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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I pray to St.Jude for financial miracle .I pray for new beginning for my family. In Jesus name.Amen
St.Jude pray for us.
I have just started my novena to St. Jude yesterday and today is my 3rd day. I do not know if my prayers would be granted or not, but, through my strong faith, I am sure that I would get a positive response to my special request. Whatever the result would be, I will be grateful to share them with you.
Thank you St. Jude for interceding and along with God our Lord to answer my prayers for an innocent young girl tragically injured. You have truly blessed her with a miracle and allowed the impossible to happen when the expected outcome was so dire. I am forever grateful and loyal to you for bestowing such a miracle.
Thank you At Jude for healing my daughter’s cancer ang giving me strength to battle my own cancer
I actually have a amazing story about St Jude guiding me to pray to him, but was to long to share on this site. I did just finish my 9 day Novena. And yesterday a amazing sign that can’t be ignored told me to just be patient a bit longer and it will happen. After that I have 100% confidence things are going to work out. I believe in you St. Jude.
I am not sure what is going to happen to me but I am ever so grateful for the Help of St Jude. He has helped me in the past and is helping me again. I am now day 3 into my novena and the audit of my work will commence next week I am sure. I am asking S Jude to help me in this audit – to hide my stealing and trying to cover it up. I have no reason or excuse for my bad behaviour except that I did not trust in God!.. I give thanks to St Jude and Mother Mary for their help and what ever the outcome I will have to accept. I just pray that St Jude will show me mercy and intercede for me so that my sins car blotted out and no one will find out what I did. God Knows what I did and St Jude and all the saints and aposolets. I beg St Jude to protect me as I am looking after my 90 year old mother and 2 daughers.. Thank You St Jude. Thanks You ST Jude.
Thank You St Jude – My favorite patron Saint – you and St Therese and Infant Jesus of Prague – I thank you so much. You have never failed to disappoint me and I will continue to devote my prayers to you. I promise to do Gods Will on Earth ! – I understand now. Thank You and God Bless You.
I just finished a 9 day novena to bring back my love to me… I do not know what will happen but I pray we can at least talk and work things out.. I trust in you St. Jude, worker of miracles.
St Jude _ I ask that you be by my side the next two weeks while the audit is being conducted. I need you St Jude to protect me and not have any more investigative issues in the my work with the P&L after the first test testing. Please Please St Jude – Protect me and show Mercy – Please Please St Jude intercede for me.
Thank You.
This is my 5th day praying the St. Jude novena. I’ve been praying for my parent’s health to improve, specially my mother who has been feeling ill lately. I pray for complete healing from her disease and for God to bless me with many years of keeping my parents with me.
St Jude novena really works. I prayed that we may move into another house with me our daughter and Husband and on the 8th day , a fight broke out and my husband decided to g et a rented house. I wanted to move out but without fighting. Now I am praying the novena so that our fight will be resolved.. tomorrow is the 8 th da y . I will share my experience on the 9 try h da y.
St Jude Hoping for the best….By reading everyones comment i am 100% sure that St Jude will fulfill my wish as well…Thanks
I want to Thank Saint Jude for answering my prayers
My Fiancé has been incarcerated and because he was on parole I thought that he would’ve gotten the 7 year sentencing plus more but I spoke to him yesterday and he told me that since he was on parole and not probation that they won’t use those 7 years against him I can’t thank Saint Jude enough because I have been praying that he would be delivered from this sentence and that’s the new I recieved yesterday I will never stop thanking and doing this novena Saint Jude I love you so much and thank you!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Today is my first day of praying to St. Jude. I think he is wonderful, and he listens to your prayers. I have recently been really scared of gunshots. I prayed that there will not be shootings anymore. I hope this prayer is heard, and this is hard but I’m sure St.Jude will find a way. I trust him.
I prayed to St Jude a few months ago when I was at risk of losing my job. I thought that it was hopeless and I started looking for new jobs online. Turns out, the prayers to St Jude worked! I kept my job and I am unbelievably thankful to St Jude for helping me and for giving me hope. I know I can always turn to St. Jude when all seems impossible and insurmountable.
I am embarking on a novena to St. Jude to help my wife elivate the current constant pain and hat she is in every day. Additionally as a marketing sales person of 20 years I am attempting to add stability to the balanc of my career. If possible I would like to increase my earnings. This novena will continue as long as it’s necessary.
Thank you oh blessed Saint Jude Thaddeus! Since I was a child, my mother taught me about the novena to Saint jude. Saint Jude, you have helped me several times to overcome very large obstacles in my life. I have only come to you pleading when I had no pride left and knew the case was truly hopeless. Everytime I did a novena to Saint Jude, you always came through for me, never failing. I have always tried not to ask for too much and only to consult with you on an emergency basis, never to manipulate the order of things so that I may get my way. If I felt it was selfish, then I would keep it to myself and not ask for your help/intercession on the matter. I would just try to deal with it on my own, even though it was hard. You helped me get through my classes and pass with flying colors, better than expected! You have helped me with jobs and financial situations as well! You did help me two weeks ago with an interview I went on, so I am past the interview and initial screening process, but we are waiting on the final word from the state as to when myself and other candidates will even be able to begin work. I have been unemployed now for two months and it has been extremely hard. I really need to start this job soon-if that’s what is meant to happen, but I need to be able to take care of my bills and myself. Of course it won’t pay what I was making before, but that’s just a sacrifice I have to live with. I will gladly take this job or whatever I can get and continue on with my novena. Tonight makes day 4 I believe, so 5 more days and we shall see how Saint Jude has decided to intercede on my behalf, hopefully he will because I trust him very much so. He has always come through without fail, and I truly believe he will do it again. Thank you Saint Jude!
I was introduced to St Jude novena by a philiphino client of mine in March 2016 after I told her about my heartbroken experience with an ex. She encouraged me to pray to the patron St Jude as she did for me too. I prayed that I should get a husband. In October 2015, I traveled to MN for another job offer. In November I met with this man who engaged me on February 13, 2016, married me same Febuary 21, 2016. Now we are expecting a baby.
Thank you so much St Jude for interceding for my petition. Thank you St. Jude. Now am on Day 1 of my novena asking St Jude to help my husband with national exams. He’s been doing odd jobs now to provide for our family but we still can’t meet up with bills and a baby on the way. I pray that St Jude would intercede for my husband’s exams so that he can a better job for which he has been in school 8yrs for and graduated but is tired up with the national exam.
Wives should pray for their husbands success cus when they succeed we succeed too. I will keep praying the novena with my husband until we get a result then I will most our result. I have faith it will be positive.
Thank you St Jude
I thank you St Jude for being with me the last four weeks and I continue to ask for your help and protection especially now in my marriage. Thank You St. Jude for helping me and showing me the way back to Our Lord’s house and sacraments. Please Please do not leave me.
I prayed to st Jude to help me to get a house after the 9th day my prayers was granted thank u st Jude
Like others, I’ve apparently been given misinformation about the proper procedure for a novena to St. Jude. So tonight I’m trying again, for the umpteenth time in three years to petition for my son, Ben, to be cured of mental illness and his addiction to drugs. Hopefully, tonight will make a difference since I’m publicly posting my petition and thanks to St. Jude in advance.
Thank you St. Jude for prayers answered ! Thank you Jesus ! Sometimes you may not get exactly what you pray for, but you always get what he thinks is best for you. So never lose hope and keep the faith.
Thank you St. Jude for giving my heart peace. Whenever I pray to you, I feel such calmness, such love. I’ve never felt so safe and secure before when praying to a Saint. I am still waiting for my petition to be granted, but I have complete faith in you, St. Jude. Because I know that even if I don’t see immediate results, you’re working on a spiritual level and I can definitely feel it. Thank you so much St. Jude, I love you with all my heart and I’ll continue praying to you. Amen.
I have been struggling for the last year and a half about a certain situation and have asked St Jude for help. Sometimes I sense the help come and go and it’s frustrating at times, but I will continue to pray and and be patient, because I know St Jude has helped me in the past. Thank you St Jude for all that you have done for me.
Indeed Saint Jude is a real miracle worker and our Awesome King Jesus Christ work HIS great miracles through Him. I am about to complete my second novena to HIM and very optimistic that GOD is going to grant my requests through HIS faithful friend and servant because this isn’t the first time I’ve recieved such favours .
May the Sacred Heart of our KING JESUS CHRIST be praised, loved and Adored throughout Eternity and may the gentle heart of OUR Mother Queen of Heaven be Adored and loved forever. May the gentle name of Our Dear Saint Jude be praised throughout the world. Amen
I am on my first day of my St. Jude novena.
I just know about this from my bf. I don’t know why, but I think he knew I had something in my mind even though I didn’t realize it and always denied it in my heart.
I’m scared about so many things about life, always act like everything is ok, but inside I’m so scared.
The world is kind of being crazy now, war everywhere, misunderstanding everywhere, unpredictable climate and weather, not stable economy, uncertain future, everything.
I pray for my family, especially for my parents’ health, safety and prosperity. I pray the best things in life too for my bf, who loved me so much. I wish he will get a job soon. I pray for tolerance as a human being. I pray for a better world with peace everywhere. I pray for a better future and I pray may all beings be happy.
Forgive me God. I’m not too good a person.
Thank you God and St. Jude, just for always being by my side.
Bless us, God.
I am praying to St. Jude for a small miracle related to a court case I have pending. I’ve been told my judgment will not be signed by the judge before the end of the year as I was originally assured of. This situation will put a potential tax liability on me that I do not want. Furthermore, it will place a great deal of anxiety on me and I already am burdened with stress and anxiety caused by recent life and job changes. I’ve been told by the court clerk that it’s unlikely to happen and I will miss the deadline by several weeks. My lawyer is partially responsible for this due to mistakes he made and documents he did not file, which caused my case file to be put back in the line. I am praying that St. Jude will intercede on my behalf to grant a small miracle and have my judgment signed before midnight December 31st, 2016. To show my devotion to St. Jude, I made a donation to St. Jude’s children’s cancer research hospital in good faith. Please hear my prayers St. Jude and intercede on my behalf. I promise publicize your name as the Saint of lost causes and the impossible in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believeth. Mark 9:23
The Lord God will surely hear your prayers through the powerful intercession of our glorious Apostle, Saint Jude Thaddaeus, patron of the desperate cases. The good Apostle, Saint Jude Thaddeus, became gloriously renown as the most powerful Patron Saint of Desperate Cases because he was eclipsed for centuries in history. Sadly, for ages he was forgotten despite being a faithful servant and friend of Jesus. God praised and rewarded Saint Jude with an uncanny power to help the desperate, to assist those during impossible situations.
Thank you, Saint Jude, for your immediate assistance and intercession- I am in complete awe over your rapid response and aide, and I am humbled by your exactness and timeliness to meet my needs. You have never failed me during times of trial and tribulation, and words cannot articulate how grateful I am- You have assisted me with both trivial and demonstrative prayers. I truly believed you have even performed miracles for me. Thank you for answering my prayers, God. Thank you for interceding on my behalf, Saint Jude. I will encourage devotion to you always.
I stumbled upon the novena to St. Jude in a newspaper when I was 6 years old. I saw other people thanking St. Jude for helping them during their difficult times. That’s when I thought I should start praying to St. Jude for my need. I was granted my wish during the 8th day of my prayer, but as I was a young girl, I didn’t publish anywhere that St. Jude has helped me out at that time. I would like to use this oppprtunity to thank St. Jude for helping me out at my very young age. I have started praying again to St. Jude to help my family to fight financial troubles and I’m requesting you guys to please remember me and my family in your prayers. This is the 7th day of my novena and I hope that St. Jude will help us again during this very difficult time. I pray that everyone’s requests will be fulfilled by our Lord Jesus Christ through the intercession of St. Jude. May God bless you all.
Dear St Jude, I want to keep my promise to you and publicly thank you for helping me! I asked for help with getting a university application processed in time, and it was looking like it wouldn’t be because everything had been going wrong. I was in such a state of upset as it was looking like a lost cause so I prayed to you and the next day I heard that has been. So THANK YOU! I will be forever grateful to you and will spread the word so others know of your miracles.
Thank you st Jude for answering get my prayers…ever since l was still in school…please help me and intercede for me again as l wait for the right partner and visa
I have finished my 9 day novena to st. jude and continue praying for positive results in my exam and a good career. I have faith. Whatever the results are I will share them here.
It was only early of this month I happened to know about St Jude…. I am desperate, I was facing a possible law suit from my employer. I read a message from a cousin to ask help from St Jude, the patron St of hopeless cases. I tried to research about Him and read some testimonies… The first outcome from my employer is for me to be terminated from my office and no more law suits. I was so happy and thankful. I had been praying Holy Rosary, chaplet of the Divine Mercy and novena to St. Jude…. But this is not yet the end of my problem, there are provisions for me to be able to be free from law suits… Financial constraints is my problem.. I need to return everything over a short period of time. I know that this would be impossible for now… But still I continue to pray and stay faithful and hopeful… Help me too pray for miracles… In Christ, Angel
I want to thank St.Jude in advance for granting me favor. I prayed and am praying for a miracle with the relationship I’m in. I know St.Jude is with me and will answer prayer the best way he sees fit.
Tandi D.
I was in a bind at work and stressing what to do. I prayed to St Jude to help me and started to pray his novena. Today is the 6th day and my prayers have been granted! Thank you St Jude!
Its my 2nd day of Novena to St. Jude. Please St. Jude help me send my message to our Lord Jesus for my upcoming National Exam this Jan. 26th 2017. Whatever the results are I will share them here.. Your will be Done Lord Jesus Christ.. =(
Thank you St Jude for always answering my prayers
I have faith that financial prosperity is coming in the month of February, 2017 … My st .jude will make it happen.
St Jude – I need your HELP again please for my two daughters who need to gain employment. One is in desperate need to secure a position and has applied everywhere – she has debts and needs your help. The other one is just 18 and very pious and always pray hard – please please intercede for them & don’t let their faith be in vain .. I want to thank you St Jude for always always helping me and answering my prayer and I know you will do so again in this instance. In Jesus name .
I am ever so grateful to St Jude. When i submitted my application for a UK spouse visa to join my husband, i prayed this novena after submitting the application. The entire visa process was supposed to take at least 21 working days but for me the entire process took 2 days. It was such a miracle and I thank St Jude for praying for me to God. Im eternally grateful because that visa application was not looking like it was going to yield a positive outcome.
I just started my pray to Saint Jude! I am in need of a job!
St Jude answered my prayer for a home!!!! Thank you St Jude. I prayed again and I know he will not fail me!!!
I am praying to St. Jude and I am on the first day of my novena. I am praying for a miracle St. Jude that I do not lose my job as I am currently under investigation. I pray that the investigation against me stops and that I can return back to work. I pray you give me the miracle of saving my job as I have two kids and need my job to care for them. Please help me get good news from my job on tuesday that i can return back to work. Please hear my prayers St. Jude and interced in my behalf. Thank you St.Jude Amen
Thank You St. Jude for prayers answered by your intercession throughout my life during my family’s most difficult times. I have seen miracles happen I would have never experienced without your aid. Please hear my prayers St. Jude and intercede on my behalf. I promise to honor & publicize your name as the Saint of lost causes and the impossible in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am on Day 4 of my Novena & I once again have complete Faith in your intersession to our Lord for me. Thank You again St. Jude!
Wasnt sure if i wanted a relationship when we first met, and i may have lost him to someone else please bring my love back to me, so we can start a relationship together. This is my 2 day of my novena.
My sister told me about the St jude novena at first i wasnt really a believer but i must say Best prayer everytime i do my 9 days novena i get what i asked for sometimes you just need patience and faith. Things come at its right time. Thank you st jude
Please bring Troy back home. He will reach out to me filled with the love of God. In Jesus’ name Amen
I’m thanking you in advance for bringing Troy back home Saint Jude.
Thank you St. Jude for allowing me the privilege to pray for your gift of listening to my prayer and needs. I promise to invoke thy name. Amen.