Saint Joachim spent forty days and nights on a mountain in a cave, and Saint Anna in their garden, fasting and Praying to God with pain, tears and hope, that He would grant them a child.
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May I have,” he Prayed, “the possibility of being called the father of a child”…
And gazing towards the Heaven, she saw a sparrow’s nest in the laurel, and made a lamentation in herself, saying: …Alas! To what have I been likened? I am not like the fowls of the heaven, because even the fowls of the heaven are productive before You, O Lord… and blesses You, O Lord.
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Hearing the words of the Angel, Anna bowed to God and said: “As the Lord God lives, if a child is born to me, I shall offer it for service to God. Let it serve Him and Glorify the Holy Name of God day and night all the time of its life.”…
