Dearest devoted friends of the Saint,
Dear all faithful of the parish of Santa Maria Vetere, this year too we are about to experience our beautiful celebration in honor of the Saint of Padua whom our community of S. Maria Vetere trusts and is honored to have as its special protector. We are experiencing this moment of joy in a particular year: we are celebrating 80 years since the establishment of our beloved Parish and we like to think of how many in these eighty years of community life have lived in the shadow of Saint Anthony and have entrusted themselves to his powerful intercession to implore Graces from God our Father.
This year is also special because we are on the eve of the great Jubilee of 2025 which will see us committed as a Catholic church to being in the world “Pilgrims of Hope” .
We therefore like to begin this pilgrimage of hope with our dear Saint of Padua right now – just as Pope Francis invited us -put ourselves in the school of prayer because only through it can we develop and spread within ourselves and around us those seeds of Hope that will certainly produce New Life, the one that Christ inaugurated with his death and resurrection.
Prayer is an affective feeling of man who adheres to God, it is a devout and familiar conversation with God, it is a pause for the enlightened mind to enjoy God… these and many other definitions of prayer that Saint Anthony gives us in his Sermons .
Let us then follow the school of Saint Anthony, evangelical doctor and make prayer the vital center of our existence to be men and women in the world who sow hope at every moment. Let us entrust ourselves to the Saint of Padua and to Him in particular we entrust all those who, through their commitment and economic support, allow this celebration in honor of him to be held again.
Thanks to everyone and: “long live Sant’Antonio”.
fra Vito PAINTING
parish priest
Plan
Tredicina Sant’Antonio: from 31 May to 12 June 2024 at 7.00 pm Eucharistic Celebration
4 June 2024
6.30pm Reception of the relic of Saint Francis from La Verna
7.00 pm Eucharistic celebration followed by torchlight procession towards the “Sacre Stimmate” Parish – Andria.
5 June 2024 7.00 pm Eucharistic celebration and mandate to the animators of the summer oratory.
June 6, 2024
7.00 pm Eucharistic Celebration
8.00 pm Eucharistic adoration and Franciscan dinner at the parish oratory
8 June 2024 Eucharistic celebration and entrustment to Saint Anthony of the children who will receive the sacrament of Confirmation. Reception of the Relic of Blessed Encarnacion Rosal, reformer of the Bethlemite religious daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
09 June 2024 During all the Holy Masses I entrust myself to the Blessed Encarnacion Rosal – Betlemita
10.00 am Eucharistic celebration with all the boys and girls who received their 1st Communion
7.00 pm Eucharistic celebration and entrustment of Europe to Saint Anthony
June 10, 2024
7.00 pm Eucharistic celebration presided over by the rev. Father Rocco Iacovelli, former parish priest of the parish
8.00 pm Tournament Conclusion – Memorial Alex
June 11, 2024
7.00 pm Eucharistic celebration presided over by the rev. Father Nicola Andreola, former parish priest of the parish
8.00 pm Presentation of the Book “Cristo Vita Nostra” – Antonian meditations by Msgr. Antonio Basile
June 12, 2024
7.00 pm Holy Mass and Blessing of all those who bear the name of Anthony. Prayer of blessing of the bearers of the Saint and the bearers of the relic
8.00 pm Transit of Saint Anthony
13 June 2024 SOLEMNITY OF SAINT ANTONY
During the Holy Masses the Bread of SANT’ANTONIO will be blessed and distributed
Holy masses 07.30 -09.00 – 11.00
7.00 pm Eucharistic celebration presided over by our Bishop mons. Luigi Mansi to follow the procession.
Sant’Antonio Procession Itinerary:
Chiesa (departure), piazza Santa Maria Vetere, Via Magg. Galliano, via Padre Savarese, via Cap. Nicola Cicco, via prof. Riccardo Jannuzzi, via Gen. Arimondi, via Mons. Emanuele Merra, via Saccotelli e Lotti, via Pietro I° Normanno, via De Deo, via Annunziata, via Cirillo, via Priorelli, via Santa Maria Vetere, piazza Santa Maria Vetere, Church.
Saturday 15 June 2024 6.30 pm: XII EDITION OF THE SANT’ ANTONIO PROCESSION
Historical procession itinerary:
Church (Departure), Piazza SMVetere, Via N. Labroca, Via F. Priorelli, Via C. Caneva, Via E. Todi, Via L.Cadorna, Via Castromonte, Via Orsini, Piazza Ruggiero Settimo, Via O. Jannuzzi, Via A. de Gasperi, Via G. Bovio, P.zza Umberto I, Via San Francesco, Via De Anellis, P.zza Catuma, Via Vaglio, Via La Corte, Via F. d’Excelsis, Via F. Giugno , Via Porta La Barra, Piazza Porta La Barra, Via SM Vetere, Church.
The Friars Minor and the Saint Anthony celebration committee invite you to display the Antonian banner on the balconies of your homes. It is possible to request the Antonian banner from the parish.
