By Andrew Macdonald
This week I lost my fake tooth — souvenir of a root canal — and for three days, I searched high and low.
With that single lost tooth, smiling was impossible. I was so self-conscious I avoided face to face interviews.-
I checked with a denturist and found a new fake tooth would cost me $1,500, and a more permanent fake tooth would be out of reach at $4,000.
So, being from Antigonish, I found myself praying to St. Anthony. It’s powerful to call on St. Anthony to find lost items, even materialistic things, and having said the prayer over two days, after day three of my lost tooth, I found it under a facecloth.
It’s a powerful prayer and for me it worked enough to repatriate myself with my missing tooth.
According to website, Catholic Crusade, the Prayer to Saint Anthony goes like this:
“St. Anthony, perfect imitator of Jesus, who received from God the special power of restoring lost things, grant that I may find what has been lost. [Mention your petition, lost item]
At least restore to me peace and tranquility of mind, the loss of which has afflicted me even more than my material loss. To this favor, I ask another of you: that I may always remain in possession of the true good that is God. Let me rather lose all things than lose God, my supreme good. Let me never suffer the loss of my greatest treasure, eternal life with God. Amen.
Bell Tower of the Church of St. Anthony in a sunny day in Croatia. Istock image
