MIDWEEK PRAYER

 This week, one of the shorter prayers I know.  I learned it as a child.  I don't think I knew it was a prayer until much later.  

This was brought to my mind a few years ago when they put up a statue of St. Anthony of Padua in a niche along the back of the main area in our church.  I walk along that wall all the time.  Once I figured out who it was, I began saying this little prayer each time I pass it.  

The prayer my mother taught me was "Tony, Tony, turn around; something's lost and must be found."  She said that whenever she had trouble finding something.  I had no idea at that time that Tony was St. Anthony, the patron saint of lost items.    

Of course, that little phrase is not exactly what I say these days. Here is my prayer and it could be yours.

"Tony, Tony, turn around, I am lost and must be found.  Help me find my way."