Prayer to Saint Jude for Impossible Causes

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Saint Jude Thaddeus, apostle of Jesus, patron saint of impossible causes, I come to you tonight with one of those impossible cases. You know what it is. The thing I have been praying about so long that I sometimes wonder if I am foolish to keep asking. You are called the patron of the impossible because the early Church confused you with Judas Iscariot, the betrayer. Christians stayed away from praying to you out of fear. Eventually, only the most desperate, the ones with nowhere else to turn, called your name. And you came through. You earned a reputation as the friend of those whose situation looks beyond hope.