St. Anthony of Padua Church

03/13/2026

It is the Third Friday in Lent and we are halfway through Lent.

Tonight you actually have 2 opportunities to receive a Plenary Indulgence:
1 for the Stations of the Cross and
1 for Prayer Before a Crucifix.

Only one Indulgence can be a Plenary outside the Jubilee year, the other is a Partial Indulgenc; both remitt sin!

An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.

We are all sinners, some of us bigger than others. I was a stupid youth and I am still far from perfect, so I need all of the help the Church offers: frequent Confession, Communion and Plenary indulgence to both keep me from sinning and atone for past sins.

Only God truly knows if we get a plenary or partial indulgence, but I will try for whatever God wishes to bestow!

Confession and Stations begin at 5pm.

The Relic of the True Cross will be venerated during Stations and Fr will bless us with the Relic before Mass.
You will have an opportunity to touch objects to this first class relic and venerate before Mass.

God is good and we are 1/2 through Lent. Let's finish strong.

Not to us, O Lord, not to us; but to thy name give glory! Psalm 113:9

03/10/2026

We begin the Novena after Mass tonight. Please join us.

Viva San Giuseppe!

Today we begin the Novena to St Joseph!

O St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in you all my interest and desires.

O St. Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession, and obtain for me from your divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So that, having engaged here below your heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of Fathers.

O St. Joseph, I never weary of contemplating you, and Jesus asleep in your arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart. Press Him close in my name and kiss His fine head for me and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath.

St. Joseph, patron of departing souls, pray for me.
R. Amen.

03/06/2026

Tomorrow is First Friday! Have you started or completed your 9 First Fridays?

We are entering the 3rd week of Lent this Sunday, still plenty of time to ask for and receive the graces being poured out this Lent.

Please join us for Stations of Cross every Friday in Lent at 5pm for a plenary indulgence!

We will venerate the Relic of the True Cross during Stations.

Thank you the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George for donating this beautiful reliquary!

We will also have Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from Noon -5 tomorrow for First Friday.

"A Holy Hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament is worth more than a thousand years of human glory." - St. Padre Pio

02/26/2026

Opportunity to grow in faith and holiness this Lent:

Please join us for our Lenten Mission Sunday, March 8th -Tuesday, March 10th.

Canon Johannes Kindler from the Missionaries of the Holy Ghost will be giving the mission talks.

Looking to veil? Or need another veil? There will be a veil sale during the Mission.

A plenary indulgence is available to all who make the majority of the Mission. Normal conditions apply.

The talk is about Our Lady and her help with redemption. See you there!

02/17/2026

Shrove Tuesday is the Votive Feast of the Holy Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ Deformed in the Passion, a day most worthy of extra acts of reparation. Let us prepare for a holy Lent focused on true penances. The Holy Face Devotions are the weapons we need for our time to combat evil hidden everywhere.

“I have already told you that I hold you in My hands as an arrow. I now want to hurl this arrow against my enemies. To arm you for the battle ahead, I give you the weapons of my Passion, that is My Cross which these enemies dread, and also the other instruments of My tortures. Go forward to meet those foes with the artlessness of a child, and the bravery of a courageous soldier. Receive this mission the benediction of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” —Revelation to Sr. Mary of St. Peter, Carmelite in Tours, France from our Lord Jesus Christ on March 29, 1847

Let us plan to make reparation to the Holy Face using the Golden Arrow Prayer:

May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on earth, and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen.

Tonight at 6pm there will be a Votive Mass to the Holy Face promulgated by Pius the Xii in 1958.

We will say the Chaplet of the Holy Face after the Rosary before Mass..

Arise, O Lord, and let Thy enemies be scattered, and let all who hate Thee flee before Thy Face!

02/16/2026

01/30/2026

Monday, we will celebrate Candlemas, which is the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord and the Purification of Our Lady.

If you wish to have candles blessed, please bring your candles (pillars, jars, advent, birthday.....) to be blessed either to Sunday's Masses or to Candlemas.

Candlemas is Monday February 2nd. Confession 5:30pm. Blessing of candles and procession followed by Mass 6pm.

The Mass is illuminated by candles which are periodically lit and extinguished throughout the Mass.

More about Candlemas

The Golden Legend, by Jacobus de Voragine, A.D. 1275, gives us another level of symbolism -- one that illustrates the error of Protestantism's idea of "sola fide," or that we are saved by "faith alone":
..if we will appear in this feast tofore the face of God, pure and clean and acceptable, we ought to have in us three things which be signified by the candle burning: that is good deeds, true faith, with good works. And like as the candle without burning is dead, right so faith is dead without works as Saint James saith, for to believe in God without obeying his commandments profiteth nothing. And therefore saith Saint Gregory: The good work ought to show withoutforth that thy intention abide good withinforth the heart, without seeking within any vain glory to be allowed and praised. And by the fire is understood charity, of which God saith: I am come to put fire in the earth, and whom I will, I will burn.
The candle blessing -- one of the three principle blessings of the liturgical year, the others being the blessing of palms and ashes -- will be given by the priest wearing a purple cope. He will pray 5 prayers over the candles placed near the Altar. The candles are sprinkled three times while the Aspérges me is sung, and then they are incensed and distributed. When we take a blessed candle from the priest's hand, we kiss the candle and then the priest's hand, just as we do on Palm Sunday when we kiss the palm and then the priest's hand when receiving the blessed palms.

During the Distribution, the Nunc Dimittis -- the Canticle of Simeon (Luke 2:29-32) -- is sung.

-Taken from an article linked in comments . Picture from 2023.

01/23/2026

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. - St. Isidore of Seville

01/09/2026