St. Joseph finds all my stuff. I never knew that St. Anthony was the lost and found until recently. I fifgure St. Joseph and I have had a good thing going since mostly I lose my keys (with a Virgin and Child on them) and I end up asking him to help me find his wife.
Ok, so today’s Anthony is (in Sylvester Stallone’s words from the movie “Oscar,”) “Big Ant’ny.” I flipped through my LOH trying to decide which of the three was the patron saint of things lost.
BTW, GREAT question! I vote for “St. Anthony. If he can’t find himself, no one else is going to be able to either!” LOL!
“I flipped through my LOH trying to decide which of the three was the patron saint of things lost.”
St. Anthony of Padua (as Jeff says, today’s saint as you note): http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=24
He’s usually shown with the infant Christ in his arms, and some lilies, too.
Interestingly, according to the web page I linked to, he “was canonized (declared a saint) less than one year after his death.” Wow!
Jack Chick says Jesus came into your living room and took away your blasphemous idol because it made your daughter (a true Chrstian) sad. He left your collection of commemorative Ronald McDonald plates behind, however.
The thing is that St. Anthony is only a substitute for the more important religious reality, the sacred feminine. So what you do is you get in your small car and drive through European cities until you find that St. Anthony has been at your side the whole time.
My sister had a ‘devotion’ to St. Antony when she was young. She would pray “Tony, Tony, turn around. Something’s lost and can’t be found.” If it wasn’t found soon, she would threaten to ‘fire’ him and call on St. Jude.
I didn’t know about St. Anthony’s patronage until I was older. I always talked to St. Andrew about it, since he was a fisherman and always helped me find elusive things like fish.
And I kind of thought that Mary, being our Mom and all, might help us find our lost socks. 🙂
Ive been doing this prayerever since i was a youngn’, and never once used a statue of siant anthonoy. so, if you lost it, just say the prayer without it. and i know it as: “please saint anthony, come on down, something is lost, and must be found.” but, who really cares, either way, your asking for his help, right?
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St. Jude.
St ANthony. If he can’t find himself, no one else is going to be able to, either! 😉
If St. Anthony needs to ‘find himself’ you can bet he’s gone to California in a volkswagon van.
here’s the prayer my neighbor taught us:
Holy Tony, come on down,
SOmething’s lost that can’t be found.
Ha! See? Catholics DO pray to statues!
(To the uninformed, occasional visitor: this is a site where humour prevails: no, we do NOT pray to statues) 🙂
I’d ask a bigger Saint Anthony Statue to intercede and find the smaller St. Anthony statue.
San Cajetano (St. Cajetan)
Little Jesus, lost and found, show us where to look around. 🙂
St. Joseph finds all my stuff. I never knew that St. Anthony was the lost and found until recently. I fifgure St. Joseph and I have had a good thing going since mostly I lose my keys (with a Virgin and Child on them) and I end up asking him to help me find his wife.
“I’d ask a bigger Saint Anthony Statue to intercede and find the smaller St. Anthony statue.”
Hahahaha! :^)
BTW, we learned the invocation in a slightly more polite manner:
“St. Anthony, St. Anthony, please come around,
Something’s lost that must be found.”
Same idea though.
Ok, so today’s Anthony is (in Sylvester Stallone’s words from the movie “Oscar,”) “Big Ant’ny.” I flipped through my LOH trying to decide which of the three was the patron saint of things lost.
BTW, GREAT question! I vote for “St. Anthony. If he can’t find himself, no one else is going to be able to either!” LOL!
“I flipped through my LOH trying to decide which of the three was the patron saint of things lost.”
St. Anthony of Padua (as Jeff says, today’s saint as you note):
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=24
He’s usually shown with the infant Christ in his arms, and some lilies, too.
Interestingly, according to the web page I linked to, he “was canonized (declared a saint) less than one year after his death.” Wow!
Jack Chick says Jesus came into your living room and took away your blasphemous idol because it made your daughter (a true Chrstian) sad. He left your collection of commemorative Ronald McDonald plates behind, however.
The thing is that St. Anthony is only a substitute for the more important religious reality, the sacred feminine. So what you do is you get in your small car and drive through European cities until you find that St. Anthony has been at your side the whole time.
(There might be an albino monk involved.)
My sister had a ‘devotion’ to St. Antony when she was young. She would pray “Tony, Tony, turn around. Something’s lost and can’t be found.” If it wasn’t found soon, she would threaten to ‘fire’ him and call on St. Jude.
I didn’t know about St. Anthony’s patronage until I was older. I always talked to St. Andrew about it, since he was a fisherman and always helped me find elusive things like fish.
And I kind of thought that Mary, being our Mom and all, might help us find our lost socks. 🙂
Ive been doing this prayerever since i was a youngn’, and never once used a statue of siant anthonoy. so, if you lost it, just say the prayer without it. and i know it as: “please saint anthony, come on down, something is lost, and must be found.” but, who really cares, either way, your asking for his help, right?