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Christians Urgently Needed

Christians are urgently needed to pray outside of Access Health Center, an abortion clinic at 1700 75th St, Downers Grove, IL 60516.  Many young women that planned to use this facility to end their child’s life, have instead chosen life [read more...]

Reminder: Remembering Our Fallen National Memorial

Remembering Our Fallen is a photographic war memorial that honors our country’s military Fallen from The Global War on Terror (9/11/2001 – 8/30/2021). Unlike brick and mortar memorials, Remembering Our Fallen is designed to travel and includes both military and [read more...]

John 3:16

At Our Lady of the Wayside’s School Mass, on Wednesday, April 27, 2022, Deacon Paul Onischuk broke down the popular John 3:16 Gospel for our students.

A Summer of Imagination Awaits at Our Lady of the Wayside

A SUMMER OF IMAGINATION AWAITS AT OUR LADY OF THE WAYSIDE Camp Galileo for Pre-K – Rising 10th Graders  Camp Galileo at Our Lady of the Wayside Camp Galileo engages kids in hands-on, STEAM-based learning that captures their imaginations and [read more...]

Coffee & Donut Servers Needed This Sunday!!!

DONUTS and COFFEE Need Servers this Sunday!!! One of the favorite parts of Family Mass for many is enjoying donuts and coffee afterwards. Please sign up to volunteer before or after our 9:30 a.m. Family Mass (May 1) to set [read more...]

School Volunteers to Expand Livestream Dream Team

At today’s OLW School Mass, outgoing 8th grade members of the Livestream Dream Team demonstrated the technology and process to incoming 8th graders. It is truly exciting to see this level of interest in volunteering from our wonderful students! Thank [read more...]

Happy John 3:16 Day

Today’s gospel, John 3:16 was made famous by John, of course, and kept in the forefront of the minds of many by the gentleman in the multi-colored wig, holding the John 3:16 sign at numerous sporting events through the years.  [read more...]

Sunday’s Bulletin Cover

Continuing with our ongoing “parish artists” series of bulletin covers, here’s a peek at next Sunday’s masterpiece, lovingly contributed by a second grade student. Be sure to pick up a copy of the Bulletin at Mass this Sunday! Chicago Catholic [read more...]

Let’s Make OLW The Coolest School Winner!

OLW wants to be the “Capannari Coolest School” To do so, we need as many people as possible to visit Campannari Ice Cream in Mount Prospect on Tuesday, May 17 from 3 – 9 pm and order their very delicious [read more...]

Deacon’s Beacon: What Did We Learn This Lent?

OLW4LIFE Our 2022 Lenten Journey is completed.  On April 16 we celebrated the Easter Vigil when the Catechumen and Candidates were received into full communion with the Catholic Faith and we celebrated Jesus rising from the dead for our redemption. [read more...]