Colorado man shares his love of math — and Catholicism — with students in

Father Okiria’s parish is in an particularly poor a part of a largely agrarian area, the place cattle farming and crops equivalent to potatoes and cassava dominate. Sources are scarce for the Catholic schoolchhildren.

Questioning how he might assist, Jolly turned to his love of math. As a employee within the high-tech trade, he’s a whiz with numbers, and enjoys creating academic puzzles and assets.

Jolly provided to create math-based actions and assets for the Catholic college college students in Uganda. Within the months since, he and Father Okiria have exchanged puzzles, math video games, and even a glossary Jolly created itemizing widespread math phrases, which has since been translated into 4 languages.

“One of many nice issues about math is that it’s in actual fact common. Now, the ways in which we strategy math are usually not common…however the way in which that individuals come to the solutions is actually cool,” Jolly mentioned.

“I’ve discovered that the video games that I’m presenting to the Ugandan college students are additionally issues which are pleasant to children right here in Longmont.”

Okiria, in return, has celebrated quite a few Plenty for Jolly and his household, for which Jolly says he’s very grateful. Regardless of the time distinction and a language distinction, it’s the identical Mass, and Jolly mentioned it has been significant for him to meditate on this reality.

“Simply make the connection and see the place it goes. Let the Holy Spirit take it the place it must go.”

The St. John Vianney Seminary Lay Division is sponsoring a lot of lectures and programs within the coming months, together with a free lecture from Cardinal Stafford on the Liturgy of the Hours; a three-week course on the Eucharist; and a six-week course on the Sacred Coronary heart. For extra data, go to their web site or contact them at 303.715.3195 or laydivision@archden.org.