Patriarch Saint Joachim and Saint Anne

      Distinguished and glorious Patriarch Saint Joachim and most kind Saint Anne, how I am delighted to consider that you were chosen from among all the saints of God to give divine fulfillment and enrich the world with the great Mother of God, Mary Most Holy! By such a singular privilege, they have come to have the greatest influence upon both Mother and Son to obtain for us the graces we need most.  With great confidence, I appeal to your powerful protection and entrust to you all my spiritual and material needs and those of my family.  Especially the particular grace that he entrusted to her solicitude and earnest desire to obtain through her intercession. As you were a perfect example of interior life, obtain for me the gift of the most sincere prayer.  May I never set my heart on the passing goods of this life.  Give me living and constant love for Jesus and Mary.  Obtain for me sincere devotion and obedience to the Holy Church and the Pope who governs her so that I may live and die with faith, hope, and perfect charity.  May I always invoke the holy Names of Jesus and Mary, and thus save me.  Amen.