New Parish Events Starting August 2020

 St. Jude launches new community events this year 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) 

 

May Crowning & Living Rosary by Candlelight
St. Jude Church (inside)
May 1, 2021 at 7:00 pm

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".  

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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. 

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Thanks to our sponsors:

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. 

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

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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.  

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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: 
 

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



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