St. Anthony Does It Again...

We had two really lovely boys serving the Masses at Lourdes. Joshua, the younger of the two, wrote a very moving guest post for Fr. Finigan's blog. His uncle Thomas, the older of the two, was rather accident-prone - he managed to leave his cassock behind one time, and got lost, and then he dropped his cassock down near the dome of the Rosary Basilica (he was left holding the handles of the bag, while the rest of the bag and contents plummeted down over the balustrade!)

Well, it seems that Joshua also managed to lose something - a 3-D picture of Our Lady, which, somehow or other, fell out of a bag or something in the luggage compartment of the coach. It wasn't missed until much later, and calls to the coach company failed to locate the picture.

The loss of the picture was accepted in a penitential spirit. Prayers were, however, said to St. Anthony by the family.

This evening I received a phone call from the lady who owns the company. She told me that the picture happened to turn up in the office...

...and today is St. Anthony's feast day...