The Diocese of Rochester will be conducting a food and supply drive to support our migrant brothers and sisters.  The Drive-Thru Food and Supply Distribution will occur on Saturday, June 13, 2020. Please click on the title of this post to learn how to help!

May is the Month of Our Blessed Mother and the month that we dedicate to Mary in our Catholic traditions. Many individuals/families construct a home altar to Mary and keep it set up all during the month.You might choose to prepare your own, as a project. Adorn your altar with an image of Mary, a candle and some flowers. It can be a great area of focus for individual/family prayer. Click the title above to read more!

Now more than ever, we are relying on the generosity of our parishioners.  While Masses are closed to the public, our operating costs are not going away.  If you are able, we ask that you continue to donate to the church so that we can continue our missions and remain solvent.  Thank you for your generosity in these trying times and we hope that sooner rather than later we will be reunited as a faith community. Please click here for more detailed directions on how to give to Our Lady Queen of Peace & St. Thomas More!

The Catholic Family Center is in need of fabric face masks.  With the CDC and New York State requiring everyone to use a mask in public, their need has doubled. The current goal is 800 masks and this may increase as they hear from more of their senior and medically fragile community members in need.  Please click here to see more!

Holy Thursday Mass will be posted at 6:00 pm on 4/9 Good Friday Service will be posted at 12:00 pm on 4/10 Holy Saturday Easter Vigil will be posted at 6:00 pm on 4/11 Easter Sunday will be posted on 4/12 at 7:00 am Please click here to see more!

The Bishop of the Diocese of Rochester, the Most Reverand Salvatore Matano, will be live-streaming Masses for Holy week on the Catholic Courier's YouTube Channel.  You can find those masses online, by clicking here.

We are missing you all very much – most especially as we get ready to enter into Holy Week! Please click here to see more!

On March 17th, the Bishop of the Diocese of Rochester released another letter addressing some details about how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact several areas of diocesean life. Please click here to see more!

Given the extended nature of our nationwide quarantine due to COVID-19, staff at OLQP & STM are working to learn how to record, edit, and publish the Mass so that parishioners can participate from home. Please click to see more!

This afternoon the Very Reverend Bishop Salvatore Matano made the difficult decision to suspend all public Masses in the Diocese of Rochester, until further notice. Please click to see more!

On Wednesday, 11 March 2020, Pope Francis offered a prayer to the Virgin Mary to mark the Diocese of Rome's day of prayer and fasting for the coronavirus emergency. Please click to see more!

Join us for the 10:30 am mass (April 12th), and sing in the Cherub Choir! Students from Grades 3 – 9 may participate. Please click to see more!

Tomorrow our Lenten journey begins with Ash Wednesday.  We hope that you are able to join us at one of our Masses at either Our Lady Queen of Peace or St. Thomas More.  All Masses will include the distribution of ashes. Please click to see more!

February 26, 2020 is Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of our Lenten season.  While it is not a Holy Day of Obligation, we hope that you will join us at one of the 4 Masses that we are offering.  All Masses will include the distribution of ashes. 7:00 am at Our Lady Queen of Peace 8:00 am at St. Thomas More 12:15 pm at St. Thomas More 7:00 pm at Our Lady Queen of Peace Please click to see more!

Youth Ministry Service – Souper Bowl of Caring Collection Thank you to those who helped with the Feb 1 & 2 Souper Bowl of Caring collection.  We had about 15 grocery bags of soup and soap donations that families delivered to St Andrews Food Pantry.  That was about 150 items. Thanks for your generosity!   Please click to see more!

As part of the legacy of Fr. Tony Valente, pastor of OLQP from 1986-1995, each year, on the anniversary of his death, we recall his compassionate care and outreach to the poor.  The impact of his example on our community has been profound. Please click to see more!

Come and build into your week some time for a shared meal and community, an opportunity to learn about and exzperience a particular kind of prayer/spirituality from our tradition, and engage in reflection together. Please click to see more!

Every Tuesday morning, from 9 am - 11 am, a group of dedicated women gather at Our Lady Queen of Peace in the Hospitality Room to serve their community with their needles.  These women are active in their community in many different ways, but enjoy spending a few hours together each week to sit down and chat while their fingers make quick work of the graciously donated yarn that they receive.  Everyone seems to have a niche: some knit, some crochet, some love the color purple, and others hate to work with fuzzy yarn.  Some of the women are parishioners at OLQP, others at STM, and still others outside of our own cluster.  These women support each other in the same tender manner that they support the most vulreable among us.  They have seen each other through life's joys and it's sorrows, all the while, yarn in hand. This year, through their generous donation of time and talent, they have made over 395 sets of items between June and November of 2019!  Some of these sets include a child's sized hat, a scarf and mittens for children attending RCSD School # 34 and Mary's Place.  Many sets of warm winter accessories have gone out to the House of Mercy, among others, to help keep the homeless men and women in our community safe and warm.  The women of the knitting group also make baby blankets and hats for the annual Respect Life Baby Shower in October and lap robes for adults who might be homebound or ill.   If you are interested in joining, please either contact Beth Watkins at h.elizabeth.watkins@gmail.com, or just show up!  

 Thanks to all who contributed to this year’s Mitten Tree Collection.  Over 340 mittens were distributed, representing 6 different local agencies.  In the  letters of thanks we received, comments included “Your gifts help us shine brighter during this holiday season, sustaining hope through time of darkness” (Willow), “Your continued generosity made it possible for each patient to receive a gift” (Rochester Psychiatric Center), “Largely in part to you, we are able to help those who sometimes get discouraged as they try to move forward” (Andrews Center), and “Your donation made it possible for Brighton Food Cupboard to help families and individuals who are in crisis or are coping with day to day financial demands, helping to provide        desperately needed support and food.” Among the thank you notes that we received, there was a  letter sent by a Mitten gift certificate recipient.   In his letter, he thanked his “friends at St Thomas More and Queen of Peace” for the great Christmas gift.  He went on to say that it made their Christmas and at the end of the letter was the request, “please pray for our family that things may change.”  The Mitten Tree truly represents the best of the Christmas spirit. Your generosity reached far beyond our parish community to provide light, hope, support and happiness to others.  May God bless you all.

Please join us once a month, from January until May, for Sacred Music at St. Thomas More.  This organ recital series will occur on the Mary Wegman Organ on the following Sundays at 4:00 pm. January 26, 2020 Alden Wright & Benjamin Henderson February 2, 2020 James Kealey March 15, 2020 Sarah Johnson April 19, 2020 Caroline Robinson May 3, 2020 Ivan Bosnar $10.00 suggested donation.  Please contact Connor Doran at connor.doran@dor.org for any questions.  We hope to see you there!