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Pope Francis has returned to the Father's house

"The Franciscan community of the Pontifical Basilica of Saint Anthony and the entire great Antonian family joins the condolences of the entire Church for the loss of the dear Pontiff Pope Francis.

Deeply saddened, we wish to thank the Lord of life for having given him to us, for his faithful example until the end.

He was for us an attentive and caring father who supported us in our love for God and in the service of our brothers and sisters, especially the poor and the least of the earth!

© Giovanni Pinton – Archive « Messaggero di sant’Antonio »

Palm Sunday, this coming 13 April, is the door to Holy Week. This door will lead us to an experience of our Lord’s Easter. Below is the calendar of the religious celebrations held in our Basilica. All the 6.00pm Holy Masses, the 11.00am ones on week days, the Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass at 9.00pm and the 10.00am Easter Sunday Mass will be streamed live via web and social media on our various online platforms (see footnote below).

“Let us journey together in hope”, the Pope Francis’ Lenten message for 2025

Today, Wednesday March 5, with the Rite of Blessing and Imposition of the Ashes, the Lenten period begins. This is the period when Christians are called upon to renew their lives.

This time of spiritual preparation is “a journey that involves our whole life, our entire being. It is a time to reconsider the path we are taking, to find the route that leads us home and to rediscover our profound relationship with God, on whom everything depends.” (From Pope Francis’ homily during the Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica).

Prayers for Pope Francis from the Saint’s Basilica in Padua

From the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua, the prayer for Pope Francis in these days is uniting the community of friars with so many faithful and pilgrims who, in great numbers, entrust the Holy Father to the Lord through the intercession of St. Anthony.

Every day, in the celebration of the Eucharist, we remember the Pope in a special way, addressing our heartfelt prayer to the Lord that the Church may have its Pastor back in health.

“Feast of the Tongue of the Saint” Sunday 16 February in the Basilica of St Anthony

The Feast of the Translation of the Saint’s Relics, commonly called the Feast of the Tongue, will be held on Sunday 16 February. This is the second, most important feast celebrating St Anthony after the June 13 feast, and marks the discovery of his uncorrupt tongue over 760 years ago, more than 30 years after his death. This scientifically inexplicable phenomenon is what faith calls a miracle, seeing that the relic of the tongue, the instruments used by St Anthony for preaching, is still visible and uncorrupt after many centuries.

January 27 is the day when, in 1945, at the end of World War II, the Red Army tore down the gates of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Sixty years later, in 2005, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, which has since been remembered every January 27, with the hope that those atrocities will never happen again.

Archivio News

Pope Francis has returned to the Father's house

Holy Week and 2025 Easter

“Let us journey together in hope”, the Pope Francis’ Lenten message for 2025

Prayers for Pope Francis from the Saint’s Basilica in Padua

“Feast of the Tongue of the Saint” Sunday 16 February in the Basilica of St Anthony

27 January – Holocaust Memorial Day

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