To all of our St. Thérèse Mission volunteers, liturgy servers, and staff, eucharistic ministers, mass sponsors and mass readers, choir master and cantors/singers, food donors, to all devotees and pilgrims... thank you to each and every one of you for making it beautiful. The Blessed Virgin Mary is surely delighted with our devotion, and her response comes with her assuring intercession, leading us to our Lord Jesus. Flores de Mayo is not simply a pageantry but a long-standing liturgical devotion that is Christ-centered, with its biblical, theological, and doctrinal catechesis. It's a visual, creative presentation of the Catholic Church's devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. That's why it's worth celebrating in the most solemn way possible. Again, thank you all for making it beautiful, and for making the rich devotion a tangible expression and encounter of God's divine mysteries. - Fr. J. Aquino, pacem (fb)

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