The Eucharistic Youth Movement (EYM) is an international Church Movement for the Christian formation of children and young people of both sexes, from 5 to 21. It seeks to teach them to live in Jesus’ way, by guiding them into a loving, ‘heart to heart’ relationship with him, based on a Eucharistic spirituality. It prepares them to live as Christian adults, committed to serving their brothers and sisters in an unjust and secularized world. (see more)

The EYM is the junior branch of the Apostleship of Prayer, an association entrusted by the Church to the Society of Jesus. It is the renewed form of the old Eucharistic Crusade, which had great success in many countries around the middle of the last century. This renewal began in France in 1962, which gave the Movement this new name, followed by other countries all round the world.

Present in around 50 countries in all five continents, the EYM is structured on clear lines of action, stages of Christian growth and a central national coordination.

By a methodology based on the formation of communities, with a clear sense of the Church, through the experience of prayer, Eucharist, the Word of God and discernment, young people are led to a life of service, attentive to the needs of today’s world. For this, the EYM offers young people different ways - living in a team, meetings, songs, and so on - of relaxing, talking about their experiences, acting and meditating, with the aim of helping them to grow, and of guiding them in their choices.

‘We are young people who want to tell the world that our youthful joy springs from our encounter with God, from disinterested love, from looking at our history with hope, from Jesus’ plan, which fires us and moves us to act.’ (From the Latin American EYM Manual.)

We are preparing our first worldwide Gathering for the EYM in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September 2012.

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