St. Anne Shrine has fully reopened! We are happy to welcome you back and we invite you once again to celebrate with us the 134^th  Annual Novena to Saint Anne beginning on Sunday, July 18^th and concluding on Monday, July 26^th, the Feast Day of Saints Anne and Joachim.

Venerable Marie-Clément Staub, the Assumptionist who founded the Sisters of Joan of Arc, was recently featured in Columbia Magazine.

 Columbia Magazine, May 2021

What Do I Really Need?

We saw the anguish of his heart when he pleaded with us, yet we paid no heed.
Genesis 42:21

Facing the truth about ourselves is, often enough, not pretty. It is a condition, however, for our participation in God’s saving work.

The journey of Joseph’s brothers to Egypt was to seek relief from the famine that had spread over their land. What could be more important than survival? But the real drama of the Joseph story hinges not so much on the success of that mission, but on the painful reckoning brought about by their disguised brother, whom they had abandoned and left for dead. To be reconciled to one another through the good graces of a brother scorned and rejected…sound familiar? I write these words at a time when we are still in the teeth of the pandemic. We keep praying for release from the “famine” that has so devastated our world.

Lord, release me, too, from my hard heart and my disordered affections.

- Fr. Dennis Gallagher, A.A.

Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a • Psalm 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19 Matthew 10:1-7