tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post2110804136307039440..comments2024-03-27T18:06:06.369-07:00Comments on Mary's Blog: Of all the soaps in all of London… St Anthony found this one for me…Mary O'Reganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06111088825250138537noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-36849502798152309442016-01-14T11:19:57.040-08:002016-01-14T11:19:57.040-08:00I just came across your blog, and because St. Anth...I just came across your blog, and because St. Anthony has been a friend of mine for a LONG time (since I was a girl some 50 years ago) I have many wonderful stories to tell of his friendship and assistance.<br /><br />But I will only say one that just happened today. Just today! My kitchen faucet has begun to leak around the handle and base, and I don't know how to fix such a thing. I was wondering what to do. Now, I pray to my friend St. Anthony every night asking for his assistance in all my spiritual and temporal needs. This morning I noticed my cat had disheveled some papers I had in a pile on my table, and when I went to pick them up and restack them, there, open and unfolded, was the warranty for my kitchen faucet, opened to where it said there is a lifetime warranty against leakage, and the phone number to call the manufacturer who will supply replacement parts free! <br /><br />I knew immediately who did this! My wonderful friend, St. Anthony. Thank you my dear friend, St. Anthony, solicitous in our smallest needs. <br /><br />So yes, I absolutely believe he was behind getting you those soaps.<br /><br />Praise God for St. Anthony, wonder worker and helper of hapless girls!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-32285811987287469872015-12-03T14:41:00.883-08:002015-12-03T14:41:00.883-08:00St Anthony is so kind to me -- my old brain can...St Anthony is so kind to me -- my old brain can't remember things too well, but when I misplace my bus pass or my purse I ask him to locate them for me, and he always does; even when I have forgotten them in really odd places. (Thanks St. A -- you're a friend indeed to this "friend in need."! ) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-90237349509382462362014-06-10T01:55:23.412-07:002014-06-10T01:55:23.412-07:00This is a great story :) I never pray to st Antony...This is a great story :) I never pray to st Antony....not sure why...maybe it is about the connection, with some saints you have more connection than with the other. However, my grandma always prayed to Him when she lost something and as far as I remember it almost always worked. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-48898045250363685302013-12-17T04:06:19.635-08:002013-12-17T04:06:19.635-08:00Mary
My friend Ernesto was working for me about a...Mary<br /><br />My friend Ernesto was working for me about a week ago, on a Saturday. I gave him a cheque for his help around 1 pm so he could cash $40 of it and have some change for the rest of the weekend.<br /><br />Some time on Saturday evening he went to a grocery store and managed to lose his wallet with the remains of that $40. It had a state id card etc inside and was going to be a pain to replace. I told him to pray several times to St Antony. Three days later the wallet turned up. Alas missing the money but at least St Antony heard his prayers!<br /><br />JMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-18996560281905775752012-02-24T02:02:49.560-08:002012-02-24T02:02:49.560-08:00This blog and these stories are so amazing and awe...This blog and these stories are so amazing and awesome! I was directed here from "Spirit Daily" as I'm sure thousands more will be. Your story about Lent is featured. I will continue reading your blog!<br /><br />God bless the 75 year old Nun who was saved by St. Anthony from certain death in the war! What an amazing story. All the testimonials are amazing, actually, but that one is beyond words. I wonder if that incident influenced her decision to join an order.<br /><br />My sister-in-law's story is amazing too, though no lives were saved. She and my brother were on their honeymoon back in the early 1990's--hotel room keys were still keys, not plastic cards. At their hotel, losing a key meant a hefty fine--$500 maybe? She lost hers on the first day and they searched everywhere--you see where this is going, that a prayer to St. Anthony produced the key. What's truly amazing though is where it was found. As my brother was wading in the ATLANTIC OCEAN, about 30 feet from shore, he felt something under his foot. Waves were crashing all around him and he trapped the item with his foot until he had a chance to reach down. Yes, his wife's key was found. <br /><br />God Bless you all!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-3860363976507581892012-01-05T03:58:34.569-08:002012-01-05T03:58:34.569-08:00My family (dad,mom, sis, her husband, brother &...My family (dad,mom, sis, her husband, brother & his wife) pray a lot to St. Anthony & we manage to get everything we pray for. In fact, even my colleagues at office manage to get lost items when I pray for them to St. Anthony. My mama used to pray a lot to St. Anthony since she was very small & the greates miracle is that she got married to my dad - whose name is Anthony & his parish Church is St. Anthony's Church. I always manage to get everything I pray for & am currently praying to St. Anthony to get me a wonderful boy in my life as my life partner. There's a Hindu boy with whom I had an affair for almost 6 years & we ended d relation as he was not able to talk abt us & our relationship at his home. Please pray for me to St. Anthony that St. Anthony works a miracle in my life & brings this boy I love back in my life forever & dat he talks abt us in his house & we get married to each other at the earliest. He's a boy who used to go to Church on Tuesdays wid his Christian friends & knows a bit abt St. Anthony. Thank you for your prayers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-13197703545460106512012-01-05T01:52:13.770-08:002012-01-05T01:52:13.770-08:00New St Anthont story:
http://thepathlesstaken7.bl...New St Anthont story:<br /><br />http://thepathlesstaken7.blogspot.com/2012/01/i-was-going-to-keep-quiet-about-st.htmlMary O'Reganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111088825250138537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-197573807935806252012-01-04T19:30:44.600-08:002012-01-04T19:30:44.600-08:00I, too, am a big fan of St. Anthony. Years ago a ...I, too, am a big fan of St. Anthony. Years ago a friend of mine called frantic because she couldn't find a photo album. The album belonged to a mutual friend (Yvonne) of ours and contained photos of her deceased friend, the only photos she had of her. Yvonne was requesting her album back but my friend could not find it, nor remembered even having it. We bought some time over the weekend but by Monday, all hope was lost. And then I said, have you ever heard of St. Anthony? her quick response was, I'm Baptist!! I quickly responded with you don't have to be Catholic, just have faith. I gave her a quick overview and told her she had to promise to remember his "poor!" She began praying, but could not find it. Later that night Yvonne called one last time, and she realized she could no longer screen her calls and answered. On the line Yvonne was so excited and told her, guess what we found the album!! Lorraine had borrowed it!!! My friend sent a generous donation to the Little Sisters of the Poor!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-82165990781333178112012-01-04T17:30:08.523-08:002012-01-04T17:30:08.523-08:00Please help me pray for a mother of four.....she l...Please help me pray for a mother of four.....she lost her job....then her house.....now she has pnemonia. Please ST.Anthony help her get her health back and find a job and a reasionable place to live! THANKS BE TO GOD & ST.Anthony!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-66281701553326484162012-01-04T14:06:45.098-08:002012-01-04T14:06:45.098-08:00Hello Mary,
I am also a fan of St. Anthony. My st...Hello Mary,<br /><br />I am also a fan of St. Anthony. My story has two miraculous events. <br /><br />Many years ago, on our a way home from a summer vacation in Canada, I noticed my diamond had fallen out of my engagement ring. I mentioned it to my husband who stated that I probably lost it somewhere in the ocean and I won't ever find it again. The diamond was the original stone he gave me when he asked me to marry him. I prayed to St. Anthony in hopes my husband was wrong and the stone was somwhere in our vehicle. <br /><br />The follwoing morning, as we were unpacking the trunk, there on the floor of the trunk was my stone! Praise God, I thought! Thank you St. Anthony.<br /><br />Several years later I once again lost the daimond out of my engagemnet ring....again St. Anthony was beckoned to help me. Something told me to look in the driveway near the grill. There sparkling in the afternoon sunlight was my stone...once again found. I have always seen this as a sign from God. I am so blessed and have a wonderful man to share my life with and have now for 26 years. Thanks again to St. Anthony for finding the stone!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-38471876609842311672012-01-04T12:03:13.920-08:002012-01-04T12:03:13.920-08:00Two weeks ago I been wanting to pray a Novena and ...Two weeks ago I been wanting to pray a Novena and I was searching for some odd reason I kept bringin up St. Anthony. I read some of his information and I left it at that. <br /><br />After 3 months my husband who is unfaithful informed me he has been desperatarely find our office keeys and his motorcycle keys. I said let me search there is a Saint we can pray to and we will find the keys.<br /><br />Well i landed to St Anthony again. So, I told my husband that is not even willing to step in the church etc. for him to say a prayer to him and I will pray the Novena.<br /><br />Well on the exact 9th day, guess what??? we found one pair of keys ;)... all I could do is smile and thank ST Anthony. I couldn't stop laughing.<br /><br />My prayer was to find faith for my husband by finding the keys and restore our marriage.<br /><br />Well, I don't know if it did anything for my husband but I did for me. Defenately restore my faitha and I am continuing to pray for St Anthony with FAITH!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-27224119198367189952012-01-04T07:02:32.222-08:002012-01-04T07:02:32.222-08:00St. Anthony has sought me out more than I've s...St. Anthony has sought me out more than I've sought him...you wouldn't believe it if I told you. Good stuff!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-11180977959103883112012-01-04T02:24:24.236-08:002012-01-04T02:24:24.236-08:00Anonymous said
I love St Anthony and always pray ...Anonymous said<br /><br />I love St Anthony and always pray to him . Now I need more people to pray for the conversion of my son stephen. Thank you St Anthony for your intercession and bless all who come to you with their needs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-55500753507199122042012-01-03T22:21:15.309-08:002012-01-03T22:21:15.309-08:00I am a 75 year old nun and prefer to write anonymo...I am a 75 year old nun and prefer to write anonymously.<br />In the mid-1940s I and my younger sister and brother were inside our village house sitting on the floor cleaning some uncooked rice. Then we heard the drones of planes in a "dogfight". We stood up and ran to watch near the window. The neighbors who saw us were screaming, telling us to go back inside. Just at that moment a big shrapnel fell through the roof and landed on the place where we were sitting. Some of the rice got stuck on the shrapel, badly burned.<br />When people rushed in to check on us our parents also arrived from the fields.<br />Daddy who was a devotee of St. Anthony (he named the first son Antonio) exclaimed and proclaimed loudly to all: "St. Anthony saved my children! Look at him, he is just there!" On the wall near to where we were seated was a framed picture of St. Anthony.<br />This incident is a treasured story that is passed on. My brother Antonio's first son has also been named Anthony.<br />So St. Anthony is not only the patron of lost things. Long may his name be honored!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-2085414530189201572012-01-03T17:03:14.752-08:002012-01-03T17:03:14.752-08:00I feel as though I'm writing in as a member of...I feel as though I'm writing in as a member of the St. Anthony fan club, a good thing. Over the past 15 years or so I have referred to the following story as my "favorite" St. Anthony story. It was in the early part of the summer of 1993, I was at home in New Orleans, La. and my mother in law (Mami) was in town visiting. My mother and father in law are from Cuba. Ani, my wife, was upstairs taking a shower (my oldest son would have been 3 years old at the time and my new born infant daughter was just weeks old) and I was alone in the den sitting next to Mami when I began the conversation. The tv wasn't on and it was quiet. I remember I began by telling Mami how I believed in prayer and I related a story or two of things that had happened in my life and how it seemed to me that my prayers were answered. After telling Mami of my belief, she looked at me and said : "Mike, it was in early 1962 and Papi and I were trying to leave Cuba. My oldest 3 children (all teenagers) were able to get out of the country and were at a Catholic home in Miami since the previous October. I knew at the time that I was pregnant with Ani. Castro's government at that time had a policy that they wouldn't let you leave the country if they knew you were pregnant and with child. One day, it was in late March or early April, when I went to Havana to visit my brother. Upon entering his home I noticed a statue of St. Anthony in the den. When I saw the St. Anthony statue, I immediately started praying ....'St. Anthony, you have to get together with St. Jude and find us a way out of Cuba. We need to leave the country soon before they know I'm pregnant. Please intercede for us and help us get out.' She told me that she prayed fervently for weeks and weeks and nothing happened, but she kept praying. And then: "the next thing we knew paperwork started going back and forth sometime in late May and early June and the next thing we knew we were leaving Cuba." With a twinkle in her eye, Mami looked at me and said, "Mike, do you know what day we left Cuba?" I answered her, "no, Mami, what day did you leave Cuba?" Mami answered, "we left Cuba on June 13, 1962." She looked at me and said, “Mike, do you know what day June 13th is?" I answered: "no Mami, I don't." Mami: "June 13th is St. Anthony's feast day." The last part of the story is the icing on the cake. The next morning, early, Mami was drinking her dark black coffee and she said to me, "Mike, you remember how I told you the story of our leaving Cuba yesterday," Of course I remembered! She said: "yesterday was June 13, 1993, 30 years to the day we left Cuba." What a story, eh, ...now you know why I call it "my favorite St. Anthony story."<br /><br />Mike KlineMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10406265145494155424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-63141969363184827782012-01-03T12:59:45.730-08:002012-01-03T12:59:45.730-08:00St. Anthony is wonderful. He has come through for...St. Anthony is wonderful. He has come through for me numerous times. My brother even named his son after St. Anthony as a promise, if he'd find something for him.~~~RitaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-9519436197530806502012-01-03T06:39:55.651-08:002012-01-03T06:39:55.651-08:00I LOVE St. Anthony! Next to Jesus and the Blessed...I LOVE St. Anthony! Next to Jesus and the Blessed Mother, I ask him for favors ALL the time and he never disappoints me. I am very forgetful and lose things all the time and he always helps me. He is very powerful!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-54712357731499026582012-01-02T06:01:17.212-08:002012-01-02T06:01:17.212-08:00St. Anthony greatly impacted my relationship with ...St. Anthony greatly impacted my relationship with a Buddhist family from Vietnam who moved next to us in late 2003. Their 5 year old little girl befriended me first, by peeking out the door at me and coyly waving goodbye every morning as I left for work. Finally, one cold morning in early 2004, she boldly came out the door in her pajamas and robe and introduced herself to me, before I could get into my car, and she grabbed me by the hand and introduced me to her family, translating for everybody!<br /><br />As I got to know the family and to befriend them more and more, I told them about St. Anthony and how he very reliably helps to find things lost. They thought that the concept was ridiculous Catholic superstition. I said, "No! It's not superstition at all! It's not MAGIC, of course. And the prayers to St. Anthony have to be made by one sincerely seeking friendship with God. But it works. In fact, it works so well, I usually find the lost thing within 20 minutes or so!"<br /><br />The mother was looking for her cell phone at the time. I said the prayer in front of them. They found it -- in 20 minutes. The Vietnamese family all laughed at the "coincidence."<br /><br />After that incident, after I prayed to St. Anthony the family found the wad of cash from the father's paycheck, a wedding ring, car keys, the cell phone again.<br /><br />And, as if to verify my words to my Buddhist friends, they always found each item within 20 minutes.<br /><br />My Buddhist friends became "spooked" by these events. At one point they asked me to please STOP praying to St. Anthony, because it FRIGHTENED them!<br /><br />One day the Vietnamese wife tried it on her own. She had misplaced a document she HAD to have, at that moment, so that her grandmother from Vietnam could visit the United States. She called me on the telephone to tell me that St. Anthony had not answered her sincere prayer. I said, "That's not possible." I asked her what she HAD found. She said, "My daughter's homework folder from school." I asked, "Did you LOOK in it?"<br /><br />She yelled to her daughter in Vietnamese. A few seconds later, I heard the daughter yelling in English, "Mommy! Mommy! Mr. Peter was right! I accidentally put the paper in my homework folder!"<br /><br />I heard the mother whispering, "I can't believe it! I can't believe it! I can't believe it!" and she hung up the phone.<br /><br />Peter J. DawsonPeter J. Dawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01623418068324896072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-31904694106696461362012-01-01T16:30:08.564-08:002012-01-01T16:30:08.564-08:00After my adult son had been missing for almost 2 m...After my adult son had been missing for almost 2 months, at Mass I promised out Lord that I would give a large amount of money to the needy if St. Anthony would find my son. As soon a I arrived home from Mass the phone was ringing.The voice on the phone said, "Your son has been found. He is safe."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-27020554405426365712012-01-01T15:36:29.846-08:002012-01-01T15:36:29.846-08:00Wow...can't believe I found this article in th...Wow...can't believe I found this article in the blog-o-shpere. We often pray to St. Anthony when things are lost. He's found a wedding ring, money, even a bin of our clothes and books that fell out of a back of a truck on a lonely road hundreds of miles from our house.<br /><br />I'll be "asking" him to intercede for a little more than lost items now. Maybe even to find faith for our atheist and protestant friends. Who knows?<br /><br />From one Catholic Blogger to another,<br />God Bless<br />Sharon ~ mrsmomx6<br />http://sharon-moms-madhouse.com/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00537204376003875463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-30182807478053401582012-01-01T10:21:56.270-08:002012-01-01T10:21:56.270-08:00So many interventions by dear St Anthony. So many ...So many interventions by dear St Anthony. So many 'coincidences' - he truly derives his moniker of miracle worker.<br />For lost items: <br />Tony, Tony, turn around. Somethings lost and must be found. This is best said by a class roomful of six year olds, complete with actions.<br />St Anthony, pray for us!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-73303737747010667452012-01-01T09:47:53.665-08:002012-01-01T09:47:53.665-08:00St. Anthony has found everything for me from a gre...St. Anthony has found everything for me from a green-tinted contact in the grass to our youngest son! <br />We had adopted our first son from a girl at our parish at the time, St. Patrick's. Since I'd found out about him and talked to his birthmother on the feast of St. Joseph, I considered him a gift of the saint. When he was born on the Feast of St. George, his Confirmation patron, we named him Patrick Joseph. When he was about 18 months, I asked God if He might give us another child. And then I asked St. Anthony to find the baby for our family. A few months and financial troubles passed when my husband, who'd said "no more babies", received a call on the Feast of the immaculate conception from a friend asking if we were interested <br />in adopting his pregnant neice's baby. He said "yes". I knew she was Hispanic, and I had thought another "mix" baby would be good, but whatever God wanted. When we learned the baby was a boy, and that the birthfather was black, I knew that was "my baby". It took over a month before we were contacted by the birthfamily. I knew St. Anthony had answered my prayer when I realized that the birthmother was in San Antonio (St. Anthony), my husband's friend who told us about him was "Anthony", and when we picked our fathers' middle names for him, it was obvious. Ever since the boys were "babies", people have thought they were twins at times, and always shocked to learn they weren't even biologically related (not to mention different races:).<br /><br />I LOVE St. Anthony!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-5021606141261144812012-01-01T02:55:42.125-08:002012-01-01T02:55:42.125-08:00Hi Todd,
I will pray for your intentions and thos...Hi Todd,<br /><br />I will pray for your intentions and those of all the readers who asked for prayers at Mass today. <br /><br />As far as I know, you may invite St Anthony to be your patron saint. Great to hear that your birthday is his feast day. <br /><br />MaryMary O'Reganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06111088825250138537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-86691419111017264222011-12-31T20:51:17.024-08:002011-12-31T20:51:17.024-08:00+J.M.J+
Dear Mary,
Happy New Year. My birthday i...+J.M.J+<br /><br />Dear Mary,<br /><br />Happy New Year. My birthday is on 6/13, St. Anthony's feast day. Would you please ask him to help me find a good spiritual direction? How would I know if he is my patron saint? I am a convert to the Catholic faith of almost 14 yrs. Thanks for any help or insight that you can provide.<br /><br />God Bless,<br /><br />ToddAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8857216796720971555.post-66866016803292424812011-12-31T15:47:16.897-08:002011-12-31T15:47:16.897-08:00WHAT INSPIRING STORIES! I'M NOT ONE TO TURN ...WHAT INSPIRING STORIES! I'M NOT ONE TO TURN TO ST. ANTHONY FOR LOST ITEMS, BUT I AM NOW! I USUALLY ASK THE BLESSED MOTHER...AND SHE OF COURSE, HAS BEEN WONDERFUL. <br /><br />AN INTERESTING NOTE...WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL STATUE OF SAINT ANTHONY AT OUR CHURCH, AND ONE DAY, I WAS CHANGING THE HOLY WATER DISHES, WHEN IN COMES OUR PASTOR AND 2 OTHER PRIESTS, ALL IN A PANIC. I ASKED WHAT WAS WRONG, AND ONE OF THE PRIESTS SAID HE HAD LOST AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT, AND THEY HAD COME TO ASK SAINT ANTHONY FOR HELP. AND, THERE, IN FRONT OF HIS STATUE, WERE ALL THREE PRIESTS PRAYING TOGETHER. IT WAS VERY INSPIRING TO WATCH. SURE ENOUGH, THE DOCUMENT WAS FOUND. I, FOR ONE, AM NOW GOING TO PRAY FOR LOST SOULS. I KNOW MANY, AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THIS GREAT SAINT, AND THOSE PRIEST'S FAITH IN HIS ABILITY TO HELP...DENISEnoreply@blogger.com