Loving Father, your Son, Jesus, taught us to pray
and called us to be your Apostles of Prayer.
In the days of this Conclave
we ask you to send your Holy Spirit
upon the Cardinals gathered at St. Peter’s tomb.
Guide them to your will,
give them wisdom
to choose the one whom you have chosen
to sit upon the chair of St. Peter,
Bishop of Rome and Shepherd of your Church.
Give us the love and faith we need
to collaborate with him
united to his prayers and efforts
for the good of the Church and the world.
Amen.
Our Father / Hail Mary / Glory

Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
about 160 years ago
you started a fire
in the hearts of men and women
that has spread all over the world.
They burned to tell your Good News,
to spread your gospel of love to all humanity.
Touching their hearts to the Heart of your Son,
you made them Apostles through Prayer.
You put them to serve
the mission of your Church
in the heart of the world.
Today we men and women
of the Apostleship of Prayer
are still on fire with your love.
We still long to respond to the thirst
of our brothers and sisters throughout the world.
Take, Lord, and receive our lives.
Blaze up in us again,
make us docile to your Spirit.
May the worldwide mission of prayer
you have entrusted to us
bring your loving presence
today as yesterday
deep into the heart of humanity.

Dear friends

The EYM international Council is working an preparing for their first live meeting in Rome November 27, 2011. Christian Motsch is no longer in the EYM and we have a new member from Lebanon. They are now:

• Claudio Barriga, sj, Father General’s Delegate for AP/ EYM
• Nabil Ghaly, sj, National Chaplain EYM Lebanon
• Rigobert Kyungu, sj, National Director AP / EYM in RDC
• Loris Piorar, sj, National Director EYM Italy
• Lourdes Varguez, rjm, International EYM Assistant

Dear friends

As of two weeks ago we count on a new structure to the service of the EYM. A Council has been created to assist the international office, that will work mainly through the internet. It will help us in our worldwide coordination of the Movement.

Its first Skype meeting will be tomorrow Wednesday, and its members are:

• Claudio Barriga, sj, Father General’s Delegate for AP/ EYM
• Christian Motsch, sj, National Chaplain EYM France
• Rigobert Kyungu, sj, National Director AP / EYM in RDC
• Loris Piorar, sj, National Director EYM Italy
• Lourdes Varguez, rjm, International EYM Assistant

Accompany us with your prayers.

From February 16 to 20, the International Council of the Apostleship of Prayer met in Rome so as to seek together the ways of the Spirit for today’s renewal of the AP worldwide. This is the first time this group meets.

The Council was created to assist the work of Father General’s Delegate for the AP, Claudio Barriga, sj. It is made by

- Frédéric Fornos, sj (AP National Secretary in France)
- Juan Antonio Medina, sj (Coordinator for Latin­-America)
- Jim Kubicki, sj (Coordinator for USA)
- Rigobert Kyungu, sj (Coordinator for Africa)
- (the fifth, F. Jayabalan, from India, could not come)

That week the Council met several times with the Director General of the AP, Father Adolfo Nicolás, who launched them to the challenge of RECREATING the AP. Minor adjustments would not be enough. During those days, the Council went through the main themes of the AP, striving to find and deepen what is at the heart of our spiritual experience, what is most meaningful and what can help the spiritual life of today’s Christians.

In a real experience of the Spirit, the discussion led us to focus on three main axes of our spiritual way: the Eucharist, the Church and the mission. The challenge remains on how to find the right language for men and women of our time, so as to share with them the spiritual treasure that has been entrusted in the AP to the Society by the Holy Father, how to offer them a way to live in the Spirit, in communion with the Heart of Jesus and to the service of their brothers and sisters.

This Council meeting with our Director General starts a long process for the “recreation”. This can only be brought about by the Lord’s Spirit. This is why the worldwide AP network will be invited in the upcoming months to gear into this spiritual dynamic of creative fidelity to what was given to the Church more than 160 years ago. In our prayer we must ask the Lord to show us his new ways for today. We will start by the conclusions of this Council meeting, that you will receive shortly in a document that is being prepared. During the different AP meetings by continents, we will be able to discuss how each one of us is called to recreate the AP. All this will be worked over again in a second World Council meeting at the end of 2011.

With joy I announce you the decision to have our First Worldwide EYM (MEJ) Gathering in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2012. The date will probably be in the middle of September, like from Monday 17 to Monday 24. We are preparing a gathering of about 400 people in all, with delegations of 10 or 20 from each country, adults and youth. Soon you will receive more information on the process of preparation we want to live these next two and a half years, to arrive to that date with a road and a work done. For the moment, those of you concerned start saving and prepare your hearts!

In our Documents section you will find two files that can be useful for your work with the AP, for young and adults. It is really the same text, for two different audiences.

The one called “AP, an apostolic way of life” is a proposal to live the AP for those that follow Ignatian spirituality. It consists of a presentation of the AP, followed by a practical proposal to do the Daily Offering in connection with the Evening Examen. I wrote it as an answer to a question the CLC people asked me, on how they could use the AP. It will also be useful to offer the AP to Jesuits and others who share our spirituality.

The other one, called “AP, spirituality for the mission”, is the same text but for the general public, without the references to Ignatian spirituality.

I invite you to make them available to your people, and also to practice personally the 10 step method (it has helped me renew those two daily moments of prayer). You can distribute them as they are, or create a powerpoint version, or publish it… It is allowed to change, abbreviate, adapt the text to make it more suitable to the reality of your own countries, if that helps.

Starting from September the office for the AP in Rome counts with an international team of Counselors to deal with AP issues and to assist the work of Father General’s Delegate. The members belong to the five continents, and they will develop their work and their meetings basically through internet, including video conference calls. If you need to send us your suggestions or questions, we welcome your ideas and will attend your requests. They are: