Becoming St. Jude Parish

Read below about exciting events surrounding the opening of the Newly Established St. Jude Parish. With that comes a new name for our young adult group! If you follow us on Facebook or Slack you may have already started seeing the group name change. Watch your Inbox as over the next few weeks we'll also be changing our email too!

Final Week for the Speaker Series
WEDNESDAY MASS, ADORATION & SPEAKER SERIES
Adoration beginning at 6:00 p.m.
Mass at 6:30 p.m. at St. Raphael

For the Advent Season we invite you to join us on Wednesdays for Adoration, Mass and a Speaker Series. Please note: During Advent Mass will begin at 6:30 p.m. with Adoration starting at 6:00 p.m. Each week will then feature a guest speaker following Mass. Stay tuned or watch the bulletin for more details!

There's still time to sign up!
Small Group Faith Formation

We have been working on beginning small groups for young adults to deepen their faith through discussions on different topics. We are looking forward to starting the first of these small groups in January 2021 and we hope to bring more groups and topics together throughout the year! Read more below.

Three groups will begin in January 2021. Two groups will meet in person (indoors following COVID guidelines) and one group will meet on Zoom. Groups will be limited to seven participants. If interested, fill out the form linked below. For questions, email John Girata at jgirata@gmail.com.

~ Group 1 ~
Meeting for 6 weeks at Sacred Heart Church
Video series: The Sacraments from Word on Fire (Bishop Robert Barron)
Learn about the series here.

~ Group 2 ~
Meeting for 10 weeks at St. Raphael Church
Video series: Metanoia from the Ministry of the Wild Goose (Fr. Dave Pivonka, TOR)
Learn about the series here.

~ Group 3 ~
Meeting for 6 weeks on Zoom
Encyclical: Fratelli Tutti by Pope Francis
Read a summary here.

Upcoming Events in Our Parish Grouping

OPENING ST. JUDE PARISH
January 9-10, 2021

You're Invited to the Opening of the Newly Established St. Jude Parish!
The two Principal Masses will be the 4:00 p.m. at St. Raphael church and the 11:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart church or via Facebook Livestream.
The Events are tentatively planned as follows:

• A small choir at the Principal Masses to enhance the liturgical music.
• All Masses that weekend will celebrate the Baptism of the Lord while at the same time honor in some appropriate way our new Patron, St. Jude.
• The Parish Council asks every parishioner to make a Solemn Nine Day Novena in honor of Saint Jude beginning on January 1 and leading up to the Opening Celebrations.
• A special holy card of Saint Jude for all the parishioners will be distributed with a commemorative inscription on the back pertaining to the Establishment of Saint Jude Parish and the date.
• A special message from the Parish Council on the Mission Statement of Saint Jude Parish.
• A project of reaching out to all the neighborhoods of our new parish and inviting people to celebrate with us. Since we cannot host a celebratory banquet as we would have if it were not for COVID, we plan on having 200 boxed meals that will be distributed at both campuses at designated times (weather permitting).
• The Parish Council will also produce a video announcing the new parish and briefly expressing their enthusiasm that all our parishioners and neighbors join us in some way to celebrate this exciting beginning. 

SAVE THE DATE!

ICE SKATING AT SCHENLEY PARK
Feb. 6, 2021 from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
The Rink at Schenley Park

In lieu of our annual Christmas party, we invite you to join us for an exclusing outing at Schenley Park Ice Skating Rink! Bring your own skates or $3 for rental. More information to come! Follow the Facebook event for details here.

JOIN THE CONVERSATION:
We're Now on Slack!

Join us on Slack - a group chat site you can access from your computer, or from your phone with an app. Then check out our channels for discussions on everything from #prayer-resources to #cats-of-sacred-heart.