Prayer to Saint Anthony in the affliction for immediate help

PRAYER TO S. ANTONIO IN THE AFFLICTION

Most loving Saint Anthony, tender protector of afflicted souls, I humbly prostrate myself before your image with a torn heart. In the midst of the evils that oppress me to who can I turn to for tranquility and peace, if not to you who are the special finder of lost things? And what reason for trust and hope should I not have in you that everyone invokes the Saint of miracles? In the splendor of glory, where God wanted to reward your heroic virtues, you cannot forget those who suffer. While on earth you were all charity for your neighbor, and to rush to his aid you broke the laws of nature very often and worked the most famous prodigies, is it possible that now, and only for me, you have to deny your intercession? The world abandons its friends in times of misfortune! For you, dear friend of God, this is the time in which you give your help more often. Well, dear Saint, you see what pains I suffer and what anguish oppress me. Be, please, my loving and powerful protector: relieve me of so many worries, because I can't take it anymore! You see that I am about to succumb under the weight of so many misfortunes that torment me and so many enemies that besiege me. Around me I see nothing but darkness, desolation and storms: I find a ray of hope only in your valid patronage. Could you leave me disappointed? If God, for his inescapable purposes, does not want to take me away from such fierce labor, obtain at least the necessary strength and grace to accept these pains with resignation, to bear them patiently, to suffer them in expiation for my sins, to satisfy divine justice. , and to deserve one day the reward and glory of the Saints. So be it