St. Ann's Basilica Parish is cooking up something special to commemorate the 100th annual Solemn Novena to St. Ann next month. To celebrate the centennial of its iconic novena, which begins July ...

SCRANTON — West Scranton resident Chris Patchoski grew up attending the Solemn Novena to St. Ann but serving in the armed forces, he sees it in a different way. Patchoski, his wife, Alicia ...

As the Solemn Novena to St. Ann enters its second century, the faithful will celebrate a message that “hope never fails” as they make their annual pilgrimage to West Scranton this week. With ...

July 26th marks St. Ann’s Feast Day. St. Ann’s Monastery will hold its final closing mass to the Novena on Friday, July 26th at 7:30 pm. For more information about the Novena, click here.

<p>A long-standing tradition at the St. Aloysius worship site of St. Robert Bellarmine Parish in Wilkes-Barre will take place again this year, with the annual Novena to St. Ann set to begin ...

The Novena leads to July 26th, the feast day of St. Ann. “St. Ann was the mother of Mary who became the mother of Jesus so that makes St. Ann the grandmother of Jesus,” he continued.

Putting on the novena is no small feat. The staff at St. Ann's say that on a typical day, they have about 25 volunteers. Sue Yanchik of Scranton is a regular.

To celebrate the centennial of its iconic novena, which begins July 17 and concludes with the Feast of St. Ann on July 26, the West Scranton congregation produced a cookbook filled with about 350 ...