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Emily Holum Blood Drive Record Year!

NEARLY 100 OLW PARISHIONERS participated in Emily Holum Blood Drive.  With still a week to go (as of the beginning of this week) with the 2019 edition of the Emily Holum Memorial Blood Drive, it seems certain that a record number [read more...]

FIVE WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH By Jackie Hughes. Submitted by Kathy O’Neill, RN Parish Nurse

With 2019 in full swing, have you made a resolution for the New Year? From weight loss goals to work priorities, New Year resolutions can run the gamut. One thing you might want to add and prioritize on your ‘new [read more...]

Looking for Nominees for the School Advisory Board!

Our Lady of the Wayside School is looking for parishioners who want to serve by being part of the 2019-2020 School Advisory Board.  There are three SAB vacancies for the 2019-2020 school year. Any parishioner over the age of 21 [read more...]

January 2019 Women at the Well

About 40 Women gathered on Saturday, January 26 at the quarterly Women at the Well presentation in the Gathering Space. The morning began with the 8:30 a.m. Communion Service, followed by refreshments and fellowship. Father Corey Brost was the speaker [read more...]

Peace Camp – Children of Abraham Coalition – Feb 17th-18th

Two day (Feb 17th – 18th) camp for 6th through 8th grade Jewish, Muslim and Christian young people where they build friendships while they learn about the richness of each other’s religious traditions and develop skills for standing against faith-based [read more...]

Annual Knights of Columbus Free Throw Contest

What better way is there to warm up on a cold winter day than to compete in the annual Knights of Columbus Free Throw Contest? That’s what several dozen 9 to 14 year-olds did on a cold Martin Luther King [read more...]

Deacon’s Beacon by Deacon Tom Corcoran

“You are the light of the world.  Do not light a lamp then put it under a bushel basket….your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Heavenly Father.”  Matthew 5:15-16 Last week’s [read more...]

Christmas Giving Tree 2018

Thanks to all who participated in our Giving Tree this year. Because of your generosity, we have helped make Christmas a little brighter for over 100 families. The families who needed our help, were able to celebrate a blessed Christmas [read more...]

“Together at the Cross” Mission Fills OLW Church

Despite wintry weather, Our Lady of the Wayside Church was full for the first night of the Multi-Parish Mission and the response and enthusiasm at the beginning of the week seemed certain to continue, and grow, as the week progressed. [read more...]

WHAT IS ORDINARY TIME? Submitted by Dan McMahon-Director of Music

These thirty-four weeks of non-festal time are named “Sundays in Ordinary Time” first, because they derive not from a feast day as such (they used to be called Sundays “after Epiphany’ or “after Pentecost”) but from the mystery of Jesus [read more...]