The 2026 Novena shows us Mary’s presence in our lives through true, everyday stories in which we can recognise ourselves, bring our own experiences, and find a word of comfort, help and love.
Every day, the Novena videos are uploaded and made available on the various language channels of ANS YouTube and on the TELEGRAM channel SDB.ORG. Each video is made available one day in advance, whilst the English-language videos are always released a further day earlier, to assist the faithful in the English-speaking regions of East Asia and Oceania.
Furthermore, to further facilitate the dissemination of the Novena, the materials will also be published in a shared space, accessible to all via the following link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jQhBkYHU4d1csVi_KnuI95vJF6JA9CAn?usp=sharing
For the 2026 Novena, coordination was handled by Fr Pierluigi Lanotte, as were the direction and video editing; the commentary is by the Rector Major, Fr Fabio Attard, while the texts were written by Giuseppina Sabbarese.
The important task of translation was entrusted to Fr Julian Fox for English, Fr Antenor Velho for Portuguese, Fr Placide Carava for French and Br José Luis Muñoz, for Spanish.
The coordination of the narration and dubbing was handled by Piero Giordano and divided as follows for the different languages:
– Italian: Patrizia Mottola, Alex Rigotti, Francesco Benedetto.
– Portuguese: Andressa Collet, Bianca Fraccalvieri, Silvonei Protze, Pedro André Pinto.
– French: Juliette Vigliotti, Bernard Moutounet, Laurence Wasserstein.
– Spanish: Raul Cabrera, Pablo Finazzi-Agrò, Ester Ojeda, Clara Gradolí, Antonio Oliver.
– English: Mike Pace, Alex Bosco, Rebecca Viora, Susan Phillips.
The following also contributed to Novena 2026:
Filming Crew: Raffaele Cirillo (DOP) – Geremia Pio Berarldi – Giuseppe Lanotte – Alessandro Leone
Computer Animation: Diego De Angelis
Graphic Design: Pierluigi Lanotte, Mariarosaria Sardelli
Illustrations: Silvia Allocco
Song “Maria aiuto se per noi” lyrics and music: Gilberto Driussi
Actor Coach and Casting: Alessia Pelagatti
Actors and extras:
Day 1 Salvatore Zammataro
Day 2 Marco Belocchi
Day 3 Miriam Fascellaro
Day 4 Fabio Pavoncello
Day 5 Luana Cannistraci
Day 6 Pedro André Pinto Junior, Jasmine Tripoli, Gaia Simoncini, Valentina Baldi
Day 7 Francesca Rossi
Day 8 Emiliano Tobia
Day 9 Antonio Amatruda (dad), Mirella Eva Bernardi, Lorenzo Carbonetti
