Social Ministries

Through the Food Pantry ministry, the parishioners of St. Julie Billiart community embrace all people as children of God and reach out to care for those in need. In the past year, the food pantry has provided food to 1,200 to 1,400 people each month. We need your continued support in both food and monetary donations to make sure we can continue this vital service to the community.

For more information about or to volunteer at the Emergency Food Pantry, please call 408-629-3030 x 114.

In the early 2000's, a group of fabulous volunteers began serving breakfast at LifeMoves Montgomery Street Inn, a homeless shelter for men in San Jose. They now serve breakfast every Saturday of the year. Over time, what was once approximately 600 breakfasts, turned into 9 to 10,000 breakfasts served a year.  Volunteers rotate, serving one Saturday morning a month.

In addition to serving meals, each year volunteers at LifeMoves have donated time and money to make 200 holiday care packages, which include toiletries, underwear, socks, sweatshirts, and rain ponchos. 

For more information, please email info@stjulies.org

The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization.  St. Julie's is represented by the John N. Neumann Council 6965.  For more information, please contact Tom Connolly at (408) 629-9411.

Knights of Columbus John N. Neumann Council 6965 Information

   The John N. Neumann Council was originally started at Santa Teresa Church in San Jose in 1977, prior to the existence of St. Julie Billiart Parish. Upon the creation of the St. Julie Billiart Parish, Fr. Matt Sullivan (St. Julie’s first pastor) requested a Knights of Columbus council be created at St. Julie’s. Since a large segment of the existing council members were now St. Julie parishioners, the council relocated to St. Julie’s as their home parish.

   Since then, the council has established three additional rountables for three neighboring parishes, those being Santa Teresa, Holy Spirit and St. Anthony’s parishes. This council is responsible for servicing the needs of all four previously mentioned parishes and their pastors. We are involved in building maintenance, faith based and fund raising projects for each of these parishes as well as many community service projects.  Some of the work includes the funding of the new kitchen in the St. Julie Sullivan Center, fund raising for Special Olympics and people with intellectual disabilities, the purchase of special equipment as needed by the parish(es) and fund raising for various parish ministries such as the youth group, the "A Night To Remember" Auction Gala, St. Julie's Food Pantry, and the diocese Seminarian Fund.  We also clean trash from Highway 85 on a monthly basis.

A number of Knights are also involved in the running of the St. Julie Food Pantry and the pantry’s holiday food bag distributions during the Thanksgiving & Christmas holidays. Early on we were also involved in numerous building remodeling projects in the downtown area for the housing of the homeless through Inn Vision.

   Of our 137 members, approximately 62 are members of the St. Julie parish. Among our council members are the San Jose Diocese Bishop, Fr. Angelo David, Fr. Jon, Fr. Saju and Fr. Peter. The ministry leaders are essentially the officers of the council who are subject to change annually. Our yearly term is from July 1st to June 30th. Currently the Grand Knight is Tom Connolly. We are self funded via our dues and fundraising activities.

   We have three meetings monthly, usually the 1st, 2nd and 4th Thursdays of the month. The 1st meeting is an officers meeting (Room A), the 2nd meeting is the council business meeting (Room A) and the last meeting is our council social (Room B & C). 

St. Julie's Layette program collects donations of baby clothes and cash to support the Layette Program of the Diocese of San Jose. The Layette Program partners with over 30 parishes and Catholic organizations along with the Santa Clara Public Health Nurses to distribute nearly 500 layettes every year to families in need. St. Julie's Layette Drive occurs every year during October and November, but donations are welcome at any time of the year. The program requests only NEW clothes in NEWBORN SIZES (sizes 0 to 6 months).  Handmade or store-bought items are acceptable, but the items should be new, not used.  This is a great opportunity for quilters, knitters, crocheters, and sewers to share their gifts with others!  

Many thanks to all who have donated for your support and assistance in this essential ministry which does so much to support the cause of life by providing practical aid to needy mothers and their infants.

Items Needed

Note: Sizes needed are newborn - 6mo.  

gowns, undershirts, sleep and play (one-piece), undershirts and bottoms (onesies), receiving blankets, crib blankets or quilts, blanket sleepers, rubber pants, booties, hats, infant sweater sets, cloth diapers, diaper pins, and monetary donations (Checks may be made payable to the Diocese of San Jose Layette Fund and can be dropped off at the parish office. Donations are tax deductible.)

A newborn baby receives the following layette:

• 3 Undershirts
• 3 Gowns, long
• 3 Sleep and play coveralls
• 3 onesies
• 3 sacques or short gowns
• 1 dressy outfit (if we have it)
• 1 crib blanket/quilt
• 1 sweater set
• 1 pair booties
• 1 doz. Cloth diapers
• 1 toy (if we have it)
• 3 receiving blankets
• 2 pair diaper pins
• 2 pair socks
• 1 blanket sleeper
• 1 play outfit

To learn more about the Layette Program, feel free to call the parish office at (408) 629-3030.

Pax Christi strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence. This work begins in personal life and extends to communities of reflection and action to transform structures of society. Pax Christi rejects war, preparations for war, and every form of violence and domination. It advocates primacy of conscience, economic and social justice, and respect for creation.

Pax Christi Priority Areas

Spirituality of Nonviolence and Peacemaking:

 Pax Christi promotes Christian nonviolence on the personal, communal, national and international levels. Believing in the gospel call to conversion as found in the Beatitudes, Pax Christi denounces and resists the evils of violence while striving to reflect the Peace of Christ. 

Disarmament, Demilitarization and Reconciliation with Justice:

Pax Christi members promote nuclear, conventional and domestic disarmament, an end to the international arms trade, economic conversion to a non-military economy, conscientious objection, and nonviolent alternatives to war. Pax Christi promotes the just reconciliation of enemies through the United Nations and other channels.

Economic and Interracial Justice in the United States:

Pax Christi joins the struggle against economic injustice, militarism, and environmental destruction which are particularly harmful to those who are poor, minorities, children, and women. Pax Christi  works toward eliminating racist structures in the Catholic Church and the country, working toward equality of all people.

Human Rights and Global Restoration:

Pax Christi promotes universal human rights, both at home and abroad, through solidarity with oppressed and marginalized people struggling for dignity. Pax Christi rejects every form of political and economic domination over others and fosters a reverence for all creation. 

For more information, please contact Stan Taylor: s.taylor@mac.com