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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.
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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.
Don’t miss it!
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The spirituality of EYM, like that of AP, which also has Ignatian roots, is a
Eucharistic spirituality. So it has the following characteristics:
Living in personal friendship with Jesus, in union with his Heart, through
- Prayer, which teaches us to find God in all things
- Listening to the Word
- Celebration of the Eucharist.
Being an apostle: service as offering of life
- Service to the Church
- Service to the world
- Service like Mary
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EYM’s teaching leads the child or young person to a personal process of election. It teaches them to
discover the world as the place of encounter with God, where they learn to receive life from him, to thank him
for it and offer it to him.
The practical methodology of EYM is based on:
- Teams
- Regional and national meetings
- Stages of growth
- Prayer: The Three Moments of the Day
- The Personal Notebook
(see more)
How to start EYM
(see more)
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We are in more than 50 countries, in all continents:
Africa: Burundi, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo, Mali, Gabon, Seychelles, Angola, Ethiopia,
the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Kenya, Chad, Tanzania, Benin, Rwanda, Mozambique, Mauritius,
Madagascar.
Asia: Lebanon, India, Nepal, the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, China (Hongkong)
America: Unites States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina,
Panama, Peru.
Europe: Belgium, France, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Croatia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, the Czech Republic,
Italy, Bielorus
Oceania: Australia, Tahiti, New Caledonia
(see more)
Click here for a printable PDF version of this provisional Handbook.
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