Author Archives for Sean Reilly

Mass for Wednesday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time

Fr. Dominic Vinh Ha presiding.

Back to School 2021-2022!

OLW School is so happy to start this new year! Strength for the Journey is the Archdiocese theme for Catholic schools. We are committed to helping our students on their faith journey to Grow with God. We started the school year with [read more...]

Looking for a Wheels to Worship Chairperson

Our Lady of the Wayside is looking for a Chairperson to lead our Wheels to Worship Ministry. What is Wheels to Worship? The Wheels to Worship Ministry is a group of volunteers who practice discipleship by driving our parish’s older [read more...]

Welcome & Welcome Back to the REP Class of 2021-2022!

I am looking forward to meeting and working with you and your children as we begin the new REP year! Each Friday I will send out updates and reminders via Wayside REP Reflections in Flocknote. The REP office is using [read more...]

Deacon’s Beacon: Answering Jesus’ Call

Answering Jesus’ Call In the early stages of the parish revitalization program (“To teach who Christ is”) one of the questions asked of the participants was – “Is your parish a “Maintenance Church” or a “Missionary Church”? I thought – [read more...]

Nearly Tootsie Roll Time!

2021 ID DRIVE Intellectual Disabilities The Knights and their friends will be collecting donations after the masses on September 11th and 12th to help those in our parish with INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. 100% of the funds collected at those masses will [read more...]

Don’t Lose Sight: Interior Contact with God

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B When I was a seminarian in Poland, one of my priest professors told me a story about when he was in Mexico giving a retreat and a man came to him and [read more...]

Undefeated: The Man in the Arena

UNDEFEATED – THE MAN IN THE ARENA: “We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of [read more...]

Mask Protocols and COVID Guidance from the Archdiocese

This morning (August 24), the Chicago Archdiocese COVID Task Force issued a guidance letter to Pastors and Principals containing the following information… Over the past 18 months, your efforts to communicate clearly and quickly all COVID-related guidance has been central [read more...]

Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle

Fr. Dominic Vinh Ha presiding. St. Bartholomew, Jusepe de Ribera, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons