St. Patrick Catholic Church, Ruma, Il

06/01/2026

Our quilting ladies are busy. Check out these beautiful queen size quilts they are working on. Would you like a ticket for our quilt of the month drawing…contact the parish office.

05/25/2026

05/20/2026

Congratulations to our Gibault High school graduates… Hope, Samuel and Austin. Stay close to the Lord, and he will guide you in all your future endeavors. 

05/17/2026

Beautiful day, great crowd, awesome food and wonderful fellowship. Thank you to all who came out and supported our Strawberry Festival and to all of those from our parish that worked and put in the long hours. THANK YOU!! 

05/16/2026

All set up for our Strawberry Festival tomorrow. Don’t forget to come out for a GREAT MEAL! Meals being served from 11-2. Chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, homemade dressing, corn, green beans, applesauce, rolls, jam and strawberries and ice cream. Come visit our country store with homemade strawberry jam and lots of other goodies, silent auction, quilt raffle, 50/50, live music, and balloonatic.

05/14/2026

Our quilting ladies have been busy with our quilt of the month raffle. Here are a few of the hand quilted quilts that we will be raffling off. Come out Sunday to our Strawberry Festival in Ruma and check them out.

05/14/2026

Checkout the video of some of our silent auction items that we will have at St Patrick’s Strawberry Festival on Sunday. Head out to Ruma if you wanna place a bid.

05/11/2026

Four years after the sisters of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, (ASC), moved out of the Ruma Center in Ruma, Illinois, they have sold the property buildings and 33 acres of land to Books for All, a nonprofit organization establishing community libraries with free resources. ASC will retain ownership of the surrounding farmland, as well as the cemetery, where sisters will continue to be buried.

The Ruma property has been vacant since April 2022 when the sisters relocated to the Benedictine Living Community-At The Shrine, (BLCS), on the campus of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, in Belleville, Illinois. During that time, the sisters patiently and prayerfully sought a buyer committed to the continuation of the ASC’s 150-year legacy of community and mission, as well as responsible stewardship of the buildings and land. The sisters rely on the Providence of God and believe that God has guided the sale of the property to Books for All.

Books for All will utilize the property as a retreat and conference center. The center will also house the nonprofit’s library of over 30,000 books. In a statement, Books for All said, “While we are not a religious organization, we carry forward the spirit of what [the sisters] built: a place dedicated to community, care for the people who pass through it, and respect for the earth it sits on.”

For the sisters and all who have been a part of the history of the Ruma Center, the sale of the property brings a mix of joy and sorrow; joy in that Books for All will continue the mission and sorrow in that the sisters are not living there anymore.

Sister Barbara Hudock, Regional Leader of the U.S. Region of the Adorers noted to the sisters in a 2025 Easter message, and it applies to today, “The Paschal Mystery is at the core of our ASC spirituality. If we truly find ways to live this spirituality in our lives, what a gift we can be for those around us, for our world. We know that death does not have the last word. We know that part of the process is waiting for life to spring forth from death. We know that God lives in each one of us. We know that the celebration of Easter is not a one time or one season experience. It’s a daily resurrection, waiting to break through.”

Over the next two years, Books for All plans to make renovations to prepare the property for its new usage. “We are doing this carefully — the place we inherited was loved and well-maintained, and that legacy is worth preserving. The goal is not to remake it but to bring it fully into its next chapter, so that it can serve the communities who need it for a long time to come.”

The Adorers are an international congregation founded by St. Maria De Mattias in Italy in 1834 and have been a vital part of the Catholic Church in Southern Illinois and beyond since arriving in Piopolis, IL, in 1870. They have served in a variety of ministries, including education, healthcare, pastoral services, and justice advocacy. In addition to Southern Illinois, the United States Region of Adorers has centers of presence in Wichita, Kansas and Columbia, Pennsylvania, and supporting ASC presence in Korea and Vietnam. For more information about Ruma and the Adorers, visit www.adorers.org.

05/06/2026

May quilt of the month. Walter and Millie Wittenauer winners.

05/06/2026

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