Upcoming Events

New Location Starting September 13
IJF Meditation Group
New location:
St Vincents Spirituality Center
1878 King Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204 (map)
New time: 7:00p to 8:15p

In these sessions, you will be provided with education on meditation as well as have 25 minutes to "exercise" the development of your meditation practice. No charge to participate.

SEPTEMBER EVENTS

September 8 - Wednesday
Healing Mass @ St Vincents Spirituality Center
1878 King Street, Jacksonville, FL 32204 (map)
7:00p to 8:00p

All of us know someone – or are someone – who needs healing. Whether we suffer physically, emotionally or in some other way, God's healing hand awaits us. Join us for this monthly mass dedicated to healing our hearts, souls, minds and bodies. Please be prompt. There is a parking garage adjacent to the Spirituality Center. Parking is free at that time of day.

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DAY AND TIME OF MASS & THE MEAL AFTER

September 12 - Sunday
Monthly Mass @ San Juan del Rio / Lunch at Shannon's Irish Pub

San Juan del Rio, 1718 State Road 13 N, St Johns, FL‎ (map)
11:00 AM Mass - Meet 15-20 minutes before Mass begins at main church entrance.
Approx 12:30 PM - Lunch at Shannon's Irish Pub (map)

Meet outside the main entrance of the Church 15 minutes before Mass begins. The location of our seating varies, so please be early.

September 16 to November 18 (Thursdays)
Diocesan Center for Family Life's 10-Week Program Begins:
"Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends"

If you are divorced, separated or widowed and you haven't taken this class, 2010 is the year! This is an incredible program that helps people work through their relationship loss versus just suffer from it. The program is proven, educational and you will develop life-long friendships with the others in your group.

Rebuilding is a closed group with sessions providing time to study and pray in a confidential and compassionate atmosphere. The sessions are facilitated by experienced and professional leaders. For more information see the Diocesan web page on Rebuilding. Cost is just $40. To register, call (904) 308-7474 or online at www.dcfl.org

September 18 - Saturday
The IJF Adopt A Lake Project Begins!
8:30a to 11:30a
All ages welcome!
Third Saturday of Every Month

Our mission on the third Saturday morning of every month is to clean up a littered lake, the runoff of which drains into the St. John's River. This is an ecology-rich lake for flocks of ducks, gaggles of geese, a family of otters and schools of fish.

Located behind Radio Shack, Bank of America, Block Buster and Walgreens at the intersection of University West and St. Augustine Road (map), this lake needs our help. The litter and the drainage from the businesses threaten the wildlife here and pollutes the St. John's River.

Mothers/sons and fathers/daughters (well supervised teenagers please) will find this activity to be a satisfying and a challenging exercise in community service. We’ll work from 8:30 AM to 11:30AM and provide grilled hot dogs, beverages and chips (picnic style).

Dress for landscape work: shoes/boots {no flip flops}, hat, sunscreen and gloves. We will provide mechanical ‘picker-uppers’ and trash bags. It would be most helpful it you bring work gloves, loppers, pruning shears, leaf rakes and wheel barrow (maybe a long reach pool skimmer from your pool). 

If you have any questions concerning this monthly project, please contact:
Doug Ridgway douglasridg@aol.com or call 904-424-7639.

Make plans now to join us for...

Join us for a GREAT evening of food, drink, music and good company as we celebrate the third
anniversary of It’s Just Fun...to the music of the Caribbean! Download the flyer

Tickets are only $20 per person for the whole evening! That includes...
- Heavy hors d'oeuvres
- Beer, wine, margaritas & non-alcoholic beverages
- Great Caribbean music & dancing

Securely purchase your ticket now! Click here

To pay by check, make it payable to the Diocesan Center for Family Life and send it to 2577 Park Street Jacksonville, FL 32204. If you are paying for more than one person, include their names for our “will call” list.

Monthly Mass Schedule
Every month, IJF members gather at a different parish in our Diocese to attend Mass together and go out for something to eat. It's a great way to meet people, see other parishes and have a little fun after Mass. On Sunday Masses, kids are welcome to join us for Mass and the meal afterward. On Saturday afternoon/evening Masses, the after-Mass outings are for grown-ups.

Click here to view the Diocese's web page, which has links
to all of the Parishes. This list is subject to change.

October 23 - Cathedral Basilica - St. Augustine
November - TBA

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT IJF EVENTS: 

Not every event can accomodate every IJF member. Because participation levels can vary dramatically, we plan for our "best guess" of how many people will show up. Most of the time we do pretty well, but we appreciate your understanding that planning for attendance is not an exact science. Only if you (kindly) let us know when we under-estimate can we improve our planning.

Have an event suggestion?
Email your suggestions to: itsjustfunjax@gmail.com
While we can't reply to every email, we read and appreciate your suggestions!