(ANS - Turin) - "Mary who tells": there is not, in the invocations of the Mother of Jesus, one that recalls this characteristic of hers. Yet one of her qualities is precisely that of having been a witness and communicator of the ineffable experience of generating and following the Savior. The famous altarpiece in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians is also an expression of this commitment. Fr Enrico Lupano, one of the Valdocco Salesians engaged in welcoming pilgrims, sends an essay.

(ANS – Monrovia) – Liberia is the great country of freedom, but the 14 years of civil war (1989-2003) devastated the social, physical and psychological fabric of this West-African state. The conflict left the country in economic ruin. In addition to the conflict, the outbreak of Ebola in 2014, which led to the death of the parents and breadwinners in many families, rendered many young people homeless and without hope. The Salesians came to Liberia in 1979 and are currently working in the Capital Monrovia and in Tappita, a rural town located in Nimba county in the eastern part of Liberia.

(ANS – Rome) – Don Bosco grew up immersed in the popular Marian devotion of his own family and the people of Becchi and Castelnuovo particularly invoked as ‘Our Lady of the Rosary’. This helped him develop a personal relation with the Blessed Virgin Mary without any specific title.