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Sundays:
6pm Vigil (on Sat night);10am; 12 noon; 9pm
Holydays (Mon-Fri):
6pm (Vigil) - no 6pm Mass if vigil falls on Sunday;
7.30am; 10am; 12 noon; 9pm
Mon-Fri: 7.30am; 10am; 12 noon
Saturdays: 10am; 12 noon; 6pm (Vigil for Sun)
Bank Holidays: 10am; 12 noon
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Our Lady Queen of Peace
Merrion Road, Dublin 4,
D04 NX33, Ireland
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Veneration of Relic of the True Cross: 8pm on Friday 14 September 2018
14 September is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. It commemorates the day in 320 when St Helena discovered the True Cross on the site where the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem now stands. Relics of the Holy Cross have been venerated since then, in praise of the redemption won for us by Christ on Calvary.
At 8pm on Friday 14 September a very well attended liturgy venerating a relic of the True Cross took place in Our Lady Queen of Peace. The celebration included a homily and blessing with the relic. It was also possible for those attending to personally venerate the relic.
Solemn Mass honouring St Josemaría Escrivá on Saturday 30 June 2018 at 12 noon
On Saturday 30 June at 12 noon, Fr Justin Gillespie, Opus Dei's vicar for Ireland celebrated a Solemn Mass in Our Lady Queen of Peace in honour of St Josemaría Escrivá, Founder of Opus Dei, who died on 26 June 1975.
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Homily available for downloading below.
A very large congregation, which reflected all generations, attended. An innovation this year, was the serving of refreshments afterwards from a marquee erected in the grounds. The beautiful weather made this a wonderful opportunity for people to meet and greet.
See photo album here. More photos here.
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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
A new European Data Protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is being introduced on 25 May 2018. This new law applies to any organisation (including our parish), that manages and processes people’s personal information.
We are now working on ways of ensuring that what we do with your information is compliant with this new law. It is a work in progress and over the next few months we will keep you informed, through updates on this website page and otherwise, as policies are put in place. If you have any questions about this please do not hesitate to contact the parish office.
Regarding contributions to the Family Offering, Dues, First and Second Collections, the personal information provided by parishioners is used by the parish to process these contribution in line with Revenue guidelines. It is not shared with any other person or organisation. The information is only kept for as long as necessary and is then deleted from our systems.
Parish Corpus Christi procession, Sunday 3 June 2018, 3-5pm
Our parish Corpus Christi procession began at 3pm in Our Lady Queen of Peace and then proceeded along the Merrion Road to St Mary's Chapel in Elm Park. Following a station there the procession returned along the Merrion Road back to Our Lady Queen of Peace for the final part of our liturgy.
This year, for the first time, we used our beautiful new processional canopy, generously donated by a parishioner.
We are very grateful to the Religious Sisters of Charity for allowing us to use their beautiful chapel.
We wished to honour Our Lord in the Blessed Eucharist and live out these words of St John Paul II:
Our faith in the God who took flesh in order to become our companion along the way needs to be everywhere proclaimed, especially in our streets and homes, as an expression of our grateful love and as an inexhaustible source of blessings. (Mane nobiscum Domine, 7 October 2004, no. 18)
St Michael's College, First Holy Communion, Saturday 12 May 2018
Students of St Michael's College made their First Holy Communion in Our Lady Queen of Peace on Saturday 12 May 2018 at a special Mass at 1pm.
We invite them to reflect on these words of Pope Francis to a group of first communicants on 26 May 2013:
What does Jesus do when he walks with us? Louder! First: he helps us. He leads us! Very good. He walks with us, he helps us, he leads us and he teaches us to journey on. [...]
More photos here.
Confirmation of St Michael's College students, 12 noon, Wednesday 18 April 2018
Students of St Michael's College received the Sacrament of Confirmation in Our Lady Queen of Peace on Wednesday 18 April, at the 12 noon Mass.
The boys were confirmed by Rt. Rev. Mgr. Eoin Thynne, VF, Administrator of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish, Mulhuddart.
Mass for Couples and Families, 12 noon on Sunday, 11 February 2018
A special Mass for couples (both married and preparing for marriage) took place on Sunday, 11 February at 12 noon, in anticipation of the feast of St Valentine. There was a wonderful blend of generations at the refreshments afterwards in Upper Room.The liturgy celebrated the love of spouses and included intercessionary prayers for families.
This celebration was part of our preparation for the World Meeting of Families (22-26 August 2018) and prompted by the words of Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia, n. 208.
Parish Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 13-21 September 2017
The inaugural pilgrimage of Lady Queen of Peace to the Holy Land was a wonderful experience for everyone. Photo album here.
As one of our pilgrims put it:
We walked where He walked, sailed where He sailed, felt the same desert sun on our backs as He did. I defy anyone to come to this holy place and not be moved to tears, buoyed up and strengthened in their faith in God made man.
We spent 3 nights in Tiberias and 5 nights in Jerusalem and visited the major holy sites in Galilee and in Jerusalem and surroundings. We also went to the very impressive Saxum Visitor Centre, which is nearing completion. This Saxum visit helped a lot to give an overview of the history of salvation and to bring the Gospels alive.
The consensus was that through our visit to the Holy Land we were able to seek, find and to love Christ at a deeper level.
For more background on the Holy Sites, see eBook In the Footprints of our Faith, which can be downloaded in various formats here.
Very Rev Seamus Canon Moore PE (7 April 1933 - 31 July 2017) RIP
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It was with great sadness that we learned of the death of our much-loved Fr Seamus, who became Parish Priest of Our Lady Queen of Peace in 1991 and served the people of Merrion so faithfully over so many years. Even after his retirement, as Pastor Emeritus, he continued this service and celebrated Mass in our parish several times a week and looked forward to meeting and chatting with our parishioners -his friends- after Mass.
He will be fondly remembered for his kindness, his readiness to help, his sense of humour and his characteristic and endearing smile.
Archbishop Martin received his mortal remains at Our Lady Queen of Peace on Wednesday 2 August and in his homily highlighted inspiring aspects of Fr Seamus' almost 60 years of faithful ministry as a priest.
Fr Brian O'Sullivan, a classmate, was main celebrant at the Funeral Mass on Thursday 3 August. A large number of other classmates and local clergy, as well as many parishioners attended on both days.
A Month's Mind Mass for Fr Seamus was celebrated by Fr Fergus on Saturday, 2 September and the large congregation attested to the affection of parishioners for him.
Maureen and Kay, sisters of Fr Seamus, and other members of his family have asked us to express their deep gratitude for the love shown him during his 26 years in Our Lady Queen of Peace, and especially in the last few months of his life.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis
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Fr Michael Fagan celebrated Mass in Our Lady Queen of Peace, 26 July 2017
Fr Michael Fagan, from Washington DC was ordained for the Opus Dei Prelature last summer by the then Prelate, Bishop Javier Echevarría, since deceased. On his return to take up an appointment in Dallas, Texas he stopped off in Dublin to celebrate Mass in Our Lady Queen of Peace.His father, Pat, grew up in Drimnagh and then moved to the United States, where he met and married Theresa (Gallagher). He has been back in Ireland frequently, lecturing on Family and Pro-Life issues. 30-year-old Fr Michael is the sixth of eight children.
The Mass was attended by many of his Irish relations as well as parishioners and members of Opus Dei. In the course of his homily, Fr Michael promised to remember our parish and our country in his prayers and asked that we would also pray for him.
More photos here.
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