Have a May Crowning in your home
Adults and children may all take part.
Have every child bring whatever flowers can be found: lilacs, dandelions... or even just green leaves or fresh tips of evergreens. Most little children know the joy of bringing mom a gift of a bouquet. The little bouquet stands for the love the child has for mom. This also applies to our love for Mary, Jesus' mother and our mother.
Ideal would be that your Mary statue (or icon/picture!) also has Jesus on it! Mother and Child undivided!!!
You can then explain to the little ones that the reason we thank Mary is because she brought Jesus to us. We thank Mary and love her because she loved Jesus!
She also loves us and wants to do everything possible to bring us to Jesus.
When Jesus was a little boy, he probably picked his mother flowers, too - just like we do - and brought them to Mary!
You may make a crown from some of the flowers.
During the actual ceremony, have a procession that Everyone takes part in.
During the procession decades of the rosary, interspersed with songs can be prayed and sung.
While singing the hymn, a family member may place the crown on the statue, or the bouquet before the image.
Most commonly sung is this hymn:
Bring Flowers of the Rarest
Bring flowers of the rarest, bring flowers of the fairest
From garden and woodland and hillside and vale;
Our full hearts are swelling, our glad voices telling
The praise of the loveliest Rose of the vale.
Refrain:
O Mary, we crown you with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May.:
Our voices ascending, in harmony blending,
0, thus may our hearts turn, dear Mother, to thee.
0, thus shall we prove you how truly we love you;
How dark without Mary life's journey would be.
O Mary, we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May.
Prayer to Our Queen
Mary, Mother and Queen, accept our crown !
Queen of our hearts, your destiny is meant to be our destiny.
Teach us to love our God as you did, to love our neighbors as you did and, above all, to love our family as you loved yours.
We consecrate ourselves and our loved ones to you with the ancient prayer:
My Queen, my Mother, I give myself entirely to you, and to show my devotion to you,
I consecrate to you this day my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, my entire self without reserve.
As I am your own, my good Mother, guard me and defend me as your property and possession. Amen
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Mothers Day
