Motto and values

We don't give up looking at the stars, we don't do it just by looking upwards or by using lenses but also with the ability to recognize ourselves in a story that becomes a grateful memory. The wisdom and patience of the farmer, which I compare to the art of education, guards his harvest with this double gaze: to the sky to scrutinize events and invoke the future and to the earth to guard the sap and effectiveness of the harvest! The style of care and patience is a hallmark of education.

“I love trees. They are like us, roots well planted and gaze towards the sky." We don't give up looking at the stars, we don't do it just by looking upwards or by using lenses but also with the ability to recognize ourselves in a story that becomes a grateful memory. The wisdom and patience of the farmer, which I compare to the art of education, guards his harvest with this double gaze: to the sky to scrutinize events and invoke the future and to the earth to guard the sap and effectiveness of the harvest!

The biblical icon of the bow/rainbow that God sends between heaven and earth as a sign of communion and alliance (see Gen. 9.13) It is the symbol that will keep us company in the coming months: attention on the "present time ” has within itself this call to personal, community and social responsibility. The word "responsibility" is the grammar with which in a life that response to a call is constructed which is first and foremost a call to life and, for believers, to the love of God.

The art of counting the days, like the art of counting the stars, is the art of living, of being in the world, of being together, of interpreting our time and of making wise and promising choices, it is the "wisdom practice" (or of the heart) which helps us to live aware of what we have experienced, avoiding the foolishness of those who forget - wasting them - the dramatic days of the past months but treasure them, as Pope Francis has invited us to do several times