St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Ramsey, IL

06/02/2026

Reminder for the LPHS fundraiser:

Baby Bottles should be turned in on or before June 21st.

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05/27/2026

April 2026 stats:

69 families served
2 new clients
131 adults
57 kids

188 Total clients

05/26/2026

05/22/2026

Memorial Day Mass Schedule:

St. Joseph's Cemetery will be at 8 AM.

Mother of Dolors will be at 10 AM.

*In case of inclement weather, Masses will be held at the church

05/19/2026

Day of Prayer for Life in Mattoon Deanery

Please mark your calendars to come and pray for an end to our nation’s tragic disrespect for human life at the 52nd annual Day of Prayer for Life to be held Wednesday, June 17th, at St Francis Church in Teutopolis.

Our honored celebrant for the 7:30 PM closing Mass will be Father Seth Brown, Pastor of Mother of Dolors Church, Vandalia and St. Joseph's, Ramsey.

Eucharistic Adoration begins at 8:00 AM, with a pause for 9:15 AM Mass, and will resume at 10:00 AM, with Benediction at 7:00 PM.

A reception with refreshments in St Clare Hall adjoining the church will follow the 7:30 PM closing Mass.

05/12/2026

Everyone is welcome to attend the Matton Deanery Prayer Vigil for Life to Pray for the Protection of All Life at St. Joseph's church in Island Grove on Thursday May 21st.

Praying the rosary will begin at 6:00 pm. Fr Juan Carlos Ruiz will be the celebrant for the 6:30 pm Mass.

A business meeting will follow in the rectory with refreshments being served while current pro-life issues and events are discussed.

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05/01/2026

Submitted by Mike Reiss

04/27/2026

Dennis and Cathy Rochkes were married 40 years ago April 26th at St. Joseph's!

04/12/2026

Divine Mercy Sunday

Where did the feast of Divine Mercy come from?

If you were born well before the year 2000, you know the feast of Divine Mercy has not always been celebrated in the Church. In the early 1900s, a young Polish nun began receiving private revelations. Jesus appeared to her during her times of prayer, speaking a message of mercy and love for the world. She received a set of prayers — the Divine Mercy Chaplet — and the request to have a feast day established to remind the Church of the mercy of God. St. Faustina died in 1938, on the cusp of war and in the midst of one of the most violent centuries in the history of the world. Her story and her diaries began circulating in Poland and beyond. It quickly became apparent that this was a holy young women, and the cause for her canonization opened. In the year 2000, she was canonized by the first-ever Polish pope, St. John Paul II. On her canonization day, he established the second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday, “a perennial invitation to the Christian world to face, with confidence in divine benevolence, the difficulties and trials that mankind with experience in the years to come.”

Our Lord’s words to St. Faustina about this requirement to be merciful are very strong and leave no room for misinterpretation: ‘Yes, the first Sunday after Easter is the Feast of Mercy, but there must also be acts of mercy… I demand from you deeds of mercy, which are to arise out of love for Me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse or absolve yourself from it.’"

Thus, to fittingly observe the Feast of Mercy, we should:
1. Celebrate the Feast on the Sunday after Easter;
2. Sincerely repent of all our sins;
3. Place our complete trust in Jesus;
4. Go to Confession, on or shortly before Divine Mercy Sunday;
5. Receive Holy Communion on the day of the Feast;
6. Venerate* the Image of The Divine Mercy;
7. Be merciful to others, through our actions, words, and prayers on their behalf.
*To venerate a sacred image or statue means to perform some act or make some gesture of deep religious respect toward it because of the person whom it represents — in this case, our Most Merciful Savior.

04/08/2026

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