Not only is May the month we celebrate Mother’s Day in the U.S., but more importantly, it is also our Blessed Mother’s month.
Fittingly, May ends with the Feast of the Visitation, when the Virgin Mary, in her generosity and humility, left her home to help her cousin Elizabeth, pregnant with John the Baptist. Elizabeth’s response to Mary was gratitude for her charity. Mary’s humble response to the opportunity to serve was to gift us with one of the most beautiful prayers in all of Christendom: The Magnificat.
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