St. Jude Novena at St. Michael's Church

Annual Solemn Saint Jude Novena at Saint Michael’s Church

The annual Solemn Novena in Honor of Saint Jude will be held from October 20 to 28 at Saint Michael Church, 1106 Brunswick Avenue in Trenton. This will be the 79 ^th year that the Novena has been held at Saint Michael’s.

Novena Services will be held weekdays and Saturdays at 8:00 am (following Mass), and at 6:00 pm. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will be a part of the 6:00 pm service. On Sunday the Novena will be a part of the 8:45 am Sunday Mass only.

Join us for breakfast on Sunday morning, October 28, 10:00 am at Leonardo’s II Restaurant, 2021 Brunswick Pike, Lawrenceville. The cost is $15 per person . Tickets are available after Mass at Saint Michael Church and at the Church of Saint Ann Welcome Desk.

For the past seventy-nine years the Novena has provided a special time of grace and blessing for people in the greater Trenton Area. This long-time tradition gives an opportunity each year for people to change pace a bit and place their cares and concerns before the Lord through the intercession of Saint Jude.

The Novena was begun at Saint Michael’s Church by Fr. Ladislas Rakvica on October 20, 1939, in thanksgiving for his own recovery from a near fatal illness. Since that time, extraordinary graces, spiritual and material favors, are constantly received by the clients of Saint Jude; many letters of thanksgiving are received each year.