Mother’s & Father’s Day Appeal 2025
Dear Friends of Saint Ann Shrine, I would imagine we all have been influenced by our parents in one way, shape, or form. Our mothers and fathers have been a support system to us for our entire lives. They are the foundations upon which our families have been built. Maybe you also learned how to […]
Easter Appeal 2025
From darkness to light –from death to life. Remember way back on the 1st Sunday of Lent – Jesus, the personification of goodness, and Satan, the personification of evil, engaged in a momentous power struggle for the souls of men and women. Satan tempted Jesus to insulate himself from the daily problems of ordinary people […]
Lent 2025
Dear Friend of Saint Ann Shrine, Turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel. Lent is a time set aside to rekindle the meaning of our Baptism. When we were baptized as a baby, the priest prayed over us and said: “the Christian community welcomes you with great joy. In its’ name, I […]
125th Anniversary Appeal
Dear Blessed Sacrament Community Friend & Partner in our Ministry: Happy Anniversary! This year we celebrate together our coming down from Montreal, Quebec Canada to build a new community at Eglise Saint Jean Baptiste at the Upper East Side of Manhattan. From this French-Canadian parish to the rest of the United States, including Hawai’i, the […]
Thank You Appeal
Dear Friend of Saint Ann Shrine, On behalf of Father Roger Bourgeois (Chaplain of Saint Ann Shrine), the Saint Ann Shrine Staff, and the Community of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, I would like to sincerely thank you for your continued thoughts, prayers, and generous support of Saint Ann Shrine and the Blessed […]
Christmas 2024
O God who wonderfully created the dignity of human nature, grant that we may share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity. Amen. (Prayer of Christmas Mass during the day) Dear Friend of Saint Ann Shrine and the Blessed Sacrament, This prayer is simply saying that Christmas […]
All Souls Appeal 2024
Dear Friends of Saint Ann Shrine, The twin holy days of All Saints and All Souls on November 1-2 help us to lift our minds and hearts away from the current messiness of the world to the beckoning peace of being home with God forever. To be home with God is a Christian belief that […]
Holy Rosary 2024
Dear Friends of Saint Ann Shrine, Pope Pius XI some years ago said: the Rosary is a powerful weapon to keep yourself free of sin, to foster Peace in your heart, home, and country. Recently Pope Francis urged Catholics to carry the Rosary in their purse or pocket and to pray it…whenever you find yourself […]
Mary’s Birthday Appeal 2024
Dear Friend of Saint Ann Shrine, BIRTHDAYS ARE FOR CELEBRATING LIFE! Happy Birthday, Mary! Every year on September 8th, the Church celebrates the birthday of Mary, the mother of Jesus our Savior. If anyone ever made a difference, Mary surely did! The poet William Wordsworth said it so beautifully: “Mother, whose virgin bosom was uncrost […]
Novena Appeal
June 2024 Dear Friend of Good Saint Ann, I don’t know who first called Saint Ann “good”, but this simple word certainly embodies the many qualities of the woman who was chosen by God to give life to her daughter Mary, the future mother of God’s son, Jesus. I like to think that of all […]
