St. Anne Novena - Prayers for Finding Your Husband - Day 9

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavily laden with the weight of my troubles, I kneel at your feet and humbly beg you, dear St. Anne, to take my present need under your special protection. (mention request here…) Vouchsafe to recommend it to your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and lay it before the throne of Jesus. Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted. Above all, obtain for me the grace to one day meet God face to face, and with you and Mary and all the angels and saints praising Him through all eternity. Amen. Good St. Anne, I have reached the end of this novena in your honor. I have asked and ask again. Good mother, let not your kind ear grow weary of my prayers, though I repeat them so often. Bounteous Lady, implore for me from divine Providence all the help I need through life. May your generous hand bestow on me the material means to satisfy my own needs and to alleviate the plight of the poor. Good St. Anne, fortify me by the sacraments of the Church at the hour of my death. Admit me into the company of the blessed in the kingdom of heaven, where I may praise and thank the adorable Trinity, your grandson Christ Jesus, your glorious daughter Mary, and yourself, dear St. Anne, through endless ages. Our Father Hail Mary Glory be to the Father Pray for us, Saint Anne. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. O Jesus, Holy Mary, St. Anne, help me now and at the hour of my death. Good St. Anne, intercede for me. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. St. Anne is the mother of Our Lady, and as such has been accorded great honor within Catholic Tradition. She was the spouse of St. Joachim and is invoked in particular for the intention of finding one’s future husband. She is also considered the patroness of housewives, women in labor, and grandmothers. The story goes that St. Anne was childless for decades, and that she and St. Joachim prayed and fasted for the blessing of a child. Our Lord granted their pious request, and they conceived the Blessed Virgin Mary. Devotion to St. Anne sprung up in the Christian East first, in the early Middle Ages, and spread to the Church in the West through the Medieval period. When we consider how virtuous and holy our Blessed Mother was, we can imagine the tremendous graces that our Lord gave to her parents, Sts. Joachim and Anne, that they would faithfully instruct their daughter in the ways of God.