Laus Deo

St. Jude’s Centre

Laus Deo Ministries is a response to Our Lady’s call to prayer and holiness.

We hope to offer to people the opportunity to experience a time of community life.
Community has long been recognised as a powerful means of spiritual growth.
For many, this becomes a time of deep transformation and healing.
It is also an opportunity to establish a regular prayer life and to grow in understanding through Sacred Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Appeal

Laus Deo Ministries is prayerfully seeking a house — a simple home that can become a place of prayer, welcome, healing, and mission.
From this base we hope to be in community, serve those in need, and continue the work of inner healing and evangelisation entrusted to us.

We believe God is opening a door, and we humbly ask for your prayers, support, and guidance in helping us find a suitable house where this ministry may grow and bear fruit for many lives.

“Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labour in vain.”

God Is Calling

Some people come to St. Jude’s following a recent conversion, seeking to learn more about living the Catholic faith in a practical and authentic way.
The focus here is on prayer, service, and evangelisation.

Prayer

Daily life is rooted in prayer and the rhythm of the Church.
This includes:

  • Holy Eucharist
  • Adoration
  • The Divine Office
  • The Rosary
  • Lectio Divina
  • The Way of the Cross

We journey together through the Church’s seasons —
celebrating feast days with joy and persevering through fasting days with faith.
“Let us encourage one another.”

Service

Service is expressed through simple, humble acts of love —
offering hospitality to guests staying at St. Jude’s,
helping in the kitchen, washing dishes, peeling potatoes,
and attending to the ordinary tasks that build a home of welcome.
In these small acts, charity becomes visible.

Evangelisation

Evangelisation takes many forms:

  • Participating in school missions and parish missions
  • Assisting with prayer retreats, events, and pilgrimages
  • Sharing personal testimony and faith experiences
  • Simply offering a listening ear and a cup of tea to a guest

Here, evangelisation is not only spoken — it is lived.

This version keeps:

  • Your Marian identity.
  • The communal and practical dimension.
  • The humility and realism.
  • The Catholic structure of Prayer–Service–Evangelisation.

It now reads as both inviting and credible, which is ideal for people discerning involvement.