Ygnacia’s Own Stories - I Went Through EVERYTHING

I visited my friend H.K. in her shop recently to bring her some homemade jam - in the course of our conversation she mentioned she had lost her only car key. Of course I mentioned prayer to St. Anthony for lost things, here is her story. ~Ygnacia

How propitious it was that you came through my door today. You arrived, only to learn that I was nervously looking for my misplaced one-and-only car key. Yesterday, it rained heavily. Getting home from grocery shopping, I knew I had to rush to get things in the house. With stuff now in the fridge, etcetera, I sat in my office, consolidating bills and receipts, putting away my house keys and uh oh, my car key...where's my car key?? Not in my purse, bag, or anywhere in my home. I went through EVERYTHING and more than once, indoors and out. 

Today, I came to work a bit rattled, but had the pleasure of seeing you and sharing my upsetting day's experience. As the untouted exceptional ambassador of his works and miracles, you reencouraged my prayerfulness with the lovely story of your friend, whom you'd witnessed fretting over misplaced money. By sharing the focus of praying to St. Anthony to aid her in finding the cash, it was discovered moments later, in a most unexpected place. Saying that prayer soundly one more time, I once again looked everywhere, indoors and out. Apparently in the throes of unpacking, I hadn't remembered putting on my raincoat when I got home, to unload the car. Today, I'd carried it to work in case of rain. So, there's that raincoat, now hanging on the shop door. Lightbulb moment: Look in the pocket! There was the key... Thank you lovely friend for your help and advice to reconnect with dear St. Anthony. With lots of love and heart felt prayers for your generous jam making self, your fortunate family, and dear Saint Tony.

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Relics Of St. Anthony To Visit United States - June 2025

Two holy Relics of St. Anthony of Padua will visit the Archdiocese of New York as well as the dioceses of Brooklyn and Paterson from Friday, June 6 to Sunday, June 15. The two first-class Relics will be accompanied by two Franciscan friars from the Pontifical Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, Italy. The two Relics on tour are fragments of St. Anthony’s Facial Skin and his Floating Rib. The Relic of the Floating Rib has special significance for the friars of Padua because it was venerated by Sr. Lucy of Fatima in her convent in Coimbra in 1995. 

Schedule for Masses and Veneration:

Friday, 6 June - Most Holy Trinity Parish & St Mary’s Church, 138 Montrose Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11206 www.trinity-stmary.org  Welcoming of the Relics with Masses: 8:30 am (English); 7:00pm (Spanish)

Saturday, 7 June - Saint Lucy’s Church, 833 Mace Ave., Bronx, NY 10467  www.stlucybronx.org  Masses: 9:00am, 5:30pm, 8:45pm (Vietnamese service)

Sunday, 8 June - Assumption Church, 113 Coolidge Pl., Roselle Park, NJ 07204   www.assumptionrp.com Masses: 8:00am; 10:30am; 12:00pm

Monday, 9 June - Church of St. Anthony, 10 Squire Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10703   www. stanthony-yonkers.org  Masses: 9:00am; 6:30pm

Tuesday, 10 June - St. Anthony of Padua Church, 154 Sullivan Street, New York, NY 10012  www. stanthonynyc.org Masses: 8:00am; 12:00pm; 6:30pm

Wednesday, 11 June - St. John Kanty Church, 49 Speer Avenue, Clifton, NJ 07013  www. saintjohnkanty.org  Masses: 7:00am; 7:00pm

Thursday, 12 June -  St. Anthony of Padua, 101-103 Myrtle Avenue Passaic, NJ 07055 www. stanthonypassaic.org  Masses: 5:30pm (English); 7:00pm (Spanish)

Friday, 13 June - St. Francis of Assisi Church, 135 West 31st St., New York, NY 10001 www. stfrancisnyc.org   Masses: 12:15pm; 1:15pm; 4:30pm; 5:30pm; 6:30pm

Saturday, 14 June - Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 627 E 187th St, Bronx, NY 10458  www. ourladymtcarmelbx.org  Masses: 12:00pm; 5:00pm

Sunday, 15 June - Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church, 110-06 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, NY 11375  www. ourladyqueenofmartyrs.org   Masses: 9:00am, 11:15am; 1:00pm

https://www.santantonio.org/sites/default/files/pdf/relic_usa-2025.pdf

Saint Anthony Quote - “The Life Of The Body”

Novena For The Election Of A New Pope

We here at Saint Anthony Lost And Found invite all to join us in an ongoing Novena for the election of a new Pope, with the intercession of Good Saint Anthony ~ Saint Anthony, please pray that the Church’s Cardinals find God’s True and Holy Will in electing our new Pope~

NOVENA FOR THE ELECTION OF A NEW POPE

Come, Holy Ghost, Creator, come. 
From thy bright heavenly throne! 
Come, take possession of our souls, 
And make them all Thine Own! 

Thou who art called the Paraclete, 
Best gift of God above, 
The Living Spring, The Living Fire, 
Sweet Unction, and True Love! 

Thou who are sevenfold in Thy grace, 
Finger of God's right hand, 
His Promise, teaching little ones 
To speak and understand! 

O guide our minds with thy blest light, 
With love our hearts inflame, 
And with thy strength, which never decays, 
Confirm our mortal frame. 

Far from us drive our hellish foe, 
True peace unto us bring, 
And through all perils guide us safe 
Beneath thy sacred wing. 

Through Thee may we the Father know, 
Through Thee the Eternal Son, 
And Thee the Spirit of them both
Thrice blessed Three in One. 

Now to the Father, and the Son 
Who rose from death, be glory given, 
With Thee, O holy Comforter, 
Henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen. 

O Lord, with suppliant humility, we entreat Thee, 
that in Thy boundless mercy 
Thou wouldst grant the most holy Roman Church a pontiff, 
who by his zeal for us, 
may be pleasing to Thee, 
and by his good government may ever be honoured 
by Thy people for the glory of Thy name. 
Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, 
who with Thee livest and reignest world without end.
Amen.

Most Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, 
pray for us who have recourse to Thee~

Good St. Anthony, pray for us~

Re-post: Saint Anthony Helps Find Lost Souls

Whenever I lost anything as a child, my grandmother would tell me not to worry,  just to pray to St. Anthony, the patron saint of lost things, and it would be found. I'd often return to her a half hour later, holding up whatever I lost and she'd say "See? St. Anthony always comes through." As I grew older, I went to her with other problems. She would still tell me to pray to St. Anthony. I would make a face, caught in the adolescent mire that convinced me my problems were beyond repair. One day after I rolled my eyes at her, my grandmother said to me, her blue eyes tearing up "St. Anthony isn't just for finding lost things. He also deals with lost souls." "Lost souls?" She nodded. "And if he can handle that, I think he can handle just about anything.” There wasn't much I could say to that, so I shut up, stopped rolling my eyes and gave St. Anthony another try, even though my problem du jour seemed insurmountable. It wasn't solved in a half hour or even a day, but I found that prayer and time did heal it. I began to grow up and learn that healing something doesn't always mean that what we're fixated on gets better. Often, we heal when we accept things and move on. Prayer to St. Anthony is not just for the lost things in my life, but to help me keep my perspective when I face unanswered questions or when I struggle to find words to comfort a friend. St. Anthony can find anything. Most importantly, for anyone who feels despair, he can even help us find our faith when we think it's lost.

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World Day Of Prayer For The Sick 2025

On World Day of Prayer for the Sick, February 11th., 2025, light a Virtual Candle and write a Prayer 
for a loved one sick or suffering. During Holy Mass at 6:00 pm CET in Saint Anthony’s Basilica in Padua, Italy, the Franciscan Friars of Saint Anthony will pray for all who are sick and for their caregivers, and will entrust them to the Lord's mercy through the intercession of our beloved Saint Anthony.

Christmas With Saint Anthony

 

Light a Virtual Candle now and write your Prayer to St. Anthony - On December 25, at the end of the Christmas Mass, the Franciscan Friars will place your Prayer at the Tomb of Saint Anthony in his Basilica in Padua. May the light of your candle always shine upon you and your family. Merry Christmas!

Saint Anthony Quotes: “Pray Without Ceasing”

 

All Soul’s Day at the Shrine Of St. Anthony, 2024

On November 2nd at 6.00 pm CET the Franciscan Friars of the Basilica of St. Anthony, in Padua - Italy, will offer a Mass of suffrage for our departed loved ones:  write a prayer and light a virtual candle in their memory, and at the end of the Holy Mass they will personally place them at the Tomb of St. Anthony. To follow the live broadcast of the Holy Mass, connect to their Facebook page at 6.00 pm (CET), it will be like being with St. Anthony’s Franciscan Friars in the Basilica.

Repost - Yes I Do Believe

I was visiting with my son in Arizona. My wife and I were staying in our travel trailer. My son was at work, the grandchildren were in school and my wife had taken her mother, who was staying with us at the time, to the mall. I decided to go for a ride around the desert and began looking for my truck keys. Now in a travel trailer there are not too many places to put keys. But somehow I had misplaced the keys to the truck. I searched the trailer from front to back and outside along the sandy walkway thinking I might have dropped them when I came into the house the other day. No luck. The dining table is right in front of the door as you enter the trailer; it is small and doesn't hold much. I had taken everything off the table at least twice that I can remember but could not find the keys. I walked outside again and the thought came to mind, "St. Anthony, patron of lost things," and I remembered the little prayer I read: "Tony, Tony, turn around, something is lost and must be found." Upon finishing the prayer I walked back into the trailer. The keys were lying in the middle of the dining table. I almost lost my breath. I reached out and touched the keys; sure enough, they were real. They were not there five minutes ago. I could not have missed them when I cleaned the table; they were on a keychain with a fob to open the doors and there were other keys on the ring also. I could not have overlooked it. Did Saint Anthony hear and answer my prayers? Well, I found my keys or St. Anthony returned them to me. Yes, I do believe.

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St. Anthony, This Is The Big One!

When I was about 10 years old, my father created a special ring for me to wear that was made of pure silver. He beat it into a ring from a silver half dollar. He made it slightly large for me so I could grow into it. A couple of days later, I was playing in the yard, and the ring slung off. It was a large yard; and we looked and looked for it for a long time, but we never could find it.

 About 44 years later, I woke up on a Saturday morning, and the thought came to me - I will bet that ring is still out there in that yard somewhere; why did I not rent a metal detector and try to find it. I drove to our former house and asked the owner if I could one day in the near future try to find the ring, and she was fine with that. Soon afterward, I went to a friend's rental shop and when I mentioned how I was going to use the metal detector, he told me, with a purpose like that, he was not going to charge me. 

I hardly ever used intercessory prayer at that time. It was raining that day, and I thought - am I half nuts, getting out here in the rain in this big yard to search for a ring we could not even find or run across more than four decades ago? I should not have thought it to be pointless, but this was so off the wall. I prayed, St. Anthony, this is the big one!

I started getting hits on the metal detector, put markers down so I could start digging afterward, but saw the markers went in a perfectly straight line, showing I was finding ground pipe. I then kept adjusting the device for lesser levels of depth, but got no results. 

After a while, the rain was coming down and I thought again, is this really very smart, trying to find a ring that I was maybe never meant to find? I prayed - I was going to say a Chaplet, which is of course about 5 minutes, and if I did not find the ring, I was quitting. 

I did not pay much attention as to how I adjusted the metal detector, but I had a hit. I dug straight down about a foot, chopped up the dirt, and there it was! This was the first place I dug! It was hard to describe the elation I felt, and still feel when I recall it. I thought - I will tell of St. Anthony's intersession through this experience whenever I get the chance. 

I cleaned the mud off of the ring, took it to a nearby jeweler, and asked if she could shine it up for me. As you can see in the photo, silver shines up pretty nicely, even after being in the ground for 44 years. I put it into my then-11 year old son's possession.

Thank God for this encounter! And I, as well as many others love to say, St. Anthony, pray for us!

 

 Thank you F.S. for your amazing story of Saint Anthony’s assistance in finding that special ring. Have a story of Saint Anthony’s help of your own to share? Email it to us and we will post it on the blog~

 

  

The Feast of St. Anthony of Padua, 2024

Join the Franciscan Friars of Saint Anthony on Facebook on June 13th., St. Anthony's Feast Day, at 7:30 PM CET for the Mass in English from the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua. 

All are also invited to click here to light a virtual candle and write your prayers to St. Anthony so that he can intercede for you and your loved ones. Saint Anthony has always been close to his devotees who confidently entrust their hopes to him. Light a Virtual Candle to entrust him with your intention, to thank him or to remember those who are no longer here.

In An Unexpected Place

I have a thick gold bracelet with diamonds embedded in it, which I usually wear on special occasions because it is very expensive. Yesterday, I was looking at my jewelry box to see if I could wear something nice and noticed that this bracelet was missing. I looked through my drawers a few times but couldn't remember the last time I wore the bracelet or where I might have kept it. Last night, before going to sleep, I prayed the Rosary, especially to find my bracelet and also prayed to St. Anthony as he has helped me find my lost things before. I was anxious and nervous at the same time because I was scared that I had lost it somewhere outside or it might have been stolen by my helpers at home, knowing that it was an expensive jewelry piece. I prayed to Mother Mary and St. Anthony throughout the night and this morning. Around the afternoon, I had the urge to check my wardrobe, so I decided to go through my clothes. While checking through my last set of clothes and almost in tears for losing my jewelry but still chanting: "St. Anthony, St. Anthony, please turn around; something is misplaced and must be found", my bracelet fell on the ground from one of my clothing. I immediately looked at the fallen jewelry, held it in my hands, and I cried. I thanked Mother Mary and St. Anthony for this miracle because I don't remember placing my bracelet between my clothes; I always keep them in their boxes in my drawers when I am not wearing them. Mother Mary and St. Anthony answered my prayers within 24 hours and helped me find my bracelet in an unexpected place. 

Thank you D.T. for your faith-filled story of prayers answered through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Good St. Anthony. Have a St. Anthony story of your own to share? Email it to us and we will post it on the blog~

Sancte Antoni, pray for us~

Even In Little Earthly Things - Repost

When I first met my husband he gave me a birthday gift in a jewelers box, a beautiful, expensive diamond pendant, as that is my birthstone. I wore it and treasured it for many years until I became a 3rd. order Carmelite and started wearing my brown scapular along with it. One morning I woke up and although I found the chain on the floor, the pendant was missing. It must have flew off while I was changing clothes in my upstairs bedroom. For a whole YEAR I searched, never throwing away any vacuum cleaner bags even after I went through them. I was heartsick and after a year, finally decided it was gone and threw away the closet full of vacuum cleaner bags. My mom told me to pray to St. Anthony and though I had given up all hope, I did. Within an HOUR I was walking to my kitchen in the downstairs when something on the floor glinted up at me.... and as I picked up my pendant I started crying. What a blessing to know that even in little earthly things God cares about us! Thank you St. Anthony!!

This beautiful story is a repost from 2011, the year we started this blog in honor of St. Anthony. If you have a story of St. Anthony's help of your own to share please Email it to us and we will post it on the blog~

World Day of Prayer for the Sick 2024

On February 11th. The Franciscan Friars of the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua, Italy will be celebrating World Day of Prayer for the Sick: a time when they particularly pray for all those who are sick and homebound, for their caregivers and health-care professionals. If you or a loved one is sick or suffering please let them help you, let them intercede with Saint Anthony on your behalf by including you and your loved ones in their prayers at a special Mass in Saint Anthony’s Basilica on February 11th, 2024. All are invited to light a virtual candle and write a prayer to Saint Anthony, entrusting to him the people you love most and invoking on them the grace of healing.

St. Anthony Quote - He Was Humbled In The Womb Of The Virgin

St. Anthony of Padua quote:

 “O Father, in your Truth (that is to say, in your Son, humbled, needy and homeless) you have humbled me. He was humbled in the womb of the Virgin, needy in the manger of the sheep, and homeless on the wood of the Cross. Nothing so humbles the proud sinner as the humility of Jesus Christ’s humanity.”

Always A Reason For Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is the day in which families and communities gather together to thank the Lord for the gifts they have received all year long. Sometimes, when overtaken by discouragement, it may seem that we have nothing to be grateful for, but in reality there is always a reason to give thanks. This is why, now more than ever, you are invited to give thanks to the Lord and to St. Anthony for the blessings you have received. Click here to write a special thank you note and the Friars of St. Anthony will lay it on the Tomb of our beloved Saint in his Basilica in Padua, Italy, and pray for you and your intentions. If you would also like a Prayer of Thanksgiving to Saint Anthony, please click here.

All Soul’s Day 2023

On All Soul’s Day, November 2nd., it is important to pray together for our dear departed, entrusting them to the intercession of Saint Anthony who, from his Basilica in Padua, Italy, continues to accompany us as a brother in this extraordinary and sometimes difficult journey that is life. Click here to visit the Franciscan Friars of St. Anthony website and submit prayer requests for your departed loved ones, light a virtual candle and download a personalized prayer card.

Somehow He Found It

I am here again to do a testimony for St. Anthony's help. Recently, my colleague told me she found that one important stock she was in charge of in her company was short in quantity. She was very worried because it would cause her a lot of problems if she reported it to the higher authority. She said she has checked all the units she supplied to in case there was a miscalculation when issuing the stock, however, all her efforts were in vain. She had been having sleepless nights thinking about it. I started praying to St. Anthony to help find the missing stock. However, deep in my heart I had my doubts because my colleague was very sure she has checked everywhere remotely possible where the stock could be. Nonetheless, I kept on praying. About one week later, I was so surprised to receive her message on my phone, saying that the stock issue had been resolved. I could hardly believe it. I asked her how it happened. She said one of the units she issued to found the extra amount in their stock. The strange thing was that she was sure she had personally gone to check the unit's stock and found no extra there a week ago. I truly believe that it was my prayer to St. Anthony. Somehow, he found it and put it back at a place it could be found. My colleague is a non-Christian - I hope one day she will find faith in the Catholic Church. Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints. Blessed be the Great St. Anthony.

Thank you once again M.H. for another wonderful story of the power of prayer and Saint Anthony’s help. Have a story of your own that you would like to share? Email it to us and we will post it on the blog~