August, 2010 A.D.

1.	10th Sunday after Pentecost; Semidouble; Green.  Saint Peter in Chains; Double Major; White.
2.	Saint Alphonsus De Liguori, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church; Double; White.
3.	Finding of the Body of Saint Stephen, the Protomartyr; Semidouble; Red.
4.	Saint Dominic, Confessor; Double Major; White.
5.	Our Lady of the Snows; Double Major; White.
6.	The Transfiguration of Our Lord; Double of the Second Class; White.  First Friday.
7.	Saint Cajetan, Confessor; Double; White. First Saturday.
8.	11th Sunday after Pentecost; Semidouble; Green.  Saints Cyriacus, Largus and Smaragdus; Martyrs; Semidouble; Red.
9.	Saint John Mary Vianney, Confessor; Double; White.  Patron Saint of Parish Priests.
10.	Saint Laurence, Martyr; Double of the 2nd Class with Simple Octave; Red.
11.	Saints Tiburtius and Susanna, Virgin; Martyrs; Simple; Red.
12.	Saint Clare, Virgin; Double; White.
13.	Saints Hippolytus and Cassian; Martyrs; Simple; Red.
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15.	12th Sunday after Pentecost; Semidouble; Green.  (Transferred from previous day because the Feast Day is Transferred to Monday, August 16.)  Vigil of the Assumption; Simple; Violet.  First day of the Annual Solemn 9-Day Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
16.	(Feast Day is transferred from the previous day because Sundays take precedence over Feast Days per Saint Pius X.) The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Double of the First Class with Common Octave; White. Saint Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Confessor; Double of the 2nd Class; White.  Second day of the Annual Solemn 9-Day Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
17.	Saint Hyacinth, Confessor; Double; White.  Third day of the Annual Solemn 9-Day Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
18.	Saint Agapitus, Martyr; Red.  Fourth day of the Annual Solemn 9-Day Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
19.	Saint John Eudes; Confessor; Double; White. Fifth day of the Annual Solemn 9-Day Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
20.	Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church; Double; White.  Sixth day of the Annual Solemn 9-Day Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
21.	Saint Jane Frances Fremiot DeChantal, Widow; Double; White. Seventh day of the Annual Solemn 9-Day Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
22.	13th Sunday after Pentecost; Semidouble; Green. Eighth day of the Annual Solemn 9-Day Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
23.	(Feast Day is transferred from the previous day because Sundays take precedence over Feast Days per Saint Pius X.) Feast Day of the Immaculate Heart of Mary; Double of the 2nd Class; White.  Ninth day and conclusion of the Annual Solemn 9-Day Novena to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Saint Philip Benizi, Confessor; Double; White.
24.	Saint Bartholomew, Apostle and Martyr; Double of the 2nd Class; Red.
25.	Saint Louis, King, Confessor; Semidouble; White.
26.	Saint Zephyrinus, Pope and Martyr; Simple; Red.
27.	Saint Joseph Calasanctius, Confessor, Double; White.
28.	Saint Augustine, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Catholic Church; Double; White.
29.	14th Sunday after Pentecost; Semidouble; Green. The Beheading of St. John the Baptist; Double Major; Red.
30.	Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin; Double; White.
31.	Saint Raymond Nonnatus; Confessor; Double; White.

 
Father Michael:

I am sending you a check for an additional.... as a promise I made to St. Jude concerning my employment.  I am receiving another contract from my school for the next school year.  I know that this is because of the intercession of St. Jude.

I am also publishing this in a newspaper as well so that others may have faith and confidence of the power of prayers to St. Jude.  The only thing I can tell anyone is to

                        Believe                                    Believe                                    Believe

This past year my family and I have been so blessed by your help and prayers and masses that I cannot thank you enough. Many events in my family's life would not have transpired without intercession...  A fellow teacher was fired this year because of his actions as a teacher.  I was very afraid that this [being fired] was going to happen to me as well.

The intercession of St. Jude came to defend me.  In addition, my Daughter, who did not have the absoute best grades in her college class was able to get a coop at a paper mill.  Some of her classmates were not as lucky.  You have also helped her with [Novena] prayers for her grades in classes as well.

There have been several times when we thought my Husband would get laid-off and your [Novena] prayers came through.

My Daughter was involved with a gentleman with very low morals and values.  With God's help, she broke up with him as well.

I cannot express the amount of gratitude I have for you and your work.  I am certain you will have a great reward in Heaven.

If you wish to publish this letter, please feel free to do so.

Good luck and best wishes with your missions.  Hopefully this small amount will help.  If I were wealthier I would send more.

Perhaps as a suggestion, you might publish in your paper of the remarkable story of Danny Thomas.

I realize that many of your readers are a little young to remember this great comedian.  Danny Thomas is the gentleman who started St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.  You may already know this, but he started this hospital as a thank you to St. Jude for helping him in his career.

His prayers and Novenas to St. Jude were answered and he became an internationally known comedian back in the 50's and 60's.  I became aware of the power of St. Jude through the story of this great humanitarian.  So, it seems that each person's success in their devotion to St. Jude helps bring others to God through St. Jude....

C.C.

Saint Jude Helped Danny Thomas Become a Star!

Danny Thomas
[b. at Deerfield, Michigan on Saturday, January 6, 1912 –
d. at Los Angeles, California on Wednesday, February 6, 1991]

It was like a miracle, the way it happened!
You believe in miracles, don’t you?
(Danny Thomas).
 

Below is a summary of the many Testimonials so many people have sent me over the years concerning how Saint Jude Thaddeus has answered their Novena intentions.

Sometimes their Testimonials are so extremely personal, that they can not be published as written.  This is one of various reasons for the following summary which list is indeed a long one.

But, in order to be brief, the wonderful Testimonials to Saint Jude include such things as:

passing exams;
being protected from harm while on active military duty (especially in Iraq);
getting a job;
getting a visa;
selling a home;
buying a house;
spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, psychological healing;
improvement of a relationship;
getting a compatible marriage mate;
help for one's Parent or Child;
being healed from a major disease (several have reported being healed from cancer and other serious diseases);
not needing minor surgery for a physical problem;
not needing major surgery for a physical problem (in at least one case, a person had the proof of her miracle in the form of the before and after x-rays which proved her instant and total cure);
moving to a better climate;
being accepted by a certain institution of higher learning;
getting a job promotion;
keeping one's job;
moving from one country to another;
many special intentions known only to the persons requesting the Novenas to Saint Jude;
many, many Novenas of Thanksgiving to Saint Jude for one or more intentions granted by Saint Jude;
many other things.

Some people ask me to remind everyone else that Saint Jude Thaddeus is in fact a powerful intercessor before the Throne of God in Heaven on behalf of those for whom and for whose intentions their 9 Day Novenas are made here at the Shrine of Saint Jude.  They tell me how they themselves have personally experienced his most powerful intercession in their own lives and frequently add that this is why they continue to keep coming back to Saint Jude whenever they are in need of help.

Because of the very positive experiences of some people in getting what they need as the result of their Novenas being made here at the Shrine of Saint Jude, some of them have, as it were, a "perpetual", or "continuous" non-stop series of Novenas - one that begins every Sunday of the year.  As a result, they tell me they almost always get what they need and even sometimes they get some things they would like to have, but do not really need.

I, personally, have also been helped by Saint Jude in so many different ways over the years, so many, many time, for which I most humbly thank Saint Jude for all of his most powerful help and intercession with God!

Thank You, Saint Jude!

Father Michael

	Please click here for Masses Offered in honor of Saint Jude Thaddeus for your intentions.
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	Please click here for other Testimonials to Saint Jude!
	Saint Jude Thaddeus, A Brief Biography - Now available after over five years of research!

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The Shrine of Saint Jude thanks Saint Jude Thaddeus
for all of his great blessings and miracles it has received over the years!

Thank You, Saint Jude!!!

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