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May Crowning

May Crowning:

Crowning statues of Mary, during the month of May, is a long standing tradition in the Catholic Church. May is the month we dedicate to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and honoring our spiritual mother, by crowning her near or on the weekend we celebrate Mother’s Day, is a beautiful tradition! To help our children experience this wonderful tradition, during the pandemic of 2020, we crowned our statue of Mary that we have on our fireplace mantle. We sang the song, "Sing of Mary," and lit a candle next to our statue, while our oldest crowned Mary with a paper-crown we'd made. If you want to make an easy flower crown for your Mary statue, here are some easy directions from the website, “Catholic Inspired.” 

My family then took our May crowning of Mary a step further on Mother's Day, when I gave my children each a couple of flowers from the bouquet they'd given me, and we drove to church. My husband and I had our children place flowers at the statue of Mary in the church's outside rosary garden, and then we prayed a "Hail Mary" together as a family. We got the idea to lay flowers before a statue of Mary from Father Donald Calloway's book, "Under the Mantel," which is a book I highly recommend reading if you haven't. I hope you and your family will incorporate the "May Crowning of Mary" into your family's tradition if you don't already do so.  


Below is a link to the song "Sing of Mary" 


(Our May crowning of our outdoor Mary statue May 2021)




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