In August 2020, St. Jude launched new community events under its new program - 

H.O.P.E. Helping Our Parish Encounter
 

The pandemic has created trying situations and, many are discouraged by the lack of fellowship opportunities at the parish. Keeping in line with our mission, efforts to organize community events that will bring us safely together, have been planned.  The new program is being launched under the name H.O.P.E. ( Helping Our Parish Encounter) 

 

Living Rosary and dedication of our new Marian Statue for the Chapel

(Our Lady of Grace)
May 7, 2022 
6:15 PM

Our next H.O.P.E. event will celebrate the May crowning of our Blessed Mother along with a living rosary on May 7, 2022 at 6:15pm. Everyone is invited to help us pray in this beautiful and unique way.  Using candles our community will form a human rosary as participants lead prayers for each "bead".  Candles will be provided for those leading prayers. We will not require sign ups but will need lots of volunteers to lead a prayer. 
 
After the Living Rosary, we will be dedicating our new Marian Statue for the chapel.  This statue, Our Lady of Grace, is a beautiful addition to our  chapel.  
 

Changing Hearts
Through Praise & Adoration

 Saturday, January 8^th
7 PM in the Church

January is Respect Life Month and, in honor, we will host an evening of reflections along with praise and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
Join us in the church Saturday, January 8 at 7 pm for an hour of praise, worship, and thoughts from our clergy on a few of the different stages of life

On January 8, we had Encountering Christ: Changing Hearts through Praise & Adoration.

Thank you for all who participated with our priests and deacons as we reflected on the value and need for Christ in every stage of life: from birth to death. Our Director of Music, Michael Howard led us in praise & worship music as we reflected on the messages and adore Christ in the Eucharist.  

We will also collected donations of diapers and baby wipes for the Cathedral for the Walking with Moms in Need Campaign. 

See our pictures from this powerful event                      

In February and March of 2021, we had a series of 6 Lenten Videos featuring staff and parishioners.  Check them out below:

    
 

We had an amazing time at our Spring Fling & Dance Party.  Live music was rovided by The Jukebox Heroes.  Great food was provided by TWo Rows Classic Grill and also the Knights. 

See the pictures


Thanks to our sponsors:




 

In May, we had our May Crowning and Living Rosary. 
 

This H.O.P.E. event celebrated the May crowning of our Blessed Mother, Mary, along with a living rosary.  Using candles, we formed a human rosary as participants lead prayers for each "bead".  

See the pictures

On July 24th, we celebrated the 40 year anniversary of the formation of St. Jude.  We had a great time with snow cones, games, old & new parishioners, past clergy, and food.  Thank you to all who helped this day be a succcess. 

Click here to check out our pictures from this great event!                                         
 

In October, we celebrated a wonderful Trunk or Treat

Thanks to everyone who helped make our 2021 Trunk or Treat a great success.  

On November 2, 2021 (All Souls Day) we celebreated a special Mass of Remembrance. Families brought up framed pictures of their loved ones for display during the service.  We also included the names of all the deceased loved ones in our Book of Remembrance. 

Click here to check out the pictures from this beautiful event. 
                      

On November 6th we held our annual Adopt-a-Box event.  We had 47 families help fill and pack 103 boxes.  58 of thexe boxes went to area schools and 45 boxes went to the Allen Food Pantry.  An additional $365 in gift cards was also collected!

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in this food drive!


 

Saturday, December 4,we held our Advent workshop and Breakfast with St. Nick

Families joined us for Mass, then breakfast with St. Nick, followed by arts, crafts, and other activities.  
Come join us for breakfast with Saint Nick followed by arts, crafts, and other fun activities
to help your family celebrate this Advent Season.

See our pictures from this wonderful event

On December 5, we had a great time with many families who showed up to watch "The Star".  

Click here to see pictures of our food, fun, and fellowship!

Thank you to our sponsors:

On November 7, we joined together to assemble and decorate Thanksgiving food boxes for our Adopt-a-Box HOPE event.  

Working with the Allen Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry and the Allen Independent School District, St. Jude prepared thanksgiving meals for 85 families.  

Check out our pictures here!

St. Jude launched our new community events this year under its new program - H.O.P.E. Helping Our Parish Encounter.  On August 1, 2020 we had our kick-off, a drive-by family event where we ‘filled the bus’ with school supplies. The children were  blessed by the clergy and everyone enjoyed a nice cold refreshing freezer pop.
 

School supply donations went to Catholic Charities of Dallas and three schools in Allen. 

This year we collected: 

Thank you to all who helped support our Fill the Bus event! 

See our entire picture album