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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 Saint Anthony, Please intercede and pray that I am chosen today and pray that the favor of God is all over me today and that doors are opportunities are opening up for me today. Pray that financial blessings and abundance are pouring into my life today and pray that for God is delivering David and all of us from depression. Amen
Jesus pls help my husband Vicky to make his first beer successful. Pls start all his machinery let the Boiler and Chiller work very nicely. Pls give my husband lot of strength courage patience and faith in his brewery. Pls make all his machinery work successfully. Pls let his friend Dhiraj come quickly to Mumbai and help him to make the first batch of beer and let the beer turn out to be very successful. Help my husband to get a very good investor who will never harass him but be more supportive. Keep my husband in good health always. Give his mother good understanding and let he be willing to help him financially.
Good job for my son and daughter- in-law, good property deal, financial stability and good health for my family members
Please pray that our beloveded dog lily's gentle soul is in heaven. so that we her family please lord will all be reunited with her in heaven for all eternity. we miss her so so much every day. lord please look after her for us. she was my best and only friend thank you. Please pray for my eldest daughters health. please look after her for us thank you. Please pray that my youngest daughters relationship will end very soon. that the person in question will leave her very soon. please pray she will not move out of the family home. please pray for a end to this situation thank you. Please pray for me financially please help me and bless me always thank you .
Please pray for my friend Marci's father.
Dear Lord our Almighty God, I believe in You, I love You, I trust You, I worship You, and I need You. I humbly request in Your merciful name that You grant me employment once again, and if possible, provide me with a job offer this week from a company I have applied to, such as Livelyhood Enterprises Corporation. Touch and guide the hearts of the hiring officers and personnel to choose and hire me to work with their company. Teach and help me to be content and patient with what You provide, forgive me for my shortcomings and sins, and I forgive those who have wronged me. Please forgive them as well. I offer this prayer and request in the blessed name of Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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
Dear St. Anthony, Mother Mary, Thank you for another day in my life with you with my family with, with my team and all my IT projects. Mother Mary i beg you please save me from the loans and i beg you please come to me and give me way to clear all my loans and help me.... O Mary, Virgin before childbirth keep me pure in soul and body, ... St. Anthony beloved of god and man pray for us . Every Threatening danger vanishes at thy prayer. Amen, Dominic Vijay
St. Anthony let me emerge from this mess and apartment that took so much from my life. Plead with God please for a beautiful, blessed by God, miracle of a happy new home where I'm surrounded by happiness and joy. Please let this be very quickly. 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 beautiful, blessed and happy rest of my life. St. Anthony 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 always be close. Protect us from every evil. Protect us from my ex friend who is a very jealous, very wicked person and consistently comes by my home. Protect me and my child from all those very wicked people. Protect my relationship with my child. Protect us. St. Anthony thank you.
Please pray for me to be happy again, to have restored friendships and relationships, and for God to protect and bless my life. I once had God's favor over my life. I pray for God's forgiveness and I pray for God's favor over my life again. I pray for every blessing from God and I beg God for God's grace without limit. Please plead for me St. Anthony. Thank you.
R.I.P. -- Our friend, T.K., passed away. Dear Jesus, we call upon You in our time of sorrow.
For my family, friends & special intentions. Amen
I think my intereview went well today. By Your will. Amen
Prayers of a routine procedure for my sister E. Thank You Lord. Amen
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... • 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... • For good health for all members of my family. • For peace to all in my family.
Oh Holy Saint Anthony, please intercede for my fellow coworkers and myself. We have a volunteer at work that is challenging. Please ask our Heavenly Father to guide us and help us with this matter with kindness and love. Thank you.
I have a rare medical condition and have been struggling to get medication I need covered due to a lack of precedent in treating my condition. Being on the autism spectrum, I face additional challenges navigating the healthcare system and communicating my needs. The prospect of living with chronic pain is overwhelming and has brought me to a very dark place mentally. Please pray for breakthrough in my treatment approval, healing, the strength to advocate for myself, and hope during this difficult time.
Please pray for Collier, 25 years old paralyzed from waist down as result of motorcycle accident & for her Mom Chris who is now her daughter's primary caregiver. That God may grant healing & strength to face each challenge before them. Please pray for Dave who was hospitalized & for his family. Thank you
Please pray that my constipation will finally go away and I can feel better. It's making dialysis so much harder for me! Thank you--it helps to think someone might have prayed for me.
Dear St. Anthony, please pray for everything to be ok with my family & things work out. Amen
Take care of us
Dear St please help me .let nobody shouldn't have seen my prayers messages please help me.please please pray for me ,don't put me in any fault.please pour miracles on her and her family to close their mouth and keep quiet and agree to send her home immediately, please pour miracles on my brother's mouth to call her,please pour miracles on both ego, let them keep their ego side and let them both join together lovingly without any issues.i believe and trust in you Amen.Amen
Hello I would like to ask for prayers for our daughter in law Patricia. She is having surgery on Tuesday December the 9th at 7:45 A.M. she has to be at the hospital by 5:30 A.M, she is very nervous. Please pray for Patricia that she is fully aware of God's presence through everyone she encounters at the hospital. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will do the surgery through the doctors and all involved in the surgery, nurses and recovery. We appreciate your prayers very much. Thank You God Bless.
I pray for God to help me in a mighty and definitive way with a current Court Case and to not lose my inheritance. I pray that God heal my son Dalton mentally and Spiritually and help me find a better job and be stronger and healthier physically and mentally to better serve him. I pray that he protect my family from evil in Jesus name.
Please pray that my adult son Zachary’s ADHD medicine comes in. It has been on back order for a month. Please pray there is a break through soon, as this medicine helps him tremendously. Forever grateful for your prayers.
that the diseases in my body mind and soul diminish until completely gone and that my body mind and soul become healthy
Dear St Anthony please pray for me. Please pray the cancer in my body is healed and my health is restored. Please pray for my husband Paul. He is overwhelmed with work, taking care of me and taking care of his mother. Thank you for your intercession. Amen
Blessed be all the God's of prosperity,wealth,money,protection,peace,power,happiness,health,immunity, abundance,long life,wisdom,knowledge, karma,law,justice,success,luck,chance,lottery, magic,timing,clairvoyance, medicine,arts,science,commerce,trade,business,earth,water,wind,fire,air,sky,space,ether,elements,natural resources,decisions,outcomes,risk,destiny,planetary positions,numbers,statistics,all the God's and governing forces in the entire Universe and beyond. Blessed be God.
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 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
Please pray for me and others who need help.
Thanksgiving for prayers answered. For faith, peace, and healing. For safe travels. May work and school go well. That my wife's and families, medical consults and treatments go well. May the clinical trial subjects stay healthy. St. Anthony, please pray for us.
Lord, thank you for your blessings and many answered prayers. Sisters and brothers, please pray I get an offer for a new job soon.
Lord please protect us ...
Lord please protect us ...
Plz. Pray for Aaditya. He is Suffering cold and Cough last 3 days. Plz Pray Everyone 🙏
Lord please make this lesson go well
In blessed repose, O Lord, grant eternal rest to the Souls of Tina-Marie, Chris, Georgette, Ann, Leo, Irene, William, others previously prayed for, all in our history, those who prayed here but have passed, and their families, ancestors, and descendants and make their memory to be eternal! Memory eternal!
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.
That May God grant salary increase, financial upliftment for me and protection of my finances from all evil. Amen
St Anthony you are the saint of miracles. PLEASE grant N a favourable reply from this new job application. Thanking you always. Mother.
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 into brambles which caused sores which have not been completely healing and was discovered to have a heart issue. Please let her receive good treatment soon at the VA medical facilities and let her have complete wound healing and recovery. Let her receive positive attention and reception at her church, instead of stress. Thank you and everyone for all prayers on her behalf.
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 following request: that my delayed package with prescribed medication to soon arrive before we go out-of-town, hopefully today or tomorrow at the latest. Thank you.
Greetings in jesus name. Please pray for me. I pray that i receive passport and travel 2025 and 2026 for ministry and business in jesus name. I pray that i receive lots of my for business and work so that my dignity and family mom and brothers can come bc
Dear Lord Please Help Amen Thank You
Thank you for another day! Please help us help others and remain faithful. Please help me find economic solvency for my family. Amen!
St Anthony and St Carlos and all the saints please pray and answer my prayers 🙏 for me my mother Carmella and my son rocky 🙏 we all are happy healthy safe and patient praying for my son rocky he is doing great with his personal and professional life 🙏 for him to return back to church and find his faith praying for his job to give him a raise and reward him for his work keep him safe as he travels this week to Tennessee and 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 to improve I love and trust in you always amen
Heal both of my kidneys
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.
Please pray that the University will have classes for me to teach starting in January. After my heart attack, I depend on those classes to support myself. I beg you for your prayers.
Jesus; Make me a great Saint for Your glory. Amen.
Please pray that my family lives very long, happy, healthy, and safe lives. Please pray that my house and family remain safe from dangers including weather, my family has no big problems, my husband makes wise decisions, and my kids are happy and do well socially and in school. Please pray my oldest son keeps a 4.0 gpa, makes A’s on his exams, and his mental health and socialization improve. Please pray my oldest makes A’s on his upcoming tests. Please pray my youngest thinks before he speaks and makes wise decisions.
Heather's father was just found to have throat cancer and we could use some prayer for healing and that God's will be done. He doesn't know God and we pray for him to find and accept Jesus.
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.
Please remember Patrick M who was born on this day & Raymond Hartnett who passed away on this day, Thank you.
Dear St Anthony please intercede and pray that doors are opening wide for me today and pray that God is showing up for my help today. Pray that I am chosen today and that miracles are unfolding for me today and that much needed financial blessings are manifesting for me today. Pray that God is blessing my nephew and freeing him from depression and from the thoughts plaguing him. Pray that God is lining up all the help he needs to get better and to be able to function and move forward with his life. Amen
Dear St Anthony please intercede and pray that doors are opening wide for me today and pray that God is showing up for my help today. Pray that I am chosen today and that miracles are unfolding for me today and that much needed financial blessings are manifesting for me today. Pray that God is blessing my nephew and freeing him from depression and from the thoughts plaguing him. Pray that God is lining up all the help he needs to get better and to be able to function and move forward with his life. Amen
Pray for the poor, the sick and the homeless. Also, pray for me and my family to solve our issues (both spiritual and material), please. God bless you all, thank you🙏🏻❤️.
St. Anthony, please let me and my sister be able to fix our phones to prevent battery drain, it is very important. We need our phones for safety and many other things, and we can’t afford new ones at this time. I love you and thank you, Amen
St. Anthony De Padua, please guide me tomorrow for my diabetic training. Give e wisdom knowledge and understanding that i understand how to compute the protocol etc. I will not left behind with other trainees. I can answer correctly. for the safety of school children. Holy Spirt ,Jesus Christ ,God the Father. i surrender everything to you. Thank you for everything. For provision, granting my prayers. Amen.
For Z A’s intentions, keep him Safe and happy. Protect, support and guide him. watch over him protect, support and guide him. Give him peace of mind. I offer this prayer for all his intentions. Thank you Amen
Please hear my prayer. Please let my father Alex and grandparents Margaret and Charles be comfortable and pain free. May they be protected, safe and happy in where they are. May God continue to care for them. They are truly missed, thank you for listening Amen
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
Please pray that our beloveded dog lily's gentle soul is in heaven so that we her family will all be reunited with her in heaven for all eternity we miss her so so much every day. lord please look after her for us. she was my best and only friend thank you. Please pray for my eldest daughters health please look after her for us thank you. Please pray that my youngest daughters relationship will end very soon. that the person in question will leave her very soon. please pray she will not move out of the family home. thank you. Please pray for me please help me financially thank you.
Please pray for Baby Catherine. She is in the ICU and needs a miracle. Please also pray for her family.
Please pray for me to be happy again, to have restored friendships and relationships, and for God to protect and bless my life. I once had God's favor over my life. I pray for God's forgiveness and I pray for God's favor over my life again. I pray for every blessing from God and I beg God for God's grace without limit. Please plead for me St. Anthony. Thank you.
Praying for a new home where I'll be happy, a happy and blessed home where happiness surrounds me and is all around me. Please St. Anthony, make this apartment I'm in let go of me for once and for all and let me live. Please break the chains that this apartment seems to have and let me move on from here almost immediately to a happy, blessed home. I am unhappy here and have been for years. Please answer my prayers as I beg God for the miracle of a gorgeous, new home where I'm happy. Please plead for me St. Anthony. I'm ready to move. Please ask God to bless that new home. Thank you St. Anthony.
I request to pray for my mom whose legs are swollen and not able to walk please pray for her to heal her legs so that she can walk without anybody support please pray for her to reduce her swelling in her legs.
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 always be close. Protect us from every evil. Protect us from my ex friend who is a very jealous, very wicked person and consistently comes by my home. Protect me and my child from all those very wicked people. Protect my relationship with my child. Protect us. St. Anthony thank you.
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. 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.
A good night's sleep to all.
I would like to ask prayer for healing for Jeff my brother that God would heal his hands and that he would get home soon. Healing for Ronald from pneumonia. Healing for my mom and dad, Anita and Juanito. Thanks and God bless.
Jesus, please heal Jennifer's worrisome heart about a co-worker who may not like her. Please heal their differences and may they work things out. I ask this in Jesus name Amen 🙏🙏🙏
For my family, friends & special intentions. Father, You know the details. Amen
For the prayers & intentions of everyone posting here. Amen
Prayers for good resultsfrom my interview tomorrow (Wednesday) TYL Amen
Thank You for everything Lord! Amen
Thanksgiving for prayers answered. For faith peace and heling. For safe travels. May work and school go well. That my wife's and families, medical consults and treatments go well. May the clinical trial subjects stay healthy. St. Anthony, please pray for us.
Please pray for my relatives in purgatory, my family, my job situation. And for others who need help especially A, E, J and S.
St. Anthony, please make this lesson go well
lord please make things fall into place
Bless my child dear lord
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.
Dear St. Anthony, please, please help Colin who has lost his earthly mother and whom I can see is desperately in need of help particularly with his injuries. Console and help him. Let his recent back injury be something minor, that is diagnosed correctly and treated properly. Help him also heal completely from his football knee injury. Help him settle in life, grant him good health & happiness, good sleep, peace of mind, a nice house he can afford that is suitable & good in all respects, job satisfaction, a peaceful home life and genuine appreciation and love from his father. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
I am missing several pieces of jewelry. I have no idea where I’ve hidden them from myself. So I need relief from the obsession. My friend might be having a appendicitis. She will not go to the doctor. She’s making me very angry. And for Tennessee’s seventh district may the holiest people win thank you.
Please be with us during this time and help us to avoid conflict.
For Laura P on her birthday, may the Lord bless her and keep her close to His heart always. May she feel His love, guidance, and protection today and all the days of her life.
Please pray for my grandson, he is 14 and is confused about his gender. He is on the Autism spectrum and is very awkward socially. He is very sensitive about his sexuality and lack of friends. So he has embraced social media for direction. His parents are in a problematic relationship. His mother is the primary care provider but is complicit to his state of mind as long as he is happy. I need prayer for Mateo, for him to breakout of this falsehood. Please ask our lord to reverse his thoughts to a time when he was obedient and found school challenging.
Please pray that my constipation will finally go away and I can feel better. It's making dialysis so much harder for me! Thank you--it helps to think someone might have prayed for me.
Please believe with me and my wife that Thursday our prayers will be answered and she will be pregnant. Thank you and God Bless
Blessed Michael Joseph McGivney; pray for me to be free from ridiculopathy without delay. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Holy Family; pray for me and with me today.
Father; Help me sleep well all through the night tonight. Banish insomnia, restlessness, and pain. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Take care of us
I need 200 by tomorrow morning. I have no idea where to get it
Blessed be God,blessed be Infant Jesus,blessed be Our Lady in all her different forms,blessed be all the spirits,saints,apostles,martyrs,all the guardian angels of my life and family members,all the guiding and governing angels and spirits at my work place,all the governing forces in the Universe,all the God's in the entire Universe and beyond. Thunderously praise and glorify Infant Jesus in the entire Universe and beyond
Please pray that my son Jimmy will soon find employment. He has been desperately seeking employment for the past 15 months. He is now awaiting a job offer. Thank you for your praters
Please be in prayerful agreement that AJ (a young man we took in) be reconciled with us an that he release all offense suspicion distrust an hurt bad influences whatever is hindering him from returning home to me and my wife..may he embrace our love for him as a son an my Coaching instruction concerning our training together an discipleship ROOTED in the WORD..may his heart fully open up to us in gratitude and humility and may he now reach out an return home to us free of all hindering spirits.
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