Glorious St. Anne, filled with compassion for those who invoke you, with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I kneel at your feet and humbly beg you to take my present need under your special protection (here mention your request). Recommend it to your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, for her intercession, and lay it before the throne of Jesus. Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace to one day meet God face to face, and with you and Mary and all the angels and saints, to praise Him through all eternity. Amen.
Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory Be…
A traditional novena prayer to St. Anne.
Dear St. Anne, you gave us the Mother of God who called herself the handmaid of the Lord. In your home, you raised the Queen of Heaven and you are rightly the model of homemakers. In your womb came to dwell the new Eve, uniquely conceived without sin. Intercede for us that we may remain free from sin. Amen.
A traditional prayer.
Remember, good Saint Anne, whose name means grace and mercy, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, I, sinful and sorrowful, come before you. Holy mother of the Immaculate Virgin Mary and loving grandmother of the Savior, do not reject my appeal, but hear and answer me. Amen.
A traditional prayer.
Not much is known about the holy St. Anne, except that she was the wife of St. Joachim and the mother of Our Lady. St. Anne gave birth to the Blessed Mother, who had been conceived without original sin in her womb–to Mary, our “life, our sweetness, and our hope” (cf. Hail Holy Queen), who brings us closer to Jesus. Think what a privilege was given to Saints Joachim and Anne, to be Mary’s parents and the grandparents of Jesus!
In the East, devotion to St. Anne “can be traced to the fourth century,” and her feast “was extended to the universal Latin Church in 1584” (EWTN). She is invoked especially by mothers, grandmothers and expectant mothers, and she has long been honored as patroness of women in labor.
The memorial of St. Anne and her holy husband St. Joachim is July 26.
A novena is a prayer offered on nine days in a row. Many Catholics pray the novena to St. Anne from July 17 to 25, ending on the eve of her feast, but it may be prayed at any time of need. Pray the novena prayer above each day, followed by an Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glory Be. EWTN gives a full nine-day novena to St. Ann.
Being a wife and mother is a beautiful vocation. As you pray, ask St. Anne, who raised the Mother of God in her home, to help the mothers and families you carry in your heart.
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