photo gallery – Our Lady Queen of Martyrs

Feast of the Epiphany

Posted on January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 by All News & Events

At the 11:15AM Sunday Mass on January 8, 2023, there was a procession of the Magi (also called the Three Wise Men or the Three Kings): Caspar (India), Melchior (Persia), and Balthasar (Arabia), who as told in Matthew 2:1–12, brought...Read More

Photo Gallery Archives: 2022

Posted on January 3, 2023 by All News & Events

2022 Photo Galleries 22 galleries - back to current photo gallery Christmas 2022 A Christmas Festival Food Drive Thanks Interfaith Thanksgiving Ready to Serve Volunteer Gathering Meeting Room Reveal Bless the Pets San Lorenzo Ruiz Honors Potluck Lunch SJV Novena...Read More

Interfaith Thanksgiving 2022

Posted on November 25, 2022 by All News & Events

On the Sunday before Thanksgiving 2022, Bishop Sanchez joined Father Passenant, Deacon Greg Kandra, and clergy and neighbors from the Jewish and Protestant communities at The-Church-in-the-Gardens for the annual Forest Hills Interfaith Thanksgiving Prayer Service. Photos are courtesy Deacon Greg's...Read More

Ready to Serve!

Posted on November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 by All News & Events

God bless these young members of our parish as they begin their liturgical ministry as altar servers. They responded to the need of the parish and persevered through weeks of training and were formally commissioned by Father Francis Passenant at...Read More

Volunteer Appreciation & Blessing of Meeting Room

Posted on November 8, 2022 by All News & Events

We held a private volunteer appreciation prayer service on Sunday afternoon, October 30, 2022. Joseph Terry, one of our lectors and the leader of our Monday evening Through the Word bible study program, gave an inspiring talk. Afterward, our volunteers...Read More

Blessing of the Animals 2022

Posted on October 6, 2022October 6, 2022 by All News & Events

The weather was inclement but it couldn't put a damper on this very popular annual event. Our Blessing of the Animals gathering was held inside the church vestibule on Tuesday afternoon, October 4, 2022. Many of our four-legged friends came...Read More

San Lorenzo Ruiz Celebration 2022

Posted on September 30, 2022September 30, 2022 by All News & Events

On Sunday, September 25, 2022, at the 1PM Mass, our guest celebrant and homilist Fr. Patrick Longalong led a celebration of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, patron of the Philippines, youth, altar servers, and immigrants. He was warmly welcomed by Filipino members...Read More

Honors for Msgr. Cunningham

Posted on September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 by All News & Events

Congratulations, Msgr. Cunningham! Rev. Msgr. Joseph L. Cunningham was one of the honorees at the Rector President's Dinner, which honored all past rectors of Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary. He served as rector from 1979-1984. Msgr. Cunningham (seated on the...Read More

St. John Vianney Novena and Mass

Posted on August 2, 2022August 3, 2022 by All News & Events

Father Andrew Tsui, one of the new priests for the Diocese of Brooklyn (ordained by Bishop Brennan on June 4, 2022), celebrated the 11:15AM Sunday Mass with us on July 31, 2022. Every year we invite a newly ordained priest...Read More

OLQMCA Class of 2022 Tribute

Posted on June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 by All News & Events

A tribute to the class of 2022 and their parents, in pictures. Fr. Passenant gives the thumbs-up to the 8th-grade parents during Field Day for Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Academy. This gathering at Juniper Valley Park was fun...Read More

Confirmation 2022

Posted on June 12, 2022June 13, 2022 by All News & Events

Fifty-seven young people from OLQM Catholic Academy and the parish RCIA and Religious Education programs received the Sacrament of Confirmation at a special 4PM Mass on Pentecost celebrated by Bishop Paul Sanchez. Congratulations to our confirmandi on this milestone in...Read More

May Crowning

Posted on May 21, 2022June 13, 2022 by All News & Events

For their last day of class on May 18, 2022, the Religious Education students celebrated a May Crowning ceremony with flowers, prayer and song. Father Antonin did the honors of placing the crown of blue and white flowers atop the...Read More

Vocation Fair

Posted on May 17, 2022June 13, 2022 by All News & Events

On Sunday, May 15, 2022, we held our first parish Vocation Fair since the pandemic. Father Chris Bethge, director of the Vocations Office at the Diocese of Brooklyn, and his team visited to better acquainted our parishioners with the men...Read More

First Communion 2022

Posted on May 17, 2022June 13, 2022 by All News & Events

First Communion was held in our church on Saturday, May 14, 2022. See our church bulletin of May 22, 2022 for class congratulations and acknowledgments of the students and others who helped make it a special and memorial day. Most...Read More

Church at Twilight

Posted on May 13, 2022November 3, 2022 by All News & Events

These exterior photos of our church were taken by Christopher Sean Cunningham, in the early evening hours on March 11, 2022. [gallery link="file" size="large" columns="1" ids="27231,27228,27229"]

Holy Week and Easter 2022

Posted on April 18, 2022June 26, 2022 by All News & Events

Photos (most originally appearing on Facebook) are courtesy Deacon Greg Kandra, Regina Faighes, Maria Ribar, and Barbara Flannery. At the Easter Vigil, four Elect received the sacrament of baptism during the Mass and two Candidates entered into full communion with...Read More

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