Newsletter Archives - CLC South Africa https://www.clc-sa.org.za/tag/newsletter/ Christian Life Community South Africa Sun, 30 Apr 2023 21:10:24 +0000 en-ZA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.7 Reflection 1: “Be Amazed” https://www.clc-sa.org.za/reflection-1-be-amazed/ https://www.clc-sa.org.za/reflection-1-be-amazed/#respond Sun, 30 Apr 2023 21:10:24 +0000 https://www.clc-sa.org.za/?p=1804 This reflection is based on Projects 178, as preparation for our CLC General Assembly. Download the newsletter to continue reading Would you like to receiveMasithethe via Whatsapp? Follow the link or QR code to join a WhatsApp Group that will send it (and only it) directly to you each month. https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ef4snisaLUTJmQci4QluyR Get the full [...]

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This reflection is based on Projects 178, as preparation for our CLC General
Assembly.

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Dear all beloved CLC members

On behalf of our national formation team, I send you our prayers and best wishes for a year that brings you the blessings of good health and peace.  The past 3 years brought enormous challenges, changes and adaptations to the way of life that we knew.  Some experienced the loss of loved ones, health issues for ourselves, financial losses, employment losses and challenges, and all of us experienced huge changes in our way of life. Our beloved CLC could not escape those changes and impact.   For most of 2020 no groups could physically meet, some could manage some online gatherings, some via WhatsApp, some lost members, and all struggled.   We thank God that so many of our members continued to experience the loving presence of God with us, near us in the difficult times.  For many the gift of CLC, the growing awareness of God’s loving presence with us in good and bad times carried us through.

The desire of the formation team is to give you, our members, an opportunity to continue the discovery, or rediscover the grace and joy of encountering the presence of God in our daily lives.  To help us come up with a relevant growth, or formation programme we are asking you to complete the attached short questionnaire to help us get a picture of where our members are in this new year. For those members who would prefer to respond to the questionnaire on GOOGLE FORMS, please use the following link:

https://forms.gle/r9NhKSJFJA8MANeu6

 As we begin this journey let me introduce the formation team.  The work on formation was severely disrupted by covid, and then in 2022 World CLC hosted a Global Formation Encounter in Manresa and I was given the opportunity to attend.  I am so excited to really re-energise our formation programme and there is a great team ready and willing to work on this crucial aspect of CLC.

The team is me, as co-ordinator, Kaye Henrick, and the experienced and enthusiastic members Sabie Makgothi, Jill Mckay, Colleen Callahan, Mandy Jones, and Clara Klitsie.Our desire is to serve you and facilitate you in discovering the beauty, joy and value of our CLC way of life.

By the way, there are no right or wrong answers to the questionnaire.  Every answer, from every person, however short or long time in CLC is important. We would also like members with whom you are in contact but are not currently attending meetings to complete the questionnaire and return it to us.

We value your responses and would appreciate your response by 15 February 2023.

Kaye and team

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]]> https://www.clc-sa.org.za/formation-questionnaire/feed/ 0 Masithethe December 2022 https://www.clc-sa.org.za/masithethe-december-2022/ https://www.clc-sa.org.za/masithethe-december-2022/#respond Sun, 25 Dec 2022 09:28:05 +0000 https://www.clc-sa.org.za/?p=1783 Christmas Message from our National Coordinator Christmas 2022 On the very Eve of this wonderous celebration, the birth of our savior, one has to wonder about the secular celebration. It has made me wonder why we so easily lose focus on the reason for the season, a season that often gets caught up in [...]

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Christmas Message from our National Coordinator

Christmas 2022
On the very Eve of this wonderous celebration, the birth of our savior, one has to wonder about the
secular celebration. It has made me wonder why we so easily lose focus on the reason for the
season, a season that often gets caught up in expensive gifts and stress. I pray that we as CLC SA
are still on the path of remembering that Jesus Christ is the reason why we have this feast.

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Feast of St. Ignatius: 31st July

The feast of St Ignatius will soon be upon us, and we invite you to consider how you would like to
mark this occasion with your local or regional groups. It is a wonderful occasion to prompt a get
together – whether that be having a group meeting after a long break, or meeting together for a
meal. A few years ago, I heard a homily by Fr Matthew Power SJ where, as I recall, he spoke of the
wonder of the fact that when Ignatius experienced God in such a personal and grace-filled way
Ignatius’ response was to understand that encounter as being about who God is, not about who he
was. It was this insight that led to his life-long desire to help others to know this God. As we prepare
for this feast, I invite you to consider who God reveals Godself to be to you in this moment of your
life – and in what small ways you can share that God with those around you.

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MASITHETHE April 2020

A Holy Week message from the National Exco

As we journey through Holy Week we are invited to celebrate the Passion in a new way. On the surface, this invitation feels more like a command: we are legally mandated to stay at home and pray the liturgy before our screens. But what is the invitation for us within these constraints? Colleen and Sabie have shared with us their own reflections, and we, as the National Exco invite you to reflect upon you own
invitation and the invitation to us as CLC in this time.

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MASITHETHE March 2020

A message from the National Exco: Living CLC in the time of COVID-19

We are sure, for many of you, this week has been one of big adjustments as our country has readied to face our portion of the global pandemic of COVID-19. We would like to encourage you to take our President’s call to action seriously: to practice social distancing and to self-isolate if you have any symptoms or reason to believe you have been in contact with someone who has. On this note, we encourage you to cancel all regional events planned for the coming weeks, and to seriously consider taking your small group meetings online. We also encourage you to make use of online mass options (consider, for example, the Sunday 9am Jesuit Institute Mass available on their website), and to work together in your groups to consider ways you can support more vulnerable members of your group and surrounding community. Above all, we ask you to join us in prayer for our world, and for the courage and love required for people throughout the world to act now for the common good.

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MASITHETHE February2020

You have to go to the desert to see the stars

Last weekend, the last before we entered into Lent, I found myself on a journey into the desert. I was joining a trip to Sutherland, a
“Star Quest” as we called it. Despite some initial disappointing clouds, we were surprised by sudden moments of clear skies and
stars upon stars upon stars. The next morning, I spent a few quiet moments outside, absorbing the landscape and the silence, and the
eery slow creaking of the windmills. I found myself reflecting on the relationship between the desert and the stars. It was dry and
isolated; we had seen very little of the usual bustle of life around us. But it was here, when looking in the right direction, that we had
seen the true layered depths of stars, pulling us up out of ourselves in wonder and delight.

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MASITHETHE January 2020

Reflections on Spiritual Growth in CLC – by Kaye Henrick

some years I have been concerned how we, as CLC, give practical expression to making the experience of the full Spiritual Exercises accessible to the members. In our General principles it is stated that “we hold the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius as the specific source and the characteristic instrument of our spirituality”. (GP 5). We also require that members desiring to make permanent commitment to have completed the full Exercises in some form. In GP 12, “regular spiritual direction, and annual interior renewal, (retreat), in accordance with the sources of our spirituality” are recommended as our way of life.

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MASITHETHE December 2019

Greetings! 2019 is about to end, and I am almost convinced that the lessons in it are going to stay very long into the new year. I am well known for my procrastinating, and writing this message was no different. The year that’s ending was eventful.

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MASITHETHE November 2019

WAITING ON GOD, LIVING WITH HOPE – AN ADVENT REFLECTION by Colleen Callahan

Life is hard and requires much patience. Each day, reports of suffering flood our lives through our media and social-media platforms. “What is the world coming to?” we lament. “Surely, life in earlier days was better than this?!” we ponder, as the negativity threatens to drown our hope in the goodness of life. Life, though, has always had its challenges. The writer of James (in James 5:7-10) encourages his audience to wait on the Lord with patience, just as the prophets once did.

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