MAGIS Low Countries
  • NEDERLANDS
    • Over MAGIS
    • Terugblik: MAGIS midweek 2020
    • Terugblik: Zomer 2019
    • HELP MAGIS
    • Méér MAGIS
    • MAGIS: de achtergrond
  • ENGLISH
    • About MAGIS
    • Review: MAGIS midweek summer 2020
    • Review: Summer of 2019
    • HELP MAGIS
    • MAGIS and the WYD
    • More MAGIS
MAGIS and the World Youth Days
MAGIS began in 1997 as an initiative of the Jesuits to prepare young people for the World Youth Day celebrations. 
Young people got a chance to ‘taste’ more of Ignatian spirituality (after Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order). This spirituality is a powerful way to live your life and your faith in a deeper way, to make better choices, and to have a greater sense of social justice and ecology.
The program took its final shape in 2005 (WYD in Cologne), and MAGIS was born. 
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How do you get the MAGIS-experience? 
  • Every event starts off with a joyful gathering, with cultural activities, moments of prayer and formation, sharing and encounter. 
  • Then you go to different places for a week of activities, the ‘experiments’ – social and ecological work, artistic activities like dancing, movie-making, plastic arts, pilgrimages...
  • After the experiment-week, we meet again and share in a festive way our experiences. The ‘Festival of Nations’ is a great occasion for each country to present itself.
  • At the center of an ordinary MAGIS-day is the MAGIS-circle: a moment where we are simply together, and share from our hearts.
In the course of the years, MAGIS has become a broader movement, more locally inserted. In the summer of 2014 three local MAGIS events took place: 
  • one in Hungary organized by the Jesuits in Central Europe, 
  • one in Ireland, organized by the Jesuits of Flanders, Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands 
  • and a third in Zimbabwe and Zambia by the Jesuits in Africa.
In 2017 Central Europe will again organize a MAGIS-event, with a focus on Prague. 
So be there, #beMAGIS! 
 
Participants in MAGIS
Experiments
​Cologne 2005
2000
25
Sydney 2008
1200
46
Madrid 2011
2500
99
Rio 2013
2000
89
Krakow 2016
2200
90
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www.MagisLowCountries.org
  • NEDERLANDS
    • Over MAGIS
    • Terugblik: MAGIS midweek 2020
    • Terugblik: Zomer 2019
    • HELP MAGIS
    • Méér MAGIS
    • MAGIS: de achtergrond
  • ENGLISH
    • About MAGIS
    • Review: MAGIS midweek summer 2020
    • Review: Summer of 2019
    • HELP MAGIS
    • MAGIS and the WYD
    • More MAGIS