Companions of St. Anthony | Conventual Franciscan Friars of the Saint Anthony Province, USA

Or what woman having ten coins and losing one would not light a lamp and sweep the house, searching carefully until she finds it? And when she does find it, she calls together her friends and neighbors and says to them, “Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lost” (Luke 15:8-9).

St. Anthony and friars seek the lost Blessed is that soul which prepares such a lamp for herself, to find the lost coin. With such a lamp she may turn out the corners of her conscience and diligently seek the lost coin of charity until she finds it.

Let us then ask our Lord Jesus Christ to grant us, after the example of that holy woman, the penitent soul, to prepare a lamp by remembering our frailty, and with the wick of penance; to light the oil of mercy with the fire of divine charity, and with it turn out the corners of our conscience and diligently seek the lost coin of charity. When it is found, may we be found fit to come to him who is charity.

–Sermon for the Third Sunday after Pentecost

Let us pray...

O good Saint Anthony, Seeker of the Lost, fix your attention on all that has been lost and needs to be found; restore lost graces, recover lost objects and let me use everything for the greater glory of God. Amen.

Seekers of the Lost Today

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