Welcome to Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish
Apart from providing useful information about the parish, its groups and the various activities, it is our desire to use this website to share our faith with you, providing resources and links for faith development, both personal and family.
We also want to facilitate piety and prayer and hope you will find the Daily Mass Readings (with commentary) helpful.
Since 2008, priests of the Opus Dei Prelature have been entrusted with the pastoral care of Our Lady Queen of Peace. See Daily Message taken from the writings of St Josemaría, Founder of Opus Dei, which gives some insights into his charism.
We would appreciate your feedback. God bless you and please visit us often!
Our Lady Queen of Peace WEBCAM
All Masses and other events are livestreamed each day below on our website, on Facebook and YouTube.
We welcome parishioners and friends who may wish to participate online in our liturgies. They are also recorded and may be viewed afterwards here.
Join us via webcam for the Rosary, Monday – Saturday at 11:25.
Latest News
Building Hope Feedback: Archbishop Farrell responds
Thank you once again for your engagement with the Easter 2022 initial phase of the Building Hope strategic planning process in the Archdiocese.
Document from Archbishop Farrell summarising your responses to the initial parish Building Hope engagement below. It offers a clear sense of the direction in which we will now travel together.
Accompanying Families: Sacraments of Initiation Policy, Dublin 2022
This new Policy Statement seeks to affirm, strengthen and develop the many years of consultation about the Sacraments of Initiation in the Archdiocese. See letter of Archbishop Farrell.
Parish Family Fun Day, Sunday 25 September 2022
You are invited to attend our Parish Family Fun Day, a most enjoyable annual event open to families with young children who gather after 12 noon Mass. There will be a range of outdoor entertainment with a ready supply of light refreshments all provided by volunteers.
Diocesan Safeguarding Day, Sun 25 Sept 2022
Sunday 25 Sept 2022 was Diocesan Safeguarding Day. Our Safeguarding Representatives are Catherine O’Flynn and Anne Gallagher. We are very grateful to both of them for undertaking this important task on our behalf.
Season of Creation: 1 September – 4 October 2022
The Season of Creation is marked throughout the Christian world from 1 September to 4 October (Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi) and celebrates the joy of creation as well as encouraging awareness-raising initiatives to protect the natural environment. The theme for the Season of Creation 2022 is “Listen to the Voice of Creation”.
Annual CROSSCARE Collection, 17-18 Sept 2022
Crosscare’s annual collection was taken up at all Masses on the weekend of 17/18 September 2022. You can still donate online at www.crosscare.ie
Veneration of Relic of the True Cross: 8pm on Wednesday, 14 September 2022
At 8pm on Wednesday 14 September, Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, a liturgy venerating a relic of the True Cross will take place in Our Lady Queen of Peace. The celebration will include a homily and blessing with the relic. It will also possible for those attending to personally venerate the relic.
Solemn Mass in honour of St Josemaría Escrivá, 25 June 2022 at 12 noon
The Solemn Mass in Our Lady Queen of Peace on Saturday 25 June at 12 noon, in honour of St Josemaría Escrivá, Founder of Opus Dei was very well attended, with lots of families with young children. Homily of Fr Donncha Ó hAodha here.
Building Hope: Parish Gathering, 30 May 2022
We’d like to thank all who attended our Building Hope Parish Gathering on Monday, 30 May, in Donnybrook Parish Centre.
Your observations are being collated and will be forwarded to the Archdiocese shortly. We will also make them available to you, our parishioners.
Synodal Pathway: Feedback on Parish Gatherings, March 2022
The comments of parishioners at our two Synodal gatherings have been collated by our Animators and sent to the Archdiocese for onward transmission.
We are very grateful to our Animators, Group Leaders and parishioners for organising and participating in this important conversation.
See our Parish Feedback Report here and Diocesan Synthesis here.
Evening Recollection, Tuesday 21 February 2023, 7:30-9:30pm (in person & online)
Recollection Theme on the eve of Ash Wednesday: “A new heart create for me, O God”.
It began with Mass and homily at 7:30pm and was livestreamed on the parish website, Facebook and YouTube.
Video recording available here.
Christmas Appeal 2022 for Queen of Peace Primary School for Girls in Lodwar
This Advent we launch our Annual Christmas Appeal for our parish outreach project in Lodwar, Kenya.
Bishop John and Sr Agnes are most grateful for your Christmas gift of education to help these girls break out of the trap of poverty.
Parish Partnership
Following the Building Hope Gatherings in Parishes, Archbishop Farrell has recently announced new Partnership Pastoral Areas in the Archdiocese.
Our Lady Queen of Peace will be part of a partnership with Donnybrook, Booterstown and Milltown Parishes.
See Archbishop’s video on Partnerships here.
CROSSCARE Christmas Food Poverty Appeal
2022 has been very difficult for families coming to Crosscare needing help. For the first time in many years, they have seen a rise in the number of working families struggling with ongoing increases in the cost of living. The demands of Christmas put even more pressure on people already finding it hard to make ends meet.
The Time Has Come: Archbishop Dermot Farrell, Advent Pastoral Letter, 2022
In every generation we are asked to be ready, recognising the salvation offered in Christ Jesus, on fire with his Spirit, proclaiming the Gospel in every season, finding new ways to witness to the presence and power of Christ in our own lives and to the people of our time.
Share Appeal Sunday, 12/ 13 November 2022
Share Appeal Sunday takes place on the weekend of November 12/13, highlighting the important work that is funded by the weekly collection. See letter from Archbishop Farrell and brief video giving an overview of the benefits of the Share collection.
