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ADMA living, loving, and serving like Mary
By Ms. Maria Junifer Maliglig, ADMA National Council Officer
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he year 2020 proved very challenging for the members of the Association of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA). Living and promoting the devotion to Mary Help of Christians (MHC) through the constant presence of members in their respective parish churches and communities, leading the rosary and spearheading preparations for the monthly floral offering on the 24th and Marian feast days, leading the block rosary where the image of MHC is transferred from one home to another—all these suddenly had to stop because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Realizing that the situation will not soon go back to normal, ADMA chapter officers started to think of ways on how they can meet and pray the rosary and novena together. Even though digitally challenged, the senior members of the Auxilium Chapter (Parañaque), encouraged each other to activate their social media accounts and install Facebook Messenger and Zoom apps either on their laptops, tablets, or smartphones. After several months, the core group resumed its meetings online. Little by little, they, too, encouraged their co-senior members to do the same. The group patiently assisted each other in learning how to set-up and navigate through the different functions of the applications. Notably, the stay-at-home rule did not keep them from lovingly reminding each other to pray the rosary and the MHC novena every 15th to 23rd of the month; attend daily Mass online especially every 24th of the month; offer flowers to
Realizing that the situation will not soon go back to normal, ADMA chapter officers started to think of ways on how they can meet and pray the rosary and novena together. MHC virtually after Mass; pray for each other’s families, for the sick and deceased, and for the social issues faced by our country and the world. Even pictures of their family praying together were shared and this helped uplift one another. In MHC-Don Bosco Technical Institute Tarlac, members from the Don Bosco Chapter organized a month-long Sermonette and Rosary. For 30 evenings in October, they gathered virtually via Zoom and listened to the sermonette of a designated member or invited guest. This was followed St. John Bosco Today | January-March 2021
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