Feast of St. Anthony of Padua 2026, Nibong Tebal

 

Prayer to Saint Anthony for a special request

 

St. Anthony, pray for me .... I need your miraculous favour, please help me.

Dearest St. Anthony of Padua, you are the saint for finding lost things.....I beg you to pray and intercede with Jesus for my urgent, desperate and impossible situation I am facing. I need to find all that I have lost. Only Jesus by the will of the Father can grant me the miracle I need. I will never forget your help and prayer, St. Anthony.... I promise to spread the devotion to you and make you known. Amen.

Help me Lord, I need Your merciful miracle, I am in real desperate and urgent situation, but I have not given up. My faith, trust and hope is in You alone my Lord God and Saviour, because I know Lord You are always by my side and Your timing is always perfect. Each and everyday, even in this lowest situation Lord I thank You for everything. I may not see Your blessing but I know Lord You work in mysterious ways which is incomprehensible by me. Like in Cana.... by Your power You change water to the best wine.... there help Lord grant Your miracle to change the emptiness of my wallet and my Hong Leong Bank acct no: 15850090650 (Stanley) to be fill with the amount I need for settling my financial problems. I am not asking for riches but I am in real dire need for a financial breakthrough to settle all my financial problem I am facing. I am confident Lord that You will make a way for me and provide for me soonest, In Jesus name I pray, trust and hope in You my God. Amen.

Unfailing Prayer to St. Anthony

O Holy St. Anthony gentlest of Saints, 

your love for God and charity for His creatures, 

made you worthy, 

when on earth, 

to possess miraculous powers. 

Encouraged by this thought, 

I implore you to obtain for me 

(request)

O gentle and loving St. Anthony, 

whose heart was ever full of human sympathy, 

whisper my petition 

into the ears of the sweet Infant Jesus, 

who loved to be folded in your arms. 

The gratitude of my heart will ever be yours. 

Amen.

Saint Anthony of Padua, priest & doctor ~ 13 June 2015

Saint Anthony of Padua died on 13 June, 1231, the feast day marks our remembrance of his death. We specially honour him for all his pray, intercession and deeds. Saint Anthony of Padua is one of the most popular saints,. patron of lost things, a miracle and wonder worker, and patron for the poor and needy.

Saint Anthony was buried on a Tuesday. Tuesdays are special days of honoring him throughout the year. It is customary to pray a Novena to him on thirteen consecutive Tuesdays.

Almighty ever-living God, who gave Saint Anthony of Padua to your people as an outstanding preacher and an intercessor in their need, grant that, with his assistance, as we follow the teachings of the Christian life, we may know your help in every trial. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

St. Anthony Preaches to the Fishes (A wonder)

St Anthony began to preach to them most solemnly, saying: "My brothers the fishes, you are bound, as much as is in your power, to return thanks to your Creator, who has given you so noble an element for your dwelling; for you have at your choice both sweet water and salt; you have many places of refuge from the tempest; you have likewise a pure and transparent element for your nourishment. God, your bountiful and kind Creator, when he made you, ordered you to increase and multiply, and gave you his blessing. In the universal deluge, all other creatures perished; you alone did God preserve from all harm. He has given you fins to enable you to go where you will. To you was it granted, according to the commandment of God, to keep the prophet Jonas, and after three days to throw him safe and sound on dry land. You it was who gave the tribute-money to our Saviour Jesus Christ, when, through his poverty, he had not wherewith to pay. By a singular mystery you were the nourishment of the eternal King, Jesus Christ, before and after his resurrection. Because of all these things you are bound to praise and bless the Lord, who has given you blessings so many and so much greater than to other creatures." 

At these words the fish began to open their mouths, and bow their heads, endeavouring as much as was in their power to express their reverence and show forth their praise. 

St Anthony, seeing the reverence of the fish towards their Creator, rejoiced greatly in spirit, and said with a loud voice: "Blessed be the eternal God; for the fishes of the sea honour him more than men without faith, and animals without reason listen to his word with greater attention than sinful heretics." 

And whilst St Anthony was preaching, the number of fishes increased, and none of them left the place that he had chosen. And the people of the city hearing of the miracle, made haste to go and witness it. With them also came the heretics of whom we have spoken above, who, seeing so wonderful and manifest a miracle, were touched in their hearts; and threw themselves at the feet of St Anthony to hear his words. The saint then began to expound to them the Catholic faith. He preached so eloquently, that all those heretics were converted, and returned to the true faith of Christ; the faithful also were filled with joy, and greatly comforted, being strengthened in the faith. 

After this St Anthony sent away the fishes, with the blessing of God; and they all departed, rejoicing as they went, and the people returned to the city. But St Anthony remained at Rimini for several days, preaching and reaping much spiritual fruit in the souls of his hearers.

St. Anthony the Abbot ~ Feast (Memorial)

Feast day: 17 January (memorial)

Prayer

Saint Anthony,

you spoke of 

the importance of persevering 

in our faith and our practice.

Help us to wake up 

each day with new zeal 

for the Christian life

and desire to take 

the next challenge

instead of just sitting still.

AMEN.

If you think me wise, become what I am,

for we ought to imitate the good.

Had I gone to you, I should have imitated you,

but since you have come to me, become what I am,

for I am a Christian.

~ Anthony the Abbot ~

O God, who brought the Abbot Saint Anthony to serve you by a wondrous way of life in the desert, grant, through his intercession, that, denying ourselves, we may always love you above all things. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. AMEN.


Friday, 17 January, 2014
St. Anthony, Abbot (Memorial)

Reading

1 Samuel 8: 4 - 7, 10 - 22
4	Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah,
5	and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint for us a king to govern us like all the nations."
6	But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to govern us." And Samuel prayed to the LORD.
7	And the LORD said to Samuel, "Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
10	So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking a king from him.
11	He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots;
12	and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.
13	He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
14	He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.
15	He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.
16	He will take your menservants and maidservants, and the best of your cattle and your asses, and put them to his work.
17	He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.
18	And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the LORD will not answer you in that day."
19	But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No! but we will have a king over us,
20	that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles."
21	And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the LORD.
22	And the LORD said to Samuel, "Hearken to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel then said to the men of Israel, "Go every man to his city."

Psalm

Psalms 89: 16 - 19
16	who exult in thy name all the day, and extol thy righteousness.
17	For thou art the glory of their strength; by thy favor our horn is exalted.
18	For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19	Of old thou didst speak in a vision to thy faithful one, and say: "I have set the crown upon one who is mighty, I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Gospel

Mark 2: 1 - 12
1	And when he returned to Caper'na-um after some days, it was reported that he was at home.
2	And many were gathered together, so that there was no longer room for them, not even about the door; and he was preaching the word to them.
3	And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.
4	And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him; and when they had made an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic lay.
5	And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "My son, your sins are forgiven."
6	Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,
7	"Why does this man speak thus? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
8	And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question thus in your hearts?
9	Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, `Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, `Rise, take up your pallet and walk'?
10	But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralytic --
11	"I say to you, rise, take up your pallet and go home."
12	And he rose, and immediately took up the pallet and went out before them all; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

About St. Anthony, the Abbot

Anthony was born in 251 at Coma, a village near Great Heracleopolis in central  Egypt, where he grew up in a very protective and well-off family.  On the death of his parents, he inherited a large estate.  Then, in church one day, he heard the words of the Gospel: “Go, sell what you have and give to the poor” (Matt 19:21).  He took the words as addressed to himself and sold off the whole of the estate, only keeping what he felt he needed for his sister and himself.  Later, he heard the call, “Do not be anxious about tomorrow” (Matt 6:34).  This led him to give away what he still had, he put his sister in a convent and, still only 21 years of age, became a hermit.  He lived alone, working with his hands, praying and doing religious reading.  He only ate bread with salt and only drank water.  He slept on a rush mat.  He was soon seen as a model of humility, holiness and self-discipline.  He was assailed by many temptations, some very persuasive during this period but managed to resist them all.

For many years, Anthony lived in a tomb near his birthplace but, at the age of 35, moved to the ruins of an old castle on top of a mountain. There he lived for almost 20 years, seeing no one except a person who brought him food every six months!  At the end of that time he set up his first monastery, which consisted of separate cells, each occupied by one monk (something like the Carthusians today).  But he still lived mainly on his own, only visiting the monastery when necessary.  In spite of his austere life, he always gave the impression of being energetic and joyful.  People could pick him out from among the other monks simply by his cheeriness.  Many came long distances to speak with him.  And he was as ready to learn from them as they came to learn from him.

At the age of 60, during a time of religious persecution, he went to Alexandria hoping to earn martyrdom but was not arrested.  Later still, he returned to Alexandria to refute the Arians, who denied the divinity of Jesus Christ but, in spite of being asked to stay on in the city, he returned to his life as a hermit.  He died about the year 356, traditionally on 17 January.  He is said to have lived to the remarkable age of 105, never having been sick, still with good sight and sound teeth.  He is regarded as the “Father of Monks”.  Several groups of Eastern monks may still be following his teaching and he certainly influenced later development of monastic life in the Church.

Prayer to St. Anthony for lost things

Dearest Saint Anthony, 

perfect imitator of Jesus, 

who received from God 

the special power of restoring lost things, 

grant that I may find

(name the lost item) 

which is lost 

and most of all 

restore to me peace 

and tranquillity of mind, 

the loss of which has afflicted me. 

Amen.

Saint Anthony Pray for me 

and All who invoked your aid.

The intercession of the saints 

is for the greater glory of God.