MONTH of the BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
In addition to the myriad feast days honoring Our Lady under her many titles and virtues, the entire month of May is especially given to her praise. In the words of Pope Paul VI, May is "a month which the piety of the faithful has long dedicated to Mary, the Mother of God … For this is the month during which Christians, in their churches and their homes, offer the Virgin Mother more fervent and loving acts of homage and veneration; and it is the month in which a greater abundance of God's merciful gifts comes down to us from our Mother's throne."
PRAYER
Holiest Virgin, with all my heart I venerate you above all the angels and saints in heaven as the daughter of the Eternal Father, and I consecrate to you my soul with all its powers. Holiest Virgin, with all my heart I venerate you above all the angels and saints in heaven as the Mother of the only-begotten Son, and I consecrate to you my body with all its senses. Holiest Virgin, with all my heart I venerate you above all the angels and saints in heaven as the beloved Spouse of the Holy Spirit, and I consecrate to you my heart with all its affections. Holiest Virgin, intercede for me with the Holy Trinity that I may obtain the graces I need for my salvation. To you I entrust all my worries and miseries, my life and the end of my life, so that all my actions may be directed by the divine plan.
Holiest Virgin, with all my heart I venerate you above all the angels and saints in heaven as the daughter of the Eternal Father, and I consecrate to you my soul with all its powers. Holiest Virgin, with all my heart I venerate you above all the angels and saints in heaven as the Mother of the only-begotten Son, and I consecrate to you my body with all its senses. Holiest Virgin, with all my heart I venerate you above all the angels and saints in heaven as the beloved Spouse of the Holy Spirit, and I consecrate to you my heart with all its affections. Holiest Virgin, intercede for me with the Holy Trinity that I may obtain the graces I need for my salvation. To you I entrust all my worries and miseries, my life and the end of my life, so that all my actions may be directed by the divine plan.