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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 and pray for God to show up in my life today and do something good for me today. Amen
Immediate prayers are needed for Spencer David, the son of one of our prayer group members. He was in a serious car accident recently. Please pray for his recovery and for strength for his entire family.
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 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 help me please to emerge from this mess and apartment that took so much from my life with complete victory and restoration. Plead for me please for a beautiful, blessed by God, miracle of a happy, new home where I'm surrounded by happiness and joy. Please bring this new home to me. 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 beautiful, blessed and happy rest of my life that I could not have even dreamed of. 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 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 to me. St. Anthony this was never this difficult. 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. Please intercede for me. Thank you for past intercessions. Thank you for so many answered prayers.
Struggling with heavy burden on my heart since last couple of years almost 7-8 years now. My husband is having extra marital relations with other female/s. Dont understand how to tackle him and overcome with this critical situation
please help me to pay for all my bills I'm very worried about this and pray that my car will not give me any issues I don't know how to pay all my bills and I will have a hospital bill coming because I went to the emergency room for depression was there 5 hours and then released I worry constantly of what I am going to pay every minute of the day my car repairs cost 5,400 dollars please get more hours at work and busier pray that I don' t have to worry thank you
✝️JMJ Praying for peace in family/world and end to all wars For repentance/conversion of family/self/church/world For special intentions for Ivan/Sandy/Shawn/Andrew/Michael families. For healing of all illnesses especially those affecting myself/families/friends For good vision especially at night for Shawn and others For all the unemployed especially Shawn/ Holy Souls pray for us as we pray for you Thank you JMJ for all blessings Our Lady of Lourdes/Good Health pray for us St Anne/St Joseph/St Anthony/St Faustina/all Saints pray for us. Safe travels for all especially those affected by snow/floods/fires Jesus mercy on us.
Please st Anthony 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 st Anthony pray for my eldest daughters health. please cure her of her illnesses. please look after her for us always. thank you. Please st Anthony pray that my youngest daughters relationship will end very soon. that the person in question will leave her very soon. please pray to drive away these evil people from her. please pray she will not move out of the family home. please pray for a end to this situation soon. thank you. Please st Anthony pray for me financially. please help me with my youngest daughters behaviour. life is so extremely difficult with her behaviour. please pray for us thank you. G.M
Make rent Daughter goes back to school and comes out of depression Everyone gets better
Father; Thank You that I got to pet and hold that cat today. It brought me much joy. Please bless the owners and see to their needs. Amen.
For the Lord to give me the wisdom I need now that I'm discerning religious life and give him a courageous "yes" without letting my fears overcome me if that vocation is his plan for my life.
I need clarity on dating Anthony. I wish to be a mother and a wife but I’m uncertain. He has kids from his first marriage.
Prayers for my appointment to go routinely without issue or concern. Thank You for everything Lord. Amen
Please pray that everything goes alright for me. Please pray for my health to improve, and that everything else turns out alright.
Dear Lord & pray for the right new job. Father, You know the details. Thank You. men
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 Lord, please make things fall into place
Please pray that I'll successfully meet my dissertation deadline, and that I won't have writer's block. Please pray that I'll write well and get lots done. I am really worried that I won't get enough done in time. Thank you so much! Every prayer helps!
Can you please say a prayer that I will be approved for my food stamps recertification? I really need my food benefits so that I can eat, and so I can do well at dialysis! I'm trying hard to get a transplant one day! Thank you, and may God bless you!
I stamer a lot when presenting something tension enters my soul My confidence level very low.Today I have to meet circle inspector to give him my grievance regarding the encroached panchayat road by our neighbour Vinod . Prayer that he is present and send your holy spirit on him so that he understands my problem and helps me and does the needful. Send your holy spirit on me do that to the holy spirit speaks and sorts all issues for me .Please lord solve this problem for me.
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Dr Nazal O. Please pray that his entire family will be consoled and comforted for their loss. He will be sorely missed by all his patients. May God Bless us all, especially the repose of the soul of Dr Nazal O and all others in most need!
Take care of us
Arrow prayer ~ recovery for my sister.. continued good health for all of us & the right new job for me .. I pray for & ask in Jesus' name Amen
Please pray for my mother aleyamma am for her victory at ward 6 peringara panchayath and the result is publishing on dec 13 please pray for her victory
For peace in the world. That all men and women may live as brothers and sisters in social peace and religious unity. To enlighten and guide all the leaders of our world nation and community. For the Pope bishops priests religious and all Catholics of the world. For our family and near and dear ones. For our spiritual and temporal wants. For good health and long life. That we may go to Heaven when we die. For success in work and studies. For a happy married life for my daughter and for the good health of her son and the parents. For the eternal repose of the souls of our near and dear departed. Thanksgiving for favours received.
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.
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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 Jeff P, Jo Ann B, Bob K, 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 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!
Thank You for everything Lord. Amen
Prayers that my appointment goes well & without issues or concerns of any kind. Thank You for everything Lord. Amen
For M, who is hospitalized for heart and other serious complications, for doctors to determine appropriate treatment to help heal him. Bless his family.
It's been nearly 8 years since my Mom passed away.. things are ok.. just different. It's at this time of year I miss her & my Dad the most. I ask for the Lord's blessings of health, healing. wisdom, guidance, the right new job where I can sustain & pay off this mortgage (I'm keeping the family home) offer my siblings their portion & live a long happy healthy, holy(blessed)safe, prosperous Catholic life at this residence. Thank You for everything. Amen
For faith, peace, and healing. May school and work go well. For safe travels. May the pre-clinical test subjects do well. May my family's and friends' medical treatments and consults go well. That my wife's anemia, gastritis and knee be healed. May the Holy Spirit move within our hearts and minds. Saint Anthony, please pray for us.
Prayers of complete healing for my sister. With many more years of continued good health. Deliverance from this stifling work environment & to a better paying venue that's a good fit for the talents I have been blessed with. Thank You Lord. Amen
My sister's procedure went well. My brother is bringing here to a stepdown facility as I type this. Prayers for her full recovery with durable long-lasting repairs & many more years of continued good health. Thank You for everything Lord!!! Amen
Dear Lord, I need another job. This one is the pits. You know the details. Amen
St Anthony - please protect and keep safe and healthy J & D. Please help J and I heal our relationship issues. I pray my car stays running ok and my job is secure. IJNIP. Amen. LV
St Anthony, St Anthony thank you for all the blessings given to me. Please pray for me my work place is so horrible especially my home manager. So every day I am in stress. Please pray for me to get strength and get rid of from her. I believe St Anthony will listen my prayers.
Please make the lesson go well Lord
Things are not going good with me. Please need your intersection and let things go good and not against me as i have not done anything wrong with my Team. I fully trust you.
Getting some interviews. Please pray for me to our Lord to help me with those questions. Praise be to the Lord.
Saint Damasus I; pray for us.
Saint Anthony, Lord Jesus thank you
pray test on 12/22 is benign. pray no recurrence ever and healthy for years to come pray for everyone. ty
Jesus; Help me know if Gentri had her baby and both are well without delay. In Your Name. Amen.
St Anthony you are the saint of miracles. PLEASE deliver N's Passport to him as soon as possible. He is waiting. Thanking you always. Mother
Jesus; bless everyone that I mentioned by name in my Therapy session Tuesday and see to their needs. No offense was intended. Amen.
Jesus; bless all of our Altar Servers here and help them learn quickly. Amen.
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.
I pray that Randall gets the money owed to him. I also oray he finds a job. I ask this through Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour. Amen
Please for Peace Obedience and the Holy Family.. Give us a spiritual Help.. Thank you..
Lord, please help us in our despair. Please let things go well at work. Please protect my family and friends.
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
Sant'Antonio, ti ringrazio perché ascolti sempre le mie preghiere, ti sono sinceramente grata! Rosa senza spine, a te torno di nuovo e ti chiedo la benedizione su di noi, Artem e Yuliia. Affido anche il nostro amore nelle tue mani: trova per noi la strada per essere vicini e per stare insieme, anche se questo richiede un miracolo. Aiuta Artem in ogni suo cammino, sii con lui su ogni strada. Grazie a te, santo Antonio!
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 st Anthony 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 st Anthony pray for my eldest daughters health. please cure her illnesses. please look after her always. thank you. Please st Anthony pray that my youngest daughters relationship will end very soon. that the person in question will leave her very soon. please drive away these evil people from her. please pray to bring a end to this situation. thank you. Please st Anthony pray for me financially. please help me. you know my wants and troubles. thank you for all your prayers for us. GM
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 De Padua please guide me and protect me tomorrow in my work that i will not get bust in the health office. make all the student healthy, no injury, no seizure for Angel G and Daniel Garcia, no G Tube dislodgment , no diabetic distress, no drugs, no head injury , no 911 ,no bee sting, no anaphylaxis reaction. Help me i am alone tomorrow until friday. Send thousand of angel to protect all the people in my school. make all my student safe, healthy from grade 6,7 and 8 .In Jesus Name .
Praying for the friendships that have been in my life for almost my whole life to be restored to me. St. Anthony this was never this difficult. 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. Please intercede for me. Thank you for past intercessions. Thank you for so many answered prayers.
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.
St. Anthony help me please to emerge from this mess and apartment that took so much from my life with complete victory and restoration. Plead for me please for a beautiful, blessed by God, miracle of a happy, new home where I'm surrounded by happiness and joy. Please bring this new home to me. 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 beautiful, blessed and happy rest of my life that I could not have even dreamed of. St. Anthony thank you.
Thank you for another day! Amen!
Dear Lord, I am so sick of the dismissive & condescending attitudes of the people I work with. I took this job because I had been out of work for a while & needed the income. I pray deliverance to something just as local, with a much better salary, where I will be among good people, use the talents I have blessed with to the fullest & have my work appreciated & rewarded. in Jesus' name. Thank You for everything. Amen
Please agree in prayer for CJ, for discernment, healing, safety, acceptance of God’s will and strength to resist manipulation, indoctrination, deceit, depression & abolition. Lord hear our prayer. Amen. Thank you for your prayers!
for the prayers & intentions of everyone posting here. Amen
Prayers of complete healing for my sister. With many more years of continued good health Deliverance from this stifling work environment & to a better paying venue that's a good fit for the talents I have been blessed with. Thank You Lord. Amen
Prayers of complete healing & recovery for my sister. With many more years of continued good health Deliverance from this stifling work environment & to a better paying venue that's a good fit for the talents I have been blessed with. Thank You for everything Lord. Amen
A good night's sleep to all.
Dad, Mom, all Grandparents, Family Members, Relatives, and Friends; pray for me. With all your strength.
Please pray for me to get rid of this cancer that is in my body In St Anthiny of Padua and in Jesus too.
For my family, friends & special intentions.. the right new job . The one I have is stifling, low paying & the people/culture are toxic. (You know the details) . I pray for good health, healing without any major procedures, for happiness, spirituality, love, safety, a long life with prosperity so I may continue to do Your work. To obtain the monies I need to bring everything together & own my family home outright so my siblings may have their portion & I can live there happily within our/my means, without a huge expense. Perhaps by Your will, at this time of my life I may be blessed to share love with a good woman. Thank You for everything Lord. Amen.
Prayers of complete healing & recovery for my sister E. With many more years of continued good health. Amen
prayers that my appoint goes well & without issues or concerns of any kind. Amen
Prayers for G. S. for a successful surgery. Amen.
Prayer for my family ... • 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.
Prayers for a routine doctors' visit, without complications, issues or concerns of any kind. Thank You for everything Lord. Amen.
Please pray for my son's safety and protection and for the court case to be done and ruled in his favor. Thank you.
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 pray for my pain in my left side in my stomach area to go away and not be serious Please let me enjoy the holidays and do well at my job
Please pray that my life ends ASAP, preferably peacefully & painlessly.
Liz notified by Clinic that lungs were found - will have bilateral lung transplant. That surgery be successful, no complications. Weather is bad - husband has one hand paralyzed but is driving. That Liz is not anxious - roads be cleared and they have safe trip to clinic. - approx. 1 hour away. Thank you for prayers.
dear lord please make things fall into place ...
Bobby had blood transfusion but Pain Blockage Dr. on vacation. May he find another excellent Dr. that can do the blockage so desperately needed. Thank you.
Lord please make this day go smoothly
Please pray for my grandson, Thomas, who is very sick. He's only 10 years old and needs a miracle. Please also pray for Abby who is not feeling herself and has depression; Brittney whose cancer has spread; my sister-in-law who has diabetes and a very weak heart. For my brother who is always so giving to keep his health. My son who needs help at work desperately. My daughter-in-law to understand how damaging it could be not to have the children understand responsibility. For a good friend, Rachel, to have a healthy child. And for my health to get better to help others.
Please pray for me to keep ownership of my property and to have favor with my mortgage company to give me a repayment plan that i can afford.
Please pray for me my health car companion thank you God bless and thank you St Anthony
Please pray for me my health car companion thank you God bless and thank you St Anthony
I pray Randall finds a j9b. I also ask that money which is due to him comes his way. I am trying to guide his heart and fairh to God. Iask this in the name of Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour. Amen
Thank you for answering my prayer qnd letting us find our items that we forgot in the hotel. Amen
I pray for my friend's uncke, Steve as he undergoes chemo. May God watch and orotect him. I adk this through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen
Prayer for good health of me and my parents, emotional and physical healing, removal of breast cyst, cure for hypoglycemia, rashes, anemia and fatigue, prayer for protection and strength, A new house and money blessings.
Our Lady of Loreto; pray for me.
for the conversion of the heart of Andrea, healing of his wound and anger. And for the blessing and protection in his marriage with Francesca
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