The name “ECYD” is an acronym that represents “encounters, convictions, your decisions”, and is used as such globally, independent of a country’s language. The name denotes the dynamic of ECYD’s life: through different experiences of encounter, adolescents acquire firm life convictions and learn to make free and responsible decisions according to Gospel criteria.
The ECYD mission is to collaborate with Christ so that he might reign in the hearts of adolescents and in the world.
Every ECYD member lives the 5 essential elements of ECYD life:
…which seek to be different experiences of encounter, through which the adolescent forms
his convictions and decisions according to the spirituality of Regnum Christi.
In the life of ECYD, adolescents are offered different experiences of encounter, through which they can acquire firm convictions and learn to make free and responsible decisions in accordance with Gospel criteria.
This dynamic is lived in many of these ECYD activities:
ECYD 101: Meeting the Rest of the Family is a six-episode video series designed to introduce ECYD to Regnum Christi members and show them how the Regnum Christi charism is lived out in the younger members of the spiritual family. Discover the contents of ECYD statutes through the eyes of the ECYD adolescents and deepen in your understanding and love of the charism and God’s plan for the spiritual family.
Episode Guide: