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OLW Celebrate 70! Soiree is Seeking Donations

Support “Celebrate 70! Soiree” by donating a stay in your vacation home, a unique experience, or luxury items. CLICK HERE to donate items or email Cassandra McKenna to see how you can help ensure the next seventy years of Catholic [read more...]

70 Hours of Adoration for Advent

As part of Celebrate 70!, we will offer Eucharistic Adoration for 70 hours in the Gathering Place to begin the Advent season. Adoration will begin on Sunday, December 3, at 7 PM and continue through Wednesday, December 6, until 5 [read more...]

Discounted Celebrate 70! T-Shirts: Get ‘Em While they Last!

DISCOUNTED Celebrate 70! T-shirts will be sold in the Gathering Place foyer following the 9:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, December 3rd. They are also IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE in the parish center! Navy & White ADULT shirts are $15 each. Navy & [read more...]

Celebrate 70! Fun Fact: New Beginnings…

The first service in the new (unfinished) Our Lady of the Wayside Church was a Nuptial Mass offered Saturday morning, September 28, 1957. Married were Miss Josephine Freiburger of Rolling Meadows and Edward Unterfenger of Chicago. Our first pastor, Rev. [read more...]

Celebrate 70! Fun Fact: Open, Not Finished…

Due to the explosive growth of the parish in the 1950s, school enrollment consumed “parish” space (including the temporary church) in the school building, Father O’Hara had no choice but to build the permanent church sooner than anticipated. The decision [read more...]

Exciting Opportunities to Support Celebrate 70! Soiree

The annual Auction Gala was OLW School’s primary fundraising event for many years, up until the pandemic in 2020. With the return of in-person events came an opportunity to re-imagine the Auction Gala for a new generation of parishioners and [read more...]

Bishop Casey Celebrated 70! with OLW Families

On Sunday, October 29, the Most Rev. Robert G. Casey, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Chicago, Celebrated 70! with Our Lady of the Wayside Families and parishioners at the 9:30 am Family Mass. Concelebrating were Father Arthur and Father [read more...]

Family Mass with Bishop Robert Casey: This Sunday, 9:30 am

Breaking Good News… Father Arthur had the opportunity to meet with Vicar General, the Most Reverend Robert Casey, and invite him to Celebrate 70! with Our Lady of the Wayside. Bishop Casey enthusiastically and graciously agreed! So SAVE THE DATE [read more...]

Celebrate 70! Fun Fact: Usher’s Club

“A Night Under the Stars” was the fancy name the Ushers Club of Our Lady of the Wayside (yes, there actually was an Ushers Club) gave to an evening of dancing and entertainment held on church grounds on August 2, [read more...]

Celebrate 70! Fun Fact: Growth Growth Growth

1959 was a very busy year for our parish. With the swelling of enrollment of our school children, it became imperative to add another six classrooms to the school. Excavation was started for this addition, and at the same time, [read more...]