Helmut Schift • CLC Switzerland Eurolink Meeting • Hungary 2010 • T1
Italy
AustriaFrance
Germany CLC Switzerland on the Map
Biel/Bienne
Zürich Chur
Luzern
BernGümligen
Basel
80 „members“5 formal CLC commitment
Lausanne
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CLC ExCo in Switzerland
Susanne Brand (secretary)Dorothee Fischer (Euro-link) Christoph Albrecht SJ (ecclesiastical assistant)
Bernadette Seeholzer (coordination) Martina Fäh (president)Missing: Lisbeth Ineichen (co-opted member)
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Meeting of group coordinators – Sept. 2010
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Making CLC visible in SwitzerlandWays of disseminations
• We posted this poster in churches and retreat houses
• We maintain and update our website, which was the point of contact to us for some new members
• We set-up a course on ignatian spirituality (3 meetings) open for people who are not closely linked to the church (low interest and problem how to reach them)
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Twinning with Congo (Lubumbashi)
Aim: Exchange: How do we live in Switzerland / Congo feeling as a world community
Concrete projects find support by Swiss CLC community members Contacts only between single persons / big technical
communication problems
● We support with finances a project from a CLC group in Lumbumbashi helping girls to have a better school formation
● We are in the process to discern if we send one oder two members of CLC Switzerland for a visit in Congo in January 2012
CLC initiatives in Switzerland
Helmut Schift • CLC Switzerland Eurolink Meeting • Hungary 2010 • T7
CLC initiatives in Switzerland
Spiritual exercises for families/parents
with small children
• Often difficult with small children because of constraints in time and budget
• We decided to continue this successful project
(exists since 12 years in cooperation with child care/program)
• CLC Switzerland will take over the complete organisation, the spiritual lead and the financial support for the 7 day retreat (until now the organization was done by a retreat house)
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CLC initiatives in Switzerland
The special oecumenical perspective
• Some CLC group members are from the protestant churches (protestant/reformed/mennonite)
• Oecumenical exchange becomes the „normal case“ in Switzerland. There are more and more married couples from different denominations – in church and in CLC groups
• Exercises in daily life are offered as oecumenical project (by CLC members) – currently running in Biel/Bienne in a protestant church (the Jesuits have been banned from Switzerland until 1973)
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CLC initiatives in Switzerland
Contact with the poor in our society:Once a year at our December (Advent) meeting we visit a
social „hot spot“ (trouble area) as a community
• 2009 Visit a sub-district in Zurich connected with prostitution,
meeting with a social worker who works with prostitutes
• 2010 Meeting with poor immigrants in Basel for dinner on
their Sunday meeting point
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For the future: a common apostolic project?!
Our ecclesiastical assistant is currently starting a „Warming room for refused asylum seekers “
in Basel (daily open 9-19 h) within the framework of JRS Switzerland
CLC members and other volonteers are asked to work there