The "beautiful flower"

"The month of May cannot end; it must continue in our lives, because veneration, love, devotion to Our Lady cannot disappear from our hearts, on the contrary they must grow and be expressed in a testimony of Christian life, modeled on the example of Mary 'the name of the beautiful flower which I always invoke, morning and evening,' as the poet Dante sings (Paradise XXIII, 88).

"Cause of our joy, pray for us! Teach us to be able to grasp, in faith, the paradox of Christian joy, which springs up and blooms from sorrow, renunciation and union with your sacrificed Son: make our joy to be always genuine and full, in order to be able to communicate it to all! Amen."
—Pope Saint John Paul II, May 1979

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