OFFICIAL NAME
Christian Life Movement
ACRONYM
CLM
ESTABLISHED
1985
HISTORY
CLM was founded in Lima, Peru, by Luis Fernando Figari, drawing on the initiatives and experiences during the 1970s of the members of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, which Figari founded, and which today are societies of apostolic life. Recognised by the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference as a national association in 1990, the Movement gradually spread to other countries of Latin America. On 23 March 1994 the Pontifical Council for the Laity decreed recognition of the Movimiento de Vida Cristiana as an international association of the faithful of Pontifical Right.
IDENTITY
CLM aims to be a community forum for encountering the Lord Jesus Christ, which fosters an authentic Christian life by announcing and bearing witness to the faith and the comprehensive advancement of the human person in the light of the Gospel and the Magisterium of the Church. Its members, men and women of different states of life, place the pursuit of holiness, apostolic commitment and service to God and our fellow men and women, at the heart of their life experience. The priority areas for its work are evangelisation of young people; commitment to solidarity with the poor, the sick and the elderly and abandoned children; the evangelisation of culture; the protection of the family and the defence of life from conception to natural death; the mass media and the new communications technologies. The spirituality of CLM, which offers its members a personal and community-based process of ongoing formation, is characterised by devotion to the Immaculate Conception, an intense participation in liturgical life, meditation on the Word of God as the light to direct their lives and as the key to a critical reading of human projects.
ORGANISATION
The members of CLM commit themselves to its apostolic mission on a personal or community basis, creating communities, groups, institutions, associations and services of various kinds and with different purposes (including: University Coordination, Solidarity on the Way, The Family of Nazareth, Missionary Action, Cyberapostolate, Siloé, Pro Vita). This work is headed by a General Coordination Council made up of the General Coordinator, the Spiritual Assistant and the Executive Secretary.
MEMBERSHIP
CLM has a membership of about 25,000 in 21 countries as follows: Asia (1), Europe (5), North America (6), and South America (9).
WORKS
CLM belongs to the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae family, which founded a publishing company, the Life and Spirituality Institute, the San Pablo de Arequipa University, a number of schools, a health care facility and a "life help" centre.
PUBLICATIONS
Nueva Alborada, an annual magazine; Vida Cristiana, a fortnightly newsletter; Noticias eclesiales, an online newsletter.
WEB SITE
HEADQUARTERS
Movimiento de Vida Cristiana
Calle Dos, 553 - Lima 41 - Peru
Tel. [+51]1.4373496 - Fax 1.4363005
Email: sintmvc@computextos.com.pe
