Conduct
Friendly relations between young members of Juventutem will help effectively and eloquently in their sanctification. Their friendship is sustained by their shared interest in the traditional liturgy and doctrine of Holy Mother Church. They love and practise these with all the more joy and fruitfulness as they discover the beauty of them together. The members of Juventutem will not however present themselves as liturgists or theologians, merely as young believers, happy to practise their religion together. Thus humour and love, camaraderie and fraternal charity will inspire their behaviour. Relations between young men and women in Juventutem will be cordial and spontaneous, with no impropriety. Courtesy, the fruit of charity, will be most important. Healthy prudence will be found there.
Through good example, prayer and friendship, the young members of Juventutem will encourage each other in the practice of the virtues of faith, hope, charity, patience, fortitude, justice, temperance etc. Young members of Juventutem will accord pride of place to the virtue of charity, following the example of St Thomas Aquinas: «charity is the life of the soul, as the soul is the life of the body. » They will cultivate this virtue by practising kindness to their neighbour in a spirit of truth and, as far as possible, by works of corporal and spiritual mercy.
Young members of Juventutem attach great importance to the virtue of purity. They will practise it in their souls as well as in their bodies. To that end, they will avoid certain activities and conversations incompatible with purity. Their language, clothing and comportment will demonstrate the same desire for purity, with simplicity and conviction.