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DonateSt. Anthony of Padua is one of the Catholic Church’s most popular saints. Saint Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost and stolen articles, was a powerful Franciscan preacher and teacher. He’s typically portrayed holding the child Jesus—or a lily—or a book—or all three—in his arms.
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“Mt. Airy” is the familiar name for the National Shrine of St. Anthony and Friary sitting on a hill above Cincinnati. The shrine had its start in the late 1880s, when Joseph and Elizabeth Nurre bought what was then a country estate for $18,000 and gave it to the Franciscan friars.
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The 130 friars of St. John the Baptist Province (SJB) are members of the Order of Friars Minor. We are a Franciscan brotherhood inspired by the 13th-century example of St. Francis of Assisi. We serve the Catholic Church as brothers and priests in a communal life of poverty, prayer, and service to others.
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Dearest Saint Anthony, St. Rita, and Padre Pio, please help us with the permit. Help J.W. achieve his dream. Help me help him. Please give us good news in the next few days. Help us obtain the permit. Please help our children see how much we love them. Help them to be closer to us, both in distance and in love. Help our children have great jobs and good spouses and healthy children. Keep us all safe and healthy and far away from harm. Please ask Baby Jesus and Mary to help us. We are forever grateful.
Please st Anthony whisper into the infant jesus. please ask the lord for a miracle that my prayers will be granted soon. you know my worries and wants. please pray for my eldest daughters work situation to be resolved soon. Please help and guide us both. thank you for all your prayers for us. G.M
Let me and my child be very close, get along well and let my child want to be close to me, want to be kind to me and want to be around me and help me. . St. Anthony protect me and my child from every evil. Protect us from my ex friend who is very evil. Protect us from all those other wicked people. St. Anthony thank you.
Please restore to my life all those things that were taken from my life one by one. I watched them take so much from my life. Let me emerge from this victorious. Let me have restoration of every single thing that I watched them so cruelly take from my life with joy. Let me have victory over my vicious enemies. St. Anthony please plead for me. Thank you.
Complete restoration of my hearing in both of my ears. My hearing is a gift from God. Please St. Anthony pray for me and ask God to let me retain my ability to hear as I always had without the need for any devices or anything else. Thank you.
Please St. Anthony make this apartment let go. Please let me move me from this apartment that took so many years from my life. I beg to get out of here. I'm simply not happy here and never was. Plead for me for God to bless my life with that gorgeous and so very happy home I've been praying for, for so many years. With your miracle working, God given power please help me. Please bring me a home I love. Let me move to that new home very quickly. Plead for me please for a beautiful, happy new home that I am so happy to live in and be in. Let it be surrounded by joy and happiness. Let me have joy, happiness and love in my new home. Please help me to move to a beautiful home, a blessed home, a happy home, a home that is filled with joy and I'm so happy living in. Thank you.
Prayer for a job interview that could change my career for the rest of my life. I have an interview with a company on Thursday. And they plan on interviewing me then around 12:00 pm Thursday for this position for finance manager/in-house controller. This will be the biggest step in my career as right now im only in retail sales at the moment. I've been meaning to do something with my bachelor's degree for a long time, and now i believe i found the opportunity to put it to the test with this position. So I ask everyone to pray for me to land this position and job, and hopefully make a major leap forward in my career. I ask Jesus, and all the heavenly saints and angels, to pray for me during this life, to be financially stable, and to continue growing in my career. Thank you. amen. Prayer for health and peace for my friends and family as well as myself.
Please pray for me that I may pass my next flight in flight school. I am indesperate need for God to assist me and strengthen me so that I can glorify Him through my success on this flight.
St Anthony please restore R s lost brain
A good night's sleep to all, we pray.
For my family friends & special intentions. Thank You for everything Long. Amen
Thank you Jesus and Mary As I celebrate my son Miron ‘s 27th Birthday I offer my petition to pray to God together with Jesus and our Lady of Lourdes for healing my son from smoking and drinking and Anxiety due to the stress of unemployment and obtain healing of mental health and to come back to a true light and embrace the Catholic faith bring him Hope of salvation and forgiveness and peace for the Glory of our Lord Jesus Christ . Amen
the right new job. Amen
Trust in the LORD and do good that you may dwell in the land and live secure. Find your delight in the LORD who will give you your heart's desire.
Please pray for my relatives in purgatory, my family, me and my job situation. And for others who need help especially A, J, E and S.
Dear saint antony, Please dont put my name over the presentation today. I do my work genuinely.... Please tell jesus to bleas me today.. Thankyou...
Please pray for me that I may be healed from anxiety and the side effects and symptoms of my schizoprenia such as muscle spasms and atakisia also the side effects of the medications I take, they will go away and my brain will go back to norma...Hoping I can be able to sleep without depending on anti depressant and antipsychotic. I hope I can receive instantly a miracle from the Lord Jesus that I am fully healed and recovered from my mental health. Please pray for me every second every minute every hour that I may end this suffering as soon as possible. I badly need your assistance for prayer , as I always argue with my family that I no longer want to take the medications coz they worried on the withdrawals. Therefore Please ask the Lord Jesus to perform a a miracle to my mind body and soul ... I am in desperate situation I hope you will understand. please pray non stop for me please.
Dear Lord please save my child and me
St Anthony, Please pray for a miracle in my daughter’s life. Prayers are urgently requested. Thank you
Dear Saint Anthony Please pray for my dear friend dog Lola one of god creatures ❤️✝️ who is having surgery tomorrow Amen Sincerely Fred carola
Dearest St Anthony, please intercede on behalf of J, that she might heal from the wounds inflicted on her, that she might forgive, and that her family might be restored. Please ease the anxiety of M, L, J, C, J, S, J, T, D, A, and K. This situation is getting dire. Please help.
please pray for john and rosaleen and selina and sean and bridget marie and conor and santana mcdonagh jamie and maria mcdonagh and kids
Dear St Anthony, please help my grandson, Bradley C, LV get thru the breakup with his long term girlfriend. He's taking it very hard. Pls help him deal with this in a constructive way. Pls guide him. Thank you.
please for john and rosaleen and selina and sean and bridget marie and conor and santana mcdonagh jamie and maria mcdonagh and kids
Take care of us
Dear St Anthony bless my family and my children Antoathin and daughter Aashika cough and Adukku Thummal problem. Thank you Jesus Christ. Bless my profession
Dear St please pour miracles on to come soon and get phone call immediately.please send my 6.5 loan immediately .please pour miracles and transfigure her mind heart behaviour and character immediately by listening to my voice message and become polite .please pour miracles so that no extra penalty should be put and not get any letters home and not call for any stations and don't give tensions .also please give him a surprise visa of london
Father; Help me use my Twin Stim OTC effectively. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Thank you St Anthony, for the many times you have helped me find things. I do not know what I would do without you. Please ask the Lord to either ease my pain or help me find the funds I need to have the surgeries on my knees. It is increasingly difficult to walk. My brain is still young and active, but my body is old and painful.
please pray for me for God to send all lost souls around me to their rest and to give me peace of mind. Also please pray for God to send his guardian angels to protect me and guard me. May he vindicate and honor me regards to every accusation in my life and may he preserve the life of my children and family. Amen
Prayer against curses of death, gunshot, accidents etc for my son from his African family. thanks
Please pray that my oldest son made at least a b on his physics test.
I PRAY TO EEIOVAH MIRACLE MIRACLE 5 MONTHS DINK FOR ALL THE LAUGHTER FUN KIND BIG HEART LOVE OF MY GRANDAD AND ALL THE XMAS I SPENT WITH YA AS A CHILD AMEN XX
Praying for Charlie to do well with doctor
In Jesus name I request the grace of healing for my sister. Please intercede for her. I know I am requesting a miracle, but I have faith and trust in the power of our Lord. Amen
Please pray for our family gathering today to be blessed, peaceful and loving. Thank you!
Blessed be St Michael the arc angel, St Gabriel, St Raphael, St Chamuel, St Jophiel, St Zadkiel, St Uriel ,St Ariel, St Raziel, blessed be all the saints,martyrs,apostles,disciples,all the angels and spirits in the entire Universe and beyond. Blessed be all the governing forces in the entire Universe and beyond. Blessed be my Guardian angels, blessed be all the angels of my family members and near and dear ones,blessed be the guiding and governing angels at my work place and all the God's and other forces in the entire Universe.
Father; Deliver me from everyone and everything that would interfere with and interrupt my sleep in any way, shape, or form. Banish them as far away as possible. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Please pray to God to remove the pain, sadness, fear, apprehension, emotional and psychological scars and edgieness from my 3 year old grandson, Briggs Charles, from his sick 13 year old sister covertly attacking him. Please pray for this pattern of jealousy and hate to be removed and for her to stop it and pray for her to heal. Thank you and God bless you!
Kindly pray for my son AKSHAT , that he may be fully healed from his intestinal infection, regain strength and good health, and be blessed with complete wellness, peace of mind, and a happy, healthy life ahead. 🙏✨
Prayers for newphew Jay who is having brain surgery Praying for positive outcome and speedy recovery
Saint Anthony, our miracle-worker and protector, I humbly seek your intercession. Strengthen my faith and confidence in the Lord. Please assist my daughter and her boyfriend... and draw them closer to the Holy Family. Help my sister find happiness, ensure a safe and smooth delivery for my nephew and his girlfriend, and bless their baby with good health. Support those I have promised to pray for... Guide our youth to experience the love of Jesus and keep them away from evil influences. Especially the ones I know. Pray for the souls in purgatory, especially those on my list, that they may attain eternal life. Finally, assist me in overcoming my financial challenges—settle my debts, repair what is needed...
Please pray that God will open doors for a new job, relocation and against any kind of sabotage. God bless you.
Dear St Anthony bless my family and my children Antoathin and daughter Aashika cough and Adukku Thummal problem. Thank you Jesus Christ. Bless my profession
Help my daughter Gianna to do well in her board exams and to get her admission in a good school.
I’m a mom to5 older children and a wife I’m a45 year old victim of a ruptured brain aneurysm which left me without the use of my left arm or leg. I’m a devout Christian woman who has five children in their teens and early 20’s.three of them have not yet graduated from high school (next year they will)my name is Christa I have a loving husband who cares for me but I’m exhausting him since I’m unable to function without him I was abandoned at age18 by my parents so my husband is literally 100%in charge of my care with no outside help I’m trying to hold to the promises of God but I’m doing the best I can It’s a struggle because I beg God to assure me that healing is coming but it’s been three years since the aneurysm blew I’m asking for prayers for my healing But especially for my children who have suffered from this sudden destruction of my abilities to run our household.... It’s been incredibly hard and one of my babies is really struggling please pray for us. Please pray for my daughter. Addie. She’s struggling the most from my disability. It’s torturous to watch her struggle with this. ... please pray for me I’m upset that my kids just quit my in laws just make fun of my failures I’m tired I keep begging God to show up and speak to me but day after day goes by and my life unravels more and more. Where is He? I have no family, no mom and no father to support me . I just sit here with no one to talk to about this stuff. Any friend I had walked away because my life is now so negative to be around...
I PRAY TO JESUS CHRIST OF NAZERUTH IM IN SOME SHIT CAN YOU GET ME OUT OF IT MIRACLE AMEN XX
Infilling of the Holy Spirit and protection of the Holy Blood upon Brendan and Charlotte and deliverance, healing and protection for them...
Ask to GOD to let the Venezuelan people defeat the fear into the dictatorship, and let us go out to the streets for demanding Freedom and democracy, and respect for the elections of last July 28 th 2024, most people here decided for a political change .
O Lord, the God of mercies, grant unto the souls of Thy servants the anniversary day of whose burial we are keeping, a place of solace, of peaceful rest, of glorious light. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Bless those of us who pray here, that held in your embrace, we may comfort and nurture others who are cold, hungry, sick, imprisoned, oppressed, addicted, troubled, or discouraged welcoming them into the joy of your community.
That E and F continue to find a solution to their relationship difficulties, and our family and for all the people and intentions we pray for (pain relief, health, jobs, grace of a happy death, etc.) and that all family and friends maintain or return to an orthodox belief and faith in God and Church, and that they all receive the peace, strength, support, and recognition they need at this time, let us pray to the Lord.
In blessed repose, O Lord, grant eternal rest to the Souls of Jeff P, Jo Ann B, Bob K, all in our history, those who prayed here but have passed, their families, ancestors, and descendants and make their memory to be eternal! Memory eternal!
Father hear our prayers for us, our families, relatives, friends, neighbors, contractors, others named previously, the sick members of our community, and all of their families. Amid mental and physical suffering may they find consolation in your healing presence. Show your mercy as you close wounds, cure illness, make broken bodies whole, and free downcast spirits. May these special people find lasting health and deliverance and join us in thanking you for all your gifts.
Eternal rest grant unto Tina-Marie, Chris, Georgette, Ann, Leo, Irene, William, others previously prayed for, those who prayed here but have passed and their families, ancestors, and descendants O Lord, and let the perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen
Father, I ask You to bless my family, relatives, friends, and those I care deeply for, especially FT. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit now. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. Where there is a need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and comings. Amen.
In thanksgiving for favors received, for persecuted Christians everywhere, all suffering from terrorism, war, or natural disasters, the sick and dying, the souls in purgatory, the homeless, the hungry, the abused, the lonely, those seeking work, those with relationship concerns, caregivers, guardians, first responders, and our special and unspoken intentions, we pray to the Lord.
Financial problems and financial backward and good health and family blessings and what is my life and what is my sins and cursed and my job is gone and my time is gone and no peace fullness and stragglers and clear for my loans and my life is gone and co labour and i am single plz give me a new life and my life is Dangerous zone plz pray for me,
Lord please make the lesson go well...
IM PRAYING FOR LONGER FOR MY NAN REAPETING HERSELF SO MANY TIMES NOT HER FAULT BUT NO GOOD FOR ME MENTAL HEALTH MIRACLE MIRACLE AMEN
Dear St. Antony, please intercede for me,SS,AS,GS,MG,B,SJ,H,RG,J,U,AG,H,E,RJ,C,G and all our loved ones are safe and healthy in Jesus name. Please intercede for SS,me,AS,GS,MG,AG,RG,U,RJ,C,G and all our loved ones. Thank you Lord for the blessings in our life. Please have mercy on us in Jesus loving name. Please bless us and protect us in Jesus loving name. Please have mercy on the souls of Pappa, Amma, Toms and departed loved ones in Jesus loving name. Amen
In the powerful name of Jesus, I humbly ask for prayers for the intercession of the Holy Spirit in the lives and actions of Maria Sobel, Elvi, and Maria De Nazare, so that the Lord's compassion may be in their hearts; I pray for transformation! I also ask for prayers for my daughters, my son, and myself, for all who pray with me and intercede in my prayers, that the Lord may hear my prayers and bless my finances, my job, my daughters and my son, and profoundly our faith and health ( From diseases and obesity ); that we may find peace in Christ Jesus. Amen.
dear st anthony , please bless my whole family with peace , love and understanding . pls bls my 3 children in peace , love to each other , pls bless my son C to speak nicely with fly members, pls bless his job to restake and that he get his pr status soon...finance help to buy a big house in canada and a big business to start i.... bls my 3 children finds a good salary peaceful job, bless them 3 to settle with a good catholic life partner to settle- have mercy on us - have mercy on us - grant us peace and happy life have mercy on us- protect us all from visible & invisible enemies . thankyou so much . amen ,amen , amen - pls bls a big miracle for all our petitions to be answered soon . thank you love you st anthony - amen.
Please pray that I am able to afford to retire within the next year.
Lord please give R brains hes lost the plot
Please St. Anthony help me move from this apartment that took so many years from my life to a beautiful, blessed by God, miracle of a happy, new home where I'm surrounded by happiness and joy. Let me move quickly from this apartment that I've felt trapped in many years. Please find me a new home and let me live. With your miracle working power, please help me to move to a beautiful home, a blessed home, a happy home, a home that is filled with joy and I'm so happy living in. Thankyou.
please pray for hannamarie age 13 took seziure in school now in hospital hannamarie has cerbalsy and health issue our lady and jesus saint jude heal hannamarie
Father; Help me with my fasting blood draw today. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Father; Help me to fulfill my obligations in the best way possible. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Father; Thank You for today. Help us all to enjoy this day that You have made. Amen.
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I am praying that my son finds a good school in a great school district to work in next year. He has been treated very poorly by the school that he is working in right now. Thank you Saint Anthony for your help.
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St Anthony and St Carlos and St Bernadette mother Mary and all the saints please pray and answer my prayers for my mother Carmella and my son rocky and myself praying for my son rocky he continue to be blessed in his personal and professional life 🙏 for his job to reward him keep him safe this week while traveling please pray for my mother Carmella she continue to be blessed with good health and safety praying for my husband Pete and family they rest in eternal peace and watch over us all together praying for myself my IBS and weight improve and let the weight come off I love and trust in you always amen and all the saints
Please, have been fighting obesity entire life, have large inoperable abdominal hernia causing discomfort constipation heart issues, told such surgery unfavourable outcome. Parents killed, can't leave sister alone. Please pray, need miracle. Thank You God Bless.
Please remember Ann V who passed away on this day. Thank you.
St Anthony u no each and every thing wat is happening in my life plz remove me out of all this mess financial by grace of god my husband is having a good job and good salary but I have lot of loan and money is going on interest plz show me the way to come out I have lot of pressure mentality I am not able to live freely not go anywhere always having fear in my mind plz help me recently I have gone through open surgery which was successful but I have lot of financial problems plz help me remove me out of it
Please st Anthony whisper into the infant jesus. please ask the lord for a miracle that my prayers will be granted soon. you know my worries and wants. please help and guide me thank you . G.M
Dear Lord thank You for all You have blessed me and my family with. My wife has breast cancer. She has surgery at 1:00 PM EST. If you're reading this, I ask for prayers that her surgeon's hands are guided by God, that my wife's cancer is all taken away, that her wounds heal quickly and without infection. I also ask that her reconstruction is successful so she can feel whole again. I also pray there is not re-occurrence and I pray she is healed physically, mentally and made whole spiritually after all of this is said and done. I also pray our son does well in college and that he does well on his exam today. I pray our companies do well, our bosses think highly of us and we can retire when the time is right. I ask all this in Your name Lord. Amen.
Restored friendships with M nd G. Let me hear from both. Thank you
Let me and my child be very close, get along well and let my child want to be close to me, want to be kind to me and want to be around me and help me. . St. Anthony protect me and my child from every evil. Protect us from my ex friend who is very evil. Protect us from all those other wicked people. St. Anthony thank you.
Please restore to my life all those things that were taken from my life one by one. I watched them take so much from my life. Let me emerge from this victorious. Let me have restoration of every single thing that I watched them so cruelly take from my life with joy. Let me have victory over my vicious enemies. St. Anthony please plead for me. Thank you.
Complete restoration of my hearing in both of my ears. My hearing is a gift from God. Please St. Anthony pray for me and ask God to let me retain my ability to hear as I always had without the need for any devices or anything else. Thank you.
Greetings saints. My business was doing well make a sale a day now it's not moving. I want my appliances business to sell, car business and loans make atleast 1 selling per day sale in Jesus name. I pay my tithes, offering and help the needy.
"Lord, I stand in urgent need of Your miraculous touch. Move swiftly in my situation and let Your power break through every barrier that stands in my way. I believe You can do exceedingly abundantly above all I ask. Release a quick miracle in my life and let Your faithfulness shine through my testimony. Amen". Please ma okay na onta ang BMI ni langga maluoy na releasing doctor nga d na sya maka diet kay luoy kaau
I have been having some pain in the private areas in the bottom of my body. Please pray that it goes away with no issues. And please pray that I can change my eating habits. So I won’t have anymore problems with my bowel movement. I’m trying I need help eating healthier and more water and fiber. Thank you for always helping me when I need it… god bless
For a good night's sleep, we pray.
Inask for your prayers for Mrs T., the Kidnapped 83 year old Mother of an American News Reporter a request for ransom has been given. It upsets me so as she is ina desert of Arizona and the area as my brother had lived there with his wife and children is very dry. my prayer is a great wind will blow down were she is held and she walks to safety unhurt and her captives are knocked out.
Amit and Amita to humbly agree to counselling by Dr B., go to confession, return to the Catholic church and be reunited
Dear St. Please please pour miracles and get me leave on Saturday to go to dharwad.please please let no teachers take the leave that day.please please please pour miracles and give me leave .i believe and trust in you Amen
St. Anthony please bless me.
I need my employer from Singapore to immediately sign some documents and send to India. He is a good Christian man. Prayer for reminders to be taken to him by Saint Anthony when he is in a good spiritual mood.
Missing my Parents today. Amen
Dearest St Anthony, please intercede on behalf of J, that she might heal from the wounds inflicted on her, that she might forgive, and that her family might be restored. Please ease the anxiety of M, L, J, C, J, S, J, T, D, A, and K. This situation is getting dire. Please help.
I didn't have to report for jury duty. I pray deliverance/exemption from any future obligation(s) Thank You Father & good Saint Anthony. Amen
Thank You for everything Lord. Amen
Please pray that I am able to retire in the next year
Pray for my family will have a safe and good night and good night sleep pray for my marriage and familyprayfor Addy,Mary,Nate health pray for Ron,Annette,Gary health pray for Annette teeth problems
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