Celebrating the anniversary of a school complex, looking back over a decade… is about remembering, going back to the Source! To blow out our 70 candles is to look in the rear-view mirror of “Foucauld”. It’s about stopping and taking stock of how far we’ve come…
Las Colegiadas, are a sign of our community, they give meaning to, gather and revitalise our educational project. The first Collegiate took place on 26 September 1970: St Juan’s was dressed for the occasion. Today, 54 years later, it is lived with the same joy that Brother Héctor da Rosa and the Physical Education teacher Armando Fernández dreamt of.
On 19 and 20 October a meeting of the Youth of the Sa-Fa Family in the Philippines was held. Eighteen members of the Nazareth Youth, our aspirants and postulants, together with some Brothers participated.
On 13 and 14 October, around 100 educators from the Sa-Fa Family’s educational units in Brazil gathered at the Recanto Sagrada Família farm in Brasilia, which has been reopened with improvements and extensions.
Magic in words: each book, a spell to discover. With this motto, the XXV Institutional Book, Art and Culture Fair is being held at the Gabriel Taborin School in Córdoba, Argentina.
Burkina Faso’s Minister of Education officially opened the school year. The event took place in our Gabriel Taborin College, which has about 2800 students in general and vocational education of various grades.
The School for Catechists was held in Madrid on 5 and 6 October. We began the day with a prayer in which we deepened our motto “Growing up to serve”.
This rich and significant history began on 13 December 1963, when Brothers Guido Lumini, Júlio Folladosa and Manuel Alves, who came from Uruguay, formed the first community on Brazilian soil.
This year the ‘Sagrada Familia’ School and Lyceum wanted to involve the population in the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the beginning of Brother Gabriel’s mission with an allusive poster and the flags of the countries where the Congregation is present
On the 10th of August, the new space of the Estancia Recanto, the “chacra” Sagrada Familia de Brasilia, was inaugurated, coinciding with the celebration of “Father’s Day”. We had a beautiful Eucharistic celebration with the blessing of the new space and, of course, the traditional “costillas asadas”, a gaucho tradition of barbecue.
