{"id":29607,"date":"2026-03-20T16:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=29607"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:20:35","slug":"st-francis-high-school-participants-honored-for-service-in-tijuana-mission-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2026\/03\/20\/st-francis-high-school-participants-honored-for-service-in-tijuana-mission-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"La Preparatoria St. Francis (St. Francisco) Homenaje\u00f3 a estudiantes que participaron en el servicio y  Experiencia de la Misi\u00f3n en Tijuana, BC."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Por JC Montenegro, PhD<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>(Watsonville, California \u2014 19 de marzo de 2026)<\/strong> \u2013 Durante la solemne celebraci\u00f3n de la Misa de San Jos\u00e9 en la Iglesia Mar\u00eda Auxiliadora, la comunidad se reuni\u00f3 para rendir homenaje a los alumnos de la Preparatoria St. Francis por su compromiso y generosidad al prestar servicio durante el reciente viaje misionero a Tijuana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La entrega de reconocimientos tuvo lugar frente a todo el alumnado de la escuela, lo que resalt\u00f3 la importancia del Servicio Misionero como parte de la formaci\u00f3n de los j\u00f3venes. En representaci\u00f3n de la Misi\u00f3n Salesiana, Juan Carlos Montenegro, delegado de Animaci\u00f3n Misionera; el P. Fabi\u00e1n C\u00e1rdenas, delegado de Pastoral Juvenil; y Luis Chac\u00f3n, Coordinador del Programa de Voluntariado Misionero Salesiano, entregaron los reconocimientos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El programa de viajes misioneros cortos a Tijuana, que comenz\u00f3 en 2018, contin\u00faa ofreciendo a los j\u00f3venes una experiencia de fe, servicio y encuentro. Este a\u00f1o, 20 estudiantes participaron en la misi\u00f3n, entre ellos 10 misioneros que ya hab\u00edan participado anteriormente, lo que refleja el impacto duradero de la experiencia. Entre ellos, Kristie y Kyran recibieron un reconocimiento especial por haber participado en la misi\u00f3n durante cuatro a\u00f1os consecutivos. Ambos estudiantes recibieron una cruz como s\u00edmbolo de su compromiso y de su crecimiento como l\u00edderes quienes ahora desempe\u00f1an un papel activo en la orientaci\u00f3n de otros estudiantes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">M\u00e1s all\u00e1 de una simple experiencia de servicio, la misi\u00f3n tiene como objetivo formar a los j\u00f3venes para que sean protagonistas, capaces de liderar, servir y responder con generosidad a las necesidades de los dem\u00e1s. El testimonio de estos estudiantes refleja la visi\u00f3n Salesiana de acompa\u00f1ar a los j\u00f3venes en el descubrimiento de sus capacidades para marcar la diferencia en la vida de los dem\u00e1s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular\"><div class=\"\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50.00000%\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"29617\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2026\/03\/20\/st-francis-high-school-participants-honored-for-service-in-tijuana-mission-experience\/attachment\/099\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/099.jpg?fit=5120%2C3840&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"5120,3840\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" 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data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La comunidad tambi\u00e9n reconoci\u00f3 a Chris Croghan, quien ha acompa\u00f1ado a los estudiantes y coordinado el viaje misionero con dedicaci\u00f3n y cari\u00f1o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En su homil\u00eda, el Padre Ted Montemayor reflexion\u00f3 sobre el servicio silencioso y fiel de San Jos\u00e9, invitando a la comunidad a adoptar una forma de servicio que no busca el reconocimiento, sino que permanece arraigada en el amor y la responsabilidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despues de la Misa, la entrega de las cruces marc\u00f3 un momento de gratitud y aliento. La celebraci\u00f3n continu\u00f3 con un tiempo de fraternidad, reuniendo a estudiantes, educadores y salesianos en un sentido compartido de misi\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Este reconocimiento sirve como recordatorio de que las experiencias misioneras contin\u00faan moldeando los corazones de los j\u00f3venes, invit\u00e1ndolos a vivir su fe a trav\u00e9s de actos concretos de servicio y liderazgo.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JC Montenegro, PhD (Watsonville, California \u2014 March 19, 2026) \u2013 During the solemn celebration of the Mass of St. Joseph at Mary Help of Christians Church, the community gathered to recognize students from St. Francis High School for their commitment and generosity in serving during the recent Tijuana mission trip. The recognition took place in the presence of the full student body, highlighting the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2026\/03\/20\/st-francis-high-school-participants-honored-for-service-in-tijuana-mission-experience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar leyendo <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">La Preparatoria St. Francis (St. Francisco) Homenaje\u00f3 a estudiantes que participaron en el servicio y  Experiencia de la Misi\u00f3n en Tijuana, BC.<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":29610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20310044,678324057,30135006],"tags":[35890],"class_list":["post-29607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-province-news","category-province-schools","category-salesian-missions","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-20-Honors-St-Francis-feature.jpg?fit=1600%2C875&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-7Hx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29607"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29667,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29607\/revisions\/29667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}