Mass Times
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
Tel: +353 (0)1 269 1825
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!
Parish Corpus Christi procession, Sunday 23 June 2019, 3-5pm
Our parish Corpus Christi procession will begin at 3pm in Our Lady Queen of Peace and then proceed along the Merrion Road to the Convent Chapel, St Mary's Centre in Elm Park. Following a station there the procession will return along the Merrion Road back to Our Lady Queen of Peace for the final part of our liturgy.
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)
Relationships Enrichment: Sessions for engaged and recently married couples.
Our next meeting is scheduled for Monday 24 June at 8pm.
In May we began using a book on Marriage by Fr Arturo Cattaneo (Preparing for Marriage with Pope Francis). Thus each session features a short period where, availing of ideas in Fr Cattaneo's book, couples 'coach' each other on different aspects of Married Life.
For more details, contact Fr James at 086-107 2930.
On Monday, 11 March Laura Giust gave a very nice presentation on the life of Chiara Corbella, a young mother of three who packed a lot of joy into a short life.
John and Jennifer Kehoe gave an excellent explanation of the four classic Temperaments and Married life on Monday, 11 February.
We have been inspired by Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation, The Joy of Love, in which the Holy Father highlights the importance of accompanying couples before and after Marriage.
Relationships Enrichment meets regularly, usually on Mondays, in the Upper Room of Our Lady Queen of Peace Church. We draw on the teaching of the Catholic Church, as well as on the help and advice of experienced married couples.
The Light is ON for YOU: Experience the JOY of Reconcilation with God our Father
Jesus is the face of God's merciful love
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 of God's mercy.
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 of God's mercy.
Confessions available in Our Lady Queen of Peace:
- EVERY DAY, before and after every Mass
- all Saturday morning
- during the Holy Hour on Thursdays (7-8pm)
For more information visit our Confession resources page here.
Solemn Mass in honour of St Josemaría Escrivá, 22 June 2019 at 12 noon
On Saturday 22 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.
Spiritual Batteries, Wednesday 19 June 2019, 7:30-9:30pm
The most recent session of Spiritual Batteries LIVE took place on 19 June 2019, 7:30-9:30pm, the Third Wednesday of the month.
This was the final session before the summer break.
Young Adults are invited to come to Our Lady Queen of Peace and spend time in adoration before the Eucharist, while being guided in their prayer through Scriptural reflection by Fr Justin Gillespie.
During this time, priests will be available for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Afterwards, in the Choir Gallery, there will be a discussion on the great philosophical questions, seeking to gain greater insight into the workings of the human soul and the challenges it faces.
This will be followed by refreshments in the Upper Room.
Beatification of Guadalupe Ortiz, 18 May 2019
Spanish chemist and researcher, Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri (1916-1975), is the first lay member of Opus Dei to be beatified. The beatification took place in Madrid on Saturday, 18 May 2019.
20 minute summary of Beatification ceremony
Pope Francis: the new Blessed "put her many qualities at the service of others"
Pope Francis wanted to unite himself to the "joy and thanksgiving" for the beatification with a letter addressed to the Prelate of Opus Dei. In it, the Holy Father says Guadalupe Ortiz de Landázuri, "put her many human and spiritual qualities at the service of others, helping in a particular way other women and their families in need of education and development." The Pontiff also noted that the new blessed "did all this not with a proselytizing attitude but simply through her prayer and witness", "with the joy that came from knowing she was a daughter of God, as she had learned from Saint Josemaría himself."
The new Blessed, the Holy Father writes, is a "witness of holiness lived out in the ordinary circumstances of her Christian life." The example of her life serves as encouragement to always aspire "to this holiness of ‘normality’, which burns within our hearts with the fire of Christ's love, and which the world and the Church are so in need of today.” Holiness, the Pontiff said, means, "opening one’s heart to God" and "going out of ourselves so as to meet others where Jesus awaits us, to bring them a word of encouragement, a helping hand, a look of tenderness and consolation."The Pope concluded his message with the following words: "I also ask you not to stop praying for me, while at the same time I impart my Apostolic Blessing to you all. May Jesus bless you and may Our Lady look after you.”
Pope Francis' Prayer Intention for June 2019
The Mode of Life of Priests:
That priests, through the modesty and humility of their lives, commit themselves actively to a solidarity with those who are most poor.
Video of the Pope:
Patrician Meeting - Monday, 17 June 2019: ‘Crisis in the Church’
The next monthly Patrician meeting organised by Our Lady Queen of Peace Præsidium will take place on Monday, 17 June at 8pm in Donnybrook Parish Centre.
The topic will be: Crisis in the Church. Rev. Noel Barber SJ will attend.
Fr Conall O CNoel
Adoration for Children: 4-5pm, Saturday, 8 June 2019
Our most recent monthly session of Adoration for Children took place from 4 - 5pm on Saturday, 8 June.
Note: this was the final session before the summer break.
The format is:
- Short talk given by a parent
- Period of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (around 10 minutes), with brief reflections and prayers led by a parent. There are gaps to permit the children to speak to Jesus in their own words.
- Refreshments and Games
I recommend that priests, religious men and women, as well as lay people, continue and intensify their efforts to make the younger generation aware of the meaning and value of adoration and Eucharistic devotion. How can young people know the Lord if they are not introduced into the mystery of his presence?
St John Paul II, 28 May 1996
