Saints Simon & Jude School is excited to host our first virtual auction online, featuring donations from our many wonderful donors. Mark your calendars! Bidding opens Thursday, April 22nd and ends Sunday, April 25th. Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks! There are multiple ways to participate: Bid on our fabulous auction items; Donate directly to the Annual Fund; Buy a raffle ticket for a chance to win $2,500 SSJ Tuition Credit! All proceeds from the auction directly benefit the SSJ Annual Fund, which is used for Classroom Technology, Instructional Materials, Student/Faculty Enrichment, Fine Arts Program, Security and 10% is invested in the SSJ Endowment Fund! Hosted by the SSJ School Board & the SSJ Home and School Association. Questions? Contact Jen Doran Jenniferdoran413@gmail.com.

The World Day of Prayer for Vocations 58th Anniversary will be observed Sunday, April 25 (Good Shepherd Sunday). The purpose of this day is to publicly fulfill the Lord's instruction to, "Pray the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into his harvest" (Mt 9:38; Lk 10:2). Please pray that young men and women hear and respond generously to the Lord's call to the priesthood, diaconate, religious life, societies of apostolic life or secular institutes. Resources for promoting vocations can be found at https://www.usccb.org/search?key=vocations.

Please Donate!! Blood Drive at SSJ in Honor of Keven Culbertson. 1 pm - 6 pm in The Meehan Center. Sign up at www.redcrossblood.org.

Our parish will celebrate another holy Sacrament during the Easter season on Saturday, May 1st. The students will receive the Body of Christ in Holy Eucharist for the first time either at the 10:00 am Mass or the 1:00 pm Mass! We rejoice and are glad with these boys and girls and their teachers who have guided them.

“Journey with Jesus From Jerusalem” is the second part of our spring 2021 adult faith-formation and education program at Saints Simon and Jude parish. In this part of the program, we will watch and discuss the first season of “The Chosen” (8 episodes, available at https://studios.vidangel.com/the-chosen). Classes will take place on Sundays from 10:30 AM to 11:20 AM in The Meehan Center and we will watch and discuss one episode per week. We will meet on April 18 and 25; on May 2, 9, 16, and 23 (no meeting on May 30 for Memorial Day); and on June 6 and 13. The purpose of the program is (1) to provide a context for a greater understanding of how Jesus called his disciples to follow him, and (2) to self-examine how we are called by Christ to be his disciples in the world today. The discussion leader is Dr. Joe Zalot, a Staff Ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center and a parishioner at Saints Simon and Jude.