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Gentle
Gentle woman, quiet light
Morning star, so strong and bright,
gentle Mother, peaceful dove,
teach us wisdom; teach us love.
- Catholic hymn
I recently purchased this tiny antique pocket shrine on an auction site.
It is from the Redemptorist shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St Gerard Majella in Wittem, the Netherlands.
Queen
Bring flowers of the rarest,
bring flowers of the fairest
From garden and woodland
and hillside and vale;
Our full hearts are swelling,
our glad voices telling
The praise of the loveliest
Rose of the vale.
Oh Mary, we crown you
with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels,
Queen of the May.
A postcard of pope Paul VI praying before the statue of Our Lady of Fatima in 1967.
Rejoice
Rejoice, O glorious Virgin, lovely beyond all others!
- Ave Regina Caelorum
Virgen de los Desamparados
A 1950s photograph of a group of pilgrims from Bombay in the basilica of Our Lady of the Abandoned in Valencia, Spain.
A 19th century French print of women performing May devotions before a Marian altar.
May
Why May the month of Mary?
Consider what May denotes. It is the youth of the year; its beauty, grace and purity. Next is its fertility; all things bud forth. The virgin and mother.
- Bl. John Henry Newman
A solemn Mass being celebrated in the church of Santa Maria del Soccorso in Livorno, Italy.
Last breath
Per tuum, Virgo Filium,
Per Partem, per Paracletum,
Adsis prœsens ab obitum,
Nostrum muni exitum.
O Virgin, by your Son,
By the Father, and the Holy Spirit
Receive our last breath
And protect us at our departure from this world.
- Carthusian hymn
May
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.
- Encyclical Menso Maio (1965)
