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Aston, PA 19014

610-497-3340

- Youth Group
  
  The Church of St. Joseph Youth Group welcomes all youth in grades 6-12 from any school.
  Our mission is to joyfully live out the call of the Gospel through fellowship, activities, trips, prayer and service ...
  to become the young men and women God created you to be.
  
  January
  
  In January, we focus on a variety of discussion points on living as the Holy Family. Joseph, Mary and Jesus are our models that we look towards. Families come in different shapes & sizes. What does it mean to be a family (a holy family)? Some of the common denominators of Family include: Compassion and Mercy, Kindness and Helpfulness, Laughter and Tears, and Love
  
  Do I have What it takes to be virtuous??
  We must practice being virtuous over and over again until it becomes second nature. Just like athletes who endure vigorous workouts and practices both on their own and with teammates, we must also practice being virtuous on our own and with family & friends & our community.
  
  We all want to live “Free”, not confined by rules & constrictions. Freedom is more than the ability to do whatever you want. It's the power to do what is good. Real freedom is achieved not through wealth, fame, or power but through growing in virtue.
  
  Living a Life of Virtue:
  Quesion: What are our resources when life gets hard? Answer: Parents/Families/Friends/Church
  
  Activity: Family is our first church, first society. Have your young adults look up the Ten Commandments and talk about ways we live each commandment.
  
  The Family in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
  By Cardinal William J. Levada Valencia (Spain), July 7, 2006
  The Fourth Commandment tells us, “Honor your father and your mother.” It shows us the order of charity. God has willed that, after him, we should honor our parents to whom we owe life and who have handed on to us the knowledge of God.   We are obliged to honor and respect all those whom God, for our good, has vested with his authority”. Here we see in concrete form the passage from the “love of God” to the “love of neighbor,” beginning with the family which the Catechism calls “the original cell of social life”.
  
  “The fourth commandment is addressed expressly to children in their relationship to their father and mother,
  because this relationship is the most universal,”.
  
  But the fourth commandment also “concerns the ties of kinship between members of the extended family. It requires honor, affection, and gratitude toward elders and ancestors.
  
  Finally, it extends to the duties of pupils to teachers, employees to employers, subordinates to leaders, citizens to their country. In today’s world, where the framework for public discourse is too often focused on the rights and freedom of the individual, the Catechism looks at the individual as a member of a family, and at the family in relation to society; it speaks about the duties of children and of parents, of citizens and of civil authorities. It emphasizes the social dimension of human existence, and thus provides an important antidote to an increasingly fragmented (and fundamentally anti-social) view of humanity.
  
  The Catechism makes a significant point when it reminds us that the fourth commandment lays the groundwork for the subsequent commandments, which are concerned with particular respect for life [Do not kill], marriage [Do not commit adultery], earthly goods [Do not steal], and speech [Do not bear false witness against your neighbor].”