At the outset, on behalf of Auxilium Convent school management I wish you all, dear staff and students a very successful new scholastic year 2024-2025. This year shall be a promising year for us to renew our commitment as students and teachers to rejuvenate ourselves to serve the Lord and His people with new vitality. I feel that years swiftly pass by and if we are not aware, many changes would go unnoticed. We shall pause for a while to recall the graces that we received from His goodness and refocus on to the right path that the Lord wants us to take.

 The tradition of giving a yearly practice to the Salesian Family dates back to the time of St. John Bosco, who wished to unite all of us in the Salesian Family around a common goal and vision for the year. Actually, the word “strenna” means “gift.” As we continue our journey of accompaniment with our young people, we have been given a precious gift in this year’s strenna by the Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB: “The dream that makes you dream”. Without dreams there is no life. For human beings, for all of us, dreaming means projecting oneself, having an ideal, a meaning in life.

The worst poverty of young people is preventing them from dreaming, depriving them of their dreams or imposing invented dreams on them. Each of us is a dream of God. It is important to find out what is mine, what dream God has for me. And we must try to develop it, to achieve it, because it is about our happiness and that of our brothers and sisters. Let us help ourselves and our boys, girls and young adults to listen to their hearts, to decipher their inner movements, to give voice to what is stirring within them and within us, to recognise which signs or “dreams” reveal the voice of God.

I conclude with the words of an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th president of India from 2002 to 2007 Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam. “Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don’t sleep before fulfilling them.”

I wish you all every success!!

Get ready dear students to embark on a journey that will transform your life!

Sr.Prema Francis