Youth Ministry
“Go & share” – RYVM Meeting 2022 in Toruń
Dear Confreres Superiors, Pastors, Youth Pastors and Leaders of Youth Communities, Only eight months remain until the next edition of the European Redemptorist Youth and Vocational Ministries Meeting. It will take place in Poland from 27th to 31st July 2022 at the Redemptorist parish St. Joseph in Toruń, Bielany. The motto of the event is: “Go & Share”. As we remember, the last event took place in 2018 in Granada, where about 700 people gathered. We are counting on the presence of young people from your Provinces. The age of...
read moreEuropean preparatory meeting in Torun
The Redemptorist Youth Ministry coordinators, leaders and volunteers across Europe gathered recently (24-26 September) for the European preparatory meeting in Torun, Poland. The purpose of our meeting was to help plan and discuss the next Redemptorist Youth Congress that will take place at the end of July 2022. The meeting started with Mass and then a wonderful gathering of introductions and connections with old and new friends from all across the different Provinces of Europe. We spent time reflecting on all our ministries with young people...
read moreHope in a time of Crisis
Online spring conference for Redemptorists and RYVM youth leaders from Europe On Saturday 6 March, a meeting was held with European RYVM representatives, organised by the RYVM Commission of the European Conference. Given the impossibility of travelling due to the health emergency, the meeting took place online via the Zoom platform and had as its central theme “Hope in times of crisis”. About 85 people were present, representing the various local youth ministry realities, including the Superior General, Fr. Michael Brehl, the Coordinator of...
read moreHope in a time of Crisis – Online Spring Conference (Zoom)
Saturday March 6th 2021 3pm – 6pm CET / 2pm – 5pm GMT The RYVM Commission of the Redemptorist Conference of Europe is preparing an online meeting for Redemptorists and RYVM youth leaders from Europe. The gathering will be hosted by the Youth Ministry Co-ordinators of the Dublin Province. This promises to be very enjoyable and engaging experience for all. There will be time for reflection, prayer and discussion (in language groups). We will reflect and look back on our ministry with young people in these challenging times. Our keynote speaker...
read moreMeeting of the Redemptorist Youth Ministry of Europe
In this time of pandemic, we are deprived of personal encounter. In all our Redemptorist communities we are suffering the difficulty of not being able to live the faith in community, but there are also many initiatives that help us to continue the path of Hope that Jesus proposes to us in the Gospel. On Saturday, December 5th, delegates of the Redemptorist Youth & Vocational Ministry (RYVM) from the (V)Provinces that are part of the Redemptorist Conference of Europe met. It was an on-line meeting, and perhaps for this reason 37 young...
read moreRedemptorist Volunteering 2020
Volunteering, especially by young people, has been growing in recent years as an expression of faith and Christian values. In the same way, many Redemptorist laypeople have found in the Volunteer Movement a means to immerse themselves in the Redemptorist charism and to take part in the mission of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. Thus, the General Secretariat for Evangelization has seen the need to take steps to coordinate the volunteer work being done in various places of mission within the Congregation. Some NGOs linked to the...
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European Youth and Vocational Ministry on its cooperation in next years
The European Meeting of the Redemptorist Youth in Bratislava in Slovakia planned for the next year and areas of new cooperation were the main points of the agenda of the meeting of the youth pastors of the Conference of the Redemptorists in Europe that was held in Cracow in Poland, September 27-29th 2019. Nearly 30 Redemptorists and lay persons took part in that meeting to get more information about the gathering in Bratislava and to decide on the next meeting in 2023. The responsible for the youth ministry are aware of a need for stronger...
read moreEuropean Redemptorist Mission Camp in the Mission of Albania
The European Redemptorist Missionary Camp officially started in the Albanian Mission on Sunday 7th of July. This volunteering mission experience will take place over two weeks starting from 7 to 21 July 2019. The interprovincial community of Albania, after the European Meeting of Redemptorists GRANADA 2018, decided to open its doors to the young people who participated in it, as part of the journey that the Redemptorist vocational youth ministry carries out throughout the European continent, even to the Conference level. In the European...
read moreInvitation – Coordinators meeting Youth Ministry CSsR in Europe
. Coordinators meeting of the Redemptorist Youth and Vocation Ministry of the Conference of Redemptorists of Europe The Synod of Bishops on young people encourages us to continue the work of listening to young people and to promote initiatives in the field of youth ministry. The XXV General Chapter has shown us the pastoral care of young people and vocations as one of the priorities of the Congregation during this six-year period. The new four-year term is also an opportunity to resume our mission to young people and with young people. The...
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