PRAYER TO ST. JOACHIM AND ST. ANNE:

Great and glorious patriarch, St. Joachim, and good St. Anne, what joy is mine when I consider that you were chosen among all God’s holy ones to assist in the fulfillment of the mysteries of God, and to enrich our earth with the great Mother of God, Mary most holy. By this singular privilege, you have become most powerful with both the Mother and her Son, so as to be able to obtain for us the graces that are needful to us.

With great confidence I have recourse to your mighty protection, and I commend to you all my needs, both spiritual and temporal, and those of my family. Especially do I entrust to your keeping the particular favor that I desire and look for from your intercession.

And since you were a perfect pattern of the interior life, obtain for me the grace to pray earnestly, and never to set m heart on the passing goods of this life. Give me a lively and enduring love for Jesus and Mary. Obtain for me also a sincere devotion and obedience to Holy church and the sovereign pontiff who rules over her, in order that I may live and die in faith and hope and perfect charity. Let me ever invoke the holy Names of Jesus and Mary. And may I thus be saved. Amen.

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Jul 26, 2019 on how Sts. Joachim and Anne were given the perfect reward for their patience when the Blessed Virgin Mary was born to them. Father exhorts us to exercise the virtue of patience when we are striving to foster virtue in others.

Ave Maria!

Mass: Joachim and Anne – Mem
Readings: Friday 16th Week of Ordinary Time
1st: exo 20:1-17
Resp: psa 19:8, 9, 10, 11 0
Gsp: mat 13:18-23

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