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Welcome to the St. Jude Apostolate Yaba website. The apostolate is primarily for crusade of prayers for native vocations to the Priesthood, Brotherhood and Sisterhood.

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Welcome to St. Jude Apostolate
 
Patron Saint of Difficult Cases
 

Dear Members and Friends of the St. Jude Apostolate,

You are welcome to the Website of St. Jude Thaddeus, the Patron of Difficult Cases.

St. Jude has a world-wide reputation for interceding with God for us, especially for those whose cause seems hopeless.

We feel privileged to spread devotion to St. Jude in Africa, especially through our Solemn Novena of Masses. When joining with us, you share in the Masses and prayers of all the Dominicans in Nigeria and the Dominicans in other countries of the world, who preach and teach the Good News to millions of people.

The home of our St. Jude Shrine is located at St. Dominic Parish in Yaba, Lagos. We are able to relate, through our website, testimonies of our members and friends, sharing our prayers and remembering each other in prayers as we continue our journey home.

Please join us in prayer everyday of the week, but especially during our six yearly Solemn Novenas and the Lenten Triduum of Masses.

Help us by telling your friends of our new website. Together we will come closer to Jesus, through the Mass and the Eucharist, through our prayers, always emulating Him.

We hope to hear from you.

Sincerely in St. Jude,

 Director, St. Jude Apostolate

Morning Mass: 6:15AM
  Mid-day Mass: 12:00 Noon
  Evening Mass: 6:30PM
  
Blessed Saints:

SAINT JOSAPHATA

MICHAELINA HORDASHEVSKA
(1869-1919)

As a teenager, Michaelina Hordashevska, of Lviv (now in Ukraine), attended several retreats given by a Byzantine Catholic congregation, the Basilian Fathers, inspiring her to become a religious. At the age of eighteen, she entered a convent of contemplative Basilian nuns, then the only women's congregation of the Byzantine Rite.

Recognizing the neeed for an active women's congregation, the Basilians assigned to Michaelina the task of founding the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate to fill this need. In preparation, Sister Michaelina spent time with an active Roman Rite congregation, the Felician Sisters. She became mother superior of the Sisters Servants, taking the name Josaphata in honor of the Ukrainian Martyr, Saint Josephat.

This congregation, with an active apostolate, later grew to become the largest institute of women religious for Byzantine Rite Ukrainian Catholics.

Mother Josaphata exercised her zeal in teaching, nursing the sick, and visiting the needy, as well as in the promotion of Byzantine chant and the fitting adornment of churches. She died of bone cancer on April 7, 1919 .

PENTECOST NOVENA

Date

2nd - 10th May, 2008
Preacher
 
Reverend Father
 
Raymond Nwabueze, O.P.
 
DAILY READINGS
Mon 05/05/2008 St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P.
Acts 19:1-8 / Jn 16:29-33
Tue 06/05/2008 Ascen
Acta 20:17-27:/ Jn 17:1-11a
Wed 07/05/2008 Ascen
Acts 20:28-38 / Jn 17:11-19
Thu 08/05/2008 Ascen
Acts 22:30; 23:30 / Jn 17: 20-26
Fri 09/05/2008 Ascen
Acts 25:13-21 / Jn 21:20-25
Sat 10/05/2008 St. Antoninus Pierozzi of Florence, bishop
Acts 28: 16-20, 30-318 / Jn 21:20-25
Sun 11/05/2008 PENTECOST SUNDAY
Acts 2:1-11/ 1 Cor 12:3-7, 12-13/ Jn 20:19-23
 
Useful Links of Interest:
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Dominican Institute - Ibadan
The Vatican: the Holy See
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Catholic News Service
Catholic Yellow Pages
The Complete List of Popes
 
 

 
     

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