Dear Saint Anthony, I salute you this day in recognition of your devotion to solitude, prayer and acts of reparation. You took the name Anthony, after the first hermit of the desert, when you joined the Frnaciscans. You sought God’s help in prayer and fasting in monastic quiet. My duties in life seldom offer chances […]
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Dear St. Anthony, you are the Patron of the poor and the helper of all who seek lost articles. Help me to find what I have lost [Here mention what you have lost…] so that I will be able to make better use of the time that I will gain for God’s greater honor and
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Dear Saint Anthony, once again I greet you and thank you for your readiness to come to my aid in my necessity. Slowly, but surely, my disposition improves. You have helped me to understand that my real fault lay in pride, preoccupation with myself, and lack of real concern for others. Now that I see
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Dear Saint Anthony, yet again I greet you and thank you. Throughout your life you always tried to be a peacemaker. You were always reconciling enemies, getting factions to work together, smooting and composing differences. Our world is now upset with wars abroad, with violence and dissension at home. Everywhere in our cities and towns,
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Dear Saint Anthony, I greet you gladly and offer you the respect and homage of a sinner… one who is aware how much God’s grace and your help are needed. Everyone knows of your power as a thaumaturge or wonder-worker. You are called the saint of miracles. You multiplied your favors not only during your
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Dear St. Anthony, you recall the Gospel episode about the blind man who, partly healed, could see men “looking like walking trees.” After a second laying-on of Jesus’s hands, he could see perfectly. St. Anthony, Restorer of Sight to the Blind, please sharpen my spiritual vision. May I see people, not as trees or numbers,
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Great St. Anthony, I thank our Lord for the benefits He still gives today in your honour. I thank Him, too, for the graces He gave you during your brief span on earth. God can give us, His creatures, no greater gift than Himself. This is what Jesus, our Lord, did when as the divine
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Dear Saint Anthony, I salute you as my powerful patron before God. You know how much we yearn for happiness and how often and how stubbornly we seek it in the wrong places. Please ask our Lord for us for the grace He gave you so abundantly. Thus, we may not vainly seek happiness in
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Dear St. Anthony, I am imprisoned by walls of selfishness, prejudice, suspicion. I am enslaved by human respect and the fear of other people’s opinions of me. St. Anthony, Liberator of Prisoners, tear down my prison walls. Break the chains that hold me captive. Make me free with the freedom Christ has won for me.
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Dear Saint Anthony, my respectful greetings! Recently I read somewhere about your knowledge of Holy Scripture and of the powerful impact of your sermons even on hardened sinners. There is only one way I can imitate you as a preacher… not with words, but by deeds and example. As with most other people, my life
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