Confessor, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The holy Patriarch Joachim was the husband of St. Anne, and the father of our Lady. This feast, originally kept on March 20,, was transferred to the day following the Assumption, in order to associate the Blessed Daughter and her holy father in triumph.
Collect:
O God, who of all Thy Saints didst choose the blessed Joachim to be father to the Mother of Thy Son: grant, we beseech Thee that we who honour his festival, may evermore experience his patronage, Through our Lord...
'Thou hast crowned him with glory and honour: and hast set him over the works on Thy hands, O Lord'
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