[Magdalen] Chain of Command.

[Grace Cangialosi]

OK, I still want to know where these non-Scriptural traditions get started? Who decided the names of Mary’s parents, and when?
That’s the only one that comes to mind at the moment because of this post, but I’ve wondered about others, as well.

> On Jul 30, 2018, at 11:17 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> Saint Annes' Feast Day was 26th July.
> 
> There are lots of Novenas to Saint Anne/Ann in RC parishes
> here in NE Pennsylvania USA.  The most important is at the largest
> church in the region, Saint Anne's (Minor) Basilica, Scranton,
> PA where the crowds are in the thousands.
>  
> I was cantor at one of these Novena Masses some years ago
> with the infamous Litany of Saint Anne.  This features
> the plainchant tune with the following section:
>  
>    "We ask Saint Anne to ask her daughter (the Virgin Mary) to
> ask her Son (Jesus Christ) to ask his Father (God the Father) to
> grant our petitions."
>  
> Martin Luther rolls over in his grave when he encounters that one!
>  
>  
> David S.