Most
loving protector, great Saint Anthony, I hasten to thank you. Full of
appreciation and profound gratitude I acknowledge the favors you have secured
for me in reply to my prayers and those of our Franciscan missionaries.
Because you answered my
petitions and all those the children of the missions offered for my intentions,
I rejoice in your power with God and your unfailing goodness to your brothers in
Christ. May you ever be honored and blessed, most powerful wonder-worker of
Padua! May your merits and favors remain an unending hymn of praise to the most
Holy Trinity, and to our blessed Lady Queen of Heaven.