New Thing- Make Mary Crowns!
Inspiration: BVM, May
Time: About an hour
Bottom Line: Oddly Satisfying.
Reflection: Today, we are celebrating two spring holy festivals at once: The Crowning of Mary as the May Queen and Rogation Day! Here are the descriptions of both celebrations from good old wiki:
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| The Littlest May Queen |
May crowning is a traditional Roman Catholic ritual
that occurs in the month of May of every year. In some countries, it
takes place on or about May 1, however, in many United States Catholic
parishes, it takes place on Mother's Day. An image or likeness of the Blessed Virgin Mary is ceremonially crowned to signify her as Queen of Heaven and the Mother of God. The practice is also maintained in the same fashion by some Anglo Catholic Anglicans.
Rogation Days:
The faithful typically observed the Rogation days by fasting in preparation to celebrate the Ascension, and farmers often had their crops blessed by a priest at this time. A common
feature of Rogation days in former times was the ceremony of "beating the bounds", in which a procession of parishioners, led by the minister, churchwarden, and choirboys, would proceed around the boundary of their parish and pray for its protection in the forthcoming year.
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| A blessing Wreath |
Since today is Rogation Day, we decided to make our own Marian Festival to combined the spirit of them both. St. David's is not a parish that celebrates Rogation (or Mary much for that matter), so D. and I made a procession around the grounds of two to collect flowers, sing hymns, and say prayers for the grounds, the buildings, the bees and the garden. After collecting the flowers, we fashioned crowns out of wire and wrapped the flowers around them with ribbon. We do not have a statue of Mary to crown, we we thought she wouldn't mind if we wore the crowns in her honor. Thanks Mary!
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