MAY - The Month of Mary

May is the month when Catholics traditionally honor Mary, the Mother of God. It is the month when the May crowning takes place. It is the month that we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima (July 13) and the Visitation. (May 31).

In his encylical, MENSE MAIO, Pope Paul VI tells us we have good reason to rejoice at this time, for "this is the month during which Christians, in their churches and their homes, offer the Virgin Mother more fervent and loving acts of homage and veneration; and it is the month in which a greater abundance of God's merciful gifts comes down to us from our Mother's throne."

Our dear Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has invited all of us to "contemplate Jesus with Mary eyes" during this month of Mary,
"valuing especially the prayer of the holy rosary".

Let this then be our goal during the month of May -- to be Mary to Jesus -- to love Him with the same tender love she had for her Son by gazing upon Him with her eyes.

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