May - Beautiful Month of Mary

By Tom Dennehy

May is one of the most beautiful months of the year and it is very fitting that throughout this month we honour Mary our Mother who cares so much for each and every one of us as our spiritual mother. She tells us in Medjugorje, “If you knew how much I love you, you would cry with joy”.

In her latest message in Medjugorje on April 25th. Our Lady has given us a beautiful message:

“Dear Children, I am calling all of you to be carriers of the Peace and Joy of the Risen Jesus for all those who are far from prayer that the love of Jesus , through your lives, may transform them to a new life of conversion and holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call. “

Mother Mary is giving us all our mission to be joyful and loving in a world dominated by hatred, division and war. This shared love of the Risen Lord begins in our own relationships, our own communities and then spreading out to the wider world. If the Love of God was given free reign in our world for just 24 hours, what a changed world we would have .

Our Blessed Mother is constantly pointing us in the direction of Her Son Jesus who is present in the Holy Mass in Body, Soul and Divinity and He is also present in Adoration. Jesus wants to live in our hearts and we need some quiet time with Him in order to develop a personal relationship with Him.

The love of God for each of us is fundamental and if fully grasped and understood, it would transform not alone ourselves but the entire world.

To know God’s unconditional, everlasting and infinite love for us is life changing when we allow it to take hold in our lives. This is what our faith is all about and is what the good news of the gospel speaks of.

During this month dedicated to Mary, nature is in full bloom giving glory to God and His creation. It is the month when special devotions are performed in honour of our Blessed Mother. We set up altars in our homes,in our schools and churches. We meet at local grottos to pray the rosary and we go on pilgrimages to Marion shrines.

We celebrate many great feast days in May beginning on May 1st with St. Joseph the worker. On May 13th we celebrate Our Lady of Fatima which is also the feast day of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament.

During May we sing so many beautiful hymns in honour of Mary. We recite the Rosary and when we add the litany we give Mary as many as fifty different titles such as Mother of God, Mother of Divine Grace, Mother Most Pure, Ark of the Covenant, Queen of Angels and Queen of Saints to name but a few. Our world today is very unstable and evil abounds in so many ways. We need Our Blessed Mother to point us in the right direction and she is imploring us to fast and pray the rosary as she tells us it is our greatest weapon to counter evil and to win the battle that is currently raging in order to defeat Satan.

She is our Queen of Peace and in our world ravaged by war we need to turn to her and by our prayer help her to restore peace in our own lives and in our world.

Message of May 25th.1988:

“Dear children, I am inviting you to a complete surrender to God. Pray, little children, that Satan may not carry you about like the branches in the wind. Be strong in God. I desire that through you the whole world may get to know the God of Joy.By your life bear witness for God’s joy. Do not be anxious or worried. God himself will help you and show you the way. I desire that you love all people with my love. Only in that way will love reign all over the world. Little children you are mine. I love you and I want you to surrender to me so that I can lead you to God. Never cease praying so that Satan cannot take advantage of you. Pray for the knowledge that you are mine.

I bless you with the blessings of joy. Thank you for having responded to my call. “