Mary in the month of May

Wisdom 7:7: 19:7

For she is the brightness of the everlasting light, the unspotted mirror of the power of God, and the image of his goodness.....And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends with God and prophets.

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You found grace and how vast a grace it was! So vast it utterly filled you. And this fullness was so immense it continues to pour down like a torrent on every living being.

Saint Peter Chrysostom.

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From the beggining, the virgin represents us all in her person. It is as if God awaited in her the response of that humanity to which he wills to unite himself.

Dom Colomba Marmion

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Until Mary had recieved love,

Love was first wild and then was tame:

Mary gave us for the lion a lamb.

She illuminated the darkness

That had been somber for long ages.

Hadewijch of Antwerp.

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Her eyes are eyes of gentle pity, wondering sadness, and with something more in them, something which makes her younger than evil, younger than the race from which she sprang: Although she is, by grace, Mother of the world, and mother of grace, she is also our littleset and youngest sister.

Georges Bernanos.

O glorious and happy faith!

O permanent and safe refuge from the storm of time!

The mother of God is my mother!

Saint Anslem

Springtime is a long feast for Mary, our mother. It is both the Spring of the year and the Spring of nature. Mary is the spring of the world and the spring of grace. The spring is the season of flowers, and she is the flower.

Abbe Meynard.

Isaiah 66:12-13

12For this is what the LORD says:
I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.
13 As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.