This week at Edge, your son or daughter learned about virtue and that we are drawn to superheroes because of their goodness. Your son or daughter learned that we are compelled to cultivate virtue in their own lives because we will find happiness when we seek what is good. The Edge Night began with a fun activity where, as a small group, they created their own superheroes — coming up with the powers, costume, personality, and other traits. The teaching broke open the fact that we are fascinated by superheroes because they exemplify virtue, what virtue is, and how living a virtuous life helps us to be happy. After the teaching, the youth were given various scenarios and had to decide whether virtue or vice were being exhibited. They then processed the teaching with a few small group questions. The Edge Night ended with a reflection on Philippians 4:8. Your child’s challenge this week is to memorize that verse. 

“Human virtues are firm attitudes, stable dispositions, habitual perfections of intellect and will that govern our actions, order our passions, and guide our conduct according to reason and faith. They make possible ease, self-mastery, and joy in leading a morally good life. The virtuous man is he who freely practices the good. The moral virtues are acquired by human effort. They are the fruit and seed of morally good acts; they dispose all the powers of the human being for communion with divine love.” (CCC 1804) 

“And if any one loves righteousness, her labors are virtues; for she teaches self-control and prudence, justice and courage; nothing in life is more profitable for men than these.” (Wisdom 8:7)