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Welcome to St. Anthony's Sunday Mass - 11:00AM (usually) Friday Mass - 12:10 pm ---- First Saturday Mass: 12:10 pm Confessions: Saturday 2 - 3 pm or by appointment Adoration: Friday 1 - 2 pm after Mass
St. Anthony of Padua Anthony's wealthy family wanted him to be a great nobleman, but for the sake of Christ he became a poor Franciscan Priest. When the remains of first Franciscan martyrs, were brought to be buried in his church, Anthony was moved to leave his order, enter the Friars Minor, and go to Morocco to evangelize. Shipwrecked at Sicily, he joined some other brothers who were going to Portiuncula. He lived in a cave at San Paolo leaving only to attend Mass and sweep the nearby monastery. One day when a scheduled speaker failed to appear, the brothers pressed him into speaking. He impressed them so that he was thereafter constantly traveling, evangelizing, preaching, and teaching theology through Italy and France. A gifted speaker, he attracted crowds everywhere he went, speaking in multiple tongues; legend says that even the fish loved to listen. Wonder worker. One of the most beloved of saints, his images and statues are found everywhere. Proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 16 January 1946. Born 1195 at Lisbon, Portugal Patron Saint against shipwrecks and starvation and for animals, paupers, harvests, Native Americans, fishermen, travelers, the elderly, expectant mothers, mariners, mail, and seekers of lost articles Special prayers offered in his name as the: Consoler of the Afflicted St. Anthony's Ministries Church Office Hours: Monday & Friday 10:00 - 2:00 |
