Posted on 07/26/2006 1:28:18 PM PDT by Pyro7480
Joachim and Anne, how blessed a couple! All creation is indebted to you. For at your hands the Creator was offered a gift excelling all other gifts: a chaste mother, who alone was worthy of him.
Joachim and Anne, how blessed and spotless a couple! You will be known by the fruit you have borne, as the Lord says: "By their fruits you will know them." The conduct of your life pleased God and was worthy of your daughter. For by the chaste and holy life you led together, you have fashioned a jewel of virginity: she who remained a virgin before, during, and after giving birth. She alone for all time would maintain her virginity in mind and soul as well as in body.
Joachim and Anne, how chaste a couple! While leading a devout and holy life in your human nature, you gave birth to a daughter nobler than the angels, whose queen she now is.
Ping!
Catholic ping!
Blessed Saint Anne, teach all married couples what their special vocation should be: for each other, for their children, as good examples of their faith in Christ and as faithful, joyful instruments of God's holy will.
thinking, praying, more praying...
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