Don’t Mess with St. Jude
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by Richard Poe Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:06 am Eastern Time |
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ST. JUDE is the patron saint of lost or desperate causes. You pray to St. Jude when you have nowhere else to turn. You pray to him when you are trying to do the impossible. You pray to him when all the odds are against you. That’s where I am now. That’s why I’m praying to St. Jude.
In the past, I never would have written an article like this. My pride would have prevented me. In the past, I would have prayed first, then decided what to write later. I would have waited for the results of my prayers. If the results pleased me, then yes, I might have written something about them. But if the results displeased me, I would have kept silent.
In effect, I was bargaining with St. Jude. I was trying to make him a deal. “Answer my prayers, and I will give you free publicity,” I was telling the saint. “But, if you don’t answer my prayers, you’ll get nothing from me.”
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St. Jude places a special requirement on his devotees. When you pray to him, you are supposed to publish the results. You are supposed to tell people what happened. |
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It’s natural for people to bargain. But bargaining doesn’t work with St. Jude. He’s not a businessman, and he doesn’t need your business.
What St. Jude requires is loyalty, devotion and obedience, with heavy emphasis on the word obedience. St. Jude places a special requirement on his devotees. When you pray to him, you are supposed to publish the results. You are supposed to tell people what happened. You are supposed to tell them what the saint did for you. There are all sorts of ways to spread the word about St. Jude. You can do it the old-fashioned way, by word of mouth, or you can post messages on the Internet. But, one way or the other, you must spread the word. In so doing, you inspire others to pray to St. Jude. At least that’s the theory.
If I have learned one lesson, after nine years of praying to St. Jude, it is this: You cannot bargain with this saint. You cannot sit in judgment over him. It is not our place to judge whether St. Jude has answered our prayers to our satisfaction. When we pray to St. Jude, we must publish the results, whether we like them or not.
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With this article, I am going one step further. I am announcing my novena to St. Jude in advance, before I have even finished it. This is the fifth day of my novena. There are four days to go. I have no idea how St. Jude will answer my prayers. I have no way of knowing if he will answer them at all. I do not know if my life will be better or worse when this novena is done. I do not know if my path will be clear or whether it will remain hidden from me. But whatever happens, I will announce the results on this blog.
I am praying for a nine-day miracle. I am praying for a turnaround in my fortunes. I am praying that my little publishing company Heraklid Inc. will succeed, and that I will earn enough money from my books to get back on my feet. And I am praying that St. Jude will make crystal clear, by the ninth day of this novena, whether or not he has chosen to grant my petition.
Whatever happens on the ninth day, I will announce it on this blog, even if it seems like bad news. I will trust that St. Jude has his own good reasons for doing what he does, even when I don’t understand his reasons. And I hope and pray that, whatever happens to me and my wife, and to our struggling little company, be it good or ill, that our story may serve to instruct and help others.
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Thank you, St. Jude for coming to my aid in helping me and my partner to have a new beginning of our committed and loving relationship that is centered in Christ. I am on my first day and I will continue praying to you. I know and I believe that God will answer my prayers at the right time. I have faith that we will be together in His time. Amen.
I would have to say a week after completing the st jude novena was absolutely mindblowing. I had some happy and exciting times but also was struck with sadness and anger. I pretty much went through all the emotions a person would feel in a lifetime. St jude blessed with some things that I knew were impossible to handle by myself but still waiting to.see if he’s going to complete my other requests. After I completed the candle, his initials are still showing up on the blinds. Don’t really know what thst means but it’s sort of scary. Lol
Thank ýou in advance, St. Jude!
Me and my boyfriend have been reoccurring break ups because he has been manipulated by a so called church and I love him very much because he is a devoted Christian and I plan to have kids and marry him. It’s hard and stressful. My mother told me to pray St Jude . This is my second day and I’m seeing signs that he is going to possibly leave and he’ll be broken but I thank God because I want to be there to comfort him. I’m writing in advanced so that St Jude can see I have s lot of hope,faith and belief In him as I’m at my ends as to how to help him. Dear God please help him see what they’re doing to destroy him, Heavenly Father forgive him for hurting his family. Dear Lord, please allow me to help him and guide him as I’ve been doing. I love him and he loves me. Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me ❤️
I’m praying to St. Jude and I’m not finished. However I would like to thank him in advance for listening to me no matter what the outcome may be. I have faith that everything’s going to be ok. Miracles and Blessings to all.
St Jude has been a wonderful patron and friend to me since my first year in college when I got to know the saint as the possibility specialist. He always intervene when ever I call him especially via nine days novena. Thanks to st Jude in a special way for restoring my admission after three years of expulsion from the university. Join me thank st Jude. Always trust him!!
Three months ago i made three requests to St Jude. all the three got answered. yesterday i got the third request answered. i have one more request to St Jude that seems impossible and very hopeless. i have faith i will back here to publish my answered prayer.
“Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.” ~S.A. Sachs I think I have just found a way to give some reality to my dreams and ideas. In the meantime, I need to find some financial support as soon as possible to move on to the next stage of my life. I am on day one of my St Jude novena. I know that I will be very successful. Thanks God. Love and Light. Laurent ( United Kingdom )
I just want to share my story applying for a job went to the interview when i was asked how much i wanted to get paid i asked for a low amount because im in need of a job made a pettition that even that i asked for that amount to get more then what i asked, thanks to st. jude i was offered even way more than what i really wanted,st jude hwlped me withing first 2 weeks i offred the job
I am on the 8th day of my first novena to St Jude. I comtinue to have faith that he will answer my prayers. Thank you St. Jude. Please help.
Saint Jude, I am on my 7th day of novena. I pray to him that hindrances in my marriage with my lover, Samagra be removed and that I be married with him by this year or next year. And Samagra gives his confirmation to marry me to his parents, my parents and me by this year October. Oh Saint Jude please hear my plea, please grant me my wish. Please help me.
I had first heard of St. Jude through my landlady, when I ran into car troubles and she was helping me push the vehicle into the garage before a major storm hit our area. I remember the two of us petite ladies pushing this heavy vehicle and feeling exasperated when it wasn’t starting up and she then looked up at the dark clouds and shouted, “St. Jude, help!” That was all it took for the vehicle to roar back to life. We looked at each with great excitement and said, “Thank you, St. Jude!” I never forgot St. Jude after that. He is truly the saint of desperate cases. I came upon this webpage as I am looking on the internet for a miracle. My fiance was traveling abroad when he ran into some trouble with the law over a miscommunication/misunderstanding (they don’t speak English there at all). He is being held at a detention center and we have been working with the US Embassy and his court appointed lawyer to have him released within the next 10 days. Prosecution has no evidence of the crime of which he is being accused. There is a lot of anger because his actions may have been misconstrued as disrespect toward their culture and country. I am at a loss as to how to help him out of this horrible situation. Every night I light candles and pray. And every night I go to bed hopeful, but a little frightened. I wake up clinging to the hope that he will return home soon. Despite a lack of news of his release soon, I believe in St. Jude. I believe St. Jude has heard me and I thank him every day for everything he has done for me. I ask that he look upon the desperate case of my fiance, Eric, and help him through this very difficult time.
I am writing to thank St. Jude for asking God to cure Alex of Aspergers. Alex is now doing so much better!!! I’m also writing to ask St. Jude to continue to pray that God completely cure Alex of cystic fibrosis; to pray that God eliminate any infection from his body; to pray that God increase his lung function and weight. Thank you and God bless.
Please ask God to cure Alex completely of cystic fibrosis, to eliminate any infection from his body, to increase his lung function and weight, to ensure that (if necessary) he take his medications and do his medical treatments.
I do think that St. Jude has interceded to improve Alex’s aspergers. Thank you, St. Jude!
St Jude, I have prayed to you before and then forgotten you. I am sorry. I am so deeply depressed now and have been for over a year. My husband needs a good job locally that pays well enough for us to enjoy our lives. My kids are grown no and we are empty. Our hearts are heavy and my soul is broken. I am on day 4 of my novena. It will be a true miralcle if something happens by the 9th day. There is no work here in town. He has tried to get work out of town even but that hasn’t worked. We just want to be together and enjoy life. He is 60! It’s hard to start a new job at that age, but with St Jude miracles are supposed to happen. What can I do to repay you St Jude. I have failed in the past. Grand my request. We are so unhappy!
I prayed to St Jude last year for financial help for my husband, and literally within days of finishing the novena he received a job offer out of the blue! I published that in a newspaper. I prayed again recently, because he was laid off from that job, and again, his in-home business picked up significantly and he feels very encouraged. So I am publishing that here.
After reading the article, I want to say that I have prayed several novenas, and am praying one right now, asking that St Jude help both my sons become closer to job, and most especially that he help my oldest son, who struggles with a significant issue. It makes sense that I should publish this novena every time I pray it, because who knows how that prayer may be being answered?
Thank you, St Jude, for any and all interventions.
Thank you st Jude. You have always helped me and I will do the same.
Thank you St. Jude for always being there for me. You have always responded when I call on you and I am truly grateful. I look to you for your assistance with my child. I look to you for your miraculous healing… Thank you.
St. Jude is a glorious saint and is always there when a person is in need. I’d like to thank him because he has solved most of my problems that taken more than years to get resolved. I humbly pray to him and all the saints to intercede on my behalf to my lord Jesus Christ. He is truly a powerful and true apostle that shared his life with the presence of Jesus. Thank you again St. Jude. I know you will always shower your blessings to all those who seek help.
God please help me to pass in my revaluation lord.i need your help to get through my difficulties. I shud pass lord please
I have recently started a novena to St. Jude. I pray that he will hear and help me with my intention. It is a unique and somewhat difficult case, but I believe that God can do all things and this means everything to me. I know he hears me and will believe in the miracles. Thank you Saint Jude for all you’ve done on the past and for helping me with my situations now.
I’m on my 2nd day of my 9 day Novena to St. Jude.
St.Jude please assist me in these difficult financial circumstances. I beg you to shine the light on the resources that I need to help meet my debts and satisfy my pressing obligations, My need is urgent, I pray and ask that I will be blessed to keep and maintain my home for myself and my family,and we will live in peace and joy daily. Thank you Amen
I am starting my Novena today. Please St. Jude pray for me that my marriage would be restored and that there will be understanding between me and my inlaws.
Today is my third day praying my Novena. Please St. Jude help to the hopeless, continue praying for me that my marriage be restored and that there may be good understanding between my me and my in-laws so that they can accept me back. In their lives. Thank you very much.
Today is my fourth day praying the St. Jude Novena. Please St. Jude continue praying for me and I have faith that I will also have a testimony to tell. Thank you a lot
Today is my fifth day praying the Novena. Please St. Jude continue praying for me
Thank you, St. Jude for answering my prayers. I’ve been lost without a clear direction for so long. I pray that St. Jude will lead me to the path I should take to the right job for me so I can financially support my family, while working hours that allow me to be home by the time my kids get home from school. Our oldest is struggling too and I pray he finds his peace and always feels our love and support. I pray that my next job doesn’t take me away from my family like my last one did. I pray for healing so that I can be all that my family needs from me. I pray that I have the time, patience, strength, self-esteem and knowledge to help my family. I do not wish to be selfish, but now realized I must take care of me so that I can take care of those around me. Thank you, St. Jude.
I am on my 4th day of San Judah Tadeo.I’m seeing great results I know he has answered already in was feeling lost and desperate. Thank you San jude.
This is my 4rth day of my novena to st Jude praying for a big improvement in my finances to clear my debts and become stress free and be able to give up a job I hate so much it makes me I’ll.
Please st Jude intercede on my behalf
Thank you
Amen
I am on day 8 of my prayer.. I have turned to St Jude in a desperate and difficult time in my life. Wether my intentions are to be assisted or not. I still want to thank you St Jude for listening to my pleas and still providing me with comfort within when I pray, as I will forever be grateful for this. I will continue to pray my intentions from the depths of my heart whilst I face a very challenging and heartbreaking situation. St Jude please hear my prayers. With great love and gratitude. Thank you St Jude.
I have prayed to st jude in the past and I received answers to my prayers .I am at the cross roads again I plead with st jude to help me speedily I wet my coach with my tears for fear of failure and our company is indebted and business is failing to boom St jude plus helps me
I’m on the 2nd day of my novena journey to St. Jude. I am praying for my boyfriend( who was supposed to be my fiance on my birthday, 14.09.2016) and I to be reconciled…we had a bit of a disagreement in July and now he said he can’t trust me. St Jude I know you will intercede on our behalf….to God and answer my pray. Will post results…God bless you guys.
Thanks St Jude. I prayed to him together with Mother Therese Emergency Novena for a financial help, in fact we had bills which needed to be paid and didn’t know what to do. At the end of the Novena, someone who owned us some money called us and said he wanted to give us our money back. He had that money for 7 years. I continue to pray St Jude and Mother Mary for continuous financial help so that we can pay all the debts we have and also I can get a job.
Thank you Mother Mary and St Jude
Recently, I had received what I think are signs that maybe I should keep praying to St Jude. I had prayed to him first a few months ago ‘re a relationship situation, and saw some results. I thanked him on an internet forum dedicated to him. Then after a while, things stalled so I prayed to him again but admit I became angry when it felt like he wasn’t listening or helping , so I stopped. A few weeks later, I went abroad to visit some relatives in France I went to visit a little town in the countryside and too visit the old church there. I went to the church and was very surprised when I saw they had a little stand where they were selling St Jude medals. I thought that v strange. I’ve been going to this place almost every year for years and they’ve never had St Jude medals there before. So I bought two and had been praying, then stopped when I was getting frustrated with what I thought was no progress. I don’t get to see a love interest of mine very often as he travels a lot and is wary of relationships due to being hurt in the past. Last week, St Jude kept coming into my head and I thought maybe I should pray to him. Last few days kept getting weird signs. Kept seeing references to basil everywhere, went to the shop and bought a wash with basil that smelt lovely. I then remembered that St Jude likea basil. Then when I get home in the evening, a friend posted something on the internet about he is raising money to help his local children’s hospital called St JUDES! I am sure these are all signs so I lit a green candle to him dressed in Olive oil and basil and started a novena to him. I am hoping he will hear my prayers to bring C back to me, and remove the obstacles between us so that things can progress. I am trying g to be patient St Jude and am sort to have been angry before when things didnt happen right away. I am trying to keep the faith and be patient, even though it’s hard. But I hope he can understand Tony situation and help. I thank you for listening anyway St Jude.
I started to pray to Saint Jude 6 days ago for my extremely hopeless situation with the father of my unborn child. I am a 20 year old college girl, pregnant and alone. my baby’s father is unbelievably controlled by his father who for some unknown reason after 3 years, decided he doesn’t like me. due to this issue my boyfriend has been in and out of my life countless times because his father makes things complicated at home. nevertheless, I have been out of contact with my baby’s dad for months .. literally. On the first day of my novena prayer to Saint Jude, I recieved a text from him saying to please respond as we have a lot to talk about. on the Second day, I was asked to go out to dinner to talk about things, where my baby’s dad admitted leaving me was wrong and a mistake especially while being pregnant. he poured his heart out to me and I saw that he was genuine about it. he told me he wanted to be with me and Be a father to his son.he came to my house, apologized like a man to my parents and just everything felt great again. on the third day however, things turned around… his dad and him had a discussion and I’m not too sure what about, and next thing I know, he’s closing up and heading for the hills. he completely turned his story around and said he doesn’t love me (which I’ve heard already) and just wants to be a father to our son. confused and heartbroken AGAIN.. I am continuing to pray to Saint Jude in hopes of him answering my prayers. I have faith everything will work out. thank you Saint Jude I will have nothing but devotion to you. Amen
Holy spirit you who makes me see everything and shows me the way to reach my ideal, you who gives me the divine gift to forgive and forget everything and who are in all the instances of my life with me, I in this short dialogue want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter what the material desires may be, I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory, amen. Say this novena for 3 days then publish, it has never failed me. Thank you dear holy spirit for always answering me in time of need. I am eternally grateful !!!! MD
I pray to St. Jude that he intercede on my husband’s behalf for a cure for his cancer. Thank you for bringing us together and for our love.
Thank you St. Jude, God and Virgin Mary for all the blessings you have bestowed on his.
St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael, please be with me today. Please hear and answer my prayers with your divine grace, intervention, and kindness, I love you all, please help me so that my prayer requests all come true quickly, Amen.
I request you to please sell both my shops which are shree ganesh agencies and A and B enterprises at the earliest. I request you to give 1 crore 10 lakhs to me.
I request you to please increase my height to 5″4 and make me slimmer. I want to weigh 53kgs.
I request you to bring back Joseph Sebastian into my life romantically. I want him to leave all the other romantic relationships and stay loyal and loving towards me.
Heavenly Father, you have given us archangels to assist us
during our pilgrimage on earth. Saint Michael is our
protector, I ask him to come to my aid, fight for all my
loved ones, and protect us from danger. Saint Gabriel is a
messenger for the Good News, I ask him to help me clearly
hear your voice and to teach me the truth. Saint Raphael
is the healing angel, I ask him to take my need for
healing and that of everyone I know, lift it up to your
throne of grace and deliver back to us the gift of
recovery. Help us O Lord to realize more fully the reality
of the archangels and their desire to serve us. Holy
Angels pray for us. Amen
Its my second day of Novena to ST. JUDE and i am hoping that he will answer my prayer.
I will promise that i will post here if he answer my prayer. I believe in him though its my first time to NOVENA to him.
I am on my First Day of St Jude’s Novena. I do not know what the outcome from this but I trust in the power of St Jude as well as the mercy of Jesus Christ. I am praying for the restoration of my broken relationship with my Ex. I have done so much as a human can do but situation never gets better. In fact, we argued a lot to the extend that he told me that he hated me. He kept on accusing me for things that I don’t do. But then again, I see there is a chance of hope in my Ex. St. Jude, hear my answer according to the Lord’s will.
St. Jude thank you for reminding me of what a privilege we have to have Jesus as a friend. I’ve been in the wilderness for a long time, but I finally realised that it’s not the suffering I should be talking about, but proclaiming that God’s glory be seen through me. There are many a time I have grown weary though: I’ve lost my husband, my baby, my job and I’m about to lose our home, and in the flesh I’ve felt completely desperate and all alone. I came across your novena yesterday, and have been praying in all sincerity for marriage reconciliation and the blessing of motherhood. Circumstances which in the natural seem impossible, but the Lord is my Shepherd, I will not want. Greater is He who is in me than he who is of the world. I have faith St. Jude, it is there. It maybe tinier than a mustard seed but it is there, and so with renewed hope I dare to believe in miracles. I dare to believe that God will breathe new life into my circumstances, and ask my marriage to come forth in Jesus Name! I am absolutely nothing without God. I surrender the outcome of my life, my husband, the gift of motherhood, the area of my finances to Jesus, and I humbly ask St. Jude, helper of the hopeless, worker of miracles, that you will intercede for me. It’s day two, and I just want to thank you St. Jude for the amazing sense of peace I received whilst praying the novena at the adoration chapel today. Thank you for the shalom, and saying be still, I know Him St. Jude, I know that Yeshua is the God ‘I Am’.
Thank you St. Jude I was granted the the ability to work part time by my company. Please help me strengthen my faith. Thank you
As I promised to St. Jude that I will published here the miracle that was happened to me.
this day is my 9th day of Novena, and I could say that I was so blessed and thankful on what happened to me though it’s not the specific prayer that I prayed to him. But then, I am still hoping and keep praying as he showed me that miracle is real. And also I want to thank St. Rita and Padre Pio.
Thank you St. Jude!
Thank you so much St. Jude! 🙂
O holy st jude. I thank you for continuing to here my prayers and this is my 3rd day into the novena and he has responded to my messages without an argument ans did laugh as well in his text. Thank you st jude. I am praying to reunite with my ex again and asking him to forgive and his bosses to review their decision. I pray that you grant my prayer. I am hopeless without him and i never realised how much he meant to me and my daughter till now when he broke up with me. Please st jude answer my prayers so we can spend christmas as a family. I will continue my 6 more days of praying. I thank you st jude.ß
It is my first time to invoke St. Jude. My case seems desperate and hopeless as I am praying for a rebirth of my broken relationship with my fiancee of one year. He is dating someone else at the moment and doesn’t even talk to me but I believe within the 9 days of this novena beginning on Oct 19th I will have recovered my love back. We had great plans together and the unknown happened. My prayer is to have fresh unconditional love for each other and after being frustrated several times that he is not part of the frustrations. We had made up our minds on each other. I had told my family about him and currently avoiding when anyone asks how we are doing, I don’t know what to tell them so I pretend all is well. There have been rumors that our family cannot have stable marriages because my 3 sisters are single mothers and I am the only one unmarried and without a kid and I believe this thought is ending with me. Help me St. Jude that on coming back he will go to visit my family so that we can get my mum’s approval I know dad who went to be with the Lord will also give us his blessings.
I am so optimistic that this prayer will be granted and we will live happily ever after. Thank you in advance for your powerful intercession St. Jude and turning desperate situations like mine to reality. Eagerly waiting for Thursday to begin the novena and I am so ready to receive the love of my life back.
Thank You SAINT JUDE.
I am on the fourth day of my novena to Saint Jude. Saint Jude always comes through in some way for me. I am asking him to bring my boyfriend Troy and I back together again because we truly love one another and want to be together. We had a disagreement and asking Saint Jude to fill his heart and mind with forgiveness and they we start communicating again and put our lives back together again. Thank you Saint Jude for bringing us back together again. I will continue to tell everyone about your miracles.
I am on 6th day of novena asking, begging st .Judr to help me bring my husband back. I have never prayed to st jude before . I am really hoping he answers me as I am desperate. We have beautiful children together who also miss him. Please st jude help me. I will be back to give full events after the novena ends and please god with great news for everyone to hear and confirm their faith.!
This is my 9th day of praying to st jude. My prayers have not been answered yet but i will keep praying and i wont loose faith. I thank you st jude and i will keep telling everyone about you. And i pray you answer my prayers so my daughter and i can spend christmas and the rest of our life with the guy i love so much forever. Thank you so much st jude please answer my prayer. Amen