Mary Help of Christians
The help of God and of Mary will not fail you...I recommend devotion
to Mary Help of Christians and frequent Holy Communion...
Words of St. John Bosco on his deathbed
"The principal objective is to promote veneration of the Blessed Sacrament and devotion to Mary Help of Christians. This title seems to please the august Queen of Heaven very much." So writes St. John Bosco about the promotion of the devotion to Mary Help of Christians (auxilium christianorum). The Association of Mary Help of Christian was granted official status and indulgences in April, 1869.

Devotion to our Lady is not an end to itself. Speaking of devotions to Mary, the Second Vatican Council stated: "While honoring Christ's Mother, these devotions cause her Son to be rightly known, loved, and glorified, and all His commands observed." Similarly Don Bosco often repeated: "I beg you first to adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and then to pay homage to Mary most holy."
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