WEEK OF 7/31/06 (CONTINUED)
Most holy Apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus,  the Church honors and invokes you universally, as the patron of difficult  cases, of things almost despaired of, Thank you for Praying for me and my family.
Thank you for Interceding with God for me and that He is bringing visible and speedy help where help was almost despaired of. Thank you for coming to my assistance in this great desire and that I am receiving  the consolation and help of heaven in all my wants, desires, and necessities, particularly-- I thank you that my wife Tiffany is opening her heart to me and becoming more and more affectionate, attracted to me, and loving towards me every day and that she is joyously deciding to stay in our marriage.  Thank you that I am lovingly able to meet all of her needs and be of service in her emotional healing, and that I'm becoming a better and better listener every day, and that I am confidently demonstrating my positive value which draws her ever closer into relationship with me, and that our beautiful 3 year old daughter is being blessed with being raised by her father and mother together in a loving and nurturing marriage, family, and home.  Thank you for assisting me in my heartfelt intention, and asking God to shed grace upon me. AJK
SJNS: St. Jude, help them continue to strengthen and solidify their union.

May the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus be praised, adored and glorified throughout the whole world now an forever.
Most Sacred Heart o jesus, pay for me. St.Theresa of the Child Jesus, pray for me. St. Jude, Patron of Hopeless Cases, pray for me and grant this favor I ask.  (say prayer 9 times a day and for 9 consecutive days and publish on or after 9th day.)  I prayed before and my request was granted.  This time it is somethingI really need to be granted it means my life and emotionalwell being.  Please pray for me. Robyn, Houston, TX
SJNS:  St. Jude, please hear your follower's request.

St. Jude, please hear our petition and grant our request so that we may become closer to our families and to help heal our selves.  "O most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, people honor and invoke you universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray for me, for I am so helpless and alone.   Please help to bring me visible and speedy assistance. 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 that we sell our hotel and restaurant business and that I may praise God with you always."   "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 by publishing this request. Amen." Lien's & Fragola's
SJNS: St. Jude, we come to you asking your intervention in their prayer.

Dear St. Jude, please hear my prayer.  Make my daughter come around, soften her heart, peace her mind.  Make her talk to her father again.  He is so hurt.  We love her so much.  We need her in our lives.  I wish for her to meet someone, so she won't feel lonely anymore, that will treasure her, that will make her sooo happy.  Someone we will approve of.  Please give her courage to write her paper.  In another word, I want my family the way it was before all this happened.  Please St.Jude, worker of miracles, grant me one.  I beg you. MC, Boston, MA
SJNS: St. Jude, we beseech your special intercession into their needs.

Dearest St. Jude, please don't let my mother's cancer metasticicize or grow.  Please reach down from Heaven and heal my mother, Barbara.  Please grant her the wisdom to know what she needs to do to get better and please grant her the courage and strength to whatever she needs to do to heal.  Please grant her comfort, wisdom, strength, courage, good health, joy and healing and help her to have a complete, quick, comfortable recovery.  Thank you for your past intercessions when God has helped my grandmother in miraculous ways through those intercessions.  Today is the ninth day of the Novena and I have already seen your presence and God's presence in my life, working toward healing my mother.  Thank you, St. Jude.  Amen. Christina
SJNS: St. Jude, we beg for your physical healing graces on behalf of her mother.

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 by publishing this reading. Amen.  Blessed Apostle St. Jude, we call upon you for help in hope and utmost confidence. St. Jude renowned help of the hopeless, come to my aid in this time of distress. St. Jude, cousin of the Lord, obtain from our Savior the favors I now need and seek, especially (state your request). V, MN
SJNS:  May St. Jude intercede in this prayer request.

O glorious Apostle St. Jude, true relative of Jesus and Mary, I salute you through the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Through this Heart, I praise and thank God for all the graces He has bestowed upon you. Humbly prostrate before you, I implore you through this Heart to look down upon Heather with compassion. Despise not my poor prayer and let not my trust be in vain. To you has been assigned the privilege of aiding mankind in the most desperate cases. Oh, come to my aid that I may praise the mercies of God. All my life I will be grateful to you and will be your faithful client until I can thank you in heaven. Amen. Heather, Ontario, Canada
SJNS: St. Jude, we implore you to hear this petition.

Most holy Apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honors and invokes you universally, as the patron of difficult cases, of things almost despaired of, Pray for me, I am so helpless and alone.         Intercede with God for me that He 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 - that Maria Salud Stanton and her children and family have a lasting reconciliation, providing all the love and support family should provide, and that Maria fully recover and return to work - and that I may praise god with you and all the saints forever. I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be mindful of this great favor granted me by God and to always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to greatfully encourage devotion to you. JAS, NY
SJNS: St. Jude, we ask you to hear this request.

O wonderful St. Jude, I plead with you to intercede on my behalf. Please pray for me that the place where I worked this summer would give me an offer to come back and join them when I finish school. You have always been very good to me and I have faith that you would intercede on my behalf once more. Thank you. E, Windsor, Ontario
SJNS: St. Jude, we ask you to intervene and help this follower receive the job offer.

WEEK OF 8/07/06
I pray to St Jude to give me and my family strength and hope as my Mother goes in for diagnostic screening tests this week.  I pray for her health; I pray that her troubles will not be life threatening, but if they are, I pray that she will not suffer physically, emotionally, or spiritually, and that my Father has the strength to handle anything that comes of this.  I pray that I can be strong for her; but most of all, I pray that she will be all right, and remains the heart and soul of our family for many years to come.  I love her so much; please, St Jude, help us through these terrible days. Lindsay, IL
SJNS: St. Jude, please intercede and protect her mother's health.

St.Jude after 34yrs of marriage my husband says he is not sure whether he wants to stay married....we have 3 children and one left to finish his education.Please help me to sell my one asset so that I can help provide for my son and also to help me finacially until I manage to get a job...I feel so much sadness as I am not so young and my future is so uncertain. Please help me though this. Anonymous
SJNS: St. Jude, giver her the strength to carry on through this difficult period.

Dear St. Jude, Please help my husband find a job as soon as possible. We have only a few months before we will lose all that we have worked for during our whole married life (28 years) I pray that through your intercession he will find gainful employment so that we cancontinue to support our family and serve God in peace. Amen. Donna, Carlsbad
SJNS:  St. Jude, we ask for your precious assistance to this request.

"O most holy apostle, St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, people honor and invoke you universally, as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray for me, for I am so helpless and alone.   Please
help to bring me visible and speedy assistance. Come to my assistance in these great needs that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations, and sufferings, particularly that both my parents, Archie & Betty Skelton, will receive good results from their recent blood work & not have to see any other doctors or repeat the blood work. Also that my mother will be able to eat well, digest her food well and gain weight & my father's legs will get stronger and he will be able to walk without getting tired. Thank you for your intercession so many times in the past. "I promise, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of these great favors, to always honor you as my special and powerful patron, and to gratefully encourage devotion to you by publishing this request and by encouraging others to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Amen." "May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be Adored, Glorified, Loved & Preserved throughout the world, now & forever.  Sacred Heart of Jesus, please pray for us.  Saint Jude, Worker of Miracles, please pray for us. Saint Jude, Helper of the Hopeless, please pray for us.   Barbara, MO
SJNS:   St. Jude, we ask for your special concern and care to shower them.

Glorious Saint Jude Thaddeus,by those sublime privileges with which you were adorned in your lifetime,namely your relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh,and your vocation to be an Apostle,and by that glory which now is yours in heaven as the reward of your Apostolic labours and your martyrdom,obtain for me from the giver of every good and perfect gift all the graces which i stand in need of at the moment for, I ask for Lettie Claasens from Matatiele to drop the court proceedings against my company and me and stop the greed which has encompassed her.Please keep her from sin and enlighten her to the error of her ways to extort money from us
May I treasure up in my heart the divinely inspired doctrines that you have given us in your Epistle:to build my edifice of holiness upon our most holy faith,by praying for the grace of the Holy Spirit;to keep myself in the love of god,looking for the mercy of Jesus Christ unto eternal life;to strive by all means to help those who go astray.  May I thus praise the glory and the majesty,the dominion and power of Him who is able to keep me without sin and to present me spotless with great joy at the coming of our divine Saviour, Lord Jesus Christ. Ray
SJNS: St. Jude, we beseech you to intercede in this request.

Prayer for sale at a good price of a boat that needs to be sold ASAP. Marysue, Ohio
SJNS: Please assist them with finding a buyer, St. Jude.

I ask for a financial blessing for my mom who lost everything in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  May she be blessed soon with a new home.  Prayer that I passed the NCE exam.  Lastly, prayer that your surround me with people who love me for me.  Please remove these feelings of lonliness.  I so desperately want to be happily married to a wonderful man who respects, and cherishes our relationship.  Someone  who is financially stable, emotionally and mentally stable, who puts me first.  I want to be happily married in 2007 and bear a child with the man that I will spend the rest of my life with. Amen. Jerri, New Orleans
SJNS: St. Jude, please pray with us over her petitions.

Please use your special gifts for healing to cure Bobby and grant him permanent remission of the cancer.  Thank you for your favors. Polly, AZ
SJNS: We ask St. Jude for physical healing gifts for Bobby.