(ANS – Rome) – It is certainly a fact, and we are very grateful for it, that there is an intimate link between devotion to the Help of Christians and our salesian vocation. It is not difficult to demonstrate this in Don Bosco: from the beginning as in the dream at Becchi at the age of nine, to the end as in the dream at Barcellona in 1886; from the catechism classes begun with Bartholomew Garelli, to the way in which he obtained the approval of the Constitutions of the Society of St Francis of Sales; from the intimate conviction of Don Bosco expressed on so many occasions, to the extremal sign of the wonderful works he accomplished. But the origins are only the first fruits of the total reality.

(ANS - Rome) - Can we speak of an “originality” in our devotion to the Help of Christians which, in our desire to enter whole-heartedly into the Marian movement of the present day, should lead us to emphasize and develop certain characteristic aspects that emerge as distinctive of this devotion?

(ANS – Rome) – Why is it still important to spread devotion to Our Lady? Some Argentine educators, in May 2018, answered this question by presenting Mary Help of Christians and her relevance today.