St. Anthony's Novena at St. Laurence Church was started on April 15, 1997 under the leadership of Fr. Chacko Puthumayil. It has been well received and attended by many devotees ever since.
The feast of St. Anthony has been celebrated regularly in St. Laurence Church facilities on June 13th or immediately following Saturday or Sunday.
The Divine Mercy Chapel has such a prayerful atmosphere that all the devotees are able to focus on this devotional practice. This has become a prayerful gathering for people with different liturgical and ethnic backgrounds.
The growing number of youth participants in the Novena and the desire to enable them to actively and intelligibly participate in prayers, encouraged the publication of this novena ministry .