Great and glorious patriarch,
St Joachim, and good St Anne,
what joy is mine when I consider
that you were chosen among all God’s holy ones
to assist in the fulfillment of the mysteries of God,
and to enrich our earth
with the great Mother of God,
Mary most holy.
By this singular privilege,
you have become most powerful
with both the Mother and her Son,
so as to be able to obtain for us the graces
that are needful to us.
With great confidence I have recourse
to your mighty protection,
and I commend to you all my needs,
both spiritual and temporal,
and those of my family.
Especially do I entrust to your keeping
the particular favour that I desire
and look for from your intercession.
Since you were a perfect pattern of the interior life,
obtain for me the grace to pray earnestly,
and never to set my heart
on the passing goods of this life.
Give me a lively and enduring love
for Jesus and Mary.
Obtain for me also
a sincere devotion and obedience to God,
in order that I may live and die
in faith and hope and perfect charity.
Let me ever invoke the holy Names
of Jesus and Mary, and may I thus be saved.
Amen.
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