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ST. ANN'S MANUAL 
 
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 ST. ANN'S MANUAL; 
 
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 PILGRIMS' GUIDE, 
 
 CONTAININa 
 
 A COLLECTION OF PHAYEES 
 
 AND Pious Exercises in Honor op the 
 Glorious Mother of the 
 
 IMMACULATE MARY. 
 
 Composed by a Distinguished Priest 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ARCHDIOCESE OF MONTREAL, 
 
 AND Translated from the French by 
 
 A CHILD aF MART. 
 
 To WHICH IS APPENDED A CHOIOK COLLEOTION OP 
 
 CATHOLIC DEVOTIONS. 
 
 Printed by John Lovell & Son. 
 
Entered according to Act of Parliament, in the year 
 one thousaid eight hundred and ninety* by 
 Mrs. James Delaney, in the office cf the 
 Minister of Agriculture. 
 
TO 
 
 THE GLORIOUS SAINT ANN, 
 Mother of the Queen of Heaven, 
 
 SAINT ANN*8 MANUAL AND PILGRIM GUIDB 
 
 is reverentially Dedicated, 
 
 Praying her to accept and bless it for the honor 
 
 of her name and that of 
 
 HER MOST HOLY DAUGHTER ; 
 
 soliciting also that she will continue to exercise 
 on behalf of her clients her healing power: 
 
 THE BLIND SEE, THE LAME WALK, 
 THE DUMB SPEAK, AND THE DEAF HEAR. 
 
 GLORIOUS ST. ANN, 
 
 Receive this tribute of our love, accompanied 
 with all the fervor which the consideratioQ 
 
 OF THY GREATNESS INSPIRES. 
 
 Be to us, dear St. Ann, a lamp to enlighten 
 our path on this pilgrimage, 
 
 UNTIL WE ARRIVE AT THE HAVEN OF REST. 
 
 Guide, guide, sweet Mother, we pray. 
 
 Our footsteps towards thy bright dwelling. 
 
 Guard, guard, our lonely way 
 Aa our sorrows before thee we're tellin<r. 
 
 A CHILD OF MARY. 
 
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 Arcbiepiscopus Torontonensis. 
 
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 LINES ON ST. ANNE DE BEAUPRfi. 
 Bt Rev. Father Burke. 
 
 I love this sacred spot, where pious pilgrims kneel 
 Before thy holy shrine in fervent prayer. 
 
 1 great Saint Ann, thy tender heart doth feel 
 For all with true maternal love and care. 
 
 As they appeal to thee in pain or grief. 
 
 Thou dost obtain for them a sweet relief. 
 
 The waters of the grand St. Lawrence glide 
 In calm, majestic motion on their way 
 
 Past Bonne Sain te Anne, as if the gentle tide 
 Its silent humble homage thus would pay 
 
 Before the ancient shrine, as on its breast. 
 
 It bears the pilgrims to this place of rest. 
 
 What joy to hear, at evening's solemn hour, 
 The music ot thy bweettoned bell resounil 
 
 O'er la:jd and water, from thy lofty tower, 
 Inviting all to prayer. Its heavenly sound 
 
 Is like an angel's warning from above. 
 
 Reminding us of God's eternal love. 
 
 The sons of St. Alphonsus guard thy shrine. 
 
 01 good St. Ann j thy pilgrims they receive 
 Who come to seek that potent help of thine. 
 
 And speak consoling words to those who grieve 
 O'er sin, while they, as priests of God, impart 
 A holy peace that heals the contrite heart. 
 
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 And daily here the praise of God is sung, 
 Here thousands come to bless His holy name. 
 
 From distant shores the faithful, old and young, 
 Proclaim with joy, St. Ann. thy glorious fame. 
 
 They leave the busy scenes of worldly strife. 
 
 Confess their sins, receive the Bread of Life. 
 
 How oft the erring child of sin, for years 
 Astray from virtue's path, hath here obtained 
 
 Tlie grace of true repentance, and in tears 
 Hath severed bonds by which he was enchained 
 
 In crime ; but now by thy assistance freed. 
 
 To him a mother thou hast proved indeed. 
 
 How often have the sick, the blind, the lame. 
 Obtained a cure, by thy maternal aid. 
 
 Of all their ills, as, led by faith, they came 
 From distant homes, by dangers undismayed, 
 
 As pilgrims to thy shrine o'er land and sea, 
 
 To seek for health and comfort here froni thee. 
 
 O great St. Ann, behold, I call on thee 
 To aid me in this life of toil and care, 
 
 That I to God may ever faithful be. 
 With pity listen to my humble prayer. 
 
 Receive this votive wreath I now entwine, 
 
 With love to thee, to place before thy shrine. 
 
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 PREFACE BY THE AUTHOE. 
 
 
 Thk decree of 1876, by which Pius IX., 
 in conformity to the pious desires of the 
 faithful and the entreaties of the Bishops 
 of the Province of Quebec, declared Saint 
 Ann first patroness of that same Province, 
 opened, so to say, a new period in the his- 
 tory of the worship rendered to this great 
 saint in Canada. 
 
 If the title of Patroness confers on Saint 
 Ann an incontestable right to our filial luve 
 and veneration, it gives to us also another 
 claim on her tenderness and protection. 
 
 The devotion to Saint Ann is ^ilready 
 popular in Canada, but may it not receive 
 
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 a still wider expansion ? This great saint 
 is given to all as Patroness ; all ought, 
 therefore, to honor and invoke her. 
 
 Now, it is with a view to promote this 
 devotion and facilitate its extension, that 
 we offer to the pious faithful this little 
 
 hook of PRA.YERS AlTD EXERGISES IN HONOR 
 
 OF Saint Ann. May the most holy Virgin 
 Mary deign to bless this work undertaken 
 for the glory of her august Mother. 
 
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 DAILY ACTS^ 
 
 OF A 
 
 christian; LIFE. 
 
 IN THE MORNING. 
 
 When you awake, give your first 
 thoughts to God, saying : 0, my God, I give 
 myself entirely to Thee ! 
 
 Getting out of bed, make the sign of the 
 Cross, and say : In the name of the Father, 
 and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 
 Amen. 
 
 When you are dressed, kneel and say 
 three Hail Marys, in honor of the purity 
 of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 
 
 When you are tempted to anger, say : 
 Jesus, give ine patience I Bless me, Mary, 
 my Mother. 
 
 If bad thoughts of any kind come into 
 your mind, say quickly : Jesus and Mary, 
 help me I Eepeat the Haii Mary, or some 
 other prayer, till you have banished them. 
 
 
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 Before you begin your work, say : All 
 for Thee, Lord. 0, my Jesus, all for 
 Thee ! 
 
 Before meals say : Bless us, O Lord, and 
 these Thy gifts which we are about to 
 receive from Thy bounty, through Christ 
 our Lord ! Amen. 
 
 After meals say : "We give Thee thanks 
 Almighty God, for all Thy benefits, who 
 livest and reignest, world without end. 
 Amen. 
 
 AT NIGHT. 
 
 Kneel and make the sign of the Cross, 
 saying, as in the morning : In the name of 
 the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
 Ghost. Amen. 
 
 Say then : my God, give me grace to 
 know wherein I have offended Thee, and 
 give me a perfect sorrow for my sins. Then 
 
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 you miisfc pause a little to see what sins 
 you may have committed during the day. 
 Afterwards ask pardon for the faul;;s dis- 
 covered, by making an act of contrition. 
 
 AN ACT OF CONTRITION. 
 
 O my God ! I am very sorry for having 
 smned against Thee ; because Thou art sj 
 good, and with Thy assistance I will not 
 sin again. 
 
 Make also Acts of Faith, Hope and 
 Charity. 
 
 When in bed, fold your arms in the 
 form of a cross, and say before you sleep : 
 It is appointed fur me once to die, and I 
 know not when, nor where, nor how, but 
 what I know is that if I die in mortal sin 
 I am lost. 
 
 And then, if you are in mortal sin, 
 resolve to go and confess as soon as pos- 
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 PRAYER FOR THE GRACE OF PERSEVERANCE. 
 
 O Mother of Perpetual Help, be my 
 refuge and my hope. Assist me to keep 
 my good resolutions. 
 
 Let me not forget to call on Thee in 
 time of temptation. 
 
 Keep me from the dangers of mortal 
 sin, and help me to persevere till the end 
 of my life in the grace of God. Amen. 
 
 ANGELUS. 
 
 The Angel of the Lord declared unto 
 Mary : and she conceived of the Holy 
 Ghost. 
 
 Hail Mary, etc. 
 
 Behold the Hand-maid of the Lord : be 
 it done unto me according to thy word. 
 
 Hail Mary^ etc. 
 
 And the Word was made flesh : and 
 dwelt among us. 
 
 Hail Mary, etc. 
 
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 V. Pray for us, Holy Mother of God. 
 E. That -we may be made worthy of 
 the promises cf Christ. 
 
 Let us pray. 
 
 Poiivdown Thy grace into our Souls we 
 beseech Thee, - O Lord, that as we have 
 known the Incarnation of Christ 3hy Son 
 by the message of an angel, so by His Pas- 
 sion and Cross we may c:.me to the glory of 
 the resurrection. Through the same Christ 
 our Lord. Amen. 
 
 FOR EASTER TIME. 
 
 Triumph, Queen of Heaven, to see. 
 
 Alleluia. 
 The Sacred Infant born of thee, Alleluia. 
 Spring up in glory from the tomb, Alleluia. 
 Oh, by thy prayers, prevent our doom, 
 
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 Eejoice and be glad, Virgin Mary, Alle- 
 luia. 
 Because our Lord is truly ris3u, Alleluia, 
 
 Let U8 pray, 
 
 God ! who, by the Resurrection of 
 Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, hast 
 vouchsafed to gladden the world, grant, 
 we beseech Thee, that by the intercession 
 of the Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may 
 receive the joys of eternal life, through 
 the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, 
 
 AN ACT OF ADORATION BEFORE GOING TO 
 
 BED, 
 
 My Lord ! my God ! my Father ! I 
 adore Thee, in uuiou with all creatures in 
 he.iven and on earth, acknowledging Thee 
 for my God and Sovereign Lord ; and as 
 I began this day by offering myself to 
 Thee, I desire to finish it by consecrating 
 
 
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 anew to Thy divine Majesty my body, my 
 soul, my life, and all that I am ; keep me 
 this night under Thy particular protec- 
 tion; and grant me the grace that whilst 
 niy eyes are closed by sleep, my heart may 
 be forever awake to Thy love, and after 
 this transitory life I may see and enjoy 
 Thee in a happy eternity. 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 May the Divine Heart of Jesus and 
 the Immaculate Heart of Mary be always, 
 and in all places, acknowledged, j raised 
 blessed, loved and faithfully honored and 
 glorified Amen, 
 
 PKAYER TO THE MOST BLESSED VIRGIN. 
 
 Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen 
 of angels and men, I honor and reverence 
 thee with all my heart, and I desire to do 
 so as perfectly as thy Divine Sou would 
 
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 have thee honored in heaven and on 
 earth. O Mother of mercy, I choose thee 
 this day for my mother ; look on nie as 
 thy child, and in thy goodness treat me 
 as the object of thy tender mercy. O 
 Mother of grace and mercy, refuge of 
 sinners, may I, through thy powerful in- 
 tercession, be delivered from all sin and 
 preserved from eternal death. Amen. 
 
 LITANY OF THE BLESSED VIEGIN. 
 
 COMMONLY CALLED THE LITANY OF LORETTO 
 
 A7it. — We fly to thy patronage, O holy 
 Mother of God, despise not our petitions 
 in our necessities, but deliver us always 
 from all dangers, glorious and blessed 
 Virgin. 
 
 Lord, have mercy. 
 Lord, have mercy. 
 
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 Christ, have mercy. 
 
 Christ, have mercy. 
 
 Lord, have mercy. 
 
 Lord, have mercv. 
 
 Christ, hear us. 
 
 Christ, graciously hear us. 
 
 God the Father of Heaven, 
 
 God the Son, Eedeemer of the world, |g 
 
 God the Holy Ghost, 
 
 Holy Trinity, one God, 
 
 Holy Mary, 
 
 Holy Mother of God, 
 
 Holy Virgin of Virgins, . 
 
 Mother of Christ, 
 
 Mother of divine grace. 
 
 Mother most pure, 
 
 Mother most chaste, 
 
 Mother inviolate, 
 
 Mother undefiled, 
 
 Mother most amiable, 
 
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 Mother most admirable, 
 Mother of our Creator, 
 Mother of our Saviour, 
 Virgin most prudent, 
 Virgin most venerable 
 Virgin most renowned, 
 Virgin most powerful. 
 Virgin most merciful. 
 Virgin most faithful, 
 Mirror of Justice, 
 Seat of Wisdom, 
 Cause of pur joy. 
 Spiritual Vessel, 
 Vessel of honor, 
 Vessel of singular devotion. 
 Mystical Eose, 
 Tower of David, 
 Tower of ivory, 
 House of gold, 
 Ark of the covenant, 
 
 
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 \f Gate of heaven, 
 
 Morning Star, 
 
 Health of the sick, 
 
 Eefnge of sinners, 
 
 Comfort of the afflicted, 
 
 Help of Christians, 
 
 Queen of Angels, 
 
 Queen of Patriarchs, 
 
 Queen of Prophets, 
 
 Queen of Aprr'tles, 
 
 Queen of Martyrs, 
 
 Queen of Confessors, 
 
 Queen of Virgins, 
 
 Queen of all Saints, 
 
 Queen conceived without original sin. 
 
 Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, 
 
 Lamb of God, who takest away the 
 sins of the world, 
 
 Spare us, O Lord, 
 
 Lamb of God, who takest away the 
 sins of the world, 
 
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 Graciously hear us, Lord. 
 Lamb of God, who takest away the 
 sins of the world, 
 Have mercy on us. 
 Christ, hear us. 
 Christ, graciously hear us. 
 
 Ant.— We fly to thy patronage, holy 
 Mother of God, despise not our petitions 
 in our necessities, but deliver us always 
 from all dangers, glorious and blessed 
 Virgin. 
 
 V. Tray for us, holy Mother of God, 
 
 K. That we may be made worthy of the 
 promises of Christ. 
 
 LET us PKAY. 
 
 Defend, Lord, we beseech thee, by the 
 intercession of blessed Mary, ever Virgin, 
 
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 this thy family from all adversity, and 
 mercifully protect us, who prostrate our- 
 selves before thee with all our hearts, from 
 the snares of the enemy. Through Christ 
 oiir Lord. Amen. 
 
 V. May the divine assistance remain 
 s with us. 
 Amen. 
 
 PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH. 
 
 His Holiness Leo XIIL, Aug, 15, 1889. 
 To thee, blessed Joseph, we have 
 recourse in our affliction, and having 
 implored the help of thy thrice holy 
 Spouse, \ve now, with hearts filled with 
 confidence, earnestly beg thee also to 
 take us under thy protection. By that 
 charity wherewith thou wert united to 
 the Immaculati Virgin, Mother of God, 
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 Prayers. 
 
 didst cherish the Child Jesus, we beseech 
 thee, and we humbly pray, that thou 
 wilt look down with gracious eye upon 
 that iiiheritance which Jesus Christ pur- 
 chased by His blood, and wilt succor us 
 in our need by thy power and strength. 
 Defend, O most watchful guardian of 
 the Holy Faiuily, the chosen children of 
 Jesus Christ. Keep from us, O most 
 loving father, all blight of error and cor- 
 ruption. Aid us from on high, most 
 valiant defender, in this conflict with the 
 powers of darkness. And even as of old 
 thou didst rescue the Child Jesus from 
 the peril of His life, so now defend God's 
 Holy Church from the snares of the en- 
 emy and from all adversity. Shield us 
 ever under thy i)atronage, that, imitating 
 thy example and strengthened by thy 
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 death, and attain to everlasting bliss in 
 heaven. Amen. 
 
 Indulgence of 7 jears and 7 quarantines each 
 time this prayer is said. 
 
 PRAYER FOR IRELAND. 
 
 O sweet Jesus! through Thy most 
 sacred and loving Heart, to which the 
 Irish nation is most solemnly dedicated, 
 preserve our nation in faith, in purity 
 and in charity. Through all its trials 
 and sorrows, through all its persecutions 
 in the past, it remained faithful to the 
 teaching of its great apostle, St. Patrick. 
 May the former glory of its apostolic faith 
 again appear. May it become again the 
 seat of learning and religion. May the 
 rising generation see its rights restored. 
 May the zeal of its holy priesthood increase. 
 May the purity of its daughters preserve 
 its stainless character. May the honor of 
 
 
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 its sons remain unsullied. May the evils 
 of intemperance cease. May the spirit of 
 infidelity and rationalism never reach its 
 shores. May its attachment to tlie See of 
 Peter and its obedience to ecclesiastical 
 superiors never suffer diminution. May 
 sanctity be its atmosphere, and may it 
 daily render greater glory and honor to 
 the most Facred Heart, to which every 
 true Irish heart ever will be most devotedly 
 attached. 
 
 DEVOTIONS FOR CONFESSION AND EXAM- 
 INATION OF CONSCIENCE. 
 
 Who can understand sins 1 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Behold me, Lord, prostrate at ITiy 
 sacred feet, in order to declare unto Thee 
 in the person of Thy minister all the sins 
 of which I am guilty. Grant me grace 
 
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 to know them, to confess them all with 
 sincerity, and to detest them with my whole 
 heart. 
 
 PRAYER AFTER CONFESSION. 
 
 I am no longer Thy enemy, O my 
 God. By the virtue of the sacrament 
 which I have just received, Thou hast 
 healed the wounds of my soul. Thou 
 hast received me into Thy favor, thou hast 
 revived the merits of iny good works which 
 were dead through sin, and Thou hast 
 changed into a temporal punishment the 
 eternal damnation which my sins deserved. 
 Grant me, O God, the gift of perseverance 
 in Thy service. Ah ! let me rather die a 
 thousand deaths than offend Thee again. 
 
 DEVOTIONS BEFORE COMMUNION. 
 
 Come, divine Jesus, come into my 
 heart,, deliver it from all its ills^ load it 
 
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 with, Thy gifts and graces; it desires 
 ardently to receive Thee. 
 
 Say nine times y O Mary, conceived 
 without sin, prepare my heart to receive 
 thy Divine Son. 
 
 PRAYER BEFORE RECEIVING. 
 
 Divine Jesus, although Thou art not 
 visible to the eyes of my body, I believe 
 it is Thyself Thou art about to give me. 
 Alas, I am very unworthy of so great a 
 favor, after having dishonored Thee so 
 often; but Thy infinite goodness over- 
 comes my rebellious, obdurate heart, 
 makes me weep over my sins, and fills 
 me with love for Thee and with the 
 most ardent desire of receiving Thee. 
 
 Come, then, O Saviour of the world, 
 purify my soul from all its stains, and 
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 that I am in possession of Thy Body and 
 Blood, Soul and Divinity. Receive, O 
 Lord, my most profound adoration, which 
 I nite with that which the angels and 
 saints render Thee in heaven. O what 
 love, what gratitude can ever equal the 
 favor which Thou hast bestowed on me ? 
 Accept, Divine Jesus, the offering of all 
 that I have and all that I am; dispose 
 thereof according to Thy good will and 
 pleasure, and grant me grace never to 
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 Christ, graciously hear us, 
 
 God the Father of heaven, 
 
 God the Son, Eedeemer of the world, 
 
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 Jesus, most powerful, 
 
 Jesus, most patient, 
 
 Jesus, most obedient, 
 
 Jesus, meek and humble of heart, 
 
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 Jesus, our beloved, 
 
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 **Ask, and ye shall receive ; seek, and ye 
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 in word and work, and never cease from 
 showing forth Thy praise. 
 
 Grant that we may have a perpetual 
 fear and love of Thy Holy Name ; for 
 Thou never failest to direct and govern 
 those whom Thou instructest in Thy true 
 and solid love. Who livest and reignest 
 God forever and ever. Amen. 
 
 God, who hast appointed Thiue only 
 begotten Son the Saviour of mankind, 
 and hast commanded that He^ should be 
 called Jesus ; mercifully grant that we 
 may enjoy in heaven the blessed vision 
 of Him, whose Holy Name we venerate 
 upon earth. Through the same Christ, our 
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 and with the most fervent desire of my 
 soul I pra3 and beseech Thee that Thou 
 wouldst impress upon my heart lively 
 sentimentsof faith, hope and charity, with 
 true repentance for my sins, and a firm 
 desire of amendment, whilst with deep 
 afiliction and grief of soul I ponder within 
 myself and mentally contemplate Thy 
 Five most Precious Wounds, having be- 
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 On Tuesdays.* 
 Beginning of the Mass, 
 
 In the name of the Father, and of the 
 Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 
 
 At the foot of Thy Altar, I prostrate 
 myself, and appear with the Priest before 
 Thee. my God, look down upon me in 
 Thy clemency. Judge me not according to 
 my sins but according to Thy exceeding 
 mercy, and by Thy power free me from 
 the many and great dangers which threaten 
 my soul, so that I may one day see Thee 
 face to face. Yes, from the depths of my 
 heart, I crv to Thee, O Lord God! Be 
 attentive to my prayer. Grant my peti- 
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 mercy, and confess my guilt before the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Ann, the holy 
 xipostles Peter and Paul, before heaven and 
 earth and all the Saints. O my God, I 
 have sinned but I am sorry, deeply sorry 
 fir my sins. One hope remains, that 
 Jesus will reconcile me to Thee. Divine 
 Heart, sanctify me by humility and con- 
 trition, that I may partake of this sacrifice 
 of reconciliation and love. 
 
 When the Priest ascends the steps of the 
 Altar. 
 
 Arise, my soul, and praise the Lord, 
 because He has done great things to thee. 
 May my prayer, like incense, ascend to 
 heaven, Lord ; and may my petitions, 
 aided by the prayers of St. Ann and all 
 the saints of God, be heard, through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Blessed 
 Spouses, Joachim and Ann, the whole 
 
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 world is indebted to you, since it is 
 through you we can offer to God this great 
 sacrifice, for from you came the immaculate 
 Vii-gin Mary, who alone of all creatures 
 is worthy of her Creator. 
 
 At the Intro it. 
 
 In the si)irit of confidence and hope 
 I begin with the word of Holy Writ, 
 wbicl? thus bears testimony to Thy love, 
 my Saviour : 
 
 ''He will have mercy according to the 
 multitude of His mercies ; for He hath 
 not willingly afflicted nor cast off the 
 children of men. Tlie Lord is good to 
 them that hope in Him, to the soul that 
 seeketh Him." 
 
 AUeluiah, illeluiah ! 
 
 Forever will I dixq Thy mercies, Lord, 
 from genei-ation to genera tion. GL.ry be 
 to the Father, etc. 
 
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 At the Kyrie Eleison. 
 
 O Father, Creator of our souls, have 
 pity on the work of Thy hands. Father 
 of infinite mercy, have pity on us. Eter- 
 nal Word, who didst vouchsafe to take 
 our nature on Tliee in the Blessed womb of 
 St. Ann's holy danght^:, and for our salva- 
 tion to die an ignomin iis death on the 
 Cross, I pray Thee to gi\^ *ie a share in 
 the precious merits of Thy most dolorous 
 Passion, in those of Saint Ann and of Mary, 
 Thy Holy Mother. Beloved Saviour, sweet 
 Jesus, have pity on me and forgive me my 
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 Glory be tc God on High and peace 
 on earth to men of good- will. We praise 
 Thee; we bless Thee; we adore Thee; 
 
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 we glorify Thee. We give Thee thanks 
 for Thy great glory, Lord God ! 
 heavenly King ! God, the Father 
 Almighty ! Lord Jesus Christ, the only 
 begotten Son ! Lord God ! Lamb of 
 God! Son of the Father! Thou, who 
 takes t away the sins of the world ! have 
 mercy on us. Thou, who takest away 
 the sins of the world, receive our prayer. 
 O Thou, who sittest at the right hand of 
 the Father, have mercy on us. For thou 
 alone art holy. Thou alone art Lord. 
 Thou alone art most high, O Jesus Christ, 
 together with the Holy Ghost, in the 
 glory of God the Father. Amen. 
 
 
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 God, who didst deign to grant to 
 St. Ann the grace of becoming mother 
 of her who gave birth to Thy only Son, 
 
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 grant, in Thy goodness, that we may 
 revere her memory, and may also obtain 
 the powerful aid of her protection. Amen. 
 
 PRAYER TO ST. JOACHIM. 
 
 God, who from amongst Thy elect 
 didst choose St. Joachim to be the father 
 of Mary, the Virgin Mother of Thy well- 
 beloved Son, we pray Thee that whilst we 
 celebrate his memory, we may merit his 
 constant protection. Amen. 
 
 At the Eijwtle, 
 
 From St. Paul to Ephesians, chapter iii : 
 *' Brethren, to me, the least of all the 
 saints, is given this grace to preach among 
 the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of 
 Christ, and to enlighten all men, that they 
 may see what is the dispensation of the 
 mystery which hath been hiddep from 
 eternity in God, who created all things. 
 
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 For this cause I bend my knee to the 
 Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom 
 all paternity in heaven and earth is 
 named, that He would grant you, accord- 
 ing to the riches of His glory, to be 
 strengthened with might into the inward 
 man, that Christ may dwell by faith 
 in your hearts ; that being rooted and 
 founded in charity, you may be able to 
 comprehend with all the saints what is 
 the breadth, and length, and height, and 
 depth of this mystery, to know alsc the 
 charity of Christ, which surpasseth all 
 
 knowledge. 
 
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 "0 all ye, who pass by the way, 
 attend and see if there be any sorrow 
 like unto my sorrow." (Jer., Lam. i.) 
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 Alleluia, Alleluia." (St. John xiii.) 
 
 At the Gospel, 
 
 It is no longf^r, my God, the pro- 
 phets and apostles who are instructing 
 me, it is Thy only Son to Whose word 
 I now give ear. But, alas! dear Lord 
 Jesus, of what avail, believing that it 
 is indeed Thv word which I now hear, 
 if I do not act in accordance with 
 my belief. When I shall appear before 
 Thee, what will faith avail me, unless it 
 be accompanied by charity and good 
 works ? St. Ann, mirror of piety, guide 
 of the pilgrim, obtain for me the grace 
 constantly to live in conformity to the 
 will of Jesus. 
 
 At the Creed, 
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 heart I exclaim and confess with the 
 Church : I believe in one God the Fa- 
 ther Almighty, Creator of heaven and 
 earth, and of all things visible and invisible. 
 And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only 
 begotten Son of God, born of the Father 
 before all ages ; God of God ; Light of 
 Light ; true God of true God ; begotten, 
 not made, consubstantial with the Father, 
 by whom all things were made. Who 
 for us men, and for our salvation, came 
 down from heaven and was incarnate by 
 the Holy Ghost, of the Virgin Mary ; and 
 Was Made Man. He was crucified also 
 for us, suffered under Pontius Pilate, 
 and was buried. The third day He rose 
 again, according to the Script^ures, and 
 ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the 
 right hand of the Father; and He shall 
 come again with glory to judge both the 
 
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 living and the dead ; of whose Kingdom 
 there shall be no end. And I believe 
 in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Life 
 giver, who proceedeth from the Father 
 and thB Son ; who, together with the 
 Father and the Son, is adored and glori- 
 fied ; who spoke by the prophets ; and 
 one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. 
 I confess one baptism for the remission 
 of sins ; and I look for the resurrection 
 of the dead, and the life of the world to 
 come. Amen. 
 
 The Lord be with us. And Jesus in 
 our hearts. 
 
 At the Offertory, 
 
 My Lord and my God ! In the simpli- 
 city of my heart I have joyfully offered 
 Thee every thing, and I see Thy people 
 bringing sacrifices to Thee with great 
 
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 rejoicing. God of Israel ! Preserve this 
 spirit in their heart. Alleluia ! And 
 thou, glorious St. Ann, who, having 
 had the happiness of giving birth to that 
 ever-blessed child, the Immaculate Mary, 
 didst lovingly offer her to the Most Holy 
 Trinity, vouchsafe likewise to present to 
 God this Holy Sacrifice, which in union 
 with the Priest I am now offering in Thy 
 honor, to the end that I may obtain the 
 
 grace of which I ask through 
 
 Thy intercession. 
 
 ' At the Preface. 
 
 Let all creation praise the Lord, with 
 hearts raised to heaven : we praise and 
 glorify Thee, God, and give Thee thanks, 
 through Christ our Lord, Who, in this 
 Sacrifice, has given Himself as a pledge of 
 His promises. Therefore, in union with 
 
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 the Celestial Choir, we raise our voices 
 aud exclaim : Huly, Holy, Holy, is the 
 Lord God of Hosts ! Blessed is He who 
 cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosan- 
 na in the highest." 
 
 At the Canon. 
 
 On my knees, humbled to the dust, I 
 raise my eyes to heaven, where my Jesus 
 resides, interceding as Mediator for me 
 and the entire world, showing Thee, 
 Eternal Father, His five wounds, espe- 
 cially that of His Sacred Heart, aud thus 
 as the Eternal High Priest, reconciling 
 us with Thee. Bless this Sacrifice, 
 Lord, and graciously look down from the 
 throne of Thy Infinite mercy on Thy 
 whole Church on earth, partip.iii?.rly on 
 our Holy Father the Pope, on our Most 
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 and all those who labor for the salvation 
 of souls, on our benefactors, friends and 
 enemies. And that our homage may be 
 more agreeable to Thee, we unite it to that 
 which was offered Thee by the glorious 
 Hilary, Mother of Thy Son Jesus Christ, 
 with that of St. Joseph, of St. Joachim 
 and St. Ann, the ancestors of our Divine 
 Saviour, with that of the apostles, martyrs, 
 and saints who, with ourselves, compose 
 the Catholic Church. 
 
 At the Elevation, 
 
 Jesus, Word Eternal, God and Man, 
 I prostrate myself before Thee, adoring 
 Thee in the most profound humility, and 
 consecrate myself entirely to Thee. I 
 adore Thy Precious Blood, which Thou 
 didst shed on the Cross. Grant, O my 
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 in vain for me, but that it may serve to 
 purify and strengthen my soul to eternal 
 life. 
 
 We, therefore, pray Thee help Thy 
 servants whom Thou hast redeemed with 
 Thy Precious Blood. 
 
 " Holy Sacrament, Sacrament 
 Divine, 
 All praise and all thanksgiving be 
 every moment Thine." 
 
 After the Corvsecration, 
 
 Now, Thou art really present on this 
 altar, Jesus, my love and my only de- 
 sire ! Blessed be this moment, blessed 
 and glorified Thy Infinite Mercy, blessed 
 Thy entire life. Thy passion and death, 
 Thy glorious resurrection an^ ar.cension ; 
 blessed be all that Thou didst on earth 
 for man's salvation, blessed and praised be 
 
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 Thy infinite glory. Remember, O Mer- 
 ciful Father ! that the Sacrifice we are 
 now offering to Thee is a representation 
 of that which was offered by our Saviour 
 on the Cross. May it be now again a 
 propitiatory sacrifice. Pardon us our 
 ingratitude. 0::r transgressions, it is true? 
 are grievous and manifold, but then, 
 O Lord ! it is the blood of a God that 
 we offer in atonement. May all those 
 who participate in this Victim of salvation 
 be filled with all heavenly benediction. 
 May those blessings descend also, O my 
 God ! on the souls of all the faithful who 
 have gone before us, on the souls of (N. N.), 
 and on the souls who w^re most devoted 
 to St. Ann. Grant them, we beseech 
 Thee, by means of this Holy Sacrifice, 
 deliverance from their sufferings. Voucli- 
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 to admit us to the feiiowsliip of Thy holy 
 Saints Ann and Joachim, that we may love 
 and praise Thee to all eternity. Amen. 
 
 
 At the Pater Noster. 
 
 Happy, indeed, are we, my God, to 
 have thee for our Father ! What joy to 
 call to mind that the heaven where Thou 
 reignest will one day be our dwelling. 
 May Thy Kingdom come and Thy will be 
 done on earth as it is in heaven. Do Thou 
 reign absolutely over our hearts and our 
 wills. Give daily bread to Thy children, 
 both for their bodies and souls. May we 
 forgive others from our hearts that Thou 
 mayest forgive us our offenses. Be with 
 us in all the trials and temptations of this 
 miserable life ; and preserve us from sin, 
 the greatest of all evils. Amen. 
 
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 Immaculate Lan^b ! who camestto take 
 away the sins of the world, let me not be 
 excluded from a share in Thy unbounded 
 mercies ! Cleanse my soul, purify it in the 
 bath of Thy precious blood ; adorn it, I 
 entreat Thee, with those virtues which will 
 render me less unworthy to participate in 
 the food of Angels. 
 
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 Jesus, my Saviour and my Love, I am 
 not worthy, alas ! I never was, nor I never 
 shall be /^orthy, for who could be worthy 
 to receive Thee, who art u'uly God f- But 
 since, in the excess of Thy love, it pleases 
 Thee to dwell among men, I open my heart 
 to receive Thee.]\ Come, adorable 
 Saviour, come into my heart and make me 
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 Open Thy Sacred Heart to me, most 
 sweet Jesus. Manifest its charms to me ; 
 unite me to it forever. May all the aspira- 
 tions and throbs of my heart, which beats 
 unceasingly, even during sleep, be a pledge 
 of my love, and repeat continually ^o Thee : 
 1 love Thee. |[Eeceiv(\ the little good I do, 
 and grant me g race so t^ atone for my sins 
 that I may pnise\Thee\n time and bless 
 Thee in eternitW. \Amen\ 
 
 *Soul ot Christ, sanctify me. 
 
 Body of Christ, save me. 
 
 Blood of Christ, inebriate me. 
 
 Water from the &i(ie of Christ, wash me. 
 
 Passion of Christ, strengthen me. 
 
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 O good Jesus, hear me. 
 
 Within thy wounds hide me. 
 
 Never permit me to be separated from Thee- 
 
 From the wicked enemy defend me. 
 
 At the hour of death call me. 
 
 And bid me come to I'hee, 
 
 That with T4Tp^jLiits I may praise Thee. 
 
 Forever and ever I Amen. 
 
 At the Post Communion, 
 
 Eefreshed by this most Holy Sacrament, 
 I beg of Thee that I, who have tasted the 
 sweetness of Thy Heart, may henceforth, 
 freed from sin, become more and more like 
 to Thee in virtue, who livest and reignest 
 with God the Father, in the unity of the 
 Holy Ghost, one God, world without en4- 
 Amen. O Jesus, who didst so often rejoice 
 the heart of Thy Virgin Mother in this 
 mystery of Thy love, grant, I beseech 
 Thee, that in union with her heart and 
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 henceforth love Thee above all things, and 
 my neighbor as myself for love of Ihee. 
 
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 In conclusion, bless me, Lord, and 
 make my devotion acceptable to 1 hy Glory, 
 and may the blessing of the Priest bring 
 upon me that blessing which will protect 
 me in life and crown me in eternity. 
 Amen. 
 
 At the last Gospel, 
 
 In the beginning was the Word, and the 
 Word was with God, and the Word wafs 
 God. The same was in the beginning 
 with God. All things were made by Him, 
 and without Him was made nothing that 
 was made. In Him was life, and the life 
 was the light of men ; and the light shineth 
 in darkness, and the darkness did not 
 comprehend it. There was a man sent 
 
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 from God whose name was John. This 
 man came for a witness to give testimony 
 of the light. He was the true Light which 
 enlighteneth every man that cometh intp 
 this world. He was in the world, and the 
 world was made by Him, and the world 
 knew Him not. He came unto His own, 
 and his own received Him not. But as 
 many as received Him, to them He gave 
 power to become the sons of God, to those 
 who believe in His name, who are born 
 not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, 
 nor of the will of man, but of God. And 
 the Word luas made flesh and dwelt 
 amongst us ; and we saw His glory, as it 
 were, the glory of the Only begotten of 
 the Father, full of grace and truth. 
 
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 tress of all who call upon thee, comfort of 
 the attiicted, lamp of the Sanctuary and 
 the pilgrims' guide, behold me at thy feet. 
 Vouchsafe to take me under thy protection. 
 
 To thee I recommend my petition 
 
 and I ask of thee to intercede for its success- 
 ful issue with God, and with Mary, thy all, 
 powerful Daughter, Holy St. Ann, reject 
 not my prayer, and with eternal gratitude 
 I will repay the benefits I obtain from 
 thee. Do thou also obtain for me the grace 
 of one day being found worthy to sing the 
 praises of God during all e'ternity in com- 
 pany with thee and thy holy Daughter 
 Mary. Amen, 
 
 THE SEVEN JOYS OF THE GLORIOUS , 
 SAINT ANN. 
 
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 nine Tuesdays which precede the Feast 
 
Joys of St, Ann, 
 
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 of St. Ann, or may serve as a novena 
 preparatory to the feast. 
 
 God, come to my assistance. 
 
 Lord, make haste to help me. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, 
 and to the Holy Ghost. 
 
 As it was in the beginnin,sj, is now and 
 ever shall be, world without end. Amen. 
 
 FIRST - JOY. 
 
 good Saint Ann ! rejoice because God 
 before all ages chose you to give birth to 
 Mary, from whom was to be born the 
 Saviour of the world. what a happiness 
 and what a glory for you to be the mother 
 of the Mother of God 1 But how faithful 
 you must have been to the graces which 
 were lavished on you to have become 
 worthy to bring forth a daughter incom- 
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 Through that joy to which I unite my- 
 self with all my heart, obtain for me to 
 live conformably to the glorious titles of 
 child of God and of Mary, brother of Jesus 
 Christ, and temple of the Holy Ghost, which 
 were conferred on me in holy Baptism. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc. 
 
 V. Pray for us, good Saint Ann, 
 
 R. That we may be made worthy of the 
 promises of Christ. 
 
 SECOND JOY, 
 
 good Saint Ann ! rejoice because 
 Mary, your daughter, has been preserved 
 from the original stain, loaded with graces, 
 and adorned with all the gifts of the Holy 
 Ghost fr^ai the first instant of her concep- 
 tion. I congratulate you in the joy of my 
 soul that you have become the mother of 
 the Immaculate Virgin. But how perfect 
 
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 must have been your sanctity, you who 
 were, so to speak, the stem from which that 
 flower of virginity blossomed ! 
 
 Through that ineffable joy, obtain for 
 me grace to accomplish faithfully the obli- 
 gations which I contracted in Baptism, of 
 laboring unweariedly to overcome the sad 
 effects of original sin, never more to sully 
 my soul by any grievous offence, and even 
 to have a holy horror of venial sin. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc. 
 
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 page 60. 
 
 THIRD JOY. • 
 
 good Saint Ann ! what joy was yours 
 to have possessed in the most intimate 
 manner, for the space of nine months, that 
 blessed child, the virginal Mary, who from 
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 of complacency to God, a masterpiece of 
 perfection and an ocean of graces. If a 
 precious perfume communicates its sweet 
 odor to the vessel which contained it even 
 for a few moments, with what abundance 
 of grace did not that blessed child, who was 
 herself full of grace, delight your soul in 
 return for the temporal life for which she 
 was indebted to you ! 
 
 Through that joy, obtain for me to 
 esteem the grace of God in accordance with 
 its worth, to prefer it to all the goods of 
 this world, and to desire unceasingly its 
 increase through the mediation of Mary, 
 who is the mother and dispenser of graces. 
 
 Gl'jrv be to the Father, etc. 
 
 Pray for us, good Saint Ann, etc., see 
 page 60. 
 
 FOURTH JOY. * ' 
 
 good Saint Ann ! the birth of Mary, 
 
Joys of St. Ann. 
 
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 your well beloved child, announced joy to 
 the world. It was the star of the morning, 
 which shone out in the midst of darkness* 
 the pure and sweet aurora-^ messenger of 
 the Sun of Justice, which enlightens every 
 man coming into this world, and directs his 
 steps in the way to heaven. But who can 
 understand, O blessed Mother ! the happi- 
 ness with which you were inundated on 
 that day, when it was given you to con- 
 template and to press to your heart that 
 wondrous child, object of complacency to 
 the adorable Trinity. 
 
 Through that joy, obtain for me, Holy 
 Mother of Mary, grace to be born this day 
 to a new life, — a life of faith, of hope, of 
 sacrifice and of fervor, renouncing my self- 
 love, source of so many sins, in order to 
 love henceforth only God and my neighbor. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc 
 
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 Joys of St, Ann, 
 
 Pray for us, good Saint Ann, etc., see 
 page 60. 
 
 FIFTH JOY, 
 
 good Saint Ann ! how happy were the 
 three years during which you took care of 
 Mary, your blessed child ! It is impossible 
 to express the consolations with \/hich you 
 were filled when you carried her in your 
 arms, received her caresses, and heard the 
 an 'ess expressions of filial affection which 
 IcVi from her lips. But what overwhelm- 
 ing joy was it to see that child, ah'eady 
 full of grace fron:- her conception, grow 
 still more each day in grace, in knowledge 
 and I'r* amiability ! 
 
 Mother and fosterer of that heavenly 
 child, what graces did you not receive from 
 the superabundance of her Immaculate 
 heart ! 
 
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 frequently to think of her t "?:*''" 
 her virtues an^l f ' "^^^'tate on 
 
 vircues and to imitate them. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc 
 l^ray for us, etc. see page 60. 
 
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 it would be necessary to have a heart like 
 yours to understand the heroism of that 
 sacrifice. But God, who cherishes those 
 who immolate generously to Him what is 
 most dear to them, did not fail to reward 
 a hundredfold, by heavenly consolations, 
 your immense sacrifice. 
 
 Through those consolations, surpassing 
 all understanding, with which it pleased 
 God to make your heart abound in reward 
 of your generosity, obtain for me the grace 
 to offer to Him, vath all my heart, the 
 sacrifices, great and small, which He re- 
 quires of me, in order that, awaiting eternal 
 happiness in heaven, I also may merit to 
 ^ceive in this world the hundredfold 
 -^hich He has promised. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc. 
 
 Pray for us, etc., see page GO. 
 
Joys of St. Ann. 
 
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 SEVENTH JOY. 
 
 good Saint Ann ! who can relate to 
 us the sweetness of your death and the 
 greatness of your glory in heaven ? After a 
 life, so humble, so pure, so well spent in 
 the perfect fulfillment of all justice, what 
 had you to fear ? Were you not to appear 
 before that God who, having chosen to Him- 
 self your daughter for His sanctuary and 
 His own Mother, had prepared and adorned 
 you for so eminent a dignity ? Perchance, 
 you had even the happiness to die in the 
 arms of Mary ? Indeed, your death was 
 so sweet and so calm, that the Church com- 
 pares it to a peaceful slumber. And now, 
 in heaven, where you will be forever 
 recognized and honored as Mother of the 
 Queen of angels and men, your place is be- 
 side her throne, and your intercession is, 
 to say no more, all-powerful with the Heart 
 
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 of Mary, your Daughter, and that of Jesus, 
 her Divine Son. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, 
 and to the Holy Ghost. 
 
 As it was in the beginning, is now and 
 ever shall be, world without end. Amen. 
 V. Pray for us, Good Saint Ann, 
 
 R. That we may be made worthy of the 
 promises of Christ. 
 
 Let us pray. 
 
 God, who hast deigned to confer on 
 Blessed Ann Thy grace, in order that she 
 might merit to give birth to the Mother 
 of Thy only Son, grant us in Thy bounty 
 to be assisted by the patronage of her 
 whose memory we celebrate. 
 
 Through the same Jesus Christ Our 
 Lord. Amen. 
 
Salutations. 
 
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 SALUTATIO NS 
 
 In memory of the abode of Mary Immaculate 
 in the chaste womb of the Blessed Ann. 
 
 These salutations may serve as a Novena. 
 
 Most holy and august Trinity, I, un- 
 worthy and miserable creature, adore you 
 with deepest sentiments of my own base- 
 ness. I return thanks to you for the fav- 
 ors conferred on Saint Ann, above all for 
 having chosen her to be the Mother of 
 Mary, who has given us Jesus, our divine 
 Redeemer. 
 
 glorious Saint Ann, my protectress 
 and advocate ! from the highest heavens 
 where you enjoy the fruition of your 
 virtues, obtain for me, during life and at 
 death, the assistance of Jesus and Mary, 
 so that I may one day share your hap- 
 piness. 
 
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 Salutations. 
 
 1. 
 
 I salute you, glorious Saint Ann, I 
 congratulate you on the honor conferred 
 on you by the Eternal Father, in pre- 
 ordaining you to give birth to Mary, the 
 Mother of His only Son. 
 
 Enlighten me, that I may know the 
 inestimable price of grace, so as never to 
 consent to lose it by committing sin. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc. 
 
 II. 
 
 I salute you, consolation of afflicted 
 souls! I felicitate you on the holy joy 
 which was felt by the angels at your birth, 
 when they learned that you were to bring 
 into the world their Queen, and the Mother 
 of the Saviour of men. 
 
 Vouchsafe to obtain for me perfect resig- 
 nation to the divine will, courage and 
 
Salutations. 
 
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 patience to support generously the trials 
 and labors of this life. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc. 
 
 III. 
 I salute you, privileged soul, 
 cherished of Hea^^en ! I felicitate you on 
 the favor God conferred upon you in uniting 
 you with holy Joachim, a spouse worthy 
 of you by reason of his excellent virtues- 
 Obtain for me truly to despise the vanities 
 of the world. Reveal to me the infinite 
 value and beauty of our souls, which have 
 been purchased by the adorable blood of 
 a God made man. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc. 
 
 IV. 
 I salute you, depositary of divine grace ! 
 I rejoice with you in the unheard of privi- 
 lege which God was pleased to grant you 
 
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 Salutations. 
 
 of conceiving a daughter, who alone among 
 the descendants of Adam was exempt from 
 the original stain. 
 
 T conjure you to obtain for me a lively 
 horror of sin, a true spirit of penance with 
 an entire separation from everything which 
 might endanger my salvation. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc. 
 
 I salute you, admirable Spouse of Saint 
 Joachim ! I unite with you in the homage 
 which the angels hastened to render to the 
 Virgin Mary when, with the greatest re- 
 spect, you bore her in your chaste womb. 
 
 Deign to obtain for me a great love for 
 angelical purity and the divine assistance 
 under all assaults from my spiritual 
 enemies. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc. 
 
Salutations. 
 
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 VI. 
 
 I salute you, sanctuary of the Holy 
 Ghost 1 I rejoice with you in your inef- 
 fable joy at the birth of Mary, and in the 
 numberless graces which your maternity 
 drew down on you. 
 
 Obtain for me an abundant participation 
 in the gifts of the Sanctifying Spirit, the 
 grace to praise and bless God all the days 
 of my life, and to abound in all sorts of 
 good works. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc. 
 
 VII. 
 I salute you, O Mother of her who is 
 style<^ Queen of the Heavens ! I rejoice 
 with you at the tender consolations which 
 inundated your holy heart when yon 
 devoutly nourished at your breast, and 
 clasped to your bosom, the beloved of the 
 Most Holy Trinity. 
 
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 Salutations. 
 
 Obtaia for me the knowledge of my own 
 nothingness, of God's infinite goodness and 
 beauty, that is to say, a sovereign contempt 
 Of myself and an ardent love of God. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 I salute you, Mother of the Queen of 
 peace ! I rejoice with you in your sublime 
 dignity ; you held command over the 
 Queen of Angels, and to you the Mistress 
 of the world was subject. 
 
 Obtain for me a ready obedience to my 
 superiors and a perfect exactitude in the 
 service of God. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc, 
 
 IX. 
 
 I salute you, O amiable consoler of the 
 sick ; meek and sweet refuge of souls 
 departing this life ! 1 rejoice with you at 
 
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 the splendor of glory which you enjoy in 
 heaven. You it was who gave to God 
 the Father a Daughter worthy of Him, 
 to God the Son an incomparable Mother, 
 to God the Holy Ghost an Immaculate 
 Spouse. You gave to the world a living 
 Temple of the most Holy Trinity. 
 
 Obtain for me, I conjure you, faithfully 
 to imitate Mary, our model in all virtues. 
 Assist me to preserve pure and undehled 
 the Temple which God by His grace has 
 made for Himself in me, that I may one 
 day enter the temple of glory. Amen. 
 
 Glory be to the Father, etc. 
 
 EXERCISE 
 
 IN HONOR OF THE MATERNITY OF SAINT ANN. 
 
 I. 
 
 Lord, Thou hast heard the prayer of the 
 just ; Thou hast listened favorably to the 
 
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 Exercise. 
 
 supplications of Thy ancestors, and Thou 
 hast given them her who has brought Thee 
 forth. (St. Andrew of Crete.) 
 
 Hail, full of grace, the Lord istvith 
 thee ! may grace he with me ! Blessed art 
 thou amongst women. 
 
 And blessed he Saint Ann, thy Mother, 
 from whom thou didst "proceed without 
 stain of sin, Virgin Mary ; hut of 
 thee was born Christ Jesus, Son of the 
 living God, who liveth and reigneth God 
 for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 (100 days indulgence may be gained 
 each time this prayer is recited. — Pius 
 VII., Jan. 10, 1815.) 
 
 II. 
 
 most pious Ann ! the Lord hears your 
 voice when you pray to Him from the 
 enclosure of your garden. He gives for 
 
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 fruit to your chaste womb her who has 
 opened to us the garden of grace. (Saint 
 Andrew of Crete.) 
 
 Hail, full of grace, etc. (as hfore), 
 
 III. 
 
 Ann, issue from the line or stock of 
 David and Jesse, put forth that divine 
 branch from which budded forth the mys- 
 tical flower, the Christ,Creator of all things. 
 (Saint Andrew of Crete.) 
 
 Hail, full of grace, etc. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Saint Ann, we all proclaim you blessed 
 and the source of life to us. Blessed, O 
 Ann, full of wisdom, is your heart, where 
 flourished and grew that virginal fruit, 
 whence proceeds the Author and Kedeemer 
 of creatures. (Saint Andrew of Crete.) 
 
 Hail, full of grace, etc. 
 
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 Exercise, 
 
 V. 
 
 Blessed Add, from you proceeded that 
 odoriferous and agreeable perfume which 
 in a wonderful manner attracted the Lord, 
 the Balm of our life ; and whose heavenly 
 emanations fill our souls with the breath 
 of grace, (Saint Andrew of Crete.) 
 
 Hail, full of grace, etc. 
 
 VI. 
 
 A fruitful vine has sprung up from the 
 blessed Ann; in her chaste womb blos- 
 somed that deJicious fruit, the richness of 
 whose wine imparts the sweetness of 
 eternal life to the inhabitants of the earth. 
 (Saint John Damascene.) 
 
 Hail, full of grace, etc. 
 
 VII. 
 Blessed Ann, rejoice because of your 
 maternity ; your Daughter shall be Mother 
 
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Exercise, 
 
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 of God, the Gate of light, the Fountain of 
 life ; she shall repair the crime of the first 
 woman. (St. John Damascene.) 
 Hail, full of grace, etc. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Ann, Joachim, happy, thrice happy are 
 you ; but a thousand times happier is the 
 Daughter of David, your Daughter ; you 
 are the earth, she is heaven ; you are of 
 the earth, but through her you become 
 heavenly. The King of Glory, whom 
 Moses could not looi^ upon, is smitten by 
 the beauty of your daughter. (John of 
 Eubec.) 
 
 Hail, full of grace, etc. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Joachim! An'i ! by your fidelity 
 
 to the law, you divinely merited that 
 
 which surpasses the power of nature ; 
 
 you have given to the world the Virgin 
 
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 Exercise. 
 
 Mother of God. By leadiug an irreproach- 
 able life, you obtain a daughter superior 
 to the angels, for she is Queen of all the 
 aiigels. 
 
 O Virgin incomparably beautiful and 
 mild ! Lily among thorns 1 O Lily, that 
 didst blossom from the generous and royal 
 stock of David ! In thy person, royalty is 
 enhanced by the priestly dignity, in you 
 is concentrated the fulness of the laWj in 
 you the spirit of the law reveals itself as 
 at noon- day. Through you the priestly 
 dignity passes from the tribe of Levi to 
 the tribe of Juda. lovely Eose ! blos- 
 soming amidst the thorns of Juda, your 
 divine perfumes reach the extiemities of 
 the earth. daughter of Adam, Mother 
 of God ! Blessed is the womb which gave 
 you life ! Happy the arms which sustained 
 you ! Happy the holy parents whose priv- 
 
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 ilege it was to press their lips to yours ! 
 (St. John Damascene.) 
 Hail, full of grace, etc. 
 
 PFAYER IN HONOR OF THE BLESSED 
 VIRGIN AND SAINT ANN. 
 
 Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with 
 thee ; may grace be with me ; Blessed art. 
 thou amongst women, and blessed be St. 
 Ann, thy Mother, from whom thou didst 
 proceed without stain of sin, Virgin 
 Mary ; but of thee was born Christ Jesus, 
 Son cf the living God, who liveth and 
 reigneih Gud for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 OTHER PRAYERS TO SAINT ANN. 
 
 I. 
 
 Hail ! glorious St. Ann, blessed 
 among all mothers ! Thou hadst for thy 
 daughter the most holy Virgin Mary, and 
 she yielded reverential submission and 
 
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 obedience to thee. I admire the excel- 
 lence of thy election, and the graces with 
 which the Most High was pleased to adorn 
 thee. I unite with Mary, Mother of God, 
 and ever Virgin, to honor thee, to love 
 thee, and to put myself under thy protec- 
 tion. I consecrate to Jesus, to Mary and 
 to thee my whole life, as an humble Iri-/ 
 buto of my devotion. Obtaininfoi' me 
 Ti oliness_ of life, that I may be worthy of 
 celestial joys. Amen. 
 
 (oO days indulgence once a day. — Pius 
 IX., June 4, 1869.) 
 
 II. 
 
 Glorious and holy Lady ! thou art the 
 admiration of Heaven, the honor of the 
 saints, and the reverenced of earth. God 
 the Father cherishes in thee the Mother 
 of Ills well-beloved Daughter. The Son 
 of God loves thee for having given Him 
 
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Prayers. 
 
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 a Mother from whom He was born Man 
 and the Saviour of men. The Holy Ghost 
 loves thee for having bestowed on llim so 
 beautiful, so worthy, and so perfect a 
 Spouse. The angels and the elect honor 
 thee as the Mother of their Sovereign. 
 The just, the penitent and the sinner 
 claim thee for their powerful advocate 
 with God, for through thy intercession, 
 the just hope for an increase of grace, the 
 penitent for justification, and the sinner 
 for the remission of his crimes. Be thou 
 mild and clement towards us, and while 
 we honor and invoke thee here below, 
 plead for us in heaven. Enjploy there in 
 our favor the credit which belongs to thee, 
 and do not suffer any of thy clients to be 
 lost. Show thyself always the refuge of 
 sinners, the asylum of tiie guilty, the con- 
 solation of the affiicted, and the security 
 
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 Prayers. 
 
 of thy faithful servants ; defend our cause 
 now and at the hour of our death, we be- 
 seech thee, by the love thou hast for Jesus 
 and His Blessed Mother, thy daughter, in 
 order that, assisted by thy prayers, we 
 may one day possess eternal life. Amen. 
 
 III. 
 
 Be thou for ever blessed, glorious Saint 
 Ann, inasmuch as thou hadst the happi- 
 ness to carry in thy womb the Most Holy 
 and Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of 
 God. Permit us to share in the joy thou 
 didst feel at the happy moment of her 
 birth, and also in the generous sacrifice 
 which thou didst make to the Eternal 
 Father when thou didst present her in the 
 temple. Great Saint, do thou present us 
 to thy dear Daughter and to Jesus Christ 
 her divine Son, and be our advocate and 
 
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Prayers. 
 
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 our intercessor with Jesus and Mary, for 
 what is there that we may not hope for 
 from thy protection, holy Mother of 
 Mary conceived without sin, if we are 
 so happy as to find grace in thy sight- 
 Amen. 
 
 IV. 
 
 PKAYliU TO RECOMMEND ANY PARTICULAR 
 
 BUSINESS. 
 
 Glorious Saint Ann, full of goodness 
 for all those who invoke you, full of com- 
 passion for all those who sufler, feeling 
 myself weighed down with grief and 
 anxiety, 1 cast myself at your feet, humbly 
 beseeching you to take into your hands 
 the business in which I am now^ con- 
 cerned I recommend it to you most 
 
 earnestly, and beseech you to lay it before 
 the Most Holy Virgin, your Daughter 
 
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 Act of Consecration, 
 
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 and our Mother, and before Jesus Christ 
 our Lord, to obtain a favorable issue. Do 
 not, I conjur(3 you, cease to intercede 
 until through the Divine mercy my 
 prayer is granted. Above all, glorious 
 Saint, obtain for me that I may one day 
 see my God face to face, to praise Him, 
 to bless Him, and to love Him with you, 
 with Mary, and with all the elect. Amen. 
 
 V, 
 
 ACT OF CONSECRATION.. 
 
 Blessed Ann, you who brought into the 
 world the Mother of God, illustrious an- 
 cestor of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, I (N, 
 N.) choose you^jn, this day for my Mother 
 and P^tronef^f^T offer and consecT cj^te 
 myself' enti rely ko yi^u. \ IvecQSsxmand^o 
 y our holy keepijig andmatofnai solicitude 
 my niindjiyiLjjay^s^ 
 
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 t.hij^ -^i ^i ^jcfQiUiflnri nf niy »winfnn nf>^ niy life 
 
 a nd my death. 1 1 purpoae and promise to 
 serve and to honor yo u; throughjoyii^for 
 Mary, your most holy J Dauoh ter, and to 
 defend and propagate your glorious patron- 
 
 age, as far as I 
 
 Jide. \. 
 
 On your part, 
 
 laost sw eet Mother and Patrone ss! 
 deign to receive me among your servan ts 
 andjadopted children, and_attachjiia_-to 
 you^^by the bonds ^f the most tendftr de- 
 votio n. \ Obta in for m e to imitate so per- 
 fe ctly^ the virtu es which rendered you 
 agreeab le to^G odJ that I may merit the 
 favors of Jesus a nd th ose o f Mary^ your 
 Daughte r. \ Obtain for me a happy de ath, 
 an d that I m« y ^<? p,onan1pf] \\y them and 
 b y you at my last hour . \ Help m e during 
 myjife to defl^erve, through the sufferings, 
 merits and mercies of our Lor d Jesus 
 Christ^ so fuU a remission ofjny^sins\ that 
 
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 Ejaculatory Prayera, 
 
 m^ SQul ou lea yiiig^iny: bodyinay i mme - 
 diacely ^o Joj:^oin you\^ in eternal re st. 
 Amen 
 
 EJACULATORY PKAYERS. 
 
 blessed Ann, you are worthy of all 
 veneration ! 
 
 1 congratulate you, sweet Saint, to have 
 merited the favor of being the Mother of 
 the Mother of God. 
 
 You are truly happy, gracious Ann, to 
 be the ancestor of a God. 
 
 most sweet Mother St. Ann ! do not 
 disdain the prayers of the poor, but in 
 your maternal charity protect those who 
 seek refuge in you. 
 
 O Blessed Ann, you who reign eter- 
 nally with the angels, vouchsafe to re- 
 member us, and obtain that one day we 
 may merit to enjoy your holy company. 
 {Veaerabh Ann of Saint Augustine.) 
 
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 I salute you, Blessed Ann ! You are 
 that holy land, that sanctified garden 
 which produced the Immaculate Lily, joy 
 of the adorable Trinity, — the bright Rose 
 whose perfume rejoices heaven and earth. 
 
 O Saint Ann ! amiable Patroness, com- 
 passion.'ite Mother, show us your great 
 intercessory power over the Sacred Hearts 
 of Jesus and Mary. Amen. 
 
 LITANY OF SAINT ANN. 
 
 Lord have mercy on us. 
 Christ have mercy on us. 
 Lord have mercy on us. 
 Christ hear 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. 
 
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 Litany of St. Ann, 
 
 God the Holy Ghost, have mercy on 
 on us. 
 
 Holy Trinity one God, have mercy on 
 us. 
 
 Holy Mary, pray for us. 
 
 St. Ann, 
 
 St. Ann, Mother of the Virgin Mary, 
 
 St. Ann, Spouse of Joachim, 
 
 St. Ann, ark of the covenant, 
 
 St. Ann, root of Jesse, 
 
 St. Ann, fruit-bearing vine, 
 
 »:it. Ann, descended of kings, 
 
 St. Ann,' joy of angels, 
 
 St. Ann, dosired of the patriarchs, 
 
 St. Ann gloiy of all saints, 
 
 St, Ann, cloud of refreshing dew, 
 
 St. Ann, full of grace, 
 
 St. Ann, mirror of obedience, 
 
 St. Ann, mirror of patience, 
 
 St. Adu, mirror of devotion, 
 
 
 
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Litany of St Ann, 
 
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 St. Ann, asylum of the guilty, 
 
 St. Ann, deliverance of captives. 
 
 St, Ann, consolation of the married, 
 
 St. Ann, support of widows, 
 
 St. Ann, mother of virgins, 
 
 St. Ann, guide of travellers, 
 
 St. Ann, harbor of safety for mariners, 
 
 St. Ann, solace of the infirm, 
 . St. Ann, health of the sick, 
 
 St. Ann, light of the blind, » 
 
 St. Ann, who givest speech to the 
 dumb, 
 
 St Ann, who gives^; hearing to the deaf. 
 
 St. Ann, who givest comfort to th^i 
 afflicted, 
 
 St. Ann, helper and refuge of all those 
 who call upon thee, intercede for us. 
 
 V. Pray for us. Saint Ann, 
 
 R. That we may become worthy of th 5 
 promises of Christ. 
 
 
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 Litany of St. Ann, 
 
 Let us pray, 
 
 God ! who hast deigned to confer Thy 
 grace on Blessed Ann, making her worthy 
 to brin^ forth the Mother of Thy only 
 Son, grant us of Thy boiuiiy to be as- 
 sisted before Thy throne by the p itronage 
 of her whose memory we celebrate, through 
 the same Jesus Christ, our 1 6rd. Amen. 
 
 APPROBATION. 
 
 We, th e Archbishop of Montreal, have 
 approved and we now approve fcr pri- 
 vate devotion in our Archdiocese the 
 above Litany, and grant to persons who 
 shall recite it devoutly forty days indul- 
 gence, to be gained once a day. 
 
 Given at Montreal. 
 
 Note. — According to a decree of Pius IX., 
 any litanies whatever that have been examined 
 and approved by the Bishop may be recited in 
 private by his diocesans. 
 
 
NOVENA IN HONOR OF 
 
 ST. ANN.* 
 
 FIRST VAF. 
 PBAYER. 
 
 Come, Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy 
 faithful, and kindle in them the fire of 
 Thy love. 
 
 Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be 
 created. 
 
 And Thou Shalt renew the face of the 
 earth. 
 
 Let us pray. 
 
 God, who hast taughi. the hearts of 
 the faithful, by. the light of tha Holy Spirit 
 grant us, by the same Spirit, to relish what' 
 isnght, and evermore to rejoice in His 
 
 the Feast of St. Ann. ^ "' "^"'y' 
 
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 Novena, 
 
 consolations. Through Christ, our Lord 
 Amen. 
 
 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is 
 with thee ; blessed art thou amongst wo- 
 men, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, 
 Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray 
 for us, sinners, now and at the hour of our 
 death. Amen. 
 
 CONSIDERA.TIONS.* 
 
 'Why the Oospe^s preserve silence in 
 regard to Saint Ann, 
 
 Persons ask with astonishment why 
 the Holy Scriptures speak so little of 
 personages whose destiny is bound up 
 with the work of our redemption. A 
 •single page would contain all that is 
 directly related of the Blessed Virgin 
 
 *These considerations are in part extracts from 
 a beautiful work in honor of Saint Ann composed 
 by Rev. Father Mermillod, S. J. 
 
 
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 and scarcely is Saint Joseph mentioned 
 at all, while the lives, the virtues, and 
 even the name of St. Ann and her 
 pious spouse, Saint Joachim, are left in 
 complete oblivion. 
 
 At first sight, this guidance of the Holy 
 Ghost appears strange, but reflection 
 makes us soon perceive and acknowledge 
 its wisdom. This mysterious silence is 
 in itself praise, since a nearly similar 
 apportionment is made to St, Ann and St. 
 Joachim as to the Blessed Virgin and St. 
 Joseph. Besides, are not all these illus- 
 trious personages grouped together in one 
 picture, our Lord Himself occupying 
 the foreground? And do not all the 
 glories of the Man-God redound upon 
 their venerable heads 1 
 
 Indeed, the faithful soul cannot, in its 
 flights heavenward, separate them from 
 
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 Jesus ; it cannot think of Him without 
 in some manner thinking of them ; it can- 
 not love Him without loving also and 
 thanking those who were allied to him 
 by family ties, and from whose race and 
 blood He descended. It cannot, in a word, 
 put aside those whose existence was co- 
 ordained with His. Oh, no. Saint Ann 
 and Saint Joachim in the evangelical pic- 
 ture are not placed entirely in the shade, 
 since they participate in the glories of 
 Christ, and since the Lily Immaculate 
 took its root in their hearts, and budded 
 forth from their blood as from a most pure 
 fountain. To have merited such a favor, 
 must not Saint Ann particularly have 
 gone far beyond the limits of ordinary 
 sanctity ? 
 
 A pious and learned author gives an- 
 other interpretation to this silence of the 
 
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 gospels which is not less honorable to 
 Saint Ann : ** It was not becoming," said 
 he," that the Blessed Virgin should be 
 comni ended through the virtues of her 
 parents, as our Lord could not be made 
 commendable on account of the virtues 
 of His Mother ; but on the contrary, from 
 the infinite holiness of our Lord we may 
 infer that of Mary, and from the holiness 
 of Mary that of her parents. Now, the 
 faithful for that same reason should sup- 
 pose in them the rarest merit and vir- 
 tues, the Holy Ghost not having permit- 
 ted the Evangelists to give their history." 
 Nevertheless, to conceive an adequate 
 idea of these holy Patriarchs, it will 
 suffice to apply to them an infallible 
 rule — a measure pointed out by Wisdom 
 Itself, who has said : ** By their fruits 
 you shall know them," This saying will 
 
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 serve as a sounding line, to show the 
 immeasurable depths of their virtues. 
 Let us imitate the Hebrews in the desert : 
 impatient to verify what was related to 
 them of the delights of the promised land? 
 they, from amongst themselves, chose 
 twelve, whom they sent to visit it and 
 bring back some of its fruits. After a 
 strict survey, the explorers returned to 
 the Children of Israel. Two of them 
 brought upon a pole or hand-barrow 
 a branch of a vine bearing its bunch of 
 grapes, the rest were loaded with divers 
 fruits from the land of Canaan. They 
 showed them to the assemblage, related 
 to them what they had seen, and said : 
 " We have travelled through the land 
 which you have wished us to visit, and 
 which is indeed a land flowing with 
 milk and honey, as you may judge by 
 its fruits." 
 
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 Now, St. Ann and St. Joachim are 
 in some sort that Land of Promise, at least 
 this title is given them by the Fathers 
 and by some pious writers. If you would 
 appreciate their worth, see their fruit : 
 on that blessed land, in that terrestrial 
 paradise, sprang up the rod of Jesse, the 
 tree which has given the Fruit of life — 
 Life itself. Joachim was the father and 
 Ann the mother of Mary Immaculate, 
 of whom luas horn Jesus. 
 
 Like the Hebrews wandering through 
 a lonely desert, let us seek a refuge in 
 that land where flow the milk and honey 
 of divine comforts ; in afflictions, temp- 
 tations and in all our wants, let us have 
 recourse to Saint Ann, and implore her 
 maternal kindness. 
 
 She is mother of the Mother of grace 
 and mercy. 
 
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 CANTICLE TO SAINT ANN. 
 
 The illustrious rod of Jesse produced 
 a glorious branch, and the br?^^ch sent 
 forth a Hower. 
 
 Ann is that rod, the Mother of God is 
 the branch, and Jesus Christ is the 
 flower. 
 
 V. Pray for us, blessed Ann. 
 
 R. That we may be delivered from 
 all evil. 
 
 Let us pray, 
 
 O God, who didst heap upon the 
 Blessed Ann so many graces, that she 
 merited to bring forth the Mother of Thy 
 Divine Son, grant us, through the inter- 
 cession of the Mother and Daughter, the 
 abundance of Thy atonement, that, by the 
 prayers and merits of her whose memory 
 we honor with pious love, we may merit 
 
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 to arrive at the heavenly Jerusalem. 
 Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
 EXAMPLE. 
 
 Among the Saints who have borne 
 special affection to Saint A.nii and to tlie 
 glorious Patriarcli Joachim, their own 
 Immaculate Daughter and St. Joseph are 
 assuredly the first in rank. What truly 
 filial care has Mary not 'iken at all 
 times to procure the honor and invoca- 
 tion of her venerable parents ! Incom- 
 parably superior to Saint Ann and St, 
 Joachim in the hierarchy of grace, raised 
 above them by the divine maternity, the 
 humble Virgin cannot nevertheless for- 
 get that she is their daughter ; she pre- 
 serves for them in her heart an abiding 
 gratitude and love. As Jesus takes 
 pleasure in having His Mother honored, 
 
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 and He Himself inspires the number- 
 less honors with which the Church sur- 
 rounds her, so, in proportion, Mary takes 
 pleasure in having her faithful servants 
 acquit the duty of filial jiffection which 
 she owes to her august parents. Those 
 who had the greatest intimacy with her, 
 Lazarus, his sisters Martha and Mary, 
 but especially the disciple whom Jesus 
 loved, must have been the first to whom 
 the Virgin blest transmitted her senti- 
 ments. This is not an idle conjecture : 
 the privileged apostle became not only 
 the adopted son of Mary in a purely 
 spiritual and mystical point of view, he 
 was, moreover, introduced into her family 
 by his Good Master ; he should then, in 
 return, attach himself with respectful 
 affection to all that his adopted mother 
 loved. As to Lazarus, the friend of our 
 
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 Lord, Mary Magdalen and Martha, such 
 was their love for St. Ann, according 
 to the testimony of tradition, that they 
 would not leave the ungrateful country 
 from which they were expelled without 
 carrying with them her blessed remains. 
 Cast, with other disciples, into an old 
 ship, without sails, without rudder, 
 without provisions, abandoned to the 
 surges ofthesea, and thus condemned to a 
 cruel and inevitable death, they believed 
 themselves sufficiently rich, sufficiently 
 provided, in the sole possession of that 
 treasure from which they] would not be 
 separated, and under its protection they 
 effected a most speedy and wonderful 
 voyage from Palestine to the coasts of 
 Provence. Saint Ann could then count 
 her devotees in the sacred college of the 
 apostles as well as amongst the first follow- 
 ers of Our Blessed Saviour. 
 
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 SECOND DAY. 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Come, Holy Ghost, etc. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS. 
 
 Maternity of Saint Ann: this dig- 
 nity raises her above all luomen saints. 
 
 When God chooses a soul for any 
 special mission of Providence, He in some 
 sort fashions that soul at a distance, and 
 in lavishing His gifts and graces on it 
 He measures them to the end which it 
 pleases Him to attain. If, then. He has 
 in view to raise a soul to a very sublime 
 dignity, He sanctifies it in proportion ; 
 but if He destines it to the very highest 
 dignity, He enriches it with incomparable 
 merits. Now, since God chose :5aint 
 Ann to be the Mother of Mary Immacu- 
 late, the grandmother of His only Son, 
 and of all His adopted children of Grace 
 
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 — a dignity super-eminent — a work of 
 almost infinite excellence — we should 
 believe that He has given her everything 
 suitable to such an elevation, and that 
 after Mary, no daughter of Eve received 
 such favors from the divine goodness. 
 Saint Ann's maternity then raises her 
 above all women saints. What other 
 woman can glorify herself in comparison 
 with this venerable Mother? Would it 
 be the mother of the prophet Jeremias, or 
 Saint John the Baptist ? or again that of 
 Saint Joseph 1 No ; these did not see their 
 children exempt from the power of Satan ; 
 their children, though sanctified before 
 the common lot of mortals, were not 
 conceived without sin, they were not 
 called to so high a dignity as the Daugh- 
 ter of Saint Ann. Would it be Eve, 
 the mother of the human race, who could 
 
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 compare with Saint Ann? Alas! she 
 gave birth to an accursed posterity, a 
 disinherited race, condemned to anguish 
 without end, while Saint Ann gave to 
 th^ world the repairer of her fault — the 
 true Mother of all the living. Ann, the 
 gracious or the kind, as her sweet name 
 expresses, brought forth the Mother of 
 grace — the Mother of all the elect. We 
 can then say with a Father of the Oriental 
 Church, Saint Ann, by her maternity, 
 above all other mothers carries the palm. 
 Let us cite some passages, arawn from 
 the writings of the saints, in support of 
 this assertion. 
 
 " It is beyond doubt," says St. Fulbert 
 de Chartres, '' that the parents of Mary 
 were in a wonderful manner filled with 
 the spirit of life and charity. It is then 
 just to praise and exalt those holy 
 
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 parents of the Blessed Virgin. They 
 showed themselves always so perfect in 
 their whole conduct, that one needs not 
 marvel that from such perfection should 
 come forth her whose lustre is as the 
 mirror of all goodness in ages past and to 
 come." 
 
 " Truly blessed and worthy of all our 
 veneration," repeats the same saint, " is 
 this mother ivho surpasses all 7)iothers 
 who preceded her, because she conceived 
 and brought forth her from whom the 
 Creator was pleased to take birth. For- 
 tunate Mother ! rejoice and be glad of 
 heart ; the gift of so august a Daughter 
 is such, that no woman before merited a 
 greater," 
 
 Certain books belonging to the Greek 
 Church express the same sentiment with 
 quite an Oriental enthusiasm ; rapturously 
 
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 they attest to the lofty opinion which the 
 Greeks entertained of Saint Ann's great 
 sanctity. Here is a fragment : 
 
 *'Eun all you who love the Christ, and 
 in hymns adorned with all the flowers of 
 language, raise your voices and sing with 
 us : 
 
 *' Ann, you are worthy of all vener- 
 ation ! Happy the womb that bore the . 
 Mother of the divine Word I Happy the 
 breast which gave suck to the young 
 Virgin, whose pure milk, in turn, fed the 
 Creator of all living beiugs ! Ann is above 
 all praise : she brought into the world 
 that germ which flowered before all other 
 germs, and which withers never. 
 
 *' Hail, blessed Land ! you gave to the 
 w^orld the ground on which a God so- 
 journed ! O you who were attached to 
 the divine law by an unswerving practice, 
 
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 you, before all others, traced the first 
 features of the law of grace, when, by the 
 birth of the illustrious Virgin, you saw 
 the bonds of your sterility broken. 
 
 *' glorious Ann, you bring down 
 heaven to earth, and shortly after this 
 heaven receives its Creator, who in turn 
 translates you into the kingdom without 
 end/' 
 
 From these considerations and from 
 these authorities may we not conclude 
 that Saint Ann is elevated above all holy 
 women, that she is of an exceptional order. 
 Now, since this dignity is so great, what 
 a multitude of merits does it not suppose 
 in her who deserved it ! Yes, Ann merited 
 to become the mother of Mary Immacu- 
 late. This we shall see in the consider- 
 ations which follow. 
 
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 CANTICLE TO SAINT ANN. 
 
 Ann, glorious Mother, whose Daughter 
 has given us a Eedeeiner ! you who, 
 crowned with glory, reign now with the 
 Angels, be mindful of us. Obtain for us, 
 Ann most holy ! that we may be for- 
 ever united with your blessed family in 
 heaven. 
 
 V. A gift from heaven has filled Saint 
 Ann. 
 
 R. From her is born to us the merciful 
 Mary. 
 
 Let us pray. 
 
 Hear us, God! our Saviour, and as 
 we rejoice in the memory of Saint Ann 
 we may also advance in sentiments of 
 tender devotion. 
 
 Through thee, our Lord Jesus Christ, 
 Amen. 
 
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 EXAMPLE. 
 
 The devotioQ to Saint Ann and Saint 
 Joachim is as ancient as Christianity. 
 Ihe veneration which is rendered to them 
 must have originated in Palestine, amidst 
 the valleys and hills which they inhabited. 
 The rural districts sanctified by their lives 
 altogether heavenly, the house still per- 
 fumed by the fragrance of their virtues, 
 were naturally pointed out to the faithful 
 by the traditions of persons still living. 
 Disconsolate at the loss of Mary, they 
 thronged to the places where her infancy 
 had been spent, and which were witnesses 
 of all the vicissitudes of her life, and 
 everything that recalled Mary, Ann or 
 Joachim, whether near or at a distance 
 became, as it were, sacred to them. 
 
 Monuments attest to this worship of 
 the early Christians ; the most ancien 
 
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 records of the Holy Land make mention 
 of churches and oratories erected to their 
 honor in Jerusalem. A renowned author 
 speaks of two monuments of the kind 
 thus : The church dedicated to Saint Ann, 
 mother of the most holy Virgin, Mother 
 of God, is beautiful and spacious. Under- 
 neath it is a chapel commemorative of 
 the Immaculate Conception, which, ac- 
 cording to tradition, is visited by the 
 faithful with great devotion and tender 
 piety. 
 
 The relative honor paid to Saint Ann 
 was not less practised in the different 
 countries of the East, and it passed into 
 all the rites. Every year the Greeks 
 celebrate three feasts in her honor. On 
 the 9th of September they commemorate 
 her birth ; on the 9th of December they 
 solemnize her glory in having conceived 
 
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 Mary Immaculate ; finally, on 25th July, 
 they honor her happy death, which they 
 call Aer sleep. 
 
 These feasts were celebrated with great 
 pomp, to which the Emperors of the East 
 contributed by the erection of magnificent 
 churches. Amongst them were two 
 basilicas, objects of admiration, at Con- 
 stantinople, and these were due to the 
 munificence of the two Justinians. The 
 Imperial City did not enjoy alone the 
 privilege of beautiful churches in honor 
 of Saint Ann. They were to be found in 
 the most distant corners of the empire. 
 Here is the proof drawn from the words 
 of a contemporary, Saint Stephen the 
 younger.* He set out directing his steps 
 
 "^ The mother of Saint Stephen the younger was 
 named Ann. She had two daughters, one of whom 
 
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 towards the sea where he embarked. He 
 arrived at Chersonese Tauride, where he 
 was to pass the term of his exile. There, 
 abandoned by all his companions, as he 
 wandered through that desert region, he 
 found himself not far from the sea, and 
 facing a declivity of formidable aspect 
 He visited all these precipices which over- 
 hang the waves in order to discover a 
 place of retreat. Conducted as by a 
 divine hand, he arrived at a habitation 
 exceedingly pleasant, cut out in a kind 
 of cavern. In the midst of this enclosure 
 arose a magnificent temple dedicated to 
 Saint Ann. Then the Saint, inundated 
 
 received the same name; but after their birth she 
 became barren, and was inconsolable at not having 
 a son. After the trial, which lasted a number of 
 years, she obtained through tie intercession of her 
 holy patroness a son, who is now crowned among 
 the saints. 
 
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 with joy, fixed his abode in that retreat, 
 which God seemed to have prepared for 
 him, and lived on tlie herbs which he found 
 in the environs. 
 
 As may be seen, the worship of Saint 
 Ann cast its splendor at first throughout 
 the East, during the beautiful ages of the 
 Greek Church. It is from there we have 
 received the most beautiful pages written 
 in her honor — hymns the most tender, 
 prayers the most loving. It was there 
 that the gentle mother began to shower 
 upon her faithful clients that stream of 
 graces which through ages has continued 
 to flow and is never dried up. Unhappily, 
 the East became ungrateful. Her degen- 
 erated nations changed, by superstition 
 and vain observances, a worship which 
 was at first their privilege. . Later on, the 
 conoclasts broke the statues and tore the 
 
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 images of our saint, as well as those of 
 other saints ; in fine, heresy and schism 
 compelled her to turn elsewhere her 
 maternal eyes and shed her favors upon 
 other countries. She found more faithful 
 children in the West. 
 
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 Come Holy Ghost, etc. 
 
 
 
 ^ L Saint Anil Tnerited to become the 
 Y^ i V mother of the Immaculate Mary. 
 
 Tn the office for July 26th, day on which\ 
 the Church celebrates the Feast of Saint 
 Ann, we read the following prayer : 
 
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 God ! who hast deigned to confer on 
 . BloJacd Ann Thy grace, in order that she 
 might inerit to give birth to the Mother 
 
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 of Thy Only Son,| grant us of Thy bounty 
 that we may be assisted before Thy throne 
 by the patronage of her whose solemnity 
 we celebrate. 1---^ — 
 
 It may then be said, since the Church 
 says it, that St. Ann me riied her maternity 
 as much as any creature coudl merit it by / 
 her fidelity to grace, and she obtained jt.^ 
 But what d^d she do\to draw this blessing 
 on herself ? \ By what gradation of virtues 
 and perfection did she raise herself to 
 make this thing possible ? \ InordgLjP 
 conceive of it a feeble idea, let us recall 
 to ourselves wjjaiJM[ary w£i^ from the first 
 instant of her creation. We can then form 
 
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 an idea of what must have been her mother. 
 Must not the stem be worthy of the 
 Jlower, and the vase worthy of the perfume 
 it contains? 
 
 On leaving the hands of God, still under 
 
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 the action of His creating breath, th e sou l 
 of Mary was joined to a most pure body, 
 forever virginal and i mmaculate likjajtself. 
 "~~Ih order that this virginal body should 
 not come in 3ontactwith anything defiled, 
 ip'TOdCT'ttM'liothttig di^erdina^e- cauld-by 
 itg yicii)itty.cause- her-^he «lighte«t-traulile, 
 
 purity, if not Jjy^ privilege, at least by 
 their concurrence with grace l^W as it roj 
 necessary that St. Ann, the blessed recep- 
 tacle for that Ark of the Covenant, should 
 have absolute command over all the 
 motions of her being ? ! how the Imma- 
 culate Conception of Mary exalts her 
 
 parents and...£n,nQbl6^s St. AnnJ 
 
 Moreover, what was not the dignity 
 and perfection of Mary at the moment 
 even in which she was created? Mary 
 
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 k^w herselrfand no one of the celestial 
 spirits surpassed her in the knowledge of 
 God and His works, as all the Doctors of 
 the Church admit.\ Was it not then in the 
 highest degree becomind that she should 
 perceive in her Mother nothing which 
 could grieve her, or which could alter the 
 fulness of hei:-*respect or diminish her 
 veneratiggJlOn, the other hand, would 
 not St Ann have died of confusion and 
 regret\if she could have reproached herseK 
 with the slightest fa,ult\if she saw herself 
 condemned tc carry unworthily in her 
 womb the Queen of heaven and earth, 
 to see^herself a subject of pain, even 
 though involuniarily, to her Immaculate 
 
 Thus, not only may it be conjectured, 
 but it may be held as certain, that as soon 
 as Ann beca me a m other, she had out- 
 
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 stepped the limits of perfect holiness to* 
 which the greatest saints attain. 
 
 She had put an everlasting barrier to 
 the slightest imperfections which are in- 
 evitable to souls less humble, less vigilant^ 
 less generous; shQ^adJbhe gift of being 
 confirmed in gxace and in j ustice. By her 
 faith and her hope she had left the just 
 of the Old Testament far behind her ; she 
 believed and hoped all her life, never 
 suffering in her heart any hesitation in- 
 jurious to her fidelity to God. As to the 
 love of God, it maintains itself outwardly 
 by the interests taken in holy things, by 
 ofterings of value destined to enhance the 
 pomp of sacred ceremonies, and above all 
 by the practice in its varied forms of 
 brotherly love. No one surpassed St, 
 Ann in charity. Pressed in her tender 
 heart by the interior law of that love 
 
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 which is at the same time single and 
 double, its object God alone and he^^ 
 neighbor, she anticipated the law of grace 
 and divined its instinctive character — the 
 worship of God's house, the serving of 
 His poor. In concert with St. Joachim 
 she made three parts of her revenue, as 
 the legend relates : one part being destined 
 for the temple, a second for the unfortun- 
 ate, amL^r^ui'd for the maintenance of 
 her ow^^itm^s:^ — 
 
 Saint Ann had then merited her 'mater- 
 nity by the practice of faith, hope and 
 charity ; in her, these essential virtues 
 had attained to a perfect maturity. Mary 
 had not then toJL)lush for her before the 
 angels ; and during nine months she could 
 repose within St. Ann as on a bed of roses 
 and lilies ; her enclosure was as a temple 
 filled with the perfume of all virtues, and 
 
 
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 no place, except the Heart of Jesus, was 
 more worthy of her. 
 
 CANTICLE TO SAINT ANN. 
 
 Joachim, made beautiful by the 
 divine breath ! Ann, resplendent with 
 the divinity ! from your holy union has 
 been formed that ever-burning lamp whose 
 brightness precludes all shadow. The 
 grace of God Himself has enriched you 
 superabundantly. To the prayers of Mary 
 your Daughter join your prayers, that the 
 Lord may grant to our souls the fruition 
 of His divine mercies. (Saint Sabas.) 
 
 V. Pray for us, St. Joachim and St. 
 Ann. 
 
 R. That we may become worthy of 
 the promises of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Let us 'pray. 
 God ! who didst choose St. Joachim and 
 
 
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 St. Ann in preference to all other saints to 
 be parents to the Mother of Thy Son, grant 
 us, we beseech Thee, that, rendering thenV 
 upon earth a religipus veneration, we may 
 merit to obtain thel? protection in heaven. 
 Through the same Christ, our Lord. Aipaen. \, 
 
 The devotion to St. Ann in Italy ascends 
 to the first age of the Christian era. The 
 example of St. Peter, and those by whom 
 he was accompanied into Kome, the rela- 
 tions so frequent which the faithful of the 
 Eternal City had with the disciples of our 
 Lord, suffice to explain how this devotion 
 was introduced into Italy from the very 
 cradle of Christianity. At that distant 
 period, however, this devotion did not carry 
 with it publicly the same splendor as in later 
 years. To verbal tradition we are indebted 
 
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 for its perpetuation and also for its pre- 
 servation, until the decay of paganism and 
 the enfranchisement of the Church. The 
 first monument which is f )und of it in 
 history does not go beyond the pontificate 
 of Leo III., from the year 795 to the year 
 816; but it supposes St. Ann and St. 
 Joachim to be already and for many long 
 years known and venerated by the faith- 
 ful. This remarkable Pontiff had their 
 whole history represented on a sacerdotal 
 robe in gold embroidery. 
 
 These holy patriarchs have always been 
 held in great veneration in tlie Capital of 
 the. Christian world. One of the most 
 beautiful churches of RomV, is dedicated 
 to Saint Ann, and may be considered as 
 the centre of devotion to the Saint in the 
 Eternal City. In this Sanctuary, every 
 year, on the 26th of July, is displayed a 
 
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 magnificent procession, in which a statue 
 of Saint Ann is carried triumphantly and 
 borne by churchmen of the Pope's service. 
 This statue for ages past has been piously 
 preserved at the pontifical palace. 
 
 It was Gregory XV. who established 
 the Feast of St. Ann. This Pontiff being 
 attacked with a grave malady, and all the 
 resources of medical skill having been de- 
 clared powerless, called for a religious of 
 the Order of St. Francis, named Innocent 
 of Cluses, and celebrated for his devotion 
 to Saint Ann and for the many wonders 
 which he operated through her intercession. 
 The servant of God reassured the Pope, 
 telling him that Saint Ann had obtained 
 his cure, and that in gratitude for this 
 favor His Holiness ought to enjoin on the 
 faithful to solemnize every year the 
 memory of his benefactress. The Pontiff, 
 
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 restored to health, decreed that the Feast 
 of the Saint would be of obligation. 
 
 FOURTH DAY. 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Come, Holy Ghost, etc. 
 
 CONSIDERATION. 
 
 Eulogy of St Ann by the Fathers of 
 the Oreek Ohurch, 
 
 The Fathers of the Greek Church wrote 
 admirable pages on St. Ann. The clients 
 of this Venerable Mother will read some 
 of them with edification. 
 
 St. John Damascene, in his sixth and 
 seventh homilies on the Nativity, says 
 that Mary is more the daughter of grace 
 than of nature, that we are indebted for 
 hei to the prayers and sanctity of her par- 
 ents. We shall note some of his reflections. 
 
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 parent stock of this virginal branch ? Ann 
 and Joachim, glorious spouses united by 
 the Word Himself ; spouses whose union 
 was more divine than all other unions 
 since their so tender charge is of trans- 
 cendent worth. How could the stem be 
 unworthy of the branch which it produced ? 
 Now, this magnificent stem proceeding 
 from a holy stock seemed impotent to pro- 
 duce its fruit. But * the just cried out^ and 
 the Lord heard them, and He has delivered 
 them from all their trihulaiions.* This 
 is what David the king foretold in his 
 hymns of divine inspiration. ' The just 
 cried out, said he, and it seems to me 
 that he made himself by these words the 
 interpreter of the whole human race. The 
 just cried out, they demanded the fruit of 
 their union, and of God a more perfect mani- 
 festation. 
 
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 '' Now, God, who is prompt to compassion 
 and slow to anger, heard their prayer and 
 granted them her who bears the name of 
 Mary, and who became for us a magni. 
 ficent and ineffable compensation for the 
 ill-fortuned Eve. Let us celebrate then in 
 Joachim and in his spouse the cessation 
 of that sterility which w as an obstacle to 
 our happiness. 
 
 " Why, indeed, was the Virgin born of 
 a barren mother ? Was it not to prepare 
 a prodigy, the single new thing under the 
 sun, to trace out the way for the miracle 
 of miracles, and to reattach that which is 
 most humble to that which is most exalted ? 
 Ann ! Joachim ! fortunate couple ! 
 Every creature is attached to you by the 
 strictest obligations, for through you it 
 can offer to its Creator the most perfect 
 of all gifts : a chaste n other and the only 
 one worthy of her Creator, 
 
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 ** happy Joachim ! you have merited 
 that Immaculate fruit. 
 
 " chaste bosom of Ann, in which was 
 formed and so silently developed that fruit 
 of sanctity ! womb, in which was con- 
 ceived that living Heaven, more vast than 
 the immense expanse which overarches 
 our earthly home. 
 
 " breast, whose milk nourished the 
 virgin fosterer of Him who feeds the world ! 
 wonder of wonders ' prodigy surpass- 
 ing all prodigies ! It was just that God, 
 wishing to humble Himself even to us» 
 should trace by miracles the path to His 
 ineffable Incarnation. But how shall I 
 go on ? My soul is enraptured ; it is 
 divided between fear and desire. My heart 
 palpitates ; my tongue is paralyzed ; I can 
 no longer contain my transports ; a divine 
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 astray. But away ! all vain terrors ; let 
 love dissipate them ; let my soul sing on 
 the lyre of the Holy Spirit ; ' Let the heavens 
 rejoicCy and let the earth leap for joy, " 
 
 A little later the same Father calls Ann 
 and Joachim a couple exempt from all 
 stain, and presents us Mary as the fruit 
 and reward of their sanctity. 
 
 '* Ann ! Joachim ! happy and spotless 
 couple 1 It is of you that we are permitted 
 to say with the Lord : Exfructibus coruvi 
 cognoscetis eos.' By the fruit of your 
 union you are known. You regulated 
 your conduct in such a manner as to be 
 most agreeable to God, most worthy of her 
 who was born of you. The fruit of your 
 holy and chaste lives is the Pearl of 
 Virginity. Living liolily in a nature only 
 human you have given us a Maiden supe- 
 rior to the angels, for of them she is the 
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 Ke then speaks of God's guidance of 
 them, of tedious humiliations and trials, 
 through which that God, infinitely wise, 
 brings them to the degree of perfection 
 necessary to His designs ; of their heroic 
 patience ; of their inviolable fidelity, and 
 he adds : " Ann and Joachim have labored 
 for justice, and they have reaped the fruit 
 of Life. They lighted the torch of science, 
 they sought the Lord, and they have found 
 the fecundity of justice." 
 
 CANTICLE TO SAFNT ANN. 
 
 Kejoice, Mother of the Mother of 
 Christ ! you who welcomed with delight 
 the message of God the Father. 
 
 Eejoice, Spouse of Joachim, Heaven 
 has put a glorious end to your sterility ! 
 
 Kejoice, for the Maiden who reposed in 
 your chaste womb was preserved from the 
 original stain ! 
 
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 Rejoice, you who have brought forth 
 the Daughter of chastity, a vessel of virtues 
 and salvation ! 
 
 Rejoice, you who have given ixilk v^ith 
 joy to her who is the Star of the world and 
 the wine-cellar of the Sovereign King. 
 
 Through her may it be given us to enjoy 
 the brightness of His adorable Face in 
 eternal glory. Amen. 
 
 V. Pray for us, blessed Ann. 
 
 R. That we may be delivered from all 
 
 evil. 
 
 Let us pray. 
 
 God, who hast hetped so many graces 
 on blessed A nn, that she merited to carry 
 in her bosom Mary your Mother, grant us, 
 through the intercession of the Mother and 
 Daughter, the abundance of your merciful 
 forgiveness, in order that, by the prayers 
 and merits of her whose memory we honor 
 
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 with pious love, we may merit to reach 
 the heavenly Jerusalem. 
 
 Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
 EXAMPLE. 
 
 If there is a land which Saint Ann 
 seems to have more specially loved, it is 
 France, Who does notjkiiow the historic 
 of those sanctuaries of Apt and Aur^y ! 
 Of this latter we present short statistics, 
 — miracles there operated twenty years 
 after the discovery of the statue, which 
 event took place in 162 1-. John Thomas 
 of JSaint Cyrille expresses himself thus : 
 We could cite in testimony of the pro- 
 tection of Saint Ann a great number of 
 mii'itcles, extracted from books ah'eady 
 pubb'slied and from registers to which 
 were consigned events of the most striking 
 .md extraordinary interest, also verbal 
 
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 processes and other printed matter. Of 
 this number are the following : — 
 
 The raising to life of twelve dead per- 
 sons. 
 
 Eestoring to health sixty persons in 
 imminent danger of death. 
 
 Sight restored to nine persons afflicted 
 with blindness. 
 
 Hear .^ ^O^anted to ten deaf persons. 
 
 The iiiii. nee of several accused persons 
 miraculously made known. 
 
 Persons sick of the palsy, to the num. 
 ber of thirty-six, recovered the use of their 
 members. 
 
 A perfect cure of thirteen persons de- 
 clared incurable. 
 
 Thirty-three persons who had been ship- 
 wrecked saved from death near at hand. 
 
 Thirteen captives delivered from the 
 servitude of the Turks, etc. 
 
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 The greater number of these miracles 
 and the most noted [took place] towards 
 the year 1647, date of the statistics. 
 These prodigious works have not since 
 ceased to be reproduced, and in our own 
 days, every year increases the number. 
 Without theselimlliplied miracles it would 
 be difficult to explain the resort, often ex- 
 traordinary, to Auray by the population of 
 Brittany. Multitudes of persons of all 
 conditionsmake this pilgrimage every year, 
 and often on foot, notwithstanding th^ 
 actual facilities for communication. The 
 popularity of the Madonna in Italy, of 
 Saint Patrick in Ireland, of Saint Januarius 
 at Naples, can scarcely give an idea of the 
 filial love of these populations and their 
 perfect confidence in Saint Ann. 
 
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 FIFTH DAY. 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Come, Holy Ghost, etc. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS. 
 
 Eulogy of Saint Ann by the Fathers 
 of the Greek Church — (continued). 
 
 St. Germain, patriarch of Constanti- 
 nople, professes the same belief, viz., that 
 Saint Ann merited her glorious maternity. 
 Saint Andrew of Crete, one of the most 
 illustiio\:s servants of Saint Ann, took de- 
 light in preaching the same doctrine. 
 Here is a fragment of his second sermon 
 on the Nativity of the Most Holy Virgin : — 
 
 " But let us return to the solemnity of 
 that birth. Let our praise ascend in honor 
 of Saint Ann, like the accents of a nuptial 
 song. Ann bore ir her bosom a child given 
 by God and the pledge of His Promise. 
 
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 She obtained that child by her prayers ; 
 she gave birth to her who, in an unspeak- 
 able manner, gave to the wcvld a God visible 
 to men and living in the midst of them. 
 " Is it not just that we should exalt 
 even to the stars by the most magnanimous 
 praise, and that we should welcome with 
 sacred acclamation her who has given us 
 such a child ? The names of two illustrious 
 women are conspicuous in the sacred home 
 of Saint Ann : the blessed names of the 
 Mother and the Daughter. On this day, 
 the one is delivered from the opprobrium 
 of sterility, and the other will give us very 
 soon Jesus her son, Jesus like unto us. 
 Let us then pay a just tribute of praise to 
 her wlv), lately barren, brings forth a child. 
 Let us say to her in concert with a writer 
 of the sacred |>ages : Happy the house of 
 David from which you descend ! Happy 
 
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 is your womb in which God formed the 
 Ark of sanctification, fferwho would con- 
 ceive Him without prejudice to her virgin- 
 ity ! yep, happy, thrice happy, are you 
 who, loaded with the gifts of God, have 
 given us the humble Mary, whose name 
 is great and worthy of all praise and of 
 all honor, and from whom has come forth 
 the Christ, the Flower of life ! " 
 
 George of Nicomedia makes himself 
 the expositor of the same sentiment in 
 several of his discourses. *' Consider,*' 
 says he, ** the election of all the just and 
 of all the prophets ; see by what ties gra- 
 titude attached them to God, who had 
 chosen them, and you may form an idea 
 of the incomparable excellence of Ann 
 and Joachim. Do you not find in them a 
 dignity which surpasses our comprehen- 
 sion, — a dignity more precious and more 
 honorable than all other dignities ? God 
 
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 their Creator chose them for the restora- 
 tion of the world. He receives of their 
 blood a mother, and in the womb of that 
 Mother He has resolved to make a new 
 creation. These favors render these holy 
 patriarchs superior to all the just, and con- 
 fer on them rights surpassing all merit. 
 Were tliey not chosen from amongst all 
 others, and reserved for the accomplish- 
 ment of a stupendous mystery ? See how 
 everything that concerns them is beyond 
 all comparison." 
 
 To these testimonies w^e shall add 
 that of Alvarez de Paz, one of the first 
 asceiic authors of the Company of Jesus. 
 In a meditation on the Immaculate 
 Conception he says : — 
 
 " What parents ! sacred Virgin 1 
 What ancestors ! 
 
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 their neighbor, moderate towards them- 
 selves, they lived soberly, justly, pious- 
 ly, because they were destined to engen- 
 der you, O Mary ! you whose extreme 
 frugality was always your delight ; you 
 whose justice possessed your whole 
 heart, and whom 'piety adorned with all 
 its gifts. Moreover, they gave them- 
 selves up to assiduous prayer, supplicat- 
 ing the Lord that it would please Him to 
 remove from them the opprobrium of 
 sterility. Thus, Sovereign Queen of 
 ours! you are not so much daughter of 
 flesh as of prayer ! 
 
 " Axa sighed, and at her demand obtained 
 a fertile piece of land from Caleb, her father. 
 - " Ann also sighed, and by her lament- 
 ntions and tears she obtained yon. You, 
 the source of all the wealth of heaven 
 and earth. 
 
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 "Such were the Father and Mother 
 which God Himself chose for you, 
 virginal Spouse of the Lord. And it was 
 from the blood of these chosen ones that 
 He forinad your sacred body. But further, 
 before its animation, before its formation 
 even, in- the womb of your Mother, He 
 purified it by the ministry of angels, 
 from all natural imperfection. 
 
 ** Wretches that we are ! malevolence, 
 in the matter of which our bodies are 
 compounded, inclijes some of us to slug- 
 gishness, others to anger, and others again 
 to vices still more shameful. God willed 
 not that it should be so with you, 
 Mary ! and before He drew your soul 
 from nothing, He purified completely 
 the dwelling which it was to inhabit, in 
 order that no motion of the flesh should 
 come to disturb its peace. Ctuid it be 
 
 
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 otherwise ? When, of old, a house to 
 God was to be built, the stones for the 
 edifice were already cut and polished. 
 In this house no sound was heard, whe- 
 ther of hammer or hatchet, nor the noise 
 of any other instrument. With how 
 much greater reason, Temple the most 
 perfect of the Divinity ! should you have 
 been composed, you whose soul and body 
 were the most accomplished that can be 
 imagined, where the hammer of con- 
 trition had nothing to break and the file 
 of mortification nothing to polish 1 " 
 
 Thus, mortification and sacrifice had 
 done their work in Saint Ann and Saint 
 Joachim, purifying, refining and not leav- 
 ing in them even a shadow of defilement. 
 God could take of that pre-sanctified earth 
 to create His well-beloved Daughter, 
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 Goodness, and committed her to the 
 guardianship of parents worthy of the 
 trust. When she appeared, heaven and 
 earth envied her who had the signal 
 honor, the merit so glorious of being her 
 Mother. 
 
 CANTICLE TO SAINT ANN. 
 
 • Glorious Ann, you are that excel- 
 lent tree whose detached branch blos- 
 somed under the divine influence ! 
 
 You are the Holy Land which pro- 
 duced the burning bush which consumed 
 not. 
 
 You are that ethereal region, to the 
 heights of which the Star of the Sea 
 advanced at its uprising ! 
 
 You are blessed among women, a 
 Mother happy among mothers : from 
 your chaste womb stole away, resplen- 
 dent to the eyes of men, the Mother of 
 
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 God, tLe Temple of the Lord, the Sanc- 
 tuary of the Holy Ghost, 
 
 V. Pray for us, Saint Ann. 
 
 R. That we may be worthy of the 
 promises of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Let us pray. 
 
 God Almighty, we beseech _Thee 
 grant us to experience alv/ays the pro- 
 tection of the Blessed Ann, Mother of 
 Mary, in whose memory we rejoice. 
 
 Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
 EXAMPLE. 
 
 From France, the devotion to Saint 
 Ann passed, of course, into Canada. The 
 Saint on her side was not insensible to 
 the confidence of her ne\\ly-found chil- 
 dren. In this land of adoption, as in the 
 mother country, slie is pleased to load 
 them with maternal favors. 
 
 
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 In 1665, the venerable Mother of the 
 Incarnation, writing from Qneliec, says: 
 *' Seven leagues from here there is a 
 borough called Petit Cap, where there is 
 a Church of Saint Ann, in which our 
 Divine Lord is pleased to perform great 
 wonders in the interest of this sainted 
 Mother of the Most Holy Virgin. There 
 may be seen paralytics walking, the 
 blind recovering their sight, sick people 
 afflicted with no matter what disease 
 restored to health." 
 
 Two years later, in 1667, Thomas 
 Morel, missionary, wrote : " As God 
 seems always to choose some churches 
 where, through the intercession of the 
 Most Holy Virgin or that of the angels 
 or saints. He opens wiie the bosom of 
 His mercies, there operating numerous 
 miracles which He does not usually 
 
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 produce els where, He seems in the same 
 manner, in our day, to choose the church 
 of St. Ann du Petit Gap to make of it 
 a favorable asylum for the Christians of 
 this new world. He has placed in the 
 hands of this great Saint 9 treasury of 
 graces and blessings, which she dr anses 
 liberally to those who invoke ner in 
 this place. It is to this end, assuredly 
 that He has imprinted in hearts a singu- 
 lar devotion, an extraordinary confidence 
 which engage a whole people to have 
 recourse to her in all their wants. They 
 receive from her signal and prodigious 
 help, as may be seen by the wonders 
 which have been there operated during 
 the past ten years." 
 
 In 1668, ten years after the founda- 
 tion of the church, Mr. Thomas Morel, 
 who was its parish priest, composed a 
 
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 Ann, which Bishop Laval examined 
 and declared conformable to truth. 
 To this judgment the prelate added 
 these remarkable words : " We confess 
 that nothing has so powerfully assisted 
 us to sustain the weight of the pastoral 
 charge of this new-born church as the 
 special devotion which the inhabitants 
 of this country bear to Saint Ann, — de- 
 votion which We affirm distinguishes 
 them from all other nations." 
 
 SIXTH DA r. 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Come, Holy Ghost, etc. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS. 
 
 The TYierits of Saint Ann increased 
 prodigiously after the Conception of 
 Mary Immaculate, 
 
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 If the matei nity of Saint Ann supposes 
 already in her a sanctity so great, of 
 which we have been able to convince our- 
 selves, what a marvellous increase must 
 not her merits have acquired at the 
 moment she conceived, through the 
 continuous and most intimate relations of 
 Mother and Daughter. Ann furnished a 
 material life, sustenance, and physical 
 growth to Mary : in return she received, 
 through Mary, divine increases, the pleni- 
 tude of spiritual life ; for in the order of 
 grace there is but one only mother of aK 
 the living. Eve was not worthy of the 
 title, it was Mary's exclusive privilege, 
 whether for the past or future, in the same 
 way that Jesus is Saviour in all ages past 
 or to come. Mary was then the spiritual 
 Mother of her Mother ; she made use of 
 her power over the Most Holy Trinity 
 
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 constantly to enrich her with new gifts, 
 and to pay by celestial treasures the tem- 
 poral benefits which she received from her. 
 
 how rich is Saint Ann! and how 
 grand ! with her precious burden, with 
 that little Virgin in her womb : riches 
 and grandeur are hers, praising with Mary 
 and blessing the divine Majesty ! What a 
 spectacle for the heavens ! Mary living in 
 Saint Ann and of Saint Ann : the flower 
 budding on its stem, receiving its strength 
 and unfolding its beauties through the 
 sweet-scented succulence it receives ! 
 
 But the cares and the merits of mother- 
 hood do not limit themselves to the brinor- 
 ing of a frail creature into the world ; it is 
 only then they may be said to begin, pro- 
 longed as they are at the expense of 
 many watchings and sacrifices. Although 
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 been conceived free from the breath of 
 human passions, still she had been a great 
 charge to her Mother, she had cost her a 
 whole life of prayers, of tears, and of 
 penance ; but as soon as the little Virgin, 
 the desired of nations, was in the arms of 
 her holy Mother, the devotedness of Saint 
 Ann received new transports and conse- 
 quently increased merits. 
 
 What sanctity did it require to fulfil 
 this new mission worthily, or, at least, to 
 be the nurse and guardian of that child, 
 for she had no need of human education ! 
 Mary was no sooner created than she was 
 greater in the eyes of her Creator than all 
 the saints and all the angels put together. 
 Yet, during the nine months she did not 
 remain inactive under the influence of the 
 sanctifying Spirit, her Spouse; she at 
 every instant doubled her merits. Now, to 
 
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 touch, to handle that little Queen, to re- 
 move far from her every image, all sur- 
 roundings unworthy of her incomparable 
 candor, with what a vesture of purity 
 must not Saint Ann have enveloped her- 
 self ! With what discretion must she not 
 have regulated to a perfect propriety all that 
 related to the totality of her demeanor and 
 conversation. What lights must have 
 been hers not to exact anything imperfect, 
 and never to shackle God's good pleasure 
 in regard to that pre-eminent and pre- 
 elected soul ! 
 
 CANTICLE TO SAINT ANN. 
 
 I salute you, Branch of the rod of Jesse, 
 whose flower emits the heavenly odor of 
 an everlasting perfume ! 
 
 I salute you, Mother of the Star of 
 
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 the Sea, from whom was born the King 
 of kings ! 
 
 From the whirlpool of the tempest and 
 from exile, draw us towards the blessed 
 in heaven. 
 
 you, who alone merited to give life 
 to the Mother of Christ, receive our pray- 
 ers ! 
 
 Eecomniend us most earnestly to the 
 King and Queen of the heave>js ; to 
 your Daughter and to her Son. Amen. 
 
 V. Ann ! obtain that Jesns may be 
 propitious to us. 
 
 R. Through the intercession of Mary. 
 
 Let us pray. 
 
 God, who hast conferred on the 
 glorious Saint Ann Thy grace, to carry 
 and bring up with motherly care the 
 
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 holy Virgin Mary, grant us the grace, 
 through the intercession of the Mother 
 and Daughter, that we may obtain what 
 we ask, and arrive one day at eternal 
 glory. 
 
 Through Jesus Christ, our Lgrd. 
 Amen. 
 
 EXAMPLE. 
 
 A little book whose title is The Pil- 
 rimage of the Good Saint Ann contains 
 many traits of St. Ann's protection in 
 different parts of Canada. We shall cite 
 but a few, which took place at the begin- 
 ning of the colony. 
 
 When the Church of Saint Ann of 
 Beaupr(5 was about to be erected, an 
 inhabitant of the coast of Beaupr(5 named 
 Louis Guimont, afflicted with grievous 
 pains, through a motive of devotion, 
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 when suddenly he was cured. This 
 cure gave occasion to another still more 
 striking. Marie Esther Eamage, wife 
 of a Mr. Godin, was suffering from an 
 infirmity which for eight months kept 
 her in a curved position, and which com- 
 pelled her painfully to drag herself along 
 with the assistance of a stick, and not 
 having any hope of ever recovering her 
 health by human remedies. Hearing her 
 husband speak of Mr. Guimont's cure, 
 she began to invoke Saint Ann, at 
 the same moment she came to her feet 
 perfectly straight, and with as free use of 
 all her membeis as she had in her best 
 health. These '•ares were followed by 
 many others no less remarkable, operated 
 suddenly in the new Ghurch^ and which 
 became the happpy occasion of increasing 
 faith and confidence in the devotion to- 
 
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 grimage celebrated throughout Can- 
 ada. Soon people came from all quarters, 
 and the resort was so great during the 
 remainder of the seventeenth century, 
 that on the day of the Feast ten and 
 twelve thousand communicants were 
 united there, without speaking of a great 
 number of other pilgrims who during 
 
 time from a" 
 
 year 
 
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 PRAYER. 
 
 Come, Holy Ghost, etc. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS. 
 
 By the Presentation of Mary in the 
 Temple, Saint Ann and Saint Joachim 
 ailed up their measure of merits, 
 
 God generally contrives for His elect, 
 in some rare circumstances of their lives, 
 
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 the opportunity to give Him some tangi- 
 ble proof of their love. He then requires 
 of them some extraordinary or more per- 
 fect sacrifice ; at one time the voluntary 
 offering of an object tenderly loved, at 
 another a resigning of themselves to 
 reverses of fortune, to a complete aban- 
 donment, etc. In this manner wore treat- 
 ed Abraham, Job and Tobias. Who does 
 not know the two trials which brought 
 the chaste Joseph to the very steps of 
 Pharaoh's throne, and made him the 
 saviour of Israel ? Happy those who 
 know how to profit by such opportu ni- 
 ties of truly loving G-od. Saint Ann 
 and Saint Joachim had that happiness 
 during their whole lives, but especially 
 when Mary had attained her third year. 
 Before obtaining her from Heaven, 
 they by mutual agreement vowed her to 
 
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 the Lord. Mary, on the other hand, from 
 the very womb of her mother, had con- 
 secrated herself to her God, to serve 
 Him in His temple. As soon as she was 
 of an age, they all three accomplished 
 their promise with a truly royal genero- 
 sity. Without yielding to the sensibili- 
 ties of human nature, whose legitimate 
 requirements may be felt by ordinary 
 It ' souls, but which no longer live in those 
 whom a perfected virtue has rendered 
 superior to themselves, they hastened to 
 offer their Daughter to the Lord, and to 
 crown by this sacrifice all the sacrifices 
 of their long career. 
 
 In relation to this incomparable offer- 
 ing, Alvarez de Paz makes some piou ; 
 reflections : " At last came the time, 
 Mary, pure and sacred holocaust ! when 
 you were to be consecrated to the Lord, 
 
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 according to the vow of your parents. 
 Penetrated with those words of wisdom, 
 * If you have 'made a vow to the Lord, 
 haden to fulfill ?i,' they made haste to 
 conduct you to the Temple and offer you 
 to God, as they had promised. Their 
 eagerness to present their offering is so 
 much the greater TvS they are purer and 
 holier ; and, nevertheless, it was by force 
 of tears and prayers that they (obtained 
 you, they love you with a most tender 
 love, but piety in their souls triumphs 
 over all tlie emotions of nature ; they 
 have no wisli to keep for themselves that 
 which is lioly ; they offer it with all theii' 
 hearts to the Holy of Holies, who alone is 
 worthy of it. ' The Lord looked favor- 
 ably on Abel and his offering.^ The 
 good intention of His servant to offer Him 
 in holocaust the first-born of his flocks 
 
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 was agreeable to Him ; but how much 
 more agreeable to Him, Mary, was the 
 good-will of your parents, of those holy 
 personages who offered you to Him with 
 so much eagerness ; you, tlieir only 
 child, a true holocaust of grace and 
 holiness. Let me learn of them, my 
 Sovereign Queen ! to detest my excessive 
 avarice, I who have so much trouble to 
 detach myself, for the love of the Lord, 
 from things so despicable ; I who do not 
 blush to offer them to Him with so 
 much coldness and cowardice." 
 
 An acute sensibility, a deep tenderness, 
 are not incompatible with this generous 
 detachment, as those might think who 
 understand nothing of the life of sacri- 
 fice. On the contrary, hearts the most 
 sensitive and the most loving have 
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 even joyous manner the hardest immo- 
 lations. The history of the saints, from 
 the days of Abraham to our own days 
 is a continual proof of what is here laid 
 down. X holy eagerness enhances the 
 value of sacrifice, for God loves those 
 who offer cheerfully that which is dearest 
 to them. It is His glory to reckon a 
 multitude of martyrs who have run to 
 death, covered with their richest robes, 
 and adorned as for a feast. Now, then, 
 if the merit of the oblation depends on 
 its proper value, or on what it may have 
 cost the sacrificer, or, again, on the joy 
 with whicli it is offered in homage, not- 
 withstanding the anguish of heart, it 
 may be bejieved that Saint Ann and 
 Saint Joachim rivalled tlie martyrs. To 
 part with that child of three years, was 
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 tjan that which separates the soul from 
 the body ? 
 
 St. Germain, a patriarch of Constanti- 
 nople, describes their sacrifice in these 
 terms : " The venerable Ann, deeply 
 affected by this august ceremony, in 
 company with her most dear spouse, 
 conducts her well-beloved Daughter ; a 
 troop of young virgins form the escort 
 v.ntil they arrive at the doorstead of the 
 Temple. At their approach the doors open 
 to give entrance to her who is the Door 
 of the Emmanuel, or Ood with us, 
 and Mary's footsteps sanctify the sacred 
 threshold. The sanctuary was resplen- 
 dent with lights from the lamps, but 
 the splendor of that living Lamp was 
 of a more glowing brightness ; it was 
 lighted up as she entered by the reflex 
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 the altar are empurpled by the vir- 
 ginal aureola which encircles the brow 
 of the Virgin. Zachary rejoices in the 
 honor of giving welcome to the Mother 
 of God. Joachim exults with holy joy 
 to offer an oblation which hastens the 
 accomplishment of the prophecies. Ann 
 with transports of joy consecrates her 
 tender child to the Lord ; onr first parents 
 are inundated with consolation, feeling 
 themselves delivered from the condem- 
 nation w^hich hangs over them ; the 
 prophets are in ecstasies of delight, and 
 with them, all the orders of the elect, all 
 the souls which are adorned with sanc- 
 tifying grace." 
 
 The spectacle of this touching Presenta- 
 tion then drew from the saintly old man 
 such cries of admiration that his words 
 would seem rash, were they not ad- 
 
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 dressed to Saints of an exceptional dignity 
 and extraordinary virtue. He puts in the 
 mouth of the High Priest Zachary, at the 
 moment he receives the Blessed Virgin 
 from the hands of her parents, the follow- 
 ing beautiful apostrophe : — ^' Authors 
 of our salvation, what appellation shall 
 I give you ? What shall I say of you ? 
 I am in a stupor at sight of the fruit 
 which you offer ; it is such that its 
 purity invites God Himself to come and 
 live in it. Oh ! no, certainly never was 
 anything like it, and never shall be seen 
 again a beauty so respletident and so 
 glorious. Your apparition, holy Patri- 
 archs, is as a double stream flowing from 
 paradise. The Lamp which you briug is 
 more precious than gold and diamonds. 
 It illumines the whole earth bv its 
 joyous splendors and the gracefulness of 
 an unspotted virginity." 
 
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 CANTICLE TO SAINT ANN. 
 
 I saluta you, Mother of the Mother of 
 God, through whom the guilty are saved. 
 
 I salute you, O Ann, miraculous 
 Mother of a child vowed to (lod ! 
 
 To all the faithful ! 
 
 Be thou devoted with Christ Jesus. 
 
 V. Pray for us, blessed Ann. 
 
 R, Now and forever and at the hour of 
 our death. Amen. 
 
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 Let us "pray. 
 
 God, who hast willed that the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary should be presented to 
 Thee in Thy Temple, grant that by her 
 powerful intercession and that of her holy 
 parents we may merit to be presented to 
 Thee in the temple of Thy glory. 
 
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 Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
 EXAMPLE. 
 
 A letter from Pope Urban VI., in the 
 year 1378, to the Archbishops and 
 Biwhops of England, shows that Saint 
 Ann was at that time, and for many years 
 previous, honored in that kingdom : — 
 
 " Now as some of Christ's faithful in- 
 habitants of the kingdom of England 
 have lately informed Us that the people 
 of that country, in consequence of their 
 tender respect for the Virgin Mary, are 
 led to practice a singular devotion towards 
 Saint Ann, Mother of the glorious 
 Virgin ! and as on their part an humble 
 petition has been made to Us, praying 
 that We would enjoin on all the prelales 
 and all the faithful of the said kingdom 
 to celebrate, with religious pomp, the 
 
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 Novena. 
 
 Feast of this same Saint, We have 
 found it expedient in the Lord to 
 examine the pious demand and the 
 devotion of this nation ; desiring there- 
 fore to render these faithful people agree- 
 able to God, and to facilitate to them 
 the practice of good works, approving 
 their prayers, We to your fraternity 
 formally ordain, by these presents, that 
 from this day forth shall be celebrated 
 every year, with solemn pomp and piety 
 by yourselves and by those who are 
 subject to you, the said Feast of Saint 
 Ann." 
 
 •The devotion to Saint Ann until 
 the period of relaxation, which opened 
 an easy way to heresy, cast deep roots 
 in the hearts of the English people. 
 Ever since that sad epoch, certain ves- 
 tiges show that in this land, once so 
 
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 holy, this worship has not entirely dis- 
 appeared under thei ruins of religion. 
 Monuments attest to it, and the name 
 of Ann is given and willingly borne in 
 all classes of society. 
 
 EIGHTH DA Y. 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Come, Holy Ghost, etc. 
 
 CONSIDERATIONS. 
 
 We have all contracted the strictest 
 obligations towards Saint Ann and 
 Saint Joachim, 
 
 There reigns in creation an admirable 
 disposition of things ; all beings, from 
 the smallest to the greatest, are linked 
 together by a marvellous chain, borrow- 
 ing one from another the elements of their 
 conservation, Man has need of man for 
 the preservation of his life, for his 
 
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 education and the safe-guarding of his 
 rights. This order and dependence are 
 again found, and with no less splendor, 
 in the heavens, where the annihilation 
 of a single star would occasion a great 
 disturbance in the harmony of the 
 spheres. The supernatural world is not 
 exonerated from these same laws. If in 
 reality we owe thanksgiving only to 
 God through our Lord Jesus Christ, sole 
 Author of our salvation, we contract 
 nevertheless obligations more or less 
 rigorous with the divers instruments of 
 which He makes use to come to us. 
 Who will discharge us in regard to our 
 parents, in regard to the pastors of our 
 souls, whose tender charity has commu. 
 nicated to us — the former our existence, 
 the latter all the treasures of faith ? Our 
 ancestors and the missionaries who have 
 
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 evangelized our country, have they no 
 claim on our gratitude ? Now, if we 
 owe so much to our fathers in the faith, 
 what are our obligations to the parents 
 of the Most Holy Virgin ? 
 
 Other saints have been in regard to us 
 generous masters, charitable ambassa- 
 dors ; their office was to teach, to exhort, 
 to help us by a faithful transmission of 
 what they had themselves received ; but 
 Mary, their Mother and ours —but Jesus 
 our adorable Head — to whom are we 
 indebted for the^n f 
 
 "Fortunate Spouses, Ann and Joa- 
 chim," we repeat with St. John Damas- 
 cene, ** every creature is under strict 
 obligations to you. Through you we 
 can offer to our Creator the most perfect 
 of all gifts, — a chaste Mother, the only 
 being worthy of its God, 
 
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 " Saint Ann ! Mother of the Virgin 
 Spouse, hoping against all hope, in your 
 womb budded the tiower of virginity, the 
 glory of chastity. Wherefore we proclaim 
 you blessed and the source of life to us. 
 
 " Ann, filled with wisdom, blessed is 
 your heart where germed and blossomed 
 that virginal fruit Mary, who gave birth 
 to the Author and Kedeemer of the world. 
 
 " Kejoice, Joachim, for a Son is born 
 of your Daughter, and He shall be called 
 the Angel of the Great Council, the Mighty 
 God." 
 
 George of Nicomedia settles the claims 
 which Saint Ann and Saint Joachim have 
 on our gratitude, in the following manner : 
 "We from nothing were brought into exist- 
 ence by a pure act of the divine goodness ; 
 it was our bounden duty to serve our Crea- 
 tor in the terrestrial paradise by the prac- 
 
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 tice of good and holy works; but rejoct- 
 ii)g just comniuiuhnents, we drew on oui- 
 solves thiougli our own wilfulness the 
 chastisement of death. Nevertheless our 
 Creator, mindful of His mercy, promised 
 us our ransom and our liberty ; but it was 
 necessary to wait for the time fixed upon, 
 and for those who would set us free. Ages 
 passed away, the prophecies were but 
 slowly fulfilled, the Patriarchs laid the 
 just remained in painful expectation. 
 Abraham had passed away, and his descen- 
 dants desired ardently the day which 
 would see the mystery of the Eedemptiou 
 fulfilled. Moses had a glimpse of it ; 
 through the shadows of the figures, he hoped 
 to see it. This hope was his happiness in 
 the desert, it was the supportof the judges, 
 and it was again confirmed to Samuel. 
 David, proclaiming its fulfilment near, 
 
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 made his contemporaries to leap with joy. 
 The choir of Prophets cried out with a 
 loud voice that the Christ was about to 
 appear ; but all these passed away frus- 
 trated iu their hopes, for the determined 
 time had not yet coine, and those who 
 were worthy failed to present themselves. 
 Finally, the Creatoi of all things found in 
 His ancestry instruments worthy of His 
 designs — Ann and Joachim, parents of 
 Jier who was to conclude the fulfilment of 
 the promise. We owe therefore to them 
 the Author of our joy and the first pledge 
 of our happiness. 
 
 Has not Saint Ann rightfully other 
 claims on our veneration and love ? Are 
 we not united with hor by ties still more 
 intimate and more stured ? 
 
 In order to excite iu us a profound re- 
 spect for oui-selvei and for our neighbor, St. 
 
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 Paul says : '' Do you not know that your 
 bodies are the members of Christ ? " And 
 elsewhere : ** We are the members of His 
 body, we are of His flesh and bone.*' 
 
 We must not sec in these v/ords a pious 
 exaggeration ; they attest a fact, they ex- 
 press a relationship of a special kind with 
 God made man. ity baptism and the 
 other sacraments, but especially by the 
 Adorable Eucharist, we enter into con- 
 nection with our Lord, though we can only 
 see Him through the veils of the sacred 
 species. 
 
 Now, do not these linl^s of special 
 relationship unite us also to Mary and to 
 her parents ? If we give to Mary the sweet 
 name vof ^iothor, is it not in one sense in 
 virtue of the sacramental relationship ? 
 Is it not because our Lord, sharing with 
 us His rights, introduced us into His own 
 
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 fannly and calls Himself our Elder 
 I'rother ? 
 
 If such is the case, have we not an 
 incontestahle right to proclaim ourselves 
 the grandchildren of Saint Ann, to call 
 her also by the name of Mother, and in 
 that quality should we not render her, as 
 well as Saint Joachim, all the duties of 
 filial piety ? 
 
 After establishing what precedes, a cele- 
 brated panegyrist of our Saint adds : 
 * For this simple reason, Ann has a right 
 to our veneration as Mother of all the elect, 
 Mary having given them spiritual birth. 
 And so Saint An^elm and Saint Bernard 
 say : '' All the children of God, that is to 
 say, Christians, in virtue of a particular 
 right of adoption and love, are under obli- 
 gations to her as s})iritual and adopted sons." 
 Thus our family according to grace is com- 
 
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 plet^ : we have in our Lord a devoted and 
 all-powerful Brother ; in Mary, a tender 
 Mother ; in Saint Joseph, a foster father ; 
 and in their parents, a holy ancestry. In 
 Jesus Christ and in them we have brothers 
 and sisters innumerable, with wliom, in 
 community with the angels, we shall share 
 eternal joys. 
 
 CANTICLE TO SAINT ANN. 
 
 I salute you, Blessed Ann 1 You are 
 the land of Promise, the garden of bene- 
 diction which produced the Immaculate 
 Lily and the lovely Rose, whose fragrance 
 rejoices heaven and earth, 
 
 Ann, glorious Daughter of Jesse, gifted 
 with all virtues, from whom was born 
 the Virgin Queen, reconcile us with the 
 King of kings. 
 
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 V. Ann, Mother of the Mother of 
 Christ. 
 
 E. Increase our confidence. 
 
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 Let us pray. 
 
 Hear us, Lord our God, and grant 
 that, rejoicing in the virtues of Saint 
 Ann, we may merit to imitate them and 
 attain to everlasting happiness. 
 
 Through Jesus Clu'ist, our Lurd. 
 Amen. 
 
 EXAMPLE. 
 
 The devotion of Sahit Ann in Oer- 
 many not only resisted the secular action 
 of heresies and revolutions, but for 
 several years past it seems to recover its 
 primitive splendor. A missionary of 
 that country in 1863 thus writes : 
 
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 "The devotion to Saint Ann is here 
 very much extended, and it has become 
 very popular among Catholics. Duren, 
 above. all, is the centre, and contributes 
 to its support and ex^jonsion. TIku'i; is 
 really a prodigious concourse from all 
 the province to this sanctuary on the 
 Feast, which is always celebrated with 
 solemn octave, accompanied by extraor- 
 dinary sermons, etc., all which is attended 
 in perfect order, and with great fervor. 
 I had the consolation with two other 
 Fathers to give the exercises of a mis- 
 sion in the Church of Saint Ann. 
 
 *' An inex[)licable perfume which 
 exhales from a precious relic ot the Saint 
 at the opening of the magnificent shrine, 
 where it is kept, is an incontestable and 
 permanent miracle. 1 was cognizant of 
 that wonderful ixrfume. Th(^ church 
 
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 Novena. 
 
 of Duren is very spacious ; in order to 
 give more splendor to the worship of the 
 Saint, it has of late been largely repaired 
 and ornamented with much taste. In 
 its principal tower we are led to admire 
 one of the grandest bells in all Germany. 
 This bell bears the name of Anna-glocke, 
 and is rung only on the great solemni- 
 ties of the country. 
 
 *'The graccM obtained are numberless, 
 and at Duren they are a continual topic 
 of conversation. From all sides, persons 
 visit this pious sanctuary, and the pro- 
 cessions are like tributary streams. 
 However, this sanctuary is not the only 
 one, though it is the most frequented and 
 the most celebrated ; but in the Ehenish 
 provinces there may be found a great 
 number of other churches under the 
 invocation of Saint Ann, and in almost 
 
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 179 
 
 all the cluirches tliere are altars erected to 
 her honor. In the ruial districts, one- 
 third of the girls, at the least, receive the 
 name of Ann or Ann-Mary, for they like 
 to join these two names." 
 
 Happy would be England and other 
 countries of the North if, in the day of 
 seduction and danger, they had pressed 
 around Mary and Ann, her most holy 
 Mother, as did the borders of the Khine, 
 France, and the other countries which 
 had the happiness to preserve the faith. 
 
 NINTH DAY. 
 
 rilAYEU. 
 
 Come, Holy Ghost, etc. 
 
 CONSIDEUATIONS. 
 
 Saint Ann and Saint Jo/tcldtn have 
 a right to all our confidence. 
 
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 Novena. 
 
 It is plain that ihese blessed Patriarchs 
 occupy a place of distinction. All are 
 indebted to them for their Queen, This 
 exceptional position ensures to them in 
 the celestial court an unlimited sway. 
 Could anything be refused by Mary to 
 parents tenderly loved? Would God resist 
 those who assisted Him, according to their 
 capacity, in the gieat work of His mercy ? 
 This exceptional position alone, joined to 
 an unheard-of goodness, can explain the 
 multitude of graces which are received 
 through their intercession. 
 
 " We believe," said a celebrated dis- 
 ciple of Saint Benedict, who was also a 
 great devotee of Saint Ann's, '* and bold- 
 ly assert that Ann, ancestor of Christ's, 
 is in possession of great merit and cre- 
 dit, and is held in high honor with God, 
 Not only is she herself loaded with inef- 
 
 
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 fable gifts, but she has special preroga- 
 tives which she exercises in onr favor. If 
 we believe in the powerful intercession 
 of the Apostles and other saints, shall 
 we for a moment doubt that the immediate 
 ancestors of our Lord enjoy a still higher 
 consideration ? Oh, no ; we have full 
 reliance in the prompt and most powerful 
 mediation of Saint Ann, to whom the 
 King of Heaven can refuse nothing. 
 
 " Believe me, dear brethren, for I speak 
 the truth. If you love this venerable 
 Mother with all your heart, you will 
 experience the efficacy of her intercession. 
 It is a certainty, brethren, that God grants 
 to her merits innumerable favors, in order 
 to make us venerate her memory ; ap- 
 proach, then, with confidence this sweet 
 patroness, and anything that may form 
 an obstacle to your holy desires — your 
 
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 Novena. 
 
 sorrows and burdou?^, whatever they may 
 
 be — lay them at the feet of Saint Ann, 
 
 and for the honor of God she will deliver 
 
 you. It is impossible that she should 
 
 fail to obtain the effect of her prayer, 
 
 and Jesus can refuse her nothing. The 
 
 whole court of heaven cherish her as a 
 
 mother, and unite their wishes to hers. 
 
 Could a mother's interposition with her 
 
 children be vain ? Certainly not. Happy, 
 
 therefore, he, who, by his prayers and a 
 
 true devotion, makes her his protectress.'* 
 
 Gmnted, then, that the patronage of 
 
 Saint Anil is of powerful efficacy. 
 
 Unlike that of some of the blessed whose 
 
 power is confined to special necessities* 
 
 or those of a restricted kind, it embraces 
 
 all our wants, remedies all the ills of 
 
 which we may complain. Should not 
 
 the solicitude of a mother be propor- 
 
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 tionate to the needs of her children ? 
 We indeed know that God gives to some 
 of His friends, in recognition of tlieir 
 virtues, a particular power to cure certain 
 infirmities. St. Appolonia is invoked 
 for toothache ; St. Lucy, for sore eyes 
 St. Blaise, in fits of suffocation ; St. Roch; 
 and Saint Sebastian, in pestilence and 
 epidemics ; Saint Anthony of Padua^ 
 for the recovery of things lost; Saint 
 Benedict and St. Ignatius of Loyola are 
 particularly formidable to the demons 
 whose dark plots they baffle and whose • 
 infestations they dissipate ; St. Louis of 
 Gonzaga takes pleasure in assisting young 
 scholars in their studies, he also interests 
 himself to preserve them from the 
 contagion of vice ; St. Stanislas of Kostka 
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 country, every diocese, nay, every reli- 
 gious family has its protectors and its tra- 
 ditions, and tiie faithful very well know 
 to whom they should have recourse 
 according to their requirements. 
 
 But St. Ann's patronage is universal; 
 she and her glorious spouse share the 
 privilege granted to Saint Joseph, who is 
 the Patron and Protector of the Universal 
 Church, and whose intercession is second 
 only to Mary's. 
 
 Generally speaking, persons invoke 
 steadily and honor in a special manner 
 only those saints from whom they daily 
 receive graces, or who have given exper- 
 imental proof of great miraculous power. 
 Now, if we are to be guided in our 
 devotion by these exterior marks, Saint 
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 most persevering devotion ; she has a 
 right to all the demonstrations of our 
 filial affection. After the Blessed Virgin 
 and St. Joseph, of whom can so many 
 favors be recounted or so many wonders 
 celebrated ? They have bng ceased to be 
 authenticated, for they come to pass in 
 all places, in all ages ; and in certain 
 privileged countries, they are of every- 
 day occurrence. 
 
 Let us, therefore, take for our advocate, 
 and let us honor with worthy homage 
 each day, her who from all eternity was 
 more agreeable to God than all other 
 mothers, the Blessed Virgin excepted. 
 Let persons engaged in marriage invoke 
 her frequently ; she sanctified all unions 
 in becoming the Mother of Mary Imma- 
 culate. Let widows learn to reverence 
 her, she traced out for them the rules 
 
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 Novena. 
 
 of modesty. Let virgins tenderly cherish 
 her who gave birth to the purest and 
 holiest of all virgins. Let the just render 
 to her their reverential service, sh.e is 
 the model of justice. Let sinners hasten 
 to her refuge, she brought into the world 
 her whose Son changes sinners into saints. 
 Let all love her with an ardent love since 
 she has given us the Mother of our 
 Saviour. Let no one become lukewarm, 
 let no one become cold in devotion to her. 
 Let each and all make of her name an 
 armor and a shield. God attaches to the 
 invocation of that blessed name innu» 
 merable graces, yes, to the very recollec- 
 tion of it ; what do I say ? to the simple 
 respect and pious affection which we 
 manifest in hearing it pronounced. A 
 certain author has said : I assert posi- 
 tively, and I say the truth on the 
 
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 testimony of my conscience, I have 
 known many souls to prosper in every 
 way, and of this I am convinced, by the 
 sim.ple invocation of her holy name. 
 Make the experiment of its power : after 
 the names of Jesus, Mary and Joseph 
 her name is so venerable and so holy 
 that it offers itself next to our confidence. 
 
 CANTICLE TO SAINT ANN. 
 
 Aim ! most holy Mother ! glorify 
 yourself in your name so mild and so 
 august, name which I love with a sur- 
 passing love, name which I would fain 
 pronounce hundreds of times in the day 
 with those of Jesus and Mary. Ann ! 
 the delight of my soul ! How beautiful 
 and amiable ai'e you in grace and sweet- 
 ness ; you whose chaste womb gave us 
 the little Virgin Mary — the Paradise of 
 
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 Novena. 
 
 all delights ! The Virgin called for by the 
 desires of the whole world was fed and 
 warmed in your most pure womb, she 
 received from you all the tender care 
 which mothers lavish on their children. 
 You are my comfort in exile und the 
 charm of my sorrows. After the names 
 of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, may your 
 name be always on my lips and in my 
 heart. I consecrate myself to you, 
 Mother full of tenderness, most indulgent 
 Patroness. Obtain for me the blessing 
 of your Daughter and the mercy of her 
 adorable Son, Jesus. Amen, 
 
 V. Pray for us, Saint Ann. 
 
 K. That we may become worthy of the 
 promises of Christ, 
 
 Let us pray. 
 God, who hast deigned to grant to 
 
 
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 Blessed Ann so great, an abundance of 
 Thy grace that she merited to bring into 
 the world the Mother of Thy only Son : 
 grant us of Thy bounty to be assisted 
 by Thee through the suffrages of her 
 whose memory we honor. 
 
 Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
 EXAMPLE. 
 
 Local traditions in Spain, the very 
 ancient style of some of the chapels 
 erected in honor of Saint Ann, the custom 
 prevailing for centuries of giving her 
 name in baptism, all this enables us to 
 trace to times immemorial the intercession 
 of this venerable Mother in this country, 
 as well as in the other countries of Europe. 
 At later periods, this devotion received 
 extension mainly through the religious 
 orders. The Carmelites here as elsewhere 
 
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 appear to have been its most ardent 
 propagators. In the fifteenth and 
 sixteenth centuries, and especially to- 
 wards the middle of the latter, famous 
 for the reform of Carmel, St. Ann was 
 honored generally throughout Spain, and, 
 if we are ever so little familiar with her 
 history, we are surprised at the vast 
 number of persons who bear her name.. 
 Several companions of the seraphic St. 
 Theresa had either received it at the 
 baptismal font, or taken it at their 
 entrance into religion. The two religious 
 of her reform who were perhaps the most 
 intimate with her, and whom she held 
 in greatest affection, were called by this 
 name. They were the Venerable Mother 
 Ann of St. Bartholomew — her faithful 
 companion and her counsellor in the 
 work of her foundations, and Ann of St. 
 
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 Augustine, whom she styled her cherished 
 daughter and the pu^nl of her eye, and 
 whom we may also call the privileged 
 daughter of Saint Ann. It is an incon- 
 testable fact that the new Carmel 
 revived the devotion to the glorious 
 Mother of Marv Immaculate ; but more 
 than all her companions, and with more 
 success than the most eloquent orators, 
 the Mother Ann of Saint Augustine 
 wonderfully popularized the devotion 
 throughout Spain, and that by the author- 
 ity of her example and the extraordinary 
 graces which she received from her 
 
 MATERNAL PaTKONESS. 
 
 LITANY OF THE HOLY FACE. 
 
 Lord, have mercy on us. 
 Christ, have mercy on us. 
 Lord, have mercy on us. 
 Christ, hear us. 
 
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 Christ, graciously hear us. 
 
 Holy Virgin Mary, pray for ua. 
 
 O adorable Face, which was adored with profound 
 veneration by Mary and Josepli when they saw 
 Thee for the first time, / 
 
 O adorable Face, that in the stable of Bethlehem tilled 
 the angels, the Shepherds and the Wise men with 
 
 O adorable Face, ^'aat wounded with an arrow of love 
 the holy old Simeon, and Anna the Prophetess, in 
 the Temple, 
 
 adorable Face, that was bathed with tears in Thy 
 holy childhood, 
 
 O adorable Face, that filled the Doctors of the law 
 with admiration in the Temple, 
 
 O adorable Face, so attractive at7d replete with grace 
 and beauty, 
 
 adorable Face, noble in every feature, 
 
 O adorable Face, contemplated by the angels, 
 
 O adorable Face, the sweet pleasure of the Saints, 
 
 O adorable Face, the delight of Mary and Joseph, 
 
 O adorable Face, ineffable mirror of divine perfection? 
 
 O adorable Face, the terror of demons, 
 
 O adorable Face, treasure of all graces and benedic- 
 tions, 
 
 O adorable Face, exposed in the desert to all the in- 
 clemencies of the weather, 
 
 adorable Face, scorched by the burning rays of the 
 sun and bathed with sweat in Thy voyages, 
 
 O adorable Face, expressive of divinity, 
 
 O adorable Face, whose modesty and mildness attracted 
 alike the just and siiniers, 
 
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 O adorable Face, agitated and weeping at the tomb oV 
 
 Lazarus, 
 O adorable Face, as brilliant as the sun, and beaming 
 
 with glory on Mount Tabor, 
 O adorable Face, afflicted at the sight of Jerusalem, 
 
 and shedding tears over that ungrateful city, 
 O adorable Face, bent to the ground in the garden of 
 
 Olives, and bearing the confusion of our sins, 
 O adorable Face, that wast covered with a bloody 
 
 sweat, 
 O adorable Face, kissed by the perfidious Judas, 
 O adorable Face, whose holiness and majesty struck 
 
 the soldiers with awe, causing them to fall pros" 
 
 trate, 
 
 O adorable Face, struck by an infamous servant, cov- 
 ered by a veil of ignominy, and profaned by the 
 sacrilegious hands of enemies, 
 
 O adorable Face, covered with spittle, and bruised 
 with many blows, 
 
 O adorable Face, whose divine looks touched the heart 
 of St. Peter with sorrow and love, 
 
 O adorable Face, humbled for us at the tribunals of 
 Jerusalem, 
 
 O adorable Face, that wast crowned with thorns, 
 
 O adorable Face, that retained its serenity when Pilate 
 pronounced the fatal decree, 
 
 adorable Face, covered with blood and sweat, and 
 falling to the earth under the heavy burden of the 
 Cross, 
 
 O adorable Face, wiped with a towel by a pious woman 
 on the road to Calvary, 
 
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 O adorable Face, elevated on the most ignominious in-" 
 
 strument of punishment, 
 O adorable Face, whose incomparable beauty was 
 
 obscured by the darkness of the sins of mankind, 
 O adorable Face, covered with the son owful shades of 
 
 death, 
 O adorable Face, washed and anointed by Mary and the 
 
 holy women, and wrapped in a shroud, 
 O adorable Face, laid in a sepulchre, 
 O adorable Face, resplendent with glory and beauty I' 
 
 on the day of the Resurrection, 
 O adorable Face, dazzling with light at the moment of 
 
 the Ascension, 
 O adorable Face, hidden in the Eucharist, 
 O adorable Face, which wilt appear at the end of time 
 
 in the Heavens with great power and majesty, 
 O adorable Face, that wilt then make sinners tremble, 
 O adorable Face, that will fill the just with an entire 
 
 joy for all eternity, 
 Lamb of God, who takest, etc., forgive us, O Lord. 
 Lamb of God, who takest, etc., graciously hear us, O Lord* 
 Lamb of God, who takest, etc., have mercy on us. 
 
 Let US pray. 
 Hail, my Jesus and Saviour ! I 
 worship and love Thee, covered by the 
 repeated outrages and blasphemies: I 
 offer Thee, through the Heart of Thy most 
 Holy Mother Mary, the flagrant incense 
 
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 and homage of the Angels and Saints, 
 beseeching Thee humbly, through Thy 
 most Holy Face, to restore within me and 
 my brethren Thy Image disfigured by sin. 
 Amen. 
 
 Hail, adorable Face of my Jesus 1 I 
 adore and worship Thee ! my beloved, 
 noble stamp of JDivinity ! I attach myself 
 to Thee with all the powers of my soul ; 
 most humbly do ' -j pray Tnee to stamp 
 Thy Divine features in ^ ur hearts. Amen. 
 
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 Thy holy Face disfigured by grief, and 
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 imprint in my heart Thy Sacred wounds, 
 that I may bear sorrow with Thee and for 
 Thee, and despise all love that is not Thine 
 and through Thee. 
 
 adorable Face of my Jesus ! inclined 
 so mercifully from the tree of the Gross, 
 on the day of Thy Passion, for the salva- 
 tion of the world, incline to-day with pity 
 towards us poor sinners : cast upon us a 
 look of compassion, and receive us with 
 the kiss of peace. 
 
 Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have mercy on us. 
 
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 TO OBTAIN A SPECIAL FAVOR. 
 
 When we desire to obtain some 
 favor or grace, we should address our-- 
 selves to God, and with respect, confi- 
 dence and perseverance pray Him to 
 grant our prayer. Prayer is the most 
 holy of practices. When we pray we 
 are not speaking to men nor to angels, 
 but to God Himself, the King of angels. 
 
 Prayer is all powerful: by means of 
 it we can obtain from God all that we 
 desire, restrain His avenging arm, and 
 avert those punishments which our sins 
 have deserved. On account of sins 
 committed by David, God sent an angel 
 to smite his whole kingdom with the 
 plague ; no sooner did David begin to 
 pray for mercy than God recalled the 
 
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 ceased its ravages. 
 
 By means of prayer we obtain from 
 God everything that is necessary to our 
 salvation ; Jesus Christ has sworn to ful- 
 fil this promise when He says : " Amen, 
 Amen, I say to you : if you ask the 
 Father anything in my name, He will 
 give it you." We ought therefore to pray 
 with great confidence, being assured that, 
 if we pray aright, God will grant our 
 prayer. 
 
 Praying in the name of Jesus means 
 praying in the same spirit as Jesus, and 
 following His example in all things, 
 conforming our will to the will of God. 
 '' My Father," said Jesus, ** if it be pos- 
 sible, let this cup pass from me ; never- 
 theless, not my will but Thine be done." 
 
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 God in the name of Jesus ;■ let us offer 
 Him the sorrows, humiliations and out- 
 rages which Jesus suffered, principally 
 on the road to Calvary ; let us represent 
 to Him what a heavy cross we ourselves 
 have laid on Jesus ; how repeatedly He 
 has fall under that cross ; His heart- 
 rending meeting with His holy Mother ; 
 the refusal He received from Simon the 
 Cyrenean to aid Him in carrying his 
 cross ; the burning thirst He experienced ; 
 and in consideration of all these sufferings 
 He will undoubtedly grant our prayer, 
 provided that we only ask for that which 
 presents no obstacle to our salvation. 
 
 PUEPARATOUY PRAYKR. 
 
 God, heavenly Father, Thy divine 
 Son Jesus has promised us that Thou 
 wilt grant us whatever we shall ask in 
 
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 His name ; in His name then, and through 
 His merits, I come before Thee, and con- 
 fidently ask of Thee conformity to 
 Thy holy will in all the troubles of this 
 life, profound grief for my sins, and 
 ardent zeal in the practice of virtue ; 
 I especially recommend to Thee (here 
 name the favor you would ask ). I 
 appear before Thee in the name of Jesus, 
 I offer Thee His passion and death, and 
 I firmly trust that through these Thou 
 wilt grant me my petition, St. Ann, 
 thou was loved of Y'n who, by 
 journeying along the way of sorrows, 
 opened to me the infinite treasures of 
 His grace ; do thou then accompany me 
 along this way of the Passion, and vouch- 
 safe to present my prayers and sighs to 
 the Eternal Father. 
 
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 ther of Jesus, pray for me now, that 
 God may grant my prayer. 
 
 Angel of God, to whose care I am 
 committed, enlighten, protect, direct, and 
 govern me. Amen. 
 
 FIRST STATION, 
 
 JESUS IS CONDEMNED TO DEA.TH. 
 
 V. We adore Thee, Christ, and bless 
 Thee. 
 
 R. Because by Thy holy Cross Thou 
 hast redeemed the world. 
 
 My Jesus, oft have I signed Thy 
 death-warrant by my sins ; save me 
 by Thy death from that death eternal I 
 deserve, 
 
 St. Ann, Lamp of the Sanctuary, en- 
 lighten and guide me in this sorrowful 
 journey. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
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 Jesus Christ crucified, have mercy on 
 us. 
 
 May the souls of the faithful departed 
 through the mercy of God rest in peace. 
 
 Holy Mother, pierce ine through, 
 In my heart each wound renew 
 Of my Saviour crucified. 
 
 SECOND STA TION. 
 JESUS TAKES THE CROSS ON HIS SHOUL- 
 DERS. 
 
 V. We adore Thee, &c. 
 
 My Jesus, who by Thine own will 
 didst take the cross I made for Thee by 
 my sins ; oh, make me feel their heavy 
 weight, and sorrow for them ever while 
 I live. 
 
 St. Ann, comforter of the oppressed, 
 teach me to bear my cross with resigna- 
 tion. 
 
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 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 
 THTED STA TION. 
 
 JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME. 
 
 V. We adore Thee, etc. 
 
 My Jesus, the heavy burden of my 
 sins is on Thee, and bears Thee down 
 beneath the cross. My Jesus, I loath 
 them, I detest them, I call on Thee to 
 Pardon them ! may Thy grace aid me 
 never to commit them more. 
 
 Saint Ann, refuge of sinners, obtain for 
 me sincere contrition and pardon of my 
 sins. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 
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 FOURTH STATION. 
 
 JESUS MEETS HIS MOTHER. 
 
 V. We adore Thee, etc, 
 
 Jesus, most suffering; Mary, mother 
 most sorrowful : if for the past by sin I 
 have caused you pain and anguish, yet 
 by God's assisting grace it shall bo so 
 no more ; Jesus and Mary, be my love 
 henceforth till death. 
 
 St. Ann, mother of the dolorous Mother, 
 ask of Jesus to bestow upon me, in my last 
 moments. His loving glance of mercy. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 
 FIFTH STATIONS 
 
 SIMON OF GYRENE HELPS JESUS TO CARRY 
 
 THE OROSS. 
 
 V. We adore Thee, etc. 
 
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 My Jesus, blest, thrice blest was he 
 who aided Thee to bear the cross. Blest 
 shall I be if I too aid Thee to bear the 
 cross, by patiently bowing my neck to 
 the crosses thou shalt send me during life. 
 My Jesus, give me grace to do so, 
 
 St. Ann, lover of the Divine Law, speak 
 to Jesus in my behalf, that He may hear 
 my prayer. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 
 SIXTH STATION. 
 
 VERONICA PRESENTS A HANDKERCHIEF TO 
 
 JESUS. . 
 
 V. We adore Thee, etc. 
 My tender Jesus, who didst deign to 
 print Thy sacred Face upon the handker- 
 
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 chief with which Veronica dried the 
 sweat from off Thy brows, imprint on my 
 soul the memory of Thy sufterings, and 
 grant me the grace that I mxy ever 
 listen to the appeals, and assuage the 
 sorrows of Thy suffering children. 
 
 St. Ann, mirror of Christian charity, 
 make me see reflected in the poor the lov- 
 ing Face of my Saviour. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 Mav the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 
 SE VENTH S TA TIO N, 
 JESUS FALLS THE SECOND TIME. 
 
 V. We adore Thee, etc. 
 
 My Jesus, oft have I sinned, and oft 
 by sin beat thee to the ground beneath 
 the cross ; hjlp nu to use the efficacious 
 
 
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 means of grace, that I may never fall 
 again, 
 
 St. Ann, help of the weak, ask Jesus 
 to hear my prayer. Mother of Mary | 
 obtain for me so to solicit temporal bless- 
 ings that I may merit those which are 
 eternal. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 
 EIGHTH STA TION. 
 
 JESUS COMFORTS THE WOMEN OF 
 JERUSALEM. 
 
 V. We adore Thee, etc. 
 
 My Jesus, who didst comfort the 
 pious women of Jerusalem, who wept 
 to see Thee bruised and torn, comfort my 
 soul with Thy tender pity, for in Thy 
 pity lies my trust. May my heart ever 
 answer Thine. 
 
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 Saint Ann, hope of sinners, obtain 
 for me the grace to hear from the loving 
 lips of my Saviour words of pardon and 
 mercy. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 NINTH STATION. 
 
 JEBUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME. 
 
 V. We adore Thee, etc. 
 
 My Jesus, by all the bitter woes Thou 
 didst endure, when a third time the 
 heavy cross bowed Thee to the earth, 
 oh, never, never let me fall away; but 
 rather let me die than ever mortally 
 sin again. Amen. Amen. 
 
 Saint Ann, mirror of charity, obtain 
 for me in all my works to be actuated by 
 the pure love of God. 
 
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 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 TENTH STATION. 
 
 JESUS STRIPPED AND RECEIVES GALL 
 
 TO DRINK. 
 
 V. We adore Thee, etc. 
 
 My Jesus, stripped naked of Thy 
 c'jthes, and drenched with gall, strip 
 me from love of things of earth, and 
 make me loathe all that savors of the 
 world and sin. 
 
 St. Ann, model of Christian purity 
 obtain for me the grace to walk in the 
 footsteps of thy loving Daughter. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 
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 ELEVENTH STATION. 
 
 JESUS NAILED TO THE CROSS. 
 
 V. We adore Thee, etc. 
 
 My Jesus, by Thy agony when the 
 cruel nails pierced Thy tender hands and 
 feet, and fixed them to the cross, oh 
 make me crucify my flesh with Christian 
 penance. 
 
 St. Ann, light of the blind, intercede 
 for me with Jesus, that I may obtain 
 through thy supplication the gift of sight. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 T WELFTH S TA TION. 
 JESUS DIES ON THE CROSS. 
 
 V. We adore Thee, etc. 
 My Jesus, three hours didst Thou 
 hang in agony, and then die for me ; 
 
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 then let me die before I sin, and if I 
 live, live for Thy love and faithful 
 service. 
 
 St. Ann, Beloved of Heaven, obtain for 
 me the grace of final perseverance. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 
 THIRTEENTH STATION. 
 
 JESUS TAKEN FROM THE CROSS AND LAID 
 ON MARY'S BOSOM. 
 
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 me; 
 
 We adore Thee, etc. 
 
 Mary, Mother most sorrowful, the 
 sword of grief went through thy soul 
 when thou didst see Jesus lying lifeless 
 on thy bosom ; ask for me hatred of sin, 
 because sin slew thy Sou and wounded 
 
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 thy own heart, and then grace to live 
 a Christian life and save my soul. 
 
 St. Ann, mother of the Queen of 
 martyrs, obtain for me the grace to do 
 God's will on earth and in heaven. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 
 FOURTEENTH STATION. 
 JESUS IS LAID IN THE TOMB. 
 
 We adore Thee, etc. 
 
 My Jesus, beside Thy body in the 
 ' tomb I, too, would lie dead ; and if I live, 
 live but to Thee, so one day to taste hea- 
 ven's bliss with Thee, fruit of Thy passion 
 and Thy bitter death. Amen. 
 
 St. Ann, port of the mariner, ask 
 Jesus to calm the troubled waters on the 
 
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 sea of this life and bring me safe to the 
 heavenly port. 
 
 Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory, etc. 
 
 Jesus Christ, etc. 
 
 May the souls, etc. 
 
 Holy Mother, etc. 
 
 THREE OFFERINGS TO THE MOST HOLY 
 TRINITY TO OBTAIN A GOOD DEATH. 
 
 One hundred days' indulgence each time, and 
 a plenary indulgence once a month, on any day, 
 on the usual conditions, if said every day of the 
 month. * 
 
 OFFERINGS. 
 
 (1) We offer to Thee, Most Holy 
 Trinity, the merits of Jesus Christ, in 
 thanksgiving for the precious blood 
 which Jesus shed in the garden for us ; 
 and by His merits we beseech the Divine 
 Majesty to grant us the pardon of all 
 our sins. 
 
 Pater, Ave, Gloria, etc. 
 
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 (2) We offer to the Most Holy Tii- 
 nity the merits of Jesus Christ, in 
 thanksgiving for His most precious death 
 endured on the cross for us : and bv His 
 merits we beseech the Divino Majesty 
 to grant us the pardon of all our sins. 
 
 Pater, Ave, Gloria, etc. 
 
 (3) We offer to the Most Holy 
 Trinity the merits of Jesus Christ, in 
 thanksgiving for the unspeakable char- 
 ity by which He descended from heaven 
 to earth to take upon Himself our flesh, 
 and to suffer and die upon the cross, 
 and by His merits we beseech the Divine 
 Majesty to bring our souls to the glory 
 of heaven after our death. 
 
 Pater, Ave, Gloria, etc. 
 
 LITANY FOR A HAPPY DEATH. 
 
 Lord Jesus, God of goodness and 
 Father of mercies, I approach to Thee 
 
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 with a contrite and humble heart; to 
 Thee I recommend the last hour of my 
 life, and the decision of my eternal 
 doom. 
 
 When my feet, benumbed with death, 
 shall admonish me that my mortal 
 course is drawing to an end, merciful 
 Jesus, have mercy on me. 
 
 When my eyes, dim and troubled at 
 the approach of death, shall fix them- 
 selves on Thee, my last and only support, 
 merciful Jesus, have mercy on me. 
 
 When my face, pale and livid, shall 
 inspire the beholders with pity and 
 dismay ; when my hair, bathed in the 
 sweat of death, and stitfening on my head, 
 shall forbode my approaching end, mer- 
 ciful Jesus, have mercy on me. 
 
 When my ears, soon to be forever shut 
 to the discourse of men, shall be open to 
 
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 merciful Jesus, have mercy ou me 
 
 When my imaginatiou, agitated by 
 
 dreadful spectres, shall be sunk m an 
 dieaaiu v j^en my soul, affright- 
 
 ^"'"•ITtbt of my iniquities and 
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 terrors of Thy 3J^^^ ^^^^,,,^ ^ho 
 
 fight against the^^-f ' , ^hy mercies 
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 despair, merciful Jesus, have mercy 
 
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 Whpn the last tear, line 
 ^y^'a^Tolution, shall drop from J eye. 
 
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 moment, merciful Jesus, u<«. 
 
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 When my friends and relations 
 encircling my bed, shall shed the tear of 
 pity over me, and invoke Thy clemency 
 in my behalf, merciful Jesus have mercy 
 on me. ' 
 
 When I shall have lost the use of my 
 senses, when the world shall have 
 vanished from my sight, when my agon- 
 izing soul shall feel the sorrow of death, 
 merciful Jesus, have mercy on me. 
 
 When my last sigh shall summon my 
 soul to burst from the embraces of the 
 body, and to spring to Thee on the wings 
 of impatience and desire, merciful Jesus, 
 have mercy on me. 
 
 When my soul, trembling on my lips, 
 shall bid adieu to the world, and leave 
 my body lifeless, pale, and cold, receive 
 this separation as a homage which I 
 willingly pay to Thy Divine Majesty, 
 
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 and in that last moment of ray mortal 
 life, merciful Jesus, have mercy on me. 
 
 When at length my soul, admitted to 
 Thy presence, shall first behold with 
 terror Thy awful majesty, reject me not, 
 but receive me into Thy bosom, where I 
 may forever sing Thy praises, and in 
 that moment, when eternity shall begin 
 to me, merciful Jesus, have mercy on me. 
 
 Let us pray. 
 
 God, who hast doomed all men to 
 die, but hast concealed from all the 
 hour of their death, grant that I may 
 pass my days in the practice of holiness 
 and justice, and that I may deserve to 
 quit this world in the peace of a good con- 
 science, and in the embraces of Thy love ; 
 through Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
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 Hear Thou my prayer ; ** 
 
 For comfort, Lor-I, I cry imploringly, 
 My sorrow share. 
 
 Here at Thy feet my wounded heart I lay. 
 
 Thou wilt not spurn, 
 Though I have wandereil from Thee far away 
 
 Nor would return. 
 
 Though oft with patient love Thou did'st beseech, 
 Direct, com man i, 
 
 1 heeded not tlie lessons Thou would'st teach, 
 
 I built on sand. 
 
 I sought with earthly love my soul to feed 
 
 But all in vain. 
 It left me famishing in hour of need. 
 
 And brought but pain. 
 
 Rending the veil that hid my inner life 
 
 From human eyes, 
 I read past failure?, errors, sorrow, strife. 
 
 In cold surprise. 
 
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 Were each denied. 
 
 .faithful Friend, to Thee I come, 
 Now, ever faitutui 1. 
 
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 A weary wanaeici 
 
 I pray, receive. 
 An en.pty, -divided heart at last 
 
 I offer Thee, y^^g cast 
 
 O, seal it Thine-my broken 
 
 Afar from me. 
 
 in hour of need. 
 Within the shelter of Thine arms alone _ 
 
 Is peace and rest ^ ^^ i „^„ 
 
 Dear, tender Saviour, „ 
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 AND CHORAL OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 
 
 Beside a manger lowly 
 
 A mother, pale and mild, 
 With eyes serene and holy, 
 
 Is watching o'er her child. 
 I, too, would gaze and ponder, 
 
 Bowed down in homage low, 
 For sight more full of wonder 
 
 This earth did never show. 
 
 Across the mists of ages, 
 
 That Infant's form divine, 
 Unchanging still, engages 
 
 The heart before His shrine. 
 For though in God's anointed 
 
 The world no charm espieb, 
 Faith reads the signs appointed, 
 
 ** To Christ my Lord," she cries. 
 
 Behold the « Branch " of David, 
 The **Shiloh" famed of old. 
 
 The Son of Virgin Mother, 
 By prophet's lips foretold. 
 
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 Behold the seed of woman, 
 
 Repairer of the Fall, 
 The Child Divine, yet human, 
 
 Emmanuel, Lord of all ! 
 
 Oh, tender plant upspringing 
 
 Amid the desert dry I 
 Oh, dawn of promise flinging 
 
 Thy rays o*er earth and sky ! 
 
 Oh, glad and gushing river. 
 From love's own fountain poured, 
 
 Sp'iiig up — flow on forever, 
 Till all men know the Lord 1 
 
 HYMN TO ST. ANN. 
 
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 Good Saint Ann, glorious Mother, 
 We come to thy shrine on this day ; 
 
 Thou art of Christians the helpar, 
 Of sinners the refuge and stay. 
 
 Spouse of the sainted Joachim, 
 Of Priests and of Levites the joy. 
 
 We hj>D thee. Mother of Mary ; 
 Then for us your prayers employ. 
 

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 Of Putriarchs thou'rt the daughter, 
 The law thou didst keep in thy heart, 
 
 Pattern thou wast of obedience, 
 Of patience a meet counterpart. 
 
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 Comfort of spouses and widows, 
 We seek thy holy protection ; 
 
 Tutor of the Virgin most pure, 
 We ask thy aid and direction. 
 
 Hope of the traveller weary, 
 Sweet pntron of kingly race, 
 
 We pray thee to plead with Jesus, 
 That in heaven we r^iy see thy face. 
 
 HYMN TO ST. ANN. 
 
 Hail, Anna ! throned in light above, 
 
 To God and all His creatures dear! 
 Whene'er we name thy gracious name, 
 
 Jesus and Mary seem more near. 
 Raise, raise for us thy pleading voice, 
 And bid our sorrowing souls rejoice : 
 At Jesus' feet our suppliant be 1 
 Mother of Mary I praj' for me. 
 
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 How great thy joy at Mary's birth, 
 No more to mourn disconsolate ! 
 
 While angels hailed thee in their hymns, 
 Mother of the Immaculate I 
 
 Raise, Anna, raise thy pleading, voice, etc. 
 
 'Twas thine her earliest speech to form, 
 And hear, while bending at thy knee, 
 
 God's Mother lisp the name of God, 
 And call on Him who was to be. 
 
 Raise, Anna, raise thy pleading voice, etc. 
 
 In rapture up the Temple steps, 
 While love and awe thy spirit stirred, 
 
 Thou saw'st thy wondrous Child ascend, 
 Herself the Temple of the Word. 
 
 Raise, Anna, raise thy pleading voice, etc. 
 
 Dear Saint ! thy life is lonely now. 
 The light that lit thy home is gone ; 
 
 But still, in sorrow and in joy. 
 The Mother and the Child are one. 
 
 Raise, Anna, raise thy pleading voice, etc. 
 
 In mystic sympathy divine 
 Thy loved one's heart and thine are bound ; 
 
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 Like harps attuned to heavenly strainsj 
 
 Whose tones in unison resound. 
 Raise, Anna, raise thy pleading voice, etc. 
 
 Oh ! by that first Magnificat ! 
 
 By Bethlehem's midnight burst of Light! 
 % ^yptj and the wilderness, 
 
 And the long anguish of the Flight ! 
 Raise, Auna, raise thy pleading voice, etc. 
 
 By those thy love held dear below. 
 Who now are with thee where thou art ; 
 
 By Joseph and by Joachim, 
 By Mary and the Sacred Heart ! 
 
 Raise, Anna, raise thy pleading voice, 
 
 And bid our sorrowing souls rejoice : 
 
 At Jesus' feet our suppliant be ! 
 
 Mother of Mary, pray for me. 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Lines on St. Ann de Beaupre. 7 
 
 Daily Acts of a Christian Life 11 
 
 Prayer for the Grace of Perseverance 14 
 
 Angelus 14 
 
 For Easter Time 15 
 
 An Act of Adoration 16 
 
 Prayer to the Most Blessed Virgin.... 17 
 
 Litany of Loretto 18 
 
 Prayer to St. Joseph . . , 23 
 
 Prayer for Ireland 25 
 
 Devotions for Confession 26 
 
 Fevotions for Holy Communion 27 
 
 Litany of Jesus .*iO 
 
 Prayer to Jesus Crucified 35 
 
 Holv Mass 37 
 
 The Seven Joys of the Glorious St. Ann . . . 58 
 Salutations in Memory of the Abode of Mary 
 
 Immaculate in the Chaste Womb of the 
 
 Blessed Ann 69 
 
 Exercise in Honor of the Maternity of St. 
 
 Ann .' 75 
 
 Prayer in Honor of the Blessed Virgin and 
 
 St. Ann :-.... 81 
 
 Other Prayers to St. Ann 81 
 
 First Prayer, O Blessed Among all Mothers. 81 
 
 Second " Glorious and Holy Lady 82 
 
 Third '* Be thou for ever blessed 84 
 
 Fourth " Glorious St. Ann, Full of 
 
 Goodness 85 
 
 A ct of Consecration to St. Ann 86 
 
 Ejaculatory Prayers • . <. « 88 
 
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 Third Day--St. Ann meruea^^ 116 
 
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 Fourth I>ay-?"Hy u Church ••'' ^^l 
 
 Fatht ■" of the GreeK v.n ^,jj„„e^). 136 
 
 Fifth D'^y- "E^V^^-Lls of St. Ann increased 
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 nhtain aGooa Death 214 
 
 LitajTr a Happy Death. • • ....•; •; ;; ; . . . 219 
 
 rPenitential Prayer........ ; 221 
 
 Christmas Hy«nn 222 
 
 Hymn to St. Ann 223 
 
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