Welcome to OLC

WELCOME MESSAGE

We welcome you to the website of the OLC Church.

We are a Roman Catholic Church located on the Jersey City Waterfront in Hudson County, New Jersey, Our parish is some three blocks from the majestic Hudson River, directly across from Manhattan. In fact, the Manhattan skyline, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and Verrazano Bridge can all be seen from our neighborhood.

OLC has been serving the spiritual needs of our area for more than 100 years and we continue to joyfully do so today. Our doors are open to all who seek to grow in their relationship with God.

As our mission statements put its, “the mission of OLC parish is to reach out to all people and encourage them to join us in joyfully giving praise and glory to God; to build a Christian community that, with trust in God, embraces the future and in doing so, is a beacon of faith, hope, and love on the Jersey City waterfront.

We hope that this website will give you some basic information about our parish and even more importantly, we hope that it will lead you to come and see for yourself why so many people have been OLC their spiritual home.

By the way, OLC is the name most often used by our members and our neighbors to refer to our parish. Those letters stand for Our Lady of Czestochowa Church. It was the name given to our parish by the Polish immigrants, who originally founded the parish in 1905. OLC also refers to our parish motto, Our Lady’s Church on the Waterfront.