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Love for Mary is as natural to the Christian as love for one’s own mother. She is, after all, the Mother of the Lord Jesus, who is at once our Savior and our Brother. In honoring her, we do not turn away from Christ but toward him more perfectly. As St. Louis-Marie de Montfort reminds us, we never give more honor to Jesus than when we honor his Mother, for we go to her only as a sure path leading to him. We worship Christ as God; we love and venerate Mary as his Mother — and as ours.

May arrives each year like a gentle homily written in blossoms and light. The darkness of winter gives way to color, warmth and new life. The Easter season unfolds in hope; and the Church, in her wisdom, invites us to turn our hearts in a particular way to Mary, the Mother of God and Mother of the Church. It is not by accident that this month — so alive with beauty — is dedicated to the one through whom Life Himself came into the world.

I have been informed by a number of priests about several attempted celebrations of marriage within the Diocese of Trenton (Mercer, Burlington, Monmouth and Ocean Counties) by former priests or others posing as bishops or priests who are not authorized by the Roman Catholic Church and the Diocese of Trenton to witness or officiate at weddings, thus making any attempted marriages of Catholics performed by them invalid.