At the General Audience on February 9, 2022, there were three girls from the ECYD in the auditorium to listen to Pope Francis' Wednesday catechesis.
As usual, at the end of the catechesis, the Holy Father leaves the Paul VI Hall and takes the opportunity to approach some of the pilgrims where he blesses them and exchanges a few words.
The three ECYD collaborators from Chile, Argentina and El Salvador, who are in Rome for their five weeks of collaboration with the consecrated women of Regnum Christi, attracted the attention of Pope Francis with an ECYD banner.
Seeing the Pope approaching, one of the collaborators said to the Holy Father: “The ECYD is going to change the world”, to which the Pope replied: “And you... who changes you? Another of the collaborators asked His Holiness if she could sign the flag, to which the Holy Father agreed and, after signing it, he gave them his blessing.
For the collaborators, this meeting with the Pope was very important since the ECYD is Regnum Christi lived by the adolescents and, as such, they share a devotion and esteem for the Holy Father, his person and teachings. A member of the ECYD seeks to love the Catholic Church by feeling a living part of it and collaborating in its evangelizing mission.
It has been 50 years since the first teenagers adopted a lifestyle to live their Christian faith and transmit Christ to others. Today ECYD is present in some 25 countries and identifies itself as an international Catholic association of adolescents who make a covenant of friendship with Christ and with each other to build a new world according to the Gospel.
For its 50th anniversary, the ECYD live a jubilee year which began on the liturgical Solemnity of Christ the King in 2021 and will conclude on November 20, 2022.
To learn more about ECYD, visit their website at: ecyd.org
About the ECYD collaborators program, here: ecyd.org/missionaries
