I have just started a novena to St. Jude. I have never done this before. I was feeling totally hopeless about my adult daughter and the choices she is making and how it is affecting her own daughter. I don’t know how the idea even came to me, but I am on the third day. On the second day, my daughter actually made a couple comments that gave me hope that maybe she is starting to think about what she is doing. I know it may take time, but I am holding on to this “thread” that she will make a change for the positive.
What you need to know is I am in RCIA (so I am not yet Catholic) but we had never discussed praying to St. Jude. I had never even thought about doing this! I think it is a miracle that I even found the novena online since it had not ocurred to me at all. I had just spent a rather sleepless night worrying about the whole situation. I had been praying to St. Monica which I will continue, but St. Jude is giving me hope. Thank you and God bless!!