Our Lady Of Grace Church issued the following announcement on Sept. 13.

God of our ancestors,

we thank you for our children

and our children's children.

They are reminders from you about how precious life can be.

We humbly ask for wisdom and patience as we take pride and wonder in our grandchildren.

Those of us who now pray to you

also seek your blessing upon these men and women

who are our grandparents or who act in place of grandparents.

Bless all the children and their parents and grandparents

with your abundant grace.

We ask all this through the intercession of

Saints Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary,

patron saints of grandparents,

in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Original source can be found here.