Our faith community here at St Jude really enjoys celebrating the faith traditions, devotions, and spirituality that mark our Catholic faith. Our faith traditions help us renew the Catholic faith within all of us, and then in turn, we are to use our faith to be evangelizers to the world. Today, February 3, we celebrate St Blaise each year. Blaise was a bishop is Armenia who was martyred in the year 316. A legend about St Blaise tells about him healing a boy who was chocking at the point of death on a fish bone lodged in his throat. St Blaise is now the patron saint of those suffering for maladies of the throat, so we have a special blessing of the throats today in honor of him and to recall this tradition of our faith. Coming in the middle of a very bad cold and flu season, this blessing could not come at a better time. So now, we invite you to come forward for the blessing of the throats.
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