Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Feast of St. Jude tomorrow, October 28th

Tomorrow, October 28th is the Feast of St. Jude.

St. Jude is the patron Saint of hopeless causes.

He is an author of an epistle (letter) to the Churches of the East, particularly the Jewish converts, directed against the heresies of the Simonians, Nicolaites, and Gnostics. This Apostle is said to have suffered martyrdom in Armenia, which was then subject to Persia. The final conversion of the Armenian nation to Christianity did not take place until the third century of our era.

Jude was the one who asked Jesus at the Last Supper why He would not manifest Himself to the whole world after His resurrection. Little else is known of his life. Legend claims that he visited Beirut and Edessa; possibly martyred with St. Simon in Persia.

Jude is invoked in desperate situations because his New Testament letter stresses that the faithful should persevere in the environment of harsh, difficult circumstances, just as their forefathers had done before them. Therefore, he is the patron saint of desperate cases and his feast day is October 28


St. Jude rocks.


Kelly Thatcher has an entertaining post about the phenomenon around St. Jude that derails a bit from the Catholic practice of petitioning a Saint for an intercession.

Kelly has a fun way of expressing her exasperation.

Do visit and enjoy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I LOVE St. Jude!!
Good St. Jude Pray for us & the U.S.!