Catholic Word of the Day: MAY CROWNING, 11-23-12

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MAY CROWNING

A solemn procession, during the month of May, at the close of which a statue of the Blessed Virgin is crowned with a garland of roses or other appropriate ornament. There is a special honor attached to being chosen to crown the statue. A May crowning is often the high point of public devotion to Our Lady in a diocese, parish, or Catholic institution.

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Veneration -- not worship

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[RnMomof7]

Does it not indicate Mary /QUEEN OF HEAVEN??

[jacknhoo]

May Crowning (further explanation)
http://www.fisheaters.com/customseastertide5.html

[BipolarBob]

That and a mixing of the pagan May pole (phallic reference) celebrations.

[D-fendr]

You spot it, you got it.

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So sad that some people cannot honor Mary as Christ’s mother.

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Nothing pagan at all. Just Christ honoring his mother.

[jacknhoo]

Excerpt from Evidence Of Satan In The Modern World:
http://www.ewtn.com/library/NEWAGE/EVIDSATN.HTM

St. Louis Grignion de Montfort in his celebrated treatise Concerning True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin. Speaking of the hostility between Mary and Satan, the saint writes:

‘God has only fashioned and shaped one enmity, and that an irreconcilable one, which will endure and even increase, until the end: it is that between the Virgin Mary and the Devil, between the children and servants of the Blessed Virgin and the children and accomplices of Satan; so that the most terrible of the enemies of Satan created by God is Mary, his Blessed Mother. Even from the days of the Earthly Paradise, when she was still only a thought in the mind of God, he endowed her with so much hatred of this accursed enemy of God, so much concern to expose the malice of this old Serpent, so much strength to overcome, cast down and trample on his impious pride, that the Devil fears her more, not only than men and angels but, in a certain sense, than God himself. It is not that the wrath, the power and the hatred of God are not infinitely greater than those of the Blessed Virgin, since Mary's perfections are limited: it is because, in the first place, Satan, being proud, suffers infinitely more from being overcome and punished by the little, humble servant of God, her humility humiliating him more than the divine power; and secondly, because God has given Mary such great power over devils that, as they have often been obliged to admit, in spite of themselves, through the mouths of possessed persons, they are more afraid of one of her sighs of grief over some poor soul, than of the prayers of the saints, and more daunted by a single threat from her than by all their other torments’ (loc. cit. No. 52).

It would do the misled protestants well, who act against the Mother of God, to read the text of the whole link...there is a serious warning for them there, straight from the mouth of a devil.