The Arm of St. Jude the Apostle is visiting Our Lady Star of the Sea Church Tuesday, September 24 from 2:00-10:00 PM.
A special Mass in honor of St. Jude will be held at 7:00 PM.
In anticipation of a large crowd, there will be several banners placed strategically along the veneration route to help with the flow of pilgrims.
How to Venerate Saint Jude’s Relics
- Please join the viewing line, observing silence as you patiently wait your turn to reach Saint Jude. If you are disabled or infirm and cannot stand in line, please walk down the center aisle to the reliquary and inform one of the ushers, who will take you to the reliquary.
- Each person may take only a moment (less than ten seconds) in front of the relics. This keeps the line moving and ensures minimal wait times for the thousands coming today.
- No photos are permitted during your time in front of the Saint. Your veneration time is exclusively for that: veneration. After doing so, you may step aside and take a photo while the next pilgrims are venerating.
- Because your time in front of the relics is limited, please do your praying while you wait in line. You will have no time to do so at the reliquary.
- You are encouraged to touch the reliquary display case. In every instance where Scripture mentions relics, two things occur:
i) There is always healing.
ii) Touch is how the healing comes about. - You are also encouraged to touch your objects of devotion (rosaries, medals, crosses, wedding bands, etc.) to bless them and make them into third-class relics. You may also touch pictures of family members and friends to invoke Saint Jude’s intercession. If you have your objects in a bag, removing them is unnecessary. Touch the bag, and the blessing transfers to all the objects you desire to be blessed.
- Since no photographs of the reliquary are permitted during your veneration time, various images and items of devotion are available at the Souvenirs and Resources Table. You may wish to obtain these before getting in line to touch them to the reliquary.
May the Apostle of the Impossible, Saint Jude Thaddeus, obtain for you every good gift.
May you and all those you love experience his holy friendship and intercession.