About Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church
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Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church grew with the post-WWII expansion of suburbs on Long Island. Founded in 1962, its birth was in the excitement of the Second Vatican Council; and its mission and history are a story of engagement with the Council’s opening to the wider world. At the start, rather than building an elementary school (then a common practice for newly-founded parishes), we decided that the formation in faith of all the parish’s children would be better served by a Religious Education Center (since no school could possibly fit all the children of a dramatically-growing suburb).
We provide before- and after-school programs for children regardless of faith – a service particularly necessary for the young families of our neighborhood; and we recently opened a day care to provide that opportunity for parents of preschool children.
All of our actions are rooted in our worship in an award-winning contemporary church. There we draw on God’s grace and the power of the gathered communion of faith to continue our mission to “change lives through the Risen Christ”!
