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Post by Voxxkowalski on Jul 19, 2017 10:58:14 GMT -5
Is it actually proper to pray to StAnthony for lost items...or is it just a pius superstition?. If it is ok...what is the proper prayer?...all I know is ST Anthony come around...something lost must be found.
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Post by jen51 on Jul 19, 2017 14:51:07 GMT -5
He has aided me twice in finding something that was lost. The most recent was last year. My husband thought he had lost his credit card, and for reasons I'll not go into, we needed it right then or we were in some trouble. We looked everywhere. Exasperated, we gave up and accepted that it was gone and started making plans accordingly. Then I remembered what we should have done in the first place, which was call on St. Anthony. We prayed the prayer on the back of the holy card we have for him, and then I went to switch the laundry. When I opened the dryer, the credit fell out and landed on my foot. We were really tickled about that and promptly said our thanksgiving.
I'll try to locate the card to share the prayer if someone doesn't beat me to it.
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Post by mikemac on Jul 20, 2017 14:23:33 GMT -5
St. Anthony helped me find a set of keys earlier this year. They had been lost for a couple of months and I just continued to pray for his help until the keys were found.
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Post by Voxxkowalski on Jul 20, 2017 20:37:34 GMT -5
Is there a specific Prayer...and Why St Anthony? Sorry I dont actually know the back story.
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Post by mikemac on Jul 21, 2017 9:48:09 GMT -5
I was reading some where that St. Anthony lost a prayer book so he kept praying until it was returned to him.
You will find that there are lots of different prayers to St. Anthony if you do a search for 'St. Anthony prayer'.
I just went by memory, I didn't look up a prayer. It turns out that what I was praying is close to an approved one.
I just prayed "St. Anthony St. Anthony come on down. I've lost something that needs to be found."
I have been saying a short litany to some saints every morning for quite some time. St. Anthony has been one of them. So now, since I've found my set of keys he gets a thumbs up when I get to "St. Anthony pray for us".
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Post by mundacormeum on Jul 28, 2017 15:32:12 GMT -5
St. Anthony is the patron of lost things. He is most well know for his preaching abilities. He converted many heretics because of them, and is considered a miracle worker (finder of lost souls). He could also bi-locate. But, the story goes that he is particularly good for lost things, because once he lost his psalter. He prayed very hard to find it. Turns out, a novice had stolen it, and saw an apparition of St. Anthony admonishing him about it. The novice returned the psalter. There is a little prayer that many people say to him, but I didn't learn that prayer until quite recently, even though I've had a special affinity for St. Anthony since I was 5 years old. He's my good friend. I never say a formal prayer. I always just talk to him..."ok, St. Anthony. I really need your help." I can't even think of a time when I asked him to help me find something that he has failed me. It's become so well known how helpful he is to me, that everyone in my family (husband and kids) always come to me to ask him intercession. They always say, when I tell them to ask him, "he only works for you, Mom" . Husband says the same thing. He will be looking for something, ask St. Anthony, can't find it, tell me, I ask St. Anthony, and I will find it in the most random spot. He has helped me find all sorts of things, from stupid nothings to my engagement ring, to my miraculous and St. Benedict medals (on one chain), to my way back to the Faith. He's amazing! My Mom used to be in the habit of putting five dollars in the poor box everytime he helped her as a 'thank you'. Yesterday, my daughter had two little craft things she made. She misplaced them. I had her retrace her steps, still no luck. I said, "did you ask St. Anthony." Yes. I said, ok I'll take care of it. I finished a math lesson with my other daughter, then got up to go look around. Sure enough, I walk around the corner and her craft items were sitting right on the baby's change table. Awhile back, maybe a couple months ago, I lost my favorite calligraphy pen. It was my husbands when he was young. I told St. Anthony it would be great if he would find it for me, but as I didn't take good care of it, I kind of figured I deserved to lose it. Anyway. I looked everywhere for it. I emptied the family vehicle, and literally moved seats around, detail cleaned cracks and crevices, the whole nine yards. The pen was no where. A couple weeks later, I get in the car, and the pen was just sitting on the floorboard of the drivers side seat. It was NOT there when I drove last, and no one had driven it in between. Sometimes, he even helps me find things without me asking. I've been wanting a little St. Anthony statue, but I didn't mention it to anyone. It was just a passing thought kind of thing. Low and behold, my mother in law came by a few weeks ago with a beautiful statue of him for me. She saw it in a thrift store and thought of me! Needless to say, he's a favorite Saint of mine
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Post by magdalena on Jul 28, 2017 17:28:30 GMT -5
I always say the "St. Anthony, St. Anthony, please turn around...." prayer and add three Hail Marys, but found this and like it:
O blessed St. Anthony, the grace of God has made you a powerful advocate in all our needs and the patron for the restoring of things lost or stolen. I turn to you today with childlike love and deep confidence. You have helped countless children of God to find the things they have lost, material things, and, more importantly, the things of the spirit: faith, hope, and love. I come to you with confidence; help me in my present need. I recommend what I have lost to your care, in the hope that God will restore it to me, if it is His holy Will.
Amen.
catholicharboroffaithandmorals.com/St.%20Anthony.html
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Post by magdalena on Jul 28, 2017 22:23:25 GMT -5
On the Feast of this most wonderful of Saints, your priest might bless lilies for you to keep (this isn't a universal practice). The blessing of lilies, which remind us of St. Anthony's purity and have always been a symbol for him, stems from a miracle which took place in Revolutionary France: many priests and religious were murdered, so many churches and convents destroyed, but the faithful still showed up at a surviving church on the Feast of St. Anthony. Months later, it was discovered that lilies that had adorned the church at that feast were still fresh. Let the lilies beautify your house, or carry them with you, or press them in a book, etc. If your priest doesn't bless lilies, you can still use them non-sacramentally to remind you of one of the greatest Saints ever. The English of the Blessing of the Lilies is as follows
The Blessing of Lilies on the Feast of St. Anthony The priest vests in surplice and white stole, and says: P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
All: Who made heaven and earth.
P: The Lord be with you.
All: And with thy spirit.
P: Let us pray. God, the Creator and Preserver of the human race, the Lover of holy purity, the Giver of supernatural grace, and the Dispenser of everlasting salvation; bless + these lilies which we, Thy humble servants, present to Thee today as an act of thanksgiving and in honor of St. Anthony, Thy confessor, and with a request for Thy blessing. Pour out on them, by the saving sign + of the holy cross, Thy dew from on high. Thou in Thy great kindness hast given them to man, and endowed them with a sweet fragrance to lighten the burden of the sick. Therefore, let them be filled with such power that, whether they are used by the sick, or kept in homes or other places, or devoutly carried on one's person, they may serve to drive out evil spirits, safeguard holy chastity, and turn away illness--all this through the prayers of St. Anthony--and finally impart to Thy servants grace and peace; through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
Then he sprinkles the lilies with holy water, saying: P: Sprinkle me with hyssop, Lord, and I shall be clean of sin. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Pray for us, St. Anthony.
All: That we may be worthy of Christ's promise.
P: Let us pray. We beg Thee, O Lord, that Thy people may be helped by the constant and devout intercession of Blessed Anthony, Thy illustrious confessor. May he assist us to be worthy of Thy grace in this life, and to attain everlasting joys in the life to come; through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
After this the lilies are distributed to the people.
www.fisheaters.com/customstimeafterpentecoststa.html
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Post by magdalena on Jul 28, 2017 22:38:47 GMT -5
The Charity of Saint Anthony -- Lorenzo Lotto, 1542
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Post by magdalena on Jul 28, 2017 23:21:40 GMT -5
Fra Angelico
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Post by magdalena on Jul 28, 2017 23:25:34 GMT -5
The Vision of the Christ Child -- Francisco de Zurbaran
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Post by magdalena on Jul 28, 2017 23:33:17 GMT -5
Giotto di Bondone 1267-1337
During a meeting of the order, St. Anthony of Padua was preaching in the cloister at Arles - Giotto shows a generously proportioned Gothic room. Suddenly, Francis appeared. Only St. Anthony, who had just been speaking about Christ, and one other member of the Order notice the apparition. Giotto shows all the others listening with full attention.
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