Mes de Maria - Day 6

May 6

The Lily

After the rose all the great family of lilies occupy a preferential place in our gardens, and from them, we take that which stand out all of them. The lily stands erect towards the sun and inclines its head when it passes. Its colour is pure white and its fragrance so strong that its excess almost hurts the weak and sick sense of smell.

The Catholic faith

The lily is the emblem, figure, and image of purity of the soul. Purity and not chastity result from the union of the soul with God. The soul is pure as much as it unites intensively with the purity, that is God, and since this union is founded on faith, hope and love; faith is the beginning of her purity: Fide purificans corda eorum.

Floral offering to Mary

Mother of all the believers, help me in my unbelief. I believe all that our Holy Mother Church believes and commands us to believe. I commit myself in fomenting and cultivating this flower with holy meditations: I intend to study and meditate the mysteries and the truths that Religion proposes to me. I promise to live firmly in the catholic faith and to keep pure until death. Receive, oh Mary, these intentions of mine; accept this flower and present it to God your Son, eternal truth.

Recite five Hail Marys

Invitation: How is faith in your soul? What did you do to form in yourself the true idea of God? How do you think of God? When do you think of God? How do you look at God?

Text: Mes de Maria - Francisco Palau, OCD - CM Founder