When you enter the front doors of the Father Bernard youth Center immediately to your right is the St. Anthony Chapel. As you enter the chapel to your left is the Holy Water font resting on Brazilian marble.  The red marble throughout the chapel symbolizes the “Blood of the lamb.”  The font bubbles with living water.  From this vantage point, your eyes are drawn to the sanctuary.  The sanctuary area is raised one step above the main chapel floor with a rough quarried rock altar and ambo which are strong image of the alter of sacrifice.  A brass image of the Pascal Lamb is affixed to a red marble background embedded in the rock on the front of the altar. Directly behind the altar is a graphic image of Christ crucified.  The four by six foot cross is made of Douglass Fir (Oregon state tree) to signify our own personal cross.  It is stained red to make a direct connection between the cross and the altar of sacrifice.  Draped on the back of the cross is a linen shroud, so that we look beyond the cross to see the Resurrection. 

Above the crucifix the ceiling is painted a deep blue with stars, symbolic of the wisdom of God.  Three phrases encircle it: “This is my Body”, “This is my Blood” and “We who are many are one body.”  These phrases were emphasized in the book “God is Near Us” by Pope Benedict XVI.  As you descend the landing to the chapel floor, to your left is one of the three reconciliation rooms.  Next to it is a Marion shrine of our: Lady of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego with a seventy five candle votive stand.  Farther to the right is a petition board and the entrance to the sacristy. 

Below the cross is the tabernacle with the Sacred Heart of Jesus cast in the double doors.  The tabernacle has been designed to repose and expose the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus. 

To the left and right of the tabernacle are six, four by seven foot, etched glass panels.  The first panel to the right depicts St Joseph holding the Child Jesus.  Next is St Benedict and St Scholastica and one more to the right is St Francis and St. Clare.  To the left of the tabernacle is the image of our Lady.  In the following panel to the left is St John of the Cross and St. Theresa of Avila.  The sixth etched glass panel is the image of Venerable Father Felix and Conchita. 

The chapel contains two prayer spaces; the liturgical space which contains eighty chairs with kneelers and an adoration chapel which is divided from the main chapel by the etched glass and center arch.  In the adoration chapel there is a large couch in a semi-circle that seats twenty five comfortably, facing the glass enclosed side of the tabernacle.  Two bronze doors with adoring angels, when open, expose a monstrance cast in the shape of the Resurrected Heart of Jesus and in the center of the monstrance “The Eucharist, the Heart of Life.” 

Saint Anthony chapel is the heart of the Father Bernard youth Center.