From Our Salesian Graduates
Enjoy selections from Salesian Speeches
Andres Gonzalez, Salesianum School - Baccalaureate Salesian Reflection
One quickly realizes—especially in their senior year—that it’s not just about this relationship with God that we try to build within our four years here, it’s about the relationship we create with each other, because even if we don’t realize it, we reflect the presence of God in the lives of many people around us. As I'm giving this reflection, I’m looking around and seeing the many people who play and have played this role of God in my life, ensuring that I am doing well and heading in the right direction, and words cannot express how grateful I am to have people in my life who can play that role...
Alonso Pacheco, St. Francis de Sales School
St. Francis de Sales said: "The beginning of good things is good; the progress, better; the end, best." For us, our freshman year did not seem entirely good. Our class was thrown into high school during a pandemic that will define this era. During these days, nerves and awkwardness defined the freshman class but soon, we began on our path to the growth that would define us.
St. Francis said that our progress is even better than the beginning of our journey. Despite these early difficulties, our class persevered, as the rumored "brotherhood" that we had heard about during open houses and visitations finally began to take shape. People from different backgrounds banded together to tackle new challenges head-on, not united only by sport, class, or their neighborhood, but by our connections as developing Knights of de Sales…
Thomas Gonglik, Father Judge High School
My Salesian Spirituality has allowed me to create connections with over half of the student body and create connections with numerous individuals outside of school. Salesian gentlemen create a network of success and shared interests that helps someone work better, train better, and lead better because it instills a drive to be successful and the best person you can be. When you have a community group that shares the Salesian characteristics, it creates a culture that endows people to recognize their unique gifts and talents, to use those gifts, and be the best form of themselves in any pursuit in their life…To me, the Salesian virtues that are instilled in every single graduate sitting in this room creates a brotherhood between us and are the reason that no matter where we go in life, we all will have a shared bond…