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OLW’s Rosary Group Meets Tonight! Cold? What Cold?

Our Lady of the Wayside’s very dedicated (and tough) Monday Night Rosary Group will meet tonight, November 2, at 7:00 pm in the OLW School parking lot between the Fr. Mackin Center and our Church.  Bring your rosary, a kneeling [read more...]

Join Us For Friday Morning Bible Study

Zoom with OLW’s bible study group.  Enjoy fellowship and share insights on the bible. To receive the Zoom sign-in code, email biblestudy@olwparish.org.  

Reminder: St. Mark’s Food Drive This Sunday

On Sunday, November 8th, we will have our monthly non-perishable food drive for St. Mark’s Parish.  In these difficult times their need for food is great and they are serving more people than ever. Our volunteers will be at the [read more...]

We Remember Our Faithful Departed

On this Solemnity of All Souls Day, we pause to remember and honor Our Lady of the Wayside parishioners who have gone home to God in the past twelve months. Eternal rest, grant unto them O Lord and let perpetual [read more...]

Feast of All Souls Mass

Our Lady of the Wayside’s annual Feast of All Souls Mass will be celebrated on Monday, November 2, at 8:30 am in our Church. If your loved one went home to God in the past 12 months, please bring his [read more...]

Deacon Don Discusses Depression, New Book, “My Maja”

While he was growing up in Chicago, Deacon Don Grossnickle loved visiting his grandmother Maja, an immigrant from Sweden, and listening to her stories about her home country’s “enchanting winters, the Christmases, the sleighs, the horses, the beautiful lakes,” he [read more...]

Deacon’s Beacon: Respect Life, The Beatitudes, Feast of All Saints

Respect Life Respect Life Month (October) is over.  But that does not end our focus on the dignity of the life all people receive from God.  Rather, it serves as a starting point for the decisions we will make in [read more...]

Father Arthur Reflects on All Saints, All Souls Days

Today’s Gospel presents us with special program of life according to the eight beatitudes. Jesus truly lived according to the beatitudes: He was poor in spirit; He mourned; He was meek; He longed for righteousness; He was merciful; He was [read more...]

Viator House Update From Father Corey

I Can’t Imagine… Leaving all I know and love at 17. Fleeing from Africa to South America. Spending months traveling north to the U.S. border. Waiting years to know if I’ll be sent back to the danger I fled. But [read more...]

St. Mark’s Food Collection

On Sunday, November 8th, we will have our monthly non-perishable food drive for St. Mark’s Parish.  In these difficult times their need for food is great and they are serving more people than ever. Our volunteers will be at the [read more...]