Our Blessed Mother's Month of May-Mary Gardens

Go HERE to visit a wonderful site FULL of information on Marian Gardens..everything from the history of Mary Gardens, prayers and even what each of the different colors and flowers symbolize.

HAPPY PLANTING!


A Mary Garden Prayer

Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,

As our hearts are raised to you in love and thanksgiving through
the light, grace, wisdom, and growth of these pure, blest,
transfigured Flower signatures of Our Lady - your direct creations,
showing forth and sharing with us your divine goodness, beauty,
truth and glory - we commune with you in awe and rapture and pray
that we and all our brothers and sisters may be opened to the
fullness of the divine love of God and Neighbor, through which we
are to transform the fallen world into the culminating earthly
Peaceable Kingdom and Paradise, that all may be lifted up
resplendent in the eternal New Heaven and New Earth of our Crucified
and Risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in grateful return and to
the greater glory of the Father, in the union of the Holy Spirit of
Love for all eternity.

We beseech this through the redemption and mercy of The Heavenly,
Eucharistic Lamb that was Slain, and through the intercession
of:

St. Francis, apostle of the love of God in every creature,
St. Paul, teacher of the place of all Creation in the Divine
Plan of Redemption,
St. Patrick, sanctifier of nature to quicken devotion to God,
St. Colomban, ever alert to find God in the woods and fields,
St. Fiacre, re-opener of the world to the outpouring of
Divine healing love through garden herbs and flowers,
St. Rose of Lima, to whom the boy Jesus and his Mother were
present in the garden,
St. Isidore, assisted by Mary's angels in plowing the soil to feed
the hungry,
St. Phocas, digger of earth in the hope of the Resurrection,
St. Dorothy, bestower on earth of heavenly flowers and fruits,
St. Bernard, searcher of flowers for likenesses of Jesus and Mary,
St. Anselm, theologian of Our Lady's Queenship of redeemed nature,
St. Francis de Sales, quickener of spiritual life and growth
through the discernment of their mirroring in nature's unfolding,
St. John of the Cross, poet of the spiritual countryside
of the soul's mystical journey of love,
St. Louis de Montfort, nurtured in the spiritual paradise of Mary,
St. Theresa, showerer on earth of roses of heavenly love and grace,
St. Dominic, missionary of the power of the Rosary,
St. John Eudes, drawn by union with the light Christ into the Heaven
of the Trinity,
St. John Chrysostom, beholder of resplendent earth as the radiance
of God's face,
St. Athanasius, dweller in heaven on earth,
St. Bonaventure, proclaimer of the fullness of Mary's blessed and
immaculate sharing and glorifying magnification of God's creating,
saving and renewing power,
St. Joseph, patron of all who labor for the building of God's Kingdom,
St. John, prophet of the descent of the Heavenly Jerusalem,
and of

Blessed and Glorious Mary, Ever Virgin, our Mother
Mystical Rose, Mediatrix of all Grace, and Queen of Heaven and
Earth, in the union of her Immaculate, Sorrowful and Glorified
Motherly Heart with the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.