News and Events

If you can help provide any of the items listed below, please place them in the Human Concerns “Empty Basket” in the front entrance to the church. Thank you.
• toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, towels, deodorant, toilet paper

Here you will find livestream Masses, recorded Masses, music videos, homilies, and more! Subscribe to our YouTube channel (it’s free!) by pressing the Subscribe button on the page shown when you enter the link shown below. We welcome you to check back often for livestream Masses, as well as like and share our videos. Please feel free to pass along our YouTube channel link to family and friends as we continue to join together in prayer. This is another avenue to bring us closer together as a Catholic community,

Link: tiny url.com/SJPGraftonLive

A new group is forming. For more information, contact Ken Stanczyk at (262) 375-6500 ext. 104 or kstanczyk@stjosephgrafton.org.

If you wish to add your name to the “Remember To Pray For” list, please complete a Prayer Authorization Form. You will find these forms on the bulletin boards at all entrances to the church or you may download a copy of the form here.

Amen.

Although St. Joseph Parish is closed to the public and staff are working from home, you can contact a Pastoral Staff member by leaving a message on their office phone. Pastoral Staff has the ability to check voicemail messages from home.

262-375-6500

◉ Ext. 103 for Brenda Cline
◉ Ext. 102 for Jay Frymark
◉ Ext. 106 for Randy Hilgers
◉ Ext. 104 for Ken Stanczyk
◉ Ext. 175 for Sheri Hanson
◉ Ext. 121 for Bonnie Reineking
◉ Ext. 171 for Amanda Matthews

We are currently out of Communion pyxes, so if you are no longer in need of one, please return it to the parish office so that someone else may use it. Thank you.

You Never Know… when you will need to help save a life. As an update for some, and news for others, the parish has 2 Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs). They are used to evaluate heart rhythms and deliver a potentially lifesaving shock if necessary. Anyone can use them!

1. Located at the top of the stairs leading to the lower church hall. You’ll see a 3 dimensional sign facing the worship space. Look for it today, so you’ll know where it is during an emergency.

2. Located on the lower level across from the gym doors. During an emergency, if someone says, “get the AED,” please do not hesitate. Take it out of the cabinet on the wall and bring to the site, and call 911.

The parish also stocks 3 first aid kits:

1. Usher’s Room
2. Kitchenette off Gathering Hall
3. Parish Office Workroom

– even if you just need a Band-Aid 🙂

The Prayer Shawl Ministry invites you to help yourself to a prayer shawl for:

• A sick co-worker.
• A friend going through a divorce.
• A youth who is struggling.
• A mom whose child is in the hospital.
• An aunt in a nursing home.
• Anyone who can use a reminder of God’s loving embrace!

Each prayer shawl is blessed by the Prayer Shawl group. You will find them in the Gathering Hall coatroom. The Prayer Shawl Ministry meets monthly at 7:00 p.m. on the 3rd Thursday of the month. Our next gathering will be September 19th. All are welcome.

Questions? Please contact either Carol Arentz at jcarentz@gmail.com or Joan Raasch at joanhfn@outlook.com.

As a Catholic hospital, committed to continuing the healing ministry of Jesus, Columbia St. Mary in Mequon invites you to consider serving as a volunteer Eucharistic Minister. Volunteer Eucharistic Ministers are valued partners to the Spiritual Care Department and bring Holy Communion to Catholic patients at Columbia St. Mary Ozaukee Hospital. The power of Christ’s presence in the Eucharistic, in bedside prayers and in the mindful, compassionate presence of Eucharistic Ministers offers hospitality and healing to those found vulnerable in the hospital. Are you called to this beautiful lay ministry?

If you would be interested in serving as a Eucharistic Minister at Columbia St. Mary Ozaukee Campus, please contact Bridget Lozano, Columbia St. Mary Ozaukee Volunteer Services Coordinator, at 262-243-7355 or bridget.lozano@ascension.org.

Applications are also available on the CSM website: www.columbia-stmarys.org/volunteer_ozaukee.