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St.
Anthony
Feast Day:June 13th Day of the Week: Tuesday Emblem: A Lily Number: 13 Color of Candle: Brown (for special requests), green (for financial needs), orange (for marriage) Saint of Miracles, Finder of lost things, improves memory, for marriage or love problems, overcome financial problems. |
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for a Miracle:
Most holy St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love of God and charity for his creatures made you worthy, while on earth, to possess miraculous magical powers. Encouraged by this, I implore you to obtain for me (make your request). Your are the Saint of Miracles, Blessed Anthony, and your heart was ever full of sympathy. Present my petition to Jesus, and the gratitude of my heart will be ever yours. ************* "Tony, Tony, come around something's lost and can't be found!" |
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The Prayer binder Chaplet is Based on St. Anthony's Chaplet
Here is an
interesting passage from "The Magical Power of the Saints"
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By the Rev.
Ray Marlbrough,
The Prayer
binder Chaplet
Rosaries,
chaplets, prayer beads - whatever they are called- beads have been
used for centuries as an instrument of religious devotion in Roman
Catholicism and in Buddhism. Prayer beads can be wonderful
tools in measuring out the time spent in prayer; devotions for each
bead are represented by your recited prayers.
The
standard Roman Catholic rosary, when done correctly, will aid the
individual in learning to use creative visualization in conjunction
with vocal prayer. In practice, when the rosary is recited the
person is supposed to visualize themselves present as the mystery is
unfolding or meditate on a fixed image of the mystery as they say
each decade of ten Hail Mary's. To recite the standard rosary
without mental visualization is considered fruitless.
Chaplets
are similar to the Buddhist rosaries, and are used when invoking the
assistance of a particular saint during your novena. There are
chaplets of St. Anthony, St. Ann, St. Joseph, the Infant Jesus of
Prague, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and a chaplet of St. Jude. [These
are just to name a few] Naturally these chaplets
include prayers to the saint to whom they are directed.
The Prayer
binder Chaplet is inspired from the chaplet of St. Anthony. In
using the chaplet of St. Anthony you recite for each bead an Our
Father, a Hail Mary, and a Gloria, thirteen times. The number
thirteen is associated with St. Anthony. There are thirteen
full moons in a year.
Within the
nine metaphysical or occult laws, the Law of Three Requests states
that all requests from the subtle dimensions are to be repeated in
triplicate. The first utterance alerts the conscious mind, the
second repetition engages the reasoning faculties, while the third
repetition of the prayer makes direct contact with the psyche or
soul force. For this reason all prayers or petitions are
recited three times.
It has also
been said about prayer that a prayer said seven times will be believed
by all who hear it. However, a prayer that is said nine times
will be answered by God. In this case each triplet (group of
three beads) is repeated nine times. Three times nine equals
twenty-seven and two plus seven equals nine. Nine is the
number of the moon. The triplet can represent the Goddess as
Maiden, Mother, Crone.
In use, the
first nine Triplets are ended with a positive affirmation borrowed
from a traditional form of magic used by Witches. The last
four Triplets invoke the elements of Fire, Water, Earth, and Air,
again part of a traditional spell in Witchcraft. I will not
give these two spells in this book but a knowledgeable witch will
recognize the two spells by the words alone. See the Chaplet
illustration (opposite). the affirmations and invocations of
the elements are as follows.
By Triplet
of one, my prayer is begun,
By Triplet
of two, my prayer cometh true.
By triplet
of three, thus my prayer shall now be.
By Triplet
of four, opens the door.
By triplets
of five my prayer is alive.
By triplet
of six, my prayer I now fix.
By triplet
of seven, events I now leaven.
By triplet
of eight, my prayer is now fate.
By triplet
of nine, this prayer is mine.
At Earth
say:
I
call earth to bind my prayer spell.
At Air,
say:
Air
to speed its travel well.
At Fire
say:
Fire
to give it spirit from above.
At Water,
say:
Water bless my prayer with love. So be it!
The prayer binder
chaplet is composed of thirty-nine beads. The number
thirty-nine can be broken down to a single digit, the number three.
Three plus nine equals twelve, and one plus two equals three.
Your actual prayer is recited on each of the thirty-nine beads,
ending the Triplet with the appropriate affirmation.
Try to make
y our prayer from the heart a positive statement happening now, but
in rhyme. This technique in using the chaplet can be applied
to any of life's situations and will give you fifteen to twenty
minutes of focused concentration on your desire, while using the
chaplet [...].
Prayer and candle burning
have long been an established practice among Roman Catholics, the
largest Christian denomination in North and South America.
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| Chaplet
of St. Anthony
This chaplet
is composed of thirteen decades of three The
Miraculous Responsorial (by St. Bonaventura)
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