IT'S MAY, TIME TO REMEMBER THE MAY QUEEN!
Remember how excited we were for the May Queen crowning?
On the first or second Sunday in May, some lucky little eighth-grade girl would be selected as the May Queen. And she got to decorate a special Altar to Our Lady. It was a huge honor.
The lucky girl would be all dressed in white and slowly process up the church aisle to the front, where the Statue of the Virgin Mary was. And then she would climb this rickety little ladder, and we’d all hold our breath. And she would place that circle of flowers on the head of the Virgin Mary. It was such a thrill to have that special honor.
I never got to be the May Queen.
But I did learn the song, “Bring Flowers of the Fairest.”
O Mary! we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May,
O Mary! we crown thee with blossoms today,
Queen of the Angels, Queen of the May. - Nuns-4-Fun