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Our history dates back to 1975 with the foundation of
the Association of Mary Immaculate (AMI) by Luis
Fernando Figari. The association was founded in response
to a group of young women who wanted to live their faith
coherently, a group that was not satisfied with a faith
that was somehow disconnected from daily life. Instead,
they welcomed the call from God to holiness and yearned
to make evangelization an essential characteristic of
their lives.
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Alejandra Keen, General Coordinator
of the Marian Community of Reconciliation. |
Certain members of the AMI felt God calling them to give
their entire lives for the cause of the New
Evangelization. They desired to consecrate their lives
through a full apostolic availability. After a period of
discernment, Luis Fernando Figari founded the Marian
Community of Reconciliation (MCR) on March 25, 1991,
the feast of the Annunciation-Incarnation of the Lord.
The MCR was approved by then Archbishop of Lima and
Primate of Peru, Most Reverend Augusto Vargas Alzamora,
and later confirmed by Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, the
current Archbishop of Lima and Primate of Peru.
Still today, young women who wish to discern if they are
called to enter the Marian Community of
Reconciliation first make a promise of discernment
for a year –it can be renewed- in the Association of
Mary Immaculate.
The
Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV), the Marian
Community of Reconciliation (MCR), the
Association of Mary Immaculate (AMI), and the
Christian Life Movement (CLM) all work apostolically
in the Archdiocese of Denver and are part of the same
spiritual family, the
Sodalit Family.
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