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- H.O.P.E. - Helping Our Parish Encounter
- Dec 18 - Movie Night - the Star
- HOPE 2022 EVENTS
- HOPE 2021 Events
- HOPE 2020 Events
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In August 2020, St. Jude launched new community events under its new program -
H.O.P.E. Helping Our Parish Encounter
The St. Jude Mission: To build a parish community that shares God's love through prayer, service, and evangelization so that all feel welcome in making St. Jude their home.
We created HOPE to find ways for parishioners to experience an ongoing sense of community during the pandemic and the events have been so popular we have decided to continue with them. The idea is to have a mix of fun happenings with more spiritual endeavors. Join us for one of our upcoming events and experience your parish community in a delightful new way.
Coming Fall 2022
Sunday, October 2 @ 7 PM in the Church
Dignity of Life - Praise and Adoration
October is respect life Month and on this evening, we will focus on why every human life is valuable and reflect on how to build a culture that protects life from conception to natural death.
Frida
y, October 28 @ 7 PM
Commemorating the Feast Day of our Patron Saint, St. Jude, with Mass followed by a reception
Join the Women of St. Jude (with support from the HOPE Team) for an evening celebrating the patron saint of our parish, St. Jude. The night begins with mass in the church followed by refreshments in the reception area.
Wednesday, November 2 @ 7 PM in the Church
All Souls Mass of Remembrance
Are you grieving the loss of loved ones? Join us to honor their memories with this special Mass where participants can speak the name of their loved one and display their photo.
December 2022
Fun Family Movie Night! Stay tuned for more details.
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Movie Night
Sunday, December 18
In the Parish Hall at 6:30 pm
Bring your lawn chairs and/or blankets for a movie night under the stars in our Parish Hall. We will be showing Sony Pictures Animation's "The Star". Bring your family and friends and prepare your hearts for the coming of Christmas as we watch "a small but brave donkey and his animal friend become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas". Concessions will be offered to support our youth.
Click here to sign up and register.
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2022 Recap
In January, we joined together for Respect Life month and had an evening of reflection, praise and adoration. Our clergy shared thoughts on a few of the different stages of life.
In May, we dedicated our new Marian Statue for the Chapel. Many parishioners became part of a living, human rosary as participants lead prayers for each bead.
For Lent, we had a series of 8 videos from our parishioners sharing how they journey through Lent. You can check them out below:
In October, we had a night of praise and adoratino to highlight the reasons why every life is valuable as well as to reflect on how to build a culture that protects life from conception to natural death.
Also in October we celebratd the Feast Day of our Patron Saint, St. Jude with a Mass and a reception, sponsored by the Women of St. Jude.To find out more about the women of St. Jude, click here.
To find out more about our patron Saint, St. Jude, click here.
On November 2, we offered the opportunity for those grieving the loss of loved ones to take part in our All Souls Mass of Remembrance. It was a special time to honor and pray for those who have departed.
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2021 Recap
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:
On April 10, we had a Spring Fling and Dance
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".
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 o
ther 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
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2020 Recap
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!
Thank you for joining us on this special night. Click here to see pictures from this event.
Thank you to everyone for coming out and making this event a great success! Click here to check out our photo album and relive the great memories!.
Thank you to our sponsors:
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:
Description Count 18" x 12" Manilla paper 7 5 tab dividers 58 Anti bacterial wipes 2 Back packs 84 Binders 1" 59 Black pens 1,971 Calculators 5 Clorox wipes 2 Colored pencils - 12 count 199 Colored pencils - 24 count 7 Colored pencils - 36 count 3 Compass & protractor 3 Composition Books 138 Construction paper 44 Crayons - 24 count 289 Crayons - 36 count 1 Crayons - 48 count 21 Crayons - 8 count 4 Drawing Paper 4 Dry erase markers 158 Erasers 518 Folders - Black 23 Folders - Blue 50 Folders - Green 47 Folders - Purple 50 Folders - Red 35 Folders - Yellow 37 Glue - bottles 182 Glue sticks 286 Hand sanitizer - bottles 26 Head phones 2 Highlighters 233 Index cards 128 Kleenex - boxes 16 Legal pads 21 Manilla paper 9" x 12" 8 Markers - boxes 214 Notebook paper 104 Pencil Boxes 67 Pencil Pouches 45 Pencil sharpeners 63 Pencils 3,364 Pens - Blue 437 Pens - Green 72 Pens - Multi colored 83 Pens - Red 346 Planning pads 4 Play-doh - cans 32 Post it notes - pads of 100 121 Rulers 157 Scissors 178 Sharpies 10 Spiral notebooks 264 Water color sets 16 Ziploc - Quart size bags 959 Ziploc - sandwhich size bags 1,976 Zippered Binders 2 Thank you to all who helped support our Fill the Bus event!
See our entire picture album