From April 14 through April 21, 2013, two precious relics of St. Anthony will be brought to California from the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, to mark the 750th. Anniversary of the Discovery of St. Anthony’s relics by Saint Bonaventure in 1263. The Franciscan Friars invite you to join them in the following places:
SUNDAY, APRIL 14
SAN DIEGO
Good Shepherd Parish
8200 Gold Coast Drive, CA 92126
12:15 PM Mass
MONDAY, APRIL 15
LOS ANGELES
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
555 W Temple St., CA 90012
11:00 AM Veneration
12:10 PM Mass followed by Veneration
TUESDAY, APRIL 16
LOS ANGELES
St. Peter’s Italian Church
1039 N Broadway, CA 90012
6:00 PM Mass
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17
SANTA BARBARA
St. Barbara Parish
2201 Laguna Street, CA 93105
7:00 PM Mass
THURSDAY, APRIL 18
MANHATTAN BEACH
American Martyrs Church
624 15th St., CA 90266
5:00 PM Mass
FRIDAY, APRIL 19
TORRANCE
St. Francis Korean Catholic Church
2040 Artesia Blvd, CA 90504
7:30 PM Mass
SATURDAY, APRIL 20
HERMOSA BEACH
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
244 Prospect Avenue, CA 90254
5:00 PM Vigil Mass
SUNDAY, APRIL 21
GARDENA
St. Anthony of Padua Church
1050 West 163rd St., CA 90247
11:00 AM Mass
I have way too many stories! Stories upon stories! St. Anthony never left me unaided, personally speaking.
My recent story was that I lost my wedding ring for over a week. I thought it was lost in a parking lot somewhere and in these difficult financial times that someone would take it and cash it in. I got that ring at 21 and am 26 years into marriage in a time when 50 percent of everyone divorces. It held no monetary value to me, just pure sentimental and it was blessed at my Church wedding. I appealed to St. Anthony and resigned to never seeing it again unless a miracle. Within a day or two, my husband found the ring on the floor to our home at the entrance (we certainly would have seen it for the over week it was missing and we were looking!) right underneath a picture bunch that I have on our entrance wall that is full of ALL our family wedding pictures, way back to my great-great-grandparents. They are all in black and white and none have ever been divorced thus far. In the middle is a frame that has in calligraphy "Families are Forever." RIGHT under this "shrine to marriage" you can call it, was my wedding
band. Thank you, St. Anthony! :)
Thank you K.P. for sharing your heartning St. Anthony story with us. Have a St. Anthony story of your own to share? Email it to us and we will share it on the blog~
My wife was sitting on the sofa when her engagement ring got caught in the sofa cover. The diamond had gotten lost from the ring leaving only the protruding fingers. We had no idea how long the diamond had been missing. Needless to say, she was very upset and wanted me to find it.
I knew that it was not possible. We didn't know when it was lost or where, but to console her I got a flashlight and suggested she pray to St. Anthony, while I searched for something impossible to find. She finally said she remembered bumping her hand against a door frame and maybe that's when it happened. So I searched around all the doors and wanted to give up many times, but when I got to the garage door where we have a freezer, I shined the flashlight behind the freezer where there was a lot of dust and dead leaves and a slight sparkle of the diamond.
I was the doubting Thomas but St. Anthony came through anyway.
Thank you E.K. for sharing your amazing St. Anthony story with us~
