The Christian Life Movement encourages all baptised Christians to respond to Our Lord’s invitation to be saints each according to his own particular state of life. We uphold that all can thus approach the perfection of charity and the plenitude of Christian life. The CLM is committed to helping its members live their faith in their daily lives and thus grow towards sanctity in an integral manner. The CLM is convinced that like Mary, we must all strive to reflect a deeply incarnated spirituality in our daily lives.

All members of the CLM recognise that through the dynamism of Baptism, we are called to the apostolate. Being an apostle means to announce the Gospel to all and to work to continuously edify oneself by embracing an evangelical spirit in relation to all the structures of human life and culture.

Faced with the ruptures which contradict God’s Plan and are present in the lives of men and society, the members of the Christian Life Movement are committed to striving continuously to live and make known the gift of reconciliation as the "central theme in the task of the Church" as has been taught by Pope John Paul II.

Those who belong to the Christian Life Movement adhere to the Faith of the Church and to its teachings, paying special attention to the teachings of the Holy Father. In their apostolic lives, the members of the Christian Life Movement seek to become involved – in accordance with the Movement's charism, style and spirituality – in the pastoral activities of the local Church, working with other ecclesiastic associations and institutions in existence, always aiming to be of real service to the whole ecclesiastic community.

Characteristics of the CLM´s spirituality:

Trinitarian
The mystery of the Holy Trinity is central to our faith and is essential to understanding the truth about God and about man. With the light that comes from this mystery man can discover his infinite value as a human person, created in the image and likeness of God; he can discover God as being the divine communion of love and man as being invited to participate in this communion.

Theological anthropocentrism - Christocentrism
Inspired by the words of Gaudium et Spes 22, the CLM’s identity is steeped in the truth that only the Lord Jesus reveals the true nature of the human being and the greatness of his vocation. In the Lord Jesus, divine and human are intimately united by way of the dynamism of reconciliation: the person of Jesus Christ reveals both the truth about God and the truth about mankind. Each person’s path to the plenitude of existence is to conform himself to the humanity of Christ and thus participate in His divine nature.

Incarnational
Our approach to the world is incarnational, following the dynamism that Jesus Christ taught us. Even if we do not belong to the world, we are in the world, and in a certain sense we share a creational solidarity with the world. The betterment of humanity is not alien to God’s Plan for mankind. We emphasise the truth that only in the mystery of the Lord Jesus does the mystery of man take on light and make his supreme calling clear. (Cf. GS 22)

Marian-Christ-centered:
“Through Christ to Mary and through Mary more fully to the Lord Jesus”
Christ is our life. We believe He is the Word of God conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, for our Reconciliation. Following the path of Faith we hear Him from high on the Cross showing us the direction that we must follow in order to reach Him. He tells us: «Behold thy mother.» (Jn 19: 27) He generously gives us His Mother as our Mother, and invites us to be Her children, to be Mary’s true daughters. Filial love to Mary is the key to reaching the Sacred Heart of the Lord Jesus, and to allowing ourselves be configured to Him. It is Jesus who invites us to enter the effective school of Mary. Living as Her daughters, getting to know and love Her, we find that in Her Immaculate Heart we are led back to the Lord Jesus.

Second Vatican Council
Conscious of the importance that the Second Vatican Council has had for the Church and the world in this new millennium, we strive to be faithful to it so that the lights that irradiate from the Council may help to drive away the darkness that threatens mankind. The world is constantly at risk of being taken over by the "culture of death”, secularism and functional agnosticism. Living and spreading the authentic message of the Council is an important aspect of our pursuit of holiness. We experience its influence strongly when determining the criteria through which we view the world, focusing on the evangelisation task that must be carried out.

Integral living of the faith
Responding to all the dimensions of the human being, we try to live our faith as an integral gift that enlightens our minds, changes our hearts and is expressed in our actions.

Balancing prayer and action
One of the CLM’s mottos is: “Prayer for life and apostolate. Apostolate and life transformed in prayer”. Prayer is valued as a fundamental part of life; it is the path by which our actions are vivified. An active prayer life is assumed as a valid path to holiness in fidelity to God’s plan. The CLM’s members are encouraged to transform their lives into a continuous liturgy by living spirituality of ordinary life.