St. Jude Catholic Church

St Jude’s 47^th Annual Food FestivalOctober 24 – 28, 2015
St Jude’s Melkite Catholic Church, Brickell Avenue and 15^th Road, Miami
Good food, exciting entertainment and of course, Middle Eastern hospitality, are the driving factors behind the success of the 47^th Annual St Jude’s festival. An array of Fine Middle Eastern homemade foods such as Kibbee, Hummus, Rice Pilaf, Kafteh, Tabouleh and Delightful Gourmet Pastries are prepared with Love and Devotion by the Ladies Guild. Meals can be enjoyed in the Church Hall or packaged for take– out.
Fabulous bazaar of Gifts and Religious items from around the world featuring Middle Eastern and Byzantine wares include: St Jude Medals, Icons, Statues, Cards, Jewelry, Rosaries and Candles and Holy Water. Gifts and Christmas decorations made by artisans from around the world. This year, Children’s Toys, Stuffed Animal and Disney Entertainment. Great for Halloween or Christmas presents.
Enjoy the fabulous entertainment featuring Doris Farhat, accompanied by: Tony Tahan and his Ensemble. Dance The Debke! Bazaar hours are Saturday.
Mariachis, Dancing and International Cuisine on Ocober 27, 2015
October 24 – 28, 2015
Admission is free!
For Liturgy times and schedules in English and Espanol
WWW​.StJudeMi​ami​.Org

One of the most beautiful churches in Miami. The liturgy is also very moving services and I prefer it to that of Roman Catholic Churches in Miami. Not sure if you all know but it now has a Facebook page where they are posting weekly readings and sometimes inspirational message.

Where is the Christian charity? Where is the compassion and love of ALL creatures? How sad that the priest from this church has given rescuers only 2 days to «get rid» of two cats abandoned at the church. States he hates cats. Really? And this man is supposed to be telling the public how great his God is?
Well, MY God is compassionate, and loves all living creatures. I would not go to this church if it was the last one on earth. Shame on you!!!

Now, if you’re Catholic, semi-​Catholic, or a Catholi-​Baptist like I am, you know the importance of a good Sunday mass service. St. Jude’s has it. In fact, they have 3. The 9am one is in English & Spanish, the 11am one is in English & Arabic, and the 6pm service is in Spanish only. Now, I haven’t made it to the 9am one as of yet because, well… it’s at 9am on a Sunday and your girl here just isn’t a morning person, but both the 11am & 6pm services are awesome. I feel completely comfortable and welcome here, which is very important when choosing a place of worship. Oh, and it doesn’t hurt that the church is absolutely beautiful, super clean, and everyone is incredibly friendly. And again, I can’t stress enough how welcoming this place is. It makes my visits with my #1 homeboy (Jesus), a very pleasurable experience!

Very nice church, I don’t go as often as maybe I should but a great service every time.

Saint Jude is my patron saint — ya’ think I’m gonna give Him anything less than five stars?! He gets ten stars in my book for always coming through for me and my family! I knew St. Jude’s on Brickell, besides being a very attractive building, was also an Eastern Rite Church (orthodox in ritual but in communion with Rome, which is a short way of saying they recognize the Pope as the world leader of Christendom) but I was (and still am) most unfamiliar with the Melkite Rite (which apparently is Middle Eastern). The liturgy of this Mass was broken up at times by very beautiful singing by the choir, in Arabic. The clearly ancient hymns sung to honor Christ and the Saints had a very early church feel to them and the haunting melodies of the hymns brought me back to my all too brief time I spent in the Middle East in the early 90’s — there is something about such music mixed with incense that brings to mind Basia or perhaps something else new agey and yet tranquil and meditative. The Church itself looks like it’s a continued work in progress and they appear to be slowly adding new tasteful icons that are quite edifying for meditation and contemplation (Eastern Churches of orthodoxy and those in communion with Rome don’t have statutes but instead of painted renditions of Christ and the Saints known as «Ikons» or icons in the vernacular — the reproductions of some of the more famous renditions of Christ Crucified, His Resurrection and those of the Virgin and Saints are truly beautiful to behold). I really look forward to going back and I’m so pleased my friend took me along with her this past Sunday — I personally feel it bodes well for me to start with a good foot forward in the 2014 Lenten season with the many (valiant) intentions I have to grow spiritually.

Beautiful Catholic church. Wonderful location close to the water and downtown. Reminded me of the churches in Barcelona. If your looking to get married amazing. Sucks about bring your own priest. We can’t have it all :)

Beautiful Catholic church. Wonderful location close to the water and downtown. I think it’s a very lovely church to be married in. Mass is great as well.

I’m getting married at this church soon and would like to clarify a few things the previous post states.
You have the option of bringing your own priest or have theirs marry you if he is available on your date. This has to be discussed with them immediately and what they require in order for their priest to marry you is a letter from your pastor stating that you are a member of your parish and he gives his blessing for you to marry there. A lot of pastors are not willing to perform any type of ceremony somewhere that is not their parish so that is where it may get difficult if you cannot get a letter.
They require a donation that is a set amount. You cannot adorn the church pews or aisle. They are very specific about what is allowed.
My only complaint is the level of difficulty to communicate with someone in the office to schedule appointments with them. Their hours are stated as Tuesday-​Friday 10 – 5 but it really varies and my experience is that I’ve had to go out of my way to drive over there and «catch» someone there.
The church is beautiful and very well maintained.
Hope this helps. Good luck to all :)

In order to get married here you have to bring your own priest. They wont even give you any information on the ‘rules’ and ‘conditions’ to get married there or let you set up a first appointment until you’ve arranged for a priest of your choice (and your parish I assume) to marry you.
They are also really darty when it comes to answering any basic questions about the requirements on marrying in their church.
Hope this helps someone!