General Prayers

Dear St. Anthony, because you experienced disappointments and sickness in your brief life here, I salute you the more respectfully. Your own life assures me that you understand my need. There is nothing so humiliating as sickness. It forces us to depend on others, leaves undone our daily tasks, upsets our self-assurance and composure, and […]

Compassionate St. Anthony, you are called the “Miracle Worker” by those who have been blessed by your special friendship. I ask you to look with favor on (name the person) who is weak and failing. Great St. Anthony, come to the assistance of (name). Obtain for him/her health in mind and body, and the strength

After you died, Saint Anthony, God chose to make your holiness known to the world and to draw people by working miracles in answer to prayers made in your name. Since then, people have asked God to continue to honor you by working wonders through your intercession. Those who have experienced the power of prayers

Dear Saint Anthony, greetings! I count you as a special friend. Now that I have personal experience of your help, I can thank you best by imitating you for, as they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. May I select one virtue of yours, then, that I must admire? Perhaps I choose this

O Jesus, Son of God, and you, O Mother Mary, You desire that whatever You love should be loved by us. Therefore, O good Son, by the love you bear your Mother, to grant to me that I may truly love her. And you, O Good Mother, I beg you by the love that you

Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints. O Holy St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love for God and Charity for His creatures made you worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers. Miracles waited on your word, which you were ever ready to speak for those in trouble or anxiety. Encouraged

St. Anthony Mary Claret, during your life on earth you often comforted the afflicted and showed such tender love and compassion for the sick and sinful. Intercede for me now that you rejoice in the reward of your virtues in heavenly glory. Look with pity on me (or on the person afflicted with illness or

Mother of Salvation Blessed Lady, you are the Mother of Justification and of those who are justified; the Mother of Reconciliation and of those who are reconciled; the Mother of Salvation and of those who are saved. What a blessed trust, and what a secure refuge! The Mother of God is our Mother. The Mother

Vouchsafe that I may praise thee, O sacred Virgin; give me strength against thine enemies, and against the enemy of the whole human race. Give me strength humbly to pray to thee. Give me strength to praise thee in prayer with all my powers, through the merits of thy most sacred nativity, which for the