Salesian summer has arrived! After a busy academic year, thousands of children, teenagers and older youth people are preparing to experience some of the many offerings that the Salesians have prepared for the summer period. Between June and September there are about 150 activities, including camps, and formation courses.
For Father Sergio Codera, a Salesian born in 1980, originally from Barcelona but raised in Seville, technology and religious faith have always gone hand in hand. His first computer was given to him when he received his First Communion and since then he has never dissociated himself from religion or technology.
Over four months have passed since the devistating Feb. 6 earthquake and the countless aftershocks that followed yet the situation for the people of Syria has not improved significantly.
Year 7 Students from Melbourne’s Salesian College Chadstone spent a week in March building community amongst themselves and improving the lands around them. Hosted by the Don Bosco Camp & Centre Safety Beach, Victoria, Australia, the program had a two-pronged focus; for the students to get to know one another and to learn what “sustainable living” entails.
Working in the field of education is a gift from God that I am utilizing to be a beacon of God’s radiant love to the young children, staff, and families at Montessori Academy.