Pope Benedict XVI announced
that the next international World
Youth Day will be held
at Sydney, Australia in the
summer of 2008!


OUR FOUNDER

Luis Fernando Figari
A short biography
by Kenneth Pierce

The Founder of the Christian Life Movement, Luis Fernando Figari, was born in Lima (Peru), on July 8, 1947.

His parents were Don Alberto Figari (1902-1990) and Mrs. Blanca Figari (1909-1995). Both were Peruvians.

He studied in the Immaculate Heart of Mary until he was 10 years of age and then in Holy Mary High School.

When he was 7 years old, he received the Sacraments of Reconciliation, Communion, and Confirmation. Presiding over the Liturgy was Archbishop Juan Landzuri, O.F.M., who would have an important role in the approval of the Sodalitium, as well as in other societies Luis Fernando established.       Ver mas...

WRITTINGS

Luis Fernando Figari's works comprise more than two hundred texts - books, articles, speeches, interviews - most of them originally written in Spanish. CLM Members are working on translating them. The following is a list of the texts currently available online in English:

Spirituality and Christian life
•Saints, today
•Holiness: A Calling for Everyone
•Luis Fernando Figari on the youth of today

Holy Mary
•With Mary in Prayer
•Teaching us to pray with Mary
•Woman, this is Your son! Son, this is your Mother!

Eucharist
•Founder invited by Pope Benedict XVI speaks about the Synod
•Intervention at the Synod of the Eucharist
•Urging for a Catechesis to recuperate the value of the Eucharist
•Auditor shares experience of sitting in on the recent Synod of Bishops

Family

  The Family, Path to Holiness and First Line of Evangelization
•Church and Family
•The Family: Cenacle of Love

Ecclesiology
•You are Peter
•The Lay Faithful and Christian Life

The Church in America
•Founder of Catholic movement works for unity in America
•Roots of evangelization
•Land of Christ and Mary
•The Church in America
  What discipleship?

Evangelization of Culture
•Evangelization and Cultural Identity
•The construction of a more human world: culture and labor
•Resignation of the Human
•An inexplicably forgotten thinker: The reappearance of Dr. Allers
  Flannery O¡äConnor

Saints and Witnesses of Faith
•John Paul II in everybody's heart
•Teresa of Calcutta, mother of the poor
•A Ministry of Love
•Twenty years ago
•The Stigmatized
  Japan's Glorious Ecclesial History

Other texts
•Christmas - Incarnation
•"Who do you say that I am?"
•At the Threshold
•Remembering Evangelii nuntiandi
•Affinity of Experience
•Escritos de Luis Fernando Figari disponibles en espa?ol
Interviews

On the Sodalit Family
Fides Agency - August, 2007

On the Fifth World Meeting of the Families
Fides Agency - July 7, 2006

On the Encounter of Pope Benedict XVI with Ecclesial Movements
Vatican Radio - June 2, 2006

Auditor shares experience of sitting in on the recent Synod of Bishops
Denver Catholic Register - November 2, 2005

Founder invited by Pope Benedict XVI speaks about the Synod
Church News - October 19, 2005

Urging for a Catechesis to recuperate the value of the Eucharist
Catholic News Agency - October 4, 2005

On the youth of today
Yaeshora.net - June 29, 2003

Affinity of Experience
Traces N. 7 (July - August 2004)

Evangelization and Cultural Identity (html)
(or download the ebook version )
Humanitas No 32 (October - December 2003) - Year VIII
by Maria Isabel Irarr¨¢zaval Prieto

Founder of Catholic movement works for unity in America
Denver Catholic Register - November 17, 1999

Teaching us to pray with Mary
Our Sunday Visitor - May 30, 1999
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