History

Christian Life Community has been existing for four ages. It is continuation of Marian Sodalities, which were founded by jesuit Jeana Leunis and approved by Pope Gregory XIII (Omnipotentis Dei) in 1584. The origin of the movement were the apostolic groups of lay people founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540. During this long time of existance the community had given a few dozen saints and blessed people, took part in many apostolic mission and created the basis of many other movements. At the turn of the centuries XVIII/XIX the number of the members in Europe was aproximately 20.000 people.

After Jesuit's order cassation in 1773, Marian Sodalities afflicted crisis related to loss of the source of Ignatianus sprituality. The reneval process of Sodalities was inspired by Pope's Pius XII constitution "Bis Saeculari" (1948) and II Vatican's Council. In 1968 there was formulated the new statute of the movement. It was called "General Rules of Christian Life Community". This profound transformation of the movement was manifested also in changing the name Marian Sodalities into Christian Life Community. Nowadays, CHLC is the global, public association of lay people in the Church, acting on the papal laws. Formal basis of movement's activity are mentioned above "General Rules of Christian Life Community", which were resolved on the 7th of September 1990 and ratified by See of Rome on the 3rd of December 1990.

In Poland Marian Sodalities were dissoluted in November 1949. Arising of Polish Christian Life Community was related to global reneval and transforamtion of the movement. First small community was founded in 1978,three next communities arised in 1982. In 1986 Polish Christian Life Community became a formal member of the global Christian Life Community. Until now there are more and more lay people wanted to participate in Christian Life Communitie's activities. Christian Life Community could be called "Community of communities", because of the character of the movement.

Nasz adres:
Wspólnota Życia Chrześcijańskiego w Polsce, ul. Rakowiecka 61, 02-535 Warszawa
sekretariat@wzch.org.pl