Yesterday, December 18, 2023, at a local church near us we had the rare opportunity to venerate the “Arm of Saint Jude”. It is relic of a fragment of the actual arm bone of Apostle Jude. He walked with Jesus; and, that is, in every sense of the word.
Saint Jude is the much acclaimed “Saint of Impossible Causes”.
The relic has been venerated since ancient times. It is currently visiting from Rome on a 100 city pilgrimage in the United States.
The reliquary is modeled after the forearm in a posture of blessing.
Spend a moment and contemplate that historic relic is from an arm which was literally arm in arm with Christ.
It also wasn’t lost on me how it is positioned in the vertical. And, how that vertical blessing includes Gravity itself as a blessing.
What’s up! Hey, Jude!
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