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In the Philippines, Mary is fêted in May with the Flores de Mayo ("Flowers of May"), where devotees collect colourful flowers with which to decorate the altars of parish churches and visitas (cf. chancel flowers). [17] Catholic communities often congregate in the afternoons to pray the Rosary, offer flowers to an image of the Virgin Mary, and ...
In Christian iconography plants appear mainly as attributes on the pictures of Christ or the Virgin Mary. Christological plants are among others the vine, the columbine, the carnation and the flowering cross, which grows out of an acanthus plant surrounded by tendrils. Mariological symbols include the rose, lily, olive, cedar, cypress and palm ...
In today's day and age various temples and some devout households in Venezuela celebrate the Virgin Rosa Mystica on the 13th of each month. These celebrations include the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, the praying of the rosary, and the Holy Mass, in accordance with the Virgin's requests to Pierina during her apparitions.
Flores de Mayo (Spanish for "flowers of May") is a festival held in the Philippines in the month of May. It is one of the May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary and lasts for the entire month. The Santacruzan (from the Spanish santa cruz , "holy cross") is the ritual pageant held on the last day of the Flores de Mayo .
It is a part of a novena for prayer beginning on July 7, [2] [3] July 8, [4] and in time of need. [5] On June 28th 1852, it was given a hundred days indulgence by Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop of Westminster, [4] in favour of Carmelites and any other Christian believer, which recite three daily prayers during nine consecutive days or Saturdays.
Saint Patrick's Breastplate" is an Old Irish prayer of protection of the "lorica" type (hence "Lorica Sancti Patricii", or "The Lorica of Saint Patrick") attributed to Saint Patrick. Its title is given as Faeth Fiada in the 11th-century Liber Hymnorum that records the text.
Flos Carmeli (Latin, "Flower of Carmel") is a Marian Catholic hymn and prayer honouring Our Lady of Mount Carmel.. In the Carmelite Rite of the Mass, this hymn was the sequence for the Feast of Saint Simon Stock (c. 1165 - 1265), and since 1663, for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July throughout the Latin liturgical rites.
The Hail Mary (Latin: Ave Maria) or Angelical salutation [1] [2] is a traditional Catholic prayer addressing Mary, the mother of Jesus. The prayer is based on two biblical passages featured in the Gospel of Luke: the Angel Gabriel's visit to Mary (the Annunciation) and Mary's subsequent visit to Elisabeth, the mother of John the Baptist (the ...