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Internazional Congresses of Mary Help of Christians Events of the Salesian Family promoted by ADMA. From the one in Turin in 1988 to that of 2015 to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco, seven have been celebrated. The next event will be in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 2019.

.Instruments of Communion and Communication www.admadonbosco.org Official website of the ADMA, edited by ADMA Primaria.

ADMAonline Monthly sheet of formation and communion prepared in seven languages: Italian, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Polish and German.

Notebooks of Mary Help of Christians Series dedicated to the promotion of the history and identity of the Association.

The Magazine of Mary Help of Christians: Publication of the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in Turin - Valdocco.

We want to live according to the example of "Mary who prays, pleads and intercedes as tender and merciful Mother, because it is typical of mercy to see the needs of others as our own.

Care and diligence in preventing and providing: a timely assistance and at the right time, because it is the expression and fruit of the intimate union of the Mother with the Son in the work of salvation"

(Don Bosco: Wonders of the Mother of God)

An itinerary of holiness and apostolate according to the charism of Don Bosco

“Our Lady wants us to honour her under the title of Help of Christians. The times are so sad that we need the Holy Virgin to help us preserve and defend the Christian faith”

(Don Bosco to don Cagliero).

The Association of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA), was founded by Don Bosco on April 18, 1869 at the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians of Valdocco (Torino) as the second group of his work, in order to involve lay people in the spirituality and mission of the Salesian Family. Main purpose: To live and promote the cult of the Eucharist and the devotion to Mary Help of Christians. In the Salesian Family Associates are part of the Salesian Family for the devotion to Mary Help in the form established by Don Bosco himself, participating in the juvenile and popular Salesian mission, especially in its growth and defence of the Christian faith among the people. Diffusion ADMA has spread to 50 countries in the world with approximately 700 associations aggregated to ADMA Primaria of Turin and who work in communion with the Church and with other groups of the Salesian Family.

ADHERING ADMA, YOU AGREE TO: promote participation in the liturgical life in the

practice of Christian life; live and spread the devotion to Mary Help of

Christians, according to the spirit of Don Bosco, taking care of: the commemoration of the 24th of each month, the rosary, the novena, the blessing of Mary Help of Christians;

imitate Mary by cultivating in your family a Christian environment of welcome and solidarity;

care for the poorest young people and people in need;

cooperate to parish life and the Salesian mission; pray and support, in particular in the Salesian

Family, lay, religious and ministerial vocations; live the daily spirituality with evangelic attitudes at

the school of Mary: Fiat: obedience to God's will; Magnificat: giving thanks to God for the

wonders he continuously performs; Stabat: fidelity to him even in times of trial and Cross.

COMMITMENTS GIVEN BY THE RECTOR MAJOR AT THE VII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS “From the house of Mary to our homes” Following the example and with the help of Mary, the Preventive System (reason, religion and loving kindness) can be experienced in the dialogue, in loving and living in God's presence, with the family spirit of Don Bosco. Pastoral Family and Youth Ministry Make sure that youth ministry is ever more open to family ministry and that families become privileged places in everyday life of human and Christian growth, accompanying them in the joys and complex situations of life. As Salesian Family Promote exchange, complementarity and co-responsibility between the vocation to marriage and to the consecrated, priestly and missionary life.