The Light is ON for YOU: Experience the JOY of Reconcilation
You are invited to experience Christ’s healing love in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. If it has been a long time since your last Confession, we will do all we can to help you prepare for and receive the Sacrament. Confessions available in Our Lady Queen of Peace: EVERY DAY, before and after every Mass all Saturday morning […]
24 Hours for the Lord: Fri 4 March – Sat 5 March 2016
Come back to Confession in the Year of Mercy! Let us place the Sacrament of Reconciliation at the centre once more in such a way that it will enable people to touch the grandeur of God’s mercy with their own hands. For every penitent, it will be a source of true interior peace. Pope […]
Diocesan World Day of the Sick Celebration, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Sunday, 7 February 2016
Our Lady Queen of Peace had the privilege of hosting the annual Mass for World Day of the Sick on Sunday, 7 February 2016. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin was the principal celebrant. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick was celebrated within the Mass and the Sacrament of Reconciliation and Penance was available beforehand. See […]
Bishop Ray Field celebrated 12 noon Mass on Sunday, 6 March 2016 (Laetare Sunday)
A month after the Diocesan Celebration of World Day of the Sick in our parish, Bishop Ray Field (Diocesan Committee for the World Day of the Sick) returned to celebrate Mass at 12 noon on Sunday, 6 March 2016. At the end of Mass Trish Conway (Chair of the Diocesan Committee for the World Day of […]
Students from Kianda School sang at 12 noon Mass on Sunday 17 April 2016
The liturgy of our 12 noon Mass on Sunday 17 April was enhanced by the beautiful hymns sung in Kiswahili by a choir from Kianda School in Nairobi. The girls were on a two-week exchange programme with Rosemont School in Sandyford. The previous week they made a much appreciated visit to St Mary’s Centre Nursing Home nearby on Merrion Road. […]
First Holy Communion, Syro-Malabar Rite, 30 April 2016
Warmest congratulations to the 9 boys and girls who made their First Holy Communion in Our Lady Queen of Peace on Saturday, 30 April 2016. The liturgy, in honour of St Joseph, included a procession in the church grounds with a statue of the saint. See VIDEOS here and here.
Confirmation of Benjamin Bisonga, Saturday, 11 June 2016
Warmest congratulations to Benjamin on receiving the seven-fold gifts of the Holy Spirit at his Confirmation in Our Lady Queen of Peace on the Memorial of St Barnabas. A native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Benjamin began attending Sunday Mass in our church, with the assistance of the social worker at the hostel near […]
Mass in honour of St Josemaría Escrivá, Saturday 25 June 2016 at 12 noon
This year Archbishop Diarmuid Martin celebrated the annual Mass honouring St Josemaría, Founder of Opus Dei. The large congregation, which filled the church, included people of all ages and of many continents, illustrating the universality of the Church and the scope of the charism of St Josemaría. In his homily (downloadable below) Archbishop Martin stressed the universal call to holiness […]
Bishop of Lodwar (Kenya) celebrated the 12 noon Mass on Sunday 25 September 2016
Bishop Dominic Kimengich of Lodwar, Kenya, whom Fr Fergus met in Nairobi last month (August 2016), celebrated the 12 noon Mass in Our Lady Queen of Peace on Sunday 25 September 2016. Among other things, Bishop Dominic wished to express his gratitude for all the support our parishioners have given since 2011 to the Queen of […]
National Transport Authority proposal to run road through Our Lady Queen of Peace car park
The National Transport Authority has recently published a Public Consultation Document, for a section of the Sutton-Sandycove Cycleway, which includes their Scheme to fix the Merrion Gates bottleneck. See Appendices to Public Consultation Document here. See Irish Times report here. Public Consultation with National Transport Authority Our Lady Queen of Peace engaged planning, engineering and traffic consultants and made […]