"Did you pray to Saint Anthony?" Most of us who are of a certain age heard those words over and over again, if not from our parents, at least from our grandparents. My grandmother, it seemed, was always looking for any reason to recommend a prayer to Saint Anthony to find something that was lost.
Saint Anthony of Padua, a doctor of the Church, received his reputation as a divine lost-and-found because of the wonders that he worked both in his life and after it. Our novena this week recalls those miracles; in a Novena to Saint Anthony for Any Need, we don't ask the good saint to help us find a lost item, but to obtain for us the graces that we need. As we enter the first full week of Lent, this novena is especially appropriate if we find, as we so often do, that our determination is flagging.
If you have a favorite novena that you'd like me to choose as Novena of the Week, or if you'd like me to suggest a novena for a particular intention, send me an e-mail, and I'll work it into the rotation.
The Novena of the Week:
My Sister Donna 2 weeks before she Died and went to Heaven in 1 of our last conversations
She Placed Me in the Care and Watch of Saint
Anthony.I will get someHoly Cards at the Ave
Maria Religious Store and hwve Them Blessed and give them out to People!!!!….