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The mission of working youth

Cardijn addresses a meeting of teenage JOC leaders in Dunkirk.

The need for an adult apostolate

Without an adult apostolate, all the efforts of young people will lead to a dead end.

The priest is everything but also nothing in the movement

One of Cardijn's favourite axioms.

No host without human work

Another classic Cardijn axiom.

ExYCWs

Cardijn sets out his conception of the role of former YCW leaders.

Worker Organisation in England

Cardijn's article following his return from England reporting on his contacts with English trade union leaders, including Ben Tillett, and various Christian organisations.

Talks to La Jeune Garde

Notes from a series of talks given by Cardijn to the Jeune Garde group of young men at Notre Dame parish, Laeken.

How does a study circle work?

In this early article, Cardijn explains his conception of a study circle.

Belgium's female population

Cardijn analyses the demography of the Belgian female population and the problems facing various groups.

With the Christian trade unionists

Cardijn addresses a meeting of Christian trade unionists.

Tribute to Gabrielle Petit

Cardijn pays tribute to Belgian war heroine, Gabrielle Petit, executed by the occupying German forces.

Letter to newspapers in response to Socialist Party leader, Jules Destrée

Cardijn responds to criticism from Socialist leader, Jules Destrée.

For Christian workers – Le Démocrate

Cardijn writes an article introducing a new progressive magazine, Le Démocrate.

Welcome to Marc Sangnier

This is Cardijn's emotional speech of welcome to Marc Sangnier, the founder of the French democratic movement, Le Sillon.

Catholic Action with the working class

Cardijn explains the work of the JOC in terms of formation, action and organisation.

The YCW and the parish

Responding to criticism, Cardijn outlines the role of the JOC in the parish.

The family in modern life

Cardijn's speech at a 1926 University Social Week in Belgium.

The Study Circle and its methods

This is the first systematic presentation of the See-Judge-Act in the first edition of the Girls YCW Manual (Manuel de la JOCF) 1926.

A Jocist Advent

Preparing for the coming of Christ

The Jocist Centre

Cardijn celebrates the establishment of the first Jocist Centre at Rue des Palais, Brussels.

Happy New Year!

Cardijn presents his wishes for the Jocist movement in 1929.

A happy and holy jocist new year

Cardijn sets out the objectives for JOC teams for 1930.

Manual of the YCW

A word of introduction

Cardijn's introduction to the new chaplains' magazine for the JOC and JOCF

Three touchstones of the genuine YCW

Cardijn explains the role of the JOC as the transformation of life, milieu (environment) and mass.

Ite missa est

Cardijn's talk to the Social Week at Reims in 1933 in which he explains the role of the JOC in transforming life, milieu (environment) and mass.

Penitence and mercy

Cardijn's reflections on the sacrament of confession (reconcilation), penitence and mercy.

Allocution of Canon Cardijn

Cardijn's opening speech for the First International Congress of the JOC in 1935.

The Three Truths

Cardijn's keynote speech to the First International Congress of the JOC in 1935, introducing the Three Truths Dialectic.

The training of militants

Cardijn's third talk to the First International Congress of the JOC in 1935.

Seminarians' meeting

Cardijn's talk to seminarians who attended the First International Congress of the JOC in 1935.

The laity

This is perhaps Cardijn's earliest complete exposition of his conception of the specifically lay apostolate of lay people.

A worker laity

Cardijn reflects on the role of lay working people in transforming life, milieu and world.

Jocism

Cardijn offers a one-page summary of jocist principles on the eve of the first JOC International Congress in 1935

Sermon at the Lisieux Eucharistic Congress

Cardijn's talk at the Eucharistic Congress at Lisieux in 1937.

The YCW

Cardijn summarises the whole YCW method in this 1938 article.

The priest in the YCW

Cardijn explains the importance of the role of the chaplain in the YCW.

Workers and students

Cardijn's address to the 1938 conference of Pax Romana in Bled, Yugoslavia.

International YCS Congress Yugoslavia

Cardijn's speech to the international conference of the JEC or YCS in Yugoslavia in 1939.

A new paganism

Cardijn explains the JOC as a response to modern forms of paganism, understood as Communism and Nazism.

My jocist prayer in my daily life

Preface to a brochure for YCW leaders and militants on prayer

The Christian conception of work

Cardijn offers a brief outline of his theology of work.

Revolution by revelation

Cardijn addresses a rally in Liverpool.

The spirit of the Young Christian Workers

Cardijn authoritatively summarises the work of the YCW in this booklet.

Early Christians of today

Quotes from a 1942 speech by Cardijn on the example of the early Christians.

A YCW of the masses to the scale of the world

With World War II now over, Cardijn reflects on the role of the need to build a worldwide JOC movement.

Mission in Thuringia

Cardijn's preface to a book by French Jocist Paul Beschet recalling the experiences of JOC leaders under the forced labour regime and concentration camps in Germany during World War II.

The future of the YCW depends on England

Returning from the Americas in 1946, Cardijn stopped in the UK where he made a flying tour of several industrial centres.

Plans for YCW International

Cardijn talks about his plans for the developing JOC Internationale.

The working class problem

Cardijn explains the role of the JOC in this talk to French JOC chaplains.