Submit your intentions - Ten Holy Masses - invoking Saint Anne, the Grandmother of Our Lord Jesus Christ, July 17 – 25 and the July 26 Feast Day Holy Mass

Dear Friend,

Join me in a novena to the mother of Our Blessed Mother and the grandmother of Our Lord Jesus Christ! When we invoke St. Anne, she will bring our intentions straight to her grandson. And who can refuse their grandmother?

Undoubtedly, Our Lord holds a special place in His Sacred Heart for his grandmother. These days especially, there is a great deal of need for St. Anne's intercession.

Sunday, June 24 is the Second World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, in which Faithful Catholics may gain a Plenary Indulgence. We will include more information and what you can do to gain the Plenary Indulgence in a separate email and again on day eight of the novena.

Do you know about the Patronage of Saint Anne?
Patroness Against Poverty, Patron Saint of Broom Makers, Cabinetmakers, Canada, Carpenters, Childless people, Equestrians, Grandmothers, Grandparents, Homemakers, Horse Men and Women, Housewives, Lace Workers, Lost Articles, Mothers, Old-Clothes Dealers, Pregnancy, Pregnant Women and Women in Labor, Seamstresses, Stablemen and Sterility. 

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 and also on the demonic acts of vandalism and theft to pro-life pregnancy centers, churches and church properties. 

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 many of those who had been ill 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!

All you have to do is submit your intentions and you will automatically receive all nine days of the novena, beginning on July 17. 

Yours in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary,

Thomas J. McKenna 
Founder and President

Catholic Action For Faith And Family
http://www.catholicaction.org/