The feast day of St. Ann and St. Joachim is coming up on July 26. If you’d like to make a novena to them, today is the day to start!
Both saints have always been very close to my heart. St. Ann is my patron saint and when I was single I would especially pray to her and St. Joachim to find a good man & holy spouse. (Along with my novena to Bl. Anne Marie Tiagi.) After I was married I especially prayed to them when Brian and I were dealing with infertility and miscarriage.
Yesterday I found an old box of holy cards and prayer pamphlets and inside was the small prayer booklet I had used all those years ago. It is called “Good Saint Anne” by Rev. Lawrence G. Lovasik, S.V.D. Here is the particular prayer I said.
Prayer to St. Anne and St. Joachim
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. (Mention your petition.)
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 an 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.
There is also a great Nine Day Novena to St. Anne at EWTN.com.
St. Anne and St. Joachim, pray for us!
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Thank you for this post! St. Ann is the patron saint of our parish here in Michigan and every year at the end of July we have a huge parish picnic (this year it’s a 3 day event) in honor of St. Joachim & St. Ann. They have been so good to us!
Glad you liked it! And yes, they are so good to us!
I’m beginning my novena a day late but I am hoping St. Anne will forgive me as I didn’t do it intentionally. Thank you very much for posting this prayer, so rich in meaning!
God bless you.
Don’t feel bad. I forgot the first day too! I am doubling up today. š Thanks for stopping by!