SAINT ANNE AND SAINT JOACHIM
INTRODUCTION for the LITURGY OF THE HOURS
26th of July of 2015
Today we are convoked by the praise of the good people, the
grateful memory of Anne and Joachim, servant of God, who knew how
to live searching, listening, hoping, trusting, believing, and being
mediation of God’s love and will.
Today we are convoked by the fulfilled promise of God in the five
Continents, where the Sisters of Charity of Saint Anne, together with the
Laity of Saint Anne’s Family, also want to be good people, servants of
God, mediation of His Love for so many people who live and walk with
us.
As Congregation and as St. Anne’s Family we have received the
Mission of being, as the Lord Jesus, witnesses of God’s Love.
May in this Year of Consecrated Life, in which we also celebrate the
150 Anniversary of our congregacional name, we continue answering
faithfully to this call, according to the style of St. Joachim and St. Anne,
from humility and simplicity, deep faith and hope, total trust in God,
detachment and “to know how to hope”, the less that is more… gifts that
keep on shaping our identity and make possible for us to embody the
goodness and tenderness of God Father-Mother in the place where we
are.
PETITION IN THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS
In this day of celebration, we thank God for our Congregation, for
each Sister, for each Laity of St. Anne’s Family who, by living the
congregational Charism, Spirit and Mission, follow the Lord Jesus, as
our Founders did.
We remember in a special way the Sisters and Laity of the
Provinces of St. Joachim and St. Anne.
May St. Anne and St. Joachim, good people, accompany always our
being and our doing to be, as them, fulfilled Mission of God.
SAINT ANNE AND SAINT JOACHIM
INTRODUCTION OF THE EUCHARIST
26th of July of 2015
In this day of congregational feast, framed in the celebration of the
Year of Consecrated Life and the 150 Anniversary of our congregational
name, we are convoked by the thanksgiving prayer for our Patron Saints
Anne and Joachim.
Their humble and simple lives are for us, Sisters of Charity of Saint
Anne, a call to revitalize the values of our congregational spirit.
We experience, as them, the fulfilled promise of God in our daily
being and doing, possible also thanks to the Laity of St. Anne’s Family,
who share with us Charism, Spirit and Mission, thanks to whom
collaborate with us in the different services; thanks to whom trust in us
by being those whom we serve; thanks to whom accompany us day
after day with your love and prayer.
Pope Francis reminds us that in this time “people of faith are
needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the
Promised Land and keep hope alive… We are called to be living
sources of water from which other can drink”.
May Saint Anne and Saint Joachim continue accompanying our
path of Hospitality. May, as them, we be people of faith who keep hope
alive, from whom other can drink, from humility and simplicity, total trust
in God, detachment and “to know how to hope”, the less that is more…
who love and serve “with the greatest care, with every detail, with all
love”.
SAINT ANNE AND SAINT JOACHIM
PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL
26th of July of 2015
 We pray for the Pope Francis, our Bishop …, priests and deacons. May
they be good people, mediations of God’s Love. Let us pray to the Lord
 We pray for the leaders of the nations. May they rule by promoting peace,
justice and common good, concerned by the most underprivileged ones.
Let us pray to the Lord
 We pray for those who suffer, for the victims of violence, injustice,
economic crisis. We pray for the sick people; for those who live ignored or
lonely. May they always have good people who accompany their pain and
hopelessness. Let us pray to the Lord
 We pray for the youth. May they know of God in their daily journey, and
some of them answer from the priestly, consecrated and missionary life.
Let us pray to the Lord
 We pray for each Sister of our Congregation, and especially for those who
belong to the Provinces of St. Joachim and St. Anne. We pray for each
Laity of St. Anne’s Family. May in this Year of Consecrated Life and
always, each one, from our specific vocation, be witnesses of the Lord
Jesus from Universal Charity that is lived through Hospitality. Let us pray
to the Lord
 We pray for those whom we serve and the people who share life and task
with us. May they experience every day God’s blessing through our being
and doing. Let us pray to the Lord
 We pray for all the Sisters, benefactors, collaborators, relatives and
friends who, in God’s Presence, accompany our congregational journey.
Let us pray to the Lord
 We pray for all of us, gathered in thanksgiving prayer to God for his
servants Anne and Joachim. May the example of their lives accompany
ours and show us the way of living being mediation of the presence of the
Lord Jesus, loving and serving “with the greatest care, with every detail,
with all love”. Let us pray to the Lord