HOW TO PRAY THE ST ANNE CHAPLET

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ST ANNE CHAPLET

This little chaplet dates back to 1875.  The author is unknown.  This chaplet is the source of a great number of favors both spiritual and temporal.

The chaplet consists of the recitation of the following prayers:

• In honor of Jesus, say one Our Father and five Hail Marys.
  AFTER EACH HAIL MARY SAY:
  Jesus, Mary, and St. Anne, grant the favor I ask.

• In honor of Mary, say on Our Father and five Hail Marys.
  AFTER EACH HAIL MARY SAY:
  Jesus, Mary, St Anne, grant the favor I ask.

• In honor of St Anne, say one Our Father and five Hail Marys.
  AFTER EACH HAIL MARY SAY:
  Jesus, Mary, and St Anne, grant the favor I ask.
  

PRAY TO ST ANNE

(TO OBTAIN SOME SPECIAL FAVOR)

O glorious St Anne, you are filled with compassion for those
who invoke you and with love for those who suffer!  heavenly burdened with the weight of my troubles, I cast myself at your feet and humbly beg of you to take the present intention which I recommend to you in your special care.

Please recommend it to your daughter, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and place it before the throne of Jesus, so that He may bring it to a happy issue.  Continue to intercede for me until my request is granted.  But above all, obtain for me the grace one day to see my God face to face, and with you and Mary and all the saints to praise and bless Him for all eternity.  Amen

(3 times)

FOR SICK PEOPLE

Saint Anne, here I am again.  You may be tired of listening
to my prayer so often repeated.  But, you are the Saint in 
whom I have so much trust!  You are a grandmother extruding
your love!  You were given us by Jesus to console us as we 
groan in pain.  St Anne, have pity on my, relieve me of my
misery, bring me some consolation.  May I get well again.  
Oh! please, take pity on me, your child.

I would never have believed sickness could affect me so
mercilessly.  I would never have imagined I would suffer so
much and for so long.  I always relied on good health to do
so many useful things.  And now I feel miserable in my 
sickness and I am disheartened.  You remain, beloved Saint
Anne, my one hope.  I know how close you are to Jesus, your
Grandson.

Will I every have recourse to you without being helped?

In spite of my sufferings which exhaust me day and night, I
want to intercede on behalf of all sick people.  My prayer must
be charitable.  There are so many people who moan on their
hospital bed, or locked up in their home as in a prison.  Who
will listen to them as they whimper, who will take a lenient
view of their infirmities and wounds, who will smile to them,
who will pacify them, if not you, dearest Saint Anne?  Give
a helping hand, come to their rescue.

Saint Anne, to make my illness profitable, I present my 
discomfort to Jesus suffering on the cross.  I unite my
distress to the distress of Mary your daughter, standing at
the foot of the cross.  I offer my torment and my affliction
to my Lord as I look at you, Saint Anne, my heavenly
grandmother.  Promptly come to my assistance and give new
life to all suffering people.

Heal me if this is God's will, give me peace and lasting joy.

AMEN 

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