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Last week at the National Catholic Educational Association Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ss. Simon & Jude Cathedral School was recognized as one of the top schools in the nation for our 1:1 iPad program. As a 2018 national finalist, we received an award from Today's Catholic Teacher: Innovation in Catholic Education -- Technology Integration, which was presented to Sr. Raphael at this week’s assembly. We will also be receiving a banner that we can display outside to show our pride in our accomplishment!

Pope Francis released a beautiful apostolic exhortation on holiness in the modern world, called Gaudete et Exsultate. Pope Francis has a message for lay men and women, like you and I, on living becoming holy in the midst of our daily life, with its burdens and distractions, but also its opportunities to become deeply holy. This document is both challenging: "You too need to see the entirety of your life as a mission. Try to do so by listening to God in prayer and recognizing the signs that he gives you. Always ask the Spirit what Jesus expects from you at every moment of your life and in every decision you must make, so as to discern its place in the mission you have received," and inspiring: "The Lord asks everything of us, and in return he offers us true life, the happiness for which we were created. He wants us to be saints and not to settle for a bland and mediocre existence." Click for more...

Cory McClosky and FOX 10 came to SS. Simon & Jude Cathedral School to congratulate our Challenger Team for winning the Fiesta Bowl Aerospace Challenge... AGAIN!! Cory also spent time on the stage in the Our Lady of Loreto Center with cast members of the spring musical, Oliver! Shows are Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10 at 7PM and Sunday, March 11 at 4PM.

The Cathedral of SS. Simon and Jude is forming a Young Women's Schola to sing at the Sunday 5:00 p.m. Mass.  The Schola is open to those in high school, college, and young adults. Rehearsals are on Sundays at 4:15 p.m. and then Mass is at 5:00 p.m.  For more information or to set up an audition, contact: Matthew Meloche 602-242-1300  mmeloche@simonjude.org 

Bishop Olmsted announces campaign to strengthen evangelization and discipleship efforts in the Diocese of Phoenix. Click photo to read the letter in English or Spanish.

To learn about the building of the Cathedral Pipe Organ, click on the photo and read this article by the builder himself.

Be sure to welcome any unfamiliar faces you may see visiting SS. Simon & Jude Cathedral after reading this blog from the National Catholic Register which mentions the Cathedral of Phoenix as one of the 11 must see Cathedrals!

Evangelizing through Catholic Schools, an Apostolic Letter from Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted

Bishop Olmsted's Christmas op-ed from the Arizona Republic!

Sacerdote is a series of short (3 minute) video profiles on Hispanic priests at several stages in their priesthood. The videos are in Spanish with English subtitles.

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Samuel P. Bryant MA, LAC is now available to for counseling in the areas of in couples therapy, pre-marital and marital, family life, men's issues, elder care, spirituality and faith crisis', mid-life career changes and life transitions, as well as general mental health issues.