Happy Mother's Day

05-03-2015Pastor's LetterMsgr. Gregory W. Gordon

On Sunday, May 10, we celebrate Mother’s Day. We will gather in our parish for Sunday Mass on Mother’s Day, in this glorious Easter Season, and remember all our beloved mothers, living and deceased, in prayer. Saint Anne Parish will also offer a Novena of Masses for our mothers. You may enroll your mother in our Mother’s Day Novena by simply writing her name on the enclosed envelope and returning it to the parish either through the offertory or at the parish office before May 10. Any offering you wish to give is gratefully accepted. We will continue this prayerful remembrance in honor of your mothers for nine days, and place their names upon our Altar from Sunday, May 10 through Monday, May 18.

Beautiful Mother’s Day Mass Cards, in English and in Spanish, will be available to you and may be picked up in the designated boxes in our Church sanctuary if you would like to send to your mother a Catholic Mass Card Remembrance.

On Mother’s Day and in the successive nine days of the novena, we will recall in thanksgiving the inestimable blessing our mothers and grandmothers have been to us. As a reminder of their love, we include the official icon of the World Meeting of Families MMXV, the Holy Family; this particular depiction of the Holy Family includes images of Mary, Mother of God, and of her mother, Saint Anne, our parish patroness. Praying the attached prayer is one way by which we may all spiritually participate in the fruits of the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia with Pope Francis.

We also remember in these days our Holy Mother, the Church. Pentecost Sunday, the birthday of the Church, is May 24 this year. As this final day of the Easter Season approaches, I wish to thank all those parish families who have helped to build up the Church at Saint Anne’s through the Catholic Stewardship Appeal 2015.  

May your mothers be richly blessed, in this life, and in the life to come, in Christ Jesus, our Risen Lord.Holy Mary, Mother of God - pray for them. Saint Anne - pray for them.

A devoted Son of our Blessed Mother Mary,
Msgr. Gregory W. Gordon
Pastor, Saint Anne Church

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