'Bring flowers of the rarest,' as the old Marian hymn says, is exactly what the boys and girls from our Parish Primary School did on Friday afternoon as we held our annual May devotions. The devotions in church should have been preceded by a procession from school to church. However, the weather was so wet in the morning that the procession was cancelled, and of course, the afternoon turned out to be bright and fair, if a little breezy!
We cannot vouch for the rarity of the flowers but they were certainly numerous; it is doubtful too, that they came from 'garden and woodland and hillside and dale,' more likely the local supermarkets, but come they did and all to honour Mary, the Mother of Jesus. We honour Mary for she is the one who brought Jesus to us and still, through her prayers, bring us to him.
For the rest of May, the processional statue will replace the one usually in church and the flowers will be maitained there for as long as they last.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Amen.
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