Ave Maria!— May’s Theme: Mary Most Holy

“The month of May is the most beautiful month of the year. Yes, how this month preaches well the sweetness and the beauties of Mary! Upon thinking of the innumerable benefits that this dear Mammina (literally: Mommy) has done for me, [I am] ashamed for not having looked enough upon Her Heart and Her Hands that, with much abundance, have conferred [these benefits] upon me.”

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Ave Maria!— May’s Theme: Mary Most Holy

“My poor Mamma! How much She loves me! I have noticed it again at the beginning of this beautiful month of May. With what care has She accompanied me to the altar this morning. It seemed as if She had nothing else to think of if not me alone, filling my whole heart with holy affection.”

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Ave Maria!— May’s Theme: Mary Most Holy

“This dear Mammina continues to solicitously lend me Her maternal care, especially in this month of May. Her care for me reaches to the point of refinement. […]. What have I done to merit such exquisiteness? Has not my conduct perhaps been one continual lie, I do not say as Her son, but also with the very name of Christian? And yet, this most tender Mother in Her great mercy, wisdom, and goodness has willed to punish me in exalted way by pouring out into my heart many graces […]; I feel myself tightly united bound to the Son by means of this Mother, without even seeing the chains that so tightly bind me.”

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Ave Maria!— May’s Theme: Mary Most Holy

5- “How many times I confided to this Mother the painful anxieties of my agitated heart, and how many times She has consoled me! But what was my gratitude? In the greater afflictions it seemed to me to have no more mother on earth, but to have a merciful one in heaven. But how many times when my heart was calmed did I almost completely forget everything! I almost even forgot my duties of gratitude toward this blessed Heavenly Mammina!”

6- “I would like to have a voice so strong as to invite all of the sinners in the world to love Our Lady. But since it is not within my power to do so, I prayed and will pray to my little Angel to fulfill this office for me.”

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Ave Maria!— May’s Theme: Mary Most Holy

“Our common enemy continues to make war against me […]. He wants me to lose at all costs. He presents to my mind the painful scene of my life, and what is worse he insinuates to me thoughts of desperation. But I am much obliged to our common Mother Mary in being able to resist these snares of the enemy.”

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Ave Maria!— May’s Theme: Mary Most Holy

“It displeases me to not have any sufficient means to be able to thank our beautiful Virgin Mary, through whose intercession I do not at all doubt having received so much strength from the Lord to support with sincere resignation the many mortifications to which I am subject day after day.”

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Ave Maria!— May’s Theme: Mary Most Holy

“In certain moments the fire that is within is so much that I try everything to get away from Jesus and Mary, to go in search of water, ice water to throw inside of me. But, woe is me! […]. I am immediately aware of being very unhappy because it is then like never before that I feel myself not freed. I feel that the chains that my eyes cannot see, bind me tightly to Jesus and to His beloved Mother. And it is in these moments, in which I feel that my blood is flowing to my heart and from my heart to my head, that I am tempted to shout at them in Their faces and call the Son cruel and the Mother a tyrant.”

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Ave Maria!— May’s Theme: Mary Most Holy

“The strength of Satan who fights against me is terrible, but long live God because He has placed the cause of my health, the success of the good victory in the hands of our Heavenly Mother. Protected and guided by such a tender Mother, I will stay to fight until God wants, sure and full of confidence in this Mother so as to never succumb.”

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Ave Maria!— May’s Theme: Mary Most Holy

“May the Sorrowful Mother obtain for us from Her Most Holy Son to be able to penetrate ever more into the mystery of the Cross, and to inebriate ourselves, in union Her, with the sufferings of Jesus. The most certain proof consists in suffering with the one loved, and after the Son of God has suffered so many pains out of pure love, there should be no doubt that the cross carried for Him becomes lovable as love.”

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Ave Maria!— May’s Theme: Mary Most Holy

“May the Most Holy Virgin obtain for us a love for the cross, for pains and for sufferings. And may She, who was the first to practice the Gospel in all its perfection, in all its severity, even before it was published, obtain this also for us. And may She Herself give to us the incentive to immediately come close to Her.”

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