May is Mary's Month
"Be thou then, O thou dear / Mother, my atmosphere; / My happier world, wherein / To wend and meet no sin; / Above me, round me lie / Fronting my froward eye / With sweet and scarless sky; / Stir in my ears, speak there / Of God’s love, O live air, / Of patience, penance, prayer: / World-mothering air, air wild, / Wound with thee, in thee isled, / Fold home, fast fold thy child."
~ from The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe by Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ










