Students celebrate the Crowing of Mary during school Mass with flowers, ceremony
Students at St. Francis Xavier (SFX) Catholic School celebrated the Crowning of Mary during Wednesday’s school Mass by laying flowers in front of a statue of the Virgin.
In the Catholic Church, May has been traditionally recognized as a “Marian month” in Mary’s honor. During this time, some parishes and schools around the world celebrate the Holy Mother with crowning ceremonies.
Pope Pius XII spoke to the queenship of Mary in his 1954 encyclical “Ad Caeli Reginam”:
“From the earliest ages of the catholic church a Christian people, whether in time of triumph or more especially in time of crisis, has addressed prayers of petition and hymns of praise and veneration to the Queen of Heaven. And never has that hope wavered which they placed in the Mother of the Divine King, Jesus Christ; nor has that faith ever failed by which we are taught that Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, reigns with a mother's solicitude over the entire world, just as she is crowned in heavenly blessedness with the glory of a Queen.”
Before Mass, students placed flowers around a statue of Mary in front of the church. After Mass, two 8th Graders placed a crown of flowers on Mary’s head.
St. Francis Xavier Catholic School is an accredited classical Catholic PreK-8 school in Birmingham’s Crestline neighborhood that uses the time-tested Catholic Intellectual Tradition to form students in virtue through the pursuit of academic excellence and service toward God and neighbor.
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