Catholic community of St. Jude

Register for Mass
It is so nice to see many of you back in church to help celebrate the Mass each week.  As our numbers continue to increase each week, we are nearing our 25% capacity limit per Mass.  Therefore, beginning the weekend of September 12 and 13, we will be requiring parishioners to sign up for Mass.  This will allow us to anticipate the numbers of parishioners at each Mass and determine the need to open up the Community Center  in order to accommodate the social distancing requirements.  Reservations can be made using the Sign Up Genius link (via the button below) or by calling the Parish Office 517-669-8335.  Reservations must be made each week.

Note: At this time we will not be doing recurring sign ups. Please remember to sign up each week via the sign up genius online, or by calling the Parish Office. If this changes we will notify the parishioners at that time. Thank you for helping us keep our parish safe during this difficult time. 

Mass Attendance Sign Up


Food for the Poor 2021
Last year we had to cancel our Food for the Poor Easter outreach ministry. Many of you, like myself, were spiritually depressed, not being able to offer this act of love to those in our surrounding area, for the first time in over 40 years. I am pleased to share with you that our Food for the Poor is back this year!!! Of course, in this time of COVID, it will look somewhat different, in order to keep everyone safe.

Instead of receiving all of our food donations and distributing it all on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, we will be breaking our food collections and distribution into three weekly collections and distributions. These will take place the weeks of March 15th, 22nd, and 29th.

We will designate certain agencies for food collections and distributions each of these three weeks and make them known in our bulletin, on our parish website, and on our social media sites. Included would be a list of food items suggested by the particular agencies based on their residents. We will publish this list so that families know what type of food items to donate to the agencies. We ask each parish family to contribute food items equal to what your family would eat in a day. If you are unable to drop off food items at the Community Center, there is also an envelope in your weekly contribution booklets for Food for the Poor, or an account for online contributors. With those funds we purchase food items that are not received in the food collection.

The Community Center would be open on Monday evenings from 7:00PM until 8:00PM each week, to begin receiving food items from parishioners along with daytime hours from 10:00AM until 4:00 PM, Tuesday through Thursday while our food pantry is open. Parishioners will be able to simply drop their food items on a table in the Community Center or place them in the boxes and cross the items off the list accompanying each box. If you have questions about the Food for the Poor program please contact the parish office for more information.




Dispensation Update
Per the decree from Bishop Boyea, dispensation from the Sunday obligation has been extended through the Sunday on which we celebrate the Ascension of the Lord (May 16, 2021). For more information about the specifics of the dispensation, please read the attached article.

Dispensation Decree Document