Wednesday, February 5, 2025

The Great Cloud of Witnesses

St. Anna the Prophetess Read more

St. Anna the Prophetess

The Bible contains only three sentences about Anna the prophetess, but they are important lines: Luke 2:36-37 tells us Anna was the daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher. At 84, she was considered “very old,” and had been a widow for many years. She only had seven years with her husband before his passing, and she had lived in the temple as a widow since. Scripture tells us...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 5
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