Parish and Diocesan News – Page 11 – Our Lady Queen of Martyrs

Meet the City Council Candidates-District 29 (Zoom Call)

Posted on October 12, 2021September 2, 2022 by All News & Events

The Catholic Social Teaching Committee has arranged a Zoom meeting with the two candidates—Mike Conigliaro and Lynn Schulman—running for city council in District 29. The Zoom meeting takes place on Monday, October 18, from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Please...Read More

Fall Fling Raffle Drawing Is Stewardship Sunday

Posted on October 11, 2021 by All News & Events

The Annual Fall Fling Raffle drawing is scheduled for Stewardship Sunday, October 24, 2021. This event each year helps us to raise capital funds for particular repairs and improvements for our parish buildings. In summer 2021, your efforts helped fund...Read More

Catholic High Schools TACHS Exam

Posted on October 5, 2021October 7, 2021 by All News & Events

Attention 8th Graders! TACHS Registration Deadline October 24, 2021 (Internet and phone registration; do not miss the deadline!) All current grade 8 students in public, private, and Catholic schools who plan to attend a Catholic high school must complete the...Read More

A Christmas Festival

Posted on October 1, 2021November 20, 2021 by All News & Events

[caption id="attachment_25516" align="alignnone" width="675"] Photo: Adriana Lopetrone Photography[/caption] Come celebrate the Christmas season with A Christmas Festival! We are delighted to announce the return of our program of Advent and Christmas Music presented by the Sacred Music Society of Our...Read More

Living Rosary Fall 2021

Posted on September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 by All News & Events

Twice a year in May (Mary’s Month) and October (Month of the Rosary) our parish prays a public rosary and a Living Rosary devotion. It requires 60 people, with each person representing one bead and leading one prayer of the...Read More

Our Church in Pictures

Posted on September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 by All News & Events

This photo series courtesy Deacon Greg Kandra's Facebook page (September 2021) captures the beauty of our church at night. [gallery link="file" size="full" columns="2" ids="25439,25435,25440,25445,25443,25444,25442,25432,25437,25436,25438,25434"]

Bishop DiMarzio Blesses OLQM Church Plaza

Posted on September 24, 2021September 27, 2021 by All News & Events

On Sunday, September 19, we were blessed to have Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio visit our church to bless and dedicate our new church plaza inscription honoring our patroness Mary and then celebrate 11AM Mass with our parish community. Read the story...Read More

Funeral Arrangements – Yorke Mizelle

Posted on September 13, 2021October 27, 2023 by All News & Events

Our beloved Yorke Mizelle died unexpectedly on Saturday, September 11, 2021. His funeral is Friday, September 17, at 10:30 am, here at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs. There is no wake. His burial is Saturday, September 18, in Poughkeepsie. Homily:...Read More

Evening Service for Parish Feast Day

Posted on September 5, 2021September 10, 2021 by All News & Events

It is a time for our parish to celebrate all the blessings God has bestowed on us since the parish founding in 1912. Our parish feast day falls during a special octave in the Church calendar devoted to the Blessed...Read More

Funeral Arrangements for Bishop Guy Sansaricq

Posted on August 24, 2021August 27, 2021 by All News & Events

Most Reverend Guy A. Sansaricq, Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn since 2006 and the first Haitian American bishop in the United States, died on August 21, 2021. He was 86 years old. Bishop Sansaricq was known for his...Read More

Bishop DiMarzio to Visit Parish

Posted on August 18, 2021September 12, 2021 by All News & Events

September 19, 2021 11AM Sunday Mass (note earlier start time) Concelebrated with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio We are delighted to announce that Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio will be principal celebrant and homilist at Mass at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs on Sunday,...Read More

Visiting Celebrants for the St John Vianney Novena 2021

Posted on August 6, 2021 by All News & Events

St. John Vianney, pray for us and pray for the seminarians of our diocese! Over the course of the novena (July 27 to August 4) we welcomed two guest celebrants to our church to speak about the importance of vocations....Read More

COVID Vaccine Information

Posted on August 3, 2021December 26, 2021 by All News & Events

“Everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us, requires assistance and has the right to have access to necessary care. This is even more evident in these times when all of us are called to combat the pandemic. Vaccines are an...Read More

St John Vianney Novena 2021

Posted on July 12, 2021July 20, 2021 by All News & Events

St. John Vianney, Pray for Us! For the 2021 novena program, we are pleased to welcome two guest celebrants to our church to speak about vocations. Fr. James Kuroly, rector of Cathedral Prep High School and Seminary in Elmhurst, will...Read More

OLQM Convent Update

Posted on June 15, 2021June 18, 2021 by All News & Events

(June 15, 2021) The parish convent has been a residence for various groups over the 65 years since it was built. Intended originally as housing for the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) Sisters who staffed the parish school in 1956,...Read More

Register for Religious Education 2021-22 School Year

Posted on June 12, 2021March 11, 2022 by All News & Events

The Religious Education program at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs invites all those interested in furthering their children’s faith formation to register or re-register. Registration is open from June 17 to June 27, 2021, for classes that begin in the...Read More

OLQMCA 2021 Graduation

Posted on June 11, 2021June 12, 2021 by All News & Events

Livestream Replay of Graduation Ceremony – June 12, 2021 Congratulations to the 8th grade graduates of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Academy! We are so proud of you all. Good luck in high school! The livestream replay can also...Read More

Tell Congress to Support the Hyde Amendment

Posted on June 5, 2021June 5, 2021 by All News & Events

The U.S. Bishops ask Catholics to please sign the online petition at www.notaxpayerabortion.com or to write a letter to our elected officials to prevent the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which mostly bans federal Medicaid funding of abortions. You may...Read More

Confirmation 2021

Posted on June 4, 2021June 14, 2022 by All News & Events

Livestream Replay - June 6, 2021 On Corpus Christi Sunday, the youth from Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Academy and the parish Religious Education program received the sacrament of Confirmation and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Congratulations to...Read More

Guidelines from Bishop DiMarzio

Posted on May 21, 2021August 27, 2021 by All News & Events

(updated August 25; originally published May 20, 2021) Bishop DiMarzio has issued these new guidelines for the celebration of liturgies in the parishes of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens and the reinstatement of the obligation for Catholics to attend...Read More