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Rector’s Classic Golf Outing & Dinner Reception

Attention all golfers! We are happy to announce that registration is open for the 31st Annual Rector’s Golf Classic. Invite your golf friends and join us on Thursday, September 15, at Pine Meadow Golf Club. Our golf event will include [read more...]

Scenes from Bystander CPR Training

Last Sunday, after the 9:30 and 11:30 am masses, Our Lady of the Wayside offered Bystander CPR Training in the Gathering Place.  Training was provided by Illinois Heart Rescue. 40 or so attendees learned the basic steps of CPR, how [read more...]

OLW Alumni Parent Evening Fun and Successful

The Endowment Board hosted a successful event this past Saturday to raise awareness and funds for the school’s Endowment Fund, which is a restricted fund to support the long-term financial health of OLW School. Many alumni parents were in attendance, [read more...]

Ladies Night Out: Bingo, Bags & Bubbles (October 1)

B9, I22, N42, G56, O73 … Bingo is easy and fun. Saturday, October 1 – Grab friends and join with Ladies in our school, parish and community at Ladies Night Out to play BINGO, drink champagne and win designer handbags. [read more...]

Carriers of the Cross

23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year C My brothers and sisters, in Sunday’s Gospel Jesus addresses a very demanding teaching to the crowds: “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and [read more...]

Did You Forget Who You Are?

The Gospel is the power of God for salvation to all who believe. Without the Gospel, we forget who we are. An atheistic worldview offers no hope for this world. An atheistic worldview offers young people, unknowingly, to a spirit [read more...]

St. Jeanne Jugan, Little Sisters of the Poor Foundress

A great read on Saint Jeanne Jugan, founder of Little Sisters of the Poor (from The Pillar)… August 30 is the feast of St. Jeanne Jugan, the foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor, a religious community of women [read more...]

RCIA’s First Meeting

Would you like to learn more about the Catholic Faith? Curious about becoming a Catholic? Our Lady of the Wayside’s Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults’ (RCIA) first meeting will be on Thursday, September 8th, from 7:30 to 9 pm, [read more...]

Suicide Stops Here!

Save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide by joining the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Out of the Darkness Walk. Our multi-Parish Mental Health Awareness ministry (including St. Edna, St. James and Our Lady of the Wayside), [read more...]

Injuries Common in Athletes, but Preventable

Overuse injuries have become more common in young athletes as pressures and expectations to perform outweigh the emphasis of simply playing. Although overuse injuries can occur at any age, the peak age is seen during growth spurts, when bones are [read more...]