Novena to Saint Jude

Instructions for Printing and Folding

1. Click the download link or the image above to open the novena PDF.
2. Print the PDF on one US Letter sheet at actual size (100%), or save it for later.
3. Fold the sheet twice to make a four-panel booklet. The top panels are intentionally upside down to accommodate folding.
4. For the nine-day devotion, print sufficient copies for nine consecutive days. The booklet includes the traditional instructions for leaving copies in church.

Prayer and Divine Providence

It is important to recognize that even in the beautiful Communion of Saints, our petitions to God — even those prayed for us by the Saints themselves — are placed in the hands of our loving, all-knowing, and all-good God Who alone sees and knows all ends and what is truly best for us and those we love. We may believe that the good that we pray for is the greatest good possible ... but only God, seeing and willing the greatest good possible, knows what the greatest good is for us and those we confidently pray for. We do not resent God for this, but love Him all the more, for He is ever ready to give us far more than we ask for! (St. Luke 11.11–12)

Yet we pray this novena for them in confidence, for it is borne to God on our fervent love — which He sees in His unspeakable mercy. Too many miracles have been obtained through this devotion for us to declare that we are now too sophisticated for what the simple in faith (and even the learned) have long had recourse to.

Please — say one single prayer for us ... the simplest, even a two-word prayer in passing ... for which we will be immeasurably grateful.

Editor
Boston Catholic Journal

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A Reader’s Testimony

Dear Saint Jude,

Thank you for helping me! Thank you for making what was impossible for me possible through your intercession: for helping me stop smoking — after decades of trying! I had tried everything throughout the years: cigarette-holder devices, patches, hypnosis, cold turkey, everything! Even after a terrible injury when doctors told me that I absolutely had to stop smoking to allow enough blood to reach the injury to heal it, I couldn't!

Then my daughter and her husband downloaded this novena to you, and prayed it for me. I was touched by their love but really didn't think it could work “for me.” Not me! Not after all these years.

Well, for the first time since I began smoking even before my teens — I have stopped! I would never have thought it was possible.

You ARE the Saint of the Impossible! Thank you for helping me. Thank you for praying for me. I really hope to thank you in person one day!

PK

PS: Dear Editor, I remember that you had to promise to publish that St. Jude helped you. Now we have the Internet. Thank you for publishing this, if you do!