The quiet town of Rawang in the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur came alive this week as hundreds of Catholics and devotees gathered at the Church of St. Jude for the annual novena and feast-day celebration in honour of the patron saint of hopeless causes.
The Epistle of Jude, tucked near the end of our New Testament, feels urgent and tender at once. “Contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints,” he writes (Jude 1:3).
