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SAINT JUDE’S CATHOLIC COMMUNITY
Father Dominic Vitaliano - Pastor

Father Christopher Myers - Visiting Priest

Mass Schedule

Sundays in December - 9:30 and 12:30AM.

There will be no Mass on Christmas Day. Mass will be at 5PM on the Christmas Eve and Midnight.

Ushers, choir members, altar servers and Eucharistic Misisters are needed for the 12:30 mass. Contact Barry Marks if you can help out.


Reconciliation

Special Reconcilliation sessions on 15, 16 and 17 Dec from 4:30 til 5:30pm in Gr. Myers office in the Red Cross building

Sunday from 8:30 til 9AM in Father Myers Office or by appointment (226-4630 / 2213).


Angel Tree

The Confirmation Class is organizing an Angel Tree campaign to benefit the Fuji Seiboen Orphanage in Aomori. There is a Christmas Tree set up during mass each Sunday. Please take an angel (or a couple of angels) from the tree to donate a gift to a child for this worthy cause. The child’s gender and age is printed on the angel. There are a few rules:

The Confirmation teens will be taking these gifts to the orphanage on December 20th. If you would like to donate any baked goods for us to take along, please email Erica.
Thank you for your participation.


The Rosary

Pray the Rosary with Father Myers in his office in the Red Cross building on Sundays at 3PM or Wednesdays at 7PM.


Baptism

Classes are conducted the second Thursday of each month at noon. You must attend this class before preparing for a baptism. Contact Jill Evans for more info.


Choir Ministry

The choir for the 1230 Mass needs you! If you're interested please contact Ed Garces. Anyone interested in joining the 0930 choir or the Youth Choir, please contact Mary Danos.


Religious Education

December 14 was the last RE date until 2009.

Classes normally meet on Sunday from 11am til noon at Sollars. Please do not drop of your children prior to 10:50am. Registration continues throughout the year. If you have not registered your kids yet, you must do so in person. You can do so after mass, at bldg 1047 or in bldg 154. Call Kim Ikehara at 226-5464 or email her for more info.
For students from K - 3, please drop off and pick up your children at the Kindergarten building at Sollars. Please use the playground entrance. Do not just drop them off in front of the building as we have no one to monitor all the doors and parking lot. Pre-schoolers and 4 thru 6th graders will still be dropped off and picked up at the MPR.


Catholic Women’s Group

The Women’s Group meets Monday evenings at 7PM. For directions or more info, drop us an email. If you can't make it but would like to join our e-mail list and or prayer chain visit this web site and click on the JOIN button.


Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA)

RCIA meets every Wednesday at 7PM in the chapel annex, bldg 15r. Contact Email Robert for more info.


Youth Ministries

7th and 8th grade RE is Sundays from 11am til noon in the Chapel Annex. Confirmation Class is sundays from 10:45 til 12:15 in the Annex and the Youth Group meets Sundays from 2 til 4pm at the Wakasa Teen Center.

The Youth Group social gathering on Sunday afternoon, could use a volunteer or two. This is not RE and does not require teaching. Its fun and games so please step up and give us a hand. Even if you can't be available every week, we would appreciate the help. Contact Erica if you can help.


Young Adult Ministries

Catholics Seeking Christ (CSC) is a young adult (18 - 35 yrs) minisitry designed especially for Catholics in the military. They neet every Monday from 5:30 til 7pm in the Red Cross Bldg. Drinks and snacks will be provided. For info contact Ben Bulfer at 226-3698 or 0803-081-9809 for more info.


Knights of Columbus

If you are a Knight or if you are interested in joining the Knights of Columbus, contact email Rich Horton. They meet the second Tuesday of the month at 6pm in the Chapel Annex.


Caring Kitchen

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The Caring Kitchen serves a special meal to those members of our community whose spouse is deployed, or a family who has welcomed a new baby, or to a family who has a family member that is ill, hospitalized or in the States on Emergency Leave. How it works is, I will normally receive word of a family in need of a meal, then send out an email requesting volunteers (one volunteer for a main dish, two volunteers for side dishes and another volunteer for a dessert dish.) I will then ask those volunteers to prepare and drop off their dish at my home by a certain time so that I can then deliver dinner to that family. I would like to generate a list of past volunteers, and welcome any new volunteers to the caring Kitchen family.

With many deployments already in full swing and many more to come, I would like to have a list put in place and start implementing this service as soon as possible. Thank you to those who volunteered in the past and hope to hear from any interested St. Jude member who wishes to volunteer.

Also, if you know of a family in need of the Caring Kitchen service please call Claudia at 222-6925 or email me with the name of the family and their phone number.

General Notes
There are books, tapes, DVD's, pamphlets, prayer cards and more for all ages in the lending library. Contact Jill for info If you haven't registered as member of St. Jude's please fill out a card after any mass. This is different that RE registration. Would you like to get an email with our information? If so, send us an email requesting the bulletin.

Pastoral Coordinator

Jill Evans - 226-5640

Religious Ed Coordinator

Kim Ikehara - 226-5464 or Email

Youth Minister

Erica Lobrigo - 226-5464

Music Ministries

9:30 Mass - Vacant
12:30 Mass - Barry Marks

Mass Coordinators

9:30 Mass - Calvin Avalos - 51-2992
12:30 Mass - Barry Marks - 57-5081

Reconciliation

by appointment - 226-2213

Youth Ministries

7th, 8th and Confirmation - Sundays from 10:45am til 12:15pm.
Youth Group meets on Sundays from 2 - 4pm in the Wakasa Teen Center.

Baptism

Baptism preparation class is held on the 2nd Thursday of each month in bldg 154 from noon til 1pm.

Religious Education

PreK - 6th, Sundays thru May at Sollars from 11am til noon.

Caring Kitchen

Claudia Keith - 222-6925 or email

Catholic Women's Group
and Bible Study

Mondays from 7 - 9pm in Bldg 154.

RCIA

Wednesdays at 7pm in bldg 154.