“We came to know love”

The booklet of the Spiritual Exercises of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation
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The Gift of Friendship

The CLU Jubilee Pilgrimage 2025: “This is real, and we all just received a tremendous gift!”

A pilgrimage is of course a fundamental element of every Jubilee event. Setting out on a journey is traditionally associated with our human quest for meaning in life. [...] In the coming year, pilgrims of hope will surely travel the ancient and more moder...

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American University Students: Pilgrims of Hope

CLU Pilgrims to Rome share their reflections on attending the Jubilee of Movements

Dozens of CLU (Communion and Liberation University) students travelled to Italy as pilgrims of hope to participate in the Holy Year Jubilee. In addition to Rome, the pilgrimage included stops in Milan, Modena, Assisi, and Turin. Meeting CLU friends f...

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Our Home Is In Christ

From Athens to Cincinnati: an unexpected friendship that is a sign of the Resurrection

This past fall while on a pilgrimage through Greece and Turkey with Bishop John Iffert of the Diocese of Covington, following the footsteps of St. Paul, I was blessed to be able to have a beautiful dinner with the small CL community in Athens. Months prio...

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A Single Mission

“At Pentecost, Mary, the Apostles, and the disciples with them received a Spirit of unity, which forever grounded in the one Lord Jesus Christ, all their diversity.”

I entered the Church twelve years ago, met the movement Communion and Liberation soon after, and by some extraordinary grace found myself two weekends ago in Rome for the first time to celebrate the Jubilee of Movements with our new Pope. Being in Rome is...

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Jubilee of Movements. Prosperi's message

The words of the President of the Fraternity of CL on the eve of the pilgrimage to Rome for the Jubilee of Movements, Associations and New Communities (June 7-8, 2025)

Dear friends, On the day of his election, Pope Leo XIV encouraged us to see ourselves as “together with God and with one another” (May 8, 2025). With his unconditional love, Christ gives to us what is impossible to the world, marked by increasingly dee...