Praying to Find Another Lost Wallet

By ice rivers

Fri, 17 Mar 2023
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I'm well known for losing my wallet and panicking when I do so. The panic doesn't help in the search for the wallet which of course when I find it, if I find it is in the last place that I look. 

It would be nice if I had a prayer instead of a frantic panic in those harrowing moments.

Maybe a prayer of St. Anthony who is the Catholic patron saint of finding lost objects. Saint Anthony was born in 1195 and became a Franciscan monk in 1220. He was an eloquent, man who believed in poverty and simplicity.

He was such a good man that he died at 36.

During his brief life, he acheived many miracles including one where he brought a guy named Leonardo back from the dead.

 Leonardo was attending one of Anthony's sermons when he passed out. According to various versions Leonardo was a young, old man who was a wealthy merchant/poor laborer who collapsed from exhaustion, boredom, cardiac arrest and or stage fright.

Ironically the best basketball player in my high school was a kid named Anthony Leonardo who went on to become a lawyer well regarded for his ethics and skill before getting involved with the local mob and being sent to jail.

Anyhow, back to the miracle and away from the irony. After Leonardo keeld over Anthony approached the body and prayed over him. Lo and behold, Leonardo snapped out of whatever funk he was dealing with at the moment and rose to his feet to the astonishment of everybody present for the sermon that day.

A simialr thing happened to me forty years ago while waiting to gain entrance to a Moody Blues Concet so I can relate to Leonardo, big time.

That's good enough for me.

I need all the help I can get in those frantic lost wallet moments, especially when Lynn isn't home.

So hear me, I beseech thee St. Anthony.

Can I call you Tony?

Hey Tony

With all due respect, patron saint of lost articles, I ask for your help in finding my lost wallet. You have been known to work many miracles of healing and restoration, and I believe that you have the power to intercede with God on my behalf.

Please pray for me and ask God to help me find my wallet, which contains important items that I need for my daily life. Help me to keep calm and patient as I search, and guide me to the place where it may have been misplaced or lost.

I trust in your powerful intercession, Tony, and I thank you for your love and compassion. Amen."

Yeah

Why not

 

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Submitted by Penny4athought on

I can so relate to this and have invoked St. Anthony's name many times over the years in frantic search of a lost, desperately needed, item. Dear St. Anthony look around, something’s lost that MUST be found. That's been my simple prayer and believe it or not; it always works, even for a less than stellar church goer; so as I said before, I can definitely relate to your lost wallet story. I laughed at the ‘Can I call you Tony’ and I’m sure St. Anthony must have laughed at that too. I think he has a good sense of humor, allowing all of us to call on him for every lost trinket...he must have.smiley

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Submitted by ice rivers on

I've been feeling a little bit lost and alone myself here on FB lately so my prayer to Tony is also a secret prayer towards finding myself which I've kind of lost along the way. The fact that  you can relate to my little story helps me to think that perhaps I'm not as alone nor as weird as I've felt in the last few days. Thanks for your attention. And Thank You Saint Anthony.