I am especially grateful to your two representatives, who have accurately expressed your sentiments. The boys and girls of the parish who attend other schools have also come, and so this is a meeting with the parish as well as with the school community . This occasion affords me an opportunity to stress the importance of an educational project that, beginning with the family , can find distinct but converging spheres where it can thrive starting with the family , then the parish community and the school . This strong focus on education is a specific task of Catholic schools , as the religious of Villa Flaminia, who dedicate their whole lives to the mission of education, well know. Or vice versa.
School is a place for cultural education.
Catholic schools, while providing a quality education, hold up Christian values to children, inviting them to build their own lives on them. I hope, boys and girls, that you will treasure your various educational experiences, those of the family first of all, as well as those you have at school and in the parish. May you know how to communicate the values in which you believe, and feel committed to being witnesses of love and truth in every circumstance of life. I would like to close by wishing everyone here a pleasant Sunday, and I offer my Blessing to the school, to the teachers, to the Brothers of the Christian Schools, to the parents, the young people and the children. I thank you once again for your kind and warm welcome.