St Anthonys Bread. Prayer.
100 Days, once a day. Leo XIII, May 11, 1897.
TO thee we have recourse, most powerful worker of miracles, in whose breast burned a sublime fire of charity towards GOD and the poor. To thee, who wast deemed worthy to hold in thy arms the Infant JESUS, who chose to be born poor, to thee, full of confidence, we betake ourselves, that thou mayest pray the good JESUS to have compassion on us in our great tribulations. Oh! obtain for us the favour which we humbly implore (here state the favour needed). If thou dost obtain it for us, O glorious St Anthony, we will offer thee bread for the poor whom thou didst love so greatly on earth. PATER, Ave, Gloria.
St Anthony’s Bread. Thanksgiving.
100 Days, once a day. Leo XIII, July 13, 1896
O GLORIOUS worker of miracles, father of the poor, who, wondrously gifted with a heart full of compassion for the miseries of the unfortunate, didst by a miracle lay open the heart of a miser steeped in avarice; thou who dost offer our prayers to our LORD and obtain a hearing, accept as a proof of our gratitude the pence we lay at thy feet for the relief of misfortune. May it turn to the benefit of ourselves and of the suffering; hasten with thy usual kindness to help us in our temporal necessities, and still more to provide for our spiritual needs, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.