Team. Journey of Faith (Growing…). Deeper Check-in’s. Support Group. Community Discerning for Mission. Faith-Sharing Group. Exterior events. Interior movements. External Experience. Top River. Inner Activity: Affect.

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Growth Beyond the First Year

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  1. Growth Beyond the First Year Jen Horan, CLC-USA National Formation Team

  2. Journey of Faith (Growing…) Deeper Check-in’s Support Group Community Discerning for Mission Faith-Sharing Group Exterior events Interior movements

  3. External Experience Top River Inner Activity: Affect “Inner Movements”: consolation & desolation Under-current Grace: God’s Dream … Deepest Desire … Personal Vocation

  4. Community Spirituality Mission Journey of Faith (Growing…) What did I see, feel react? Travel-log; Activity-log What am I feeling? What do I need to do? Personal prayer life as a priority Desire to understand inner movements How are you inviting me to grow? What do you ask of me? Exterior events Interior movements Check-in’s Support Group Faith-Sharing Group Community Discerning for Mission

  5. Integration (wholeness)

  6. Community (To foster trusting relationships) • Trust • Acceptance • Care and Empowerment

  7. Welcoming Stage Community 1. To share openly.(Ref 54 and 51) 2. To feel welcome and accepted. (Ref 54) 3. Assume certain responsibilities for the group.  (Ref 54)  4. To become friends in the Lord. (Ref 51)

  8. Community Preparation for Discernment of Vocation Stage 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.

  9. Welcoming Stage Human/ Personal • 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)

  10. 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.

  11. Spirituality (To find trusting relationships) • Prayer (Personal & Communal) • Discernment • Ignatius Spirituality

  12. Spirituality Welcoming Stage View pi c's' map as "religion" in those terms is always a bit out of focus to me.  Taken in a place with no name (See more photos or videos here) 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)

  13. Preparation for Discernment of Vocation Stage Spirituality • To develop a prayerful way of life that includes personal prayer, spiritual direction, Scripture, & deeper participation in the Sacraments. (Rev 70 & 80) • To develop a felt knowledge of God (to purify images of God. Understand sin & forgiveness, accept God’s unconditional love). (Ref 71) • To be aware of the movements of the spirit (consolations & desolations). • To develop a discerning heart that explores one’s personal vocation. • To develop creative fidelity by living the Gospel in a way that speaks to our society today, passionately and freely.

  14. Mission (To discover one’s greatest gifts and the world’s genuine needs) • Service (Spiritual & Material Poverty) • Social Justice • Focus Passion

  15. Welcoming Stage Mission 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)

  16. 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.

  17. Wider Connection • Church (Local & Global) • CLC (Regional, National, & World)

  18. Welcoming Stage Wider Connection • To be aware of our graced history in the Church. • 2. To learn basic CLC history and mission.

  19. Wider Connection Preparation for Discernment of Vocation Stage • 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.

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