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Dear Friend, On the first day of our Novena, you and I can reflect on St. Anne, who followed God’s will to such a degree that she eternally bears the treasured title of mother of Our Lady and grandmother of Jesus.
Undoubtedly, Our Lord holds a special place in His Sacred Heart for his grandmother. When we invoke St. Anne, she will bring our intentions straight to her grandson. And who can refuse their grandmother? She is our heavenly grandmother too. As you know, grandmothers have a special relationship with their grandchildren. We associate a grandmother’s love with an unconditional and all-encompassing love. We all understand the human phenomena of relationships in which grandchildren might seek favors through their grandmothers because they have a reputation of “spoiling” them. As St. Anne’s feast day approaches, I invite you to take a grandmother’s favors to a celestial level. Please join me in a novena of prayer to St. Anne to begin today, July 18th and end on the Feast of St. Anne, July 26th. Over these nine days, let us plead for our personal intentions as well as for our loved ones who have sailed away from the harbor of Truth. Let’s also ask St. Anne to fortify us in our daily spiritual battles. Devotion to St. Anne has spread throughout the world. In Quebec City, the Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré houses major relics of her finger and the forearm which held the infant Mary. Half a million pilgrimage there each year and to St. Anne’s credit, we know that countless sick have been miraculously cured on site. May these beautiful witnesses serve to break our hesitations to ask; we need only ask her to obtain favors for us too! Please sign up to continue receiving a link to the St. Anne Novena in your inbox every day. Sign Up to Pray the Novena to St. Anne! Click Below: On July 18-26
May God bless you and your loved ones. Your friend in Jesus and Mary, Thomas J. McKenna |
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