Fr Alan told us a story of St Anthony of Padua when he was preaching to the Pope. On that day when St Anthony was preaching to the Pope, he was referring to the passage from the Acts of the Apostles [3: 6]. St Anthony said when Ss Peter and John were going to the Temple for prayers in the afternoon, they met a crippled man by the entrance who was begging. Peter said to the man, "Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!" Peter took the hand of the man and helped him to stand up and instantly his feet and ankles became firm, he jumped up, stood and began to walk, went to the Temple praising God.
St Anthony turned to the Pope and said, "Gold and silver you have plenty, but can you get a cripple to walk?"
I love St Anthony and I like his directness.
Fr Alan came to me and asked me to clean St Anthony of Padua's statue at St Charles' church, one Holy Saturday. Fr Alan said as I have a devotion to St Anthony, I should clean his statue.
Unfortunately St Anthony's statue is left outside to weather the elements today at St Charles. I heard about it and saw the statue recently when I was out looking for Borromeo, the cat.
St Charles church's full name is the parish church of St Charles Borromeo!
I have a friend who has a cat and the cat is registered as Borromeo but is normally called by a nick name, Bobo. He went missing for over eight days.
My friend and I prayed to St Anthony and she found the cat within 24 hours.
Thank you St Anthony for finding Borromeo and please pray for us!
[I now call Borromeo, Ah'Hog 阿福 meaning fortunate one, because he was lost for eight days, and was found!]
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