thanksgiving – Our Lady Queen of Martyrs

Thanksgiving Canned Food Drive

Posted on November 6, 2025November 7, 2025 by All News & Events

Share what you "can"! Help us collect canned goods and nonperishable foods to support our neighbors facing hardship and hunger. Bring a bag of food to the 5PM Vigil Mass on November 15, any Sunday Mass on November 16, and/or the...Read More

Interfaith Thanksgiving Service

Posted on November 17, 2024November 17, 2024 by All News & Events

The Interfaith Prayer Service is a Forest Hills tradition on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Members of the OLQM clergy will attend and invite you to attend, too. Let's embrace community and faith at this annual gathering of neighbors and friends....Read More

A Letter from Deacon Greg

Posted on June 23, 2023June 29, 2023 by All News & Events

“Thank You for Filling This Church with Faith—and Filling My Heart with Gratitude” by Deacon Greg Kandra One Sunday in the spring of 1998, I was minding my own business, sitting in the back pew at Our Lady Queen of...Read More

Food Drive Results

Posted on December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 by All News & Events

Students from Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Catholic Academy (OLQMCA) load a Catholic Charities car with more food donated by you, our good parishioners during our Thanksgiving Day canned food drive. This carload of donated food, in addition to food...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