11 February 2025

Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

Dear Friends in the Lord,

Greetings of peace on this Jubilee Year of Hope!

With hope and joy, we present to you the Theme, Grace and Scripture Passage for our National Assembly 2025:

Theme: “A Hope-filled Community Sharing in Mission”

Grace: “Lord Jesus, help us to encounter you anew, reignite our hope, and deepen our mission.”
 

Scripture Passage: “They that hope in the Lord will renew their strength; They will soar on eagles’ wings; They will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint.”(Isaiah 40:31, NABRE)
     

In preparation for the NA, we now enjoin all communities to begin your discernment on the following:

1. Change of membership status, from an Emerging to an Observer community, or from Observer to a Full Member community. Details can be found in our membership guidelines.  

Please communicate with the CLCP Secretariat  <[email protected]>  to indicate your community’s desire to apply to become an Observer or Full Member community. The Community Development and Formation Teams can support you in your discernment process.
 

Deadline to submit expressions of interest: 15 March 2025
 

2. Amendment of Statutes:  The World Community is currently undergoing a revision of our General Principles and General Norms as approved by the 2023 General Assembly in Amiens. As such, the preference of our nLC is to amend the National Statutes only after the revision of the GP/GN. However, if your community has a proposal for the amendment of our National Statutes, you may send them to the CLCP Secretariat for consideration.  

Deadline for submission of proposed amendments: 1 March 2025

3. LC Election: We now wish to call for nominations for the nLC. We encourage all FULL MEMBER communities with MEMBERS with PERMANENT COMMITMENT to begin the DSSE (Discerning, Sending, Supporting, Evaluating) process to consider whom they will mission to be available to serve in the nLC for the next three (3) years.

2025 nLC Nominations Form: bit.ly/NLCnominations2025

Deadline to submit nominations: 15 March 2025. (Note:  Statutes require at least 4 months.) 

4. Nominations for the Core of Responsibles (CORE): The nLC would like to request nominees from our communities for the CORE. From section F of the Statutes, “The CORE shall serve as a consultative body whose principal functions shall be to provide historical perspective, counsel, and guidance to the Leadership Community and the general membership of the CLCP; help in the preservation of the life-giving traditions of the CLCP and the maintenance of fidelity to the vision, mission and charism of the CLC; and in general, serve as an invaluable resource for the CLCP in its formation, membership, funding, apostolate and other activities.”

The criteria to become a member of the Core is as follows:

• a permanent commitment in writing to the CLC Way of Life;

• at least ten (10) years of active membership in the CLCP;

• consistent service to the CLCP; and,

• experience in or exposure to international CLC activities (i.e. awareness membership in the global community)

Please submit nominees for the CORE to the nLC through the Secretariat before 15 March 2025;

5. Delegates/Representatives - You may start discussing and praying with your community as to who is to be selected as the delegate/s and/or the representative/s to the NA.  It is important to remember that delegate/s should go through the discernment process together with their respective communities and take part in all the preparatory modules and activities leading up to the assembly. 

Full member communities should discern whom to send as their delegate from among the members with a permanent commitment.

Who are expected to attend the NA?   

• FULL MEMBER communities, represented by two (2) delegates for the entire Assembly; 

• OBSERVER communities applying for FULL MEMBER status, represented by two (2) delegates for the entire Assembly;

• EMERGING communities applying for OBSERVER community status by at least one (1) delegate for the entire Assembly

• National LC Members and National EA (Ecclesiastical Assistant);

Strongly encouraged to attend the NA are: 

• Regional EAs

• Group Guides

• CORE Members

• Nominees for National Leadership Community;

Also encouraged to attend the NA are:

• OBSERVER and EMERGING communities, represented by at least one (1) delegate. (NOTE: delegates participate in deliberations but may not vote)

• Regional LC members.

Additional information about the National Assembly and preparatory work, including community reflection modules for disposition-setting, will be sent in subsequent communications.

Thank you very much. May the Holy Spirit guide our preparations for our NA, and may God bless our CLCP community and all our members.

In behalf of the National Leadership Community

Rose Linda O. Bautista

National President