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Welcome to the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

A parish should be a community where people can find it “a little easier for people to be good.”

A parish should be a place where the parishioners, be they families or individuals, help each other to know Jesus Christ, put his teaching into practice, celebrate his presence among us in the Mass and the sacraments, and make people feel like they belong.  

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A parish should be a community where, by God’s grace and God’s gifts,
all find their human dignity recognized and supported.

In 1972, across the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan, the musical “Godspell” was on Broadway. With wonderful simplicity a song in that show expressed  how a parish should serve its people, by following the Lord:  “To see Thee more clearly, love Thee more dearly, follow Thee more nearly, day by day.” 

This is the kind of parish Our Lady of Perpetual Help strives to be. 

At  O.L.P.H.  we want to be a community where people find lots of help in living in God’s presence. We come from different parts of the world -- east and west, north and south -- and we settle here in Brooklyn. We are committed to be a community where people help each other find a sense of belonging, and where people and families find help in following Christ and bringing others to him. Day by day. 

At  the top of our list every Wednesday, when together we pray our Novena to Mary our Mother of Perpetual Help, this is the gift we ask from God: to become a community where people make it easier for one another to be good.