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The Running of the Saints

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Published: July 8, 2011

The Running of the Saints

Devotion and Penance

The congregation at St. Anne Catholic Church is in the midst of preparations for their annual parish fiesta in honor of their patron saint, which will occur on Saturday July 23, 11:00 am to 8:00 pm, and Sunday July 24, 12:00 noon to 8:00 pm. This year the event considered the high point of the celebration will continue: the Running of the Saints.
The Running of the Saints is a hybrid between a parade and a procession. Men from the parish jog a one mile route from Irving Avenue, four blocks to the north to Caesar Chavez Boulevard, and back. The unique element of this jog is that the men are running with statuary. The participants take turns bearing two wooden litters, eight men carrying each. Placed upon the litters are large white columns, at the top of which is a statue, one of Saint Michael the Archangel and one of St. Anne, the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. These litters weigh 400 and 350 pounds respectively.
The purpose of the Running of the Saints is two-fold: to make a public statement of devotion to the saints and to do penance. Last year, the priests of the parish, Fr. Carl Gismondi, FSSP, and Fr. Dennis Gordon, FSSP, also participated. Before the procession began, the men prayed the Rosary and the priests blessed the statues. Leading the procession was an honor guard of two men dressed in native Mexican costume on horseback.
The Running of the Saints will take place on Saturday July 24 at 3:00 pm. For more information on this event or St. Anne’s parish fiesta, please contact the parish office at (619) 239-8253 or look at the weekly bulletin posted on their website http://www.stannes-sandiego.org/ . A video of the 2010 Running of the Saints can also be found on the parish website. St. Anne Catholic Church is located at 2337 Irving Avenue, San Diego, CA 92113.

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

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The Running of the Saints

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