Dear Brothers and Sisters,
1. The last week of the month of May begins this Sunday, the sixth in the Season of Easter, and will end next Saturday with the Feast of the Visitation of Mary to St Elizabeth.
In the northern hemisphere, the month of May marks the full reflowering of nature; it is also the season of the paschal “alleluia” which re-echoes throughout the Church a particularly favourable time to offer the new generations the gifts of the risen Christ: Baptism, First Communion, and Confirmation.
In addition, the Novena of Pentecost begins next Thursday with the feast of the Ascension of Christ into Heaven, and Christian communities will be able to relive the original experience of the Upper Room, where with one accord the disciples devoted themselves to prayer with the Mother of Jesus (cf. Acts 1: 14).
2. For the Apostles, Mary’s motherly presence reminded them of Christ: her eyes reflected the Saviour’s face; her immaculate heart preserved his mysteries, from the Annunciation to the Resurrection and the Ascension into Heaven, through his public life, passion and death.
In this sense one can say that the prayer of the Rosary was born in the Upper Room, because
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