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How Team Sports Can Benefit Mental Health

It is no secret exercise is good for our physical and mental health. For many children and adolescents, participating in sports can be a great way to get moving while having fun. Between stress relief and sharpening teamwork and collaboration [read more...]

FREE Scally Brothers Concert!

You’re invited to a FREE concert by The Scally Brothers on Sunday, July 23rd. The concert will take place at St. Edna Parish in Arlington Heights, at 6:15 pm — immediately following a special Mass celebrated by Bishop Jeffrey Grob [read more...]

Celebrate 70 T-Shirts For Sale

How do you spot a Waysider in a crowd? (S)he’s the one with a big smile and wearing a great looking Celebrate 70! t-shirt, of course 🙂 Celebrate 70 T-Shirts will be available for purchase in the Gathering Place foyer [read more...]

OLW Youth Depart For Steubenville Conference

Father Arthur blessed members of OLW’s Youth Ministry this morning before they departed for a Steubenville Conference in Rochester, MN. “Refuge” is a weekend conference that evangelizes, equips and empowers 9th-12th grade youth to become radical, joyful disciples. They will [read more...]

Attention OLW Veterans: We Are Updating Our Records…

Our Lady of the Wayside is updating its records… If you are a veteran, PLEASE EMAIL: charmaine@olwparish.org to let us know. Thank you for your service to our country!

Parish Staff Changes

Our Lady of the Wayside’s Parish Team is Changing… Arielle Joaquin, our Youth Ministry Director, has resigned her position for personal reasons. She has been a blessing to our teens for nearly 5 years. We thank Arielle for her prayerful [read more...]

Worth The Effort

In this Sunday’s Gospel we hear the parable about the sower. Jesus speaks through parables because He wants to push us to search for the truth within the parables and within our lives. He wants us to search for Him, [read more...]

Respect Life Corner: Your Body is Your Temple

Today our culture seems to prioritize self-gratification. We see it in instant online shopping, social media’s endless scrolling and most unfortunately one-night stands or contraception. The latter has major consequences with unplanned pregnancies seen as inconvenient and consequently aborted. It’s [read more...]

Celebrate 70 Golf Outing: THIS FRIDAY

Calling all Golfers and Duffers… Registration remains open for Our Lady of the Wayside’s Celebrate 70! Golf Outing which will be held on Friday, July 14, 2023, at the Old Orchard Country Club. The shotgun start is at 12:30 pm. [read more...]

Join Us for Friday Morning Bible Study

You are invited to attend Friday Morning Bible Study, in the Cabrini Room of OLW Parish Center, for opening prayer at 9:30 am. Bible study also meets “live online” via Zoom, and welcomes homebound parishioners and participants outside our geographical [read more...]