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

“Let us associate ourselves with this Mother so dear. Let us go out together with Her near Jesus, outside of Jerusalem, symbol and figure of that Judaic obstinacy, of the world that rejects and denies Jesus Christ, and from which Jesus Christ has declared Himself to be separated, having said: ‘I am not of this world’ and which He excluded from His prayer made to His Father: ‘I do not pray for the world’.”

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

15- “May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother obtain for us from Her Son the grace to live a life wholly according to the Heart of God, a life wholly interior and completely hidden in Him. May this dearest Mother unite us so tightly to Jesus as not to let us ever again be allured and enchanted by anything in this base world. May She always keep us close to that infinite amiability, to Jesus, and then only can we say with St. Paul to be sons of God in the midst of a depraved and corrupt nation.”

16- May the Holy Spirit always be the helmsman of the small ship of your soul. May Mary be its star that brightens the path; may She show you the sure way to go to the Heavenly Father; may She be its anchor, to which you must unite yourself ever more tightly in the time of trial.”

17- “As soon as the Mother of God had come through the gates of Paradise, the blessed comprensori(?) saw Her, and filled with wonder at Her beauty, they all greeted Her with joy and feasting, saluting Her and honoring Her with the most sublime titles; they prostrated themselves at Her feet, paid Her homage and unanimously proclaimed Her their Queen. To this feast of the angels the sacrosanct Triad (Trinity?) was united. The Father welcomes Her, His beloved and invites Her to take part in His power.”

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

“May the Holy Spirit fill your spirit with His most holy gifts. May the risen Jesus make you also experience a spark of His holy love, and reveal to you evermore the mysteries of the Cross. May the Sorrowful Virgin obtain for you from Her most holy Son, a true and sincere love for the cross, and to inebriate your soul with it.”

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

19- “As much as the graces and favors of Jesus grow within your soul, all the more you must humble yourself, always bearing in mind the humility of our Heavenly Mother of God, who declared Herself servant and handmaid of that same God.”

20- “Remember that which happened in the Heart of our Heavenly Mother at the foot of the Cross. She, because of the exuberance of suffering, remained petrified before Her crucified Son, but one cannot say that She was abandoned by Him. on the contrary, how much more did He love Her then because She suffered and could not cry?”

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

“Let us take heart […] amidst the darkness of the Passion of the Master. I say amidst this darkness since I leave you to consider the Most Holy Virgin and St. John who, being at the foot of the Cross amidst the most frightening darkness, could no longer listen to Our Lord, nor could they see Him; and they had no other feeling than that of grief and sorrow. Although they were animated by faith, this was also in darkness as it was necessary that they participate in Our Lord’s abandonment.”

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

“What happiness to see Jesus in the desert without manna, without water and without any other consolations than those of being under His guidance and of suffering for Him! May the Most Holy Virgin be born in our hearts so as to bring to us Her blessings.”

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

“May the clement and compassionate Virgin continue to obtain for you from the infinite goodness of the Lord the strength to support, until the end, the many proofs of charity that He gives you with the increasing mortifications. I wish that you, having arrived at breathing your last with Jesus on the Cross, you may sweetly exclaim with Him: Conummatum est- It is consummated.”

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

“After the Ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven, Mary continually longed with the liveliest desire, to be reunited with Him. And oh! The burning sighs, the pitiful groans that She continually directed towards Him so that He would call Her again to Himself! Without Her divine Son it seemed to Her as to find Herself in the most bitter exile. Those years in which She had to be separated from Him were for Her the slowest and most painful martyrdom: a martyrdom of love that slowly consumed Her.”

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

“Jesus, Who was reigning in heaven with His most holy humanity, which He took from the womb of the Virgin, wanted that His Mother, too, be reunited to Him, not only with Her soul but with Her body as well, and to share fully of His glory. And this was quite just and dutiful. That body, which had never been a slave neither to the devil nor to sin, not even for an instant, should not have been a slave even to corruption.”

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

“What tongue could ever worthily describe the triumphant entry of Mary into heaven? If the triumphs that are prepared down here stir so much admiration and such enthusiasm to move and attract numerous people to behold them, what could one ever say of the triumph prepared by God Himself for His Mother?”

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