Experience the JOY of the gospel!

‘Jesus Youth’ represents joy,
vitality, and fullness of life
discovered in Christ!

‘Jesus Youth’ represents joy, vitality, and fullness of life discovered in Christ!

Jesus Youth is an International Association within the Catholic Church with a focus on evangelizing young people and nurturing their missionary initiatives.

Jesus Youth had its beginnings in Kerala, India, and evolved as an active part of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of the state in the late 1970s. In 1985, the International Year of Youth, a number of campus groups came together for a conference called Jesus Youth. After the conference, the attendees started referring to themselves as Jesus Youth. They nurtured their youthful missionary spirit in their colleges and communities through regular meetings of small groups.

The name ‘Jesus Youth’ represents the association’s emphasis on living the joy, vitality, and fullness of life discovered in Christ, and sharing the Gospel in contemporary life situations. Gradually, Jesus Youth spread to different parts of India and a number of other countries. It is now active in more than 35 countries (JY Statutes 1) Over the years, Jesus Youth has expanded to families, various professional ministries and many mission countries throughout the world.

Verso L’Alto

Striving for holiness

Jesus Youth strives to lead people, especially the youth, to a renewed life in Christ, assists them in their growth in holiness and prepares them for the apostolate in communion with the mission of the Church.

The movement helps people to have a personal relationship with Christ and experience the love of the Father and the fellowship and guidance of the Holy Spirit in their lives.

Jesus Youth works to cultivate in its members a life of missionary discipleship, urging them to become joyful witnesses of the Gospel in the contemporary world. (JY Statutes 2)

The 6 Pillars

Jesus Youth live out the faith rooted in ‘six pillars’.

 

Prayer

Word of God

Sacraments

Fellowship

Evangelization

Option for the Poor

The Charisms of the Movement

In 1998, Pope John Paul II exhorted in the message for the World Congress of Ecclesial Movements and New Communities:

“The charism’s own originality, which gives life to a movement… represents a powerful support, a moving and convincing reminder to live the Christian experience fully, with intelligence and creativity. Therein lies the basis for finding adequate responses to the challenges and needs of ever changing times and historical circumstances.

In this light, the charisms recognized by the Church are ways to deepen one’s knowledge of Christ and to give oneself more generously to him, while rooting oneself more and more deeply in communion with the entire Christian people.”

Youth to youth

Formation

Holy Spirit

Mission

Witness

Fellowship

Catholic Church

Relationships

JOIN THE JOURNEY!

Accompaniment

Our very identity is rooted in prayer & fellowship, and the best way to get involved is by joining a small group, where local Jesus Youth come together on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to pray, read scripture, and spend time in fellowship.

Events

You can also join in any of the local or national/international level programs that are offered including retreats, weekends of prayer, journeying together for World Youth Day, hiking pilgrimages, discernment retreats, Haiti mission trips and much more!

GET INVOLVED!

Service

Many Jesus Youth grew in their experience of faith and the Church through a generosity of their time given to mission trips and serving the various apostolates and ministries of the movement.

REACH OUT!

Faith

Members that have undergone formation with the Jesus Youth movement attend monthly Household meetings for formation & fellowship with their local Jesus Youth family.

GROW ROOTS!

Want to

experience the

joy of the gospel

with Jesus Youth?

Want to

experience the

joy of the gospel

with Jesus Youth?

JOIN THE JOURNEY!

Accompaniment

Our very identity is rooted in prayer & fellowship, and the best way to get involved is by joining a small group, where local Jesus Youth come together on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to pray, read scripture, and spend time in fellowship.

Events

You can also join in any of the local or national/international level programs that are offered including retreats, weekends of prayer, journeying together for World Youth Day, hiking pilgrimages, discernment retreats, Haiti mission trips and much more!

GET INVOLVED!

Service

Many Jesus Youth grew in their experience of faith and the Church through a generosity of their time given to mission trips and serving the various apostolates and ministries of the movement.

REACH OUT!

Faith

Members that have undergone formation with the Jesus Youth movement attend monthly Household meetings for formation & fellowship with their local Jesus Youth family.

GROW ROOTS!