A. Who We Are







Our Spiritual Journey

 



               May God Be With You.  You have spent your life helping others.  Please allow us to return the favor.  We are the Saint Anthony Spiritual Journey Homes, Inc., located at 12343 Haraldson Forest Drive in Houston, Texas  77044-507. 

               In today's world it seems like there aren't many retirement options for priests.  Prices have skyrocketed, financing has become more difficult, payment options are confusing, and monthly fees are overwhelming.  What choices do members of the clergy have when they approach retirement?

 

               Fortunately, if you are a priest there are a few affordable retirement options.  Places where you can have spiritual fulfillment by belonging to an empowered faith-based community.

 

               St. Anthony Spiritual Journey Homes in Houston, Texas is indeed home for priests who have made their spiritual journey a lifetime activity.  We are a non-profit, faith-based, Roman Catholic-centered retirement community located on the outskirts of Houston.  It is owned and operated by the St. Anthony Spiritual Journey Homes, incorporated under the Texas Non-Profit Corporation Act, and exempt from Federal income tax under sections 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and classified as a public charity under section 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) of the Code.

 

               We understand the troubles that retirement brings people who have devoted their entire lives to the service of god and others.  This is why we have created affordable accommodations for priests.  We strive to provide living options that complement your compassion.  You too can join our community.

B. St. Anthony of Padua

Saint Anthony of Padua

 

 

Saint Anthony of Padua

1195 - 1231

Doctor of the Church

 

 

              

                Saint Anthony of Padua, (1195-1231), Doctor of the Church, was canonized (declared a saint) less than one year after his death.

               There is perhaps no more loved and admired saint in the Catholic Church than Saint Anthony of Padua, a Doctor of the Church. Though his work was in Italy, he was born in Portugal. He first joined the Augustinian Order and then left it and joined the Franciscan Order in 1221, when he was 26 years old. The reason he became a Franciscan was because of the death of the five Franciscan protomartyrs -- St. Bernard, St. Peter, St. Otho, St. Accursius, and St. Adjutus -- who shed their blood for the Catholic Faith in the year 1220, in Morocco, in North Africa, and whose headless and mutilated bodies had been brought to St. Anthony’s monastery on their way back for burial.  St. Anthony became a Franciscan in the hope of shedding his own blood and becoming a martyr. He lived only ten years after joining the Franciscan Order.

               So simple and resounding was his teaching of the Catholic Faith, so that the most unlettered and innocent might understand it, that he was made a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII in 1946. Saint Anthony was only 36 years old when he died. He is called the “hammer of the Heretics” His great protection against their lies and deceits in the matter of Christian doctrine was to utter, simply and innocently, the Holy Name of Mary. When St. Anthony of Padua found he was preaching the true Gospel of Catholic Church to heretics who would not listen to him, he then went out and preached it to the fishes. This was not, as liberals and naturalists are trying to say, for the instruction of the fishes, but rather for the glory of God, the delight of the angels, and the easing of his own heart.  St. Anthony wanted to profess the Catholic Faith with his mind and his heart, at every moment.

               He is typically depicted with a book and the Infant Child Jesus, to whom He miraculously appeared, and is commonly referred to today as the "finder of lost articles." Upon exhumation, some 336 years after his death, his body was found to be corrupted, yet his tongue was totally incorrupt, so perfect were the teachings that had been formed upon it.

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