Thirty chapters, one a day, with everything that is known about Saint Jude Thaddeus: from the Gospel to Chicago, São Paulo and Mexico City. Each day brings a true episode with its source declared, Reading Keys, a guided meditation, Today’s Path — Perceive, Decide, Live — and a complete prayer. On day 31, the Novena begins: nine days to bring your own cause, already named, to Saint Jude Thaddeus.
Saint Jude Thaddeus is the apostle Scripture barely mentions — forgotten for nineteen centuries, now the saint people turn to when nothing else works.
"A Saint a Month" is a new series: each season walks, one day at a time, through the life of a saint — up to his feast, with a novena. Season one is Saint Jude Thaddeus, one of the Twelve Apostles, whose name, sounding too close to the betrayer’s, almost no one dared invoke. The modern devotion that changed that was born in 1929, in a jobless Chicago parish; it reached São Paulo in 1940 and Mexico City in 1955, where crowds still fill shrines every 28th of the month today. That is why he is the patron of difficult and desperate cases: someone who was forgotten and did not give up.
The thirty chapters walk through the little that is known of the apostle’s ancient life and the much that is known of the devotion he inspired — one a day, from the Gospel to today’s shrines. Each chapter brings The Text (a true episode, always with its source declared — Scripture, Eusebius of Caesarea, the Golden Legend, the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, and the documented record of the modern devotion), Reading Keys, a Guided Meditation, Today’s Path — three steps for your own notebook — and a complete prayer, never abridged. Where tradition is not unanimous, such as the exact identity of "Jude, brother of James," the book says so plainly, instead of inventing a certainty the sources do not have.
Thirty-nine days in a row with the same apostle: first getting to know his whole life, then bringing your own cause to the novena, already named. Start Day 1 today.
“Everyone carries a cause they have already given up as impossible.”
The son who left the Church, the long illness, the marriage gone silent, unemployment, faith gone cold — this season is not about "a book about a saint": it is thirty days walking beside someone who was forgotten and did not give up, so you arrive at the novena with your own impossible cause named and handed over. Whoever starts day 1 reaches day 31 ready to truly ask.
Not a book to skim: one chapter a day, meditated slowly, with room in your notebook to write what you noticed.
From the Gospel to Chicago (1929), São Paulo (1940) and Mexico City (1955) — the little that is known of the apostle’s life and the much that is known of the devotion he inspired, always with its source declared.
The points worth paying attention to in each episode, and an invitation to read slowly, eyes closed if you like.
Three steps for your own notebook — Perceive, Decide, Live — and a complete prayer, never abridged, on every one of the 30 days.
On day 31, the Novena to Saint Jude Thaddeus begins: nine days of prayer for one grace, already named. The complete volume brings both works together, in a single book.
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