Ave Maria!— May’s Theme: Mary Most Holy
“This dear Mammina continues to solicitously lend me Her maternal care, especially in this month of May. Her care for me reaches to the point of refinement. […]. What have I done to merit such exquisiteness? Has not my conduct perhaps been one continual lie, I do not say as Her son, but also with the very name of Christian? And yet, this most tender Mother in Her great mercy, wisdom, and goodness has willed to punish me in exalted way by pouring out into my heart many graces […]; I feel myself tightly united bound to the Son by means of this Mother, without even seeing the chains that so tightly bind me.”
