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Rev. John Wyse's book 'Devout Exercises: Compromising Meditations and Visits to the Sanctuaries of the Blessed Virgin for Every Day in the Month of May' is online (http://saintsprayers.net/Rev.%20John%20Wyse%20-%20Meditation%20I.htm), I'd like to remind everyone who would like to begin some meditations to celebrate Mary's month.

"Every Catholic knows something about the devotion peculiar to the month of May. Hence it seems almost needless to observe, that its chief purport is to offer a public homage to Mary, the Mother of God, in common with the whole Catholic Church, by affectionately consecrating to her honour the most beautiful month of all the twelve. Through the experience of former years, we are most of us pretty well acquainted with this pious custom. It may not be amiss, however, to recal to mind at the outset, something of its history and object. The month of May has not always been consecrated to Our Lady. The devotion is of comparatively recent date in the Church: hardly earlier than the end of the last century. Let us learn, then, how it first began, and how it comes to be in such universal use at the present day."