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Please enjoy today's meditation.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence.

I ask your pardon for my sins and grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My immaculate mother, St. Joseph, my father and Lord,

my guardian angel, intercede for me. The month of May has a special fragrance in the church,

and not only because there are more flowers, but because it is the

month of Our Lady, of Mary. It's the Marian month. And we bring flowers before the statues of our

mother. We probably pray the rosary more frequently and a little more slowly.

Maybe we have childhood memories or we remember pilgrimages and rosary walks that we undertook

in May.

And it's a month where we feel more tenderness. And then right at the

end, on the last day of this Marian month, the church celebrates the solemnity of the most

holy Trinity. May 31st in other years is the feast of the visitation of our lady.

This year, Mary seeds this day to the Holy Trinity, and we celebrate her feast day of the

visitation on June the 1st.

At first glance, these two truths of our faith,

or these two realities,

Mary and the Holy Trinity can seem very different. Mary as mother seems close to us, warm, human,

approachable, and that becomes palpable in the gospel of Luke, where we read, during those days, Mary set out and traveled to the hill country

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