St. Jude’s Church will be hosting a Blood Drive Friday, March 19, 2010 from 2:30p.m. to 8:30p.m. Volunteers will be available after every Mass for the next three weekends. Long Island Blood Services is in desperate need of donors due to the recent cancellation of many blood drives, because of inclement weather, please consider a donation, possibly visiting both our Fish Fry and our Blood Mobile on Friday, the 19th.

Thank you, A

St. Jude Outreach

St. Jude Parish and the J.V. Kavanaugh Knights of Columbus will be hosting the Lenten fish fry. Come feed your body and soul. Fridays during Lent beginning February 19th and ending March 26th, the week before Good Friday. There is plenty of time to enjoy your meal and afterward join us for Stations of the Cross at 8p.m. in the church. Dinner includes: Fish fillet, French fries, coleslaw, roll dessert and soda for just $8.00 per person.

The fish fry will be held at the parish center hall from 5:00p.m. to 7:30p.m. serving The monies raised at the fish fry will be allocated to:

1. Rosarian Scholarship for Philomena Fino

2. To help Deacon Ken Geoghan and family

3. For the needs of St. Jude parish.

This is a perfect time to take a walk through and see the new classrooms and renovated bathrooms, completed with the Capital Improvement funds.

All Catholics who have reached their fourteenth year are bound to abstain entirely from meat all Fridays of Lent. All Catholics between the ages of eighteen and fifty-nine inclusive are also bound to observe the law of fast on Good Friday.