Our community MAGIS for young people (high school students) led by the Jesuits in many parts of the PME province (Southern Poland) had to face pandemic restrictions on summer activities. Unfortunately, we had to resign from our annual big events: 10 days of retreats and a festival - Ignatian Youth Days, which gather about 400 participants every year.

After discerning, searching and asking God what we might do in this situation, we decided to do something simple, but with the same Ignatian dynamics that young people can experience every year in Magis. There were also many voices from our young friends who asked us to organise something that would help them to refrain from using laptops and the Internet after months of online education. For many of them, our Ignatian retreats were the only time they could leave home this year.

One of the several events taking place in the local Magis communities was a one-week retreat at the Jesuit villa in Stara Wieś (27 July - 2 August). The communities of Magis from Krakow, Bytom and Gliwice went together to celebrate this special time of intense prayer, sport and friendship. Indeed, we remained safe and healthy, sharing our faith and enthusiasm.