The Liturgical Ministries at St. Jude are dedicated to celebrating the Eucharist in the most solemn, prayerful and joyful ways possible at the same time fulfilling the mandates of Vatican II.

For the liturgy, "through which the work of our redemption is accomplished," (1) most of all in the divine sacrifice of the Eucharist, is the outstanding means whereby the faithful may express in their lives, and manifest to others, the mystery of Christ and the real nature of the true Church. It is of the essence of the Church that she be both human and divine, visible and yet invisibly equipped, eager to act and yet intent on contemplation, present in this world and yet not at home in it; and she is all these things in such wise that in her the human is directed and subordinated to the divine, the visible likewise to the invisible, action to contemplation, and this present world to that city yet to come, which we seek (2). While the liturgy daily builds up those who are within into a holy temple of the Lord, into a dwelling place for God in the Spirit (3), to the mature measure of the fullness of Christ (4), at the same time it marvelously strengthens their power to preach Christ, and thus shows forth the Church to those who are outside as a sign lifted up among the nations (5) under which the scattered children of God may be gathered together (6), until there is one sheepfold and one shepherd (7).

CONSTITUTION ON THE SACRED LITURGY; SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM;  SOLEMNLY PROMULGATED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI ON DECEMBER 4, 1963

Ministry Contact

Altar Servers

Suzanne Fusco
Baptismal Preparation Tom Boyle
Bereavement Ministry Alan Brown
Brazilian Community Marcos Fernandez
Maria Antonia
Eucharistic Ministers Joan Tobia
Greeters Tina Szokolay
Hispanic Community Jairo Martinez
Lectors Marty Byrne
Liturgy Committee Bob Riddett
Marriage Ministry The Leahys
Ministry to the Sick Chris Gnanapragasam
Music Ministry Alan Brown
Nocturnal Adoration Bill Schwendler

Fred Puryear

Sacristy Joan Tobia
Thursday Adoration Mary Twiner
Ushers Bob Nadolski
Wedding Coordinators Elaine Waidelich
Nancy Harper
Welcome Ministry Cathy Clipson