Our Mother of Sorrow

_{We, the members of Our Mother of Sorrows, Holy Family, Saint Ann, and
Saint Casimir Churches, are a welcoming faith-filled community composed of
people of different ethnic origins, formed by Word and Sacrament, striving to
support, sustain, and encourage each other and all who have need of us on our
pilgrimage through life to the Kingdom of God.}

_{In
1990 Bishop Michael Murphy reassigned the priests of St. Ann, St. Casimir
and Holy Family Churches and united these three parishes under the
direction of one pastor. He appointed Rev. Robert Craig to this position
and then after one year, Rev. James T. O'Hara, another native son and
former assistant pastor of Saint Ann's, became the pastor of the
tri-parish cluster. It was a formidable task that faced Fr. O'Hara. Each
of the three parishes retained their own name, each retained its own
boundaries, its own church, rectory, and other buildings, its own
spiritual and social organizations and its own ethnic identity.
Nevertheless it was the obligation of the new pastor to preserve all of
these unique qualities in each parish and yet combine their spiritual,
financial, and material well being under his care.}

_{Fr. O'Hara has succeeded
beautifully in all of these efforts with the help and cooperation of the loyal
and faithful members of St. Ann's, St. Casimir's and Holy Family Parishes now united
in the eastside cluster to seek in bring the Blessing of the Father to all who
are bound through this community of Faith. Know that, through the
Son flows the Blessings of the Father offered through the embracing Love
given by Spirit.}

Novena to St. Anne, the Mother of the Virgin Mary

Glorious St. Anne,
filled with compassion for those who invoke you,
with love for those who suffer,
heavily laden with the weight of my troubles,
I knee at your feet and humbly beg you
to take my present need under your special protection...

(State your intention here.)

Vouchsafe to recommend it to your daughter,
the Blessed Virgin Mary,
and lay it before the throne of Jesus.
Cease not to intercede for me until my request is granted.
Above all, obtain for me the grace to one day meet God face to face,
and with you and Mary and all the angels
and saints praising Him through all eternity.

Amen