Shrine
of
St. Jude
San Francisco, California

.HOME

Calendar

Newsletter

Office
Hours

Staff

Services

Apostolate
Annuals
Perpetuals

Mass Cards

Gift Shop

About
St. Jude

History
of Shrine

Prayers to
St. Jude

Novena

Hymn

Location


 

In her book Jude: A Pilgrimage to the Saint of Last Resort the writer Liz Trotta speaks of the universality of the devotion to St. Jude, to which we can certainly attest here at the Shrine.  Each month we receive letters and prayer requests from countries as diverse as Argentina, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand among others.  Her are two former directors -- one of whom hails from Canada -- who have helped shape that universality.

Fr. Reginald Martin, O.P.
Dec. 4, 1946 --
Director 1997 - 1999

In 1999, Fr. Reginald celebrated his 25th anniversary of ordination and his friends produced a festschrift (literally, a book of celebration) in his honor.  In its range of tributes and remembrances, the festschrift gave a fair summation of the talents with which God has blessed him for his work in the Church and in the Dominican Order.  He has honored the Order's motto to bless, to praise and to preach, one friend wrote, as "purveyor of chrism, tongue of silver, pen of grace, gracious celebrant, friar most mendicant" and much more besides.  An advanced degree in business administration has under girded his service to the Order as pastor, prior, vicar provincial, provincial council member and director of advancement, among other ministries. Today, Fr. Reginald is director  of the Dominican Rosary Centr, in Portland, Or, but retains his love for the Shrine of which he was director in the 90's.  "I count those years among the happiest of my thirty-five year priesthood,"  he wrote in our newsletter for the Novena in honor St. Anne, which he returned to preach last summer.  Of the Novena preaching itself, one attendee wrote to us, "that was my first Dominican Novena, and the best of 50 years of making them.

Fr. Donald Bramble, O.P.
Feb. 4, 1950 --
Director 1999 - 2000

Fr. Donald was born in Quebec, Canada and raised in south central Los Angeles.  He attended Daniel Murphy High school where he got to know the Dominican friars.  After studying at Cal State, Los Angeles, Fr. Donald entered the Dominican Order in 1970 and was ordained on June 4, 1976, "thirty-five years and one day after my uncle's ordination -- Msgr. Keith Bramble"  Our close bond with Fr. Donald was formed when he held the twin directorships of the Dominican Mission Foundation and the Shrine.  In addition to California, he has served the Order in Alaska, Utah, and Arizona, in parishes, in Hispanic ministry, campus ministry, college teaching, adult education and, most recently, as pastor  of Holy family Cathedral in Anchorage, AK.  Fr. Donald who has a Master's Degree in psychiatric Social work from the University of Utah, says "the international character of the Order, the men and women, lay and religious, in the Dominican family ... weave a rich spiritual heritage reaching back to St. Dominic, St. Catherine of Siena, St. mMrtin de Porres ... who are all our companions on the road to heaven."

Yellow
Indicates
Novena Days
September 20010
Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat

 

   

 

1

Saint
Anna
Prophetess

 

2

Saint
Ingrid
of
Skanninge, O.P.
 

3

First
Friday

Saint
Gregory
the
Great

 

4

First
Saturday


Saint
Rose
of
Viterbo

 

5

23rd
Sunday
 Ordinary
Time

Bl. Teresa
of
Calcultta

 

6

Labor
Day
(USA & Canada)


Bl. Julia
 Stanislava
 Rodzinska OP

 

7

Saint
Regina

 

8

Birth
of the
Blessed
Virgin
Mary

 

9

Saint
Peter
Claver

 

10

Saint
Nicholas
of
Cupertino

 

11

12

24th
Sunday
 Ordinary
Time

Holy Name
of Mary

 

13

 Saint
 John
 Chrysostom

 

14

 Exaltation
 of the
 Holy Cross

 

15

Our
Lady
of
Sorrows

 

16

Saints
Cornelius
and
Cyprian
 

17

Saint
Robert
Bellarmine

 

18

Saint
Joseph
of
Cupertino

 

19

25th
Sunday
 Ordinary
Time

 

20

 Saint
 Andrew
 Kim
Taegon

 

21

 Saint
Matthew
 
 

22

 Saint
Maurice
 of
 Africa

 

23

Saint
Pio
of
Pietreleina

 

24

Our
 Lady
of
Ransom

 

25

Saint
Finbar

 

26

26th
Sunday
 Ordinary
Time

 

27

 Saint
 Vincent
 de
Paul

 

28

 Saint
 Laurence
 Ruiz

 

29

 Archangels
 Michael
 Raphael
& Gabriel

 

30

 Saint
 Jerome
 
 

 

 

 

Daily Masses & Prayers
Petitions Received at all Times