This listing is to reserve a candle for you during the group service on The Coronation of Mary- The Crowning. You will have one candle dressed, blessed, and lit in honor of your request to The Blessed Mother. Mary will be venerated, honored, and praised through offerings, prayers, and a crowing of her statue.
 
While May is traditionally known as the Month of Mary in our Catholic Faith, our Liturgical Calendar places two important feast days in her honor in August, the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven on August 15th followed by the Memorial of the Queenship of Mary on August 22nd
 
Revelation 12:1-6 gives us great insight into the honor Christ has given his mother. A sign appears in the heavens! A woman crowned with twelve stars and adorned with the sun. She stands on the moon, about to give birth to a male child. A son “who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron.
 
In all of human history, no woman has ever been granted so much honor as Mary. It is fitting to see her adorned with a crown.
 
Honored not only by her son but by the entire kingdom. In her turn, the queen mother acted as an advocate for the people, bringing petitions to her son, but never usurping his authority.
 
By better understanding the honor Christ gives his mother we better understand the honor we should give her. Mary is not just another holy woman. She is the Queen Mother. It is an honor Jesus gives her. It is also a gift he gives us. Mary, as Queen Mother, is an advocate for us. It is a role Christ has given her. Do not be afraid to go to her. Do not be afraid to honor her as Queen Mother. In doing so you glorify Christ by imitating him and accepting the gift he has given us in Mary.
 
As the Pontiff wrote in the encyclical  “From the earliest ages of the Catholic Church a Christian people, whether in time of triumph or more especially in time of crisis, has addressed prayers of petition and hymns of praise and veneration to the Queen of Heaven. And never has that hope wavered which they placed in the Mother of the Divine King, Jesus Christ; nor has that faith ever failed by which we are taught that Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, reigns with a mother's solicitude over the entire world, just as she is crowned in heavenly blessedness with the glory of a Queen.”
 
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As always, many blessings and thank you for your patronage.
 
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