Glorious and holy queen, whom the heavens admire, whom the saints honour, and the earth reveres: God the Father loves thee as the mother of His beloved daughter; the Son of God loves thee for having given Him a mother, from whom He took His life and became Saviour of mankind; the Holy Ghost loves thee for having given to Him so beautiful, so worthy, and so perfect a spouse; the angels and the elect honour thee as the mother of their sovereign; the just, the penitent, and the sinner consider thee their powerful advocate before God, for by thy intercession the just hope for an increase of grace, the penitent for their justification, and sinners for the remission of their sins. Be, then, kind and generous, and while we invoke thee here below pray for us in heaven. Use in our favour the great influence thou hast before God, and permit not that those who know thee be lost. Show thyself always the refuge of sinners and the asylum of the guilty, the consolation of the afflicted, and give us the pledge of thy kindness. Defend our cause now and at the hour of our death. This we pray of thee by all the love which thou hast for our Lord and for His Mother, thy daughter, that thus sustained by thy prayers we may one day possess eternal life. Amen. Good St. Anne, mother of her who is our life, our sweetness, and our hope, pray to her for us and obtain our request. (Three times.)
Universal Prayer to St. Anne
'God the Father loves thee as the mother of His beloved daughter; the Son of God loves thee for having given Him a mother' — the grandmother of Christ addressed by the whole Trinity's reasons at once.
On 26 July; on Tuesdays, her day in Brittany and Quebec; for mothers and grandmothers; at her shrines.
This prayer does something no other prayer in the collection attempts: it argues from the affection of each Person of the Trinity in turn. The Father loves her as the mother of His beloved daughter; the Son, for having given Him a mother from whom He took His life; the Holy Spirit, for having given Him so perfect a spouse. Then the angels, the elect, the just, the penitent and the sinner, each for their own reason.
It is the prayer of the great shrines of St. Anne — Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré on the St. Lawrence, Sainte-Anne-d'Auray in Brittany — where crutches have been left on the walls for three centuries. The text is that of Our Favorite Novenas (1897).
