May Crowning

The Respect Life Committee (RLC) at our parish is having a fundraiser this weekend. It's a Mother-Daughter Tea in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it will culminate in a May Crowning. Since we've been at our parish - this is now our fourth summer here - we haven't had one, and our music/liturgical director told me that she'd wanted to have one for a while but was too overwhelmed with her regular duties to try to organize it. (We are a small parish with only one priest, so much of the duties that our other parish assigned to the priests fall to the layity here.)

So, I've been directing and organizing the tea, and today I realized that we are really, really going to pull it off. Thank you all who prayed for the ticket sales we had this past weekend. We sold thirty tickets over the weekend, and might have a few more sold to my homeschool co op.

God is so good!

Since I'm kind of procrastinating here on what I'm supposed to be doing (baking cookies for the Confirmation reception tonight - our bishop is at our parish!), I thought I'd kind of let you in on what will be happening.

We'll be having coffee, tea, and lemonade to drink. Teapots will be at each table with hot water in them for people to pour for themselves. We'll have various teas out at each table and we'll start off the food servings with small fruit cups. After that, we'll serve a choice of small quiches or finger sandwiches. To finish up, we'll serve something sweet: little cakes, cookies, or brownies. (I'm guessing this will be the most popular part.) During this time, while everyone is snacking, we'll have discussions at each table on how the Blessed Virgin is the perfect example for women - she is our role model! After we have a chance to snack and talk, we'll wrap up with a short ceremony and go outside to crown the big statue of Mary that stands outside of our social hall.

I still have to make the crown and do the shopping.

But, really, it's all coming together. And I'm so pleased!

Thank You, God, for allowing us to honor Your mother! May what we do help bring people closer to her and, as a result of that devotion, also draw them closer to You. Alleluia! Amen!