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Saints for the First Week of May
Feastdays in the First Week of May
April 26 – SOLEMNITY OF ST. JOSEPH, Spouse of the BVM
May 1 – STS. PHILIP & JAMES, App
Within the Octave
May 2 – St. Athanasius, BpCD
Within the Octave
May 3 – FINDING OF THE HOLY CROSS
Octave Day of St. Joseph
May 4 – St. Monica, W
May 5 – St. Pius V, PC
May 6 – St. John, ApEv, before the Latin Gate
May 7 – St. Stanislaus, BpM
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In the ‘liturgical books of 1962’ the Solemnity of St. Joseph does not exist as it was suppressed in 1956 and replaced by ‘San Giuseppe Comunista’. The feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross was also struck from the 1962 calendar, kept as a IV class Paschaltide feria.
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Ways To Honor The Blessed Virgin Mary In Her Month Of May:
Have a Mary Crowning at home or participate at church
Participate in a May Procession
Create a Mary Garden
Pray the full Rosary – 15 decades
Pray the Litany of Loreto
Take a Marian Pilgrimage
Grow in First Saturday Devotion
Offer/renew a Total Consecration as prescribed by St. Louis de Montfort
Pray the Regina Coeli/Angelus at all 3 hrs/daily
Enroll in the Brown Scapular
Enroll in the Sodality of the BVM (Miraculous Medal)
Share a Marian Devotion with others
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Mary Garden
Here’s some inspiration for all those desiring to fix up their Mary Gardens or create one for the first this May, the month of Our Blessed Mother.
AD JESUM PER MARIAM
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The Mary Garden is an old idea which dates back to the Middle Ages when many flowers referred to the Virgin’s life and virtues.
Every monastery and convent had a special Mary garden to provide flowers to adorn the altar. It was because of the abundance of flowers in May that it became Mary’s month, and the people delighted in decorating her statue and altar with flowers.
The little people found their Mary gardens in the field and forests, where so many flowers spoke to them of some aspect of Our Lady and her Divine Son.
It is said that then, in those happy days of Faith, the flowers honored Mary, the choicest Flower of All, the Mystical Rose; everyone knew that it was she of whom Solomon sang: I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
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It is not difficult to make your own Mary garden…it is a grouping of flowers, ivy or herbs dedicated to Our Lady. Strictly speaking, all the plants in it should be associated with her in some way.
If you already have a flower garden, you can dedicate a part of it to the project. Start with flowers already commonly grown in home gardens in your area – no special gardening knowledge is needed. This small garden may expand and develop with time (on Our Lady’s feast days) Indoor or patio gardeners can plant different varieties of Marian flowers, herbs or ivy in a single pot, or make a grouping of plants around a statue of the Blessed Virgin
An indoor Mary garden planting in a decorative pot makes a wonderful gift for a friend or elderly person devoted to Our Lady.
The Mary garden is also a wonderful group project for the home-schooling family. All the family members can learn the charming old religious names of flowers and herbs and begin again to see the things of Heaven in the world around us. – Tradition In Action
#jffmarygarden#marygarden#mariangarden#marysgarden#marygardenchallenge#catholicgarden
We planted our first Mary Garden 17 years ago at the prompting of our young daughter.
It was our grandest garden which we did not get to watch take full bloom because we were gifted some major crosses shortly after. We were forever changed physically and spiritually.
Since then, we never replanted a full Mary Garden on that same scale. But we have celebrated many of her feast days with the purchase of a Marian Flower which we placed in a patio/porch garden.
We found our resources online during those early years, no children’s book to bring it all to life.
I was delighted to learn about a new release from @tan_books , A GARDEN FOR MARY by @neenagaynor illustrated by @bernadette_gockowski_art
All the boys and I took a trip to the local nursery (and invited Nana) to gather some Marian flowers and one son led the crew with his book in hand, referencing the flowers listed in the back.
This is a book I wish I had when my three girls were little! But my three little boys are loving it and my other two boys take delight in reading/listening to it.
This book is a real gem that is perfect for any month or occasion and is sure to be loved by a child of any age.
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Do you have a Mary Garden or purchase Marian plants? I’d love to hear!
#jffmarygarden#marygardenchallenge#ourladysflower
A Mary Garden Prayer
Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
As our hearts are raised to you in love and thanksgiving through the light, grace, fragrance and symbolism of these pure, blest, transfigured flowers of Our Lady – your direct creations, showing forth and sharing with us your divine goodness, beauty and truth – we commune with you in awe and rapture and pray that we and all our brothers and sisters may be opened to the fullness of the divine love of God and Neighbor, through which we are to transform the fallen world into the culminating earthly Peaceable Kingdom and Paradise, that all may be lifted up resplendent in the eternal New Heaven and New Earth of our Crucified and Risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Amen
Mary Garden Resources:
- Statues & Books for easy ordering – JOYfilledfamily Amazon Storefront
- Mary Garden Themed Birthday – JOYfilledfamily
Mission Santa Clara
We had a glorious Friday outing on the feast of St. Anselm.
We visited one of the California missions with our beloved Sisters and friends — all to venerate the miraculous Catalá Crucifix.
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O God, let me know you and love you so that I may find joy in you; and if I cannot do so fully in this life, let me at least make some progress every day, until at last that knowledge, love and joy come to me in all their plenitude.
While I am here on earth let me know you fully; let my love for you grow deeper here, so that there I may love you fully. On earth then I shall have great joy in hope, and in heaven complete joy in the fulfillment of my hope.
O, Lord, through your Son you command us, no, you counsel us to ask, and you promise that you will hear us so that our joy may be complete. Give me then what you promise to give through your Truth. You, O God, are faithful; grant that I may receive my request, so that my joy may be complete. #stanselm
Mission Santa Clara
We had a glorious Friday outing on the feast of St. Anselm.
We visited one of the California missions with our beloved Sisters and friends — all to venerate the miraculous Catalá Crucifix.
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O God, let me know you and love you so that I may find joy in you; and if I cannot do so fully in this life, let me at least make some progress every day, until at last that knowledge, love and joy come to me in all their plenitude.
While I am here on earth let me know you fully; let my love for you grow deeper here, so that there I may love you fully. On earth then I shall have great joy in hope, and in heaven complete joy in the fulfillment of my hope.
O, Lord, through your Son you command us, no, you counsel us to ask, and you promise that you will hear us so that our joy may be complete. Give me then what you promise to give through your Truth. You, O God, are faithful; grant that I may receive my request, so that my joy may be complete. #stanselm
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Happy Low Sunday
We had good family fun making these sweet treats for our family Easter celebration on the First Sunday after Easter — we celebrate every Sunday of Easter in a special way.
How do you celebrate during Eastertide (50 days after Easter Sunday)?
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Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that we, who have completed the paschal solemnities may, through Thy merciful bounty, ever retain them in our life and conversation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who lives and reigns with Thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
– Collect of Low Sunday
📸Our first ever Easter Lamb Cakes. The first is a traditional one made from a lemon bundt cake with candid fruit and dusted with powder sugar.
The second is a Rice Krispies cake with candy embellishments. Both were made per my children’s ideas and help.
Thanks to Therese @kolbeslittleflowers for the prompting to make these cakes for her Easter Lamb Cake contest.
INSTRUCTION ON HOLY WEEK
Taken from Fr. Leonard Goffine’s Explanations of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, Holydays, and Festivals throughout the Ecclesiastical Year36th edition, 1880
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Why is this week called Holy Week?
THIS week is called Holy Week because during it we celebrate the most holy mysteries of our religion, and in all her offices and ceremonies the Church refers in quiet mournfulness to the passion and death of our Redeemer.
What remarkable things did Christ do during the first four days of this week?
After He had entered, the temple at Jerusalem on Palm Sunday amidst the greatest rejoicings of the people, and, was saluted by the children with that cry of joy : “Hosanna to the Son of David,” He drove the buyers and sellers out of the temple, and when He had spent the entire day in preaching and healing the sick, He went in the evening to Bethania, where He remained over night in Lazarus’ house, because in Jerusalem no one wished to receive Him for fear of His enemies. The three following days He spent in Jerusalem, teaching in the temple, and passing the night in prayer on Mount Olivet.
In His sermons during these days He strove especially to convince the Jewish priests, the Doctors of the Law and the Pharisees, that He was really the Messiah, and that they would commit a terrible sin by putting Him to death; that they would bring themselves and the whole Jewish nation to destruction. This ruin of the people He illustrated most plainly causing the fig-tree to wither under His curse, and by foretelling the destruction of the city and the temple of Jerusalem. He disputed with them, and confounded them, and brought them publicly to shame by parables, so that out of anger and hatred they with one mind determined to kill Him. The impious Judas aided the most in the execution of their design; through avarice he sold Him for thirty pieces of silver (about eighteen dollars in our money) to the chief priests, and the next day, Thursday, became His betrayer and delivered Him over into their hands.
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