May is the month
dedicated to Mary our Heavenly Mother. It is the month during which the Church
witnesses great devotion and love for our Blessed Mother. For the Salesian
Family, this month is much dearer to the heart as we celebrate the Solemnity of
Mary Help of Christians, Don Bosco’s Madonna. Mary the help of Christians is
the Help and intercessor of all God’s people and the closest link between us
and Jesus.
During the novena,
great stress was laid everyday on the role of Mary as Daughter of God. We, her
Daughters are called each day to entrust ourselves to Mary to help us grow in
our relationship with one another and to deepen our daughterly relationship
with the Father. Our devotion to Mary is not to be only one of routine prayers,
but a true imitation of Mary in her virtues. Through our love for Mary we must
be able to draw to her loving embrace the youth of today who are in need of
someone who is ever ready to listen to them and with whom they can associate
their daily life situations, not as someone far away, but as someone who has
lived through the challenges of her times with complete trust in God.
Our identity of
Daughters of Mary Help of Christians contains our mission- to be true mirror
images of Mary to the world. We have to proudly live up to our daughterhood to
Mary Most Holy through which we gain equal status with Jesus who is her Son.
The month of May
ends with the beautiful feast of the Visitation of Mary to St. Elizabeth. As
the visit of the Mother of God brought joy to the prophet in the womb and an
outpouring of the Holy Spirit on St. Elizabeth, may Mother Mary visit our lives
and bring with her the joy of bearing witness to Christ in our daily lives and
to be Spirit filled persons, zealously proclaiming the Good News to the world.
May we in turn live up to our identity and bear fruitful witness to God’s love
to all, as Mary did, throughout our life.
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