JMJ

St. Jude is a favorite of so many! This prayer was on an old tattered paper that fell out of an antique prayerbook I found recently. St. Jude, patron of those with desperate situations, pray for us!

Prayer to St. Jude

Heartsick and humble, cowed and desperate,

I kneel before thy altar, holy Jude!

My strength is spent, and all my fortitude

Is shattered by calamity and hate.

No longer can I bear the heavy weight

Of sorrow laid upon me, or the road

Which carrying, I cannot consecrate.

My foes have robbed me - bleeding and bereft

Of all I treasured, have I sought thy shrine

In desolation - not a friend is left

To soothe and share the anguish which is mine.

But undefeated still, I kneel - and dare

To believe that thou wilt heed and grant my prayer!