Have you ever prayed to St Anthony?

Question

Did he help you? (He has helped me MANY times!)

Answer 1

Most definitely!! Just a few years ago a family in our parish prayed that a man who had disappeared would be found and brought back to his family. They prayed this in front of a relic of St. Anthony's a few days before his feast day. On St. Anthony's feast day, the man was found and returned to his family!! Thank you, St. Anthony!

Answer 2

You should only pray to god never to a man. If you were helped it was because God helped you not St. Anthony. Would you stand before your maker and tell him that a dead saint get all the credit for your good fortune? Would you tell him he had nothing to do woth it. Yes Im not only a christian I am a pastors wife.

Answer 3

Thanks for your question, ClassyChris. St. Anthony is a great Saint and is worthy of the praise and honor of men, just as he is already honored as a friend of God by our Lord and Saviour at His heavenly throne.

I pray to him every year on his feast day (January 17 for us Orthodox Christians), and other times when I am so moved. He is a great help to all of mankind.

For those who call themselves Christians and tell us that we should never pray to a man (or "some guy" or "a dead saint") but only to God, I recommend you learn your Bible a little better. Christ said: "God is the God of the living and not the dead". The Saints in Christ are not dead - in fact, it is they who are truly alive, while we who are in this world and not yet saints are not yet among the living. For those who say that we should only pray to God, and not call on the intercession of the Saints, remember that "the prayer of a righteous man availeth much". Are any of us so righteous that we can afford to sneer at and disdain God's holy and righteous ones? Those who have already been purified, illumined and deified and stand in His presence offering up constant prayer for the salvation of the world? Humble yourselves, and realize that we need all the help we can get.

If we were only meant to pray directly to God the Father, and have a relationship only with God the Father ("in Jesus' name", as you will of course insist), then why "in Jesus' name" did the Lord send out Apostles, Prophets, Martyrs, and all the righteous ones from Noah on down through the Ages? God WANTS us to help each other, because as John the Evangelist says, if we do not love our brothers whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen?

Holy Saint Anthony the Great, pray to Christ God for us sinners! Amen.

Answer 4

I pray to GOD. Whos ST Anthony?

Answer 5

St. Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost and stolen articles, a Franciscan preacher and teacher.


Prayer to Saint Anthony of Padua
Dear Saint Anthony, you are the patron of the poor and the helper of all who seek lost articles. Help me to find the object I have lost so that I will be able to make better use of the time I will gain for God's greater honor and glory. Grant your gracious aid to all people who seek what they have lost - especially those who seek to regain God's grace. Amen.

Answer 6

I am a Christian and NO I never will. What good does it do to pray to an idol of some dead saint? That is idol worship, condemned in the Bible, specifically in the 10 Commandments.

I don't pray to the Pope, or to Mary or to any other false god.

I pray to God in Jesus name, He is the only One that will give me an answer to Prayer.

Mary is not a co-intercessor. we are not saved by her blood. Mary is nothing more than a blessed human being.

Jesus died and saved us, Jesus is the only mediator between God and man.

"For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."- 1 Timothy 2:5, the Bible

Obviously Catholics don't do all their stuff according to the Bible. To much religion is involved, too much traditions and rituals. Too many unBiblical things.

May God bless you and give you wisdom.

Answer 7

Protestants have a problem with Catholics "praying to" saints. What they don't realize is that Catholics don't really pray to saints -- they ask the saints to pray for them. This is a huge difference.

Of course, Protestants then say "I don't have to do that, I can pray to God." But if you ask them if they ever asked a friend or a grandparent to pray for them -- they always say 'yes.'

Answer 8

Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony;
Where forth are thou Saint Anthony;
Something has been lost;
and can not be found;

Yes all the time and then my wife finds what I was looking for.

Answer 9

No, but I've asked him to intercede for me and find my stuff when it was stolen from my car when it was broken into. The stuff was my bible case, prayer cards, Rosary and a book was with it, but separately, "Introduction to the Devout Life by St.Francis De Sales". It was all returned back to me within a week and in perfect condition. It was actually left at a church, where the person that worked there had moved into my building the week prior she found it under a tree, and brought it all right to my door.

He doesn't just 'find' stuff, he delivers it to the door.

I have a painting of him in my living room. :)

Answer 10

No never have and never will. I pray only to the Father and I do it in his loving son's name,Jesus. My bible says it is wrong to pray to anyone or anything else besides God. He alone deserves all worship and praise. He alone is the hearer of all prayers.