St. Jude

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I have recently been developing devotion to St. Jude. He has helped me out in the past, so I don’t know why it has taken me this long to pay more attention to him. My belated thanks to St. Jude.

Obviously I frown on superstious devotion to saints. But their prayers are certainly efficacious. No reason to throw the baby out with the bath water. Has anyone else received answers to prayers asking for St. Judes intercession?
 
St Jude is very popular at the prison that I minister at. I’m afraid that getting out is an impossible task for some, so he is the right saint.

Deacon Tony
 
I have heard many prison chapels are dedicated to him. Makes sense. And it can’t hurt them.
 
I have a vigil candle to St. Jude burning right now!

I love St. Jude. I don’t pray to him as frequently as maybe I should, but I’m a major hopeless case so he’s definitely my patron. (Believe you me, I am a walking disaster).

Anyway, when I was in college I won a St. Jude scholarship. It was a need-based scholarship and boy, was I happy to recieve the news! I went semester to semester, sometimes month to month trying to figure out how I was going to get through school.

In the end, it was the grace of God that paid for it all, and St. Jude had no small part of that.

Now if he can just help me get off of interest-only payments and actually get that stuff paid! 😛
 
please join my prayer to St Jude for return to faith of a child who is obstinately anti-Catholic and anti-religion (and anti most of what normal people stand for), a clear case calling for prayer and fasting.
 
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Now if he can just help me get off of interest-only payments and actually get that stuff paid! 😛
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He is one of my favorite too. And the only good thing I can say about the student loan predicament is that it has kept me close to him. The only hope of help I have is form God, and can’t think of any thing that makes me feel more hopeless or full of despair, than having that debt, being completely alone, and living from contract to contract for employment for over two years now, searching for a permanent job.
 
I am stating this as a fact. I am not saying it’s good or bad or inbetween.

Near Corona, CA back in 1952 a rich doctor built a horse farm. I found out he buried many medals of St. Jude all over that farm. When I was working there he was moderatly sucessful. People did that 50 years ago.
 
I never understood the practive of burying medals of saints. Aside of course, from a method of disposing of blessed items. Kind of like burying a statue of St. Joseph when you want to sell a house. I would think that they would find the practice insulting, seeing images of themselves stuck underground.
 
I have a St. Jude novena that I run through every once and a while…that works wonders…
 
I recently bought a book of novenas. There is one to St. Jude that I have been praying every day since I found it. I don’t know if my request will be answered, but I feel my prayers are working to better my life. I feel now that I am doing all I can do. Praying has helped in that respect.
 
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