{"id":1757,"date":"2018-06-14T01:40:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T05:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2018-06-14T01:50:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T05:50:50","slug":"saint-anthony-june-13-pray-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/2018\/06\/saint-anthony-june-13-pray-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Anthony: June 13 – Pray for us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The following link is to a video on the life of St. Anthony. Please copy and paste the link into your browser. Enjoy the video.<\/div>\n
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Saint Anthony of Padua (1195 A.D. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c June 13, 1231 A.D.)<\/div>\n
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The gospel call to leave everything and follow Christ was the rule of Anthony\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life. Over and over again, God called him to something new in his plan. Every time Anthony responded with renewed zeal and self-sacrificing to serve his Lord Jesus more completely.
\nHis journey as the servant of God began as a very young man when he decided to join the Augustinians in Lisbon, giving up a future of wealth and power to be a servant of God. Later when the bodies of the first Franciscan martyrs went through the Portuguese city where he was stationed, he was again filled with an intense longing to be one of those closest to Jesus himself: those who die for the Good News.
\nSo Anthony entered the Franciscan Order and set out to preach to the Moors. But an illness prevented him from achieving that goal. He went to Italy and was stationed in a small hermitage where he spent most of his time praying, reading the Scriptures and doing menial tasks.
\nThe call of God came again at an ordination where no one was prepared to speak. The humble and obedient Anthony hesitantly accepted the task. The years of searching for Jesus in prayer, of reading sacred Scripture and of serving him in poverty, chastity, and obedience had prepared Anthony to allow the Spirit to use his talents. Anthony\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sermon was astounding to those who expected an unprepared speech and knew not the Spirit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s power to give people words.
\nRecognized as a great man of prayer and a great Scripture and theology scholar, Anthony became the first friar to teach theology to the other friars. Soon he was called from that post to preach to the Albigensians in France, using his profound knowledge of Scripture and theology to convert and reassure those who had been misled by their denial of Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s divinity and of the sacraments..
\nAfter he led the friars in northern Italy for three years, he made his headquarters in the city of Padua. He resumed his preaching and began writing sermon notes to help other preachers. In the spring of 1231 Anthony withdrew to a friary at Camposampiero where he had a sort of treehouse built as a hermitage. There he prayed and prepared for death.
\nOn June 13, he became very ill and asked to be taken back to Padua, where he died after receiving the last sacraments. Anthony was canonized less than a year later and named a Doctor of the Church in 1946.
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\nAnthony should be the patron of those who find their lives completely uprooted and set in a new and unexpected direction. Like all saints, he is a perfect example of turning one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life completely over to Christ. God did with Anthony as God pleased\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand what God pleased was a life of spiritual power and brilliance that still attracts admiration today. He whom popular devotion has nominated as finder of lost objects found himself by losing himself totally to the providence of God.
\nSaint Anthony of Padua is the Patron Saint of:
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The following link is to a video on the life of St. Anthony. Please copy and paste the link into your browser. Enjoy the video. – https:\/\/gloria.tv\/video\/1N2YnMA7YuCs36yzVRS4koEzy – Saint Anthony of Padua (1195 A.D. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c June 13, 1231 A.D.) – The gospel call to leave everything and follow Christ was the rule of Anthony\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}