Italy – Meeting of Parish Priests and Oratory Leaders of the Lombardo-Emiliana Salesian Province

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Paraguay – Assembly of Missionaries of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco

Asunción, Paraguay – February 2025 – Under the theme "We Are Called to Be ...

Italy - First Day of Work at GC29: Organization, Regulations, and Commission Structure

(ANS - Turin) - After intense days of spiritual preparation, culminating in the pilgrimage to Colle ...

Italy – GC29, The Mysticism of Salesian Life: The Experience of Encountering God Through Young ...

(ANS – Turin) – On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, during the third day of the Spiritual ...

Ecuador – Working in Unity and Looking to the Future: Planning Meeting of the Salesian Social ...

(ANS - Quito) - The annual planning meeting of the Salesian Social America Network (RASS) took ...

RMG – SDB Provinces: The "Saint John Bosco" Province of the Czech Republic

(ANS – Rome) – The first Salesians arrived in the Czech lands on September 28, ...

RMG – GC29: Video Interviews with Key Figures on ANS Social Media Channels

(ANS – Rome) – To bring the voices of the Chapter members currently gathered in ...

Italy - The Salesian Mission: "Da mihi animas" and Fraternal Life in the Reflections of the Second ...

(ANS – Turin) - On the second day of the spiritual retreat of the 29th General Chapter ...

RMG – SDB Provinces: The “Mary Help of Christians” Province of Brazil-São Paulo (BSP)

(ANS – Rome) – Established in 1883, the Salesian Province based in São ...

Italy - The Spiritual Preparation of CG29 Concludes with the Pilgrimage to Colle Don Bosco

(ANS - Turin) - The spiritual preparation for the 29th General Chapter concluded yesterday with the ...

Towards 150th anniversary of foundation of Association of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA)

12 April 2019

(Turin, April 12, 2019) - The Association of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA) will celebrate its 150th anniversary on 18 April. It was established in Turin on 18 April 1869 through the work of Saint Giovanni Bosco, the year after the consecration of the Church of Mary Help of Christians (June 9, 1868), as thanks for the benefits that people recognized to the Virgin and as a tool for the defense and growth of the faith of the Christian people.

The inspiration that moved Don Bosco was to offer a proposal for a simple Christian life that would sustain the ordinary life of the faithful, anchoring them firmly to the "two columns" of the Eucharist and of Mary, Immaculate and Help of Christians.

In the message sent on the occasion of this happy anniversary the President of the Primary ADMA of Turin-Valdocco, Renato Valera, said: “The coincidence with the liturgical date of Holy Thursday invites us to live this anniversary with a Eucharistic spirit. As we give thanks for these 150 years of life of the Association of Mary Help of Christians, let us commit, faithful to the charism of our holy founder Don Bosco, to letting ourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit for a renewed evangelizing and educational impulse."

"It is about living and bringing faith in Jesus Christ and love to Mary to many friends, family, colleagues, neighbors, acquaintances," continues Mr. Valera. "The essential part of this evangelizing impulse consists in renewing the Association with a privileged attention to the family and to the new generations, favoring and taking care of personal friendship, openness to all and the spirit of service, making the deeply evangelical attitudes of Mary our own: her availability to God, her faithfulness in the hour of trial and of the cross, her spirit of joy and thanksgiving for the marvels that the Lord works."

More specifically, the 800 groups of ADMA aggregated around the world are invited to plan, for Holy Thursday or at another time, a time of Eucharistic adoration in which to renew, with Mary, faith in Jesus Christ and the commitment to be joyful witnesses of the new life of the Gospel.

For more information, please visit: https://www.admadonbosco.org/  

L’ispirazione che mosse Don Bosco era quella di offrire una proposta di vita cristiana semplice, che sostenesse la vita ordinaria dei fedeli, ancorandoli saldamente alle “due colonne” dell’Eucaristia e di Maria, Immacolata e Aiuto dei Cristiani.

Nel messaggio inviato in occasione di questa felice ricorrenza il Presidente dell’ADMA Primaria di Torino-Valdocco, signor Renato Valera, sottolinea: “La coincidenza con la data liturgica del Giovedì Santo invita a vivere con spirito eucaristico questo anniversario. Mentre rendiamo grazie per questi 150 anni di vita dell’Associazione di Maria Ausiliatrice, impegniamoci, fedeli al carisma del nostro santo fondatore Don Bosco, a lasciarci guidare dallo Spirito Santo per un rinnovato impulso evangelizzatore ed educativo”.

“Si tratta di vivere e di portare la fede in Gesù Cristo e l’amore a Maria a molti amici, familiari, colleghi, vicini, conoscenti – prosegue il signor Valera –. L’essenziale di questo impulso evangelizzatore consiste nel rinnovare l’Associazione con un’attenzione privilegiata alla famiglia e alle nuove generazioni, favorendo e curando l’amicizia personale, l’apertura verso tutti e lo spirito di servizio, facendo nostri gli atteggiamenti profondamente evangelici di Maria: la sua disponibilità a Dio, la sua fedeltà nell’ora della prova e della croce, il suo spirito di gioia e di rendimento di grazie per le meraviglie che il Signore opera”.

In particolare, gli 800 gruppi dell’ADMA aggregati in tutto il mondo sono invitati a programmare, per il Giovedì Santo o in un altro momento, un tempo di adorazione eucaristica in cui rinnovare, con Maria, la fede in Gesù Cristo e l’impegno ad essere testimoni gioiosi della vita nuova del Vangelo.

Per ulteriori informazioni, visitare il sito: https://www.admadonbosco.org/ 

INTERVIEWS

  • RMG - Preparation, objectives, challenges and perspectives of GC29: in dialogue with the Moderator, Fr Alphonse Owoudou

    (ANS - RMG) - Just a few days before the beginning of the 29th General Chapter (GC29) of the Salesian Congregation, Fr Alphonse Owoudou, Councillor for the Africa-Madagascar Region and Moderator of GC29, recounts in detail, through an articulate interview, the work preceding and underlying this responsibility, indicating the spirit that will animate it and the attitudes and conditions to make it truly a Cenacle in which the Holy Spirit can act, for the benefit of the Congregation, the Salesian mission and the youth of the world.

EDITORIAL

  • RMG – Don Bosco: “The Fascinating Saint”

    (ANS - Rome) - Don Bosco is perhaps the most amazing and fascinating saint, history has ever produced. The humble work which he began for the welfare of his poor and abandoned boys in Italy has produced astonishing results, and today there are nearly 14000 Salesians working in 138 countries, and there are more than 200,000 members belonging to the 32 groups of the worldwide Salesian Family sharing the charism of Don Bosco and reaching out to the needy young people.

EVENTS

  • Spain – 33rd Edition of the Edebé Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature: Here Are the Winners

    (ANS – Madrid) – The 33rd edition of the Edebé Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature has been awarded to Beatriz Giménez de Ory (Madrid, 1972) for her novel Tres niños tristes y medio unicornio (Three Sad Children and Half a Unicorn) and David Lozano (Zaragoza, 1974) for his novel La cacería (The Hunt).

SPECIAL REPORTS

  • United States – CATHOLIC WORLD DAY OF THE SICK: Salesian Missions highlights medical programs for people in need around the globe

    (ANS – New Rochelle) – Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins Catholic organizations around the globe in honoring the Catholic World Day of the Sick. Every year on Feb. 11, the Pope marks the day with a special message calling for spiritual and physical closeness to all those who are ill. Saint John Paul II instituted the day “to encourage the people of God, Catholic health institutions and civil society to be increasingly attentive to the sick and to those who care for them.”

MESSAGES OF THE RECTOR MAJOR

  • GOOD, FAITHFUL, AND COURAGEOUS SERVANTS

    THE MESSAGE OF THE VICAR OF THE RECTOR MAJOR, Fr Stefano Martoglio, SDB 

    During this Jubilee year, in this difficult world, we are invited to rise up, set out again, and, in newness of life, make our journey as human beings and believers.

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