MARY'S MONTH OF MAY IS THE TIME TO PRAY TO HER AS CO-REDEMPTRIX

Mary is the Mother of the Church, the type of the Church and the most perfect member of the Church

Continuing the Church’s promotion of devotion to Mary during the month of May, Pope Paul VI wrote his encyclical Mense maio in 1965, further building on the widespread popular dedication of this time of year to the Blessed Virgin. 

The opening lines of the encyclical are awash with Co-Redemptive theology, as Paul VI notes how “what other reason do we con…