Name: Young Adult Missionary Discipleship Retreat
Start: 2025-02-07T16:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-09T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Malvern Retreat House

Join us at Malvern Retreat House on February 7-9, 2025 for our Young Adult Missionary Discipleship Retreat (YAMDI). All are welcome to enter more deeply into the kerygma to be fully equipped to serve as missionary disciples in this apostolic age. The theme of this retreat is the kerygma. Pope Francis tells us in Evangelii Gaudium that the “kerygma, needs to be the center of all evangelizing activity and all efforts at Church renewal.”
On this kerygmatic retreat, we will reawaken our sense of the first proclamation so that we know how to proclaim it to others. “On the lips of the catechist the first proclamation must ring out over and over: ‘Jesus Christ loves you; he gave his life to save you; and now he is living at your side every day to enlighten, strengthen and free you.’ This first proclamation is called “first” not because it exists at the beginning and can then be forgotten or replaced by other more important things. It is first in a qualitative sense because it is the principal proclamation, the one which we must hear again and again in different ways, the one which we must announce one way or another throughout the process of catechesis, at every level and moment.” (Pope Francis)
You can choose to sign up just for the retreat or for the entire formation program! The Young Adult Missionary Disciple Initiative (YAMDI) is a formation program to accompany young adults (ages 19-39) into a deeper relationship with our Lord and their personal transformation into missionary disciples. Learn more and sign up: bit.ly/427ZMxB