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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, St. Rita, and Padre Pio, please help us. Please help my family. Protect them from harm. Help them get through their challenges and come out stronger. Help us get the permit please and avoid any obstacles. Please help us get the permit in the next few weeks. We have waited long enough. Help me with my work and deadlines. Help me get good cases instead of hopeless ones. Help J.L. get her nursing license. Help T.J. find a good and fulfilling job. Help A.T. get into a good graduate school and be happy. Ask him not to worry. Help him achieve peace. Help R. get into a new residency if that is what she wants. Please help guide me regarding E. Keep us healthy, save from harm, and avoid any legal troubles. Please ask Baby Jesus and Mary to help us. We are forever grateful.
Grandson David - Conversion- Spiritual- Emotional - Mental and Physical Healing. Please pray for him. He has many problems and has created problems with family. My daughter is stressed out. He was living far in another state and lost his job. Now back creating trouble. That he may go back to where he was and leave family in peace. Has been in many drug rehabs but goes back to using / drinking etc. Mental issues but won't take meds
Dear Lord please have mercy on us..
i want to chant true name of god. oh god help me
I pray for restoration of all those beautiful things that God had blessed me with.
Dear St. Anthony, I humbly request the lord’s grace in receiving an approved petition in a timely manner.
Praying for the miracle of a beautiful, happy and blessed new home. St. Anthony this apartment that I never wanted does not want to let go. Please make it. Please find me a gorgeous, happy and blessed new home where I'll be very, very happy. Let it be a great deal, let me have happiness and joy in that new home and please break this ridiculous hold of this apartment. I don't want to stay here. I've hated it here from that day years ago when I moved in. Pray for me. Please ask God to please bless that new home for me. I pray for God's blessings and protection.
Please help me with the dentist. Let him fix or redo what needs to be done or refund me so that I can go elsewhere.
Please st Anthony whisper into the infant jesus for me. please ask the lord for a miracle that my prayers will be granted soon. you know my worries and wants. I leave these causes in you and the lords hands. thank you for all your prayers for us. G.M
Please protect me and my child from all evil. Protect us from all those wicked people. Protect us from my ex friend who is very evil. I regret being that person's friend.. St. Anthony let me and my child always be close. Let my child love me, appreciate me and want to be around me. Please let my child realize that I have been a good mom. St. Anthony I don't think I could have done any better. 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.
Dear God and St. Anthony, Thank you for everything. I pray for your intercession,. Bring wisdom and knowledge to my children. Help continue to make my marriage stronger and help him not be tempted by others. Help him see that I love him. I pray this in your name. Amen
For a beautiful, blessed, happy, new home that's a great deal, a home I love, a home surrounded by happiness and joy. Please let me move almost immediately.
Please pray for my husband Shyl. He is having growth is his mouth and doctor had suggested for biopsy. Please pray for complete healing Biopsy was completed on 21st Feb. Please pray for god's touch and healing and every report is normal by the grace of God. Regards, Suja
Lord please make things go well please make things fall into place ...
For an increase in goodness, kindness, friendship, fellowship, and good will, we pray. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
For faith, peace, and healing. May our Lord bless and protect our families and friends. For safe travels. May school and work go well. Saint Anthony, please pray for us.
For sinners worldwide, to gain repentance and a total change of heart. For suffering people, that they may see the beauty of suffering and that they share in the salvific mission of the suffering of Jesus Christ. For those suffering from mental illness, may they find true guidance and true enlightenment in Jesus Christ through trusted mental health help. For the souls of Alberto ., Rosa .,Apolonio ., Ricardo ., Norma ....., For the conversion of Ace . For sinners worldwide, to gain repentance .... For those suffering from mental illness, may they find true guidance and true enlightenment in Jesus Christ through trusted mental health help ... For the special intentions of Cecille , Diana , Anselma , Carla Contreras, Jocelyn... Peace of mind. To do what I like to happen in my life. ... To never be anxious again To be more anticipative, expecting and be more nearer to my goals
Blessed Saint Anthony please rescue us
Dear St. Anthony, please heal my mother, may she have peace of mind and lift the curse and spell on her. Please heal our family and thank you for the blessings. 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.
For the prayers & intentions of everyone posting here. Amen
Bless this day for us lord
Lord please make this day go well
deliverance to the right job... Father, You know the details. Amen
Dear Lord Please Help Amen Thank You
Please pray that I have nothing to worry about. 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.
My younger sister is mentally ill, she’s bipolar and she doesn’t work. My parents are supporting her and raising her daughter. My sister can’t support herself she also lives with my parents. She also takes a lot of medications. She gets bored and randomly starts talking to guys online. I continue to pray that she doesn’t get involved with any of these guys, over the last 20 years, She has put my parents through a lot of heartache and pain suffering, sadness and stress. My parents are the ones raising her daughter and we don’t need more problems in this family. We need things to get better or not worse. thank you for praying. I greatly appreciate it.
Punyala week is starting, enne orkename,driving ne samarppikkunnu
Please pray for my relatives in purgatory, my family, me and my job situation. And for all others who need especially A, E, J and S. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner!
MIRACLE MIRACLE MIRACLE OUT THE KINDNESS OF YOUR HEART DINK XX
My mum Glenda is right, to a degree, but don’t think she understands we are in food desert.... She has temper and mental health issues....It’s supposed to snow in the next while, hope it snows very little or not at all, as it snowed a lot recently, and hope it doesn’t snow on Wednesday as I have an old medical scooter which hope still works, and I need to go to physio and water (from snow) can damage the battery. Hope physio goes well and physiotherapist(s) doesn’t know me and is not too nosy either. We are out of town now and hope van also continues to work.
Please pray for miracles for healing. 2 Kings 20:5
Master, we surrender 2 daughters’ happy settlement in their lives, our 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 St. Anthony, I am a graduate with a master’s degree and lots of work experience. But I do not have a job that reflects my education and experience. I have financial stagnation and am struggling financially. Please give me financial growth and stability. Please pray for me.
Take care of us
Prayers for the V. A. Family. Everyone is facing a dilemma. They are devout and prayerful Catholics and know that God will supply for their needs. Thank you, Jesus - we trust in You.
For an immigrant family. Mother is deported. Child who is left behind in USA is going through a mental crisis. Child name is Kayla, she has no support system. Mother watching situation from overseas. Please give her mental healing at the clinic where she is being held until we figure out what next. This is complicated. Thank you Mother Mary for your intercession.
Saint Anthony, the patron Saint of miracles please help me with my faith help me trust in God with all my struggles also intercede for me with my following petitions. And thank you for a safe delivery and a beautiful little girl Please aid my daughter and her boyfriend in avoiding offenses against our Lord... Help my sister find joy and happiness Support those I have promised to pray for, help them find solutions, and watch over those who are without prayers. Guide our youth to experience the love of Jesus... Pray for all souls in purgatory to attain eternal life, especially those on my list. Finally, help me overcome my financial difficulties—pay my debts, repair what is needed, improve my circumstances, and grant me an opportunity for pilgrimage.
Pray that Ryan gets a new job in Bangalore and we find an architect
Please pray that I don't have any arguments or trouble with my sister and brother-in-law. Please pray that my sister doesn't give me problems or upsets me, with my heart. I beg you for your prayers.
🙏✝️🕊Pax et bonum friends, brothers, sisters in Christ we continue waiting and asking so much in your charity :your prayers everyday, please remember to our dearest Chad ( a very good, gentle man, amazing son, father and child of God) before our Lord Jesus and Holy Mary, him continue a medical treatment fighting everyday againts a hard sickness storm, we hope and keep faith in His Mercy and Goodness always! Please support to him, to his beloved children in this difficult battle, is a very hard journey yet but we know God is leading this boat so we can arrive to safe earth again! Please remember to every person in similar very difficult battles of very painful sickness starting with the most vulnerable ones: Please remember to Julia, Steven, John ,Niall in the fight of cáncer. Thanks so much may Jesus King of Mercy pay to everyone in big blessings! May our Lady of Guadalupe bless you always! ¡Gracias!
Oh God... May Your Will happen not mine but please dont let us suffer internally anymore. Come and change our marriage anyway You want just be with us among us and inside us. May Your Glorious Name Shine eternally. We need You. I know we aren't perfect but i know you love us, too.
Dear St Anthony bless my family and my children Antoathin and daughter Aashika cough and Adukku Thummal problem. BL my profession. Thank you Jesus Christ
Please pray for my daughter Mary as she has a scan on 2/22 and seeing a new doctor on 2/24. May the Lord offer Mary His love, guidance, and protection. May the Holy Spirit calm Mary and grant her peace, strength and comfort as she awaits results. Please quide the doctors in determining the cause of Mary’s discomforts. She is very low-spirited that this has been dragging on without resolution. May “Thy Will Be Done”. Amen.
Please hear my prayer continue to watch over my daughter. and her new born baby. Please God I am asking for you to look after her, give her the strength and wellbeing that she needs. keep her and the baby healthy and well. Let there be no complications. Please God keep them both safe. Continue to give her the strength, guidance, support and protection that she needs. Thank you for listening to me Amen
Please hear my prayer, please continue to watch over my son today and every day. Help him through this complaint, no problems or issues regarding anything. Give him the patience, strength and confidence to be able to explain himself properly. Let everything be alright no negativity. Let him be safe and secure and everything run smoothly. Give him the strength, guidance, confidence, direction, support and protection that he needs. Thank you for all your continued support through his work and revision. Help him be more confident and comfortable in himself. Let him be content and happy. Keep him safe and protect him from all evil
Please hear my prayer, please continue to watch over my Mum today and every day. Give my Mum the strength, guidance, confidence, direction, support and protection that she needs. Please continue to help her through the loss of my father. Thank you for all your continued support. Keep her strong and positive thank you for listening 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, please continue to watch over my son today and every day. Please help through all the work he has to do to the house. Let him get excellent trades people and could deals on prices and stuff. Please God let it all work out positively. Let him excel. Give him the strength, guidance, confidence, direction, support and protection that he needs. Let him achieve his goals and targets. Thank you for all your continued support. Help be more confident happy give him peace of mind.
Please hear my prayer continue to watch over my daughter Give her the strength, guidance, direction, support and protection that she needs. Thank you for helping my daughter Thank you for giving her the baby she longed for keep them healthy and well. May her husband treat her well and love her, care for her, protect, support and commit to her. Let her be happy and content. Please let her make the right choices and decisions for her. Thank you for listening to me and I continue to put all trust in you 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 help me . I moved. All my important documents got put in a box and mixed up with other paperwork. I can’t find the documents I am looking for. Car title paperwork. My birth certificate. Social Security card. I need them ASAP. Please pray and guide me to where they are located. I have spent hours and hours stressing to to think where they are and then looking for them with no success. Please help me locate them. Thank you
Praise be to Lord. Please pray for Joel Martin K, who is going to appear his CBSE 12th class Commerce final exam starting from 24th February in India.
Jesus thank you for the gift of life in the Catholic faith. I know that I will get married to Crystal D only soon in becoming one body in your union sealed with your precious blood live in the same house like the Holy Family of Nazareth with my family members live happily a normal delivery & be blessed with healthy, good looking, normal children & die peacefully after marriage with Crystal & thanks for the gift of faith in this life.
Joseph O Sr for the complete remission and cure to metastatic prostate cancer
Father; Help me fulfill my obligations in the best way possible. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Father; Thank You for today. Help us all enjoy this day that You have made. Amen.
The LORD bless you and keep you! The LORD let his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you! The LORD look upon you kindly and give you peace!
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.
I am the LORD your God; you shall not have strange gods before me.
For my children Amy and Gavin, that they may study well and do well in their exams. Dear Lord, please have mercy on us in Jesus’ name. St. Antony, please intercede for us. Amen.
Every weapon fashioned against you shall fail; every tongue that brings you to trial you shall prove false.
That through Jesus Christ and with His help, I win.
Do not fear! Stand your ground and see the victory the LORD will win for you today.
Oppose, LORD, those who oppose me; war upon those who make war upon me. Take up the shield and buckler; rise up in my defense.
Do not fear! Stand your ground and see the victory the LORD will win for you today.
Do not fear, Abram! I am your shield; I will make your reward very great.
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
Morning please pray stop eviction halt pray pray for food money increase pray for protection improve health
Lord please can you bless sibling and her son with better financial management skills ...creating enormous embarassment in front of the extended family ..Lord have mercy please !!! Put some sense into both of them ..lord
Lord please can you bless sibling and her son with better financial management skills ...creating enormous embarassment in front of the extended family ..Lord have mercy please !!! Put some sense into both of them ..lord
St Anthony st Carlos st Bernadette mother Mary please pray and answer my prayers 🙏 for my mother Carmella she continue to be blessed with good health and safety praying for answers today as she recovers please let her come home from the hospital praying for my son rocky he is traveling today for his job keep him safe healthy happy and patient as well as myself praying for my husband Pete and family they rest in eternal peace and watch over us all together praying for my weight and IBS improve I love and trust in you and all the saints 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.
I've been delaying going to confession for a while and I need to go. Please pray for me to help me make a good and honest confession very soon. Thank you
Please pray for the V family for deliverance from oppression and spiritual protection, as well as safe travels, especially for my friends Vire, Aurellis, Gavriel, Malachi and Ping Thank you blessings intact:🌸 🌿
Job Required ner home town.
Please pray for the healing and personal intentions of J. Lim Thank you and God bless.
Please st Anthony whisper into the infant jesus for me. please ask the lord for a miracle that my prayers will be granted soon. you know my worries and wants I leave these causes in you and the lords hands. thank you. G.M
Please st Anthony whisper into the infant jesus for me. please ask the lord for a miracle that my prayers will be granted soon. you know my worries and wants I leave these causes in you and the lords hands. thank you. G.M
Financial problems and financial backward, and family, good health. family blessings and what is my life and what is my sins... my job is gone and my time is gone, and no peace, ...clear for my loans ... iam single, plz give me a new life. my life is Dangerous zone . plz pray for me.
I pray deliverance from this toxic work environment. The management & the people where I am are nasty, ill mannered & I need to find something that is encouraging, nurturing & better suited to the talents I have been blessed with. Thank You for everything Lord. Amen
Please protect me and my child from all evil. Protect us from all those wicked people. Protect us from my ex friend who is very evil. I regret being that person's friend.. St. Anthony let me and my child always be close. Let my child love me, appreciate me and want to be around me. Please let my child realize that I have been a good mom. St. Anthony I don't think I could have done any better. Thank you.
Please hear my prayers as I pray for the absolute miracle of a beautiful, happy and blessed new home. St. Anthony this apartment that I never wanted does not want to let go. Please make it. Please find me a gorgeous, happy and blessed new home where I'll be very, very happy. Pray for me. Please ask God to please bless that new home for me. I pray for God's blessings and protection. Please help me move out of here without any more delays. I don't want to stay here. Let everything go flawlessly. Please get me the best possible deal on a home that I'm truly happy in. Thank you St. Anthony for your intercession with God. Thank you for every answered prayer. Thank you Dear Lord.
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 help me with the dentist. Let him fix or redo what needs to be done or refund me so that I can go elsewhere. Please help me. Thank you
I have an appointment with an ENT on Monday. I have been sick for over two months now. Please pray I get some kind of definitive diagnosis and please pray the person I am seeing is caring, thorough, and competent. My concern is I have multiple medical conditions playing into one another and also making differential diagnoses difficult. Please pray this appointment is a great step in making me well. I am so tired of being sick. Also please pray I can get my medical records straightened out. They are riddled with errors, including numerous drug allergies I absolutely do not have. Please pray for my full healing. Thank you for praying.
I pray for restoration of all those beautiful things that God had blessed my life with.
I’m Ashley. ...My medical scooter was acting up,...Hope it doesn’t snow on Sunday and Wednesday. Sunday is church and Wednesday is physio. I can walk but can only go so far. I do need a new scooter, but I am out of town, and the scooter man of this community ignored a message...Hope a man at church, forgives me for something I did. My mum Glenda is overly obsessed with things,.... My mum is an ESL tutor and worried about the future of some students ... As for Donald T, I hope he takes responsibility for his actions (greed, threats, lust, racism, faking records, and everything else he did wrong) and gets overthrown from office, put in prison for good, and God punish Trump as see fit. I hope that Iran doesn’t do anything too extreme, and hope for peace in both United States and Iran. I also hope that Iran gets a new leader, a more peaceful one.
Dear St Anthony, I pray to you and ask for my whole body health and well being. I ask that everyone sees me as a beautiful, intelligent, brilliant, wonderful woman. I pray you can give my body the strength and me the perseverance to become the person I want to be. I pray that my anxiety and fears go away. I pray that my life will get better and I will be happy with myself. I pray that you can help me. Thank you, Lisa.
Prayers that this most recent storm isn't as treacherous or severe as expected. Amen
Dear Saint Anthony save us please
For the right new job. Amen
Repose for the soul of Russ Y. Comfort with peace of heart for his family, friends & everyone that knew him. GBY you ol' rascal 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.
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
St. Anthony, Please end this day with me receiving a text from Corry. I wish he loved me finally and would tell me so. Let me know your listening.
I'd like you to pray for me. I'm a mum with 2 teenage children. I suffer from mental health, severe anxiety, social phobia of people, gatherings, ect church, I suffer torment in my body, even at night, I feel like i'm dying, feeling like I'm going to choke on my tongue, this is severe distress and worry in my sleep, i've grown tired of this, I'm in pain in my soul all the time, I ask for peace and rest, And ask for more trust in God, I feel far away from him...
Please pray for John diagnosed with an aneurysm in his heart, for guidance for the doctors and for his complete healing.
Deliverance from this toxic work environment to one that is nurturing & has advancement, good people & work satisfaction. Amen
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