Feast of St Anne

Juan de Roelas, Saint Anne Teaching the Virgin to Read (c. 1610)

Happy Feast Day to all lovers of St Anne!  I hope your day is filled with many graces and blessings.  I was very blessed to have received some lovely St Anne prayer cards touched to her relic from a dear Australian friend, who shares my name.

I made a yummy apple tart for the feast, which is a very tradition cuisine for St Anne, to try this lovely, gluten free recipe adapted originally by Tamara Duker Freuman, pop over to Catholic Cuisine, where I have shared it.

A new litany of St Anne

The novena to St Anne is about to begin, in order to finish in time for her feast day on the 26th of July.

In my left hand sidebar you will see many links to my previous posting about this wonderful saint.  I've linked three different novena prayers if anyone is looking for some suitable ones.

I wanted to share today, a beautiful litany to St Anne I had never seen before.  It comes from a really beautiful prayer book for mothers called, "Mother Love".  My copy was gifted to me by a very dear friend who has been such an example to me over the years.  It is one of the very best prayer books for mothers, which I highly recommend. It is published by the Capuchin Franciscans.  Here is a place that it can be purchased.

Artist Name: Jacques Stella
Painting Title: St. Anne Leading the Virgin to the Temple, c.1635-45
Museum: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, Normandy, France




Litany of St Anne

(For private recitation only)

Lord, have mercy on us

Christ, have mercy on us

Lord, have mercy on us

Christ here us, Christ graciously hear us

God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us

God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us

God, the Holy Spirit, have mercy on us

Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us

Holy Mary, spotless child of St Joachim and St Anne, Pray for us and for our children

St Joachim, father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pray for us and for our children

St Joachim, promised descendant of Abraham and David, Pray for us and for our children

St Joachim, venerable patriarch,  Pray for us and for our children

St Joachim, holy spouse of St. Anne,  Pray for us and for our children

St Joachim and St Anne, shining models of Christian spouses,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, royal lady,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, glory of the House of David,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, faithful and loving wife,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, venerable model of meekness and humility,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, brilliant example of holy obedience,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, sparkling mirror of patience and resignation,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, perfect type of devotion and piety,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, fruitful vine,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, giving wise instruction and careful training to your child,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, worthy mother of the Mother of God,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, tender mother of all virgins,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, mother lending aid to all Christian mothers,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, consoling mother of all widows,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, kind mother of us all,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, refuge of the suffering,  Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, guiding star of widows, Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, harbour of safety in the storms of this life, Pray for us and for our children

St Anne, bulwark of the Church, We implore you, St Anne

Through your virtues and merits, We implore you, St Anne

Through your goodness and compassion, We implore you, St Anne

Through all your gifts and prerogatives, We implore you, St Anne

Through your high vocation, We implore you, St Anne

Through your miraculous maternity, We implore you, St Anne

Through Mary, your child full of grace, We implore you, St Anne

Through the joys prepared for you on earth by Jesus and Mary, We implore you, St Anne

Through the honour they now render you in heaven, We implore you, St Anne

Through your exceedingly great rapture and bliss, We implore you, St Anne

Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, spare us, O Lord

Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Lord

Lamb of God, Who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us, O Lord

Christ hear us,

Christ graciously hear us

Let us Pray,

St Anne, my dear mother and most compassionate protectress, receive graciously my poor efforts to do your honour. May I ever be devoted to you with a heart full of childlike humility and submission!  May your example encourage me, your intercession strengthen me, your goodness console me!  Permit me with all my heart to commend to you my children. As you consecrated Mary, your child of grace, entirely to God, I beg you to obtain for me the grace to train my children for Him, and with them to labour perseveringly for heaven. As you lived in holy harmony and peace with St Joachim, so may love, union, devotion, and zeal for virtue reign in my household, that we may belong to the host of blessed spouses who with you will love, praise, and glorify the Most High forever and ever. Amen.

Prayers for Elizabeth to Dear St Anne!

Elizabeth has just gone into labour, 5 weeks early - please, please pray to St Anne that mother and baby will be well!

UPDATE: Sarah Anne has arrived safely, under the mantle of the feast day of All Saints, mother and baby are well! Please continue to pray that they both continue to make a good recovery and they get home very soon!

Thank you St Anne, protectress of mothers, keeping them safe and well for their beloved children, thank you St Anne, who protects babies in an extraordinary manner in birth!

Good St Anne

Today is the feast of my name saint, St Anne. What a wonderful, powerful intercessor she is to mothers and christian families! In all my years of ill health I have read and cried over these beautiful words from a St Anne handbook, that have given me greater trust and hope:

"St Anne obtains many graces, priceless graces for those who invoke her, but she grants her maternal assistance in particular to Christian mothers. She preserves peace in married life, restores harmony in discord, and wonderfully changes a husband's bad disposition. She protects the birth of children in an extraordinary manner, bestows blessing that lighten the tast of rearing children properly, brings wayward children back upon the right path, obtains restoration of health for the sick mother, preserves her precious life for the helpless children and prevents the loss of husband and father."

I would dearly love to talk more tonight about this beautiful saint, the mother of Our Lady and I may still do that tomorrow, but I want to place this beautiful prayer to St Anne from The Precious Blood & Mother manual from pg 114:

Novena To Saint Anne to Obtain some Special Favour

Glorious St. Anne, filled with compassion for those who invoke thee, and with love for those who suffer, heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at thy feet and humbly beg of thee to take the present affair which I recommend to thee, under thy special protection.

Vouchsafe to recommend it to thy Daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue. Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace of one day beholding my God face to face, and with thee and Mary and all the Saints, praised and blessing Him for all eternity. Amen.

God St. Anne, mother of her who is our Life, our Sweetness and our Hope, pray to her for us, and obtain our request. (3 times).