This week we celebrate one of the most solemn and joyful weeks of the year, Holy Week. We are grateful for you and the thousands of others who have sent their petitions to be joined together in the St. Jude Holy Week Prayer Cross. The cross is currently on display at the National Shrine of St. Jude during Holy Week, April 1st – 8th.
Prayer to St. Jude:
Most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray for me, I am so helpless and alone. Make use I implore you, of that particular privilege given to you, to bring visible and speedy help where help is almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly (here make your request) and that I may praise God with you and all the elect forever. I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, to always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to you. Amen.
As Lent draws to a close, let’s pray with and for one another as members of the St. Jude League family. You have made your way through your Lenten journey, and now we turn to its culmination in the Triduum of Holy Week. As a community of faithful devotees, we stand united in prayer on these days of the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
