28 October

. . . .is the feast of Ss. Simon and Jude. Everybody knows St. Jude, the saint of the impossible. There isn't a Catholic prayer book in print without a novena to St. Jude in it. You can read a little about St. Jude and a lot about his Epistle here. You can read his Epistle itelf in your New Testament.

St. Simon you probably don't know; he's usually more forgotten than the forgotten saint, St. Jude. There are a couple of paragraphs about him here.