Our Lady of Refuge Church

Our Lady of Refuge Church is a Roman Catholic Parish that has been serving the people of the Midwood Section of Brooklyn since 1911. Originally founded by Irish and German Catholics it now serves some 30 nationalities and three language groups — English, Spanish and Creole.

Mass is said several times per day at Our Lady of Refuge. For Mass times on Holy Days of Obligation or on National Holidays please visit the news section of this website. Our Lady of Refuge serves the social needs of all, regardless of a person's religious affiliation. The parish offers many services to the community including a food pantry that provides for 300 households each week.

We hope you will feel welcome and at home at Our Lady of Refuge and get involved in the many activities of the parish.

Latest Parish News

Holy Week Schedule 2014
April 17th Holy Thursday 7:30pm trilingual Mass April 18th Good Friday 3:00pm followed by outdoor dramatization Stations of the Cross April 19th Easter Vigil 8:00pm trilingual Mass April 20th Easter Sunday English mass 7:00am Spanish mass 8:30am English mass 11:30am Haitian mass 1:30pm
Holy Week 2014 at a Catholic Parish in Ditmas Park Brooklyn
Palm Sunday begins the week which Christians throughout the world hold as sacred time, holy. During Holy Week something special happens. The passion and death of Jesus are not relived but remembered in a way that those who are one with him by faith and baptism enter somehow into the mystery of what it meant […]