+ The leaflet with registration form for our First European Leaders and Intercessors Gathering and Pilgrimage in Czestochowa is ready. Did you receive it? Ask ICCRS for it, info@iccrs.org to spread this leaflet in your country and come to Poland, September 24-29th 2002.

(Please, foreward this to all leaders & intercessors in CCR)

The idea of continental conferences of Catholic Charismatic Renewal leaders appeared in 1999 during the ICCRS council discernment. The newly formed ICCRS European Subcommittee started preparations for the European Leaders and Intercessors Gathering and Pilgrimage, at Jasna Gora 24-29th September 2002.

Discerning prophetic words to prepare the program, the Subcommittee followed words of the Pope, John Paul II: I pray most fervently that your communities and the entire Charismatic Renewal will "put out into the deep" of prayer in order to "put out into the deep" of mission. Then you will help the whole Church still more to live of action and contemplation which is the womb of evangelization (to the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Covenant Communities and Fellowships, June 2001).

During our gathering and pilgrimage we want to hear what is the Holy Spirit saying to the Church of Europe in years of the continental unification process. Facing the gifts that the Charismatic Renewal brings to the Catholic Church (each person and corporate), we want to discern what is God's vision and calling for the European Renewal. 

The Apostolic letter of John Paul II "Novo Millennio Ineunte" will guide us during our meeting. It calls us to "put out into the deep" and that "deep" has many levels (see the program).

According to the European subcommittee this gathering will be an important step in a European process. Over the years we have had European meetings with national representatives of CCR. This is the first project we do together as CCR on the European level. In the difficult situation of the Catholic Church in Europe today we first see a great need for intercession. If we go into the deep of prayer, the Lord can do new things in our continent. Therefore this conference we be for leaders and intercessors. The participants are asked to come prepared to this gathering by intense prayer, intercession and the sacrament of reconciliation shortly before coming.

See also www.iccrs.org And if you want some more details about Jasna Gora, in Czestochowa, see www.jasnagora.pl. (Different languages).