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. We have included a 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!

Fr Fergus

We are happy to announce the following events in Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish related to the International Eucharistic Congress, which takes place from Sun 10 - Sun 17 June 2012:

Sunday, 25 March 2012: Bishop Ray Field, Chair of the Dublin Diocesan Preparatory Committee for the International Eucharistic Congress, celebrated Mass in the parish at 12 noon and spoke enthusiastically about the Congress.

Thursday evenings in April/May 2012: A series of 4 lectures on aspects of the Blessed Eucharist. Further details here.

Monday, 11 June 2012: We welcome Spanish-speaking pilgrims to our church for a special 9.30am Mass in Spanish. Main celebrant will be Bishop Julián López Martín of León, National Delegate of Spain to the Eucharistic Congress. Parishioners are more than welcome also!

Saturday, 16 June 2012 (7-8pm): Cardinal Robert Sarah, President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, will give a presentation on the topic Growing Eucharistic Devotion in Families.

During the Week of the Congress: (see MORE and downloads below for more information; also here)

The monthly Patrician meeting organised by Our Lady Queen of Peace Præsidium will take place on Monday, 21 May 2012 at 8pm in St Mary's Home for the Visually Impaired (Fitzwilliam Hall). The topic will be "Canon Law - the perspective of a lay lawyer". Fr Noel Barber, SJ will attend.

We are happy to have embarked on a series of improvements to Our Lady Queen of Peace that will make it more beautiful and more suitable to our needs.

Phase One will be completed in time for the International Eucharistic Congress, and will make our church a more worthy place for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and for the other activities that will take place in our church during that historic week.

The final lecture of the series in preparation for the International Eucharistic Congress will take place on Thursday, 31 May from 8.15 to 9pm.

In preparation for the International Eucharistic Congress, there are now additional periods of Eucharistic Adoration each week on Mondays and Fridays.

The new schedule is:

• every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10.30-11.55
• as well as a Holy Hour on Thursdays from 7-8pm

•     Tuesday 19 June, 2-4pm
•     Wednesday 20 June, 7.30-9.15pm

More details here.

The Social Evening, organised by the Parish Pastoral Council at the Stillorgan Park Hotel, was a very enjoyable event and a wonderful opportunity for parishioners to get to know each other a little better.

Congratulations to the students of St Michael's College who made their First Holy Communion in Our Lady Queen of Peace on Saturday 12 May at 12 noon.

Our wish for them is as Pope Benedict said to First Communicants in 2005:

"I hope that for all of you too, the First Communion you have received ... will be the beginning of a lifelong friendship with Jesus, the beginning of a journey together, because in walking with Jesus we do well and life becomes good."

We were very happy to welcome Bishop Ray Field (Chair of Dublin Diocesan Preparatory Committee for the International Eucharistic Congress) to Our Lady Queen of Peace Church on Sunday, 25 March 2012, when he celebrated Mass at 12 noon. In his homily he dealt with aspects of the liturgy of the Fifth Sunday of Lent and enthusiastically urged us to participate in the forthcoming Eucharistic Congress.