Newsletter
Winter 2008
Our Lady of Lourdes Novena
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Dear Friends of St.
Jude:
On this past Nov.30, Pope Benedict
XVI issued his newest encyclical SPE SALVI. The title
comes from St. Paul’s words to the Romans IN HOPE WE WERE SAVED.
As we approach our annual St. Jude Novena in honor of Our Lady
of Lourdes, I invite you to reflect on the closing lines of the
Holy Father’s encyclical:
HOLY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, TEACH US TO BELIEVE, TO HOPE, TO
LOVE WITH YOU. SHOW US THE WAY TO HIS KINGDOM! STAR OF THE
SEA, SHINE UPON US AND GUIDE US ON OUR WAY.
With this
meditation on Mary in mind, we invite you to join us in this
year’s Our Lady of Lourdes Novena.
Novena begins on
Sun., Feb.3, and ends on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, Mon.,
Feb.11. Masses with the novena devotions and blessings with the
St. Jude relic will take place:
Fr. Cassidy will
lead the recitation of the Most Holy Rosary before each of the
Novena Masses. Confessions will be available before each Novena
Mass.
Our Novena preacher will be Fr. David O’Rourke, O.P. In recent
years both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have put
emphasis on Our Lady of Lourdes being the special patroness of
healing. Thus “healing” will be the theme of Fr. O’Rourke’s
meditations.
As
the Novena approaches, please send in your petitions and
intentions. Your petitions will be placed before St. Jude and
will be invoked each day during the Novena. We encourage you to
tell your family and friends how St. Jude has intervened for you
and invite them to visit the Shrine in person or to send in
their petitions.
St. Jude, Patron of Hope, pray for us. 
Fr.
Martin Walsh, OP
Director
Shrine of St. Jude Decree
by Pope Benedict XVI
We just received notice of the following announcement by Pope
Benedict XVI on the year 2008 as being the anniversary of the
apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858.
"Benedict XVI has decided to concede the gift of plenary
indulgence to the faithful under the usual
conditions--sacramental confession, Eucharistic communion and
prayer in keeping with the intentions of the Holy Father--in the
following way:
If between Feb. 2 and Feb. 11, 2008,
the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lourdes and the
150th anniversary of the apparition, they visit any Church,
grotto or decorous place, the blessed image of that same
Virgin of Lourdes, solemnly exposed for public veneration,
and before the image participate in a pious exercise of
Marian devotion, or at least pause for an appropriate space
of time in prayer and with pious meditations, conclude with
the recital of the Our Father, the Profession of Faith...and
the invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
A
statue of Our Lady of Lourdes will be placed at the Shrine of
St. Jude during the Novena and so by fulfilling the above
requirements, our St. Jude devotees will receive the indulgence
offered by the Holy Father.
A Recent Visitor
Monsignor Pedro Agustin Rivera Diaz, the rector of the original
Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, was a recent
visitor to our Shrine of St. Jude. He visited with our newest
staff member Rosa Pinto available during the week to answer
inquiries and questions in Spanish.
Usted Habla Español?
Rosa
Pinto estará trabajando en la oficina para atender a nuestros
devotos de San Judas Tadeo en Español.
Newsletter
Fall 2007
St. Jude Novena
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Dear Friends of St.
Jude:
This letter goes out in
preparation for our up-and-coming novena in honor of our
Holy Patron, St. Jude Thaddeus. Our preacher this year is
Fr. Carl Schlichte, O.P. (See back page).
St. Jude
has always been a source of encouragement for many and has
even acquired the title of PATRON OF DIFICULT AND DESPERATE
CASES. For this reason all of us here at the St. Jude
Shrine located in the beautiful St. Dominic’s Church here in
San Francisco invite you to join us in the novena in honor
of St. Jude. The novena begins on October 20 and will end
at the 11:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, October 28. We will offer
the special novena prayers at the 8:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Masses on Monday through Friday and the 8:00 a.m. Mass on
Saturday and the 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Masses on Sunday.
Fr. Cassidy will recite the Rosary before each of the novena
Masses. Confessors will be available for the sacrament of
Reconciliation before each Mass. The annual St. Jude
Pilgrimage organized by Jaime and Rosa Pinto will take place
on Saturday, October 27 (See details on the back page).
As the St. Jude Novena
approaches, please send in your petitions and intentions.
Your petitions will be placed before St. Jude and will be
invoked each day during the novena. We encourage you to
tell your family and friends how St. Jude has interceded for
you and invite them to visit the shrine in person or to send
in their petitions.
Rest assured that here at the
Shrine of St. Jude all of us are looking forward to
receiving you in person at the shrine or receiving you
intentions and petitions.
St. Jude, patron of Hope, pray
for us.
Fr. Martin de Porres Walsh, O.P.
and the staff of the St. Jude Shrine.
Newsletter
Summer 2007
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VersionDear Friends of St. Jude:
As
we approach our annual novena in honor of St. Ann and St.
Joachim, let us be mindful of the need to pray for our
grandparents, both living and deceased. As the Gospels indicate, St. Jude was the cousin of Jesus.
The mother of St. Jude was Mary of Cleophus, who stood at
the foot of the cross on Calvary.
Mary of Cleophus and the Blessed Virgin Mary were either
sisters or cousins and St. Anne and St. Joachim are regarded as
the grandparents of both Jesus and Jude.
As
we know from the Creed, we Catholics believe in the communion of
saints. This doctrine teaches us that our sense of Christian
community transcends death.
The saints in heaven care for us.
At this time of our novena in their honor let us not only
invoke the loving protection of St. Jude, but also that of his
grandparents and the grandparents of Jesus, St.
Anne and St. Joachim.
Our
preacher for this novena will be Fr. Paul Scanlon, O.P., the
former provincial of our Western Dominican Province and the
newly elected prior of St. Dominic's Priory.
You will have an opportunity to meet Fr. Paul during the
novena and on your future visits to the St. Jude Shrine.
I have included a brief outline of his life that he sent
to me awhile back. Meanwhile, please send in your petitions to
the Shrine for the St. Anne - St. Joachim novena July 18 – 26.
St.
Jude’s Mandylion
The statue of St. Jude at
our shrine, like most representations of St. Jude, shows him
holding to his chest an image (the Holy Mandylion) of Jesus.
This is an imprint of the face of Jesus.
According to the third century writings of Eusebius (the
father of church history), during the reign of Agbar, king of
Edessa (today in modern Turkey near Syria), news of the healings
by Jesus spread northward.
The king was afflicted with a serious illness (some say
leprosy), and he sent a messenger begging Jesus to come and cure
him. Our Lord
afforded the king hope by sending word that He would send
someone later to aid the king in his suffering. It was St. Jude who brought a cloth bearing the face of Jesus
to the king and healed him.
The king listened to the eloquent presentation of the
Gospel by St. Jude, and the king and many of his subjects were
converted. After
establishing the Church in Edessa, St. Jude traveled through
Armenia and parts of the Near East preaching the Gospel and
eventually being martyred for the faith.
If this
tradition is correct, the Mandylion of St. Jude along with the
Shroud of Turin would hold the earliest known representations of
Jesus. Lucia
Robinson Dugliss, a parishioner at St. Dominic's and
iconographer painted an icon of the image of Christ in the Holy
Mandylion and presented it to the Shrine of St. Jude.
A framed reproduction of the original painting can be
obtained through our St. Jude office.
St. Jude, patron of our hope pray for us.
Fr.
Martin Walsh, OP
Director
Shrine of St. Jude
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Meet Fr. Paul Scanlon, O.P.
I
was born in Detroit
but raised in a small town in Southern California, the only child
of very devout parents. Their faith graced me with a friendship
with the Lord Jesus from earliest days. As a high school student I
loved the outdoors as well as carpentry and so had a romantic
dream of one day being a foreign missionary. Ordained in 1959 I
discovered the joy of working with teenagers in parish ministry.
Ten years later I served as Dominican Provincial in the vibrant
‘70’s when both social life and church life were in great
transition. However they were blessed days for our Western
Dominican Province as we reached a high water mark in vocations at
a time when many other groups were experiencing an outgoing tide.
Our province was able to expand its boundaries and move
enthusiastically into new ministries, such as campus ministry.
My dream of being
a foreign missionary was partly realized when as provincial I had
the great experience of visiting our brothers working in Chiapas,
Mexico. After my time as provincial, with great help from a number
of other Friars, I worked in Mexicali, Mexico for nine years,
where I learned so much from the humble poor and acquired a
heightened interest in social justice issues. God works in
mysterious but beautiful ways, for as I write these lines I am
ministering to the Hispanic people up in Alaska. Nearing my 50th
anniversary of ordination I give thanks to the Lord for his
faithful friendship despite my own frailties, the joy of
preaching, and the gift of having ministered with marvelous
Dominican Brothers and Sisters.
FINDING THE ELUSIVE GOD
Fr. Paul Scanlon, O.P., a
Dominican missionary priest, tells of one priest's search to see
Christ in those whom God had called him to serve - from Alaska, to
California, to Mexico. These stories of compassion and everyday
valor will challenge and inspire. 174 Pages, 5.25" x 8".
To
order this book
visit
www.rosary-center.org or
write
The Rosary Center,
P.O. Box 3617,
Portland, OR 97208
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