Why do the Laity need our "professional help"?

Because Priests are God's Helpers. 

By God's Holy Will, the Catholic Priest, who is “another Christ”, is the Ordained Mediator between God and mankind (cf. Hebrews 5:1-4). 

God and Saint Jude hear the prayers of God's Ordained Mediators as proven by the many Testimonials found on the Testimonials web page.

“The Priest [is] a Mediator between God and man.”
(Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii, On the Catholic Priesthood, Friday, December 20, 1935).

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What is a Stipend?

The word “Stipend” comes from the Latin word “stipendium”.  

In general, it means, among other things, a pay, a salary, a donation, an alms. 

Today a Stipend is a set or fixed amount for a free-will gift, donation, contribution, and alms for Masses and Prayers, including 9-Day Novenas.  

In the Catholic Church, a Stipend is nothing new.

For example, in the New Testament:

1.  “Know you not, that they who work in the Holy Place, eat the things that are of the Holy Place; and they that serve the Altar, partake with the Altar?” (1 Corinthians 9:13).

2.  “So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the Gospel, should live by the Gospel” (1 Corinthians 9:14).

3.  “The labourer is worthy of his hire” (Luke 10:7).

For these reasons, the Catholic Church has commanded the Faithful to contribute to the support of their Pastors.  

The 5th Commandment of the Church is:

“To contribute to the support of our pastors.”

In the Old Testament, the Tribe of Levi, a tribe of the Jewish Priesthood, was financially supported by the other eleven Tribes of the Jews.

Priests are not supposed to have a secular job out in the world because Priests and Prelates are supposed to do only God’s Holy Work, which includes, among other things, offering Masses and Prayers (e.g. 9-Day Novenas) to Him for His Greater Honor and Glory and the Salvation of Souls. 

Historically, this is how it has worked in the Old Testament, and even now in these times of the New and Eternal Testament.

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Priests are God's Helpers:

“The Priest represents Christ Who said:  

As the Father hath sent me, I also send you" (John 20:21).

He that heareth you, heareth Me (Luke 10:16). 

Admitted to this most sublime ministry by a call from Heaven, he 

is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins (Hebrews 5:1).

To him must come anyone who wishes to live the life of the Divine Redeemer and who desires to receive strength, comfort and nourishment for his soul; from him the salutary medicine must be sought by anyone who wishes to rise from sin and lead a good life. 

Hence all Priests may apply to themselves with full right the words of the Apostle of the Gentiles:  

For we are God’s coadjutors [assistants; helpers] (1 Corinthians 3:9)."   (Pope Pius XII, Apostolic Exhortation, Menti Nostrae, To the Clergy of the Entire World, On the Development of Holiness in Priestly Life, Saturday, September 23, 1950.)

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Along with your Stipend, for Saint Jude Thaddeus