About St. Jude · Thompson, North Dakota
St. Jude is a small Roman Catholic mission parish in Thompson, North Dakota, in the Diocese of Fargo. It shares pastoral care with Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in nearby Reynolds, and together the two parishes serve the rural farming communities of Grand Forks County. Worship is offered in English, with Sunday Mass and weekday celebrations supplemented by Eucharistic Adoration and the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The parish is listed in the Diocese of Fargo parish finder as a mission of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Reynolds.
- Patron
- St. Jude (Thaddeus)
- Diocese
- Diocese of Fargo
Why belong here
St. Jude offers a faithful Catholic presence in the small farming community of Thompson, with Sunday and weekday Mass, a regular Eucharistic Adoration hour, and easy access to the Sacrament of Reconciliation. As a mission sharing clergy with Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Reynolds, it brings full parish life to a rural area of Grand Forks County where Catholics are few and far between — a warm, tight-knit setting for worship, devotions to St. Jude (patron of hopeless or difficult causes), and fellowship with neighbors.
Mass times at St. Jude
Weekly Mass schedule
Confession times
- Saturday 4:00 PM
Adoration times
- Tuesday 5:00 PM
St. Jude Catholic Mission — Thompson, North Dakota
St. Jude is one of two Catholic parishes sharing pastoral care in the rural communities of Grand Forks County. Its sister parish, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, is located in Reynolds, about seven miles from Thompson. Both parishes are administered from the shared website olphsj.org and are listed together by the Diocese of Fargo parish finder. St. Jude is classified as a mission (Church of St. Jude) in the Diocese of Fargo, GCatholic ID 36395.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help & St. Jude — One Pastoral Family
Because St. Jude and Our Lady of Perpetual Help share a single pastor, their website, bulletin, and administrative life are joined. The shared site carries the diocesan cemetery policy and a common holy-days/feast-days schedule for the two parishes. Catholics in the Reynolds–Thompson area experience one connected parish community across the two church buildings.
- Sister parish: Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Reynolds, ND
- Shared pastor and administration
- Combined bulletins and holy-day schedule
- Diocese of Fargo Cemetery Policy published on the shared site
Contact & Location
St. Jude is on Broadway Street in Thompson, the small Grand Forks County town southeast of Grand Forks. The mailing address and listed telephone on both the parish website and GCatholic are the same; the pastor's office serves both St. Jude and Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
- Address: 329 Broadway St., Thompson, ND 58278
- Telephone: (701) 599-2574
- Diocese: Diocese of Fargo
- Website: olphsj.org