Parish News

Mass for the Solemnity of Pentecost

Fr Artur Marat presiding with Deacon Paul Onischuk

Cardinal Cupich’s Message for Confirmandi

Cardinal Blase Cupich shares words of encouragement and reassurance for Our Lady of the Wayside and Religious Education Program Confirmandi whose Confirmations have been postponed by the Corona Virus.

Mass for Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter

Fr Artur Marat presiding with Deacon Pete LeTourneau

URGENT! The Great Our Lady of the Wayside Reopening is HERE! Volunteers Urgently Needed!

Fr. Artur Marat and the Parish Pastoral Council are delighted to announce the long-awaited, much-anticipated Our Lady of the Wayside Church Great Reopening. Our goal is to reopen the church for limited sacramental services and prayer in early June, with [read more...]

Archdiocese Certifies OLW To Move Forward With The Great Reopening

Great news on our church reopening process!  The Chicago Archdiocese COVID-19 Task Force reached out to Father Artur Marat and Dan McMahon, Pastor and Lay Co-Leader of the Reopening Leadership Team, to congratulate our parish on successfully completing the reopening [read more...]

Our Stewardship of Treasure for May 24, 2020

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

REP News – Week of June 1st

CONGRATULATIONS We will congratulate our departing faculty and staff members who are retiring – Mrs. Jan Myers, our Kindergarten teacher and Mrs. Halina Brittain, our PK Multi-Age teacher. We wish them good health and much happiness in their retirement. Their [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...]

Congratulations To Our Retiring Teachers!!

Congratulations and Happy Retirement to Halina Brittain and Jan Myers.  Thank you for your service to our children.

Don’t Ignore Emergency Symptoms During the Pandemic – By Megan O’Dwyer, Submitted by Kathy O’Neill RN, Parish Nurse