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Getting To Know Our New Pastor: Part 2 (Fun Facts)

With our church reopening and events returning to the “new normal,” it may be some time before you have an opportunity to get to know our new Pastor, Father Artur (call him “Father Arthur”) Marat.  To expedite this process, over [read more...]

Additional Masses Added in July!

Fr. Arthur and the Reopening Team are pleased to announce that, starting in July, the number of live masses celebrated at Our Lady of the Wayside will double!  Saturday 5:00 pm Vigil Mass and Sunday 6:00 pm Mass will be [read more...]

OLW Shawl Ministry Is Making Facemasks!

It does not look like the Corona Virus will end in the foreseeable future.  The CDC recommends that the general public wear a non-medical, cloth facemask in public.  This recommendation will continue at least through the summer months. The OLW [read more...]

Join Us For Friday Morning Bible Study!

Friday Morning Bible Study Friday, June 19th, 9:30 – 11:30am Studying the readings for the twelve Sunday in Ordinary Time Jer 20:10-13 Rom 5:12-15 Mt 10:26-33 To receive the Zoom sign-in code, email biblestudy@olwparish.org

Getting to Know Our New Pastor: Part 1

With our church reopening and events returning to the “new normal,” it may be some time before you have an opportunity to get to know our new Pastor, Father Artur (call him “Father Arthur”) Marat.  To expedite this process, over [read more...]

Our Stewardship of Treasure for June 7, 2020

Thank you for your generous, ongoing support of Our Lady of the Wayside!  You make God’s work possible.

St Mark’s Food Pantry – Sunday, Jun 14th 9am-Noon

On Sunday, June 14th, we will have our monthly food drive for St. Mark”s Parish.  In these difficult times their need for food is great and they are servicing more people then ever. Our volunteers will be at the parish garage between [read more...]

Spread The Good News & Share The Joy!

For those following breaking events through Our Lady of the Wayside’s digital communications channels (this website, our Facebook  page, our Wayside Wednesday e-newsletter) you know our parish transitioned from “doors closed” to “doors open” – hurtling through Archdiocese and State [read more...]

Reopening Team Training & Practice Mass A Success!

In the span of just weeks, Our Lady of the Wayside’s Great Reopening Team scrambled to progress through, and comply with, Archdiocese and State of Illinois COVID-19 Phase 1, 1A and 2 directives.  On Sunday, June 7, reopening team members [read more...]

Signs of Elder Abuse from the National Center On Elder Abuse, Submitted by Kathy O’Neill RN, Parish Nurse