A Child's Prayer to Mary

Holy Mary, mother fair, Filled with love for God,

Pray for us in all our needs.

Pray for us todAY

As St. Pius X gets ready for the annual Crowning of

our Mother Mary, I began looking for a prayer to

include in this week’s newsletter. There are a

myriad of beautiful prayers dedicated to our blessed

Mother but looking through my rather interesting

lens of life none were capturing the true heart of

her beautiful ministry both on earth and in heaven.

So, as He does so much of the time, the Holy Spirit

led me back to a moment that clarified what I have

been searching for.

As I was walking by the classrooms last week, I

happened to notice the children saying a decade of

the rosary. It was one of those beautiful moments

of time. Interestingly, at the time I was thinking of

what I had to check off on my to-do list so it didn’t

hit me until later. The innocence and earnestness of

the students, especially the little ones (I could

watch the lower grades interact all day

long…hilarious) as they prayed to the Mother of our

Savior Jesus Christ, brought me to what I consider

the core of our adoration of Mary. Simply put, it is

the innocence of a child’s faith in the presence of

Mary and her Son’s love poured out to us. Nothing

could be purer.

If you have the chance to join us Friday morning,

May 24 at 11:15 a.m. as we celebrate the beautiful

crowning of our blessed Mother, filled with the

beautiful songs and prayers we know, sneak a

glance at pure love in action, the earnest prayer of a

child to the Mother of Christ.

-When leading a second grade CCD class, the kids

each had to illustrate a passage of the Hail Mary.

The first picture was of a woman clearly meant to

be Mary, with grapes falling out of her sleeve.

When asked, the little boy explained, "Hail Mary,

full of grapes..."