"Global" Novena to Mary Help of Christians

“Global” Novena to Mary Help of Christians

(ANS – Rome – May 3) – This year the Salesian Family celebrates the 150th anniversary of the consecration and opening of Turin’s basilica of Mary Help of Christians (1868-2018). To mark this important anniversary, Fr. Angel Fernandez Artime, with the support of the Communications Department, has launched an initiative to unite the whole Salesian Family in prayer around Mary: a “global” novena to Mary Help of Christians in view of the festivities (May 24) via videos to be made available in the next few days on various channels.

Each day the structure of the novena will include:

• the presentation of the daily theme by the Rector Major;
• the narration of one of Don Bosco’s dreams, selected among the main dreams in which the Virgin Mary appears, published in texts edited by Fr. Bruno Ferrero, director of the Italian Salesian Bulletin;
• the Rector Major’s commentary on the dream;
• a brief testimony of a member of the Salesian Family;
• concluding invocations.

Produced thanks to the collaboration of the communications team of the Southern Italy Province, the videos have been designed to be shared, broadcast, and used in moments of community prayer in Salesian and Salesian Family houses all over the world, as well as in the traditional moments of the Salesian “good morning” or “good night” in parishes and youth centers.

The novena videos will be available in Italian, English, and Spanish as early as May 10 on various channels: the sdb.org site, the ANS page on Flickr and the ANS channel on YouTube.

Starting May 14, they will be placed daily on the ANS website and made available also in French and Portuguese.

On ANSChannel there is a video presentation of the novena.