Saint Mary's Oratory
Saint Mary's Oratory is a Roman Catholic church at 517 Elm Street in Rockford, IL 61102. It is one of 291 churches in Rockford, and one of 6 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
St. Mary Oratory continues to be the spiritual home of many faithful from around Rockford and beyond, many as far away as Dixon, Pearl City, Crystal Lake, and Monroe, WI.
517 Elm Street, Rockford, IL, 61102Service times
- Saturday 8am · after
Phone: (815) 965-5971 · Website: https://institute-christ-king.org/rockford-home/
Saint Mary's Oratory is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,056 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Illinois — 18,926 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Mary's Oratory
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than 4 in 5 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than half of the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 82.3%
- Poverty Rate: 60.1%
- Obesity: 57.2%
- Food Insecurity: 51.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 44.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 31.3%
- Transportation Barriers: 27.8%
- Diabetes: 24.1%
- Social Isolation: 39.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.5%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 20.6%
- Unemployment: 10.6% (1.5–19.6%)
- Depression: 24.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.6% (5.4–21.8%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Rockford city is served by 165 churches — about one congregation for every 832 residents.
Churches near Saint Mary's Oratory
- Court Street United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Miracle Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- SecondFirst Church Rockford IL — 0.2 mi away
- Second Congregational Church — 0.3 mi away
- Emmanuel Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Presbyterian Church — 0.3 mi away
- Stonebridge Church Rockford — 0.3 mi away
- Breakthrough Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Paul Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Saint James Roman Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saints Peter and Paul Apostles Roman Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Peter Cathedral — 1.2 mi away
- Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church — 1.4 mi away