The Joseph Marello Youth is the umbrella youth organization of the Oblates of St. Joseph Philippine Province established in 1995. It is under the direct administration and supervision of the OSJ Youth director.
The youth director is also assisted by the OSJ Youth Council, an advisory board composed of perpetually professed members of the Congregation who also act as sectoral youth directors and assistant youth directors. Basically, the different youth groups in a parish or a community under the pastoral administration of the Province comprises the JMY. The group has its own set of officers, the JMY Youth Council. These officers give due assistance to the youth director and his council in the implementation of its various programs and activities.
In their respective parishes, the JMY also act as the Parish Youth Council and/or Parish Youth Ministry as governed by the structure provided by the diocese they belong to. They, too, participate in the different youth activities initiated by the dioceses. They also have their respective program of activities that would cater the needs of their youth.
Another organization under the JMY is the Marello's Altar Knights (MAK's) and Marellettes. This group serves as altar servers, usherettes and collectors in the Mass. They are also trained as lectors and commentators to serve during masses intended for the youth.
The different activities of the JMY are aptly served and supported by another group called JMY Marshalls. This is an all-male youth group that has the following as its pillars: prayer, obedience, brotherhood, humility and hard work.
ABOUT ST. JOSEPH MARELLO
St. Joseph Marello was born on December 26, 1844 in the northwest portion of Italy. As a young man he heard a calling to the priesthood and was ordained for the Diocese of Asti on September 16, 1868. While serving as secretary to the bishop who ordained him, Bishop Carlo Savio, and in his service in the Diocesan Curia, he grew both spiritually and in his efforts to serve God and the Church through the hearing of confessions, the teaching of catechism and in caring for the sick and elderly.
Inspired by the Holy Spirit, he founded a small religious order to serve Christ in imitation of St. Joseph on March 14, 1874. He was made Bishop of Acqui, Italy by Pope Leo XIII and began his service there in 1889. While still continuing to guide his religious order, known as the Oblates of St. Joseph, he dedicated himself to serving the people of his until his untimely death, due to his ceaseless pastoral work, on May 30, 1895.
In 1984, the Cause for his Beatification was introduced in Rome after extensive research in Asti and Acqui. He was declared Venerable, an example of heroic Christian virtue by Pope Paul VI in 1978. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 26, 1993 and canonized, after a miraculous healing of two small children in the mountains of Peru, on November 25, 2001.
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ABOUT ST. JOSEPH MARELLO PARISH
The Oblates of St. Joseph have been serving the faithful of the City of Antipolo since 1978 through the administration of St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Brgy. Inarawan, Antipolo City. In grateful recognition of their pastoral service, the bishop of the Diocese of Antipolo, Most. Rev. Francisco de Leon, DD, entrusted a new parish to the care of the Province. Furthermore, he dedicated the patronage of the parish to St. Joseph Marello, the Founder of the Congregation. The new parish was culled from the Mother Parish of Antipolo Cathedral/National Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage. The canonical dedication was held on November 25, 2017, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Founder's canonization. Rev. Fr. Rex Alday, OSJ was also installed as the first parish priest with Rev. Rafael Neil Hernandez, OSJ as his pastoral assistant.
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