Letters From Saint Ann Shrine

125th Anniversary Appeal

January 13, 2025

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 vision continued of Saint Peter Julian Eymard to preach “Christ Eucharistic” to the 4-ends of the earth.

We appreciate how you have assisted us over these 125 years with your time, talent and treasure to build our mission through the intercession of Saint Ann – especially with our Annual Appeal for supporting our USA mission. We took the grandmother of Jesus Christ as our patron saint due to the shrine that already existed in New York at our church. Just as a grandmother spoils and protects her grandchildren, so has Saint Ann protected and spoiled us as a province to have the funds necessary to do our Eucharistic mission, build seminaries and formation program and develop our Eucharistic mission through Emmanuel Media, the Center for Eucharistic Evangelizing and our parish and hospital ministries over the years. Thank you so much for your support – for being those leaders of giving!

Now that we are at this important moment of our history, would you kindly assist us with our future endeavors and growth? Through your generosity, we have been able to support the VISA process and their living expenses to bring other Blessed Sacrament (SSS) international priests from the places where we made foundations: the Philippines, Vietnam, Uganda, Sri Lanka and India. We also now have a priest from Senegal and Columbia, even though we did not have a part in founding these provinces. To keep our ministries going, we need your continuous support, through prayers and your generous donations. We appreciate you making a commitment and suggest, in honor of this anniversary occasion, a $125.00 special gift if you are able. With a gift of this amount or higher, we will recognize your name in our special history book and on our website (deadline to be included in the History book is February 28, 2025). Support us how you can, for it all assists us in building our future for the next 125 years.

We also invite you to come and celebrate with us. I look forward to meeting you in person at our receptions. Here is the list of places, dates and celebrations to join with us:

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Saint Joseph Downtown 623 East Commerce Street

5:30 pm Eucharist San Antonio, TX

Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, Presiding

Saturday, April 26, 2025 Saint Charles Borromeo 1818 Coal Place SE

5:00 pm Eucharist Albuquerque, NM