St. Anthony's Checklist
Petitioner ID: Hinds Family, Case #00051020321
Saint: Anthony of Padua
Case Summary: Requests for intercession from Hinds family has been more or less constant since Spring 2019, when Meredith (wife and mother) heard a friend beg intercession for finding a set of keys lost in enormous parish lawn in following formula: “St. Anthony, St. Anthony, please help us find the keys!” Meredith’s immediate thoughts were: “Does that actually work?” and then surprise when the keys were found. The most common items lost by any member of the Hinds family are single shoes and socks, which are often under beds, couches, or by the trampoline in the backyard. Jonny (husband and father) has taken to telling children they have to put on their school shoes before eating breakfast; requests to find shoes have tapered since but remain in the “daily” category.
A Non-Exhaustive List of Found Items:
The honey bear (in the fridge)
The keys (usually in Meredith’s purse, sometimes both sets for any given vehicle)
Four hairbrushes (on the first day of school)
The ketchup (in the pantry)
Matching socks
Waterbottles (usually in the car)
Tennis shoe appropriate for P.E. class, girls’ size 10 (under a book under the bed)
The brown strappy sandals, also size 10
Toddler tennis shoes
Mass shoes (for each of six children, on varying Sundays)
Boys’ size 3 cowboy boots (at the thrift store)
Just, so many shoes
Jonny’s phone (on the top of the coffee machine)
The checkbook
Kindergartener’s “libary” book (on the morning of library day)
Pocket knife (on the lawn at the friend’s house, on other occasions under the bed)
Swim goggles
Parking spaces (sometimes overlapped with “Hail Mary, Full of Grace, Please find us a parking place”)
A house (in a city with a tough real estate market)
The toddler (outside, playing in front of the garage, not in the street)
Notes: Can expect requests for sports-specific items (especially shoes) to increase as children age. Meredith may need to be inspired to purchase or thrift a shelf for the main room and/or for individual children’s bedrooms.
Happy Feast of St. Anthony, finder of everything from shoes to souls.
St. Anthony, pray for us!
On the Calendar: Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
🪽Gospel for Sunday: Matthew 9:36—10:8, including the Jesus dialogue:
“Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.
Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons.
Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.”
Today is the feast of St. Anthony, who does not have an obligatory memorial, even though he is a Doctor of the Church. I want to learn more about the Calendar shifts that took place in the last century, and why certain Saints get to be obligatory, and I’m sure there’s a book for this and if anyone knows what it is I’d love to hear about it.
Last week I heard that 28% percent of you are going tent camping this summer, 44% are sad that you aren’t, 3% are venturing out in RVs, and 25% “never shall!” tent camp, which, honestly, I can understand 😆.
Today I want to know…