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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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Dear St Anthony please intercede for me and ask God to show up in my life today like never before and to show off in my life like He never has before. Amen
O Most beautiful Flower of Mt. Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this my necessity. O Star of the Sea, help me and show me herein you are my mother. O Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. There are none that can withstand your power. O show me herein you are my mother. O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. Sweet Mother, I place this cause in your hands. Amen.
Lord please make this go well
Justice for my parents dear Lord please bless them with the honour they deserve
For the prayers & petitions of everyone posting here. Amen
Thank You for everything Lord. Amen
The company I'm working for is a toxic place with people that are nasty & unhelpful. I pray for deliverance to the right new job. Father, You know the details. Amen
Prayers of a swift continued recovery & return home for my sister. With many more years of continued good health. Amen & thank You Lord.
SEEKING A MIRACLE ST. ANTHONY
Please hear my prayer continue to watch over my children and nephew and niece. Give them the strength, guidance, direction, support and protection that they need. Please help them each meet someone now who will treat them well and who will love them, care for them, protect, support and commit to them. Please help them as each want to have their own partner and children. Let this happen soon as possible and let them be happy and content. Please let them be happy and content Amen
St. Anthony please protect me and my child from all evil. Don't let anyone or anything cause arguments and coldness between us. Let us be always close. Protect us from my ex friend who is a very jealous, very wicked person and consistently comes by my home. Protect us from all those other wicked people. St. Anthony Thank You.
Praying for the friendships that have been in my life for almost my whole life to be restored. St. Anthony I've always made and kept friends for life. I pray that you will touch these friendships that I miss so much that were destroyed out of pure jealousy and spite. Praying for your intercession and God's blessings over my life and these friendships of decades that so many were so jealous of. Praying for God's unlimited grace. Please intercede for me. Thank you for past intercessions. Thank you for so many answered prayers.
St. Anthony and St. Jude, like you have before, please bring me a sweet man who loves me, who is good to me and who I am happy with, a man I love as well. Please let him love God and his Church. Thank you.
St. Anthony help me please to emerge from this mess and apartment that took so much from my life with complete victory. Let this apartment be a distant memory for me. Please plead for me for a beautiful, blessed by God, miracle of a happy, new home where I'm surrounded by happiness and joy, a gorgeous home that dreams are made of. Please bring this new home to me quickly. I need your help. I need God always. 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. Pray for me St. Anthony. Plead for me for a gorgeous rest of my life that dreams are made of. Praying for a very blessed by God and beautiful rest of my life that is so very happy. Praying for God's unlimited grace over my life. St. Anthony intercede for me. Thank you. Thank you so much for past answered prayers
Please pray for good tenants family or bachelor men's should come to our house for Rent immediately not for commercial purposes or not for girls Please keep in prayers immediately they confirm and pay the deposit please keep in prayers in bagm*** T*** park CV Ra*** Na*** Krishn**** garden Bangalore. please pray witchcraft power should break done by neighbours Immediately Jesus should get and fix the tenants please pray please pray
Hello, Please pray for my four children and for my husband. Pray that they come back to the church. Pray for them to become generous, loving, forgiving and kind. Please God, heal their spiritual and mental battles. Let our home be a home of light and joy. Let them meet good people along the way. God help us
A good night's sleep to all, we pray.
Dear saint antony, Today is my night duty and day duty in pediatrics. I am alone Please help me.. Let all children be healthy and fit today Please maker casualty less busy today..
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.
Prayer for my family O Holy St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, you are known for your love for God and for your miraculous powers. As a protector of families, I humbly ask for your intercession before God for all my loved ones. I thank you for all the blessings you have helped secure for our family throughout the years. I am grateful for the AU visa granted to my daughter, the correct diagnosis for my wife, and the help in finding a new rental house for my daughter. ... • For my daughter who is suffering from PCOD and irregular periods, I pray for your kind intercession ... • For my second daughter, I pray that you help her to become a good person, ... • For the smooth transition from my daughter's current rental to her new rental,... • For good health for all members of my family. • For peace to all in my family.
Deliverance away from the olmes & the others like him Amen
DEAR LORD, PLEASE MAKE THINGS FALL INTO PLACE
Take care of us
Please pray for Dave and his wife and family..the doctors can’t find the right meds to control his seizures..please pray for that the doctors and nurses find the answers and for complete healing for this dear Christian man..
I hope that things stop backfiring. Someone was supposed to shovel snow, I hope they show up. I hope someone else shovels at least the front of the house, if he doesn’t. My dad is not well. I do not know if my mum will let me go to church or anywhere for a while if the snow isn’t shoveled. I hope my parents will get along better and my mum not threatening of leaving dad and I or something else. I hope a gift from my aunt is not broken.
For Theodore, Who posts here often amen
Dear Lord, my apologies for sounding so negative, but I hate my job. I took it out of need of work after being without one for some time. While it's a paycheck. the atmosphere is toxic; the people are nasty & unhelpful. Not to mention that it doesn't meet my financial needs. I pray deliverance to one that does. Thank You for everything Father. Amen
Can you please pray that my dialysis access doesn't have any problems and that my dialysis goes smoothly on Sunday? Please pray that my dialysis goes fine on Sunday and that I don't have any issues with my access. Thank you so much!
Lord, please may I have peace of mind. Thank You
I pray husband and children know the love of God . I pray for my and my families protection under the mantle of Jesus and Virgin Mary. I pray for strength and courage in my faith journey with my husband or family support
Please pray that my dear, late mother, Dolores Joan Mary, knows that I loved her, and still miss her after five and a half years. I took care of her for the last 27 years of her life.
Thank you, Father, for what you bring us.
To Our Lord Jesus Christ for the health of Liliana Suriguez. May God bless the Ber*** family. May God bless the Suri**** family. May God bless the Urq**** family. May God bless the Go***** family. May God bless all Catholics.
Dear St Anthony, please help my son, Luke this Christmas. I would love the good news that I have been praying for so many years. Thank Y
Holy Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do you, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God cast into Hell Satan and all the evil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
I hope by Sunday the walks and sidewalks will be good enough to use, as my form of transportation might refuse to pick me up due to the snow... I haven’t been to church in a while. My mum works online and hope that my makes a lot of money tomorrow for the family. Help me lose weight fast, but at the same time have some treats. ...Christmas meals, one year, I don’t remember what my mum said but it was beyond mean, but it involved food. I hope my parents like the gifts I got them. I also hope my dad’s birthday a few days after Christmas turns out well. But I also hope my dad gets what my mum and I need from the pharmacy very soon. My dad is not the healthiest, help him get well enough to do things and survive an operation sometime in the future.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Holy Family; pray for me.
For healthy, undisturbed sleep, we pray. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Please Pray for Dennis F and his friends and family. He has taken a turn for the worse. Due to a few new (concerning) findings, he has been moved to the Hospital's ICU.
I’m so tired of being alone in the world. The pain from loneliness is killing me. I’ve never been married and I sincerely want a spouse, yet even at my age I don’t even know how to find one or if it’s even possible. Please pray for me. Ask God to help me overcome this incredibly painful hardship that is causing me devastating depression and anxiety.
For Theresa who is having trouble seeing and having trouble with her arm and leg. She had an MRI to see if she has a brain tumor. Prayer that she doesn’t and it is something simple that the doctors can fix. Thank you.
Please for sally
for real justice truth wellness safety security to heal Amen with thanks 💕 love
I humbly ask for your prayers for Melissa, for her parents and for her conversion; for the soul of my dear mother; for my whole family, and that my father may not lose his job. That I may soon find work. For the Rubén ), Scout Group, that we may soon be able to resolve the internal difficulties we are facing. For ADISCA San Juan, that it may soon be established. That I may do very well in the Spiritual Exercises, and that everything may be for my conversion and for the greater glory of God.
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.
Please agree in prayer for my sister Ellie to be healed & be able to move into her apt? Her landlord moved her into a neglected apt & she was burned in a propane explosion. She has been trying to heal for over 2 months with 2nd degree burns. Please ask God to help her heal & not die until she can enjoy her apt even for a short while? I offer all suffering on behalf of the poor souls in purgatory. Amen. Thank you for your prayers!
Dear Jesus my Lord and savior...thank you for all my blessings and answered prayers over the years....I ask now for the funds taken from me to be returned...with the help of st. Anthony in your precious name amen and amen and amen.
Please pray that my oldest son learns to socialize better and becomes happy.
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 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.
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.
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!
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
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.
Please pray for my dad's health, my Daughters, grandchildren, sister, mom, family, friends, neighbors, Greg, jasmine, Kelly, Tina, Tonya, Todd, Phillip, Heather, Jonathan, Paul, Chester, Jaden, Amy, Doc, Blade, Daniel, Reeca, Roger, Butch, Dustin, Donna, Andrew, Jerry, ...my facebook friends, the online prayer requests, our government, military, first responders, teachers, bus drivers, schools, our churches, our community, veterans, homeless, elderly, the hurting, lost and the lonely. Also for my pets and myself and my finances. Thank you.
Saint Anthony, I ask for your assistance in strengthening my faith and patience with God's timing and His will. Please help my daughter and her boyfriend,.... Help him overcome his various addictions and lead them to become a resilient and loving couple. Bless them with employment that brings fulfillment and success. Most importantly, draw them closer to our Lord... Support everyone I have promised to pray for, guiding them to find the answers they seek. Additionally, help all those who have no one to pray for them. Lift up the young people in our world, especially those I know. ... Please pray for the souls in purgatory, especially those on my list. Guide Raymond into Your eternal presence. I also ask for Your help with my financial situation—enable me to pay my debts, repair what needs fixing, and perhaps even grant me a pilgrimage to Guadalupe
Saint Anthony, Saint Joseph, Saint Isidore of Seville, and all saints, known and unknown, I ask for your intercession and prayers on behalf of Bryte / Bryan to have a good job in his field once again, one suitable for him. Please let him wait no longer and that he soon be contacted with good news - a job offer. Thank everyone for all prayers on our family's behalf.
O holy St. Anthony, gentlest of saints, your love for God and charity made you worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers. Miracles followed your word, which you were ever ready to speak for those in trouble or need. Encouraged by this thought, I implore you to grant also my request: For a remarkable health recovery for Gary. May he soon have successful treatment, and may his antibiotics work soon in favor of his recovery and regained health. The answer to my prayer may require a miracle; even so, you are the Saint of Miracles! Thank you and everyone for all prayers on his behalf.
Dear Saint Anthony, I ask for your intercession and prayers on behalf of Janet to soon regain her health once again. She lives out-of-state alone and has fallen hard four times recently and was discovered to have a heart issue. Please let her receive good treatment soon at the VA medical facilities and let her have quick recoveries. Let her return home safely and without incident. Let her not be taken advantaged of, but protect her. Let her receive positive attention and reception concerning her surgical procedure. Thank you and everyone for all prayers on her behalf.
Dear Lord please solve this mess
Please pray for my relatives in purgatory, my family, me and my job situation. And for others who need help especially J, A, S and E.
Please pray that my daughter Harini gets totally and completely cured of her kidney disease, and is able to bear children in the mighty, mighty name of Jesus. Pray for health, peace, prosperity and well-being of my son, daughter, wife, mother, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and myself, in the name of Jesus. Please pray for a new job and for grand success of my businesses that I’ll be starting in 2024 in the name of Jesus. Pray for my mothers’s health with no issues or suffering in Jesus name. Perfect hundred percent health for Vasu and myself without absolutely any issues in the mighty mighty name of Jesus, Also pray for total recovery of sister Indira’s cancer in the mighty mighty name of Jesus. Make the CT scan issue of Vasu and mine vanish in the name of Jesus
My AA sponsee is really struggling. She has a court date 5 January. Also, I am scared to death of one of my supervisors. Her name is Heather. She is nice enough and likable, but she was weird, for lack of a better term, on a couple of occasions. Finally, a nurse we have had at one of the schools I supervise, quit unexpectedly. The school will be disappointed- and I need words to tell the schools administration. May good come out of this In Jesus name I pray. I think that is all. Thank you, Martha
Master, we surrender 2 daughters’ happy settlement in their lives Your family, siblings’ family protect & deliver us. Bless 4 homes, 2 cars & 4 banks. God fill us with Holy Spirit grant good health, long life, peace & joy for Your family. Thanks. St. Anthony please pray for our family. Thank you.
Dear Lord Jesus and blessed St. Anthony Thank you for all answered prayers....if it be your will Lord..please help me with my finances and funds due me.....praise you Jesus amen and amen and amen.
For the healing and growth of all those who have been abused, we pray. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Have mercy on me, God, in accord with your merciful love; in your abundant compassion blot out my transgressions.
Thank you for another day! Please help us help others and remain faithful. Please guide us to more stable. Amen!
I pray Randall finds a job. I pray he receives thr monies owed to him. I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour. Amen.
I ask St. Anthony's intercession to find our packages that are lost in transit.
Jesus; bless everyone that I know and help them get to Heaven. Wash them clean in Your Precious Blood and deliver them from evil. Amen.
St Anthony and St Carlos and all the saints please pray for me my mother Carmella and my son rocky 🙏 we all are happy healthy safe and patient praying the flu bug does not hit us please pray for my son rocky he is doing great with his personal and professional life and pray for his success in life and he return back to church praying 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 my IBS and weight improve please st Anthony answer these prayers
Father; Thank You for my Catholic Faith. Thank You for my Parish. Thank You for the Catholic Church. Thank You for Pope Leo XIV. Thank You for all Priests, Deacons, and Religious. Amen.
Dear Lord please make everything go well today
Dear Saint Anthony please intercede and show up in my life today like never before and show off in my life like never before. Amen
“Lord, we claim the promises of Psalm 121:8, and Deut 31:8 over Anthea, Clement. Dianne. Calum and Cayden: that You will watch over their coming and going both now and forevermore. You Yourself will go before them and be with them, as they fly through difficult weather tonight, be their shield and their calm. Guide them safely to Singapore and bring them back home on January 2nd, refreshed and kept safe by Your power.”
Please make the lesson go well
Please pray that I get a suitable life partner(after praying a long time I met a girl Wenda but progress seems very slow feels Impossible sometimes)
Please pray for my relatives in purgatory, my family, me and my job situation. And dor all others who need help especially J, A. S and E.
Please hear my prayer continue to watch over my children and nephew and niece. Give them the strength, guidance, direction, support and protection that they need. Please help them each meet someone now who will treat them well and who will love them, care for them, protect, support and commit to them. Please help them as each want to have their own partner and children. Let this happen soon as possible and let them be happy and content. Please let them be happy and content Amen
St. Anthony and St. Jude, like you have before, please bring me a sweet man who loves me, who is good to me and who I am happy with, a man I love as well. Please let him love God and his Church. Thank you.
St. Anthony please protect me and my child from all evil. Don't let anyone or anything cause arguments and coldness between us. Let us be always close. Protect us from my ex friend who is a very jealous, very wicked person and consistently comes by my home. St. Anthony protect us from all the other wicked people. Thank you.
Praying for the friendships that have been in my life for almost my whole life to be restored. St. Anthony this was never this difficult. I've always made and kept friends for life. I pray that you will touch these friendships that I miss so much that were destroyed out of jealousy and spite. Praying for your intercession and God's blessings over my life and these friendships of decades that so many were so jealous of. Praying for God's unlimited grace. Please intercede for me. Thank you for past intercessions and answered prayers.
St. Anthony help me please to emerge from this mess and apartment that took so much from my life with complete and total victory. Let this apartment be a distant memory for me. Please plead for me for a beautiful, blessed by God, miracle of a happy, new home where I'm surrounded by happiness and joy, a gorgeous home that dreams are made of. Please bring this new home to me quickly. I need your help. I need God always. 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. Pray for me St. Anthony. Plead for me for a gorgeous rest of my life that dreams are made of. Praying for a very blessed by God and beautiful rest of my life that is so very happy. Praying for God's unlimited grace over my life. St. Anthony intercede for me. Thank you. Thank you for answered prayers.
A good night's sleep to all, we pray.
I have been experiencing heart health issues. I am praying for natural heart health healing. I pray that I can do this the natural way. Please pray that our Lord and his Blessed mother and St Jude and St Anthony of Padua and Dear St Padre Pio and the saints of causes can lay their healing hands upon me and heal me. I have been thru a lot in my life. Please help with the healing of the mitral valve prolapse. Please heal with the palpitations. Dear Lord please heal with the anxiety that goes along with this.
Please make this day go well
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.
Prayer for my family O Holy St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, you are known for your love for God and for your miraculous powers. As a protector of families, I humbly ask for your intercession before God for all my loved ones. I thank you for all the blessings you have helped secure for our family throughout the years. I am grateful for the AU visa granted to my daughter, the correct diagnosis for my wife, and the help in finding a new rental house for my daughter. Now, I bring these new petitions to you, and I ask that you whisper them into the ears of the sweet Infant Jesus: • For my daughter who is suffering from PCOD and irregular periods, I pray for your kind intercession for her speedy recovery and for her periods to become regular. • For my second daughter, I pray that you help her to become a good person, to do well in her studies, and to excel in her exams. • For the smooth transition from my daughter's current rental to her new rental, I ask that you make all paperwork and procedures go very smoothly. • For good health for all members of my family. • For peace to all in my family.
Please pray for me. I feel all alone in the world and I don’t know how to fix it. I’m in tremendous pain.
I would like to offer a petition for my late Taoist Grandpa who passed on peacefully on Wed, 17 Dec 2025. He may be a Taoist but in our conversation, he believes in Jesus and he always says thank you Jesus to us when we tell him about any good news
special intention
Can you please pray that my dialysis access doesn't have any problems and that my dialysis goes smoothly on Sunday? Please pray that my dialysis goes fine on Sunday and that I don't have any issues with my access. Thank you so much!
Glorious St. Anthony, faithful servant of God and helper in all my needs, I come before you with a humble heart, seeking your loving intercession. I pray first for the well-being of my dear mother, Clare . As she prepares for her upcoming kidney blood test, I ask for your guidance and protection. ... Grant me wisdom, patience, and joy as I guide my new batch of students. Surround me with supportive colleagues and friends, and help me overcome stress and challenges in both my professional and personal life. May my mind and heart be filled with peace, resilience, and clarity. I pray for the new domestic helper who will join my home in January 2026. May she come with the right attitude, dedication, and willingness to perform her duties well... Finally, I ask for your protection and blessings upon my family as we step into the new year 2026. Grant us strength, grace, courage, and the guidance to live each day with faith, hope, and love. May we be sheltered from harm and strengthened in body, mind, and spirit. St. Anthony, gentle guide and protector, I entrust all these intentions to your care...before God. Amen.
For my sister E. Amen
Lord, give me wisdom to know when to wait and when to stand. Remove fear that does not come from You. Let truth work silently in my favour. Protect our home and calm every anxious heart. Amen
No more voices or drugs for B safe happy life K keeps full custody with ch only having supervised visits M no more additions find a job he lives and keeps M conceives has safe pregnancy and birth for her and baby All grandchildren and children are free from addition. Mental and physical ailments Strength and love for all relationships Safety for all Financial help to pay bills Saint Anthony in Jesus name we pray Thank you for prayers answered
Saint Anthony please grant a miracle as you are known to do In Jesus name I pray K keeps full custody Support stays same Chr backs out. He is only given supervised visits until he completes extensive anger management and drug/alcohol program For a year or more Let Chr back out so peace is restored for K and C Thank you for prayers answered
Please make the lessons go well
Lord please make things fall into place
Please pray for financial breakthrough solve all my problems. In jesus Name amen.
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