St. Anthony Church Columbus

St. Anthony Church Columbus Saint Anthony Church offers to all a beautiful church, diversity and strong faith.

05/18/2024

Starting 1 month from today!! May the Holy Spirit keep us rooted in the Northland Community as we reconfigure our buildings in order to continue our Catholic presence and increase the safety of our school students.

Thank You to all for the HappyBirthday wishes and greetings and messages!Like all of you I and still making my way down ...
04/23/2024

Thank You to all for the HappyBirthday wishes and greetings and messages!

Like all of you I and still making my way down a road, “seeking a city whose foundations are not laid by human hands, but by God’s “

Thank for sharing the journey together. May you and I never stop searching and may we never make the mistake of thinking that we are there by settling for less than who and where God wants us to be!

Let us journey well and encourage each other along the way. You have done and been that for me and deeply grateful to you and thankful to our God.

May we help each other; together may we find our way home! Peace, prayers and love, your friend and brother, Tom P

Reflect: Thomas Merton on Easter Sunday, 1948All the apple trees came out in blossom Good Friday. It rained and got cold...
03/31/2024

Reflect: Thomas Merton on Easter Sunday, 1948

All the apple trees came out in blossom Good Friday. It rained and got colder, but today is very bright with a pure sky. The willow is full of green. Things are all in bud.

And in my heart, the deepest peace, Christ’s clarity, lucid and quiet and ever-present as eternity. On these big feasts you come out on top of a plateau in the spiritual life to get a new view of everything. Especially Easter. Easter is like what it will be entering eternity when you suddenly, peacefully, clearly recognize all your mistakes as well as all that you did well: everything falls into place

03/17/2024

Breastplate of Saint Patrick

I bind unto myself today
The strong Name of the Trinity,
By invocation of the same,
The Three in One and One in Three.

I bind this day to me for ever.
By power of faith, Christ’s incarnation;
His baptism in the Jordan river;
His death on Cross for my salvation;
His bursting from the spicèd tomb;
His riding up the heavenly way;
His coming at the day of doom;*
I bind unto myself today.

I bind unto myself the power
Of the great love of the cherubim;
The sweet ‘well done’ in judgment hour,
The service of the seraphim,
Confessors’ faith, Apostles’ word,
The Patriarchs’ prayers, the Prophets’ scrolls,
All good deeds done unto the Lord,
And purity of virgin souls.

I bind unto myself today
The virtues of the starlit heaven,
The glorious sun’s life-giving ray,
The whiteness of the moon at even,
The flashing of the lightning free,
The whirling wind’s tempestuous shocks,
The stable earth, the deep salt sea,
Around the old eternal rocks.

I bind unto myself today
The power of God to hold and lead,
His eye to watch, His might to stay,
His ear to hearken to my need.
The wisdom of my God to teach,
His hand to guide, His shield to ward,
The word of God to give me speech,
His heavenly host to be my guard.

Against the demon snares of sin,
The vice that gives temptation force,
The natural lusts that war within,
The hostile men that mar my course;
Or few or many, far or nigh,
In every place and in all hours,
Against their fierce hostility,
I bind to me these holy powers.

Against all Satan’s spells and wiles,
Against false words of heresy,
Against the knowledge that defiles,
Against the heart’s idolatry,
Against the wizard’s evil craft,
Against the death wound and the burning,
The choking wave and the poisoned shaft,
Protect me, Christ, till Thy returning.

Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

I bind unto myself the Name,
The strong Name of the Trinity;
By invocation of the same.
The Three in One, and One in Three,
Of Whom all nature hath creation,
Eternal Father, Spirit, Word:
Praise to the Lord of my salvation,
Salvation is of Christ the Lord. Amen.

He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You wi...
03/13/2024

He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.”
— Julian of Norwich

From a treatise on John by Saint Augustine, bishopLet us do now what the Lord commands. Let us follow in the footsteps o...
03/10/2024

From a treatise on John by Saint Augustine, bishop

Let us do now what the Lord commands. Let us follow in the footsteps of the Lord. Let us throw off the chains that prevent us from following him. Who can throw off these shackles without the aid of the one addressed in these words: You have broken my chains?

Another psalm says of him: The Lord frees those in chains, the Lord raises up the downcast.
Those who have been freed and raised up follow the light. The light they follow speaks to them: I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness. The Lord gives light to the blind.

Brethren, that light shines on us now, for we have had our eyes anointed with the eye-salve of faith. His saliva was mixed with earth to anoint the man born blind. We are of Adam’s stock, blind from our birth; we need him to give us light.

He mixed saliva with earth, and so it was prophesied: Truth has sprung up from the earth. He himself has said: I am the way, the truth, and the life.

We shall be in possession of the truth when we see face to face. This is his promise to us. Who would dare to hope for something that God in his goodness did not choose to promise or bestow?�
We shall see face to face. The Apostle says: Now I know in part, now obscurely through a mirror, but then face to face. John the apostle says in one of his letters: Dearly beloved, we are now children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. We know that when he is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

This is a great promise.
If you love me, follow me. “I do love you,” you protest, “but how do I follow you?”

If the Lord your God said to you: “I am the truth and the life,” in your desire for truth, in your love for life, you would certainly ask him to show you the way to reach them. You would say to yourself: “Truth is a great reality, life is a great reality; if only it were possible for my soul to find them!

Prayer knocks, fasting obtains, mercy receives: Part 1There are three things, my brethren, by which faith stands firm, d...
03/05/2024

Prayer knocks, fasting obtains, mercy receives: Part 1

There are three things, my brethren, by which faith stands firm, devotion remains constant, and virtue endures. They are prayer, fasting and mercy. Prayer knocks at the door, fasting obtains, mercy receives. Prayer, mercy and fasting: these three are one, and they give life to each other.
Fasting is the soul of prayer, mercy is the lifeblood of fasting. Let no one try to separate them; they cannot be separated. If you have only one of them or not all together, you have nothing. So if you pray, fast; if you fast, show mercy; if you want your petition to be heard, hear the petition of others. If you do not close your ear to others you open God’s ear to yourself.
When you fast, see the fasting of others. If you want God to know that you are hungry, know that another is hungry. If you hope for mercy, show mercy. If you look for kindness, show kindness. If you want to receive, give. If you ask for yourself what you deny to others, your asking is a mockery. —

From a sermon by Saint Peter Chrysologus, bishop

Boasting of God is perfect and complete when we take no pride in our own righteousness but acknowledge that we are utter...
03/04/2024

Boasting of God is perfect and complete when we take no pride in our own righteousness but acknowledge that we are utterly lacking in true righteousness and have been made righteous only by faith in Christ.
Paul boasts of the fact that he holds his own righteousness in contempt and seeks the righteousness in faith that comes through Christ and is from God. He wants only to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to have fellowship with his sufferings by taking on the likeness of his death, in the hope that somehow he may arrive at the resurrection of the dead.
Here we see all overweening pride laid low. Humanity, there is nothing left for you to boast of, for your boasting and hope lie in putting to death all that is your own and seeking the future life that is in Christ. Since we have its first fruits we are already in its midst, living entirely in the grace and gift of God.
It is God who is active within us, giving us both the will and the achievement, in accordance with his good purpose. Through his Spirit, God also reveals his wisdom in the plan he has preordained for our glory.
God gives power and strength in our labours. I have toiled harder than all the others, Paul says, but it is not I but the grace of God, which is with me.
God rescues us from dangers beyond all human expectation. We felt within ourselves that we had received the sentence of death, so that we might not trust ourselves but in God, who raises the dead; from so great a danger did he deliver us, and does deliver us; we hope in him, for he will deliver us again. — St Basil the Great

02/26/2024

Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day.

Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it.

Be at peace, then, put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations, and say continually:

‘The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped.

He is not only with me but in me and I in Him.'. —Saint Francis de Sales

This mingling of life and death, rising and falling is so strange that we cannot even know where we truly are, for our p...
02/24/2024

This mingling of life and death, rising and falling is so strange that we cannot even know where we truly are, for our perceptions are so sundered from each other that we can’t tell what is real.

On the one hand, we live in a holy agreement with God; when we feel the Divine Presence in our lives, we set our wills, our intellects, our souls, and our strength to following God.

Then we hate the arrogant stirrings in our minds, all that causes us to fall away from God, physically and spiritually.

But then again, we lose sight of the Divine sweetness, and we fall once more into such darkness that we stumble into all manner of sorrows and troubles.

We can only comfort ourselves that we never give our deepest permission for the trouble and sorrow to enter our lives; the strength of Christ our Protector guards our inmost beings.

We revolt against the darkness, our minds filled with groaning, enduring the pain and sadness, praying for the time when the Divine Presence will once again be revealed to us.

This is the medley of human life: faith and sorrow, insight and darkness, joy and agony, singing in counterpart through our days.

But God wants us to know that through it all the Divine Presence is the melody that never changes.

Julian of Norwich, All Shall Be Well: A Modern-Language Version of the Revelation of Julian of Norwich

“How consoling it is to see a just man die! His death is good, because it ends his miseries; it is better still, because...
02/23/2024

“How consoling it is to see a just man die!
His death is good, because it ends his miseries;
it is better still, because he begins a new life;
it is excellent, because it places him in sweet security. From this bed of mourning, whereon he leaves a precious load of virtues,
he goes to take possession of the true land of the living,

Jesus acknowledges him as His brother and as His friend, for he has died to the world before closing his eyes from its dazzling light.

Such is the death of the saints, a death very precious in the sight of God.”
— St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

02/23/2024

Celebrate the life of Craig Smith, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Schoedinger North.

Address

Columbus, OH

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 10am
Wednesday 9am - 10am
Thursday 9am - 10am
Friday 9am - 10am
Saturday 4pm - 5pm
Sunday 10:30am - 11:30am

Telephone

+16148854857

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when St. Anthony Church Columbus posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Place Of Worship

Send a message to St. Anthony Church Columbus:

Shortcuts

Share

Category