Saint Anne's Guild

The purpose of St. Anne's Guild is Service to Resurrection Parish  and to help it grow spiritually and physically.  Members also share life and faith experiences with each other. Membership is open to all women of the Parish.  The SAG holds is meetings the second Monday of each month at 12:00 noon in the Parish Hall.  All are welcome to attend and learn more about the Guild.

Projects and Activities of the Guild include:

Altar and Church Decorations (including special cleaning days before Christmas and Easter)

Annual Harvest Pot Luck Dinner (November)

Fund Raisers for purchase of items (Banners, statues, paintings, altar linens, sacred vessels, vestments, REP materials and more)

Flowers for the church

Rummage Sales

Bake Sales

Participation in Parish Council

Participation in the annual Parish Festival (July)

Catering/coordinating special dinners: funerals, weddings, etc.

Receptions: First Holy Communion, Confirmation, Baccalaureate

Beautification of church grounds

About St. Anne

Feast Day July 26

 

 

Of St. Anne we have no certain knowledge. She is not mentioned in the New Testament, and we must depend on apocryphal literature, chiefly the Protoevangelium of James, which dates back only to the second century.

In this document we are told that Anne, wife of  Joachim, was advanced in years and that her prayers for a child had not been answered. Once as she prayed beneath a laurel tree near her home in Galilee, an angel appeared and said to her, "Anne, the Lord hath heard thy prayer and thou shalt conceive and bring forth, and thy seed shall be spoken of in all the world." Anne replied, "As the Lord my God liveth, if I beget either male or female, I will bring it as a gift to the Lord my God; and it shall minister to Him in holy things all the days of its life " And thus Anne became the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The devotion of St. Anne was known in the East in the fifth century, but it was not diffused in the West until the thirteenth. A shrine at Douai, in northern France, was one of the early centers of the devotion. In 1382 her feast was extended to the whole Western Church, and she became very popular, especially in France. Her two most famous shrines are at St. Anne d'Auray in Brittany and at St. Anne-de Beaupre in the province of Quebec.

She is patroness of housewives, women in labor, cabinet-makers, and miners. Her emblem is a door. St. Anne has been frequently represented in art, and the lovely face depicted by Leonardo da Vinci comes first to mind in this connection. The name Anne derives from the Hebrew Hannah, meaning "grace."

Please feel free to contact any Guild Officer or Member to learn more about the organization.