A thread to adorn Mary in this month of Mary

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Dear Peonies,

It is one of my favorites too! Thanks for posting it! It reminds me of Mary’s Words to St. Juan Diego:
Am I not your Mother? Are you not in the Crossing of my arms?
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To live the New Life in Christ, given to us in Baptism, we need to remain in Him, and remain in her arms as the little lamb is resting with Jesus, but is also alert!

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your Faithful. Kindle in us the Fire of Your Love. Jesus we trust in You! Mary, Mother of the Church pray for us.
 
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Dear Rob,

The second icon which has been called both “Our Lady of Tenderness” and our “Lady of Vladimir” is perhaps my very favorite Icon because of the precious closeness of the Baby Jesus to His Mother. Their faces are so close and His tiny arm reaches around her neck, clinging to her in love. Yet her eyes are looking outward to us, to whom she has been give by Jesus from the Cross:
“Behold your Mother”.
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Mary takes her Motherhood very seriously as she takes everything Jesus said and did and ponders all in her heart. Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us, your children – born again by water and spirit into the Church, the Mystical Body of your Son, by Baptism.

The first icon you posted, “Our Lady of Perpetual Hope” is also dear and what is so sweet in this one, for me, is the way Jesus is holding on to Mary’s hand as He looks at the angel holding the sign of His Passion to come. In both icons we learn how we too need our Mother Mary. Thanks for posting the icons. They truly are as someone has said: “windows into heaven”
 
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To her we entrust the Church and her mission in the service of love:

Holy Mary, Mother of God,
you have given the world its true light,
Jesus, your Son - the Son of God.
You abandoned yourself completely
to God’s call
and thus became a wellspring
of the goodness which flows forth from him.
Show us Jesus. Lead us to him.
Teach us to know and love him,
so that we too can become
capable of true love
and be fountains of living water
in the midst of a thirsting world.

Deus Caritas Est, 42
 
One I discovered last year: Our Lady of Vailankanni, aka Our Lady of Good Health. (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
(This photo is from Tripadvisor.com )

For her feast day in September, they light up her shrine

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It is truly proper to glorify you,
O Theotokos.
The ever blessed, Immaculate, and
The Mother of our God.
More honorable than the Cherubim
and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, who a Virgin gave birth to
God the Word;
You, truly the Theotokos, we magnify.
 
Our Lady, Queen of Peace in Delaware, USA. She is 34 feet tall. There are several of these Marys cast by the same artist in different US states.
(The photo is from Roadside America. It is not my photo and I do not know the person in it. I included the photo with the person to show the size of Mary relative to a person. )

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This is the inside of the Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche in St. Augustine, FL. It is the oldest shrine in the US, dating back to the 1600s. It is supposed to be built on the site where the first Mass was said in the Americas by Spanish explorers.
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During this season of my life, I have quite a bit of devotion to Mary under this title.
 
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Mary, our mother, hail, full of grace.
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I’m a history geek and I remember reading how William the Conqueror - who was quite harsh to his new English subjects, and was reprimanded by the Pope for it - while dying expressed the closest intimacy and prayerful desire for intercession on his behalf by our blessed Lady. I think that is one of the mysteries of our Church and religion: that even warriors and the greatest and most powerful of men, when all this ended, entrust themselves to the “feminine genius” (as the Holy Father Pope Francis might put it) of our Lady.
 
Madonna in Blue, by Candelario Rivas, 1937. Rivas was well known as a painter of religious murals in Mexico, and came to Los Angeles in 1923 to escape the religious persecution of the Mexican Revolution.

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A May hymn we were taught as kids.

The sun is shining brightly, the trees are clothed in green .
A beauteous bloom of flowers on every side is seen.
The fields are gold and emerald and all the world is gay,
For `tis the month of Mary, the lovely month of May.

Chorus:
Mary dear mother,
we sing a hymn to thee;
Thou art the Queen of heaven,
Thou too our Queen shall be.
O rule us and guide us
Unto eternity.

There’s music in the heavens, the birds are singing there;
And nature’s songs and praises are sounding through the air.
And we with hearts rejoicing, with joy we sing today,
For `tis the month of Mary, the lovely month of May.

 
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The Virgin of Paris or Notre-Dame de Paris is a near life-size stone statue, 1.8 metres tall, of the Virgin and Child created in the early 14th century. The statue was commissioned for, and remains in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, where it survived the Notre Dame fire.

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