St. Anthony Chaplet?

[WesternBlot]

Good evening everyone.

A friend of mine from church recently gave me a gift that her parents had brought to me from their home in Lebanon. It is a wooden cross with a small picture of St. Anthony of Padua in the middle, and a string with 13 wooden beads along it. Is this some sort of chaplet to pray to St. Anthony? Are there specific prayers to be done for each of the 13 beads?

Thank you!

 

[prettiefly]

How to pray the Chaplet of Saint Anthony

This Chaplet has a medal of St. Anthony and the Child Jesus, followed by 13 sets of 3 beads each. Each set of three beads represents:

1 st bead, recite 1 “Our Father…”;
2 nd bead, recite 1 Hail Mary…;
3 rd bead, recite 1 Glory Be…

At the end of the 13 sets of 3 beads, you say the Miraculous Repository by Saint Bonaventure

If miracles thou fain would see,
Lo, error, death, calamity.
The leprous stain, the demon flies,
From beds of pain the sick arise.

(The hungry seas forego their prey,
The prisoner’s cruel chains give way;
While palsied limbs and chattels lost
Both young and old recovered boast.)

And perils perish, plenty’s hoard,
Is heaped on hunger’s famished board;
Let those relate who know it well,
Let Padua on her patron tell.

(The hungry seas forego their prey,
The prisoner’s cruel chains give way;
While palsied limbs and chattels lost
Both young and old recovered boast.)

Glory Be…

(The hungry seas forego their prey,
The prisoner’s cruel chains give way;
While palsied limbs and chattels lost
Both young and old recovered boast.)

V - Pray for us, blessed Anthony;

R - That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Let us pray.
O God,
let the votive commendation of Blessed Anthony,
Thy Confessor,
be a source of joy to Thy Church,
that she may always be fortified
with spiritual assistance,
and may deserve to possess eternal joy.
Through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

During each of the 13 sets of 3 beads, you meditate on the following themes:

1. St. Anthony, who raised the dead, pray for those Christians now in their agony, and for our dear departed.
2. St. Anthony, zealous preacher of the Gospel, fortify us against the errors of the enemies of God, and pray for the Holy Father and the Church.
3. St. Anthony, powerful with the Heart of Jesus, preserve us from the calamities which threaten us on account of our sins.
4. St. Anthony, who drivest away devils, make us triumph over their snares.
5. St. Anthony, lily of heavenly purity, purify us from the stains of the soul and preserve our bodies from all dangers.
6. St. Anthony, healer of the sick, cure our diseases and preserve us in health.
7. St. Anthony, guide of travelers, bring to safe harbor those who are in danger of perishing and calm the troubled waves of passion which agitate our souls.
8. St. Anthony, liberator of captives, deliver us from the captivity of evil.
9. St. Anthony, who restorest to young and old the use of their limbs, obtain for us the perfect use of the senses of our body and the faculties of our soul.
10. St. Anthony, finder of lost things, help us to find all that we have lost in the spiritual and temporal order.
11. St. Anthony, protected by Mary, avert the dangers which threaten our body and our soul.
12. St. Anthony, helper of the poor, help us in our needs and give bread and work to those who ask.
13. St. Anthony, we thankfully proclaim thy miraculous power, and we beseech thee to protect us all the days of our life. Amen

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For stories of prayers answered through the intersession of Saint Anthony, visit
saintanthonylostandfound.blogspot.com/

 

[WesternBlot]

Thank you so much! Since it’s only 13 beads (not 13 sets of 3) it’s maybe a bit easier to carry around with me.

 

[JM3]

Search results:

siteground240.com/~cathlipe/index.php?title=Rosary#.22St._Anthony.27s_Rosary.22

“St. Anthony’s Rosary”

The Irish (specifically the Gaelic-speaking) and their descendants have a tradition of saying thirteen Aves rather than ten, in honour of St. Anthony of Padua, whose feast day is 13 June, and in Ireland is commemorated on Friday the 13th in non-English speaking communities. Also called the St. Anthony Chaplet, its prayers are accompanied by a poem called the Miraculous Responsory or si quideris, written by Saint Bonaventure. Like most chaplets, it is available at Catholic supply stores.

ainglkiss.com/prayers/sac.htm

(At times this chaplet may be composed of 13 beads instead of 13 groups of 3 beads each.)

 

[Alexander_Roman]

St Anthony of Padua is truly a wonderful and powerful Saint!

During the Second World War, my grandfather (a married Eastern Catholic priest with seven children) went to a store to buy food for the week.

The couple who ran the store had lost the previous week’s receipts and cash. They couldn’t find it anywhere and they were getting really anxious. And they were members of the communist party.

My grandfather, in his clerical collar, simply told them to pray to St Anthony as he would help them find the lost items.

They laughed at him at first, but then, as their continued search didn’t bear any fruit, looked at Fr. John and went into the next room, closing the door behind them.

My grandfather could hear them praying . . . to St Anthony.

They then emerged from the room, looking the whole time at my grandfather. Then the man did something interesing. He put his hand on his eyes and then reached out with his other hand to grab the first drawer handle he couldd reach. He then pulled it out and . . there was the money and the receipts!

The communist couple then gave my priest-grandfather plenty of extra bread and even chocolate for his children (and no one had any chocolate in those days, as my grandfather related to me with a smile).

I thank St Anthony of Padua for helping my family and for providing such a powerful witness to God’s miraculous power through His Saints!!

St Anthony of Padua, we praise you and ask you to bless us!

Alex

 

[OFS]

Hi

i am franciscan and make rosaries and chaplets. The only Franciscan chaplet that has 13 beads that i am aware of is based on St. Francis’s Peace Prayer. Franciscans often use it early in the morning as part of their daily conversion, using it to ask for divine inspiration as they pray for ways to bring Christ to others and into themselves in a new day. It can be prayed like this:

Kiss the crucifix (or medal) and make a Sign of the Cross. Pause to connect with Our Lord, then say a very short prayer or make some heart-felt inspiration such as “Jesus, shine through me today.”

Then on each of the thirteen beads you will encounter a Franciscan footstep.
Note well that the first bead is the keynote petition of this chaplet:

1.	Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

After praying this petition, make a short meditation on it and receive God’s inspiration on how to be His Peace and ponder what He wants you to do to bring this peace to others in your life today.

Continue this pattern for the next nine petitions.

2.	Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
3.	Where there is injury, pardon.
4.	Where there is doubt, faith.
5.	Where there is despair, hope.
6.	Where there is darkness, light.
7.	Where there is sadness, joy.
				8.	 O, divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be
                             consoled, as to console;
            9.	To be understood, as to understand,
			10.	To be loved, as to love.

On the final three beads empty yourself of attachments and refocus on the goal of our earthly journey:

11.	For it is in giving that we receive.
12.	It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
13.	And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

A Glory Be and a brief thanksgiving finish the chaplet.

pax et bonum