It’s not too late to send your intentions for the Solemn Novena to St. Jude for Healing, August 20th – 28th at the National Shrine of St. Jude. St. Jude calls us all to experience the intercessory power of Novena prayer in our lives.
I invite you to visit the Shrine each day of our Healing Novena to pray in this sacred space via our virtual Pilgrimage to the Shrine.
We also invite you to experience the simple beauty of this sacred service by viewing the St. Jude Solemn Novena slide show and sharing it with your family and friends on your website, blog, or on Facebook or Twitter.
Below are all nine days of prayer in one message. Please bookmark or print this message and return to it each day of the Solemn Novena to St. Jude.
DAY 1 — Saturday, August 20
Today we center ourselves in peace as we begin nine days of Solemn Novena Healing prayer. St. Jude listens to our prayers, and offers us hope when we become weary.
Intention to St. Jude: St. Jude, strengthen my faith in your healing touch. Intercede for me with God in my times of trial and help me put my trust entirely in God during the days ahead.
Prayer to St. Jude:
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.
DAY 2 — Sunday, August 21
On this 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time, we come together in prayer with a special healing intention to St. Jude.
Intention to St. Jude: St. Jude, you teach me what true healing is all about. Help me to be an instrument of your healing grace through my words and actions. Give me strength to hope against hope and the courage to greet each new day. Renew my faith in God’s healing touch and help me put my trust entirely in Him.
Prayer to St. Jude:
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.
DAY 3 — Monday, August 22
Today we celebrate the Feast Day of the Queenship of Mary, Mother of God, as we begin the third day of Solemn Novena healing prayer together. Mary, Jesus’ mother and ours, is always ready to intercede for those in need of healing.
Intention to St. Jude: St. Jude, you who loved Mary, bless my heart with adoration to the Blessed Mother and my own mother. Through your prayers, keep me in the love of Jesus. We ask this through the love of God and the Holy Spirit as well as of our mother, Mary, who is also the Mother of God.
Prayer to St. Jude:
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.
DAY 4 — Tuesday, August 23
On this fourth of nine days of Solemn Novena prayer, we join together in the belief that there is power in praying with and for one another’s petitions.
Intention to St. Jude: St. Jude, you spent your entire earthly life working to spread the Gospel and share with others the Good News of God’s Kingdom. Teach me how to live with the kind of love Christ showed to his neighbor so that I, too, may be a light in the darkness for others.
Prayer to St. Jude:
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.
DAY 5 — Wednesday, August 24
Today we begin the fifth of nine days of Solemn Novena prayer with St. Jude. This day we remember all those for whom we have promised to pray.
Intention to St. Jude: St. Jude, you know that suffering makes me feel hopeless sometimes. Lift my burden with your healing, hope-filled intercession. Inspire my thoughts, words and actions today, so that all I do and say may be pleasing to God and serve His kingdom here on earth.
Prayer to St. Jude:
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.
DAY 6 — Thursday, August 25
On this sixth of nine days of Solemn Novena prayer we remember all God’s children throughout the world in need of healing as we offer our prayers together.
Intention to St. Jude: St. Jude, through Jesus’ life and teaching you experienced the forgiveness of God. Help me to know the healing power of forgiveness, so that I might be merciful to others as God is merciful to me.
Prayer to St. Jude:
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.
DAY 7 — Friday, August 26
Today we give ourselves over to trust in God as we begin the seventh of nine days of Solemn Novena prayer to St. Jude.
Intention to St. Jude: St. Jude, you showed respect to the pagan King Abagar, curing him of leprosy. Help me to respect all people and to know the healing such respect brings about.
Prayer to St. Jude:
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.
DAY 8 — Saturday, August 27
Today we pray for spiritual growth as we begin the eighth day of Solemn Novena prayer. The more steadfast our faith, the more untiring our hope, the more constant our desire, the greater will be our ability to receive those gifts God wishes to give us and communicate the fruit of his love to those around us.
Intention to St. Jude: St. Jude, place a spark of hope in my heart and ignite in me a fire burning with the love of God. Bless me in my work today. Help me to forgive readily and to know and do God’s holy will.
Prayer to St. Jude:
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.
DAY 9 — Sunday, August 28
Today we mark the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time as we begin the ninth and final day of Solemn Novena prayer with an intention and prayer to St. Jude. We are so grateful for this time to offer our petitions to St. Jude.
Intention to St. Jude: St. Jude, with confidence, hope, and a grateful heart I conclude these nine days of healing prayer. On this final day of our Novena together, give me the courage to follow Christ wherever He leads. Bring hope in the midst of suffering. Help me to retain the hope in our Lord that sustained you in your earthly life.
Prayer to St. Jude:
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.
st. jude, please interceed to our lord jesus christ. that he have mercy and compassion on my son. please plead that god save him and keep him safe. amen
ST.JUDE I ASK THAT YOU INTERCEED TO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. PRAY THAT HE HAVE MERCY AND COMPASSION ON MY SON, ROBERT. PLEASE SAVE HIM LORD. PLEASE INTERVINE AND SAVE MY SON. AMEN
dearest san judas, thank you for being so speedy in your help,we are alreadyseeing signs of abreakthrough in our prayers, dont stop at all dear brother. continue interceding for us until we get that new job for me,visa for my husband, a new car for us, total healing for my mother’s hypertension, a healthy pregnancy &safe delivery for my sister and a healthy baby formy bestfriend nana& her husband.