Tuesday St. Anthony Novena Mass

ASSESSING INTEREST: TUESDAY NOVENA MASS TO SAINT ANTHONY

St. Anthony Parish is excited to announce that we are assessing interest in starting a Tuesday Novena Mass, followed by the Novena prayer to St Anthony (please indicate interest below). This amazing Novena is practiced around the world by people of all religious backgrounds. In this Novena we ask for Saint Anthony to intercede in a miraculous fashion—mainly for grace from God in our lives, but also for our petitions. In return for the good we desire, we promise to live our lives as Saint Anthony did, conforming our actions to the truths taught to us by the church and serving the poor.

While we will start with a very simple Novena Mass as we grow interest (e.g. Mass followed by the Novena prayer), the fuller practice of this Novena often includes:

• Adoration (30 minutes or less)
• Mass
• Novena prayer to Saint Anthony
• Blessing of table bread
• Procession toward altar area having small statue of Saint Anthony and the blessed bread)
• Receipt of the blessed bread and exit from church