We got in a little over our heads on Mother’s Day. Well actually a little on Mary’s head. Actually, make that four heads. We were so wanting to honor Mary as our Mother on Mother’s Day that we had FOUR May Crownings – something we haven’t done here before.
Mary, the first Handmaid of the Lord, is our Mother. She is everyone’s Mother as Jesus intended on the Cross. May is considered her month devotionally and it just made sense to honor her this way on Mother’s Day. So we made a whole day of it starting not long after a foggy sunrise in the Mary Mother of Priests Garden and crowning her statue that faces east while singing Marian hymns.
Later, we crowned two other indoor statues, one in our Chapel to be moved to a dormitory area later. Another larger one in the refectory. And finally at the completion of the day, crowning Our Lady of Fatima in the Mater Dei Oratory.
We can never say enough to honor Mary says Saint Bernard. Likewise, we can never crown her Queen of our hearts too often as she is not only the first Handmaid of the Lord but also his most perfect disciple.
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- Sister Therese Bernadette at sunrise crowning the Mary Mother of Priests Garden
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- The statue faces east
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- Sister Mary Genevieve gets it just right!
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- Refectory crowning
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- Sister Angela Rose crowns the Virgin in Chapel
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- Handmaid and Queen
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- Postulant Hannah crowns the Virgin in the Mater Dei Oratory
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- Our Lady of Fatima crowned